Broke Boyz From Fresno
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Broke Boyz From Fresno
Finding Belonging in a World of Chaos
Ever felt like you're juggling too many balls just to stay afloat in the urban grind? Picture this: navigating the chaos of New York or Fresno's notorious traffic while daydreaming about a simpler life in Wyoming. We kick off this episode by sharing some candid reflections and humorous anecdotes about the hustle and bustle of city life, the necessity of side gigs, and the stark contrasts between vibrant urban areas and quieter, rural landscapes. We explore how cultural acceptance varies across different regions and what it truly means to find a sense of belonging.
Next, we shift gears to a lighter note with an exploration of foreign exchange programs. Imagine stepping into the shoes of a student from abroad, only to find yourself in Fresno, confronting both the bizarre and the beautiful aspects of American life. Our discussion playfully navigates the motivations, challenges, and delightful surprises that come with these cross-cultural experiences. We even indulge in some hypotheticals about our own dream study-abroad destinations, from the whimsical vending machines of Japan to the majestic landscapes of Iceland, all while reflecting on the rich tapestry of global cultures.
As the episode unfolds, we delve into the complexities of creativity, self-improvement, and personal growth. We share our struggles with capturing errant creative ideas and the elusive nature of inspiration, akin to battling writer's block. On a more personal note, we discuss the importance of staying true to oneself in relationships and the journey toward financial independence. Our conversation is woven with stories of balancing work, cooking, and nurturing relationships, all while maintaining a sense of individuality. As we look toward the future, we express gratitude for our listeners and excitement for the new year, eager to continue our shared journey of growth and discovery.
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Intro Music by Rockstar Turtle- Broke Boyz (999)
Christmas Intro Song by Nico
We them broke boys from the hood. We on them. Issues understood Won't catch us lacking. We that good. We always winning, like we should. We flying high, we butterfly up to the sky. No way you catching us. Goodbye, fear to God. We make it out alive. I'll never leave my dogs behind. We stick together like we signed. We shooting stars, one of a kind. We undefeated, just resign. Money more lower than a pig.
Speaker 2:Nowadays it's just bad everywhere. I mean, it doesn't help that Fresno's grown so much.
Speaker 4:Now to the points where it's just— Fresno traffic is getting there, yeah, it's disgusting right now People so much now to the points where it's just there's no traffic is getting there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's disgusting right now. People don't know how to drive anywhere between 3 to 6 pm.
Speaker 3:Please stay off the freeway please stay off the freeway some days I'm just like driving home from work. If I catch that 2 pm traffic or 3 pm it's just like. Then I try to get off the 99 that's the worst. Go to the 180 to get home, and then I'm just smashing through the 180 and even then like everything's just backed up, bro, yeah I can't imagine for the people that take herndon all the, all the way I try.
Speaker 2:Sometimes, bro, it's leave me alone, bro, you hit every red light and that's the one thing. When you just catch that, you catch that Algorithm, I guess you could say, or whatever it is, yeah, and you just end up Hitting every red light and you're just trying To get home. You're like, bro, I gotta pee, I gotta get home. I keep hitting red lights.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This dude in front of me Doing under the speed limit by like 10 miles an hour. Bro, I'd be ready to crash out.
Speaker 4:Holding up all the traffic.
Speaker 3:I'm just like bro, or there's an accident on the opposite side of the road.
Speaker 4:Everybody's just well, what happened over there? It's going to happen to you. You don't hurry the hell up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, traffic has been bad. I can't imagine in different cities. No, especially out there in New York too. Like I said, all my For you page was people. I don no, especially out there in new york too. Like I said, that all my for you page was people like them. I don't know why. It's like real estate people. They're showing me the these little tiny ass apartments. I'm over here in california like oh, that shit looks.
Speaker 3:Oh, 25, 25, never mind dude, like that's the cost of like but would you be able to live there like if you were to move your lifestyle, but like fucking. I'm gonna start a little all over again in new york. Would you be able to live there Like if you were to move your lifestyle and be like fucking?
Speaker 4:I'm going to start all over again in New York. Would you be able to do it oh?
Speaker 1:I don't know it depends what the wage.
Speaker 4:I don't know what the wages are over there.
Speaker 3:I mean, I'm pretty sure they earn like a good wage. Yeah, I would hope so, yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean I wonder if people out there really do work like two, three jobs. I would think most people do, but I mean I would assume, since it is such a big city, that it's not going to be as easy to find work, like my roommate. Well, my ex-roommate used to stay out in New York. He was born out there in Jamaica, new York, and I mean bro was selling cigarettes. I mean he was making his money out there. But you got to find a hustle to be able to support that kind of lifestyle. It's not just your average. Oh, I can just work a nine to five and be able to afford this. Like no, I feel like as a whole nation we struggle. Like maybe somewhere like Iowa or Idaho you might be able to work a nine to five and wages ain't that bad, but I don't know, ain't no taxes either.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wages ain't that bad, but I don't know, ain't no taxes either. Yeah, yeah, taxes, that's another plus, I guess you could say. But I wonder if those small states do they have enough employment Because they're so small, small yeah.
Speaker 2:Right Places like Wyoming Literally the whole population of Wyoming Unless you're a farmer, because I don't think you're going to make it. I'm just saying if you're not into agriculture, you're probably not going to make it, unless you're working at a convenience store. Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 3:I've gone on a road trip before from California all the way to Oklahoma and once you pass Nevada and you pass through some of the other states. I passed through Wyoming. I passed through a small town I forgot what the town was called but we stopped there to get gas. No mexicans at all, zero, zero. I looked like. I looked like everybody was stereotyping me all the time, just mean mugging the shit out of me. Then you get to oklahoma. Oklahoma's the same way. Yeah, um, colorado, colorado's pretty cool. Yeah, pretty laid back, um. But yeah, there's some places where you just like the fuck, I don't know where am I, where are my mexican brothers?
Speaker 2:like, hold on you just fell out of place yeah there was a city we went up to up north, um, when I was working for the solar company and it's like red, I think, it's like redwood or something like that, way up north north, like almost past the bay, and we stopped in this town and we were building like a carport and when I tell you like I felt so out of place, I didn't see there wasn't black people, there wasn't Mexicans, there wasn't Asians, bro, it was just you know what I'm saying. I'm just looking around and people are just staring at me. A little weird. I'm just sitting here like listen, listen, bro, I'm just here for work, I work here for I, I literally just work here. Please leave me alone. It's just so weird, like after all these years and and growing up in like a town where it's very multicultural and, um, going to different places and having to realize that culture shock is like real. Yeah, you go to certain places and it's not, you do not fit in at all.
Speaker 3:Well, shit, like even now. I don't know. I was talking to Kat about this. I was like here in Fresno. I've seen a lot more. I don't mean to offend nobody, but a lot more of the Punjabi, the Arabic culture, like a Middle Eastern. I see a lot more of them than before. Before it was like a bunch of Mexicans, blacks, whites, asians, but now I'm seeing a little bit more of the than before. Before it was like a bunch of mexicans, blacks, whites, asians, but now I'm seeing a little bit more of the middle eastern culture like also being introduced and in into I guess you could say into seeing it now right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would definitely agree on that. Like, um, I remember certain parts, like even in my neighborhood, growing up, like you, wouldn't really see many of them and now when I go there there's a lot of them and I mean I don't blame them, they come in and monopolize, you know what I'm saying yeah you gotta you gotta make your your hands.
Speaker 3:You go anywhere else, though, like it's it's not like that not like that, it's not like that at all.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying. I always wonder what makes people come to fresno I don't know.
Speaker 3:I thought I saw your repost the other day on TikTok where it was just like I know why I'm coming to Fresno, but why are you coming to?
Speaker 2:Fresno. Yeah, like getting on a plane and seeing unfamiliar faces and you're like, are you visiting, are you just going?
