Miami Madness & Christmas Chaos (Ep. 10)

Let’s be honest: progress is messy, loud, and kind of beautiful. We finally break out of the “tripod-on-a-chair” era and fire up a proper studio: Mac mini on a rolling cart, camera arm, ceiling-bounced light, and a sleepy four-legged co-host who steals the frame whenever she feels like it. It’s a real upgrade, not because it’s perfect, but because it’s ours—tuned by curiosity, adjusted in real time, and held together by a growing sense of what works.

Then things get weirder and more human: a bone stimulator that looks suspiciously like an ankle monitor and allegedly coaxes fractures to heal faster. We dig into the practical side—ultrasound vibes, three-hour sessions, insurance sticker shock, and that head-scratching one-year “shelf life.” Between jokes and doubts, there’s a clear throughline: recovery is a grind, and sometimes you try the odd tool if it might move you from almost-there to back-at-it.

The heart of the episode takes us to Miami for a warm Christmas that trades snow for salt and speed. We hit Key West for parasailing, the Everglades for gators, and the zoo for ancient tortoises that spark a nerdy detour on shell health. Christmas morning, the harbor is ours—wide open for jet skis past Star Island’s mega-mansions and a guide’s celebrity trivia. Dinner at the Versace mansion delivers impeccable vibes, even if the check outperforms the entrée. In between, there are Publix runs, botanical light shows, South Beach walks, and the kind of sibling moments that become family lore.

We wrap with an East Coast wishlist and unapologetic pizza hot takes: New York slices, deep dish loyalty, Detroit’s buttery rectangles, and why extra sauce can rescue leftovers. Threaded through it all is a simple idea: keep building, keep learning, and keep your sense of humor intact. The studio will get sharper. The foot will get stronger. The stories will keep getting better.

If you’re into creative setup hacks, healing experiments that might actually help, and travel memories that don’t airbrush the chaos, hit follow, share this with a friend who needs a laugh, and leave a review with your hottest pizza take. Where should we jet off to next?

Chapters

• 0:00 New Studio Reveal And Vibes
• 2:30 Co-Host Pet Antics And Setup Tweaks
• 4:20 Bone Stimulator Unboxing And Doubts
• 10:30 Insurance Costs, Shelf Life, And Keeping It
• 14:40 Healing Hopes, Wearing It Overnight
• 18:30 Camera, Lighting, And Layout Experiments
• 21:30 Holiday Season Plans And Miami Prelude
• 23:30 Key West Day Trip And Parasailing
• 28:00 Everglades Boats, Gators, And Zoo Tortoises
• 34:20 Miami Campus Walks And Botanical Lights
• 38:00 Christmas Jet Skis And Star Island Tour
• 43:00 Versace Mansion Dinner And South Beach
• 48:00 East Coast Food Dreams And Pizza Debates
• 54:30 Travel Memories, Pranks, And NYC Plans
• 1:00:00 Snow Vs. Sunshine Holiday Reflections
• 1:05:00 Survival Daydreams And Reading Rants

Transcript

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Ladies and gentlemen, we are live. Welcome back. Sorry it's a little bit late, but we had big things planned. As you can see, we're in the the new uh high tech studio. We finally uh made it out of the closet. No homo, though. No longer just filming with the tripod on a chair, sitting on the floor, really moving up in the world. Got the the couch set up, finally got things all hooked up. Uh and the exciting thing with this new setup is we got lots of room to introduce our our co-host, the one and only. Um how do I get this going? Oh, oh, oh. She is um a little bit, she's drunk on the job. She's passed out. Um maybe she'll join us later, but I don't got the Hassan tech to get her acting in line. She's vibing hard for now. Hopefully she doesn't pan too much during the day, but we'll see. You want to come up? No? No? Okay. Yep, she's she says she's not on the clock yet. She says she's on salary, but maybe later. She'll make another surprise appearance. Um oh here she is, here she is, she joined. Ladies and gentlemen, there she is. Absolutely you yeah, you are. Okay. Oh my goodness, money shot. Look at the camera. Yeah, say hi. Say hi to the fans. Okay. Anyways. I would say that's enough of that, but there's never enough. Anyways, back to the week. Um, lots to discuss. This has been fun setting up this new new setup, hooking up the camera I got and the mic to the new computer. I got this, like, I guess I'll have to maybe, you know, post some shit about the the setup. How do I get this? I'm still tweaking it. I don't actually know what I'm doing, but it's fun, it's a vibe. Um we'll call that good for the time being. I got this like rolly cart desk, and I like basically clamped on like uh the a Mac mini that I bought, and like got a clamp to hold a monitor on there, and now I got that with a camera arm and a light, and now we're a million bucks rolling. I don't even know. This is real professional looking to me. We'll see, we'll see. It's a big big upgrade, at least from the prior weeks or months. I don't even know how many there's been, but it's been a whirlwind to me now. Progress, baby, one step at a time, you know. Neil Armstrong, one foot on the moon. Or wait, I forget the quote. One small step. I really was I really butchered that the first time around. One small step for the crew, and yeah, okay, I'm not even. I was just gonna try to spin it somehow. I don't got anything good at the moment, so I'm just gonna stop before I embarrass myself further. But it's been a busy week, recovered from whatever the hell I had. I was out with something. I just like kept fighting up being sick and like kept sleeping like 12 hour days, uh, and then just still being sick. I mean, it wasn't like never horrible, but it was just like always on the verge of just feeling shitty. So that was kind of an L. At least it was in the times where you just like feel like you're gonna die. Not not a great, not a great vibe, didn't have to deal with that. But feeling pretty good now, you know, getting ready for the holiday season. Um, oh, I don't know how we're gonna keep structuring things, but I think for our showing off some of the weekly impulsive purchases, I think that's maybe a good way to start it. Uh, the main thing we got this week is some real exciting equipment. It looks like a damn like I don't even know. It looks almost like a pit boy, those things, or like some power bracelet. Put that thing on. Yo, ice on the wrist. Put that on. It's actually a bone stimulator. Some shoddy pulled in my house and give it to me. After like years, the insurance finally improved this for my my broken foot. Uh oh, that thing went in focus. You know, this is for free. I gotta start charging y'all for that. Put them on feet finder. I should do this now. I think you can just like sleep with it on. I think you just like press a button. Ortho face. And it starts booting up and says something. Can we get it up and uh get a money shot? Oh wow. Oh, beautiful, nice. And now it says it's doing something, and now I just put it on my foot basically and see if it heals my broken foot bones. Um there. Like the lady says it's pretty. I don't think it really matters where you put it on. So I'm just gonna sit with it on there and hopefully it uh speeds up the bone healing. At least they say it will. So that thing is like I guess hella bands. I guess insurance should cover most of it once they finally decide it. But I feel like they said like the actual flat cost is like four grand and some change or something crazy. So I don't know what it does. They say it's just I think it's ultrasound or some sort of waves. Um, but you just sit with it on for three hours a day, and I guess it's supposed to help the the bone grow quicker or something with it. I don't I was like, it seemed a little bit snake oily to me when they first were talking about it. I guess like at the one of the last checkups, the doctor's like, well, actually it was a while ago now when he first brought it up, if I would be down, and I'm like, I mean, sure, if it works, and like it I feel like it was not seeming like super concrete at first was looking at it, but I think it it does help. Well, it doesn't hurt at least. So I'm like, well, I'll give it a whirl. Hopefully you can get it going soon. And then I guess with these, you do keep them. So I was like, okay, well, if I'll just have this bone stimulator out of hand, if I ever do some dumb stuff again and break something, I'll be you know, strep to go, I'll have it locked and loaded so I can, you know, get to healing that bone right away. So though the one thing is they when they dropped it off the shot, he was like, So it has like a shelf life of a year, and I'm like, how does an electronic have a shelf life? That sounded kind of bizarre to me. I don't really know. I don't know if they actually like it sounds like I was like looking more into it, and it sounds like some maybe like actually like have it, so like they electronically just like I don't know if they like just you know off themselves and like stop working because there's some sort of like chip that keeps long track of how long it's been. But that's kind of dumb if it does. I think it's got something that connects to your phone, so I don't know if that helps keep track of it. So I deleted that app, you know. I'm got that offline um whatever bone stimulator. Yo second one, the OG bone stimulator is your mom, if you know what I mean. But we'll see how this one works. Even if it works half as well, I'll