F&%# These Inflations - Episode: 148

It's wild how algorithms work. We always talk about how we think our phones are listening to us. That's like a topic we've always talked about. But after the episode we did about hobbies like finding hobbies like maybe the next day on Instagram, a random post of the top ten hobbies for men that women find attractive popped up.

It's almost like exactly what you needed.

Yeah, But then the wild thing is, I'm going through the top ten and I do a lot of these things, okay, and yet where are the women at? And I'm just kidding, what are they all right? Number one playing an instrument?

Yeah, I don't play an instrument.

I see, I was in band. Yeah, I play a couple of instruments. But now I DJ. That's I think that's the second I feel is considered an instrument. Number two, I don't. I see. Number two is reading.

I do audio books, so I'm not a big reader the same I don't. I'm somebody that my mind wanders off a lot when I start to read. I can lead, I can read in like short paragraphs, but just finishing a whole book. I could do an article, but not like a whole book.

I'm not officially diagnosed, but I think I have ADHD. Like wait, is that even how you say like attention? Yeah, yeah, when I'm trying to read a book, like my mind will just go off somewhere else.

I could see that all the time. Yeah, that's what happens to me. That's why I always sucked in school at studying. I couldn't study very well. I was a bad study so my test taking was like really bad.

Yeah. But like audiobooks, I have a couple of audiobooks that I've listened to. Number three swimming. I like to swim during the summertime. I like hitting the pool swim.

You know what's funny. I haven't swam in years, and honestly, I don't know why. I just really haven't. I just as a kid, I loved going swimming, and we had was that Dave Chappelle joke where you don't have like the built in pool, but we had like the dough boy. That's how much we had. So I don't want it, ohs. And I used to love swimming, but when I became an adult, I just it wasn't really my thing anymore. I don't know why. It's a random thing to be turned on by though.

Yeah again number three on the list. You know, what I just learned is like sort of like a side note. You know, my dad passed away four months ago, and I learned that he I'm just learning this. Like my mom told me after he passed away that my dad was a collegiate swimmer. Really yeah he was like, he was like he's won medals and yeah as a swimmer, And I was like, and as a kid, I do remember him taking us to the pool a lot and

So I actually taught myself how to swim. Oh okay, yeah, kind of just like threw yourself in essentially. Yeah.

But yeah, number three, so I like swimming. Number four. Traveling, we vote, yeah, but we both travel. Number five. I haven't done this in a while, but I loved how hiking, especially going to Yo seventy. I bring this up all the time. But hiking is number five, Okay, I like hiking. Number six.

Cooking.

I brought this up. It's something I.

Do something I do not do actually, so yeah, you're not gonna find me not cooking.

Yeah, so Number six, I love cooking, especially with the whole doing the whole Keto recipes. I've been cooking a lot lately. Number seven Learning a different language.

Oh yeah, I've never tried. I mean I took classes, but only because you know, they were like electives, but nothing crazy.

I think I do this, but not officially where you know, in our building we have the Spanish station and the DJs there. They're always like teaching me Spanish here and there and forcing me to speak Spanish to them. So I'm kind of doing number seven too, Okay. Number eight painting. I used to paint a lot when I was a kid.

Did we have this conversation where I was talking about like I was a pretty good drawer, but I kept that painting. Yeah, so I'm not good at that.

I don't paint as a hobby anymore, but I've done it before. Number nine woodworking. The only thing I can think of is like, I mean, when the Ikea stuff comes, I'll build that. No, I'm not a woodworker.

I took a wood shop class in school, but it was never really my thing. But yeah, I can mess around with the Ikea stuff.

Yeah, I've never done the I didn't do a wood shop in school. And the last one number ten photography, which I mean with our phones and Instagram. I loved. I loved doing photography, like the art of you know, angles and how.

The colors capturing something.

Capturing something with the you know, the right way and stuff. So I'm super into photography. And again I think sixty seventy of this top ten I do. But yet where are the women at that find out to find out attracted?

I ain't doing too many of those hobbies.

But yes, that's why we said. I think it's all about the looks.

