#101 - Nico's 31st Birthday Episode!

Nico turns 31 🥳

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Episode Transcript

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C moostaa kyo. Hello, Helloeveryone, what's good everybody. My name
is Nico Blitz and I'm Jackie munand welcome back to Mexicpino Podcast, Episode
one hundred and one. Dalmatians,Yes, Sir Cala Deville. Oh okay,
and Benny is the Dalmatian that wenever had, but he is a
multi poo. Yes. Anyway,Hello everybody. Yeah, I just realized

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I kept looking that way. No, it's all good. Yeah, what's
up everybody. I hope you allenjoyed that last episode we had with Jay
Cruz our guy. Yes, yeah, that was a fun one. It
was a really fun one. Buttoday is also a fun one because we're
celebrating Nico's thirty first birthday, thirtyone, the big three to one three

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one. How does it feel,bab? Honestly, Uh, thirties have
been the best years of my life. Honestly, I mean it's thirty one
year, but I'm saying it's beenthirty and it's been thirty one and it's
been nothing but spectacular. Obviously,have had like it's ups and downs,
but I think overall, like thirtyone has just been the best. Thirty
has been the well thirty has beenmy thirties have been the best. Okay,

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but thirty has been my best.Thirty one should be better. Yes,
I feel like like everyone like thirtiesis the new uh, Like I
want to say twenties. I guessthat's what I feel like. I feel
the new twenties. Yeah, Ifeel like the thirties, your thirties are

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your new twenties, because like everyonecan't wait to get to their twenties,
you know when they when they're likea kid and whatever, and then when
you actually reach your twenties, you'relike, man, this fucking sucks.
Well, I feel like twenties iswhen people just try to go like stupid
hard, especially if you weren't likeI mean, I don't condone this,
right, but especially if you weren'tlike doing drugs or like underage drinking.

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Right, So by the time youget like twenty one, like people just
tend to wild out. Yeah thetime. I mean, like like you
said, like some people partake inunderage drinking, and then there's others that
like wait till they're twenty one.But like, I feel like twenties are
just like party and da da dadah. And I didn't really do that
in my twenties. I mean,I spent most of my early twenties in

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the pandemic. But I feel likejust now, like people just have this
like your thirties are. It's literallylike in thirteen going on thirty, Like
thirty flirty and thriving. It's literallywhat it is. Honestly, I'm scared
to get to my thirties just becauselike it's thirty. But I also can't

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wait because I know that I'm goingwhatever I'm doing now is setting up for
that mm hmm, And it's justI know it's just going to be that
much more better, like by thattime, hopefully you know, like marriage,
kids and house and stuff like that. So I can't wait to get
to that. So that's why Ithink like a lot of the thirties are
the new twenties. Yeah, Ican agree with that. I mean,
I feel like society set us upto where like the you know, twenties

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were the twenties and are supposed tohave everything done by like, you know,
twenty five twenty six, right,because the idea was that you go
to school when you're or you goto college rather when you're eighteen. You're
good by twenty two or you're doneby twenty two and then you're good by
twenty five. Literally that's how Ifunctioned, and that's how I thought,
like, Oh, yeah, I'mgonna be married by twenty five, I'm
gonna have a kid by twenty five, I'm gonna be like I'm a graduate

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college, didn't graduate college, don'thave a kid, not married, i
am moved out, which one ofthe main things that I wanted to do
by twenty five. But yeah,it's it's just different. I feel like
for Brown people, especially like thethirties are are ending up being the twenties.
Yeah, because because the twenties iswhere we like really try to grind
it out, and then by thetime you hit your thirties is when you,

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for the most part, should beenjoying, like, you know,
little fruits of your labor. Youknow, maybe not the maybe not the
peaches and the strawberriers, but maybethe grapes. Maybe the grapes. No,
definitely, I just I feel like, and now I feel like a
lot of are like the and Iguess early gen zs not the late gen
zs, because I consider myself likeright in between like millennial and Gen Z.

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Technically I am a gen Z,but I consider myself more a millennial.
But I feel like we're more like, okay, we're really focused on
ourselves, yeah, rather than anythinglike we're very much selfish people, and
like, I feel like that's areally big misconception of like millennials and gen

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zs is that we're like, oh, they're like the older generations look at
us and look at us and saylike, oh, you know, they're
selfish and blah blah blah. It'slike, damn right, I'm selfish,
like because ain't nobody gonna take careof me but me, And yeah,
I'm gonna take my vacation days.You might not have, but I'm gonna
take my vacation days. Yeah.I feel like we're just living in a
different ag I mean, we arereally just living in a different age to

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where, you know. I thinkthe societal norms that were put on us,
like even ten fifteen years ago aredrastically different. I remember one time
I was talking to my grandparents andthen they were asking me about healthcare,
and I was just like, well, I don't have health care. If
anything, I have like the cheapestone, you know, that doesn't really
cost too much, but that's allI need. And then my grandparents are

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like, well, what if youget a job that has like, you
know, health benefits and whatnot.And then my mom quickly jumped in and
then she was just like dad,like, this is a new time.
Like people around Nico's age, youknow, thirties, even Jackie's like mid
twenties, like we don't necessarily thinkabout health care all that much, like
and especially in the creative field,where healthcare isn't an option. Yeah,

