Mindless Adjectives

[00:00:00] I'm going to take my hair down. It's not recorded. You don't need records. If I get

[00:00:22] to look at my self that long. All right, welcome back to episode something in 63 of Mindless

[00:00:32] Prattle. I forgot I wrote it down so I was just going to guess but then I saw the actual

[00:00:36] episode number. So welcome back episode 63. Mindspotl, I'm Jordan The Good Host. That's

[00:00:41] Ripley The Other Good Host. She's always going to say bad but it's okay. I'm the best host.

[00:00:46] Yeah, I'm bestist though. So it's fun. Yeah, you say that but you're braiding your hair

[00:00:50] instead of talking so. I am talking and braiding at the same time. That's what I thought. We're

[00:00:56] going to kick it off. Happy day after Easter for everyone else. Happy day of Easter for everyone

[00:01:01] who can time travel and listen to this live even though you can't overall. Speaking of which

[00:01:07] video is coming back. I know it's been like since episode like five or six since we had video

[00:01:14] of it but the website that we were using like kind of pan didn't pan out for us. We didn't

[00:01:21] work for us and now the episode or the website that we are using. Bring back video so that

[00:01:29] will be coming back. It'll be great. You can stare at me the whole time. Not Ripley

[00:01:34] though, only me. I look really good. It will only be me. Nobody else. Like I really don't

[00:01:40] like these glasses. I got it. I want to get a different pair. Well, you know, like them. They're

[00:01:45] just big and dorky and they make my face look so narrow with the bottom. And I think it's the

[00:01:51] roundness. I think that they're about the same size as your old glasses. Like the old ones better.

[00:01:56] But these ones are rounder so they the darkness looks good. I think it's the roundness.

[00:02:02] Gold and they made me feel pretty. These ones are very pretty in two but I think these are

[00:02:10] rounder so it makes your face feel like a different shape when you look at it. I don't know why

[00:02:16] you got them if you don't like them. I thought they would look good and then I put I got them online

[00:02:22] on glasses USA but they keep giving me coupons in my email. So maybe I'll just go and look for

[00:02:29] something more suitable or maybe I'll just go to Target and have them refit my lenses for

[00:02:34] my old pair because like I really, really like that pair. You're old ones. Okay. I'm in again.

[00:02:42] Do you not like them? No, your old ones. I like them. I like these ones too. I don't know why.

[00:02:47] I feel like the old ones just suited me much better. What did you roll? I don't know. They like

[00:02:54] follow the shape of my face. They're kind of like geometric and they're like a little more golden. So

[00:02:59] I think skinny your glasses work better but I also like you with your new, you've been trying

[00:03:05] contacts lately and I like it with contacts too. So it's very, I like my contacts. They just like

[00:03:10] my eyes just dry out really quickly. Yeah they do. I should probably take allergy medicine or

[00:03:17] something but like allergy medication for your eyes drying out is that how that works? Well so

[00:03:23] I told my optometrist a few years ago that I have issues like that and she looked at my eyes

[00:03:28] and she was like yeah I can tell you who have allergies by the way your eyes look.

[00:03:32] So she told me to take like eye drops and stuff but she said allergy medication could help too.

[00:03:38] Interesting. Did have you been taking my allergy medication? No, I forget. I just, I don't like taking pills.

[00:03:46] I don't like taking pills. Well I mean that's kind of not gonna be helpful then is it?

[00:03:53] Yeah. Even like I got these vitamins, I'm trying to take them but I take them like every other day

[00:03:58] because I just I'm bad at taking medication. I've been consistent with my

[00:04:04] anti-depressant anti-exiting medication. Yeah. So that's good

[00:04:11] but it's hard to keep a routine with like vitamins and stuff like that.

[00:04:16] I feel like if you took them all at the same time it wouldn't be. Well because my vitamins I have

[00:04:21] to take with me all my surgery and I don't have to take them all. You have to take your vitamins

[00:04:27] with a meal, how hardcore of vitamins are you taking? Women's will have vitamins do go hard. Oh my gosh

[00:04:35] I've never looked into that. Go ahead. Yeah it's just easier to digest when you take it with food.

[00:04:43] And it says a full glass of water.

[00:04:45] I feel like men's vitamins don't do that.

[00:04:50] Because like, if I was doing like gummy vitamins it wouldn't but I'm doing like just the smaller ones.

