November 22, 2024 • 27 mins
Inflating prices on goods and services is a given. We talk about things we've either had to give up on, find a cheaper alternative, or just pay the higher prices.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's wild how algorithms work. We always talk about how
we think our phones are listening to us. That's like
a topic we've always talked about. But after the episode
we did about hobbies like finding hobbies like maybe the
next day on Instagram, a random post of the top
ten hobbies for men that women find attractive popped up.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's almost like exactly what you needed.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, But then the wild thing is, I'm going through
the top ten and I do a lot of these things, okay,
and yet where are the women at? And I'm just kidding,
what are they all right? Number one playing an instrument?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I don't play an instrument.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I see, I was in band. Yeah, I play a
couple of instruments. But now I DJ. That's I think
that's the second I feel is considered an instrument. Number two,
I don't. I see. Number two is reading.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I do audio books, so I'm not a big reader
the same I don't. I'm somebody that my mind wanders
off a lot when I start to read. I can lead,
I can read in like short paragraphs, but just finishing
a whole book. I could do an article, but not
like a whole book.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm not officially diagnosed, but I think I have ADHD.
Like wait, is that even how you say like attention? Yeah, yeah,
when I'm trying to read a book, like my mind
will just go off somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I could see that all the time. Yeah, that's what
happens to me. That's why I always sucked in school
at studying. I couldn't study very well. I was a
bad study so my test taking was like really bad.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah. But like audiobooks, I have a couple of audiobooks
that I've listened to. Number three swimming. I like to
swim during the summertime. I like hitting the pool swim.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You know what's funny. I haven't swam in years, and honestly,
I don't know why. I just really haven't. I just
as a kid, I loved going swimming, and we had
was that Dave Chappelle joke where you don't have like
the built in pool, but we had like the dough boy.
That's how much we had. So I don't want it, ohs.
And I used to love swimming, but when I became
an adult, I just it wasn't really my thing anymore.
(02:05):
I don't know why. It's a random thing to be
turned on by though.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah again number three on the list. You know, what
I just learned is like sort of like a side note.
You know, my dad passed away four months ago, and
I learned that he I'm just learning this. Like my
mom told me after he passed away that my dad
was a collegiate swimmer. Really yeah he was like, he
was like he's won medals and yeah as a swimmer,
(02:31):
And I was like, and as a kid, I do
remember him taking us to the pool a lot and
teaching us how to swim. Okay, I remember that as
a kid, like he would teach us breathing techniques and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So I actually taught myself how to swim. Oh okay, yeah,
kind of just like threw yourself in essentially. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
But yeah, number three, so I like swimming. Number four. Traveling,
we vote, yeah, but we both travel. Number five. I
haven't done this in a while, but I loved how hiking,
especially going to Yo seventy. I bring this up all
the time. But hiking is number five, Okay, I like hiking.
Number six.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Cooking.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I brought this up. It's something I.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Do something I do not do actually, so yeah, you're
not gonna find me not cooking.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, so Number six, I love cooking, especially with the
whole doing the whole Keto recipes. I've been cooking a
lot lately. Number seven Learning a different language.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh yeah, I've never tried. I mean I took classes,
but only because you know, they were like electives, but
nothing crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I think I do this, but not officially where you know,
in our building we have the Spanish station and the
DJs there. They're always like teaching me Spanish here and
there and forcing me to speak Spanish to them. So
I'm kind of doing number seven too, Okay. Number eight painting.
(03:51):
I used to paint a lot when I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Did we have this conversation where I was talking about
like I was a pretty good drawer, but I kept
that painting. Yeah, so I'm not good at that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't paint as a hobby anymore, but I've done
it before. Number nine woodworking. The only thing I can
think of is like, I mean, when the Ikea stuff comes,
I'll build that. No, I'm not a woodworker.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I took a wood shop class in school, but it
was never really my thing. But yeah, I can mess
around with the Ikea stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I've never done the I didn't do a wood
shop in school. And the last one number ten photography,
which I mean with our phones and Instagram. I loved.
I loved doing photography, like the art of you know,
angles and how.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
The colors capturing something.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Capturing something with the you know, the right way and stuff.
So I'm super into photography. And again I think sixty
seventy of this top ten I do. But yet where
are the women at that find out to find out attracted?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I ain't doing too many of those hobbies.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But yes, that's why we said. I think it's all
about the looks.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, when it comes down to that's what I'm saying.
I wonder what the context of this question was, But
let's get into this. This could give me for our
podcast What Up. I'm Jizzo. That is John Magic and
we are back on.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The radio today. Well, you know, as we're recording this podcast,
one of my topics was what are you willing to
overpay for? Today? You know, what are things that you're
willing to overpay for? Because of inflation? Things have been
going up for years now, but there's certain things that
we're still gonna pay for.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean, I see, we see a lot of
people complaining when prices go up, and my clad back
is always like you don't have to buy it, right.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, but what if you need it though.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Then you can get a cheaper version of it. Maybe
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I I do. I think there's some things where I've
done that where like, for example, you know, when I
used to buy like T shirts, it would always have
to be like the Nike T shirts. And now I'm
okay with going to Costco and getting a pack of
Kirkland white.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Costco is a place where I get my like my
toilet paper, my water clothes. They do have good stuff though,
but I think they do. But I haven't got any
clothes there, no the Kirkland brand.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I've gotten some khakis there before.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, Like I'm not mad.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is that like a when you get an old Is
that a thing when you get older? As you get
up there in age, you're like, yeah, I'm good with Kirkland.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And not so much because I've been seeing a lot
of people, like on TikTok they brag about the Kirkland stuff.
