Mindless Independence Days

[00:00:01] Music Aww, good boy. Yeah, who's a good microphone boy? Why is the microphone a boy? Look how long and hard he is. No? That's a reach. Where you going? I don't need to know Well, you don't sing the whole thing. That's how you shush.

[00:00:30] That's how you ruin it. You get the things wrong. You got it wrong. I can get nothing wrong. I'm perfect and infallible in every way. Okay, buddy. You know, sometimes you should just watch an episode of Futureama. It's all I'm saying. It's all I'm saying.

[00:00:50] I have seen them. Just because it happens to me 60,000 times and remember every single word they've ever said like you. Clearly you haven't memorized the important lines, okay? Bite my shiny metal ass.

[00:01:02] Look, the day Bender was born, Inspector Five looked him over probably with tears of joy and pride in his eyes. And proclaimed to all the world by means of one scrap of paper that he was perfect and infallible in every way. But he lied.

[00:01:18] And then he wet the chair. What's your favorite episode of Futureama? He did lie. Favorite episode? So, mmm, mmm, mmm. There's so many. Mmm. I like the devil's hands. That's a good one. What is that one?

[00:01:42] All right, that's the one where Frye tries to learn to play the hollow phone or to impress Lila. But his hands are too dumb to keep up with his head because his head hears all the beautiful music, right?

[00:01:53] So him and Bender go to Robot Hill to make a deal with the robot devil. And the robot devil loses on the wheel of robots, right? I remember the wheel part. Yeah, so the robot devil and Frye have to switch hands.

[00:02:10] And then Frye has robot hands and he plays beautiful music. So then, Heedonism Bot tells him he needs to make an opera, right? So then Frye writes an opera, but the devil wants his hands back because he doesn't like the Frye hands. The stupid ones? Yeah, they're stupid.

[00:02:34] Why would the devil give him his own hands? He just puts his own name on there for fairness. He even says it in the episode, all right?

[00:02:41] Anyway, so then they go through this whole bag of forth and basically the devil tricks like all his friends into making Frye swap the hands. Back. And then at the very end, they play a sweet little melody together. It's not very good. The ending. Both.

[00:03:03] I feel like so many of the episodes of Futurama are kind of depressing actually. No, that one's good. Everyone leaves because the opera sucks, right? Because he can't play anymore when he gets his real hands back.

[00:03:13] But Lila is in the audience because she gets her hearing back magically. And so they go through and everyone leaves because he plays like terribly, right? But then it's just Lila in the audience. She's like, I'd like to hear how it ends.

[00:03:27] And so he plays like this crappy version of like him and her like holding hands and walking off into the sunset together. It's great. That's so cute. Mm-hmm. There's also like the four episode special or movie special depending on how it's broken down.

[00:03:40] I think Netflix used to have it as a four episode special, but now like Hulu has it as movies, right? It's like all of season, I think it's eight or six. One of the two is just four movies, which were 12 episodes if you broke it down.

[00:03:53] One of them was called Bender's Game where they get sucked into Bender's like imaginary world. Where he thinks everything's like Dungeons and Dragons. That was good. Oh, I thought of a better one. The better episode, right? The best one. It's good.

[00:04:11] It's the one where Fry breaks the time button and time freezes for everybody. Like him and Lina? Yeah, and then they go like around the whole world together and do all those things to get really old. And then the professor shows up and is like, you're an idiot.

[00:04:25] Let me fix the time button and we'll go back in time. Yeah, that was something I really said. That was like one of the first ones you showed me actually. Yeah, that was one of the endings of... Like when they thought they weren't getting renewed again.

[00:04:36] Yeah, pretty much. That's what it is. I'm excited for new episodes though. Can't wait. Did I tell you they announced a new Hunger Games? Yes, you did. I don't know if I'm talking about it on here but I'm very excited. I don't think you did.

[00:04:50] I think you just talked about it on the phone. It's called Sunrise On The Reaping and it's about the 50th Hunger Games which would be Hey Matches Hunger Games. But she doesn't... Ms. Suzanne Collins doesn't specify if it's going to be told from his perspective.

[00:05:03] I think it's probably going to be told from a game maker's perspective or something like that. Because she says it's going to show how propaganda affects you and shapes reality and things like that.

[00:05:14] So I think it would make more sense that it's somebody who isn't in control of the games. It could be, yeah. So the book's coming out next year and right after she announced it,

[00:05:25] the studio that makes the Hunger Games movies was also the movies coming out a year later. That's how much they trust her. The book hasn't even come out yet and they're like, yes Ms. Collins. That's good stuff man. I think Songbirds and Snakes did really well.

[00:05:38] Movie portion at least. Oh yeah, I watched it. I went and saw it in theaters and then I bought it the day it came out for digital owning. I don't know how to say that right. For digital owning? Would you buy it through? Amazon Prime. Oh boy.

[00:05:53] So I got it on Amazon and I watched it like eight times after I got it. And then I listened to the music like all the time. I think the music's really good. I just don't see the story was portrayed that well compared to the book.

[00:06:06] Did you read it too? I read most of it. I liked the book better because it gave you the insight of what he was actually thinking. The movie did not and if you don't have that background, it's much less impactful than movie.

[00:06:19] And I do think in the movie it seemed kind of like, oh he could have been good, he could have been bad but the book made it very clear that snow was bad from the beginning. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. He needed his thoughts to understand that.

