Mindless Nuggets

[00:00:01] If you had a dragon, and the dragon was just like, have you ever tried riding without a saddle? And you were like, no, that's the worst pain. And then you were just like, not too bad. And then you got on anyway. Now you're in pain.

[00:00:27] Do you get sore after riding horses? Do you like my analogy? It was good. I felt like it was good. It was a good analogy. You just made me think about, do you get sore if you were at a horse? I don't know.

[00:00:40] When was the last time I rode a horse? What? I remember the first time I ever went horseback riding. Yes, I went down to my local stable. The first time I went like horseback riding with my sister and stuff before she got married the first time.

[00:00:54] She was like so mad at me. Marital status important to the story. I just want to clarify. I guess not, but it was just like an activity we did before her wedding. So I remember it. OK, all right. So yes, I got you.

[00:01:08] But she got so mad at me because I wasn't sore when I got off the horse. She was like, yeah, you're going to be so sore. Horseback riding is a lot of work out and stuff like that. And I was just like, OK, yeah.

[00:01:19] And then I was perfectly fine. And she was so annoyed. And I was like, it's chill. We're different people. I don't know. My tailbone hurt a little bit, but I also like wasn't using the right saddle is what they were telling me. So I know I don't know.

[00:01:34] How did you not have the right saddle? Didn't you just have one? Oh, yeah, that's what I'm saying. They set it up for me. It's not like I was like that saddle like I didn't pick. They were just like here, get on. I was like, all right.

[00:01:48] Well, remember kids riding. That might anyway. Kids like that. Well, welcome back to mindless prattle. We're here and on time this time. What do you mean? We were on time last time. I fail to see how the schedule that I create is anything but perfect

[00:02:10] no matter when it comes out. The schedule is whatever we want. The schedule is I put things out. You'll listen. You don't listen. Then we do it again. I really need to do social media, but my life is consumed by I just like I have been.

[00:02:27] I made a couple more of the like the YouTube videos and stuff because like a man I fell off hardcore with that. And then immediately after I was like time to make some more like I sat down to do it and they were just like

[00:02:39] my boss were just like, oh, by the way, you have a shift schedule, a new schedule that means you're working seven days a week for their foreseeable future. And I was like, boy, am I just not motivated to move or breathe today? It was great.

[00:02:53] Yeah, I completely feel that it's like the kind of exhaustion where you just like you wake up and you're like, again. Today I got off shift. Yeah, I got off shift for OK, so like I'm signed for

[00:03:08] like I'm responsible for a lot of the vehicles in my company, right? Like the the rental vehicles that we use, like I'm signed for a lot of them. And so when stuff happens, like it's not like I have to pay for it, you know, personally or anything.

[00:03:23] But I have to deal with all the paperwork, make sure it gets filed correctly, you know, make sure it gets all documented. And then we report it up to like the the what's it called the the dealership and the rental car company

[00:03:35] so that they can work out logistics of it and it all gets paid for and yeti, yeti, all that stuff. So last night, like day eight of working in a row, I got off shift at

[00:03:48] like I got back to the room at like nine, nine p.m. probably last night. Yeah, eight thirty or nine. You stayed up for a little bit. I couldn't fall asleep. I think my back was hurting too much. I finally fell asleep at like eleven thirty.

[00:04:01] And then I got a text message at like twelve fifteen that woke me up. I'm like, great, what is this? And I pick up the phone and the here's the we pulled up here's the verbatim message. Hey, just a heads up.

[00:04:16] The truck I was using got dented on the back left dented. Got dented. Yeah, like got dented. And I'm like, what does that mean? And then he sent a picture to a wall by itself. Right. Then he sent a picture and it's like the entire

[00:04:32] like quarter panel of this truck got like pushed in by running into something. And I was like, oh boy, that's fun. Yeah, it was at twelve twenty seven this morning that I got that. And then I was like, I'm not dealing with this.

[00:04:46] So I went back to sleep. I woke up at four a.m. Because my back was still hurting. Couldn't couldn't sleep past that. Right. And I sent the message in my game and whoever was driving me to fill out the paperwork this that blah, blah, blah.

[00:05:00] And I was like, he's like, yep, sounds good. The driver and the passenger filled out the paperwork. And I'm like, all right, sounds good. Well, I had to work again today, you know? So I went out today.

[00:05:12] I saw the truck out there because somebody else had to use it for the for their shift. And so I was like, I'll go mess with them a little bit. So I drove up and I was like, hey, man, would you do to my truck?

[00:05:21] You dented it. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no, that wasn't me. That was that was so and so. And I'm like, so and so. He's like, yeah, that was that was this guy. I was like, that guy wasn't even driving the truck, though.

[00:05:32] Like he sent me the pictures of it because he was in charge of like the shift. I was like, but he had his own truck. Why would he be driving this truck? He goes, I don't know.

[00:05:40] But he said he said he was driving it when he when I took over for him this morning. I'm like, why would he be driving the truck? First of all, and second of all, why would if you were the one that was driving

[00:05:50] the truck, why would you send me a message saying, hey, it got dented. And then when I say have the driver felt the paperwork, he responded with, yeah, the driver and the passenger filled out the paperwork. Not I filled out the paperwork because I was driving.

[00:06:04] He specifically said the driver and the passenger filled out the paper talks like that. And I was like, dude, he made it the messages he sent me made it very hard to like discern that he was the one driving.

[00:06:18] So now I have to go into the office tomorrow and look at all the paperwork and see if he was actually the one driving or not. And it's I hope he wasn't because he just got here and he's a he's a good worker.

[00:06:30] But like can't be you have you breaking vehicles on like your second week here. I'm like, oh, come on, man. So that's that's how my day was going. Yeah, that sounds exciting. In addition to all the other stuff that I was telling you about,

[00:06:49] like I took that nap and then, like I said, I woke up at four and I knew I had to work late tonight. So I took that nap. I was asleep for like 20, 30 minutes, woke up like drenched in sweat.

[00:07:02] I went over and was like, all right, I got to get in the shower so I can go to work and then just like kind of collapsed on the floor. I threw up and then had a migraine and I was like, boy, I really need a shower now.

[00:07:13] And then I just had a migraine like my whole shift. Like, man, this is not great. Body spelling, you need to break. It's something I have had a migraine from hell the past few days. But I did I've watched the new movie, Damsel. I finished it today.

[00:07:34] I really liked it. It was kind of cheesy, like, for example, so the story is it's Millie Bobby Brown and. They didn't need like the whole intro scene. Like I feel like they do this little intro scene about the back

[00:07:49] story of this kingdom and like about this dragon that is there and why this is all happening. But they really didn't need to show any of that. Like it kind of made the movie too predictable. Um, but I loved it because it was just like a really

[00:08:03] like it's kind of like a girl power movie, you know? And. But one thing I found really distracting is like she gets thrown into this like giant cavern in the mountains, basically, so this dragon can eat her payment for a sentence of someone else.