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you know what I mean. Ithink with the with the career that we've
chosen, in the path that we'vechosen in life, it's very much you
know, there's instability or unstability,instability, instability, okay, instability like
but like me, I it's alwaysbeen like engraved in me, like,

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oh, hey, you need tothink about your four oh one K,
which reminds me like I need toFaceTime my mom because she's gonna tell me
something about my four oh one k. And then there's that healthcare and you
know what's like the bunkiest like fuckingthing, what is that? Well,
twenty six, you can no longerbe like a dependent on like your parents'

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health care. I'm at twenty fiveright now. I have never never paid
my mom for my health care becauseI'm under her health insurance. Okay,
tell me why the last year thatI'm on her health care insurance she decides
to charge me. Damn, that'snuts. Actually, yeah, She's like,

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well it went up, Jack,so you're gonna have to help.
Well, I'm my mom. Whylike the last year that I'm on your
healthcare you're gonna charge me? That'sbunk, Like, that's hella wild.
My mom actually never charged me forhealth care anything. Matter of fact,
she was the one who was ontop of me about like trying to get
my healthcare going. But I didhave something cool because I was working at

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like a women's shoe store named Aerosolsat one point, and then when they
just mass fired a whole bunch ofpeople, they actually gave us like one
thousand dollars worth of like health benefitsthat I've just been running up since and
it's been about like shoot, it'sbeen about like ten years or something like
that. Yeah, see, andthen liket like this year, at the

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end of this year, I'm gonnahave to like start going looking into like
the healthcare benefits at work, andfrom when I've heard, they're not the
greatest. So I heard that they'rereally great. The about the benefits is
really great if you have kids,Like for the kids, yeah yeah,
but having the kid, god bless. I'm like, oh, okay,
great, like that's wonderful. ButI don't know. I just think like

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getting older, you realize a lotmore things that you're like, okay,
well damn, Like I I wishI knew this when I was younger,
or I wish I knew how tonavigate this type of adults when I was
younger. Yeah, I mean,I'm not gonna lie like you and I
have this conversation all the time towhere like, you know, especially when

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tax season hit. And I rememberwhen I was first filling out my taxes
when I had like a legit job, you know, not like an under
the table job that was just likepaying me whatever whatever. But when I
had to like fill out a Wnine when I was working at that women's
shoe store, I was literally like, I don't even know what the hell
I'm filling out right now. Yea. And by the time tax season came,

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you know, my parents had toexplain to me like, yeah,
so what happens is that, likeyou owe the government money when you know
you're working. And I'm like,that is hella backwards, the fact that
we work hella hard for our ownmoney. Then we got to pay the
government back and they already take taxesfrom our paycheck. That's exactly more absurd.
It was nuts. It's nuts,and I honestly think that, I

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mean, if we get deep intolike the way the school system is built,
like they just don't teach Yeah.I mean, like I remember my
economics class in like my senior year, which I only had one economics class
and it was my senior year,and it was only for half of the
school year. Yeah, so likethe first half, like the first semester

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no, yeah, first semester Ihad Americans. No, it was American
like history or they had to likedo with all that stuff. And then
the second half of the semester toclose out the year, you would take
economics. Yeah, and I remember, like you had to pass those classes

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in order to graduate. But ineconomics, like I literally could not tell
you what that teacher was teaching us, Like God bless us Ault, Like
he I'm pretty sure he's a greatteacher for some people, but it wasn't
for me. And never did welearn about taxes or anything like that.
And those are like real world shitthat we should be learning in schools.
And I just don't understand why.Maybe it's because you know, it could

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go into this deeper notion of likeyou know, we're gonna keep these public
schools and these kids that are fromthese areas like down there, and we're
gonna give all this information to thekids that are up here and that can
afford this tuition that, yeah,is a private school tuition, you know,

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and it sucks. But I meanthat's something that I wish we were
able to learn in schools. No, but even more so, like you
went to a public school and Iwent to a private school, and we
both had our own individual economic classes. Yeah, and I didn't learn anything
in that economics class because the teacherjust didn't know how to teach it.

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I learned so much more just likewatching tiktoks or like ig rip TikTok by
the way I've watched, I learnedso much more watching information on the internet
and confirming with like our certified personalaccountant. And I'm just like yo,
like this is all the information Iwish I learned when I was younger.

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Yeah, And I say all thatto say, like, you know,
I think we live in an agewhere information is just that much more accessible
to where. You know, Ifeel like when you grew up as like
a boomer or even like our parents, like you know generations, right,
they didn't have access to all thisinformation. I mean, they kind of
did, but it wasn't like broughtto their faces as much as it is

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like nowadays, especially if you're activelysearching for it. Right now, there's
so much information that like people likeourselves, millennials, even gen Z like
kids who are I just feel like, are significantly smarter than us in that
way because they have access to allthis information at such an early age.
Yeah. I mean, there's likeit's one of those things where it's like,

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oh, is the Internet bad forthese kids that are growing up now
or it's not, And I thinkit's it's Yes, in some cases it
can be bad, but I thinkfor the most part, it's beneficial for
these kids that are quote unquote woke. You know, if you want to
use the terms that older generations likeoh fuck these woke kids and oh everyone
want to be woke, blah blahblah. Well, we need people that

