Forging Your Path: Mario's Journey from Adversity to Achievement

Mario Jordan sits across from me with a quiet confidence that belies his youth. Having just graduated from New Albany High School, this young man has already accumulated more life experience than many twice his age.

Our conversation reveals an extraordinary story of adaptation and perseverance. After transferring from Columbus City Schools as a freshman, Mario faced the challenge of catching up to New Albany's advanced academic standards while simultaneously competing in national karate tournaments. "Columbus city schools are down here and Albany was like up here," he explains, gesturing the difference with his hands. Rather than becoming overwhelmed, he embraced the challenge.

What strikes me most about Mario is his remarkable work ethic. While completing his senior year through an early graduation program, he maintained a 40+ hour work schedule. Even now, he bikes to and from Swensons late at night, working shifts that end at 1:30 AM. When asked about his earnings, he humbly mentions helping his mom with rent "even though she don't need the help" and saving the rest.

Beyond his academic and professional accomplishments, Mario's perspective on socioeconomic differences is refreshingly mature. When navigating New Albany's diverse economic landscape, he shares his internal dialogue: "In my head I put all these kids are like me. There's not rich kids here, they're all like me." This mindset allowed him to form genuine connections across perceived barriers.

Looking ahead, Mario has thoughtfully evaluated several career paths before settling on a plumbing apprenticeship. His systematic elimination of underwater welding, firefighting, and military service shows a pragmatic approach to career planning that many adults still struggle with.

Mario's story isn't just about overcoming adversity—it's about maintaining perspective, working diligently toward goals, and finding your path regardless of where you start. If his approach to high school is any indication, this young man's future holds tremendous promise.

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Transcript

Speaker 1 0:16

we're rolling. Mr jordan, mario jordan, right. Yes, sir, mr jordan, thanks for thanks for coming on you're welcome. What do you think about it?

Speaker 2 0:26

exciting, a little nervous, but exciting, uh, yeah don't don't be nervous, man.

Speaker 1 0:30

I don't know what I'm doing either. You were just talking about watching the, uh, watching the soundboard here, and, like you know, it's all jumping around.

Speaker 2 0:37

I have no clue what any of this does I know the basics, but, but, but at least the tinier ones. The big ones I don't know yeah, um, uh, that's, that's great.

Speaker 1 0:47

I I have no clue what I'm doing, so don't be nervous. Um, hey, so so thanks for coming on, mario man, I'm I'm really excited to chat with you. Uh, we don't know each other at all. Right, we just met out front of Brick House Blue. Somebody was at, I think it was a senior. Was it like a senior awards or something like that? Like you, did you get presented an award?

Speaker 2 1:11

Yes.

Speaker 1 1:11

Or recognition, yes, and so we'll get into that.

Speaker 2 1:23

Was it like senior night or what was it? It was the senior award for people who got awards or people who were going to the military and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 1:26

Oh, okay, okay, good, cool. So somebody was there and they said man, you've got to meet with this kid. This young man Just sounded like a really good story and I know nothing about you this is the extent of what I know which was like you were recognized for overcoming some adversity and that was it. So I reached out and got a hold of you right, and it was just an email and said hey, would you be interested in this? I'm looking for some recent graduates. And you replied right away and we're like, yeah, let's do it. So.

Speaker 1 2:01

So, welcome to White Fence Living podcast. Welcome to Brickhouse Blue pretty cool spot, right, yeah, and so I just want, I want to get to know you a little bit and then we can jump into you know school we could jump into. I know you're working a lot, whatever hobbies you might have, um, but let's start with the reason. I got a hold of you, so you just graduated, right, yeah, okay, so graduate of 2025. You got your lanyard on um and uh. And so what was the award that you you received, or the recognition?

Speaker 2 2:38

I forgot the exact name of it because it was just long, but I have two, so I have one for my, for my senior project, because so for my senior project I did work studies. So so for work studies, they like do it over summer. Okay, I did it my senior year on the summer, before the school year, and I worked at a work. I worked, I worked in a warehouse.

Speaker 1 2:58

Nice, where was it?