Speaker 4:on vacation like why are you?
Speaker 3:visiting Fresno. Like I get you on that, like sometimes I, sometimes I think about it. I'm like why is somebody like all right, you know what, I'm going to come to Fresno to Restart, restart or come to do a tour. There's some people that are tourists that come out here. Right, I'm just like what the fuck's out here in Fresno that I would?
Speaker 4:How you liking it. So far, a lot of dirt, huh.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's the same thing. Go a little bit to the west side, we'll see what you catch over there. Another bunch of bullets for sure.
Speaker 2:Bro, I'm telling you Like it makes you wonder, like even the foreign exchange students from like school, we had this German girl named Pia and I mean she went into like a very rich, like adoption family and stuff like that, and I was just like, why know, clovis is like right down the street, right like where and take me with you when you go back. But you come all the way from germany and you land in fresno. May I mean, maybe it was just more affordable, maybe I don't know I.
Speaker 3:The exchange program is is I guess it's for the wealthy, like in other countries right because I remember there was like three foreign exchange students for when I was in in high school when I was doing a french class, and they had three foreign exchange students from uh bardot, out there in france it's a city in france and and they were, they were like loving it loving fres. I was like I love it where you're coming from.
Speaker 2:Let's switch I wonder how much it costs to like really go overseas and go to school out there Like somewhere in like Japan or Switzerland or like Well, it has to be like an even exchange right A kid for kid.
Speaker 3:human trafficking, right there, right, human trafficking Crazy.
Speaker 2:I mean technically yeah, but human trafficking right there, right, yeah, human trafficking crazy.
Speaker 4:I mean technically, yeah, but I wonder what the other parents think, like oh, we're gonna send our kid to fresno.
Speaker 3:I wonder if they looked it up and then was like, all right, he'll be fine, there it's the fake pictures of showing the lake and all that fresno lake, the ocean front out of nowhere or the one of baker's, where it looks like la it looks pretty nice.
Speaker 1:I think he'll be fine there I did some research on tiktok.
Speaker 4:And, mom, there was gunshots all night. You said east side baker's food was safe. You said I was going to fresno and afghanistan.
Speaker 3:I'm telling you, bro, it just that's a good question, though. Like what do they expect? Like, yeah, what is I don't? Do they enjoy it, are they? I don't even know? And like what, what's the benefit of like exchange, like doing an exchange for them to come study here and then you take a culture shock, is it? Yeah, I just think they're all spies. They come back.
Speaker 2:What information did you learn from?
Speaker 4:Fresnonians. Parents want their kids to experience more than just what they already have around them To be able to say they did it, that's true.
Speaker 2:I mean, yeah, a lot of rich people do that, Because we had I forgot where she was from, but she was Dutch.
Speaker 3:We had her in.
Speaker 4:English and I remember the teacher. She was like so how does this work? Like you're just here for a month a year. She's like I think it's for the whole senior year and then I go back or have the option to stay, and I was like that's crazy, what the hell.
Speaker 3:That's weird because it's just like do you stay on a visa? Do you stay? Yeah, Do you get papers?
Speaker 4:Or like if you stay does the? Other kid have to stay, or can the other kid come back? I'm pretty sure they'll come back.
Speaker 3:Or do they have to both agree like all right, I'm ready to go back. Right, I don't know. That is an interesting thing that I thought about.
Speaker 2:If you could become a foreign exchange student? Let's say you're born into a rich family and your family's like all right, we're going to send you overseas to learn, go to school somewhere. You're going to live there for about the next, let's say, three years, four years when would you go?
Speaker 4:I'd go to.
Speaker 2:Alaska.
Speaker 3:Alaska Well, that's in the United States. It's not even overseas uh, probably iceland.
Speaker 4:To be honest, I still would be good. I think probably spain, spain yeah, I probably go germany, iceland or canada.
Speaker 3:Germany's good one I'm gonna be so basic and say in japan I would love to go to japan and just learn the lifestyle, hey I've been on that that side of tiktok too, and it's incredible that buddy said save up this much.
Speaker 4:you said you can go to this liquor store and get a whole meal for $2. Crazy, and just get you a little cheap flight and just be living.
Speaker 2:I'm not beating the Bow Wow allegations, I'm not, Because I mean even You're going to be pushing Jordans and that NGS. No, I was on a huge like vending machine binge and I know that sounds weird, but I was looking at different vending machines in other countries and Japan was one of the ones that had one of the most largest vending outlets ever.
Speaker 2:They have everything in a vending machine, bro. You can get fresh-made coffee out of a vending machine. You can get fresh food yeah, like a can of soup, and it's warm yes, like burgers, and it blows my mind. I'm just like dude. We think we're so far ahead of technology. And we're like dude, we got this. High speed rail is getting built. We got this. We got that, bro. They done built that shit back 10 years ago. They literally already have a bullet train out there. And I'm just like dude. I wonder how different their lifestyle is compared to ours. Like what is it like being a kid being raised in Japan, in like a big city like that?
Speaker 4:It's definitely more strict.
Speaker 3:It's more strict. It's also like healthier yeah.
Speaker 3:Like seeing, like I saw this morning, this woman who had given birth in Japan and that as soon as she gave birth that they separated her baby and her from rooms and they put her in like this uh care facility to make sure that she can recover smoothly. The baby is safe. They sanitize everything to make sure that she's good. Right medical expenses that's all you're going to be worried about. Right, right in japan it's completely free. You don't worry about none of that yeah, they screw us that way.
Speaker 4:Where does our health care?
Speaker 2:there's a lot of places where medical is free yeah, I mean I remember the talks about it years ago when we were in high school, people talking about, oh, canada has free health insurance, and like go over there and find out why. But, brother, it's not anything better here. I mean you've got people on waiting lists to receive kidneys, people who are down and out, and you pay all this money for health care and get bare minimum, sometimes like it's, it's. And then you look at the charts, you look at the numbers on how much like money a lot of the health care facilities get and you're like where is it going? We don't have none of the top-notch facilities. We don't have the top-notch medicines. Like I mean, look what happened during covid.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like everybody's like, oh, we'll be all right, they got vaccines, yeah and like you saw you saw how people reacted during covid like shit in japan. They literally was like nope, complete lockdown, and they started pressure washing everything cleaning everything they were so clean. Here in the united states you didn't see none of that. It was just locked down in the fucking havoc after that they're like, everybody locked down.
Speaker 2:But I mean, if you want to leave, you can't like bro. I'm not gonna lie to you, I kind of miss covid lockdowns. I missed the free paychecks, I missed the traffic not being around, yeah where am? I 1200 at.
Speaker 3:That was nice I had to work during during covid. I did too. I remember that, that I was working in the, the fields and we were off for three weeks and then we were like it's time to go back to work. Essential workers. We weren't labeled as essential workers. All the fucking people that were working in the fields were not labeled as essential workers.
Speaker 4:We weren't either, and Nick Head is in the warehouse.
Speaker 2:I don't know who Amazon was, but I was definitely in there.
Speaker 4:Technically, we are because we're building homes.
Speaker 2:I'm like you would definitely think people working in fields would definitely be considered essential, because what else could be essential emergency services well, you saw like even during that time you saw people taking pictures um of the fire that had happened yeah, and you see all the field workers with masks fucking still working, yeah.
Speaker 4:Just trying to get their money bro.
Speaker 3:It's insane.
Speaker 4:That's when that boy said we're going to be working. I didn't complain. I was like that's a paycheck Plus the money they're going to give us anyway.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you, I was working at Amazon and then the stimulus check came in and I was getting paid weekly. Oh my god. Only the bad part about it was Is the COVID procedures they had at Amazon, like you couldn't talk to nobody. You're at your station alone. You can't listen to music, bro. Imagine working A 12 hour shift, 11, 10 hour shift, whatever Dead, quiet, dead quiet. All you're listening to Is machines, beeping machines, beeping noises and footsteps not gonna lie.