[00:08:20] And the whole time homegirls like her eye makeup and stuff, it starts running looking like she's been sweating and stuff. She randomly would have like fresh lip gloss put on or like lipstick in some scenes. Oh, I hate that when it's noticeable, like discontinuity and things.

[00:08:39] Yeah, like you just kept changing and like and then at one point it looked natural. And I was like, OK. She's been in this cave for like two days straight. Her dress has been ripped to hell. She's like slid down caves. She's like.

[00:08:53] Got burned by a dragon and like all this stuff happens and then her makeup just like only her lip makeup kept changing. And I was like, OK. But I thought the ending was really cool. There's usually a budget for films of continuity like director and that all

[00:09:10] they do is like fit. Yeah, it's like it's an actual position of all they do is make sure that the order that things are shot in will make sense in the order that it's played in.

[00:09:19] So like if you have a character, you know, that you film like 10 scenes and then you film a scene where they get a haircut and you film a bunch of scenes. Well, they can't play the scenes with the short hair before the scenes with the long hair. Yeah.

[00:09:32] You know, like there's somebody who is paid to think about all that. And sometimes I guess so good at that. I think I'd be great at that. Be like, no, you can't do this. But it's it's much easier watching the movie because, you know,

[00:09:45] it's all played in order. But if you're looking at like a list of shots that they need to record and like the things that are going to happen, I think it's a lot more to think about than I realize, you know.

[00:09:56] Well, I think that's also probably because they they don't always record scenes in order. No, that's what I'm saying. Like you have to think it all through of like what does each character need to look like in this scene compared to the next scene?

[00:10:07] But their scenes are like out of order. So like you got to back play it sometimes. But overall, I really liked the movie. Like I said, a little cheesy because it's a PG-13 film. But I really liked it. And I thought the backstory was good.

[00:10:24] And then I just really liked the ending. Like I just she did exactly what I would have done in that situation. I was like, yes, dragons, the CGI. Fantastic. That dragon looked cool as hell. Felt like you were actually in danger.

[00:10:38] I was actually watching it and thinking, wow, video games do not make me realize how scary like being in front of an actual fucking dragon would be. But this movie does a really great job making the dragon look really imposing. Yeah, I feel like it'd be terrifying.

[00:10:55] Like their heads bigger than you, right? Like most dragons. No, it depends to if it's like a dragon or a wyvern. But now you can still. But yeah, like there, if you think about it, it'd be like a whale flying through the sky with wings.

[00:11:13] I don't think whales accurate. Like I think they're shaped a little differently. OK. Let's see how big would a dragon be compared to a human? Compared to a huge. What are you? There's a dragon sized chart depending on where they came from in folklore.

[00:11:35] OK, so Disney film Mushu. Oh my gosh. That's that's the first one that it goes up to Spyro. Yeah. Like a Drayon from the Dragon Calling series. I don't know that one spirited away. Haku would be much taller than a person. Oh, Dragon Age two Flemeth. So.

[00:12:04] Wow, like eight times the size of a human youthless from how to train your dragon. Oh, here you're just progressively getting bigger and yeah, dragons are trying to get the size. The number eight is Alduin and the size comparison next to a human was.

[00:12:24] Honestly, terrifying like in the game, I just never thought about that. You know what you mean? You can clearly see it. You don't have to look up our chart to prove it. Like just go in the game. You've played the game so many times. They are huge.

[00:12:37] Their heads are bigger than you in the game. And you're playing as a realization before. But it like it just doesn't really click until I played it in VR. Playing in VR, doing just that intro scene where Alduin comes

[00:12:50] over that wall and breathes fire while your character is like walking under him. So much fucking scarier in VR. Like like it's not just a fun little RPG. It's like no, you're running for your fucking life. Oh, boy. Yeah. I just want to say it was good.

[00:13:06] Dragons are big. Yes, we know, dear, but they're scary. Yes, we know, dear, they breathe the fire. I'm well aware. They're big. OK. Thank you for. I just really like dragons. Uh-huh. Got to figure out how to shoehorn dragons into my books. I I saw.

[00:13:23] This video, this guy who's talking. He's a I don't know if he believes in dragons or if he was just talking about it. But he's a his name's Forrest. I can't remember his last name, but he has like a bunch of he

[00:13:36] he has a bunch of shows on like the Discovery Channel and like National Geographic and he he's the one that has the show that he goes and tries to find like supposedly extinct animals. And he's brought back from extinction. Yeah, yeah, I've seen that. OK.

[00:13:52] Yeah, like if he finds them, then they're they're not extinct. But like if a certain amount of time has passed between seeing an animal and just not seeing it again, then that's when they're considered extinct.

[00:14:03] But he'll go out and find the animal or won't find the animal and be like, haha, this animal exists still. Like it's not extinct. You know, if I were an animal, I'd stay as far the fuck away from humans as I could. Yeah, you think.

[00:14:15] Yeah, but he found I think he found a tortoise that he brought back from extinction and like a couple birds and a couple other things. But anyway, he was a I saw a video of him talking about dragons and he's like, you know, the reason that there's not

[00:14:31] a lot of bird fossils is because birds, you know, bones are so hollow to make them fly that they're so brittle that they break down really easily and they don't they don't have enough time to fossilize.

[00:14:45] And he goes, if you look at it, every every civilization around the world around the same time has drawings of different shapes and sizes of giant winged creatures that are, you know, that we always depict as closer to reptiles, but they could have been closer to birds.

[00:15:04] They could have maybe had feathers or fur, right? He goes, and if they had hollow bones that allowed them to fly and they broke down very easily, it could be an explanation as to why there's not a lot of fossils around of giant birds or dragons, as you

[00:15:17] would think. That'd be fun. Like a few years ago, you know, it came out that, you know, our depiction of dinosaurs was mostly wrong. And most of them probably had like really bright, colorful feathers. So what if they were just flying?

[00:15:29] And drastically different sounds than Jurassic Park made you believe. Yeah. You know, like, have you ever listened to recording of the Velociraptor? Yeah, what was it like? Was it the Velociraptor or the T-Rex? The the sound that they used in the movies was just two tortoises having sex.

[00:15:47] Oh, I actually don't know that fact. You didn't know that? Yeah. One of the dinosaurs, like one of the main dinosaurs, the sound in the movie is just a recording of two tortoises having sex. Although I was so I heard a recording of what a T-Rex would

[00:16:01] actually sound like, and I can tell you it brought out like a primal fear, like in my bones. Yeah, it's not like it's we're not saying it's going to be like, oh, Teehee, it's nice and cute now. No, it's terrifying. The thing was huge.

[00:16:14] But you know, like in Jurassic Park, it's like a big roar. And then the like the way they built it, sonistically with like the new technology they have, it's like this low deep. It's it's like really loud, but it's like a low deep keening sound.

[00:16:33] Like a grumble almost yet. Yeah, I've heard it. I haven't heard anything that scary in my life. It's like a it's long to say it's like close to like thunder almost, but like a like a more like out to kill you kind of way.

[00:16:49] Yeah, you just it's like a natural siren or something like a natural warning sound like just get the fuck out of this area. I mean, why wouldn't it be if you were that big and you were a predator? Like I would make that sound too.

