Mindless Horrors of The Abyss

[00:00:01] I'm still pretty, I'm waking up a little bit. You know, I was sleeping having the weirdest dreams last night. Like I don't even know how to begin to explain them. But I think it's because I've been watching so many scary movies. So my dreams are just getting to

[00:00:28] you. Maybe I should take a break. I've just been on a horror movie kick lately. I don't know. You do like them horrors. It's been good though. Like I've been mostly watching new movies.

[00:00:46] So we can talk about that in a minute. Hello and welcome back to Mindless Prattle. We are bringing all the prattles to you from Jordon's car today and our living room as well.

[00:00:58] So hope you still like it. Hope you still like it. But yeah, that's Jordon. I'm Ripley. I think I might be getting cold or something. Why? My nose is stuffy and my nose is like,

[00:01:17] or my throat is like tickly. Interesting. Yeah, that's what I get for working with the public though. It happens. But yeah, I've been watching a lot of scary movies. And can I tell you,

[00:01:35] this one pissed me off the other day because it's called The Rental and they set it up like it's these four friends, two couples, like the guys are brothers and then they have their wife

[00:01:50] and girlfriend with them. And they're like, oh, we're going to have a nice relaxing weekend. They're going to do some drugs and stuff. They brought like ecstasy and they got this like cabinet. Is ecstasy relaxing? What? I don't know. I've never done it. To me, I feel like,

[00:02:09] I don't know. It's a party drug. So I don't think it would be relaxing, you know, because isn't ecstasy an upper? I have no idea. I got to Google that now. I got to Google that now. Okay. It's a stimulant. Yeah, so it's an upper.

[00:02:29] I was like, I should know. I studied all of this during the course of my degree in psychology, but I don't remember half of it. I remember like really random things like nicotine is super, super addictive, like even more so than most like regular drugs

[00:02:46] because of the niconoids in it or like how it responds in your brain. I don't remember exactly. Is that like Nick at Night or how is that different? Nick at Night, did you say that?

[00:02:56] Yeah. I used to love that. But yeah, so I was watching this movie and just, I'm like really into it right. Like the plot's good. Like one guy, like he cheats on his wife

[00:03:09] by having sex with his brother's girlfriend who he like works with while they're high on drugs. And then the next day they're like, oh that was a mistake. It'll never happen again.

[00:03:21] And she goes to take a shower because they had had sex in the shower. She goes to take a shower by herself this time and she realizes there's cameras in the shower head. And

[00:03:34] they're like, oh no somebody recorded it all. They're going to tell. Not, oh my god, there's cameras in the shower. Like they were more concerned by the fact that somebody was like seeing them cheat on their spouses, like whatever.

[00:03:47] Yeah. Was it the people who owned the property or something? No it wasn't. That guy came in and they point out the cameras to him and he's like, I don't know what that is. And like of course they don't believe him. But like

[00:03:59] the girl's boyfriend beats the shit out of him and he's unconscious in the tub. And while they're arguing about like what to do because the guy's not dead, he's just like in the tub, the host of the house. While they're all arguing in the living

[00:04:12] room about what to do with him, this guy just comes in dressed all in black and just like smothers the guy in the tub. I'm like, oh there's another person. And nobody stopped him? They were just like, yeah.

[00:04:24] No they didn't see him. They didn't see him. And so they come back and the host is dead and they're like, oh my god we murdered someone. Okay, but if you do find a camera in an Airbnb or wherever you're renting,

[00:04:38] just call the police. Don't touch it. Just call the police. Why would you confront somebody too? Like that can only end poorly. TLDR, they all die. And the movie doesn't give a reason why. It just goes and like shows this guy going

[00:04:58] to another house and setting up cameras. Like I guess this guy just goes to Airbnbs and shit and murders people. And that's it. But I was really annoyed because I hate movies that don't have a point and where everybody dies. I don't think that's fun. I don't think

[00:05:10] that's very defeatist. They just all died and he's like, yeah anyway time for another one. Like movies where everybody dies and there's no like moral to the story or like chance of them surviving. I hate that.

[00:05:23] Like if I wanted to be depressed, I'd just like watch the news or something. You know, like I don't I watch scary movies because I want to see somebody like almost get wrecked and then at the very end be like, I got the strength to go on

[00:05:37] and survive. Like I think that's cool. Surviving is great. But movies where everybody dies and there's no hope. Like man, it makes me feel gross inside when I watch those movies. Yeah, but you know, it's real.