Speaker 3:I my my imagination would be running on fucking 10. I'd be fucking playing the whole show in my head. I'm that crazy. I'm not gonna lie to you.
Speaker 2:I almost lost my sanity. I was in. I've memorized my whole music playlist like song for song in order, word for word, bar for bar.
Speaker 4:He stole my whole fucking flow.
Speaker 2:I was literally in there like nah, I don't want to listen to this and I'm over here just in my head changing music and I'm just like bro, I'm actually going insane in here. There's no way I know these songs and which one comes next.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I get, I get stuck in. I don't know if you guys ever do like where you're stuck in your own head and you start like almost like creating different scenarios, yeah, and like different things, and then you're just like Just trying to figure out what's going to play out next.
Speaker 3:And it's just like random shit, like I thought about. There was one time that I would be thinking about in the middle of nowhere, I'm just working and my headphones had died. This was recently. My headphones had died so I was like I left them in the truck charging and I'm working and I'm literally just fucking. What am I going to make for dinner today? I can start. I'm already picturing.
Speaker 3:All the time I'm going to make this, I'm going to make that. I'm going to start and I'm already thinking about chopping vegetables and shit and my coworker's just like hey, what product do you want me to bring you next? And I'm like, huh, what Snapped out? But I just get so stuck into it, it you know yeah, I would say I do that pretty often.
Speaker 2:Like I was able to figure out how to like I don't know how to put this in the words that people can understand but I kind of figured out how to like mute my thoughts for a moment. But like recently I've caught myself doing that, like where I'm just sitting here thinking about like the craziest scenario. I was like bro, what if we just got hit by a bomb? Like how the fuck am I gonna survive that? And I'm in my head just playing it through, and then I finally snap out of it. I'm like what?
Speaker 1:was I thinking about? Like what?
Speaker 3:led to this thought like bro I don't know. Yeah, my thoughts get carried away. Sometimes too. I let them. I sometimes I just let them run with it. I'm like okay, whatever yeah it just makes the time fly quicker and then by and I just have to like hear something like in the background to snap out.
Speaker 2:Right, that's just how I see it sometimes I wonder what makes people dissociate, like sometimes it's really not in your control, you're just doing your own thing, you just dissociate and you're just like just lock in and forget everything else yeah, and you're just like I need to be present and then you snap out of it like I don't. I wonder what makes a person dissociate, what activates it?
Speaker 3:yeah, I don't know, is it brain?
Speaker 3:exhaustion and I I had seen somebody talk about it and kat told me and I was just like is, and I, I, I told her, I was like is this normal for somebody to have this sort of an imagination? And where it's just like you create your own scenarios, you create your own things, and it's just like you picture this and you picture that, like I was telling her. I was like, picture this. I was like I can sit here and make up a whole scenario and I can tell you, this old lady, right now I'm picturing it this old lady's walking with a walker and she's wearing a green thong. Why the fuck do you picture it? Like, like, sit there and think about, like, why are you picturing that? Because some people might even like see the design of the thong, yeah, like. But then I was just like in in some way, I mean, it's like a mental illness that you have and I was just like I'm mentally insane but I feel like everyone has random thoughts like that.
Speaker 4:Yeah but, I also wonder.
Speaker 3:But there's some people that don't have that imagination at all, where they're just like what are you talking about? I can't picture that. Or they don't have that creative.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know I just feel like I don't know. Sometimes I think of it as a gift, because you can imagine things like we could all three watch the same movie, right, and I'll think of it a different way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we can depict certain parts of it differently, and I think it's really just your imagination just runs wild, like sometimes you, just your mind processes things a little bit differently than others, and sometimes it's a gift. Like you see other people who can look at a piece of art and they're like this makes so much sense. Meanwhile you're looking at it. You're like, bro, what am I looking at?
Speaker 4:yeah, bro, that's a banana duct tape to the wall, right, right, and they're like no, you don't this is 15 million dollars right here like.
Speaker 2:You don't get it it's, it's a work of art.
Speaker 3:This is, oh my goodness, I loved it like it showed the artist that he was bound to the wall right, right like bro.
Speaker 2:That art literally cost him like like $4 at Walmart. Yeah, there's no way, but anyways, yeah, I just. I think it's a gift in a manner I definitely was not born with any form of creativity. I wish I was Other than video creation. I can't draw, I can't write, bro, you look at my driver's license. You see my driver's license. My signature looks like chicken scratch, like every time I show somebody. They laugh bro. It's so embarrassing. But I just I wish I was more like creative and drawing and things like that.
Speaker 3:I think my imagination is what created me to be creative.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like that's my own craft.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I come up with outlandish ideas, or sometimes I'll sit here, like the idea that I had yesterday when I told you guys yeah, yeah that's just one of those things that I literally was just sitting there and I was just like, oh, you know what, this would be a good idea. Let me just throw it out there and either way, I just toss. I'll just toss it out there whether it works or whether it doesn't, it doesn't matter, as long as you toss it out there, right?
Speaker 4:that's the beauty of creativity I hate that I could be creative when I don't need to be, yeah, but then when you need to be creative, you're just like uh trying to create designs and shit, I'm like what the fuck is gonna look good.
Speaker 4:But then when I'm not thinking about it and I'm just going about my day and I have a idea, I'm like that shit would be hard right. When I try to think about it again, I'm like, but what the fuck was I thinking about? Like it was hard in my head at the time, but right now I can't even think what the fuck it was and that was the thing that was like rough for me too.
Speaker 2:There was a certain moment in my life where I was trying to make music and I was like this makes so much sense, I should do this. And then, as soon as I touched the computer, I'm just like this did not come out the way I expected it to and it's it's almost like a form of writer's block, almost like you know when you're you're in school, you gotta write an essay, and you're like okay, this is easy topic to write about. And you put pencil to paper and you're just like what the fucking, what do I put?
Speaker 2:down like that spongebob episode where we wrote the and that was it. Like we're going, we're almost done.
Speaker 4:Let's see what we have so far.
Speaker 2:The like it's something that's so like. It's such a struggle, and I praise those that can be creative at all times. I wish I could. Wish I could unlock that part of me.
Speaker 3:It takes time. I think you also have to learn how to navigate it. Like like I, you throw yourself into it and then you figure it out as you go.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Um, that's one of my new year's resolutions is to throwing myself into stuff that I'm not used to, like video editing, and I want to get out of my comfort zone and start vlogging and doing that and, like I said, with you guys, like let's do it together, let's figure some way out, and then and push something now together, and the more the merrier you know yeah, sometimes it's not, we learned that yeah oh, absolutely, um, but again like that.
Speaker 3:That's just one of the things I'm just like. You know what I'm gonna push myself this year yeah and be like you know what I'm. Uh, I'm gonna push myself to doing stuff that I'm not used to doing yeah, I meant it when I commented we're standing on business sometimes you just need that change.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you got to really jump out of your comfort zone and see what you can do. Yeah, and I like that about ourselves, like you're not afraid to be able to get up and say you know what I need to change, bro, let me try and do something different. Yeah, and I mean once you, once you fall into that mindset, it's hard to get out.
Speaker 3:You never want to be comfortable afterwards and then you think about it too is just like I've made it this far, yeah, like why would I stop now?
Speaker 4:yeah, exactly why not push it further and see what I can really do?
Speaker 2:yeah and that's what I was getting at yesterday too. I was just like I thought about giving up on content creation. I was just like, honestly, I just do it for fun, like it's just a hobby.
