Ep. 34 Outside of Disney

We’re in a different state for this episode! We’re in Florida with a very special guest, and living our best life enjoying the sun. Join Caiya and her special guest; Dre as they discuss; childhood roadtrips, comedy show experiences, food adventures, and the necessity of taking breaks to recharge. Grab a piña colada and let’s get into this week’s episode.

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Chapters

• 2:08 Road Trip Duties
• 4:15 Go-To Snacks
• 15:10 1st Comedy Show
• 23:21 Food Reviews
• 27:32 Hash House a Go Go
• 28:26 Waffles
• 33:27 Welcome to Florida
• 34:50 Need a Break?

Transcript

Caiya (00:03)
Yo, your mom just called and I think she said she'd get up if I just came out with a new episode. Now if you're thinking what I'm thinking, I think it's time that we sit back, relax, and tune into this week's episode.

Yo, welcome back to another episode. I'm your host, Caiya and today I have a special guest, my godpapa, Mr. Dre.

Dre (00:23)
Yo, what's going on people?

Caiya (00:26)
Now this, now this episode is a little bit different because we're not in Georgia. We're not in Kansas. We are in the sunny, the sunshine state of Florida. And one thing about Florida, it's some good weather and everything. And I will say like the drive down here wasn't as bad. I didn't drive, but the drive wasn't as bad. Very a lot. was a lot more traffic than Georgia, which is typical Florida, but we made it here safely. Glory be to God.

And we got to enjoy ourselves this entire weekend. Now, Dre how did y'all kick off your weekend?

Dre (01:03)
with a lot of rest and relaxation with family.

Caiya (01:09)
It's always nice. It's always nice. I know this time I came down with my mother because we're celebrating her 50th birthday, happy birthday to my mother. it's this trip is different because normally we bring the rest of the family, like the cousins and like sometimes the aunts. But it was a shorter trip where it's me, my mother, and then it's you and your wife, which is also my godmother. But it was a nice, like much needed vacation with you guys. And I do appreciate you guys for inviting us on.

Dre (01:39)
No one cares.

Caiya (01:42)
I mean, I'm just trying to be sincere and everything.

Dre (01:46)
I know I'm just messing with you, but no, one thing that we always stand on is family. knowing that we want to have a celebration and have a beautiful time, there's nothing like coming together with family and taking a little time to ⁓ get a little break from the city. So it's beautiful thing.

Caiya (02:10)
talking about little break from the city. So when you're riding down on road trips, because I know everybody's different in their car, I'm sure you sit in passenger side and are you in charge of like the music? Are you like the navigator? Like what is like your role when you drive?

Dre (02:24)
⁓

My role when I'm not driving is to actually focus on the ⁓ mood. So that can be music, whether it's snacks or even if it's trying to find some comic relief because know, road trips to become monotonous. All you see is gravel grass and sky. But you know, you also see, you know, different things like ⁓

dead carcasses of roadkill, raccoons or some type of rabbit, even deer heads are just in the middle of the road. So you try to find something that can be funny and have music that's really good. It takes your mind off of the long drive because when you're there for hundreds of miles,

It could just completely be monotonous or things like I like to call mind numbing. And that's not good because you you could pick up speed and when you pick up speed, usually have tickets or something that you can get because you're not paying attention. So that's my job. What's yours?

Caiya (03:41)
I would say my job is I'm, I'm little to no help when it comes down to that driving, but I like to do, I'm in charge of charge of the music. So I'm always like the DJ for a good like hour, 30 minutes. If we've been honest, but, ⁓ I normally do DJ I'm charged to getting the snacks and then pretty much just trying to be like more support for the driver. Even though I do offer to drive and a lot of times my mom goes, you know, you're not going to drive. I've offered.

But she just won't she won't just let me take the wheel because I'm like that can only drive for so so long.

Dre (04:16)
Okay, so what are your road trips next? Go to's.

Caiya (04:19)
So go to snacks. think this trip we took, we brought some Pringles. I got a Lunchable. Always got a pack candy, but my go-to pack of candy is always going to be Skittles. But not just any pack of Skittles. It's always the red Skittles. If you eat the blue pack, there's something wrong with you. If you like the purple pack, it's okay.

Dre (04:38)
Hey, hey, we don't do judgment on snakes. You cannot judge anyone based on their, you know how long you're on the road?

Caiya (04:42)
On Skittles, I do that over here.

I mean, a six hour drive and you're eating the same pack of candy. If you bought the same pack like four times, you got a problem.

