บทถอดความฉบับเต็มของ This Birria Pizza was a great idea but poorly executed! | Episode 44 of NeverBeenBetter

make it soggy though. I know. Here, I'll take the first bite and pour this in. Oh, that's glorious, bro. That is glory. Oh, this is actually mild. So, my issue with it is the dough is nothing special. But what do you expect? It's not an Italian spot doing this here. Here's the deal I feel like they made the pizza and they made the birria separate and they put it on top for sure They should have done it together Um, I mean, you put it on top and then baked it. Oh, hell yeah. You know, cause either way you're still pouring the juices. So they, they actually should have grabbed, it doesn't, it seems like they didn't grab it out of the juices. Like they strained it first. Cause they don't want to make the bread soggy. But if you bake it, cause you ever seen pizzas and they pour all that olive oil, unless it comes out. But the dough again, they do a dough, I mean the dough isn't bad. It's just, man, he just fucking that wing up. Oh, here with this big ass piece. He's eating the bone already. Yeah. It is a good idea though, but the execution still needs work. Cheese isn't grated. I mean, it's like, it's all average. It's just a dope concept. Hmm. You know who would do this proper? The Kraft taco. I'm not even joking. Ready? We'll make this and make it dope. Appreciate you, man. I mean, it's cool. It's not bad. No, no, no. It's good. It's good. It's just, you know, the... The cover looks better than the actual... Yeah, it definitely looks better. The advertising looks... next level. Um... Do this. Oh, this looks glorious, guys. I'm zooming on that. Oh, you see how my fingers are all drenched? Oh, look at that flavor. Oh God. Mm-hmm. flaps hits I, however you say it. It does. It does it. All right. How was your weekend? It was great. What'd you do? Work and, uh, hit up some homie. Work and then hit up a homie. Oh, you hung out with a friend? Mm hmm. Oh, got it. Mm hmm. I was like, that's slang for... I heard it's slang for something else. No. Up the pound or something? No. Just work, um... Oh, yeah. What was that event Saturday? Can you talk about it? Um... What was that event? I can't really... I mean... I don't know. I don't know if I can get it. Not on my part, just, I don't know. Can't throw names and stuff, that's why. We don't need names, you just have to what you're doing. Yep, it was like a work event. You know, side note. Do you guys ever eat the chicken bone? The tips? Chicken bone. The gristle, yeah. That little burnt part? Dude, did you see his bone? Turned into a toothpick. Man. I don't want to go too hard on this pizza, but very underwhelming. That's all I'll say. That cheese is not it. Now I will give them, even though it shouldn't matter that much, it's not affecting them that much, but I will give them the benefit of the doubt that we ordered it to be delivered. But I just tasted that cheese and that was real little Caesar ish. I'll be honest with you, and I haven't had that level of cheese. Bro, Little Caesar, damn. Now, shoutout to Little Caesar, it's 5, or maybe 6 now, I don't know, I don't go there, but. But this was not 5. A lot more than 5. Yes, they have some beef on it. What do you think of the meat? Honestly, eat the meat alone and tell me, because you're the connoisseur. I'm the connoisseur. Um, you need the meat with this, too. But I mean, like, the flavor on that. Like, if you're, if you're just comparing it against Um, it doesn't even taste like it, right? It just tastes like shredded beef. This is whatever it's better enhances it, but it's not even that flavorful to call it something. This look like you said earlier, great idea, but they need work and maybe they can take this as good criticism. It's like, yo, this is a great idea. Is it, we're not telling you dumb ass idea. No, it's just. The meat needs to be... Maybe I won't say where it is, because I feel like... We're killing it, bro. They're like, we put our whole last dollar into it. I mean, I'm pretty sure they're doing good. Listen, I tried it because a friend... Recommended it? Told me it was bomb. Can we say who? Alex. Alex told me it was bomb. Oh, okay. Alex, did you eat it there or did you get it delivered? Cause I feel like you ate it there and was it after the party or was it on a normal occasion? How much alcohol was in your system? Yeah, because we all know when it comes to Tiberia, Tiberia, Tiberia and stuff like that. Tiberia, Tiberia, Tiberia. That's why. Um. Remember you can soak a taco. And the corn tortilla will still remain, will still be intact? I mean, it depends. No, even the corn taco will fall apart. Yeah, dude, you can't just leave a soap for a delivery, regular tacos. If you get them delivered with the steam, but when you, when you get in tacos in Mexico, they're