Mindless Therapy

[00:00:01] Mindless Prattle, Jordon and Ripley Well, you know, hello. Welcome back to another episode of Mindless Prattle. We're going to prattle on about things mindlessly. Hope you enjoy. I like your description of it. I'm Jordon, that's Ripley. We're the hosts. We do this like most of the weeks.

[00:00:26] And every week we have no idea what we're going to talk about or what's going on. So that's always fun. Did you listen to last week's episode? Listen to it? No, I was a part of it. Why?

[00:00:38] I listened to it on Spotify and you were cutting out a little bit in the last episode. I think it's because of the microphone that we used. I was a little too far from it. Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, it'll be better this week, guys. Thanks.

[00:00:52] My friend texted me that she's listening to the episode and she was like, I am dying laughing my ass off. Like, Jordon is so funny. Like the rat cat thing made her laugh a lot. The what? What did we talk about?

[00:01:05] Oh, we were talking about naked cats and you called it a rat. Oh, like hairless cats? No, that's just a rat. That's a large rat. That's what you've chosen. But yeah, so she'll be fun. That really funny. Shout out to you. Well, thank you. I appreciate it.

[00:01:23] I'm always here to entertain. So sorry, I interrupted you. Go on. So, you know, like Jordon and I had like a little romantic weekend in San Antonio and I got there before him and I'm checking out the hotel

[00:01:36] and I talked to you a little bit about this, but I wanted to elaborate on it more because I checked in and I gave him my name and she was like, there's nothing under that name. Could it be under another name?

[00:01:48] And I said, yeah, you know, and I gave her your name and she just gave me like this strange look. Like, I don't think she was concerned about me checking in, but like she kept looking at my ring and then like looking at me

[00:02:01] and being like, like making this face, you know? Like what are you doing in this hotel? Yeah. And I was like, he's my fiance. And then she, her holds me to change. She got so much more friendly with me. She was like, oh, okay. That makes sense.

[00:02:13] And I was like, is it any of your business though? Yeah. Okay. So it may have been my fault. So here's what happened. Well, I made the reservation right. And under this, the, when you're making it, it says who will be checking in you or another guest?

[00:02:30] Like you can put down somebody else's name and I was like, oh no, there's no way I'm getting out of work that late. I'll just do it. So I just put my name on there. Well, then the next day I was getting out of work late.

[00:02:42] Like there was no possible chance that I wasn't. And I think I ended up working almost 13 hours that day. But about three quarters of the way through it, I was like, I need to call the hotel and ask them if I can put

[00:02:53] your name on there because otherwise they won't let you check in and it's going to be a huge headache and I don't want to have to call them later and all this and that. Right? So I called when I said hi,

[00:03:04] I wanted to, I had a few questions and they're like, okay. And I was like, I had a, I have a reservation, but I'd like to add a name to it so that someone else can check in. She goes, oh, okay. Let me transfer you then.

[00:03:17] The front desk handles those sorts of things. And I was like, does the phone number for your hotel not normally go to the front desk? But okay. So the front desk answers. And I'm like, hey, so and so front desk.

[00:03:30] And I was like, hey, repeat the same thing. And then I was like, I was right in the middle of it. And I was like, you know what? I was just slightly annoyed that I had to do this. And I took it out on. Did you really?

[00:03:45] I was, well, I was annoyed that they transferred me and then I was annoyed that I couldn't do it because I tried to do it online first. Like I clicked on my reservation details and tried to add like a second person that it wouldn't let me.

[00:03:55] I was like, that's kind of weird. Like why do you have a button that says edit reservation if I can't edit the reservation? Like the only thing I could do, I clicked edit and it was like, are you sure you want to edit? And I clicked yes.

[00:04:07] And the only thing I could do was either cancel it or add a note of when I'd be getting there. And I'm like, no, like that's not, like I don't want to do that. Like, you know, so then I called and then they

[00:04:18] transferred me and by this point I was like, look, I got to get back to work so I like maybe can get out a little bit earlier. Well, so she goes, hi front desk. What can I help you with?

[00:04:28] I said, yeah, I need to add a second name to my reservation so that they can check in because I'm not going to have work until later. She goes, okay, what's the name on the reservation? I gave him my name. She goes, okay.

[00:04:45] And the person checking in, what's their name? And I gave him your name. And she goes, oh, a different last name. I said, yeah, it's a little bit more of a secret. Can't use our real names. And she's like, okay.

[00:04:59] Like you didn't need me at first because she put down your first name and then started typing my last name was like same last name. And I was like, no, no, no, no, no. And I was like, we have different last names. She's like, oh, okay, my bad.

[00:05:13] I'll put it in. I was like, yeah, can't have the same last name on the reservation. Then people would find out and she's like, oh, okay. Oh my God, Jordan. And then you showed up. That's funny. Okay, maybe she was the one who answered the phone

[00:05:27] then because she was like looking at me up and down, giving me such weird vibes. Why is this lady so concerned about me checking in right now? She definitely was like, oh, you're the one with the other last name that he can't know about. Jesus Christ.

