Mindless Child Psychopaths

[00:00:01] In case you're wondering, Ripley has edited the last few episodes and that's why the audio is the way it is. So here I'll scoot back a little bit for you. I think the last episode. Is that better? A little bit more in scene. But hey, welcome to 193. Ripley is almost ready to face the fact that there's only seven weeks left until episode two.

[00:00:31] But not enough to say it out loud. Hey, we've got a plan. We've got a plan. So it'll work. I was gonna say, Jordon, I've been wanting to do like a no drinking November, but then I realized that's our plan for episode 200. So I guess my plan is no drinking except for episode 200. What do you mean? That's seven weeks is not in November. Is it? Oh, what? Perfect. Then we have no worries.

[00:01:02] I feel like that was my Barbie voice. I was to 200. It'll be like the week of or the week after Christmas, depending. That'll be perfect. Crazy. Great. Your math skills are good. Depends on the math. Sure. But hello. Welcome back to Mindless Prattle. I'm Ripley. That's Jordan. And we've got a bunch of fun stuff for you today. Mm hmm. Mm hmm. The average sleep per night is decreasing. So that's that's a fun thing for me.

[00:01:32] Oh, for you. Yeah. Yeah. For me. Thank goodness you specified, though. Why? What's been going on? Less sleep. That's what's been happening. But why? Our audience doesn't know. They don't know what? That I'm not sleeping well? Like why are you not sleeping well?

[00:01:53] Oh, yeah. I've consulted all of myself and I've determined that I'm not looking into it at this moment due to the fact that I'm too tired. And so it's a problem for later me. That's one of my favorite phrases. What? That's a problem for later Ripley. Even like when I get to work full time, sometimes I'd clope in and people like, oh, aren't you going to do this and this and this for closing?

[00:02:23] And I'm like, no, that's the opener's problem. And they'd be like, oh, who's opening? And I'm like, fucking me. Like I'm working again in six hours. So go the fuck home and I'll fix it tomorrow. Man, you're getting a lot of notifications. You are not on Do Not Disturb. Oh. I've been going through my apps and like turning off their ability to send me notifications because it's been pissing me off so much.

[00:02:48] Because like there's ones where I already had it turned off and it was like, but what if you really did want this notification? And I'm like, I don't need this in my life. Okay. So I've been taking notes this week, though, because there's so many things that I've like learned or seen. You need to be close to that mic. I can barely hear you. There are so many things that I've like wanted to learn or. Move the mic, either one. Oh. It's on an arm. Yeah, there you go. But. Okay. Did you know? I did not.

[00:03:18] Don't hit that. So the guy that plays Bootstrap Bill Turner and the Pirates of the Caribbean Seas series. Pirates of the Caribbean Seas. He is the dad of the Skarsgård brothers. Yeah. I didn't know that. I see. That's funny. Stellan Skarsgård. Normally, I don't know about the Skarsgårds, but you know about them. And I know about that because it's one of my favorite series up until the last one. The last one's just okay. But.

[00:03:47] I stopped after like the one that they saw like the mermaids and the sirens in. That's the last one I've seen. That's the last good one. The one that they made after that, it kind of takes away from the core themes of like Jack Sparrow's character, you know? So I was just, it's okay. Yeah. I feel like after like four or five movies, it's like, come on. You don't need anyone. Well, the fifth one had potential. It's just they went in a direction that just kind of took.

[00:04:14] But like if Johnny Depp wasn't in the fifth film, I don't think it would have changed the outcome of it. That's how I'm like, it's. I think the last really good one was at World's End. It was a good end to the trilogy. Yeah. And then they just, they had like, oh, let's throw Blackbeard in here. And it was a good, you know, standalone. Hey, here's Blackbeard in a film with Johnny Depp and, you know, everybody. I liked it. It was good. It didn't add to the trilogy or take away from it. But then the fifth one, you just kind of subtracted from the universe overall.

[00:04:43] And you're like, okay. Overall though, I love those movies. But yeah, I learned about that. And I was like, man, must be nice to like have some nepotism going for you in Hollywood. Yeah. I mean, he's, he's, who is it? He's Orlando Bloom's dad. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bootstrap Bill Turner. But yeah, I just, I was really amazed to learn that and I was so excited about it. And then I was like, well, I can't tell you yet.