[00:17:01] It'd make the most menacing sound possible to have other things go away from me. You know, really, if I were a predator, I'd want to be silent. He's silent is fine. But if you're that big, you're not going to be silent.

[00:17:13] So you might as well be, you know, scary. What's your favorite dinosaur? Um, I don't know. Like I like velociraptors a lot, but mainly just because they they're smarter. But I don't have like a favorite based on like specific types or anything, you know? My favorites and Alasaurus.

[00:17:39] No spiny boy. Did you see which one's that? It's like a smaller, more deadly version of a T-Rex. What's the one that wasn't like the dinosaur movie? Like dinosaurs? No. What's the what's the one with the giant spine? Like the giant fin on his back.

[00:18:01] Which one's that one? Oh, um, the water dinosaur, right? The water. Yeah. Well, anyway, is what? Spinosaurus. See, I was right. Anyway, so that one, right? Have you looked at the I saw a chart the other day that just I loved it. So if you look at a.

[00:18:25] If you look at a buffalo and you look at the. What's it called? The X-ray of of the bones of a buffalo. It's very similar, but on a smaller scale to the spinosaurus. And so people were like, what if we just didn't

[00:18:44] like see the connective tissue of the spinosaurus and it really looks more like a buffalo than it does in the movies of like having a long neck. And it literally just looks like a big chicken nugget on legs. It's so funny to look at.

[00:18:58] I don't have you seen it. Kind of terrifying, though. It's so fat. It's so funny. And the spinosaurus gave me a lot of nightmares as a kid in Jurassic Park, too. Hold on. Let me let me see if I can look it up real quick.

[00:19:10] Oh, my gosh, my phone is like breaking right now. Is it? Spinosaurus mixed up sometimes. Let me see if I can find the image that I'm that I'm looking for. I was obsessed with dinosaurs and dragons and fairies as a kid.

[00:19:29] Yeah, I mean, I'm really any fantasy creature that got me out of my house and into my brain. This is this is the one I was talking about. Hold on. Can I know I don't want to do this? Give me give me the picture.

[00:19:45] Stop it, you search inside image. Sure, let's search it. What are we searching? What the hell is happening with my phone right now? I just want the picture. I don't know what's what is happening? I don't know. Can I not add to photos? Thank you. Like what?

[00:20:00] It was for no reason. It just wouldn't let me save it. Well, let me send you this this chicken nugget photo. Look at this. Look at that. So the meme is the, you know, Spinosaurus would have the spine thing was actually more like the hump of a

[00:20:19] buffalo in just a neck immense neck muscles. I deal to grab and eat lesser dinosaurs. I just I think that's so funny. I like chicken nugget dinosaur. That is really funny, but also like buffalo or really scary in general.

[00:20:42] So like I can. Oh yeah, it wouldn't be like less violent creatures. It's just funny to me that you're like chicken nugget like so much like a chicken nugget. Of dangerous chicken nugget. Yeah, but do I? That are titles today. Mindless chicken nugget. How we can be?

[00:21:03] I don't know. She can name whatever you want to. I don't know. I'm like it's a name things. Do you want to? No, I just I think you're better at that than I am. I mean, I usually just pick like a random word from the recording.

[00:21:18] Like that's the one like it's you're going to hear first mindless nuggets. What? Oh, I have pizza rolls. Oh, I have pizza. I love pizza rolls. Oh, boy. Yeah, OK, so I went. Oh, good. You went where? I went to get a haircut yesterday

[00:21:47] and I don't know what. I don't think I'm like that friendly with anybody, you know, but like my guests. So going to get the haircut, everything's normal. Get the haircut. Boom. Looking spicy. Go to pay and leave. I, you know, do a little chaching.

[00:22:09] They're like card or they always say cashier card when I'm like holding a card in my hand and I'm just like I wonder they're on. They're on auto. Breathe through us all. Yeah. In B.C. mode. I'm like card and they're like, OK.

[00:22:21] So, you know, it asks for a tip. So I put the tip in. I slide the card in a little bloop bloop. And as it's processing, I see the little thing like spinning. They're just like, but what about a little social awkwardness on top of all this? Right?

[00:22:35] Yeah. Another hairstylist. She comes up to the register. Now, mind you, I haven't said or like had a full conversation like some people do with the the hairstylist. I got to talk to her like we, you know, we talked a little bit

[00:22:51] mainly about how much you talk, you know. Yeah, yeah, like we mainly talked about the haircut, you know, and I that was about it. Definitely didn't talk to other hairstylists while I was there because they weren't cutting my hair. So as it's processing this payment.

[00:23:10] The second hairstylist, she comes over and she goes, quick, Jordan, where do we go for lunch? And I'm like, what? Like I was like, where do we go for lunch? Like, I have plans, you know. She's like, quick, where do we go for lunch?

[00:23:26] I'm like, first off, I don't like you just address me by my first name because I don't like your friends, Jordan. Yeah, yeah. She literally just walked up, like read my name off of like the little slip and was like, quick, Jordan, where are we going for lunch?

[00:23:39] And I was like, what what lunch? And it's like, we need to order something for the lunch for the shop. And I was like, all right, very different conversation now. Right? I'm like immediately I was like, thrown off like the whole thing.

[00:23:52] And I'm like, I'm just waiting for it to say approved. And so I look at her and and then the one that was cutting my hair, she's like, oh, perfect idea. Never know what to pick. Yeah, you can pick for us today. And I was like

[00:24:05] and I looked up when I was like, I literally said, I said, don't put that pressure on me. I'm not doing this. She goes, no, it's just lunch. I'm like, well, if it's just lunch, just pick wherever you want around here.

[00:24:17] And she goes, well, we can never decide. And I was like, it's a good thing because there's only like five places here that deliver. Why don't you just rotate each day of the week? Yeah, I was like, there's only like five places that deliver

[00:24:28] unless you're going to shut down and go to like Chili's, you know, like and they were like, oh, yeah, I guess that's true. And I was like and then I it said remove card. So I removed the card, right? Done with the transaction.

[00:24:42] And she goes, she goes, oh, but you're here. You're in the hot seat today. You got to pick. I said, see, the way it works with me having already paid is I'm going to leave now. And she goes, she goes, no, it's still, oh, it's done processing.

[00:24:56] You know what? And I was already like halfway across the lobby and I was like, I was like good luck with the lunch thing though. I was like, but there's a there's a little Caesars next door. And they were little Caesars. What? I was like, not picking.

[00:25:11] And then I left. You're not throwing that on me. That's one by. You know, that's how it went. I did think it's funny, like when when you get hit on, like in public, like not saying that's what was happening.

[00:25:26] But when you when I've seen you get hit on, I feel like you get so like awkward and you're like, what? Me? I just never realized it. And then I'm like, I don't it's not happening. So then I'm just like, hmm.

[00:25:39] But I also like rarely get hit on ever. So I think you kind of have an intimidating look to you. That's because I hate everyone. But not that not you guys know, not the not the listeners, you guys.

