Um So I was helping him and then I was about to sort of start trying to tempt more and start looking for things full time and that's when Covid hit. And it was like um you know I'm living with my parents, both of whom are going to high risk category. I was like I don't think I'm going to go camping right now so.


Mm hmm. Mhm.


Mhm.


That sex temping for like what?


Yeah mostly admin work, you know an office needs somebody to do some filing or cover the phones for a few days. Um That sort of thing, I mean sometimes you get a longer term project that's more interesting or it's not more interesting but it's it's longer term um Like the last company I worked at full time, I actually started out there temping and it was um data entry.


Yeah.


You know I came on time and did the job and didn't bother people so they were like we're looking to hire somebody which you want to do and I was like yes because then I don't have to look for a job.


So I guess you work with you have a staffing agency that has your resume and they just put you as, that's how I started after I graduated and I've been in this full time position saying it's like adamant customer support but I really freaking I hate it so much and I don't know what I want to do but I've been trying to get out but it's like the worst time to want a career change or anything.


That is generally how it works, wow. Okay. Okay. Sure. Yeah wow.


Like I've been applying like crazy for the last got to be six months now, it will be a year in january that I've been at this place and really just no snags and it's easy work, you don't take work home but it's like you know my boss has got like two brain cells and it's just not challenging like it's like shit did I really go to college to be on the phone and to do customer support?


Uh huh.


I don't know.


Well is there um like a higher level of customer support? You could do their like right.


Um Unfortunately now it's like two tiers, it's like the customer support people and then my boss and she's got everyone, you know like by the balls there she's she has gone away with so much, it's just like how are you even still in your position?


Oh.


So yeah I don't know.


Uh huh. I love this on her position because as long as she's doing it, nobody else has to do it like that's what it is, she does it it's not so terrible that they're obviously losing money and nobody else has to bother with it. That's Uh huh.


Yeah mm Right.


I mean oh at work at a hospital in credentialing and credentialing is just you're checking to make sure that the doctor is like all went to medical school and they all currently have medical licenses and they have insurance, you would think it was a really important job.


You know that's legit, I didn't even think that that's a really important job to make sure these people are, wow mm mm.


But the hospital treated us like we were big pain in the ass, so, well, we didn't make any money because all we were doing was saying no, the doctor can't work yet because they weren't turned in their paperwork. However, if they had listened to us, any doctor who had a big problem turning into paperwork was inevitably a pain in the ass later and cause problems at the hospital and we could have warned them if only they would have listened to us, but they did not, wow.


Uh Here right. Makes sense. If you're legit you'd be excited, hurt thought all your teeth and everything. Have you got Covid or anyone?


Yeah. Um uh huh. My mom had a scare last week. Like she just woke up and she couldn't smell stuff.


Mhm.


So she went and got tested, but it came back negative and her sense of smell has returned.


Did she rapid test or do the PCR at 1st because I actually just got over Covid.


Um Right. You know, I don't know. I think it must have been a rapid test. Oh wow.


Yeah and my rapid test was negative and then I got the I got retested the Pcr and that was positive but uh yeah we actually um I got at me and my whole family got it Uh the 19th we were positive and then after the 10 day quarantine everything I tested negative and was fined by the 30th.


Oh yeah, mm hmm. Yeah. Oh Oh that's it.


But it was it was scary thankfully it was it really wasn't bad. I lost all taste and smell like nothing. I was able to bite into an onion and garlic and couldn't taste of things.


Yeah, I'm right.


You and my feet were sore. I had really bad sniffles like really like allergy but I've definitely had like colds and flues worse than that and my husband same thing but he had his taste and my little one, not a single symptom you would think she was completely fine the whole time.


Well I'm glad it was that easy.


Yeah, we're lucky definitely.


Right.


You know people out there not the same.


Yeah. Yeah. Well I'll mention to my mom that she should maybe swing back and check with your doctor again um because we're planning to go visit my grandmother this weekend.


Uh Yeah.


Mm Sure.


Yeah if you're going to get something up your nose you might as well just do the pcr on. Although now at least when I recently went it was a city MD and they said they're not going all the way up anymore, they're just going but I've had that shit all the way it hurts, wow.


Well mm Oh mhm. So are you working from home?


No I was for a good while, but now I'm back in the office are actually our whole, I was working from home laws quarantining. Um But they've had us all in the office for a while now, but even the way they're handling it because I had Our debt, our cubbies and stuff are close by and they're not 6ft apart, they didn't tell you know my cubby mates or the other people I was in contact with really?


Mhm Right. Right.


So it's like it's a little dumb because we have the means to work from home.


Uh huh.


You know we have our laptops, our remote network and everything like that.


What?


Like I worked for home for like two weeks and it was completely fine.


Mhm Yeah, I think that there's going to be a judgment of somebody who's infected at work and then everybody's insurance carrier is going to be like send him home unless they literally can't do their job in the office, send him home.


I don't know, mm.


We're not, we're not going to cover you. We're not gonna give you business identity if you keep people meeting each other for no reason. Mhm Oh mhm mm But is anything else going on with you?


But yeah, it's funny we literally just switched insurance is like a last month. Mhm. Mhm seen reading um I have, you know avatar, The Last Airbender, I have the Kyoshi books but it takes me forever to read a book.


Like are you reading anything good watching anything on tv? Mhm mhm mhm I know I should creek.


So I'm not done with that. I'm watching Raised by Wolves and Shits Creek and both Shits Creek is a really funny show.


I don't know. Raised by wolves. What?


It's an HBO show. My husband just mentioned it and he was like, let's start watching. I was like okay. Um it's kind of like in the future and atheists and people with religion or just like literally just ended the world at this point I'm only a pilot five episodes and it's moving a little slow but it's good.


I like the graphics.


Is that the one where like robots take a bunch of Children on an arc.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


Did you finish it?


I didn't try it because it looked like kind of like horror and I don't do horror.


You don't do her?


No. Wait I have finally come to the conclusion that some people just like feeling scared. But I don't actually like it. So this is no.


Yeah. Right. I hear you. I go on roller coasters even though as I'm going up, I'm shitting myself, definitely.


Okay. Yeah. I don't I don't actually like feeling scared although like I'm not opposed to watching things with violence on them. Like it's not it's not like the bloodiness. I mean sometimes Gloria's gross and I don't really want to watch it but like it's not bloodiness and the violence that get me. It's literally that whole this is trying to scare you thing that I'm like please please don't I don't I don't want to be scared.


Yeah. All right.


Thank you.


Yeah. What are you watching your reading?


Okay, I am watching B Untamed, which is a chinese drama. Um It's set in the old fantasy china and and the central relationship is this gay love story, but you can't do gay things on chinese television, so they have to do all of these sort of workarounds, but it's it's not subtle.


Mhm.


Um Yeah, like it's it's it's really not subtle. They stop in the middle of the episode to do like a musical montage of all of the romantic interactions between the characters so far.


Yeah. Mhm.


I'm like that that seems real gay.


Uh huh Is this on netflix? Where is this?


And use my netflix actually. Yeah. Um It's called The Untamed, it's a lot of fun. Um But like, like I was saying I don't mind the violence, so there's like um a lot of war stuff, there's suicide, um there's torturing war prisoners, um there's plenty of murder.


Okay. Yeah.


Um there's whipping people, like, you know, I mean, I don't think it's any worse than than what I heard about, like a game of Thrones or anything.


Uh huh. Mhm. Yeah.


It's not worse than that, but it's it's I wouldn't recommend it without telling somebody what they were up for in case they weren't up for it.


Mhm. Yeah. Mhm.


Um But I like it a lot. Um because it's like the emotions in it are really intense. Like I know I just described it as sort of a gay love story, but there's actually this whole yeah, I know there's a whole there's this whole um thing about family relationships and you know, who do you put first and who is your brother and who do you protect?


It sounds a lot more intense than that.


And where should your loyalties lie? And then there's a whole other thread about gossip and do you believe your friend and you know, are you why do we trust the people that we trust even when the whole world tells us to be against them? And should we admire people that the world admires or like it's what It's a lot.


Mm It's like a bless you or coffee you.


It's 50 episodes and it's it's really great. Yeah It's one long season but Episodes like 3 - 33 are all big flashback.


Is it like broken into two seasons or it's like one long? Mm.


So I mean it's there's probably like four Sections of Story. Um but it's not it's structured is just one big chinese drama. Um Not uh huh.


So do you like chinese dramas or how did you stumble on this?


Um So I read a lot of fan fiction and a lot of people who write fan fiction have been writing a lot of the untamed for like two or 3 years. Um Oh because that sort of intensity of emotion and all of those family feels like that's the sort of thing that people who write fanfic are really drawn to, Like it's all about the relationships, man, the relationships, plus there's all of this um like magic, you know, there's undead, um zombies, people are trying to control and there's um your son, that's obvious people are trying to control.


Uh huh. This is a lot.


There's several magic rocks, there's an evil flute. Um Well, I don't know if the flute is intrinsically evil, like it's a flute which is used to do evil things, but maybe it could be put to good use, but we never find out.


Mhm.


Um you know, so there's there's all of these great fantasy elements, plus there's all of this intense relationship drama and there's a bunch of different relationships um that are available because even if you don't like the main pairing, there's sort of the alternate pairing um which are the guys that they sort of wish they could grow up to be.


Yeah.


Um and then there's this other three guys who are in this sort of bitter entanglement of like betrayal and you used like, all right, the first time I watched it, I didn't quite follow what one guy was really mad about, but just like the body language and the shouting, it was like, wow, this is a real bad break up.


Uh huh Uh huh.


Um you know, so like there's this intense relationship over here with these three guys and then um there's this sort of sweet straight relationship, like like it's just sort of like the one guy is a dumb ass and you're like why I just talked to this girl who you like who you were engaged to? Like if you had just kept your mouth shut, you could have gotten married to her already, you're a dumbass.


Oh, but it's you know like there's just a lot of relationships to sort of pull through and pick apart and rearranged and so a lot of people like that. Um And then so I've watched contained there's another chinese drama called Guardian that I like. Also it's a little bit like um yeah it's maybe a little bit like the X Files.


Um But set in sort of yeah a city no one's ever heard of in china, like a fake city, like it's set in generic chinese city um.


Mhm Uh huh I hate that there's so many shows.


Um And You know there's like a 10,000 year long romance and um secret aliens from underground and like it that is also a lot of fun and then and so Guardian you can watch on Youtube if you would really like to. Um And I actually enjoy it a lot but the ending kind of is like the ending is um They screwed up the ending man. Like it's just it's like well it doesn't even grew in the show.


Are they ruin a good time?


You just get to the end and you're like that's not the end of the story. You started like if you had wanted that ending you needed to do different stuff in the middle.


Okay.


Like the story you told doesn't lead up to that that that ending is not the end of the story you were telling. I don't I don't know how you you just clearly these are not the same story.


