Welcome back to another episode of Lick it Like a Lollipop to this week. You all have a really big treat. I have my friend Shane coming in to talk to us about some crazy stories that they post on their Facebook. And so welcome Shane. Thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it. I'm very happy that I get to be in the space right now with you. It's kind of cool. Private, so I always see your post on Facebook. So he's like a property manager you all.
And some of the stories that he has for us today is great. So recently there was a woman that called like Immigration Services and he was posting about it. So I just want you to dive right into that story. Oh my gosh. And I wish on so many different occasions, but some of these instances were just purely for satire because it would mean that like, I wouldn't actually have to deal with it. And I could just be like, oh, this was a skit or this was that.
But it's just so many different things happen on so many different levels where I constantly live in a state of like, did that really just happen? Like did I did I have to live through that?
And one of them being the lady that had called Immigration Services. So for people that live in an apartment and for people who don't live in an apartment, I'm just going to like go over a broad spectrum of like what basically happens when you need something done in your apartment, It's your landlord's responsibility. Like you don't own that. It's not a condo, it's not a home. So that means that we have to come in and we have to fix whatever's the issue, regardless
if it's your fault or not. That's neither here nor there, but this women had put in a maintenance request. And so if it's like air conditioning and plumbing and electrical that goes to the top, like that's a high priority. Like you can't be without electricity, You can't be without air conditioning. Your plumbing has to work. There's different codes and regulations that protect renters on a different level from like, you know, a home owner.
Obviously if your AC goes out and you own your home, that's kind of crappy because you got to fix that. But in an apartment complex, we have to fix it and we only have a certain amount of time. She put in one of those emergency work orders for her air conditioning and she was like, my AC is not working. It's busted. Come to find out the detail that I did not release to social media. They had pulled her air filter out of her AC unit and that thing had never been changed.
You're supposed to change it like once a month. She lived there at that point for like a year and four months. And that was like the original air filter. It looked like it just, it looked like a giant hairball with dust inside of it. And if you would have seen, if you would have seen her, you would have been like, you know what, that makes sense. That makes total sense. And normally I don't go after people's physical appearances, but when you're racist, you get what you deserve, so.
So my favorite part of the story that like when you shared, so when she called Immigration Services, you all come to find out she's actually an illegal immigrant herself, right? No, no, no, no. So basically what ended up happening is she did get in trouble, but what happened was is she had called the police and she had alleged that somebody like my maintenance tech had went in and stole something from
her. And so she gets the police over there and she gives the police a fake name because she is unable to produce her ID. Oh, I don't have my ID. My wallet was stolen. Blase, Blase, I don't have my identification on. So basically what happens at that point is they come back to me to get my office's side of the story. And when I had heard that she was talking to the maintenance man the way she was and she was like, oh, I'm going to call Immigration Services, blah,
blah, blah, blah, blah. I immediately texted everyone because the people that I work with and the company that I work for, you do there's a legal process in order to work there. It's not anything under the table. We make sure that they have insurance. We make sure that they can get their tax documents so they can get their tax returns. They do get healthcare coverage and everything. So it's a great company to work
for. But she had alleged that and me being me, like I always go into like high gear. I texted all of my maintenance guys and I was like, everyone leave the property. I was like, I don't know where you're going to go, like what's going to happen. Just I want you to leave the property because I don't even want to deal with this right now. But I gave them the day off, paid from that point on and was like, we're not even going to mess with that. You just got to go. You need to be safe.
I want you out of here. I'll pay you for the day. So they come to me, The police officers do, in order to get my side of events. And mind you, I've only spoken to this woman maybe twice, and I give out her real name. And they're like, what do you mean? And I'm like, no. And for the story purposes, we'll call her Barbara. So I'm like, yeah, Barbara over, over Yonder, right? Like that's who you're talking
about. And they were like, she said her name was Erica. I was like, well, it's definitely not Erica. I said, hold on, give me a minute. Let's make sure we're talking about the same person. So I go and I pull the photo ID from when you apply, you have to leave a copy of your driver's license, right, girl? She gave the police officers a fake name because they leave the police officers. Do they take that ID photo with her? Because we scan the front and the back.
So I was able to produce both so on and I thought they had left. I thought they were off the property. Little did I know they were sitting right outside my office for like 35 minutes. They go to run her information. She has one felony warrant and one misdemeanor warrant out for her arrest. She calls the cops on herself essentially because nothing was stolen. They completely disregarded that police report and they went over
to arrest her. The felony that she had caught was a felony auto theft and it was like aggravated or something. Essentially it was like armed robbery of a motor vehicle is like the intensity of what that warrant was. Apparently from what the cop was saying from the notes, it was all on camera when she did it. You could tell clearly it was her. He could tell it was her. He had to get the video evidence from the the detective that was handling it.
So that's why he was out in the parking lot so long. And I was like, there's no way. I was like, this is great right now. Like, you end up being racist and say you're going to call Immigration Services and call the cops and you have a felony warrant out for your arrest. I think, you know, that should have been the last phone call she made is to the police. Who calls the cops for one? The thing about it is who lies to the cops? I think that that's like the one thing like I'm, you know.
That's a bigger issue. Optional, but lying to the cops is not optional to me. Like I'm not going to lie to a cop. Like I'm not going to be a snitch, but I'm also not going to lie. And it makes sense why you would pretend someone stole something from you because it sounds like she was trying to like finesse something against your company and like try to get money or try to do something like get a free month rent or. Whatever, That's how I think it was going to go.
Like, Oh, well, my iPad went missing and it was a $900 something I've had. And it's like, first of all, if you're paying full price for an iPad, like I, I, you got money like that, then you don't need to finesse your rent. But I, I think that, that you're fully correct on that. That's, that's where we were heading was, Oh, I need a free month of rent. And so after that she had not
ended up paying her rent. And I was like, I have a feeling like she's not going to pay her rent and I'm going to have to file an eviction. And so that's the avenue that we went on. I had to file an eviction on her because she wasn't paying her rent. And then she didn't go to her court date or anything like that. And then she just skipped out on the apartment after getting arrested. So did. She take her stuff with her. She took some of it but like the apartment itself it was.
It was so bad and so disgusting. She literally owes my company thousands of dollars at this point because we basically had to do a full trash out. All of her carpeting had to get completely ripped up. They had to completely sacrifice the bathtub. There was no even resurfacing and painting the bathtub. That's how bad the bathtub was.
It looked like, you know, there was just like an inch or two of oil, like black oil all the way around the bottom of the bathtub, so. Basically moved in, never fucking changed a filter, never swept the floor, never even washed the bathtub. You know, you have to be getting into your bathtub really fucking dirty for it to get like that because like, I don't get it. Imagine taking a shower and ending up dirtier after the shower. Like, because that's what I feel like was happening.
It makes no sense to me when people think that like owning property or renting to people is going to make them money because I bet it is a straight probably 5050 with with situations like this isn't it? So my gosh, like probably even 6040, like I, I think the whole time I've been at this company, there have been 3 apartments that I can count that I've walked into after they moved out and was like, wow, this looks
great. And like I didn't have to do anything like didn't have to hire a cleaner. I didn't have to replace anything. Like I think one lady, she, it was in her lease and she got us on this and it was so funny. I walked in and I was like, Oh no, the electricity's off. This woman paid for all of her light bulbs. So she took all of them with her. So myself I'm trying to turn the lights on around the apartment and I was like the AC is running why? Why is the lights not working?
And it's because she took all the light bulbs. I kind of feel that though, like renter, I don't rent anymore, but when I did rent, I paid out the wazoo and I rented pre COVID like and what's funny is like the very first house that I've rented, it was like 600 a month. But now that I look back on it, it did not have central air. It like shrink had window units and I but I even I mean I was renting it from like a family member, but I mean 16 hours 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom.
It wasn't a bathroom spot but I lived there for like a month and the fucking front door got kicked in and all my shit got stolen like that's. Oh my. God, yeah. It was like off Dixie Highway, not in the best area, but you know. Oh my God, I've lived off Dixie Highway too. I used to live off Wellsworth Ave. where it was behind where the Speedway was over. Dixie, probably. Yes. In Shively, yes. That's where I live over in Shively. Oh my God Lord want to hear something crazy?