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are gonna be woke. We needthese kids that are coming up because now
it's no longer oh we're the nextgeneration. No, now we're counting on
our cousins, our nieces and ournephews. They are now the people that
are gonna decide for us. Yeaheventually, yeah, No, like they're
gonna be they're doing it now.Like it's like these kids, like my

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cousin, I think, like inmy head, she's still like this six
year old with big eyes and she'ssuch like a kid, but she's about
to be twenty one, and there'skids around her age that are going into
politics, and I'm like, shit, like kids her age are now deciding
for us. Like that's crazy tome, and and crazy in such a

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good sense because I feel like,for the most part, a lot of
these like kids and gen z ersand like they have a good head on
their shoulders for the most part.But I don't know. I think I
think, like, like I said, one of those were the things that
I wish we grew up knowing.But I think on a more like light

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or know lighter know, what doyou think now entering your thirties that you
wish you knew when you were younger. Honestly, I just wish that I
got into the stuff that I'm doingnow a lot younger, because when so,
I grew up in a very likemore how do I say, maybe
like a backwards way of like partyingand whatnot, because I was partying when

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I was like fourteen, because Iwas like promoting a club back then.
It was a teeny bopper club forpeople who don't know and and I was
a teeny bopper back then too,so it wasn't on any weird stuff.
Let me just say that right thenand there. But you know, I
was partying a lot when I waslike fourteen, all the way up to
like sixteen, maybe even seventeen,and then I got over it by the

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time I was like in my earlytwenties, and then I got back into
it because of like, you know, this industry that I'm in. Yeah,
And you know, for me,I kind of wish that, you
know, it's kind of like thatMamba mentality when he's waking up at like
five o'clock in the morning and thenjust like getting his reps in all the
way throughout the day. I wishthat when I was younger, I knew

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that anything that I wanted to door anything that I wanted to achieve,
just came with repetition and hard workand doing it over and over again without
any you know, outside distractions oranybody telling you no. Yeah, I
know, I completely agree with that. That's definitely. I think I have

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a much different like answer, Yeah, yeah, because my whole life I've
been so set on doing what Ido now, if that makes sense,
Like it was, there was nochoice but to work hard, go to
school, do this, do that. I was very much a buy the
book kid. And yes I hadmy spurs, my spurts of like of

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rebellion, but that would come withconsequences. And I was raised in the
strict household, not where I wouldlike get my ass beat, but like
where my parents wanted the best forme, you know, and oh yeah,
like I cry, but like theywanted the best for me, and

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that's what it was. But Iwish I knew knowing what I know now.
I wish I knew two things whenI was younger. I wish I
knew self love more. Okay,I wish I loved myself more when I
was younger, because I wish Icould have that like back. I wish

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I could have that innocence back.I wish I could have like my body
back when I was in high school. You know, I wish I had
that self love. And if Ithink, and I think, if I
had that self love when I wasyounger, my insecurities now wouldn't be as
much of an issue for me.And the second thing would be, I
wish I knew how powerful my voicecould be. I wish that I knew

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I could say no. I wishthat I knew I could be assertive.
I knew. I wish I couldknew I could be aggressive without coming off
as a bitch, you know,like I was told like pretty much every
day in high school my sophomore yearand then on that I was a bitch,

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like every day. Everyone knew that, and it was because I was
going through things and whether people knewthat or not, Like, I just
wish that I knew that my voicemeant something and that I could have found
it earlier. I think I now, and you know this, like I

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think now I've had my voice theselike since the beginning of this year of
being like no, you know,I'm tired of dealing with this BS,
and I'm gonna say no, andI'm gonna do this, and i'm gonna
do that, and I'm gonna beassertive and I'm gonna like set my boundaries.
I wish I knew how to dothat when I was younger. Yeah,
no, I feel that. Ifeel like that's something that a lot

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of people really struggle with when they'reyounger, because it's hard to it's hard
to find your voice, especially whenyou have so many people around you that
are literally like talking and chit chattingand trying to like, you know,
also find their way at the sametime. Yeah, and especially like growing
up in brown households too. Huh. That's definitely a thing, you know,

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it's hard to find your voice ina brown household, especially when everyone's
loud, especially when everyone's loud literallyand figuratively. It is so hard to
find your voice in a brown householdbecause you are raised to think, Okay,
if I try and rebuttal this,or if I try and like make
a defense for what I did,it's I'm talking back. Yeah, it's

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you don't talk to your parents thatway. You respect me da da da,
And it's like respect is earned andnot given. That's like everyone says
that, yes, I respect myparents like the hell out of my parents,
but there were times where I wasjust kind of like, okay,
like, where's my respect, youknow, as your kid, Give me
the respect, give me the benefitof the doubt. Yeah, yeah,

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no, I totally hear that.I do also think that when it comes
to your voice, which is somethingthat you utilize every single day as your
profession, I feel like it's alwayslike this taboo thing of trying to pursue
your dreams when you're like in yourmid twenties or even like early thirties,
Like, is that still taboo oris that something that we've just fully accepted