[00:05:52] I don't want real. If I wanted real, like I said, I'd watch the news. Like who watches the scary movie because they're like, ah, you know what I want to see another murder. I'd watch true crime if that's what I wanted to see. OK, like

[00:06:06] but I have seen some really good ones. I don't remember them suddenly, but I've watched a lot of movies this week. You know, the rental was just the one that annoyed me the most.

[00:06:20] And I was like, are you kidding me? Like I was so into this and you're going to break my heart. It's like the movie Open House. It's like this mom and son. They like are renting a house because their life sucks and all this stuff's happened to them

[00:06:33] and they need to fresh start whatever. This guy's been like living in the house and like is stalking them and then kills the mom. And then the end of the movie, the son almost gets away and then he doesn't. He dies and it's like, well, fucking shit, man.

[00:06:50] Prepare me when you're going to start like make this movie so awful. Like I was I loved it up until the end, like but I've already watched it. Like I can't get rid of it from my brain, you know. Were you trying to?

[00:07:09] No, I'm just pissed about the ending, which I guess like that works for the filmmakers, because like they elicited a strong emotional response, so that I guess is the goal of filmmaking. Have you watched anything interesting this week?

[00:07:25] No, so this new I'm working out of a new office, right? But the office Wi-Fi, I guess, or like internet. Well, apparently a while back somebody that was stationed here was using the internet and apparently visited some not so safe or nice websites.

[00:07:49] And so it got the it got the people who run this office or like is in charge of all this stuff, you know, it got them a visit from the FBI. So they basically blocked most websites.

[00:08:09] So now you if you're on their Wi-Fi, you can't go on like YouTube or like it's like it's like elementary school Wi-Fi rules basically. You just can't get on most things unless it's like a work related website. What was he looking at?

[00:08:24] Like snuff or something like I have no idea they didn't. Yeah, that's pretty bad. Because I'm like I've been on some weird websites. I've never been visited by the FBI. No, he was on like some pretty dark websites supposedly. And I was like, OK, well, that's cool.

[00:08:41] But now I don't have YouTube, you fuck. Dude, I've been so I watched this YouTuber called Rotten Mango. She does like true crime cases and things going on in the international world. So I believe she's Korean and her husband is Chinese.

[00:08:58] So they do a lot of stuff like in the Eastern world and things like that. But she's always very respectful when she talks about these things, oh, the victims. And I appreciate that because with true crime, I feel like it's a very difficult balance for some people.

[00:09:13] And it often veers into like being more of a spectacle than about like telling you the story and honoring the victims. But I've been watching all about the in through. How have I tell you about these? Yeah, we have.

[00:09:30] OK, I also I just watched the Netflix documentary on it as well, where they had like the actual journalists and stuff involved. So basically it was like a trafficking ring kind of like in. So there's this app called Telegram that a lot of countries use for like everything.

[00:09:51] Like it's not the guy who created it really, really believes in free speech. So like the messages you have a way of deleting them very quickly and easily. Like they don't record anything. It's used to help.

[00:10:06] It can be used for like really good things like they are used like in war movements in countries like Syria and stuff like that. So that you can get your news from a source that's not the main one in your place.

[00:10:18] That might not reflect your views or might be censoring some things. So basically they use like a bunch of people and use this Telegram app to create like almost like dark web level of content. But the guy who did it had a friend working for the government

[00:10:40] and like would literally just pull people's personal information and stuff and then force them to like create sexual content. But not even like sexual content. Like they were having these girls go into like men's public restrooms and strip down naked and like lick urine off the floor.

[00:10:59] They would force these girls to carve like I'm God God's slave, which was like the username of the guy who created one of these chat rooms. But just stuff like that. And but what was the most disturbing part of this is like some of these were like

[00:11:17] middle and elementary school girls. They were distributing child pornography on all of these like different chat rooms and things like that. You always take the podcast to just the cheery places I want to say. Sorry.

[00:11:32] So the reason they got caught is the friend of one of the girls who was forced into doing these things, he joined the chat room and sent a link to a reporter to join to break the story open. And eventually like it just it got these people caught

[00:11:55] and it was just like a college student who had started like this whole thing. But that was just really shocking to me. Like they said they had hundreds and hundreds of victims and like they don't even know. That's crazy, right?