Yes one night when I was at work it was my ex at the time and two of my roommates and some dude that my roommate was dating at the time. So it was a total of like 4 of them. And one of the roommates at the time was a straight up neat freak. Like always beneficial because we had dogs and stuff. So like, I really appreciated it, but I also didn't grow up in
the best part of town. So one thing that she did was she kept taking everyone's car keys and she kept putting them in a bowl because we didn't have like a thing by the front door or like a key rack or anything. And I was like, hey, please stop putting keys like in a bowl. Like if someone breaks in, it's
right next to the front door. Lo and behold, two months later, not even kidding you, somebody breaks in, they start rounding up. You can see the thought process when we looked at the house afterwards. The TV was by the front door, the stereo system was by the front door. Literally everything was by the front door. And then you could tell someone found the bowl with all the car keys, right? So instead of stealing all the stuff, they stole all the cars.
They stole four cars out of the driveway while everyone was at the bar. You know, out on Dixie you have to really be a special breed of person because I used to work by the Walmart that they closed down out there and the one off. Over in Riverport so. I used to go to that Walmart, like that's close to where I lived at the time and I'm not going to lie, there was a man straight masturbating at the stop sign right by the Sonic on like a regular day.
I remember I was dating this guy and I just ran. Yeah. And I called him and I'm like, Oh my God, this just happened. He's like, what? What do you mean? Like he he just like couldn't even process what? Happened and then another like what did you? Just see, like another crazy memory I have about that house is across the street, there was like straight crackheads, like they were constantly on the go. But I remember. No Gray area like they were.
Crackheads. You knew they were crackheads and like, they come over and ask if they could, like, use the water hose or like, just random shit. Yeah, it's like the randomness thing. But I use your water hose. What? We were sitting on the Porsche and it was probably about midnight, 1:00 in the morning and it was like dark over there. Like it was like those neighborhoods you all that have
like street lights. So it's like back hell and we're just sitting on the porch and no one can really see us. Two people, one person pulls up to the stop sign, another person pulls up running on foot. Also. I scream is get back here you bitch. He keeps screaming. He gets up to the car and he goes give me my dope por so crazy. Oh my God. So funny all the time. That's crazy because like, it really doesn't matter where you live in the city because it's everything is next to something.
It's how I put it in terminology. Like you can be in Say Matthews, but there's a lot in Say Matthews even like out here in Middletown. Like I see the most random shit ever and I'm like, huh, Like we're in Middletown. Like a lot of people, they move to those more populated areas because more than likely someone's going to give them 5 or $10.00. But have you heard about like the homeless people who like get handed like a $10.00 bill and they're like, that ain't enough?
Have you been hearing about that? I have and I can actually speak on that because I also bartend downtown, like near the Yum center and there is a few homeless people that they'll walk straight into our building and they're like, I'm homeless. You have to give me food. And I'm like, oh, try that again. Like ask and say hey, like I'm I'm really hungry. Could I get a meal? Yes, all day every day. I'll give you meals. I'll whatever you want.
But some of them are like only one order of chicken wings. Like, like I don't have a house and I'm like, what? I didn't have to give you the first one. So like, I'm so confused. He looked right at me and he goes, yeah, man, like you didn't even put French fries in here. You want wings and French fries? My God. Like that book when you give a mouse a cookie, like it's just like that were playing in my head. I was like, damn something. About whatever city, like they
are ruthless. They're like, no, that's not enough. You like literally what is so crazy work is I was in Cincinnati. That's where I'm from. No, no, no, I was, no. I was in downtown Louisville and I had just left the Mercury Ballroom and I went to a concert and we were hanging outside after the concert, like kind of waiting for the band to come out to see if we could get an autograph. And there was this gentleman that came up to me and my cousin. And they give you that bus
ticket story. Like they need a ticket to the bus, but literally. Yeah, 'cause I don't have I got to go over here and yeah. So far from where we are. So I know you're fucking lying because you're so you're like 10 miles from the Greyhound stall. But not even close. Right, like so he was talking and he was telling us and he was like giving all the soft story. So my cousin patiently just like listen to the dude and I know the guy. I thought like, I got him. I got this motherfucker.
He's he's in. Isn't that the best? Then at the end my cousin goes damn man, I don't got any money on me after like a 10 minute story and then the guy goes, he goes what do you mean you don't got no money on you? He goes, I don't got, I don't got shit on me brother. And he goes, he got a card and he goes, yeah, I got a card. He goes, well, this pizza place down here's got an ATM and he was talking about Spinelli's like down on the corner, like
down the road. He literally said this pizza place down here as an ATM and my cousin looked at me and looked at him and he goes I'm not fucking walking down there. And the guy goes damn man, you can't help me out. And he's like. That is crazy work to direct someone to an ATM to get their money like that hustle at that point. That's that's real. I know that took me out. That's like whenever I, that was actually just like a month ago like that.
And then I was in Cincinnati and one of the homeless people was like, what am I going to do with $5? Well, back in the day we used to give you like $0.50 and you were fine like. Right, I get that inflation is hurting, but guess what? Some of us are hurting too. I just feel like I ain't got it. If somebody's going to give you anything like I would just like I would never be like, damn, man, this ain't enough to go get what I need.
But I did see that like cigarettes are going up like 2 or $3 a pack and I don't smoke but someone posted a sign and like a pack of Marlboros is like $10. I know and then they already made a lot of people angry a few years ago when they took the tobacco law from 18 years of age to purchase to 21. And that was like, I've never seen more 19 and 20 year olds turn into like little like friends. They were just like, oh, can you on your way into work? Can you stop and buy me
cigarettes? Like my whole entire group chat for both bars at the time I was working at was just going off like Shane, I'll demo you right now. Buy me a pack of cigarettes. And I was like, when did I become a plug for everyone under 21 to get cigarettes? Like when did when did that flash over? Because that just, and it happened like that. It happened so quick. And what's crazy is then Kentucky decided, you know what? We'll just let everyone at the
age of 15 get their permit. Like what the fuck? And then these kids don't even pay attention. Like that is not a good thing to do. No, because I'll tell you what, at 15 years old, if you put me in charge of a car, oh, I'm hitting every curb. I'm going to find every curb everywhere. No one's safe. I think back of like when we were younger and we got our license. I just remember driving around forever and ever and ever, like
never stopping. Like you could never Get Me Out of the car until my dad was like, you're gonna park that car, You're keeping the streets hot. Like all not. Keeping the streets hot. Yeah, that's what he would say. Like you keeping the. Street. You're keeping the streets hot. I've never heard that before, but that's cute. That's really cute. All them young, them young bloods. You're keeping the streets hot, smoking them cigarettes. Literally.
Oh my God, pigs. Yeah, I don't know they you all like everyone listening. Our bars used to be open till 4:00 in the morning and then maybe like a month ago there was this. Wild word. Like street riot that happened and now they've like decided to make a curfew of 2:00 AM. Honestly I don't understand why the bars were ever 4:00 AM. Like anyone that's at a bar after 2:00 in the morning to begin with has real problems.
Yeah, because I'll tell you what, when I first moved down here, I'm from Cincinnati, and last call up there was always 2:00 AM, like had to be out by 2:00 AM, like, no grace period, nothing like that. And when I came down here, I had to really relearn how to drink. And I know that sounds so crazy, but like I would sit there and like my pregaming in Cincinnati would start at 9:30 ten O clock. You couldn't do that down here because I was pregaming at 9:30 ten O clock.
And then I was done by 1. And it happened so consecutively where I was like, you know what? I'm not going to pregame anymore. And then eventually it came to, you know what? I'm tired of this. I don't want to be out anymore. I don't even know how I used to go out. We would wait until midnight to leave the house. Isn't that wild work? Because I do that. If I was to do that now, three days, I'm down for three days. Yeah, I don't even know how I
used to do that. Like now if I go to a bar and they don't have food, count me out I don't even want to go. What do you mean they don't have jalapeno poppers and fucking like what? Do you mean the ranch isn't house made? Like what do you mean by someone who's been working here for 17 years? Like that's, that's the bar. You know, I really do feel like kids these days though, Like they've just like skipped that
like going out phase. And now like I think a lot of kids don't even have like socialized because I was talking to parents and they're like, Oh yeah, the kids like they don't ever want to go to each others houses. They just want to set it home and FaceTime each other. Yeah, and because I'll tell you what, another thing to add to that, I don't know what's been happening recently with like what's been in the food after our generation because like I get that I look like I'm in my 30s.