Dre (04:58)
What you got to think about it, man? Your go-to snack, you can't judge anyone from that. All of your snacks seem like they're going to end up on the floor in the car.

Caiya (05:09)
no, don't do that. My go-to snack is, like I said, it's definitely Skittles, but this one I was eating, I think I had maybe a couple beef sticks, and I may get some hate for eating beef sticks, but I mean, it's good. Some people say it tastes like a cold hot dog. I don't really know what that tastes like.

Dre (05:27)
Yeah, you know, it's one of that. And that's the reason why you don't judge people for car snacks, because everybody has a different one. And yeah, it may be a cold hot dog to some people, but some people, it's just great protein, especially those who work out like crazy. So it just makes, that's why I said you can't pass judgment. You know, on our side, I love having chocolate like Reese's. If you're going to have

⁓ chips or pretzels or anything like that. That's that's easy to handle for the driver. That would be great as well. And we always have water, you know, be the bottled water. I have cups in the cup holder tumblers or so on and so forth. That makes it easier to grab something to drink because as you have those cars next, you definitely have to have something to drink because. ⁓

No one wants to keep stopping to find something going the side of the road to drink.

Caiya (06:29)
Definitely got to stay hydrated because if you're not hydrated you're gonna die. I'm just joking but When you were a kid, I know I'm getting off track a little bit but when you were a kid Did your mom ever pack that cooler for like cold cuts and

Dre (06:44)
We grew up dirt poor, so that's the only way we were able to eat on road trips. And we would, I grew up in Michigan, so the road trips down from Michigan to Alabama were the worst trip ever. If we didn't have a cooler, we had Kroger Bads with baloney sandwiches.

Yes, two pieces of white bread, ⁓ barely any mayo if you had mayo at all, and one slice of bologna with the red ring around it. ⁓ we had probably about eight to 10 of those to go through five people in a car. And we knew if we drove straight through, it would be 12 hours. And that 12 hours would turn into 18 almost.

So yeah, that was the road trip snack. And we stopped along the way several times to pick up different items to go with those sandwiches. We never replaced said sandwiches, but we had to get things like chips and drinks to go with them several times. Once the sandwiches were gone, ⁓

there was no replenishment of food. That was it. You either had the bologna sandwiches and the chips that you bought with them when we went to use the bathroom, or that was it. Anything else outside of that, you were completely stuck until we got to our family's house in Alabama.

Caiya (08:24)
So it was like survival of the fittest pretty much.

Dre (08:26)
Not survival just When you don't have a lot and on these road trips you you can't afford to buy other things you're stuck

Caiya (08:38)
We're used to doing the, like, road pack, like, road pack the car full of snacks, like, whether it's, like, maybe too cool is, like, worth the food, because that food's gonna last us all the way till we get there. So you got, two loaves of bread, and then, because I'm a picky child, and, probably, like, my brother and, my cousins, they're picky as well, nobody's eating the butt of the bread. And there is something, like, if you like the butt of the bread, like, I don't, I don't know how to, like, describe it. It's just, I don't like eating the butt of the bread.

Dre (09:06)
See, that only means that you come from a family of privilege.

Caiya (09:11)
That does not mean we had privilege. It just means that we're going to give my mother the butt of the bread. She's going to eat it.

Dre (09:16)
Exactly see that means you come from a family of privilege. You said picky and you said nobody See when you come from a family that's dirt poor You get to pick what's in the bag Outside of said bag you have your fingernails. ⁓ So you're either gonna eat what's in the bag or you're gonna eat the fingernails if that's the butt of the bread

if that's the front of the bread, if that's the side of the bread. If you don't like it, you get to pick your fingernails. And last I check, fingernails are not that nourishment.

Caiya (09:59)
So pretty much it was like when like so when you open up that bag of bread it was always you took that first piece which was the butt of the bread. Lord. Lord, Lord,

Dre (10:09)
Yes, so we understand we listen we understand exactly what the butt of the bread is We just couldn't choose to pass up because our parents were saying do you know how much bread cost we don't throw away pieces of

Caiya (10:16)
I

I mean, we're not gonna throw it away. It's just, we're not gonna eat it. We're gonna give it to somebody else.

Dre (10:29)
Either you eat what's provided to you or your fingernails or your nourishment. keep in mind, they're not going to get you anything different than what was paid for.

Caiya (10:42)
Did y'all have like fruit snacks too or just fruit? I mean like like like like the gummy snacks like fruit. you have the actual like apples, oranges, bananas.

