Ever found yourself laughing at matching tattoos with someone who's more than just a colleague? That's where my journey with work wife and real estate maverick Alex Hallmann begins. She and I crack open the bizarre and delightful elements of modern life and relationships—a no-holds-barred conversation sprinkled with laughter, where we tackle everything from our own questionable ink to the all-too-real transition from one career path to another. Alex sheds light on work transitions and we both muse over the enigma of humor's place in today's society, while our shared love-hate relationship with TikTok and binge-watching culture offers a humorous take on the attention span battle of the digital age.
We get real about the challenges and triumphs of women's empowerment, discussing the objectification of athletes like Jalen Hurts with a blend of wit and wisdom. Alex lending her expertise on the to-buy-or-not-to-buy home ownership debate, and the vital topic of investing in oneself—be it through financial decisions or the personal kind that enriches the soul.
So, grab your earbuds and join us for an episode that's as much about personal growth as it is about indulging in the lighter side of life—and maybe, just maybe, a few things you should know
Ever found yourself laughing at matching tattoos with someone who's more than just a colleague? That's where my journey with work wife and real estate maverick Alex Hallmann begins. She and I crack open the bizarre and delightful elements of modern life and relationships—a no-holds-barred conversation sprinkled with laughter, where we tackle everything from our own questionable ink to the all-too-real transition from one career path to another. Alex sheds light on work transitions and we both muse over the enigma of humor's place in today's society, while our shared love-hate relationship with TikTok and binge-watching culture offers a humorous take on the attention span battle of the digital age.
We get real about the challenges and triumphs of women's empowerment, discussing the objectification of athletes like Jalen Hurts with a blend of wit and wisdom. Alex lending her expertise on the to-buy-or-not-to-buy home ownership debate, and the vital topic of investing in oneself—be it through financial decisions or the personal kind that enriches the soul.
So, grab your earbuds and join us for an episode that's as much about personal growth as it is about indulging in the lighter side of life—and maybe, just maybe, a few things you should know
What's up everybody. This is Trenisha English and you are listening to the Things you Should Know podcast. What does this call her daddy you speak of?
Speaker 2:It's this like 20-something girl who just like talks about straight sex. It's really weird. But now she interviews like celebrities and stuff.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's how it starts. Just talk about some straight sex, and then you're in the view on celebrities. It's weird, it's.
Speaker 2:all it really takes is to be somewhat entertaining, which in the grand scheme of things, it's so boring to me it's like well, I'm just living my life being entertaining. Like I forgot all about balls.
Speaker 1:Alright, round two, now that we're done talking about straight sex Whoa, whoa, ew. Apparently, that's what's entertaining to the people these days. Welcome back everyone. This is the Things I Think you Should Know. Podcast. I'm your host, trenisha English, and today I am joined by my work wife. I actually, while the divorce is definitely final, I'm still not remarried in work.
Speaker 2:Hey, so my first and only work wife Alex Holman. Most recent work wife.
Speaker 1:I've been scarred from our break up so I haven't remarried. That's fair. Yeah, welcome. Thanks for coming. Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, alex, as you know, as the people know, I have connections to all of my guests, but you and I actually have matching tattoos, hey yeah we do $10 ones, $10 tattoos that was a questionable decision.
Speaker 1:I retold this story so for those who don't know. I made a bet with the staff at a place I used to work. I lost the bet, and so I had to get the address of the building tattooed on my wrist, which I often tell people when they ask me that it is my. I was in prison, yeah. And I couldn't remember my number, so I got a tattoo. It does look like it could be from that yeah, 100%, and people actually go for it for the most part.
Speaker 2:So that's why you don't have another work wife. They're scared of you. Yeah, probably so. Yours was, you lost a bet and mine was just by choice. Yeah, you, just, I just got suckered in.
Speaker 1:God, it was a. What is it? Herd movement or herd mentality, herd mentality?
Speaker 2:as well. Oh yeah, that tracks.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we all got tattooed in the building with the petty cash. The statute of limitation is over on this, but we will keep the identities and locations secret. So, yeah, now we have matching tattoos. We're connected for life. For life, yeah. What are you up to now, though, alex?
Speaker 2:Well, I've since, as you know, left that establishment Me too. Great decision, probably one of the best like too long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably like top 10.