That's totally fine. Aging gracefully is a OK, but I have met some 1920 and like up to like 21 year olds that look like full grown men and full grown women with a four O 1K in a retirement plan. And I'm like, what do you mean in 19? Like I some dude had the fake ID, the Hawaii ID, the ones that are like easily fakeable. And I, I looked at it and the second I bent it, the corner popped up on it and I looked at him. I was like friend. And like, I just call everyone
friends. I'm like friend. And he starts panicking immediately. Like just you could tell he's like unseasoned. This is probably his first time ever going out and he had the misfortune to run into our bar where, you know, you might not get ID if you're not going to the comedy show, but you 2 get ID coming up to the bar to order something. And I looked at him and I was like, how old are you? And he was like, I'm 19. And I was like, well, thank you
for being honest. I'm going to give that back. I said don't use it here, but you do have to leave now. And he was like 6 foot three with a full beard and he was just like, he looked like an adult, like you could tell in the face he he looked a little younger. But I was just like, what is happening nowadays to where these kids look so old? It's the damn growth hormones and. I'm telling. You. You know I. Really do think that these people around us have no idea.
But you know, when we were younger, I don't ever remember there being like super obese kids. And I'm not being a hater. I'm just saying like. No, not at all. Something which we know they've like really fucked the food up, but they have really done something not only to make kids like super lazy, but like they've like changed their DNA or something because like it's rare that you see kids it's these days like outside riding a
bike like or outside at all. Like you would not know that there's kids that live around me because like I hardly ever see them ever. Like I think a lot of times like parents are literally like, I'm going to buy you a dog, so you have to walk it and go outside with it, you know, like they. Yeah, get some fresh air, get some sunshine. Right, like I know that we started having like you know, Nintendo DSS and like games like more handheld stuff. We. Sure did that Game Cube, that,
that was something else. Yeah, it was a. Work hard. Yeah. I always wanted one. No one would get me one. There's so many things I wanted as a kid that like, my parents were like, no. And now, like you see people on Facebook like I work 7 1/2 jobs to afford this like no, fuck that. Kids need to be out here cutting grass. They need to go after and get a
hobby and learn how to a skill. You know, these kids like, you know, I don't know, I just don't feel like they're out experiencing life like we. Were correct and then I also know either from having friends that are like, you know, have children that are growing up to be adults and stuff that I don't think that this generation of children that's behind us. I really don't think that they're ready.
And there's nothing wrong with that because like you got to keep in mind if you were in high school during COVID, yeah, obviously that's going to mess you up a lot if you were out of high school for a whole year and then had to go back and then next thing you know your life is upside down. But I just don't think that they're like ready.
Like I had to start working as a teenager to get like my car insurance and then my family did help me out with my first car, but like I've just always had bills like I've always had someone knocking like, hey, you're late on that. And I'm like, ah, God, OK, fine, whatever. So like, I just don't think that this generation now, I don't think they're going to know what to do. Because like, if I wanted a phone, I had to pay for it. If I wanted a car, I had to pay for it.
If I wanted, if I wanted like something special or whatever it is, like Ugg boots or whatever, I had to pay for them. Like these kids now are literally getting so many basic necessities handed to them that they don't see as like costing money. And I had a roommate who basically had been baby, like he's a little older than me.
Like we are into late 20s and we move in together and because his mom and parents have like spoiled him and constantly babied him when we when he moved in with me, he just thought things like toilet paper, laundry detergent, fucking paper towels, whatever. That's just that comes with rent. Like oh he paid his portion of rent so like he's good. All this is included. I literally had a Red Bull in the refrigerator and I told them do not drink this. Do not drink this.
Not yours. And do drinks it like I'm sorry, what? And it's not even about like the fact that it might have been a minuscule amount of money. It's just like, bro, I'm trying to survive. I needed that. Like that's going to wake me up. Yeah, it's just like, I feel like people who get a lot of things handed to them, they don't see the value and the fact that like, I bought this one Red Bull for my freaking self and I knew it was. The one thing, yeah, the one
thing I wanted. I had it in there and then I go to get it and it's gone. Like, of course I'm going to be upset like. How? Many people and like you're saying like these generations, they think phone and Internet and streaming and Fortnite money and all that that that's just like included with existing. I honestly think parents should start getting kids a small like fucking like the Android that comes for free with the plan. Like yes. Phone.
No iPhone. Rocky, why do you think you get an iPhone that you just automatically get one? Like my dad bought me an iPhone 4 back when the iPhone 4 first came out which was popping. I got the white one and then after like 6 months he I turned 18 and he didn't like how I thought I was going to be out and about popping my shit. He took that phone so fucking quick it would make your head spin. He was like, you know what, you want to be outside, be outside without my phone.
That's exactly what he did and straight took that bitch away and took my number. Cut it off. Cut off your number. I took it off your number. He. Was like, yeah, you think these motherfuckers are contacting you? Nope. Straight cut it off. You know it. It taught me a yeah, it just taught me a lot. As you know, I was 18 and I thought like, oh, it's going to be good. No, he was like, hell no. If I can make this hard for you, I will. Right. But look at you now. I know, I know.
Thriving. I think, I think it's the less you give a kid, the further they'll go because the more entitled I think anyone is adult, child, teenager that. Fucks up because you can tell, yeah, you can tell the ones that get everything in life when they grow up and they grow older and stuff like that. And like, specifically the older generation when it's like, you know, they're trying to talk to us about buying a house or buying property.
Because the way that the world is working right now pertaining to housing is all of these giant corporations are coming in and they're buying these houses because they want to keep people renting. That's why interest rates are so
high right now. Like a lot of the renters from all of the numbers that we've pulled privately, they're now between the ages of 22 and 55 years old renting because everything is so expensive now that it just wouldn't, you know, it's not feasible for a lot of people to buy their own home financially. So it's just there's, there's so much going into it. And the older generation is like, well, I bought my house at 24 years old back in the day.
And it's like, OK, well, your house also cost you 25 grand. And then when you went to sell it, it's now worth 450 grand. So there's apples and oranges. Here that's exactly how like my dad bought his house in the 90s and paid like 70 and now he's gutted it and redoing it because if he redoes it he can get like 300 for it like but he is gutting it and completely redoing everything but still like that's a huge fucking jump if your shit's been paid for for 10-15 years and just stack and
really cash a check. But like you're where I saw something on a breakdown on TikTok about how like $25.00 an hour is like the new $12.00 an hour and older. Directions like they don't see that like they post these jobs up on marketplace, bring 20 bucks an hour farmhand or, you know, just whatever. Yeah, but like, how how are people going to live off that? Yeah, yeah. Because that's what they were saying.
Like they averaged it out because if someone's paying around like 1200 to 1400 a month for rent could be more than that. That was just like a low average. That was like AI really do think, though, that we're moving into a recession and that. Oh, for sure, 1000% save your money. Don't buy any shit you don't need right now. Save it as interest rates are about to go back down because the economy's about to crash. So make sure you're an essential in an essential category of work.
And honest people like our age, if they wanted to learn a new trade, like freaking electricians painting, you know, things like that are so needed. Oh, my gosh. So we have a guy that does maintenance for us at our property. Absolutely love him. He's so great at what he does. Technically he's labeled as our company painter, but he does so much more. He does drywall work and like we had a like the, the kitchen sinks and stuff like that. They're all marble.
And we had somebody how I have no clue. They ended up moving out. Their apartment was so disgusting. And then we go into the kitchen and they cracked a marble countertop, like cracked it like it, it was broken. And how that happened, I have no idea because they're, they're made to hold thousands of pounds, like appliances and stuff like that. This guy literally pieced back and naturally painted the granite and resealed it to look like it wasn't broken.
And I found out how much money he makes a year from being able to do all of that. This dude makes over $600,000 a year from not just my property, like going around to different properties and like doing their painting, doing their drywall, helping redo their flooring, helping like recock their windows if something goes wrong with the window, swapping out
windows. Like this blue collar dude that learned a trade and developed that trade now makes more than some doctors do. And that to me is like whoa. And all it took was him learning a trade. Yes, I grew up in a family that owned a drywall business. And so as a kid, like I know I could do, I know I could frame drywall. I know I could do it. I know I can't. I know I can get it out.
I can get it popping. But you know, just the skills that I watched them do over the years and the amount of people like your type of business that want to hire them, but then the type of side work, the people that are wanting to pay them thousands of dollars under the table as well to come.