It's almost become somewhat trendy a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, Like you see celebrities now wearing that Kirkland logo
shirt where that's really all it is, like anyone can
make things cool literally, Yeah, but when you're younger.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Remember a champion Wait was it a champion?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, where like that was like not cool and then
all of a sudden it became cool again.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
See I don't even remember when it wasn't cool, but
you're right, someone like made it cool and then they
overpriced it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But I know even at Costco, I get like the
Champion underwear. Yeah, like they got Champion underwear there something
that And we'll stick with clothing. You know, as a
as a young kid, like elementary school, maybe my first
year of middle school, my mom took us to pay
Less and yeah, but the pro wigs and all that stuff,
(07:24):
that's something I don't think I could go back to.
And and here's the reason. Nothing exactly nothing against Payless
shoe sores, but it's uncomfortable. Ye, So comfort that is
a big thing.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
There was like a couple of times growing up where
you know, you had certain events or whatever you needed
to have dress shoes and I never really had dress
shoes on deck. So I would go to Payless. Man
they would be like good for like one or two
wears and that was about it. But I mean it
got me through, like my presentation or my fancy dinner
did not need to be at. But yeah, shoes is
(07:58):
a good one. That's that's something that I invent a
lot in especially now. Comfort is a big thing for
me with shoes, especially, you know, coming into work every day,
we can we're lucky enough to just dress how we
want to, so we likely we like to dress comfortable.
You got the hoodie on, and I like to wear
comfortable shoes, and so I put a lot of money
towards that.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Now, please believe, I will look for a great deal.
I'll go to a foot locker, Champs or you know
the malls and they have that one pair of shoe
with that tag that says nine dollars. I'm all over
that stuff because, you know, again, as long as it
feels comfortable and it's a brand that I like, and yeah,
(08:38):
I'll still get those, but I'm still looking for deals.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, for example, you know the big thing right now
is everyone's getting the what are these called dunks?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, dunk right, yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I remember when these were just like seventy bucks.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But they became cool again.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
They're cool again, so it's rare for me to I
have a pair. But I used to buy back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah yeah, but now.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That they're two hundred each, Yeah, man, that's something that
I'm I'm like, I'm yeah, okay, I'm cool on that one.
Do you have anything on your list?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
The one that I that keeps going up and up
and up, it feels like almost like every other month
is streaming services.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, We've talked about this before. That one's tough for me.
That's why I have one or two that I pay
for and the rest is like family members, like let's
share it.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, And so that's the thing now, like you can't share.
They're cracking down on that. I know Disney recently cracked
down on it. Netflix was sort of like the first
one to do it. Max, They're gonna start cracking down
on it. But I just always get these emails like
just let you know it's gonna go up another dollar
or two, and I'm just like, damn. But with that
being said, I consume it all like I have.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You have all of them.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I pretty much have all the main ones. I can't
help it because there's always like one show or one
like maybe football. I want to watch on it. So
I pretty much have all of them, and the prices
continue to go up and and honestly, I continue to
just buy them. So that's something I'll probably never step
away from. I know they have adversions. I don't like
the ad versions. Uh So I spent a lot of
money a month on streaming services. That's one thing I'll
(10:13):
probably continue to do.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I'm opposite on that one. I I yeah, I'll pick
and shoes like who has the hot shows right now?
And I'll have those. So right now the two I'm
paying for is just too too Netflix and Hulu that's it, man.
And then I use a friend's Max. I use my
sister's Amazon Prime. Hopefully they're not listening to not them,
(10:37):
meaning like Amazon, They're like, that's who shot because it's
still working. I know you're saying it's they're cutting down,
but mine is so far it's still working. But I can't.
I can't be paying for cause there's even these shows
that I got into. What was the one that I
don't fuck I don't remember the name of it anymore.
I was telling you about it, but it was it
only showed me three episodes and it says to watch
(11:00):
rest you have to download. Uh no, it was MGM.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You have to download MGM.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
They have a streaming.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, somebody's channels will just have their own. Isn't there
like an AMC Plus or something. Yeah. See, I don't
mess with any of those. I mess with like the
bigger ones, you know, Disney, Peacock, Hulu, Max, Netflix, all that.
But I have a lot, and it's honestly, it's like
what a couple hundred bucks a month.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It feels like, yeah, you know, you'll even talk about
did you watch this show? And I'll say, I don't
have that for myself. I'll give I don't know why
I could do this, but there are certain times where
I can't. I'll uh, the pure pressure will get to me.
But no, I'm good with missing out, Like, nah, I
don't watch that. Yeah, like I won't get with shows
(11:49):
like if I can't, if I don't have that service,
I'm not gonna go get it just to watch because
everyone's talking about it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So yeah, we're kind of opposite on that one. Something
that I keep wanting to get rid of but I can't.
It's my chiropractor. What is it? What is it called?
Where I do it? Every month, so not so?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Is it called the subscription?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I guess sure.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So I've been paying monthly for a chiropractor, and I
always tell you all this, this might be my last month,
because you know, but what happens is when I go,
I do feel a difference. So I can't get rid
of it. So that one, even though the prices are
going up, I'm still paying.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
What about haircuts? Have you cut back on haircuts at all?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That yeah, that's that's another one where I just do
was it twice a month? Every two weeks? And I
think I feel like I'm just going to continue to
do that.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Something that I've noticed myself doing because I used to
I used to go every two weeks. That was the routine.
Every two weeks. I'll stick it out for a month.
So lately I've been doing once a month.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Okay, let it grow out a little bit. Yeah, but
anyway that I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's just I know, I could wear a hat a beanie,
but a fresh cut. I gotta have a fresh cut.