[00:05:11] Cause we can't talk about this. I'll talk about it on the podcast. Gosh. My YouTube feed's been like more positive lately. I wonder why. And specifically like science videos, I think. And two I got this morning actually. And one of them was about a potential cure for deafness. And the other one was about a couple different universities that are testing different ways to regrow teeth.

[00:05:40] And both, all three of the studies are very, are doing very well. Yeah. Didn't they start that in Japan? Japan's got a teeth regrowing one. There's a different process than the one I saw today, which I think was in the UK. But the one in the UK, basically it uses a synthetic protein that fills in the, excuse me, fills in like the micro abrasions in your teeth.

[00:06:06] And then it pulls proteins and compounds and things out of your saliva to bind with it, to regrow the enamel. That's really cool. So over time it, like they'll put it on your teeth, right? Like at night you'll put it on and then like 24 hours later it'll harden enough that you can like eat again. So I think you have to go a little bit without eating. Kind of like a fluoride. You'd have to go a little bit without eating to not break it away, but it just works off your saliva.

[00:06:34] And then it hardens enough that you can keep eating and it'll keep growing based off the saliva in there up until it like levels out with how much they put on. That's really cool. Yeah. They started human trials for that. And then they said it's looking promising and they're trying to push for a 2027 like commercial release of the product. I think stuff like that is so cool. I'll take a trip to the UK. Well, stuff like that too, I think is so useful for communities that like don't have typical access to dental care.

[00:07:03] So like, you know, very rural villages and things like that in other countries, like that's something that you can do yourself and not like have to go hours and hours to find a dentist to do for you. Would you take a trip to the UK with me to grow some teeth? Yeah. See? I think it'd be cheaper too. I feel like they could take the cap off of my tooth and regrow my tooth. Like I would be so happy with that. It only grows enamel. It's not the whole tooth. It's just that protective outer. One day. So yeah, which I think that's the difference is the one in Japan is actually like growing like the full tooth.

[00:07:33] But this one is just that filling in those abrasions on your enamel. Because I've been so scared I'm going to crack my tooth again because I've been having issues with my jaw again. Yeah, we both grind our teeth at night. So like this stuff from the UK, or I think it was UK, but to the regrow enamel, I think it'd be great. And you know if it released in the US, it would be thousands of dollars. So I'd rather just pay for the flight over to the UK real quick. I mean, that's why medical tourism has got so big.

[00:07:57] Like I would really like to go to like Thailand and do one of theirs because they literally, you just go to one big like hospital building. They do top to bottom like full body scans for everything about your health. And so many people were like, yeah, I did this. And like they caught cancer stage one. And like if I had been in the US, I would have waited till I was like stage three and like probably going to die. Isn't it like Japan? They have a yearly like full checkup and they give you like a health like score. Yeah. You know.

[00:08:25] And there's one of them where that I saw, I think it was in like Japan or Korea, but where you literally just go room to room and like you put your little slip in your room. A doctor comes in and it's like the dentist checks you out and you go to the next room and it's like the gynecologist. And like, I just, I, I want that so bad because. Healthcare. Yeah. Healthcare that you don't have to be like, will it cover this? Even when I go to the doctor, you know, they're just kind of like, we don't really know. We think this is what's wrong with you. But. Yeah.

[00:08:51] If there was something that they were like, we can guarantee your taxes will go up a little bit, but we'll guarantee it goes towards healthcare for everybody. Like sure. That sounds good. Well, it's like we're already paying more than other countries do for like. Like free healthcare, you know? And then people are always like, well, in other countries they have to wait months and months. I'm like, what do you do in America? Like we're pretty lucky with our, our healthcare. And even still, if they're like, oh, they're going to raise your taxes. Be like, okay, but I'm already paying 300 a month just for healthcare plus 50 for my teeth.

