Carolina Otakus Podcast
We all know that being an otaku can be fun and exciting. But we also know that there are certain questions and topics that otaku's ask just because they can. "Is Goku a dead beat father? Or Does the intro music to an anime make it better? AfroSly and LexyTheNoob will answer these questions and more on Carolina Otaku's Podcast. If you enjoy gaming, tech and anime then Carolina Otaku's is right for you. So give us a listen.
Carolina Otakus Podcast
The Constant Struggle Between Earning More and Living Better
Ever feel like you're barely keeping your head above water while juggling multiple jobs? You're not alone. In this raw and relatable conversation, we dive into the real challenges of managing multiple work responsibilities in today's demanding professional landscape.
The struggle is painfully familiar – you're about to leave the office when an urgent ticket comes in, forcing you to choose between extending your workday or leaving someone without help. We break down practical strategies for setting boundaries, from organizing technical bookmarks to shutting off those persistent Slack notifications that follow you home. If you've ever felt the pull between in-office demands and remote work responsibilities, this discussion offers both validation and actionable advice.
We also unpack the fascinating generational divide in work perspectives. As millennials, we were told college was the only path to success, only to discover trade careers might have offered better financial prospects with less debt. The painful truth emerges: "Boomers had the money. Gen Xers knew the money was there. Millennials are like WHERE IS THE MONEY? And Gen Z doesn't give a f***." This generational breakdown resonates because it connects to broader economic realities—wages not keeping pace with inflation and the necessity of multiple income streams just to maintain stability.
When work becomes overwhelming, finding effective stress relief becomes essential. We compare music (particularly lo-fi beats) with gaming as decompression tools, even ranking video games from most stressful (Dark Souls) to most relaxing (Animal Crossing). These insights offer practical suggestions for choosing entertainment based on your desired stress response—whether you need to blow off steam or find calm.
Between career discussions, we share our enthusiastic reactions to the King of the Hill revival, appreciating how it maturely developed beloved characters without losing the show's essence. If you're balancing multiple responsibilities while trying to maintain your sanity, you'll find both practical wisdom and comforting camaraderie in this episode. Follow us on TikTok and Instagram as we continue growing our community of overworked, underpaid, but eternally optimistic professionals.
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Thank you and welcome back to another episode of the Carolina Otaku Podcast. I am Afro and I am here with my co-host, lexi. Welcome back, you guys. Yeah, so we haven't been gone for too long. I needed a week away. So you guys know how we start these off, kind of see what we've been up to, and we kind of just go into the topic and shit. You know how it is. Um, so I start, I start with you what you, what you, been up to. The last time we talked, did you all, do we? We already? You already went to the weekend concert, I think, yeah, you already did. So, what you been up to.
Speaker 2:Since then nothing, Just a blessing.
Speaker 1:How the new digs coming. It looks nice.
Speaker 2:Anyways, I don't, I don't, damn man. Okay, is this as I.
Speaker 1:I don't, I don't Damn man. Okay, is this, is I hate? I don't want to, you know. Tell me this, but are you thinking about like finding some other place soon, or are you going to stick with this?
Speaker 2:Oh no, like back to house hunting Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Supposedly interest rates might be going down soon, so that might be a good thing. But for me, working two joints, doing half days at one and doing regular full days and then also working at the range- so he got three joints. Yeah, it's okay, it's all right. Uh, that's about it, man. I, I can't. It feels good to be making money again. I got my, like I got my first check from the job, from the new job, and I got paid for my first week. Boy, what a difference. Boy, what a difference.
Speaker 1:What night and day I was like whoa, whoa, I haven't seen this in months. I almost started crying. But you know, other than that, it's been just pretty chill, just, you know, working and coming home and just doing stuff around the house that I can get to and all that shit, so nothing too crazy. So, speaking of having you know the jobs and stuff, we both have worked multiple jobs at the same time and one of the big things that I think Lexi is way better at than me is vacation, taking vacation, taking time away and managing workload.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And when? Ok, is the difference between managing workload? If you're going into an office, I get it because you can leave that shit at home, right? No, leave that shit at work, excuse me you leave that shit at work and you don't worry from stuff like you can do it. But if you have slack, if you have your work email or, uh, any other shit on your phone and you're not turning off those slack notifications when somebody is in a certain channel that you know you support or whatever, that gets annoying it does it's really fucking annoying and you have to kind of just shut your shit off, for that it's.
