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August 17, 2025 19 mins
We start out nice enough with a new phone and my thoughts on subscription software.  Then we take a dark turn into my downward spiral.


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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And welcome back to Laos's number one podcast in New Hampshire,
the Buddhist af Podcast. As always, I'm your host Noich
at the VISUK. Maybe some of you guys listening have
a podcast of your own. Lately, I've been getting an
abundance of emails from quote unquote representatives of certain individuals

(00:24):
who would be quote unquote great guests on my podcast.
They have life experience about the topic that I previously
talked about, and they are a wealth of knowledge, YadA
YadA blah. I thought to myself, why aren't these people
reaching out to me? Are they too busy? If so,

(00:46):
then I don't think they'd have time to speak with
little me. I mean, I'm not paying so out of curiosity,
I decided I wanted to look up one of these
so called experts on Instagram. They had an account much
older than mine and I have more followers, so they

(01:10):
were either a a bot or B hired a bot
to get them traction. Either way, no thanks Straight to
Edgar's Baby's Daddy aka my spam folder you go. I
picked up a Samsung Galaxy Z folder recently. It's a
it's a nifty little device. Look at me showing my age.

(01:35):
I just said nifty. I think they're neat. It does
carry a pretty hefty price tag of two thousand dollars,
and honestly, I'm probably not going to use it for
what it was really meant for. This is definitely a
content creator's phone. I'm not much of a content creator.

(01:58):
I just talk about my problems into a mic into
an in an empty room. Formerly formerly would a beta fish.
I mean, I like it, but do I two thousand
dollars like it? Kind of locked in now? I do

(02:19):
have a protection plan on it, insurance because it is
a foldable, but twenty five dollars a month for the
protection plan is kind of like another phone payment. Thankfully,
I am not financing the phone. This baby is mine.
I got it through a Samsung store trading, so I

(02:43):
traded in my s twenty five Ultra for this Sky
and paged a little bit more. But over I'm happy
with it. I barely use the inside of the of
the phone. I don't use the main quote unquote main screen.
I guess I use the outer screen because the screen
is big enough for me. I have watched like videos

(03:06):
and stuff on the mainscreen, but overall, don't think I'll
use it as much, so I'm kind of regretting trading
my twenty five Ultra in But again, two hundred megapixel camera,
I'm kind of stuck with it, so I'm just gonna
have to deal with it. Speaking of Samsung, I was

(03:26):
speaking to a customer today. Some of you may or
may not know. I am a frontline point of contact
for a multi billion dollar cell phone company. So seeking
with a customer today, he said that the z Flip,
the clamshell design seven is sold out everywhere. They couldn't
find them. They didn't want to order one, so we

(03:51):
had one in stock. Managed to sell it to him.
Really happy about it. But I guess the Apple exodus
is a real thing. Personally, as someone who sells cell
phones for a living, I'm not really bothered by that,
but the reason behind it is kind of, in my opinion, dumb.

(04:12):
I guess Tim Cook gave Donald Trump a gift and
suddenly the tariffs on the iPhones came down. But some
took it as a sign of Tim Cook bending the knee,
but I saw it as a man who took a
sword for the customer. I mean customers who would have
had to pay more for the iPhone, but now they didn't,

(04:33):
and yet they've vilified him. Anyway, So all I saw
on social media on threads, which is the only social
media besides the Instagram that I use on threads, is
people talking about how they're ready to jump ship from
Apple to Android. It's everywhere. It's like, oh, I'm thinking
about jumping from Android or from Apple to Android? What

(04:53):
should I get? And of course people buy into it
and it's the same question. So it's just basically to
get traction. And I'm like, you know, if you're still
financing that iPhone, you're still gonna have to pay for it,
you know that, right, Like do you have enough credit
to finance two phones? Anyways, I don't want to talk

(05:14):
politics on this podcast. That was it, And like Michael
Jordan said, both sides buy shoes, so why would I
alienate anybody? I do want to talk about software subscriptions.
I posted on thread asking developers why I had to
pay a subscription for software? Why can't I just buy it?