[00:09:22] Plus for the vision. And I'm like, because my eyes and teeth are different. And then we also go to the doctor or whatever. And then you're charged another fee on top of that. Like your insurance almost never covers like everything. Yeah. There's a copay for whatever. That's what I'm saying. Honestly, insurance is a scam. I'm already paying at least 400 to 500 a month plus more if I actually go to the doctor. And you're worried that like, oh, your taxes will go up. Okay. So tax me that 500 bucks a year, but then it covers everything.

[00:09:51] Oh no. You know? Yeah. But then someone else will use it. Good. Then they won't die. Like who cares? What do we? Well, and it's like healthcare has gotten so bad that people have to use the emergency room as a regular doctor because they can't afford to get seen until it's really bad, which makes VR wait times even longer. Oh yeah. And everybody's pissed off. And it's just, it's a whole mess. I had a coworker who got into a car accident or a motorcycle accident, what, a week ago, a week and a half ago.

[00:10:18] And he had to get airlifted from one city to another to get more specialized care and surgery. And he doesn't have insurance. The flight alone is like 250 grand. Like not even including any medical wheels just to get flown over there. Isn't that sad that I expected it to be way more? But like, you know, if something like that happens to me, I can guarantee you will never see a dime from me. You were in medical bankruptcy. Who gives a shit? Like it doesn't affect your life. I'm like, all right, cool. You know?

[00:10:49] But like, or that's what happened with like my blood draw. It said it was covered by our insurance. And then I get this bill for like two separate bills that added up to like 200 something dollars. And I wrote them and I was like, I'm not paying for this. I was told this was covered. Like, why am I being surprised with this bill? Like I'm not paying for it. And they haven't said anything to me since then. Have you seen a lot of times too, it's like the, the people that they hire at like hospitals or, or doctors, officers or whatever.

[00:11:15] A lot of times if they click on the, like the wrong code for the insurance, the insurance that I, even though it's already agreed upon and whatever it is too. I think that whole, the whole system is so stupid. It's, I hate it. I hate so much of it. I'm like, oh, I wonder if I'm going to have to pay for living again. You know? You know, I see stories online where like people are like, like this, this woman, her daughter was born, stillborn. And, you know, it's very sad, very upsetting.

[00:11:44] But she was crying because I don't think people realize like you have to still give birth to your baby when it dies inside of you. Like it's very traumatic. And this woman was crying and her insurance billed her for crying. For fucking crying. Like, I would have stabbed somebody, frankly. They gave her like tissues and they were like tissues for crying. Like handing her the tissue.

[00:12:11] Like, you know, and it's just, it's mind boggling to me. Like, how can you see somebody in the worst moments of their life? And you're just like, that'll be $500. Thank you. Yeah. And the prices of it are ridiculous. I think that's what gets me too. It's like the MRI, right? An MRI, it's a big magnet that we turn on and it produces images. And I'm like, the metals inside aren't that rare. The training it takes to read it. Yeah, I get it. It takes some time.

[00:12:40] But I'm like, how much money are you really needing to make off of this? Like you bought the machine for the hospital and now you're charging people to get a picture. You're like, okay. But like it's, the picture is not being sent to space. The big magnets being spun around and then it shows up on a screen. And then the guy who went to school for it, it goes, oh yeah, you look fine. You know? Yeah. And it's like, you just get to suffer for that hour. Like I've had a few MRIs.

[00:13:07] But I will say, so a few years ago, Jordan knows, I had a small health scare because they found like a cyst on my brain. And so they were like, well, you need to get a bunch of MRIs to make sure you don't have multiple sclerosis. Like if they see any other spots, like, so they were like, you need to get every part of your spine scanned. So they did like the head and neck one. And I think they did my lower back one. But then all the middle parts of my spine, my insurance denied. And the doctor was like, well, this is absolutely useless because I can't compare it to the rest of your spine.

[00:13:37] Like I need to see if there's any lesions in other spots. And I'm like, well, I'm not dead yet. Yeah. No, it's terrible. But this also, speaking of like health and illnesses, have you heard of Last Ditch, the COVID conscious Manhattan lesbian bar? No. Okay. I don't. The string of words that you've used here is interesting to me as well.