Speaker 2 3:00

at you ever heard of Sunoco? Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I worked there for the summer. I was four days in, three days off, okay, nice, nice. So I did that, and then I was able to present my project early in November with three other of my classmates.

Speaker 1 3:17

Nice Great.

Speaker 2 3:18

So I started taking Noble my sophomore junior year. I started taking noble okay, sophomore year. Yeah, I took noble sophomore year. So I graduated early because I was already working a lot.

Speaker 1 3:30

Yeah, because I worked all over new albany yeah, I mean, it was like when I first reached out to you like I just got to make sure around my work schedule.

Speaker 2 3:38

I'm like, dude, don't, don't, not work to come in here, right so go, go to work, we'll figure this out.

Speaker 1 3:44

Um so, uh, what was the? What was the adversity? One like? What was that so?

Speaker 2 3:50

before. Nobody, I'm from Columbus City Schools, okay. So when I came to Albany I was still doing karate, so I was barely in school and it was like it was. It was trying to get back up to the academic level that normally is compared to Columbus city school.

Speaker 1 4:02

For sure.

Speaker 2 4:03

Like Columbus city schools are down here and Albany was like up here, yeah. So I had to relearn everything. So it was kind of hard traveling for karate and doing school at the same time, because I'm trying to learn these new things but I'm also not in school to learn.

Speaker 1 4:16

Yeah, it was just up and down school to learn. Yeah, it was just up and down, yeah, yeah, no, I mean that's got to be a challenge, right? Yeah, it's got to be, because you know I've got little ones and uh, and I remind them all the time like they're ahead of the game, I mean being at a school like New Albany, like they're, academically they're much further along than than probably a lot of the you know, some of the other districts out there. Um, so you said karate, what?

Speaker 2 4:38

so I did karate for, I think, five to six years okay, nice, and you were missing school for that yeah, because, so I fought nationally ah, so I would do the us open. I would do an arnold. I would go to love.

Speaker 1 4:49

I would go fight in las vegas I was in chicago so man, how cool is that so I did that, that it was fun. How long. So you said you did that for like six years seven years, for about five to six years, how. How'd you get into karate?

Speaker 2 5:01

So, so, so younger, so karate. Karate was supposed to be from a little siblings first, but then, but then, but but then I was like hey, mom, can we make this a family thing? So so she added me in it with them. Nice, so we first started that I skipped three belts, Wow.

Speaker 1 5:23

And I don't know anything about karate so you're not going to offend me like describing it so skipping belts meaning like you jumped to the next level.

Speaker 2 5:32

Yeah, I jumped past a belt and went to a different belt.

Speaker 1 5:34

Wow, and then black belt being the top or no.

Speaker 2 5:37

Yes, black was the top, but I got the brown belt, two belts away from black okay.

Speaker 1 5:42

Wow, how cool is that. Why'd you? Why'd you stop doing it?

Speaker 2 5:47

I just want to focus more on school and yeah, and, and I wanted to do a sport for my um sophomore junior year yeah, so what sport did you do?

Speaker 1 5:55

I did wrestling nice, how do like that.

Karate, Wrestling, and School Balance

Speaker 2 6:00

It was fun Because, since I'm a trained fighter, I wanted something that involved still moving.

Speaker 1 6:07

Yeah yeah, absolutely, so something could be busy Cool.

Speaker 2 6:10

Because I had worked too much for football, so I did wrestling, because it worked perfectly with my work schedules.

Speaker 1 6:16

Yeah, yeah, that's great. So you wrestled your sophomore year up through your senior year, sophomore and junior year.

Speaker 2 6:22

I didn't wrestle senior year because I graduated early.

Speaker 1 6:24

Okay, that's right. Nice, how was it?

Speaker 2 6:27

It was good. So Coach Reichert, right Coach Reichert and Coach Koffer.

Speaker 1 6:30

Nice. I just dropped my son off to wrestling camp.

Speaker 2 6:32

W yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 6:36

I don't know. I'll see if he's going to stick it out. I don't know he likes it. He's a tough kid. It's hard, it's a hard sport.