Yeah, when it comes down to that's what I'm saying. I wonder what the context of this question was, But let's get into this. This could give me for our podcast What Up. I'm Jizzo. That is John Magic and we are back on.

The radio today. Well, you know, as we're recording this podcast, one of my topics was what are you willing to overpay for? Today? You know, what are things that you're willing to overpay for? Because of inflation? Things have been going up for years now, but there's certain things that we're still gonna pay for.

Yeah, I mean, I see, we see a lot of people complaining when prices go up, and my clad back is always like you don't have to buy it, right.

Yeah, but what if you need it though.

Then you can get a cheaper version of it. Maybe I don't know.

I I do. I think there's some things where I've done that where like, for example, you know, when I used to buy like T shirts, it would always have to be like the Nike T shirts. And now I'm okay with going to Costco and getting a pack of Kirkland white.

Costco is a place where I get my like my toilet paper, my water clothes. They do have good stuff though, but I think they do. But I haven't got any clothes there, no the Kirkland brand.

I've gotten some khakis there before.

Yeah, Like I'm not mad.

Is that like a when you get an old Is that a thing when you get older? As you get up there in age, you're like, yeah, I'm good with Kirkland.

And not so much because I've been seeing a lot of people, like on TikTok they brag about the Kirkland stuff. It's almost become somewhat trendy a little bit.

Yeah, Like you see celebrities now wearing that Kirkland logo shirt where that's really all it is, like anyone can make things cool literally, Yeah, but when you're younger.

Remember a champion Wait was it a champion?

Yeah?

Yeah, where like that was like not cool and then all of a sudden it became cool again.

See I don't even remember when it wasn't cool, but you're right, someone like made it cool and then they overpriced it.

Yep.

But I know even at Costco, I get like the Champion underwear. Yeah, like they got Champion underwear there something that And we'll stick with clothing. You know, as a as a young kid, like elementary school, maybe my first year of middle school, my mom took us to pay Less and yeah, but the pro wigs and all that stuff, that's something I don't think I could go back to. And and here's the reason. Nothing exactly nothing against Payless

There was like a couple of times growing up where you know, you had certain events or whatever you needed to have dress shoes and I never really had dress shoes on deck. So I would go to Payless. Man they would be like good for like one or two wears and that was about it. But I mean it got me through, like my presentation or my fancy dinner did not need to be at. But yeah, shoes is a good one. That's that's something that I invent a

Now, please believe, I will look for a great deal. I'll go to a foot locker, Champs or you know the malls and they have that one pair of shoe with that tag that says nine dollars. I'm all over that stuff because, you know, again, as long as it feels comfortable and it's a brand that I like, and yeah, I'll still get those, but I'm still looking for deals.

Yeah.

Well, for example, you know the big thing right now is everyone's getting the what are these called dunks?

Yeah, dunk right, yeah? Yeah.

I remember when these were just like seventy bucks.

But they became cool again.

They're cool again, so it's rare for me to I have a pair. But I used to buy back in the day.

Yeah yeah, but now.

That they're two hundred each, Yeah, man, that's something that I'm I'm like, I'm yeah, okay, I'm cool on that one. Do you have anything on your list?

The one that I that keeps going up and up and up, it feels like almost like every other month is streaming services.

Yeah, We've talked about this before. That one's tough for me. That's why I have one or two that I pay for and the rest is like family members, like let's share it.

Yeah, And so that's the thing now, like you can't share. They're cracking down on that. I know Disney recently cracked down on it. Netflix was sort of like the first one to do it. Max, They're gonna start cracking down on it. But I just always get these emails like just let you know it's gonna go up another dollar or two, and I'm just like, damn. But with that being said, I consume it all like I have.

You have all of them.

I pretty much have all the main ones. I can't help it because there's always like one show or one like maybe football. I want to watch on it. So I pretty much have all of them, and the prices continue to go up and and honestly, I continue to just buy them. So that's something I'll probably never step away from. I know they have adversions. I don't like the ad versions. Uh So I spent a lot of money a month on streaming services. That's one thing I'll probably continue to do.