So that's all y'all had.

Dre (10:58)
But do

you understand? you. When I say a car with five people, usually when you're going to stay somewhere for, let's just say four days, you need clothes. If there's a car with five people in it, you can choose to put a cooler or underwear in the trunk.

Caiya (11:23)
So we had a good then.

Dre (11:25)
Which one is more important?

Caiya (11:27)
I mean, the clothes is more important.

Dre (11:29)
Now you understand that means you're going to someone's home hoping they have soap because to take a shower. Do you really believe that we're going to drive six or seven states away carrying soap? And that's the conversation.

Caiya (11:47)
I don't think so.

Dre (11:51)
That's what I say, you come from privilege. It makes perfect sense to go to your family's home, use their showers with their towels.

Caiya (12:01)
Well, we didn't use their soap though when we tried. Unless I went to like my my great aunt's house and I used her soap, but other times like I just brought my own.

Dre (12:03)
⁓ yes, we, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. When you're doing that, because you would have to take your soap back and those bars of soap make no sense because there's usually two or more children in the car and you're like, ⁓ let's put a bar of soap in a plastic bag inside the suitcase. That makes no sense. why? Because body wash was $2. ⁓

and a bar of soap was 50 cents. So would you rather spend the $2 for three kids and do this every week? Would you make it $8 a month? Or would you just like to get 50 cents, which you do every week, which turns into $2. You save $6 by buying bars of soap. When you're dirt poor, you break down money that way.

So that was our road trip. You say, I'm going to someone else's house. And when you go to someone else's house, if there's a store around, that's when you spend the 50 cents.

Caiya (13:18)
I do think I had it good because my mom had like the she has like the bar so like the holder so we would take the bar like she would take that little plastic holder and like get like a bar of soap but she stocks up on it so every time we went on vacation it didn't matter if we were going to a great aunt's house a cousin's house so we're just going down to Florida she had that little blue container and she would put the soap in and be like okay let's load up every single time so we didn't throw away so we just kept using that same like we all use it

Dre (13:46)
Exactly. So those are the things. So now that you understand that the road trips, when I say you come from privilege, you don't have to be rich to go for privilege. We're just saying you're privileged because we have to look back at situations in a era or area where, you know, certain things are not always given. Right. You know what I mean? So.

That's a beautiful thing that you were able to have that. But it's not like you don't understand not having, right? So that's the beautiful thing because it's not like this is foreign to you what I'm saying, right? It's like, dang, I guess I am religious.

Caiya (14:33)
I mean like I may not have gone through it personally but I like I know like the sirs like my mom like traveling up to Maine and everything like they've they've been through like luckily like she's worked hard enough to where We don't have to go through what she went through or like what you went through and everything because we have a little bit we have a little bit better but we still understand which all went through and

I really wholeheartedly enjoy like you said, spending that time with family and even whether you have money or not, having that opportunity to travel with your family, it's always good memories for you.

Dre (15:09)
every

time.

Caiya (15:12)
But speaking of good memories, I attended my first comedy show with y'all.

Dre (15:17)
Yeah, you did. And what comedy show was that that we went to?

Caiya (15:21)
We went down to the funny bone and saw Bruce Bruce.

Dre (15:24)
and Bruce Bruce for those who doesn't know, this is a comedy legend. That guy is awesome. If you've never got a chance to see him, you might want to check him out.

Caiya (15:32)
Like I didn't think I was gonna find him funny, but he did have a few good jokes and everything. I think the one that I was not trying to bring up on this show, he called somebody a sweet pickle. And I was like a sweet pickle, not to think about it, because a pickle on the outside, it's all hard and tough, but then you bite into a pickle, you think it's like a regular pickle, but it's a sweet relish pickle.

Dre (15:56)
Yeah, you know, it's one of those things ⁓ that's an older school ⁓ term from the South, a sweet pickle ⁓ is a different phrase for someone in the LGBT community.

Caiya (16:15)
Like I've heard like somebody has sugar in the tank or like they may be like a little fruity or something but hearing like sweet pickle that was the first time like that genuinely made me laugh because I was like what like what is that?

Dre (16:28)
Exactly. To your point. You don't know what it is until you actually bite into it. Meaning, you don't know unless there's something about that person that leads you to believe that they're inside the LGBT community. Not negative. It doesn't have to be negative. It's just one of those things where you look and say, that's a sweet pickle.

