Jeff's World Podcast
"Jeff's World" is a captivating podcast that offers a unique perspective on life through the eyes of Jeff. With a wide range of topics, Jeff delves into various aspects of life, sharing his thoughts, experiences, and insights. From personal stories to thought-provoking discussions, each episode of "Jeff's World" aims to provide listeners with a fresh perspective and a deeper understanding of the world around them. Ultimately, Jeff's journey leads him to explore the profound connection between life's experiences and the presence of God. Join Jeff on this enlightening podcast as he invites you to see the world through his eyes and discover the spiritual significance in every aspect of life.
Jeff's World Podcast
Navigating Life's Shifts with Old Friends
Ever wondered what it feels like to reconnect with a lifelong friend after years apart? Join us as we reunite with Luis, my childhood buddy from Boston now living in Atlanta. We share laughter and nostalgia, revisiting our days on the same street and discussing Lewis's big move to Atlanta—a city rich in culture and character. Amidst the catch-up, we tackle the unease of flying, spurred by Luis’s turbulent flight, and how the bonds of friendship and the familiarity of home ground us in uncertain times.
Atlanta’s vibrant life comes alive through our eyes as we recount a Falcons game, mouthwatering soul food, and the mesmerizing marine life at the Atlanta Aquarium. The bustling energy of Atlanta and its cultural contrasts with Boston spark a lively comparison of the two cities, from their climates to their sports scenes. We also touch on the evolution of work-life balance, reflecting on remote work experiences during the pandemic and the ongoing dialogue about returning to office life amid changing workplace dynamics.
Navigating relationships takes center stage as we explore how friendships and marriages evolve as we enter our 30s. The role of church in rekindling connections and the complexities of "church hurt" lead to a deeper discussion about spirituality. Humor lightens the mood as we recount a health scare involving a beloved Sonic chili dog, underscoring the importance of self-care and the realities of aging. Through it all, communication and choosing battles wisely emerge as key to maintaining harmony in relationships, reminding us to cherish each moment and keep friendships alive.
I'm a girl of the future. What is up everybody, man? Man, it's been a while. It's been a while we haven't been here with you guys. But, man, I've missed you guys and I've been wanting to get on on track. But we're here. Right, it's january, it's a new year, and what better way to start the year, in this first episode of the new year, with my brother from another mother, lewis. What's good, brother, how you doing hey what's happening?
Speaker 2:good to be here, man, my man's making a trip out here.
Speaker 1:He's been here, visiting out here. So, sup, lewis, how you been, man, what's happening? Good to be here, man. My man's making a trip out here. He's been here, visiting out here. So, what's up, lewis, how you been, man, what's going?
Speaker 2:on, I've been good. I've been good, you know traveling. I'm here for some business purposes right now, but can never come to Boston without coming to see my brother.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you know. If you guys don't know my brother Lewis, he's not from Boston, no more, we from Boston, but I don't know if you want to tell him where you from. I'm from out in the A now. Oh man, and it's nice out there, but how are you guys enjoying that snow out there lately?
Speaker 2:You know what the kids enjoyed it. I had a good one day of snow, and it happens about every five to six years.
Speaker 1:I would like to keep it that way. Oh man, if you guys don't know, louis man, he's been my brother man since oof, I can't even remember, dude, I think I was probably like eight, seven, maybe even before that.
Speaker 2:Sounds about right.
Speaker 1:yeah, since kids man Us living together on the same street. We didn't live in the same house but basically right Right in. I can just look out my window and I know he's right behind. So, yeah, he's been a good friend of mine, best friend man, for many, many years and, bro, it's a privilege to have you here, man, and I'm happy to have you on this episode. So we can chop it up, man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I hear that Chop it up about life man.
Speaker 1:How everything's been. How's the A? You know what's the difference.
Speaker 2:Do you miss Boston boston at all, bro? Do you think?
Speaker 1:about it I do.
Speaker 2:Do you want to come back, man you? Know, you know what's funny is recently, and I'd say like real recent, like this year, recent, uh, I I have had thoughts of you know, was it the right choice to leave? Yeah, uh, because I do miss it. I miss it a lot yeah, I love I love being out here and then I take, you know, these quick little trips, like I am on this trip.
Speaker 1:I love those trips, though, because it's like random 10 at night. Hey, bro, what are you doing tomorrow? Right, I'm on my way, you know.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And that's how it is, man.
Speaker 2:But this specific trip man. It was about 10 degrees this morning when I had to go out and I remembered why I left.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you came in like in one of the coldest times right now. It's been real cold out and it's funny because that morning it was actually snowing. I'm like, oh, this is coming right, and by the time you got back it was all gone, man, and funny story. I mean it's not a funny story because if you guys are following up with the news, um, you know, rest in peace to those people that that passed away in that plane crash yesterday oh yeah, real sad.
Speaker 1:But it was crazy, though, because, first thing that came to like my mind, I knew that lewis was coming one of those late flights and, like it happened, I'm like no, this ain't his flight. We're good because you, you never know bro, it was like you know, you were telling me that it was like happening right near um.
Speaker 2:You guys were crossing over washington when like that happened over there yeah, so my wife was actually the one that, um that, had texted me yeah right when I well, I was in the air, but right when I landed, it was the first text that I saw, and so the flight from atlanta to boston is about two hours, so yeah, so we left about 10 o'clock, landed about midnight and when the when the crash happened yeah it was right about 11 o'clock and at that time that's about the halfway point.
Speaker 2:So I would have been, yeah, in the like in the area of it happening which is just insane. And, of course, yes, rest in peace to.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rest of us was scary to everybody, that's yeah, involved with that and everybody grieving, but that's and yo you know what?
Speaker 1:I'm gonna be honest with you, man. I that's why I hate plane rides and I've never had bad experience with plane rides. But now that we're talking about it, man, I remember one time it was a 30 minute flight, I think, from here to new jersey, bro, worst turbulence ever. It was so bad that I went into the little QR code because you can buy the Wi-Fi, because I don't have that free one. You can buy the Wi-Fi. So, dude, I was at the point when I was about to buy it and text the wife and tell her hey, sorry, this is where it ends. I was about to say my goodbyes. That's how scared I was, because I'm like I really thought this plane was about. Like, if you guys ever experienced turbulence, I mean you could probably relate, man, but in some some okay, those things could be scary, man especially on those on those short flights, because it's a small plane yeah it's a small planes usually.