Speaker 2:And now I'm in the real estate world Soul, commission hustler, very different, but it's going well, it's good, I love it.
Speaker 1:I'm glad it's going well. We just came off a long weekend. What you do to celebrate MLK day. Trenisha, it's my favorite thing to ask white people yeah.
Speaker 2:I went to work on the black man's holiday, you know, my employer myself didn't give me the take off. What?
Speaker 1:a crime no service.
Speaker 2:White people, white people. Oh my goodness. I know we are the worst.
Speaker 1:I mean I went to the movies. I went and saw American fiction, which I don't. It's kind of like an indie film situation. These mics are so good they're picking up my sister's music in the shower. That's wild, but an excellent investment.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh, is that an intro to something? That's what.
Speaker 1:I'm aware of. No, I think my sister's in the shower.
Speaker 2:Love it.
Speaker 1:And we're picking up a little bit of her her audio.
Speaker 2:You go girl. I always listen to music in the shower.
Speaker 1:It's actually my favorite place to. I pretend like I am Beyonce in the shower.
Speaker 2:I think everyone is Beyonce in the shower. I think it could tell me nothing different.
Speaker 1:Anyway, like I was saying, I went to see a little. We're also supporting Black Joy down in the basement. I went and saw a little indie film, american fiction. It was good. I haven't seen like an indie film. I went to Can Can.
Speaker 2:Love Can, can yeah.
Speaker 1:So it was very interesting, though, to be in a theater. The movie isn't about blackness. The characters are black. It's actually probably one of the best parts about the movie, but there's definitely some race like centered humor all through the movie. It was really weird to be in there laughing while I people, though Isn't that always the case? Yeah, it's kind of like, hmm, are they laughing too hard?
Speaker 2:Or do they really get?
Speaker 1:the joke?
Speaker 2:Or are they uncomfortable? I'm not sure. I don't even have the attention span for a movie anymore.
Speaker 1:You know I have to be in the problem no I. Have to be in the mood, and but the thing about it is I will commit to binge watch our like episodes of something in a heartbeat, but Sitting there for the two hours to invest in a movie.
Speaker 2:It's just sometimes it's not, I don't really want to make that commitment or all of a sudden. I'll be like scrolling on my phone.
Speaker 1:I'll miss half of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's why I'm Tick-tock ruins it.
Speaker 1:So, as always, we're gonna drop some gyms and some things that we think you should know, but we always have to start with a mental health check. So, alex, house 2024 treating you so far 2024 can already kiss my ass.
Speaker 2:If I'm being perfectly honest, I'm ready to bring in 2025.
Speaker 1:That's Ford. Let's get rid of the four in this one up lost 2025, my years. Love that we're already investing in the next year Rough yeah start.
Speaker 2:I mean I mean, yeah, definitely for a lot of people, though I feel like yeah, I feel like a lot of people, and maybe that's just like what is showing up on social media, but, mm, a lot of people are experiencing loss, illness, etc.
Speaker 1:Rough rough it's also January.
Speaker 2:I feel like that's just kind of like the vibe.
Speaker 1:Listen and like no shade, like shout out to the Capricorns and Aquarius is out there, but it's always kind of a shitty month, right Like we're here in the Midwest. It's when the cold Actually sets in.
Speaker 2:we're in what is a polar vortex, so I don't know it's been washer pipes are frozen, oh my god, I didn't even know your dishwasher pipes could freeze either, but lo and behold, they're frozen.
Speaker 1:It's just kind of like a I don't know. Shout out to you all, shout out to January, but it is kind of a shitty way to start the year. January is kind of hey, but you got MLK day, you do, and it's a day off to go to the movies to go to the movies. Super, super invested in that.
Speaker 2:I think February is even worse.
Speaker 1:Well, that's black history month and you will not get me on the record saying anything negative about those 28 29. They are cold, start cold, and you just came out of a dark and cold month, and you're probably about to go into either some more cold and wet in March.
Speaker 2:But you're right, is a black history month it is black history month.
Speaker 1:And we love that and we love Speaking of things that we love. Are you doing anything to bring yourself joy?
Speaker 2:so, speaking of the polar vortex, I've been really trying to go on these. I call them hot girl walks, and and the cold.
Speaker 1:I.