(05:37):
And then someone responded with, I quote because you also
expect lifetime support. So if it had a buy it
once price, it would need to be priced for decades
worth of labor and you're sure a shit not going
to buy it once? Then, to which I countered, Quote me,
I have a z fold seven. I paid for it

(05:58):
knowing it's only going to get five years of updates.
I bought Madden twenty six knowing I'm only getting the
roster for the twenty five twenty six season. I don't
need lifetime support. I know what I'm buying when I'm
buying it. Crickets from this guy, by the way. I mean,
look at Windows ten. I bought it. I paid full

(06:19):
excuse me, I paid full retail pro version. Even it
came out in July twenty fifteen. I hear that it's
being discontinued October of this year, and so I got
Windows eleven. Why is this hard to understand? Windows is
constantly updating itself. It's got different, various versions, and I

(06:41):
paid once and it's still running. I mean Microsoft Office
Office ninety five, Office ninety seven, two thousand XP all
the way up to three sixty five. Like, yes, there
is a subscription service now, but you can still buy
a standalone program. Why is that so hard for people

(07:03):
like Adobe to understand? Why can't I just buy a
one time, license to photoshop and get three years of service,
you know. But I'm just I'm not saying. I'm just saying,
but just get that all lot. But the main topic
of tonight is I failed. I failed, and this is hard.

(07:33):
But this is session number seventy four. I thought I
was good. I thought it was good last time I
talked to you guys, and I wasn't. I if you
guys didn't know, I was about a week away from

(07:55):
from moving. We we were a week away from moving.
We were I was packed, I was doing logistics. I
was looking at hotels, not hotels, I was looking at
apartments and very close to signing leases. I had already
planned how I planned on moving down there. I already

(08:17):
got the job, and yeah, everything was going to be
done last week. And so things didn't turn out quite
the way we had planned. Mostly me. I did a
lot of planning. And I always tell Alex, and Alex
knows this, Alex, you know this. I don't make plans

(08:41):
because when I do, they always turn out at disappointments.
And so when I don't make plans, hey, things don't
turn out plot twist, you know, just go with it.
But this was rough. This was a year, a year
of planning because we had to wait. We had to
wait for our to finish second grade. And once he

(09:03):
was done, June fourteenth was when he was done. I started.
I started searching for jobs. I called in some favors.
I sent out application after application after application, and again,
this is me applying for the job I already have,
for the same company I already have, but just in
a different state. And it's risky because you know, if

(09:26):
that store hires me, then there's no guarantee that I'm
going to move down there, which turns out to be true.
And again, through no fault of mine, through no fault
of anybody, really, I told Alex that we were moving.
We were going to a better place, and this is true.

(09:47):
We were. We were going to a better apartment, much
cheaper apartment, with more amenities. We were going to a
better school. Because I hate that school with all my chest.
I can't say enough how much I hate that school.
He is so much better than that school, He deserves
so much better than that school, and it just kills me.

(10:08):
It absolutely rips my heart out knowing that he has
to go back to that school and he hates it
so much. He's even asked to be homeschooled. That's how
much he hates that school. And I am okay with
him being homeschooled. That's how much I hate that school.
And it kills me more because I promised him that

(10:30):
we would have a better life, we would have a
better place to be, and we would be a lot
happier because we wouldn't be in this stupid apartment, this
place that just eats away with your soul. It just
makes you angry being here. I don't even want to
be in this apartment. I try to work as much

(10:53):
as I can. I miss and I love my family.
I love seeing them, but I don't want to be
in this apartment. It makes me angry. I don't know
what it is. I don't know if it's a portal
to some dark place that just makes me angry, but
it is what it is, and I absolutely hate it.

(11:16):
I hate it for the fact that there are cars
that park here that don't live here. There are always
threats of having your car toad if you don't live here,
and the only people who I have gotten their car
toad was myself and my wife who live here. With
stickers on our cars. We have people walking in and

(11:39):
out screaming. We have people who shouldn't have dogs having dogs,
leaving their dog eggs all over the yard, not picking
up after themselves despite the fact that they were threatened.
And I just hate this place. And I told him

(12:01):
we were going to escape and we didn't. We ended
up back where we are. I am in this apartment
and he is in the other room asleep, and he
has to wake up tomorrow to dairy New Hampshire and
it kills me. It kills me because I failed my

(12:25):
son for the first time, and I don't know what
to do. We have to wait another year now because
he has to start school next week, and so it
begins anew a long winter followed by a long spring,

(12:47):
and then I'll have to count down the days until
June fourteenth once again. And I don't even know if
we can move then, because there's so many there variables
at play, and I just don't no, I just don't
know what to do. I have taken multiple deep breaths