[00:05:40] But they had a good laugh about that later. Because I was seriously like, why is this lady mean mugging me? Like I'm so friendly and pleasant when I go out, you know, like I didn't do anything to her. Dang, I can't believe she said that.

[00:05:54] Well, yeah, they made it slightly inconvenient for me. So I made it slightly awkward for them. But that's kind of funny though. I was at the weekend was fun. So me and Jordan were like, like joking the whole weekend. We're like, oh, we're on a secret romantic interlude

[00:06:10] cheating on our spouses, you know, I just kept telling different people that I had different names when we went places. It was fun. I enjoyed it, you know, and it was like nobody gets hurt in that process. Like I got hurt a couple of times because I

[00:06:25] definitely forgot that we've done, we've talked about it before, but I definitely forget which names I give to which restaurants and they're like, oh, I have an order for James. And I'm like, who? And they just stare right at me and I'm like, oh, right, me. Okay.

[00:06:39] And I'm like, ah, yes, good. I'm pretty good at responding to names that aren't mine because of theater. I'm fine with it too if I remember, but I generally like just say a random name and then I totally forget. Like at one point where were we at?

[00:06:54] We were like I hop and I walked in and they were like, yeah, you know, table for two and we're like, yeah, no, like it'll be like 15 minutes. And I was like, there's nobody else in the restaurant, but okay, sure. I was like, all right, 15 minutes sounds good.

[00:07:08] And I'm like, can I get a name? I'm like, yeah, Timothy. And they're like, okay. And they put it down and then like we're sitting over there on our phones and he's just yelling Timothy like four times until he walks around the corner and looks at

[00:07:21] us both and he goes, Timothy, your table. And I was like, oh right. Yes, me. Thank you. Thank you for that. Thank you. Forgot my bad. Okay. This is unrelated and kind of like a bad thing. So my birth father's like actual name is

[00:07:38] Timothy and he would go by his middle name. Sure. The earlier I got a notification on TikTok that gave me a heart attack and it was like contacts you may know. And it was his name. But then it was some random guy.

[00:07:51] So I think he like sold his phone number or like sold his phone or something. And now like it thinks I have his contact in my phone. So it's like, oh, this is your contact him, but it's not him. It's some random dude. That's right.

[00:08:03] But it definitely gave me a miniature heart attack today. I was like, no, please don't recommend this to me. Anything interesting happened to you this week? Not particularly. I mean, I really just the only thing I did was work and then.

[00:08:16] I was like, okay, I'm going to do this work and then go out with you last night for dinner. But oh, did you did you end up playing the new game? What was it? Power World? Did you play that? No, because we didn't want to spend

[00:08:31] the money so I didn't buy it. No, I told you it's on Game Pass. You just jump on. Oh, is it? Yeah, that's what I've been playing it on. You've been playing it. Yeah, I played for like two or three hours. How do you like it?

[00:08:46] I play it pretty well. It's pretty fun. I can't wait to get to like guns so I can just shoot things and be fun. You can shoot things? Yeah, have you not seen anything about Power World? No, all I've seen is people are

[00:08:57] like, it's kind of like Pokemon. No, okay, so it is. And then Nintendo is thinking about suing them. They're not. They're not going to sue them. There's no reason for them to sue them. But no, it so there are like little creatures walking around

[00:09:11] and that's about the only thing that resembles it, but you you can capture whatever you want, right? So like there'll be a person walking around like an NPC and it's like wandering trader. And if you beat them up to they have low enough health, you

[00:09:25] can capture them in your little PAL spheres and then just enslave them. It's Pokemon. Yeah, but you can do whatever you want. You can also just kill them and like butcher them for meat if you want. Oh yeah. Like you do whatever you want.

[00:09:39] There's guns in the game. You can set up bases or you can have all your power like run around with guns and armor on like. It kind of sounds like Pokemon and arch survival. That's that's pretty much what it is. Yeah, you can combine the two

[00:09:51] and that's a pretty good description of it. Yeah. Okay. I'll download it then on the Xbox later. Yeah. Yeah. It's a I think you can play multiplayer, but I haven't tried it out yet. Yeah, I've seen it said it's multiplayer, but obviously it says on game

[00:10:05] it says on game it says on game it says on game it says on game it says on game it says on game it says on game it says on game it says on game it says on gaming it says on game it says on game

[00:10:13] it says on game it says game it says on game it says on game it says on game it says on game it says it says on game playing I played for like two or three hours and it down where I said, I played for like two

[00:10:21] or three hours and it was just like yeah, it's just the game and I'm like, I'm quite right well until it when you stop and when you keep playing you know um uh um I have to look at that things with that have McMullen playing anything

[00:10:34] else because I've mostly just playing the News. The That's MICHAEL had to work over the last weekend and I worked a little bit this weekend. And I'm going to have to work probably most of this week too.