Speaker 2:If, uh, when I when I've had to fly up here and I have had a connecting flight, yeah, uh, it's usually in north carolina yeah, yeah yeah, and to get from atlanta to north carolina, all they use is those small, those small planes yeah, those small I don't know what they call them charter planes or whatever yeah and uh, like it's to the point where, like even your, your carry-on, you, they have to put it underneath the plane.
Speaker 2:That's how small it is and, yeah, every little bit of wind. You're feeling it, you are feeling it.
Speaker 1:That's wild, bro, but nah, man, I'm happy you're here, even though it's a little wild man, but it's always happy. When I have you and your family here, man, we always have a good time because we got stories for days. Yeah, we got stories for days. You guys can relate, man. If you have friends from a long time ago, they know you from the beginning. So you've been through all the, the cracks and everything, like all the, all the crazy stories, man. But but no, man, we're happy you're here, man. And and how, how, how, how's the family and everything right now? How's everything at home like over there with the kids?
Speaker 2:they're all good. Uh, so, for those that aren't familiar with me, uh, so I'm married nine, nine years. It's going to be this year.
Speaker 1:That's crazy, jesus wait nine years married or nine years?
Speaker 2:married this year, yeah together uh, together 10 years it'll be yeah, together 10 years it'll be and, uh, we have three beautiful children. Uh, yeah, how old are they? My youngest?
Speaker 1:there's a history of the man, that's all right my youngest is two.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my middle child is now five and my oldest is eight, bro, time flies bro yeah, that's crazy bro, it is insane I know, I see them, I'm like man, like I remember they were tiny and now I'm like they're getting taller than me and I'm like, well, I'm not as tall as to start with right, but but still I'm like man. Though time flies, bro, and and when you think back of the times where, like, we had no, no, we weren't married or we didn't have girls and and all we had was just us, you know what I mean. And now you're looking like man, like that's something I tell people. That time is like. If there's something you don't have in this life, it's time, and time flies. It's time flies, man, like every single day it's just you're, you're, you're one person one day, but the next day is like everything changes in one day.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, and it's one thing you don't, you don't think about, because your your day can become such a routine yeah that you kind of forget to live in the moment yeah and that's something that I've learned that I sometimes have to check myself on that, because I can go months where. I will get stuck in this routine of okay, I go to work, I clock in, I work, I work, I work, clock out, work, again, clock out. I have my two or three days with my family and.
Speaker 2:I'm back to to and I just get lost yeah I get lost. And then next thing, I know it's like well, what I've been doing for the last three months like I haven't been doing much like I haven't like. I've been with my family, but not really with my family uh, okay so, yeah, I mean, that's always something to be conscious of. Sometimes we have to stop and just slow down slow down time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true, man, I agree with it 100 man because, like you know, just turning, turning the age that I just turned recently, you know you think like man, like if I'm getting older, you know you start thinking about our parents and other family members like man, they're getting older too and it's like it sucks because you know, you know you really don't know what's come the next day, man, and that's why I tell, like you say, man, enjoy the moment.
Speaker 1:Enjoy the moment enjoy these one day trips, you know man, because, because they're not, I was talking uh yesterday when we went to pick you up and we went out and I told uh. I told uh, what's the name? Hector, my brother-in-law I was kind of of like, hey, you know, let's go out and he's about to have another kid and I'm like, well, we'll take advantage, bro, because once that other kid comes in, once that other kid comes. It's like you know you get limited in a lot of things you can do.
Speaker 1:You do yeah, you know, like you said something, you go three months you're like whoa, what just happened? I felt like it was just like a, like a routine and it's like right, you know, find those little things and and and to make the best out of it. You know those times for sure.
Speaker 2:I think that the best way to describe that feeling of getting lost in time yeah is when I don't know if it's ever happened to where you're driving and it's it's your routine drive and you'll go through, like sometimes minutes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Of like I just drove like six miles. I don't remember those last six miles?
Speaker 1:I don't even know. Nah, that's crazy, like I could have gotten into a car crash and not even know. I've heard those stories People are like yo, what just happened? I'm like what do you mean?
Speaker 1:I was a passenger, bro, what do you do? Like you know, like this dude was zoned out the whole time. It's like that meme is like bro, she just left me and it's like yo, bro, slow down. Nah, man, but that's awesome, bro. Man, it's good man, I'm not gonna lie. We went out there. We went to the uh, to the uh atlanta falcons game. That was a fun time best best mac and cheese ever bro oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2:I can't even remember the place that it was. It was like a.
Speaker 1:It was like a special party before the game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, but you know soul food in atlanta is always gonna hit bro, till this day in atlanta till this day.
Speaker 1:Nothing here is compared. I found nothing massachusetts. I can compare to that food, soul food in general in in atlanta I don't know why, but I don't know, but it's just real good. So but what do you recommend people out there?
Speaker 2:they're going down there, they want to go visit in atlanta yeah, so obviously the the world cup is coming up, so mercedes-benzBenz Stadium next year, that's huge.
Speaker 1:It's an awesome stadium.
Speaker 2:You just talked about going out there to see the Falcons.
Speaker 1:And I don't even mean to cut you off, man, but touching the point on the World Cup for next year, I don't think I'm going. To anything To any of the games. I'm not paying $2,000, bro, to sit up in the bleachers. No, I paying two thousand dollars, bro, to sit up in the bleachers. No, I thought I thought fifa was controlling the prices. You would think I was looking at it recently that you can pre-sign up or something like that and people were saying like trying to sell a kidney to go.
Speaker 2:I'm like no, I think I want to say it's for club seats I. I think they have forms that you can fill out for a local.
Speaker 1:Check it out, because I'm not paying crazy amount of money to go see, probably, like we probably not even get like the two top teams, we'll get some like two that barely made it in boston, like the two bottom teams like, hey, you guys made it. Yeah, that is one of the advantages.
Speaker 2:Mercedes-benz is one of the newer stadiums, so we usually get get like pretty decent teams yeah I mean, of course, the big ones will always be out in most likely LA. Texas, all those places, yeah, just because that's where the fandom is.
Speaker 1:That's great, yeah, and for those who haven't visited the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, it's.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's beautiful. I work over by the Brave Stadium, Truist Park.