Mm hmm. Yeah.


I don't know what happened here.


Um But up until that endpoint it's great. Um And then I'm walking sort of slowly one called the sleuth of the main dynasty um which it's about A six level official and um a soldier in the Northern quadrant court Garrison something, I don't remember. There's like a lot of now and I forget. Um But they like keep getting like murder and kidnapping cases together and they keep trying to investigate them and then like higher up officials are like okay you've investigated enough, we've we've found enough criminals please stop.


Mhm.


And they're like there's there's more crime here, there's clearly additional crime to be investigated and their bosses are like no you have you've completed enough crime solving that that fulfills the quota.


Mhm. Yeah.


You are you're good, we appreciate your efforts and you should stop before we throw you in jail.


Sounds like the wire.


Mhm. Um possibly. So I'm only I don't know maybe 10 or 11 episodes into that one. Um which I guess is like a quarter of it, I think it's like 40 episodes. Um But that one the tone on it, it's sort of uneven like sometimes it's a big comedy and then other times it's like a police procedural and then other times it's a big court intrigue and they never quite have the same tone all around with a little, it's a little hard to watch because you never know what kind of show you're going to be turning into because like I like to choose tv shows based on my mood, you know, like, you know, if I'm feeling, we're really happy, maybe I want to comedy.


Mm hmm.


If I'm feeling um depressed, maybe I want to watch say yes to the dress, you know, like something easy and with the sleep of the Ming dynasty, it's never like, you can never tell are you going to turn into like a comedy about chicken thieves or is it going to be like Children are being kidnapped and sold into slavery and it's like, it is hard to know.


Yeah. Yeah.


So not watching that one very fast. Um Yes, yeah, I lived in upstate new york for about six years I guess when I was little um but I'm actually an army brat, so been all over.


Can I guess your accent, new yorker Jersey. Mhm. Oh, little bit of everything. I lived in upstate in Rockland. It's not really upstate, it's like the south is upstate.


Mhm. I lived in Watertown because my parents were at fort Drum um mhm I want to say it was with, it was within an hour of the Canadian porter.


Oh, I don't even know where that is. Sounds north. Oh wow.


Uh huh, mm hmm. Yeah.


Well we easily killed about a half hour.


Oh no, what? Okay.


So what what's next after this? They give you another like mini survey?


Yeah, I think that's the way that it works, so I'm actually only showing 24 minutes, so.


Oh you know what? Probably because I had that window open longer so go buy yours. So I guess that's what they said. Don't open it earlier. That makes sense.


Mhm, mhm I think maybe, I think maybe there is a limit, but it's like seven or 8 or something and they're going by conversations, not by how many times you sign up mark, I'm trying to remember because like I had so few conversations, it just hasn't seemed like something to worry about.


I guess they don't give a limit to how many times you could do this. It seems like the easiest these uh survey thing I've come upon. Mhm mm. Okay.


Mhm No, well I have never tried to do it, I've never tried to do it so as to maximize how much money I'm making.


So what's the, so you've been on it for about six months now? Um I've only been on it for about a month. What like consistently have you been able to make like a week or a month? I'd say like this month I've made I guess about $30 from it. Mhm.


Um Like there was probably a month in there when I just didn't check in like at all. Um But I'm finding out okay, if you are consistent about it, I would say be able to make 10 bucks a day, but that would be that would be being very consistent.


And or? Mhm. Yeah. Uh huh.


Um Using the thing that alerts you to the um the browser plug in, that alerts you to new prolific studies that you're you're but if you do that then you're getting dinged pretty constantly.


Mhm. Mhm.


Um So. Uh huh. But now I've I have never done it so consistently or so often that I'm actually getting $10 a day on a on a long term basis because I just like I'm not.


Mhm. Yeah. It's not that serious. It's a survey thing.


Yeah, so I mean it depends on how much you yeah want to put into it and You could probably do more than $10 on some days.


Nice. Mhm.


Um It just sort of depends on what the surveys are like and and loud. Thank you Roy what we're looking for and how consistently you're supposed to do. Um And how consistently are. Um Sorry?


Yeah. Are you saying I like the a pounds thing?


Yeah so yeah so I mean I've done it for six months and I've probably made $260 but that's being sort of inconsistent about it. Mhm mm.


Right. It's an actual bucket to. Pretty nice.


Mhm. Yeah but So I think we probably actually have yeah we've cleared 20 five minutes now. Um All right so it was nice to talk to you.


Right. It was very nice talking to you. Best of luck with everything.


Mhm.


I hope you and your family stay safe.


Thanks. You too. Have been made by


But.


Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Oh yeah. Hello favor.


Hi. Not so fun. Yeah.


Yeah, you did. I've had two of these end after five minutes because nobody showed up.


Oh really? Just right in the world?


Yeah.


Oh. Oh well that's too bad.


Yeah. Have you done some of these before?


Mhm. This is my 4th 1.


Yeah, me too.


Yeah. Um Now you know I just wrote him an email because I thought in the instructions that said the four was the limit to get paid for.


Yeah, I think so.


But I've lost my instructions somewhere so you know, so I hadn't send some more but I just didn't want to.


I mean I know it's four I'm sure it's for but the rest of it I couldn't remember. So but it's a nice to meet you county.


Right, how are you doing? Mhm I'm doing, I'm David I'm doing well too.


I'm doing well. How are you? Good, good.


Mhm Okay.


I'm in Georgia.


Okay. I'm in texas.


Texas. Okay.


Yeah, not too far apart.


No not too far.


Mm.


The first person I talked to was in texas.


Yeah.


So yeah, maybe you know him I've talked to texas and florida and that's it.


Oh yeah, let's see. I've got the people and colorado and California. I don't know where else, I don't remember. Oh, okay.


Just. Just say so.


Yeah, but so how's your summer going?


Mhm. It's going good. It's of course slow because of Covid but uh and too hot to do anything outside and I'm not an outside person anymore.


Right, that's me.


I'm okay.


Yeah. I prefer to stay inside during august at least.


Yeah. Oh yeah.


Yeah, I'm a teacher really.


What do you do for a living? You're the third teacher. The third teacher. Yeah. Yeah. That's so cool.


We start backing up on monday.


I'm, well, um, the guy I talked to you last night.


Mhm, mhm Yeah.


Yeah. I think they start back on monday. Also, they kind of had their teacher meetings and acclamation and all that stuff. But officially where I am, they already went back and I think they've already decided that was a bad idea.


Mhm, mm.


So they closed again. So public schools.


Have they closed? Okay. Is that is that like the public schools or what? Yeah.


Yeah. I, and I thought it was a bad idea to because I mean, we got in Georgia were one of the top, you know, as far as people being affected so they rushed it.


Yeah. Great. Yeah. Yeah. We were one of those states as well. I think it was like florida Georgia texas Arizona.


Mhm. If, yeah. So except for you and me and our families were they got some of the dumbest people, don't they?


Uh huh. Yeah, sometimes I feel that way uh this informed at least.


Yeah, exactly, stubborn something.


Yeah.


I don't know.


Yeah, stubborn certainly.


Yeah. Yeah.


It's sad.


But Onebraska.


Yeah. But I actually grew up in Nebraska. Oh yeah I moved down here for work so in Omaha Cook.


Okay. Um, what part Nebraska did you live in Omaha? How far away with that from Joplin know Joplin Missouri?


Yeah. Um from job Joplin Nebraska Missouri. Okay. I was wondering. Okay. I've heard of dropping, I've heard of Joplin Missouri but not Joplin Nebraska.


Oh wait a minute. You said you said Nebraska.


Mm It's um here or is that?


I was thinking uh Nebraska. Yeah, I was thinking Nebraska because it's kind of on top of it.


I think it's about a seven hour drive.


Okay.


I actually go through Joplin when I when I drive back home sometimes.


I I lived there before we lived here for five years and uh, we moved there 10 days before the tornado hit.


Yeah. Oh is he? Yeah.


So yeah, it was pretty, pretty scary.


Oh wow.


Uh, well we were, we were in a second story apartment.


Moved into uh like a brand new house or something right before the tornado.


So yeah, it was, it was pretty scary.


Um, you know you go out sight seeing the first couple of days you're there and the next thing you know had a third of its gone and uh if it stayed on the ground it would have hit us directly.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


So that was pretty.


Mhm.


And my husband was in the home depot like two hours before it hit and was wiped out.


Yeah. Oh my goodness.


It was flattened. So yeah we don't know just moved here from there so.


Yeah. That is really scary. And coming from Georgia I mean were you in Georgia before? No. Okay. Okay.


Oh no I was in Kentucky and Indiana before that so in the alley pretty much so but we didn't have you know like uh we had warnings and stuff all the time but we didn't really ever have one touchdown except the year before we moved to Indiana.


I was just gonna say maybe you hadn't experienced tornadoes before at all. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.


They had a big trailer part get wiped out a bunch of people killed.


Yeah but that Joplin tornado that was really nasty.


Um Yeah category 44 or five.


Yeah wow thanks.


But the problem was it not only was it powerful but it just sat on the ground and ground You know it didn't move very quick you know it's just and it took out a hospital and just all these important you know killed 51 people.


Yeah. Yeah.


And um it was.


Did it damage your apartment building?


No unfortunately. Well fortunately we you know didn't get damaged but we like we were facing, our appointment apartment was facing south and it was coming from the northeast.


Mhm. Mhm. Yeah.


So what was coming, we were in the vortex because it was the wind was blowing branches and trees around back to the side.


Okay. Yeah. Sure.


So the opposite side of our house basically here's it's coming and we're here and then it's there. So yeah, it was strong, strong winds.


Uh huh.


Um I've never been and I was coming apart because I've never been in anything like that.


Oh yeah.


So we were really fortunate, real blessed about it. So yeah, well that's what they don't have them here either, They don't and we were trying to find something, I'm disabled and it's hard for me, mobility wise to walk upstairs and stuff.


Well so I grew up in Nebraska like I said and if we had a tornado warning we always went to the basement but we don't have those here in texas very often. Yeah. Uh huh.


And it was just, we got real blessed as far as we found a brand new home to start renting. That was just one story because there's so many were two stories here and uh not very many basements I don't think either.


Yeah.


Um But yeah it's like you know I gotta I don't want to pay rent for a whole home and I can't even you know enjoy the whole thing so but it won't be good.


Yeah. Right Brett yeah.


Yeah but y'all have tornadoes up Nebraska too.


Yeah we did yeah.


Right. Yeah.


Yeah it's pretty I mean pretty severe. We never there was never really a bad one that came through Omaha when I lived there but there were warnings about the time every summer.


Good good. Yeah. Yeah.


We uh that's what I love spring but then it always is going to bring you know the storms and lightning and but I'm not as afraid as I used to be of it.


Right. Yes. Yeah.