⁓ Not a bad thing. Listen, I'm a Northern guy, so when I moved to the South, it kind of ⁓ threw me off too. Like, what is a sweet pickle?

Caiya (17:10)
Another joke that he had was when he kept talking about like being like, he kept talking about pimping and I have, I have a saying a lot, like when I'm, whether like I'm hanging out with my friends or at work and I'm like, you know, I'm a big pimp, I'm a big pimp. But when he was making the jokes about pimp and it was like, about like, like the little person, like it was like, it was a smaller person and they had got mad at the person that like, like one of their like girls or something. So they told the girl, they're like, yo, pick me up. And so she picked up the pimp.

He slapped her and he said, okay, now put me down. And I was like, there is no way that it's like a true story, but I was like, there is no way this little person picked up, like got picked up by this like taller person, slaps them and then tells me to put, tells them to put them down.

Dre (17:54)
See, that's what's funny in comedy because you can tell a story that seems so far-fetched. But it lays down the point, like you said, you're talking about pimping. In the old days, pimps used to have women do all types of things for them, but the pimp does nothing. Literally, there were some pimps who didn't even take a shower by themselves.

So it's funny when you're joking and then you're saying, well, hey, the person that the pimp is mad at has to pick the pimp up and get slapped and then put the pimp back down to show the power of the pimp. That was hilarious. And a lot of times when we're listening to comedy, it's funny.

You know, you get a laugh out of it, but when you actually break the comedy down, it's like, no.

Caiya (19:01)
Even the one like you talked about, I think it was like somebody that had went to New York and there was a pimp and it was a blind pimp on one of the streets and he was hit. He was like, he was mad at one of one of the girls. So he was hit like he was trying to hit her, but he was hitting the wrong one.

Dre (19:18)
Yeah,

see, and these are all things that older comedians will give to you. And there's no knock on the younger comedians. It's just the fact that anyone who's been in any profession for very long time gives you a different perspective. when you have that different perspective,

It adds layers to you're funny. You know what I mean? And that's a beautiful thing. You know, that's why comedy is a, what do we call it? A relief. It gives you, opens doors to your imagination, gives you a break mentally. It takes you, what takes your imagination to places that otherwise wouldn't go. So you got to give them credit for that.

Caiya (20:17)
And I think I may have been one of the youngest, like one of the youngest, like persons like in that environment, which is like, it sucks to say, but I'm 25. I keep forgetting that I'm 25 now, but I'm like, I'm probably one of like one of the youngest people in here. And I'm like, I think I understand some of these jokes. Some of the other jokes, like he made the jokes about the different types of cologne, like the, what, like the clear water, I think. Like, I don't know what that is, but all the other jokes, like I understand them.

Dre (20:38)
Yeah, definitely.

But the thing is, it's not as if in today's world with your internet and everything of that nature, you can go back and just get an answer to what it was. the crazy part is, even over the last 20 years, 20 years ago,

If we had given you some jokes to talk about Clearwater Cologne, unless you got up and went to the store and grabbed a bottle of Clearwater Cologne, you wouldn't know what it is. Now you have the ability to go directly to the internet and say, and then there are reviews and there's understanding. There's people who purchase it, not much it costs, you know where to find it. It's totally different. That's why. And that's why you can make a joke with someone who's

experienced the comedy game for 30 plus years and it can still be funny. And so that's the beautiful thing, man. You know, you gotta love it.

Caiya (21:47)
And I will say for that being my first comedy show, definitely like one, like he was a class act in my opinion. Like I enjoyed listening to him and even like the act before him, he was pretty funny. Even though that one was like a little bit more like, I wouldn't say up to my speed, but like maybe towards a bit more my generation. He was good in his own way, but I just didn't like the excess of like cussing with it. And sometimes like the cussing like you, like you can only get so far with it.

Dre (22:10)
Hey.

Hey, it just depends on the on the team. That's that's what art is. So most comedy is an art form and we we don't ⁓ always see it as that. But within that art form, you're to have things that you like. You have things that you don't like, have things you agree with, some things you don't agree with. But always remember that a comedy is art and. ⁓

I mean, I'm sure that you've seen a painting that you walk by like, this is not right. When you've walked by a painting and said, ⁓ that is awesome. Who did that? And someone might come behind you and stuff that you like and say, that is terrible and vice versa. Right. So that's why they said you have this style, some styles you like, some styles you don't. And that's exactly what makes the ⁓ comedy world go around.

