Carlos Granados Podcast

Capturing Life's Journey: Photography, Cultural Heritage, and Family Memories with Stephanie

Carlos Granados Season 1 Episode 27

As we sit back and leaf through the albums of our lives, the candid snapshots of joy and growth stand out the most. My cousin Stephanie, with her trusty camera, joins me on a heartwarming exploration of our shared past. We laugh at our youthful escapades, marvel at the beauty in the every day, and discover the profound impact of photography on our lives. Stephanie's minimalist approach to capturing life's moments, focusing on authenticity over perfection, invites us to cherish our memories in their truest form.

Travel with us through the tapestry of our bilingual heritage, as we recall family trips laced with laughter and language-learning blunders. We celebrate the art of code-switching, the nostalgic scents of home, and the crucial role translators play in bringing cultures together. Our discussion weaves through the rich cultural legacy of Selena, the complexities of forgiveness, and the pressures of societal norms on marriage, serving as a reminder of the diverse threads that make up the fabric of our lives.

As we journey from the serenity of Georgia to the bustle of New York City, our conversation spans the vast landscapes of our travel dreams and the realities of life's milestones. We open up about the challenges and joys of parenting, the cost of childcare, and the invaluable support of family. With Stephanie's heartfelt stories and our shared reflections, this episode is an invitation to listeners to pause, reflect, and appreciate the multifaceted journey of life.

Speaker 1:

what is going on. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to my channel and welcome back into the first episode that I'm doing outside of my podcast. Um, first of all, a couple things right before I introduce my special guest. Um, I appreciate you guys, whoever has been showing me love and then buying my gear, my shirt, everything in the spread shop. I really, really appreciate you guys. Thank you for showing love to all the friends and family. Also, I started uploading reaction videos to well. Last week was a sporting event, which is UFC, and it's doing really, really well. So I think you know I'm going to keep uploading reaction videos in the near future, for sure, but I'm going to have a playlist specifically for those reaction videos whenever I do reaction videos with my friends or watch live sports, which I think are great.

Speaker 1:

We also have another little special guest here. His name is Peluche Got his little haircut. But Stephanie, cousin, how you doing today, man, it's really beautiful. Huh, welcome to the podcast again. You're one of the few people that made it twice back to the podcast I'm just that special I know I think I'm gonna keep having you on for sure a little more.

Speaker 1:

Last time we had a really good conversation and the people that listened to the podcast, they gave us a lot of positive feedback in regards to like the podcast and they were like yo, this was, this was deep, this was good. But today is gonna be a little bit more relaxed, especially because we're outside, like the summer's coming out I feel like we have really good conversations I feel like we do, especially now that we're older.

Speaker 1:

Maybe younger carlos not so much you're laughing because it's true, younger cars but now you know a little bit more mature carlos, but I mean we're in the 30s. Man, how do you feel about that stuff?

Speaker 2:

no no I'm in my 20, siempre, oh I don't know.

Speaker 1:

My grays are. My gray hairs are not showing very much. By the way, as you guys can see, if you guys are watching, we're using our uh, littlecast equipment. You're the first one to do it. Thanks you might be a little special in my heart. You might be A little bit Maybe.

Speaker 2:

I am, I know I am.

Speaker 1:

So today you came to the house because you were doing a little photo shoot for my brother. How did that go?

Speaker 2:

It was good. We got really good pictures. I'm excited. Yeah, yeah, I love his automatic smile.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, my brother, I think he took more of the handsome than I did.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, he sure did.

Speaker 1:

I know, man, I think I need to get that back. It's too late for you, but you usually do photography right for like family and friends, yeah.

Speaker 2:

I like to do it, it's a hobby.

Speaker 1:

Like.

Speaker 2:

I like to do it for friends and family members because it's a hobby.

Speaker 1:

I don't like to do it for work, um it just it's another part of me being um, you know creative right and I like it so you don't see yourself doing it as like uh, freelancing and stuff, or no, why not?

Speaker 2:

because I feel like once it becomes a job, it just takes the the joy, yes the joy for away from me yeah yeah I don't know why, like just having to be like okay, you owe me this much for this amount of pictures yeah it's not fun for me, and then I enjoy, like especially people that, um, you know, when they're like, oh, can you take my pictures for this event, and then they're enjoying their events yeah, and just being a part of it.

Speaker 2:

I enjoy that, you know. So that's why it's usually like friends and family members, because I enjoy the moment, I enjoy capturing those moments got you, but you don't feel like the pressure also of actually like having to perform.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, you know, I think that's even better because obviously, if you're doing it for free sometimes or for family members or friends, it's like, even if it's not like the greatest thing, which I do think. Your pictures are great, by the way, because you've taken even my graduation pictures, which you're really good at least you don't have that pressure of them saying like yo, I haven't gotten bad reviews, so I've done a couple of weddings.

Speaker 1:

I have done a couple of weddings so what kind of stuff do you do? Yeah, talk, yeah, so I've done a couple of weddings for church.

Speaker 2:

Um, they they've so far said they loved it. I do little photo albums and everything because I like that too. Yeah, um, and I've done graduation, a lot of graduations. I've done baby shower, not baby shower, sorry. Um pregnancies, um pregnancy pictures okay, got you um, and then shout out to lisette, who's been my main that's two right two. No, I've done family. Her engagement pictures, her, oh that's right, yeah, every special moment for Lisette. I've done so.

Speaker 1:

She's been my main so she's been your poster girl yes, lisette shout out to you.

Speaker 2:

We need more you go to her house? Yeah, she has like pictures.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I saw the pictures at her house, uh, and they look really nice like the like the main wall. Is that what you're referring to?

Speaker 2:

that looks fire yeah, I was like what are these put?

Speaker 1:

canvases so canvases, but they have different, different pictures like, different pictures on like the canvases which I love.

Speaker 2:

I love canvases.

Speaker 1:

I feel like it captures really good and they're big yeah, and she has a big wall, so it was good I feel like I don't know if you did much like filtering or editing, but the filtering editing was really good on that minimum.

Speaker 2:

I just brighten up the pictures.

Speaker 1:

That's about it so they can send out like kind of like vibrant.

Speaker 2:

But other than that I don't like to put I've. So I went to go take my pictures, right, right. And the guy that took my pictures, he does like to put filters, and other photographers like to put filters for me. I like nature to stand out, so that's why I like to go outside and do nature um pictures, because I mean god has given us so many colors. Yeah, no, that's right. So that's why I like to go outside and do nature um pictures, because I mean god has given us so many colors.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, no, that's right, though that's right. What is like your favorite place to shoot? Like anything like to you feel like it's just nature in general. Is there like, maybe like a mountain or like a forest or a park?

