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Weight Loss Journeys, Debt Collection Realities, and the Power of Core Values | The VR Experience Ep.16
Ever felt the draw of Dunkin' Donuts' free Wednesday treats while trying to lose weight? We've been there too, and we're diving headfirst into the challenge! As we share our personal tales of weight gain, we address hurdles that are all too familiar, like the struggle between being a petite bodyguard or a hefty gamer and the concept of layering muscle onto fat. We've even got our good friend Tim chatting about his target weight of 180 pounds while Young Mac is dreaming of a world where he's morbidly obese.
Marco is offering glimpses of his daily grind as debt collectors. From dealing with irate customers to navigating the law on personal debts, we're pulling back the curtain on what it's really like to work in this field. And we don't stop there!
Listen as we share the nitty-gritty details of our transition to new roles, the financial decisions we had to make, and the positive changes that came from it all.
What about those moments when the conversation took an unexpected turn during a business meeting? We'll walk you through our encounters, including that nerve-wracking investment chat with Jerry. And, if you're seeking a little enlightenment, join us as we delve into the importance of core values and how they can align us with our goals.
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Even that haircut that shows that I fucking hate my life. I have three young, grateful ass children and I fucking want to. I want to hit my wife.
Speaker 2:I want to challenge you, mac. My man, what did I do, you and me versus each other in a weight loss challenge? Everybody else kind of cowered when Jake asked this question and stood his ground. It was such a monumental moment for Jake Pottage. Mac still got to write down his topics. I erased him because last time I was just goofing around. No, no, no.
Speaker 3:I don't think we have to. Well, I don't have to. I have him in my head, but I only did the, I only wrote him down because of the video, this tradition. Oh, I just write it up there so I remember what I want to say. Oh, I got, I got, I got a couple ideas, you got it memorized.
Speaker 2:Okay, all right. Well, I just realized.
Speaker 1:I just realized that on the third angle and this in this table arrangement, it literally shows the angle to that dude. If we ever did video again and we needed to like show the audience something on the like, a trailer or something on the screen, we should just literally, yeah, we should do this ceiling arrangement because they'll be able to see us, our reaction and the trailer and the and the up on the board.
Speaker 2:That's okay, is that what you were looking back at?
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I was looking at right now. I was like whoa, that looks cool. I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:I was doing that angle, that's better than what I imagined. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's nice.
Speaker 2:Um, before you guys joined, I was playing runescape. Uh, just waiting for you guys. So I'm going to have to cut all that out.
Speaker 1:When's the next, when's the second video? Tim?
Speaker 2:The second video will come out as soon as I just edited it, and I've just been procrastinating on that, oh you're, you're recorded it. I recorded two videos. I just haven't sat down to edit them.
Speaker 1:I have been slacking, that's the lack, that's the lack of love that you're talking about.
Speaker 2:No, I love the podcast, but no, I don't want, I don't want. I guess we could talk about that first, because that was that's something I've had in my notes like months ago, but that's because we weren't doing anything with it. And then we were just it was just kind of like turning into the fated fan bros, where we weren't talking about it, we weren't promoting it, we weren't advertising it, anything like other than me telling people about it, or like doing shorts, like I was the only one promoting it or showing love to it. I noticed, like you guys don't ever talk about it, you know, with me or with anybody that I know of. So that's why I was like lack of love, because it was just starting to go downhill. It's just. That's the way I see it. I don't know how you guys see it. I just see it like turning into the fated fan bros where we're not doing anything with it.
Speaker 1:I'm going to court. I'm going to court base.
Speaker 2:Object Objection, objection. So it's like but yeah, that's just my opinion, you know, and if you guys think differently, you know, feel free to share.
Speaker 1:Well, I think differently to him. But, like I said, this podcast obviously like it's, it's one of like it's like our babies, like we all three created Sorry, let me mute, we all three created a baby of our own, but no, like that. I love this podcast, I definitely do, and I think it's hard to market something that that's obviously needs, needs to like, naturally, like, pick up on its own because, you know, like the video wise that was, we could market that because it's visual, people can actually see it, they can actually like like at least my thought they could vibe with it because, I mean, they're seeing it like a real life, even though we're just avatars.
Speaker 1:But they kind of see like our gestures and our movement and stuff, and that adds on to more of the personality instead of just our voice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you mentioned marketing it and that's what I've been doing. I've been sharing it all over. You know that's what I'm talking about. Like, I even talked to my hairstylist about it. It was crazy, dude, she was telling her daughter's. I don't know her name. She was a new lady. I think it's like Lena, but she works at master clips or master master, cut master cuts.
Speaker 2:It's in the mall here and she's running out of business Like she can't hire anybody. So she's like, please give me a shout out. And I was like, all right, master, cuts everybody.
Speaker 1:If you're a dad out there with 10 kids and you got no time to get a haircut, go to this place. They ain't got nobody waiting in line for them.
Speaker 2:Nobody, and no workers either. That's what she was saying. She's like please, I need people, so if you give me a shout out, she's like you could start working after like 90 hours and I'm like all right, damn.
Speaker 1:Like what's that movie that we watched?
Speaker 2:We're the millers, we're the millers with that guy.
Speaker 1:Hey guys give me that haircut that shows that I fucking hate my life. I have three young, grateful ass children and I fucking want to. I want to hit my wife.
Speaker 2:And the guy behind them those points to his haircut. Oh, that was a funny movie. I think I watched that movie like three times after you showed it to me the first time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, dude, that's great. I could have watched it again tonight. Dude, that movie was awesome.
Speaker 2:It's so family friendly. But, yeah, with with master cuts, she needs people to work with and then she needs you know, but I think it's just the mall man, like people don't go there to like traditionally shop like they used to, because you could get on Amazon, you know better deals in the mall is expensive. Most people go there for socializing and eating food.
Speaker 1:In my opinion, I thought that was a socializing part, was like back in your like if you're in high school or something. You know like those stereotypical like oh look at that, it's a mall rat. You know like oh look, there's little Charlie or little Kim.