Speaker 1:I think it's still called Truist Park.
Speaker 2:Yeah, truist Park, that's a great stadium to go to as well, and in to his part, that's, that's a, yeah, great stadium to go to as well. Uh, and, in that area, the battery, what's the battery? So the battery is right next to the stadium and it's basically where you can go out.
Speaker 1:You can go eat um, if you drink, you can go out and not really like malls, but there's more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have some clothing stores okay, okay, but it'll be more like team apparel than anything okay, that's cool, but yeah, like they do have like, yeah, bars. They have good uh sit-in restaurants. Yeah, they have uh entertainment there. There's like a movie theater out there. There's a it's like a theater like I know some artists will go and perform there.
Speaker 1:They'll have comedians go out there as well, uh atlanta's huge though, atlanta, yeah, so it's a lot of drive in general, it's really big yeah uh, the aquarium is always cool oh, the aquarium is nice. Yeah, one of the biggest aquariums, right I?
Speaker 2:believe it's the biggest in the us and it's crazy. It's up there for the world.
Speaker 1:I want to say I could be wrong, but well, I mean, you guys got whales in there, so it's, yeah, I got a couple. I think we're down to two. We're down, what do?
Speaker 2:you mean one of them died. Not that it's funny, no, no, that's a piece of that whale. No rest in peace, but hey, it's mother time.
Speaker 1:You know, not even the animals get saved, right?
Speaker 2:not even the animals get saved from those things, man I live forever, unfortunately, but uh, but yeah, no, they, they do still have the uh, the two whales in there, um, and you can actually go in and like dive with uh, with them and go like scuba diving in there I've seen something like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they have a new shark exhibit. That's actually really cool yeah, bosses got like the bosses, got like the little bosses, got like the the aquarium here, but it's I heard it just got upgraded.
Speaker 2:I don't know if you've been there since the renovation.
Speaker 1:But I remember it was like you walk in the front and you just got a bunch of penguins in the front. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:It's oh yeah, that big penguin exhibit, which I don't know which I think is what around, but I don't know who myrtle is. Myrtle's, uh, the big turtle, the big turtle turtle. Yeah, she was like. Last time I went to I'm pretty sure she was like 84.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh well you know what they live to? Like 300 according to find the nemo. So I don't know, nah, man, but that's sick man for you guys. I want to go, you know, visit atlanta. You know it is nice. I've gone a couple times and it is beautiful.
Speaker 2:Obviously now, with all like the weather, stuff is, like you thought, like it's hot over there, but it's cold, bro, it's cold yeah, so last week we had we had a temperature dip and the week was I believe it was a week before that we got this, the big. Well, we, I call it big snow but it was.
Speaker 1:It was like three or four inches that's a lot, but for us that's a lot yeah, because we're not prepared, we don't have salt trucks and stuff.
Speaker 2:Uh, I'm I'm sure for anybody that's on social media, you probably saw people skiing in the streets in atlanta.
Speaker 1:They just didn't know how to behave. It's all right. I saw you guys like closed down school and like, oh yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my daughter didn't have school all week. Yeah, she was out monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday crazy here you can have like a foot of snow they're like well, figure it out, right.
Speaker 1:yeah, well, it's different now. I remember Online learning stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, true, yeah, because, to be fair, she didn't go to school, but she had digital learning days.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so technically she's out of school. So like now, with this technology, now it's like.
Speaker 2:Which is nice because they get out of school early at the end of the year but they still gotta like all true, I guess, yeah, and to be fair. Digital learning day it's like two hours of work versus going to school for six hours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's true nah, but still I I don't do remember back in the day when, like for us to know if we didn't have school, we'd have to wake up early. Yeah, watch the news, yeah, turn on the news, and then you gotta. And then you gotta wait, like for your for your city to come up right. And then you look away for a second and you're like you know, like for your city to come up Right. And then you look away for a second and you're like you know, like, for example, lynn, lynn passed, and you're like I missed it. So you got to, like, wait till it happens again and see. And then, when you've seen it, you're like the happiest kid in the world because now you found out that school was canceled.
Speaker 2:Right. And then the worst feeling in the world was seeing that the neighboring cities closed down and then, you had to troop it to school it was still open for you.
Speaker 1:So like sorry, sorry, the lynn lynn got decided to keep going. So yeah, man, but nowadays it's like that doesn't even matter anymore, like the way that everything has like advanced in life and in technology, like you don't have, like, okay, you don't close down school, fine, do it from home, like right. So I don't know, but I don't, I'm not a big fan of that. I personally I know there's a lot of people that you know, know, have like the work from home thing, which is pretty cool. Maybe I'm just jealous, maybe I'm just jealous, because that's pretty cool man, like I don't know.
Speaker 1:But then my thing is like you're basically you know, I talked to the wife and she works from home. She has days that she goes to like the office and stuff, but it's like you're alone, I don't know me. I guess I'm just kind of like I gotta see people, so I have to sometimes be with them and talk to them and have that interaction. But if you work from home and always alone, it's like what do you do?
Speaker 2:right, you always just do no, yeah, that's true, and I actually went through a phase where I was, I was working from home for a while, uh, probably for a couple years. We were fully remote, especially during COVID and and and all that, and all of a sudden, they're like well, we're going back to the office and yeah, I mean, there's a lot of people that will not want to go back to the office because they're so used to working from home. And I will say, though, going back into the office hasn't been the worst.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, I mean in your case. I mean you got a nice view yeah, right.
Speaker 2:So, like I mentioned, you got like a view of the whole like stadium, which is right if there's a game going on and you're working. It's like well you get to watch a game or something like yeah. So yeah, I, I do. I do get a bit more of an advantage. I'm not stuck in a corner somewhere I get a nicer view of Truist Park. Truist Park, yeah, yeah Nah that's sick. But I will say it's important to be at work sometimes because you don't rely on yourself so much anymore.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Where it's a lot easier to go, tap someone on the shoulder and be like hey, you know sometimes, yeah, you help me work through this whatever yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, but there's advantages and there's disadvantages, of course, on both ends.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that can happen a lot, because I know, especially with like working, like when you go to a workplace, you know, I mean sometimes you, you have like if you work from home, it's like no one's really no one's really on you, no one's really like you're doing your own job.