[00:25:55] I saw this video the other day and it was like it was about like the different types of couples. And it was like, oh, the black cat girlfriend and golden retriever boyfriend and stuff like that. But then they added new ones. And I thought it was so funny.

[00:26:08] It was like, and then there's the black cat and the orange cat. One of them hates everyone and is anti social. The other ones that could crack addicts also hate everyone and they just make fun of people together. And I was like, me and Jordan.

[00:26:24] I am who it's like you're the orange. Yeah. You always want to do like anti social. I'll talk with whoever. You're much more social than I am. That's for sure. Yeah, someone has to correct it. All right. When I got mashed potatoes, I want mashed potatoes.

[00:26:41] That's for sure. Yeah, I do think that's so funny is like you always speak up for yourself and everything and I never want to speak up for myself. But then like at restaurants or bars, if somebody fucks something up,

[00:26:50] you're just like, no, I'm like, no, excuse the fuck out of me. I usually do. I usually don't. Like sometimes I'm like, yeah, this is fine because usually it's like I'm like, I ordered mashed potatoes and they gave me french fries. I'm like, yeah, same thing, different shape.

[00:27:04] Like I don't get mad about that one time we were at like what is it, Dave and Buster's and that like waitress just walked away from you in the middle of you asking her question. Like just dead ass walked away from you.

[00:27:15] Oh my God, that pissed me off so quickly. I was more defensive. That I was annoyed about, but I wasn't going to argue with her about it. I was just going to like not pay. Like I was just planning on leaving.

[00:27:25] I'm like, all right, well, you don't want to talk to me. I don't want to pay you by. I can't remember if I asked for like the manager or another bartender because I normally don't do stuff like that.

[00:27:33] But I was like, I work in the customer service industry and that is such bullshit, especially since like we're spending a fucking ridiculous amount of money on like two drinks and a dinner we shared. You know, oh, I was like, no, you're going to listen to my man.

[00:27:48] But when if they do it to me, I'm like, oh, it's fine. I just give some. You'll get things like they'll completely mess up things like they'll bring you the wrong drink entirely. And you're like, and I'll be like, is that what you ordered?

[00:28:00] And you're like, no, but it doesn't taste great. And I'm like, OK, so get something. Yeah, like correct them. You're like, no, they brought it all. I'll drink it and I was like, OK. And then like, we won't say anything.

[00:28:12] So come back and be like, hey, is this the apple thing? And she's like, oh, no, did you order the apple thing? I'm like, yeah, she did. They're like, I'll go fix it. I'm like, yeah, let's do that. My favorite is when they like, I don't they notice

[00:28:25] I don't drink it or something. They're like, oh, you don't like it. I'm like, yeah, it's not what I ordered. And they're like, oh my God, I'll fix it. I'm like, thanks. It's not what I ordered. But at that point, like you're missing the key here.

[00:28:35] At that point, you've already finished most of the meal. And then they're like, oh, did you not like the drink from 20 minutes ago that I gave you? And you're like, yeah, it wasn't what I ordered. And then they're like, OK, I'll get you a new one.

[00:28:45] And then you're finished with it. And then they bring you the correct drink. And you're like, all right, well. Well, I've gotten better, I think, as I got an older, especially because of working in customer services. I'm like, it doesn't bother me if I make a mistake

[00:28:57] when I'm asked to correct it. So it shouldn't bother other people when I do too. So I'm just I'm polite about it. My mom is even worse than me. I don't know if you've ever done my mom, there's a problem. But she will not send anything back.

[00:29:07] She's like, they're going to spit in my food. I don't want to annoy them. I'm like, mom, they're not going to spit in your food. You're not an asshole. Like you're like the brightest person I've ever met. Yeah, especially if you only do that.

[00:29:19] Like if you order something, you're like, I like it medium rare, right? And it comes out medium rare. And you're like, I definitely told you I wanted it mid rare or like medium or something. And they're like, oh, I'm sorry.

[00:29:30] You put it, we thought you said medium rare. And then you're just rude about it. Then like, okay. And they'll go put it back on the grill and be like, man, that's some extra seasoning for you. No, and my mom is never rude about anything

[00:29:41] unless it comes to me. I will say like when she's, my mom will be rude as hell to somebody when she's defensive over her kids. She's great to have like to come up to school and stuff. Cause I'd get in trouble for something

[00:29:54] or something would happen that wasn't my fault. And they'd be like, I call your mom and I'd be like, you don't want to call my mother. Just talk to me about it. No, no, no, we have to call your mother.

[00:30:01] I'm like, my mother is going to yell at you and probably make you cry. Like do not call my fucking mom right now cause you're not going to be happy with the results. My mama doesn't take no shit from nobody.

[00:30:18] So something happened to me at H-E-B but yesterday but it's been, so like I had it on the tip of my tongue. Like I thought about it and I was like, that is something to talk about. And then I lost it.

[00:30:31] I'm trying to think of what happened to me this week but it was all just work, bullshit frankly and exhaustion. Do you remember the H-E-B yet? Yeah, like most of it. So I was in, I'll fill in the rest with fake memories or something, I don't know. So.

[00:30:50] Just fucking lie, who's going to know? H-E-B will know. You're going to call me out. Like, excuse me, you're on line about what happened in our store, here's the video. You'll be out of the fuck. Anyway, so I go to H-E-B

[00:31:06] and I had, I was only there to get like some cheese cause I ran out and some snacks for work because I wasn't going to, it was before these like seven day shifts and I wasn't going to be able to leave during the shifts, you know?

[00:31:23] And so I'm walking through and then I was like, you know what, I haven't had Pringles in a long time. Let me get some Pringles just for the room. I love Pringles. Yeah, not for the shift cause I got some other stuff for that

[00:31:38] but I was like, let me get some Pringles while I'm here. So I go over to the Pringles, looking at the cans as one does, all the fun flavors that like the name of the flavor is like the medium sized font instead of the largest.

[00:31:50] And then there always names something crazy like pizza crater explosion. Where are you getting Pringles from? What the hell? It literally just says pizza on there. Anyway, so I was looking at it, right? And I was like, oh, I want some pizza ones

[00:32:07] and then I was going to get a can of the like cheddar cheese ones, right? So I picked up a can of the cheddar ones and the whole side was like dented in and I was like, oh, not this one.

[00:32:18] So I put it back and I reached for another can and it also had a small like a smaller dent but still a dent on it. So I put it back, right? As I'm reaching for the third can,

[00:32:29] I hear behind me some guy go, just grab a can. They're all the same. Oh my God. And I turned around. I turned around and I said, excuse me. He goes, the cheese ones, they're all the same. Like, it's the same flavor.

[00:32:47] I was like, do you want the cheese ones? And he's like, yeah. And so I handed him the most dented can. He goes, I don't want that one. Set there all the same. And then he's like, but it's dented.

[00:33:01] I'm like, oh, so you want me to put it back and get one that's not dented? He goes, yeah. And I'm like, you mean like I was doing it. And he goes, oh, is that where you were doing? I'm like, yeah, motherfucker.