Speaker 2:A little Kim. Yeah, I mean there's like kids there too. Yeah, there's kids there too, but like kids don't have money to get a haircut, you know, unless they're doing TikTok videos and then doing the floss.
Speaker 1:That was like back in 2012,. Man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, I mean, tiktok dances are still popular, aren't they? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I don't really keep up with the term. I'm an old man, dude, I just turned. I just turned 29.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, my man. I'm out of the loop, dude.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the day of the day, oh yeah, I wanted to talk about this, mr. Mr, thank you for giving me a happy, freakin birthday on my on my birthday. I did. I did. What did you do with it? You got to look it on Snapchat. I never once got look at this guy everybody listening. I never once got a good, happy birthday on my on November 2nd of the day I was born.
Speaker 2:I did too.
Speaker 1:As best friends. Slash co-host never once got anything, but this guy went out to Cancun and gave his mother-in-law his future mother-in-law the biggest birthday dinner in the world.
Speaker 2:Well, no, that's not true. I didn't give it to her. She wanted that.
Speaker 1:And you even did professional photographs.
Speaker 2:I did. They're really good. I got credited for it too. It's on Facebook, Like Alexis's sister was like hey, Tim did this and they're good.
Speaker 1:They actually turned out good. I thought you see the camera. Your batteries weren't working.
Speaker 2:My camera battery died on me, which I still have. Those photos, Still have them right here. That's my camera and I just have to put them on my computer, which I haven't done yet because it was being slow.
Speaker 1:So you haven't edited the pictures.
Speaker 2:I edited the ones we took with our phones, which look really good, because I went in the light room and I touched up all the colors, made everybody look like they're not pasty white. Yeah, I didn't make them look like orange, like Trump, that little Trump color.
Speaker 1:I made them look like they got some sun and I got some sun so they look orange, they're like Wow, you really made us look rich there, Tim.
Speaker 2:Thank you, and it's funny. I don't know if you have this problem with your son, levi, to get him to smile with photos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, at my birthday we were taking pictures and he was crying. There's always I always had. When did?
Speaker 2:that kid not cry, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:There's always one kid that cries. It's never like the perfect scenario where everybody's happy, smiling, clapping. It's always one crying, the other two fighting, or vice versa.
Speaker 2:I know that's just one or the other. I feel like I was like that as a kid. I remember with my dad he wanted to go out and take pictures of the fall trees and us in the foreground, but with the trees in the background and it was cold as hell that day. I didn't want to do it, so like my dad's like smile, and I just had this big old frown on my face the whole time because it was cold, I didn't want to be out in the cold and I thought it was stupid. I'm like who wants these pictures anyway? Grandma, people like aunts and uncles, but I didn't see that as a kid.
Speaker 3:At least that's the death mentality that all of you your grandma, your aunt and your family members want these pictures of you with frowning for Christmas, but in reality they're like what the fuck?
Speaker 1:Why do I want this shit? It looks like they're scowling me right now.
Speaker 2:Well, cool, and Amphilishia smiled, but I was the only one grumpy because I was stubborn. And yeah, dude, that kid of yours, he's, he's just. Yeah, there's always something. But with Alexis's sister's kids he has a good smile, but when you tell him to smile it's like he forgets how to smile. So he like forces, it makes it look like his neck is dead and out. Oh God, you know, he's got his lips like pressed to his teeth.
Speaker 1:And I'm like his veins are popping out like he's super sane or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, his eyebrows are extended and I'm like, just give me a good smile. Give me a good smile Like somebody's tickling you and he's going like. He's like just going super sane. I'm like what the hell?
Speaker 1:He's like getting closer, like every single time you tell him to smile.
Speaker 2:No, he's like going super sane. So, like all right click, click, click, click, click and they turned out good. You know, like he like they got good pictures of him with his grandpa and grandma, with the other two siblings, and it was good, it was good photos, nice, nice.
Speaker 1:Nice, nice. I'm glad you were able to take their pictures, but not, you know, not be there for my birthday pictures, tim.
Speaker 2:Listen, where's my photographer? Where the hell is my photographer? You're you. You were your own photographer. Where's your? Where's your tripod?
Speaker 1:man, I don't have that set up. Man, you're supposed to be back there helping me for that. You're my backup camera man.
Speaker 2:I did, okay, listen, I did say happy birthday, man, and it was on Snapchat. I even tagged you in it.
Speaker 1:You did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you just don't check your Snapchat.
Speaker 1:I gotta go back. I don't check my Snapchat.
Speaker 2:Well, it's gone now. Oh, maybe not. It might not be actually, but I did say happy birthday and so did Erica. On Snapchat, she said happy birthday ugly.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, she always. She always tells me that she got a beautiful picture of me, like showing my like buck teeth. It was so funny, it cracked me up. But I'm turning to the. I finally turned 29,. Man, I'm getting one one year closer to the magic, to the, to the downhill years.
Speaker 2:I don't know, man. I think everything goes downhill after that. I think you're going to age beautifully, marco. You didn't do any drugs in your life, you know I'm about to start, though who's who.
Speaker 1:Who says I'm not about to?
Speaker 2:start. Oh all right. New job, new life, new Marco.
Speaker 1:Where did Mad go? I just realized he just disappeared.
Speaker 2:Dude, he was coughing the last time I checked. I think he's in pain, but you got pictures on your birthday. That's yeah on your birthday and stuff like that. That's good, that's great. I'm glad to hear that. Sorry, I didn't call you and say happy birthday. I thought you would see my Snapchat, but I know now you're you're officially an old man and you don't check your phone.
Speaker 1:I don't even have TikTok. I don't even have a TikTok account.
Speaker 2:That's okay, you don't really need one.
Speaker 1:You're not part of the modern age. If you don't have a TikTok account, you can ask any guy, any random guy going around. I'll bet you they have a TikTok account.
Speaker 2:All right, I guess that's a social experiment we could do. Just make a quick short video of that. Yeah, I want to do more shorts, but like live reactions with us on the VR experience, like going to Best Buy Remember, I wanted to go to Best Buy and play all the on all the tablets.