Speaker 2:

so botanical garden, I love it there atlanta botanical Garden I love it there, atlanta Botanical Garden. Yes, Atlanta Botanical Garden, the one in. Was it like downtown?

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Okay there, I like it because you get kind of like the city in the backdrop and then you get all this nature as well.

Speaker 1:

Wait, you can see the city from Botanical Garden, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Really, yeah. If you go to where like the orchids are at like the building where they keep the orchids are at, like the building where they keep the orchids like before you go in, you can. There's like a spot like right in front of the building and the the city is over there.

Speaker 1:

You know cool, funny story for you guys. So the last time I went to I think, botanical gardens was with your parents that we went with. Do you remember that trip? Yo, I'm gonna tell it from my perspective and you can say your own. So I think I probably was like how long ago was? I was like 15, 16, 17, maybe no, that was less.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I was like 14 maybe.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, probably so we're pretty young and, uh, our cousin, your brother brian, we went and we were just, you know, we we're not trying to see gardens. You know we're 14, so we're bored. When we went it was beautiful, though it was beautiful regardless, but we're not that excited. I know you, your mom, your dad would probably kind of tell jennifer went that time.

Speaker 2:

Did she really yes?

Speaker 1:

so we're excited and we're just like yo. By the way, I don't know if they can hear all that noise, but if you guys can hear, I apologize, it is what it is anyways. Uh, we were coming back from botanical and we were just like yo what are we doing? And we got in trouble with your parents because Brian and I were laughing and you guys went to Starbucks and I don't think we got anything from Starbucks. I don't remember anymore, but your dad and mom were really, really mad. We were so ungrateful.

Speaker 2:

I remember y'all also started popping the bottled waters, Remember y'all would like twist them and make the cast.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I remember that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think that's why they were mad, because y'all started to do that. So all you heard was, like that, pop all over the garden.

Speaker 1:

I think it's. You know, what happened is because we went and there's one part where, like, we were going down the highway 95. We saw a car and Brian I think Brian or I made a comment like yo, he needs to go to the restroom, or something like that. But like, like a slang we're in Spanish, like you know and we started laughing. I don't know who it was that made that joke and we started laughing, laughing to the point where even your dad was mad. I was like dang, we really messed up. Bro, that was bad and that's like the best memory I have of Botanical Garden. It's not even the garden itself, it's a trip, but it was beautiful. I haven't been in a while. I know they have lights every now and then.

Speaker 2:

Yes, remember, I invited you and you ignored me completely.

Speaker 1:

No, but that was far though, steph. It's like 45 minutes.

Speaker 2:

How far is.

Speaker 1:

It is bad, but I feel like those moments you never get back when you're with family. I mean true, how many stories do we have?

Speaker 2:

we have a lot that we, that you could tell your children later on should we talk about some stories that we've had?

Speaker 1:

let's do it what comes the top of your head do? Do you think about anything that?

Speaker 2:

Let me tell you Okay, here we go. I knew you had something in there when Carlos first came to America, right?

Speaker 1:

Mmm, you're trying to traumatize me.

Speaker 2:

This is my favorite story always to tell, because so I mean my brother and I, we would speak english yeah all the time and so that was like we would just talk to each other and everything. We were at a restaurant and we were going to get desserts and we were telling our parents oh yeah, we want desserts, we want desserts, and carlos is like tia guess this. My brother and I looked at each other.

Speaker 1:

We're like not desert I think we might have been in a good restaurant too when I asked that man. No, I remember even stories when I came to El Salvador. Man, those were you know what. I'd never forget the way your house smelled when I came to the States. Like, households have a certain smell, you don't smell them because it's like you live there. But when you go to other people's houses, you know you have a certain smell.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

Well, like your house, like every time I smell something similar. I'm like I think of you guys, because you don't forget that smell, and when I was here, I spent a lot of time with you guys when I first came. So when you come to the States, man, that feeling of like you smell even the way the apartment smelled to me, yeah, I can I remember that? You're just like, hmm, you know, when you go to the beach and you feel a breeze and you smell, like the sea, the actual sea, you know what that is.

Speaker 1:

It's the same thing with me when it comes to houses. I don't know if it was like the cleaning stuff you guys use or something at that time, but I remember it really really well every single time, like everything, even when you guys made fun of me because I didn't speak english very well and my accent's still there. Sometimes some people tell me that I have like an accent, some people tell me that I don't, but I feel like I do. Sometimes I think.

Speaker 2:

I think it's with certain words I think so too. It's hard but being bilingual is hard facts it's so hard. Yes, I'm like sometimes I can't even remember a word in english and I'm like but I know it in spanish like if, if I tell you in Spanish, can you please help me out?

Speaker 1:

yeah, no, that's very true. That's tough man. We became like kind of professionals translating for our parents too.

Speaker 2:

I know you go through that a lot dude, let me tell you I, just so, I work for a non-profit, if I remember.

Speaker 2:

So I just did an event right and I was translating for attorneys and one of the comments that I got back was like the way that you just translate, so like off the back, I was like dude, years of practice since I was born, maybe that's right, though I can see that yeah, years of practice like of translating, and then it's like I don't know if this happens to you, but when we're around like you know friends that do know both languages it's like so easy to go spanglish right spanish, that's true because I I'd be telling like leslie, my, my sister-in-law, or brian, or my parents. I'll say half the sentence in english, then the rest in spanish. And yesterday because I did photoshoot for lisette, that man for her pregnancy.

Speaker 2:

Um, I was talking to them, her and her husband, and they're like stephanie, you just went through spanglish, I'm like oh I don't even notice.

Speaker 1:

I think it just comes natural. Uh, and talk about being bilingual. The first thing that came to mind was like, especially that you work, um, for a non-profit and sometimes, well, now you do, but when you were working back with the lawyers, do you feel like? I feel, well, I'm a kind of statement questioning, okay, so I personally feel like bilingual should definitely get paid more, but I feel like there's certain roles that don't require it, so they don't pay you more. How do you feel about?

Speaker 2:

that? No, definitely. I think it's especially with the attorneys that I used to work. Um, some of them needed to be translated and I had to go to court yeah, in order to help them translate, translate. So I think it is. It's a skill that not everyone can, can do or learns how to do as well.

Speaker 1:

Or at least do it well yeah.

Speaker 2:

Because I've heard people that like oh no, I know both languages.

Speaker 1:

And I'm like no girl. You know about two languages. You know about two languages, but you don't know both languages.

Speaker 2:

That was definitely not Spanish or English. I don't know. No, no, no, that that was definitely not spanish or english. I don't know what that was you know what?