[00:10:47] So yeah, haven't had a day off in a little while, but okay. Just been killing little pals in between there. I looked it up though. I guess on Xbox game preview doesn't mean like it's like a just a like a little snippet of the game.

[00:11:01] It means it's like a beta basically, you know, like it's in a state. Yeah. It's in early access is what the game is in. So I know that maybe I'll try a few more Xbox games because there are

[00:11:11] a few I haven't touched because they say preview and I'm like, oh, I don't want to get involved in it. And then it kicked me out. Yeah. There's there was one that I played those like it was like something

[00:11:19] witchcraft or something witch like little witch village or something. The Alchemy Witch one you played or? No, not Alchemy. Um, it was like a Stardew Valley ripoff with about witches, but it was it was in early access.

[00:11:35] So it was the preview of it, but it was just not good. Like the controls were really laggy and like it felt really floaty and like the control like the graphics looked great, but the animation style was fun. The story was fun.

[00:11:48] Everything was fine about it, but the controls felt terrible. So I just stopped playing it after like an hour. I'm like, I'm not the spirit to you one. No, no, no, that one's something else. That one was pretty good. It was very like falsely advertised, advertised, not advertised,

[00:12:03] but like described in the description, I feel like. But that one was pretty good. No, it was it's let me see if I can find it. It's why are you loading up so slow Xbox? Let's see. Power world, no. Little Witch in the Woods.

[00:12:22] That's what it was called. OK. Yeah, like it looks fun. It is fun to play, but there's the controls are just not good. Like I didn't like it at all. OK, I won't play it. That's fine. Like all I can think about now is power world.

[00:12:41] So thank you. Yeah, you're going to go play that after this. Yeah, I need to do some writing, though. I literally just have like 10 K words to finish, but I just can't. So I suddenly had an idea about like a plot twisty type thing I can do. Yeah.

[00:12:56] But now I have to think about how to like work it into the whole story and it changes the ending I thought I wanted, maybe not as quite as happy of an ending, you know. Oh, yeah, we're going full tragedy on this move.

[00:13:07] Not tragedy, but like something bad will happen and then they'll come back from it. But like, you know, not tragedy all the way. But yeah, so I'm almost done. I just have to actually finish it and then edit it.

[00:13:25] Are you talking about for your book itself or for the the sample writing that you're using for your application? For my book. Yeah, too. Because I'd still like to publish that beforehand. But I just it's like now that I'm close to the end, I'm I'm really struggling. Yeah.

[00:13:46] I don't think we've talked about it on here. I don't know if you want to about your application and what you're applying. We did. Did we? I feel like the last episode is called Mindless MFA. All right. Yeah, I forget about that.

[00:13:58] But no, so I'm I'm I'm going to apply. I just need to figure out what writing sample will represent me and not get me denied. I think you'd be OK. I I think you'd put in too much pressure on yourself for it,

[00:14:11] but which by the way, like they call it an application. But as long as you're not like overly dumb about applying to them and sending them like just absolute garbage, they're going to accept you because in the end, they're still going to get money from you

[00:14:25] like there for profit, you know, I highly doubt they're going to be like, oh, your writing sample was like a B plus student, not an A plus plus. So we don't want your money. Like it's not going to happen. I mean, my GPA was great in undergrad.

[00:14:38] Like I think I ended up like a three point six, three point seven. You know, like I struggled my freshman and sophomore years, but when I switched to going to ASU online, it was a lot easier for me

[00:14:51] because I think a big part of why I always struggled in school was like I'm always so concerned about what other people are doing. Like if someone really why? Yeah, like if if I see somebody like change their answer on something

[00:15:03] or like I doubt myself in a class, like like it just feels like everybody else's mood and what they're doing affects me while I'm learning and it makes it hard for me to focus. But then you just got that like empath trait going on. You need to reclass.

[00:15:17] I think that's what it is. OK, I was talking about this at work the other day. Would it be so nice? Like if you could respect like I wish I had video game logics. I think it'd be it'd be nice, but then the world would be

[00:15:31] terrible, even worse than now. But how I think that if everyone just chose their own traits, that would not be that would not be great. Why? Because you'd still need rules and stuff to follow. I don't think I don't see it going well because like someone

[00:15:46] is not everything, but like you can change your personality. Just going to choose all strength. And then what are you going to do with that person? You're going to throw them in jail. They're just going to keep breaking out.

[00:15:55] You're going to throw. What are you going to do with them? I mean, there's already plenty of people on this planet that are super dumb and super strong. Imagine if you had a super dumb person that was invincible

[00:16:05] because all their stats were just like in strength or defense. But not not applying like, oh, they can't get hurt by anything. But just like they'd be stronger than the average person. Like, you know, not like not like a fantasy thing, but like, oh,

[00:16:18] if I could imagine how unfair people would feel, though, right? Like you say you you you get the same like number of of skill points, right? That you have or attribute points that you have right now. Like you're born with it, right?