[00:14:05] So COVID conscious bar. Okay. Lesbian bar specifically. But like lesbian bar I got. But I first heard about it. What does COVID conscious bar mean? So I heard about it a few months ago. And this place. No one's allowed near each other. So they still required people to wear masks. Even like this year. I mean, that's fine. Yeah. Well, they were losing all of their money because they like, nobody was like, I'm not going

[00:14:33] to a club to wear a mask and dance all night. You know, like it's 2026. So they were losing a lot of money. I bet you a lot of people were healthy in there though. Yeah. Like COVID or not, like covering up your breath while you're near strangers. That's true. But, you know, of course they were losing money because people were like, I'm not going there. So then they introduced like one night a week, you could go mask free. Well, just kind of blow off their whole aesthetic. Sure. On October 26th, it announced that there's soft closing immediately and they're looking for

[00:15:03] someone to buy the business outright. And it's like, they said it opened in 2025 with a mission. So they opened after the majority of COVID. I mean, they opened after all, like all of it. What? Yeah. Like, and they said they required patrons to wear K and the, not even regular one, K and 95 masks. So you can't have like a regular medical mask. It has to be like the really good ones. I don't think so.

[00:15:31] Because if you didn't provide them, nobody's just carrying those around. It also welcomed people who couldn't afford to spend much operating on the radical idea that the lack of a disposable income shouldn't disqualify anyone from community. Also, whoever wrote this, this article is from timeout.com by Mark Paycart. He says next, unfortunately, community doesn't pay the electric bill. Yeah. I mean, if you're going to lower prices because you feel like more people should go there, that's fine.

[00:15:59] But then you can't require that they wear an expensive mask to come in. You're not, you can't do both. Or you can provide the mask and say, hey, you need to wear this while you come in. But also to very like nichely be like, no, only lesbians come in too. You're already restricting who can come in. Yeah. It's very different from saying this is a gay bar, like an LGBT queer bar. You're like only lesbians can come in. Then you have to bring your own expensive mask.

[00:16:26] But we are lowered our prices so that you don't have to pay as much. Like, okay. Of course you're going to close. Yeah. Like you could have made any number of changes that would have eased this. If you want to stay, like you got, I feel like it's that triangle, right? And you were like N95 mask, cheap prices, lesbian bar. You got to pick. Pick a struggle. You got to pick like two of them, right? You're like, let's have cheap prices and we'll allow lesbians in.

[00:16:55] But you'll get rid of the mask policy. I bet you you'd be fine. Or at least all right. Right. Right. Yep. You want to have more expensive, but you have only lesbians and you provide masks. I bet you'd be all right. I think it would have been a better business decision if they flipped it, you know? So instead of having one night a week, you're mask free. I feel like they should have had one night a week where everybody's required to wear masks. So immunocompromised people are welcome. Or at least like two nights a week, you know, like something like that to wear like.

[00:17:23] I think if they had just provided masks, that'd be fine. No, because people will bitch about that too. I remember when, you know, I worked at Starbucks for a long time and during COVID we were in Nevada and they had a mask mandate. Is it? Well, was this place like a, I don't interrupt you, but is it like a bar or is it like a club? It's like a nightclub bar. Oh, if it's like dancing and club. Yeah. Then I, the mask thing you got to compromise. But you know, I used to have grown men scream at me for asking them to wear a mask. And we literally provided them.

[00:17:53] Like, I'd be like, oh, hey, I noticed you didn't have one. Like, you just have to have it while you're in the store. Like, here you go. You know, it's very like nice and easy. Grown men would scream at me. And I'm like, sorry. No, it's, which doesn't make sense either. Like, I wouldn't necessarily want to go like try and dance and stuff with that. But also, like hygiene wise, it makes sense to put it as at a club and a bar. Like, it's a lot of social proximity and there's a lot of germs and whatnot. I got that.

[00:18:25] But as someone who was in a work environment where you had to wear a mask and they would like watch you, right? Because we're also required to stay hydrated. So like, because we're doing work outdoors. So you'd take off the mask, drink some water and then put it back down. If you didn't put the mask back on quick enough, they get mad. So like, it was super annoying. And I bet you it's even more annoying if you're in a club, like trying to dance through a mask and then pull it down and drink and then put it back up. Which is funny.