Speaker 2:Do the same route every day is three miles and I just pretend, so I made up this like whole scenario my. Because my my therapist, I'm in therapy now. Let's do it.
Speaker 1:It's a health check yes, mental health check therapy is always great. It's expensive?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it definitely is, but I useful, I guess. So my therapist and I were like what can you do to give yourself some time? Hot girl walks. So I pretend like I am single in 23, which I'm not, and I strut my shit for an hour and every car that drives by me I'm like I wonder if they know I'm hot girl.
Speaker 1:Is this in the neighborhood?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's the same. It's the same walk every day, and I take my dog for protection.
Speaker 1:Cuz I'm 23 and yeah, yeah you gotta take your dog.
Speaker 2:And yeah, I've been getting my steps in, but not lately. Yeah, cuz it's been so cold, it's too cold. But do you like? But that's my like, that's my goal, that's my thing.
Speaker 1:No I.
Speaker 2:Dw.
Speaker 1:Hi, girl, cuz I enjoy walking, like walking is such a Relaxing and meditative Well, like everybody can do it yeah cuz I used to.
Speaker 2:I realized in all of these therapy sessions that that, because I was an athlete in college, I think that that's the only way that you can like exercise.
Speaker 1:Mmm is to push yourself.
Speaker 2:So like the absolute max, and then I get hurt and then I'm like, screw this, I don't want to do it anymore. But if you just walk and you give yourself permission to not sprint Because no one likes running, like people that like running are lying, I this I shout out to all the runners out there I don't get it If, unless it's for survival, no, thank you, it's just not my thing. No, I don't have enough cartilage in my knees anymore to run.
Speaker 1:I can barely squat like running sounds awful.
Speaker 2:But you can walk. It's low impact.
Speaker 1:Yeah, super, yeah. I love a good walk when I am traveling for work. I tend to do like intensive workouts when I'm at home at the rumble boxing gym, but shout out rumble. Shout out to rumble. First class is free and clear. Obviously they're sponsoring this episode. They don't know yet that they will, but they will be. Um, but yeah, that's what I usually do. I go and walk and but my walks are counterproductive because I often walk and smoke. But to me, I'm exercising my lungs in multiple ways.
Speaker 2:That's right.
Speaker 1:I don't whatever.
Speaker 2:The science is really iffy, but whatever it's not about the science, it's about your mental health.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and that's how it matters, and mentally I am fairly stable right now, and that is all we can ask for in the shitty ass month of January. Speaking of shitty things in January, both our football teams are now out of the NFL playoffs. You rooting for somebody?
Speaker 2:You know what I am here for the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1:No, well, yep, yeah, nothing good for the city of Detroit.
Speaker 2:Okay, but give me a city that needs something. Good is Detroit.
Speaker 1:No, they do not. Yes, they do, I mean they do, but I still do not want to see the city of Detroit.
Speaker 2:I love a Cinderella story. They haven't been in the playoffs in 30 years.
Speaker 1:And to get that win was like at home I could have cried and I don't even care.
Speaker 2:They kept showing that 94 year old man who was a season ticket holder he looks like Bernie Sanders, but they kept showing him and the pure joy that that man finally got to experience. He probably going to die soon because he's seen it all. He's seen it all.
Speaker 1:What else I mean? Because they're definitely. Look, I mean it's the city of Detroit.
Speaker 2:Let's be honest what's your beef with?
Speaker 1:Detroit, malice of the Palace. They literally the city of Detroit, stolen NBA championship from the city of Minneapolis and I have never letting that go. That will not die in my mind. I went to Detroit recently. It's pretty cool. Oh no, love Detroit, actually just pitch Detroit for a word. Trip and September. Love the city, the people are great, but I'm also here for the bills.
Speaker 2:Really, you know what else does Buffalo have besides snow?
Speaker 1:Of snow, legit weather, give them something to root for. Here's who do you? What do you like? I'm pulling for the Baltimore Ravens right now. I could see that. Get everyone off my man Lamar Jackson's back. The other bird theme team, let's go. The third theme team, yeah. They could do it. I mean, yeah, I think they can do it, I think they're the best, for you know, that's where I'm putting my money, but it is.
Speaker 2:Thoughts on Taylor Swift dancing to swag surfing.