[00:06:29] He had a lot of dark and evil thoughts and in the movie you were just like, he's helping her, he's doing so good. No, he was trying to kill everyone and get on top. At one point he calls his cousin a whore basically in his mind

[00:06:43] and then out loud he's like, I love you, you're the best. Stuff like that where you read it and you're just like, oh my god this man is fucked up. Yeah, it's very different. But I am very excited for this new one.

[00:06:56] There's one thing our generation likes, it's dystopia. That's right. What is your favorite TV show? All Time That's Not Depressing. All Time That's Not Depressing. I mean, alright, it could be depressing. We know you. All Time Favorite. We'll get back to you next week. On this episode though...

[00:07:17] They change this very frequently. Well on this episode we'd like to welcome you. Oh, welcome to this prattle. This is my list Prattle. This episode is 74-ish. Our hosting website actually tripped me up the other day because it sent me a message and it said, congratulations on 75 episodes.

[00:07:32] I'm like, I looked at it and I'm like, I'm fairly certain I do not have 75 episodes. So I had to go back through the backlog and click on through a bunch of things and like nope we definitely only have the, I think it was 72 at the time.

[00:07:45] No there's definitely only 72. That's crazy. One of the ones where we recorded it and then it got messed up and we just skipped it? No, no. Like even the ones that got messed up that had half the audio,

[00:08:01] we never released the episode portion of it but we have, I think we have the audio. Maybe it's counting recordings but not episodes because I counted the episodes. There wasn't the correct amount but recordings I think there was more.

[00:08:13] So I don't know what was, but this is my list Prattle episode 74. Happy July everyone. The fourth comes up in a few days. It's a big thing if you're American, if you're not American that's fine too. Probably don't celebrate the fourth.

[00:08:29] You celebrate your own Independence Day from Britain, alright? I don't know what all they are. I feel like if every country celebrated every Independence Day from Britain there'd be a lot of holidays.

[00:08:39] I think if I were in another country I would celebrate like other countries holidays to make fun of them. I'd be like, I would have an American fourth of July and be like let's dress up like an American day and make hot dogs.

[00:08:53] Oh, I thought you meant go to Australia and then make fun of Australia on their Independence Day. No, no, no, no, no, Australians if I was an Australian I'd be like oh it's July fourth I'm gonna dress up like an American would and eat some hot dogs.

[00:09:06] I think that'd be fun. I think it'd be interesting but again if you did that for all the countries I feel like you'd have a lot of Independence days. Yeah, but there's a country that does that. How many Independence days are there? Let's look. Okay.

[00:09:28] 18 countries celebrate their Independence within a week of fourth of July. 183 Independence days around the globe. Okay so like almost half. Oh my god, so some countries do it. Almost half the countries, like almost half the days of the year you would have to be celebrating. That's great.

[00:09:49] So here's what I was thinking of. Polish people role play as Americans celebrating the fourth of July. Oh my gosh, look at this map of like the people who celebrate Independence Day. Surprisingly the UK or England does not celebrate Independence Day. Weird. It's so weird.

[00:10:05] Blue is the United Kingdom. Oh I love this map. Blue is the United Kingdom. The Ottoman Empire, interesting. Okay, France has a lot. Portugal. St. Christopher, Nevis and Gia? I don't know if that one is but... I don't know either. Interesting. But we've got Novalu, Yugoslavia has some.

[00:10:27] There's like two that celebrate their Independence from the United States, interesting. Liberia, Libya, excuse me. The Philippines, how does the Philippines celebrate? Vanatois. Let's see, wow there are a lot of Independence days. Who celebrates Independence from Istanbul? Turkey. And Samoa. Samoa celebrates Independence.

[00:10:52] Oh no that's New Zealand. Okay, I was very confused. Brazil. Uruguay celebrates Independence from Brazil. Who's this? Vietnam celebrates Independence from Japan and France. That's so specific. I like this map, this is a fun map. Georgia. Who celebrates Independence from Georgia? Abacazia? Abacazia? Never heard of that.

[00:11:17] It's on July 4th, what do you know? Independence from Georgia, the name of the holiday is known as Liberation Day. The end of the 1992 to 1993 war in Abacazia. De facto Independence from Georgia in 1993. Damn, officially declared in 1999.

[00:11:34] Man I was three years old when these people got their independence. Holy crap. Republic of Georgia, interesting. That's wild. Spain, holy shit look at all the Spains. United Kingdom, woo. Look at all the United Kingdoms. Yeah, so many of the United States.

[00:11:52] So many countries are like fuck the UK. Jamaica, Antigua, Dominica, Barbados, Guana. All of these like coastal places around Africa. Makes sense. They just like sailed down like you might know. Nevada, Tuvala, Solomon Islands, Brunei, Malaysia. Myanmar. Why with India, Pakistan, Afghanistan? Everybody hates the UK.

[00:12:20] They said fuck y'all we gonna be independent. Cyprus, Moana. Kenya, Uganda. Uganda what? This is a family friendly podcast, okay? I don't think that's true at all. You can't suck on these nuts in the park. Anyway, so there's 183. Interesting. July is a popular month. Second only to August.

[00:12:46] August has 27 Independence days. July has 25. Nice. Damn, we get hot out in my life. Fuck these people controlling us. It's too hot to be living under your control. Thank you. That's what we're about to see in the next few decades. More Republicans. Did you watch the debate?