Speaker 3:But I mean, as far as I as I've gotten, I'm doing something right and I think that's what makes us different from the other social influencers that are out there that are already big Because they just do it either looking for the next hype, looking for the next trend, and I think it's very rare for you to find those content creators that stick with. This is what I like doing.
Speaker 2:This is what I'm going to continue Authenticity- yes, yeah, like we were talking about with um, people who are trying to promote like a product on tiktok or like instagram, and it's like, okay, you're kind of like I'm just gonna swipe to the next tiktok or whatever, because I already see, you're just trying to promote something to make money off of it.
Speaker 2:But if it's something you genuinely like and you're like oh, by the way, I know y'all peeped this hoodie favorites that I just picked up from yada, yada, yada, whatever, yeah, and if it rolls off the tongue authentically, if it sounds like genuine, and if you genuinely fuck with it, then obviously you're going to continue to rep it. Yeah, um, and it's just a win-win situation after that, because you don't feel like you're a sellout, you don't feel like you're having to push yourself to promote something you don't even use on a daily basis.
Speaker 3:Yeah, whatever it is and then I feel like a lot of people are like that, Like they're so hypocritical, yeah, With certain products and they're just like, oh, Like you see a lot of like really high-end TikTokers, I'm sorry, and they start promoting like random stuff and they don't even use it.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's just like, and you can tell when they're like trying to describe the product.
Speaker 2:They don't even know what they're talking about. Yeah, like for the longest, the one product I used to see everybody fumbling was those tongue scrapers. And I'm just like bro, be so frank, I know you're not using this shit. You look like your breast tank, don't?
Speaker 4:be lying to us. Your tongue is white as hell. Ain't no way.
Speaker 2:you just used it, Bro like, yeah, when it comes to product and I guess you could say product promotion and sales like that is that's where things get rocky. That's why I feel like a lot of content creators either fall off or they just end up trying too hard to promote something, to make too much more, to make money, and it's I mean, it is what it is. Everybody's trying to make it out somehow. Yeah, but don't let that be your main priority yeah, sticking.
Speaker 3:Sticking to what you want, sticking to the things that you like, yeah, especially like now, like for for me it's just like okay, like I made all these different content, different reels about self-love, a lot of episodes about self-love, a lot of like. I still stand on that. Now, what's the next level? What else can I incorporate with this whole?
Speaker 1:thing, right.
Speaker 3:You always have to look for the next thing. That can be, um, almost like adding more value to your content, right, right, and that's just how I see. I don't see it as like more exposure or more right? No, because the people that already listen to this are the people that are already actively looking at my page. Those are the people that are going to continue waiting for it, or they like to see whatever I throw out there. So, the more that I can create, the more that I can make right, the more people are going to be like okay, yeah, we see what we like exactly, exactly, and focusing on your audience is more than anything when it comes to any type of service that you're promoting.
Speaker 2:Whether it's like I was talking to my old boss about this, you want to make sure that you're more customer-oriented. Versus, oh, I need to grow. You might focus on being like, oh, this is going to be hot, I can drop this and it doesn't blow up the way you want it to, or it doesn't sell the way you want it to. It doesn't blow up the way you want it to, or it doesn't sell the way you want it to. But if you're customer oriented, you're listening to the reviews. You're listening to, you know the feedback, whether it's constructive criticism or positive or negative. Um, you'll learn a lot from that. You'll grow more from that than focusing on what you should drop next, what trend to follow next or how to get ahead, like you will drive yourself crazy trying to continue to be a a trendsetter, yeah, when all you really have to do is just listen to those around you that are actually really invested in you you know, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I kind of feel like this upcoming year, well, this year, crazy, um. I feel like this year is definitely going to be one that's going to test the, test the waters on how dedicated we are to what we do.
Speaker 3:Um, but we just got to stand ten toes and push it yeah just keep going, yeah any new year's resolutions or any objectives that you want to really push out there I mean, it's my third day out here, I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, uh, I mean, honestly, my only objective right now is pretty much starting from scratch, starting a new life, finding a career I really want to enjoy doing. You know, I would hate to push all my car content and what I do away, but I just feel like I've seen too many signs in my life of you got to get up and start fresh. You got to start something new. Like you, you might not know what it is now, but five to two years later on down the road, you're going to understand why you were in this position. And, um, I haven't thought too deeply about it, I haven't tried too hard. I didn't really focus on new year's resolutions this year. It was just like, okay, you just got to do what you got to do.
Speaker 2:Uh, mainly just focusing on my health. You know, working, working out, making sure I eat right, making sure I don't eat out as much. You know people always say, oh, you know, eating out is just as much as groceries and it's like, okay, yeah, but like the convenience. The convenience. You know what I'm saying. And and it's kind of hard not to fall into the the trap of eating out all the time but at the same time, like I want to be able to show for myself, I want to be able to show up for places like things like barbecues, and cook for all the homies.
Speaker 2:I want to be able to, when I get older, be able to teach my son and my kids or whatever you know, um, or even if, if it's my spouse or whoever, it is like how to cook and how to do different things, Like it's sometimes.
Speaker 3:It's about the memories you create and what you can show for, Um, and I mean I know that's a little too deep compared to just eating out, but there's value in everything that you do. Yeah, yeah, I will sit sadly with my internet breaker in the corner no, tomato appreciate it add the chopped peppers please three spread no, that's a.
Speaker 3:That's a good one too. Like there's times where I get home and I'm like I gotta cook, yeah, and there's times I'm just like fuck it, I'll just get down and I'll start making something. But for the most, for the most part, it's just like you get home, you get tired and you're just like, yeah, and then the good thing with me and cat is we switch. We're never, I'm never gonna be like, hey, you're the woman, get your ass into the kitchen.
Speaker 3:No, it's more of like hey, let's figure dinner out together, I'll make something today, you make something tomorrow.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:We're always like that?
Speaker 2:Is that a pet peeve of yours? What Like your partner not knowing how to cook, or your partner? Not being a part of that.
Speaker 4:No, because my mom taught me how to cook. Yeah, like, so she, she's a, she's like traditional mexican. Like, yeah, the woman should cook, right.
Speaker 2:But now it's more like well, if she can't cook you gotta need to be able to cook by yourself, right, at least you could feed yourself so it's not.
Speaker 3:It's definitely not something you like so it wouldn't be a factor like if you're dating somebody and be like oh, she doesn't know how to cook.
Speaker 4:Well, you're going to learn today.
Speaker 3:You're going to starve. I'm not going to lie.
Speaker 2:That's a huge factor for me. I mean, I feel like at our age you've got to know how to cook. I mean it's your basic survival skill.
Speaker 2:And if we were again, you have to think about the scenarios. If you have a kid or push, come to shove, doomsday hit. I pray you know how to make some beans on a fire, because we're not gonna live off of in and out when there ain't no in and out left. Um, I just think about it like it's a huge essential for me, like there's definitely certain human skills I feel like everybody needs to learn, and cooking is one of them. I'm not gonna just turn somebody down because they don't know how to cook, but if I'm trying to teach you and you just don't want to learn, I'm going to just be like Make your own food.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to hit the dough. I grew up where I watched my mom cook all the time. My dad would cook every now and then. He would mainly barbecue and do stuff like that, and so it was a little well-balanced, but I a little well balanced, but I just feel like I want to keep that. You know what I'm saying. I want to be able to not have as much stress on my spouse for them having to come home and cook every night. I don't want them stressing out and being like bro, I just got off a 10-hour shift. You want me to cook dinner like, especially for a whole family.
Speaker 2:That's different yeah um, but if I can relieve any kind of stress off my partner or if I can just do anything, it's definitely gonna be that yeah, yeah, I think about it too, though, because some people weren't raised like that, yeah, no 100.
Speaker 4:But again, if you're not, if you're not trying to learn, oh, yeah, if you're not trying to learn, if you're not trying to actually help out in any way, yeah, no, you gotta go exactly but yeah, no, I grew up with my mom cooking all the time, but she was always a stay-at-home mom.