[00:16:31] When you can get a little bit more like you study, maybe you can get one more in intelligence, right? But then like if you studied a book and it was like plus one intelligence in cooking because you studied a cookbook or something right or cooking technique.

[00:16:43] Would you like be able to like, I'm going to respect that and just take off that point and be like, oh, yeah, I forgot that book. But now I have one point. I guess I'm just I went to the gym this week and I'm stronger.

[00:16:53] You know what I mean? Like there still has to be some limited things like that. Like like just the respect like you can respect like at one point in your life, say you turn 25 or something and you get to change your skills and traits.

[00:17:05] But you can't like you can keep increasing them naturally after, of course, but you can't like it wouldn't be like in fallout. Like you read a book, you get that point and then you can read like I think

[00:17:14] it'd be nice if it was like a one time deal. And you couldn't do anything like bad, you know, like you could improve your intelligence, you can improve your strength. Maybe you could make yourself look better if that's what you want. But like.

[00:17:25] Not everything else about video games. There would need to be some limits to it. Yeah, but I think no matter what, I think I'd just be more upset than anything. If when you died, you didn't get to see like your statistics from life. Oh, yes, so upsetting.

[00:17:40] I think here's how many steps you took. You're like, OK, cool. That's a lot of steps and they're like, no, it's not. You're pretty lazy. You know, I won that one then. You know, I believe in the life. You're like, oh yeah.

[00:17:52] Well, how many how many hours did you sleep? How much did you spend driving? You know, like all just the random things. And then you get to the like, what's that page on the side? You're like, oh, that's how many like terrible things you did.

[00:18:02] You're like, let's not go to that page. Do you think yours would be small or like that's how many laws you broke? And you're like, oh, goodie. Like this is how many insects you killed. Oh, God, insects. I want to see that. I don't see.

[00:18:19] Here's what your lifestyle meant. You contributed to this much global warming. You're like, oh, OK. But like I think we've talked about near death experiences on here a little bit or NDE is but I like to read about them and there's a lot of people who say that.

[00:18:31] Why you have an acronym for it? What is that? And that's what they're called. Yeah, sure. But you could just say it. Like what who is that acronym for? Are we talking about near death experiences so often that we need an acronym for it?

[00:18:46] Yeah, like it's studied scientifically and everything. Well, sure. But we're not scientists and we don't study it. I just I just read about them a lot. So, you know, I have to say. OK, so you're just in the in the exclusive club by proximity. I see.

[00:19:00] You know, let me tell you how the cool kids talk. And listen here, they got NDE's. There are people who like people who have had them that say that you get like a life review and you get to see how your

[00:19:13] effect your actions like affected others and like see how everything you've done like affected the world around you. And I think that would be kind of like the same thing. Like I would really like to see like, oh, this small good deed you did.

[00:19:24] This is how it affected someone like it changed the course of their life or hey, you hurt somebody and like here's how it affected them over the course of their life. You know, I think that'd be very interesting.

[00:19:34] Yeah, but I don't know that I have time to do all that. And they'll be like, all right, welcome to the afterlife. You're going to sit here for 20 years to review all your actions and all their. No, but like it happens like instantaneous.

[00:19:44] Like the people who talk about it say that like the like data is transferred like instantaneously, like you just understand things. Maybe it's a higher plane of existence. I don't know. Maybe we're all on like a trip and we come to Earth as like a video game

[00:19:57] type of thing. I got no clue. We'll find out one day or we won't. We were talking about this like over the weekend, you know, we decided that if I died, you would be fine and you would go on and live your full and adventurous

[00:20:13] life, which I thought was very nice. Well, yeah, that's what you would want me to do. Yeah, that's what you're going to do. So it's fine. Well, you're not going to die before me. What do you mean? I live a more reckless lifestyle.

[00:20:26] Men are typically more likely to die. Like it's just we're just married men are more likely to live longer, but single women are likely to live longer. What? Yeah. So you're saying if we get married, you die before me. But if we don't, then you live longer.

[00:20:47] No, so here's the background on that. A lot of relationships. Oh, hold on. No, like the background, like a lot of relationships, you know, like traditional old fashioned relationships, like the wife does all the cooking and the cleaning, the childcare, everything.

[00:21:00] And the husband just kind of works and like fucks off, you know? So in a lot of these things, men's quality of life is improved by having a wife because they don't have to have they don't have that burden of taking care of everything else.

[00:21:13] And then their wives leave them and the wives' lives are much easier because they've already been taking care of everything for so long. They're like, this is fine. I just don't have to deal with this man child now. So because of unhappy relationships,

[00:21:26] single women are more likely to live longer because they don't have diseases and health issues associated with the stress of, you know, taking care of a failing relationship where you're basically mothering a man. So you're saying that you better shape up or I'm going to get sick?

[00:21:41] You don't think I do enough? Not at all what I said. I feel like no, I feel like we split things pretty evenly. Like we do our own laundry. I, you know, like we I would do your laundry if you asked me to.