have a new foot by tomorrow. Um, yeah, it isn't you can't really tell anything's going on. That's what they said. Like it's just got a light on and it's just there. If I feel like if I try to really focus, I think I just imagine that I'm feeling something. I can't actually tell that it's doing anything. But that's what they said is normal. But maybe it'll might get more sore because stuff is like healing and getting inflamed, so it might be more tender or something. But no, I I can't really tell what's going on. It's also like longer than I realized. Wearing this thing for three hours a day is kind of a lot. So I think the most common thing is people just like strap it on before bed. It was kind of like I don't know if I'll stay in the right spot because I gotta like my broken part of my foot is like here, and so it's like having this on there. This actually looks like an ankle bracelet too. Dang, wow, that's that's kind of funny. Uh make some good clips with that, but um I slept with it last night. I think it stayed on, I don't really know. I think I like woke up semi-early and like kicked it off at one point, but it was like after I mean, it turned turns itself off after three hours, which is nice. But otherwise, it's kind of a long time to be just strapped up with this. I don't know why they need one of those like Normotex. If you've ever seen those, like the whole big like leg sleeves that go over your foot or your whole legs, and there's like compression to massage them basically. But did that with the ultrasound. But I don't even know what like this seems like a like kind of like a cheap little gadget looking thing. I don't know why it's hella racks on racks. Well, luckily I don't have to pay that. But I hope it well, honestly, I hope it's I don't ever need it again. I hope it's just taking up, you know, closet space, just gunking that up because I don't want to break anything again. But it's like if I ever need it, I'll keep it on hand. And if it bricks itself after a year, I guess I'll try to see if I can figure out a way to bring it back to life. The funny thing is that like on the box, it's like please save it to recycle. And the recycling thing is like basically you just mail them back to the device. So like I'm guessing they just like you know, maybe swap out a few things and charge someone else a few racks for us. I'm like, hell no, I'm not recycling it that way. I'll hang on to this, see what I can do with it later on down the road. Hopefully I don't need it, but I'll keep it. I'm not gonna mail it back, you know. You can figure it out because I don't know why. Although I think I when I was Googling about it, like someone maybe didn't use theirs or someone was like trying to like sell it. And I mean, I guess that's a technically like insurance fraud or something. And maybe some of these places got people that just like track them down. I don't know how that works. So they got some like uh eBay narcs where they like you know get sting operations, we'll buy it, and then you know, just send the SWAT. I actually don't know how illegal that is or not. I mean, I don't plan on uh bootlegging my bone simulator. I'm more just you know want to be able to use it again if I break some other shit because you know I'd be steady on that head-ass grind and who knows what could happen. We'll see, we'll see though. Um it just feel I'm trying to I'm still I'm really trying to like tell if I can feel something, and I think it's just all like placebo. Like if I feel like if I'm trying to match something in the other foot going on, I can't tell. Like I think it's just like when you try so hard to tell the difference, but like I can maybe, but also then like some of it could even just be like the feeling of like the strap, although it doesn't really stra I can't strap it on super tight, and I don't think it matters how tight it is. I don't yeah, I don't know, but we just got it on there and we're gonna see. Although this point it's been so long that I I kinda hope it's basically already healed. Because yeah, it's going on. If it was it was the 5th of July, it's because it was the day after the 4th, running that fateful evening and just tripped up like right before I was about to stop. Bad times, bad times, so yeah. What is that? That's exactly five. Wait, can I do math? Well it's December, but that doesn't mean it's wait, so it's been July, August, September, October. Okay. I'm just um it's been it's been four. Wait. I'm struggling. I'm tired right now. I'm not even gonna, I'm not gonna worry about it at this point. But yeah, I just want to, you know, be able to do more. I mean, yeah, I'd like to do some more runs and eventually race again. That'd be fun. Do some races, some racy races. Cause I mean, I guess I've kept busy. I mean, being cooped up is why I'm here right now. I'm just going a little bit stir crazy, seeing what happens. But it's been fun. It's been fun. Honestly, I'm so hyped to have this set up now. It feels like real professionally, maybe gotta get more back drops up. I don't know. I don't know what the what I'm doing. Even got like a not a ring light, but some backlight. So it's actually there's no lights on in the this crib, but I got the backlight and it seems pretty uniform. I don't know. There's any lighting pros out there, let me know what I should do better. But I got this thing just pointed at the ceiling and it seems to work. Can't complain. Oh, I spooked you. This girl is she's she tweaks out at lots of stuff. Let's see if I can I can zoom out a little bit more. And then if I yeah, there we go. I'll put it up a little bit. So when you pop up in the frame. Oh yeah, she's she's chilling. Oh you can even see the the desk in that angle. Wow. Crazy. Movie star. I don't know how often she'll be, you know uh joining us. She's got a pretty busy schedule. She's gonna spend most of the day, you know, just laying in bed and you know, counting uh sheep, or I guess I don't know. I don't know what you'd count. You like maybe bunnies? I don't know. Are you interested in them? You like chasing crows, that too, squirrels sometimes. I don't know. But yeah, no, she's she's cashed out. I'll we'll go back up to the regular view. And if she she comes back in, she does. Bless us. Actually, okay, you she'll s you'll see her if she comes back in. Um but no Christmas season coming up. That that wintery time of year. Oh, that's a good story. I I think I'm just, you know, chilling with family this year, but last year uh I ended up dragging my sister to go explore Miami. That was that was an experience. That was a lot of fun. I mean, I feel like I've always just, you know, actually, you know what I really had to do is like you know, I had to scout out Miami so I knew all the spots before GTA 6 drops. That's actually what I feel like I did for GTA 5. Like, I mean, playing that for most of like I mean the goddamn middle school and all of high school, and then moving to LA for a few years for school. Like when I got there, I'm like, whoa, this is all exactly like GTA, what the hell? So that's what I got. I was like, you know, I gotta get the get some you know, practice and get some reps in before GTA 6 drops. So it's it's taking this time, so I might have to do another trip back and really get the layout. But it was something I guess while I wanted to go, I think I also had like some like I did some like credit card sign-up bonus because I was on that that credit card game trying to like get all these sign up things to you know get all the the free shit as long as you you know make some money off of it, as long as you don't ever like carry debt. Don't do that, guys. Do not um whatchamacallit, don't don't, don't ever not pay off your credit card fully because the interest rates on that you are absolutely getting your booty hole stretched open, it's not not worth it. Um but uh yeah, I basically did a bunch of credit cards. Honestly, started off like a few years ago. Honestly, I had no credit. I like tried everything, applied for everything, was always just instantly rejected because I had no credit, but eventually had to do some like secured card and build up and then got it. And then it was so eventually it was some some Marriott card where I got like a bunch of free nights. Some people like I guess you could like theoretically get some like Bogie S resort in like the Maldives or the Seychelles. I don't know, I forget. But I was like looking at it, it was like 20 some hours of flights and also like thousands of dollars of flights. I'm like, okay, uh, I ain't racked up like that. Uh sorry, I mean it'd be it'd be cool, and I guess this probably is like the best way to use it, but I'm like, yeah, I want to check out Miami. So I ended up bringing my sister with me to, you know, come along for an adventure. It wasn't I feel like there's more checked out, shout out some of the clubs. Like I wanted to see space, although I guess we were there for actual Christmas because it ended up being cheaper to like fly there and like do some of the stuff then than actually uh if we well, I guess we came like before Christmas and left after, like a few days after. Because that was like the cheapest time to travel and buy the flight stuff. My parents didn't really care. We just celebrated Christmas after. But what all did we do? Like there was some stuff that I want to do, like check out like space that we didn't quite do, but we did a lot. I kept it it kept it pretty busy, and we stayed in like South Beach, and that's