Speaker 3:She never worked. My dad, my dad worked all the time. So you know I remember my mom would always like show us like how to make the simple things eggs, you know, and traditional mexican frijoles, like different things. Like I've always told cat shit, I can survive on beans and eggs for the rest of my fucking life.
Speaker 3:That's how I grew up, yeah like I have no issues on that, like at all, um, but there's I, there, I get it. There's some people that just don't know how to cook or don't know how to make certain things and they're never.
Speaker 4:They were never taught, yeah there's a lot of because I've met people. They're like oh yeah, my parents cook, but they've never like sat us down and was like oh, there's how you do this yeah, you mix this with that. Yeah, I'm like that's weird, because I thought it was like a regular thing, because that's what my parents did and that's the whole rest of my family did yeah, but then when hearing other people's perspective, I'm like damn, it's not really yeah, and sometimes I get some recipes off tiktok, yeah, yeah I got like three different recipe apps on my uh, on my phone it's literally just wanting more for yourself.
Speaker 2:You, you know.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Like I find enjoyment out of being able to cook something and it comes out fire and I'm just like bro, I did that. Like I love finding natural dopamine releases because it's just like dude if I can come home and experiment with something and it comes out great, like that's what I'm looking forward to the most and I love food. So that's just another kicker Big bet. I am very big bag. I might be skinny, but my back you're skinny and bones.
Speaker 3:Bro, I'm jealous. We go, you eat the same as as. Yeah, as we do.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm telling you I eat a lot, but the stress keep me skinny bro.
Speaker 3:Yeah, always stressing yeah, no, I I've always envied about dj man. I'm I'm almost 400 pounds and this dude's like a like 100 pounds and me and him eat 400 pounds. And this dude's like 100 pounds, me and him eat the same thing and he's still 100 pounds.
Speaker 4:My metabolism running on 100 every day, every day, bro.
Speaker 2:I don't understand it.
Speaker 3:He finishes a meal. All right, guys, I'm going to go use the restroom.
Speaker 2:Gone. I'm telling you, if I could change it, I would. I wish I could gain weight. That's one of the things that, like, a lot of people will ask me, like dude, like are you ever going to grow? And I'm just like I don't know, like I want to. I just I eat as much as I possibly can and hope that I can gain weight. Like I was struggling for a minute, like I was a hundred, and I got really sick, like really sick last year, and I dropped and I was stressed. I dropped to a hundred and was it 117 or 120? It was like 120 or something like that. Yeah, because you're pushing almost 140. Yeah, I was at 137. I went down to like 120. And I was stressed and I was like, dude, I'm bad right now.
Speaker 2:That's the size of one of my legs, and so I'm sitting here like trying to figure out how to do it. I started cooking more often. I got some protein powder, some weight gainer powder or whatever, and I was working out and I was able to pick myself back up to 135. But I've never been able to get above 140. Like that's been a goal. I want to hit at least 160. And it's just like no matter how much I eat, no matter how much I do, I just got to try harder. Yeah, that's it, I just got to try harder.
Speaker 3:But what about you, Isaac? Any New Year's resolutions or anything that you want to leave behind 2024?
Speaker 4:Everything. I'm really just trying. I feel like this year I'm more focused on myself, like trying to better myself in any way I can like going back to the gym, being consistent, hopefully, yeah, and just just the rest of my life like I'm trying to save money cause I haven't really been doing. I need to start doing that yeah. I need to save money. Wanna get a house this year. Hopefully the turrets don't go fucking back up again yeah, yeah that's that's really it. I'm not. I'm a simple guy I told dj.
Speaker 4:Uh, earlier in the year I was like because he asked me about the whole female thing that we were talking about I was like I'm not really. Yeah, I'm not really looking like, I'm really just trying to build myself, like I don't got time in my head. I don't have time. Yeah, because I'm more focused on how am I going to get to where I want to get to?
Speaker 2:yeah, and I think that's a mindset a lot of us are at like it's just insane, like I've seen close friends of mine, too, on the same mindset. They're just like dude, I had to break off this relationship because I got to focus on my own, and that's just how it is. Sometimes you reach a certain point in your age. You look back and like, dude, I've wasted the last six years doing what. Like I gotta get the things that I need. I gotta get the things that I want the most, and I mean it's good. You, you gotta prioritize yourself. You gotta want more.
Speaker 3:You gotta want better for yourself, you know yeah, no, I get, I get you guys on the the two, like don't waste your time on on on toxic energy or negative negativity, that's for sure big time because it's just.
Speaker 3:It's just you're wasting your time. You're what you're like you're putting so much effort into somebody that that you want to see better, but they don't want to see better for themselves. Exactly, and that's the harsh part. It's just like you know what you're young, like you guys are young if you have to cut it off. Cut it off, yeah, and isolating yourself and being on that mode, like you guys are saying too, like that's the, that's perfect, like I'm glad that me and my relationship we work and and we're able to do things together. We work as a team.
Speaker 3:But don't get me wrong, I always have to prioritize my own feelings and then my financial stability, and always figuring it out. How can I save? How can I figure out the next trip that we want to do? Because that's another thing too. When you guys are in a relationship, it's not about spending money. It's more about creating memories and finding ways to, to rekindling the love, because then, just living together and just being together 24, 7, I mean eventually, yeah, one's gonna get what's called uh, irritated with the other, yeah, so, um, that's where you want to fucking keep everything fresh, figuring new things. But again, like you didn't and I don't. I don't ever separate that. I don't let that shit like come across Like I have my own savings, I have my own investments for my retirement, I have everything separated and I still have money left over for me and her.
Speaker 3:It's smart to figure things out and eventually she'll she'll be in the same, in the same wave, right, because she's going to have her own job, she's going to have her own things. And again, like there's nothing wrong with that, like the beauty of me and Kat's relationship is that she met me when I had Nothing, nothing.
Speaker 3:And even when I was busting my ass off and doing everything I could, she still stuck with me. And that, my ass off, doing doing everything I could, she still stuck with me. And that just shows like the amount of growth. And she's never been the one, the mere materialistic girl. She's never been like that. She's always been like just quality time and showing effort. Yeah, and we've, we've, we've stand on that all the time and I like that definition.
Speaker 2:Like I like the fact that you guys redefine what a relationship is like, not in a literal sense, but, like you said, you have your own savings account, your own investments, you run your own life, even though you're still in your relationship. A lot of people, when I think of relationships or at least when I grew up, what I thought of relationships was is the typical traditional okay, we put ourselves together, we put our money together, we have our own joint account, we do this, we do that, and I mean you see how it ends up. I mean you've seen what Kanye said talking about you better get a prenup and all this other stuff. Like it happens all the time, people get used for monies, people get used in greedy ways and it's upsetting. But I just really admire the fact that you guys are doing what's best for yourselves while also still maintaining your relationship in a healthy manner. That's something that's so rare.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and me and her we come from different family backgrounds. Right, her parents are divorced, my parents have their issues, and the same thing. Like you see, like you guys have said, you guys see there where we come from, our families and seeing how combining each other's income doesn't work.
Speaker 3:Yeah, or one person is the breadwinner and then the other one was just a stay at home mom. Like that doesn't work either, right? So you, you have to learn from from your families, from from, especially from mine, from my dad. My dad was so money tight and always making sure like, hey, I'm not going to spend money, I'm not going to waste money on no stupid shit. I got to say this, this, this, right. He was so strict on it and and even then, like we were, we were fortunate that he was the one the was able to push all my other siblings out, giving them careers, giving them school, giving them everything.