the tortillas are literally just swimming in the oil before they give it their touch and the heat. Oh, okay. I'm saying like delivered. Here's the thing. If this meat, if everything was in a taco and not on pizza, it would be below average tacos. That's my issue with it. So the pizza is below average. The stuff below. The stuff on it is below average, in my opinion. The salsa's. Cool. You try this? Mm-hmm. Oh no. Try that. Oh, that's good. What is it? It's like a little, I don't know if it's habanero, but it's, it's good. I always like a orange sauce. I can't, that one. It might be a little Chipotle. Um, that's good. But even it's, it's just like this one, so it's a . Both spicy, little spicy. See you put this on this. Yeah. Baby Lou was a hotter sauce. This is like, I just didn't want to go too crazy, I didn't know what it was going to be like. Try that green sauce too. I don't. Um, but, so yeah, I think like, nothing is, the wings are good. So, if you guys go ham with the wing, cause they have like, uh, salsa verde wings, they have a Diablo wing, with a habanero one, so. You know, side note. You ever been to a California pizza kitchen? Oh, I see. Yeah. Even though they're a little more on the fast food chain, because they

are. Fast casual. Dress casual, right? Fast casual, yeah. They're, some of the, the way they executed some of the pizzas is actually pretty cool, because, like, I remember I had this, To their barbecue chicken pizza was one of the best. Exactly, but if you want that style of pizza, but you think why though, because everything was made together, nothing was put on top afterwards. I don't know. Maybe we're wrong. Maybe they put it together. Just no, the meat dried up. It just, for me, just, it doesn't feel like that. This too dry. Now, maybe they serve it different there. We're not eating there. And if this is your pizza place, we will come vlog your place and give you a fair review. But I'm not going to lie. What do you think? Oh, you haven't tried the pizza. Would you go back? Yes. I would go back on the fact that I want to taste it out of the oven. In person. In person. It's like, it's like, it's like sushi. Sushi's best when you get it there. Now if you heat it up, maybe put it on the skillet and let all the flavors get together. Here's the thing though, the cheese, the cheese is what's really killing it for me. Out of everything. The dough's okay. The meat's okay. The cheese is not. I don't know, man. It's like that Costco bag, shredded, pre shredded cheese. Right? Your battery died? Hmm, I'm not digging this at all. It's just like a green salsa. Yeah, it's like they got it from Rubio's. All right, I'm done with that. Kind of disappointing, but hey. Oh, you know, okay, hey, we gotta go back there. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I would be down if they wanted to do a vlog. But yeah, I would go back to the wings, to be honest, if I wanted like a shout out to Red Stripe, bro. Jamaica, Jamaica. Guaguan. Yeah, man. You filming now? So with these ones. I was like, yeah, you got it a little bit right, yeah. Uh, I have. I'm going to cover that next week. Yeah, do it. Oh, EJ. You know you want it. Get all that mango on it. Hell yeah, dude. It's so good. That's the whole, um, so we're going to the craft. We're going to do a craft episode. I don't want to spill. You guys know more. I'm going to look at that. Look at that. Ooh. Uh, so the craft is going to be, we're going to do one of these, the craft. Let us know if you like this. Uh, but we're still going to do a couple regardless because you got to give it a few shots. So we're going to do the craft taco. I don't want to spill the beans on that, but that's going to be a fun one. And then I have this, uh, Nigerian restaurant. We won't do it there, but we can get food to go Well, it's nice little blood vessels. It's disgusting That was good, I mean it was not great, but You know, what was good that mickelo? Can you grab me that last? Oh, you drank the can can you grab me another one, bro? My mickelo is I say say we give this guy these people another chance, but we do wings nothing but wings We could That's amazing. That's why I like wings. Because you can do wings to go. You almost don't want them fresh because you can't eat them. They're so hot right out. Right, right. So you want that right home. Like wings are elite, an elite food. Um, and even like you're eating, like these are, they seem grilled or baked maybe like at a very high temperature. A little healthier. Normally a wings fried or whatever, but I, you get some protein and you get the junk food, right? 