[00:21:51] I think I would get too upset at you doing your laundry. I would look at it and be like, why is everything just all tangled together? And you'd be like, that's just how it comes. I'm like, no, it's not. And then I would just throw things away.

[00:22:03] Like we don't need these clearly. I don't do separate. I put the only separate loads I do are towels and clothes and sometimes not even I wash everything together. I know you just throw everything in and then I pull it out.

[00:22:13] And I'm like, I'm glad that there's an apron that is now tied like physically like knotted and tied around like eight pieces of clothing. And I'm like, this is I'm not doing it. And I look at it and I'm like, hmm, if I touch it,

[00:22:24] I'm going to get mad and throw this whole thing away or just start cutting things with scissors. You're like, I didn't know these jeans had holes in them. But they do now. You know what? OK, you don't know what you tell me the other day

[00:22:32] we were talking about like the angriest we've ever made each other. I thought it was so interesting that the maddest I've ever made you out of all the arguments and things that I've made you mad about because I'm a frustrating person. I get that.

[00:22:43] Joy was about the laundry machines. Was it? Was that the angriest? That's what you said the other day. You said that I because I wasn't like taking care of the laundry machines or like making sure things weren't hitting them. Like that was the only time.

[00:22:57] So I'm really badly. That would be well, that that's a difference, though. It's not about like what was going on. It was because of what was like like the way you were going about it, right? Like, yeah, we've had arguments where it's you and me.

[00:23:12] We're talking about whatever things that don't matter, right? But but the things that we argue about, it's like something that I care about and something that you care about, right? But that argument was I was telling you that I like we just got these

[00:23:23] brand new washer and dryer. They're expensive. We don't have a lot of money right now. We need to take care of them. And you were just ignoring all that and basically telling me you didn't care. That's what that's what made me so mad.

[00:23:35] It wasn't that argument about them. It was that you were just telling me you didn't care about them at all. I'm like, well, then you can go do your laundry in the rain. Like stop talking to me. You know, that's actually very fair and valid.

[00:23:48] And I do I I've tried to improve on that because I do see things from your point of view in a way. But like to me, I'm like, we're going to use them anyway. Like it's going to get a little dinged up.

[00:23:57] I think like they're there to be used. I think I just get more as a function and utility. But I also agree, like we should take care of our things. I just for me, that's my thing. Things don't have value using our stuff.

[00:24:10] I just would like to use it for as long as possible, especially when we were both like you had a job and I did not. And I was like, look, we spent a lot of money moving out here. We don't have a lot of money left.

[00:24:19] I'm trying to take care of the things we currently have because we don't have a backup plan. No, it's great. You like, I think I need that because I like I don't I don't see the monetary value or I don't really see the value of things like that

[00:24:32] because to me they're just things. But I also see the side of it where it's like, we need to take care of our things. So the last like we've invested in these things, we need to make sure that we are caring for them.

[00:24:41] Yeah, that's why you only hit me occasionally because you need me to last. Oh my God, stop. What? Oh, I'm sorry. She does not abuse me in any way. You bought me on the head all the time.

[00:24:52] Anytime I do something like anxious or like I say something self-deprecating or horrible, you just like bought me on the forehead. Yeah, as a loving Bob to get you to stop thinking about the way that you're thinking and it works. It does work actually.

[00:25:05] And you know what your retaliation is? You're just like, how dare you? And then you just swing wildly and I'm like, whoa. No, I smack him in the chest. Like I'm sure you've seen what they do when their husband does something that goes right in the chest.

[00:25:16] Yeah, let's just promote the society's acceptance of abuse. And I have tried very hard to stop doing it because I wouldn't like it if you hit me. So I try not to eat. I'm fine if you just like put fully to hit me or tap me or whatever.

[00:25:30] But you did not know the word like the definition of the word play. It was just like a full swing. Now, boom. And I'm like, all right, well, I'd still like to breathe. That's how I grew up in my family.

[00:25:41] Like my dad would literally tell me to go rip my sister's hair out. Like when I was little knowing I would do whatever he said. And then I would do it and my sister would scream.

[00:25:50] And then my mom would be like, why are you doing this to them? Yeah, no, like I mean, like I am glad that you have some strength that you can hit and like fight back if you ever needed to.

[00:26:00] Right. But like, I don't think it's appropriate what I'm just like teasing you where I put like soap bubbles in your hair. And you're like, God, I just did my hair and you just smacked me as hard as you can. I'm like, oh, it's so.

[00:26:13] Yeah, I will keep working on that because I just realized why I'm like this. Welcome to therapy time. That's a couple of therapy as well help. Mindless therapy. That's what we're going with. That's I need to call my therapist. It's been a while. Oh, boy.

[00:26:34] I've been like just trying to deal with things, you know. Yeah, I don't smoke, right? But recently you talk about nicotine for the record. Yeah. So, you know, only only there's a very select few people that when I'd say something like that

[00:26:57] would assume that I wasn't talking about cigarettes. But OK, I feel like it's like we just gotten so common now that it's like you have to say something, especially to a large audience. I do not. Anytime someone tells me that they smoke, I default to cigarettes.