Speaker 1:I was literally like I say, last week I'm going in early, leaving like at 12, and then coming home and then doing the rest of the shit that I have to do, right, so I'm not staying the full hours inside, but it just seems like every time I go in it's always stupid shit. It's always shit. Everything can be running smooth I mean smooth and then when it comes to networking shit, it's just like it just shits the bed. And it's always those last 30 minutes when I'm about to leave, of course, and it's like, hey, 30 minutes when I'm about to leave, of course, and it's like, hey, I ain't got no internet, what it was working, fine, what the hell happened. So now it's going back to where that office is, seeing where that main connection is, checking, making sure that Ubiquity AP and that that ubiquity switch is all good to go. Then going back to the server room seeing if there's a connection, there might be a bad cable, might be some other bad shit. Then you sit there, you're like, well, it's not anything bad, so what is it?
Speaker 1:and then you don't want to leave that person without yeah, without you know access to anything, sending emails and stuff like that. So now you're just like, okay, I'll work on this tomorrow. When I come in and tell the person, hey, I'll be back tomorrow, and or you sit there past the time that you need to be there and work on it, you give them the good old try, y'all left. So I did because I had other shit I had to take care of. But it's always shit that happens, like at that last minute when you're just about to hit the door, like you're just about to log off Even working remotely, you're about to log off and then somebody.
Speaker 1:And you get that ticket that comes into your queue and you're like yo, this is crazy. I have been waiting for a response from you all day and you want to be a dickhead and send me a message saying, hey, you have time for that call. No, no, I don't. I don't't, I'm about to go eat, leave me alone. So it it's been, it's been working with that, dealing with learning how to manage that and also kind of working within a startup company. And when I think about startup, I'm thinking less than 500 people. That's startup to me. Some other people might say that's wrong, but that's startup to me because I've never worked for a company that had that wrong. But that's startup to me because I've never worked for a company that had that like less of people working remotely and working within cybersecurity and stuff. So it was definitely something that was new. So this whole realm is like just the onboarding process is.
Speaker 1:You're coming onto a team where it's still being worked on, so the protocols of stuff isn't set in stone, it's being edited and changed kind of like every day just to meet, like, okay, this is the shit that this person would need access to, this is the shit that this person needs to download, they have to log into, they have to do everything that they need to do with. So that's what I'm going through and it's more of me. Even when I'm ghosting individuals, it's me asking, honestly, the best thing that I can do is, if I'm ghosting somebody and I see that they have like a whole bunch of bookmarks and they're organized, let me get those bookmarks in that HTML file. Let me get the bookmarks in the HTML files so I can copy them shits, so I can have them for myself, so I can just have the things already organized. I did that today. The best shit that you can do can copy them shits so I can have it for myself, so I can just have the things already organized. I did that today. The best shit that you can do.
Speaker 1:As for people, like with people, if you're ghosting somebody and you notice that they have a certain organization, you're going to be talking to most of your team anyway. You want to take into consideration how everybody kind of works through tickets and stuff, because everybody's different. Some people write down everything and take notes everything and put it in notion or put it in a notepad or something like that. Um, some people don't, and but the one thing that everybody has is bookmarks. You have to be a serial killer to be working in tech and not have bookmarks. Yeah, like that's insane. Um, so bookmarks came in clutch, just seeing everything organized and stuff like that. So what I guess for you when, when you were doing the two jobs, how did you manage that and kind of say, was there one that you put like, was there one that you gave more time to than the other?
Speaker 2:It really depends on, like, what's going on day to day at either one. It's so Like, when you do it, you know, like out of the back of your hand, like okay, I know I can do this and I'm not gonna have any issues, or whatever, but it also is, how is the work dynamic? So, like, there's like like for you working at a startup. It's small, there's a lot of like, there's not that many employees. Y'all are trying to get things up off the ground, setting protocols and troubleshooting, like tips, knowledge bases, all that kind of stuff. It's still being developed.
Speaker 2:While working at, like, let's say, an established place, already, you already have all that.
Speaker 2:So, like, if I run into an issue at established place, all right, I know I got this article over here that I can go look or like, okay, there's this co-worker that's been here xyz many years.
Speaker 2:You know, I can just go ask them really quick, get some knowledge real quick and keep it moving, instead of, like, working with a startup, you, you, you're, you're gonna have to figure that out, because dosing are not there and so that takes more of your attention because you have to do those kind of things. Um, so that's kind of how I like it's gonna be different depending on, like I said, what you do and things of that nature there. Um, and like, for you, like yours, is different, you have to go in to one and you're remote on the other right. So, like I'm always remote, so like I hop off one and then, like the next one is like you know there or whatever, so I don't necessarily have to like get up, put clothes on or whatever, yada, yada, yada. It's manually like shut this shit down, let's hop on to the other one and and see what's going on.