kind of cool to check out the beach. Although I will say I've been spoiled by spending lots of time in Hawaii, like in the Pacific, the South, Southeast Pacific, close to the equator. I don't even know. Is Hawaii above the equator? I think so, but it's more further south than latitude or longitude. I actually do not remember which one's which, that's embarrassing. I always forget, and I feel like I at one point like was confident that I knew what they were, and then realized I had spent my whole life thinking the wrong thing. And at this point, I just have no idea, so I'm not even gonna guess. One of them, it's more south though, so it's way warmer there, but yeah, no, like when the water, it was I don't know if it's better or worse than when I went to like the a Cali beach for the first time, and like you know, there's all the songs, you know, Katie Perry California girls makes you want to, you know, go run on the beach, yeah, jump in at like Santa Monica. And I'm like, yo, this is cold as hell. It's probably not as bad as that, honestly. It's it's better than better than it's a west coast beaches in terms of water temperature, but it's still still a bit nipply, but it was it was fun to check out South Beach. Um, where else would we go? Oh, we went to Key West. We did like some like bus trip down for a day. Wanted to check that out. Honestly, I was kind of underwhelmed. I felt a little bit spoiled. I mean, it was still fun, but I feel like other like Hawaii tropical places are kind of more of a vibe, and also the water, I was hoping it'd be warmer, it was still pretty cold. I was, I mean, I'm still kind of a bitch, but I was like, uh it was cool though. The cool part is going down to Key West when you're on this like giant bridge just over water, whatever. It's like seven-mile bridge or something. I don't know if that's the right name or if I just totally pulled that out of my ass. But that was it was a cool drive on like this double decker bus, like looking out from the top. So I think it was like mainly you drive down there for the day, and then we had like a few hours, so we went to the beach. Oh, what we did there though is I guess I I don't even know. I don't think my sister really wanted to plan, and I had like lots of stuff that I was interested in, so I became the impromptu travel guide and booked basically everything, and she was just like along for the ride, and I think she definitely regretted this decision pretty shortly into it. Um, so I guess maybe just rewind. I'm trying to think what we did the first day because I think we went to QS the second day, yes. Okay, I guess to to take y'all through it. So we we flew into Miami the first uh night, and then I think the the first thing we did because I wanted to go to Publix. I always heard people talk about it. I was like, wow, I just need to go to Publix for no specific reasons, see what the the the regional grocery store is, you know, take a look around, you know, it was about what I expected. It was a grocery store, it was fun, but now it's like I've been to one. Now that's off the list. Um, where else did we go after that? I don't know if we did anything that night. I think we got food. I'm trying to remember where we went to eat. Now I'm totally blanking. I feel like there was something good. Who knows? But I don't think it was that memorable that night. Then we, you know, basically went to bed and then had to get up stupid early to catch this bus down to Key West. I don't know how many. It's like a is it a five-hour drive? I don't know if that's too long. It it's it's at least three or four hours, I want to say. Could be five hours. I don't remember. It was a long bus ride and had to get up at like six, or maybe the bus picked us up at six, I don't remember. And bust down. They stopped on McDonald's on the way. First time I'd been to McDonald's in a long time. I don't even think I got anything, did I? Actually, I maybe did. I think I maybe got some like biscuit chicken sandwich. It was surprisingly good. Which made myself eat normally never eat breakfast, but you know, I was like, you know, when in Miami we're gonna really get wild and eat breakfast. I mainly did it, I guess, because my sister eats more regular schedule, so I was like, well, I don't want to be the weirdo that's just sitting here. Although I kind of regret it, because then it's like once I go from out eating breakfast to eating breakfast, then it's like I do get hungry in the morning and it's having breakfast is such a pain and like having to eat regularly. So inconvenient, so nice when I just like forget and then like we'll just eat like a a whole Half a cow for dinner and not be like because I feel like when I eat a lot, then it's like irregularly, then it's like you like count on it, and it's like uh you start to like guess I would want to take a nap and when you get hungry, but had to readjust post Miami, but we ate good. But so we went to Key West, we went to some like there's like some point because it's like the southernmost part of the US, they got some buoy. Although it's kind of funny that the buoy is like this is the southernmost part of the US, and you can see parts of the island like a little ways down that are clearly more south than this, and it's like I don't know if y'all don't know your directions. Maybe, maybe this is, but uh, if you look at the map, it really makes it look like that's not. But it was so crowded there, and I'm like, why is this part so crowded? It's like, I mean, it's interesting, it's kind of cool uh that it this is like the southernmost point. But I don't know why there's such crowds, like people like lined up for like two blocks just to take a picture with it. And I was like, I climbed up some bench and just took a picture of it, and I'm like, yeah, that's good. But what we did do, there's lots of cool stuff though, I think, in the keys, like just scuba diving that I'd like to check out, and maybe some more stuff through like the mangroves or something. You can do like kayak tours. But what we did do was parasail. I did I did see that they have skydiving, and that looked kind of interesting, but it was like a ways away from where we were actually at, and it'd not be feasible to get there and back to the bus in time. So parasailing was the consolation prize, but actually, well, it was cool to go up. It was honestly, I'd never done it before and always kind of wanted to. Um and I like it was like higher up than I thought it would be. It was like 300 feet up in the air, getting dragged behind this boat, so it's kind of cool to see the islands from that high, but it's honestly like like not it wasn't like uh some adrenaline rush, it was like boring in that sense. It was kind of like I mean it was it wasn't boring, but it was boring if you're expecting to be like some like thrill ride. It's kind of just like floating around and kind of like you were I felt like I was a kite. I mean, I guess I was. Um, but it's like in tandem, so me and my little sister were just like you know, strapped up to this big old sail, just floating around and just kind of sitting looking around. I think it went really quick. I think you're up there for 10 minutes, although I guess I was chilling. She wasn't, I was like, oh what the heck? We're already done that went quick, and she's like, No, it didn't. So that was kind of funny. But that got some lobster roll or something. It's decent, expensive as hell, though, and then took the bus ride back. I think there was something yeah, they had it, they had officers on a horse, and that would threw me off. I did not, I was like, are we in are we in Canada? That's what I think of like the mounted police there, them on their horses, but it was like this this cop on a horse in Key West, and I was like, what the hell? But I guess it's a thing. The thing like pulled up to some bar window or restaurant, I don't know. And the horse like pop his head in, it's kind of funny. It was cool though. So I don't know if that's just the thing they got in Key West. I don't know if there's other mounted police there, but that that was not what I expected to see down there. Um, but yeah, that was the main thing that we did there. I guess we went to the beach at some Air Force base or something. That was oh, I remember seeing something interesting there. I guess like random Florida things like this lady had a a rooster on a leash, you know, a cock on a string, whatever you want to do. That was interesting. I don't know where she was taking it, but it was walking it on the beach. That was kind of funny. Hadn't seen that one before. That was unique. Didn't see anyone, you know, come running into the the the gas station with the alligator. I was hoping for that. That would have been that would have been memorable, but we were not so lucky, unfortunately. But maybe next time, maybe next time. Just you know, lots of lots of time in the future to go see what Miami men get into mischief in the the local 7-Eleven. So we got the back pretty late that night because it was just like a bus ride back for five hours. Um I don't think we did anything exciting. And then next day, where did we go? I think the next day we maybe went to the Everglades. That was interesting. I didn't know the Everglades was like basically just like a giant river through like all of Florida where it's like just slowly flowing through the grass. It's just super wide. Um, and we got to see like some small alligators. They weren't like as terrifying and massive