[00:12:10] Like I can't believe there are people out there who look at those things. Yeah, but they're called criminals. There's lots of them. Yeah, that's true. I just but it's trying to do things like these dark websites because I'm like I've looked at some pornography like on regular websites.

[00:12:31] I've like I said, I've never been visited by the FBI. I can't even imagine like how dark you would have to go for something like that to happen. So good luck with your eligible wifi.

[00:12:42] That's true, but like you are I just don't know why you would do it because it's very clearly like a public wifi that is being monitored. Like, you know, it's very it's not like they're hiding the fact that they're monitoring this internet. They're very open about it.

[00:13:00] Like it's I don't know why you would try it. But well, it's someone who's not very smart. Like isn't that how those people always get caught? Like they use like a public printer or public wifi or something like that. And it's like, man, you're real stupid.

[00:13:14] Which is good thing. Like they get caught for being stupid because at least they can't do it anymore. Yeah, no, at least there's that. But man, I guess I should probably lay off the scary stuff this week.

[00:13:32] I don't want to mess my sleep up anymore than it already is. I always love that you're like, yeah, I don't sleep well ever. But this week I watched a bunch of horror movies and suddenly it got worse. I don't know.

[00:13:45] Maybe I should watch another one to calm me down. I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about? I really liked X. It has I watched it because it has Mia Goth and Jenna Ortega in it. It gave me like really big chainsaw.

[00:14:00] Did you see that who Jenna Ortega is dating right now? No, who is she dating? She's dating Pete Davidson. I feel like everybody's named Pete Davidson at one point. Someone was like, how do we keep letting him get away with like the hottest actresses? What is happening?

[00:14:19] You know what? He's really funny and he has to be really good in bed because like the people he's dating, there's no overlap too. They're so different like Kim Kardashian, Jenna Ortega, Ariana Grande. Didn't he also, did he date Selena Gomez for a little bit?

[00:14:37] I think it's somebody else. Maybe I'd have to look it up. I don't follow celebrity gossip that closely. I just I don't either. But I just say popped up on my feet as someone was just like, we can't let him get away with it another time.

[00:14:47] Somebody's got to stop him. I love Jenna Ortega. She's a great actress. I guess that's why I watched the movie. But then OK, so apparently on the set of like the sequel to the movie X, Mia Goth has been like sued for attacking like an extra.

[00:15:08] Like I guess he was playing like a person in a body bag and she tripped over him and he was like, hey, can you make sure you're like careful or something? Because like he almost got hurt.

[00:15:18] And then apparently she was so pissed off by it that she started purposely kicking him every time that she did that scene. And he like went to the directors to complain because he was injured and he got fired for complaining. I'm laughing, but it's not funny.

[00:15:34] You've been taking this to me. I'm gone. You know, I guess Mia Goth is too big of an actress for them to care. Hollywood's pretty messed up. Have you seen Sabrina Carpenter's new song, Please Please Please? Have I seen the song or heard it?

[00:15:53] Heard it or seen it. What do you mean seen it? Like are they visually playing it? What are you talking about? Watching MTV again? No, I have not seen or heard it. Okay, I like the song a lot, but she's dating Barry Keoghan.

[00:16:09] I don't know how to say his name. You know, for someone who doesn't keep up with celebrity gossip, you sure got a lot of it. Just because like I watched this. Oh, now there's a reason. Oh, just because. Oh, no, I happen to see it.

[00:16:21] Oh, no, I didn't really follow all the accounts that follow them. That's because it was on TikTok. And so I was reading the comments and then I started reading it online. I was like, this is interesting. So first of all, he's an actor.

[00:16:32] He was in that really weird movie where I told you about it. I can't remember the name right now. So I'll just skip. He's an actor. He's a pretty attractive guy. He's like Irish or some shit.

[00:16:47] But Sabrina Carpenter is dating him and made him be in her music video where some of the lyrics are like, Please, please, please don't make me cry when I just did my makeup so nice. And she's like, you know, heartbreak is one thing. My ego is another.

[00:17:03] But please don't embarrass me, motherfucker. Which everybody's just like, oh, so iconic. If I had an actor boyfriend, I'd put him to work in a video saying, Don't embarrass me either. But then everybody's just talking about how great he looks and stuff.