Speaker 1:The VR Experience podcast but we never did that. That would be dope. They're pissing everybody off, but it would be sweet. I wanted to go in there into the sound booth. Yeah, you know the nice Best Buy and just going there and just blaring the music.
Speaker 2:Cohen, and I did that with Butt Chugger. Remember that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's why I got the idea. I was like I want to do that. I wonder if they can actually hear it. What if it's not like soundproof? Like I say it isn't, it's just like a Butt Chugger all over the whole store.
Speaker 2:You can hear it a little bit because the door isn't soundproof. The walls are, but the door isn't. It's like muffled a little bit. The closer you get, the louder it is, but if you're all the way across the store you can't hear anything. So it's nice, it's beautiful, it's wonderful. But I want to know about your Halloween.
Speaker 1:Halloween. What'd you do for Halloween?
Speaker 2:Worked. I didn't do anything. I didn't really want to do anything, I didn't really go anywhere special, I just worked.
Speaker 1:Do you didn't want to take your sister's kids with you to Halloween, or anything.
Speaker 2:My sister doesn't have kids.
Speaker 1:I mean not your sister's kids, your wifey's sister's kids or anything.
Speaker 2:No, they were with their dad doing Halloween stuff.
Speaker 1:I figured you dressed up like as a Power Ranger or something.
Speaker 2:No, I have a Mickey Mouse outfit Remember.
Speaker 1:There's this guy at work that dressed up as a full Mickey Mouse outfit. That was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:It was $60 from Spirit Halloween and I was like $60?, Never again. I ended up ordering.
Speaker 1:like a jersey, I had Jason on it, but it reminded me the YouTuber H2O DeLarious. That's the only reason why I got it, because I look pretty dope. I was Friday the 13th. I was Jason for.
Speaker 2:Halloween With a tank top.
Speaker 1:So with a belly shirt, I just ended up tying the jersey together in the night.
Speaker 2:A belly shirt. Welcome back, Mac. What happened to you, buddy?
Speaker 3:So I, my Oculus, died oh that makes sense. No, but listen, listen. Are you guys done with your topic? Because I wanted to bring this up. This is really important. We can switch to your topic. Yeah, what's up, buddy? Okay, so have you guys heard of the rumor or not rumor? I guess it was kind of proven. But have you guys heard of the theory where iPhone their batteries always die when you like? When they upgrade to a new iPhone, the old ones die fast? Oh, yeah, yeah, I heard of that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so what? This is my theory, right, because my thing gave me a warning while you guys were talking that it was at 20%, right, and then a couple of minutes later it said it was at 3%, and then it just died like the next couple of seconds. Whoa, but from your guys's knowledge, when we played breaches, your guys, your guys' battery always like gets on red, right, yeah, it gets, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that's because we're casting and playing a game, but no last time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, so you think because a new Oculus Quest 3 is out. They fucked up with number two.
Speaker 3:It is out it is.
Speaker 2:It's been out for a minute I thought it was in December is when it comes out.
Speaker 3:No, it came out in September, late September, september. Yeah, I see it's out. It's so nice. I've been watching a bunch of videos of people that just has a mom. They have a mom, right, and since it's like pass through, like it's not black and white, they just have a mom walking around their house. They wake up in the morning, pop a YouTube video, drink their coffee and they're just scrolling through Instagram with it on their face.
Speaker 3:Yeah and dude. I saw this video of this dude that went to the gym and he's working out running on the treadmill watching YouTube videos on his head. No, it's fucking. It's so efficient, dude, I love it.
Speaker 2:That's it. Just take off my Oculus and run again.
Speaker 1:Wait, wait wait, I got a huge question for this thing, because this thing is bulky as far as it's like, at least like half a foot sticking out of my face.
Speaker 2:No, yeah, it's about five inches, but slimmer.
Speaker 3:The other one's slimmer. Yeah, it weighs more. How?
Speaker 1:slimmer. Is it half the size, half the width of this thing, or what?
Speaker 3:No, like this face, it doesn't have this big chunk. It's like I guess this whole bottom half is gone. It's like a like a glasses, like a big U Ready player one. Yeah, Like it has, like you know, the like your eyes, the circle of your eyes, so they're like snowboarding goggles. Yeah, kind of yeah. Basically they're basically snowboarding, goggles.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what they got. That's what they got.
Speaker 2:That's pretty cool. Well, that's just the human face shape anyway, but yeah.
Speaker 1:They had to get it from. Somewhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's cool. So you notice these, your battery dying because of the new updates. So every time your phone old phone updates, it's slowly dying faster because they want you to get the new one. Yeah, that's the genius marketing tactic.
Speaker 3:And the thing is, I just plugged it in and guess what percent it's on One percent, no, no, it's at 46.
Speaker 2:Wow, they just been exposed. They just been exposed. Mac Attack just threw them under the. Exposed them here on Spotify.
Speaker 1:Amazon Music, VR, VR and what the VR?
Speaker 2:podcast. Well, I'm just talking about, like, where we're going to post it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah and then YouTube and YouTube and the hub, the hub, the hub. What the?
Speaker 1:part of the dude that is Get more in the views, soon we should all of our past videos. We should just post them on there. See what they're doing this stuff, see what kind of weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah, dude, probably like roast those guys, those guys know, those guys are probably actually like a donut.
Speaker 2:Or fans. Why are you guys? Take your shirt off.
Speaker 1:What are you guys wanting to do for five bucks?
Speaker 2:Take your pixels off, man. Show us some unexposed pixels. Show us some hair. I see you like. You don't have a straw, do you Mac? How did you know, Because I can hear you slurping? You know what I'm drinking? No, Marco said it was some virgin drink, but let me, let me.
Speaker 1:Why A virgin chocolate milk?
Speaker 3:No no, no, no, it was a, it's a smoothie, it's a milk with banana.
Speaker 2:Oh, that sounds healthy. Is it like almond milk or just normal whole milk?