And they get that too. Like my maintenance guys, like one of them he, he works seven days a week because he is trying to get the rest of his family over here from Cuba because it's just gotten so bad in Cuba. Like he was literally saying that they need at least a dollar and 25 a day to feed like 3 people. And there's like, not meat included in that. It's like potatoes, plantains, onion and maybe rice every so often. And like, that's literally what, like what his family's eating.
So he has to send money over there. He sends toiletries over there and stuff like he gets like this big giant box and he fills it with toilet paper, toothpaste, mouthwash, socks, underwear, all that kind of stuff. And he ships that over. Every other month, he's dropping like 8 or $900 on like a box of toiletries. And then it's like 125 to ship it. So he works every single day. But he does painting. He'll do like gutter cleaning. He did like power washing and
stuff like that. And when he was asking me a question because he wanted to apply for a car and he was like, hey, can you help me get my financial documents in order and stuff like that? This man was making triple what I make. Damn. And I was like, yeah, literally, I'm sitting there going through his finances. I was like, let me get $20, buy
me lunch. Yeah. You know, a lot of especially Hispanic people like they can fucking build a house on the ground up and that's what it like, that's what impresses me because Oval, there was some land back, you know, when every house used to sit on three or four acres along highways. Well, they basically bought a house that was in foreclosure because it was trashed and then
it sat on like 4 acres. So they pieced it off, made the house that they fixed up on a small lot, sold the whole lot, and then built a fucking just the most beautiful house from ground up and did not skimp on anything. Not the brick, not the colors, nothing. And it's so beautiful and I drive past it every day and you know, like they own that shit, they own the land. I'm sure they financed materials, but like they didn't $450,000 house that probably cost them like 150 in material
period. And the fact that they bought that other house in foreclosure with this huge 4 acre lot. They got that for a deal, fixed it up and now they got this $450,000 brand new house that they probably moved their mom whatever into. And now living their best life because now they have a house that they probably paid like 124 that's allotted them all of this space, it's like.
That's. What they say, a lot of Hispanic families, the reason they live together is because they pull all their money together and they property off. Then they go to the next one and pay that one off and they buy them in foreclosure because they can do the work. And then they fucking flip them. And honestly, I think that's why so many Americans are haters on other cultures because, like, they know how to get shit done. Like, they know. Yeah, but like, get it done and get it done quick.
Like, quit, quit waiting. Stop waiting around. Like, go do it. Because, like, what I have to do, part of my job is I handle the money moving in and moving out of the property. So I have to have my hands on everything. I have to know if you paid your rent. I have to know if you have a pet so you can get charged accordingly. Like, and when I see big Hispanic families coming to rent, I'm like, OK, I can almost guarantee this is what's
happening. They're going to rent for a little bit until they save up enough money. And then once they save up enough money, they're going to go and they're going to buy a plot of land or they're going to rehab homes and stuff like that. Because we have one family in particular that lives on my site now and they're in the rehab business. They do stuff like installation of stonework, tile work, flooring, all that kind of
stuff. And when I have to do what's called like income verification, basically like if you fill out an application and you say, oh, I make 6 grand a month, I have to be able to see that. Like whether it's for your bank statements, whether it's for your paycheck stubs, whatever. And I thought that this dude when he had put down, I thought that maybe there was like a 0 malfunction or whatever, like he added another zero when he shouldn't have.
He made 2222 five a month consecutively for the past like 3 months. And I like, I kind of looked at and I was like, why are you renting? And like, it's just a question of curiosity. Like I'm happy that you're here. Like why are you renting? And he goes, oh, all of the properties I have right now, they're all almost done and I'm going to sell all of them at the
same time. And so like him and his wife were sitting there telling me they've got like four or five different properties that they essentially did what you were talking about with the one family that bought the home in foreclosure. And he's going to sell them all at the same time. Like the amount of money that that man is going to make off of that. And just like, you know, he took maybe a year, year and a half to do 4 different properties. And now he, well, I was going to
say he might take a day off. He's definitely not going to take a day off. No, I've met him. He's like go, go, go, go, go all the time. And I'm like, you know what? That's that can't do attitude, but it got him paid. So yeah, yeah. And that's kind of like the family that I grew up in, they owned a, a business that they would buy houses in foreclosure. They would remodel them to rent them and so forth and then sell
them or whatever. But that's exactly like, I'm used to being around people who are like, Oh yeah, your bathroom's leaking. I'll RIP it out and redo it this weekend. Like I was like wait.
My aunt is definitely one of those people that's like because you know, her family has always redone anything she wants redone so she can buy a house for 80,000 and that they'll RIP it out and redo it. And I'm always like, I'm like, yeah, it makes me laugh because she's someone is like, yeah, I think I want to redo the laundry room. My budget is 7 days. Could you get it done by then? Because she's just used to having family members and people
who are going to come work. Yeah, that are going to do that, get it done. And she's like, yeah, I forget. Not everyone can do that, you know, like, cuz every time I go to her house, something is different. Something is updated, something has changed. And she's like, Oh yeah, it looks totally different. Yeah, it does. Like, but because like, when did that get here? Don't realize that skills like
that are so needed. Like that's really what's lacking because they did this poll and they asked like younger generations, I guess, like Gen. X and Jen Alfa or whatever, what their ideal dream job is. And like 50% of them were Internet related jobs like streaming, influencing, acting, you know, music. But like or what? Nobody's saying they want to be an electrician or a mechanic or
actually need. And look, I am all in support of everyone going to get a trade and stuff like that because I'm really good with numbers and I'm really good with like the math acts like the, Oh my God, not the aspect of math. But if you give me a power tool, guaranteed I'm going to make it worse. I'm not going to help the situation. I'm actually going to create a whole separate problem. And so like anytime I grab a power tool personally, my boyfriend's like, what are you
doing? Why do you have that? Where you going with that? And I'm like, all right, I won't do it because when I ask, hey, can you do this? I'm like, hey, can you do it now? Like I don't say now, but I'm implying now. And he's like, no, I'll do it in 5 minutes when I want to do it. And I'm like, I'll give it a shot. I won't. I will never give it a shot because I've learned my lesson. I've broken furniture. It's bad. Yeah. I actually bought one of these electric kind of like cutters.
Like it's like an electric box cutter and I fucking love that. Thing, but you have to be careful. With it I've told myself that I wanted to buy a drill. I don't know why. Like just so I can drill, put things together, I guess with Right. Yeah, you don't need that, but I do have my own tools. They're not electric tools though. Well, I mean, my oddly enough, my boyfriend, he used to do
apartment maintenance. And so when I was thinking of transitioning into like an actual apartment community role, I kind of bounced ideas off of him first because he's worked at like a like a class apartment communities where they're like stupid expensive and you know, like the maintenance team has to be like top tier. And it was, it was funny because I was like, I can bartend. I think this will be kind of
easy. And he was like, OK, 'cause like I've done real estate, but I just missed the step. Typically you go from like serving and bartending to apartment complexes and then to real estate. And I, I skipped around, I did the bartending, then real estate and then came back down to property management. Because property management, you get your insurance and your training and everything else through a company, not your own
self. So like, if I ever got sued, people aren't actually suing me, they're suing the company I work for. And then the company I work for could be like, hey, you're not getting sued anymore, but you are fired. And it's like, oh, well, damn, I don't have a job anymore, but I also am not getting sued. So, yeah, I think real estate's one of those unique things where, like, a few years ago when the housing market was booming, there were more Realtors than there were houses to sell. Correct.
And that was a specific type of hell on earth, let me tell you. Yeah. It's like rotated because there's all kinds of houses, but nobody wants to buy them. Like, no one can buy them. Not that they don't want to buy them. They can't buy them, I don't think. Yeah. And it's crazy because like we even considered like, you know, renting a house like in like the Germantown area and the rent on that for a two-bedroom, 1 bath was $1500 a month with nothing
included. So you're looking at a two-bedroom, 1 bathroom house for right up around after everything is said and done, like water, electric, sewer, Internet and everything like that. Yeah, trash. You're going to be at like probably right around 19 to 2 grand for a 2 bedroom rental. And it's like that to me is just kind of that that made me like take a step back and be like, you know what, We'll stay put for a little bit. Printing is a game.