[00:17:16] And then people started commenting like, he's a deadbeat dad. And I guess like he's got a kid and an ex-wife and like he's never with his kid. And now that he's in the video with Sabrina Carpenter, everybody keeps commenting on it.

[00:17:31] And like the wife keeps liking the comments. So that's the celebrity gossip that I know this week. It's very cool. No wonder I keep getting like I told people I was going into a meeting and there's like I keep getting like three or four different calls.

[00:17:47] I'm like, stop calling me. Gosh dang it. It's that important. Busy meeting with my wife. Yeah. But so what? So you've been having a fun week, you know, just watching movies, messing up your sleep.

[00:18:04] My sleep got messed up, but it was mainly because I was real upset that my car got stolen. Oh yeah, we haven't talked about that on the podcast yet. No, it happened literally like the day after we recorded the last episode.

[00:18:19] So like I woke up, what was it? Monday morning, went outside. The car wasn't there and I was like, I am like 99% sure I parked right fucking here. So I came back inside and I started calling for you and I was like,

[00:18:39] I don't know, maybe you'll find it. Like, I don't know. I know, like your brain goes to some weird places where something happens. Like my car should be there, but it's not. Am I fucking hallucinating?

[00:18:50] I was like, babe, babe, babe, my car is gone and I think it was stolen. And you were like, the first question you asked was, well, where did you park it? Oh, I didn't think to look where I parked it. Thank God you're there.

[00:19:03] It was like four in the morning. Okay. You woke me up. I was trying to get into okay helpful mode. I was like, whoa, you don't panic about shit. So this is a series. Oh my gosh.

[00:19:20] And like all of my, I had a bunch of like personal stuff in there, work stuff in there. I was like, man, I'm gonna have to pay for like all of this. And then they apparently whoever stole my car was too dumb to take my stuff for work

[00:19:35] because they just dumped it on the side of the road and I went and picked it up. I was like, hey, I'll take it. Picking money was not their goal was stealing this car. I don't think. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:19:43] But that's the other thing too is the police said that they usually find those cars within two to three days, but it's been like six by now. And I'm like, huh? Oh yeah. It's been almost five months now. Maybe they really liked yours. I guess. I don't know.

[00:19:57] But according to the insurance, they got 20 days to find it. Otherwise it's a total loss and they have to, they have to technically buy it from me and then write it off as a loss. I'm like, all right, cool. It'd be so much easier if that happened.

[00:20:10] I know it sounds terrible, but it's like you wouldn't have to deal with it. If it doesn't. Like selling it. No, if it, it's just a couple extra steps. I mean, if they do find it one, you'll have to go get it because I go down here

[00:20:23] for work, but then you just park it out front and the insurance adjuster comes, looks at it, gives a price for how much it'll take to get fixed. They'll give, I think they'll just, they said they'll send me the check and then

[00:20:36] I go and get it fixed and then sell it however I want to sell it. So it's not too bad. Like too big of a deal. It's just a couple extra steps if they do find it, but That was a fun morning though.

[00:20:50] It was something the police were so like one of them was kind of hopeful. And then he wasn't right after that because he's like, oh, well maybe it was towed. We can check with the registries.

[00:21:00] Let me go look for the, the sign to say like which towing company they use because it has to be posted. And I was like, okay. And he went off and us and the second cop were standing there and I was like,

[00:21:11] you know, I'll have hope that it was towed, but I highly doubt it. And the second cops are like why is that? Why would they have a door handle on the ground? Yeah, the door handles under that car right there.

[00:21:20] So, you know, that Tesla owner also made me angry. I'm like, so the Teslas have like the sentry mode, right? And it'll start recording if there's too much movement around the car or if someone touches the car or whatever.

[00:21:36] Well, this Tesla parked in the spot that I was parked in earlier that night. So at some point my car was stolen. The Tesla came back and then parked in that spot. But what really made me mad is they parked on top of my door handle.

[00:21:51] So we couldn't get it out. And when it said it was recording and someone was watching us, the guy who owns it didn't come out to see why there were police and like people standing around his Tesla. Like if you saw that, wouldn't you come outside, be like,

[00:22:05] hey, why are there police standing next to my car with flashlights on? You know, it made me so mad. I'm like, I get it. It's like five in the morning. But like what the f- I'm like clearly the car told us that you were watching.