Speaker 3:Just whole milk, 2%, 2%. Okay, speaking of healthy, yeah, I see you. You see you're getting less fat.
Speaker 2:Oh yes, oh yes, mac, I'm so glad you diverted your eyes to that, because this is something I mentioned to Marco on the phone the other day ago and he was telling me it was a bad idea.
Speaker 1:I got to go luck yeah.
Speaker 2:However, no, no, no, no, no. I want to challenge you, mac, my man. What do I do, you and me versus each other in a weight loss challenge?
Speaker 3:You have seen, oh, weight loss challenge.
Speaker 2:I know what's getting beat up. Well, I mean, I guess if you want to fight, we could do that.
Speaker 1:If you want to fight afterwards, I guess if you want to do that, we could.
Speaker 2:I would just look at more towards a weight loss challenge. I weigh, I think, 206 pounds right now, but I want to go down to 180. That's 26 pounds that I can shred you weigh 206 pounds. Yeah, I weigh less. Damn, do you Look? At the sweater bro, I thought it was a close.
Speaker 1:I thought it was a lot of layers in there. Well, I actually updated my avatar to match my actual. So the little, so the little. So the little collar is that's just for show, that's not actually another shirt.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah it's. It's like it's to hide my fan.
Speaker 1:It's all punch, it's a fucking, it's hiding it. So yes, 206 pounds.
Speaker 2:I want to go down to 180. And I want to challenge Mac to a weight loss challenge to see how much we could lose in a certain period of time. And I was thinking, I don't know, if I don't, I don't have a bet. But if you want to throw it like some kind of bet, like whoever wins, get something.
Speaker 1:It's a finger up the butt.
Speaker 3:I've always wanted.
Speaker 2:Whoever loses gets pegged, I lose oh boy Like when do we start? Well, what do you, what do you say about that Mac? Do you think you could do that challenge?
Speaker 1:This is a verbal probably agreement.
Speaker 3:I mean it depends, I mean I'm not, I'm not like overweight, like crazy, You're overweight.
Speaker 2:Like, like that, like that. Yeah, I generated image I had of you. Yeah, that's pretty, that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You weigh 206 pounds. How much do you weigh?
Speaker 3:I weigh like 200 on the top 200. Okay, but listen. But listen. The thing is I've I've always been skinny and I've I've always wanted to be fat, but I never got the chance to be fat. That's why I don't want to. I don't want to lose weight, I want to keep my fat. It's harder because I play football and it's harder for people to like move me and shit.
Speaker 1:Right, are you?
Speaker 3:going to play football again.
Speaker 1:The only football you're going to be doing is in the fucking met in 2024 or something.
Speaker 3:It's going to be a linebacker Just stopping people, I guess, if that's why it's still even in, even in life, like if you go up against like someone, let's say, you lose those 20 pounds, you're 185, you're in shape, you're still. It's still going to be hard for you to go up against someone that weighs 220 pounds.
Speaker 2:Or even with your muscles. Why would I want to go after some of that weight?
Speaker 3:What I'm saying is like problems were to occur.
Speaker 1:No, you know that's that. You know how, how much you can like outpower that guy, and when maybe not just outpower, but like out skill, out last.
Speaker 3:I'll last a fat kid, I'll last a fat, fat boy. But listen, like, if you think of like bouncers and stuff, they're not huge, they're fat, like most of the bodyguards and stuff, they're fat, they're just, they're tall and they're fucking huge. What?
Speaker 2:are you saying we're going to strip club down?
Speaker 3:No, no no, like security bodyguards. Yeah Okay, they're fucking huge, they're like right, but they also know how to fight.
Speaker 1:They also work out, so it's fat on top of muscle.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do work out. That's how they able to lift people from their collars and take them out.
Speaker 3:Oh, I guess, I guess. So it's not like you're some fat gamer guy.
Speaker 2:You know, some fat gamer guy is your bouncer bro. They're going to get punched in the nose and be like fuck, whereas a bouncer will probably just take it, lift the person up and then throw them, throw them out.
Speaker 3:But yeah, but the thing is like well, the way I'm thinking is that I want to get to the point where I get like fat, like I'm not there.
Speaker 2:Morbidly obese, morbidly obese.
Speaker 3:Okay, I don't want to be obese, the more I can move.
Speaker 1:I'm like, I'm like. I'm like, I can't wipe my ass, I can't wash under his foams properly.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you just want to get fat? Yeah, so you gain weight, I lose weight. Is that what you're telling me? Let's see who gets that by February. I still stuff in his face, he's like bro, bro, the VR podcast.
Speaker 3:You have to bleep that out. Oh shit, you're right.
Speaker 2:I don't even think about it. Young Mac, young Mac is stuff in his face. So well, all right, man, that's the opposite direction, what I thought this was going to go.
Speaker 1:I thought you're going to say you can get better, you're going to get skinnier. What's your goal? What's your goal weight?
Speaker 2:I just told you 180. You said 180?.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's your goal? Weight Do you want to?
Speaker 3:get 185? If I were to do the weight loss thing, it'd be 185.
Speaker 1:I thought you just said you wanted a game, more weight. It's 230.
Speaker 2:It's really bad 130. I mean, I guess, dude, if you really want to do it like that, you could. You could gain weight while I lose weight, and we'll just fight afterwards and I'm just bouncing my fist off your stomach, do it, do it, do it.
Speaker 1:He's over. He didn't like.
Speaker 2:He's got the free donuts every Wednesday at Dunkin' Donuts. Wait, they have those. I mean how they have those, but you don't know that.
Speaker 3:You're calling for.
Speaker 2:K they actually have. So I just saw an ad, I just saw that, that's I didn't do it. Yeah, I haven't done it.
Speaker 1:I knew you were always in line for that fucking story. Dude, I got.
Speaker 2:I got a freaking advertiser for Bdubs going Thursday, but by one, get on, and I'm like you got those. No, you're a fat kid, Vibes man dude. I always you know. Speaking of being fat, yeah go ahead.