Speaker 1:Probably one of the widest things I've ever seen on MLK Day holiday weekend, which I think should have been considered. I mean, listen, I support women. I'm not a huge, I'm not a Swiftie or anything like that. I've maybe heard like a handful of songs. She seems to be living her best life with a man that's got a mustache. That I think is really gross at the moment.
Speaker 2:They're all the rage, I guess.
Speaker 1:But here's the thing like I feel really strongly about Travis Kelsey's mustache, but not about Gardner Menchews His feels appropriate, yeah.
Speaker 2:His is like he. That's what his uncle looked like growing up. Yeah, 100% Like Travis. Kelsey's is like this is trendy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, travis Kelsey's from Cleveland, ohio. If I'm not mistaken, gardner Menchew is from Mississippi.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he lives in like a van on off season. Yeah, totally makes sense. He's a weird dude, yeah.
Speaker 1:It feels really right for him, but for Travis Kelsey it feels like it's the fad of people who look similar to me and so and I can do it, so I'm gonna, I'm gonna jump on and look, no one is hating on you for following the wave or jumping on a trend. You are dating probably the most famous woman in the world because of that mustache.
Speaker 2:You think that's what she's in it for the mustache? You think Taylor Swift is doing mustache, mustache rides, If she's not she should be, he's a hairy man. Very much so. There's a lot going on over there, Listen.
Speaker 1:I have traded my lust for Travis Kelsey into lust for Jaylin Hertz Um. I spend no less than 30 minutes lusting after Jaylin Hertz on a daily basis.
Speaker 2:He is your Roman Empire, yeah 100%, love it 100%.
Speaker 1:He I think he's a lot of women's Roman.
Speaker 2:Empire he is. He is just like a beautiful specimen.
Speaker 1:It feels like and I don't know like what people believe spiritually, but it feels like the creator did him personally.
Speaker 2:There's really nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 1:And unless now there are all these thoughts out here that he could be like nothing for brains and having a conversation with him could be like watching paint dry. I am not vest to me it doesn't matter if he doesn't? I actually prefer that you have to say you think there's nothing that you need to say. Are we objectifying men right now? Yes, Look at that. That is growth. That is Dr Kings.
Speaker 2:That is women's empowerment. That's women's empowerment.
Speaker 1:Don't talk.
Speaker 2:I just want to look at you. I just want to look at you and I mean I don't even like men. So for me to be like, yeah, jaylin Hertz could get it is Listen. You heard it here first.
Speaker 1:He is universally attractive. He is, and I can't even pinpoint what it is Like. There's multiple things, because it's all of it, all of it is good. It's all of it, all of it is good.
Speaker 2:So perfectly straight teeth. You think you have braces? No, because he's like no, of course he didn't have braces. Of course he didn't have braces.
Speaker 1:As someone who also has really straight teeth, braces are like the steroids of smiles, and if he was perfect enough to never have braces, I need for someone to do to take the time, Take a deep dive. Yeah to do the deep dive. Someone pull up the Jaylin Hertz. I want to see freshman year of high school and senior year of high school. I don't need to see anything in the middle because my guess is senior year looks a lot like what we've got now.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm just trying to see where we started the glow up. Was he hot in middle school? And if the answer is yes, there are men like that, they were hot in middle school. I know some personally. Oh, um, yeah, I didn't. I keep total package.
Speaker 2:All right, I think I have a homework assignment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, homework assignment.
Speaker 2:That's really, really creep on Jaylin Hertz in middle and high school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if you all will DM the podcast, any middle school pictures of Jaylin Hertz or hit the phone line 2399696. We greatly appreciate it. Thanks, thank you. What's up, friends? Let me start by thanking you so much for being a listener to the pod. Really appreciate all the love and support we're getting thus far. With that being said, I need to ask a quick favorite view. First of all, make sure that you rate and review this episode and be sure to share all of our gyms and content with everyone out in the world who needs it and that's everybody, trust me. But secondly, if you haven't already, be sure to follow us on social media and, most importantly, make sure you subscribe to the podcast. Wherever you get your podcast here, you know the things you should know. Pod team is always working hard to make improvements and grow Love it.