[00:04:57] Is there a difference? Is there like a percentage of like,

[00:05:00] you might have been different? Well like gummy vitamins are very easy to digest on your stomach

[00:05:04] that's why like a lot of good vitamins are like that one with the dissolvable ones.

[00:05:08] But like the ones that come in like like capsules I guess that like look like they have stuff in them.

[00:05:14] Actual pills. Yeah. They're a little harder to digest and you need more like fiber and things

[00:05:19] like that with it. Why? You can feel nauseous. Well yeah I think it's because they add like

[00:05:27] also if I'm completely wrong someone please check me because like sometimes I just say things

[00:05:31] and I think I know what I'm talking about and then I'm like maybe I don't know what I'm talking

[00:05:35] about but maybe that's the OCD. Well no I feel like you're right on this one like if your vitamins

[00:05:40] are in a gummy form it has that gelatin that like is the physical form of it that helps you digest it

[00:05:49] but if you just have this straight like powdered form of the vitamin inside a little capsule

[00:05:56] it's more like harsh on your stomach. I feel like that makes sense to me in my mind. And I mean

[00:06:01] I've been around for almost 27 years now and this is the first time that I've taken like

[00:06:08] capsule vitamins and like instead of gummy vitamins. Yeah I love gummy vitamins. You big girl you

[00:06:15] go on but like you can get a lot more out of the other ones and like I want I'm trying like

[00:06:21] the hair skin and nails and all this sort of stuff to see if like maybe I just need more vitamins

[00:06:24] in my diet to feel better. Didn't work but you know it's worth try. Just as a side note I still

[00:06:32] only take gummy vitamins. I'm a little boy at heart like it's it's so fun like adults deserve

[00:06:39] fun in their life. I like the I think they call it alley they make gummy vitamins but they're

[00:06:46] so expensive yeah that's what I thought. I'm like that brand sounds just expensive in my mind.

[00:06:51] The ones I'm taking right now got from H.E.B. They're so little extensive they're like 12 dollars

[00:06:55] and then they have like a twistable capsule so you can just like just pause it into your hand

[00:07:00] really easy. Yeah so like I was like I'm cool with the H.E.B brand you know. Save $6.

[00:07:08] For those not keenly aware to her lifestyle we were only going like pretty exclusively to

[00:07:16] Randalls which is a like subsidiary of Albertsons which is like a is a brand of I forget like the main

[00:07:25] company that owns them but anyway that's the company we used to go to yeah maybe for

[00:07:30] that's what we used to go to for groceries like pretty exclusively because we had better like

[00:07:36] coupons and like deals for their like stuff and the one that was like half a mile from our

[00:07:44] in our house it shut down so now we have to go to an H.E.B. Well so now she's just like oh I love

[00:07:53] H.E.B. I've always loved H.E.B. Even though like like no no no you'd be quiet you'd be quiet

[00:08:00] like six months ago before the H.E.B. closed down she would refuse to even go to H.E.B. with me

[00:08:07] even though I was like I need this thing from H.E.B. She would refuse to go and now it's the only

[00:08:11] grocery store that's like semi close to us. I don't have as much therapy then. Sure it was the

[00:08:17] it's now the only grocery store close to us and she's like oh yeah it's my favorite grocery store

[00:08:22] as long as I put in my little like loop so I don't hear all the like riff-raff talking around me

[00:08:28] I'm the main character obviously. I also don't know if you checked out that subreddit but it's a

[00:08:33] very interesting subreddit of I've never seen it before but like I'm the main character it's so funny

[00:08:38] they just post pictures of people who think they're the main character. It's so funny because

[00:08:43] it's basically like people who just act in a way that like they're entitled but they don't realize it

[00:08:50] it's like there's a I watched a video. I don't know if you saw it okay so there's a video

[00:08:57] sounded like me right now. There's a video of like two or three little like teenage like young teenagers

[00:09:05] right they're little people and they're like dancing on the corner of this street

[00:09:12] and this car pulls up and stops and the passenger of the car gets out walks over to these like

[00:09:18] two or three teens that are dancing and just punches him in the head

[00:09:23] and like he falls down like collapses because he like knocked him out and then the guy

[00:09:28] rinses back to the car gets in closes it and drives off like the driver just leaves right

[00:09:35] have you seen this? Yes go on but I'm also go on. I started counting how many times she said

[00:09:42] like in that sentence. I say like a lot. You said it a lot you said it 10 times in that sentence.

[00:09:47] I don't believe that you counted that girl. I did I did I was distracted from your story and

[00:09:52] I heard and I heard. Okay tell me tell me the full story go ahead. Um these people went and attacked

[00:09:59] this teen and like punched him in the head or something. Wow you were listening so well.