And even those prices have been going up too. I
remember when those twenty five bucks, yeah back then, and
now it's like fifty yeah, yeah, and then you got
a tip.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And the one that I really cut back on, especially
coming out of the pandemic, was I was big on
going out to like restaurants, a lot, sit down restaurants,
but prices have gone up so much it's crazy, and
quality has gone down at the same time, and that's
been something that I've stayed away from personally, especially like
(13:45):
on the weekends, like Saturday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights, I'd
go out to a restaurant and bill wouldn't be so bad,
and lately it's just like wow, when I see these prices,
I'm like, that's crazy, and the quality has been bad
because there's you know, every once in a while with
friends or whatever, I'll go out to a restaurant that
maybe haven't been to in a while, and I'm like,
damn once since when of these prices get so high
(14:06):
and the quality gets so bad. And that really took
like a hit during the pandemic. And I know, even
when you had your restaurant, you sort of were forced
to have to raise prices and cut things here and there.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And get rid of some ingredients.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, so I understand from a business point of view,
but yeah, it's not my thing. That's something that I've
definitely cut back on spending money on going out to
eat food.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Same thing here is I remember you know, restaurants now
is almost a luxury. Yeah, no, where you have to
save it for like special occasions, where before we would
just be like, let's eat every other day, let's go
to a different restaurant because you love going to restaurants. Yeah, yeah,
but now yeah, you have to be smart about it.
What's the occasion?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Where is it that?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, Like I don't go to McDonald's anymore, but people
will tell me it's like ten bucks for like a
meal now, and I'm like, whoa. I thought McDonald's was
supposed to be the cheap, quick and easy spot, and
I'm like ten buck.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
To get a decent meal at fast food restaurants they're
almost twenty bucks.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Wow, let's even take out my restaurant prices. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
No, even if you take out McDonald's, McDonald's can get
like fourteen enough. But even just a regular let's just
say burger fries and a drink at Carls at shaking
fifteen and up. Man, it's gonna get up there. And
of course you're gonna upgrade to.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
A larger drink and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So yeah, man, so not even restaurants, even fast food
is becoming a luxury where we're kind of like stepping
back on Yeah, I mean coffee. I was just talking
about this on my show.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
See that's that's something I'm glad. I don't spend money on.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Coffee. The wild thing is here in our office, we
could get it for free because we have a coffee machine,
and I'm good with that. But there was a week
where it they didn't refill the coffee pod.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, for one whole week there was no.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Coffee pods, and so I wanted my coffee. So I
ended up going to Starbucks every morning before going to work,
and I was realizing, like, yo, this is like five
Bucks every time I go get a coffee, which I
was getting it for free, but I wanted it so
much that I was still willing to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Like do you go to certain spots to each coffee?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No? Not.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I don't have a Starbucks person.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I could go anywhere everyone every I've noticed that every
spot has what my orders.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
So yeah, I know, I know those are I mean,
I don't know, I'm guessing around. Maybe what seven eight
dollars for coffee a large cup? Yeah, and people do
that on a day, on a daily yeah, a few times.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I know.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's like what thirty dollars a week? You spending how much?
Like one hundred bucks a month? Maybe more? Y's wild.
That's why I'm glad I never got into the coffee thing.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That's why they say, like, if you just get on coffee,
like you'll save money. Yeah a month, you know, But
like I said, I was only doing it for that
week because there was none here at the office.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, but I'll do the office coffee. I'm good with
that one.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Not too piggy.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
No. Do we talk about gas already? The gas prices? No,
because that's something that I feel like my mindset has
changed because.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You don't do the ninety one.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I used to do the ninety one, the premium all
the time. You know.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
A funny story, I fucking clicked on that one by accident.
The other day. I was at cause I get my cash. Yeah,
I got my I get I get my gas at Costco,
which is by the way, and you know, long lines whatever,
But it's it's worth it. It's actually is it really?
I think so? It goes by faster, faster than you think.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But but it's not as it's like tens twenty cents cheaper.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I mean I'm a Costco member,
somemon as will do it, you know what I'm saying.
And I catch it on the way home. I have
like a routine of when I know it's like slower
or whatever. So I get my Costco gas and uh,
I was pumping and for some reason, I think I
was zoned out, and I was like, why do I
think that? I just pressed that ninety one right now
before I started pumping, and I was like, I think
(18:10):
I did. And then as I was done, I looked
at the receipt and I looked at the prices. I
was like, sure enough I did. Yeah, I don't know why,
Like I was zoned down. I pressed that. Never in
my life pressed that one, and I just did. And
I was like, wow, whatever, it was probably still cheaper
than like fucking Chevron or something, but yeah, gas is
something I definitely get that. What is it? Is it
eighty five eighty seven or something like that? Cheaper one
(18:31):
eighty five? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'm good. I YouTube. I even YouTube. I
should not even brought this up because I forgot what
I learned, but I was I was asking YouTube, like
what's the difference between eighty five and like I said,
I wish I had not brought it out.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What is the difference they put like more water in
it or something. Yeah, it's the quality it's out.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's the quality of it where the premiere, the premium
helps the engine better. It has something to do with
the engine.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I think it says on your gas tank what's recommended
for it? Right, but nobody even pays attention to that.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, I'm going with the eighty seven or eighty five.
I mean, like, I'll just go with that because that's
the cheaper price. My car seems like it's working.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Still, what about when it comes to you know, like
we'll say, like toilet trees. I know it said I
said like toilet paper earlier. But you know, when it
comes to those things that you just need, your everyday
type of stuff, lotions, deodorants, toothpaste, all that type of stuff,
do you you go brand names on that? Still?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, So I'll go with toilet paper on this one
because I used I used to get like the twelve
pack and then I saw the prices of the name
brand ones. So one day I said, I'm gonna go
with this cheaper off brand one. So I bought that,
(19:59):
and yeah, there's a difference. I want give me the
what's the one with the Bears? Give me that man. Yeah, man,
I stick with those just because again, comforts. Yeah, I'm
paying for comforts, so that one, I'm sticking with the Bears.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah. If there's one thing that you should never go
cheap on, it's definitely toilet paper. Because there was a
time during the pandemic where we had no choice you
kind of just had to get with you what was there,
and there was some cheap ones that I had to get,
and I was like, oh wow, there is a fucking difference.