[00:22:17] You know, like what the hell? Yeah, I think that was an interesting feature because now I'm just like, I don't know who owns that car, but fuck that guy. He hasn't done anything to us, but hate him.

[00:22:29] Yeah, every time I saw the car that whole week after that, I was just like, fuck that Tesla. Fuck you. No reason. You didn't do anything wrong, but I just feel like you should have come outside and been like, hey, why are you standing around my car?

[00:22:41] You know? Also, I mean, my news isn't as fun as yours, but I applied for that master's degree program. Nice. When does it start? Uh, July 20th. Right after the book's finished. Right. Nice. Nice. I do have to finish it.

[00:23:05] I just, I'm having some bad writers block with the end of this book. Like I'm really, I'm really frustrated with it actually. I just don't even know what to do to end it. I really don't want the ending to suck. I mean, if it's that kind of book,

[00:23:21] the ending could be like sucking, but you know, whatever. It's not though. Oh, never mind then. Don't do that. There is no sex in this book besides enough flashback. Well, that's boring. And the main characters kiss like two or three times towards the end of the book.

[00:23:44] Called slow burn. Gee, is it? I gotta wait for book three. What's why I applied for the master's program? They made it a little easier to apply, so I did appreciate that. I just had to wait for my college transcripts to get over to them.

[00:24:05] But I'm nervous because they said they have a lot of applicants and. Do they only have like a certain amount of online spaces? It doesn't make sense. Yeah, because I mean the teachers still have to grade the work and everything just like in a regular classroom.

[00:24:20] So I think the biggest online class I've been in was like 30 people. That's weird. It's like discussions and everything like that. Which kind of like I've been in online classes with like 120 people in it, so I don't know. I don't know as you didn't do classes that big.

[00:24:38] I don't know if this one will. I mean, it might be better in a writing program because I'm doing the master's of creative writing with a focus on fiction. Hopefully I'll be doing it. But it's about how there's discussion boards and stuff.

[00:24:54] And I hated discussion boards my undergraduate. I'd always post such thoughtful responses and a lot of stuff. And then I get people being like, yeah, I agree. Like motherfucker do your own post. Like it says for why does that bother you? They're great. They're fucking up, not yours.

[00:25:12] Why does that bother you? Because I want to have a discussion. Like I would like to respond. You should not post it in a college class where people don't care then. Like that's on you. This is what I'm saying. It goes back to you and your expectations

[00:25:27] of everyone being their greatest selves all the time. Like I don't understand how people could go on those dark websites. That's so weird. I don't know. That's how. Like it's the same thing. I'm not a bad person. So I just don't get it, I guess. Yeah.

[00:25:46] Some people are like, oh shit, it's doing two minutes. I'm not going to write 400 words, but here's six. I agree with you and your statement. Like it's. I guess I could see that. I don't know. I just I hope this class is intellectually challenging.

[00:26:03] Do you say it's not intellectually challenging? No, I hope that it's intellectually challenging and that I guess. I thought you needed more pressure on your brain. I just don't get to exercise my brain in that way a lot anymore.

[00:26:19] I tell you to be creative all the time and then you stop and you're like, stop pestering me. I'm like, okay. I don't. Being creative is a lot of pressure. No. Like I like writing so much. I love it. Like I want to do it as a profession.

[00:26:37] I just. I have such bad writer's block right now and I'm not. Very. Positive about my writing right now. Well, you'll get there doesn't matter, but maybe I'll start writing some articles on medium or something for funsies. Now it's your turn to talk.

[00:26:59] Okay, I thought you'd have a story. You just got to trailed off like, no, I don't know. I'm sad now. I feel so vulnerable talking about writing and stuff. So I guess I get kind of quiet because I'm just like.

[00:27:13] Yeah, so in our friends, we're at this new office location. So we've been going to a couple of different bars, different restaurants, found some good ones. And we went to one last night where we pulled up

[00:27:31] and there was not a lot of people inside maybe like four or five because apparently the bar scene down here doesn't start to like 10 or 11, which is crazy. That it starts that late apparently. And so we were there.

[00:27:45] We were going to bars at like seven, eight, eight, nine. We went to this bar and there was just almost no one there. And they're like, yeah, we get pretty busy around like 11. And I'm like, it's a Saturday night.