Speaker 1:So it's part of that new year, new pod, new year, new pod. I am pitching a new segment here. We've got our friend Alex Hallman of Hallman Homes and I think it would only be right for us to give some home and home tips.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm here for it. Let's do it All right. What do you want?
Speaker 1:to know. Here we go. So let's say this. Let's say I am currently a renter, maybe in the market for buying. What would you tell me?
Speaker 2:I would ask you why you want to buy. I don't believe that everybody should be a homeowner. Oh, talk to me about that Hot tip, hot tip. I think that some people don't want the responsibility. I think some people aren't settled in their career or in a location. The general rule of thumb is that you break even after owning your house for two years. That hasn't really been the case because our market has been so desirable, but generally two years is your break even. So if you're like I don't know I've been looking at these other jobs in different places Renting allows you to leave a lot easier. Yeah, that said, you lose money every month renting regardless.
Speaker 2:Just throw money away. I think the biggest thing for people is they don't want to be responsible for repairs, because those can be unexpected.
Speaker 2:And very expensive, very expensive, and people are like I don't know who do I call. I get text messages all the time about like I know this is a stupid question, but who do I call for this or who do I call for that? But if you've got a little bit of money and you know you're going to be in an area for a long time, then try to buy, make it well within your means, don't be house poor, buy and then, if you grow out of it, buy your next house with the equity from that one. And if you can keep it as a rental, and then you just grow from there Sweet. Are rentals a cheat code? I think so. Yeah, I picked up one in 2020, 2019, something like that in Speedway. It's appreciated like 90K Yikes and I haven't done no upgrades. I mean I did paint Super, super upgraded.
Speaker 1:And I had to do HVAC.
Speaker 2:I may repeat, in referral only business person. Now.
Speaker 1:Hey, at least I'm trying to be, at least she's trying to be it's hard to say no, Say that if she asks who's your referral, say me yeah because you get a little kicked out.
Speaker 2:Hey, I'm the referral, I don't. That's illegal.
Speaker 1:It's fine, you don't? It all goes into the same.
Speaker 2:I'll sponsor your next podcast.
Speaker 1:Yes, so the little sponsorship, then I can write it off as advertisement.
Speaker 2:Let's do.
Speaker 1:I'm here for text loopholes. Love that, love that. All right, thanks for those home tips. So we'll get to the part that everyone is here for. Oh, so every episode I share a thing that I think people should know. Yes, usually from my life currently, or my work.
Speaker 2:You've got a lot. You've got a lot of knowledge up in there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, some use, some not. So we're going to try and get some of the unused stuff out into the open, but I think I think you should know this week is that there is always time, space, capacity, money to invest in yourself. Hell, even when you don't think that there is the best thing that you can do with your time, money, capacity is invest in you. Personal development is always great, and trying to get to the end of you is always the direction that you need to be going in. So, whether that be increasing your investments, diversifying your portfolio or turning your dining room into a podcast studio, whatever it is, you always have time, space, capacity to invest in you. I love that. Yeah, I'm learning that as we speak now I will also say that is 100% easier said than done. Yeah, because you have to work, you have to live your life. Alex, you're a mom. You have family to be responsible to Me not as much, but you always can be investing in yourself. Right? The hot girl walks, hot girl walks. That's an investment in you, and so carving out the time when it's actually warm enough to walk outside to have that hot girl walk, like that is not putting things off, that's not procrastination. That is self-investment. How do you prioritize it? Good question.
Speaker 1:So to me, a piece of advice that I got years ago was find things that make you say no. Find something that will make you say no to work was what we were talking about, right, and so for me, that's where it started Going to the gym on a regular basis. I will say no to work so that I can go to the gym. So then it became OK. Well, what are things that are about me? So I will say no to meeting up with someone because I want to take a bath, like I need to be by myself. Or I will back out of something and be like, hey, I can't do that right now because I just need to take a beat for me, and I used to feel super guilty about that. But now the other thing that made me feel guilty was often I would lie and be like oh, I'm not feeling well.
Speaker 1:Or something came up, and what really gave me the power was just saying that, like hey, like I just need to beat, and so people weren't mad.
Speaker 2:Generally. Generally people weren't mad. It gets easier.
Speaker 1:It gets easier. When people got upset, I realized like it makes you take stock of who they are in your life, because if you're going to get upset that I'm choosing me, are you really for me?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyone that reaches out to me and is like, hey, yo, I need to beat, I'm going to be like, oh, yeah bet, thank you for telling me that and taking that time.