[00:13:10] No, I watched clips of it. I'm so glad I didn't actually watch it. A lot of people on TikTok were like, yeah, they spent 10 minutes talking about their golf game. It was so Adelaide Field. All of a sudden just one of them said to the other one,

[00:13:24] wow something about golf just like, oh you're back nine whatever. And then just went back and forth for a couple of minutes about golf and we're like okay. What are we getting at here? Almost like, I don't care who you're voting for, vote for whoever you want.

[00:13:42] Neither of them are great candidates. I would prefer a third person. I feel like we are witnessing the destruction of our country in real time. The empire is falling. I'm not trying to get too political, but I thought it was funny that what I would love to see,

[00:13:58] I think the moderators did a good job of asking their questions. Their questions seemed more fair than the last previous years for moderators, which was nice. It was a nice change of pace. The moderators, it would cut to either the news channels

[00:14:14] who would be like oh that question was on for this, you're attacking people. They're asking tough questions of both candidates. It's self-harm in our country. They need to be asking these questions. They're asking tough questions of both, right?

[00:14:26] But some of them, almost none of the questions that they asked got answered. Which is what, the thing I hate the most about debates, about these debates especially with politicians, is like I wish you could just keep asking the same question until they actually answer it.

[00:14:40] But they're like oh we're running out of time, we'll move on to the next question. I'm like no, I want an answer to that question. Yeah, like why would I vote for you if I don't know what you're going to do?

[00:14:46] Yeah, both of them at the same time, none of them could answer your questions. Did you see Trump accidentally posted his talking points before the debate? No. Yeah, he tweeted his talking points or a troops social, whatever. He posted them somewhere online. His talking points before the debate.

[00:15:04] It was so funny. I guess this is what you should be looking out for, Joe. It was something that... I was drinking a beer while I was watching it and none of these questions are being answered. I saw that a lot of people were drinking during that.

[00:15:24] No point. After they asked independent people who were like yeah we were undecided on who we were going to vote for and this didn't help at all. I don't know who to vote for because at one point they were talking about golf for like five minutes.

[00:15:38] What does that have to do with anything? I don't care. What are you going to do for this country? Yeah, they were talking about golf. It was so funny. And there were some things that were just kind of like blatant lies from both sides. Everyone was just like...

[00:15:54] Me and all my friends were just sitting around and everyone was looking at me and we were like that's a lie and then someone else would say something back and we're like that's also a lie. You're both just lying. You're lying about things that are public knowledge already.

[00:16:10] You're not lying about secret things that nobody knows about. Unfortunately the average voter doesn't fact check or care. That's what we were talking about. There should be somebody standing by right after every statement they say and be like that was true, that was false.

[00:16:27] You lied, that was good. You know that'd be great. There's a check marker on red X appears above their head if they tell the truth or they're lying. Check out these people's shock callers. I was like what are you doing? Every time they lie. That'd be great.

[00:16:42] But yeah it was something. The questions were important especially for the future. One of them... I get one point... I forget what they were talking about. I do remember at one point, Biden just looks at him and he's like

[00:17:04] I don't know what we're standing around talking about how other people are committing crimes. The only criminal I see right now is a convicted felon on the stage. I was like alright man calm down.

[00:17:15] But it was such a contrast to their first debate between the two of them where whoever his manager was or whoever was managing him at the time, Biden, they told him like be professional and answer the questions honestly. This time they were just like fucking insult him.

[00:17:31] He's doing it to you, may as well do it to him. And they just went back and forth. It was more entertaining than the usual debate. I'll give them that but it was less insightful all around. Yeah it'll be super interesting.

[00:17:43] Our government collapses because the American people are riled up and fighting each other over these dumbass candidates. And then how are our three main choices of those two? And then RFK Jr is running too right?

[00:17:56] And he literally had a wormy, he's JFK's like nephew or some shit like that. Oh okay okay. He literally talks about how a worm ate part of his brain. The guy who had a worm eat part of his brain wants to be the president of the country.

[00:18:14] I saw someone the other day was like hey this is going through my state's legislature and I want to push it up to the federal legislature. And it was a bill that imposed age limits in the house, the senate and the presidency.

[00:18:29] And it was like y'all need to retire. You're telling us to retire but both of you in your 70s and 80s, y'all need to go. It was crazy. I feel like a lot of the political parties represent this really old style of politics

[00:18:43] where you are either really hardcore Republican or hardcore Democrat. And a lot of the younger generations don't go with that. They don't go with one way or the other. They're like we should compromise in the middle and make the world better.

[00:18:56] And a lot of people are like no it's my belief and you're like alright well cool. And it's like just Congress and the Senate and everything, they don't reflect the average person anymore.

[00:19:06] I think that's a big part of why there's a huge disconnect is because we can't see ourselves in those positions. But I have seen a lot more younger people running for these positions now and trying to break into politics. So maybe that'll change things.

[00:19:18] Yeah, I mean there's no minimum age except for the presidency right? Yeah I think you have to be like what 35 to be president? 35, yeah. We looked up who the youngest president was. Who do you think the youngest president was? Take a guess. Random guess. Taft.

[00:19:31] Taft. Good guess? No. It does start with T. You're not gonna guess again? Alright cool it's a... Me, who else has a T name? Is it like last name or first name? No first name started with T. Theodore Roosevelt? It is Theodore Roosevelt. How old was he?

[00:19:52] He was 42 when he entered office. You know why he was so young? Because he entered after the assassination of McKinley. Oh yeah William McKinley I did a project about him when I was in elementary school. One of them lesser known presidents.