Speaker 1:You have to get the job done. But if it's the other way around, right, you know all eyes on you, you got the job right, you do something wrong, they're gonna be right on top of you, right there. Or if, like, not even do the job wrong, it's just working in general, like you have to work, you have to work being being there present. And it's funny because you know we've been told that it's like we shouldn't be like that, right, we should work as if, like, our boss is looking 24 7, no matter what it's something that's hard for us like yeah, it is because we like to slack off.
Speaker 1:It's the truth. It's the truth. Who does it? I mean, someone told me they never slack off at work. You're lying to me yeah there's no way. But obviously we shouldn't. I feel like we shouldn't be that way. Right, we should be locked in all the time, no matter what. But I don't know, neither here nor there. Yeah, he say, she said right, yeah I mean to be fair.
Speaker 2:A lot of the big companies are going back to going into the office again. I think microsoft and meta have just uh called everybody back from from being remote of course to going back to.
Speaker 1:I was gonna say back to school back to work, back to work into those things now, bro. But I don't know, bro, I'll see if I get into those, into those. I don't get into those jobs, it's just. It's just something different, bro. Like I'm happy where I'm at, we all got good jobs. Let's just say that, nah, man, but yeah man, I mean, nah, lewis man, we were, we were, we go way back man, and I was just thinking about like dude, so many times I remember we used to live in that house up in, uh, franklin yes, we literally broke the fence bro yes, yo, they tried it yo I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1:There was no fence, I think in the the beginning.
Speaker 2:No, so there was a fence.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So for context, Jeffrey lived in the house behind. We lived across from each other.
Speaker 1:It was like back to back, yeah, back to back, essentially Back to back and there was a fence there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and as the true Hispanic heritage in us yeah, we would hop the fence free the brothers man, some would say cross the border. And until the? Until the fence broke down. Yeah, and the fence broke down, and fence it cost money to you know, now they're pretty now nowadays, you know, you kind of think about that. It's like, oh, like we kind of broke something expensive yeah luckily, um, my, my dad owned the complex where, where, where I lived. Yeah, and it was your uncle that owned the house where you guys yeah where you guys lived and and they knew each other.
Speaker 2:They were cool with each other and the fence kind of came down and for a long time they were just kind of like well, just, we don't need a fence yeah, they're gonna hop the fence anyway, regardless, yeah, we don't need one. Yeah, and for years it stayed that way we just didn't have a fence there.
Speaker 1:There was no fence, so it was just like I remember so if you were going to the backyard and I was back, it's like the same backyard, because, right, yeah, it didn't matter, right, you would matter.
Speaker 2:At that point there's just one big backyard, essentially and I remember I mean I remember sunday mornings getting ready for church, yeah, and I would rush and I would get ready so fast and I knew that his, his door wouldn't be open, but I knew what window on the porch was open and there was and I would just climb right in like it was my house and walk in and it's already like I wake up.
Speaker 1:I'm not even ready. You're ready. I'm like what are you?
Speaker 2:oh, what's up, bro? Right, I'm there just sitting on the couch watching selena or something that's just running on anonivision but yeah, it was right there.
Speaker 1:It was so close, man, like it was good times, man, that that that times were crazy and yo we were broke. You know why? I remember, yo, we had that, that the basketball hoop, that was a milk crate. Yeah, and that's why when we grew up, I was I mean, I ain't the best At basketball, but let's say, when I had a real Basketball hoop Like we were hitting.
Speaker 2:Say less Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, bro, because that milk crate Came in clutch Until I forgot who it was. We were playing. I don't even think it was so bad because I'm like bro, why would you dunk it?
Speaker 2:On a milk crate. On a milk crate Like what are you doing?
Speaker 1:And the milk crate fell and we're like, oh man. I don't know if you guys can like how many people have done that right. Growing up had a milk crate as a basketball hoop, because I remember going to the mall yeah, they had the big basketball hoops, but I'm like we didn't no one can?
Speaker 2:We didn't know we could afford that.
Speaker 1:We didn't got the money for that. Nah, bro, we'll make it work however we could, bro. But yeah, bro, that area was far bro, but that area was crazy, like that whole block. Right, there was just crazy bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that whole block was pretty crazy Naive right Little kids just running around the block and stuff. But the reality is, as we grew up, we started to learn more about the block.
Speaker 1:Yeah Right. We had some gang members on one corner, we knew where to be and not be. That's it, basically.
Speaker 2:We knew that there were some gang members on one corner.
Speaker 1:And a whole different gang right around the block.
Speaker 2:Right, Not only that, but there was people selling services you know around the corner and other people selling other things you know right across the street from them. So it wasn't. It wasn't the best of streets.
Speaker 1:That's what we grew, but it worked for us. Yo, it's where we grew up, is what made us and it's what I'm happy about all the time, but I don't, I don't regret it at all. No, I don't know, because, like, I feel like if we didn't go through, you know, we would have not learned a lot we wouldn't right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we wouldn't know what we know.
Speaker 1:Yeah and then, man, but those, those were good times, bro, back in the day, man, and and it's funny because we ended up going to what school was a high school right?
Speaker 2:we went to high school together. Yeah, we went to high. So did you go to cobbett? Yes, I went to cobbett.
Speaker 1:So did we go to cobbett together when we were there?
Speaker 2:I think we went to cobbett there well, if you went to, I think we went to cobbett, but we were never in the same class. I think you were like one and and.
Speaker 1:We graduated the same year. But say you were one year ahead of me. No, we were the same years yeah, so I.
Speaker 2:I just I don't think we ever went to the same class at Cobbett. And to add a little bit of context, going back to the fence story, the time finally came when the fence had to be built. Because I believe that was a time your uncle was selling the house, if I don't mistake. Yeah yeah, or they were getting ready to sell it. And you know they had to do their upgrades, whatever, before selling it, and the fence was part of it.
Speaker 1:The fence had to come up.
Speaker 2:The fence had to come up and I remember we fought to not get that fence put up and we tried convincing them to put a door on the fence. It was like that and it just didn't happen. It was like the movie.
Speaker 1:Like like the like stepbrothers right when they were trying to buy the house, and the brothers were something bad. So like the people didn't want to go get it right.