[00:10:06] You said like so many times. Gold star. Gold star for you. All right. I was so sorry it was just

[00:10:13] fun. No it's fun. That's gonna be it for this episode. No, I'm sorry. I just you don't normally say

[00:10:20] it that much. I did say it like no. Okay halfway through that story I was thinking about how often

[00:10:28] I was saying it and I was like I just I was very distracting because normally you're very succinct.

[00:10:35] You don't say that a lot anyway but I loved it till 10. So this guy pulled up.

[00:10:44] And now you're gonna think very carefully about every sentence aren't you? No

[00:10:48] what? That's what I would do. Oh boy anyway this guy pulled up he hit this kid.

[00:10:55] Drove off. Are you all right? She hit this kid. Drove off. I did that's this that is the succinct story

[00:11:03] here. All right. Anyway. I didn't say and love it. Drove off. It's been I didn't realize how long

[00:11:09] it had been since like that was recorded and I guess I just never asked or checked or cared.

[00:11:17] You know one of those three adjectives and I don't know if those are adjectives. I just used that word a lot

[00:11:21] anyway. I'm not gonna lie. I love writing and stuff. I cannot tell you the difference between

[00:11:26] like an ab verb and adjective all that sort of stuff. I know like nouns and that should be

[00:11:32] no nouns. I've been so long since I've been quizzed on it. I'm like I can confidently tell you

[00:11:38] what a noun is and no other like word. Adjective? No other word. Words. Adjectives are descriptors

[00:11:46] right? Sure. Like an adjective is how you would have described something and a noun is like a person

[00:11:51] a place to rethink. Adjective. What? But I'm not gonna lie. Sometimes I have to think about like

[00:12:02] schoolhouse rock to like remember things. Go on. I don't remember it right now. Okay good good

[00:12:12] just for the record. I might have had been drinking a little bit today. We've been cleaning in and

[00:12:18] having a good time. We cleaned a thing. She isn't cleaned anything but the shark glass. Anyway.

[00:12:23] I cleaned my bedside table out. No no no let's be clear. No no no no what? Let's be very clear. You

[00:12:32] did not clean it out. There was no cleaning involved. You took some of the things out of there

[00:12:38] and threw them away. But I know that it's not cleaning. That is half of the cleaning process.

[00:12:48] Cleaning is taking everything out. Cleaning the drawer and the bedside table itself or nightstand as

[00:12:57] some people call it. And then putting back the things that you like to keep and throwing away

[00:13:02] the other things. That is the cleaning process. You know I think I just now understand a very

[00:13:11] important fundamental difference between us and I can be better moving forward. Good for you

[00:13:16] and the later and the the difference is you threw things away that you have been subconsciously hoarding

[00:13:28] like a little rat this whole time. I'm sorry, like a little pack rat. Like a little pack rat

[00:13:38] for like a decade now. Here's what you've been doing. Collecting things like this has sentimental

[00:13:43] value because someone else was in possession of it and now I am in possession of it. That is

[00:13:48] the base fundamental of your sentimental feelings. When in reality someone could have been like,

[00:13:56] oh I found this on the ground. Now I'm giving it to you and you would grab it and go

[00:14:01] someone gave this to me. I must keep it forever. Yeah. That is your basis. Yeah. I know. Yeah.

[00:14:08] It's wrong. But like, no. Okay, here's here's the thing. You're the only one that thinks that way.

[00:14:16] If I find something on the ground and feel like I'm going to give this to someone

[00:14:21] there's two feelings. Maybe three. No, there's two feelings. Maybe three. That's nice of you.

[00:14:28] It's a I don't want this but putting it down I would feel like an asshole so I have to give it

[00:14:33] to someone else. There's b I pick this up and I don't want to keep it. I should give this to

[00:14:41] someone and maybe they'll like it. And then there's three. I saw this thing on the ground

[00:14:47] or somewhere and I thought, oh this person would like this and that's why I picked it up

[00:14:53] and that's why I gave it to said person. Of the three scenarios number three is the only reason

[00:14:59] to sentimentally keep something. Now you incorrectly assume that everything that everyone gives

[00:15:07] you is in category number three. It is not. But then why would they give it to me? Because they don't

[00:15:14] want it anymore. That's dumb. I agree that's why we should throw it away. I only give people

[00:15:21] things because they think they'll like it. That's a you. That's a you thing. Well, if you don't do