Um But yeah good.


And here we live with enough to the coast that every once in a while a hurricane will head our way. It's not a hurricane. By the time it reaches us we're pretty far north we get some bad storms that way.


Yeah that's good. I've never been in a hurricane. He lived in florida years ago my husband um and they have hurricane parties and all this and stuff and I never had been I wouldn't be able to enjoy our gain.


Okay. Yeah. Uh huh. Right. Yeah. Mhm. You know, you know?


But some sometimes the weather gets, we were supposed to get weather from the last one and it didn't make it far apart inland.


No. Yeah.


So uh you know we don't, we lost power last night that we had such a storm not wind rise wise but just a lot of rain and I guess small fell.


Yeah. Oh really? Mhm. Okay.


Um But I got to tell you I've lived in Kentucky when the power went out and they were decently quick about it, I wasn't rural and then in indiana they were like slow as molasses getting it fixed.


Yeah. Yeah. Three. Yeah.


Uh We didn't have a problem with power going out that I recall it in uh Joplin and here there on it.


Oh yeah.


I mean it's just so amazing how fast they fix it.


Yeah.


And I love it because you know we're tv addicts and phones and for our just uh yeah I mean when it's going on, oh no, I'm still here.


No sure of course. Especially nowadays I just lost your I just lost your camera. Oh yeah, I can still hear you.


I'm still showing on me. That's weird. Well I'm still showing and everything.


Yeah. I don't know.


Okay.


Well I can still hear you anyway.


Um Yeah.


I was going to be um here yeah we live in the pine forest so if there's a if there's a big windstorm will lose power pretty quickly but like you said they're very they're very quick to come out and fix it usually.


Yeah, that's good. That's good.


Well last night after it was getting the power was probably had a total of maybe 30 minutes and that's when we started getting the shakes. No, we just love tv. Yeah, that's and it was starting to get hot in the house to um but he was trying, he's from Minnesota and he watches the twins when they play and a lot of times we can't get the game.


Just thinking about the next day in no air conditioning. Yeah. Okay.


So he signed up for the thing where you watch on television and so last night I knew he was really want to watch this game and I was doing my watch his ball game and I was playing my video games and you know, I told him I said, you could take my phone because I still have more higher on it than he did.


Yeah. Uh huh.


And he wasn't able for some reason this phone wouldn't uh connect to the internet.


Yeah. Yeah.


So uh I said, take my phone, you know, I'll land uh throw myself on the hand grenade for you because I could always read.


Yeah.


I had, I had a battery operated light and I said, I can read.


Uh so he knew I loved him. Then I'm willing to my phone.


Mhm.


True.


Of course. Yeah. That is the nice thing that you can still have internet usually.


Uh Yeah, yeah, exactly.


But he got to watch his game so he was settled down. So I don't know.


So how are the twins doing, do you know? Yeah.


Um I'm kind of a widow when it comes to the sport.


Like he'll be watching the case tank commercial, so he'll be watching golf and then he'll flip to this and uh, let's see the twins.


Uh huh, drink.


He likes to watch the cardinals, he watches the wild, Very little football, but yeah, yeah, yeah.


Well, he must have been going crazy during the early part of lockdown. Well all wards removal.


I mean he can read about what's going on and watch old old games if you wanted to, but he didn't want to do that.


Yeah. Yeah.


It was the weirdest spring I've ever been through because usually, you know, he goes missing and then, and I don't see him even though he's in the same home with me, you know, he's watching a game or something all the time. So, but hey, babe, how are the twins doing you?


Right. Uh huh.


They're losing their division. Oh, huh.


Okay.


Oh, under leading the division.


Oh that's matter.


I'm appalled.


I'm sorry.


You know I used to like baseball but, but lately I only pay any attention when the playoffs are starting.


Good thing. I'm not, Yeah. Yeah.


Yeah. So yeah.


I don't know. We went to a game one time when we were up there on our honeymoon actually, um, which was nine years ago.


Yeah.


And uh, it was fun, but you know, maybe disabled, I couldn't sit that long and stuff so I you know I couldn't uh enjoy it as much as most people could but uh we still had a good time though and and then when we went back I just stayed at his mom's house.


Mhm. Yeah. Um Yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah. Mhm.


She and I watched the game on the television and um I got him a really pretty uh you know like uniform what is it jersey that the twins were red and white and it was always beautiful.


Yes. Okay. Uh huh.


It was beautiful.


Cool.


Unfortunately they lost our luggage the first day so when he had to go when he got to go the game he didn't have his jersey and I was like I spent a fortune Jersey.


Really? Oh no. But he still got, he got it back eventually.


I yeah.


Yeah. Yeah that's the first thing as soon as they brought the luggage and they were real nice about it, you know they got it right to us everything and I said I just got to openness and find it. Yeah, so that's the first thing I look for but it could have been worse.


Yeah. So yeah, you spread like when you were in Joplin, maybe you were fans of the Cardinals.


Mhm. Yeah. Well he is um yeah, I'm fine either way.


He is right.


But yeah, he's Mhm.


I was just gonna say, yeah, I grew up in Omaha like I said where we have the farm team for the Kansas City Royals.


Oh okay.


So we would travel to Kansas city quite a bit and go watch those games.


Yeah, okay.


Yeah.


You know, I don't think I've ever been to Kansas city, but I'm sure I love the barbecue because that's Mhm.


Yes. The barbecue is good there. I like the barbecue were next to the Uh huh.


But now yeah, I don't I haven't had texas barbecue but I'm really crazy about western Kentucky because that's where I was raised their barbecues, got a vinegar based to it and yeah, I mean that's that's my favorite because I'm not much on sweet barbecue.


Oh sure I like them your style. Uh huh.


Um It's fine.


What what is there like a kind of meat that they specialize in or is it just the sauce?


Um They use um good grief, what do they use mutton?


Mhm button? Really really shredded or something?


Well in their in their like ground up kinda or well you call it, my words are failing me today. Uh Shredded, that's the word, yeah, the shredded this mutton and then they do yeah and I think it's beef ribs but I mean I can just, the sauce will make you cry, make your nose run and I can't get enough.


Okay. Yeah, I had no idea.


I'll just sit there and keep eating and eating and I miss that.


Yeah. Yeah, I always like, I like vinegary things.


I like mustardy barbecue sauce or spicy.


Yeah. I've not had must ary mustardy.


Mhm I feel like that might be like a Carolina thing or something.


Yeah. Yeah.


I'm not sure which one um here here in texas.


Yeah. I think you're up.


It's it's brisket, that's the specialty.


Uh Oh yeah, I like brisket.


It's very good.


Yeah. Do we have a Kroger here and uh I used to make my own ribs and my awesome stuff and then I got where I was doing it in my uh quick cooker instapot thing.


Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Oh yeah.


Um But you'll love it.


Yeah, we kind of want to get to get us.


I mean it's just you know, you can take a bag.


Yeah.


Like I had been making hot wings, I don't even have to solve the wings.


Uh huh, boil them after they cook in the instapot.


Just put them in there and cook them and then put sauce on them and embroil them crispy and yeah, and I don't know, we've made a couple of different things, they'd be perfect for it.


Yeah. Okay well we like to make a lot of the soup from scratch so that's one thing I would really like it for.


Yeah get with the pressure.


Yeah. It at first I was afraid of it, you know, I'd always make him do it and now I'm not too bad. Yeah, because you know, I just kind of silly but I'm afraid I'll, right.


Yeah. Well it's true the jester cookers can really be dangerous.


Yeah. And.


But yeah, you'll enjoy it and they're down to a real decent prices anymore.


So like beans, sometimes he likes dry beans, you could do them real quick.


Right. Yes. Yeah that would be great because I think chili tastes so much better if you make it from dry beans.


Yeah. Yeah. Not had it, but I think it is, yeah.


Uh Yeah I mean we don't do it that often. Usually we just buy canned beans so much faster.


Yeah. You like chiming in the summer?


Um Not so much in the summer but I still I still made it a few times during quarantine because it's one of the indian things to make.


Yeah. Yeah. I love it. Any time of year. It's kind of silly.


Yeah it's a good dish and it doesn't it's not that complicated.


Right. Right. And uh it's got all kinds of, you know, it's got me it's got vegetables, it's got protein, it's got all the good stuff.


Yeah.


So we put spaghetti in ours, which I never did before.


Okay.


I met him and now it's good.


Yeah that's sort of yeah that's a northern thing. Especially like matty in Cincinnati they have like their own style chili that has always has um I think pasta in it.


Is it? Okay.


Sometimes they add cinnamon to the sauce.


Okay. Zinnemann in nutbag.


Yeah it's good.


Do they put some people do that?


I don't know they might add some nutmeg to.


Yeah, I remember.


I think that might be good and it's like a weird sauce. It's like thinner chili.


Oh, I like my thick, you've watched, have you ever watched right away?


She she uses uh cinnamon or nutmeg.


Yeah. Yeah.


And I think nutmegging her spaghetti sauce, but and I tried that one time and I ruined it.


Yeah. Okay.


I don't know if I put it was terrible.


And then six I've heard of using nutmeg and um mashed potatoes which I started doing and he's a little bit, it goes really well.


It Yeah.


The cream and the butter and stuff.


Yeah. Is like you just go like that just one, right?


Maybe if you think well I mean usually when I'm making mashed potatoes it's only like at the holidays it's all making a huge portion.


Oh okay.


No I probably went like that a few a few times and maybe yeah especially with spaghetti is nice.


Yeah. Okay. Well I think that got carried away with I'll have to try to like take a little bit of Yeah. And do that.


You don't want to taste like christmas cookies or something.


You know it didn't it tastes like garbage what it tastes like.


Yeah.


It didn't taste like cookies and things like it unless you like garbage cookies.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


Uh That was terrible.


That's what they call the cookies where you throw everything in, Right?


Yeah, I guess so. I'm not I'm not big cook cookie maker. I like making muffins like from the box.


Yeah we got into making a sour dough over the last few months.


Uh The limit. Yeah. Oh you're one of those people they say.


Mm. Yeah it was a big trend.


So yeah we have a sourdough starter and I'm still feeding it not making as much these days.


Oh do you have a bread maker?


But I do, but I wasn't, I wasn't using it for the sour dough.


Is that what you've been okay?


I did the sour dough in the oven. Yeah.


He made a long time ago, you know, back years ago and I could I considered it, but I didn't really know, you know if I want to put that much effort into it because I don't have uh blender where they call it.


Yeah. Right. You if you, if you want to make sour though, you really don't need much at all except for a time.


God. Okay. Yeah.


That was the one thing we had in abundance over the last few months.


Yeah. I made bread before when Sardo and it was at the time I really enjoyed the idea and I would make it for family for christmas and I'd make like four loaves and that doesn't sound like a lot, but to me it was a lot of work.


Yeah. Yeah, sure.