[00:33:09] Like you don't even know what I'm doing but you're going to call me out for it. So I put it back. Okay, let me guess. Was this a white one? I grabbed like a full can. No. I put it back and I grabbed a full can.

[00:33:18] And I was like, you know what? So then I put back the full can and I stood there for another like 10 seconds just kind of staring at them all. And then I picked that same can a second time ago. This one is the right one.

[00:33:32] And I walked off. I'm like, where are you going to tell me? They're all the same. Motherfucker, get out of here. I just, the audacity. Like, just pick one. They're all the same. Okay, here we have one. I got a pair of headphones in HUB.

[00:33:45] I have a small bland smile to people and say excuse me and that's all I need. No, it was, I was like, I don't, okay. Yeah. They're all the same. Clearly they're not. Have you ever seen that meme? It's like when you're in a normal conversation

[00:34:01] and they bring up a weird niche interest you're obsessed with and then you have to pretend like you only like get a normal amount and not a psychotic amount. No, but. Like when I hear people talking about like certain video games

[00:34:16] and they'll get information wrong and I'm like, hmm. Like, oh my God. So you know I have a Skyrim lanyard. I keep my work keys on it. At one time I had this like 17 year old kid working for me and he looks at my lanyard and goes,

[00:34:30] I didn't know girls liked Skyrim. Your immediate response to just be like, they don't, I'm not a woman. And then just walk off. No, I just looked at him and I said, you know, that's kind of a sexist thing to say.

[00:34:43] And he said, oh, and I was like plus kid, I Skyrim came out when you were like six years old and I've been playing it since it came out. Like move the fuck on. I just want to get a lot of lying.

[00:34:56] No, I just like lying to people and like fucking with them. Never rude like that. Right. I feel like I'm allowed to lie to people. It makes me bad unless it's like about something else that makes me feel bad, you know? My boss does that all the time.

[00:35:11] So we were out at, we were at Pizza Hut actually and there's a sit down pizza with a bar in it. And I was like, this is crazy. No one has these anymore. It was unheard of. So I went in all right.

[00:35:28] And well, cause my dad used to talk about it all the time. Like anytime we would get pizza or allow pizza for dinner, he like a lot of the times he would bring up that like he used to go to Pizza Hut

[00:35:40] and it was like a, like all of them used to be sit down restaurants where you could go in and sit down and order a pizza and you know, have a, he's like, it was great. And then he said that when they moved to the

[00:35:51] only the delivery or takeout options, they like their quality drops. So then we just usually didn't have Pizza Hut as often. Anyway, so I've just never been in one or seen one, but there's one here. So we went in it and my boss and I are sitting

[00:36:04] at the bar and I ordered some wings and here we're at some pizza and we both got like a beer, right? And she comes over and the bartender, she came over and she goes together separate. And standard questions, you know? Yeah, they're good.

[00:36:21] And I already knew my boss would do this cause he's talked about doing it with other people. So I just let him answer. But every time his default response is his default response is, oh no, we're separated but we're working through it. No matter who he's with.

[00:36:43] And the bartender always takes like half a second to like think about it. She's like, okay. And like walked off and then like 10 minutes later she came back and goes, were the tabs actually together or separate? And I was like, no, they're separate. Just put them separate.

[00:37:04] But he says it every time. I thought it was funny. We had one guy, we had one guy who he said that with with this guy and the guy like freaked out about it was like, why would you say something like that?

[00:37:17] And we were like, oh, calm down man. Like it's okay. It's just a joke. He's like, you can't joke about things like this. And we're like, all right man. And we were like, look man, if you're like, we won't do it anymore with you

[00:37:30] but everyone at the table just kind of like got that weird like awkward side of him. And then later like the next day or two days later we were like, hey, what was with that? And we're like, I don't know.

[00:37:39] Like anytime you mentioned anything about like gay people or just like gay in general he gets really uncomfortable and defensive. And we're like, hmm. There's two options there. I'm like, yeah, interesting. He's either closeted or very homophobic. Yep. We reached the same conclusion just without saying anything.

[00:38:04] We all just kind of looked at each other and we were like, you pick an option A and they're like, option A. Then we all moved on. We're like, even if it's option B we all choose to believe it's option A now.

[00:38:14] I feel like if you have those feelings, you know, I'm against people being like stupid and hateful but if you have feelings like that you can just, it's free to keep it to yourself. It's to the point where it's not even like a,

[00:38:29] I don't know how to describe it. Like our office is not big. Like there's a small path basically to get from one end of the office to the other and it's maybe only like thrive. So if you're standing there talking to someone

[00:38:42] or in a doorway, like you have to brush up against people to get by sometimes and anytime anyone gets near like touching him or accidentally brushes by him or touches him he'll like visibly jump out of the way and be like, whoa, what?

[00:38:59] You could just say, excuse me, blah, blah, blah. And we're like, all right, sorry. I gotta get through here and you're standing in doorway. Like, I don't know what to tell you. They go visibly get real upset that someone accidentally touched him. We're like, all right man.

[00:39:12] A lady does protest too much. Yeah, we're like, all right man. Well, I'm gonna keep walking then, that's fine. Good luck dealing with your internal crisis. I have work to do. Yeah, pretty much. My brain is full of bees. He, that same guy, he was out

[00:39:28] with another one of my friends and they were both at, I can't remember some restaurant, right? And apparently he was hitting on this waitress for a good amount of the night. Like, you know, this and that. So finally the guy he was with was like,

[00:39:45] hey, I don't think she's, he goes, hey, I don't think she's over 18 man. Like you, like you, like you just stop hitting on her and he goes, no, this is the bar area. Like you have to be 21 to serve drinks and we're like, no, you don't.

[00:40:02] Let's say you don't. We're like, no, you don't man. You don't have to be over 21 to serve drinks. And he's like, no, you're crazy. And we're like, all right man. So the guy he was with next time she came by, he goes, hey, just got a curiosity.

[00:40:15] How old are you? And she goes, oh, I turn 18 next month. He makes so hard. And the guy was like, oh, congratulations. Happy birthday, whatever. She walked off and like, I was like, never tell anyone that I was hitting on her.

[00:40:30] We're like, it's not a crime to hit on her dude, but like. Well, at least you know he's a good guy because I remember when I was working at Firehouse Subs, there was a day where this customer like blocked me in the hallway of the bathroom.

[00:40:43] And I was like 18, right? But he was sort of hitting on me. And I was like, you know, I have a boyfriend and he was like, well, we could just be friends. And I was like, I'm 16. And he was like, age is nothing but a number.

[00:40:53] And in my head I was like, I am so uncomfortable. So at least he runs a good dude. No, it was, yeah, he was like, as soon as he found out, he's like, no, no, no, don't tell anybody. We weren't here tonight.

[00:41:06] And I'm like, it's not like a crime to talk to underage people. Like, when he just got super worried about it, we're like, look man, if you're that worried, just apologize in the movie. But I think it's also the fact that he's like 38.