Speaker 1:Um, but yeah, it's to the point where you know, like, like I was saying, sometimes I was, I sit in that office when I'm in there for that half day and I'm just like what the fuck am I doing here? What am I doing here? Like I could be at home and my draws working, like literally in my draws, working doing what I have to do, taking meetings, you know, taking cases and everything like that. Not being here, not, you know, it's I don't know. I it's still some shit I gotta think about. But you know, I definitely understand what you're saying when you're, because I worked for companies that have, like their knowledge base already said, and there's already certain, there are certain things that you that you document. That is kind of reoccurring. So if you see it once, you take documentation of it and then you can you know if it's the same thing. You give them the answer, duplicate it on your own, walking through it and everything like that. Got it Cool. So, yeah, so with just in general, with like workload, I realized that because at first I was like, oh yeah, I can do this shit. This shit's fucking easy. I'm going, I'm going to do both in the office. Yeah, I know, I was like I'm going to do both in the office. Yeah, I know I was like I'm going to do both in the office, blah, blah, blah blah, because I was told that I could do both of them remotely. Well, one of them says the only way that you can get hours is if you come into the office. So me logging into my computer, taking meetings and stuff with you is not considered that. So I said, fuck it, I'm gonna leave my, the laptop that I have at the office, I'm not gonna bring that shit home. Fuck that, that's, that's, that's counterintuitive, like a motherfucker. So I said that.
Speaker 1:And then it was something that you said that I was thinking about today on how, like I think we might've talked about this, but it kind of goes into this whole work around shit and the whole, like I was. So I was talking to, uh, my manager at the range and he kind of said something interesting to me. We were talking about kind of like the different generations of just people, right, and how different generations, the way that they see life and shit, like that. And he was like boomers, boomers, ie, my parents, right, my parents and stuff are like, not my parents, but they're like you don't? They tell everybody you don't want to work, you don't know what working hard is Blah, blah, blah. Then you got. Then that's like the boomers tell the Gen Xers. And hard is Blah, blah, blah, woo, doo, doo, doo. Then that's like the boomers tell the Gen Xers. Because the Gen Xers hear that shit and they're like Then it's so many Gen Xers that I know Gen X is like late 30s into 40s, I think.
Speaker 1:Maybe like.
Speaker 2:Your 70s, 80s babies.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so then you get into them and it's like I think maybe like your 70s, 80s babies, yeah, so then you get into them and it's like, honestly, I'm gonna be real with you. I feel like all those motherfuckers there would just fuck, I swear, I swear. I feel like no, but when you sit here and think like really think about this, think about people that are like like in that generation age, right, think about where they are now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And think do you think that they were able to, do you think that they were able to like to where they wanted to get to?
Speaker 2:yes, there are some like that, but I've seen a lot of gen xers that have tons of fucking kids, a lot of them that might get hatred I think I see where you're going with this, but I think it's just where we are now with the times, Like the boomers are going to be, like we don't want to work, we're lazy. But, they fail to realize that no longer does one income support everybody in a family and like we have to work like two, three jobs.
Speaker 2:I have like multiple streams of income just to be able to take care of ourselves, and so you know, they just think that you know, oh no, you're not doing it right or you have bad money management. No, it's not. Our wages are not keeping up with inflation and so, like we're having to do extra shit. Gen x or not? Well, yeah, the gen x after them, yeah, so with them they mostly caught the last little tail end of like being able to like have that one family or whatever, or having that one income and support a family or whatever, and right in coat, right, and so yeah right and so you know they.
Speaker 2:You know if the mom did, she probably had like a part-time job, so you know they had that little extra bit of income. But like us millennials, we're realizing that like kids are fucking expensive. We already got like money issues.
Speaker 1:We've been through so many like world events in our like young age that like we're just like ah no I'm good, I don't, I don't, I don't want the kids or whatever, and like they were just but, but the gen gen xers just plopped them shits out like nothing, and then it's just like, and then it's just crazy to me how, like, when it comes to the gen xers, they it's, it's almost like this like yeah, I know what I'm talking about. Shit Nigga. No, you don't. What. Like. What are you what? No, you don't. You think you know, you think you're a boomer, but in all reality, you really not. So then when?
Speaker 1:So when we come in the millennials, it's, it's the whole cause. I don't think Gen Xers were told get, given the whole speech of you got to go to college, you have to go to college, you have to go to college, you got to go to college in order to get to where you got to get to. Right, millennials come in and it's like you got to go to fucking college, you got to go to fucking college, get the degrees that you need to get. Blah, blah, blah. I'll tell you what. One of the biggest things that was never talked about with me, like, or just like in general, were blue collar jobs, ie, plumbers, electricians, masonaries, shit like that.