as I thought they might be. So it's like, dang. I want them to be jumping at the boat, trying to flip us over, get us to knock in, really make it a exciting trip. But they're just like little ones chilling. They did have some gator show where some guy did something. He's like grabbed some like I don't know if they're like rescue gators or something, whatever that word means. And doing tricks with them, getting them to snap their jaws and stuff. I don't really know. Got to hold a baby alligator. Um it's kind of lame though. I had his mouth tape shut. I wanted it to be snapping. I was like, I want to see it, you know, flashing his teeth for the pick. That would have been that would have been a money shot for real, you know. I want to see those pearly whites. I don't need this duct tape over the mouth. That's kind of lame. I feel like they charged you for that too, which is also kind of lame. There are things I think that like you could do that with that or a snake. And I tried to get a uh a sibling Christmas card picture for my parents of me with the crocodile and her with the snake, and she's not a fan of snakes, so she refused, she ran away. It was heartbreaking. My mom missed a great opportunity, although she's also equally probably actually more so afraid of snakes, or just gives the heebie jeebies by them for whatever reason. I mean, I guess I get that a little bit. They are kind of creepy, and some things definitely do, but I don't really know what does the most. I mean, I feel like some things that are snaky are kind of weird, but I feel like a leech, I feel like that's seems even grosser to me than uh a snake. I don't know if you've seen them or ever gonna like I guess it's mainly like going fishing with them. They're like just like squirmy and they're black and you don't got eyes, so they seem so soulless, like some dang like horror creep animal creature, something, some monster, but like I guess like maybe like swarms of them seems like it'd be like some horror movie, like piranha leeches if you jump in some lake. Wow. Maybe that's gonna be the next shitty horror movie. I should make that, you know, call up studio, get cooking on that. Leech Lake. I think that is a name of an actual lake somewhere in the Midwest. I feel like I've heard that before. I was gonna say that, but maybe you gotta come up with a different name. Loch Leech, like Loch Net. I don't know. Leech Lake's kind of a good one. Like Lake Placid. I still remember that when I was Is that it? Was that what it's called? I don't know. Some like horror movie where there's like a monster crocodile. I remember watching that as a child the first time. I feel like it was like the first proper like gore horror movies that I'd seen. But nothing, nothing too crazy in the Everglades that day. I think we just yeah took a boat right there and checked them out. Um what we did do. I don't think it was I lose track of the exact days. No, we went to Ki West like the first thing, and then Everglades maybe the next day, although it could have been a few days later. Actually, I think what we did um actually I have no idea. Or it doesn't matter. So I went to the Everglades, that was one part of it. Another day that we did, uh we went to the Miami Zoo to check that out. And they have some I think they have Eldabra tortoises, not Galapagos, which I also have, so I had to check them out. I gotta do my like inspection of every zoo to see how they got their their you know little crater set up, their turtles, and like uh see what they're doing. Um it was pretty cheap, honestly. It was like this experience where you actually got to go in the turtle pen and it was, I feel like it was like 20 bucks. I feel like it was way cheaper than I would have expected for some sort of like, you know, one of those VIP zoo experiences that are normally like pretty tax. But the Miami Zoo was actually you know very affordable and got to go in and talk with these zookeepers about uh you know what they do. And a lot of the time I'm always like these people actually don't know that much about the turtles, which is always like kind of crazy. Like they'll like quiz you and I'm like I'll say the answer, and they're like nope, it's actually this. I'm like, no, it ain't ho. Like I feel like some of the things like their shell stuff being like getting pyramided or bumpy, they say oh it's nutrition, but I'm pretty sure it's not. At least from what I've seen, I feel like in my own personal research, which you know, take with a grain of salt, it seems and I've you know done what people have said. Uh the main thing for that seems to be humidity. If you like raise like baby turtles and something really dry, their shells get all like warped looking. But if it's like really humid and like jungly and tropical, they seem to come out much smoother. So some guy like some tortoise breed in Arizona that talked about that lots, and I was like, Well, this seems compelling. And then all the yeah, I feel like I've talked about this before, but all the Cali, other, you know, southwest US, you know, turtles that grew up there, they all kind of other than like the native ones, like get all these like real wonky, like Lego looking shells with all these like pyramids and grooves. But also the thing like the zoo talked about like they were like they were like sanding them down on the turtle. And I don't I don't know why, because like I noticed like these these tortoises had like big like like epoxy patches on their shell, like these like glossy things. I'm like, what is that? And they're like, Oh, we've been like trying to like get rid of their like shell spikes or whatever. And I didn't I didn't ask why, but that just kind of like rubbed like seemed like not good to me. Like, I don't know if there's some other reason that I can think of for that, but I think it's normally I mean, like, once it's there, it's kind of cosmetic, and like their shell is like all bone, like it's not it is like stuff that like feels, so I don't quite know what they're doing. Like, there's like a character layer on top, but I think like when it's like actual pyramiding, it's actually like the bone too that is like kind of like malformed, so I don't know why they were doing that. Like, maybe for like breeding, but also was not major, and also I feel like at that point it's probably not gonna be you know a lot of breeding happening. But it was cool to see him and feed the dude. I don't know if we've had the turtles. I take that. I don't know that actually did feed my own turtles though, but it's fun to pet these old ones that are like really hundred years old and you know, just kind of little dinosaurs. They're always fun to see. Oh, they did also have their tigers and set up like a Christmas Godzilla. That was pretty fun. Had the tiger fight the Godzilla, although I think they they made like a snow machine in bubbles, and I think that was actually scaring the tiger so they like we're hiding, and that was actually pretty entertaining. They turned it off, and then they had like this Godzilla and like some skyscrapers. Um uh and then the tiger just went full twin towers on them because I think they had some like treats in it, and the godzilla's like smacking it, trying to eat them open. It's kind of entertaining. But like walked in the zoo, that's kind of like the front thing that we walked into, and like, what is going on? Then I watched the tiger just jump out. I'm like, oh that's sick. I would definitely they definitely need to do more. It's like almost like some Colosseum fights, you know. That'd be some something fun. We need some you know, hunger games, gladiator fights. Oh, you don't gotta kick the hell out of me because you're stretching. She's actually such a diva sometimes, she'll just like roll over and just like aggressively like slab me. I mean, I don't she's not intentional. Although sometimes it does feel intentional, just for no reason, it'll be like totally still. Um the zoo, yeah. I gotta see that. And then oh, I wanted to go to walk through, not I was gonna say USCU Miami. I wanted to check that out. It looks so pretty. Honestly, that campus is beautiful, and wanted to go there, and then also there see their med school, because I thought about that at one point. But the U Miami main campus was like super sick. I was like, dang, I want to go here, even though I'm like unk status. But shit, I'd I'd pull uh uh what the heck is her name? Abella Danger, you know, join a frat. That's actually no, I don't want to do that, but I kind of get it. It looks it'd probably be fun. Uh the campus is also super lake in the middle of it, and like this bougios thing. I think that's where is that is it the building? I don't know. I think that's maybe where like the gods playing music video was. I think it was in Miami. I feel like it might have been other that or maybe in LA. I don't know, but I feel like it could be one of the buildings where Drake would be, you know, getting Swifty up on that building where he's like over for like all the people. I don't know. It was it was a cool campus though. And then walked from the oh yeah, that was part of the the many adventures that my sister was like maybe not so glad she let me plan everything apart from first the parasailing. I'm like, oh yeah, shoddy buckle up, we're gonna go parasailing. This thing also, like I was like trying to like take less Ubers, and we walked from like the campus to some like garden where they had some like Christmas lights in the evening. That was