[00:15:27] that you should. That's a great outlook on society and you should go protest about that. Oh my god

[00:15:33] however. Am I autistic? That's not a view that all of society shares. It's a view that you think

[00:15:40] everyone shares. So when you get something, you're just like this is the treasure. I will hold this

[00:15:45] forever because you treasure it. Like a raven. And then you'll like a few years later, you'll come

[00:15:52] up to somebody or you'll see somebody and you're like, oh, I still have that paperclip you gave me

[00:15:56] and they'll be like, what are you talking about? You psychotic woman. What paperclip? Everything

[00:16:03] is so important to me. Yes, I agree. Anyway, did you? Okay, we watched that movie the accountant.

[00:16:13] I want to watch it again. That was a good movie. I didn't expect to like it as much as I did.

[00:16:18] Did you not see it before? No. Really? No. I think that was the second or third time I'd seen it

[00:16:22] but I haven't seen it in a while so it was good to be refreshable. If you haven't seen it,

[00:16:26] it's what Ben Affleck? It was Ben Affleck, yes. And what's her face? Anna Kendrick? Yes.

[00:16:35] Okay, first before we get into that, she in that movie, she's great and like all our movies

[00:16:42] are lover is an actress, right? In that movie, she looked like she was four feet tall. She was

[00:16:47] super short and every scene that they filmed her in. I know. She was wearing high heels. It made

[00:16:54] her look so short and every scene she was in. I just wanted to throw that out. She's like average,

[00:16:59] high like I think five three or five four. Ben Affleck saw his fuck I think. He thinks he's like six

[00:17:03] four and she was wearing heels and still she looks so little. But so if you haven't seen the movie,

[00:17:08] it's about this man and his autistic brother. They're both autistic. Okay, this is a side note.

[00:17:15] She's five two. Let me look up Ben Affleck's alone. Holding? No, no, you can go.

[00:17:24] He's six, too. Okay. Yeah. Okay. There's a difference. There's a very noticeable difference in

[00:17:29] the movie. That's all I want to say. Go ahead. But so like he and his brother are both autistic. He's

[00:17:34] more like, yes they are. Yeah. Yes. They don't specifically say it. But they show both sides of

[00:17:43] this spectrum. Like he's very quiet and reserved and focused on his interests and like dedicated

[00:17:48] and like he learned some ask her. They don't say it. He never shows any signs. His brother was the one

[00:17:55] who was having fits and stuff like that. He was the one that was all serious in the background.

[00:18:00] His brother was the one having fits having to be restrained. And then even as an adult when he's

[00:18:05] an assassin, they show him having headphones all the time, which is very common with autistic people

[00:18:09] because which one which one had headphones all the time? The fluffy, hard one. The fluffy, hard one.

[00:18:17] I don't know her name. Well then you don't know anything you're talking about. The assassin that was

[00:18:21] angry because the dad died. But like the main guy, he was very like reserved and like very like

[00:18:30] dedicated to numbers and all these sorts of things and very obsessed his interests. The other guy,

[00:18:35] he was like very normal. No, he was what was not normal about him. He was more the hyperactive one where

[00:18:42] he had to be restrained and he was very upset. And like, you mean we're restrained enough set? Where did

[00:18:47] they show you? He was restrained or else that's it. He was the one where they were in the house when

[00:18:51] he was younger and the dad had to restrain him when the mom left. No, he wasn't. Yes, he was.

[00:18:56] The other one was the white one and that was the main guy. No, he wasn't. There was no, you listen.

[00:19:02] There was two kids one with glasses, one without. That is their main key difference in the kids.

[00:19:08] The one with glasses was the main guy. He was the one that had to be restrained.

[00:19:15] Let's look at it. No, let's look you remember. All right, you don't remember anything about this.

[00:19:21] The other brother, the younger brother did not. They'd never implied that he had any form of it.

[00:19:28] They never said anything about him having autism at all.

[00:19:32] They didn't do anything to resemble that he had autism. The older brother

[00:19:41] who was played by Ben Affleck and the kid that reflected him, yes, explained like portrayed

[00:19:48] very significant autism details. But the younger brother never did. I think you're confusing which

[00:19:55] one was which because they kept switching back and forth between the older siblings and the younger

[00:20:00] siblings. We can watch it again to verify and you're searching frantically right now to try and

[00:20:09] like just prove this. No, I have the IMDB app but I didn't. You have an IMDB app? Apparently they do

[00:20:14] but I didn't have it downloaded. Okay. Are you reading right now about how I'm right?