Speaker 3:But again, my mom was so stuck in the always having to ask for, hey, I need money for this, x, y and Z, for bills, I need money for food and groceries. And it was always a constant argument because my dad was just like, why the fuck do you need so much money? But then it's just like, hey, we got six kids. And just again, you get that back and forth. And then some people have a difference, some people have it as like, hey, we combine all our income together, we're paying certain bills. But then you know there's always that, hey, why are you taking this money? Why are you taking my money, right?
Speaker 3:yeah there's it's it's always a back and forth thing. So, like I told k, as like I learned from what my parents did wrong and I'm gonna avoid everything I can to be like that, right, because that's why I'm like no, you have your money, I have mine. Yeah, if you ever need anything, let me know, we figure it out. But that's where we're trying to be neutral enough to not replicate where we come from.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Because that's again we got to do better. We're learning from their lessons. I never wanted a cat to be like, hey, I'm going to be the breadwinner, you don't have to work at all. I've never been like that. I've always told Cat. I always told Cat hey, you have your career, you have your own things. By all means, push on. If you don't want to do that, hey, do something that you want, do something that you're passionate about. Right, that's the most important thing. And vice versa. She always told me the same thing, whether you're making less than 50,000 a year or making way more than that money.
Speaker 2:And in that money was never the factor in our relationship, right that's a huge thing, bro, because I feel like in a lot of relationships it it's a huge factor, and I'm not saying mainly comes from women, but I'm saying it's just always expected, like I don't know, from the experiences that I've had with a lot of women. It's if you're not making X amount of money, you're a bum. If you're not doing this, that and that, they're a bum, and it's just like okay, but what do you bring to the table?
Speaker 4:doing this, that and that there to your bum and it's just like okay but what do you? Bring to the table. You know what I tell them. What are you making? So what does that make you? Yeah, because if it's not more than me, how you gonna call me a bum?
Speaker 2:yeah, right right and I just I don't know a lot of the mindsets of a lot of people and our generation, when it comes to relationships, is just so. I don't know if it's selfish, I don't know if it's just, I don't know if it's just backwards Because of social media.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Social media always portrays like oh, your man's supposed to do this. This, this, this, this, you're just a trophy. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, you've got people out here putting themselves up as trophies and they only worth like the nickel in the back of your pocket. I'm just saying you know what I'm saying? I just and I'm not coming from nobody specifically I'm just saying there's there's a lot of people out there that portray themselves that they're worth so much or they want to live this false lifestyle yeah it's just not realistic.
Speaker 2:You, you, you will only get so far. And I feel bad for those people because when they get older and they realize, okay, why is nobody wanting me? Like I've gone through all these dates, why is nobody walking in?
Speaker 3:They have such high standards yeah. And you know eventually, it's not the guys that are the issue. It's sometimes lower your fucking standards for a little bit.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it's just your standards are too high, but what you bring to the table is very minimal. Yeah.
Speaker 4:Nobody wants to be with someone who brings. I saw something it said the woman will love spider man but will walk past peter parker.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, that's true. Even seeing some of the like the I know it's completely off topic, but when, when they're like, oh, does height matter? In a relationship and then he's just like okay. So if height matters, then for us, as guys, weight matters. Would you be willing to get on the scale?
Speaker 4:they're like no, I was like well, we can't change our height you can change your weight.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so how are you gonna hold us to that?
Speaker 4:when you can't hold yourself to something you can change. Yeah, the. I saw one today. He said uh, there was the same thing, but with makeup. He was like so you're beautiful, right? And she's like, well, yeah, look at me. I was like so you're beautiful, right? And she's like well, yeah, look at me. I was like here's a makeup wipe, let's see. And she was like are you saying that's the same as height? He was like no, I'm just saying we can't change our height, but you could go ahead and change your face. Yeah.
Speaker 4:You want to be confident now and say, oh, height matters, let's see.
Speaker 3:Big old Uno reverse card. I think yeah, literally.
Speaker 2:I don't know, it's just so much unrealistic expectations.
Speaker 3:I can't imagine what it's like dating right now, brother, you don't want to know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this is why I've been single for the past two years. I, dead ass, just can't do it no more. And it's so sad because I've been put in situations where someone will tell me that they're attracted to me and I'm just like, I'm so sorry, but I just can't, like. It's not the fact that I don't, I'm not feeling you, but I just. I can't put myself through no more stress. I can't emotionally attach myself to nobody right now.
Speaker 4:He's done with the character development?
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's no more character development phases for me, like I'm trying to either get my life together and lock in with somebody, or I'm just getting my life together and that's it. I don't care for the googly eyes and the rose-colored glasses, no more, it's strictly just business. If I got to go through it alone, it is what it is, but I just got to prioritize myself and I know a lot of people would be like oh's selfish. Well, what about love and all this other stuff? Well, I mean, love is nice. I want a family obviously.
Speaker 4:Wouldn't it be selfish to yourself if you don't focus on yourself?
Speaker 2:yeah, it's selfish in both manners, like so. At the end of the day, it's just like if I do come across that person that's willing to put forth the effort with me and they're not a burden to me rather than, you know, some help then maybe, but I told you I said I'm fine with being the cool single uncle because, honestly, that lifestyle is cool too. I ain't going. Yeah, there's nothing.
Speaker 3:There's nothing wrong with that lifestyle either, like I know. I know if, if my relationship would ever fail after like the amount of years that we put on, I wouldn't go back. I would have been like yeah. At this point. Hey, I'm not going to.
Speaker 4:I spent that much time. I spent so much time.
Speaker 3:I'm not doing that again. Yes, and two years was it for me.
Speaker 2:I mean, that seemed like it was such a short span of time, but then I look back and I'm like dude, you know how much money and energy and time I spent we could, and energy and time I spent that I like I could have been out, and that's what I just focus on. The most is really just time and energy. I can't waste it, no more. Like I said, we're getting older. Why am I gonna sit here and play games with oh, let's go on a date and then find out you got a baby daddy who don't like me, and then I got to do it family drama and this. Than the third like, who don't like me, and then I gotta deal with family drama and this, that. And the third like I don't have time, please, yeah yeah, you always work.
Speaker 2:You never want to hang out with me and people always say well, brother and sister is crazy bro that's one. I wouldn't touch my brother like that that's one thing I want to bring up this episode. All right, so well.
Speaker 4:Day was put in a scenario where I had to, but he was thrown in the gunfire for no reason.
Speaker 2:I mean you got tossed into the flame a great way to start the new year off. Um so, happy new year's to Will Day, new year, new him. So basically I have what I call like a separate family and it's basically just people that I've met that I got really close to and they treat me as family. So we call each other family. A lot of people do that. Thank you, brother. I do the same thing with Isaac. Appreciate you when it comes to Isaac, I consider him my brother. The same thing with I was about to call him Mondo. That is crazy.
Speaker 3:With Martin.
Speaker 2:The disrespect, the disrespect. The same thing with Martin I treat him like family.
Speaker 3:I understand why I wasn't in the photo shoot. Cut it out.
Speaker 2:Cut it out. Cut it out, not fucking the ego. So I have an extended family that I really hang out with all the time and I'm not going to say their names, but we had a photo shoot. Oh, I got you.
Speaker 2:No, my sister quote unquote sister, not by blood wanted to do a photo shoot with my car and I'm like, yeah, go for it, like I don't care and I'm not thinking I'm going to be in it by any means. She's doing like a lingerie shoot. I'm like, yeah, go for it, like I don't care and I'm not thinking I'm gonna be in it by any means. She's doing like, um, like a lingerie shoot. I'm not trying to be in that, I'm cool, um, and so the photographer is doing his thing, I'm moving the car, doing whatever he's asking me to, and then, um, obviously, I make my own content, so I make a reel for him and her both.