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that we can pursue our dreams inour mid twenties, early thirties and even
later. I feel like it's nowmore of an acceptable thing. It's like
it's not taboo anymore. And Iand I think I speak with the best
intentions of saying like I have parentsthat are very understanding, and like,

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not everybody's parents are understanding, youknow, not everybody's parents look at a
content creator or a videographer and belike that's what you want to do with
your life. Like note, noteveryone's parents are like, yeah, you
go me, Oh, you gome, like you do that, like
and you're gonna be the best atit. No, not everyone's parents are
like that realistically. No, ButI think growing up the way that I

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did and being so determined that myparents kind of were just like, well,
we gotta let her, you know, Like I had a very much
and my parents have said this beforeto me and to you, where it's
like, I'm gonna do whatever thehell I want. You know, they
could tell me no, moving out, they could tell me no, but

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they can't physically stop me from doingit. So I think like pursuing your
dreams now as like a millennial anda gen z like, like, it's
easier because a lot of us don'tgive a fuck. Yeah, a lot
of us are just like, youknow what, I'm gonna do it and
if I fail, I fail.And honestly, I think that's the key

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factor of it, just really notgiving a fuck. I think for the
most part, people care too muchto the point to where they just don't
want to do it, or theyfear of this idea that like everything has
to be perfect. Yeah, youknow, because like I'm believing, I've
been through a couple of ventures whereI'm just like, well, this didn't

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work, this didn't work, thisdidn't work. But I had to go
through all these things, like,for instance, I was working for like
A, I was working for amen's fashion magazine at one point, I
was just interning just to kind ofsee like where it would go, and
it honestly just didn't work out.I didn't see it as a waste of
time because it honestly got my journalismskills up, and it got me to

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a point to where I would beable to explain things a lot more thoroughly,
and especially things that I wasn't necessarilyinto. I had to figure out
how to sell and I'm just like, dude, this is insane. But
I say all that to say,like, you know, now in my
thirties, you know, pursuing musicand you know, putting my foot on
the gas when it comes to it, Like I've never felt more confident than

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ever. Like you could have askedme twelve thirteen years ago when I was
eighteen years old, like did youever want to be a musician? And
I would have said yes, ButI would have told you that I'm too
scared to like do it because Ididn't have the the umph in me to
want to do it at that time. Yeah, And I think there's like

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a I think there's a difference betweenpeople who want to pursue their dreams and
people who want to pursue their dreamsto become famous. Yes, And I
think that we live in such welive in a world that's such like a

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quick like churnaround. Yeah, thatit's very easy for someone to pop off
of one video, you know,and then now, oh I'm in my
content creator era, you know,or a singer one video can change your
life. And and I've seen youknow that happen for people very close to

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us. But it's what you dowith that moment. If you don't have
the hard work, the dedication,that mamba mentality that you were talking about,
then what the hell is it forIf you're just doing this just to
get like famous, If you're justdoing this just to be an overnight sensation,
you're gonna weed yourself out very fuckingquickly. Yeah. You know what's

(23:03):
interesting about this idea of you know, being famous or just being someone who
is just extremely talked about. Iwas with my friend DJ intern last night
and someone who I went to collegewith, y'all, super cool guy,
super dope DJ, probably one ofthe better like scratch DJs that I know
personally. But he was asking melike, hey, so you know,

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he blatantly just asked me like,what's it like like being famous? Bro?
And I'm like, first of all, like I'm not anybody famous,
right, I'm just a regular,regular person who just likes the podcast,
yeah, likes to make music andlikes to DJ. And I like to
tell everybody and put that in frontof everybody. That's all I like to
do, right, And so theweird part is when it comes to,

(23:52):
you know, going out in publicand then you know, people saying what's
up. I love it, don'tget me wrong, but I told him
that I've gotten sliver of whatever thisidea of fame is, right, Like
you could call me like a flesscelebrity, right, like realistically maybe even
like g or H right. ButI think one thing that isn't talked about,

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especially in an era where it's allabout like let me put myself on
YouTube, let me put myself onlike ig and TikTok is privacy or the
lack thereof, Like you know,when it comes to entertainment, you put
yourself out there so much. Evenon this podcast, we put ourselves out
there so much to where like howmuch of ourselves are we supposed to give

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to everybody else? Because if wegive every ounce of ourself to everybody else,
we won't essentially know who we areanymore, because we literally lost it
by giving it to everybody else thatwe lost it. I think it's more
that we don't know what we cankeep for ourselves. Yeah, you know
what, like okay, it's likenow does this become and this I had

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this struggle too of like Okay,what can I share with the people that
I work with without making it atopic of the day. Yeah, what
can I say about our relationship withouthaving to say it on the podcast?
Or like you know, I mean, luckily and luckily we don't have too

(25:26):
many arguments, and I think we'revery blessed in that sense of we just
understand each other that well. ButI mean, I I wouldn't want to
be the type of person to comeon here on the podcast and be like,
oh, okay, well Nico didthis this week and da da da
da and blah blah blah. Yeah. Yeah, Like it's like there's certain

(25:47):
things that we need to keep toourselves. And I think for this day
and age of social media, it'slike it's it's the likes and the clicks
are very much like aug it's adrug. It really is like comments,
shares, reposts is a drug.And I and I don't know, it's
it's pretty crazy to think that likea lot of these social media outlets and