Speaker 1:I always say some.
Speaker 2:When I was skinny, like really skinny, I was thinking back. Like when I think back to, I always asked myself what I'd be like if I was fat. Well now I know, but I mean like obese, like if I couldn't control my weight type of thing. You know, like some people just can't, you know but you're 500 pounds or something. Yeah, like I wonder how I would be, what I'd be like.
Speaker 1:At that point I would just pull. Just take me behind the shed, dude, Just fucking put me on a movie.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, like you, just like wake up every morning. It's a lot of blood. It's a lot of blood, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just roll me down the river or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's just my weight loss challenge. What were you about to say, Marco? You had, you had some. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:I was going to say, dude, another we're talking about like being fan stuff. Dude, I've been. I'm not going to lie, I'm being honest. I've been eating a lot of McDonald's ever in the past few weeks since I got this new job, like now that I get to sleep in a little more.
Speaker 1:And I get to and I get to go into work pretty much Well, whenever I decide to, because I can, I can, I can make up my hours throughout the week. So I there's no fucking point system there, like there's no, you know there's no point system, so I'm not going to be fucking, you know, like fucking yelled at, they're not going to be going down my throat saying, hey, you know you're going to be fired if you get more points and shit like that.
Speaker 1:Like actually I can make up my hours. So yeah, they're pretty, pretty cool about it. But since I've been waking up, you know decently lay, or just you know yeah, yeah, like seven thirty at most. Yeah, I have time to go. Stop by McDonald's, maybe a little bit Make me every, every once, in a while.
Speaker 2:But pretty much every day.
Speaker 1:Quick little it's a little bit of a rito, since I have like a 50 minute drive that I have to do every, every morning you know, like picking up some McDonald's and coffee. Like you know, I'm just enjoying it, watching a YouTube podcast all the way, all the way, to work, yeah, I didn't know you'd grow 50 miles.
Speaker 2:The audience didn't know you'd grow 50 minutes to your workplace.
Speaker 1:I know this new workplace.
Speaker 2:We obviously know you left high lexed, but now there's mean hell, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:What is this? It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3:Nobody wants to first day. Oh my, oh my, Nobody cares.
Speaker 2:Oh, max, leave it Some little bitch. Well, since you left hell, oh yeah, we haven't heard much about your new place because you just been re, oh fuck, you just been readjusting your lifestyle essentially. So tell us about your new job. You drive 50 minutes to it every day.
Speaker 1:I just every single hour. I don't want people tracking and if I triangulate in my location to where you know, what you travel 50 miles every single hour. No, I was just going to say yeah, it's like almost an hour. It's almost almost on the way there and obviously in the way back, so I travel like two hours a day, every, every day.
Speaker 1:I got like pay for the mileage coverage on that or no, they don't, they don't, they don't pay for that, but the perks of working there at pace off and and pretty, pretty soon, hopefully before wintertime I can ask to go remote, so I'll be working from home. Oh, I can't wait for that, yeah bro, that's straight out of bed and straight when I get out of bed, Like I can be there in the very last minute, like like a second I don't always make out my time but like I, straight out of my birthday.
Speaker 1:So just throw it, just throw on the headset and start talking to people.
Speaker 2:Wow, dude. So this new job here is explain it to us Like. What is it like? It's so so.
Speaker 1:I'm like. I'm like everybody's. I'm like 95% of America's, like worst, like nightmare.
Speaker 2:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:I, because I'll hit. I'll hit up your phone more than you like. Hit up your Satchex phone.
Speaker 2:Hey, somebody will like that man. I know my brother would. My brother would love to get a call from you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but I'm going to be calling for his wife's dad, that's all.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be making the call oh is that. Ok, so you call that's what you are now. You're a debt collector.
Speaker 1:I'm a debt collector.
Speaker 2:Yes, and how do you like that?
Speaker 1:Dude, I love it. I get to argue with like a whole bunch of Karen's every morning, every every day. Mainly, mainly early in the morning and, like, late in the afternoon. It's when you get that when you get Karen's all the time. The grumpy people who didn't have their big B yet, because the ones yes, the ones that don't like paying their their money because they think that they're privileged enough not to owe anything to the world.
Speaker 2:Oh, ok, so, yeah. So what's like a like, a crazy example for us, like, have you had any like crazy interactions? Without giving away too much details, some VR experience.
Speaker 3:What I had a plug. I had to plug the podcast.
Speaker 1:So, like like before, before I speak with anybody, like it's all obviously, like all under you know law. So we have to like keep it clean and keep it professional. We can't like give away anybody's personal information, you know because, exactly, that's just how it works, you know.
Speaker 2:That's why you do that with people, the typical Karen name.
Speaker 1:So so the typical Karen would, when I ask for her, like hey, ma'am, is, this, is this. You know, charlie Sheen. You know, let's say that's that's her name, samantha Sheen, you know, right. So. And then she'll be like, she'll be like excuse me, like how the fuck do you know my name? Or why are you asking for my information? I'm like, ma'am, I don't need you to tell me your name, I just need you to verify this is you she's like why would I do that, as I don't even know you?
Speaker 1:And I'd be like I'm like, ma'am, it's a, it's a very you know, it's a very personal, private matter for you know, for this person like is this you? And she would argue with me for a whole five minutes, right, about how about? In the end she's just going to be like no, that's not me. I'm like what the fuck did you care so much about? I was asking for this person. That makes no fucking sense. You can't say any of that. No, I can't say any of that.
Speaker 2:I just say in my head yeah, Just gritting your teeth, I'm just like oh you know, but you wasted five minutes on my life.
Speaker 1:But you can just say that's not you.
Speaker 1:So you get like the one example right there, like it's like again do your skin sometimes. So, yeah, that's great. Other than that, dude, the perks are. The perks are amazing, like the, the people there are fantastic. You know the supervisor is great. You know I love my supervisor. They do a whole bunch of like events so they really, they really like to interact a lot with their, with their what would you even call as like we're work colleagues, colleagues, like I wouldn't even call us workers. I don't even feel like a worker there. I feel like part of the family.