I'm opposite on that one. I I yeah, I'll pick and shoes like who has the hot shows right now? And I'll have those. So right now the two I'm paying for is just too too Netflix and Hulu that's it, man. And then I use a friend's Max. I use my sister's Amazon Prime. Hopefully they're not listening to not them, meaning like Amazon, They're like, that's who shot because it's still working. I know you're saying it's they're cutting down, but mine is so far it's still working. But I can't.

You have to download MGM.

They have a streaming.

Yeah, somebody's channels will just have their own. Isn't there like an AMC Plus or something. Yeah. See, I don't mess with any of those. I mess with like the bigger ones, you know, Disney, Peacock, Hulu, Max, Netflix, all that. But I have a lot, and it's honestly, it's like what a couple hundred bucks a month.

It feels like, yeah, you know, you'll even talk about did you watch this show? And I'll say, I don't have that for myself. I'll give I don't know why I could do this, but there are certain times where I can't. I'll uh, the pure pressure will get to me. But no, I'm good with missing out, Like, nah, I don't watch that. Yeah, like I won't get with shows like if I can't, if I don't have that service, I'm not gonna go get it just to watch because everyone's talking about it.

Yeah.

So yeah, we're kind of opposite on that one. Something that I keep wanting to get rid of but I can't. It's my chiropractor. What is it? What is it called? Where I do it? Every month, so not so?

Yeah.

Is it called the subscription?

I guess sure.

So I've been paying monthly for a chiropractor, and I always tell you all this, this might be my last month, because you know, but what happens is when I go, I do feel a difference. So I can't get rid of it. So that one, even though the prices are going up, I'm still paying.

What about haircuts? Have you cut back on haircuts at all?

No? No?

That yeah, that's that's another one where I just do was it twice a month? Every two weeks? And I think I feel like I'm just going to continue to do that.

Something that I've noticed myself doing because I used to I used to go every two weeks. That was the routine. Every two weeks. I'll stick it out for a month. So lately I've been doing once a month.

Okay, let it grow out a little bit. Yeah, but anyway that I don't like it.

It's just I know, I could wear a hat a beanie, but a fresh cut. I gotta have a fresh cut. And even those prices have been going up too. I remember when those twenty five bucks, yeah back then, and now it's like fifty yeah, yeah, and then you got a tip.

And the one that I really cut back on, especially coming out of the pandemic, was I was big on going out to like restaurants, a lot, sit down restaurants, but prices have gone up so much it's crazy, and quality has gone down at the same time, and that's been something that I've stayed away from personally, especially like on the weekends, like Saturday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday nights, I'd go out to a restaurant and bill wouldn't be so bad, and lately it's just like wow, when I see these prices,

And get rid of some ingredients.

Yeah, so I understand from a business point of view, but yeah, it's not my thing. That's something that I've definitely cut back on spending money on going out to eat food.

Same thing here is I remember you know, restaurants now is almost a luxury. Yeah, no, where you have to save it for like special occasions, where before we would just be like, let's eat every other day, let's go to a different restaurant because you love going to restaurants. Yeah, yeah, but now yeah, you have to be smart about it. What's the occasion?

Yeah?

Where is it that?

Yeah, Like I don't go to McDonald's anymore, but people will tell me it's like ten bucks for like a meal now, and I'm like, whoa. I thought McDonald's was supposed to be the cheap, quick and easy spot, and I'm like ten buck.

To get a decent meal at fast food restaurants they're almost twenty bucks.

Wow, let's even take out my restaurant prices. Yeah.

No, even if you take out McDonald's, McDonald's can get like fourteen enough. But even just a regular let's just say burger fries and a drink at Carls at shaking fifteen and up. Man, it's gonna get up there. And of course you're gonna upgrade to.

A larger drink and all that stuff.

So yeah, man, so not even restaurants, even fast food is becoming a luxury where we're kind of like stepping back on Yeah, I mean coffee. I was just talking about this on my show.

See that's that's something I'm glad. I don't spend money on.

Coffee. The wild thing is here in our office, we could get it for free because we have a coffee machine, and I'm good with that. But there was a week where it they didn't refill the coffee pod.

Yeah, for one whole week there was no.