[00:41:21] So there's a definite age gap of like 20 years, you know? The girl thought it wasn't uncomfortable though. She's probably like, sweet, this old guy is gonna give me a tip. Yeah, I guess. You know, people, because they're attracted, they're quite out, like you find out they're underage,

[00:41:43] so stop hitting on them. Simple as that. But we're asked to age first and then just don't hit them. No, either way. But I thought it was funny that he was just like, we were never here tonight. And I'm like, she gonna call the cops?

[00:41:55] And it's like, what are you? Yeah, I feel like, me and my friend were talking about this earlier. I feel like at a certain age, it's like, she was like, what should be like the age gap? What would be your max?

[00:42:05] And I was like, I've always heard that rule, like plus or minus, I think it's like seven years, depending on your age. I think when you're 18 or so, it should be more like plus or minus three. Like, you know, I don't think girls should date,

[00:42:19] I thought it was like under, wasn't it like under 25? And it was like half your age plus six or something like that. Or I can't remember. I don't know. There was a bunch of different rules. I also think that like as you get older,

[00:42:34] say like, you know, 30 or so, like it stops mattering as much if you're dating someone older than you. Cause like you're all grown and you're- You're all grown. Yeah, 25 year olds not grown. But then we were like, unless he has money and then it's okay

[00:42:49] cause that's a sugar daddy. Yeah, okay. Or she, she could have money too. Yeah, that's a sugar mama. It's fun. Or what would you call like a gender? I was gonna say gender neutral. That's not correct. What's the term? You said, who is this?

[00:43:08] And you're like, oh, this is my sugar parent. This is my sugar parent. This is my sugar auntie. Or like, this is my sugar friend. What is this? Be like, this is my sugar jar. It's where the sugar comes from. This is Alex.

[00:43:28] This is Alex, the sugar bearer. The sugar baron. The sugar leash. I also don't know why it like is sugar is part of it, you know? Like what? Giving you sugar? Like, I don't know. You're exchanging like money and sex, which are considered like the sugar part.

[00:43:48] I think it stems from like sugar used to be a commodity that we traded as for like goods and services. I think that's where it comes from. I'm gonna Google it because now I need to know. I like my version better. So I choose to believe me

[00:44:01] no matter what your research says. I just get addicted to things. So like, you know, I finished watching the Empress on Netflix. Sure. And so I ended up doing a deep dive into the Empress of Austria and then started writing a medium article about her. Okay.

[00:44:23] So according to gendersoftware.com. Where? It's just a website. Sure. The term sugar daddy has been used since the beginning of the 19th century when Adolf Sprechels aired the Sprechels Sugar Fortune married a woman who was 24 years younger than him and called him sugar daddy.

[00:44:44] The word daddy was like among prostitutes. The word daddy was slang among prostitutes for an older man since the 16th century and refers to the age difference between the two. However, the first recorded use of the term was in 1923 and the Syracuse Herald

[00:44:57] in an episode of the story, Fat Anna's Future. So we were both off, but that's way more of like a specific thing. But I feel like I should have known a little bit not about the sugar part, but the daddy thing

[00:45:10] because they say it in like old 1930s films or stuff like that all the time. Yeah, yeah. It used to be a term. Yeah, I've heard it in films. I mean, it's come back around. Yeah, but now I don't think it refers to like an age gap

[00:45:26] or like someone who's taking care of you. It's more just like, I belong to that person, the sort of thing, you know? Like a... I do think it stems from people wanting to be taken care of because I think that, like originally it was a BDSM thing

[00:45:38] that kind of made its way mainstream, but I do think it stems from trusting someone enough to like, oh, you take on this kind of caring role for me. Which is fine, you know? It's fine if you have that like kink and you wanna grow with that kink.

[00:45:54] I think personally I draw the line when with somebody and you bring them home and you call your significant other and your parent, daddy at the same time. That's... Like you gotta differentiate. And you're like, no, it has different meaning. And you're like, it doesn't to that person.

[00:46:13] Like it wouldn't to me, you know? Like it wouldn't have a difference. Like you could say it in the same tone at one point in the evening and another point in the evening to each person and mean two different things, but not okay with me.

[00:46:28] I definitely, for me personally, I just feel like it wouldn't be like a public thing. Like I don't think I could ever like seriously call you daddy in public and be like, yep. You know? Sure, but like that's what I'm saying. Even if you never called me that

[00:46:41] in front of your parents or anywhere, but in like the bedroom and then we went and visited your parents and you said it to your dad, I'd still be uncomfortable. I'd be like, nope, not all like that anymore. Like, you know. Yeah, I totally get that.

[00:46:54] That's very valid. Doesn't have to be public. It's just in my mind where this problem exists. Yeah, no, I mean that makes sense. Everybody's got their own little things. I am compartmentalize everything and nothing at the same time. Like it's so fun doing therapy because like my therapist,

[00:47:15] I'll say something really melodramatic like I'm never enough or I'm never good. Like something stupid, you know, just as an example like an all or nothing statement. And then she'll be like, well, where does that come from? And I'm like, it doesn't come from anywhere.

[00:47:28] It's just how I feel. And then she'll be like, well, why do you think that? And like, she'll like ask me a million questions and then at the end, we're just like, damn, there is a reason. Oh sure, but when I do it aggressively, it's a bad thing.

[00:47:42] She doesn't do it aggressively though. She's like my therapist, I'm left with a debt because she could be telling me like that I'm wrong and I need to do something better. And it still like it stings a little bit

[00:47:54] but the way she does it is just so kind and so gentle. Let me get with her on it. Because when I tell you you're wrong, you just get real defensive and then get mad at me. I mean, she has couples therapy too.

[00:48:04] You could totally join a session if you wanted. No, no, no, I'm gonna talk about you with her but not with you. No. Different. Hey, I need some advice on what. Not good therapist. On what? You've dealt with her, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what she's like.

[00:48:22] Okay, you know what's fun is like she doesn't curse or anything like that but I made her say dang in our last session because I started describing like my childhood like from early age and like what my life was like in my family situation.

[00:48:36] And she was like, she looked at me for a long moment and goes, dang. And that was like, yeah, I know I'm sorry. Therapy's fun, you guys should try it. Oh yeah. It's actually really painful. What a 280. Like sometimes it's like chill.

[00:48:59] Like if I don't have a lot to talk about or discuss but now that I'm like in the meat of my therapy and like actually deep diving into problems. Look, you gotta have at least a decade of pre-therapy therapy and then you can dive into the actual therapy

[00:49:14] where it might be working. We've taken care of like a lot of my like superficial issues. You know, like I can take care of myself now. Whoop whoop. I can cook pasta. Whoa. And I'll say the emotional support animals 10 out of 10 because like they'll just scream at me

[00:49:32] until I get out of bed or I'm like, I can't be depressed in bed all day. I gotta move to the couch now. I'll forget. I can still be depressed in my bed though. It also helps that I have blackout curtains and there's no natural light

[00:49:45] that comes in here in the day. I'm so jealous of you. I want blackout curtains. It was nice though because when my headache first- You could start by like closing the blinds. That is true, that's what I did today. When my headache first started,

[00:49:58] I just went to sleep right after work yesterday and I woke up and both the cats were just snuggled up to me and I was like, yes. Yeah, they finally love you enough, huh? Listen, she loves me too much. I'm like, go the fuck away sometimes.