Speaker 1:

uh, I feel like people like who speak two languages and like or at least at least residents here like have papers, like translating for like medical, like hospitals. I think it's a great job. Back in the day I got offered like 20 bucks when I was like beginning college or even I think even afterwards about just for translating and I'm like I think the hardest part about medical translation is the medical terms yeah because you got to translate, because I, when I'm translating for my mom and I go to the doctor with her, I'm like let me go to google real quick yeah, yeah

Speaker 2:

because it's hard medical terms are hard, man, if you know it in english and you don't know how to say it in Spanish. What I always do, I'm like okay, le duele, esto y esto, y esto. We're going to get to the bottom of it.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, well, it's because I feel like some people even that translate, because either the translator or even if it's like through, like online translator, I feel like they do a good job, but they're not like the greatest thing out there and I'm like they're making pretty good money. I wonder if I could do that at part time. Sometimes, I think so you know what I mean. I think it's not a bad gig.

Speaker 2:

And I think some of them now, especially after COVID, they turned into like virtual, so they're like FaceTime you.

Speaker 1:

And all you have to do is just be there on FaceTime and then you just translate for them so you can do like a work from home type stuff. Yeah, okay, gotcha, so it's a good business. I think so too. I think it'll be good. So recently you've been traveling a lot. Talk to us about your little traveling adventures that you've had, because I know you've gone to dc texas. Where are your plans for this year when it comes to traveling? Where are you planning? Where else you're planning on going?

Speaker 2:

so I want to do many as many mini travels. Yeah, I can't do a big travel.

Speaker 1:

Like weekend trips.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, weekend trips.

Speaker 1:

There's my English coming out.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, little weekend trips, that's the goal. Okay, as many as possible. So Washington DC I went because of my photo shoot. It was amazing. I did a girl's trip.

Speaker 1:

I thought it was beautiful trip and it was the weekend too.

Speaker 2:

It was the weekend of my birthday too, so it was like perfect so who took your pictures? Um a guy that I know he's a photographer, got you so um, it was awesome like I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed the time with the girls um get away, you know, from just everything the stress, so it was good. Then we went to texas to go visit a friend.

Speaker 1:

Also amazing we traveled like through all middle of texas yeah so we went to austin san antonio dallas I saw that you guys posted a uh, a picture of, like where selena filled one of her, her videos. Like I think it was like a song or something. She in that in that bridge in san antonio. It was in san antonio, I don't remember what bridge it was, but it's like a popular bridge and it's like I remember selena filming the video. So that's what's like really known for, because, oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you know that no, yeah, so so we did go to um san antonio river, okay, um, and we got on the boat and everything and they were, but they never said that well, there's like a little like small little bridge, like there's water flowing down and you can see like restaurants on the side or like maybe like shops and stuff. Yeah, that's the san antonio river, but they never said that. Oh, I don't know that.

Speaker 1:

But yeah, it's like selena. Like around there, I think selena, uh she filmed, I think, a video uh back in the day, and I know where she used to live is like going south. It's like a couple of hours maybe.

Speaker 2:

Yes, so we looked it up because we you wanted to go.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I wanted to go.

Speaker 2:

Dude, I actually want to go there one day. We wanted to go so badly, but it was another what? Four hours, I think.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

So it was close to the border, okay.

Speaker 1:

Spanglish bird to the border.

Speaker 2:

Okay, there you go um so uh, but we wanted to go see her town. You know where she grew up and everything but it was just it was too much, because we were there. We got there thursday night.

Speaker 1:

Don't go frontier um I can talk about that too um, and then.

Speaker 2:

So friday, we started traveling down from d to San Antonio, and then we went back up and then we did a little adventure.

Speaker 1:

We went down to a cave too, which was amazing. I saw the pictures of those. Now I'm interested in going to the Selena spot, though, because I forgot the name she grew up in. I always pronounce it really wrong.

Speaker 2:

Isn't it, chris? No?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, corpus Christi, crispy, crispy, corpus christy, or something like this, something I gotta look at it. I gotta look at it yeah, no, I'm shocked, I'm shocked, but uh, I think I think that's where. I think, maybe, I think, if I'm not mistaken, that's where also her she's buried.

Speaker 2:

I think no because that's where she died, isn't that? Isn't that where she?

Speaker 1:

died. I don't know where she died, but but the reason we all talk about about Selena is because she was a big part of our culture.

Speaker 2:

For real.

Speaker 1:

Big time, like in Spanish culture. Selena, like you might have a comparison of Beyonce, but it's not even that. It's bigger man. I think it's way bigger and maybe because she is dead and she died young and I think the aura around her it just gets greater because of that.

Speaker 2:

But selena was just I mean the songs that she songs were and they're still so good nowadays, and everything and then so many people from different cultures listen to her. Can you imagine how she would be if she was still alive?

Speaker 1:

jennifer lopez wouldn't be, she wouldn't yeah, actually I think that's a fair assessment, though, because she popped off, because she did a good job with selena's uh um movie, so that's very true. Uh, okay, wait, you want to get mixy real quick. So you know well, obviously we're both christians, right, and you guys? This is crazy. Have you seen? You heard of that uh girl who's uh who, who died for like 10-15 minutes and then came back, and when she came back, she saw Selena in hell.

Speaker 1:

Oh, yes, you heard of that when I heard of that bro, and when I was younger I was like 18, I was like yo. I don't know if I want to listen to her music anymore because, like, her story seems so real, like of like how?

Speaker 1:

So what happened, was she asked. So I guess the background of the story a little bit, right, guys might as well get a little bit mixy with it. She wanted to. She wanted to die. I don't remember why the reason was, but to just to meet god or something, right? Um, you guys can watch this though, or youtube, or something.

Speaker 1:

But she wanted to to just die and then come back. I don't know if it was for for more belief or, you know, just self-belief, I don't know. But her pastor came and she was like god told me, to tell you that this is a time that you're gonna, you know, fade out and then see what happens, right? So there's exactly at that time she prepared herself, she dies, you know, and then she starts. She sees, at the beginning, she goes to to hell to see what's you know down there and, and obviously it's, you know, she sees all, like you know a lot of artists there, like selena, michael jackson and stuff like that, and I'm like yo, and eventually she goes, you know, god takes her to to heaven, and god takes her to heaven, and then comes back, and then, obviously, she comes back to life, and you know, they went while the other people were around her. They said that she was you know she was dead like for a couple you know minutes.

Speaker 1:

It wasn't like you know. I don't know if it was like an hour, I don't remember that anymore, but she was definitely dead. So when she came back, it's just just you know, like a whole story or whatnot, and I'm like when I heard that obviously my faith was not where it's at now. I'm not gonna say it's fake, I'm not gonna say it's real, but it's uh, as a human being, I'm like yo, that's just crazy in general, and gen z's z's terms.