100%. Thank you. You get flavor with the, Um, so I like, it's a cool balance for me, but yeah, this is cool, but I'm excited for the craft. I'm going to go crazy on that one as far as the ordering. Um, and then the Nigerian, you know, you know what I really like about the craft and be honest, the best tacos in San Diego is just what I like about the craft. And obviously people hear this a lot, like, Oh, it's authentic. It's authentic. Maybe because we know Eddie's story. So the authenticity is just. Like you're getting food made by the, by the, that person's culture, you know, like all the flavor. It's, it's literally stories of his family's lineage, you know, you can taste the authenticity with every bite, you know, that's just the way I see it. And that's one of the reasons why I think is great food, really great food. So that little piece of meat, you know, it's the best food for a date. The wings. Imagine going up to a girl and be like, Are you going to eat that? Nah. Um, the wings. The wings, I would say 7 out of 10. 7 out of 10 for wings. The pizza, conceptually it's an 8 out of 10. 8 10, the concept. The execution. And I'm being generous. I'll give it a 4. 5 The dough balls, one out of 10. That was like, dude, you just got some pizza dough, rolled it up and threw some butter and not a lot of garlic. Cause I don't taste the garlic that much. It's like leftover. It's it's the overall, I would give it a, I'm going to grade on a curve because we got it to go five out of 10. Okay. That, that seems fair. Cause it's to go, to go. Um, I'd give it a similar score. Five and a half, five and a half because of the wings. Now here's the deal. The wings by itself, I'm going to give them like a 6. I know they're good, but due to the fact that it's a go, due to the fact that the flavor is there, it's just the spiciness needs to just be kicked up a couple notches. I mean, other than that, it's just... You know, but, um, but yeah, that's what I give that, uh, the pizza dough balls are like, you know, gotta give it a rating, right? So I'll give it a one. I mean if we can give it a zero, we'll give it a zero, but you know, it's dough. It was a waste of calories. It was a waste of calories. Exactly. It was a waste of calories and it's like a waste of taste buds. It's a waste of everything. But, um, yeah, and the pizza, well, like, you know, I agree with him. So that's, that's the way. That's the way it goes down. But um, but you know, what was that a 10 this wrist, right? No, that's cool. This was a good idea though. And the next one is gonna be dope with my boy Eddie My favorite restaurant in San

Diego. Oh Hmm closely followed by no, I'm gonna say it's my favorite Mexican restaurant because I can't I can't just generalize. It's my favorite Mexican restaurant and we have other favorite restaurants, but, um, yeah, that was dope. What, uh, now that we're talking about wings, what is your favorite wing spot? My favorite wing spot, honestly, it has, I know you're going to say, yeah, that's it, Canyon, Canyon club. When you introduce me to that, dude, remember we used to go, wow, hell yeah, dude. And when you get those big old huge dry rubs, I've never had, I've never liked. Not that I never liked, but I just, I was never, I think it was at the one we got with the dry Buffalo ones. No, I think you're thinking about my uncle's. No, no, no, no. But the one we got, it was a garlic, it was a dry garlic one. No, that wasn't a Canyon. The Canyon is a super wet. No, no. They have a wet, but they also have a dry. They have different variations. Maybe. I don't know. See, the ones I like are the Cajun garlic. Oh, bro. Those ones were fire. The Cajun garlic, dude. And then they give you a, you can get tots, or wings. I don't know how it is now. But like in 2000, we used to go like between 2012, 13, 14. Probably 13, 14. For like years. So good. And you go, It's like this gross guy barb. Sticky countertops and everything, but the wings and they were voted best. And it's like, kind of like, it's a hole in the wall. It's yeah. It's like, it's not, it's not a place where you're like trying to go and you're not taking a day. Don't take your kids. Don't take it. Definitely. You're not taking it. We've been a night, but you go during the day or right after work. And it's like a watering hole for like construction dudes or whatever, like locals. Uh, but their wings are so good. They are. They're bomb. Those are my favorite. Those are the best. I haven't had them in so long. The last time we had them, I think we were, we had them to go or something, but yeah. We were drunk. Uh, yeah, that spot's good. What about your favorite pizza place? Do you have a favorite pizza place? My favorite pizza place in San Diego. So I have, I have different spots for different reasons. Um, we'll go like standard New York style. Standard New York style. Yeah. I like New York pizza. I like New York pizza. I'll save mine while he's thinking bronc pizza, my favorite piece of fuck. Get a good slice. I say yeah, dude, bronc, bronc, bronc hits. But