Speaker 2 6:44

It's the hardest sport all the school got.

Speaker 1 6:48

Yeah it is, isn't it? I mean, it's just something about like and you know this from karate is like you're alone out there, like you are out there on an island, alone in a singlet, with some dude that wants to rip your face off.

Speaker 2 7:02

My little brother told me one day that football conditioning it is worse than wrestling conditioning, and I laughed in his face, that's different, isn't it? Wrestling conditioning have you thrown up and almost passing out?

Speaker 1 7:15

Yeah, well, good, I didn't know that. That's cool to know. It's a good sport. I think it's a good sport for life, right.

Speaker 2 7:21

Yeah, I have fun.

Speaker 1 7:22

It teaches you a lot. Where are you working at?

Speaker 2 7:25

So right now I work at Swinson's. I just started last Tuesday at Swinson's.

Speaker 1 7:28

Nice, it's actually fun Talk about conditioning.

Speaker 2 7:32

That's fun. I like the long hours. Yeah, long hours and lots of running, right't you have to like run out to?

Speaker 1 7:46

the car I work in. I work in the kitchen. Oh, okay, okay, so you're not running. Yeah, I work in the kitchen. I love being a cook.

Speaker 2 7:49

Nice, um and you just, you just told me you're you put in 40 hours. Last week I put in 40, 41 hours, that's awesome. That's really like there's a lot of adults that don't do that I just like working and plus and plus the swithin open 24 hours, so might as well.

Speaker 1 8:03

You could work long hours yeah.

Speaker 2 8:04

I work the 1 am or 1.30 am, so Wow.

Speaker 1 8:07

It's a long time.

Speaker 2 8:08

I bike there, bike home. It's peaceful when you're biking home because there's no cars out.

Speaker 1 8:12

Yeah, it's just you and the night. That's good, that's good, that's good. So tell me what's it like being a senior at New Albany?

Speaker 2 8:22

More freedom, a lot more freedom.

Speaker 1 8:24

Less classes yeah, especially if you're trying to graduate early, right?

Speaker 2 8:27

So I mean, what time are you done during the day, so it's a program at Noble for people who want to graduate early, so that you're only there for three hours. I was there from 745 to 1030. Wow, unless I had work study, which was 7.45 till 11.30.

Speaker 1 8:47

Okay, good, and then you just worked outside of that, yeah then either went home or worked.

Speaker 2 8:54

What are you doing with all that money? I either. Saving it right, I either help my mom rent even though she don't need the help or most of the time, just yeah, just save it.

Speaker 1 9:08

Good, good man, that's uh, that's cool, that's, it's, it's refreshing. Um, you know what I mean? Because it's it's kind of like I don't know. Growing up, I worked a lot too, uh, just like landscaping or whatever I've been working since I was 12.

Speaker 2 9:15

My first job I was I was helping that landlord. I did yard work there you go lawn mowing, weed whacking and picking up trash stuff like that man that's awesome, it's really cool.

Speaker 1 9:25

So, uh, what do you? What's your plans? What are you going to do now?

Speaker 2 9:30

so, hope, so, hopefully. After I get my license and I get a car, I want to do a plumbing apprenticeship oh nice, smart, smart. I already have. I already have the contact for it. I just got to get my license. When I get that, then she'll put me with contractors.

Speaker 1 9:43

Yeah, that's smart. Why plumbing? What makes you think plumbing?

Speaker 2 9:47

So over the years I've wanted to do multiple things. I wanted to do underwater welding, but I talked myself out of that. I wanted to do firefighting, and I talked myself out of that because there's so many firefighters now that the majority of them are on wait lists.

Speaker 1 10:02

Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 10:02

And a wait list could be up to five years, jeez. And then I wanted military, but then I said no to that because there's already way too many soldiers that are barely doing things, just sitting there, bored because there's nothing for them to do. Yeah.

Speaker 1 10:18

Yeah.

Speaker 2 10:18

So then Mr Stills sent me. He sent me a plumbing apprenticeship opportunity. So I accepted that. I got with got. The lady told me everything about it that's awesome, I was like, yeah, that's what I want to do good it's.