[00:20:06] Who was the president that was so big they had to make him like a really custom bathtub? I thought that was Taft wasn't it? I don't know very well. I graduated and all the history left my brain. I mean yeah, there's a big president needed his own bathtub.

[00:20:24] Yep William Howard Taft. Taft, yeah he got stuck in a bathtub. Okay but looking at a picture of him he's not even like overweight by today's standards. Like he's not like today's obese. It's crazy yeah.

[00:20:42] We're talking a lot of politics this one but I'm more touched talking about facts right? So do you know how old the founding fathers were when they signed the Declaration of Independence? 23? The average age range was like 25 to 28 and there was like two 32 year olds.

[00:21:01] Why did they make the presidential age so 35? Don't look at me. I don't know couldn't tell you. But by the time we had our first president the first president was like 57. So yeah there's that. You know we've been fucking it up ever since he left too.

[00:21:17] Literally right when George Washington left. George Washington left. He was like by the way avoid the two-party political system. It's awful and we'll tear this country apart and what did we do? He said that Lincoln said that like years later.

[00:21:32] Like 90 years in Lincoln was like yo we should stop this. You know interesting fact I learned about Washington so he owned slaves right? Yes he did. But he would do this thing where he would send them away and then have them come back

[00:21:47] because where he lived there was like a rule that if a slave was there for a certain amount of time they automatically became free. So he would send his slaves away and make them come back and I'm like that's so fucked up. The slavery system was yeah.

[00:22:01] Yeah obviously but I feel like people have this idea these days like oh they didn't know it was fucked up. Like no they knew it was fucked up. There's the other thing too of like oh the founding fathers couldn't do any wrong.

[00:22:11] You're like a lot of the founding fathers owned slaves. And then again 90 years later 80 years later is when we're like oh shoot. I can't remember what that was but one of them literally had like a daughter with a slave and then he enslaved his own daughter.

[00:22:26] Like that's so fucked up in the video. You can't have him like walking around like people. That's crazy. That's for the time. Nowadays it's acceptable. Oh my god the way he said that sounds terrible. For the record he does not think like that.

[00:22:45] For the record we have black friends. Oh my god you can't say that. It's obvious to people who are like oh but I have black friends and they're like you trace their black friend and it's like one person six years ago that they never talked to.

[00:22:58] You're like that doesn't excuse you for being a piece of shit. Yeah I know a lot of founding fathers. Shane Gillis he's a comedian. He talks about when his routines is he went on a tour of George Washington's slave quarters and he goes they do not pull punches.

[00:23:16] Like the first thing you do on the tour is walk into the slave quarters and there is an actor in there and he is acting as a slave and he does not break character and don't go there if you're white. I was like whoa.

[00:23:29] I would be so uncomfortable. I did he said the guy was calling him like master or something. Do you see a lot of apartment complexes and like real estate and realtors started calling them like primary bedrooms

[00:23:43] or grand bedrooms instead of master bedrooms because the term came from like slavery. Yeah I thought that was interesting. The day I learned that about that I literally was like mind blown like oh my god it's in it's literally in everything we do every day

[00:23:58] and we don't even notice like how much of our lives are influenced by the history surrounding this country. Crazy how history works like that. Crazy. Do you think okay I know that you love future trauma.

[00:24:17] Do you know if you drama they have all the presidents heads in jars right and they're like we have the technology to keep heads alive in a jar. I think that they said Al Gore was responsible for that. I'm not entirely sure. Good for him.

[00:24:31] I'm pretty sure like somebody holds a conference of like scientists and like he introduces everybody like by their scientific achievements and somebody that gets named is the inventor of keeping heads alive in jars. Anyway besides the point you're getting off topic calm down.

[00:24:49] Do you think if we were able to get heads alive in jars we would go back and be like the president's perfect. No I feel like that'd be an interesting like also where would we get their brains from.

[00:25:05] No it's science you don't understand it right now but it's science. Okay also why would you want all the presidents like to the museum. Oh for the museum I guess yeah I was like like the way they have it where the

[00:25:20] guy walks in and he talks to the president so they help make decisions no when what where like doesn't the president of in the show in the show like go into the other presidents and talk to them all the time.

[00:25:30] No Nixon ran for president again and won in the show but in the show all the heads are just in the head museum hanging out on shelves. Oh that'd be fine but I also think it'd be kind of cruel wouldn't it.

[00:25:43] I don't know what are they going to do talk at you. Like you can't do anything you're just there and you just hope wait for the museum to open and talk to people. No you get fish food. And you have to talk to the other presidents.

[00:25:58] Yeah and then it begs some college student to put beer in your head. Beer. I don't know I don't think I'd like that. You're the one visiting the museum not in the museum you're not a president.

[00:26:12] Okay I like that what's that show that we watched a little bit of where like they upload their consciousness into discs basically. Oh you're talking about it was on Netflix. It's a really good show I was sad they stopped after two seasons.

[00:26:28] Oh my gosh what is the name of that. That's why I'm asking you. You're the one who showed it to me. I know it's there's a different one that that was the upload just into like a virtual world that we saw after death.

[00:26:45] No that was a comedy wasn't it. Yeah it was a comedy slash like drama ish altered carbon that's what it's called. Oh yeah I really like that one. We never want we never finished the second season. I didn't like the second season as much as the first season.

[00:27:02] I didn't either but I at least finished it. Let's see science fiction yeah we know that it was like in the first season he was like a hot Asian guy. He doesn't change people.