(26:14):
people that want to get famous overnightdon't really understand the grasp of it.
Yeah, I mean, I thinkwhen it comes to big media companies like
promoting, like the stupid shit reallyand we all have seen a video or
something on the Internet that we canclassify as like this is some stupid ass
shit, Like it's actually to me, it's very sad to see these things

(26:36):
because we glorify, you know,stupidity in that sense. You know.
I remember reading an article one timeand it explained the differences between American cartoons
versus like Japanese cartoons for example.Right like anime. When you watch any
sort of anime, whether it belike a single episode or something that is

(26:57):
a season in its ent hired y. There is always a message, There
is always something that you are goingto learn from it, like Death Note
for example. Yeah, so ifyou guys don't know the premise of Death
Note, let me just give youthe elevator pitch. A man. This,
a man has the power to killanybody instantaneously. However, he is

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only killing bad people. Is ita good thing that he's killing only bad
people or is it a bad thingthat he's killing people in general because the
police are not handling it or whoever'snot handling it. Yeah, and that's
just one anime you want to compareit to like And don't get me wrong,
I love me some SpongeBob, butgod knows, I can't pick apart

(27:44):
any sort of like idea or like, you know, like meaningful message or
moral from SpongeBob. Yeah, likeit's it's I mean, I think that's
also why too. Like my parentsgrowing up, they never they never let
me watch like Self Park, orthey never let me let me watch like
like Family Guy or whatever that typeof like like and maybe I missed out

(28:07):
on it, Yeah maybe I did, But oh you definitely did on Family
by in South Park. But Ithink, like I grew up, you
know, learning other stuff. Yeah, you know, I did watch SpongeBob
and it was stupid and funny.But like I watched shows that like how
to do with family and how todo with like learning a lesson, you

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know, And I don't know,it's just it's different growing up and being
a kid and then going to adult. Being an adult sucks. Yeah,
I mean, paining wrensh it isjust not it. It's horrible. You
know. What's funny is that,like I got a real high dose of
reality. And I actually loved adultingbecause this happened this past weekend. Y'all.

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I love adulting because of how actuallychill it is. It is so
chill if you can get to thatpoint. Yeah, I mean there are
certain things that like, like thatI do as an adult now that I'm
just like, okay, thank God, Like, yeah, let me tell
y'all what happened this weekend. Likewe went to we went to my friends
like birth kid's birthday party. Wewent to the park to take Benny and

(29:17):
like have them like frolic with theother dogs. And then we went to
the grocery store and literally I turnedto Jackie at the end of the night,
and I was like, wow,like I actually love today, and
I love the fact that we're gonnado laundry tomorrow because it's gonna be so
chill. Yeah, And like,honestly, like adulting is just realizing that
being home and in your bed andin quiet is the most like peaceful serenity

(29:47):
that you can really. Oh hellyeah, like I if I do not
have to go out, I willnot go out. Yeah. I love
being an adult in that sense.Like being an adult is like getting excited
for like those videos that you seeon Instagram of like cleaning hacks or like
organizers for your pantry, for yourplates or for like oh my gosh,

(30:11):
I just love It's like it's likeporn. To me, it's like whoa,
No, it's literally like it's likeit's like so relaxing and it's just
like oh my god, Like yes, I want that, like place mat
like I want that. Yeah.Okay, well, well cleaning supplies on
Instagram is apparently poorn to Jackie.Let me. Yeah, it's like it's

(30:33):
like I'll put sponges and everything allaround the room. Then no, it's
like you know, like those likethose like useful gadgets that are like,
oh my god, like, yeah, that's so cool, Like I want
to have that like organizers, andthen like certain like I don't know,
it's just like it's so like,oh my god, Like I get so

(30:53):
excited off of cleaning videos and I'mjust like, yes, well you remember
that disholder that I've been trying tobuy. Yeah, so y'all. It's
a dishholder that literally goes above thesink and it's like three or four levels
that hold like pots and pans,forks, knives, plates, yeah,
pot everything, there's everything. There'slike something that you can put like your

(31:15):
your plates on too, or likeyour sponge, your dish dish soap sponge,
and it's like, uh, it'slike a stone, a type of
stone, and then it's like adrying stone, so it automatically dries.
That's super cool. Yeah, Imean adulting is extremely underrated. Adulting is

(31:37):
underrated. Yeah, we still hatedoing our taxes, not adult Yeah.
Yeah, that's the bad side ofit, that's the overrated part. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm trying to look uplike like gadgets, like home gadgets,
Like oh, like there's like thingsthat like in people's homes that just
make sense. And there's a ladywho, oh my god, wait,

(32:00):
let me see if I can findit. Things in my home that makes
sense? Okay, Oh, inlike a Japanese home. Like so there's
this one and she has like shehas like, uh a ventilation like window

(32:21):
in the kitchen. Oh that's prettycool, right, yet cool? And
then her cabinets or her doors areall sliding doors to prevent like more space
being used. She has a ricecooker built into her oven, which is
insane. Yeah, it's crazy.There's other people who have like, like,