Speaker 1 10:33

Uh, I mean skilled trades. I'm telling you that's where it's at, especially if you like to work. You know I mean you'll, you're gonna make a good living doing that, really good uh, because there's fewer and fewer, right, I mean, there's just not nearly as many plumbers as there used to be.

Speaker 1 10:47

Electricians, all of those things my youngest son loves to like build. He's just like he. That's. What he wants to do is build houses. He just wants to be a contractor. Um, well, that's, that's good. That's good. You got a plan, you're working towards it. That's that's really cool. So tell me about. Tell me about your family, tell me brothers, sisters brothers, sister, and so my, and so my mom.

Speaker 2 11:09

she works at Amazon. She's a manager at Amazon. Okay, she just works long hours a lot. Yeah, yeah. My little brother and little sister. My little brother's about to be a freshman. My little sister's about to be a sophomore. Okay. Nice, my little brother goes to Westville School. My little sister goes to Albany. Okay, which Westville School?

Speaker 1 11:28

My little sister goes to Albany, okay, which Westville School?

Speaker 2 11:31

I don't remember, there's too many. Yeah, I was going to say how old is he about? He's 15.

Speaker 1 11:36

Oh, okay. So yeah, who knows he could be at. Well, he's in the high school. So south central north.

Speaker 2 11:45

So the Westville he's with is still with Albany, oh south, central, north.

Speaker 1 11:49

so what's for his way. It's still with new albany. It's just a oh, I see, yeah, oh, okay, okay, okay, um, nice, well, that's good and uh, so do you live with them now?

Speaker 2 11:55

yes great.

Speaker 1 11:56

So it's mom, older brother younger brother, younger brother, older sister younger sister.

Speaker 2 12:00

Younger sister, I know you're the oldest, yeah nice, good for you be a leader.

Speaker 1 12:06

Um, what? What's your? What's your favorite thing about new albany high school? Like, what was your some of your favorite experiences?

Speaker 2 12:15

probably the different opportunities that they give you yeah, like, like this, is it noble?

Speaker 1 12:21

is that what it's?

Speaker 2 12:21

called noble. That really helped me, like learning everything better again yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 12:28

Um yeah, I mean you. There was obviously some catching up to do right yeah um. So you wrestled. You were, you know, working to graduate early working, a ton of jobs, still still working a lot. Um, and what do you do for fun?

Speaker 2 12:46

I either game, which I stream I stream games all the time, Um I skateboard or most of the time I just go sit out in the heat somewhere. Sit out in the heat, yeah.

Speaker 1 12:57

You like it. You like the heat. Well, you're loving this weather. I mean it's it's warm out. Yeah, uh, that's great. So, um what, who's your favorite teacher?

Speaker 2 13:07

Miss Core.

Speaker 1 13:08

Ms Core, what'd she teach?

Speaker 2 13:10

She was the teacher who's. You're just sitting there, but you have different teachers that come in for Noble. Ah, okay, so for. Noble. You have the main teacher, which is Ms Core. Okay. But then you have, like, the social studies teachers that come in during certain times. Yeah.

Speaker 1 13:24

For, like certain things you're working on, yeah, what was your favorite like subject area? Probably math, math. I got done with it quick. I got done with it quick, nice, yeah, well, you're gonna need some math skills in plumbing for sure. Have you, uh, have you? Are you? Have you done any plumbing before? No, um, yeah, it's fun, and there's it, diverse you could do like fire suppression and you know pipe laying and you could do residential plumbing, all those things.

Speaker 2 13:54

It's a four-year apprenticeship.

Speaker 1 13:56

Yeah, that's pretty cool. And then you can go like a union route. Right, you could be a union plumber or you could, like, just go into the private sector. Who knows, maybe you ever want to start your own plumbing company. Yeah ever want to start your own plumbing company? Yeah, that'd be sweet, yeah, that'd be really cool. Um girlfriend, yep, nice. Ah, we got to talk about the girlfriend. What's her name? Devon devon. What does she do? Uh, she's, she's in college okay, nice, where's she going to school?