Coffee pods, and so I wanted my coffee. So I ended up going to Starbucks every morning before going to work, and I was realizing, like, yo, this is like five Bucks every time I go get a coffee, which I was getting it for free, but I wanted it so much that I was still willing to pay for it.

Like do you go to certain spots to each coffee?

No? Not.

I don't have a Starbucks person.

I could go anywhere everyone every I've noticed that every spot has what my orders.

So yeah, I know, I know those are I mean, I don't know, I'm guessing around. Maybe what seven eight dollars for coffee a large cup? Yeah, and people do that on a day, on a daily yeah, a few times.

I know.

That's like what thirty dollars a week? You spending how much? Like one hundred bucks a month? Maybe more? Y's wild. That's why I'm glad I never got into the coffee thing.

That's why they say, like, if you just get on coffee, like you'll save money. Yeah a month, you know, But like I said, I was only doing it for that week because there was none here at the office.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I'll do the office coffee. I'm good with that one.

Not too piggy.

No. Do we talk about gas already? The gas prices? No, because that's something that I feel like my mindset has changed because.

You don't do the ninety one.

I used to do the ninety one, the premium all the time. You know.

A funny story, I fucking clicked on that one by accident. The other day. I was at cause I get my cash. Yeah, I got my I get I get my gas at Costco, which is by the way, and you know, long lines whatever, But it's it's worth it. It's actually is it really? I think so? It goes by faster, faster than you think.

But but it's not as it's like tens twenty cents cheaper.

Yeah yeah, yeah, but I mean I'm a Costco member, somemon as will do it, you know what I'm saying. And I catch it on the way home. I have like a routine of when I know it's like slower or whatever. So I get my Costco gas and uh, I was pumping and for some reason, I think I was zoned out, and I was like, why do I think that? I just pressed that ninety one right now before I started pumping, and I was like, I think I did. And then as I was done, I looked at the receipt and I looked at the prices. I

Yeah, yeah, I'm good. I YouTube. I even YouTube. I should not even brought this up because I forgot what I learned, but I was I was asking YouTube, like what's the difference between eighty five and like I said, I wish I had not brought it out.

What is the difference they put like more water in it or something. Yeah, it's the quality it's out.

It's the quality of it where the premiere, the premium helps the engine better. It has something to do with the engine.

I think it says on your gas tank what's recommended for it? Right, but nobody even pays attention to that.

Yeah, I'm going with the eighty seven or eighty five. I mean, like, I'll just go with that because that's the cheaper price. My car seems like it's working.

Still, what about when it comes to you know, like we'll say, like toilet trees. I know it said I said like toilet paper earlier. But you know, when it comes to those things that you just need, your everyday type of stuff, lotions, deodorants, toothpaste, all that type of stuff, do you you go brand names on that? Still?

Okay, So I'll go with toilet paper on this one because I used I used to get like the twelve pack and then I saw the prices of the name brand ones. So one day I said, I'm gonna go with this cheaper off brand one. So I bought that, and yeah, there's a difference. I want give me the what's the one with the Bears? Give me that man. Yeah, man, I stick with those just because again, comforts. Yeah, I'm paying for comforts, so that one, I'm sticking with the Bears.

Yeah. If there's one thing that you should never go cheap on, it's definitely toilet paper. Because there was a time during the pandemic where we had no choice you kind of just had to get with you what was there, and there was some cheap ones that I had to get, and I was like, oh wow, there is a fucking difference. I don't know what this paper that I was using, but it was bad.

Yeah. You roll some out the cheap ones and then you blow your noise and blow your nose and it just disintegrates. It's just confetti.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's the same way with a tissue paper too, and it's kind of like the same thing. But I've gotten cheaper tissue paper before and I'm like, oh man, that's that's all bad. Yeah, it's bad.

Yeah, give me the ones with the lotion on it.

Bed sheets is another one that I've realized really matters because I've gotten some cheaper ones. Man, those things ripped then out so quick.

And it feels like sandpaper too.

Yeah. Mattress, speaking of which, you got to get a good mattress. That was something I invested in a few years back. I'm glad I made that decision.