Because like I have friends who like get amazing places and like, they haven't raised their rent in years. It's been crazy and they're loving it. But then I have friends who are like, Oh my God, it's so awful. And like coming from me, like I've rented an apartment and I've rented a house and then I went on to purchase something. So like, I don't know. I personally think that renting is such a scam long term. It's good initially to like money, to learn life skills, things like that.
But I honestly think that anyone who's going to rent long term needs to know it's a scam like long term because like I said earlier, like all these big housing companies and stuff like that that are buying up all the local real estate. When my friend, she moved from Saint Pete up here to Louisville and everyone's like, Oh my God, why'd you move from like Florida to Louisville and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like it seems perfect down there.
It is. But both of her jobs got destroyed by the Hurricanes. And this past time I went to Florida, I accidentally, well, you know, you buy tickets so far in advance, I had no idea there was going to be like one, let alone 2 hurricanes. But I kind of felt her on that because even though I came in after the first hurricane, everything was shut down. There's nothing to do. Everyone's panicking. There was no groceries anywhere. It was just miserable. So she was like, you know what?
I don't want to deal with this anymore. I want to come to Kentucky. When she came up to Louisville, we started looking for houses for her. And all of these houses were bought by these like offshore entities that didn't have like an actual brick and mortar office here in the city. We were calling people and they were people that barely spoke English and like, that's neither here nor there. But like when you look up the company, they're not even here. They're not even local, like in
the city. They're just buying these properties to get the constant cash flow. In that way, everyone is renting and everyone's consistently paying their bills. So I just think that that particular part of the housing crisis is just absolutely terrible because you're making it impossible for people to get ahead. They're making it like almost completely impossible for new people starting out after their, you know, college graduation and stuff like that.
I don't really know any college graduates right now that could buy a home, you know, And honestly, I think a lot of that, though, is expectation because like a lot of people are like, Oh my God, brown cabinets and carpet. I can't like, you know, I think there are homes in a price range that people are like, oh, I don't like that. Like they're not thinking like our parents and beyond.
Like they like my dad's house had brown carpet and like green walls when he moved in, you know, so also the Internet and expectation with like Pinterest and what people think like, no, you're not going to have cabinets that are flushed to the ceiling that have ambient lighting under them. Like, like what's your expectation? Because, you know, I always see those memes that's like me on
Zillow with $12.00 to my name. Like, you know, I don't know, I think that there's not a lot of houses that are worth buying. But when there is, you have to tame back your expectations. Like, you know, the, the man that you talked about was flipping the houses and putting all that work into them. He's not. Being. Icky. He's rolling up, he's seeing good foundation, got a solid structure, no termites, no lugs.
Let's get whereas other people are like, I really want 4 acres and flush cabinets and hardwood with a claw foot tub with it, right. They want it to be completely turnkey, but they like, it's just you don't, you don't have the budget for turnkey. Like you got to turn the key yourself. Yeah. And like, I think, you know, 5-6, seven years ago, there were more turnkey in reason. And now people who bought their starter house are turning it into a more forever space.
Like kind of like what I bought like a condo thinking like, oh, I'll just stay here for a few years. And now it's looking a lot more permanent, which I'm very blessed that I was able to do that. But you know, you got to think like our generations expectations are a little far fetched. Like we're wanting like completely on a fucking, you know, Michael Kors salary, like people are over here, right? Yes, Prada and why I sell in red bottoms or whatever the fuck.
But, you know, obtain your expectations. And plus a lot of people now are trying to do this solo where every other generation previously had two incomes, Correct. Yeah. And like, I know someone right now that was like asking if anyone's interested in renting. Like I saw numerous Facebook posts and stuff like that. Because what they did was is they had funneled their income from the husband.
He has like a really, really nice like carpentry job and like a kind of like Jack of all trades job to where he can work on either driveways or cabinets or redo the flooring or do rehab work and stuff like that. So they wanted to get into the rental market. And I specifically remember her saying something to me way back before Nowhere Bar closed before, like no one, you know, before all of that happened. But she looked at me and she goes, well, what it like, what
do you feel about it? And I was like, I don't know, like you're buying a whole other different structure for somebody else to live in. Like, I don't know if they're going to take care of it. And sure enough, that's what's happened. All four of their rental properties right now are completely vacant right now. And all four of those tenants are under eviction.
So they are like hemorrhaging money right now because they're not getting the rental income and they're also having to go to court with spending the money to file evictions. So all of them are vacant. And I was like.
You know, the only firm thing that would make sense is if you had a really dope destination spot that you could do Airbnb because like we just stayed at the gorge and it was 260 a night, but it was literally had its own private pond and, you know, and club, it was super comfy. Like, you know, Airbnb is where it's literally like cold and empty and like IKEA or you've been like, hell yeah. Like this is so cozy and decor and everything.
So I don't know. I think the only thing that would make sense is what I want to say is like if you found something that was destination worthy where you get 6 to 8 months of in peak seasonal. Rent. That could pay your What you would do is like say your mortgage is 2 grand on the place. You funnel 6 to 8 grand a month into that mortgage and pay it off. So then it's free and clear.
Like that's what people don't understand is like if your mortgage is 900 but you on average spend $1000 a month on shoes, clothes and eating out, you should be paying 1900.
Or. 1700 and then you can spend 200 you know on some on what whatever, but people don't realize it's like they're like oh, I'll never be able to pay this off yeah, you're making no extra payments like renting ruins people's brains in the sense is they don't have this the same like plan ahead forethought and whenever I've moved into my spot I needed to get like I had the original water heater.
I had the original furnace and I wanted to replace both before they went I thought a water heater was going to be so expensive. It was literally $800.00 for like a top notch water heater and I'm in the amount of people who rent who end up having leaks, water bills out the wazoo, ruining the subfloor, ruining belongings, and it's $800.00 for the landlord to fix to replace that not even fix Yeah, that's. Crazy.
Yeah. The crazy part is, like you said, nobody has that like future site everyone's worried about. Like right now, oh, my rent is $800 and I have $900 in my checking account. Rent's cool. And then my whole next paycheck is free. No, like if you're using it, like if you're utilizing renting, pay your shit off. Like pay all of your stuff off. Like there's no reason that you should have like an astronomical credit card bill. And don't get me wrong, I love to shop.
So coming from me, there's some people that are going to see this and be like, but wait a minute, weren't you? And it's like, no, no, no, but it gets paid off. There's nothing that goes to collections. There's nothing I put on the back burner to where they're calling my phone. Like I have everything on auto pay. And the downside to that is that sometimes I think I'm Bill Gates and then I open up my phone and I'm like, oh, I guess that Amex payment was due today.
So my bad. The thing is, is like our generation doesn't have a lot of financial literacy because a lot of our parents were in struggle mindset. And that's what I've tried to like teach and preach and you know, help help people understand is that abundance is a frequency. And when you constantly are in a lack mindset, like whatever it is, you have to shift that narrative into gratitude, into resourcefulness, into elevation.
Because so many of us, the reason we're trapped is because we bash it. We don't need, we bash it forward. We bash it. We have no intentions of wanting to pay for, you know, it's like, you know, they, they really do mess people's brains up when they give the celebrities who have the money to buy the shit, the free shit they give them to then turn around and sell it to you who really can't afford it. And like I've been manifesting like cherry stuff like so now it's everywhere.
It's of course everywhere. But now Louis Vuitton is doing their cherry collab again. They have not done since like the early thousands. And I'm like y'all are fucking. You did that. Thanks. Thanks for that, because now everyone's going to. Everyone yeah I checked it's like 5 grand for the bag and I'm like y'all are crazy. Thank you for showing me that my manifestations are real now. Get a dupe. Yeah, give me one for free. Please right give me a dupe like. I love a dupe.
I love a dupe. That's my favorite thing, honestly, because when you have something that's like so expensive you don't want to use it, that's no fun. No, not at all. Yeah. Like, do you remember back when Vine was a thing and that girl pranked her mom with the Valentino bag? And she was like, I spilled red lipstick in your Valentino bag, and the mom was like, my Valentino bag.
And it's like, why would you want to carry around something so expensive that if any little thing happened to it, like your day's room? Yes yeah, I don't remember that, but I do remember Vine being like super cool and honestly I kind of miss when TikTok was like only shorter videos because I get my attention span for like a 10 minute ain't. Got it. Ain't got it for you, I really. Ain't got it brother. It's hard. Like I'm like. Fuck, what's wrong?