Speaker 1:

Right now that's kind of sus it's sus 100, though it's sus because I wonder, for example, like was it? Did she actually see? Like, because what are the odds of seeing the biggest stars that you know down there? What about the other ones that you know?

Speaker 2:

I don't know, it's kind of yeah and then selena, you know, because, honestly, that hurt me a little bit, yeah, and honestly we don't know when these artists like die or anything Like. If, because you could, you have up to the last minute until you die to accept Forgiveness, yeah, and ask for forgiveness and God will forgive you.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

So I mean we weren't there, she wasn't there, right? So she really can't say oh yeah, speak on it. Yeah, like, oh, yeah, like, oh. These people are definitely in hell.

Speaker 1:

Um, I don't think that's and you, you make a definitely a very good point. You know why? Because selena, actually, when she got shot, she still ran, like from her hotel to like where the like the admin office was at, to ask for help. So maybe in those moments, who knows that, she's, you know, asking for forgiveness. We don't know, like her, how she was, her relationship was god is right or was so. That's true though it's, it's very, very sus. But when I heard that kind of just traumatized me a little bit because I was like dang bro, like now, if I listen to her music, I'm just like, ah, questionable, but I think I don't think it's. You know, no harm, no foul, I don't, I still, she has some bangers out there. Yeah, she does some really good music. Yeah't think it's. You know, no harm, no foul, I don't, I still, she has some bangers out there yeah, she does some really good music yeah I think it just affected my hot, my childhood too I, I still don't believe it.

Speaker 1:

Though you don't believe that story, I, I can't well, is it because you don't want to, because you, you really can't?

Speaker 2:

no, no, no no, let's say okay, let's say the celebrities did not ask for, because there's some that were atheists, you know yeah, like that you know, and to each its own and everything. And I do believe, like you know, if we're listening to, um, what's it called like secular?

Speaker 1:

secular.

Speaker 2:

Secular um music you know it's not fulfilling us in spiritually, so I do believe in that right but I can't. But the part I can't believe is like oh, how that god went, showed you hell and then went and showed you heaven too like I'm sorry, but the only man that's done that is jesus, and but this is why I feel like it doesn't add up.

Speaker 1:

Something like the math doesn't math too much a little yeah, it ain't math.

Speaker 2:

And it ain't math and for sure yeah, I, I can't, I can't trust that, yeah, that is true, though.

Speaker 1:

have you heard that? Uh, I don't know if you've heard of this, it's more of a I wouldn't say a theory, but like, where was Jesus at the moment that he died? So he got crucified, he dies, right? And then where was he at those three days before he rose, right? I've heard I think this is pretty cool that he went, went to, I wouldn't say down the hell, but to the place where all the souls before they knew about god or jesus and he can't. He went to them and went and told them about you know about himself, like, do you believe in me or not? Like, do you like a, like a chance of him, of, like, I wouldn't say, redemption?

Speaker 1:

because, not redemption, because they didn't know that he existed or not, because there's people that die and they don't. They don't know. But I've heard that he kind of went to see those souls and see if, like you know get the keys, yeah, yeah. And then you know, that's what I thought. It was pretty cool. Actually, I was like because what did what did he do? What?

Speaker 2:

was that? That's what it was that's what it was.

Speaker 1:

Is that what you? But it's not confirmed I'll clarify it.

Speaker 2:

I'll clarify it, but but I think that's what it was.

Speaker 1:

Is it confirmed, though I'm not sure. If, like, it's a thing I want to get my phone. Get your phone. No, I guess your phone, but I'm pretty sure. Yeah, so it's important because obviously you wonder where you know Jesus was for those three days, so before he rose, right on the third day, and I think that's something that's like you know. Naturally you question. By the way, guys, I personally I don't believe that questioning, uh, to a certain extent, is you know, it's bad?

Speaker 2:

um, because naturally, if she did it to say oh, I want, I want you to show me this and show me the artist in order to for to believe.

Speaker 2:

Then you're not really believing, right, because part part of being a christian is having your faith in jesus, and no matter what happens. Yeah, and I'm not saying that we're going to be 100 percent, you know, our faith is going to be like 100, but it's like saying, um, oh, show me this in order for me to believe. Then you're really not believing, because, I mean, we have air and we still believe in it.

Speaker 1:

No, you know what that's a crazy point you make, because one of my shirts, by the way not a plug I literally have on one of my shirts it says witnessing a miracle would not produce your healing, but faith will. Because before, when I had my faith was lower and it wasn't as big as it is now. I wanted to see a miracle of somebody getting this like big miracle happening to them so I could believe in my miracle. But god sent me some words and he said homie, that's not gonna produce your healing right From your, from your health perspective. It's going to be your faith. Your faith will heal you.

Speaker 1:

Now does that healing mean, uh, you know, physically, or maybe it could be spiritually, and from spiritually, from the inside out, you could get healed. Um, you know physically, but that's not even the case and point even then, because healing yourself can be so many, so many things in life, right, and I think eventually you learn to seek the healer and not the healing. So I just wanted to provide that some context for you guys. Did you find anything?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so it's. It's saying, like some scriptures, depending on the bible that you get, it says it says that it goes it's to hell and then. Then it says he goes to the dead okay so, um, he descends into hell is one of them, and then the other one is like oh, he descends to the dead. Okay, um, but I'm still looking okay but, I I've. I've always heard that I have to reread it, but I thought it was the same thing because you know you read the bible so many times and you miss something.

Speaker 1:

So is there any uh experiences lately that have? Like you know, as christians, we life experiences shapes us right. So is there anything that recently has shaped you, or like that you feel like maybe you're getting better at um or need, or like you feel like you know you've grown in your faith anything yeah, I feel like lately I've been more um I think before I act okay um, because before you know me, I I have no filters.

Speaker 2:

Usually I say what I am thinking. Yeah, I say what I'm thinking and it's just like take it as how you got it. Like if the shoe fits, it fits, um, but now I'm more like you know what. No, like, because I've learned that many people are going through so many things, um, and then we don't know their full stories some people don't speak about what they're going through, and then us just saying, oh, I'm just going to say it because it needs to be said doesn't necessarily mean it should be said.

Speaker 1:

Or it's right for you to say it, yeah, or it's right for me to say it, I'm not living through your shoes, you're not living through my shoes.

Speaker 2:

And then also for experience too, because you know we went through some stuff too, and people would come and say certain things and I'm like you, honestly, don't know us.

Speaker 1:

You know us.

Speaker 2:

You know what we like to present to you, but you really don't know us like through heart or what we go through day to day and your comments aren't really like that you know that necessary or that very, very like you know it's going to, it just affects us even worse and makes us think even worse of those people. So I think that's what's been happening with me. Like sometimes I hear certain people be like oh yeah, this person and this person do this and that and that, and I'm like but do y'all have y'all talked to them first?