Speaker 2 14:24

she goes to college in hickville. I forget hicksville, I forget the name of it, but she's, she's an school. She goes to college in Hicksville.

Speaker 1 14:29

I forget the name of it, but she's in art school, oh, art school Nice. Is she from New Albany or no? No, okay, so what do you guys like to do then?

Speaker 2 14:40

We like to go to museums. Okay, museums, drive around, sometimes go to movies.

Speaker 1 14:45

Nice Museums, huh yeah.

Life at New Albany High School

Speaker 2 14:50

I mean if she's into art. I took a tour to the other world for her birthday. We have fun there that's.

Speaker 1 14:55

Is that in newark no?

Speaker 2 14:57

that's the yeah that is one in reynoldsburg, reynoldsburg, okay, yeah is that the one other world?

Speaker 1 15:03

I think, and they like it's the one that's trippy.

Speaker 2 15:07

Yeah, it's very trippy. Each room has different things.

Speaker 1 15:09

All vibrant yeah yeah, I've seen pictures of it. I haven't been there um well, so what? What did you and your friends do? Um, like friends from new albany, like what did you guys do for fun? What did you?

Speaker 2 15:22

a lot of us skateboarded around after campus, or, or did you? We just went into the field and just played soccer, like chase each other and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or, or like majority of us, chilled at the library all day yeah, tell me about the library.

Speaker 2 15:36

It's a popular place to be the library is fun until 3 30 oh, when the middle schoolers are that once the middle schoolers come to the library, that's when us high schoolers want to get out and get away. Because, because it gets loud and hectic, because the teen area gets filled with little kids yeah, it does.

Speaker 1 15:56

So I'm sorry because my, my son's, one of them that comes over there.

Speaker 2 16:00

I was the librarian every day. So the librarians always knew when I, when I came in, I wanted peace and quiet. So when the little kids came, they already knew I was leaving.

Speaker 1 16:09

Yeah, yeah, I'm always curious. I've never been. I've picked my kids up there and I've been around there, but I've never been. So does it stay somewhat quiet in there or no? It gets pretty hectic, and how do the librarians like?

Speaker 2 16:23

they just kick them out. There's usually like two librarians that be able to tell them to be quiet. Okay, they give you about two, three chances. After third chance, you get kicked out.

Speaker 1 16:31

And I mean what are these kids doing? I swear, like the kids, like my son's, like we were playing poker. That's what they're doing at the library.

Speaker 2 16:38

Either chess checkers uno.

Speaker 1 16:42

And you said it in the teen room. Is that the one like if you go straight in back to the right Yep room? Is that the one like if you go straight in back to the right yep straight in towards the back windows. Yeah, yeah, yeah exactly.

Speaker 2 16:56

Um, yeah, you're like get out of here.

Speaker 1 16:57

I got work to do. Um well, I hope they're behaving in there. I'm sure I've heard some stories um so hanging out at the library skateboarding um, where do you skateboard?

Speaker 2 17:05

anywhere.

Speaker 1 17:06

Most of us street skate okay, so you're just going anywhere.

Speaker 2 17:09

Because there was an indoor skate park. It was called Skate Naked.

Speaker 1 17:12

Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 17:13

But it got shut down in August because somebody bought the building. Where was that at? It was towards the airport, okay.

Speaker 1 17:21

That's pretty cool indoor. I didn't know one of those existed.

Speaker 2 17:25

Yep, but it got shut down. It was the only one we had in driving distance.

Speaker 1 17:29

Yeah, it was like four or five hours away. I had a little bit of time when I was young that I wanted a skateboard or rollerblade. It was very short-lived.

Speaker 2 17:42

I wasn't very good. I went from scooter to rollerblading to ripstick. I still have the og blue ripstick nice, uh, that's cool.

Speaker 1 17:53

Um, what, uh, I guess, what advice do you have? If you have any for for somebody that let's start with this, and there's probably not a ton of people, but I think you've got a unique experience. Like, for, what's your advice for anybody who maybe moves into the district? You came your sophomore year.