[00:27:10] Like it's anyway. Yes, cigarettes. Well, neither. But anyway, I don't smoke in general. So. But my my co-workers, right? Some of my guys when like we've been working for a while or whatever. And like, it's just like we deal with a lot of dumb stuff

[00:27:31] and stressful things and whatnot. And they'll go outside to go smoke because a couple of them smoke cigarettes. And so I'll go out and I'm like, you know what? That sounds good. So I'll like I brought out some chairs and we just set out

[00:27:43] some chairs outside around this little like table. And I'll just sit out there while they're smoking and just like drink some water or something and just, you know, they stare at the fuck clouds or whatever. Get that second hand smoke in. Yeah, I try.

[00:27:57] I stay upwind of it most of the time, but sometimes I'm like, there it is. But it's just been long story short. It's been relaxing to go out and just sit down and just be like, yeah, look at those clouds. Those are nice clouds. Yeah, that's mindfulness.

[00:28:13] Wow, we're supposed to be mindless here. I'm like you. Yeah, like mindfulness is like, you know, you sit in the moment and like you just enjoy it like you don't think about like all the other things you have to do. Like you just. Oh, those are nice clouds.

[00:28:29] Like this chair is comfortable. Like my body is relaxing. Like you just think about physical sensations and staying in the moment. That's usually how I get to sleep. It was all laid down and just be like, yep, everything's nice and relaxed now.

[00:28:41] And then I wake up and I'm like, wow, why does it feel like someone was practicing karate on me? And then I look to the right and I'm like, oh, right, Ripley's here. Yeah, I still can't stop laughing about that scratching thing you were telling me.

[00:28:55] It was like you were trying to play the piano or something. Like your hand was on my chest and you were playing. And I was like, whoa, where are it? So we took a nap this morning and your hand was on my chest.

[00:29:08] And at one point, like you twitch in your sleep, you know, I do too is like you've told me I do it as well. But like this morning you were just lost all control of it, I guess, I don't know.

[00:29:20] So it looked like it looked like somebody trying to play the piano. It was just the fingers were going and you just kept like tapping all over my chest. And so I woke up because you're tapping on me and I'm like, what is happening?

[00:29:30] So I grabbed your hand and then your hand stopped moving. I was like, OK, good. Piano solo is over. Don't know what's going on. You said it was like scratching your head. Yeah. And then your that was one hand. So I was just holding your hand.

[00:29:47] I go back to sleep and I wake up again because your other hand is on my head. And I was like, all right, I didn't know the cat was here or whatever. She likes this. And then you just kept scratching my head like a little slowly.

[00:29:59] And I was like, sure, whatever, I'll go to sleep eventually. Right. And then you like grabbed my hair. Now we're getting some other things. And then you just let go like half a second later and then went back to sleep.

[00:30:09] I was like, I don't know what I was dreaming about. I just know it was weird and intense. But I don't know what I was doing in the dream. You were dream fighting. That's what it was. It was like half nightmare, half not, you know, like. You're right.

[00:30:25] It's probably a nightmare if I was moving around that much. Normally you can't remember them, so look at me. Yeah. Well, at least you can't remember. I have to use a sleep hypnosis app to fall asleep. You bet you fell asleep last few nights without it, though.

[00:30:44] But when you're here, it's much easier. Oh, God. Like when I'm alone, though, I my insomnia gets so bad, especially if my period is coming, I cannot fucking sleep. Like I it's ridiculous. Like I'll get up and I'm pretty good at giving myself back to sleep, though,

[00:31:00] because, you know, when high school in psychology, I remember the teacher said like if you're you can't sleep, like the worst thing you can do is just stay in bed because then your body starts to associate like being awake in bed

[00:31:12] or being awake with being in bed and like it's harder to sleep. So like I'll get up and do something usually I'll like take a shower and see if that relaxes me enough to sleep or play a game for a little bit.

[00:31:23] I saw a study the other day, not to interrupt you, but that taking a hot shower before trying to go to sleep actually helps you quite a bit. Now, you have to do it specifically like in a certain way.

[00:31:40] So like getting, you know, the shower, make sure it's actually hot, make sure it's is going and then do not get a bunch of layers on afterward and get a bunch of blankets on because it's going to counteract the effect of the shower.

[00:31:53] What you need to do is go where something like light pajamas after you're like actually, you know, get out dry off. Don't don't stay wet, but get out dry off. Put on some light pajamas and then go get under like one blanket

[00:32:10] or a sheet and you'll sleep so much better. And it's because your body temperature will drop so much that you'll actually fall asleep much quicker and you sleep better when you're more cold. Yeah, yeah. That's I like it to be cold when sleeping. And have a blanket.