I don't know what this paper that I was using,
but it was bad.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah. You roll some out the cheap ones and then
you blow your noise and blow your nose and it
just disintegrates. It's just confetti.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's the same way with a tissue
paper too, and it's kind of like the same thing.
But I've gotten cheaper tissue paper before and I'm like,
oh man, that's that's all bad. Yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, give me the ones with the lotion on it.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Bed sheets is another one that I've realized really matters
because I've gotten some cheaper ones. Man, those things ripped
then out so quick.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And it feels like sandpaper too.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah. Mattress, speaking of which, you got to get a
good mattress. That was something I invested in a few
years back. I'm glad I made that decision.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, the mattress thing I I throughout me growing up.
It didn't matter to me. But what what had happened
was when I was doing radio and Riverside, I was
endorsed by sleep Train and they gave me a free
(21:37):
three thousand dollars mattress and just the dip You're like, oh, man,
like that was like my favorite one. And I think
that's kind of like what changed me is like, yeah,
you got to get a good mattress. And now I
ended up I ended up trying that purple that that
company purple mattress, and that one I got hooked on.
(22:00):
And you know, back in the days I used to have,
like I said, I didn't care about what mattress I had.
The side that you slept on, you always slept on,
like one side of the bed and next thing, you know,
there's an indentation and you always have to flip it
with With my purple mattress, I've had that thing for
(22:20):
three years and nothing man still perfect. So yeah, I
I invested in that.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Make an investment in that mattress. It'll definitely change.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We need. There's things that we need. We're trying. I'm
trying to think we need to go cheaper on, but
then I'm trying to think, like, oh.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You know what some things you can kind of go
cheaper on. Is do you ever go cheap with like
your groceries?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Sometimes some stuff some yeah, some some I could you
know what I do? Uh, I guess it's because there's
a that's the closest one near my apartment is grocery
outlet and.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's it's yeah, they have cheap stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Literally an outlet for a can.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Fu and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, and it's the same stuff, but it's cheaper for.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Some reasons because it's about to expire something.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Some are like that. Yeah. And I'm the kind of
shopper that gets the grocery shop for like that day.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Or that week. I didn't super ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, my mom would get mad because that's my mom.
I'm I'm grocery shopping for the year. Yeah, yeah, but
no I grocery shop. I'm going to cook something that day.
So that's why I don't mind the grocery outlet because
it is you could. The reason why is because I'll
go to Save Mark, which is just the regular grocery store,
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and the prices are a lot, are a lot, and
then you go to grocery outlet for the same exact
thing half the price. So I'm good with that. Yeah,
I guess so grocery. I'll look for deals on that
one for sure, how about you.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I Mean, that's kind of how I feel when it
comes to you know, Target versus Walmart. I mean, obviously, see,
you know there's the stereotypes of Walmart, and you know
there's better aesthetics of Target or whatever. But what annoys
me is you could literally get the same product cheaper
at Walmart. And that's why I refuse to shop at
Target because I'm like, I'm not going to pay literally
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the same size, the same brand, the same literally the
same thing, but it's just more expensive at Target. Like
I'm not shopping there just to pay a little bit
more money. It's so dumb to me.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I've been going to. So I'm not big on Walmart
until as of late, because you know, I'm sugar free
right now. Do the whole Keto thing. Yeah, and they
have an assortment like a whole isle of sugar free chocolate, yeah,
that I haven't seen in any other stories. So I
(24:48):
go there on a weekly now and then while I'm there,
I might as well get some eggs and yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
See Walmart they have their own was great value brand,
oh ya, And it's like a lot cheaper than the
name brands. And you know some of it, You're like, yeah,
I just get the name brand. But honestly, there's beending
some products where I'm like, that's kind of better than
the name brand. Whatever they're doing, bro, the same exact
what is it?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The Keto tortilla is like, yeah, the I forget what
it is the Mission tortillas. This it's the same exact packaging,
same brand they sell it at. What's that what's the
expensive one?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
The expensive store?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah? What's that one that everyone goes to?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
The Whole Foods?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No? No, the other one or is it a Whole Foods?
There's I thought there's another one.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It could be Whole Foods, but I don't know Sprouts
Sprout there you go.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, Sprouts, they have the same exact one for X
amount of bucks, and they have it at Walmart, the
same exact brand for half the price. Yeah, so yeah, yeah,
you could find me at Walmart when it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, there's just certain things that I'm willing to cut
corners on that maybe doesn't mean that much to me.
But when it's things that I really care about, I'm
probably just always gonna pay more for it.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Here's the last thing I have is and and this
is not a surprise. I know apartment complexes, when you
rent something, this is what happens every year. It goes up.
And I'm I'm already thinking if about a year or
two more years, am I will if I'm gonna pay
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that much, should I just move out?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I don't know. I mean I feel like if you
liked a spot, you're comfortable. I mean, does it go
up like a lot or not too much, but it
still goes up.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
It's I've been there for three years and I'm like, well,
I'm gets going up exactly exactly. So I've been thinking
about it, like going up like man in my do
I find a new place where I'll pay a little
bit more for like new scenery or song. Yeah, so
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that's something that I always think about too. Anything else
on your list or nah, I.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Think that's it. Man. I don't know if that was
like a rant session or what we're doing there. It's
just it's just like inflation. And I see people, you know,
complaining about stuff all the time, and you know, I'm
the same way. But I just I just won't pay
for it anymore, or I'll pay for it because I
just will continue to like it. So I don't really,
I don't know. I don't really complain.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I guess I'm the same way. Like if I if
it's too much for me, then it's for me. I'm
just not gonna purchase it.