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

Have y'all, do y'all know what's going on. You know their story story yeah, like what if this is happening? What if that's happening? So I think that's been, that's been what I, um, like god has really changed in me a lot. Like I, I rather listen first and then and then say what I gotta say right.

Speaker 1:

So more having, more grace is what I'm hearing yes towards, towards people.

Speaker 1:

that's good, that's really good. Actually, I've had recently for me, I feel like it was kind of loving your enemies more. I was reading a couple of verses in the Bible a couple of days ago and I really stuck to me how you kind of have to be really not just graceful but be forgiven, even to the people that do you wrong. And as humans, that's hard Like, oh my God, right, it's. It's very, very hard. And I was reading you know some verbs and it's just. You know it's easy to act on faith when you know the right person or a family member. You know like, oh, I love you, I show you love. But what about the guy or the woman, the person that did you dirty? What about that person? How do you? You know, how do you react to what they do? Do you show your love back? Do you show your grace back? You know, regardless of what they say or do, do you still act in a certain way where, like Jesus would carry himself as we would, and you're like mmm.

Speaker 2:

You know, I just taught this about forgiveness to my Sunday school kids. Okay, and you know the best example hey. Take five boys. The best example is David King David.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

Because think about Saul. This is where I how do you say it in English? Saul El Rey, saul, saul, saul, there we go. Okay, I was thinking that because the translations in English Saul El Rey, saul, saul, saul, there we go. Okay, I was. I'm thinking that because the translations sometimes don't. They don't match. You don't match, like James is Santiago.

Speaker 1:

I don't even know what James is. What is James? James is in the New Testament.

Speaker 2:

So then it's Santiago, is it? Yeah, santiago.

Speaker 1:

Okay, king Saul.

Speaker 2:

He, you know he chased David three times to kill him. His envy was so bad of like David's faith towards God and how he was going Like so he would go and kill. He would kill like what? 10,000, right.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

David would go and kill like their enemies and he would be like he would kill like what? Ten thousand, right, right, david would go and kill like their enemies and he would be like a hundred thousand. And so the people of like, of that village or the, the, the kingdom, would be like oh, david is amazing, david, is this? David is that? So the king would be the saul would be like what is going on? I'm the king, like why aren't you praising me?

Speaker 2:

like how y'all praising him, but david wasn't doing it to be praised. He was doing it because he was, like you know, he was a child god first and then he was a soldier right and, like saul, was only seeing all the praise. So then when david got a chance to like, kill saul and everything, he didn't do it, he forgave him damn so can you imagine being chased three times and, like you know, basically persecuted yeah, but yeah and um, you know and all for years I mean years at one point saul like threw a knife at david, like where it went like this yeah

Speaker 2:

because in the beginning david was um, was like you know he, you know the story, like david with the goli, and then he was one of Saul's biggest leaders in the soldiers, like he was leading soldiers specifically for Saul and everything. So Saul was going through because he had stepped away from God. He was going through like a mental episode, like he was going crazy. So the only thing that would like kind of soothe him was when David would play the harp that's kind of dope.

Speaker 1:

I didn't know that david actually played the heart. Yeah, he played the heart so.

Speaker 2:

and then, um, so david would play the harp for him and everything, and that would kind of. But it got to the point where his envy was so bad that even when david would play the harp wouldn't work, so he threw a knife at him. And then, um, of course, david got married and you know, his wife tried to protect him. Saul's own son was David's best friend, jonathan, and he even protected David and Jonathan was like just go, I'll cover for you and everything. And he would try to talk to his dad saying hey, like you know, why would you do this? Like you're the king, what would people think? Blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 2:

In order for David to escape. So, like, like, even his own children were like you know what is going on, right, you know, and so that even got him even angrier, like, hey, no one has my back. But then at the end david still had, like you know, the ability to forgive him after all of that, and I I think that's one of our biggest examples that's actually really good and I feel like that's one of the hardest things to do forgive, forgive and just be graceful.

Speaker 1:

I think you know. I think why sometimes, carrying yourself as you know, the way Jesus did, it's so hard because we think so selfishly as humans right, because of our sinful world, and naturally we're kind of just selfish but turning that around is so difficult and like, I feel like people looking from the outside in, like they don't see that, they don't see it. They think we act or do good because we want something out of, but if you understand, it's because that's the way Jesus did it and never. I was talking, uh, and he, you know, obviously he never um did that.

Speaker 1:

So I was talking to a friend recently that, um, I think it was um, probably like last week or something about how the lord came, like to serve us, but we don't even come. You know, we don't even serve others like. We're so like selfish, that like and serving I don't mean just serve your church in general, but like, serve people in general. You know, be kindful, do things for people without asking things in return, uh, things of that nature. You know, jesus walked, you know, and he, well, he spread his message, for what? Three years or something, three years or so, and all he did was just literally came to serve us, showed us the example of what it was, and it's hard for humans to do that, and especially in this world.

Speaker 2:

So yeah, for sure. I think also it's gotten harder too because and like you said, we don't think about what Jesus did for us, and then it's, it's us also like take and take and take and take, because we're always there for like, hey God, I need this, I need this, I need this, I need this.

Speaker 1:

Right.

Speaker 2:

But when do we, like you know hey, I'm going to pray or like just give thanks in this prayer? You know, for everything that I have, or I'm going to wake up and just be happy because God has me, you know, here living healthy, you know at least being able to walk, do anything that we can do. Um, and then we tried. But it is so hard too, because we try to help others and then others take advantage and then that just upsets us but we're.

Speaker 2:

But if you think about it, we've been taking advantage of jesus so much too.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, that's true so much and I can.

Speaker 2:

I can because sometimes I think about that too. I'm just like so many people just come you know and be like hey, can you help me with this, can you help me with that, and I'm like why me?

Speaker 1:

Yeah, but some people just try to take your peace away and I'm and I'm, and I'm like that that is something that I've even talked to the Lord about. I was like, look, I'm already going through a lot in life. Right, health is full-time, work is full-time, working on content is full-time, like I'm enjoying my life, I'm loving my family. But if somebody comes and try to like disrupt that piece or make something even crazier than than it is, then I have to cut them off my life. You know, like I'm not saying, I'm not being, I'm not going to be graceful and be and show you some love and I give you chances and stuff, but like let's work at it, because you can't just come here and bring you know your life and your problems and bring them to mind, like yeah I don't.

Speaker 1:

I'm not about the life. No more, especially at my age, I'm like we need to I need you to go back on that. My age thing, we ain't that old okay, but I, when I say my age, I think I'm probably referring more to men, because at 20s and 30s here it's totally different. You know what I mean. 20, 20 lives experience and 30 lives experience, we're hitting a little different and even though you yes, staff we're in the in the long term.