I don't even know anything close to that. So there's another place called pizzas. Oh, yeah, that's like, uh, Napoleon Napoleon style, but it's a little bit different because obviously, uh, aside from being Napoleon is like, just they import their flower, like everything, like, even have an organic flower because it's like, they're just. It's Italian. Yeah. Yeah. And it's just like, they have a gluten free one too. They have a gluten free, uh, I've heard that it's good. They have, uh, this, uh, white sauce, seafood, uh, pizza, which is, what is that? Clams and stuff. Oh, bro. It has, yeah. As it has like, it's like the taste of the ocean in a good way. It's, uh, I'd say when it comes to like the creativity behind pizza would probably, um, pizzas. But if I just want to slice like a simple, Be Sparrow's. Michael Scott. Yeah. We're going to do more of these. We'll be dope. Uh, do you guys have any suggestions for sure? Yeah. Put them down. Or if you own a restaurant, if you own a restaurant, you know. It won't be too harsh. . . That's not true. We're gonna be honest. Yeah. Yeah. Honesty is, honestly, honesty is the best thing when it comes to food because nobody likes being told it's great and, you know, and, uh, but yeah, I know I, I definitely am big on that of like, I don't even like over hyping things unless they're like next, next level. Mm-hmm. Like, I feel comfortable with the craft, even though I try not to over, like it's just my favorite. It's really good. But like, you gotta go there and experience it. You're like, dang. Mm-hmm. . Eddie really cares about that, and his team really cares about the food, like it's not... Even though they're busy and stuff like they're not like your food might take a little longer to get out and it's worth it. It's, it's, it's not a restaurant that's after your money. No, the fact that they're doing micro greens, they're like a packed house and they're still getting a little tweezers and putting micro greens on stuff. Like, yeah, they really care. Or I saw him send back greens because they're like slightly, they weren't, like they're. They weren't even wilted. They're like, they're about to be, he could tell that they're about to be wilted and he wanted like fresh, fresh for that day. And so it's like, when you really care, but what were you saying? I set you up. They're not after your money. They're just not after your money. They're after giving you his, his experience, his knowledge in food, you know, through culinary. Cause it's more than just food. It's, it's a culinary experience and it's a, and, and I see so much potential for him to grow even more. It's just that guy. But those who don't, who don't follow him, check him out on Instagram at the craft taco. Yeah. Great stuff. Craft taco. We'll tag him here. Yeah. Now they're moving. They're doing catering now. So if you want them to cater your events, they will come bring food. It's not going to be obviously not going to be the same menu as in store, but it's still going to be a good menu. Um, but yeah, what else have you been up to? I'm working on some art, dude. Some art stuff. How's your progress going with that? You didn't respond. Good. I've been busy also with work and this, so. Um, but yeah, it's good. I'm actually, um, thinking about doing some little stickers. Taking advantage of that. You might as well. For sure. Yeah. Before I even release anything. Just to have, just to have like some concepts on there, you know? Yeah, yeah. But yeah, you should definitely do that. How's, uh, uh,

the art by commissioned art By commission? What do you mean? The art? The r p i commission for the, oh, everyone better. It's in the works still. It's in the works. Not in the sense of like, it's in the works in the, I'm trying to figure out what's creatively in the works. Creatively in the works. It's, I'm trying to see. What's going to go, what's just going to hit, hit, you know, think about it, like, obviously we'll have it here in the studio, but think about, like, we could take it for some of the things we talked about off camera that we're going to do in the future. So, if we move locations, we're going to have it there. Think about that, where it would fit in, like, it's kind of our, like, we want the name, but add art with it. Right, right, right. So I want you do your thing, but something like that, where it's like. And our piece, but obviously the names there. And all that good stuff for sure. No, yeah, it's, um, when it's stuff like this commission type or like, you know, stuff that that's more than just a. Line on a paper. It's, uh, I wanted to have like, I'm very, uh, subliminal when it comes to my art. Like, I like everything to have a meaning. I like things to be, you know, like, Oh, what is this here? Oh, for this reason, you know, why, you know, not just because, you