(32:42):
you know, I envy, Ienvy people who have their kitchen trash
as a drawer. Oh yeah,no, that's that's gas I literally want.
Oh. And then there was aokay, there's this TikTok creator a
video who I follow her husband.Oh no, it's not video, it's
somebody else. But she her husbandbuilt her like uh, like a faucet

(33:07):
right above the oven, like onthe or the stovetop on the wall,
so that way when she needs toput water in a pot, she just
pulls it out and then and thenshe puts it back into the water.
Oh it's so cool, It's it'sfreaking lit. I'm like, wow,
I need that in my life.All this reminds me of like you've seen
those videos where I feel like it'sliterally just in Japan, but they have

(33:30):
like the beds that get pulled outfrom the wall. Oh yeah, see,
I can do that. No,I want that so bad. That
is such a space saver right there. I would kill for that. This
is what I mean. Like,so if you need to put water like
water in the in the bowl,yeah, to make pasta. Oh,
that's lit. Okay, Like soit's a little bit of like a yeah,

(33:52):
yeah, I hear, I seeit. I see it. It's
basically a leveled faucet, a multileveled y'all. Yeah, it's that's pretty
nice. So cool, that's prettycool. I like that. That's sick.
That's what I want. I mean, that's just some rich people shit.
At that point, I want tobuild my own home. Okay,

(34:13):
well, I want to build ahome so that way I could just have
everything that I want in there,and then there's a cutting but oh,
somebody has a cutting board that goesout of like their their their like island,
their kitchen island, and then there'slike a little space. So that
way you can just toss everything insidethe kitchen trash that's in the like in

(34:36):
the pool out draw too. Okay, you gotta show me a video of
that, because I can't really imaginethat. But it's all good. Yeah,
it's all good. Fine. Speakingof big ass houses, Jackie actually
like saw a random video this weekabout like this mom talking about she would
charge her kids for rent. Ohyeah, oh so let me actually bring

(34:57):
that up real quick because I kindof want you guys to hear the audio
from this. Hopefully I saved theuh oh yeah, yeah, let's listen
to this real quick. O,your eighteen year old rent is not making
them any more responsible than if youdidn't charge them rent. Everyone always tries
to say that, oh, like, it's teaching them responsibility, because what

(35:21):
are they gonna do when they moveout. They're gonna pay their rent even
if they moved out without you evercharging them rent. They're not just gonna
not pay it because you never chargethem rent. It's the same thing like
if they go grocery shopping one dayon their own, they're not just gonna
not buy their groceries or pay forthem because you never taught them. How

(35:42):
like they're going to do it,and using the excuse that somebody may struggle
later and not be able to paytheir rent is very different, because that
can happen to anybody, whether youmade your kid pay you rent or not.
I totally understand that times are toughand maybe you might need help or
your child's help to help you paythe rent. But if you like purposely

(36:04):
choose a house that you cannot affordand you know you cannot afford it but
you can, if you charge yourchild, your eighteen year old friend,
ah, then you're, honestly you'rejust taking advantage of them. Honestly,
your child should not be having topay half of your rent for you.
Honestly, the only thing that's goingto cause is that your child is going
to feel guilty for wanting to leavewhen they're an adult because they feel like

(36:28):
they have to stay there to helpyou pay your rent. You know that
your kid is not going to wantto leave if they know that they are
responsible for half the rent and ifthey leave, you can't pay it.
So, honestly, like you're doinga big disservice to your child by doing
that, because you know you're makingthem feel guilty, and you really do
not care. Yeah, okay,okay, so this saying this woman was

(36:52):
saying, like she was discussing whetheror not people should charge their kid's rent.
I don't believe that you should thatpa and should be charging their kids
rent. I mean, you aretheir parent. You are supposed to provide
a roof over their head, foodand everything else. Now. I do
understand that there are certain things thatyour child can pay for once they have

(37:17):
a job. And like example,when I was growing up, my parents
never charged me rent, but theywould say, hey, you're gonna pay
your insurance on your car. Youknow, you're gonna pay your phone bill.
You're gonna do these things because guesswhat, you got a job.
Now. Yeah, so that Ifully understand. But I don't see myself

(37:39):
being the type of parent charging mykid rent. Yeah. I don't see
that either. I just think it'sa completely backwards thing. And you know,
I feel like, especially because ofwhat that woman was saying too,
Like if you're in a situation whereyou you know, got a luxurious apartment

(37:59):
or a lux jorious condo or whateverthat is clearly out of like your pay
grade, but you expect your kidto pay for like half of it,
or a portion of it. Youobviously just put yourself in a position where
you are forcing your kid to makemoney and pay your rent, which I
don't think is really fucking cool.Like I don't think that's cool at all.

(38:21):
And you know, going back toit, like, I just feel
like as an adult who is aparent, like you're supposed to take care
of your child. You're supposed tomake sure that, again, they have
a roof over their head. Otherwise, like you know, if they if
they need something to fall back on, it's gonna have to be their parents,
like, without a doubt. Yeah, one thousand percent. I Like

(38:43):
it's crazy to see all the commentson this, like on this post too,
because a lot of these people weresaying that they charge their kids rent,
and then a lot some people weresaying, well, it's not rent,
it's them contributing. It's like yourkids shouldn't have to contribute. Your
kid shouldn't have to have the worriesof like, oh my god, if
I don't if I don't make rent, am my parents gonna kick me out?