Speaker 2:I didn't know about that shit until I got older yeah because it was never anything that that was said yeah, it's true, it's like you gotta think about it, like, as the change in industry has like progressed, like boomers they were. There were more what? Like I don't know, but I know like gen x, like they're more textile, more yeah you know, automotive industry, blue collar like plumber h back. Those type of roles were like, hey, go get a trade, go get it, you know, learn something like.
Speaker 2:And we were told, oh yeah, we gotta go to college, gotta go to college, you know you gotta go to college to have a good, you know, a good job, all that stuff, yada, yada, yada. And I think now with like the generation after us, they're starting to realize that, like you don't necessarily have to go to college, like right now, in the state of the economy and the way it is, it's going to college is completely useless the money yeah like you're better off getting a trade yeah and doing that yep or finding some like skill niche role and learning that versus going to college for four years, because there's so many people right now that are like getting these degrees and not even doing the job that they were preparing for like.
Speaker 2:Or right now it's an epidemic where like entry level roles for like people coming out of college, they they're non-existent. My nephew, who's in his senior year now, he did an internship or whatever and he's been messaging me and then like, hey, where can I find this kind of job? Or you got any tips or whatever, because it's just so hard out there. But luckily, the place he did his internship at this summer're like, hey, we can hire you on. You know, whatever you're, you're done with school, so he's not going through that. But there's so many that are like not finding roles after they get that piece of paper.
Speaker 1:It's insane I saw somebody else on a podcast, I forgot Maybe they said it like this Boomers are like we had the money. Gen Xers were like you know. We know that the money's there, but we don't want to do too much for it.
Speaker 2:Millennials are like where is the fucking money? Where is it? Because it's not finding it anywhere.
Speaker 1:And then Gen Zers are like I really don't give a fuck about the money, I don't give a fuck, right, and because I, when I heard that, I was like that is absolutely right. As a millennial, I'm like where the fuck is it? Let me know? Because I, if I can I said this before If I can do it all over again I never would have went to college. My ass would have been an electrician, a plumber. Only if I knew about it, if I knew about all the options.
Speaker 2:I think that's where I got lucky because, like in high school, we had what we call like an extension campus, yeah, so pretty much that like geared you up for certain roles that were like trade-based, so like automotive. Uh, I think they did have some hr classes, nursing, um, like accounting classes, banking classes. I took biomedical sciences. So, like you, you do get like I got lucky and I got exposure. So I knew, like, for me, I wanted to be in like well, originally I wanted to be in like the health care field and I found out like nursing was not it for me. So, like, I took biomedical sciences and then, like I was like, okay, well, tech, and now I kind of do both. So it's, it's that kind of thing.
Speaker 2:But I think that's where, as millennials, our parents and the school system failed us. It was not letting us know that there's other options out there. Instead of breathing down our neck about college admissions and sat scores and you know things of that sort, you know there's other options out there. College is not for everybody, obviously. Even if you went to college, that's not guaranteed that you're going to get a good job after college. I know somebody with a psychology degree and they don't even use it. They haven't used it. It's just a waste of money and paper.
Speaker 1:That's the other thing too. There are certain degrees that I think are just like what, what are you gonna do with that shit, right? What are you gonna do with that? Like, I love art, love it to death, right? If you're not going to be teaching art, I don't know what you're gonna do with it. Bro, you have, you're not going to be teaching art.
Speaker 2:I don't know what you're going to do with it, bro.
Speaker 1:You have a ton. Huh, it's going to be a piece of paper. That's it. I know there are tons of outlets out there that you can do to to get your shit out there, but the question is are you actually going to do it? Going to do it? Are you actually going to put yourself out there and your work to be criticized, to be talked about, to be looked at in a way that isn't the way that you wanted it to be looked at, but looked at in totally different ways?
Speaker 1:That's the way art should be looked at, right, but when you put your shit out there ie like us doing this shit it gets critiqued, it gets talked about, it gets ridiculed and laughed at and all that shit. Like it happens. Who gives a fuck? You gonna do it or not? But getting a degree in that shit? There's tons of artists that are great artists and a lot of them don't have a degree in art at all none of them. I even thought about going to get my MFA in photography and I'm happy that I didn't go, because that just would have been more money out of my pocket for what I know you don't even do photography that I didn't go, that just would have been more money out of my pocket.
Speaker 2:For what? For what?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't even do photography anymore, I don't. I said, nah, I'm done, because anybody can pick up a fucking camera and take shit. And honestly, I saw, I swear to goodness, I was taking pictures like crazy in college and a little bit after college too, like I had equipment, studio lights, I still got studio lights and everything and I got really fucking good at it. Like I got good and as soon as I saw where Instagram was going and I saw where all that shit was going.
Speaker 1:I was like, oh, this is going to get really saturated really fast.