[00:27:19] Yeah that's the whole yeah but no he's still never mind you have to watch the second season you don't get to be like he wasn't this in the second season you didn't watch it you don't know. Okay you don't know. I watch it. No we don't have Netflix.

[00:27:32] Yes we do. We don't. Yes we do. Uh-uh you canceled it. No. How come I haven't been watching it? I kept telling you to watch stuff on there. You did not. Because remember got Netflix again for Bridgerton. Wow someone's been lying to me for decades now okay. Decades?

[00:27:48] Decades. You've only known me for like a decade. That's not true. It's been more. Slightly more than a decade. Exactly he caught her in another line. Oh my god. Bam got you again. Man you are not looking good this episode. I'm always looking good. No one can tell.

[00:28:07] Oh yeah we gotta figure out if my Amazon package is in the mailbox or not. No. You okay Ripley dressed like Kim Possible today. I did not dress like Kim Possible today. Yeah huh. Look Kim. I literally have a Kim Possible outfit and it's not this.

[00:28:24] No okay look I'm gonna Google Kim Possible and it's gonna show up I could just you okay. Look Kim Possible. Boom look told you. That's not Kim Possible. Yeah it is. Look right there. Do you not see it?

[00:28:44] Are you just looking at my titties and that's how you're deciding I'm Kim Possible or? What? She's a teenager. You creep. Alright calm down over there. I just showed you a picture of Kim Possible look exactly like you. You just showed me a picture of me.

[00:28:58] That's what I'm saying. Oh my god. Oh my gosh. What happened? I'm sorry. Bam bam bam. So you're gonna watch scary movies tonight? No. Oh I'm sorry that I like my psyche intact.

[00:29:13] You said you wanna watch them with me and I don't want some with you and you wanna watch them with me. What was that conundrum that you just proposed? Cause I was like I was telling you how much I was watching them and you're like you never

[00:29:22] watched them with me and I'm like cause you said you don't like them but then every time I try to watch them with you you're like you know. Cause it's the only thing you try and watch what do you mean?

[00:29:30] Every time we don't need horror movies every night alright? Man I don't sleep super well yeah I wonder why. It's crazy. Man I have anxiety all the time. Really? After all these anxious movies? It's not because of the scary movies. It's crazy.

[00:29:44] You don't know that it's not hurting you. It's not. You're not a doctor. I don't have nightmares about the scary movies. So what? You get stressed and anxious when you don't know the ending of movies horror or non-horror okay? I think watching movies is just bad for you.

[00:30:00] You can roll your eyes on it. Watching movies is just bad for me. Yeah the only movies you watch are the ones that you know the ending cause you get too anxious otherwise.

[00:30:07] Like you read a book because you saw the movie was coming out and wanted to know how it ended before you went and saw the movie. I wanted to know like what the story was so I wanted to read the book. That's not the same.

[00:30:18] The book was so much better. That's not the same and that was not the reason and you know it. You know it. You even told me I was like you read the book before we went to the movie and you

[00:30:26] were like yeah I wanted to know what happened. Yeah that's why I watch movies too to recap the book. You should read the book though. I'm not gonna read the book cause I don't want to. Why? I don't need to read a horror book. It's not that scary.

[00:30:38] I don't need you to hit me either but here we are. Yeah. Thanks for doing it the second time. Let me feel real loved. Anyway. This lady is crazy. What lady? This one. I'm not. Oh okay. You said it in such a convincing way.

[00:31:01] Now that I'm so sure. But my favorite TV show. You're gonna go by John. Let's circle back around. No you don't. You pick a favorite. Why? Go. One of them popped into your head just now. I know it did. What is it? Crazy anatomy. Oh crazy.

[00:31:22] We all couldn't have guessed. But only if it's on the side while I'm playing with Sims. I also like Ghost Whisperer. What the hell is that? It's this show with Jennifer Love Hewitt where she can see ghosts and she helps them move on. To kill other people?

[00:31:40] To kill the afterlife. There's one episode where one of her best friends dies and her best friend doesn't know that she's dead but she knows that she's a ghost and she can see her. At the end of the episode, her friend realizes she's a ghost

[00:31:54] and she freaks the fuck out. It's like, oh. But it was on Hulu and I canceled it for the night. Yeah thanks for that. You know it's only on Hulu? You sure? Yep. You could get one if you wanted. No. Too late now.

[00:32:09] But maybe after I watch all the stuff I want on Netflix, I'll cancel it and get Hulu back. You just told me about this Netflix thing. Now I'm going to need to watch Netflix. I didn't know you weren't watching it.

[00:32:18] I kept asking you if you were going to log in and you kept telling me no. You kept changing the password because you kept forgetting it. No. Yeah. I texted you the password. Yeah and then you change it and then it doesn't work.

[00:32:30] I didn't change the Netflix password. You changed all your passwords. I literally have not changed the Netflix password. You do not remember. Just log in. It's fine. Thank you. No. Why are you hitting me again? You hit me. I did not. You have no proof. I was there.

[00:32:46] Wow. I was here. It's proof enough for me. It's not. Can't tell me your memory is failing and tell me that your memory is good at the same time. It just depends on what happens. What? What are you doing? Messing with my toes. Ooh. Gross. You're gross.

[00:33:02] Anyway, what else been going on in your life? I've just finished my rough draft of my book. So it's coming out. I have to edit it first. There's a lot of editing. So it's going to be edited. It's going to take at least a month. Have you started?