Speaker 2:Wow, so they just slap you on the ass. Good job, marco, but it's so weird.
Speaker 1:My supervisor does that to me every day. It's like nobody else just me. Nobody else, just me for some reason. No, but like I feel like you're like a big part of the family there because they do so many events and they do like all these like little, like huddles and like like team you know like team huddles and stuff and really like watch out for you. They're concerned about you as in like they ask a lot of questions If you're Mopey or that you're looking down a little bit like they care and they ask you know like?
Speaker 2:are you?
Speaker 1:feeling like, hey, is there anything I can do for you, like counseling? Yeah, counseling. Like there's this one girl there I made pretty good friends with. She's kind of like my, my premises.
Speaker 3:Oh, is that what you call it?
Speaker 1:Yes, just because she's really like frenemy, like, yeah, yes, yes, that's premises, premises, yes, frenemy, frenemy. Like I love that, I love the strict of death because she's ours, we're very, very, we're very competitive. Yeah, like we. You know, we're always trying to like get the best results out of the job yeah. So anyway. So she had this issue about. You know, like she, she doesn't have a vehicle. So she always had to get you know, like a friend to you know, give her a ride to work every time.
Speaker 1:So she was always, you know, getting here at like a certain time to the day, so she would have to make up her hours throughout the week you know, one night. And so they finally asked her she wasn't, she's not even there like over her 90 days. They asked her she's like hey, would it work better if you just work from home, you know we'll hook you up with your monitor, we'll hook you up with the computer.
Speaker 1:We'll hook you up with you know, the keyboard, all the necessary things for you to be able to do your job at home.
Speaker 2:One tear by the memory.
Speaker 1:Like 128 gigs of RAM Webcam for you. You can keep some video streaming 3080 RTX graphics card. They just were just calling people. We're not playing games, no man, but they really like they. They helped her out a lot of me and they send her like a remote within that week Within that week, bro, that's exciting bro, I'm dude. This sounds like a great job. No, it's pretty amazing. It's like it's good yeah.
Speaker 2:I think I remember you telling me something about nachos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they had. They had a like nacho every at the end of every like the end of the month. Every Friday of every month they have this like big event that we do, where we get together and we do like a breakfast, like we see who can cook like the best breakfast meals. So you can do like the best, like you know, like nacho meals or like Mexican day or whatever they bring, like the best Mexican food.
Speaker 1:And we're gonna not, yet Not yet Not yet I just enjoy the food. I'm just, I'm like, I'm like the taste tester. I just, I just enjoy all their, their meals.
Speaker 2:Oh okay, this sounds great, dude. Sounds like a lot of people care for each other in this workplace.
Speaker 1:And not only that, but pretty soon we're going to be doing a. What do you call that? A, a where you can bid on certain items Like what do you call it?
Speaker 3:Auctions?
Speaker 1:Auctions? Yes, yeah, but why people do all the time?
Speaker 1:Why people love this stuff, man, they're like on auction whatnot, so throughout, so throughout the months, we get these like, like fake monopoly money that we earn as like as we progress in our, in our work field, and however much you make or you can like save in, like in the bank, and then you can auction all of these like bad, as, like high notch, like quality, like prices that the supervisor buys for everybody. Dude, there's a freaking 46 inch flat screen TV in there that you can win, bro, just by like auctioning, like you know who has the biggest money of the the this fake monopoly money? Yeah, and then, in order to and you take it home, dude, it's- freaking amazing, and that's coming up here in a few days.
Speaker 2:That's kind of. That's how it was with my workout, with with my workplace too. Like Amazon, at the offsite, the owner shout out Dennis, there he goes. He, yeah, shout out Dennis, he's still alive. I didn't mean that in a like he was like.
Speaker 1:I was like I'm resting peace sir.
Speaker 2:No, but like, shout out, dennis, like he, he apparently, like it was like a three year annual anniversary cookout, like they've been working really hard at it, and so they had 55 inch TVs, nintendo switches, looking speakers, like just a bunch of stuff, and I was like, oh my gosh, I would like that Nintendo switch so I can play Animal Crossing with my brother Colton, or Pokemon, like you guys, so I can get it in there and make some kind of Pokemon.
Speaker 1:I don't know, hi, but yeah.
Speaker 2:But yeah, so like similar, like my workplace does that too, like almost every Wednesday too. Actually, every Wednesday we have a giveaway, so that's pretty cool Every.
Speaker 1:Wednesday, so every week every week. Yep, wow, nice.
Speaker 2:Yep, and I got free earbuds one time. It was pretty dope.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:No dude.
Speaker 1:I have nothing to complain about. I'm glad I made the transition. The transition to this new job was a little bit. It was really. It was hard because obviously, like you take a certain pay cut, I'm obviously like it cut off. I made like the right financial decisions in order to do this move and then obviously I'm all caught up now because you also get you know, like a good amount of commission too, and I did hit commission on my first month. So I'm still waiting for this commission check that's coming out here in a few days, bro. Hell yes, my first month and I got and I hit my quarter.
Speaker 2:So that's awesome. I'm excited, dude. I'm so happy for you, like. I feel like your energy is different now, you know, from working in the factory miserable for 10 years to like finally breaking the shackles and being in an environment where, one, they care about your mental health, it sounds like, and two, they feed you, and three, you know you can make up your hours or work from home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's it. I just can't wait to work from home. It's just like even though I'm on a maze like, you can still go in and like whenever they do like big events, you can still like let them know ahead of time that you want to go in that day. Right and they'll have, like they have a tech guy that like has your seat ready and your computer and everything ready for you, so whenever you go in there.
Speaker 2:So that's neat, that's I like that, I like the sound of it, like when you tell me about it you know like I was just like dude. I'm so happy for this guy. He's finally, you know, not living his dream job, but like out of being physically exhausted and mentally drained every day, for me.
Speaker 1:I mean, it was stuff and I get why people have to. You know, obviously people are there. I've been there for 10 years, so I get why people are still there.