I can't focus on this. Right, And I have younger siblings so now I get like all of like their tik toks and stuff. And I'm like, I have no idea what's going on here. Like none whatsoever. I'm going to watch it because you sent it. So if you ask me about it, I don't have to lie, but I don't know what's going on here. Like I'm so far removed.
I really don't either. And you know, it's funny because like, I know the younger generations are always making fun of millennials, but what's crazy is you are literally trying to be us. Like Y2K trending? All the fucking, literally. Like all of the things we used to do trending. Like you all even wanted your own like version of the Beanie Baby with this la Boo Boo bullshit and like. Correct. Yeah, and then now you have to try and one up us by making a
hang off of a bag. We used to wrap those in scarves. We were the Ogs. Ogs. On that, I feel like the Boo Boo things are fucking demented. I they actually represent this demon. There's a demon called like Bazuzu, and it's like them and he's not a good demon, so. I And now he's everywhere. Now he's everywhere. Yeah, because I also had someone talk about like the Elf on the Shelf being a demon and like all of a sudden everyone had Elf on
the Shelf in their home. But like when we were a kid that did not even exist. Like Elf on the Shelf wasn't a thing. No. And like I'm super, super, super spiritual. Like, I believe that energies and different things can, like, follow you. Yeah. And if you're in, like, a bad mindset, I believe that you do invite certain things in. And I have to be like, extremely careful because I live literally across the street from a cemetery. People are like, oh, no, it's
like down the street. No, it's the end of my driveway. Across the street is a cemetery. And my boyfriend is so morbid and I kind of love it sometimes. And he's like, Oh my God, we got a new neighbor. And my dumb self, like the first three times he did it, I'm like, Oh my God, who moved out? Who's moving in? What's happening? What's going on? And someone's getting buried, and that's our new neighbor. Getting buried. And I'm like. Gosh, I love it.
That's such a good. That's actually a really good statement. We got a new neighbor. You know, there's this guy. I run to the window and I'm like. He was talking about how, like, how so many people die every day, but there's never like, new cemeteries being built. So he's like, where do all the
people go? Well. I saw that really like really, really crazy thing and I can't remember which state it happened in, but it basically was like this company, I know both of the founders, they they're in prison now, but it was the company that were like, we'll plant your loved ones in a tree. Yeah. That type of thing. And they weren't doing it.
They were like hoarding a mass amount of bodies and some bodies were like left out unrefrigerated and like they were like decomposing everywhere and like the building started to smell like it. And if anyone knows that exact story, I'm going to, I'm literally going to have to look it up because it was. So I was just in shock that I read that. And I'm like you, I think they had over like 30 bodies. That they just did not do anything with and I could not imagine that would be so upset.
I like the concept of turning people into trees. I think that would be a really good concept. Right. But you got to do it. You got to have the follow through. Yeah, like some some leave your Uncle Greg over here in the basement. So. You know, there's probably a bunch of people somewhere out there in someone's basement, unfortunately, like.
Yeah, And see, the amount of stupidity and stupid things that I did when I was younger, I'm like, that is a miracle that you did not get trafficked, like straight up, because I was just so not with it. I would not pay attention to anything. I was like, I love life, People love me and I love them and everything's great. And then a few years later, I'd look back and be like, why did you do that? Why was that a thing?
Yeah, the amount of times that I like lied and said that I was staying the night somewhere that I never even went is crazy because like if I did go missing and you all were literally talking about like pre cell phones, like they couldn't track you. I told him I was here but I was never even there. So like. Right. We didn't have Find my Friends
or Find My iPhone. We literally some of our phones had a removable battery pack that you had to charge like let that sink in. You know, I've thought about getting the new razor like and just getting rid of my iPhone and getting the razor because do you? Know that that's trending right now. A bunch of people are getting rid of Apple products altogether because they say that it makes their life too conveniently inconvenient, meaning that they're just sucked in in a mask
to the iPhone. That's honestly how I feel because I have two iPhones, two Macbooks and an iPad. So like I'm constantly 2 connected. And honestly I've just thought about because I, I have another iPhone for my job and then I have my personal iPhone. So I'm like, I could just, I would still have an iPhone, but I could just get rid of this one and get the razor. And right that way you'd still have one. Yeah, like the razor is actually pretty dope.
Like it's touch screen. You open it up and it's like a a big touch screen. It's pretty cool. And I'm like, I saw one girl that had the BlackBerry, she ordered a BlackBerry off of it, like a vintage BlackBerry off of Amazon. I loved the BlackBerry. I was a BlackBerry girlie. I also had the Sidekick. That was like my very first, like smartphone was the flip around Sidekick. I'm so jealous. That was part of the nostalgia that I never got.
I had a BlackBerry and then I had an original Razor, but I didn't have a sidekick. And sidekicks to me were just like, I'm like Oh my God, I want that so bad. Yeah, I was like the first that had a sidekick and I remember Paris Hilton had one and I thought that was so cool. She had the pink 1. I had, I had the regular Gray and then I did upgrade and get the green sidekick when they came out with it. And then I spilled Gatorade on it and my backpack and like my. Spoken bag.
And it ruined it and I remember fighting with insurance over it. They didn't want to replace it because it was such an expensive phone back then, like for insurance. But then when I tried to claim that, they were like, what? What do you mean? What do you mean you broke it like? It was. It wasn't me, obviously. Like, Are you sure? Just a girl. I mean, I will be honest, I am going to look into the razor. I just think that something about sliding that baby down my back pocket.
And then the dramatics, when you flick it up, you're like, hold on. And just like the screen flicks up and you're just like, I am that person. I'm that person right now. I had a Nokia that had a button on it that would flip up. It would flip the phone up. And it was. It was like back whenever, like the outside of the phone. Remember when the outside of the flip phone didn't have color, but then they started having color? Yes, it was like.
Right at that brink. And it was when my friend got a new phone. She let me have that one. I could just put my SIM card in it. So I and I remember. Isn't that wild that we were like SIM card girlies like that? To me it still is crazy because you talk about this to someone younger and they legitimately don't know like. Yeah, yeah. And I remember. I had Touch My Body by Mariah Carey as the ringtone. I had Fergal wishes. Oh my God. I listen to that song all the
time. And you know that boom Boom Pow song? I know, you know, yeah, it's by the Black Eyed Peas. I listen to that song like, regularly. Like that is regular rotation for me. Like for real. Oh my God, I love that. And like I said, old school Fergie and then Eve Tambourine, if that came on, don't speak to me like I'm vibing at that point. I'm already, I'm already not locked in anymore for the streets at that point. I'm outside.
Oh my gosh. I saw this picture earlier and it was of little Kim and it said, holy shit. Little Kim scared me because her pictures her, whoever did her facelift really permanently locked her in. And it she did not look bad before. Like that's what's crazy to me. There's like so many people that go on these journeys and then like, by all means, if you feel the need to do something for you to feel good about yourself, by all means you go for it. Don't let anyone stop you.
But there should be that one group of friends or a friend that's like, hey, we should maybe maybe not like maybe just skip this one. Just like doesn't do something up, but skip that, you know, it's kind of like when you get a tattoo, which is why I'm so lucky that I have the best tattoo artist because I can trust whatever. I open my eyes and I'm going to like what I see. But it's the same thing with a tattoo.
I've literally observed people who I know there is no damn way they're happy with that fucking piece of whatever on their skin, but. Right there now. So you have to kind of be like, oh. You're locked in at that point. I love it. You know, like, you can't say this is the ugliest fucking thing I've ever seen. But I just think so many people with plastic surgery because when I started my lip filler journey, there were sometimes where that shit didn't settle
the way I wanted it to settle. And I had to get golfed and then I had to do it again. So I just think so many and that's painful. The dissolved people don't, yes. It's bad. I've only had that happen one time and cuz I had like a bump. Like I had like a little bump and it wasn't like a bump on the outside. Yeah, it was just like where the filler got super hard. And I remember just sitting there like, am I in a fight
right now? Like my whole body, just my face specifically, I turned fire engine red. I started sweating my whole bottom lip in my chin was just on fire and I was like, Oh my God, I'm gonna die. But I like I had to do like. So basically when I first started my lip filler journey, I like did a bunch over the first couple years and then I didn't touch them for a while and it migrated upward and inward. And when I got involved dissolved like up in here and inside my lip.