Caiya (23:09)
I will say, like, it was nice and I do appreciate y'all for inviting us to it and like, and all of us being able to enjoy the show. The one thing that I kind of had, I'm not gonna say an issue with, but it was like, it was a little baffling. So we got like, we had ordered food there and my mom had got this drink called the lime white, which was pretty good. But we got buffalo chicken dip. And at first I'm thinking like, you your typical like homemade buffalo chicken dip.

I pick up the salt, like they had saltine crackers. I'm not used to having saltine crackers. I'm used to having like, um, like the chips, like regular, like, um, tortilla chips. So I pick up saltine cracker and I eat, and I eat it. And I'm like, this has a little bit of, has a little bit of tang to it. Like, I don't know. Like I'm trying to figure out what's on this cracker. Cause in this show, you can't see nothing. Like even when they put the food down, I saw nothing the entire time. So I'm just assuming what I'm like, I'm just guessing about what I'm eating.

But that chip, like, I don't know if, like, I'm sure you've had it, but some people have never had, like, the cracker called Chicken in a Biscuit. Okay. And to me, that's what it tastes like, but it kind of, had like some type of like, it wasn't, it wasn't a thick seasoning, but it just tasted off. But the Buffalo Chicken Dip, it was okay, but it also, like, it was just off. Like, I'm used to, like, Southern style Buffalo Chicken.

Dre (24:28)
Okay, well you have to understand that ⁓ in ⁓ Florida you're in a different country. Different country. Different country. In the United States, for those who haven't been to Florida, a lot of times ⁓ every city or state has a different culture. And you know...

Caiya (24:36)
Punch.

Dre (24:55)
When you come to different cities or states, you have different cultures. You know, like Philadelphia. Philadelphia is a totally different culture than New York, which is a totally different culture than Chicago, which is a totally different culture than LA, right? When you come to Florida.

Depending on the part of Florida, different parts of Florida are totally different cultures. And that culture is almost a different country. And what I mean by that is culturally is such a mix and hodgepodge because of ⁓ the tourist attractions.

you don't know which side of those tourist attractions you're on, right? Because the biggest employer is Disney in the entire state, right? And things around tourism, you have to look at how many visitors come to Florida just for those two mouse eaters, right? So who knows who's actually cooking the food because of them or...

who knows the audience they're catering to.

Caiya (26:15)
It was like, if I was to give it a rating out of 10, was a six that it certifies a six out of 10. But then there was celery and carrots on the side of this. The carrots had like a, like they were wet, like in like a way that like, I thought they were just like bad, like they had went bad, but the celery was fine. But the carrots, they were just like, I just couldn't like, I was eating it cause I was pretty hungry. Cause we had just came from like a six hour drive.

But those carrots, like I've never had like a white carrot.

Dre (26:47)
And they probably were in the refrigerator and they probably looked them out.

Caiya (26:51)
mean, it was just like, it was bad. Like I thought like, was like, is this a carrot? And then my mom was like, she said, what the hell is that? And she was like, don't want that no more. like, you like, you probably had to like take like a napkin to like kind of like dab off like the extra water. But I was like, I think it's like, it's just like, it was sweet.

Dre (27:10)
It's called Carrots Wit.

Caiya (27:12)
Well, that carry was sweating very profusely. Because that was bad. Like, I think that carry went on a run before it came to the show.

Dre (27:19)
That's that proudly so.

Caiya (27:21)
But I mean, overall, was again, it'll be like a five out of 10, like after the whole minus one point. But. At the time of this recording today, you guys took us to Hash House a go go. Never been there, never heard of it. And you kept saying, look at the plates, look at the plates. And every time the plates were going by, it was like it was bigger portions every time it was something like every time a plate came by. Correct.

Dre (27:34)
Yes.

Caiya (27:48)
And you had told me to look at the pancakes and the pancake, was like, it was like a normal, you're like, no, you're like, that's like a medium pancake.

Dre (27:57)
So the waiter at the time, since we've been there before, you guys were newbies, we asked the waiter to explain the menu. And he told you that the pancakes are the size of a medium pizza.

Caiya (28:14)
And I was like, I was like, oh, I don't think I want a pancake. Cause like, that's a pretty big pancake. But I ended up asking him about the waffles and it ended up being like four, like four, they weren't like, I'm not gonna say they were like large waffles, but they were like medium, like decent size, like a little bit larger than your typical like Ego. But there was, it was four waffles. And the one that I ended up picking was the churro waffle.

Dre (28:22)
It's huge, Prankade.