Um But now I don't know if I would really want to go to the trouble. Uh Yeah.


Well you can. Yeah, I mean they have the these popular recipes these days that are like no need. All you gotta do is have to pull it a few times and like flip it over, fold it over.


Uh huh.


Uh It's just, it takes a long time to let it rise and all that sort of stuff.


Yeah.


But the actual physical labor involved is pretty minimal.


Mm.


Okay. You might consider that his mom has a bread machine but she she doesn't stay, well she's a she's just turned 90 so she doesn't do it anymore.


But you know you had to buy the with the machine, you had to buy the package of ingredients and all that kind of stuff I guess to go with it and you know that kind of expensive for her so I didn't want to do that route.


Sure. Yeah.


But how did your third?


No.


Oh turnout was it? Pretty good.


Uh even when it didn't turn out that good, like it didn't rise that well or whatever, it was still good to eat.


Yeah. Yeah.


So I was pretty happy with every single loaf.


There was love where I burned the crust pretty bad and that was that was the worst. But it wasn't, it wasn't like I could eat it.


Yeah, so it's pretty good.


He likes he likes sarah. Yeah. I don't know, bread is the hardest to give up for me.


And I also getting all that bread, it helped me gain about £20 over quarantine as well. Yeah.


I love bread, pasta and cheese.


Yeah. Uh huh.


I mean comfort food heaven.


Sure.


Uh And I never used to be a I never used to have bread every meal and now I'm worse about it than it used to be but I don't know.


Uh huh. Yeah, it's pretty good though.


Yeah. Um I don't know if you've ever gone to uh think it's ruby Tuesday's years ago.


Yeah, A while ago.


They yeah they served a real dark like almost black rye bread with strawberry butter for your appetizer.


Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's really good.


Oh it was worth that to just go in I mean and I really I'd love to get that together and have that sometime but I don't think now dum, dum, you'll sit there and eat all of it and it's not good for you.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Uh huh. So outback steakhouse has a very similar bread. Have you been there before?


I have not now.


Okay. They have like a dark rye bread.


Uh Okay.


I don't know if it's a library, but it's dark anyway.


Yeah. Yeah I think it wasn't pumpernickel, I just want to say it was a real real dark rye and when you to look at it it looks like you know but when you put that back on it man it's just yeah and then strawberry uh Yeah that's uh so how do you buy how do you buy rye like by the meat like?


But yeah, butter helps a lot. Yeah. Yeah. I've been wanting to make a rye bread but I can't get any ride this summer. Can't buy it anywhere. Uh Well I mean usually it's available in the grocery store just like a bag of rice flour.


Oh right flower. Okay I didn't seeds or plants or so.


Yeah. You're using the ground. Yeah. Oh I mean you could you could probably get seeds too if you want if some people grind their own.


Yeah. Yeah. Do you like the do you like the seeds like caraway seeds on your rye bread and stuff?


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I like that stuff.


Yeah like uh it's some brand that we got when we went to visit his family the last time up in Minnesota and had five different kinds of seeds and stuff in it.


I mean especially like loaves of bread that have lots of different things and like seeds and nuts and stuff. Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah.


And I can't take the brand but I mean it was awesome.


Oh sure.


It was really yeah.


Yeah. We like that stuff a lot. There's a there's a brain called Dave's good bread I think it's called.


Yeah. Yeah it was at that I've heard of that but he likes Sardo with uh egg salad.


We like that. Yeah.


Homemade egg salad.


Oh sure. Yeah.


I can give or take it.


My wife makes that from time to time.


Yeah it yeah it's good you put green onion in it and it's just it's good he makes we make tuna salad.


It's it's okay. It's not bad. It's not something I get too excited about. Yeah. Yeah.


Do you eat tuna salad with egg in it?


Not usually I've had it that way.


I was raised on that and he doesn't like, yeah and I'm like you like egg salad so try some egg into.


Yeah, why not? Example? Yeah, The only thing I won't beat when it comes to tuna is that this tuna melt that um I guess my wife grew up eating like her family made it using like the pre made biscuit though and like it's like tuna melt inside of a biscuit or something, it was awful.


Yeah but it's really good. Uh That sounds because I'm not big hot tuna to me.


I, I can't eat it, it sounds bad. Exactly, yeah.


Yeah that sounds like put cheese on a fish sandwich.


Mhm.


You just it's not right.


Exactly.


How many times? Mcdonald's does it?


You made it one time.


It's not.


I wasn't a fan and so I don't think we've had it again.


Mhm. Yeah. He made uh just a couple of days ago. Made a pasta tuna. Uh What was that you made babe tuna? Castro yeah tuna casserole. And then he put the french crispy.


Yeah, both hot. Right? Yeah.


Yeah like castro.


Oh the furniture, right, onions or something, Yeah.


Yeah and we had never had that. I mean he had it but I had and we ain't on it. It made enough for an army and we ate for three days.


Mhm, Mhm Okay.


And uh it was good and no longer it said the baby got.


Yeah.


So yeah that was pretty good.


Okay, well we do that with, we use those onions for like green bean casserole.


Probably everybody's seen that before.


Just the classic Open three different hands and throw them together basically.


Betty Crocker's and you'd that's what this had and had.


Mhm Yeah, yeah, that's gonna make it, yep.


I'd said you know I try to keep soup in the house and I said we do have three cans of these soups. He said yeah. And I said that they're not expired. He said no. I said Ok, course. Yeah.


Mhm. But well, oh I sure did, I'll be working on that in the coming months.


So you gained a little bit away during the thing. Yeah, I haven't. Yeah. There you go. Well, I hope that what do you teach? What do you teach?


I teach college, teach math, mm hmm.


Oh, you must have a big brain.


Yeah, what everybody said.


Yeah, that's Yeah.


Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.


I mean I'm not afraid of it like I used to be but when I was in school and all that, I just I couldn't handle it and algebra, I'm not afraid of now because nobody ever explained to me that this is a formula and find out something.


All right, sure.


They just it was just and satan said let's put numbers with letters.


Mhm Right, rote memorization and stuff like that.


Yeah.


It's kind of unfortunate because the stuff that I really like about it that made me want to pursue it, you don't really get to learn until you get to college or maybe later on in high school.


Yeah. Oh yeah.


So well just like um I guess proofs like the idea that like you said you were taught a formula or just to use numbers and letters with no sort of understanding of what it means, but when you actually see what's behind all the formulas and why they work and you and you feel like you understand it makes it more fun.


Like what like. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's what my light bulb went off about it and you know I just told myself because to me every time I did it the rules changed.


At least it did for me. Yeah.


It's like where you're supposed to put everything outside of the print in the princess and then you do it outside the princess. And I've seen I've actually seen on the internet where people will take a math problem or algebra problem and everything gets different answers and so I can't be the only one.


Uh huh. Mhm. Uh huh.


You know it's like the rules change so I don't understand sometimes.


Mhm. Yeah. Well yeah that's probably like yeah in order of operations thing where they have to, you're supposed to, there's a standard for which one you do first and if you didn't follow that standard you'll get a different answer.


That's what bothered right? Yeah.


Sure.


This this particular problem they were talking about um both ways sound familiar but one of them was the way I learned that that was one way that people got it right?


Yeah. Oh sure yeah.


And you know, I mean, I just, I just blew my mind is like, these are professional people and they're supposed to know and they don't even know what it is. So now I don't so, but uh, you know, actually it was your toe happy wife.


Uh huh. Right. Yeah, yep. Well it's about that time actually and I just got an extra my wife, you need to pick my daughter up so and it's good enough for you.


Happy life.


Thank you.


Oh, you, too.


Yeah well have a good day.


It's nice to meet you. Thank you, David.


Nothing we can do.


Bye bye.


Bye.


we're, mm Okay. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Okay thank you. Yeah. Right. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Right. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah mm. Yeah.


Okay.


Mhm. What's going on? Give me one good.


Nothing much. Have it? Yeah.


Mhm.


Yeah.


So what do we just talk about?


Okay. How's your quarantine experience been going?


Um Let me let me adjust something real quick.


How this one?


It's okay.


Um I've already already worked from home, I've been working from home for the last two years so it really hasn't changed.


What about you?


Um Well I'm in high school and I'm a senior, so it's been like kind of annoying.


It's like senior year.


It's just like another thing anymore. But yeah.


Yeah that does what part of the uh again the United States Embassy? Me Okay.


Northeast.


Northeast I'm in north Carolina.


Oh, have you guys opened up yet?


Um A little bit. Not much. What about y'all?


Um Just a little bit. Nothing really. But we have like parks open or something.


Yeah. Yeah our parks opened up last week so we were able to go out last this saturday. I took like a seven mile hike through the mountains. So we did we did get a lot of stuff open but you don't get to go out any.


Oh, that's nice.


I'm assuming you live with your parents.


Yeah.


Okay. So do you get to go out at all?


Uh Not really. I think I've only been out like three times in like three months, so it's been one.


Mhm. Yeah, and that's actually the same with me, I mean I go out, I still go to the grocery store um probably two or three times a week, but I don't really get out, get out.


Mhm.


I mean this saturday was the first time that I've really gotten out with two other people, but they stay at home as well, they work from home as well, so it works fine, so.


Yeah. Yeah. Well like what you said about going on a hike, like I feel like I've been able to go outside a lot more, which has been nice.


Yeah. Yeah. Um So how did you, I'm curious how did you get into this prolific site?


What? I think I sold them like Reddit or something.


Yeah, so did I?


So I worked, I worked, I've always worked from home and like right now I'm like in my office room and I can't leave my office pretty much like I answer phone constantly. Uh And between that I was like browsing Reddit and I was like saw that site and I was like, you know what sounds really stupid.


Mhm. Uh huh.


Maybe I'll try it when I was like this is no money at all, like this is ridiculous, like as many services as I take.


Yeah. Mhm.


And then I started figuring it up and I'm like well I'm at work eight hours a day and I do Roughly, I've only been doing it for like two or 3 weeks.


Uh huh.


And then I was like what does it really matter?


Yeah, wow.


I'm already at work, why don't I just do them? And in the years time we'll have, I don't know such and such money, you know, so I'm already at work.


Yeah.


Why not? You know, it makes sense to me.


What?


So I was just curious.


Well, like I've actually, I've done like other survey sites too, but like, I don't know, they just like don't really pay like compared to pearl effect, like they don't pay like anything Like it's like 10 cents for like half an hour.


So like this is actually the other it's others um Probably Like two months or so.


And yeah, no, I got you. I've only, how long have you been doing it? Really, wow. Okay. So I've been doing it two weeks. Have you had anything like this though?


No.


Yeah, neither have I. Um So I think this is like the biggest study that I've done so far.


Yeah. Sam I've gotten like first samples or something before, but not from this site is another one.


Um So I don't even know what do you mean? Mhm. Really? Yeah.