actually honestly pretty sick, it was kind of fun. They had like all these like crazy light shows and these like jungles of this like arboretum and like botanical gardens. It was pretty fun, but we had to like walk like five miles through like the suburbs of Miami, some pretty nice areas. It reminded me of some like the LA suburbs. I'm like, this is this is pretty nice, you know. Seeing all those people have their I think it was Christmas Eve that we did this, I'm pretty sure, yeah. Because like seeing all those people have their Christmases, I was like, yo, can I can we pop in, get a plate to eat? I was kind of tempted on a few of them because it looked like they were eating good through the window, and I was like, dang. It also got a little bit dark, and we walked a lot that day. I was in flip-flops. She luckily wore her tennies. I mean, I was fine, I was I was chilling. No problem with flip-flops for me, but she was like, I'm very glad I brought my tennies. I was like, Yeah, I didn't really give you a heads up. I didn't really register that this is kind of a lot to uh be walking in a day. But you know, it was part of the grind. You save save on the the Christmas Uber expenses, but then we did we did eventually take it back from the garden, but the garden is actually pretty cool. I don't remember what it was called. Some sort of I don't know, one of those, you know, Christmas light shows in like gardens or parks or botanical gardens, things like that. They had some food trucks, so I feel like there's something I got. I think I got just some like actually it was like some like diabetic acai bowl where I had like hella Nutella on it, and I'm like, this doesn't look like a typical acai bowl with like it's real fruity, but it looks pretty like sinfully good, and that was that was actually quite good. It was like just basically like a chocolate Nutella acai bowl is like kind of like a Sunday, but couldn't complain about it. I think that was actually the first time I've ever had Nutella in Asae. I've occasionally seen it since, but that was kind of good. They also had some like bougie chocolates that are pretty good. But yeah, I think that was mostly that day. Christmas Day was fun. We started that one off of a bang, so on Christmas morning I signed us up for well actually, I mean I think I planned out everything, like maybe like the day before we left or like booked it all. I mean, uh Christmas morning we went uh jet skiing in the like harbor. That was that was that was a lot of fun, honestly. Especially because it was Christmas morning. Uh there was nobody out there, just us just fucking booling around on some jet skis. Uh, and this is the first time I've ever driven a jet ski. That's it was pretty fun. Uh although I don't think my sister had a good time because she was just hanging on for dear life on the back. But basically started off, it was like the where we meet you for the jet skis was like a few blocks from our hotel. Like, I didn't had no idea what it was. I signed up and I just well, it was like weird. I couldn't tell what the hell it was. Like, it was like one of those confusing booking things. It was like the site is like, I don't know if I just gave my credit card to someone in like India or what this if this is real or not. Because it was like, we'll text you an address on the morning of, and I'm like, okay. And I did get a text or something where to go. Then I was like kind of like walking there pretty early in the morning on Christmas. I mean, I think there was other stuff that we did do that day that we wanted to go check out. Uh but eventually found it. Uh well, it took me like I walked past it a short time. It was like some like jank little like warehouse that you walked in. It was kind of like crusty, and like these two dudes, and they're like, Oh, you whatever. And I'm like, or at first it like seemed like, What are you doing here? I'm like, Oh, I'm I'm here, I've got a reservation or whatever you call it. I booked a jet ski ride around, you know. I was like, Oh yeah, we got you, we'll get you right. And then felt like we were like taking some like jank trip to the jet skis where we basically had to walk through some like jank parts of the harbor and get to some like floating dock where the jet skis were. Uh, and they were they're in rough shape. It was all a little bit sketched, but um, it seemed like it chill do it. I'm like, well, this will be fun, and then basically got in the harbor and basically found like took the jet skis up to the Star Island where all the all the you know celebrity houses, there's Diddy's houses that we got to see, the Scarface house. Well, actually he couldn't see Diddy's house, so they're basically pulled up, he's like, Yep, Diddy's been paying like some exorbitant amount in fines every year for having this wall up. Because I guess this island was built to you know just flex on everyone have their celebrity houses, you know, on display, but Diddy build some giant wall and skin fined to hell for having it. And it's like we didn't know why he did that until you know recently, and I'm like, oh damn, unfortunate. Well, I mean, I don't know, yeah, not good. But I think there's like Scarface, Scarface House, some other ones. I think does Rick Ross live on Star Island? I feel like I've seen clips of people like just getting by him, but or his like crib. But it was it was kind of fun to whip that around there, and then this is just like empty harbor, just like floor it through there. Uh I had a lot of fun, honestly. My sister was screaming, and she told me that, yeah, she said she didn't never again is basically the the extent of it. But it was it was a good start to Christmas, although like we kind of got towards the edge of the harbor where like the the waves are coming in, and it's pretty like honestly, they were tiny waves, but like you definitely became like much more like uh on the jet ski, and I think the guys had a look at my sister's face because she was screaming, he's like, Okay, let's go back. And I was like, damn, unfortunate. But I got me thinking, like, wow, open ocean jet skiing has got to be a trip. And I guess you can do this thing where you just take jet ski from Miami to the Bahamas, I think. I think that's Rhode Island. I mean, I guess they're all like in that area, but I think the Bahamas on this close is like 60 miles and maybe like four hours of jet skiing in the open ocean. I think you actually have to have some like boat come with you to actually like give you the extra gas you need. Oh, yeah, that was another jank part of this, like halfway through with like my jet ski is like beeping because it was like running out of gas. Like, oh, it'll be fun. And I'm like, all right, if you say so. I guess worst case, I'm just gonna have to swim to Diddy's house, but we didn't have to, luckily, thank god. I mean, who knows? Even if we got there, we'd probably just fall off the dock as too covered up in baby oil. But, you know, we made it back, you know, barely running on fumes, got to this floating little dock and got back off. And sister was kissing the land when we got there, but it was it was a fun start of the day. I think most of it, actually, I think I just like want to run the beach after that, South Beach, and checked out maybe some parks. My sister just like cashed out in the hotel room. I think she ended up she in between every event, she just would totally like just totally pass out on the bus. And like my mom got us some like little those like disposable cams before we went. She wanted some like cute little whatever, like not Polaroid, but you know, those canon icon, whatever. I don't know, the cheap little plastic ones, and like half of my pictures were just my sister just totally passed out, like either in the bus or like the Uber or anytime like we were like stopped back at the hotel for stuff. I was like, you know, oh you leaving us. Well, we're no longer blessed, but it's been real. Um and it turns out she had some like crazy infection, like where her mouth was just like straight pussy when we got home. I'm like, that is disgusting. I'm I don't actually know how I didn't get sick. Because I definitely ate lots of her leftover food. I think like the first night I felt sore throat and I was like, oh no, I might be like getting sick. And then that never came, nothing came of it. I you know fought it off. You know, my immune system, you know, got the dub on that one. And she was like continuously tanking. And by the time we got home, she was she was in a rough shape and she just like slept for like 48 hours. So she did she was a trooper, she made it through a lot. Granted, she was growing some whatever, I don't even know, some mutated bioweapon in her damn throat. So that was unfortunate for her sake. But I think she just napped, honestly, for the afternoon. I just like meandered around like South Beach in that neighborhood, walked up to some of the other areas, checked it out. You know, I don't think there's too anything too eventful for that. But for our Christmas dinner, we got a reservation at the the Versace mansion, you know, had to represent um check that out. Honestly, I mean it was actually the the house was pretty sick. It has like this cool fountain in it. Honestly, waiting for our table, even with a reservation took forever. But you had it's kind of like this bougie lobby, which is kind of cool. Um, and I guess my sister was hyped because she took a shit in the Versace mansion. She's like, Wow, this is the