[00:33:19] No. Good, good. That's why I want a printer. That's why I want a printer. Well, so I don't have to go to like an office max or something and pay to have it printed out because it's going to be a lot of pages. Mm-hmm.

[00:33:33] But it would help me edit. Oh. Because I can read it? Because reading on a page is different than reading on a screen. Yeah. Didn't I tell you to get one of those tablets so you could draw on the screens? And you said no? What tablet?

[00:33:47] The like the Surface Pro ones because they always advertise that you can draw on the screen and like edit things and mark things up and design things and you were like, no, I need a MacBook. No, because we looked at the Surface Pro

[00:33:57] and you said it wasn't worth it and it was more expensive than a MacBook. No, I don't remember that at all. I have an iPad. It's just an old one. I don't know what you're doing. Anyway, while you're thinking about that for a while

[00:34:12] you just like start off into the business and you're like, okay cool, we're not doing anything on the podcast right now. Oh sorry. Anyway, we also, we just got our new apartment, right? We're not in there yet but I went to go pick up the keys

[00:34:24] and I got there right after they opened because I was like, I can stop by before work, grab the keys, go to work and I got there right after they opened because I was like, I can stop by before work, grab the keys, go to work

[00:34:37] and then I have other stuff to do after work, right? So I show up there pretty much right after they opened and they're like, what can we do for you today? And I was like, I'm here to pick up my keys because you called me several days ago

[00:34:52] and reminded me to pick up my keys today. And they went, oh yeah, you can't pick up keys until 3 p.m. You don't have keys for me until 3 p.m. and they're like, no, the keys aren't handed out and I'm like, this isn't a hotel.

[00:35:10] That's exactly what I thought when you told me. I was like, what are we moving into a hotel like? Like, what is not ready? And she's like, well, we have to get you your gate openers and the keys and we have to have some documents prepped

[00:35:24] and I was like, okay, but you called me last week to tell me to come in today. Why is all this not done yesterday? Like, why wouldn't you prep all that the day before? So you could just have the whole day of it sitting there

[00:35:35] waiting for them to come in, you know? She's like, well, we will have to, I have like four to do today and I'm like, are they all picking up today? She's like, yeah. I'm like, so why didn't you do those four yesterday?

[00:35:48] Are you gonna, did you tell the other people to come in at 3? Well, no. So you're just hoping that they don't come in until after work, which by the way, their office closes at 5. So if someone works 9 to 5, when are they gonna pick up their keys?

[00:36:04] They're gonna pick them up next week. Like what the fuck is it? Like, you know, like what if they could only pick them up at 8 in the morning when you guys open? Oh well, I'm like, yeah, not your problem all of a sudden,

[00:36:16] but like what the fuck, you know? And I was like, I don't wanna be like a dig about it, but she's like, oh, you can sign the paperwork now and then when you come back later, you'll just have to come in, pick up the keys

[00:36:26] and be like, I mean, I guess, because I don't wanna come back and spend half an hour with you later. Like what the fuck, you know? But it was such an easy thing. The paperwork by the way that she had to fill out,

[00:36:37] it was like five forms that all you had to do was fill in our apartment number and fill in like the dates. And that's it. And I was like, you couldn't have put our, I'm like, I could have put our apartment number on here yesterday.

[00:36:54] And she's like, oh, like half an hour for the paperwork. It took me like five minutes to do the paperwork with her, maybe. And I was like, why did this not get done yesterday? And then when I showed up back at three,

[00:37:06] she had a little mug with the two garage openers in it, the two little wristbands, a key card and the keys. And I'm like, you couldn't have put five things in a mug yesterday so I could pick the keys up

[00:37:21] at eight in the morning and like what the fuck. No Jordan, that would have been too much work for her. No, yeah, it's crazy. I'm like, all right, like what? So, I don't know. But, mm-mm. He said the pool looks really nice though. The pool looks nice.

[00:37:37] There's like a pool room, which is like a billiards room, you know? What else was in there? I don't know. I would walk in and, okay, so I went back to get the keys at three, right? I walked up and the front door had one of those signs,

[00:37:51] like the open on one side and it's closed on the other. It said closed and I was like, you gotta be shitting me right now, like it's three. I'm here for these keys. And then on the little clock, like the one that they adjust, it said 2 p.m.

[00:38:03] And I was like, well, it's three. So you forgot to take off the sign? And I was like, if this door is open, I'm walking in here so I pulled on it and the door opened and I'm like, pfft, I'm going in.

[00:38:12] So I turned around and I flipped it over to open and I kept walking and then, and different leasing agents, she was there. She's like, hi, what are you, what can I help you with? I'm like, oh, I'm here to pick up keys.

[00:38:22] She goes, oh, okay, she'll be right back. She just stepped off to the go to the restaurant. I'm like, okay, that's fine. And she goes, oh, thank you for flipping that sign over. I forgot to do it earlier. And I'm like, yeah, you've been here

[00:38:31] for presumably an hour because it's three, not two. So, and like they're only open from like nine to four. So I'm like, and you're taking presumably like an hour or an hour and a half lunch, you know, because there's no reason to put the time

[00:38:48] if you're going to be back in like 20 minutes. You know, I was like, I'm like, y'all ain't working that much, are you? It's crazy. No, okay. Tell me why like apartment leasing people, they always like have the biggest attitudes but do like nothing. Okay.

[00:39:04] And every time you go into a leasing office, there's like eight desks. And I'm like, I've never seen more than two people in here at a time. Where is everyone else? Like where, what do they do? Do they get paid like part time?