Yeah, it's like soap or something.


Um Yeah uh so I'm just curious like whenever I guess after day two I had enough to cash out and I was like I'm going to try cashing out the small amount of money to see if this really is true.


Nothing that exciting. Mhm. Oh yeah, before you invest like more time.


And so I made a hit my, yeah, so it went into my paper I got and I'm like okay I guess it works, you know? So um like I said I just said at work why not make an extra few dollars here and there and then go buy something at the end of the year with it, you know?


Mhm. Mhm. Yeah, that's it.


Mm Yeah.


More than you think like I don't think I've really invested in anything worthwhile.


Really?


Just fought like video games.


So Oh yeah, I think I think that I'm at like $40 and two weeks.


Yeah. Oh, that's nice.


Um So and that is because I can sit here for you know my work you know like I don't have to do anything like I have to be in the front of the so um sometimes um let's see actually haven't opened up on my work computer.


Yeah. How often do you get service? Because I feel like minor like really sporadic like they don't really like they're not consistent.


Um Yeah they don't have them consistent at least from what I've seen. Like I woke up on like sunday at like six a.m. And I got up and I just go check always check them constantly working.


Oh yeah.


I check my work emails. I'm like A study popped up at like six. a.m. on a Sunday.


Yeah.


So uh yeah a lot of that. I don't know there's no but it's all it's all overseas that it's coming from right because it's in pounds so I'm wondering yeah what time is it there right now?


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like in the UK players.


You know Like do they get more surveys at night when I'm sleeping the, you know, But I go to bed pretty early so I don't know, you know, I'm never a plate so but well that sucks that all this is messing up your senior year, wow.


Yeah, that's No, I actually was thinking that too. Mhm. Yeah.


So what are all your other friends doing?


Um pretty much the same thing and then a few people aren't following social guidelines, but uh yeah, I'm not I haven't chosen the out but we'll see about that.


Yeah. Right. Right. You plan to go to college after this? Yeah.


Do you have anything you want to go into?


Um I was thinking like psych or I mean I was kind of thinking art but like I don't really know what I would do with that.


Probably more psychology.


Okay. I got you. Um Yeah, I don't know too much about any, any one of those that are you an artist?


Um Yeah, I mean not really, I just it's just something that I like to do, it just helps me distress.


Are you delivering flag on? Yeah. Okay. Yeah.


What are your hobbies?


Well, um yeah, pretty much. I restored like old motorcycles, like really old ones.


Oh that's cool.


I'm like vintage what they used to call the first street bikes, not like Harleys or anything. Um And then I have like older cars and I'm restoring right now.


Mhm.


One of them is actually in the paint booth being painted and I should have it back really soon. Um Mountain biking, start biking, anything that's outdoors fishing. Um You know, like I'm not really a computer person, I don't really play video games. Um but I did just start playing Call of Duty. Uh Yeah, so, So I moved to North Carolina two years ago and I'm always lived in Dallas texas before this, I'm pretty old.


Oh my brothers into that. Mhm.


But uh I, my little nephew, he's 11 years old, he got Call of Duty and so I don't play video games, so I was like, hey man, I'm gonna get this game, let's play together, you know?


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.


So it keeps me and him were close before I left, so his dad and my brother got it as well. And so like we're all playing and we get on, he can't play during school, school night. So I had to play with him on the weekends, but I've been doing that as well.


Yeah.


So. Um, but yeah, yeah, pretty much it.


What? That's nice.


I mean I go out a lot on the weekends, like friday and saturday. Not anymore, of course, but we go out with friends and yeah, I guess you could say go out to dinner, have a couple of drinks, maybe go to live concerts, A lot of live music we go to actually pretty big on that, but, but yeah, that's about it.


Yeah. So yeah, a lot of the restaurants here are still open if you want, like curb blood service, you know?


Yeah, I can't wait till we can actually see the restaurants and stuff again. It'll be so weird though once everything is over. Yeah, that's what we're up to.


Um, so I live in downtown so I just walk over and can like grab something. I'm always taking my, have a really good dog that I take on a walk every single day, probably three or four times a day. And so they Rhodesian, ridgeback, you know.


What breed is that I ask. Utes.


Yeah, they're massive, just big dogs. She's just she's a sleeping in my bed right now. She's pretty, pretty good.


So she just turned three here two weeks ago and I yeah she is and she's not she's not rambunctious, like she's just very calm demeanor.


Oh, big dogs are always nice though because they're like big bloody marys.


Um And I've been teaching her, she uh she goes mountain biking with me, so whenever I'm on my bike like she runs with me like through the trails behind me or in front of um But yeah, she's a she's a pretty good dog.


Oh Um No I used to have a golden retriever but he passed away like I think it was years ago.


You got any pets? Mhm. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah. So you have you have our brother then, that's it.


Yeah. Uh My older sister too.


Older sister? Yeah, my whole family is back in texas.


Oh okay.


Um So I just kinda moved away from them to be honest, I'm missing a pretty good amount right now. I was supposed to go back to texas here last month. Um And I stayed there, I go probably four times a year and I usually stay with my brothers and my parents you know? And uh but because of all this I didn't get to go so a little homesick right now. Um But now we're getting through it.


Yeah.


Mhm.


I've actually I went to texas for the first time, I think it was like a year ago, but it's really pretty there also we were like surprised what's it called?


Yeah, fucking Yeah.


Bucky's bucky's is like the most amazing thing ever. It's like a department store um Like san Antonio and Houston.


Where did you go in texas? Okay. Yeah, so uh I know the bucky's that you went to and I've been there uh 10 15 times, who knows how many times? Uh And yeah, we always stop off there. Like I live in Dallas which is up more north and we use passing more.


Uh I actually used to live in a town called Denton texas which is Just above Dallas like 30 minutes and didn't just open up its first Bucky's last year. So they were building it while I was moving up here and it just opened. I've been there like two or three times but it's massive. So pretty, pretty cool. Pretty cool little place. Yeah.


Yeah Dallas looks cool too, but we didn't get the chance to go. But I saw online they have like a bat bridge or something like at sunset. You see all the bats like. Well I I really want to see that.


That's an all.


That looks cool.


Yeah they have, I've never gotten to see it. My brother lived in Austin for I don't know, like 10 years and yeah it's an awesome, yeah, Dallas is pretty cool.


Oh Austin. Austin that wasn't dull. Alright.


It's it's very, I mean it's so big, like so massive that it's crazy. Um But there's no there's no there's no like scenery as far as that goes, like there's good architecture there and stuff. Uh it's just flat and so whenever I moved up here to actually I'm surrounded by mountains, you know? Which is just awesome.


Yeah. Is that near the Smoky Mountains?


Yeah, pretty much.


Yeah, we went through there one time.


Uh Yeah um it's gorgeous up here.


It's pretty.


Like I don't have in texas, we don't really have tons of trees and mountain. So like, Pretty much my two best friends moved up here, kind of on a whim.


What?


They were a married couple and they just, they lived in Dallas or whole life and they said, hey, let's pick a spot.


Mhm.


And they just picked Daschle. I visited him like two years later and I was like, really like Asheville went back and I never thought of it.


Yeah.


And then a year after that, I was just like, you know, I was about to buy a house in Dallas. I was like, called them up and I was like, hey, what do you think about me moving to Nashville?


And they were like, yeah, that's great, come on over. And so the next time that I flew there actually went to go find a place to live. And so I went to Asheville twice before I decided to move there I found a place to live and now I've been here for over two years so, but pretty, pretty.


Okay. Yeah. I've always heard that area was nice.


Yeah, it's pricey, it's expensive here.


Yeah. I could just never I don't know.


Right.


I I like having four seasons though. Like having no, well I love we got like a ton ton of.


Right. Yeah. Well we get we do get four seasons here in Nashville, we don't get a ton of snow because we're actually in a little crevice, so we're surrounded by the mountains. Um So we get a little bit texas, we don't um The first time I actually ever saw like snow accumulate was like last year and it was yeah.


Oh really? See I could never imagine that.


Yeah, I mean texas, we we we do get snow even in north texas, it's rare. Um But you would say once or twice a year you might get an inch or two, there's no you know, something like that. Um but here I think in my backyard I got like 8" of snow and I was like this is the best day, you know it was awesome.


Um But we have mountains here so I just took up snowboarding last year. So another one of my hobbies love snowboarding now.


Well that's for Yeah, I've only ever really been into like cross country skiing, like snowboarding, like downhill skiing.


Like one I even end up buying a season pass. Um So yeah I love it. But yeah.


It's not really been my thing, but cross country is nice.


Yeah. Uh I went once when I was 16 in Denver and I loved it and I was like I'm gonna go back every year and I just never did you know never had the money. Um but now that I live here uh you know like much older but gotten into it, I'm like man I don't remember it being this hard and like falling hurt and yeah it's pretty it's pretty fun and then in the summer time they want the snow all melt.


Yeah. No it looks hard.


They they take the ski lifts and they turn them into mountain biking. So they take your bike up the ski lift and then you get to go down the mountain that used to ski on it.


Oh that's cool. Mhm.


So but I haven't got to do that this year since everything's gotten shut down so.


Yeah.


Right. Yeah. So where is this timer thing that we're supposed to be looking? I haven't even.


I don't know. I think it's on the other type of mind just like restarted, it restarts every single time I opened itself. I mean it started 7 25 ft.


Okay.


Mhm.


So well what time did you get on?


So like four more minutes. Um let's just say like 726/7 to be safe.


Oh and you were on video then?


Okay. So what do you think they use this video footage for?


I don't know. It said studying conversation so I don't know what that means.


What are they studying about?


Like there's a million directory?


Can't they just like go into a cafe and just watch people or something.


I mean I don't know.


I mean I guess not now they can't do that and like and a lot.


It seems like do you think that they're going to have somebody sit down and watch our recording and villa?


Why these two here?


That's weird.


Yeah. Well um I actually thought that they were going to pair me up with like somebody like in another country or something, you know, you know, still both english speakers I guess, you know, because that's the only way to do it.


Yeah. Oh. Oh that would have been cool. Yeah. Yeah.


Um But yeah, I actually thought that that's what they were going to do and see how that, you know, people react or how things were going over there for them. I don't know, that's just what I was like that. Maybe we'll work.


That would have been cool. Yeah.


Yeah. Um You ever been over a country anywhere?


I'll just kinda so it's nice there though.


Yeah. Yeah.


I've always wanted to go to Japan.


Yeah.


That's been like the one place I always wanted it.


Have you ever been anywhere?


Um No uh oh, I mean I've been to Mexico, I don't know 10 times and then I've been to, I went on a cruise out of the gulf of Mexico and I'm trying to went to like bullies and I remember it was like five or 10 years ago and several countries down in South America. It was just like 30 of my friends went on a cruise. So um, it was pretty ridiculous but we had a good time so. But yeah I've always wanted to always want Japan's up there for me.