Caiya (28:44)
Now I'm not a big fan of waffles, this waffle sounded like it was calling my name. Like I kept hearing, pick me, pick me. And I was like, what? And I was like, pick me. Okay, I'm gonna pick that one. So I ended up getting the churro waffle and then you and the rest of the table ended up getting the chicken waffle.

Dre (28:59)
So the chicken and waffles hands down is probably the most popular thing on the hash house of gogo menu.

Caiya (29:07)
And looking at the prices, cause like me, like when I go out to eat, I don't care. Like if I'm paying or someone else is paying, I'm looking for like, you know, the cheapest thing for the price. All that food, like it was reasonable. Cause I think mine was like after everything ended up being like maybe 17, $18.

Dre (29:25)
Yeah, I mean the one thing that Hash House or GoGo specializes in are big portions for what I want to say reasonable amounts of money based on what you're getting you can easily eat off that plate ⁓ from a gluttony amount. ⁓

twice. Normal sized portions, you could probably eat off that thing four times. Very, very easily on normal portions. Like if you're not, if you're just eating regular meals, you know, you could probably eat off of it three or four times, but it tastes great. Like you can't, I don't think that you could say that your order that you got, right? Right. Tastes terrible.

Caiya (30:20)
Oh, I can't say that at all. Cause that waffle, like I'm not a fan of waffles at all. This waffle comes out. It's a, it's four waffles. ended up getting this like a side of bacon, which was like three pieces of bacon. And then I got whipped cream and this waffle had, it had cinnamon sugar on top of it. You have maple syrup on the side. You got a big ass heaping of butter on it. And then you got like a big old glob of whipped cream. I'm like, that's a lot of food.

So me being me, I'm getting like really excited. Cause I'm like, I hope this waffle is good. Like I'm not worried about the price. It's like, I'm worried about the taste. Cause that's in the day. If you're going to give me a large portion, it has to be good. I cut into it the best waffle I've ever had. that's coming from something that does not like waffles at all.

Dre (31:08)
And that's exactly what you can expect. Since the restaurant specializes in farm to farm to table, you're going to get fresh food every time and you don't have to worry about where it comes from. So when you're dealing in that, I'm glad you enjoyed it because most people that go in there, I've never heard a bad review in the locations that we've ⁓ visited.

I've been to the ones in Florida and Vegas and it is very consistent across the board with the chicken and waffles. It comes with the waffle and inside that waffle is bacon. So bacon's inside the waffle. So you're actually getting chicken, bacon and waffles. So yes.

Highly recommend that restaurant to anyone who's traveling where they have a location. Hash house a go-go.

Caiya (32:14)
That was definitely like I may be a little bit a little bit biased on this, but that was a 10 out of 10 restaurant. My like I said, my food ratings are always they're not they're not the best, but for me to say that that place gets gets a 10 out of 10, that's based off of a waffle. Like I said, I'm going keep saying I don't like waffles, but that waffle, like the cinnamon sugar on it was really good, but it was like crunchy on the outside, but on that inside, it was fluffy, just like a pancake.

Dre (32:43)
And

trust me, from what I know of you, if you don't like it because you're a picky eater, you won't eat it.

Caiya (32:50)
And

I know, but like even like when we came back to the room and I was like, said, hmm, I'll just take a nap. But I kind of want to eat that waffle. I didn't end up eating that waffle because I was, I wouldn't have it for breakfast in the morning. But it was definitely like, if we had something like that, like it doesn't have to be in Georgia, but somewhere like maybe a little bit more like convenient, like where we stay. I'll probably go there maybe like, I'll probably go there twice a week if I could.

Dre (33:12)
And those are things that again, highly recommend. you are looking up online, look it up in your phone, whatever you can do. If you are near a hash house with gogo, 100 % recommendation from me. And I'm sure she will say the exact same thing.

Caiya (33:33)
Yeah. And like, I'm not sponsored and they didn't ask me to say nothing. I'm just, I'm letting y'all know now, hash house to go go. Doesn't just find a location. Like Dre said, try it out. You're going to enjoy it and you're going to get your money's worth for it. And our server was definitely, he was really nice and Dre made him laugh a few times and the server made us laugh. It's great service, great food and it's a great environment. And even the wait time on the food wasn't even that bad. think

We probably waited like less than 10 minutes on our food to come out, which is also a good thing.

Dre (34:08)
And always remember, a popular restaurant that does these things, if there is peak, they do have peak times and they do have peak seasons because they're usually located in tourist locations. So if they tell you you have to wait a half hour, you have to wait an hour, it's well worth the wait.