[00:18:53] It's actually more unhygienic to keep pulling it up and down or like, you know, people would keep it like on their noses and stuff like that because then you're getting like your germs all over the mask instead of just on the inside. But I just thought that was funny. Also, speaking of the gays, the gays are having a bad time. Because AO3 is down. It started popping up on my feed. And I was like, what is this? People are upset. The New York Times wrote an article about it. Really? I didn't see that.

[00:19:23] I saw it this morning. So for those who don't know what it is, AO3, it stands for archive of our own. And it was started as a response to like censorship. Because it's a fanfic site. That's all you got to say. It's a fanfic site. But it's different than other fanfic sites. Yeah, but you're over explaining it. Like you're giving them like lore and backstory. We don't need all this. It's a fanfic site where people write very close to porn, but not porn. For fake creatures. It's like the fanfic site though.

[00:19:51] And fake people in universes that other people created, right? Yeah. Speaking of where it do you go. Go ahead. But it is like the fanfic site. So it went down. They got like hacked or something. So they took the website down so that they can fix it. They're like, hey, we didn't like we don't think anything's been stolen. But if you use the same password as you do on like other sites, make sure to change it just in case. And they said it could be down from like two to four weeks. The internet is going crazy.

[00:20:20] People are so upset. People are starting their own like Google drives with like hundreds and hundreds of fix in them. And somebody was like, so you could say we've made an archive of our own. I saw those articles and I was like, oof. Even like Wattpad. I haven't used Wattpad since I was in like middle school. They put out a statement saying like, oh, we understand we can't replace AO3. But, you know, if you're looking for somewhere else this whole weekend, we're going to have complete ad-free reading for everybody. And I was just like, it's so funny.

[00:20:49] The reaction from everybody on the internet and the other reading websites. And like people are freaking out. And I'm like, I just download all the fix I like to read. So I'm good. Like I got other books too, you know. But the reactions from people are hilarious. I was just going to say, I know you were reading a lot of the Harry Potter ones. Like the Spanx. Dramion-y. Yeah. Have you seen? It keeps popping up recently. I keep getting, I think it's mainly on Reddit. I'm seeing it.

[00:21:20] Of if Malfoy was female. Oh, yeah. The Malfoy. Is that what it? Malfoy. Yeah. I think that's what it was. Yeah. I keep seeing that. And I was like, bro, who's starting this shit? Why? People started it to piss off JK Rowling. Oh, Potter. I was like. But it's actually so hilarious. It's so good. Yeah. And they call it Malfoy. I don't remember, I know that like the context of that word kind of, but I don't know where like it originally refers to.

[00:21:48] I just kept seeing like little pictures or comics and I was like, what is happening on this? Yeah. It's just because it's pissing the author of the original novels off so much. People keep doing it. But now people are like making whole videos and stuff and it's like a little world on its own. It's so funny to me. That's so good. But you know, I just, I was just laughing. Oh man. I had something else and I lost it in my head. What was it about? It was about something. It was cool. Yeah. I was something related.

[00:22:16] Oh, are you, uh, I got an email, I think today or yesterday and, uh, it's like companies rebranding, but to me, some of the rebrands are kind of going backwards. And this one specifically it's Kindle unlimited, right? Oh yeah. You've seen what they're going to is Kindle plus. Yeah. And I'm like, I feel like unlimited was better than plus, isn't it? Like, okay. So I don't, the reason that rebranding is because now they're including like audio book titles.

[00:22:46] So I can see why, but I feel like you didn't need to change the name. You could have just said Kindle unlimited now comes with certain like 90,000 audio books, you know? Yeah. It, and it came with it and it was like, oh, also you can use our, our, it was basically an email saying that any books that we've published that don't have audio books, we can use their services to use their voiceover software. And I was like, no, I don't want a robot reading the book. Yeah. I'm fine. I would, I've thought about making my own audio book. Cause like we have the audio equipment.

[00:23:16] Um, and I like doing voice acting. It would just make sure it has to sound good, you know? So yeah. And I hate reading my books aloud. You, I mean, I mean throughout the week, all you need is some, something to catch some of the reverb and then be all right. We got to do something with this space, but you know, we got several spaces we need to like fix up. Like the closet is driving me crazy. I don't like our closet right now. Which closet? Like our bedroom closet. Oh, I'm like, I, I need something to organize it all.