Speaker 2 18:11

Yeah, I came my freshman year.

Speaker 1 18:13

Your freshman year. Okay, what's some advice for somebody moving into New Albany schools?

Speaker 2 18:20

Don't be afraid to ask for help because New Albany kids. They might seem like they're not nice, but they actually are. A lot of them will actually help you if you ask.

Speaker 1 18:29

Yeah yeah, that's good advice. There's a lot of good kids. There's a lot of really good kids. Yeah, I think sometimes on the outside people get this like perception of what New Albany is like.

Speaker 2 18:41

Yeah, because I think so. The thing is, when I first moved here, I was like there's rich kids, but then there's kids who are like me, so I had to. I had to. So in my head I put all these kids are like me. There's not rich kids here, they're all like me. That's how I put it in my head. So that way I was more confident in talking to people around me.

Skateboarding and Making Friends

Speaker 1 18:59

Yeah, no, that's, that's great advice. Um, because I mean you guys are all going through it doesn't matter, like you're all from different backgrounds, everybody's home is different, everybody's family's income is different, but like you're all in the same place, you all are, you're taking, you know you got to go through the same coursework. Like you're in it together. I mean, what does it matter? So, and I know those things are going to take place I'm certain that you see some people who maybe don't um, you know, maybe they don't hang around other people, but I've, I've kind of heard that like I don't know, maybe you could speak to this.

Speaker 1 19:36

It's not, it's not like the haves and have nots, um, it just seems like you know, just a good group of kids going to school together yeah you could teach a lot of adults a good lesson there to look at people just like that you know not based on you know where they are in life, because you never know what anybody's gone through right.

Speaker 2 19:58

I'm friends with rich kids. None of my rich friends brag literally the majority of the stuff I have my rich friends want.

Speaker 1 20:10

Yeah, I think you've got a really good perspective. You're lucky or fortunate to have that perspective, because I think a lot of people spend a lot of time trying to keep up and lose sight of what they value and what's important to them.

Speaker 2 20:28

I just hope people beat themselves. There's nothing better than beating yourself.

Speaker 1 20:31

For sure, 100%, 100%. It's good advice. You're a smart man, you're a smart man, sweet. So what else let's talk a little more about? Like graduation, like what was your talk to me about? Like the process of graduating, like how do you feel you're about to graduate? And then, like you've got graduation parties, you've got the actual graduation ceremony, so for me, so I got done early all my classes stuff early.

Speaker 2 21:03

I got done two days before thanksgiving okay and then my birthday is in december. So around birthday, I just chill good.

Speaker 1 21:12

So then if you graduate early, um, you're still doing all the ceremony stuff like yes in may, right?

Speaker 2 21:18

I had to do the ceremony and had to do all that because so my mom wanted me to walk the stage, so I did. If I didn't, if I, if I didn't want to walk the stage, then then I'll just got mailed my diploma uh, yeah, yeah yeah, so she made, she made you, or you wanted to I, I didn't want to, but she wanted me to, so I was like, might as well, because you only, you only get to do it once, unless you go to college.

Speaker 1 21:40

Yeah, 100%, and it's a cool ceremony. I've never been to one, but you're at the baseball field right, huntington Park. I saw photos from it. It looked awesome. It was just hot.

Speaker 2 21:49

Yeah, it was hot. Someone was beaming on my face the whole time.

Graduation and Life After School

Speaker 1 21:55

So what does it feel like? Do you feel like pressure is? Is it like a weight lifted? I mean, I know you graduated earlier, but um like, do you feel less pressure? Do you feel more pressure? I don't know, it felt relieving to be done yeah it's just kind of like uh, finally, because it was just to wake it up early school's wake decide make you wake up way too early you'd rather stay up late than be up early because I'm barely gonna sleep, to sleep anyway.

Speaker 2 22:19

So yeah, I might as well stay up late. I'm barely getting to sleep anyway.

Speaker 1 22:23

So you might as well just stay up and do what you want.

Speaker 2 22:25

Exactly. That's great. I'm going to sleep until like 4 or 5 in the morning. Wow.