Caiya (34:29)
Right, and I don't know about you, but when I eat a large amount of food, I gotta take a nap. I gotta relax a little bit.

Dre (34:39)
Indeed you do.

Caiya (34:40)
and

Like going away from food a little bit. Do you ever like, even like in like your daily, like day to day life and everything, do you ever just like need a break from everything?

Dre (34:53)
I believe brakes are necessary because most appointed go go go go. At the end of the day, your batteries are going to need to be recharged. It's just like driving and you need gas or if you have an electric, you need to have a charger, right? So your body works the same way.

Caiya (35:13)
And like we've joked a lot and this is like more of like a like a little serious moment for me because like I'm always going like 90 plus miles an hour, whether I'm at work, whether I'm working on like photography or just whatever I'm doing, but I never take enough time to take care of myself. And if I don't take care of myself, I end up burning out. And you may feel the same way as well, like when you do your own like own things and everything.

Dre (35:40)
Yeah, well, you know, as I said, you your body's a machine and it should be treated as a machine. ⁓ Everyone uses their phone. How many people actually turn their phone off ⁓ to reset the phone? ⁓ If you notice a lot of electronics when they're, when they stayed on too long, what do they do?

Caiya (36:02)
It's an overheat.

Battery dies. Or...

Dre (36:07)
or

I don't know. They start acting up. The apps don't work or something. You see what saying? Yeah. So you see how we're saying or, or, because why? Because more than one thing happens, right? Right. So it's not a one size fits all type of deal, right? Because we have phones, we have different electronics. And if you leave them on too long, each electronic has a totally different way of alerting you that something's off. And the only way to fix it is to do what?

turn them off. And the body works the exact same way.

Caiya (36:44)
And I kind of lost my train of thought, but it's okay. But like when you're running on fumes, like, yeah, you're going to crash and burn, but it's always like, it's always nice to just take time, like not even just take time, just step back and let, like, take a break from the chaos. I found my train of thought. was going to say that my screen time was at 14 hours one time.

And that was just me from doom scrolling. like, spend a lot, I spend, I can spend two hours, like when I come home from work, if I get off at 10, I'm literally on TikTok until two in the morning. And I don't really, like, I may not be on my phone all the time, but I try to like, I spend the extra time that I should be sleeping, trying to catch up on social media. And my sleep schedule is out of whack just because I have a different schedule every single day. And then I'm spending that extra, then I'm spending more time on my phone.

And then getting less hours of sleep and then waking up and doing it over and over. And I do that five days out of the week. And then I try to catch up on everything on, I believe like Sundays, but Sunday's not like a, it's not a true off day for me. Cause on Sundays I'm taking that time to catch up on laundry, to catch up on whatever chores I have to do. And then I'm like, I wasted my whole entire off day cause I'm trying to be productive and I don't really have time to just.

reset for the week.

Dre (38:14)
So when you're trying to be productive, that's what we mean by shutting down and you have to shut down and you have to ⁓ change, right? And what I mean by change is you produce, produce, produce, produce, produce, produce, produce, even at a job level.

That means when the shift is over, usually the machine has to shut down. Your body's a machine. So I kind of look back at ⁓ Jim Valvano's way of showing you balance and difference. For those who don't know who Jim Valvano is, ⁓ nickname is Jimmy V. He has a foundation for cancer research. He's passed away.

but in his final speech before he passed away, he said that there are three things you should do every day and it'll be a full day. It's called laugh, think and cry.

And if you can laugh, you can think and you can cry. He says, that's a full day. Now, if you're not doing those things, all three together, imagine a day where you did one laugh, a day where you did, we just went into deep thought, you know, for something or someone else, or you just cried.

over someone or something, could you imagine how you'd feel if you didn't turn off, like shut down? you know, we went to the comedy show. It was fun, right? We laughed. We thought about the jokes. Did we cry? So if we didn't cry, after that we went and shut down, right?

Caiya (40:10)
Mm-hmm.

I don't think so.

Dre (40:22)
Right. Okay, great. Imagine if we cried.

laugh, thought, and rather than kind of show, we just started crying.

Caiya (40:32)
Yeah.

Dre (40:34)
Do you think you would have the same amount of the following day?

Caiya (40:39)
Maybe not.