[00:32:27] You don't lie. You say that and then you get under like eight blankets. You need to get under one. I have seen you. You'll put on like three layers of clothes and then get under two or three blankets and then wake up and you're like, I couldn't sleep.

[00:32:38] I'm like, yeah, because you're trying to roast yourself. No, I just my temperature. I don't have any temperature regulation like literally earlier. I had on a sweater and some sweatpants. I started sweating so much, it was like pouring down my arms. And yeah, because it's like 65.

[00:32:53] No, no, no, I changed my shirt, right? So when I switch my shirt, I immediately get cold. Like I had to put on a beanie because you took off the sweatshirt. Yes, like I can't like there's no comfortable temperature. I just also like between hot and cold.

[00:33:10] Like the point of sweating is to cool you down. So then you exposed it to all that air and then you put on a new shirt and you were wondering why you got cold. Like that's that's why. Oh, no, I'm going to talk about Wonka.

[00:33:26] Yeah, go for it. OK, so Jordan, I saw Wonka over the weekend. Oh my God, I loved it. I wasn't like super excited to see it. Like I was like, oh, yeah, I'm sure it'll be good.

[00:33:36] But like, I just, you know, I knew you wanted to see it. So that's why you can't tell me you only wanted to go because I wanted to go. I'm like, I really think you're going to like this movie a lot. And you're like, no, I will see.

[00:33:44] I think it'll just be all right. I'm like, OK. And then you were like crying halfway through it. You know, like in bed. I've never been a huge Willy Wonka fan. Like the Gene Wilder one or the Johnny Depp one, like, you know, they're fine.

[00:33:56] They're good movies, but I'm never like, oh my God, I really want to watch Willy Wonka. Like I love that story. You know, I didn't love the story. Like all the the tribues, though, it just looked really fun and like a good like movie about the ground.

[00:34:08] You know? Yeah. And I think honestly, it was just I told Jordan this, but it was like the perfect balance with everything shitty going on the world. Like it was a little dark, you know, but it was really quacky and funny and comedic.

[00:34:23] And Timothy Chalamet is acting really sold it. Like it like there was a suspension of disbelief there. Like you definitely he felt like he believed the character if he felt like he believed in the magic, you know? So I really liked it.

[00:34:35] And then I stopped like for 10 minutes straight towards the end of the movie. Like I was not expecting all the feelings to him. Like that. The whole thing is very strange because you're just like, yeah, everyone's backgrounds are a little sad.

[00:34:47] Like the movies, like a little bit evil here and there. And then right at the end, they just ramped it up and they were like, oh, yeah. Also, like I told I kidnapped you, dumped you down a laundry shoot and told your mother that you were dead.

[00:34:58] You're like, what? Like, you were like, you were just upset that they were stealing chocolate from you and then you're just going to dump that. Be like, oh, also you're related to me and I want you dead. Like what?

[00:35:11] Yeah, like there's some like a big theme of murder. Like this whole town is run by like a chocolate gang. Like it's crazy. You've got to go see it. It's the chocolate cartel. It's pretty fun. I like that 100 chocolate addicted monks.

[00:35:25] There was no point in in the movie that they showed you any food besides the chocolate, except for one time when he poured out the slop and was like, no, this isn't edible and then ate chocolate instead. And you're like, they only eat chocolate in this town.

[00:35:43] That's it. Yeah. There's no stores that sell anything except for. Oh, actually, I lied. Right at the beginning, he picks up a pumpkin. They like they're selling produce. Oh yeah, he smashes the pumpkin. Yeah. And then there's a guy showing him like finding new ingredients for the.

[00:36:00] Right, right. But there was nothing that showed like in the city, though, there was they sold out produce there, which no one was buying. They showed a cafe which only sold chocolate and had chocolate on their menu. And then he threw away the slop.

[00:36:14] So at no point during that movie, does anyone actually eat anything other than chocolate? I didn't notice that. Yeah, they only eat chocolate in that town. I I'd have like one or two and be like, can I get like a steak or like some

[00:36:29] potatoes? I also don't know like which country it's supposed to be themed off of because it felt like it was supposed to be like London or maybe like New York or something like an earlier New York.

[00:36:40] But then at the end, they were just like, oh, also he bought a castle and you're like, OK, so definitely not New York. It's definitely like somewhere in Europe. But like, well, yeah. And then I noticed too, like there was like a lot of Spanish

[00:36:53] writing on the buildings in the movie. So I don't know. That's just because we're they filmed it. Yeah, they had to have filmed it somewhere in Europe just because all the streets were close and there was everything

[00:37:04] was designed for like walking, except for like the few cars that were there. But I don't know what country it was supposed to be modeled after, you know? It was filmed in Oxford Bath. I don't know how to say this.

[00:37:17] So just if if there's any UK people here, please forgive me. Lime, Regis, London, St. Albans and Maple Durham. So mostly so all in London. So maybe they just don't like some like an old area that was influenced by like Latin culture and stuff.