Speaker 1 22:31

Well, I mean, if you're working, so what shifts did you say you're working?

Speaker 2 22:34

I work 4, or sometimes 5 to 1.

Speaker 1 22:37

or sometimes 5 to 1. Okay, 5 pm to 1 am. Nice, is it busy in there?

Speaker 2 22:44

It depends on the day.

Speaker 1 22:45

Friday nights maybe.

Speaker 2 22:46

It's usually busy about lunchtime, about like 6, 7.30, sometimes 8.30.

Speaker 1 22:51

Are you at the one on Hamilton Road? Yes, the normal one. Yep, Nice. Yeah, I've only been there a few times. It's fun. It's the Galley Boy, right.

Speaker 2 23:00

What's on?

Speaker 1 23:01

a Galley Boy.

Speaker 2 23:02

That I don't remember. I'm on a fryer, mostly Okay.

Speaker 1 23:07

Nice. What about the drinks? Do you know the drinks? Like, what's the Ohio, the Ohio that's.

Speaker 2 23:14

Is it like cherry? It's cherry and ginger ale. Nice, it is actually very good.

Speaker 1 23:17

Oh, the Ohio's the best I tried it yesterday. It's very good and I think they have like a isn't there like a florida in ohio, there's a california, which is orange and ginger, ale nice what's your favorite favorite meal there? Probably the galley boy and fries yeah, what you don't like, the onion rings I haven't, I've only had them yet really yeah, how long have you been there?

Speaker 2 23:44

only a week. Oh okay, that's why I started last tuesday where were you working before that? Uh, back in february I was working at um bendy walking bar, the one that opened up in no Orleans.

Speaker 1 23:58

Yeah, everybody tells me to try that. I haven't tried it yet.

Speaker 2 24:00

I was working there for about a month.

Speaker 1 24:02

Okay, cool, cool. Well, hey, I appreciate you coming. It was a pleasure meeting you. Congratulations, congratulations on the graduation, congratulations just on where you are. You're doing good things, man. Um, you, you gotta you have a really good perspective and, uh, and I think sometimes when you, when you do go through some adversity like that, like there's one or two directions you can go right, you can embrace it and make the best of it and take advantage of it. Um, and I'm sure you've seen this where some people don't necessarily have that perspective. Yeah, so kudos to mom.

Speaker 3 24:44

She raised a good young man, anything else you want to talk about Not really New.

Speaker 1 24:49

Albany gaming. I can't talk about gaming. I don't game. I can talk about Call of Duty. That's what we used to play.

Speaker 2 24:58

Which one have you played?

Speaker 1 25:01

This was probably like 15 years ago. I've played all of Duty. That's what we used to play. Which one have you played? This was probably like 15 years ago. I've played all of them Modern Warfare, like the original. Is there an original? I'm sure you'd kick my butt in it.

Speaker 2 25:12

I've played them all, except for Cold War and Vanguard.

Speaker 1 25:16

When you stream, you're streaming on Twitch Yep Nice and you're you got a camera on you and then you're streaming on like Twitch Yep Nice, and you're like you've got a camera on you and then you're sharing your screen.

Final Thoughts and Gaming

Speaker 2 25:26

I turn on my camera sometimes, but I stream off Xbox. You can just go on to Xbox and press start live stream and it will just stream your game.

Speaker 1 25:32

Nice, and then people will watch you play. Yeah, are you making any money?

Speaker 2 25:35

Not yet. I just hit affiliate but, but twitch is having error problems so I haven't got the affiliate email.

Speaker 1 25:41

Yeah, because then like people can like they can give they could donate to you, right? Um, that's cool. Well, keep working hard. Follow the plumbing dream, not necessarily the gaming dream. Keep that in the back pocket, though. Yes, um. Well, congratulations again, man. I appreciate you coming on. Um, I wish you the best of luck. Stay, stay in touch. I want to hear more Um and uh, and hopefully we can get some more grads on and uh and see what their experience was. So appreciate you, man.

Speaker 2 26:10

Thank you All right.

Speaker 1 26:11

Take care.