Speaker 2:And so eventually afterwards, my brother comes with his girlfriend and now, mind you, my sister's situation ship is there. Um, so, obviously, like, they do a couple shoot, so they do the couple shoot. My brother and his girlfriend do a couple shoot, and then they said you guys want to do a family shoot. So it's me, my brother and sister, so we do the family shoot. Whatever fast forward, the photographer ends up making um, like a little teaser to it and I posted it on my story and it was just a repost. Like I said, I'm trying to promote him and what he does and promote my sister and I get a dm from a situationship from like a year and a half ago a year ago, whatever the case may have been I like to call those the bronze hairlines.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they go way back um, and now, mind you, we didn't talk often like it wasn't something we talked every day. We don't go on dates, we don't do nothing like it's strictly, at this point, platonic yeah and um, it just gets to a point, to where she's dming me talking about oh, I didn't know, brother and sister touched, like that. And I looked at the dm and I re-looked at the story. I'm like, am I missing something? Yeah, like did I overstep? Like does it look funny? But he wasn't even touching her I?
Speaker 2:I had my hand over my shoulder overstep.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, she watched it three different times, yeah she's like no, look, zoom in all this other stuff.
Speaker 2:Like she, I had my hand over my sister's shoulder was not even touching her skin contact and we're leaning on my car and she has her leg up on my uh, my brother.
Speaker 2:Now he's laying on the ground with his knee up. Her foot is on his knee. So I'm looking at this like, well, obviously we are not blood, we come from different ethnicities. Yeah, so there's that. Second, I was just like, um, I don't see the point in you sending me these messages like you're telling me, like you're condescending. At this point, you're trying to like she was basically trying to make it seem like it was a weird thing, like, oh, that's family, you shouldn't be, you shouldn't be posted up taking pictures with them like that. And I'm like bro and like I told you, yesterday.
Speaker 3:Like you post her pretty often to know that that is your friend.
Speaker 1:That is your sister.
Speaker 3:Sister that is somebody that's close to you, that's part of your inner circle, Exactly so like for it to be thrown like that.
Speaker 2:I was like and then on top of that, like during Halloween, we've posted our female friends.
Speaker 4:often I don't get no accusations Like damn near every day.
Speaker 2:I don't get accusations over nothing like that. But then I do a photo shoot with her and I know it's because she was dressed in lingerie. Now, mind you, I don't find this girl attractive. By any means and you can ask anybody this, because I'd be so dead ass about that. People will ask me bro, is that your girl? I'm like no, absolutely not. Like, I don't find her attractive at all. That's my sister Like. I treat her like family because she treats me like family, and that's just.
Speaker 2:That's as close as it gets as strict as it's gonna be yeah, and I've seen dj yell at her like a sister I'm not gonna lie, sometimes I'll be going off on her, she'll be pissing me off, but no, it just it pissed me off because she's coming at me about how she was raised and saying well, the way I was raised, that's not right and you don't touch your brother and sister like that. I'm like okay, so you're gonna, you're gonna cut me off and kick me out of your life, and it did get to that extent. Yeah, because you were raised from a different background than I was, rather than it just being an understanding of like no, this was this, this is how the situation played out. You're taking it a little too far, you're taking it to the extreme. And it seemed like like I showed Isaac the messages and it seemed like she was just trying to pick a fight in what she's done before.
Speaker 3:You should have hit her with that. You should have mind your own business.
Speaker 4:There was no point to pick the fight because y'all not even a thing, and it was out the blue Like it wasn't even a conversation before that.
Speaker 2:Exactly conversation before that, exactly there, and, mind you, I went out of my way to wish her a happy new year's, as I do with most of the people that I'm close to and most of the people that I do fuck with. You get that check. I don't get that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, all right, buddy I think I sure did text you and you didn't message me back, I think I sent it.
Speaker 2:So anyways, um, I sent her the happy new year's text and she left it on red. So I'm like, hey, maybe she was faded. Maybe she was faded, I don't know. I ain't gonna blame you for it, I ain't gonna hold you, I'm not gonna make no accusations out of it. But then you blow my phone up talking about that's weird, getting all crazy. Yeah, at this point, go ahead and enjoy your life.
Speaker 4:The last message I sent.
Speaker 2:You know what's weird you hitting my line the last the last message I sent was me explaining the whole scenario to so she could get a clear understanding. And then I told her. I said but it's cool, because obviously I didn't matter that much to you in your life, considering you can't even give me a happy new year's back, so it's cool. You obviously wanted some kind of smoke and you got it. Yeah, so after that blocked or whatever, but again you saved yourself.
Speaker 3:You saved yourself from a red flag boy. Why?
Speaker 2:are we going into the new year with so much technical?
Speaker 4:fouls. It was more than just one red flag.
Speaker 3:Challenge the play.
Speaker 2:False start Defense. Like sometimes, I just wonder why am I being put in positions like this when I literally don't do anything, like I was minding my own business that day, and get that text message? It just blew my mind, but anywho, she was rough on the pastor for real yeah, yeah, just another way to start the new year off and remember that we do have to leave some people in 2024.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so be it. Leave the drama behind, please. Yeah, that was so unnecessary that is.
Speaker 2:That's crazy have you ever been put in a position where you really had to defend your name, like to the t? Oh, my goodness um maybe I should ask another question.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll ask another question, but I think everybody knows that we can stand on that. Yeah, so yeah, thank you. Thank you, 2024.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah absolutely Great lesson.
Speaker 2:Let me ask this question then. Instead, I can't even ask a question.
Speaker 3:Thank you for that DJ Appreciate it Dropping bombs left and right.
Speaker 2:So I mean, after all these years since we've graduated, which was your favorite year so far?
Speaker 3:Oh, we've graduated. Which was your favorite year so far? Oh, um, the peak of of covid, when you guys would always always be, that's always gonna be my favorite memory. Yeah, no matter, no matter what, no matter the drama, no matter all the bullshit with everybody else um, those were the, the the greatest times, because we all hung out, we all would do stuff together on a daily.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:No matter what time it was, no matter what it is, we always fucking came through and just had a blast. Yeah, what about you?
Speaker 4:I think I'd have to say, when you first started working, like around that time when we were both working at tiny house, so like 2020, 2020, yeah, it was 2021. Yeah, yeah, because I was in a healthy relationship, I was happy. I was kicking it with friends all the time, like it was just that's how life is supposed to be.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what if?
Speaker 4:yeah, yeah, absolutely. But but then shit happens, you know, we just move on, yeah.
Speaker 2:I would have to say the same. I think it had to be 2021. I mean, bro, my glow up, not physically but like in life, was crazy, like I went from taking the furthest shot like really trying to step out of my comfort zone.
Speaker 4:And green that motherfucker and.
Speaker 2:I mean I failed. But when I out of my comfort zone and green, that motherfucker and I mean I failed. But when I came back, I started working at tiny house with isaac and then, uh, I was working two jobs. We were gonna auto zone in chowchilla at the time too, and I was really just bossing up. And then I met this girl and rest in peace honda, oh god. Rest in peace to hondeezy bro. That was my favorite car, first manual car, so, oh, I love it anyways. Um, and I I mean met this girl.
Speaker 2:Life was just going great. Like I went from job to job and I was just taking one step up the staircase, one after another, like, yeah, finally got to move back into fresno, got to see a lot of the old homies, like life, just like he said, it felt like it was supposed to be. Um, I think 2021 and 2022 had to be that year. I, I loved it so much. So many memories, so many like just that whole year just felt good. We were making our bread too, money was moving. It was amazing and I mean last year was good, but just too much stress at the same time.
Speaker 4:Last year was a roller coaster, yeah it's crazy, me and you both had the up at the same time and the down, literally, literally yeah, well, what do you guys want to leave behind for 2024?
Speaker 3:all the bullshit everything toxic relationships.
Speaker 1:I left my name last year. That's how bad it is.