know, um, I feel like that's, that's the way I can, you know, put kind of my mindset, my creativity, my love for that certain project is by doing that, you know? Um, but yeah, so it's coming soon. It'll come soon. Sooner than, uh, later for sure. What's, do you want to announce what your, and maybe it's already announced, but do you want to say it here? What the, what your art brand slash stage name slash? Well, it's, it's, uh, it's my initials EAB. Art by EAB. Um, I just feel I, I don't need, I don't need a nickname for me. There's people that have a nickname and it's great and it works for them. But for me, I just feel like I, I'm okay with, with me, with myself. So I can, you know, I'm good with that. For people to know me for that, you know, um, that's, you know, that'll be me. Yeah. Yeah. Dope. For sure. Um, EJ, go try the food. So you can tell us what you think of it. The pizza, watch for that cable too. How's the shirts? What shirts? Merch. Merch is good. Selling a little bit. Two shirts out, go on the website now. The website is a multi purpose website, so it's my business consulting website and we added the podcast and merge just because I feel like why have five places to go when we can just push traffic everywhere. Some of Armando stuff will be on the website eventually to we're just building and I talked about this before, but now it's like, we're putting into steps and tuned into fruition of like, to build an army. And so any. Eyeballs I get on me. I want to shed to the team and vice versa. It's like, it's a symbiotic thing. Nobody's there's no ego with it. You know, it's just like, whatever is going to help us. If we, if 1 of us when we all win, because

we're not going without each other. So anyways, merch available now, check it out. Shout out to the people that have bought it. I need to get your shirt and I have another design, which you can see it right there. Simple design. It's just going to be the. The name on the shirt, on the, uh, chest. So that's gonna be dope. Black shirts, I think that's gonna be on with the white logo. Um, but yeah, r and d in do site ss i t e Check it out now. Do something. Just shout out to Colorado. Oh, they got smoked, but it's on. That's what I wanna ask. I'm I'm still on. I didn catch the still. I didn't catch the game. They got smoked. Yeah, they scored one touchdown. It was 4 2 6. We'll be there next week watching it at 7. 30, uh, on Saturday, but, uh, we won't be there. We will be at a local place watching it, um, but yeah, it, it, it was rough, but it's a learning lesson. Like I think about that in life. Oh, did you see that video? What was I talking about? Oh, the video I posted that the guy was talking about the abundance mindset and he used the example of Adam and Eve, how like the first temptation. That caused man to sin was lack. Instead of them seeing the abundance. So they're in the, the, what is the garden called? Uh, Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden. Yeah. I don't know why. The Garden of Eden. So I was thinking, I was thinking of the tree and then there's a tree of life and death or whatever that they can't eat from. Well, that was in the middle of the garden. And the guy basically says is like they had to go through, they passed pecans and oranges and peaches and every fruit that they could want to get to that. So instead of focusing on the abundance that was in their lifestyle, They focus on the lack and that, that the devil is the God and he says, to clarify, lowercase God, lowercase g, uh, God of lack. And so he distracts us by focusing on what we don't have versus a mindset of gratitude and abundance, where it's like, look at all we have, because I think about that for me too. That doesn't mean not to want more, right? Right. Even me, I can get in my head and think about like what, like what I'm lacking and not so much like in my skills. It's more like in my things, right? Like, like, you were here. Great, amazing building that a house. Thank God. Blessed with that. And I think about like, all the things like, I don't sometimes I get caught up in that like the lack. And so that was just like, good timing for me of like, think about all that. And then I heard another thing is that it's something with like, in our brains that it's impossible to be. Right. Uh, uh, expressing gratitude and be anxious at the same time. Like something within our brains, it uses the same neurons or something. So it's like, so we can't express gratitude while we're anxious or vice versa, when you're anxious, it's lack of gratitude, gratitude blocks you off. So it's either one or the other, I have anxiety about things about the future, about. Everything right like that. I'm not and it's interesting. Like we think about like write your gratitude or think about what you're grateful for Anything like