Speaker 2:It was like finding any way for them not to not to build this fence, not to like, like to make that, but, like you said, our spanish heritage, nothing stopped us yeah, but oddly enough, you know that the fence came up and you know we still climbed it and still went around the block to see each other, but shortly after that the the house was finally sold they got rid of the house and then I ended up moving and you guys moved and we, just because we didn't go to the same church at the time.
Speaker 1:No, so we just kind of separated separate for a while, because remember, back then there was no cell phones yet nothing, no, social, I think my, I think MySpace, no, not even before MySpace. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 2:Maybe the very, very beginning, but we weren't even at the age where we would have had a MySpace yet, yeah, any of that stuff. Yeah, I think by the time that we rekindled was because of your aunt. So your aunt and I don't want to name drop but, yeah, no, you know but your aunt was very good friends with my mom yeah, yeah, yeah and they still went to the same.
Speaker 2:They went to the same church yeah and of course that was family to you and, and I believe, I don't know, I think your parents just decided to go to church that one day with your aunt for whatever. And maybe they had an event or something I don't remember, and that was where we rekindled.
Speaker 1:That's crazy.
Speaker 2:And that was basically.
Speaker 1:I don't mean to cut you off, but now that we're in that little topic of church and whatnot, man, it's crazy to think though, man, you know like, because, like, yeah, like we, we, we, we found each other again and we saw each other again and, and, bro, we, I mean it's been strong the moment we see each other's.
Speaker 1:Like nothing, like like we haven't even like, not have seen each other, or anything oh right, it's like we don't miss a beat exactly and it's like but now, going back to like the church situation, right, because obviously you grew up in the church and we grew up in the church, but it's that church situation is crazy, man, because it's always been with my family, for example, it's been sometime like oh, we were in, we were out, we were in, we were out. It was always something like, and we were in a different ones, right, and then I don't know how, we randomly showed up where, where you were, and then oh, hey, what's up we're looking for another.
Speaker 1:You know, I mean so like right, and that's like another. Oh hey, what's up, we're looking for another you know what I mean. So like, and that's like one of the things. That's like why I think a lot of people nowadays that don't choose church to be honest with you is because they've been in and out. They've been in and out and sometimes I feel like when you, we find excuses, I think right personally think this way.
Speaker 1:Right, because, honestly, people, we like what flesh likes, we like stuff that are not good for us. That's as a human nature. We like things that that takes us out of our, our normal beings. Right, because I I was talking to this person, right, and this person was telling me that like, oh, like, hey, listen, I gotta, let's, let's, let's drink. Right, because I'm not myself until I start drinking. It's like what are we doing right? Why does that have to happen? Like why, why, so what? What is that showing us right? What is that showing us in? In, in perspective is like we are, we do, like we.
Speaker 1:We need something else to make us feel complete in certain things and I think that's what church with us is like as kids we go, but it's like you go to see your friends, yeah we go see our and I think my generation back then was crazy, like we were wild, like I'm in the church now and I get to work with these teenagers and I'm like they're nothing like we were man.
Speaker 2:You're nothing like we were. Yeah, legit man Like are we man? I think if we talk to our youth leaders, you probably have it easy and I'm gonna say it right, I had, I did that.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna say it like because you know what we had a youth leader one time and like man she I don't know, I'm not gonna say it I'm not gonna go down there because, like it's not even worth it anymore.
Speaker 1:But it was like one of those things I'm like man like. But you know, what I learned from those situations, lewis, was that I know how to how to, how to act with the new generation of teens. I know what it is, what could push someone away from the church, because a lot of people in reality that don't go to church anymore, I believe, are church hurt. What is church hurt? It's like, well, the church probably did something to you and you used that against to not go to church anymore.
Speaker 1:I think that's why a lot of people that I talk to like, oh, why don't you go to church anymore? I think that's why a lot of people that I talk to like, oh, why don't you go to church? Oh well, because the church I went to this person said so-and-so. So we've used the church, we've used the people to get us off of the church.
Speaker 2:And that's what sucks, man, because-. Yeah, you use the same church to deflect.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly so as someone that like can as so as someone that like can as me, as someone that I can say that I grew up in the church. You know, obviously my family ended up leaving. We lived, we lived a life in the world. But to know, when I was kind of like as a teenager in the church, and to leave the church and to realize that basically like, oh well, you know, because of people, the way they acted out at the church was kind of bad, you know what I mean, because then we blame God, but it's like god didn't do that.
Speaker 1:You know it was a church and that's where, like, if we fall into that, I'm so against like religion nowadays and I know we're going into a topic about talking about this, but I think it's good to know because I feel like a lot of people experience this kind of thing yeah, I gotta put it out there yeah, and I think a lot of people and I think I think that's where I decide is like man, don't, don't go to. If I can tell people it's like don't go to church for the people at all, you're going to make friends.
Speaker 1:You're going to make friends in the church.
Speaker 2:People are human at the end of the day.
Speaker 1:But people are humans and people are going to make mistakes. Go with your eyes put on God and let God take care of the rest, because people are going to hurt you. People make mistakes, people are going to do certain things and when you give in, give into that, then you start hurting yourself and you're like, yeah, I'm not going no more. Yeah, like what?
Speaker 2:not only that, but they're there, and I do believe that there are some people that come into our lives and they're not meant to be in our lives forever. Right, it's like they're only meant to be there for a segment of your life seasonal right and take a seasonal friend and they just kind of it's one of those things right, they kind of show up at the right place, right time you could say Sometimes it's not right, sometimes it's temptation, sometimes some friends show up for the opposite reason.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because maybe you're elevating yourself so much yeah. Right much right, hey, listen the devil's alive. It is true, the devil's alive. That's facts, that's right, right, yeah, so at the end of the day, you know, I do believe that people, you, you cross roads, it's for a reason exactly it's for a reason and sometimes, and that's something, and that's okay, man.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's okay everybody that's coming to my life, bro. I'm so grateful, bro, because I learned something. You know, I I'm glad I'm one of those people, bro. Bro that I'm not like I don't try to think that I know it all, bro, every single people that, like I've come around, bro, I like receiving from their knowledge.
Speaker 1:I like receiving from people Like, okay, what can you give right? But then again, from the experience of everything that I've, that I've been through, I can say what's right, or like that doesn't really make sense. You know, but I never, I never saw I meet somebody just like, yeah, you don't know what you're talking about, I'm right, you're wrong. No, let me hear your perspective, let me get into your shoes. And then you know, you realize, okay, thanks for the time, right. Thanks for the time all right yeah and it's seasonal things, like you said.