(39:07):
No, they're your fucking kid,like you are supposed to provide them
with these basic necessities of living.Yeah, you chose to have this kid.
Now, some people didn't choose tohave their kids, and that's fine,
but at the end of the day, you are responsible for this kid
up until they're eighteen legally. ButI will say this, my kid ain't

(39:31):
living rent free if they're twenty sevenand not going to school. I think
that's like a different because, yeah, that's such a different scenario because my
parents always told me this. Theysaid, you can live here rent free
as long as you go to schooland if you are and if you get

(39:52):
a job, you handle like allyour food, you handle like all this
extra stuff. You handle maintenance onyour car, handle the gas and whatever.
And it wasn't a new car.It was like a ninety three Honda
Cord, ninety six Honda a Cord. So it wasn't hand me down that
I just had to take care ofafterwards, which I was perfectly fine with
because I don't want to deal withno car payments. I was good.

(40:14):
I was like, cool, I'lltake a free car. Yeah. But
you know, I say all thatto say, like, I think it's
important for the adults and the parentsin this situation to remind themselves that they
are the adults that they are theparents. They are supposed to supply,
like more life for these kids.Ye now, when you hit twenty five,

(40:39):
twenty six and when you obviously moveout, when you have a big
boy job, or if you don'thave a big boy job and you're just
fucking twenty six twenty seven, likeliving at home, I would have to
say that I think you should supplysomething. I will say that, Like,
I think if I had not movedout of my parents' house when I

(40:59):
did, I think I would probablybe paying rent. Now I have a
full time job, and like,and I know there's gonna be people out
there that are gonna be like,oh, well, she sounds like she
lives at home, rent free,blah blah blah blah. No, I
live on my with my I'm notjust gonna say on my own. I
live with my partner, obviously,but I we split this rent. We

(41:19):
split our groceries. So no,I know what the hell I'm talking about.
And I would be completely okay ifI was living at home and my
parents decided to charge me rent becauseI have a full time job, because
I have a big girl job,you know. But I think a lot
of these parents that charge their kids. Rent theys talk about like, oh,
well, we're teaching them responsibility.We're teaching them this. Where's your

(41:40):
responsibility, where's your responsibility as aparent to provide for your kid? Mm
hmm, Like where's that? Did? I just fly out the door,
like yeah, no, I actuallyone thousand percent agree with that. And
I feel like that's something that wasn'teven talked about. Yeah. And I
think also to like a brown people, I think growing up with our like

(42:04):
our parents growing up, they werevery much treated like, oh well,
you got to contribute, you gottado this, you gotta do that.
I know that my mom and mydad like they had to contribute and for
not only their families but for themselvestoo. So it was a very different
time growing up. But we gotto break that cycle. Yeah, we
can't be our grandparents, we can'tbe our parents. Yeah. And honestly,

(42:29):
no shade to like, you know, your family or like even my
family, because again, my dadis like one of eight. Jackie's mom
is like one of eight or youknow something like that, she's one of
six. My grandma is like oneof twelve or sixteen. Yeah, so
like you know, that is aninsane amount of like people for one specific

(42:52):
household, right, So of coursewhen you have like that many children,
there's gonna be a conversation of howam I gonna pay for all these children
to live? So of course you'regonna have situations where it's like, well,
you gotta start paying, you gottastart paying, you gotta start paying,
because frankly, having twelve children islike pretty much unaffordable. You literally

(43:14):
can't afford to do that no matterwhat. Yeah. Yeah, And you
know, frankly, I just thinkthat and not to say, like,
you know, not again not tothrow shade at like Jackie's family or even
my family, but to me,that's just a little irresponsible. You know.
I just kind of feel like,you know, my mom is like

(43:34):
one of one. Yeah, she'sliterally, yeah, she's the only one.
And my grandparents, you know,they had their time raising my mom.
Me and my sister were two oftwo. And that's I'm one of
two and she's one of two.So we're two of two in total.
But you get what I'm saying,Like that's more than enough than what my
parents can handle. And they understoodthat right off the bat. Yeah,

(43:57):
And I think like us like beingresponsible and having this responsibility you know that
this lady was talking about in thein the video was like I've told Nico,
and because he's my partner, I'vetold him, like, hey,
you know what, I think I'dbe okay with just having one kid,
maybe two, Like it depends,like if we could knock out two and

(44:20):
have twins that like that's great.Yeah, but and like it, like
we I think our responsibility now isto respectfully, in the most respectful way
possible, not be our parents,yeah, though not be our grandparents,
not be the ones before them,you know, Like I think our responsibility

(44:44):
is to live our lives in themost like fruitful way possible. Yeah,
And I think that's the one thingthat isn't necessarily One, I don't think
it's like drilled enough in people's head. And two, you know, there's
also situations where it's just kind ofuncontrollable, you know, Like my grandpa

(45:07):
is like currently going through something withhis physical health right now, and I
totally wish that I could be thereback home, and thankfully, like my
mom and even my dad is thereto like help him out, like especially
while I'm not physically there, rightAnd so there are limitations that go on
in this world that can prevent youfrom like living your best life, so