[00:50:12] Yeah, she's filling in for me while I'm gone. And she and Chipmunk will like rotate like on a schedule with like if one wants to go out of the bedroom, the other wouldn't come and sleep in the bedroom with me. Like there's always one on guard.

[00:50:24] Yeah, like during the day, they'll both come in and sleep on me. But like at night, only one of them will be sleeping on me and then they'll get up and move and then the other one comes in like five minutes later. I'm like, yeah, clearly at night,

[00:50:36] only one of you could be in here. They got shifts going on, you know? They're like, I must go defend the house. I think Chipmunk gets hot a lot easier too than Sweet Roll does. Oh yeah, she does, yeah. Big fluffy cat.

[00:50:51] I was getting up to leave the other day, like getting ready and I left the light on in the bathroom, I guess. And then I come back and I just see like half the thing, I get hear a noise and I see half the stuff

[00:51:04] on the counter now on the floor. And I was like, what is happening? And Sweet Roll, she's sitting on the counter and I was like, man, I hope they didn't wake Ripley up because it was like two in the morning or something.

[00:51:18] And I look in and you're still just like soundlessly of them like, well, you know that she's getting murdered by a burglar. I have two settings. I am either like the lightest deeper on the planet or you could not wake me if they're fucking fire.

[00:51:30] Dude, it's 90% of the time you don't wake up. But anyway, so I look back in, I'm like, well, at least she didn't wake up, whatever. And I look back and Sweet Roll's just sitting on the counter and she's staring at one of the lights.

[00:51:42] And I was like, yep, it's light bulb. And then I saw behind the light, there was a little moth flying around. I'm like, oh, you're trying to get the moth. And so she like jumps up, knocks something else down. I'm like, all right, you know what?

[00:51:54] Let me help you. So I grabbed her and she's like chirping a little bit. She's like, whew, whew, whew. And I'm like, all right, give me a minute now. And he's like, be quiet. It's too early for this. I haven't even showered yet.

[00:52:04] Now I gotta pick shit up off the floor. And I held her up and I just put her like in front of the light and just held her there. And I was like half up. And my eyes were half closed.

[00:52:14] I'm still just like trying to wake up a little bit. And I just feel her like move a little bit in my hands. And I look up and she's like caught the moth between both her paws, like midair. And I was like, cool, good.

[00:52:27] And I was like, now go play somewhere else. And like she let the, she let the moth go and she just kept like smashing it into the floor. And I'm like, good, go that way. And I put her outside the bathroom and closed it so I could shower.

[00:52:39] Good, we got another little sadistic cat. Cause she'll do the same thing. She'll catch bugs and then she'll fucking play with him. Like she's a torsion worker. She'd find, no, it's real evil. Like she ate the moth.

[00:52:50] Like I saw her like bite it and she was, she ate it. But it was like, cool. When she got the worm, I didn't, I didn't even, like I was planning on getting her on flea and tick preventative at the same time as chipmunk.

[00:53:01] I didn't think that she was going to go around eating shit cause chipmunk like she'll, she usually doesn't eat it. Like she'll catch things and then she'll like, chipmunk bugs all the time. Oh really? Usually when I'm home, if she catches a bug,

[00:53:14] she'll meow and demand that I come over and look at it and like she presents it to me. No, I left them outside like all day last time I was up there and they both, every time I would hear like a little ruckus

[00:53:24] I'd look over and one of them was like chewing on like a little bug that they had caught and I'm like, all right, good job. We're gonna have to deworm them so frequently now. From insects that they're eating. Yeah cause like that's where like,

[00:53:37] it's usually flies but other insects can as well. I don't know. I think they were eating like mosquitoes or something. I'm like good. I don't think mosquitoes usually have answer like whatever. Yeah, this one's a it wasn't anything like crazy.

[00:53:50] They're trying to get like a nice squirrel dinner but they can't catch it. Chipmunk almost got a bird the other day. I was like, oh my God, why is this little bird so brave? Like a tit mouse or something. The little ones, yeah, they're a little bit braver.

[00:54:05] I feel like. They're like, I'm fast enough to fly away. Did I ever tell you the time that we were feeding the giant carp off the back of a cruise ship? No. And it turns out, okay, so my brother and I, we were on this cruise.

[00:54:25] How do you feed a fish off a cruise ship? And well, so the ship was in, it was docked, right? And when they have like leftover scraps or food and whatnot, sometimes they'll just dump it off the side of the ship.

[00:54:37] And the fish know this and they're like giant carp like huge and they were just sitting down below like off one of the balconies, off the back little section of the ship that's right outside the buffet. So the breakfast buffet had just ended.

[00:54:51] So we went inside and we were looking around and we're like, we need bread so we can just throw it at the fish and feed the fish, you know? And so we went up to one of the guys and we were like, hey, can we have some bread?

[00:55:01] And he's like, oh yeah, there's a couple pieces over there and I'm like, no, can we have like two loaves of bread? And the guy's like, he's kind of questioning it. Like why do these teenagers want two loaves of bread?

[00:55:14] But then I realized that he doesn't get paid enough. So he's like, there you go. And he gave us two loaves of bread. And so we went out and we would ball up the pieces of bread and like throw it off the side of the ship

[00:55:27] and to see if we can get it to the fish. You know, we were feeding fish at first but then the seagulls caught on. So then the seagulls just started grabbing the bread like out of the air. So then it was a competition to see

[00:55:39] if we could get the bread to the water without the seagulls intercepting it, right? And that was fun for a couple pieces of bread. And then we were throwing the bread downward and one of these seagulls, he was hungry. He flew straight down. The bread hit the water.

[00:55:58] The fish jumped out to get the bread and the seagull grabbed the bread at the same time. And then the fish closed its mouth and that fish ate a seagull that day because he was hungry apparently. And we were like, oh, well,

[00:56:16] we just fed a seagull to a fish. And we're like, anyway, more bread. I learned it is not good to give fish bread. It's not good to give a lot of things bread. But yeah, like most animals should not be eating bread,

[00:56:31] especially birds, birds that like expand in their stomach and can fuck up their digestion. Like apparently it constipates fish really badly. That's fine. They were carp. It's not like they were contributing to society. OK. Well, maybe they just like to exist on this earth where they belong.

[00:56:54] What do you mean? They eat scraps and then poop in the water. That's what they do. The ecosystem, Jordan. Our carp important, though. Are they what do they do? Let's find out. Doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot, doot. That was my theme music, but.