It's wild how algorithms work. We always talk about how
we think our phones are listening to us. That's like
a topic we've always talked about. But after the episode
we did about hobbies like finding hobbies like maybe the
next day on Instagram, a random post of the top
ten hobbies for men that women find attractive popped up.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
It's almost like exactly what you needed.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Yeah, But then the wild thing is, I'm going through
the top ten and I do a lot of these things, okay,
and yet where are the women at? And I'm just kidding,
what are they all right? Number one playing an instrument?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, I don't play an instrument.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
I see, I was in band. Yeah, I play a
couple of instruments. But now I DJ. That's I think
that's the second I feel is considered an instrument. Number two,
I don't. I see. Number two is reading.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
I do audio books, so I'm not a big reader
the same I don't. I'm somebody that my mind wanders
off a lot when I start to read. I can lead,
I can read in like short paragraphs, but just finishing
a whole book. I could do an article, but not
like a whole book.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I'm not officially diagnosed, but I think I have ADHD.
Like wait, is that even how you say like attention? Yeah, yeah,
when I'm trying to read a book, like my mind
will just go off somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
I could see that all the time. Yeah, that's what
happens to me. That's why I always sucked in school
at studying. I couldn't study very well. I was a
bad study so my test taking was like really bad.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
Yeah. But like audiobooks, I have a couple of audiobooks
that I've listened to. Number three swimming. I like to
swim during the summertime. I like hitting the pool swim.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
You know what's funny. I haven't swam in years, and honestly,
I don't know why. I just really haven't. I just
as a kid, I loved going swimming, and we had
was that Dave Chappelle joke where you don't have like
the built in pool, but we had like the dough boy.
That's how much we had. So I don't want it, ohs.
And I used to love swimming, but when I became
an adult, I just it wasn't really my thing anymore.
(02:05):
I don't know why. It's a random thing to be
turned on by though.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah again number three on the list. You know, what
I just learned is like sort of like a side note.
You know, my dad passed away four months ago, and
I learned that he I'm just learning this. Like my
mom told me after he passed away that my dad
was a collegiate swimmer. Really yeah he was like, he
was like he's won medals and yeah as a swimmer,
(02:31):
And I was like, and as a kid, I do
remember him taking us to the pool a lot and
teaching us how to swim. Okay, I remember that as
a kid, like he would teach us breathing techniques and stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So I actually taught myself how to swim. Oh okay, yeah,
kind of just like threw yourself in essentially. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
But yeah, number three, so I like swimming. Number four. Traveling,
we vote, yeah, but we both travel. Number five. I
haven't done this in a while, but I loved how hiking,
especially going to Yo seventy. I bring this up all
the time. But hiking is number five, Okay, I like hiking.
Number six.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Cooking.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
I brought this up. It's something I.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Do something I do not do actually, so yeah, you're
not gonna find me not cooking.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah, so Number six, I love cooking, especially with the
whole doing the whole Keto recipes. I've been cooking a
lot lately. Number seven Learning a different language.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Oh yeah, I've never tried. I mean I took classes,
but only because you know, they were like electives, but
nothing crazy.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
I think I do this, but not officially where you know,
in our building we have the Spanish station and the
DJs there. They're always like teaching me Spanish here and
there and forcing me to speak Spanish to them. So
I'm kind of doing number seven too, Okay. Number eight painting.
(03:51):
I used to paint a lot when I was a kid.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Did we have this conversation where I was talking about
like I was a pretty good drawer, but I kept
that painting. Yeah, so I'm not good at that.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
I don't paint as a hobby anymore, but I've done
it before. Number nine woodworking. The only thing I can
think of is like, I mean, when the Ikea stuff comes,
I'll build that. No, I'm not a woodworker.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I took a wood shop class in school, but it
was never really my thing. But yeah, I can mess
around with the Ikea stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, I've never done the I didn't do a wood
shop in school. And the last one number ten photography,
which I mean with our phones and Instagram. I loved.
I loved doing photography, like the art of you know,
angles and how.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
The colors capturing something.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Capturing something with the you know, the right way and stuff.
So I'm super into photography. And again I think sixty
seventy of this top ten I do. But yet where
are the women at that find out to find out attracted?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I ain't doing too many of those hobbies.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
But yes, that's why we said. I think it's all
about the looks.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah, when it comes down to that's what I'm saying.
I wonder what the context of this question was, But
let's get into this. This could give me for our
podcast What Up. I'm Jizzo. That is John Magic and
we are back on.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
The radio today. Well, you know, as we're recording this podcast,
one of my topics was what are you willing to
overpay for? Today? You know, what are things that you're
willing to overpay for? Because of inflation? Things have been
going up for years now, but there's certain things that
we're still gonna pay for.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, I mean, I see, we see a lot of
people complaining when prices go up, and my clad back
is always like you don't have to buy it, right.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, but what if you need it though.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Then you can get a cheaper version of it. Maybe
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I I do. I think there's some things where I've
done that where like, for example, you know, when I
used to buy like T shirts, it would always have
to be like the Nike T shirts. And now I'm
okay with going to Costco and getting a pack of
Kirkland white.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Costco is a place where I get my like my
toilet paper, my water clothes. They do have good stuff though,
but I think they do. But I haven't got any
clothes there, no the Kirkland brand.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
I've gotten some khakis there before.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Yeah, Like I'm not mad.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Is that like a when you get an old Is
that a thing when you get older? As you get
up there in age, you're like, yeah, I'm good with Kirkland.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
And not so much because I've been seeing a lot
of people, like on TikTok they brag about the Kirkland stuff.
It's almost become somewhat trendy a little bit.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Yeah, Like you see celebrities now wearing that Kirkland logo
shirt where that's really all it is, like anyone can
make things cool literally, Yeah, but when you're younger.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Remember a champion Wait was it a champion?
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yeah, where like that was like not cool and then
all of a sudden it became cool again.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
See I don't even remember when it wasn't cool, but
you're right, someone like made it cool and then they
overpriced it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
But I know even at Costco, I get like the
Champion underwear. Yeah, like they got Champion underwear there something
that And we'll stick with clothing. You know, as a
as a young kid, like elementary school, maybe my first
year of middle school, my mom took us to pay
Less and yeah, but the pro wigs and all that stuff,
(07:24):
that's something I don't think I could go back to.