Mhm.


I always wanted to go somewhere like that, like I think it would be a big culture shock.


Yeah. That's why I want to go.


It just seems so different like from anything I've ever seen.


Okay.


So that's pretty much why.


Yeah I was supposed to be going there. I don't know I guess it would have been two years ago now. Yeah it would have been two years ago now. So my girlfriend at the time was chinese and her grandparents still live there so she got to visit them pretty often and so we were playing on a big trip to go there and I was like there's you know there's my chance to go plus I had somewhere to stay and somebody who could actually show me the cool stuff instead of all the touristy stuff.


Uh But then we ended up breaking up and I moved here so you know, they never get to make it. But definitely at the top of my list in Australia would be too. And I don't know why.


Look.


All those spiders though and like the snakes. I don't know if I could handle that.


You got the qualifier.


So Yeah.


Yeah. But maybe maybe one of these days I'm not a huge traveler, so.


I mean I've never been on a plane so that would be a little difficult.


Yeah. Yeah. Well I think my first plane ride was I was probably 16 And I'm I'm 37 now. So um but got to go on a few. I'm trying to think I've been to 25 or 26 states. So I have gotten to the there's a lot of places.


Yeah, me too.


Yeah.


I think it was two years ago we went across country trip, so I think we only missed like obviously not Alaska or Hawaii.


We went to most of them except for like some of the midwestern ones. Like I think Kansas and stuff, but it was cool.


Yeah. I've been wanting to do a trip in my truck. They're all the wilderness places. I have one of those off road trucks that, you know, I take out and do all that stuff and I really want to do like a big trip up to Alaska. But to do that I really need to take off like a month from work and I don't think that's gonna happen. So Yeah.


Plus my dog hate.


Law school looks pretty.


Yeah, I was gonna look awesome. I would love to go there but my dog hates truck right? Like she hates getting in the truck. I don't know why.


Oh, she has like car sickness.


Most dogs love it. Yeah, she starts hyper ventilating so it's just like extremely panting and just going crazy and she's just very stiff, you know?


Oh, uh huh.


And uh like whenever I go back to texas, I take her with me and Like that's a 14 hour drive and she's just miserable the whole time. So yeah. But but yeah, maybe one of these days we'll get the go on a long trip. So. But Oh yeah. So what else?


Um, decor almost about don I mean, Yeah.


Yeah. I don't know. I did be honest. I didn't look at the time.


It doesn't it doesn't bother me. I'm not any real rush. I'm gonna answer some work emails after this.


Uh huh.


I mean I've been procrastinating work all day, so um Oh, that's just a 21 pilots poster.


What's the artwork behind you? Yeah. Mhm. You want pilot? Is it was that what you like to listen to you?


Yeah, I know.


Yeah.


I like alternative music and stuff. So uh, going on files, is it stressed out?


What's your favorite band then? Yeah. I know one of their songs. I know two of their songs. I can't think of the one I don't know the name.


Right? Or heathens? It's probably though.


Um It's one that's got a little bit of rap but the other one that I do know and I think I know the name. It's they did a remake from My Chemical Romance. Do you know who that is?


Uh yeah, I can't think of the song.


In Hope?


That one.


Yeah it's called Cancer. I thought that they did yeah they did a pretty good job of that so um but other than that they're pretty horrible band.


Oh, that's the one. Also.


Um Sms. Okay. Uh um You ever heard of Manchester Orchestra?


What's your favorite? No.


Okay. Manchester Orchestra is probably up there may be brand new, so that's the name of the man.


Is it like a, like an actual orchestra? Is that just like Uh huh.


No, it's not, it's just normal alternative music.


Thank you.


Yeah, pretty like yeah, it's actually pretty, yeah, Manchester or Chorus Orchestra.


I'll check it out. All right, let me let me actually read that time. What is it called? Yeah.


Hard to say.


Okay. Thanks.


Yeah, like it's easy, like anybody who, I don't know, I've seen them in concert probably about five times and they're really good, like Cd through CD is consistently good and it's not any sort of music that's kind of weird out there that like somebody is going to be like, oh, I don't like that, like overall it's a good, no wrong music.


Yeah, that's like the worst when you have an artist that you like and they make like good albums and then the ones just get worse than where I've had that happen to like three different bands. It's like so disappointing.


Mhm. Yeah, I haven't time so yeah, give him give him try and see what you think, but well, cool, we about done.


I think so. Yeah. It's nice talking to you.


Okay. Yeah, I hope I'm sorry that your senior year sucks.


Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot it's a lot better compared to other people are going through, so Yes, sir, yep.


So bad, you know, like we true, well, I wish you the very best and I hope you make a lot of minimum prolific. Okay, uh you have a good night


Bye. You too.


nobody's here. Big Shocker. No 1's here, Yeah, mhm, Right, Yeah, yeah, yeah, wow, love you. Oh, the mayor, Thank you too.


Yeah, good morning, Hi, how are you?


Uh huh. Oh, good morning. Mm, good. How are you?


Well, I'm doing pretty pretty alright, just woke up, so.


Yeah, you just woke up, Yeah, Okay.


Yes, it's um I don't know if we're in different time zones, but at seven a.m. So I'm in Atlanta.


Yeah, yeah, yeah, at seven a.m. Here, where are you from? Yeah, Okay.


Yeah.


I am in Pittsburgh, well, about a half hour outside of Pittsburgh.


Okay. Okay. Uh I've been to Pittsburgh once and that was for a um it was for a school like science fair trip.


Yeah, no, mhm, mhm, interesting.


Yeah, I had to go to Pittsburgh and it was it was really pretty city, I liked it, it was it was very like walkable, like you could walk to everything uh if you were downtown and that was pretty fun.


Mhm, mhm.


Uh Yeah, and a lot of bridges.


Yeah, we have a lot of bridges, a lot of bridges, mhm.


Yes. Yeah. Mhm. But it was not, yeah, there's no um there's no like, because I I go to Georgia Tech, which is like right in Atlanta, uh like right in like midtown downtown Atlanta and there's no like water in Atlanta, like there's no rivers or like anything, so no, okay, so it's not, it's not as pretty as Pittsburgh, but Mhm Yes, I am, I'm a sophomore, a second year.


Right. Really? Mm, Okay. Uh huh. Okay. Yes, Uh huh, mhm So you're still in college? Yeah. Oh, yeah, okay, what are you studying and interesting?


Mhm. Oh, I study biochemistry. Mhm.


Yeah, I, uh, I graduated, you're making me feel so old.


So Oh no.


I graduated from college in 2008, um with a business degree and an accounting degree and I, unfortunately 2008 was when, you know, the, the economy kind of went to hell.


Yeah, yeah, the recession.


So I wasn't able to really find a job, so I'll end up doing management and um, you know, like retail management type positions.


Uh mhm.


And then I had kids. Uh So now I'm a stay at her mom. Guys, stop, stop, my dogs are playing. So now I'm a stay at home, mom And I have two girls, one is 9 and the other 16.


Okay. Um Well I have, let's see, I think I have one sister, younger sister that six and another one that, Well in my seven and 9, I've younger sisters that are seven and 9.


Well. Okay. Uh huh. Okay. Oh my goodness, you're just you just keep making me feel, I feel ancient.


Yeah, Yeah, I actually have, well, let's see, I have, yeah, nine siblings total, so um The two youngest ones are 7-9, and then mm I love that I think, and I'm really not sure of their ages, let's see.


Oh my put Oh wow. What? Yeah.


Uh my oldest, my my two older siblings are older than me there, I think 24 and 22.


Oh. Yeah. Okay. Mhm.


Um And like they're moved out and everything. Um and then I have a brother that's the same age as me, um 19 who goes to a different school in Georgia.


Yeah. Yes.


And then I have, let's see, my next youngest sibling is in eight it's grade.


Right.


Um And then And then 7th grade and then 6th grade and then like fourth and first or something.


Uh huh. Right. Oh my your parents uh I have to and I'm like sometimes I don't know how I could handle two, I couldn't imagine.


Yeah. Yeah, it's definitely it's definitely hectic.


Yeah.


There's never a quiet or dull moment in the house.


Mhm.


Um So yeah.


Now do you stay on campus?


Yes right now I'm on campus.


Okay, Are they like shut down?


Um No all of my classes are in our online, like on a zoom call.


Do you actually go to class or? That's great. Yeah. Mhm.


Um Except for my labs because you can't you can't really do a lab online.


Yes. Yeah.


So um I go to in person labs. Well they're they're finished now because the semester's almost over.


Okay.


Um But every other week I would go to in person lab and there would only be four people in there uh in the room at once.


Yeah. Oh wow.


Um But yeah, pretty much everything is shut down, everything is online, especially at this point.


Uh The semester is like wrapping up so yeah we like they take like a lot of precautions um on campus, like everybody is required to wear a mask.


Okay. Mhm. All right.


Uh if they're in any buildings and all the students do weekly testing, so they have, well they have they have free testing uh for all the students and uh they ask you to do it once a week just to uh like check and like as like a surveillance to make sure you know you haven't been affected.


No. Right. Oh, I'm sure that's fun. Okay. Yeah. What? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Mhm.


Um But it's not like it's like a it's a really quick test, like you just have to like spit in a cup.


Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So it's not that crazy thing in your now?


Yeah, it's not the nose. No, that would that would be that would be unfortunate.


Uh Yeah, the book.


Um So yeah, it's really easy and it takes like two minutes, so like on your way to, you know, go to the library or something, you can just stop and test and it's really quick.


Mhm. Uh huh. Mhm.


Um So yeah, they've been doing a lot to like make sure uh that it doesn't get bad here on campus and so far it's been pretty minimalist and like Like 1% of people who get tested per day come back positive And they do around 1000 test today I think. So it's been pretty, it's been pretty good here on campus or I guess not good, but it hasn't been bad.


Mhm. Well, that's good.


Yeah.


Yeah, that's good. Things are getting pretty bad up here are cases have are like double triple than what we had in the spring.


Yeah it's uh I think it's getting bad everywhere, like it's getting the worst, it's been um it was kind of it's kind of it's kind of funny.


Yeah. Yeah.


Well I guess it's not funny but it's it's strange to look at like um in the spring when they sent everybody home from college.


Mhm. Right. With yeah.


I know here in Georgia there was only like 20 cases in the state when they sent everybody home.


Yeah, mm hmm. Yes. Yes.


And now now in Georgia I think there's 300,000 something over 300,000.


Mhm.


And you know, like everybody still like nothing, nothing in Georgia is on lockdown, which is strange.


Mhm. Yeah, I think in the spring when my kids, it was the end of March because it was right around, yeah, right around the end of March, um they had, You know, said, Oh, we're moving everything to virtual and at that point we were only maybe getting, you know, six or 700 cases a day.