[00:27:58] I know you get busy at like seven or eight. Not a lot of people are working, you know, but apparently they're like, nope, it's a late crowd here. And I'm like, okay, whatever. It's fine by me because I'll show up at fucking 730 or eight

[00:28:09] to any of these bars and it'll be open, you know? But so we pulled up to this place. We walk up and there's, it looks like a pretty nice bar and there's a guy outside the security guard and he goes, hey, I need to see your IDs.

[00:28:23] And we're like, okay, sure. Haven't been ID'd in a while, but why not? Give him my ID and he goes, all right, I got to pat everybody down. We're like, okay. So he passed us all down for weapons and stuff. We go in, have drinks, whatever.

[00:28:37] Well, like an hour later we're sitting there. I'm like, you know what? I've had drinks. It's time to go pee. So I go to the bathroom. As I walk in to go pee, the security guard, I see him leave one of the urinals and walk straight back outside.

[00:28:53] And I was like, that man is about to go pat more people down and he didn't even wash his hands. I was like, oh, he got pee hands. Yeah, I was like, oh, that security guard's got pee hands. Oh, I was like, oh, not great.

[00:29:08] No, I had a great feeling. I was like, great. Now I got to burn my clothes. Then you go, you should offer some hand sanitizer. Or maybe he keeps some on him because sometimes I get scared and think people are going to think I'm not washing my hands

[00:29:21] but it's just because I prefer to use hand sanitizer because I don't like to get my hands wet. It may have been, but it didn't look like it. And definitely you should probably do that in the bathroom or right as you're leaving.

[00:29:33] Because he walked a good distance before he did anything, if he did. So are you still excited for me to go to that one? Yeah. It looks like I'm going to get down by Mr. P hands. No, I don't think he was patting down women.

[00:29:53] He was he was patting down men. But a lot of the women that were coming in were in like these fucking like cocktail dresses. So I was like not a ton of places to hide things anyway. You know, that's what they want you to think.

[00:30:05] He was mainly just looking like he'll glance through like a person like, yeah, you're good. Keep going. Yeah, I'm just tired this morning. Like, yeah, and so am I. And then we were originally going to record in a little while or at least a little bit.

[00:30:21] But I got a text like right as I woke up that was like, hey, our bosses, bosses, bosses coming down for a visit. He'll be here in like an hour and a half. Awesome. Love it. Glad he's coming down on a Sunday. Like what?

[00:30:37] Thanks for that heads up. Yeah, right. I will say so I got the Anbernic RG 35xx. I think we should get you one. What? The game thing. No one will know what that means. It's like a Game Boy, basically, like a Game Boy Advanced.

[00:30:57] But I've been playing Pokemon. I'm going to play Pac-Man. I got a bunch of games. I was like, man, maybe if I take it, she won't notice it. Just bring it down here. I would hella notice. But I was like, I think I want to get you one

[00:31:12] because I think you'd really like this and it's handheld and stuff like that. So anywhere you go, you can just play games and it's not required to be connected to the internet. So yeah, that is very nice. I'd like that because right now mostly what I'm doing

[00:31:26] is just sitting on my phone doing random stuff. Besides YouTube. Yes, if there's specific games you like though, let me know because each of them becomes preloaded with a different set of games. Like I picked this one that I picked out because it has all of the Pokemons,

[00:31:43] but other devices have different ones. I don't know. I'd have to take a look at the list and stuff. And would you like a bigger one? Because I know you said you didn't like how small it is. I don't know what sizes and stuff they come in.

[00:31:59] I'd have to look at them, babe. I just said that. Okay. But yeah, I think it's useful. Like I'm excited to fly again because I can take this with us and don't have to bring like the whole switch or something to be entertained.

[00:32:12] And I don't like having a bunch of games on my phone. Like it drains the battery. Speaking of phones, I'm looking to get my own phone plan, right? Like I'm like, okay, I'll upgrade my phone. I'll get a phone plan.

[00:32:24] And tell me why people are charging like 75 to $100, like T-Mobile, Verizon. I didn't check Sprint or AT&T because I don't like them. Does Sprint still exist or did it get absorbed by AT&T? I think I got absorbed. I don't know. Got absorbed. I don't know.

[00:32:50] But I'm probably going to go with MetMobile because after I told Jordan this yesterday, but I was looking at Verizon. Their minimum plan was like $75 a month. Their maximum plan was 100. And that's like without paying for your phone. Like that's just the phone plan.