Yeah, the mattress thing I I throughout me growing up. It didn't matter to me. But what what had happened was when I was doing radio and Riverside, I was endorsed by sleep Train and they gave me a free three thousand dollars mattress and just the dip You're like, oh, man, like that was like my favorite one. And I think that's kind of like what changed me is like, yeah,

Make an investment in that mattress. It'll definitely change.

We need. There's things that we need. We're trying. I'm trying to think we need to go cheaper on, but then I'm trying to think, like, oh.

You know what some things you can kind of go cheaper on. Is do you ever go cheap with like your groceries?

Sometimes some stuff some yeah, some some I could you know what I do? Uh, I guess it's because there's a that's the closest one near my apartment is grocery outlet and.

It's it's yeah, they have cheap stuff.

Literally an outlet for a can.

Fu and stuff like that.

Yeah, and it's the same stuff, but it's cheaper for.

Some reasons because it's about to expire something.

Some are like that. Yeah. And I'm the kind of shopper that gets the grocery shop for like that day.

Or that week. I didn't super ahead of time.

Yeah, my mom would get mad because that's my mom. I'm I'm grocery shopping for the year. Yeah, yeah, but no I grocery shop. I'm going to cook something that day. So that's why I don't mind the grocery outlet because it is you could. The reason why is because I'll go to Save Mark, which is just the regular grocery store, and the prices are a lot, are a lot, and then you go to grocery outlet for the same exact thing half the price. So I'm good with that. Yeah,

I Mean, that's kind of how I feel when it comes to you know, Target versus Walmart. I mean, obviously, see, you know there's the stereotypes of Walmart, and you know there's better aesthetics of Target or whatever. But what annoys me is you could literally get the same product cheaper at Walmart. And that's why I refuse to shop at Target because I'm like, I'm not going to pay literally the same size, the same brand, the same literally the

I've been going to. So I'm not big on Walmart until as of late, because you know, I'm sugar free right now. Do the whole Keto thing. Yeah, and they have an assortment like a whole isle of sugar free chocolate, yeah, that I haven't seen in any other stories. So I go there on a weekly now and then while I'm there, I might as well get some eggs and yeah.

See Walmart they have their own was great value brand, oh ya, And it's like a lot cheaper than the name brands. And you know some of it, You're like, yeah, I just get the name brand. But honestly, there's beending some products where I'm like, that's kind of better than the name brand. Whatever they're doing, bro, the same exact what is it?

The Keto tortilla is like, yeah, the I forget what it is the Mission tortillas. This it's the same exact packaging, same brand they sell it at. What's that what's the expensive one?

The expensive store?

Yeah? What's that one that everyone goes to?

The Whole Foods?

No? No, the other one or is it a Whole Foods? There's I thought there's another one.

It could be Whole Foods, but I don't know Sprouts Sprout there you go.

Yeah, Sprouts, they have the same exact one for X amount of bucks, and they have it at Walmart, the same exact brand for half the price. Yeah, so yeah, yeah, you could find me at Walmart when it comes to that.

Yeah, there's just certain things that I'm willing to cut corners on that maybe doesn't mean that much to me. But when it's things that I really care about, I'm probably just always gonna pay more for it.

Here's the last thing I have is and and this is not a surprise. I know apartment complexes, when you rent something, this is what happens every year. It goes up. And I'm I'm already thinking if about a year or two more years, am I will if I'm gonna pay that much, should I just move out?

I don't know. I mean I feel like if you liked a spot, you're comfortable. I mean, does it go up like a lot or not too much, but it still goes up.

It's I've been there for three years and I'm like, well, I'm gets going up exactly exactly. So I've been thinking about it, like going up like man in my do I find a new place where I'll pay a little bit more for like new scenery or song. Yeah, so that's something that I always think about too. Anything else on your list or nah, I.

Think that's it. Man. I don't know if that was like a rant session or what we're doing there. It's just it's just like inflation. And I see people, you know, complaining about stuff all the time, and you know, I'm the same way. But I just I just won't pay for it anymore, or I'll pay for it because I just will continue to like it. So I don't really, I don't know. I don't really complain.

I guess I'm the same way. Like if I if it's too much for me, then it's for me. I'm just not gonna purchase it.