Yeah. Mhm Uh huh. Mhm, mm.


And Now I think yesterday we had an all time high way like 60 300 cases. Yesterday we have like a 20% positivity rate.


I mean it's it's insane. But yet my kids, well a lot of the lot of the schools around here are virtual are switching all virtual.


Mine is hybrid. So my kids go monday Tuesday and then they're virtual Wednesday thursday friday.


Yeah. Yeah. I believe, I believe that's like the setup that my um that like my younger siblings time is that would go a few days a week.


Um but like the school system they were in, they were just not handling it well at all. So my mom recently moved them to a different school system because because like the other school systems doing all virtual and they're doing like a lot better.


Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay.


So yes, I think now at this point they're all online.


Yeah. Hey. Right. Oh hi. I know.


What kind of dog is that?


Uh This is a Sweeney. I have four dogs, this is a Wienie, her name is lucy and then her sister, this is Tinkerbell.


Okay? Oh baby.


My kids named her, she's another Tween E she we got these guys because there was my husband his previous job.


Okay.


Uh The one cleaning lady had Sweeney's at her house. Well she just you know didn't get the boy neutered and one thing led to another you know some some late night frolics in the backyard and she's a little puppy.


Mhm. Okay. Yeah.


So she's like you guys want one, we're like, well of course, you know, so that's when we got Tinkerbell and my kids named Tinkerbell, because we had come home from Disney like a week before we got her, and then the next spring comes along, right, and we get this phone call, hey, uh they had another date, you know, in the backyard and that's how we got lucy, so they're from different litters, but their same mother, same father.


Mhm. The same, yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Okay.


Um And then we have a teddy bear puppy who's behind me on the couch cushion.


Mhm.


She's half be sean half shit. So I believe.


And then I have a an old guy who's over here drinking water, he's uh college Australia Lab mix, he's 13, so he doesn't do much, he just kind of like lays around the house, gets up to go to the bathroom and then comes back and goes, yeah.


Yeah. Uh Yeah, he's he's getting old. Yeah, I've always said if I if I ever got a dog of my own, that was a girl, I would name it lucy, I don't know.


Oh really?


Yeah, I like that name, but um let's see back home, I have For I think I have four dogs also.


Mhm. Yeah.


Um Yeah, yeah, I have four, we have a lot of animals, I like, I kind of like live on a farm.


Mhm. You think? Yeah Okay I was all um right yeah to be uh mhm mm.


Um so like we have like a bunch of cows and chickens and cats and dogs and a rabbit. Yeah, so um so yeah, let's see, I have one outside dog that you know, stays outside, she's a husky, and her name is tubby. He um my parents uh like before I was born born, they used to raise, we'll get some before I was born. When I was like young they used to raise huskies um like breed them and they eventually they eventually stopped, but one of the huskies, they had got hit by a car and like she broke her hip and like had like you have surgery.


Mhm. Mhm. Oh no great.


Um and that is tubby, so like so they kept her and they were like okay we got to stop doing this.


Oh. Mhm.


Mhm. And so that was her and then I have three more dogs that stay inside and they're all well actually no no no I have four dogs and stay inside. I have one just like Straight to Chihuahua.


No.


A little one, her name is Gizmo and I think she's about probably close to 13, she's pretty old.


All right mm.


Um She's getting mean and blind. Which yeah. Um And then I have another one who is uh she's some part chihuahua, some part something else we don't know but her name is Chloe, she's a small one and then we have a larger one named Abby who is also just a mud.


Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah. Mhm mm. Mhm.


I think we like found her on the road or something when she was a puppy.


Oh yeah mm there's such cute dogs.


And we have a we also we also have a Weenie whose name is Harley. So yeah.


You know what I just love that they dig under the blankets, I don't know if yours does that but it must be like the docks in thing.


Mhm.


I put blankets out and they have to be under a blanket and they have to like make their little nest in their blanket.


Yeah.


Yeah they're so fun.


Mhm mm.


Yeah I I grew up with the animals but I would have loved to have lived on a farm. Um I have animals, I have two cats now, four dogs. Um I have two parents that are over here.


Okay.


Um One of them was mine that I had um that I had bought because I wanted, I fell in love with him and the other one was one of my good girlfriends that moved to Ohio, she has had his name's Gully, he's about I'd say 12 now um she got him when he was about a year old, but she wound up getting pregnant and she had a pre me, I mean he was born at like 26 weeks so you know with going back and forth to the hospital and things like that, she just couldn't, she didn't have time for him, so he came here, so he's here to um so that's how I acquired the other parent high, my old man is whining.


No. Mhm. Okay. Well well let's see, living on our farm is not it's not always cut out to me.


Uh huh. Mhm.


It's not I don't know me, maybe I'm just not very kind of like you know I don't care for it much because the cows are not like when you drive by like look at them, they like look nice but they're really not there really.


Uh huh. Yes. Yeah. Uh huh. They smell and they're dirty.


There's smell, they smell terrible and they're dirty and uh especially and like certain times of the year like the males like the bulls, they just get mean and like yeah like unfriendly to you.


Mhm. Right. Right. Okay. Really? Yeah. Right.


Um So yeah like we used to have to go out like I used to have to go out and like you like feed them every day which which Is that you have like 30 or 40 cows is a lot.


Yeah. Right.


We like we have like barrels full of like grain and we would have to like load a wheelbarrow up of grain and then roll it out there like three or four like loads of it and yeah they just smell bad and okay giving um I don't think we had any dairy counts.


Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Oh no. Now were they dairy cows or were they, did you guys use them for slaughter? Romney Ram be buddy?


I think I think I think we only we raise them too to sell or process.


Okay. Oh yeah, yeah, the process is a nicer work.


Um Yeah so like we we've done that like we've done that with like three or four cows and we've been doing this for I don't know, 6, 5 or six years now and would like three or 4 cows that's like that's like lasted us like until now like they make a like they feel the freezer um mm Yeah it's it's a lot but yeah.


Yeah. All right. Uh huh mhm Remember. No, no, this is they do. They do, Yeah.


Um Yeah.


Oh my gosh.


Yes.


Yeah, I want chickens, but my husband told me now I want chickens because I wanted eggs, but he's like, Ashley, you're not going to go out there when it's 20 degrees outside, You know, you don't experience this, but um you know, it gets very cold up here.


Mhm. Mhm.


He says you're not going to go out in the winter and clean out the chicken cube and he's right, he's right.


Mhm. Yeah. Let's see our our chickens, I think they just think they just run around uh we have like a coupe like in our barn that they stay in, it's like a large ones I don't think, I don't know, let's see we like my parents have like the kids go out and collect eggs and stuff like that's like your job like like we don't really have to worry about it.


All right, mm hmm, Mhm, Mhm Run Uh huh. Okay. Uh huh Mhm Oh, that's cool.


The kids, the kids like find it fun to like go find exits, like always an easter egg hunt. Mhm. Yeah and they lay eggs just everywhere is in the most obscure places like you'll find them.


Mhm Yes.


Like one day we left um like the window to our van down and the next day found an egg like in the floorboard of the van.


Uh huh, Mhm Uh huh Oh my Yeah.


Yeah they get everywhere. Um Yeah you said it was cold, he said it was cold up there. How how cold is it now?


Um right now it is 29° outside.


Mhm mm.


Um Now it's average around this time of year is in like the 40s for high, we're kind of having a heat wave here the next couple of days, it's going up to like 60, Uh but overnight were down into the lower 30s.


Okay. Okay. Yeah.


Um Now winter, I mean we can see lows in the negatives, highs, I've seen them highs in like Of 5°8°, but that's only for like a few weeks, you know, end of January, like the real, real cold um Summer we had a really, really hot summer this year we had A couple days that were like 95.


Mhm. Yeah. Mhm.


But I know this is probably like, yeah, we're still at 95, But 95 to us is like, you don't go outside.


Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Oh yeah.


It's very, very hot.


Oh yeah.


Hey, stop it. We're over there playing uh Average for our summers about 85.


Okay.


Okay. Um Let's see it's it's getting like cold now here in Georgia.


Oh, okay. And what's your cold?


It's uh well it's been like it's been like in the low 60s um for the high which you know now everybody's bundled up like that's yeah that's cold for us.


Uh huh. Really?


Um It's actually warmer than it normally is um Around this time like by now we're normally like in the low 50's I would say.


Uh huh.


Um But yeah so like at night it gets like in the 40s Um like 40s to 60s is what we're at right now. I know in the wintertime like it can get cold but Like very rarely as it gotten like below 10, Like I probably like count it like counting on my hands so many times in my life it's gotten below 10 in Georgia.


Mhm Okay. Yeah. Killing me.


Um And like we've never I've never seen a snowy christmas.


Okay. Mm hmm. Really?


Yeah, I I can remember christmases where it was like 75.


Oh my gosh. Yeah, we get snow all the time up here hey, enough, every time I try to talk or even if I call somebody on the phone as soon as I start talking, the three little ones decide that it's time to play and then you can't hear anything.


Mhm. Yeah. Uh huh. Mhm.


Um, we are, yeah, we've already had a couple snows so far.


Yeah. Cool become Mhm.


I mean nothing that is stuck because the ground is still warm so it'll snow, but it just won't accumulate.


Mhm.


That's crazy to me.


Yeah.


And it's, it's funny that you say everybody's bundled up in the lower sixties because you come up here and lower sixties people were in shorts and a t shirt Walking around, you know, to us, that's warm.


Yeah. Mhm.


Like to us 65 is like a beautiful sunny Day, you know, get out in your summer gear and I probably don't wear a winter coat until its lead at least like 25°. Right.


Yeah. Let's see. Yeah, you see like normally like my rule of thumb is like once, once it gets like 40 is like when I'm going to get like my like hoodie and my coat and then if it gets below thirties, when I have to get like the gloves and the hat, it's um but no, like an average warm day up here is like 75, 80, like that's that's comfortable.


Great. Yeah. Yes. Mhm.


Um And yeah, let's see, let's see our summers um It's Like we'll have like weeks then it goes like 95, like on average, but 95 in Georgia is not really 95 because it's so humid.


So that's that's pushing hot for us up here. Mhm. Yeah.


Yeah, and so the humidity makes it feel like Like 100 or like 102 and it just gets so sticky and like hot and a lot of bugs, so.


Oh the cool. Yeah, I don't do bugs.


So I don't know, I think I'm more of a I'm more like a warm weather person, I don't really like being cold.


You know what I'll take I'll take the snow over the 95° summers. I just I am not. Yeah. Forget it. Oh yeah. Mhm.


Uh then again, I'm not really ever used to it so almost.


Yeah. You get used to it. I mean up here like I'm sure you guys your heat is probably set on your house or your dorm. I don't know like 75° or whatever.


We have our thermostats at 64 you know And now see that would be too hot for me.