[00:20:21] She's reading very carefully because she wants to disprove me but she is incorrect.

[00:20:27] She watched the movie once and believes she knows everything.

[00:20:33] More reading, no talking. That's the best part of the podcast, no talking at all.

[00:20:41] We'll just wait. Yeah, it says like his brother was neuro-typical but I did not get that impression.

[00:20:50] Yeah because you didn't know which one was which what do you mean?

[00:20:53] No because even like to me as a person who is neurodivergent, to me it seemed like Christian was the one

[00:21:00] who was like the quiet stereotypical. Yeah, it says Christian Wolf like that was his surname.

[00:21:06] Yeah, but they never give you his actual name. But like he like to me viewing that, he was like

[00:21:12] a representation of like the quiet, savant autistic who does what he's told who massed and fits in

[00:21:18] and the other brother like was very like hyperactive and like acting out and like wearing headphones on a

[00:21:25] time. What are you talking about? I think you're confusing the two again. Yes, I did

[00:21:31] the one with glasses. From what they were trying to present. No no no no no. Like that was the way

[00:21:35] I had interpreted it. I was wrong. No you've got them confused. The one that's one saying I was wrong.

[00:21:41] That was the way I had interpreted it to me as a person who is neurodivergent. So you thought

[00:21:46] the adult Christian was autistic and the kid other brother was autistic and some of them just

[00:21:53] swarved during adult birth. No no I thought they both were and they were just displaying opposite

[00:21:59] injuries of the spectrum of like wanting to wanting low needs. I was wrong, I get that now but

[00:22:05] like that's what it showed to me. They were trying to show one kid was very like dependent and

[00:22:11] needed the help and the other one was just a normal kid quote unquote and how they he relied on his

[00:22:19] but he was the younger brother so he relied on his older brother and like kept track of him and

[00:22:23] they felt very betrayed when his older brother the neurodivergent or whatever one asked his dad

[00:22:29] for help for the funeral instead of him. I think maybe I have just been to traumatize to understand

[00:22:36] that part of the story. It wasn't like a movie that was half puzzled, they pretty cleanly laid it out.

[00:22:45] Like I said to me it just like I guess because like their life was so volatile to me that just showed

[00:22:50] like this is how one kid were react and this is how the other kid were react. I didn't understand

[00:22:55] which kid was which I was incorrect. It was the glasses. Yes I didn't get that. We can re-watch it but

[00:23:01] there's a very clear difference between I would understand it better now. The kid with glasses is

[00:23:07] Christian. The kid without glasses? Not him that's it. Yeah um with context like I understand

[00:23:15] that better. I did not get that impression. I did guess like the twist I guess but yes

[00:23:21] go on. That's the brother was the other assassin. I met like another story you have but okay. Oh

[00:23:30] no that was my last story. You go to your next story. So big news this week

[00:23:36] the largest bridge in Baltimore collapsed. Yeah oh my god a major fuck up right? Yeah did

[00:23:46] you read into what happened with that ship? No but at least the ship made it before they crash.

[00:23:51] Like it did what? They like sent out an emergency signal um so officials nearby before they crashed

[00:23:58] because they knew something was wrong. So you're not like half a story there. I know half a story

[00:24:02] it could have been so much worse though you know. What could have been worse? Like they could have

[00:24:06] been a lot more deaths than things. How? Because the police started clearing the bridge and stopping

[00:24:10] people from crossing. Uh-huh that's all I know. Okay all right so this in case you haven't heard

[00:24:19] Baltimore is a city in Maryland. Maryland is no I'm kidding anyway if you're not American get there

[00:24:30] and uh we it's too big don't. It's no yeah so a bridge in Baltimore went goodbye

[00:24:40] and basically infrastructure is melting from the inside out. No I'm not at all what happened so

[00:24:47] a ship that was leaving the port of Baltimore it lost power regained power and then lost power again

[00:24:56] right and the second time it lost power it was on a collision course with the structural like uh

[00:25:05] what are they called? Like foothold of this bridge and it was the largest bridge in Baltimore. It

[00:25:12] was the Francis Scott Key Bridge. I can't remember how long it was but the average like traffic

[00:25:18] across it was almost like 30,000 cars per day right so it crashed into this bridge right crashed into

[00:25:27] the the foothold of one of like the structures that hold up the bridge and miles of the bridge collapsed