Speaker 2:And now we have AI.
Speaker 1:This is going to get crazy. But with all of that we come to with workload, you kind of have to relax and relieve your stress, right? So first let me ask you this question what would actually help you relieve stress? More music or gaming?
Speaker 2:So for me, I think it really depends on, like, the situation. Like if I'm angry or like I'm just not in a good mood, gaming and shooting and killing things is always a nice stress reliever. But like if I'm like anxious or like you know, kind of like depressed or whatever the case may be, I think music helps me more in those particular situations. Just because, like I'm one of those people, I think that like for me, music kind of like the soundtrack of my life, like I can listen to a particular song and I can know what I was feeling like in that particular point of life. Like, oh, okay, I remember like this song. Yeah, I used to play this all the time when I was like going through x, y and z, um or you know. Oh, yeah, I remember when this happened, this song was playing in the background. Like it's just like that for me. So I'm one of those different ones. I is both what about you?
Speaker 1:I probably gaming is is definitely relaxing and a stress reliever, but it would have to be music. Um, lo-fi girl put out a channel last month and it's a live channel with, like the brazilian lo-fi shit and that shit. Oh my gosh, that shit hits every fucking time. I am a lo-fi fucking fiend. I love it to death god, he is because I it's just great instrumental, it's great like we actually talked about that last week.
Speaker 2:It was like we in our team meeting we have like an icebreaker or whatever and like I asked uh, what does everybody listen to during work? Yeah get through the day and like most of them were like nothing, which was surprising. But like another guy on my team is a little he's closer to my age but he was like oh yeah, I listened to like by uh, by natural bees and lo-fi or whatever. I was like yeah me too. Like yeah, so it's the way I do like yeah, we don't have this raccoon like.
Speaker 1:This is from chill Hop. I have one still in the box. I bought two of these things years ago. This is the Chill Hop raccoon, right, and Chill Hop is based out of, I think, sweden, and I saw this and I said, oh my gosh, I want this because this is like a Funko Pop almost. So I bought two of them and it just sits here right on my desk and, honestly, it just reminds me why I love like lo-fi, but it's something about music that I can listen to and not like.
Speaker 1:Really just it calms the fuck out of me. It really does. It relaxes me. So it's just it calms the fuck out of me. It really does, it relaxes me. Um, so it's it. Music to me is my shit, but I think some people do like, uh, video games also, which is which is cool, right, and I think we talked, we hinted, on this last week. So what I'm going to do is just go through a list of video games from most stressful to least stressful, right. So we're going to start with most stressful games high-pressured, right, intense, punishing first game most stressful. You want to take a guess?
Speaker 2:Dark Souls.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Dark Souls, Elder Ring series, Soulborne games. What it says here is tough bosses, constant death and high stakes. That's number one.
Speaker 2:I hate Dark Souls so much, oh my god. So like years ago we had a goal on my channel and like they challenged me to play dark souls 3 oh my god, the amount of like anger. I ended up rage, quitting in that game. I don't think I've picked it up since, because I just hate that fucking game, but yeah I don, I wonder if somebody is like oh yeah, I love Dark Souls yeah there's people that love that shit.
Speaker 1:Because you don't have a soul. So, like you said, number two is Bloodborne. Number three is interesting to me. What is it? But I get it because I watch people play it Cuphead. Yeah yeah, yeah, that'll be it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I play Cuphead. I definitely agree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Cuphead. Cuphead is number three, Fast pace, Boss rush, Very unforgiving Number four. I would actually enjoy playing. This is Doom Eternal. They say it's chaotic, relentless demon fights, but that's I mean.
Speaker 2:I played Gears of War, so I mean I play Gears of War, so I mean I like Doom. Doom is I wouldn't, I don't know.
Speaker 1:number four Number four and then number five is Call of Duty Warzone, apex Legends, competitive Battle Royales.
Speaker 2:See, that'll be number four for me, because that's more of those are more stress-inducing, because you have other players that you're playing with.
Speaker 1:And you gotta keep your head on a swivel at all times, right?
Speaker 2:And then like, not just that, like you're playing with random, you don't know everybody on your team, so like you don't know everybody's playstyle and like some people could be ass or you might be ass, and then they talking shit about you like it's a lot to go into that. So, like that'll, I can see that being number four, but not number five also, I have a crazy hot take I hate battle royales.
Speaker 1:I think they're dumb. Um, sorry, gonna go off this tangent real quick. I remember I was seeing videos of big streamers talking about Battlefield and how, like, what they need to do to fix it. I don't know if they were joking, I don't know if they were like on some real shit, but they were talking about, like, making Battlefield like a Battle Royale type shit. We don't need that shit. Alright, back to this list. We don't need it. Leave Battlefield right back to this list. Um, we don't need it. Leave battlefield the way that it is. Stick to your fucking fortnights and all that shit. Uh, rainbow six siege I agree with this. It's numbers.