[00:39:16] And they got to go fucking like door dashed or something? I don't know. It's very confusing. I guess maybe it depends on which part of the office you work in. There's just a sign on the door that says leasing agents

[00:39:26] and there's four desks and only one of them was there. And I was like, okay. Like ours is only ever two people there. Yeah. But they have like six offices. Yeah. I'm like, where is there? What are they, what do you guys do here exactly? Like, do you?

[00:39:38] Not their best appearance. You know, and most of the leases and stuff are done online and are automated. Like there's very few things that I feel like we've needed to interact with the people in the office for, you know? Only when there's a problem. Yeah.

[00:39:52] When there's a problem or when we're moving out. I'm like, which has been five times in the two and a half years we've been here. You know, I'm like, we barely ever talked to them. So I'm like, what, what is their purpose here? I have no idea. Me.

[00:40:06] It's crazy. You know what else is, is credit. Do you have something to talk about? I'm just kind of rambling. I just have been working and writing my book. So we, right now we're working in this, this like office, right?

[00:40:25] We just moved into this office at the beginning of June. Okay. Two weeks later, our bosses contact us and they were like, hey, we're probably going to shut that office down. And we were like, cool, where are we going to work then? You know?

[00:40:40] The other office is about two and a half hours away, but we were literally just worked there. And then we moved down to this other office, moved everybody down here, you know, close to 200 people got moved. And we're like, hey, we're down here now.

[00:40:56] So what do you mean this office is closing? We're like, yeah, they're probably going to close it here in the next like two months. And we're like, okay, so where are we going? And they went, oh, we're trying to figure that out.

[00:41:09] But if you guys could also start looking and trying to find a place to me, that would help too. And I was like, all right, sure. So now we are in the process of trying to find an office building for ourselves

[00:41:23] when we're not even in charge of it. Like even if we found one and proposed it, our bosses would just be like, no, we don't like that place and deny it anyway. You know? Like it's super weird to me that we're just like,

[00:41:33] yeah, go find, go find an office building. That'll work for you guys. That's such a red flag. All right, cool. Thanks. Like do you guys know what's going on here? Because I don't think you do. Yeah, it's crazy. I was like, all right,

[00:41:46] I guess we'll go find an office building for us. But what do I know? What? It's your turn. How was waiting? Well, Well, We were stuck in a whale. I don't. I don't either. I didn't do much this week. I didn't either. Nothing happened at work. Wow.

[00:42:13] What a boring job you must have. It was just a rough week work wise. Like we just had a lot of call-ups and stuff. So I just kind of try to survive. I feel like you need to do more things. I just go on a little walk. Yeah,

[00:42:30] and then got scared of the woods and turned around. But yeah, horror movies every night. Great idea. I was alone in the woods. It was creepy. It was daytime. It was morning. Was the sun out? Yeah. Exactly. It was daytime. By the time I was leaving,

[00:42:46] then a bunch of people were walking in and I was like, Oh hi. Were they scary people? No. Just regular people. People walking their dogs and shit. Oh yeah, terrifying. You're wrist already huh? You spread a smack me. It's all a Maggie. Ow! She likes to smack me.

[00:43:09] I've been dealing with the insurance, right? Because my car got stolen. I get reassured it's been annoying. It's been stolen through the insurance. No, it's not my insurance. It's the claims like agency that they're partnered with.

[00:43:21] They need in order to buy my car from me and give me this settlement, right? They need the original title for my car, which would be fine if I had it. And so I contacted the loan, like the people who I had it loaned through.

[00:43:37] I had paid off the loan. I paid it off in December. So I called the people who I got the loan through and I was like, Hey, I never got the title. Do you guys have it? And they were like, No, we don't have it.

[00:43:45] The DMV has it. We told them to release it to you in January. I was like, okay. So which, which age, like who do I contact? And they're like, Oh, you'll need to contact the Nevada DMV. I was like Nevada,

[00:44:00] I haven't lived in Nevada in over two years. And we're like, Oh well, the car was purchased in Nevada and there, the Nevada DMV is listed on the loan. So they have, they're going to get the title and send it to you when it,

[00:44:14] when it gets released and said, When does it get released? And they're like, Oh, it was released in January. They should have already sent it to you. I said, well, they didn't know. Like, well, let me check that we have the right address. And I said, okay.

[00:44:25] They go, we have this address. And I'm like, yep, that's, that's my address here in Texas. And they went, Okay. Well, then you'll have to call the Nevada DMV and figure out where your title went. Have a good one. And they hung up and I was like, cool.

[00:44:39] Thanks for the loan assholes. So I called the Nevada DMV. And I was like, Hey, I paid off this loan in December. I never got my title. And they were like, Oh, okay. Well, we have this address on file. And I was like,

[00:44:52] No, that's my address in Las Vegas. I haven't lived there in two and a half years. The loan company said they gave you this address. And they go, Oh yeah, that is noted on your file at the, at the bottom that you have a Texas address.

[00:45:05] And I was like, So you sent it to the wrong address, even though it's noted in my file that it should go to Texas. They were like, Yeah, pretty much, yeah. They're like, yeah, it looks like it was sent there in, in February. And I was like, well,

[00:45:19] clearly I never got it because I don't live there anymore. I said, so can you send one to the correct address? And they went, Oh, we can't issue another one. You'll have to fill out some paperwork. I was like, okay, well what paperwork do I fill out?