[00:25:34] fell into the water. Baltimore had to declare a mass casualty event which is not something that

[00:25:42] gets declared like easily right and initial estimates were that at least seven people were missing

[00:25:49] and then they bumped it up to around like 20. They found a few people and divers are we're still

[00:25:57] looking for more bodies like 48 hours after the bridge collapsed which is like you're just looking

[00:26:04] for bodies at that point you're not looking for people that are still alive right which I was

[00:26:11] it's terrible thing is tragic here's the other part of it though okay so I don't know if you've

[00:26:17] looked at the the history of it first off the company that owns the uh shipping uh

[00:26:28] the container ship that's what it was the container ship it's a company out of I believe

[00:26:34] Singapore is what it said and Singapore or Taiwan I want to say it's like a it's an eastern Asian

[00:26:42] country that owns this this ship their first statement to the press was was three things it was that

[00:26:50] none of the crew were missing or injured none of the cargo was lost and there was no environmental

[00:26:58] spill into the water that was their three that was their first three statements right did not want

[00:27:05] to really comment I guess on why their ship ran into this pillar of this bridge but a different

[00:27:12] story right sabotage industrial collusion I don't know who knows but insurance scam

[00:27:20] insurance nothing the ship didn't get hardly any damage on it the bridge I mean was destroyed

[00:27:28] so a lot of there's now I think there was I can't remember if there was another way out of the harbor

[00:27:34] or not but it delayed a lot of shipping like going in and out of there because you know every ship had

[00:27:40] to stop coming in now well there was a uh I saw an article like two days later and it was from like

[00:27:47] 1982 go on why are you laughing I just go on what do you think I don't think anything that's nice

[00:27:57] anyway this article from 1982 is like pretty recently after or 1980 something I can't remember

[00:28:05] it's right around the time when they looked at a lot of these bridges and the report

[00:28:13] like very clearly stated that the francescott key bridge would not survive a direct impact to one

[00:28:23] of the structural supports that is like one of the legs and they and just I don't know if that

[00:28:30] that study or that survey just went unnoticed or what happened or if they was just ignored but it

[00:28:36] was very clearly it'll never have an impact no big deal yeah it was very clearly like if it

[00:28:42] suffers a massive impact the entire bridge will collapse and nobody did anything about it

[00:28:49] and here we are like four decades later and the bridge got okay but you know it's even more terrifying

[00:28:54] is like there are thousands of bridges in America like that that have not been maintained

[00:29:01] oh yeah no updated are structurally not so there's this could easily happen again

[00:29:06] in America well this not to this like uh magnitude magnitude yeah that's the word good job

[00:29:12] and thank you and um but the national what is the the bridge uh agency I don't know

[00:29:20] with the bridge so there's like a national bridge association so like all of the no no no no like

[00:29:26] all of the different agencies have different acronyms like the airspace is like the federal it's the

[00:29:31] FAA right you're right anyway but the the bridge like association the bridge people I don't know

[00:29:40] they keep yeah they keep an estimate and a running update of all of the bridges in the united states

[00:29:46] that are not up to code or are in like likely to fail soon like likely to fall

[00:29:55] that's rough and of the bridges in the united states they're estimate because they there's so

[00:30:01] many bridges over like little creeks or little like rivers or little ravines like little tiny

[00:30:06] short gaps right they're estimate like two years ago like like like and uh I'm just now saying

[00:30:14] it to bother you okay they're estimate of bridges that were going to fail or are likely to fail

[00:30:23] was close to like 70 or 80 thousand bridges within the united states

[00:30:32] and they are slowly going through and replacing like the structural beams of the bridges or

[00:30:43] the integrity of the bridges and there's actually a uh dirty jobs episode about these these people who

[00:30:51] go to bridges throughout the country and replace the structural beams to from wood to cement or

[00:30:58] cement to newer cement uh you know something more structurally sound right and so there's an

[00:31:06] episode of dirty jobs about it it's really fascinating where they go in and they go underneath

[00:31:12] this bridge and there's like a little four by four post it's not very big and it's like half the

[00:31:18] size that it used to be and they go yeah we need to replace this with concrete and it goes cool how

[00:31:25] do we do it and they just say yeah we're gonna block off this little section of the the river itself

[00:31:32] and we're gonna fill it with concrete all the way up and we're just gonna encapsulate the

[00:31:38] wooden post with concrete all the way up and he's like that's it and they're like yeah

[00:31:44] does that work oh my cool yeah I mean it works okay that's that was funny so uh when you're driving