And and here's the reason. Nothing exactly nothing against Payless
shoe sores, but it's uncomfortable. Ye, So comfort that is
a big thing.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
There was like a couple of times growing up where
you know, you had certain events or whatever you needed
to have dress shoes and I never really had dress
shoes on deck. So I would go to Payless. Man
they would be like good for like one or two
wears and that was about it. But I mean it
got me through, like my presentation or my fancy dinner
did not need to be at. But yeah, shoes is
(07:58):
a good one. That's that's something that I invent a
lot in especially now. Comfort is a big thing for
me with shoes, especially, you know, coming into work every day,
we can we're lucky enough to just dress how we
want to, so we likely we like to dress comfortable.
You got the hoodie on, and I like to wear
comfortable shoes, and so I put a lot of money
towards that.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Now, please believe, I will look for a great deal.
I'll go to a foot locker, Champs or you know
the malls and they have that one pair of shoe
with that tag that says nine dollars. I'm all over
that stuff because, you know, again, as long as it
feels comfortable and it's a brand that I like, and yeah,
(08:38):
I'll still get those, but I'm still looking for deals.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Well, for example, you know the big thing right now
is everyone's getting the what are these called dunks?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, dunk right, yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I remember when these were just like seventy bucks.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
But they became cool again.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
They're cool again, so it's rare for me to I
have a pair. But I used to buy back in
the day.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah yeah, but now.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
That they're two hundred each, Yeah, man, that's something that
I'm I'm like, I'm yeah, okay, I'm cool on that one.
Do you have anything on your list?
Speaker 2 (09:11):
The one that I that keeps going up and up
and up, it feels like almost like every other month
is streaming services.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, We've talked about this before. That one's tough for me.
That's why I have one or two that I pay
for and the rest is like family members, like let's
share it.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah, And so that's the thing now, like you can't share.
They're cracking down on that. I know Disney recently cracked
down on it. Netflix was sort of like the first
one to do it. Max, They're gonna start cracking down
on it. But I just always get these emails like
just let you know it's gonna go up another dollar
or two, and I'm just like, damn. But with that
being said, I consume it all like I have.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
You have all of them.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I pretty much have all the main ones. I can't
help it because there's always like one show or one
like maybe football. I want to watch on it. So
I pretty much have all of them, and the prices
continue to go up and and honestly, I continue to
just buy them. So that's something I'll probably never step
away from. I know they have adversions. I don't like
the ad versions. Uh So I spent a lot of
money a month on streaming services. That's one thing I'll
(10:13):
probably continue to do.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I'm opposite on that one. I I yeah, I'll pick
and shoes like who has the hot shows right now?
And I'll have those. So right now the two I'm
paying for is just too too Netflix and Hulu that's it, man.
And then I use a friend's Max. I use my
sister's Amazon Prime. Hopefully they're not listening to not them,
(10:37):
meaning like Amazon, They're like, that's who shot because it's
still working. I know you're saying it's they're cutting down,
but mine is so far it's still working. But I can't.
I can't be paying for cause there's even these shows
that I got into. What was the one that I
don't fuck I don't remember the name of it anymore.
I was telling you about it, but it was it
only showed me three episodes and it says to watch
(11:00):
rest you have to download. Uh no, it was MGM.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
You have to download MGM.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
They have a streaming.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Yeah, somebody's channels will just have their own. Isn't there
like an AMC Plus or something. Yeah. See, I don't
mess with any of those. I mess with like the
bigger ones, you know, Disney, Peacock, Hulu, Max, Netflix, all that.
But I have a lot, and it's honestly, it's like
what a couple hundred bucks a month.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
It feels like, yeah, you know, you'll even talk about
did you watch this show? And I'll say, I don't
have that for myself. I'll give I don't know why
I could do this, but there are certain times where
I can't. I'll uh, the pure pressure will get to me.
But no, I'm good with missing out, Like, nah, I
don't watch that. Yeah, like I won't get with shows
(11:49):
like if I can't, if I don't have that service,
I'm not gonna go get it just to watch because
everyone's talking about it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
So yeah, we're kind of opposite on that one. Something
that I keep wanting to get rid of but I can't.
It's my chiropractor. What is it? What is it called?
Where I do it? Every month, so not so?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Is it called the subscription?
Speaker 2 (12:14):
I guess sure.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
So I've been paying monthly for a chiropractor, and I
always tell you all this, this might be my last month,
because you know, but what happens is when I go,
I do feel a difference. So I can't get rid
of it. So that one, even though the prices are
going up, I'm still paying.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
What about haircuts? Have you cut back on haircuts at all?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
No? No?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
That yeah, that's that's another one where I just do
was it twice a month? Every two weeks? And I
think I feel like I'm just going to continue to
do that.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Something that I've noticed myself doing because I used to
I used to go every two weeks. That was the routine.
Every two weeks. I'll stick it out for a month.
So lately I've been doing once a month.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Okay, let it grow out a little bit. Yeah, but
anyway that I don't like it.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
It's just I know, I could wear a hat a beanie,
but a fresh cut. I gotta have a fresh cut.
And even those prices have been going up too. I
remember when those twenty five bucks, yeah back then, and
now it's like fifty yeah, yeah, and then you got
a tip.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
And the one that I really cut back on, especially
coming out of the pandemic, was I was big on
going out to like restaurants, a lot, sit down restaurants,
but prices have gone up so much it's crazy, and
quality has gone down at the same time, and that's
been something that I've stayed away from personally, especially like
(13:45):
on the weekends, like Saturday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights, I'd
go out to a restaurant and bill wouldn't be so bad,
and lately it's just like wow, when I see these prices,
I'm like, that's crazy, and the quality has been bad
because there's you know, every once in a while with
friends or whatever, I'll go out to a restaurant that
maybe haven't been to in a while, and I'm like,
damn once since when of these prices get so high
(14:06):
and the quality gets so bad. And that really took
like a hit during the pandemic. And I know, even
when you had your restaurant, you sort of were forced
to have to raise prices and cut things here and there.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And get rid of some ingredients.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Yeah, so I understand from a business point of view,
but yeah, it's not my thing. That's something that I've
definitely cut back on spending money on going out to
eat food.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Same thing here is I remember you know, restaurants now
is almost a luxury. Yeah, no, where you have to
save it for like special occasions, where before we would
just be like, let's eat every other day, let's go
to a different restaurant because you love going to restaurants. Yeah, yeah,
but now yeah, you have to be smart about it.