the bougiest dump I've ever taken. I'm like, Well, I didn't need to know that, but I mean, go off, girl, I guess. It was pretty good vibes, though, in there, and just it was a long time just awaiting though. I got kind of hungry, and but the like in the main restaurant part, it was it was pretty cool. There's like big like pool and fountain. And I guess because we were just like a small group of just two people, we got some like little table right by the water of this thing, so that's kind of sick. Although I will say, like, the it was kind of like one of those joints where like the food, I mean, it was good, but honestly, like mid for what you're paying for. So that's kind of like an L, but it was still fun Christmas vibes, still, still good times. I feel like there's some oh my goodness, it was it was it's hilarious. It was like one of those like bougie desserts where they like pour some sort of like flaming thing on, like some chocolate ball and it melts. And the guy was like, My sister's trying to take a picture of the dessert, and he was assumed she was trying to like record it and he was trying to time it with her, and like they were both like, Oh, you go, no, you go, or whatever. I don't even know. It was just like painful to watch, like the lack of coordination, and then I think she even missed it after he's trying to like pause several times for her to get it done, but that was all good. But that was that was a wrap on Christmas. I think the main things were you know just skiing around Diddy's house and no dinner at the Versace mansion. It was it was just all Christmas of 2024. Is that what it is? Shit, we're coming up about 2026. I feel like I think I could still try to write 2023 on some things at this point, but time's fine when you're having fun, I suppose, whatever they say. Uh I'm trying to think there was anything other than like me really memorable. Because yeah, I think Everglades, the zoo, see the turtles, you Miami, Diddy's house. Didn't get in though. Um, and the Versace Mansion. I think it was the uh the main thing because then flew back. I don't know if there was any. Oh, we didn't go to Winwood, that was pretty sick. They got like all the graffiti there. That was that was cool, you know. They got some like like museum of it where all these like graffiti walls, but the neighborhood itself is honestly pretty nice. I looked it around there a lot, and then Little Cuba got some pretty fire uh Cuban sandwich from some restaurant, I forget the name of it, but it was it was a good vibe. I don't know if there was like some other like fancy dessert place that we tried out, but a lot of good food there. I'd like to go back. Could definitely crash there for a while. You know, take a jet ski to the Bahamas, just you know, go pirate to the Caribbean, Caribbean, however you say that, on jet skis, that would be sick. How far even are all those islands? Like they're all like surprisingly close. Like there's like Jamaica and Cuba and Puerto Rico. Go like join the gang wars in Haiti. Are the Haiti and the Dominican on the same island? I think so. Love all the Dominican memes, those are kind of entertaining. But yeah, that was that was a solid Christmas trip. I don't think we got anything on the deck this year, and I don't think I could convince her to do anything again. Maybe, maybe she'll run something back sometime, but not if there's any uh more adventureful activities like jet skiing or parasiling again, I don't think. I think she's out on that. I think she'll definitely uh take more initiative on the planning, but it was memorable. What can I say? You know, she can remember much more of that one, so she should thank me for that part of it. I don't know where else I want to go. There's lots of cool, cool US places to check out because I I've really never been to the East Coast that much. I'd like to check out New York again. I feel like I went in like high school, and it was only through like probably like the super pop and like touristy places where it's also kind of like dirty. And I just remember like this create this, like this John's just stinks, and there's like kind of a lot going on and did not think it was that fun. But I feel like as an adult, I'd like to like revisit and like see what it's all about. I got some friends that I gotta check out, like show me around the big Apple dog. I feel like there are places like I want to go get yo, I want to get something the Akiway from a deli. I didn't have see some stuff about it there recently. I did not realize pastrami was like that, like juicy send me this brisket. I feel like I always heard people like gassing up the pastrami's there from the delis, and I'm like, nah, did not see how that sounded so great. Like I was thinking of like the charcuterie board pastrami was like super cured, and I'm like, I mean it's good, but a whole sandwich of that sounds like aggressive. But now I'm like got some pastrami like from New York delis popping up in my algorithm, and now I just want to go eat there. Or the Akiway guy. Actually, I don't really know that I want to eat what he wants, what he's making. I don't even know what what does the Akiway even mean? It's just like extremely excessive amount of stuff you've just thrown on there. I still want to order something and be like, yo, give it to me the Akiway dog, and then just watch him like put like I don't know, enough like random shit to like give like 30 grown men diabetes and put them all in dire need of a triple bypass. But I just gotta do it for the one time. Oh, there's like the serendipity place or something with some bougie like frozen hot chocolate or something. Actually, I remember because I feel like they have some like bougie like gold covered Sundays, but I think they're like famous for some like frozen hot chocolate. I don't even know what is frozen hot chocolate. Is that just a milkshake? Is that just like the the gourmet way to say milkshake? Is there something that's inherently different? I've hear that and I don't know, or is it like a frappe frappuccino? I don't know. I don't know if Starbucks lingo, you know, like the the icy chocolate stuff. I think that's or like they call it blended sometimes at places. I don't actually know what stuff is called, but that's something that's allegedly good there. Or pizza. Although, I mean I honestly I do fuck with a good New York pizza, but I'm still like yo deep dish die hard. I guess is that Chicago? I don't even I think I did go to like Chicago, some like OG spot. It was like Unos or something when I was like in middle school, because we were visiting. I guess maybe later middle school, like early high school, because I think we did some college visits, but it was like pretty young, I think. But I think we waited for like some ungodly amount of time. I think it was like some OG place. I don't know, actually know if it's the first place, but somewhere. I used to have an uncle, R.I.P. Hope man is doing well, and honestly, I don't know if I'd actually met him before this trip, honestly. It was just this guy that we just like met and were following around Chicago. I mean, I guess my it was my dad's brother, he obviously knew him. God rest his soul, but it was a trip like I this man was just like sprinting around Chicago to show us like different like random statues and things, and like he would just like jump in the road in front of buses to stop them and like bang on the door to the guy who would like let us in. And I was just like stressed out. And basically we just like ran around Chicago for like 12 hours straight before we finally caved in to like shop for food, and then it was at this like Unos place where it was like three hours waiting for the actual pizza to come. So I think everyone just was super uh hangry, or we were all suffering from an acute case of HBS as coined by my dear mother, uh hungry bitch syndrome, which is uh pretty fitting name, apropos. If I don't know if that's the right word, it's just fun to say. I think that's I think that was the right use of it. I think that means like fitting apropos. I don't know. I'm not trying to you know use big words, so I seem like I photosynthesize smarter, um, but that was just fun to say. But oh yeah, I was comparing pizzas. I do is Costco considered deep dish, I think maybe. I like if that's like the kind of style that's like New York, like the big like fat slices. I do like pizza, that pizza a lot too. I just I think I like tomato. I'm not even well okay. This may my stance on this may be changing, but in previously I've never been like a very big tomato person, but like you know, I fuck with everything like tomato made, like ketchup, tomato soup, definitely pizza with like just lots of tomato sauce. That was honestly my favorite part. Like, I could be fine if a pizza didn't have like cheese if it had like good dough and tomato sauce. Like, that's fine, you know, we can't work with that. I mean, cheese helps, but like deep dish, definitely my shit with just like hella tomato sauce. I feel like this might most of my grip, like a lot of like you know, fast food pizza. I'm like, yo, I need like at least triple or quadruple the amount of sauce. Like, you know, I need that thing bleeding pee for real, if you know what I mean. Otherwise, sometimes it gets at least it can be decent when it's fresh, but I feel like especially when stuff's just in the like fridge and like a domino's pizza, it gets like dry as hell. Like the the tomato sauce just evaporates. I don't know where