[00:31:52] through middle of nowhere those bridges aren't safe crazy I love that I got bit by a bug right on top of a

[00:32:01] mole it's fucking annoying bro is that what happens yes I don't know I'm like it bit by bugs like this

[00:32:09] but we've been up to your parents man and I got eight oh Texas is wild in this year I don't know why

[00:32:17] because normally it's like that would allowed normally it's only me who gets bit or me and my sister

[00:32:28] because we have that fun gene where they just love our blood more like seriously I could sit outside

[00:32:34] all night long in our porch and have no issues but what after new and out in the countryside and

[00:32:40] I'm like itchy as fuck mm-hmm I wrote some more words

[00:32:50] should be finished in a few weeks good good then I can edit and format and publish nice

[00:33:01] I don't know how it in this book man I thought you were gonna leave it on a yeah but it's like a

[00:33:06] it's a big thing to figure out your ending it's the cat still outside I think one of them is

[00:33:11] she's meowing she'll be okay but I'm I just need like eight thousand more words

[00:33:20] you're right there I could do that in one day if I had a free day mm-hmm

[00:33:26] speaking of free days did you see that Lizzo is about to have a lot of free days oh my god yeah

[00:33:35] she on was Instagram mm-hmm posted that she was quitting music because there were too many people

[00:33:42] criticizing her maybe you should treat your employees better yeah it was it was a whole thing did

[00:33:49] you read the actual post I read her post yeah I was I read it and I was like most of this I feel

[00:33:57] like it's just you retaliating or being retaliated against for the accusations as it came

[00:34:05] against you yeah no should be okay you're almost done okay what else happened to you this week

[00:34:16] you're talking about Ludo yeah go on and how she quit music uh-huh yeah go on what else happened

[00:34:25] I'm asking you I started building up farm in stardew valley that is what Lizzo it started

[00:34:33] valley had an update so I made a new farm and then I played the sims and I made a stardew valley

[00:34:40] inspired build I'm not done yet I got to still decorate the house but uh and then do landscaping

[00:34:47] but it's really cute and I'm very proud of it you should let me show you after this podcast

[00:34:54] nothing do you show me how do I flirt show you my sims builds

[00:35:02] I got uh held Irish tomb I played about an hour of it and I have been so busy since then that

[00:35:08] I have not played at all you said I was really difficult right it's difficult because I'm only playing

[00:35:13] with random people online and I played with them for about an hour just to try and get the hang of

[00:35:19] it and then two days two or three days later I told them I actually got it and I was just like you

[00:35:25] know playing with it so I can not be a total not good at the game when I was playing with them

[00:35:33] and they were like what were you playing with just random people and I was like yeah and I

[00:35:37] like no that's the worst way to play and you should have just played with us and I was like yeah I'll

[00:35:41] try next time I'm on but I don't know when that'll be you know well I'm glad you have friends

[00:35:48] to play video games with thanks dear my friends my friends are gonna be like online to play video

[00:35:55] games anymore you know who you play games with them like more than I do I'm always playing solo

[00:36:02] like Chelsea doesn't have a computer with her anymore she's waiting for it to be delivered

[00:36:06] now my other friends are too busy working to play games being an adult is like rough man like

[00:36:12] you don't have free time because everybody's working all the time yeah well that poverty we got

[00:36:18] going on yeah I love it I love playing games with you though like power roll I should play

[00:36:26] power roll there's been some updates I don't know if they included but they're doing more like

[00:36:29] cooking recipes and they're planning a building update so I'm really excited

[00:36:34] hmm the building needs to be updated yes the building like it genuinely is not super great

[00:36:40] it like I'll spend hours perfecting like a four like a one room building yeah and I build on

[00:36:48] to it I'm like this looks terrible yeah that like it's like you can't put stairs up you don't have

[00:36:54] a foundation then you try and put a foundation it's like no there's a slight like rock here

[00:36:59] and you're like yes I know there's a rock there but I physically can't move the rock like what do

[00:37:04] you 400 feet below you there might be a water source mm-hmm so you can't build on the beach I wanted

[00:37:10] that beach house so bad all right but it's fine they'll update it I'll keep supporting the game I

[00:37:17] like it a lot like it's super cute and I like exploring yeah did you see the thing that was like yeah

[00:37:27] the um what game was it oh my gosh there's a new or there was a new game that came out and it

[00:37:34] was like $70 right that's a lot of games and no I know right okay so how old came out and it's