Speaker 1:I think where it gets difficult is work, because there are often times where I need to take a space during the work day and don't necessarily have that luxury. But yeah, for me it's just been a priority. And that's the question that I ask, like when people push back, am I choosing something else or am I choosing me? And if I'm choosing me, I'm going to pick me 100% of the time. Look at you Growth, growth.
Speaker 2:I think with work that is a good point. A lot of us have flexible schedules, which can be a blessing and a curse. And a curse Because all of a sudden you catch yourself working at at least for me 7 AM, 9 PM, like you're doing it kind of throughout the day. And so what I've found is helpful is like I just set an appointment, so like my hot girl walks are on my calendar and if someone's like can you meet at 1, I'm like no, I already got an appointment Because that's all my job is.
Speaker 1:Though it's appointment.
Speaker 2:It's appointment, so people don't know if it's like no, I got a 4 o'clock appointment. It's me picking my kid up from school.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, then you don't have to know what that is right. I do a similar thing with my work calendar. I'll put like big holds. I didn't do it this week, but usually, like I don't have the first day of the week, monday, I don't got it, I'm not here. Mentally I'm still wrapping up the weekend. My Cowboys have probably done something that has got me stressed out a little bit. I need to beat. So I'm like off 11 to 2 every morning as admin time or on Mondays as admin time and I'm using finger quotes when I say this. And there is administrative stuff that I get done.
Speaker 1:But sometimes it's just like yo. I need to catch up on my emails.
Speaker 2:It's life, admin it's life.
Speaker 1:Admin. I need to wash these dishes real quick, I need to throw some laundry and just like getting that. But like setting that space in those boundaries right and holding time sacred, I think is really important. Yeah, yeah, I've started to hold sacred, the what I call like my downtime between work and the gym. So I go to the gym pretty late 6.45, 6.45 class and I usually wrap up work about 3.30, 3.45, 4.00. I try to be in that area and that whole time between work in the gym I am getting ready for the gym but I'm also scrolling on my phone. I'm like relaxing.
Speaker 2:Relaxing.
Speaker 1:I'm decompressing. Using your mind is a strenuous activity and I don't think people forget how. I don't think people realize, understand, hold to themselves. They're like yo. Maybe you're sitting on your ass all day at work, but you've been using your mind and that's just exhausting and you have every right to feel exhausted from that and if you've been staring at a screen the whole time, oh my god Bless you.
Speaker 2:Please get outside before the sun goes down.
Speaker 1:And imagine if you're on a Zoom call or something like that.
Speaker 2:I don't know how you don't do it.
Speaker 1:I just can't, I can't, I can't, I can't. Some days I can't. I don't know how we do it, I don't know how you do it. But, yeah, making that being intentional about investing in you, no matter what, that is right. Sometimes the investment is I need a net, yeah, and make that investment, love it, yeah. Anything you think the people should know, oh, what should the people know? I mean, you've given a lot of gems today, alex. You talked about the home buying market. We talked about hot girl walks.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I think my own this music that was killing me that we can pick up.
Speaker 1:It really is.
Speaker 2:I mean just from like an investment standpoint, and I have a lot of different thoughts and opinions about other things, but if you have the goal of being a homeowner, the equity that you can get from that you'll never be able to get as a renter. So, just like the wealth gaps in America, homeowners have so much more money and that's just the way it is.
Speaker 1:So if you can buy a home, If you can buy a home.
Speaker 2:No, not if you can, if you want to, if you want to, there is a way.
Speaker 1:And it's usually well, usually there's a way.
Speaker 2:And I will say this because I'm actually Unless you have no credit, which is a whole nother thing.
Speaker 1:But there are programs that can get you there, yep, and the other thing that I will say when I was extremely intimidated by the home buying process, yeah, a lot of people are Shout out. And it's not as difficult as you believe it is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's just that there's a lot of unknowns. If you've never done it before or you don't know people that have done it before, it seems like this big giant unknown and you can't Google it Because, like, the information you get is all over the place. So it's you know, with so many other things, like, I'll have a sore throat, I'll just Google it and, like you, think you got it figured out.