it goes, it's just gone, and it's kind of unfortunate eating like you know, leftover dominoes. Or, you know, Pizza Hut. I remember when I was like growing up in like middle, like elementary, kindergarten, I don't even know, elementary school. I don't know what the yeah, I was young, doesn't matter. Age where I have babysitters to say, and I remember when my parents would go wherever, um who knows what I'd go on date night or whatever, like we'd always get to order pizza and we'd get like some stuffed crust pizza hugs. I was like one of the, you know, I guess it was the only like fast food pizza we had that would deliver in town. That might not be true, I don't even know. But I was always so hyped to do that and just like eat the cheesy stuffed crust, and then like eventually I did closed down. Oh, they did always give us like in school. If we'd like read our books, they'd give us like some little coupon where you get some like mini pizza for free from Dom Jig uh what the hell I don't uh Why am I blanking? Pizza Hut. I was like, not Lil Caesars, not Domino's. What's the other one? The Hut. Uh but no, then I hadn't had it for years because it closed down, and then finally, in like freshman year college, it was whenever late one night, and people like wanted pizza, so we ordered Domino's. I mean, fuck, I can't I can't even get them all mixed up. I'm struggling, it's too late. But you know, we were out here getting them reps in. Uh got got a got pizza from Pizza Hut. First time, you know, this long-lost love coming back to my life years later. That it was ass. I was so disappointed. I'm like, this is like actually worse than like my you know, Michelle Obama high school lunch pizza. Maybe not that bad, but it was it was damn near. And it was like just like greasy cardboard. I think I don't know if we got like stuff crossed like they could have redeemed it a little bit, but it was I was I was kind of sad. I was a little bit heartbroken. I was like, I had high hopes. I was like, dang, it's been too long, you know. Sneaky link with Pizza Hut again, but unfortunately, she had aged real poorly, you know, didn't glow up, you know, like your boy, but that's fine. I don't I mean I'm not that pinky, but I'd probably you know eat it in a pinch. But still, I needed a good deep dish, top tier. No disrespect to anyone else. What's Detroit style? I think I've heard something about that, and I don't know what that means. Detroit style pizza. Actually, I have to I don't have my phone, so I guess I'll never know. I was gonna pull that out and had to Google it, but maybe that's a contender. Detroit actually I can put it up on the computer. What is Detroit style pizza? Because is there any other cities? Does like any other city got their own like signature pizza? Detroit pizza, let's see, what does it mean? Rectangular deep dish pizza. Oh. With sauce. Okay, according to Google AI, it's rectangular deep dish pizza with thick, airy, buttery crust. Okay, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Wait, okay, they don't really say what's different between that and Chicago. Now I want to know that. Detroit pizza racing stripes. Oh my goodness. I don't feel like reading this all right now, but I'm just TM Deep Dish. Whatever flavor. I guess I'll have to, you know, get the weeds on the the varieties of um Deep Dish, which cities? There's Chicago, Detroit, any other? I guess it's just like the big Midwest cities. Any other, like, you know, is there uh Cleveland Deep Dish Pizza, Pittsburgh Deep Dish, all those towns around there? I don't really know. I feel like I actually was looking at a map recently and I realized how little of East Coast geography I knew. Like I had no idea that like I I feel like just like assumed New York was like in my head for reasons, like the northernmost, like big US city. Like I didn't realize like Boston was like north northeast of like New York. But I guess like I just didn't know how the states were laid out. The OG colonies. Actually, I don't even know if New York was an OG colony. I don't know if that was one of the 13. I would kind of guess so, but New England, New York, I don't know. But yeah, I'm gonna go do an adventure there. Not Christmas, but maybe maybe next Christmas or sometime in between. Cause you boys not been in there a minute, and there's you know, lots we gotta do, lots we gotta check out. I don't know what other things I'd want to do there. I feel like when I went in like high school is like the stereotypical things, like the Statue of Liberty and the 9-11 Memorial, Broadway. I think those are the main things. Oh, I do remember like going through the bodegas and buying like some like I was like probably like 14, buying like some like joke condoms. I don't even know what they said on it. It was just something funny, and I just had to buy it. I feel like it was that was like the thing at the time where like was the edgy thing that people like couldn't believe. I think we were like prank call at one point, like because we're staying in a hotel on this, like it was like a trip for like a band, a band, like a class band trip thing over the summer where we like we played in some parade somewhere. I don't remember Boston, maybe, and maybe by some like big aircraft carrier somewhere on the east coast. I don't know. Enterprise, is that one of them? Some USS something. USS some word. That's that's very descriptive. I just described like a million ships, I bet. But we did that. So we're saying the hotels, and I think I don't know why. I think oh I was, you know, I was hustling the homies and I was like basically telling them like they're like dare me, and I'm like, yo, we gotta give me 10 bucks, and I'll call the the front desk and ask if they have condoms as I was like 13, 14, and they're like, no way he does that. I mean, also we're like stupid, like very sheltered, probably like kids from like tiny town in the middle of the middle, it's relatively like big city, so that probably is not that crazy to a lot of people, but anywho, that's that's what we the type of bullshit we were on. So I'd call and be like, nope, but then he'd give me directions to like uh the nearest like 7-Eleven or whatever, and then eventually I guess the front desk eventually called the whatever our chaperones or whatever supervised-I don't know what the word I'm looking for. Chaperone? I don't know. That's maybe it. Then we got like a text to our our group living in our room or not living that the group that we're staying with, and everyone was just so embarrassed, or I don't know, I didn't really care, and like I was the one that did it, and I was like, I just texted about like my bad, like I was just you know out here getting that bread, and then everyone else was like total bitching out for the night. Like they were all like dogs with their tails tucked between their legs and just like crawled in bed and turned off the lights at like 8 30 p.m. And I'm like, what the hell, boys? And I just remember having to sit on the cuck chair of the hotel and watch like The Walking Dead from like 8 30 to midnight alone in this room with these guys, just like just like kind of like sniffling, tucked into bed. And I'm like, guys get over it, and then yeah, I mean, it's like I don't think they really care that much that we did that. And I was like, you gotta pay up too. Come on, come on, show me my money so I can I don't even know what I was doing, buy dumb stuff. But you know, shenanigans back in the day when I was uh a wee young lad, although I'm still up to playing shenanigans nowadays, but you know, we on we on a different wave. Uh who knows what's next. I don't know if there's like many other things though. Christmas, Christmas, crazy vibes. I just want to go like make a snow angel though on like Christmas Day and do that. Drink hot chocolate and then maybe like eat a cookie or something. Although I would jet sea again and go to like some Versace mansion dinner. It was I was honestly up there for Christmas, Christmas vibe experiences. Definitely I think that was the first Christmas I had that's like not a white Christmas, so that was weird. Like the concept of like the people that live in like you know warm places, nice places, like just having like warm weather on Christmas always felt like weird to me. And like, you know, being Christmas and somewhere like nice. It's kind of it felt it was weird, it felt weird, but it was like this is I could get used to this, this isn't so bad. Because winter is fun and all. I do like the seasons and they do like snow vibes for the holidays, it's fun. But like I feel like after like day one, it's like okay, that was that was sick vibes, and then like leaving it, then it's like you you didn't get sick of it, you know. You you kind of it didn't uh lose its appeal to you, you know. You still got the butterflies in your stomach for the the seasons, you didn't get you know really just battered with them and go back to the sunshine, and then you know you'd be excited for the next time you see it. It's probably the way to do it. I guess I'm I don't see that much snow nowadays. I visit it here and there for like a week or two at a time, and then and then I I don't get too sick of it, but it's it's fun to have, but then nice to now live in. But who knows? Maybe we'll see. You know, go off the Grin Alaska, live like the outdoor boys. That'd be that'd be a good vibe, honestly. I wonder how that bro's doing. He made like some videos recently, I think. I don't know what. But I