[00:33:04] But they were giving away 65 inch TVs, like Kindle, like the Amazon Fire TVs with the purchase of the phone plan and something else. And I was like, maybe if you didn't have all these TVs, you wouldn't have to charge people $100 a month for your phone plan. Just saying.

[00:33:23] And like, so definitely will not be buying from any of those. Like absolutely ridiculous. I will be looking at MetMobile because theirs is $15 a month for the next three months for unlimited. So I don't know where I'll get the phone though. Maybe I'll go to Apple

[00:33:41] or maybe I'll go to Amazon or something. I don't know. I'll figure it out. It's like I don't think I really have anything else to talk about. Yeah, she just wanted to. Yeah. Maybe it's allergies. I know the air quality is shit today.

[00:33:58] It's just it's so windy down here all the time. I'm like, oh, but what else exciting happened this week? We are in the process of moving. That's cool. Oh, yeah. Where is that? They're leaving Austin for a little while and then we'll be back, you know, eventually.

[00:34:18] But I was talking to my boss down here and he's like, yeah, I might get an apartment in town instead of using the company housing. Or he said he might just buy a house in like San Antonio or Austin

[00:34:32] and then maybe just rent it out after a little while for it makes a little bit of side cash. And I was like, I mean, if you want to, yeah. I just I don't want to stay in Texas. Like, I'm not going to lie.

[00:34:45] Times are scaring me lately. Times are scaring me. Yeah, because like the other day, for example, I don't know, do we want to talk politics? I like the thingy. We're talking about the the block bill rolling. Yeah. And they were like, yeah, we don't want people

[00:35:03] to have access to contraceptives. And you're like, what? These are rights that women fought for in like the 60s and 70s and it's just being taken away. And like this is like way earlier than that. I thought no, the birth control was like, I think 1970 something.

[00:35:20] What's her name? Like Margaret something. Oh, yeah. I think I was confusing it with like the right to vote and that sort of stuff. And that's what I was thinking of. Margaret Sanger made it available in 19. I used to know this so good. So good.

[00:35:41] I had to take tests on this shit. She started her own publication in 1914 to promote birth control. In 1916, she opened the first birth control clinic. And that later became the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. See, way earlier than the 70s. I was right.

[00:36:00] It was finally approved by the FDA in 1960. All right, you're half right. It's fine. But you know, just like things like that, I'm like, I really I don't want to stay in Texas with all these things happening. The state itself, great. The government, not for me.

[00:36:26] It's not for me or any woman, but especially not for me. So happy times overall. Sorry. The world is dark and scary right now. And I'm trying to be a little bit scary. Right now, it's always dark and scary. It's always been dark and scary.

[00:36:43] It's always going to be dark and scary. You pointing out all the dark and scary things every week is what it is. All right, that's what this is. Like Cargadstow still put a little positive spin on it. You're like, yeah, but I don't know. It was sad.

[00:36:59] Your new car is very sexy. Like that's a win. Your car, I like I want your car. I want to take your car. I want to take your car. I can't afford that car. I'm going to take it. I can't afford that, but I want it.

[00:37:14] You can have it if you bet. My car payment is like 380 and a month. I'm not changing it for what you're paying. Yeah, I think mine. Mine initially right now, it's set for like 730, but it's going to be lowered because they gave me like 8%.

[00:37:33] I'm definitely going to lower it to at least 6%, if not 5.5%. Yeah, I was like, there's no way even when they showed you what your bank was offering, I was like, I think that's incorrect. Yeah, that's why I was like the bank's offering.

[00:37:45] The bank was offering it because they thought it was a used car. I was like, that doesn't make any sense. Like, can't you correct it and say, hey, it's a new car? I'm like, it's your car that you're selling. You're like, well, we couldn't.

[00:37:56] I'm like, okay, well, whatever, bud. That guy was going to sell you so much shit though. They always do. That's why I was glad I've been shopping with my parents before because like the gap insurance, they're like 100% not worth it. Not worth it.

[00:38:09] Yeah, that's why I was like asking like, what is your recommendation? He was like, well, these two are really important and then this is important and that one's important. I'm like, you just said four out of the five things you offered me are really important.