Speaker 2:Uh, number six no, that should be before call of duty oh, yeah, definitely, yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1:rainbow six siege is like I know some Siege players. Yeah, that definitely should be higher up. Oh yeah, that shit is tactical as fuck. That's crazy Number. Number seven is Escape from Tokov.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, that should be higher up on the list, oh.
Speaker 1:Permadeath looting and very stressful PvP. Pc only. Number 8, Overwatch 2, Valorant. I don't get Valorant.
Speaker 2:I don't get Valorant either.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I get it. It's competitive shit, but meh.
Speaker 2:Dead Bob. Daylight is number nine. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:And I don't know, this number ten is weird, but I get it. Resident Evil 7 and 8.
Speaker 2:That was such that that that doesn't belong on the list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think people play that more for the fun of it. If, if you're not, I feel like people that play resident evil usually have played all the rest of them. I don't know, there are definitely people that get it that's never played it before, and that's when I can see it being stressful. But most people that have played or play resident evil have usually played it before and kind of expect certain shit to happen. You know, so that's I don't know why that's on there A game that's like that I can think of. I don't play stressful games like that, just in general. Nah, metal Gear ain't stressful okay it ain't.
Speaker 1:Nah, metal Gear's not stressful. Nah, um, nah, it's not. Uh, so moderately. At first actually I kinda wanna start. I just that's the high I don't really care about moderately, but we can go through it just because, uh, it has Fortnite again, um, as number 11.
Speaker 1:Monster Hunter World for number 12 yeah, I could see that big boss fights, grindy but rewarding the Legend of Zelda, tears of the Kingdom and Breath of the Wild. I would think people would see that as more like relaxing, but it says open world with survival challenges, but beautiful and calming too how many games are on this list? 30.
Speaker 2:Okay, what.
Speaker 1:Go on. It's crazy. Hades is number 14. I get why Hades is up there. The rest of these are kind of shit. Streets of Rage is not fucking.
Speaker 2:Wow, I'm surprised that isn't even on the list.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Streets of Rage 4, get that shit the fuck out of here. Diablo's number 19. Which?
Speaker 2:It depends on how you're playing. If you're playing like me and you're doing seasonal shit and you're like on torment three and four, yeah yeah, yeah, it could be stressful.
Speaker 1:And then FIFA, madden and two K are. Honestly, I would think that shit is more stressful than moderately stressful. I would think those games are more stressful because those shits are competitive as hell in every way. In every way I mean. Because I mean, how else is 2K and FIFA and Madden gonna take those people's money? They gotta give them something to do. They gotta give them something to do Shit. They have to give them something. They gotta give them something to do. They gotta give them something to do Shit. They have to Low stress games. This is pretty, what do you think? The first one is the Sims.
Speaker 1:Number 25.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Animal Crossing New Horizons that makes sense.
Speaker 2:I was thinking that.
Speaker 1:Or Stardew Valley that's number two, that's the second one. That's the second one on the list. Uh, minecraft Creative Mode, which I get you. Just go in there and just do what you gotta do. Uh, the Sims Slime Rancher Power Wash Simulator I get it. That could be some relaxing shit. And Cozy Grove I don't know what the fuck that is.
Speaker 2:I don't know what that is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't either. But the Dark Souls and the Elden Ring shit. I can definitely see that being number one.
Speaker 2:That's definitely number one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't know. I think this is one of the reasons why I say I'd rather listen to music than play video games, because, yeah, I might get stressed out if I don't beat a level, but I just turn it off and just go away and just come back to it later. When I was younger oh nigga, I used to get pissed off that I couldn't beat a fucking level. I'd be mad as fuck. When I was younger, I'd be mad as shit. I'd be playing like it was. I didn't know exactly the fucking level too, playing like it was. I know exactly the fucking level too. Uh, donkey kong, it was the level where they're on that damn cart and that makeshift um, on that makeshift railroad and you have to get the jumps right. And couldn't get that shit, man, and you know what the crazy shit is. Then I remember I came, I had the Super Nintendo at my dad's house and I remember coming back there and my dad and my stepmother actually were able to do it because they were practicing oh no, that has a fishy wall.
Speaker 1:They were able to practice when I wasn't there. So when I saw them do it I was like what in the fuck is going on? But that was a hard one for me. I remember that one very, very well. But yeah, when I was younger I used to get pissed off at crazy games, crazy, crazy games. Oh, I'm happy I don't do that anymore. Um, I'm serious, I'm serious. Uh well, it was something else that I wanted to bring up. Oh, let's think also this is another segue I watched the new seat, that new season in Canada Hill.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I love it.