I think total I did 3 dissolver appointments and we did over six syringes of dissolver which didn't dissolve them fully. It just dissolved all those pocketed and then you had to, like, massage them. And yeah, it was painful. It was awful. And you can only do so much because as she pumps that in there, it's mainly water. So it like swells it up thick. Yeah. No, it's, I don't recommend. Like what's crazy is it's the
same thing with like a boob job. They don't tell you that if you get this boob job that it's going to cost you more to get them removed or redone in the future than it did to install them, correct? Like let me sell you the $5000 trial run, but you've got at least another 30,000 in surgery over the course of your that will have to be done. And that's what people don't get.
Like there's so much maintenance that comes with certain things, especially fillers and like, you know, whatever, regular Botox and stuff like that. For people that do get that done, it's something that you're going to have to keep consistently getting done and not everyone budgets for that. They're like, oh, I have an extra. You know, back in the day when I started getting filler, I think it was like 150 verse syringe. Like it's not that anymore.
But you know, oh, I have an extra this, I have an extra that I'll go ahead and I'll do this or I'll do that. But then I had to keep doing it and I was like, ah man, I just got myself. Now this is an investment now This is Money that I have to count leaving every two to three months, right? Right. And that was back when I didn't have money every two to three months. But they keep girls in there or, or boys, whoever, and they finance the shit and you will be
in there financing. Like, it's crazy. Like I got used to get really bad migraines. So I tried Botox and I have not had a migraine since. So I love that for you. Yeah. Like I'm pretty much like only forehead. Like I haven't went anywhere. Like I've never had filler in my face just in my lips, but it is an investment. Like if you do enough filler in your lips it will last for a while. Like you can stock it or whatever but people don't think like 1/2 a syringe really isn't
that much. Like when you see. No. And you think in your head that they've overfilled their lips. They've done at least four to five full syringes, if not more, to people. That way like. It's wow how much filler it takes to get them that big. Like, yeah, and I've had a few people comment about my stuff before and I'm like, I don't think. And like I said, to each their own, but if I don't ask for your opinion on the way my face looks or the way my body looks, please don't give it to me.
Like we don't need to have that conversation. Because to me, I think that's weird to randomly just start talking about someone. Like, I mean, if it's in a positive note, like that's different. Like I love a lot of your tattoos. I've seen your tattoos on social media. I would feel comfortable being like, wow, that tattoo is really
beautifully done. But never would I ever walk up to you or like anyone in general and just be like, did you think that that shirt was a good idea or did you think that this was a good idea? Or like, why didn't you do it this way? Because at the end of the day, I'm not you, so I'm not going to put myself in that. But I've had a few people that are like, oh, when they did your lips, they should have like gone out to the corners more or they should have. And I was like, some people can
barely tell I have my lips done. And that's the way I wanted it. I didn't want like the big giant lips or anything like that. I didn't want like the the cartoonish version of what lips should look like or look. I didn't want them to look overfilled. So I thought that aspect of that whole community was a little weird. It was very off putting because if I'm in a consultation, yes, I'm paying you to tell me what you feel, but you're also a
medical trained professional. Like, you're not some girl that's wasted off of 11 lemon drops at the bar. Like, I'm not going to. We're not going to connect. Yeah. And I think my opinion, and this might be kind of like cocky, but I think the only people who hate on other people's filler and Botox are people who can't afford it All I've ever felt like I've never seen somebody complaining about Botox or filler on social media that could afford what it cost to get it and maintain it.
So, like, I never gave a fuck. Like, you know what I mean? Do you, baby? Yes. Are there girls in this city that are overfilled? Yes. Do I give a fuck? Not really, because when I need, they're boys too. Yeah. Yeah. And boys too, like there's a lot of people walking around looking like, you know, what is the guy off SpongeBob that they always talk about? The maybe it's not Squidward,
it's the other guy. I can't think of what his name is. Well, I know that episode there was Handsome Squidward. That one. Like where Squidward, Yeah, handsome Squidward is handsome Squidward seen girls get things dissolved and like, you know, be happy with that too. But I just feel like, like you said, no one's really asking for your opinion.
And I just like with anything though, like especially our generation, I feel like we all, boys and girls alike, have body dysmorphia because we are literally the generation where Tyra Banks and these people would be on TV calling people in a 00 fat. Like we grew up in the torture. So I think people in this age, they're like expressing themselves in different ways because of that.
Like our brain is a lot different in the way we were brought up because now the generations, all, everyone's included and everyone gets a trophy. Our generation was like, yeah, you're fat next, right? Yeah. Like, stay cool. Why are we still talking about it? Yeah. Really. Like damn, like you're supposed to hurt. I don't give a fuck next right See ya because you know, like my mom, like growing up, we we weren't like completely destitute, but we did not have like a lot of money in
abundance. If you know, somebody missed work, that definitely reflected on like the monthly. And so now that I'm older, one of the things I like to do for my mom because I know that she doesn't ever want to spend a vast amount of money on herself is I will get her that really nice handbag. Like I will call the salon she goes to and I'll pay to get her hair done, cut and color. Like I'll call the nail salon she goes to.
I'll pay for her to go get her nails done because she's still in that generational mindset of, well, if I have this money, I should put it towards this and not myself. And I'm like, no, no, no, it's going to you. Like, yeah, you have to at this point. I already paid for it. So do you, do you want to rob me like that? Do you want to take my money away like that, mom? And like, eventually it all
works out. And, you know, that's sad because a lot of women in those age ranges really have neglected themselves. And that reflects in the children they've raised in their surroundings and in the environment and what they've allowed in their environment. Because when you don't feel good about yourself, you allow a lot of shit. When you don't respect, you accept a lot of you know, like where I love your media and your social media post. Because you can tell.
Like even when it comes to like your dog, everything in between that you're pretty much like fuck around and find out. Like correct? Like audience is aware. So your dog Nala is a fucking diva and turns around bro. Every like 6 weeks there is some medical emergency with this dog. You got her. You got her pegged, popping her shit. Like wasn't it like happy tail syndrome that she had? Then you got that was the right. Yeah, that was the most recent. And like, I got so much hatred
for that. Literally someone threatened, messaged me to beat my ass the next time they saw me out and they were like, and guess what happened by the way I saw them out? Not one word was said and I stared at them. I was like, what's up? Here we are. And I'm not even like that. I'm I'm grown. I'm not going to sit there and fight anyone on the sidewalk. But I just sat there and was like, the vet said to do it, not me because it was so gross.
Like this is her tail, right? That much of it the, the very end of it was dead. It was necrotic. Like the bone was there. And I was just kind of like, well, what do we do? And he goes, well, we're not saving it. And he said it's got to go. And so even with her tail wrapped, we went in to do the X-ray beforehand to make sure, like, everything was cool. She managed to break her tail again while it was wrapped. Like there was a fresh break in her freshly wrapped tail.
And I was just like, at this point, yeah, I'm on board. Just go ahead and take it. Yeah. And like I saw your post because people didn't realize that this was like a history of a situation that like I loved something you said was like my dogs are better cared for than you and the things you have. Right. You're like, my dogs eat better, they sleep better, they live better than you. Next time you're worried about my dogs, you should worry about you.
And this is sending me. I love this correct because it's like, so you step into that space where like you overstep your bounds. But to me, I've always been confrontational and not in the sense of like being confrontationally violent. I've never ever like my first thought is to never ever put my hands on anyone. But I want to have an actual sit down conversation.
And I don't care if it makes you feel uncomfortable because you brought that energy to me and now instead of me keeping it, I'm going to find something to do with it. And if it has to hash out in a public manner or a public forum to where now you're going to second guess the way that you speak to me because I'm a firm believer. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. And sometimes you do have to, you have to train people how to
talk to you. Like if I wanted to get a hold of you, the last thing ever I would do is be like, hey, are you going to pick up your phone? I wouldn't phrase it that way. I'd be like, hey, whenever you get a second, I would like to talk to you. If nothing serious, hit me up whenever you can. Not about what you say, it's how you say it. You know, I want to talk to you, but like what makes me feel like I have direct access to you like
that. It's just, it's weird the way that some adults can't effectively communicate what they want and how they want to say stuff. Oh, my gosh. And I think honestly, that's kind of like been the goal of like, I always like, see this system that we're in kind of like a computer and we're all into control computers, either downloading free programs or free updates or holding. It's a really cool way to look at that. Yeah. Holding on to the old updates to.