What's the occasion?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Where is it that?
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Yeah, Like I don't go to McDonald's anymore, but people
will tell me it's like ten bucks for like a
meal now, and I'm like, whoa. I thought McDonald's was
supposed to be the cheap, quick and easy spot, and
I'm like ten buck.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
To get a decent meal at fast food restaurants they're
almost twenty bucks.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Wow, let's even take out my restaurant prices. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
No, even if you take out McDonald's, McDonald's can get
like fourteen enough. But even just a regular let's just
say burger fries and a drink at Carls at shaking
fifteen and up. Man, it's gonna get up there. And
of course you're gonna upgrade to.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
A larger drink and all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
So yeah, man, so not even restaurants, even fast food
is becoming a luxury where we're kind of like stepping
back on Yeah, I mean coffee. I was just talking
about this on my show.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
See that's that's something I'm glad. I don't spend money on.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Coffee. The wild thing is here in our office, we
could get it for free because we have a coffee machine,
and I'm good with that. But there was a week
where it they didn't refill the coffee pod.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Yeah, for one whole week there was no.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Coffee pods, and so I wanted my coffee. So I
ended up going to Starbucks every morning before going to work,
and I was realizing, like, yo, this is like five
Bucks every time I go get a coffee, which I
was getting it for free, but I wanted it so
much that I was still willing to pay for it.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Like do you go to certain spots to each coffee?
Speaker 1 (16:24):
No? Not.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
I don't have a Starbucks person.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I could go anywhere everyone every I've noticed that every
spot has what my orders.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
So yeah, I know, I know those are I mean,
I don't know, I'm guessing around. Maybe what seven eight
dollars for coffee a large cup? Yeah, and people do
that on a day, on a daily yeah, a few times.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
I know.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
That's like what thirty dollars a week? You spending how much?
Like one hundred bucks a month? Maybe more? Y's wild.
That's why I'm glad I never got into the coffee thing.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
That's why they say, like, if you just get on coffee,
like you'll save money. Yeah a month, you know, But
like I said, I was only doing it for that
week because there was none here at the office.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, but I'll do the office coffee. I'm good with
that one.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Not too piggy.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
No. Do we talk about gas already? The gas prices? No,
because that's something that I feel like my mindset has
changed because.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You don't do the ninety one.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I used to do the ninety one, the premium all
the time. You know.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
A funny story, I fucking clicked on that one by accident.
The other day. I was at cause I get my cash. Yeah,
I got my I get I get my gas at Costco,
which is by the way, and you know, long lines whatever,
But it's it's worth it. It's actually is it really?
I think so? It goes by faster, faster than you think.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
But but it's not as it's like tens twenty cents cheaper.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah yeah, yeah, but I mean I'm a Costco member,
somemon as will do it, you know what I'm saying.
And I catch it on the way home. I have
like a routine of when I know it's like slower
or whatever. So I get my Costco gas and uh,
I was pumping and for some reason, I think I
was zoned out, and I was like, why do I
think that? I just pressed that ninety one right now
before I started pumping, and I was like, I think
(18:10):
I did. And then as I was done, I looked
at the receipt and I looked at the prices. I
was like, sure enough I did. Yeah, I don't know why,
Like I was zoned down. I pressed that. Never in
my life pressed that one, and I just did. And
I was like, wow, whatever, it was probably still cheaper
than like fucking Chevron or something, but yeah, gas is
something I definitely get that. What is it? Is it
eighty five eighty seven or something like that? Cheaper one
(18:31):
eighty five? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Yeah, yeah, I'm good. I YouTube. I even YouTube. I
should not even brought this up because I forgot what
I learned, but I was I was asking YouTube, like
what's the difference between eighty five and like I said,
I wish I had not brought it out.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
What is the difference they put like more water in
it or something. Yeah, it's the quality it's out.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
It's the quality of it where the premiere, the premium
helps the engine better. It has something to do with
the engine.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
I think it says on your gas tank what's recommended
for it? Right, but nobody even pays attention to that.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, I'm going with the eighty seven or eighty five.
I mean, like, I'll just go with that because that's
the cheaper price. My car seems like it's working.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Still, what about when it comes to you know, like
we'll say, like toilet trees. I know it said I
said like toilet paper earlier. But you know, when it
comes to those things that you just need, your everyday
type of stuff, lotions, deodorants, toothpaste, all that type of stuff,
do you you go brand names on that? Still?
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Okay, So I'll go with toilet paper on this one
because I used I used to get like the twelve
pack and then I saw the prices of the name
brand ones. So one day I said, I'm gonna go
with this cheaper off brand one. So I bought that,
(19:59):
and yeah, there's a difference. I want give me the
what's the one with the Bears? Give me that man. Yeah, man,
I stick with those just because again, comforts. Yeah, I'm
paying for comforts, so that one, I'm sticking with the Bears.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Yeah. If there's one thing that you should never go
cheap on, it's definitely toilet paper. Because there was a
time during the pandemic where we had no choice you
kind of just had to get with you what was there,
and there was some cheap ones that I had to get,
and I was like, oh wow, there is a fucking difference.