[00:38:20] I'm like, I feel like they're not considering. I've never had most of these. I'm like, I am planning to keep the car for a long time. So the six year warranty instead of three years, I like that. And same with maintenance because it was two grand

[00:38:34] for the maintenance for six years. I was like, honestly, that's pretty good. I'll pay more than two grand in maintenance usually anyway. So I'm like, well, especially I was looking at the reviews before I got the car and people were like,

[00:38:50] yeah, the oil on the car is super expensive. It was like. It's like a higher quality oil with this and that in it. And I was like, sure, that's fine. But I was like the first three years or the first two years

[00:39:02] are automatically covered from the dealer and you pay another. What is it? 1500 for the other four years. I'm like, I got oil change, you know, six years plus any maintenance that needs to be and plus the tires and rims on it.

[00:39:16] I'm like, I am not worried about it. Yeah, that part's worth it. Everything else, I'm like your insurance covers. That's the whole point of car insurance. But you got it and I want it. You can drive next time it's around you. How about that?

[00:39:36] It did feel weird being in such a low car though. One of my coworkers, he has a Challenger and his Chevy Silverado, his truck. And he says that every week or every week and a half, two weeks, whatever it is, when he goes home,

[00:39:51] he'll swap out which vehicle he leaves at home. So his wife and him like swap vehicles every week and a half. And I was like, I guess, sure. That's nice. My car barely has like it only has like 30,000 miles, 40,000. I don't remember.

[00:40:09] I don't have a lot of miles in my car for four years. No, I know. Like our car, my car was one year older than yours, but it had like over double the miles. Because you were door dashing when we first got here.

[00:40:22] Door dashing only accounted for like maybe a thousand miles. Everything else was just mainly from being down here for work. Because it's 500 miles to get home for a weekend, you know? Yeah, and you used to be driving to Nevada. A thousand miles a month.

[00:40:38] Oh wait, now you flew out here, huh? Yeah, you flew out here, never mind. And when I first got the car, I got it so I could drive across the country for a school because I had school for like six months out in Illinois or Missouri.

[00:40:53] Yeah, fun times. That put a bunch of miles on it like immediately, you know? I use mine for work. Yeah, I think your longest drive was just what moving out here with it. Yes, it definitely was. Then when we take my car to your mother's, but.

[00:41:13] Say like, you know, she's an evil stepmother in life. No, I love your mom. I'm just not very awake. Like I was going to eat and have some drinks and stuff and. Yeah, well, that's about it for us this week because I'm going to go start getting ready

[00:41:29] for this surprise visit from my boss's boss's boss. But such a lovely surprise because he definitely he told us Friday morning that he was going to be here Friday afternoon or Saturday afternoon and we're like, OK. And then Saturday morning, he sent us a message and said,

[00:41:45] oh, hey, my schedule won't allow it. I couldn't make time. I won't be coming out. We're like, OK, sounds good. And that's part of the reason why we went out Saturday night.

[00:41:54] And then here we are Sunday morning and he goes, oh, yeah, I'll be there in like two hours. And I'm like, all right, man, like you. OK, thanks. I mean, at least you gave us a heads up, I guess. But like on a Sunday, really?

[00:42:05] Like show up Monday, dude. Come on now. Give us our day off. But I am going to go drink your energy drink, I think. Go for it. I'm like. That was a lot of case out. Well.

[00:42:18] Well, down here, the room that they gave me is pretty bare bones. It has a wall locker, you know, the bed itself, and that's pretty much it. And the people that are like, oh, yeah, I got like a mini fridge. I got this. I got that.

[00:42:30] I got this. And I'm like, yeah, but I'm moving out of the company housing at the end of the month. I really don't want to buy all this crap that I'll then have to move anyway. You know, it's not worth it for me. I don't need much. No.

[00:42:44] All right. This has been mindless prattle. The sleepy show where we talk about depressing things and work. It's not a week. Where I talk about a press next time. I'll have a happier show. How about that? Next week, I'll bring happy things.

[00:42:57] Yeah, you say that every other week. Next week, I'll be accepted to the grad program, hopefully. Excuse me, yawns. But I'm Ripley. That's Jordan. This has been mindless prattle. Yes. Thank you, Jordan. That's Ripley. Yep. And we'll see you next time. This was mindless prattle.

[00:43:18] Oh my God, I hate you. All right, guys. Goodbye.