[00:23:46] And I hate it. You need to start with like the cabinets. Anyway, dude. I, let me tell you a quick story. Okay. Let me tell you this. Um, now I don't know if you have ever dabbled in child psychopaths, but. I mean, technically. Yeah. So I was at Walmart today. Oh. Wait, sit back. Oh. A real story. Okay. I was at Walmart today.

[00:24:16] Yeah. And I was in, I was in the camping aisle. Yeah. Cause I thought there would be some first aid kits there. And there was one and it was like first aid on the go, super lightweight. And then it was like nothing in there. So that's beside the point. Anyway. So I didn't go, I went to the health section later and got one, but, uh, I'm in this aisle looking through. I couldn't find any. So I go on my phone to like search in the Walmart app.

[00:24:45] I'm like, I'm clearly in the wrong aisle, but I don't want to go messing around. You know, I got butter in the car. I got it. I got to get going. So anyway, I hear in the next aisle over, there's a child and I think the father, right? Or an unconcerned kidnapper. One of the two. And this kid, right? All I hear is this kid go, I love the doggy so much.

[00:25:15] I want to hold and squeeze until he has no eyes so he can't run away. And there was not a lot of joy in the statement. I was about to say like, oh, cute aggression. And then the eyes popping out part. I was like, oh, that's different. No, right at the end, you were like, whoa. And I was on my phone and I was like. Like, that's concerning. Right? Right. So if your kid, you're standing at the cart at Walmart, right? And your kid in front of you is hopefully holding a stuffed animal and not a real dog.

[00:25:45] I didn't check. But your kid says that, right? What are you supposed to say back? Or like, what would you say if your kid was like, oh my gosh. Like, they weren't really excited. They were just like, oh my gosh, I love dog. Like, doggy. I guess it depends. Like, is my kid autistic or? I don't know. Just regular psychopath. Like, if they're a psychopath, I'd be like, okay, we're going to get you a psychological evaluation ASAP. But because for children's psychopaths, early intervention is very important. Yeah.

[00:26:14] Before they start hurting animals, you know? Guess what this dad said to this kid. What did he say? Oh no. Like, guess what this dad said. If you do that, I'm going to have to squeeze you and pop your eyes out? No. No. What'd he say? He stands there and just as monotone, I know where the kid gets it. Just as monotone, he goes, well, sometimes animals run away. What? Sir. Sir. I was like, I need to leave. He said, well. Sometimes they run away.

[00:26:46] I was like, what the fuck? I feel like he should have elaborated a bit with it. Like, hey, sometimes animals run away. You can't like hold them and keep them from moving, you know? It reminded me a little bit of that Bugs Bunny skit where he gets held by like the big creature. He's like, I'm going to love him and feed him and name him George. And I was like, it was not loving. It was like, I'm going to hold you and squeeze you until your eyes pop out so you can't run away. And I was like, well, sometimes animals run away. What? That is crazy work.

[00:27:16] Dad is sitting there like, God, I wish my significant other was here to deal with this shit right now. I was like, dude, it's not like it's that early in the morning or late at night. Like, I don't know what's been going on with you, but all right, man. Yeah, that is. That is a great place to end the episode on. He said, sometimes they run away. Well, this has been a mindless episode.

[00:27:41] We hope you've enjoyed what you heard and that you're not squeezing animals at home. I'm Ripley. That's Jordan. And we'll see you next time. I didn't turn the corner, but I hope it wasn't a real dog. I hope so too. Is that a thing? If they're angry at like stuffed animals, is that still like, hey, we should get you checked out? Yes, but for a different reason. Like if a child is consistently like abusing stuffed animals or dolls, it's usually a sign

[00:28:09] that they're being abused or they're being sexually abused. And the only way they know how to handle it is to like take it out on their own dolls. Well, the kid still had eyes. So I think he was good. Yeah, could just be an aggressive child. So, but y'all have a good one. We'll see you next time. Goodbye. Yeah.