Speaker 1:sometimes some people are just seasonal in your life and there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, there's nothing wrong there's really nothing wrong with that. I mean, in my eyes I don't think so, but it's like hey, thanks, yeah, legit, you came in and you did a job yeah.
Speaker 1:You did your job. I'm good, you're good, you know we probably each other.
Speaker 2:We move on and yeah, and yeah.
Speaker 1:Every crossroads again down the line, cool yeah bro, and as a teenager, when you're growing up, I feel like you know stuff, like that happens and we and we take these, these advice from people and we feel like we get mad about it. And that was me, right. I used to get like what do you know? Like it's like what did I know?
Speaker 2:how was it?
Speaker 1:like. He's a young person, you know. So I'm glad I learned it in a young age, because it learned me to not take nothing personal yeah, nothing personal, and I that's I don't want to yeah, like I I I'm not saying I don't hold grudges, like, but I really it's rare bro, it's rare, it's really rare.
Speaker 1:Man. I don't think that's something that's really in my heart, it's just because, like I tell my wife all the time, I'm like man, like it's me and you, we're paying our bills like no one's coming, do, do that for us, let's just do us. That's why I never hold grudges with nobody. People might think well, you're just distracted and put it to the side. No, it really doesn't.
Speaker 2:You move on, that's it. You move on from everything.
Speaker 1:That's why I say, bro, people you want to go to church, go, but you go for the right reasons.
Speaker 2:That's the other thing. Go for the right, go for the right reasons.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like you know, I mean, and don't think you have to go there, you know, oh well, I'm not perfect, then I'm gonna go. Well, you're not supposed to be perfect to go right, you're supposed to be like it's like the sick, the sick go there and and now, man, I'm glad like we were, we were raised in that way because it kind of like I think that's helped us a lot to to maintain our friendship from the beginning yeah to now was was as what was it right?
Speaker 1:but it was, like you know, it was church in the center, because when we did go back to church and we did have time in the church, bro, like, but we, we got closer like yeah, seriously like a lot of things. And then those things, right, you carry on to to oh, we went to school, right, we went to school and everything, and and yeah, we make mistakes- right, I think we've seen each other's highs and lows, yeah but we know how to we we hold ourselves accountable, like you're right because we know the things that we've done, and man high school
Speaker 2:high school, high school is high school, to say the least and yeah, high school was fun uh uh, yeah, it's. It's one of those things where you have to know which friendships are long term, yeah, and which friendships are probably not going to be long term, of course, and you recognize that, as I think, as you get older, it kind of gets easier. Yeah, um, but yeah, I mean for us like at this point I'm 30 I'm 30 I'm creeping up there. Yo, you're creeping right there.
Speaker 1:but like you're a couple days bro, like over a couple weeks bro, and it's like right bro, it's like people that you know, I don't know what happens right when you go from 29 to 30, it's kind of like I feel like a shift in my life. Well, god, my back wasn't the same anymore. I'm like there were some differences though, you know, and and it's like that part of like man, like those little things anymore don't matter. Like you know, I don't got like, bro, you know it doesn't matter, no more bro, it doesn't matter. Like I can't sit back and, like you know, I just I usually gotta, you just gotta move on from a lot of things like you have to learn to to pick and choose your battles.
Speaker 2:Yeah, bro, like everywhere you go.
Speaker 1:It's like man that's. That's a great saying right there. Pick and choose your back yeah legit man, legit like and unless it's kind of like, you know, my, my, my, my wife sometimes like, it's not even like. I don't care what people can say, and you know what though actually speaking on that.
Speaker 2:What I will say is something that that I that I've learned because, to be fair so I mentioned, right, nine years it's going to be that we're going to be married and I'm turning 30 this year, so I obviously got married young and I I've learned to pick and choose my battles because I've realized that my wife isn't the biggest fan of washing dishes, yeah, so I took it upon myself to just wash the dishes yeah, I can do, can do that, I don't mind it yeah.
Speaker 2:It takes me about 15 minutes to clear out the dishes. Cool, no big deal. And I noticed that I was. I became a routine, right, I'd go put in my shift at work, come home wash the dishes. Yeah, Because I don't like seeing dishes in the next morning. Yeah, yeah in the next morning. Yeah, yeah, um, I like to see it clean the next day, so go wash the dishes.
Speaker 2:If there's a couple toys on the ground, pick them up, go to bed and it became a routine and it's like, after a few weeks of this, yeah, all of a sudden I don't, it was like a switch and it was just like in my, in my own head I'm just like why is she? Why is she washing dishes? One day they got these ones gonna kill her one day on her day off to wash the dishes Right, and it got to the point where I would just pick dumb fights.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right, just like dumb little fights, dumb little things, and at the center of it was just the dishes.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That's all it was. That's all it was, but because of that one thing, I was picking other fights and I'm, you know it got to the point where, in our relationship and and I'll be honest, I've been blessed because those are our fights, those are our big fights. Right, if washing the dishes is going to be our big fight, I will take that any day of the week of course um, but, but it got to the point. And you know, I say it got to the point, it wasn't like it was years and I finally said this is enough the dishes uh, no, it was probably it's over, right.
Speaker 1:Why'd you guys break up? She didn't want to wash dishes, right? Um?
Speaker 2:but I think after a few weeks she kind of like she had to stop me and was like like you've been real short with me. Yeah, like what has happened? I'm like I don't know. And then I realized like no, it's the dishes. But then I started thinking to myself like do I want to make these dishes a really big deal right now? Because the reality is, guess what, if I bring up the dishes, yeah, she's gonna say how much do you like folding your clothes? How much do you like organizing your clothes?
Speaker 1:how much do you like organizing in general and they'll bring out, they'll bring out a list, and all we have is probably like one right and all I gotta do is wash the dishes at the end of the day.
Speaker 2:That's it. You know what? Yeah, and that's where I learned just pick and choose your battle. Yeah, it is not a big deal.
Speaker 1:It's not true, oh listen.
Speaker 2:My wife is happy as long as I wash the dishes. If I can sweep and mop.
Speaker 1:Then you're good.
Speaker 2:Right, bring home flowers every couple weeks.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm sweet sailing baby, oh man.