(45:31):
to speak, right, because whereeveryone's always preaching that, like live your
best life yolo, so on andso forth, and there is difficulty that
comes with it because you know,I would have to say that I'm in
a situation where I'm a lot moreblessed to say that, like I can
do everything that I do on adaily basis for the most part, without

(45:52):
like fear of like anything that's aroundme or like other responsibilities. And that's
kind of a that's a very blessedsituation, right, And so you know,
all I'm saying is like for peoplewho aren't in that type of particular
situation, right, there are instancesin which you can find yourself exercising your

(46:13):
yellow, exercising your you know,live your life to the fullest type situation.
And that comes with like the littlestthings, Like it comes with yeah,
go ahead and pursue like this randomlike artsy drawing thing that you've always
just wanted to do. That goeswith taking up like you know, lash
tech school because you have like peacelike doing lashes. That goes with like

(46:37):
buying a piano and just like learninghow to play piano on like a daily
basis for like fifteen minutes every day. Like doing all these small things adds
up to the bigger picture. Andhonestly, just doing what I do every
day, it just comes from likeexperience. It's not me just like pulling
shit out of my ass. Thisis actually coming from experience to where like

(46:59):
if you do something for at leastlike ten minutes a day, fifteen to
twenty minutes, like it puts youin a position where you feel so much
more complete because you're actually dedicating timeto something that you enjoy doing. He
sounded so old right now, Andthat's me turning thirty one, Ladies and
gentlemen. That's all I'm saying.I mean, you know, it's I

(47:22):
will preach this to the day thatI die, that like you know what
I mean, But I'll preach thisto the day that I die. That
you have to do what you loveor at least something that you enjoy every
single day because at the end ofthe day, it's your life. Yeah,
the only person that's going to spendthe most time with you is you.

(47:45):
It's not your partner, no offense, babe, it's not your partner.
It's not your parents, it's notyour grandparents, it's not your sister.
If you're a twin, it's notyour frickin' twin, it's not your
dog, it's not nobody but yourselfor twin four to seven. Literally,
So the more you give yourself toother people and you give your happiness to

(48:07):
other people, you need to remindyourself that you need to get that happiness
back for yourself. It's okay tobe selfish every so often. It's okay
to eat that cookie that Jackie's eatingon the podcast right now, Like,
it's literally okay, but it's it'sokay to take some time out of your

(48:27):
day and deplug from social media.It's okay to be selfish and listen to
that random Mexicpino podcast again for thethird time, or watch that that office
episode that makes you happy even thoughyou've watched it for like the tenth time
in like twelve years or something likethat. It's literally okay. Just make
sure that it is actually something thatyou enjoy and love. Yeah, go

(48:52):
off. I don't even know whento like go off of like with that.
Can I say this one thing,one last thing, Like I saw
a really inspirational video the other day, and I've just kept this in mind
like throughout the entire podcast. Butone thing that I do urge everybody to
do, hopefully if you got tothe end of this podcast, is that

(49:16):
I want you to get one hundredhours in of whatever you love to do.
Right now, that sounds crazy becauseI'm saying one hundred hours, but
if you take fifteen minutes a day, every single day for an entire year,
that adds up to one hundred hours. Okay, yeah, and that's

(49:40):
easy, right easy. It soundseasy enough. It sounds easy because if
everyone looks at their phones and youlook at that little screen time thing,
more than likely you're on your phonefor like at least fifteen minutes a day.
So if you take that fifteen minutesand you apply it to something that
you actually love, skill or whatever, like, you will become at least,

(50:04):
according to this video, you willbecome better than ninety eight percent of
the people that want to do thatand haven't tried. Interesting, that's a
good that's a good way to topromote doing what you loft. Fifteen minutes
a day, that's easy. Yeah, And I'm thirty one ladies and gentlemen.

(50:27):
Make sure you stream at It again. Nico Blitz, Johnny Maxwell.
It's on Spotify, Apple Music andeverything stream it stream at it again.
Yeah, I might make it athing to where I want to drop a
song like every year on my birthday. We'll see. Yeah. I don't
know how like Saturday and Sunday releaseswork, but you know, we'll see.

(50:47):
This is a Thursday release, sohopefully it works. It will.
Yeah, Well, thank you guys, you know, also for you know,
my birthday. I'm so thankful thatto have been part of like such
a dope platform that Jackie and Ihave built together with you guys as well,
because if it wasn't for you guyslistening, we wouldn't have an audience.

(51:12):
We wouldn't have people who love tolisten to us like either bullshit talk
about cool stuff or talk about inspirationalstuff, or have our like cool ass
guests on here. So think Iwant to thank each and every one of
y'all from the bottom of my heartthat, at thirty one years old,
like I feel like that much moresupport from everybody, and I can't wait
to see like how our Mexicpino familycontinues to grow. So you know,

(51:35):
share this podcast with your best friend, Share this podcast with your mom,
your THEA, your THEO, yourTita, your t so, you're at
the baby, You're Quiah boy,everything the boy. Everyone. My name
is Nico Blitz and this is theMexicpano Podcast. We are out everybody piece.
Sorry I was Yuenny