I don't know what this paper that I was using,
but it was bad.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah. You roll some out the cheap ones and then
you blow your noise and blow your nose and it
just disintegrates. It's just confetti.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's the same way with a tissue
paper too, and it's kind of like the same thing.
But I've gotten cheaper tissue paper before and I'm like,
oh man, that's that's all bad. Yeah, it's bad.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, give me the ones with the lotion on it.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Bed sheets is another one that I've realized really matters
because I've gotten some cheaper ones. Man, those things ripped
then out so quick.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
And it feels like sandpaper too.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
Yeah. Mattress, speaking of which, you got to get a
good mattress. That was something I invested in a few
years back. I'm glad I made that decision.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
Yeah, the mattress thing I I throughout me growing up.
It didn't matter to me. But what what had happened
was when I was doing radio and Riverside, I was
endorsed by sleep Train and they gave me a free
(21:37):
three thousand dollars mattress and just the dip You're like, oh, man,
like that was like my favorite one. And I think
that's kind of like what changed me is like, yeah,
you got to get a good mattress. And now I
ended up I ended up trying that purple that that
company purple mattress, and that one I got hooked on.
(22:00):
And you know, back in the days I used to have,
like I said, I didn't care about what mattress I had.
The side that you slept on, you always slept on,
like one side of the bed and next thing, you know,
there's an indentation and you always have to flip it
with With my purple mattress, I've had that thing for
(22:20):
three years and nothing man still perfect. So yeah, I
I invested in that.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Make an investment in that mattress. It'll definitely change.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
We need. There's things that we need. We're trying. I'm
trying to think we need to go cheaper on, but
then I'm trying to think, like, oh.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
You know what some things you can kind of go
cheaper on. Is do you ever go cheap with like
your groceries?
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Sometimes some stuff some yeah, some some I could you
know what I do? Uh, I guess it's because there's
a that's the closest one near my apartment is grocery
outlet and.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
It's it's yeah, they have cheap stuff.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Literally an outlet for a can.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Fu and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Yeah, and it's the same stuff, but it's cheaper for.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Some reasons because it's about to expire something.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Some are like that. Yeah. And I'm the kind of
shopper that gets the grocery shop for like that day.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Or that week. I didn't super ahead of time.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, my mom would get mad because that's my mom.
I'm I'm grocery shopping for the year. Yeah, yeah, but
no I grocery shop. I'm going to cook something that day.
So that's why I don't mind the grocery outlet because
it is you could. The reason why is because I'll
go to Save Mark, which is just the regular grocery store,
(23:38):
and the prices are a lot, are a lot, and
then you go to grocery outlet for the same exact
thing half the price. So I'm good with that. Yeah,
I guess so grocery. I'll look for deals on that
one for sure, how about you.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
I Mean, that's kind of how I feel when it
comes to you know, Target versus Walmart. I mean, obviously, see,
you know there's the stereotypes of Walmart, and you know
there's better aesthetics of Target or whatever. But what annoys
me is you could literally get the same product cheaper
at Walmart. And that's why I refuse to shop at
Target because I'm like, I'm not going to pay literally
(24:15):
the same size, the same brand, the same literally the
same thing, but it's just more expensive at Target. Like
I'm not shopping there just to pay a little bit
more money. It's so dumb to me.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
I've been going to. So I'm not big on Walmart
until as of late, because you know, I'm sugar free
right now. Do the whole Keto thing. Yeah, and they
have an assortment like a whole isle of sugar free chocolate, yeah,
that I haven't seen in any other stories. So I
(24:48):
go there on a weekly now and then while I'm there,
I might as well get some eggs and yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
See Walmart they have their own was great value brand,
oh ya, And it's like a lot cheaper than the
name brands. And you know some of it, You're like, yeah,
I just get the name brand. But honestly, there's beending
some products where I'm like, that's kind of better than
the name brand. Whatever they're doing, bro, the same exact
what is it?
Speaker 1 (25:11):
The Keto tortilla is like, yeah, the I forget what
it is the Mission tortillas. This it's the same exact packaging,
same brand they sell it at. What's that what's the
expensive one?
Speaker 2 (25:25):
The expensive store?
Speaker 1 (25:26):
Yeah? What's that one that everyone goes to?
Speaker 2 (25:28):
The Whole Foods?
Speaker 1 (25:29):
No? No, the other one or is it a Whole Foods?
There's I thought there's another one.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
It could be Whole Foods, but I don't know Sprouts
Sprout there you go.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
Yeah, Sprouts, they have the same exact one for X
amount of bucks, and they have it at Walmart, the
same exact brand for half the price. Yeah, so yeah, yeah,
you could find me at Walmart when it comes to that.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Yeah, there's just certain things that I'm willing to cut
corners on that maybe doesn't mean that much to me.
But when it's things that I really care about, I'm
probably just always gonna pay more for it.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Here's the last thing I have is and and this
is not a surprise. I know apartment complexes, when you
rent something, this is what happens every year. It goes up.
And I'm I'm already thinking if about a year or
two more years, am I will if I'm gonna pay
(26:25):
that much, should I just move out?
Speaker 2 (26:29):
I don't know. I mean I feel like if you
liked a spot, you're comfortable. I mean, does it go
up like a lot or not too much, but it
still goes up.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
It's I've been there for three years and I'm like, well,
I'm gets going up exactly exactly. So I've been thinking
about it, like going up like man in my do
I find a new place where I'll pay a little
bit more for like new scenery or song. Yeah, so
(27:01):
that's something that I always think about too. Anything else
on your list or nah, I.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Think that's it. Man. I don't know if that was
like a rant session or what we're doing there. It's
just it's just like inflation. And I see people, you know,
complaining about stuff all the time, and you know, I'm
the same way. But I just I just won't pay
for it anymore, or I'll pay for it because I
just will continue to like it. So I don't really,
I don't know. I don't really complain.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
I guess I'm the same way. Like if I if
it's too much for me, then it's for me. I'm
just not gonna purchase it.
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