Speaker 1:That's it. You're a great husband.
Speaker 2:You might make my wife jealous but, but I I learned, yeah, to pick and choose my battles through that right, because it was like I could have blown up this whole dish situation man, but the reality is it why am I fighting over dishes? It takes me I. I know she's been vocal about it and saying, hey, I, I'm really not a fan of washing dishes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I know that for me, and that's why the communication sometimes is so important. Yeah it is. It is. It's so important because if you know it's something that they don't like, then you won't really like. You know you won't do it Like you know what? I mean Like and to take the initiative to be like. You know what?
Speaker 2:I don. You know what I don't? I want to avoid the fight you know right and you do.
Speaker 1:One. One simple thing is do is doing that. You're like no fight, all right. All of a sudden, sometimes our pride is like gets in the way, gets in the way, and that's where we cause that. Like no, heck, no, like I've been doing, no, you go do it. Well, I'm not gonna do it, okay. Well, somebody's gotta do it exactly, and then, and it becomes that big fight and. And something fun like that, something so simple as that, like you say, right Dishes can lead out to a huge, huge, more fight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it can, because then you can you start saying things that you don't mean out of anger. Not only that, but you can get to a point where you're isolating that person and you're kind of ignoring them, and and it can just cause it, can it's a snowball effect, right, it just causes more and more issues on you. But yeah, you're right, communicating is huge because at the end of the day, I know that if tomorrow I show up at home and I go, hey, baby, I really don't feel like doing the dishes, right now yeah do you mind doing them?
Speaker 2:yeah, I mean, she's without a beat. She's like, hey, yeah, it might not be in that moment, but she's like, yeah, I'll get to it, don't worry about it. Exactly so it's not like.
Speaker 1:I'm fully. You know there's times, there's times Right. There's times, I know what you mean. Right, like I in the car. It's two hours later. I'm like maybe I should go inside now. Right, you came home late from work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the whole time right, I was in the park just outside man, I gotta go do those dishes.
Speaker 1:Nah, man, that's sick man and no man. That's all it is sometimes. Sometimes it's the little things, man, not not letting the little things affect you man, and and like man, we, from everything, like from from kids to now, the experiences that we've gone through in life, we've noticed, right like it's not worth it, man, it's, it's not. Life is too short sometimes it is.
Speaker 1:We've seen too many people gone way before their time too fast, man, and to, to, to, to sit here and yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't wish on no one bro, and it only brings pain and like suffering to to our lives and and we're always living like on the edge and anxious and I'm like, bro, I'm not trying to live like that, like like I'm good, I'm not trying to live a life where I'm happy with slowing down life a bit yeah, bro, it's good, it's good to to to slow down a bit and but nah, man, it's, it's, it's been a ride, bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah I mean speaking of turning 30 um, I, I will be turning 30 soon and it's different man it's different over here, bro, when I tell you that I I think I started feeling it uh last night when I when I was on my way over here, so I thought you were going to say.
Speaker 1:when I stepped on the bed, I was like, wow, that was a good bed.
Speaker 2:I was going through it. Atlanta airport is pretty big, If anybody's ever been you know how you got to take a train to get to your gate.
Speaker 1:Atlanta is pretty big. You got to take a train. That's right, it's the busiest.
Speaker 2:It's the busiest airport in the us, I don't think the world, but I know it's up there like like my stuff and so it's.
Speaker 2:You know it's a troop to get around and so I'm going through tsa and all that, but when I left I so I left my job a bit early. So I yesterday I had a full day of work. I woke up in the morning, I went to work, from work I went straight to the airport to come over here. I took a red eye over here and I still had a meeting that I was in. So I'm in this meeting and I'm going through security, whatever, and you know I'm getting on the train, but I'm speaking in this meeting. I'm one of the train, I'm speaking in this meeting.
Speaker 2:I'm one of the speakers and I have to do my thing during the meeting and I'm getting closer and closer to my gate and as I'm getting to my gate I can feel myself I'm done, Like my air is like I am breathing heavy. And I'm just like, oh my gosh, like I should not be this tired just going from the parking lot to here right to my gate.
Speaker 2:I took a train for half the ride like I should not be this tired and then I was like well, you know when I'm a boss and I gotta eat some good food, but after this it might be time to start hitting the salads again. Because, I was like man, that was you know. You talk about a changing point. That might have been it right there. I said, oh no, Because I was in that meeting, I was speaking.
Speaker 1:I said y'all give me a second, Let me sit down and settle out real quick nah, bro, it's very important, especially, bro, like when we get to this age, bro, it's, it's true, right, when people just tell us back in the day, oh, you're young, you know, take care of yourself. And we're like, yeah, yeah, whatever, better, you know, we literally just eat and whatever. And then you get to the age you're like man, I should have stretched, yeah, like legit. Now it's like, now we get sudden pains. You're like, oh, this is it right here. It is like and I'm not gonna lie, the other day, I think, when it was it, it was I was, I was in bed and I got a sudden sharp pain, bro, like on my, on my chest, near my, my heart area. Right, I don't think it was my heart, it might might have been just the muscle, but I thought that was it. I was like I was on the outside. I was like, hey, like bye, yeah, I think you'd brought this up.
Speaker 2:I believe it was you who had brought this up, and I said man, I know exactly what you mean, I know, I don't think it was you, it was at work.
Speaker 1:It was at work.
Speaker 2:Someone had brought this up and it was one of my coworkers. And he's a bit older now but his daughter is around my age and he goes. She's talking out here. You know talking about she got acid.
Speaker 1:Okay, she's too young for that. There's no way.
Speaker 2:And I go hey man, let me tell you what I know about acid man. Oh my goodness, you were telling me that I love a good chili dog.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Get me a good chili dog.
Speaker 1:Right, I'm all for it, man, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And you know, my wife likes the honey barbecue chicken from Sonic. Yeah, and so she goes, she orders, she orders that right give me a dog.
Speaker 1:I said man, give me a chili the foot long one right.
Speaker 2:I said, let me get a foot long chili dog, yeah, and I munch, it up. It was great. The next day I thought I was having a heart attack. It felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest. Oh man, and I am very cheap and I would. I would refuse to take an ambulance to the doctors I'm paying that fee. So I said I'm gonna drive myself because my wife was at work yeah but I did have to call her because she's she was on her way to work.