Speaker 2:

We're young still, but we're getting there, man I feel like your 20s are the times where you can make all the mistakes and 30s is where you enjoy.

Speaker 1:

So you can. How do you feel about that? I was actually trying to bring up that topic. So, not a lot of people. Well, now, a lot of our friends are, but even back in the day, some people can't fathom the fact that we're both 30. And obviously we're not married and we're working still, even in our careers or life, you're traveling a lot. You do what you love a lot. Hey, your life, you're traveling a lot, you do what you love a lot, you know, hey.

Speaker 2:

Hey, how take five, my friend? You mean, how uh, we get the oh, why aren't you married yet, kind of question well, even those.

Speaker 1:

I know you don't like those, but yeah, I hate those guys. I hate them so much I know you don't like those. Come here, papa. You need something loving, come here. So even even even those like but some people cannot fathom, like the fact of what you're doing. They're like oh, time is flying by, or time is you know, like el tren se te va. You know, the train is leaving. I'm like let her leave, bro, I'll catch the other one.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, I'm like, I'm chilling. I was like I'm pretty sure every five minutes a train passes by, yeah.

Speaker 1:

I'm like, I'm not even worried about this right now. It's like I think the I think maybe from what we've seen from our parents, from what we've seen from our parents you know what I mean or like or or other relationships. I feel like taking it slow is not bad. I'm not saying we don't want relationships, but we don't want to be married because we do eventually, we do right, but damn like y'all need to let it go. It's a weird. We're having a good time.

Speaker 2:

I think it's also okay. So we've been raised in two different cultures. We've been raised in kind of like the American culture and the Hispanic culture.

Speaker 1:

Good point.

Speaker 2:

So we have a mixture of two. Then we've seen how our parents have had to struggle, Like you know. I know my parents are very open of what everything I did, and hey they.

Speaker 2:

They were always like we want you to get your education, you know, first and before you like you know, you know, get a family and everything. Of course they didn't think that I was gonna be at this age we still no family but it's just to me, it's like I think we need to move away from like, oh okay, this is what is so done. And back then in the day when now it's like I think a lot of people are not that mature enough, people are getting married. I'm like, are y'all sure y'all mature enough to be married?

Speaker 2:

Because, I don't feel like I'm still mature enough to be married.

Speaker 1:

I've seen too many people get in their 20s and they're already divorced and I'm like was that worth it?

Speaker 2:

Yeah, was that worth it, unless I'm divorcing millionaires?

Speaker 1:

or billionaires. Get half of that, go home.

Speaker 2:

Yes, you know, other than that, I ain't.

Speaker 1:

No, I respect that. Listen, sometimes you got to do what you got to do.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you know, but I don't know. I just feel like some, sometimes the culture is what gets in the way, because they were at what? 24?

Speaker 1:

younger.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, like okay, my mom had me at when she was 18. Yeah, so by the time my age, we were already what like 10, 10, yeah, 10 yeah 10, 15. So it's like I get it, but I'm not gonna rush it. I I feel like a child or um is a whole responsibility it is, though, and I, I mean, I take care of my nephews and I'm just like in that little bit, I'm like, oh my god, like anything happens to these kids, it's on me yeah and you know, at least I can give them back yeah and then I'm like okay at the end of the night.

Speaker 2:

It's like here you go I'm done, I'm done auntie steph's coming next time, unless they want to sleep over, which they love to do but even then, though, like I feel like you know you're gonna, you know it's not, yeah, you're gonna give them back so it's just the whole responsibility, but I think it's just the different cultures, because if you talk to even my mom, like she cleans houses, right, and one of her um, the people that she cleans, one of her clients, she's a doctor and she's like, oh yeah, what your daughter is doing is a great job. Like you know, she's getting her education and everything because you're getting your master's.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, yeah and then he's like, but your son was doing like you know, was moving too fast, didn't think about the consequences and everything, and I'm like, okay, well, still, you know, stuff happens either way, even in both cultures, because they're you know. But I I also think I took a lot of on, like the american side of thinking, where it's like well, I like that kind of better. Like you know, you gotta enjoy your life first yeah and have stories yeah, no, I feel that though.

Speaker 1:

I feel that because, even, even even at my age not, I'm not old, stuff, I get it but like that's, even in your 30s now, like I feel so good because, like you know, I guess, from a man's perspective, like your career is better. You know I can, I can pay all my bills, I'm saving up. I live at home. You know I pay rent, but it's not like what you know, whatever the crazy you know three thousand dollars out there, right, and you know it's so much easier.

Speaker 1:

if I want to go, like out next week or whatever, like a you know a trip that you mentioned earlier, I can go. I don't have to. You know a trip that you mentioned earlier, I can go, I don't have to. You know plan with my kids or family, like I feel like it's also a mix and match, you know, and I like that freedom. Sometimes I'm just like, okay, nice, this is not too bad. Sometimes I play Call of Duty, you know, for four or five hours at night and I'm like I don't have to worry about, like, the other side, and I guess maybe it is a little selfish, but I don't think so.

Speaker 2:

I think it's just a lot of freedom that we enjoy and but it's not bad to be selfish, because I've told people I was like I'm selfish, I I will admit it, I don't care, I will say it out loud I'm selfish, I like to go on trips, I like to buy myself stuff.

Speaker 1:

I love okay, but that's not self. I mean, I think what so, but that's not self. I mean I think what so, but that's what they consider selfish.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, right, right, right, because instead of me trying to build a family, I'm just thinking, oh, where can I go?

Speaker 1:

next Got you.

Speaker 2:

And I'm like, well then, if that's what it is, I love it, you know.

Speaker 1:

And I do think it's a big responsibility. A whole human is a responsibility.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so like no? Let me be selfish if I can enjoy it right now this is selfish, I'm gonna be so.

Speaker 1:

Yes, I have no problem with that. No, I feel you on that, especially with you that you like traveling. That's uh yo, you know what. I saw a post that you meant like what states you've gone to like, and you scratched them out. So which ones are you missing that you want to go to because you've been to? How many states you've been to?

Speaker 1:

like I haven't been to any, like many you've been to like, but you but, but fair enough, but where are you thinking about going? That you want to go to, that you haven't gone to.

Speaker 2:

So I really want to go to colorado montana okay um, I don't know if I'm pronouncing it because I right or wrong, because everyone pronounces it. Weird, wy Wyoming.

Speaker 1:

Wyoming.

Speaker 2:

Wyoming.

Speaker 1:

Wyoming, wyoming. Okay, I think that's Wyoming. Wait, why there?

Speaker 2:

It's so pretty oh.

Speaker 1:

I've never heard of that one.