yeah. Yeah. Yeah, what is that gonna do? But if that like neurologically we or you know, we can't physically Mentally be anxious while we're being grateful like well, isn't that a sign? Express gratitude more. Mm hmm, because I don't want to be I don't like being anxious Anxiety, all that stuff is like, it's a horrible feeling. Yeah, a hundred percent. Anxiety is, is, is, is, is a distraction. It distracts you from, from coming up with a, uh, a solution, you know? And anxiety is, is everything that's, everything that's a possibility, but isn't real at the certain moment, at the, you know, you know, at the time. Yeah. Um, and I feel like. You know, being as human as we are, we're easily distracted. Honestly, I feel like any, any little thing could take us away from our, from our goal, whatever. But, and, and I feel like anxiety is just, I read it somewhere where anxiety is a, it's a natural, it's something natural that we all have. That's kind of like a, it's kind of like a fight or flight type of moment. It protects us from, uh, from danger. Um, But, um, but, yeah, you know, if you're, if you learn to, to cope with it, if you learn to, to work with it, it doesn't have to be your enemy, it can just be a way for you to, to become a stronger, more disciplined person to avoid, you know, not to avoid to, to persist and overcome, you know, because remember, like I said, I feel like I feel at least for me, I feel like all my anxious, the time that I am anxious, It's from, it's from stuff that isn't real. It's stuff that can happen, it's just, it's not real at the moment. And we're so easily distracted by that. You know, going back to the whole abundance, right? That you, you, you're distracted by the fact that you have, you have all this, all this type of fruits. But yet you want the one that you can't see yet. You want the one that, that they, they tell you about. But then you, the one in front of you, you, you're no, you're distracted from that. So, yeah. Is there something like specifically that, like a recurring thing that makes you anxious? Something that makes me anxious person. Like is there like something tangible? Like for me it's like, it's really like making it and when I'm, I know it's gonna happen, but I need to happen sooner. Mm-hmm. . And so like, I need certain breakthroughs with like business and this podcast, and. All these things that I'm pushing. So, and I see positive momentum, like there's nothing, there's no indication right now of what I'm doing. Like, let me say it another way. Every indication and like, when I'm thinking about praying about it, meditating about it is like you are doing the right thing, right? But the results aren't there. And that's always the name of the game, right? Like, the results aren't there. We want it. And then you hear these stories about people were like, I was It's

At the last thread. And then I went, boom, you know, they like it, it sucks. It has to be that way. I'm like, why I get it, but there's lessons to be learned during that. But anyways, all that to say is like, that's what makes me anxious. They're like, I know what I'm doing is right. The timing is not what I want. It's never going to be, it's kind of like life's formula for success. Right? Like you hear many stories that are like that. It's like. I give it my last, my last hit, my last dollar, my last everything. And that's when everything went up, you know, but it's like, I think you have to write like, cause I, when I think when I step back and I'm like, why does it have to be this way? Why does certain things have to happen? Why do people have to cancel on me? Like the live podcast that we're supposed to do. It didn't happen. Uh, everyone canceled on me. You told me you weren't going to be able to make it, but you said maybe, but like every, the DJ canceled on me, EJ canceled on me. People that told me they were coming can't like just like I couldn't make it but really all that is fine The DJ cancelling ruined it because that's what it was. That's what the whole thing and I think about why does that have to happen? But all these things like life takes you but you know that you have to I think I'm because I'm gonna be I Have I'm called to something higher. We're called to something higher, right? So we have to go through that because maybe not the same way not the same insecurities, but at a higher playing field Yeah Where it's like, we're going to experience this, maybe not the same reason, but the same level or a higher level of stress and anxiety that we have to have that practice. A hundred percent. And we can't, you can't take that personally, you know? Yeah. No, no. I never take it personal. Like even if, even if the person or whatever, whatever reason it was, it's like at the end of the day, it happened. And, but what makes you a leader, what makes you better is how you result, how you handle the situation. You can't become a great boxer without getting hit a couple times in the face, right? Yeah, that's the thing. Kobe says that. He's like, you gotta, he's like, I practice harder than I play. Because, in the, it's, playoffs, all that stuff are easy. So, so I think about that. I have to remind myself. But, I did handle that. I just liked the text. I didn't say what I wanted to say. You had all day to tell me we had all this. You kept telling me, yeah, about, like, blowing smoke. But... It wasn't going to do, you know what I'm saying? Good point. So just like, all right. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. We're, we're, I don't hate you. I'm not even mad at you. I'm disappointed. And it's interesting. I feel like when you stop taking things personally, when you don't, when a person does something at that and you really like, you genuinely don't hate that person for doing that. I feel like, I feel like that's when you're starting to become ready for maybe that position because a lot of people for the longest time. Um, because I'm also like, also do, uh, my job also entails, uh, involves sales and now you see nobody likes hearing no, right? I mean, when you're trying to sell somebody something and they tell you no, it's just like, Yeah, it's not fun. You know, but just, Do you think they're saying no to you rather than the product or whatever the service you're selling? They're saying no because, There's a, Look, But it's never, Nobody, nobody, nobody knows what's going on in the lives of every person. And, and honestly, it's a tough world out there and a no is simply a way for them to clear their mind away for them to, to figure out what's going on in their lives. They're not ready to take on something, you know, whether it's, you know, um, Hey, would you like an upgrade on this? No, you know, it's, you never know what's going on with them. So when you, when you kind of think like that, it's. It's not personal. And, and, you know, it's, it's, uh, it's not necessarily, they're not saying no to the product or not saying no to you. It's just, they're just not ready. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's never you. I mean, very rarely you. And if it is you, I mean, if it is you, then that's probably, you'll know, you'll figure it out. It's probably a opportunity for you to learn. They may not just like you. That's okay. People don't like, you're not supposed to like every person, but, or. There's a skill like something you said or an approach like, okay, I can get better, but all that I went, we went around and it was mostly me distracting. Is there something specific that gives you anxiety or no specifically like a recurring thing that like, you're like, man, when I think about this, it gives me some anxiety. Um, something specific. It gives me anxiety. Ah, geez, probably being away from home too long. Not in the sense like get homesick, just in the sense of like, Like, Oh, hope everything's okay. Hope everything's cool. When does it happen? Like on vacation, vacation, when I travel, if it's like a, if it's, if it's like a, like a two week thing, if, if ever, you know, or like a three week travel, um, a three week vacation, um, I get kind of like, Oh, I hope everything's okay. You know, I mean, it's normal. I'm sure people feel like that, but is it like you're, you're concerned about your family being okay? Yeah. Yeah. Not that anything's wrong with them. It's just. You never know. You never know, exactly. But like I said, it's stuff that's not real. It's possibilities, but it's not necessarily happening at the moment. Yeah. Um, yeah, it's just something I've learned to, um, kind of work with. And that's honestly one of the reasons it's weird. Sometimes you do things without even wanting to, but... I feel like the more I travel, it just, that feeling doesn't go away, but that I learned how to work with that feeling. Yeah. So I I'm not distracted by the actual, you know, traveling, but the actual vacation, but actual

whatever I'm doing, you know? Um, but yeah, that's one of mine, but that's the one that comes to mind. Yeah. Yeah. It's tough. I think, especially I've noticed recently, like anxiety for me comes like, I feel really, it's this weird wave, man. And I, I think it's just a season because I'm doing as much grounding as I think can think about. I mean, I'm doing as much grounding and like processing it as I have the, uh, the capacity to, but I'll be like, I'll have anxiety and then I'll have like this immense peace. It's like the weirdest thing. It's like, imagine you had like a really bad headache. And then you feel like super, super good or, you know, like when you're, you're like, when you're either sick, like flu sick or you're hungover and throwing up or you're vomiting. Right? And