Speaker 2:I did too. It was really good.
Speaker 1:I thought it was fucking great the way they did it.
Speaker 2:Love seeing Connie. They already finished season two. The next season. They were supposed to get it next year.
Speaker 1:Look, I think the way that they made Bobby, we saw Bobby kind of already like self-aware and growing and understanding who he is and other people around him and him being an adult, becoming a chef it all makes sense. But he's also like very considerate and emotional and just all around a good person, because I think he saw the way that his dad was yeah, and then he saw his mother, which peggy think peggy has fucking dementia or something because she's fucking crazier than dale, like she's a nut. When man the way that um, what was the word that she was saying? Well, she is saying I kept, she kept on saying saudi arabia, weird she was.
Speaker 2:She was saying it weird.
Speaker 1:I'm just like it hurt the fuck out of me. I was like, oh my god, this is peggy. Peggy is the. I said this before and I'm gonna say it again and I I posted this on Tik TOK and it got. So people were like. I remember reading one comment and it said you know what? I was going to get mad at first, but thank you, he's right, peggy is the dumbest character in King of the Hill.
Speaker 2:I remember that comment. I was like yes, she is, it is, it is is. I remember that comment. I was like, yes, but she is like it is, it is. It is hard because, like she thinks she is the smartest person in the room yes, and that's why it's so bad. Like she, like if she was, if she was like lucky but technically lucky was smart, but like she was like lucky and like everybody just thought was stupid, okay, it's fine, because she thinks she's the smartest person in the room and that she knows everything.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:It's bad. For instance, when they were doing the whole investment scheme or whatever investment scheme or whatever, like she was like you know, let's go ahead and do this. And Hank is like no, let's, let's, not, let's, let's keep our safe assets. And you know, get our three to five percent. And guess what ends up happening like, but she did save him at the end. She did save him you know what's crazy?
Speaker 1:this is how you know peggy's dumb, because kank and bobby don't even acknowledge the shit that she says anymore, because they both know that she's talking shit like I remember peggy was like um, or you can name it, you know, after your mother. And no, it was the beer episode. And they were like what are you gonna, bobby? You gonna name your beer after me? And he was like yeah, mom, mm.
Speaker 2:Are you remember the episode where she, like she has to go through the MRI and she's like, freaking the fuck out?
Speaker 1:she's like, no, I'm not having a pedicure, no, I'm fine, yep, and Bobby came in and was like hey, mom, I'm here, guess what we're gonna be having like a mother's like dinner all the time. And the doctor was like oh, how did you know that she was, like, you know, kind of claustrophobic and all that stuff?
Speaker 1:he was like uh, I don't know, it's just something that I just do like and I love the way that. I like the way that, first of all, the chick that took a shit on Jerry Jones's table is insane. Second, I love seeing Hank's brothers because they show both of them. That was cool. I do like that Hank is in his brother's life and wants to be in his brother's life and kind of turn him into a better person. Um, did you notice that? Uh, what's what's her? Uh, what's hank's uh brother's mom name? What is her name?
Speaker 2:is it debbie? Is it debbie?
Speaker 1:yeah, it might be. It might be, debbie. You notice that she got rid of all those stupid implants and shit that cotton um, but I I thought it was a really good fucking season.
Speaker 1:I thought it was really good the way that they did it and I kind of like how connie and bobby kind of come back together yeah I think that shit is great how they kind of just walk past each other and just like, oh shit it's kind of yeah, the only I think is kind of like somewhat disappointing is that Joseph still has no fucking clue.
Speaker 2:Has no fucking clue. You remember when he was in the restaurant? He's like oh man, I'm the only white guy on my crew.
Speaker 1:And then the guy was like he knew, when he was younger, everybody knows yeah except for Peggy too. Peggy found out late also.
Speaker 2:She found out late, but even she knows. Like everybody knows.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that shit was crazy. I was like oh my gosh man. I thought it was amazing, like seeing everybody, seeing Khan, you know them being divorced. Oh if you haven't watched that shit spoiler alert, but yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh, is it Dee Dee? It is Dee Dee.
Speaker 1:Dee Dee, dee Dee, thank you. But yeah, man, they did a damn good job with that. I was very surprised. I thought they were going to like really kind of go on like this whole like PC shit and kind of not like you know certain things and everything like that. Like that relationship that Connie was in with Chain, with Sana-San, and that, first of all, fuck Connie for that Right. Connie was kind of an asshole for that and I'm gonna be real with you because because the thing that happened was she felt really emotional and needed somebody to talk to and chain was like I don't have to do none of that shit.