The old programs, but so many people in older generations were taught to just chill. Like don't confront the fucking pedophile in the family. Don't confront the fucking thief in the family, the fucking drug addict family. Let's keep everybody small, keep everybody safe, make everybody feel comfortable. Oh, we know Uncle Steve's a fucking weirdo, but inviting many ways we don't want to. We don't want to hurt his feelings. Like people gave too much fucks about other people who didn't
give a fuck about them. And like, our generation is like hell no, I'm not inviting Uncle Steve to my son's birthday party. No, fuck that. Dude's weird, he's moving weird, he's acting weird. Guess what? Now you don't get to come, right? Like how?
Many people are like deciding that like the generational cycle ends like right here with us. And I think that's what's really great about it because like you're showing your mom, treating yourself is a priority, like that's important or like taking care of whatever you have to take care of. But so many people are just so used to neglecting. Collecting their own needs that they expect everyone else to like, fulfill them. And they can't speak up on how
they feel like they don't know. Yeah, like hate their needs. Yeah, no, baby, you got to go to therapy on that one because I ain't got it for you. Like I am a safe space to a degree. Like and mind you, the two a degree part is watch your mouth. Like watch how you come across, watch how you present your energy towards me. Because like I said, being confrontational without confrontationally violent, it just basically means like I'm a
brick wall 95% of the time. Like all the little stuff that you do, the hoot ha, the rah rah and everything, the theatrics that ends the second you're in my office or in front of me because I don't entertain that. I want to have a conversation and I don't care if it makes you uncomfortable that we talk about either your actions, his actions, weird uncle's actions over here, like you know, we're it's going to get talked about.
Like there's no sugar coating it, There's no throwing a blanket over it. There's no putting it in the closet and we don't talk about it. We we have to talk about it. People need to get comfortable being uncomfortable. That's the only way. Yeah, that's literally the newest program for Collective. And I think that's why we're seeing so much difficult, like, information, a lot of things being exposed, a lot of things
being revealed that were hidden. Like shit's hit the fan in a good way because the only way for things to change is for it to crumble. People don't realize that we can't, like you said, keep putting a blanket over it and then wondering why everybody's mental health is fucked or everyone's struggling. Honestly, I do. Our society, if we all stop buying shit we don't need to try to make ourselves happy. We could work out correct. We could work out the details like if.
Everyone. In on the page to like boycott Starbucks or boycott Nike or boycott fucking Walmart. Like we were boycott Target and then they're fucking stop dropped a lot. Like we have a collective power that so many people are comfortable giving their power away. And it's crazy to me too because like collectively, like you said, we do have a bunch of power, but some people are just too lazy to use it or too lazy
to find alternatives. Because when I stopped going to Target and stuff like that, you know, I, I go to Kroger because I love me some fuel points. I am a fuel points curly. I'll pull up and it'll say $1.10 cents off a gallon and I'm, I'm at the gas pump. Like I just won the lottery. Like I'm high for the rest of the night. You can't tell me anything. Such an adult thing. But I really didn't notice a difference. I wasn't super inconvenienced. I didn't have a lot of angst or
anything like that. But it just, it was one of those things where I'm like, cool, we don't go there anymore. And then that was it. It was just as simple as just not going legit. Like there was no emotional trauma. There was no like deep contemplation in my car about it. I was just kind of like and then I'm on my way like and it was fine. I've honestly never been like a target person anyways. Like I remember like back in the day I would go to like Kmart. I remember being like the spot.
I wish Kmart was still a thing. I wish Kmart was still a thing. You know, Kmart used to have Little Caesars back before Little Caesars had like their own brick and mortar. And I went to the Red River Gorge and they had a gas station that was like Co branded with Little Caesars. Oh my God, all the nostalgia. Yeah, I was like, they are
popping. But you know, I honestly think there's so many stores over the years, but Target has never been a store that has impacted me. Like their prices, their shit half the time looks like pilgrimage or like Pentecostal living. They used to have put bathing suits, but like who's going to pay 40 or $50.00 for half of the bathing suit? Like you better sell me bang or shut the fuck up. You know, like.
Literally, and it's crazy to me too, because like speaking on their clothing, I have like an extremely long torso and all of their stuff shrinks immediately and then I look like I shop at Baby Gap and I'm like, well, I'm definitely not going to miss that. Like, not going to miss that at all. Yeah, honestly, the only thing Target did after their boycott started, they sent me an e-mail that said they had 70% off of lighting and electronics, and I cooked lava lamps, so I hopped on their.
Shots shut up. That's so cool. They literally had lava lamps 2 of them for 1799 so I ordered them both but to fuck the system whenever when they arrived I swapped A damaged one in the box and returned it and got my money back from 1:00. So I was like, well I'm going to support you, but then I'm going to fuck you over on the back end. Right, because I have to take a little bit with me. You can't get all of it.
I have a little piece of it. So then I like, I bought the one on Marketplace that was like dented. I put the dented frame in there, kept the new globe, put the old globe in. Yeah. It was about you're, you're basically a super spy at this point. Like, that's espionage. Like to the highest degree. Like target? Fuck you, no. Right, exactly. Who doesn't support fucking women, people of color, or people with disabilities? Like I don't like you.
Like I literally cancelled my Amazon prime and completely have not supported them. Except there's like 2 items on there that like you can't find anywhere else. But that's it. I, I will never buy anything else from there. Like I, yeah, personally have swapped convenience for more mindful purchases and then get things I actually am going to use and I actually like. Yeah, 'cause like, I don't know, it's just personally the way that I grew up, you know, I was around people with disabilities.
I came from a strong female ran household. All of my lifelong friends, like from high school and still like friends that I keep near and dear to me close to this day. It's just, it doesn't really matter what color you are. I have friends of every different color because my family was just cool. They were just cool growing up. There wasn't those negative awkward conversations. There was no slurs growing up around me.
And it really just teaches you that like, you know, collectively we do have a power to shift the narrative. But also all of that hatred that's rooted at home first that comes straight from the house because there's no way. Like my, I have nieces and nephews that are biracial and an 8 year old little boy called my niece the Ensler. Where did he learn that from? Where where was that learned
from? And then my, you know, my family member who had to go up and deal with that at the school basically came in and was like, it made total sense. Mom and dad were completely like, they looked a certain type of way. And they were like, well, you have us here during work. They were more concerned with the fact that they had to take off work than what actually occurred. And then it flipped into, oh, well, I mean, did anyone actually hear him say it?
Yeah, she did. That's why she went into a full blown panic attack and started crying and called called my family. So it just it's all rooted at home. You got to, you got to, you know, you can't be in that mindset to just keep dealing with things like this. So yeah, if we're going to boycott Target, right? That's just it's a done deal. We, our generation, like we'll just say like 29 to 39 year olds right now. Are. No longer sweeping shit under the rug.
We're no longer doing shit we don't want to do. We're no longer tolerating things. We're no longer just going into spaces where we are tolerated. And that's something that like, you know, spirituality has taught me is like a lot of people are just tolerated. They're not celebrated, they're not welcomed, they're not supported, they're not acknowledged. They're just. Yeah, they're not included.
They're just. They move into the world with that attitude and like, I feel bad there are so many children and different people out there in the world that are not receiving the respect and the care and the the guidance and support that they need. But you know, something that has really changed my perspective is there's like this quote that kind of floats around and it's like you've turned into someone that would have protected you as a child.
And that really resonated with has like shared that a few different times in different ways about like herself and how she's grown and how she just protects and helps and nurtures her children and and others as well. And it's just such a beautiful place because sometimes when we are handed really difficult upbringings, we actually become such a voice in like light for others because we have
experienced that darkness. So is there a message or something that you want to leave everyone with since we've kind of went all over the place? Yeah, basically. You know, I feel like if you can, you should. I just feel, and that can be translated into so many
different things. But I just think that if you can show kindness and you can show support and you can show love, then I really think that, you know, our generation specifically because we've had, we've had a pretty tumultuous upbringing because we went through like, you know, a really low point in the economy. We went through separate administrations. Now the housing market is in
chaos. I just feel like so many people can benefit from kindness and being accepted and being listened to because a lot of people from what I like the industry that I work in, people listen to respond to me. They don't listen to comprehend and just think if your one friend needed you or your family member needed you, that they're going to want you to listen to comprehend what's going on versus just having that rapid fire back and forth. So if you can, you should in the best way possible.
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