Speaker 2:Like you can't do that really, but it really. It's not that deep and there's a lot of programs out there. Yeah, some run out of money, like government ones run out of money quick. Ooh Hot, take too Hot take, get in there. But they come up on cycles and, yeah, there's always a way and just might take a couple of years if you're not ready now, and that's okay too. Yeah, that's okay we already said, but it should be in your wealth plan.
Speaker 1:It should be in your wealth plan. And listen 2024 is a wash, sorry trash. All eyes on 2025. 2025.
Speaker 2:The Detroit Lions are gonna win the Super Bowl oh please, no, please no. The US is gonna come up short in the Olympics? Oh, I hope not. I hope not either, but I'm just saying that the stars seem to be aligning against us. Ha, ha ha.
Speaker 1:Any other predictions for the Olympics? Bust for America. Detroit Lions win the Super Bowl. That's also a bust for America.
Speaker 2:Shout out to the people of Detroit no way the Phillies will get to the World Series and lose again.
Speaker 1:That feels actually pretty likely, it does.
Speaker 2:Because Philadelphia fan bases are the most tortured in America.
Speaker 1:Yeah, grace, the Poles Most tortured. How much of this is of your choosing, so let me just rewind back 2022.
Speaker 2:Okay, eagles lost the Super Bowl. Did that happen? Union lost the MLS Cup. Yeah, the Phillies lost the World Series. Ha ha ha. Sixers out of the playoffs.
Speaker 1:Flyers, flyers. They got a second one. I don't even know what the Flyers did, but they did not win? I was gonna say are the Flyers even?
Speaker 2:good right now. I think they're doing okay right now, but it's early, very, I mean. So Philadelphia greased the polls for three championships that we did not win. Ha, ha, ha, ha Ha ha, ha ha. Better luck next time, which I think they. It's probably good they greased them anyway, because I don't know what's a bigger riot when Philly wins or loses.
Speaker 1:Well, and here's the thing, right Cause this is the honest about it. We love to strangle our own city? Yeah, you do, and let's just be honest about it, I don't think y'all should have much hope in the Sixers. So maybe this is just like a little growth, like a rebuild year. Let's get the polls actually standing up straight. Let's give everyone a break from Philly's success.
Speaker 2:I'm a total bandwagon Flyers. Sixers Like I. Will not watch them until they're in the playoffs. Interesting, ha, ha, ha.
Speaker 1:I mean, I mean, I don't really do I only do playoff hockey but I'm obsessed with this Pacer team right now. They're hot, oh hot, Hot. Second round of playoffs easy, we're already literally forecasting down the line 2025, 26, when we've gotten to the playoffs. Twice, we let Rick Carlisle go, cause he's not the man over the hump, like all of this, Like we literally am. I mind we are here and I'm going to end this by saying listen, this is what it felt like in 98, in 99. Detroit, don't you fucking dare take this shit from us again. Okay, it has taken us so long to get here and your city will not prosper until the Indiana Pacers went in an NBA championship.
Speaker 2:The pistons can't be good, are they?
Speaker 1:No, they're literally like the worst team in, so don't even worry about it. Don't even worry about it. Ha ha ha. So this is a trash like I'm pretty sure they've had. Yeah, it's them with the longest losing streak in NBA history. See, that's why the Lions need this. No, they do not.
Speaker 2:Have some compassion for our neighbors to the north.
Speaker 1:No good, this is like very color purple. Until you do right by me, no good will come to the city of Detroit until the Indiana Pacers went in a championship, because that city stole it from us.
Speaker 2:All right, you heard it here first. Yeah, so Fuck Detroit.
Speaker 1:I'll be there in a few weeks. Don't come looking for me. That was like a great place to end it. Alex, thanks for being here today. Thank you so much. I had a lot of fun we should do this again for sure.
Speaker 2:Go, birds, cook all.
Speaker 1:Thanks everyone for listening. Don't forget to like, subscribe and share. We will see you next time. Bye, I don't. Here's the thing, right, hold on Let me. I don't know that I find straight sex that entertaining, but there is an entire industry, right? So maybe it is.
Speaker 2:To some people. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:All right, you ready.
Speaker 2:Born ready.
Speaker 1:Did you say born?
Speaker 2:ready, what Sex no.