feel like now recently I never watched that many. I saw a few of them, but now they like more came up on my feed recently on my YouTube algorithm for whatever reason. And now I was like, wow, I just want to go like Build like a a cabin in the woods somewhere and try to survive. It looks kind of entertaining. Or I mean, sounds like kind of a vibe. I don't really know. Sounds like, you know, just getting out there. Although also kind of scary. Surviving has gotta be hard outside of civilization. There's a lot you gotta do. Elements are rough. Weather, animals, bugs. Also a bitch, getting cold and having to make fire and eat. That's I don't know. I don't even I guess you gotta learn to like haunt stuff too. And I feel like I don't know if it's true, but I feel like I've seen some things. We're talking about like some animals, like rabbits don't actually have enough fat on them. I don't know if this is true though, or if like you're eating rabbits, you'll just be slowly starving. Seems tough to me that like you don't get anything out of it. Like it takes I think they basically said it takes more to digest than to um actually like that you more than the energy you get out of it is you're burning calories. I feel like they used to say that about celery or some dumb stuff. It was like negative calories, but I I think that's all cap. I believe that though that could be like just not very nutritious overall, and like eating it long term would be bad, but saying that like eating wild rabbits would like make you like starve faster seems wild. Oh, there's some stuff like drinking your own piss where I think you're not supposed to do it that you always see on survival shows. I think that's one that isn't like an actual myth, too. Like you shouldn't do that, like you might actually poison yourself because like you're pissing out like bad stuff your body doesn't want anymore, and then you're just drinking it like straight back. It's like fucks up your kidneys or something. So don't drink your piss, guys. I don't think, unless you you know are on that R. Killy grind, but uh, you shouldn't do that either, you know. Don't wanna don't want to be playing those games. Okay, checking up on the foot. New update, more feet content, you know, get your rocks after that if you need, but I can't tell anything going on still. How long has it been on this? Is it say it is up to the time. I haven't actually watched it run while I was like conscious for a day. Sorry, shoddy, I keep banging on the wall and uh shoddy over there, the puppy, Trixie Bear, uh freaks out for a minute. She's like lots of times like neighbors. I got some like I don't know if it's some like children running around upstairs that like haven't like they're playing Dance Dance Revolution or something, and it sounds like because there's so many like thumbs, but makes her spook out and run and go hide in bed, which is I always feel bad, but it's also kind of funny. Like we'll be walking and have like walk underneath the freeway and have like all the car sounds above you, and then ambulance drive by blasting a siren, and shoddy does not give a two shit. She's just you know wagging her tail all the game, get happy to be out and about. But she hears like a slight thump inside, and she's like, She has like fucking Vietnam PTSD war flashbacks, just like, you know, they're in the trees, run, just goes hiding. I mean, there's like a time where I try to make her like sit by me on the couch. I just sat on the floor, I was like, come on, you know, you're fine, you're not gonna get like you know, hit by a mortar or something. And I was she's like lying next to me, but Shotty was actually like shaking. I felt so bad. I'm like, okay, let's go to bed. We'll go sit in the bed. Uh and then she jumped in the bed and lay down, and she's perfectly still. So I don't know. Maybe the bed is just magical. It's got some ketamine in there. She hits a K-hole when she gets on the covers. I don't know what, but she is staying outside of the bed, so I didn't I didn't spook her too badly. I guess it's kind of late though, so that probably does help a little bit in terms of there's not other stuff going on. I guess normally the some pumps I make. I guess even if I like bang the couch, like if I I don't know. This probably maybe doesn't oh yeah, I did that. That picked up. That was a better one. It's okay. That was me. I that's not it's not like the the drums of war and that works aren't coming. We're not at Helm's Deep. Dang, I need to watch Lord of the Rings again. I kind of want to watch that, or even there's lots of stuff I want to watch. I've been like meaning to watch the what is it? House of the Dragon. Haven't done that yet. I like bought the book like I read Game of Thrones, haven't actually watched it either, but I read the books in high school and that was a grind. And bought the House of Dragon book like three years ago and been meaning to like read it and just never read it. I actually don't know. My reading is so bad I hardly ever read. I don't know how many books I've read since high school. It's actually abysmal. I wanted to know what actually the average of like because like back in the day in high school, it's like I did mostly read the books, but there's sometimes where I'd read like the the spark notes, or I guess there's like cliff notes, some people said, but it's always spark notes that I used. I don't know. I think cliff notes was the same thing, but like that was like super duper diet chat GPT light in terms of like getting stuff spit back out to you, like where you could just have to dig out these summaries. But with chat GPT, I want to know like what percentage of like high school students actually even read books anymore. I mean, I think I've seen like there was like some study from like UCSD, like which is a good school about like how most of their incoming like freshmen can't even do like elementary math. So I don't know, bro. We gotta get everyone to lock in. Kids, y'all, y'all gotta lock in, stay in school. You do not wanna. I mean, like, I know like there's a lot that you don't use in your day-to-day, which people say like, oh, I don't need to know like algebra, but it's also like the foundation of like so much other stuff that you just like you cooked if you don't you can't do, especially like the basic like math and like reading. I think there's some clip of someone, I don't know, I don't know if it's a I don't know which podcast it was. I actually have no idea. I don't know if it's some rapper or something. They're saying like you don't need to read in the future, and I was like, bro, this isn't this is the most horrendous advice I've ever heard. Like, I mean, you know, you don't like necessarily need some of these skills, but if you like don't know how to do them, you just I don't know what you gonna do. What you gonna do? So stay in school, kids, eat your vegetables, uh yeah. You know, take care of yourselves, do go for you know, get your steps in, go for running around the block. Don't do crystal meth, probably. Sounds intriguing, but don't do it. Or at least don't do it and then chase the dragon and you know throw your life away. That would be unfortunate. Can't recommend that. These are all absolute pearls of wisdom. I don't know what you do without me. And I know some of you were probably considering it, and only until you heard my soothing voice tell you not to, did you, you know, realize you know you were on the wrong path, and I, you know, saved you and your family from loss of despair. So, you know, you're welcome, and you know, just keep tuning in. That's all I ask for you, you know. All I need, and I don't ask for much. But yeah, it's I don't know. I'm running out of steam. I'm about to like clonk out on the couch. Need more like decor though. I'm trying to you could just see the the visionary work real time. Maybe I'll like I don't know. I keep keep looking at these woodworking videos, so now I like want to like do some like finishing of some like fancy wood, like all those like resin tables. Maybe I'll put some more art on the wall, come up with something like that. Maybe that'll be a Christmas break project. We'll see, we'll see. I'll have to you know come back for more, and you'll see some you know extra drip on the wall. That'd be cool. But I got this 3D map of Kauai, it's actually pretty sick. But I think I need like more there. I don't actually know. Give it a like a logo somewhere, but I don't actually know if I want that. But this is not gonna be the most professional, but I'm just trying to you know brainstorm out loud. Really, really, I mean, we've taken big steps, you know. I was about to like revisit and say one more of those Neil Armstrong quotes relative to this, but my brain is it's like the SpongeBob episode where it's like the power chord is like not quite long enough and it's not actually spinning. And maybe once it finally locks up and links in, I'll come up with some good quote about how you know huge leap for this podcast, big old crash out coming out. But that is tonight is not that night. I'm I'm shooting blanks. Not that kind though. Well, actually, I have no idea. Maybe I am, who knows? Well, never mind. I'm just gonna I'm just gonna shut up now. You know, it's been real. It's we're we got a solid episode in. There's gonna be more where it came from, you know. And this is only the beginning, baby. You know, we've making you know big improvements, and there is more to come. So with that, peace peace, lasagna.