[00:57:14] Yeah, should we come up with like our old like we should come up with our own song. Let's see. Asian carp out compete native sport fish like crappy in largemouth bass. But some species feed on the freshwater mussels that help keep our aquatic systems healthy

[00:57:31] by apparently Asian carp or bad. It says while carp are prized quarries and are valued somewhere occasionally as food or ornamental fish in many parts of the old world, they are generally nowadays considered useless trash fish and invasive pests in many parts of Africa, Australia

[00:57:53] and most of the United States. So yeah. It says despite their long time presence, carp are still considered an invasive species with harmful impacts on native ecosystems. It says the only there have been studies to look into the health benefits of carp, mainly when consumed by pregnant women.

[00:58:17] The dish the dish made from carp is delicious because the fish meat is thick, fatty and there are few bones. But I'm OK. Well, let me do carp server purpose. To be eaten pretty much is what I've learned. They were imported into the United States

[00:58:37] in the 70s to provide an inexpensive fast growing addition to the fish market. Now they're considered an invasive species. So we brought them over here because they need to breed and they grow up fast and that way we could eat more fish. But now they're just invasive everywhere.

[00:58:53] So I don't worry about so many invasive species. Right. They're like, we brought this like animal in to control this other animal population and not that population of animals has destroyed everything. Like, yeah. Yep. Advasive species. Apparently carp like eat all the plants and destroy the ecosystem.

[00:59:11] What's the what's the country that doesn't have mosquitoes? There's like two or three. I'm jealous of them. Yeah, there's like two or three countries that just mosquitoes can't survive for some reason. But I can't remember which ones they were. I don't know. Iceland, cool.

[00:59:34] Nobody really seems to know why it's not nearly as cold as Antarctica, which is so frigid that mosquitoes could never survive. No, but you want to move to Iceland? Iceland would be pretty nice. Only two. Two mosquitoes. No, two places without a fine level.

[00:59:52] One is Iceland and Antarctica. That's it. Well, Iceland it is. It's easy. Easy. Green one, right? Yeah, it's more green. It's a smaller island. Hmm. But yes. Is it hard to emigrate to Iceland? I don't know. I have no idea. What was the country?

[01:00:19] What was the country that used to pay? They had like their population of women to men ratio was off. So they were paying men. Like the government was incentivizing men that if they married into the country and stayed there and had at least two children,

[01:00:38] they'd get a huge stipend from the government. What country was that? I feel like... There's been quite a few actually. It's usually for specific cities or villages and towns that they notice are failing. Like right now, Austria will pay you to move there.

[01:00:56] But right now I've seen a thing that there's like 20 countries that will pay you to move there in 2024. A lot of countries are having population problems as women choose to have less and less children. Yeah, I think also too part of it was like the pool of like

[01:01:14] potential mates was getting too close to like being... Too close to being related. Yeah, so they had to like start like hiring outside sperm. I don't know. The one that I thought I would actually have loved is there was

[01:01:28] this small village in Italy on an island paying people to move there because their population went down to zero when their last caretaker died. So they were offering people like full little homes and stuff, money. But like it's very disconnected from the rest of the world.

[01:01:44] Like they don't have like internet. They have like power and all that sort of stuff, but there's no internet or anything like that. There's a program that I found out about a few years ago. It's like a farm exchange program kind of where you can apply for it.

[01:01:59] And depending on which type of like farm, wherever ranch, whatever you want to call it, depending on which one you apply for, it's basically like an adult version of like a foreign exchange thing where you apply to go to say there was a...

[01:02:15] There was a goat farm in the Netherlands that they were looking for like help for the summer for like three months. And they gave you a room in their house. They paid you while you were there. And they said that the only requirement was they or you'll get.

[01:02:36] Saturday, like they said that you'll get Thursdays and Saturdays off. And they asked that you like provide or make one of the meals during the week and eat dinner with the families. So you just go over and live in the Netherlands for three months

[01:02:51] with this family and work on their farm, you know, and that's it. And then you go back. Honestly, that sounds like an amazing opportunity, especially like if you're unattached and have nothing going on. That's what I was telling my sister about. And she said if they didn't...

[01:03:03] If she didn't have her cats that she would have applied because it sounds great. And I'm like, I don't know. Like you just... Like you pay for the travel itself and then you just live there

[01:03:11] for three or four months, do, you know, work on the farm or wherever and travel back wherever you want to go. Like dear host family, do you need a barn cat for three months? But there's a bunch of different places on there. There was like a vineyard.

[01:03:25] There were two vineyards in Italy that were doing like something similar. There was a there's a bunch of places in in like Norway that needed help. There was one that was like a sheep farm in in Iceland or Greenway, one or two that they needed help during their

[01:03:41] shearing season because they just didn't have enough helpers. But they'd give you like a month worth of like, you know, nights to stay out there while you're doing this. I saw one that was like we want...

[01:03:52] We only need help for like two weeks to do like the shearing process on their goats and their sheep or something like that. But we'll give you the room for a month so you can work here for two

[01:04:01] weeks and then you'll you'll just get to do whatever you want in town for two weeks or like around the city for two weeks. But they weren't going to pay you. They were just going to give you a place to sleep while you help them

[01:04:13] and then give you those two weeks, you know, extra for free for like a vacation. I was like, that's pretty cool. Yeah, I mean, if you've got some money saved up, that'd be a great deal. And I'm sure things in other countries are cheaper.

[01:04:26] Yeah, I can't remember the name of the program, but it was it was pretty cool. All you needed was like a passport and so like create a profile. They do a background check on you and then you can just apply for the different, you know, farms or wherever.

[01:04:40] Yeah. Well, I think that about wraps up our episode. We've talked about a wide variety of things tonight. Yes. And always remember where you're saddle when you're writing. Otherwise, your bum will be sore. That's the message of the day.

[01:04:57] Yes, that is exactly what we wanted you to take away from this episode. If you want to go minimalistic like many companies and their logos, the then that message is just simply use protection. My God, I actually can I before we go, I hate.

[01:05:11] And that's going to do it for us this week. And we. No, I really hate the minimalism movement. Like everything looks the same. Like half the time, you can't even tell what app is which anymore because they're all like the same blue and white, the bullshit design.

[01:05:26] And like same thing at my job, like we have a bunch of apps to do. Absolutely. You look at all my apps look way different. Well, whatever, I'm just complaining, I guess. I like it. Go on. I think is coming back. That's it. You do the outro.

[01:05:43] No, no, no, no. You're you're the sugar mom. The parent go for it. Well, my name is Ripley and that's Jordan. And we've talked about some weird things today. So if your ears liked it, please follow, subscribe, like,

[01:06:00] listen, I don't know, whatever website you're on, do the thing. We will see you next time. Thanks for listening. I feel so awkward doing the outro. I always forget the words I'm saying. Yeah, that's all folks. Don't forget to have a mindless nugget night

[01:06:18] because that's what we named this episode apparently. Think about dinosaurs that look like chicken nuggets. It's like we've come full circle. Like a nugget source. Nugget source. If I ever get to name a dinosaur, it's a dinosaur that just

[01:06:36] its full size was the like the size of a modern day, like baby chicken. Like that's a walla. That's that's nugget source right there. Dinosaur to walla. Walla source. All right, we got to go. OK, bye.