Speaker 2:

It's so pretty.

Speaker 1:

I heard of it.

Speaker 2:

Washington State, oregon. I want to go to Arizona, for sure.

Speaker 1:

Desert.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I want to go, so badly.

Speaker 1:

Okay.

Speaker 2:

And what was another?

Speaker 1:

one that I really wanted to go. So you're thinking more west right now, all the way west yeah, midwest and on west in that way, because you've been most of the east at least some of the good places in the east right yeah, it's been good, it's it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, we went to maryland, new york. I love new york.

Speaker 1:

I haven't been to new york. I had a chance to go but I was just like I don't know. New york doesn't attract me as much, maybe the city itself like new york city and like the buildings and you know, like staples of what you've seen on on on movies and stuff. They look nice, but so I walked.

Speaker 2:

I walked all of new york city with my friend is it actually like nice, nice as they? I loved it, but I think again, it's like, like if you love to travel and you love to adventure, and see. Because I feel like that's what it is In order for you to love to travel and for you to travel, it's like you have to be open minded about where you're going. It's not going to be the same thing where you're going to be. Like, if you're here from Georgia, it's not going to be the same thing.

Speaker 1:

You know, because I fall in love with every state that I go to.

Speaker 2:

I'm like oh my god, this is beautiful. I want to move here. Yeah, I want to move here, you know, um, but I loved it, it's, we walked your attachment issues, girl which country?

Speaker 1:

that's what it is, but country and states, not people and countries and states, men and country and states, because, because Costa Rica is still calling me, oh, the other side of Costa Rica, yes, yeah.

Speaker 2:

Yes, but I think it's just that you just have to be like open to enjoy what each place has given you.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, I think it's a little bit different too, plus, even though the fact that, knowing the fact that you're coming back, I think it's also like, okay, there's some cities that I feel like I've moved to, but not too many. Actually, I like georgia, I like the state. Actually, I should say I like the state of georgia. You know, it's nice.

Speaker 2:

Other, there is a peace and quiet here, like when you go home and you know you're in your bed and everything, like everything is peaceful and quiet compared to other places yeah, I don't know if it's because I'm used to it, but I, like the state of georgia, feel like it's good. I would love if it would be more transportation friendly, because that's what I love about California and New York.

Speaker 1:

So like more buses or something you mean yeah, like buses, trains and stuff like that.

Speaker 2:

I think those are so useful.

Speaker 1:

You're not happy with MARTA.

Speaker 2:

We don't even get MARTA a B.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, marta, I've never heard something good about MARTA, though. Oh yeah, I've never heard something good about Marta though, oh yeah. I've never heard something good about Marta. You know what's good though Transportation, that's good. I think that's healthy.

Speaker 2:

but and then I just like, I feel also like Georgia's not. It's. It wants to be very cultured, but it's not. Does that make sense? Hmm?

Speaker 1:

Hmm, cultured, but it's not. Does that make sense? So it's not in the sense of like new updates, like technology type stuff or like you mean just transportation?

Speaker 2:

no, no, no, no, no, no. Like the people or like the food or stuff like that. You know you'll see little stuff where, oh, come eat here, come eat there, but it's not very like. What's the best thing that we could, I think, culture is the right one.

Speaker 1:

We are coached like culture, but like with different people, for sure, and there's some like, for example, food restaurants, but it's not like a a big deal, like they're always like fusion, like they're fusion together it's not like a specific like.

Speaker 2:

If you go to new york, like you know, you have like little italy where it's like pizzerias yes, like, like the good stuff, or you know Chinatown or stuff like that. Oh, which I just learned that there's a little Chinatown here, a mini one in Beaufort.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I wonder if there's more towns like that. We just haven't discovered it. We just haven't discovered it. No, no, I like when I mean because I don't even go to Atlanta like that much anymore, I mean because I don't even go to Atlanta like that that much anymore, Like I went to school. But I used to go to school and then come back you know what I mean, it's just so much traffic, it's so much traffic.

Speaker 1:

I was talking to somebody too about that in my other podcast, how Atlanta's traffic has gotten so bad, bro, Like so bad, so bad. I don't know how Jacqueline does it now. Because she goes to school, because she's ghost.

Speaker 2:

I think it's also the work at home syndrome, that's.

Speaker 1:

That's a thing, though. Yeah, like if you're telling me to go on 85 and go to atlanta or something, I'm like it has to be a specific time around lunchtime, because it's noon, the roads are more clear, come back.

Speaker 2:

But damn, you're talking about seven, eight, nine I know you just said oh, like you know, when botanical garden is like 45 minutes right before, I like I would be like that's nothing, you know. But now I do think about it, like I'm not gonna lie, I do think about it.

Speaker 1:

I'm like it is a little far and I love to drive, but it's just sorry, so you do like working from home. You prefer working from home than then going to the office.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah yeah, I don't get what people that don't like working from home, like, besides the fact, OK, I get it. Well, I don't even get this part. I'm not as productive because I'm like, bro, you got to have discipline, it's your job. Like, do you only do your job because you're with other people? Like because you go into the office and you see other people working? I get how like that you know I will be choosing. You know what I mean. Like I get how like that you know I would be cheese me. And though you know what I mean.

Speaker 2:

Like I get how that that would affect people but I'm like I do miss that part, like being with other people and like, because I am with cheese me and though, yeah, that old law firm, uh, I had a friend, um, she was a little bit older than me but oh my god, she was my best bud and we would just be like, you know, talking, and we'll be working too, like she was. So I would my face, my desk would face, this way, she would be like right here and we'll be working and just be like she's talking she's meando there, you know.

Speaker 2:

So I do miss it, um, but other than that, I mean when I'm like, okay, I have to do this, this and this by a certain time, I'll do it. And then I'm like, okay, do it quicker, and then I'm free for the day yeah, I just okay, wait, let's, let's, let's give a rundown, right.

Speaker 1:

You get to wake up later in the in, in the day, or or in the morning, I should say, because you don't have to get up, really shower and go to work, you know, get dressed and everything, so you avoid all that traffic. You avoid an hour or so, maybe more, of sleep. You're a girl, so probably maybe some more, I don't know. Right On top of that, when you ever get a break and you go get a snack, you can go to your, you know, to your kitchen, get a snack, come back, and if you do, you know there's not much to do at work. You're in your PJs or you're in your comfortable clothes, you're at home. Maybe you get to lay down a little bit nothing crazy, you know what I mean and then when you get out, you don't have to drive back in that traffic and come back home. I'm like it. I'm like it's too much positives to just feel like you want to be productive at work for me.

Speaker 2:

You know what I mean like yeah, yeah, it's not good enough for me because I'm in my comfortable clothes like like I am now yeah, you know.