Okay. Yeah, let's see right now, I'm at 69 in my room, so. Yeah.


I would be so hot. Yeah, we said ours at 64-65° and that's just what you know, people are used to being colder up here.


Mhm. Yeah, I guess when it's cold outside, 64 feels warm once you walk inside, so.


Yes. Yes, definitely.


Okay.


Really? Guys?


Mhm.


Really?


Yes.


What are you doing? You make a noise. Oh these guys are so bad.


Yeah.


Do you miss having animals like living in a dorm?


Mhm. Um It's definitely it's definitely I like I like the dogs and you know it's nice to like have them around just like you can give attention to them.


Okay. No. Mhm. Yeah.


Um But yeah, we're not allowed to have any animals in the in the dorm.


Uh huh.


I know like a few times my roommate and I have talked about getting like a gecko or like like a like a small like mouse or something just to have something.


Mhm. Uh huh. Mhm. Yeah. Uh huh.


Um But I think technically all animals except for fish are allowed in the dorms and I don't really want to fish.


Mhm. All right.


I feel like I'm not I'm not a fan of keeping a pet fish but yeah.


Their new fun. They don't do anything.


Yeah, I don't know if I like I kind of feel bad like letting a fish just say in one tank for his whole life and just like you can't like pick it up and play with it.


You grew up? Yeah. Okay. Mhm.


Mm The so yeah.


Yes, because I'm in on campus housing where there's no animals allowed and uh like they give us a bed, like they give us furniture and everything um but I think if I were to move to off campus housing I could have a pet, but in Atlanta that is very expensive.


Yeah. Right. Uh huh. Oh really?


Yeah, like in downtown Atlanta um Finding housing is expensive, so Yeah.


I can imagine. Yeah. We live um in the middle of the woods basically.


Mhm.


And you know what, That's how I like it. We have neighbors but they're far enough away where they don't bother us. We don't bother Graham.


Oh yeah.


But if something would happen, you know your neighbors are close enough to where you can get in touch with them and and that's that I'm good with that.


We we have about an acre of land here I mean which isn't much compared to a farm but. Mhm. You know it's not it's enough for us.


Yeah, I've always lived, I've always lived like in the country um not in Atlanta, well there's still a lot of trees and it's like it's still pretty like rural looking um there's a lot of trees, it's like I think it's like termed the city in a forest, Atlanta is um there's still a lot of trees around and everything but like all my life I've grown up either like in like in the woods or um like now I live just like in planes pretty much.


Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Uh huh. Uh huh. Yeah. Right. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Uh huh.


So it was just like like grassy heels and yeah, so the city has been like being in the city the past couple of years has been like it's definitely been a change.


Um and I don't know, I like that everything is close by that if I ever need to go to the grocery store or like get some food or anything, I can just walk.


Yeah. Yeah. We can't do that.


Yeah, so there's some pros, but then again everything is more expensive and yeah and it's always busy and loud, so it was nice talking to you also.


Mhm. Well it was very nice talking to you this morning. I appreciate you showing up.


I I haven't had very good track record so far.


Yeah.


How many times have you done this?


Well the first round I talked to like 33 people or four people and then this round they kept giving me appointment and I'd wait and wait wait. Nobody showed up.


Uh Uh huh.


So I think this rounds through the second or third person. Oh good morning. What's the matter? Oh you don't sound good. Somebody's getting into your infection but I will let you go to enjoy the rest of your day.


Uh huh. Yeah. Okay.


Thank you know he's talking to you.


Okay. It's nice talking to you.


Is


Yeah. She escape. Yeah. Mhm. Is that right? Yeah. Yes, sure. This morning. Okay. Yeah. Mm. Mhm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Okay. That's right. Yeah, I do. Mm hmm.


Yeah. Yeah.


Hi hey harry.


Mhm. Scare me.


Yeah yeah I can hear you.


That's, um, some tray, uh, live in massachusetts, uh, story out of boston.


Mhm.


You know? What about you?


Oh cool I'm Sharon I I live in pennsylvania. I live about an hour near Philly philadelphia. Yeah. Mhm. Are you are you a student?


No, I, I just graduated. Actually. Not, not, yeah, not the best time, not the best time to graduate, I'm sure.


Oh yeah me too. Yeah. Yeah. Did you um did you graduate from undergrad or grad school?


Mother. Okay. I'm a grad. Are you also in the gran?


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I graduated back in August of 2019 so I've been working full time for about um 11 months now since august.


Yeah. Uh, well, what do you study and like, what do you really want?


Yeah I um I studied finance and business information systems.


Uh, yeah.


I was a double major um and I have a minor in chinese.


Okay.


Um Yeah and right now I'm working as a I.


Just cool.


T. Risk consultant at ernst and Young.


Mhm. Mm.


Yeah all right here.


That's where you go. Um, campo engineering. I'm not working, uh, as a research engineer. Yes. Also been working for a little bit. Uh, where do you go to school? Because I actually have some friend. What is going to fill it? I was just curious.


Mhm. Yeah I I want to Lehigh University.


Oh, it's really good school. Yeah. Actually did apply there because I have a really good engineering program. Yes.


Mhm. Oh cool cool cool that's cool.


Yeah. Okay.


Where did you go to school?


I went to school, tell us in massachusetts, so yeah, I just, I just live here.


Oh tough. Oh that's that's a good school yeah I've heard I've heard about are you living with your parents right now?


My effort. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um Living with housemates. Yeah, I'm actually, I'm actually from Vietnam's.


Oh house mates? Cool.


I'm not from America, so yeah, yeah, I'm glad I'm kind of glad excitingly.


Okay cool. Yeah international student. Right Yeah. Okay mm.


It's not also not great to be an international student at this time. Um Yeah.


Yeah. Yeah yeah yeah I understand what you're saying. Um My roommate, both my roommates were international um students and uh they're from one of them from Beijing china and the other one is from like another city, it's like more northern china.


Uh huh. Mhm.


Um So both of them went back because they can stay here, so.


Mhm. Mhm Yeah.


Yeah.


Yes, ralph um yeah, it's a rough time for everyone. Are you living with your parents?


Yeah. Yeah.


Are you originally from pennsylvania?


Yeah. Yeah I grew up in actually I was I was born in Manhattan in new york city um and then I lived in china for like four forest years of my life with my grandparents.


No. Mhm.


Um My parents were here uh they were in new york um and then I came here when I was five for kindergarten um in like new york city, the queen's area.


Mhm Yeah.


Um And then And then uh when I was like it's like all over the place, sorry when I was when I was like nine or 10 I came to Pennsylvania and I just kind of stayed here um ever since also like for school as well actually my college is only half an hour from here from my parents house.


Okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah, that's, that's really good. And your parents can visit you a lot. Uh I wish, I wish I could say the same about my parents.


Uh but yeah, I've been training is great, been just filling a lot I really like, so we have been food there.


Yeah. Mhm. Oh yeah.


Oh, mm.


Yeah, they definitely did. Oh I really like um I think feel is the best, far out of um like all the major cities that I've been to.


Yeah, I, I think I try eating like at a Vietnamese restaurant, it was like pretty good boston has like a really good uh remains to, this is like a big women's community here.


Okay. Mhm.


Oh that's good.


Feelings, plates like in massachusetts or in uh chile uh huh Yeah, so I don't think I've been here but I have like a lot of also like give me strength who go to Temple University and fairly um so uh yeah, this school, yeah actually almost like um so these are also like friends, you know back from Vietnam um just kind of funny, it's like a lot of them went to school and temple and I don't know what's going Dickinson.


Yeah. Yeah. Um Yeah so like I I know I know that my friends and I really one place I think it's called Faja uh it's on like Washington street, I'm not sure if you're familiar. Oh no, no, no, it in and Philly, Yeah, in Philly. Yeah. Mhm. Oh type. Oh yeah. Type of a lot of yeah. Uh Yeah, that's that's cool. Yeah. Our friends in the pennsylvania area. Uh huh uh Yeah.


So like yeah, like a lot that's just like in pennsylvania uh and that like the only kind of view these people I know over here so I go visit them a lot.


Yeah, that's cool, that's cool.


Uh so so how was uh things going for you?


Um Yeah go ahead. Yeah, I am working from home a lot.


I imagine you probably just working from home a lot. Yeah.


Um but I think it's kind of nice because I get to wake up later and I don't have like the commute.


Yeah.


Yeah, because when I when I lived in new york, I lived in queens um but my work was in Times Square, So uh it was it was like about 45 minutes to an hour commute.


Mhm. Oh that's long. Yeah.


Uh so it was like really long um and now I keep kind of saved like two hours on that, so that's nice and also my parents cook for me so I don't I don't have to worry about.


That's awesome.


That's also yeah my housemate are in the same situation where like they have Like even using like the metro system, I have like over 40 minutes, I'll come here.


Yeah. Mm.


I usually like half a short because on my house because I work like I buy to worry it's like a seven minute away and I have like the longest communities actually have to leave the house like go to one because I do a lot of black work so I can't can't really do too much of that at home.


Yeah. Uh Yeah. Uh huh Yeah, that makes sense, that makes sense.


It looks like a beautiful day out um where you are right now. Yeah.


Oh no, it's actually opposite.


It's really?


There's a there's a storm coming. Uh I mean it's pretty, it's pretty bright because I don't know like like this because I like daylight savings in summer is like it's just deep right out until like new york home.


Oh really? Oh I thought I thought it looked really nice. Mhm.


But discipline like a storm is coming.


Uh huh.


I don't like tonight. I like tomorrow. Uh huh. Yeah. Still making a lot noise.


Uh Yeah I see. Yeah. Sorry I dropped something.


Um Yeah.


Uh So what?


So how about it? Oh come here.


Yeah go no go ahead. What do you usually like?


Yeah I've been talking about free time.


What do you what do you usually do like when you have like some free time?


Um I really like cooking. Um I'm not that good at it but like I think it's just like sometimes it's just like yeah I could just feel like the sake of it.


Oh that's nice. Me neither. Don't worry.


Like sometimes like I could do things much more efficiently. I just don't do it because I just like you like the process of cooking so I cook a lot. Which is great because you are like great for the pandemic situation because you know mm just like at home all day just eating.


Uh Yeah. Yeah.


I also like um dancing but it's kind of hard because I can't take dance class because just like a couple of very risky to you right now.


Oh. Oh girl. Mhm. Mhm.


Uh Yeah. It was like like a two main things that you what about you?


Yeah I like I was eating. Um So so so so I mean you can cook for me and I'll eat it.


I mean, who doesn't do it? Right.


Um And I also like um I guess like online shopping a lot.


Yeah.


Um which is like this is like all the things that I've been doing a lot lately.


It's fun.


Um But if I was able to go outside I usually like like taking walks. Um and I also like going out like with my camera like taking pictures, I have a canon T.


Mm hmm.