Dre (40:40)
Exactly. So, you know, when you say, you need a break? Yes, you definitely need a break. But you still have to plan those breaks just like the body's a machine. If you don't do laugh, think and cry on the same day. Why? Because it's hard. It's just hard. Do you want to do those three? Honestly, it's hard.

to make people laugh. Some people laugh, you know, easier than others, right? Some people cry easier than others. It's easy for people to think, right? But for the most part, if someone gave you algebra, is that something you want to think about on a random Wednesday?

Correct. Correct. Right. So that's what I mean. Every, everybody's different. Some people may love it. I family members, I give them algebra, they're like, oh, this is perfect. I'm glad I was thinking like that. So those are the things like you have to shut down. need that break for those who don't understand that they need that break. You have to make sure you're doing what is called self-care, meaning that, hey, even if you work 16 hour days.

Some people do that work to multiple jobs, multiple full-time jobs. If you do not take time to recharge, you're not going to be ⁓ productive to yourself or anyone else.

Caiya (42:10)
And I know that for me, like, cause everyone is different. like you said, when it comes down to self care, what I normally do is like, I'll work to an extent. And then look, when I feel like my body's like, the, like, I'm gonna say crash out. Then I'm like, okay, I need it. I need a break. Whether that's just me taking off a weekend, taking off a day, or just going on vacation. Like I take that time for myself. I may not do that. I may do things that I want to do, or I just may just want to be like, you know what?

I don't care what we do. I just want to relax and not worry about the job or the people or whatever. It's like stressing me out because at times like I can feel the stress. I can feel it in my head all the time. And I'm like, I need to relax. I need to take a break and just reset. And even like me taking this vacation this weekend, it was, I, it was much needed because I may have been getting stressed. I may have been getting upset. I don't like, I don't know the, like the right thing, but I know I needed time to reset for the weekend so I can have a better.

Like have a better week. And I, I, I may take off work all almost, I'll take off like maybe a couple of times a month, but that's because I know, like I know my body and I know I need a break. Cause I can't go three or four months straight of not like taking a break. Cause then I start getting a little like, I'm not going say insane, but I started like, like my thought process gets a little messed up to where I'm just like, I feel like a robot. Cause like, I'm not shutting down properly. I'm just working, working, picking up shifts.

working extra hours and I'm like, I need, I just need to stop, take a break. I don't like sometimes like I can be like crashing out and I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to take off this random Tuesday. What am I doing that Tuesday? Probably nothing, or I'm probably just catching up on sleep. And I spend, I may spend a lot of my time resting, but that's because my body recovers a lot when I rest. And it, it's probably the same for a lot of people, but when we take that moment to just rest,

We feel a whole lot better. Even like if you're just like, if you're getting upset and overwhelmed, you start crying. Sometimes I know this happens for me when I get very overwhelmed. I cry it out and I have the best sleep that I've had in a minute.

Dre (44:21)
See, laugh, think, and cry.

Caiya (44:27)
Bang. And I will say when it comes down to like taking care of ourselves, you take care of yourself whatever, like whatever way helps you. But always remember if you're working, the job will still be there. Your friends and family, they're gonna understand. And always remember that your well-being is important. No matter how big or how small, if you gotta take off just for a day, take that day. If you gotta take off for a weekend, you gotta take off for a week. If you're able to financially, take off more than...

Take off more time. Take as much time as you need to recover because when you recover, everything falls perfectly for you.

Dre (45:06)
Recharge.

Caiya (45:08)
It's like a battery sometimes.

Dre (45:10)
all the time.

Caiya (45:12)
But not just any type of battery, it's kind of like the rechargeable one, like the ones you pay $40 for and then you lose the charger and now you're just stuck on that same battery until you find a new charger.

Dre (45:23)
And that's the key. You never lose the charger. The charger is called rest.

Caiya (45:31)
And resting is always important. Dre, all I have to say is thank you so much for joining me on this episode.

Dre (45:40)
No problem, I'm always here. ⁓

Caiya (45:43)
I will say you definitely, even though you're my only godfather, you're my favorite godfather.

Dre (45:48)
Hey, what a compliment. I like when they say you're the only you're my favorite. That's beautiful,

Caiya (45:57)
Well, no,

let me fix that. You're probably, not even probably, you are the greatest, not even the greatest, yeah, one of the greatest, because God is number one, but you are the greatest father figure that I've had in my life, and I'm grateful that my mother decided to make you my godfather.

Dre (46:13)
Hey, I'll take it. All I can say is thank you and I appreciate it and I'll do my best to be an example that you 100 % need at all times.

Caiya (46:26)
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