you get like that weird angle where you're like, you feel so sick and then you get to this weird angle where you can't move and it feels like the best. That's what it feels like. And then it comes and goes. Right? Right. But it's just, it's weird. It's like. Yeah. And it's not like my extreme, my, my, it's not that my, uh, mood is extreme. It's just in my head, I feel like anxiety. I mean, and then I pray like that's one thing, but then I feel like this peace and it's like a reminder, like, Hey, it's going to be okay. You know, it's going to be okay. Yes. There's going to be this next thing and next thing. And next thing that comes up like the other day, for example, like I get this bill from STG and E that's 800 bucks. There's four people in this house. There's no, and I have solar. So like there's 800 bucks. And then I get like 200 in credit. Cause we were produced, we have a lot of panels. And so my bill is, it was like, I don't know, eight something. And my bill is like five something. So it was like a 250 credit or whatever. And I'm like, still though, the amount of gas was like, out of that 800, this is pre credit. It was like 700 was gas. That's like I have a leak, right? And so I rather have a high bill and figure that out than a leak because the leak's gonna be i've already had a leak here gas leak I got the hook up and it was not cheap thousands of dollars, right? so i'm like Oh, I don't need this anyways I look and then I look at the months. It was like two months ago because they bill weird. So I'm like, okay, there's no leak because it wasn't leaking and got magically fixed. The next thing, you know, whatever, basically they build me wrong. They're going to credit me within 90 days, but it's like, you're going through your day and you already had this anxiety and then boom, a gut punch. And so like, I'm sitting here, like, just trying to learn like, what? What are the lessons like there's obviously signs like I don't have control like I understand it Yeah, as much as I try to and as you want to set yourself up for success to have some patterns Like that's why you do certain like you have routines and stuff because it gives you patterns But at the end of the day life's gonna be life. Mm hmm And so how do we deal with that? And I'm like, what am I here to learn? And I think like whatever is gonna come It's going to come quick. And I keep telling you guys, like, listen, there's something on the verge. I just don't know if that's in two weeks or two months or two years or two years, two years. I hope not. But I just need some momentum and I think there is momentum, but the momentum we're looking for at this point is like compensation because I would like for a place where we be like, Hey, it pulls you away because it can feed you. It pulls him away a little bit so it can cheat him. And I think we're making steps there. But like, that's what I'm thinking about. So it's not just like, obviously there's impact. But then also, there's a monetary dollar amount. There's, there's, there's targets that we break. We know what it is because it's just numbers. But anyways, that was a long rant to say. Um, yeah. It's a weird thing. I mean, it, I, it all ties back to, you know, how, how you're, you're, you're constantly telling us like, you know, it's, the time is coming. Ej get another beer. Yeah. Get another beer. Alright. Ej, come in here. Ej, you wanna talk my mic? No, no. Take the mic. Take that, take my mic. No, no, you take it. EJ Mike, have you, has that been down the whole time? No, no. It was right here. No, it was right here. I just stood up. Oh. I'm like this guy. No, no. Keep it, keep it. I'm just gonna, he's gonna use this. I'll be right back. Yeah, he's gonna keep, he's gonna use this. Okay. Um, so, what did you think of the food? That pizza was nasty. Damn! Well, damn. It was nasty. Nasty? I mean, you did have it extra cold. Yeah. Like, dry. It didn't go together well at all. The concept was really good. The execution was lacking. It was dry when we had it, so that The only thing that made it worse was probably the cheese. Did you like the wings? The wings were really good. I enjoyed those habanero wings. The sauce was good. There was a lot of meat on the bones, and it was really good. I liked those a lot, and I'll probably be going back for some more. Dope. This was another episode of Never Been Better. Thank you for watching. Let us know if you like the food vlog. If you have any spots you want us to go to. This is not the food vlog. This is a food pod, which we're going to keep doing. We're also still doing the business vlogs, which can include any type of business. Restaurants are cool. Uh, but yeah, let us know. Don't forget to like subscribe, share and tell a friend to tell a friend and do the same. 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