Speaker 2:You know, they got to feed their, you know put a foot on the table and one ass sacrifice.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you have to you know unless you can make the the right moves and have that opportunity, like I do, so I'm grateful that I had the opportunity to be able to do that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Dude. Speaking of opportunities, I had one this morning with business meeting, like a breakfast business meeting. Now it wasn't like business, like you're counting money or anything, but it's like where, like Jake goes to it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just like you know, like minded individuals, all business owners just trying to talk about their business, see where everybody's at hold each other accountable, give somebody like some kind of coaching, see what they're doing wrong, see where they can improve, type of thing. And I was always hearing about this stuff with from Jake, my number one buddy, jake, a number one fan, jake shout out to Jake, jake, jake, and so Jake Jakeerson is his full name. So anyway, it was really interesting. I was hearing about it all the time from him. He'd call me, tell me this guy, this guy, this guy, and I was like, oh man. And he was like I want to give you a shout out to him. And I was like, all right, well, how are you going to do that? And he's like, well, I'll first introduce you and talk about the podcast.
Speaker 2:I was like, okay, well, fuck it, I want to do it myself. And so I made a split second decision that night. I told Jake I'm coming down there after work and I'm just going to head out. And that's what I did. And I missed work today, thankfully, and I went down there. But on my way down there, man, this is where it gets crazy I got like a two hour and 30 minute drive to get to Finlay, ohio, right. So I'm driving down there and I'm about 50 minutes out from this place and you know what happens.
Speaker 2:You fucking know, a semi truck bashes through the freaking concrete dividers, just shattering this concrete divider, and holds up traffic for an hour and 30 minutes. Oh my gosh what the fuck.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't you fell asleep behind the wheel and you're right, yeah.
Speaker 2:I hope he's all right.
Speaker 1:You saw it.
Speaker 2:I mean, I saw after that they got everything out of the way and we were moving, but I was staying.
Speaker 1:I was at a standstill for like this Like, like sticking out the window fucking like half a live at Tim's Honking is hard. You're a whole lot of traffic. You saw it happen.
Speaker 2:I just witnessed the stop Like I was like, oh man, there's a traffic jam, hopefully it's not too long. And nope, I was there for 10 minutes. Then I was like looking around, I saw people starting to turn off their diesels, turn off their car. So I joined the crowd and I like looked around and then called and called me. So I'm, thank God he was there and by the time the hour and 30 minutes rolled around, there was somebody in the traffic lane asleep, so there was diesels behind him hawking and this guy's head was leaned up against his window. Did he was sleeping, but it was at 2am in the morning. Can you blame the guy? Yeah, so it was fun, but when?
Speaker 1:I got there. I don't know what kind of answer was that. You look a little moaned. He's flicking his bean over there again.
Speaker 2:So I get to Jake's round. I get to Jake's round.
Speaker 1:See the S just tickling it, the nervous laugh.
Speaker 3:I thought this dude died or something.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I don't know what happened to the diesel guy. I just noticed some big crash, big oil spillage, so they had to go out and clean it up and tow him out of there and get him out of the way. So it took so long. But I got to Jake's around like 3.30am and I slept for about two hours. So yeah, it was 5am, 530am. Jake and I got up, had some breakfast, went to this boxing coach where Ramel works out. Remember Ramel?
Speaker 1:Yeah, the boxing ring inside the garage.
Speaker 2:Yeah where we worked out there. It was so awesome. Freaking Ernie was showing me how to how to like pivot my foot when I do the right and left Dude, it was something you never taught me. You wanted me to teach you boxing or do boxing coaching with you, but I didn't know what I was doing, bro, you had no idea about anything.
Speaker 1:I was just hoping you can be like an actual, like walking dummy. So in order for me to do that, you were walking around in a complete circle of full, 360 fucking size.
Speaker 2:Holy, my hands up like trying to block your gloves and you're like I don't know.
Speaker 1:Like Tim, my enemy is not going to move around the same fucking scene in a full circle.
Speaker 2:So Ernie was telling me, like the foot placement, when you're jabbing and when you're like hip, you know you do the. And I didn't know all that I was. My mind was blown. I felt like you know, a little little lamb bro. I was so new to this, this world, and I loved it. You know, ernie was teaching me step by step and he accidentally punched me in the face.
Speaker 2:But other than that, it was like I ended up heading, but head button, you're like oh no, no, he just like he was throwing like jabs and I didn't move my head because I didn't think it was going to hit me. But he punched me right in the mouth. I was like oh.
Speaker 1:I think it is. It's fucking like. Well, he was just he was just demonstrated.
Speaker 2:He didn't like hit me hard, he just like tapped my lips. I was almost like kissing his knuckles.
Speaker 1:It's like take this temp.
Speaker 2:I was just fucking like.
Speaker 1:I was just like.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm so sorry, I'm like no, you're good, ernie, you didn't hurt, you know. But um, learn that. And then we went to the breakfast meeting where I got to meet all the people that Jake was telling me about. Uh, his guy Jerry, who's like the head honcho, the top G. And then there was some other guy named Shamar. He was pretty cool.
Speaker 3:Uh. So you gotta, you gotta, you gotta introduce them, but you gotta also tell us what business they own.
Speaker 1:So so let us know for how many, how many uh business, uh business owners were in this meeting.
Speaker 2:I don't know Four or five, including Jake. So, uh, there was Jerry, the top G. He was a car salesman, slash motivational speaker at colleges. Uh, Shamar, I don't know what he does, but he was really funny. Uh, there's this pizza guy named Josh. He owns a pizza business. It's called heavenly pizza. Shout out heavenly pizza. Um, and then there was this guy named Reese. I don't know what he did. I guess he worked out. I don't know what he did. And then there's Jake, who owns a new business. He got rid of a divine health. Now he owns a coffee business called the stone frog coffeecom.
Speaker 1:Wait why he got rid of his divine health. Are you telling about the CMOS?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he got rid of that because nobody was buying it, so he just dumped it. Yeah, are you? You're still in it? Divine health no, it's gone.