Speaker 1:So you did go to the hospital. Oh, I did, oh, wow, because it was that bad.
Speaker 2:I when I tell you that I felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest. Oh, man, like that's what? Because she was on her way to work, wait. So you did go to the hospital. Oh, I did. Oh, wow, because it was that bad.
Speaker 1:When I tell you that, I felt like an elephant was sitting on my chest. Oh man, like that's what I felt. Like. Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I was like no, like I got to go get checked out, like this is not normal. So it ain't right here, and so I'm driving to the on the phone at this point because I'm like baby, like yeah, if I go at least we're gonna be on the phone, because I'm not calling an ambulance, that's the last thing I'm gonna do. If I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die with my two thousand dollars and I'm not gonna give it to emt I'm gonna die on the road and I'm gonna take a couple people with me and well, long story short, I make it to the hospital.
Speaker 2:they take an ekg, they check my heart. They're like look, you're good. They're like what have?
Speaker 1:you eaten? They're like can you burp real quick?
Speaker 2:I said what have you? You know? Have you eaten anything new?
Speaker 1:My man had to let them know.
Speaker 2:The embarrassment I say it's a Sonic footlong chili dog.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:Sorry, say it louder, please right and um, and, needless to say, they, they gave me pain medicine, yeah, and then they said go buy yourself some pepsi. And uh, now pepsi is a part of my uh, my little, you know, drug basket, along with my Advil and Tums, that's crazy bro. I've not had a chili dog since.
Speaker 1:Since the no more chili dogs. Bro, that's crazy. Did they bill you for this?
Speaker 2:Oh brother.
Speaker 1:Oh, did the officer give you to tell you Pepsin? Oh, my goodness, that's the worst bro.
Speaker 2:That EKG is no joke really it's expensive, so I had it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I got it one time. Yeah, there's a reason I haven't been back to disney oh man, that's funny. I didn't get ekg ones, but I I think I did it in a way to like because, dude, you go to an emergency room here.
Speaker 1:You're here for like hours bro yeah, like I don't know how it's over there, but I know here you're looking at, about one time I went, bro, and I had to literally be there, bro, for over like eight hours in a waiting room, in a waiting room okay, no, it's not that bad. But it's a couple hours.
Speaker 2:It's bad here, when, when I went in for the chest pain because I literally thought I was having a heart attack. Yeah, they took me for EKG immediately.
Speaker 1:But that's what I did. I went in there because I'm like, oh, I got heart pain, trying to think if they could squeeze me in quick, and they're like, oh yeah, they did squeeze me in to do the EKG, yeah, and I guess it came out normal yeah yeah, that happened to me too and I'm like nah, they pretty much make sure that you're not having a heart attack, and then they're like nah you're, you're fine, just go sit down and wait all right, at that point just just take the pepsi bro nah, man, but hey, man, bro, it's been a pleasure, lewis man and and bro, it's always happy to have you here.
Speaker 1:Bro, I'm always excited to have you here. I really hope one day either I move or we figure out a place to go. I must say it right now, right, just so people are aware. I must say this. Not many people know, but I give it probably two years in Massachusetts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a couple months sounds about right.
Speaker 1:I think two more years. A couple months, imagine, I think, yeah, a couple months, imagine, I think, yeah, I think. If you're listening right, I I've talked about it with the wife and I think two years, bro, I think two years I think gotta get a couple things kind of make a decision yeah, but I think I think we want to do it.
Speaker 1:Man, you know I have love for you. Know what place I always visit, bro, and that that that state is. It's a crazy move, but I just feel like it's in my heart that I need to go there. I'm always happy when I'm there and I told her and I think in two years, if everything works out, man, like I gotta get out of massachusetts too.
Speaker 1:It's nice to be here, man, you know we got the friends, we got the families, but like what you did it's, it's amazing sometimes because you kind of leave all your friends and like family that are here and you just go. But it could be hard, but it's like man, you know, if you never did it, you'll never try, you know yeah.
Speaker 2:At least you can say you did it.
Speaker 1:You tried it and now, bro, like you know, you got. You're from Georgia, bro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's crazy, you got.
Speaker 1:Georgia plates you're Georgia, your kids have friends over there they're from georgia, like you know.
Speaker 2:So you're from georgia.
Speaker 1:Now, yeah, it's, and it's crazy, because how many years has it been, it's, it'll be six years, six this march, wow, you know like that's crazy to think about. You know, now I'm sure you go over there two of my kids are born in georgia they're from georgia yeah, and my daughter I didn't make sure she was born in boston. She was born in b In Boston, yeah, but now you got two other kids that are yeah, this isn't home for them, straight up, no idea what this.
Speaker 2:They come here because their cousins are here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're like vacation, cousins. This is vacation for them, cousins.
Speaker 2:Nanny is here, so they love that.
Speaker 1:But for them home awesome, you know to be able to you know you have your kids and be like, yeah, oh, what's from boston, what all these are from georgia. That for me that's cool, I like that. That's something like. I think it's amazing and, you know, I don't know what my future holds, man, but I just don't think it's gonna be here in massachusetts you never know.
Speaker 2:You never know. Well, who knows, maybe you do end up staying but I hope not.
Speaker 1:I hope that's the plan, man. But hey, yo, louis, I don't know if you have any final words, man.
Speaker 2:No, always a pleasure to be out here. It's always a good time and thankful, of course, for the friendship, for the time and for always having open doors for me.
Speaker 1:Always.
Speaker 2:I know, even if I don't message, I just kind of show up, that's it.
Speaker 1:Well, I guess Louis is in town and I feel the same thing If I go down there like if I just randomly show up. I'm like yo, bro, I'm here, bro, I work all week. Oh well, I'm here, you know, and same for you, bro. It doesn't matter, bro, and that's how we are.
Speaker 2:That's who we are, bro. Get you back home soon we'll see.
Speaker 1:We'll see how the podcast does maybe. Maybe we make this a regular thing. Yes, sir, get your setup away at home. All right, lewis. Goodbye brother, everybody listening man. Thank you for tuning in. We appreciate you guys being here. Man, and don't forget to follow the um. The follow us on apple music or on the um spotify spotify. Man, it's been a pleasure. We got some more content coming down the end. Let's get to work here, guys. Thank you.