(13:13):
in this podcast alone. I know, sure if you guys
heard that or not, but it's it's dark and I'm okay,
I'm I actually am okay. So you guys listening don't
have to worry. But I'm just venting and I'm I'm

(13:38):
doing my therapy. So uh, it is. It's tough, it
really is, because again I hate planning, and I was
told to plan. I was told to plan, I was
told to apply, I was told to wait to get

(14:00):
at the right job, even though I was offered multiple jobs.
And that's the frustrating part is I have no control
over it, you know. Is it's not again, no one's fault.
It's not even physical like I can't I don't know,
I can't describe it. It's just really frustrating, and I

(14:25):
try to put on a happy face. I try to,
you know, it's again Alex feels bad, but it's not
his fault. It's not his mom's fault. I just hate
this place with all my being. Every atom in my
body hates this place, and I want to leave. I'm

(14:48):
paying seventeen hundred a month. Oh noid, that's not bad.
Seventeen hundred a month, and my only view is a
parking lot in North Carolina. Fourteen hundred dollar a month.
Fourteen hundred would have gotten us a yard, a playground,
a swimming pool, a movie theater, a gym, and we

(15:12):
wouldn't even have to leave the apartment complex. I would
have kept my same pay, I would have probably made
more because it was a bigger store and we would
have to pay less to live. So that's what I'm
I'm I've That's what I've been trying to process. And

(15:33):
I knew. I said I was going to come back
and do weekly episodes again, but I just couldn't process that.
I couldn't come to terms with that, and I'm still
not coming to terms with that. I don't like it here.
I'm suffocating here, I really am I again. I sit
in the parking lot and I don't want to come

(15:56):
in this building. With every chance I get, I want
to leave this building and be it my day off
when I should be relaxing at home. I don't want
to be here. So I go out. I go out
and I drive around. I drag Alex with me because
he's off for summer right now, and we just go

(16:16):
out on adventures. I don't even know where I go.
Sometimes I just find a road and I go, and
so what do we do? We end up spending money
because we have to be out on the road. We're
not at home. I don't want to be at home.
I hate this place, absolutely hate this place. I hate
the people that live here. Not my family, just to
everybody else that lives here. You know, the three people,

(16:37):
three other families who pay rent, I'm cool with, but
then you know, everybody else I can't stand because they're
the noisy ones. They're the ones that running in and
out of the building, slamming doors, yelling at each other
because trash, absolute trash, and what are we gonna do?
But there's no HOA here, at least not that I'm

(16:58):
aware of. I mean, my landlord claims he pays HOA fees,
but nothing gets fixed, you know. So there's that and
so yeah, so instead of being home, I go out
and I have to spend money, Gotta eat, got to
entertain myself. Yeah, but that's neither here nor there. Again,

(17:21):
thank you for listening, guys. I really appreciate my event.
This is probably one of the first episodes in a
very long time where I've actually just vented. So I
appreciate you guys. I think I am good. My heart
rate's actually not too bad. Oh, I've got a we
had another fitness tracker. I have Samsung watch as well,

(17:45):
but I like the whoop, not the whoop. Well, I
was the design of the whoop because I don't have
to see a display. So I'll talk about watches next time.
But it's really hot in this room because I have
to close the way to do the podcast because it's
right next to the road. And so yeah, I appreciate

(18:09):
you guys. Please, if this episode helps you, and if
this episode, hopefully it didn't give you guys any anxiety
because of my ranting, I am okay. I'm promised. I
promise you, guys, I am okay. Yes, there were some dark,
dark thoughts that creep in, and I told you that

(18:32):
happens all the time, and I'm okay with it. I
can defend myself against those thoughts. So yeah, I'm good.
I'm good. And again I appreciate you guys listening. I
appreciate you guys coming back and hanging on because again
I go in and out, so I apologize for that,

(18:52):
but again got to clear my head and I'm glad
I did. But again, thank you for listening. I appreciate it.
And as always and young So wait, wait, so I
had a note uh on Instagram. Somebody asked me what
that meant, what baup and young meant, And it means

(19:16):
no worries. That's really what it is. So I say
that all the time. I say it at work, I
say it in life when somebody goes, you know, I
have a good day, go yeah, no worries and it
isn't it's it's not you know A kuna matata I
guess is the best way to say it. But yeah, yeah,
bapen young is what I always say to my low family.
So as always, talk to you guys later bye.
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