Speaker 1:He's like he's like I had 4% and now I don't have a shit.
Speaker 2:He's sold it. Well, no, he was like I think he sold it. I don't remember. I didn't ask the details, but you know Jake, he owns his coffee business. Now it's called stone frog coffeecom. Shout out Jake, um, and then, like like Jake was telling me about Jerry, how everybody kind of looks up to Jerry, like he's like I mentioned the top G and Jake why do people look at Jerry?
Speaker 1:This Jerry got like top G. Describe how he looks like him.
Speaker 2:Well he's got a strong build, like strong jaw, you know slick white hair. So he looks like he's experienced in life and he's got I guess he's been in the military, according to Jake and he's a car salesman slash mentor, slash motivational speaker. So, like people like he, he organized this meeting. So that's why people look at him as the top G, like he's the. He's the guy that people go to because they know him. So everybody was there out of his respects and it was really cool Cause, you know, when I first showed up, he was talking to Josh, the pizza guy, asking him about his business. And then he talked to Jake, asking him about his business, and then they asked her about me. I told him, like how I knew Jake, how I went through world ventures and how I got burned out, and then Jake asks this really, really, um, challenging question towards the top G. Cause, jake, he wants to like level up, he wants to feel like he's like a mafia, like a mafia setting kind of type.
Speaker 2:I guess it's like a round table where he respects, like the Godfather or something.
Speaker 2:I gave him a offer. He couldn't refuse. No, um. So Jake was just like I want to earn my respects and earn my merits in this. So he's like I'm going to challenge Jerry today. And so he did. And it was a very bold step because everybody else kind of cowered when Jake asked this question and stood his ground. It was such a monumental moment for Jake in this moment.
Speaker 2:So when he did it, he asked Jerry. He's like so, do you guys have any investments? He's asking everybody actually, is anybody doing investments? And Jerry was like yeah, I do some Bitcoin, some Togecoin. And uh, then Jake was curious. He's like well, how much do you own? And Jerry like he just stiff backed yeah, I own, I own enough. And Jake's like laughed. Jake kind of laughed. He's like well, what do you mean? And he's like I think you're crossing the line and I told you I had enough. And Jake's like oh, yeah. So like at this point, like when Jerry said that everybody else looks scared, like they all looked at Jerry like don't hit me, you know, like the look, the whole shit. And then they looked at Jake like the tension was there and Jake at first, he is this guy like everybody be scared of it.
Speaker 2:Well, it's just like they have more. They have a lot of respect for Jerry. And when he got like the stiff tone and like he got all fidgety like I saw his hands getting all like awkward and fidgety like you started moving his phone around, started moving his like the salt and pepper around, like he just got all nervous Like Jake. Jake shook them, you know, like he got that like the jab on him and, um, and then Jake, like Jake was about to back down, he saw him looking away but then he like bounced back and got him with the uppercut. He's like well, I don't see how it's like. He's like I don't see how it's. Um, it's too personal a question.
Speaker 2:I was just wondering about your investments, because if you own Bitcoin, like how much do you own? And the guy was like I don't think we should really talk about my finances, so he doesn't own anything. It's what I got out of that response Cause he said enough the first time, but then Jake, you know, challenging them once again well, how much do you own if you own Bitcoin? Cause, if you own a significant amount, cause it's like 20, like 3000 for one Bitcoin. So that's, in my opinion, a lot of money.
Speaker 2:But Jerry, my man probably doesn't own anything and was just trying to like hold a bluff with Jake, which Jake saw through, cause he challenged him and you know, like after that, like Jake was just like well, I'm just curious, like how you know investment wise you're doing, because you know, like like how you diversify it If you were to diversify it, and like he just kept challenging him, he's like, oh, I don't have, I don't do all that. I have, I have an assistant to do all that. Whether it's true or not, I don't know, but in my opinion I think Jerry should learn how to do that himself so he doesn't have to be awkward in that moment again when somebody challenges him, cause it was definitely clear that Jake was, you know, on the top. You know on the top step this time, like where Jerry didn't know how to answer yeah, it's sound like Jake.
Speaker 1:I'm good with the right hook.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I said God, I'm good, yeah, and yeah, so that was. That was a fun business meeting. After that we shook hands and appreciated everybody's coming and the sun and more like a boxing. Jerry. Jerry's coming back, bro. He's not a coward. I don't think Jerry is a coward. He's the one who organized it, so like I think, if anything, he'll probably be, you know.
Speaker 1:not wanting to talk about that again, so the main thing, what did you get? So you miss work for this business yeah, my uncle's almost dead, but you miss work for this business meeting. What was the main thing that you got out of this? This that you could take home and be like you know what I? It's a good thing I ended up missing work for this, because I ended up something getting something knowledgeable. What did you get?
Speaker 2:And it was it was something Jerry had said about core values, and like he wouldn't ask me directly. But when I was telling my story about World Ventures, he kept asking me. Like he kept saying core values, core values. And I was like what are core values? And I didn't ask that question because he just kept talking. I wish I would have just interrupted him, but I didn't, because I just wanted to hear what he had to say. So like, so, when we know, haha haha, haha, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna say any names.
Speaker 2:My virtual knitted sweater. So core values I'm going to look more into that. Look deeper into myself. What I see like my core values are, so I can align them with. So what?
Speaker 1:right now on the top of your head, before Michael is dying. What are your core values, tim?
Speaker 2:I don't know like integrity, I don't know Like. I'll have to look it up, look more into it and and, and you know, talk about it. Why don't you plug your Oculus in, you, son of a bitch? Well, oh yeah, oh yeah, pass an hour. Yeah, oh man.
Speaker 1:There you have it, guys. You want to know something that's going to be valuable to your life and to your success. Learn your core values first, like this one, my friend here and did a missing work.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh, is Marco dying? Is he dying? I think he's dying. We'll close it up with that. Folks, thanks for watching Marco. Just the Oculus just died. That's great and peace.