[00:37:43] $30 how divers two came out and it's $40 and someone was making a comparison they were like you

[00:37:49] could get these two games that are magnificent to play their fun to play you can play with friends

[00:37:57] without friends whatever you want to do for $70 or you could get $170 game that's from a big name

[00:38:06] company that has a decent amount of bugs in it and only most of the features you want and microtransaction

[00:38:14] and so the guy was like it doesn't matter that you're a big name company and if you're charging $70

[00:38:21] for a game that's just okay people would rather take the chance on two 30 and 40 dollar games or even

[00:38:28] like $515 games from developers they don't know but that have high reviews because more people are

[00:38:36] buying them you know yeah and I think also a lot of gamers are growing up like you know people our

[00:38:41] age have money they have free time like a lot of people without kids and just like a little bit

[00:38:46] of actual income they'll spend their time playing video games but we're not children we're not going

[00:38:51] to like spend money on like really cool shit like we want something that we can play in our free time

[00:38:56] that's not gonna like you know games you don't have to sink hours and hours and hours into

[00:39:01] in order to have a good time like the Witcher or something like that like you can go in play for 20 30

[00:39:06] minutes and you can come back and it'll still be fine yeah well and that's the thing too is like

[00:39:14] games like most new games used to be $60 if they were like triple A games but you would get hundreds

[00:39:21] of hours out of it now I'm like the new Call of Duty is $70 and you can maybe get like 10 hours

[00:39:28] out of the campaign and the rest out of multiplayer like Warzone is free except for the microtransactions

[00:39:36] and the multiplayer itself feel like that's not worth $70 you know it's just a crazy

[00:39:43] amount it's just a crazy amount to me to spend on multiplayer or I'm like I could just play the

[00:39:48] previous one that's I had almost identical in my mind well and then I also feel like Call of Duty

[00:39:53] has just really moved away from casual players like if I want to pick up the game and I haven't played

[00:39:57] in a while like the even playing against people who are like supposedly in a level like they'll

[00:40:03] match me I can't keep up with them no and that's what it is too yeah like even now I play maybe

[00:40:12] maybe twice a week but I'm and I'm level like I think it's like 82 who is what I'm at right now

[00:40:20] but there is maybe one in 15 or 20 games where I'm not the lowest ranked player

[00:40:29] everybody that I play with is over 150 200 levels and I'm like this is like the only people

[00:40:36] who play this game now are the people who never bought the next Call of Duty and who have been

[00:40:43] playing it since it came out I'm like I worked on this game and there's still people that they're

[00:40:48] super high level I'm like this is ridiculous it's crazy high and I'm if you're like a very

[00:40:53] competitive player I'm sure that's fine but like I mostly play for fun and relax so games like

[00:40:58] Powerworld or something where I can just pick it up easy even if it's like other shooters that we

[00:41:03] played where you can just play a quick match like that's more fun to me oh yeah like the matchmaking

[00:41:10] in in Marvel too is like we'll try and match you with people of your level on them like

[00:41:15] there's no there there is almost never a game where I'm in it where there's not like a level

[00:41:22] like 500 something in the game with me or they have like you know like they have like the star

[00:41:26] system so we're like you can like max level and then you get like another special whatever

[00:41:31] oh bro other resty those all the time I'm like I should not be here but I only like to play hardcore

[00:41:36] because you made everything else not fun I did yeah because we played hardcore all together in high

[00:41:42] school and I got used to it so now if I try to play like normal modes even though I'm not like

[00:41:46] amazing I'm just like damn it's much more yeah it's much it's very easy yeah

[00:41:56] what's he got that's bad for me what about you I think that's running out this week

[00:42:01] we didn't do much worked on mostly just wedding stuff is consuming a lot of our time which is

[00:42:09] why these episodes are gonna get probably a little bit shorter as we go through this week the next

[00:42:16] week the end of April and the beginning of March actually most of March the episodes are

[00:42:22] going to be a little bit shorter as we go through all of the final planning phases and

[00:42:30] the final planning phases and the and the wedding itself and then June we're gonna kick back up with it

[00:42:40] so I hope you stick with us as we go through these these bumpy phases in our fun relationship

[00:42:48] but that is pretty much all she wrote on the script for this episode I'm trying to read her font

[00:42:54] there she is thanks for listening oh right no yeah you're supposed to come out okay and we

[00:43:02] but that's gonna do it for us this week at minus proudle we hope you have fun we know we did

[00:43:07] and we will see you all next week on April 8 bye