Speaker 1:And then connie comes out of her mouth and says oh, you think? Oh, it's what, just because we're in this, you can't be there for me when I need you to be there. And in my head I'm like connie. Isn't that the whole point of the shit, the whole structure of your relationship?
Speaker 2:it was just like why are you in this open relationship with him, right? Anyways, like that part was like a mess. I didn't like that either. I was like what? But that season that they put out is like one of the highest rated animated series that they've done on Hulu for a while. So yeah, I'm ready to see what they're going to do for the next season and see how it goes.
Speaker 1:I do wonder if they're going to bring back Luann.
Speaker 2:I can't. If they do, it has to be a whole new voice actor. But I don't know. I wouldn't think so Because you have to also re-voice. Lucky.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they had a whole kid.
Speaker 2:They did, unless they bring back the kid.
Speaker 1:Possibly.
Speaker 2:By itself.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, nah, they ain't gonna do that Because Peggy's gonna make that kid look stupid. I don't like that. But it would be cool to you know if they brought, you know, brought her up and stuff like that. That would be dope, that would be sick. But, um, yeah, man, that was a really good season. I really fucked with that and that's all I want. That's the only. There's really nothing else TV-wise that I'm looking forward to. I've been watching what's that? I can't think about that anime. It's the one with the dude named. He gets tossed down to a trash world and he's a cleaner and he has these powers that I can't pronounce the name. It starts with a g, damn it. But I've been watching it like a lot. Oh man, this is stupid. I can't think about it, fuck. But it's good, though it has a lot of good black characters in it.
Speaker 2:I have to look it up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I really like one of them. I think I could possibly cosplay. It's actually a really good character.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And, honestly, you could cosplay one of them too.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, no, I'm serious and she's kind of a badass too, but yeah, I've been watching that and I've been watching that, like I know you guys see it on Facebook, but if you haven't watched it, it's interesting and I'm gonna give you spoilers, so whatever. But you know that like catfish, high school like shit, where the mom is literally like, basically like harassing her own daughter is crazy, like how can you do that to your own child? And be like but I love them and yes, sorry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I but I love them that's it what?
Speaker 1:it was, just crazy that's the name of it. Can you see that?
Speaker 2:yes, I see it, and I'm not going to even try to say it yeah, that's why that's it.
Speaker 1:But it's a great series, but I have not seen what you were talking about. That sounds crazy that sounds crazy. Yeah, that sounds crazy.
Speaker 2:Like it literally starts like okay, so her daughter has this boyfriend, or whatever. They've been together since they were like super young like 12, 13 or whatever.
Speaker 2:And like they start getting these harassing text messages or whatever, like trying to break them up or whatever, or whatever. Like trying to break them up or whatever, and it was weird because like the person that was texting them knew stuff about like what was going on at school and their friends and all that shit. And like fast forward we come to find out it was the mom and everybody's like why the fuck would you even do that? And then like so the the dude's mom is like I think she probably like had a crush or an infatuation with this kid. And like turns out like the mom said that she had this job for like a year at this place and she didn't. She just been lying every day saying she was going to work when she wasn't and she was texting her kid and her boyfriend to harass them.
Speaker 1:It's wild, it's just so, what Did she want? The boyfriend, or something? We don't know. Oh man, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:Probably so.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, that's wild Jesus. But yeah, you guys like Take vacation, tom um, but yeah, you guys like take vacation time, don't overstress yourself yeah, don't, don't overstress yourself. Uh, that's it, man. That's that's. That's all the fuck I got. That's all the fuck I got. That's all the fuck I got.
Speaker 1:Uh, you know, you guys were almost at 300 uh followers on tiktok and almost 100 on instagram yeah which I know that sounds low to some people, but that's actually really cool to me, so I appreciate that. Yeah, is there anything else you want to add? You going to be streaming anytime soon fuck.
Speaker 2:No, I'm sick. I'm about to go like, take me a bath and take some NyQuil and go to bed. I don't feel good.
Speaker 1:That's what I want to go do oh, I didn't get the purple one, the cluster. Yeah, I didn't get the purple because supposedly that's gonna fuck with my eyes and I already have like bad vision when I'm like driving at night. Yeah, I didn't get the purple because supposedly that's going to fuck with my eyes and I already have like bad vision when I'm like driving at night sometimes, so that shit's going to be hard on the eyes.
Speaker 2:So I went with like an ice blue.
Speaker 1:I mean that'll work. Yeah, something retro, but yeah, thank you guys for listening. Like I said, appreciate the likes and the follows and the people that actually watch us live. Thank you very, very much, greatly appreciate it we love you guys and yeah, we'll see you guys next time. Bye.