Speaker 1:

Oh, tell me about it.

Speaker 2:

I live in like all my, my laundries become so much easier too, because it's just like leggings and a t-shirt and you know. And then the camera comes on certain times and I'm like, okay, they don't mind the t-shirt as long as there's nothing bad on it, so I'm like it's good, presentable, yeah, you know, and then, yeah, my hair is usually like on a braid or a bun, but it it looks presentable, like you said.

Speaker 2:

So, yeah, I, I love working from home and then now I have a chance, like I can help out my brother too. I, you know with the, with his kids yeah, with my nephews I go pick him, pick up my oldest nephew from the bus and everything, and that's moments that I'm gonna have with them too, and memories that, hey, my aunt picked me up from here and then I'm like, okay, what do y'all want for lunch? I'll go get them and that's it's so exciting for for them.

Speaker 1:

Now you mentioned kids. Like that too. I have somebody who is a grandma and she takes over grandkids while she's working and like I, always, every time I'll get on the phone call with her. It's like, oh, it's my grandkids and she also have to hang up early or something, or whatever. But like, even then you can help out your, you, her kids, by her just working from home and just you know being there, and then the kids don't have to be, you know, you don't have to pay babysitter for them and you know how expensive that is.

Speaker 2:

It's crazy man, it's kind of not a hand bro, even like pre-k, like all this stuff makes you think about having kids of your own, because that's what you need.

Speaker 1:

The abuelitas around sometimes because yes, I'm like.

Speaker 2:

No, I'd rather pay my mom to take care of my kid and I know they're not going to be mistreated. I'll be like mom you stay at home, take care of them. I'll take you to once I come back from work. Take you to go grocery shopping. Whatever you need to do, let's do it.

Speaker 1:

Take care of the babies.

Speaker 2:

But yeah, because it's like now. I'm sorry, but the trust issues are up here with how people take care of other people's kids, because no one's ever going to have the patience the way that you and your family are going to have the patience with your kids, and then it's just so many bad people plus, bro, plus yeah, if they don't get paid.

Speaker 1:

well, imagine the incentive to take care of kids that are crying and shitting all over the place excuse my language or vomiting or you know doing what I'm like I don't know. That's a good incentive enough to like, really you know, to get in that field and then you're not taking care of my child. Yeah, and I'm paying $800 a week or something like that.

Speaker 2:

No, it's not even $800. It's more. Nah, it is more. You think so. A week, yes, no, no, it's a little bit more. It's a little bit more.

Speaker 1:

it's more than that you're making me more happy, though I don't have a kid right now because that's a lot of money. That's a car payment.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, car kid, car the kid can't take you anywhere.

Speaker 1:

That's bad. Yeah, you know what?

Speaker 2:

I mean I I don't know if this is true, though I had uh seen uh someone say that just last year, in 2023, they estimated that one child would cost around 53 000 a year.

Speaker 1:

Yes, well, overall, with everything yes I guess it depends on the age. You know, if you're like depends on age maybe, but I know, I know, for example, diapers are expensive.

Speaker 2:

Yo the little formula things the formula is expensive bro, oh my God, Because I bought some Yo a child is eating better than me.

Speaker 1:

I could go to Papadum right now with this money $43 for a can like that.

Speaker 2:

$43?, $43. $43. Because that's what I had paid for someone that I bought it for. Yeah.

Speaker 1:

And I was like Lord, no, no, that's a lot of money, bro, 43?.

Speaker 2:

That's me.

Speaker 1:

And how much does it last a kid? Like two weeks maybe. Yes, so you're talking about $100 to feed the baby, and then diapers, and I mean I think we're making a great choice, guys. I think right now we're all right. I think we're making a great choice, guys. I think right now we're all right. I think we're okay.

Speaker 2:

Props to everyone. That has has nothing wrong with that. You guys know what you're doing, yeah.

Speaker 1:

You guys probably relate to the struggles we were talking about, but we're just looking at it from the eyesight end. But yeah, you know, eventually we'll get there, we'll cross. We'll cross that bridge when we get. That's a good way of putting it. Yeah, yeah, eventually I don't know.

Speaker 2:

Hey, staff doesn't look too good, man do you have anything else you want to share? Uh, before we, we leave today no, let's go try out some new food yes, and I'm gonna record a video too.

Speaker 1:

We're going right now to actually I'm gonna, I'm gonna wait, I'm gonna wait for the video to release. So a couple things that I learned from this podcast. Today definitely have the dogs inside when I'm doing a outside show, because they're all over the place and make and try to make sure as much as possible that the neighbors next door are not working on the yard. That two things that I learned, because I don't know how the how bad the audio will be from that, but you know, it's the first time thing. Thank you for being part of it. It's a it's.

Speaker 2:

What do you think?

Speaker 1:

stop, it's pretty chill right outside and it's good.

Speaker 2:

Next time we'll do it in the in the pool oh yeah, 100, I'm planning.

Speaker 1:

I'm planning on doing like a summer thing and like doing it over there, like on the side oh, you know what I saw? Sorry, guys get some drinks and stuff yeah, okay.

Speaker 2:

So I saw this um tiktok where they had we could put like a screen here and you know how I have my floaties right and then have a movie night at the pool.

Speaker 1:

Oh, get a projector.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I have a projector.

Speaker 1:

Hey, I like where your head's at right now. Let's do summer things For real. Let's go out for summer things. At least once every twice. Once every two weeks.

Speaker 2:

I'm down.

Speaker 1:

I'll be down, and then you know what we can do A jacuzzi, a jacuzzi podcast. I'm down.

Speaker 2:

I'd be down, and then you know what we can do A jacuzzi, a jacuzzi podcast. I'm going to do one. I'm going to do one. Okay, I'm down for that, okay.

Speaker 1:

So we're having you on in the summer, against one more time at least, and then you can pick. You can do a jacuzzi. You can do, I think, around this time, because the sun's not as Thank you for coming on again, Steph. I appreciate you.

Speaker 1:

Family thank you guys for watching. Again, thank you for joining my podcast. Hopefully you guys are enjoying the content. My content game is just growing and I'm excited to keep growing and producing more content for you guys, as usual. Don't forget this shirt right here that you see. You will be able to see this on the link in the bottom of the description of the video, or I think it's just in the bottom of the video, or I think it's just the bottom of the video and you can purchase it. There's more stuff. I mean sweaters, shirts, hoodies, you name it everything I for men and for women at the moment. So eventually, you know we'll create more stuff in the future, but my creativity is not the best, so it's alright. It's a good start, though. You know what I mean, so I got you on the next ones, please. I need creativity a lot. So thank you guys for watching. See you guys on the next one. As always, take care of yourself and each other. Peace and love, familia deuce bye.