[00:45:32] And she tells me to go online, download this PDF, fill it out, print it, get it notarized, send it to them in the mail with a check for $35. And then in six weeks, they'll send me another title. And I was like, What the fuck? I was like,

[00:45:48] Okay, thanks. And she goes, Oh, you can come into the DMV and fill it out. And then it'll still, it'll be sent out in like three to four weeks. And I'm like, that doesn't make any sense. Shouldn't they just have the titles? Okay.

[00:45:59] No, they have to send it to whatever, whatever their process is, right? Didn't make, I was like, okay, fine. So I called back the agency, right? That's trying to issue out the payment. And I was like, hey, I know you guys are asking for this title,

[00:46:16] but I'm contacted the agency. They said it's going to be like six weeks. Is that going to be okay? Like, or can I like get, is there some other way that we can close the settlement out? And they're like, no, no, your settlement will just remain open

[00:46:26] until we get the title. So it's, it's, it's fine if you take, you know, six or seven weeks, we're probably going to history to get the title and then send it to us. And I was like, Okay, awesome. Can't wait. So I was like,

[00:46:38] I'm like, this is just bull. So we went this morning, we got it notarized. We're actually going to Vegas in a few weeks. So I was like, cool, well, let's, let's just see if I can go to the DMV and just turn it in with the money.

[00:46:55] You know, I was like, I don't feel like going through this whole process, but I'm like, so now the annoying, the most annoying part I feel like is this one, they, you can't fill out these forms online because they have to be notarized,

[00:47:11] which I think is a crazy thing anyway, that I can't fill out a form with all of my correct information and a payment method that's linked to my name and request a title. I still have to do it all physically, which I'm like,

[00:47:26] that's crazy in this day and age. Why do I need a notary to prove that I am who I say I am when I'm filling out this paperwork? I'm like, I will FaceTime you while I fill out this paperwork with my ID up. Like, I don't know.

[00:47:40] That was the other thing too. Like why not just upload a copy of my ID, whatever it is. Anyway, I feel like there's easier ways to do that, especially because you have to send in a check or a money order. And I was like,

[00:47:49] I want to get a money order for like, for 35 bucks and send in the mail. And I definitely don't have a checkbook. Like who the hell still has a checkbook? No, I've never written a check, since I've got a checkbook.

[00:48:01] No, I got a checkbook when I first opened my account and I've never used it. I'm like, who would I write a check to? Really? I never even got checks when I got a bank account. My parents said it was useless. It was. They gave me these checks.

[00:48:13] I never used any of them. I ended up just shredding the book because they're useless to me, you know? Whatever. But yeah, so that's, it just irritates me that I have to go through all these steps just to get the title that they sent to the incorrect address

[00:48:28] because they didn't want to look at the notes in the file that was like, oh yeah, it says that it's down here. You have a Texas address now. And I'm like, so who sent it to the wrong place? You know, I'm like what?

[00:48:41] And the only options when applying for the form is like, oh you lost it or it was stolen. And I clicked other and I was like, no, you sent it to the wrong address. I didn't do anything to it, but now I got to pay for it too.

[00:48:53] I'm like, all right, cool. Awesome. Getting your car stolen, so fun. But hey, eventually we're going to pay it out. Oh, I didn't even mention the annoying part too. A different annoying part. Different annoying part. That's the annoying part because it's like physical paper. Yeah.

[00:49:09] The another or the another? The other. The another. The other annoying, I got there. The another annoying reason is that now I am receiving text messages three times a day reminding me that I have to send paperwork to this agency before they can close out my claim.

[00:49:31] Oh gosh. Yeah, it's great. Every time and it's my full name every time. It's like, it spells out my full name. It's like reminder, you still have documents that are pending. And I'm like, I'm aware I even called two days ago and said it'd be six weeks,

[00:49:45] but boy, I can't wait for these hundreds of text messages I'm about to get over the next six weeks. It's amazing. So I'm annoyed at that too, that I'm like, I told someone that it's going to be six weeks and you're just going to keep reminding me.

[00:50:00] I'm like, I know it makes sense because they want to close my insurance out and whatnot on it. But boy, it just. So do you have to keep paying your insurance until you get the. That's the other part too is I have to call the adjuster on Monday

[00:50:12] and be like, hey, I'm not getting the title for like six weeks and I don't want to pay insurance on this car. That's no longer mine. I don't even have it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm like, it's an extra two, three hundred dollars,

[00:50:22] whatever it is that I'll have to be paying. It's ridiculous. But that's what's going on with that. It's crazy. I don't know. We've just been like packing for the most part. We have been packing a lot of stuff. I think we're doing pretty good.

[00:50:38] We're on a good pace. We still got a lot of stuff in the kitchen, the pack. Not as much that I would have thought, but a lot, a lot of stuff. We have a lot of kitchen stuff though. That's like the big thing. Yeah.

[00:50:53] The kitchen is like the big. We have so many appliances and everything. It's going to be great. And we got to figure out how we get it over there too. Oh yeah. We still got to look at moving companies. But the good news is I believe in us.

[00:51:11] Yeah. Well, Sorry I don't really have much to say this time. That's it from me. That's it from her. That's it from me. Hahaha. Tease from cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all. Where are you going? Come do the outro. No, come here.

[00:51:44] Jordan walked away all sad. He said he's not coming back. So this has been mindless proud of, I guess. Thanks for listening. We will see you next time. Don't forget to like and subscribe. Bye.