Speaker 3:That is true, you did. I mean, I feel like I'm just. I left my name last year. That's how bad it is that is true, he did, he did.
Speaker 2:I mean I feel like I'm just leaving old lifestyle, bad habits All right, not all the bad habits. I'm trying to leave all the bad habits back.
Speaker 4:You got a lot of bad influences around you. Buddy Listen.
Speaker 3:The way that you were shotgunning them twisted tees last night.
Speaker 2:I will prevail from tweets, bro, I will not let it you're not beating the allegation. All right, buddy, they're preying on my downfall in 4k live on the mic, bro like y'all are all my witnesses.
Speaker 4:All right, anyways um we'll send you the clip of a couple months him shotgun you can't stop a man from his tweets, bro.
Speaker 3:It's just how it is the clip last night him dancing after he shotgunned it you didn't even finish.
Speaker 4:He was looking real happy after that I was living my best life, okay absolutely.
Speaker 1:I had to revisit 2024 all right, it's only been four days.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I'm trying to leave bad habits, I'm trying to leave laziness, I'm trying to leave struggles. Well, you're going to struggle regardless in life, but the least amount is the key. You know, and I think that's my. My takeaway from it is just struggle less, be more happy and keep the family close. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3:What about you, isaac? What are you leaving behind in 2024? Other than your name, Mm-hmm?
Speaker 4:I think just all the problems, Like me and DJ have been through problems. We already left that shit, though, so yeah yeah, but just all the other I'm really trying to. I'm really trying to like just restart my life this year, like just focus on myself, reach the goals that I want to reach, focus more on getting our shit together, like all the content stuff, the merchandise stuff, yeah, and just really lock in, because last year was my little hiatus.
Speaker 3:like don't give a fuck, I'm just gonna do whatever yeah, but then this year is yeah, it's time to lock in this year's lock in this year's the comeback season right here. Yeah, no, we went crazy last year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's not talk about the casino, ooh.
Speaker 4:I might have to leave that one too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, last year was a year of it wasn't full-on addiction, but it was semi-addiction. It wasn't full-on addiction, but it was semi-addiction.
Speaker 4:We were just bored and trying to have fun.
Speaker 2:We were living our best life, money was coming and we was like casino, casino, casino, world, cha-ching, like every time, just Buffalo. The moment Friday hits and I look at this man, isaac, and he goes casino.
Speaker 4:I'm just like, oh my God, sometimes it wasn't us, sometimes it wasn't us, Sometimes it wasn't us.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it wasn't us, sometimes it wasn't, but it had its moments.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was good times. It was good to experience it. It was still good memories.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you just got to do it just to get it out of your system.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I got a lot of memories going. I think it was too much funny shit it was too much funny shit.
Speaker 2:I wish we would have vlogged it at the time. You can't vlog in a casino, I know that's crazy coyote's going crazy outside.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's close too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, open the door. They're right here in the front yard. Um so, any big, any big plans for 2025 or any new year, like I know we already touched new year's resolutions, but anything like you guys are really looking forward to specifics, specifics, yeah I can't even say my birthday, because I really don't yeah, I don't even
Speaker 2:care for my birthday um, I think I think my biggest plan this year.
Speaker 2:I'm not gonna mention that that's crazy but I think what I'm gonna end up doing is I mean, like I said, I haven't really focused on anything big other than, like, my car build yeah, I mean that's always been a big factor is just really trying to aim and build my car. I think that's gonna be the biggest thing. Is finishing car build. Yeah, I mean that's always been a big factor is just really trying to aim and and build my car. I think that's going to be the biggest thing. Is finishing the build. Yeah, no matter how much money or how much time it takes, it's going to be that yeah, yeah, what about you az?
Speaker 4:probably. Just I really want to get a house because I was telling dj a while back I was like, bro, if I were to get a house, or we to get a house. Because I was telling DJ a while back I was like, bro, if I were to get a house or we to get a house, like content creation would be so much easier. Yes, Literally, Because they'd have. It'd be me DJ and then somebody else, I don't know who else, Probably.
Speaker 1:I don't even know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're going to have to figure that part out finding something that's committed for sure we know a couple.
Speaker 4:But we know the people that we know aren't in a spot to move out or they don't want to move out because where they're living is helping out with their family.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we'll figure it out we'll get there for that, yeah because once that happens, it's on go that's good. That's good. Um, my thing, my whole thing is I think the goal is, uh, um, reinforcing myself, my boundary, um, like you said, getting back into the gym. I want to get back into the gym. I'm gonna wait until like february, just so, that way new year's new year, new me people yeah, I'm gonna wait um, but I'm gonna find I want to. I want to get away from gb3.
Speaker 4:I've always loved gb3 but there's a good one I go to. Yeah, we gotta bleep it out. Some people don't yeah let me know later.
Speaker 3:I need to test out different spots.
Speaker 4:You know, like it's 24, like keypad type shit Like you can go whenever like 24 hour, perfect.
Speaker 3:But yeah, getting back into the gym routine. Getting back into it Because I remember, man, I loved it, as soon as I would get off work, boom into the gym and I kept doing that, just so that way again distract my mind, distract me from my mental uh battles and you're helping your health, yeah it's just helpful all the way around.
Speaker 3:That's how I always saw the gym too yeah, and then most importantly is just to continue elevating my platform, continue elevating my content and doing the journey with all you guys for sure absolutely yeah, biggest goal is to go out of town, uh, on a trip. I know, me and kat we, we thought about it. We want to go somewhere, I don't know where, but we want to leave, uh, the united states, for I've seen big bear has been pretty lit lately.
Speaker 4:Big bear I was watching. It was someone's story, I don't know if you remember israel yeah him and his, because I know him and his brother. I played basketball with his older brother, okay, yeah. So I chop it up with him all the time. And then I saw on both of their stories they went up there and riding these big ass tubes down the whole hill and I'm like that shit looks fine, yeah you know what I will say.
Speaker 4:That's a big goal of mine this year I've been talking about it for the last three years well, we got these first four months and the last four months.
Speaker 2:I'm just thinking of it like sometime this year I'm going, I gotta, I gotta get a board and I know they're expensive. I thought about renting one just for the experience, but I want to like fully dive into it, try it.
Speaker 4:I feel like we should rent first time yeah, just try it.
Speaker 2:Try it for the first time yeah, I, knowing my anemic ass and being in the cold, I'll probably be freezing my little shit off I'll probably, you know, stomach down fucking penguin full, full blown out there I was just. I got homies that go there every season and I'm just like dude, I want to go. So bad. It looks like so much fun. I already know it's something I'm gonna fall in love with, but I'm really just trying to step out of my comfort zone and do something new yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So this is this is definitely for the year for me for vlogs and pushing shit out there, going out on day trips more. Uh, this is gonna be the year that I'm gonna continue pushing and I'm gonna elevate more, I'm gonna spend more, but yeah you're gonna continue going.
Speaker 2:Everything costs money I'm all out of money I'm telling you, man, if our economy was just a little bit better like we'd be living so much happier yeah, so we all had a great start to the new year.
Speaker 3:I hope everyone's was way better than ours. But for the most, most important thing, we're glad that we're here and we're glad that we're going to start the new year a little bit rough, but we're looking forward to the a little bit of positivity that we have left in it.
Speaker 2:I don't know how much I got left it all be worth it.
Speaker 3:But thank you guys for all listening. We appreciate you guys. Remember you guys can catch us every Sunday and Thursday for new episodes. And again, we wish that all you guys' New Year's blessings. You guys did all your traditions eating all the grapes under the table, running around with your luggage, if you did that, but most importantly, thank you guys. Thank you guys for being here.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so you go ahead and check out woe day and yo, isaac, and on instagram and we appreciate you guys. We're gonna get ready to the next episode. Much love, peace, peace.