[00:37:33] It was probably like Latin, not Spanish. Probably, but it was overall was really good. Yeah. There was. Wasn't anything like twists or anything, but it was it was good. Like it was a good story. I like those chocolates looked like they looked like they'd be good.

[00:37:53] But honestly, they looked closer to like bath bombs than they did. A little bit. Well, like they remind me of like the Cadbury cream eggs. Yeah, yeah. They're all like hollow. And then like I don't try them casually like murdering people at the end.

[00:38:09] And you catch that like he floated them away and he's like, yeah, I don't wear off eventually. And you're like, they're going to fall. No, literally, like what are they going to do? Or they just is it they just hoping the police will go catch them?

[00:38:22] Like just floated away. They're about they're just about to drop somewhere. Maybe fair ocean or something. They'd try to blow him up and ruin his life. And drown him in chocolate. Yeah, and drown him in chocolate. I think he was justified.

[00:38:35] Yeah, murder is like sometimes a justified crime. There's only one crime that is truly never justified. You seem murder sometimes justified. Yeah, like like self-defense. Like if someone's going to kill you and your only option is to kill them back. Like, yeah, that's acceptable. Kill them back.

[00:38:52] Kill them instead. Not kill them back. Then you just both dead. Kill them instead. Like what happened? They're both dead. Be like, yeah, but I think he stabbed her and then she stabbed him. And then they both just bled to death and you're like, all right.

[00:39:02] Well, at least they killed them back. Like. It's like in Call of Duty, you know, when like someone shoots you, but you had a bomb there so they died. You're like, yeah. Yeah, like I dropped a grenade when I died. But highly recommend.

[00:39:18] Not the murder of the movie, right? No, not murder. Yeah, we only sanction murder every once in a while. What would it take for you to murder someone like? I don't know. Like it depends how much

[00:39:31] pound of pressure you got on the trigger and then you just like aim it right. That's really all it takes. Do you think like it would affect you like mentally, though? Like. Depends. Like are they trying to kill me or are they just like somebody on the street

[00:39:45] that I really don't like? Yeah, say someone trying to kill you and you have to kill them. Like, do you think you'd still feel bad about it, even though technically they were trying to harm you? No. I think I would.

[00:39:58] I think most normal people should and most normal people would, but that's not how like it works in a lot of countries, militaries. Like the whole purpose is to desensitize you from that feeling. There's a reason like if you go to a shooting range,

[00:40:15] all the targets are like circles and like hit the middle and that's the bullseye and your accuracy really good. And then you go to like any training video for any military and their targets are shaped like the outlines of people.

[00:40:28] They're shaped that way for a reason is to condition you to not think about when you're aiming gun at that shape. Like that is what that is all it is. I know that's something like if they ever tried to draft women,

[00:40:39] I'm almost at the age where I'm like aged out of it, but like if they ever tried to draft women, I feel like they take a look at me and be like, no, she ain't fit. I don't know that you'd be qualified to go. Would you?

[00:40:52] Um, I think the age cut off is like 27. I wasn't talking about age, but okay. What other qualifications? I mean, obviously the mental thing, right? That's what I'm talking about. And they'd be like, well, very mentally unstable. We're not going to give you a gun.

[00:41:05] Like, you know, I have also smoked a lot of weed in my lifetime. So I doubt that. But that doesn't disqualify you. That's the only reason I didn't apply for the FBI. If you like you continue to do it while you're on the job, then maybe

[00:41:17] if you express interest during like the background check where you're just like, yeah, I would sell any national secret for weed. That would probably disqualify you. But I would not sell national secrets for weed, even if I was smoking it.

[00:41:28] You got to do it the right way and put it on a Minecraft Discord server. I'm not going to say I love our government. Like obviously I'm very like revolution or whatever, you know, like I'm young, but I lost my train of thought.

[00:41:44] Oh, I would not sell national secrets. I like, I don't, I love my country. I don't love what our country does, but I do love my country. I do think like we should try to be better.

[00:41:53] And I simply would not do something that would put other people in this country at risk like that. No, did you, I think we talked about a breather this morning. Did you see the CIA played an unoverse card a couple of weeks ago?

[00:42:07] No, but you should tell us about it. Oh, for years and years and decades, Russia has been using social media and like online platforms to try and recruit citizens from different countries. A lot of American. Discord, yes, go scandal.

[00:42:24] To get like information, especially from like people in the military, people in the government like, hey, like, oh, that's not how that really works. So tell me how the tank really works. Give me like the details and that's the money, you know, all that sort of stuff.

[00:42:37] Right? Like blueprints and shea. Well, a few weeks ago, the CIA put out a video on Russian social media sites and it was basically like a video that was like, are you unhappy with your current Russian government? Are you unhappy that they're sending hundreds of thousands of people

[00:42:53] of like your brothers and sons and daughters to die in a war with Ukraine when you have no idea why or when or where? Well, if so, click on this link. Right. And that's pretty much what the video said.

[00:43:05] And it was like, you can tell us all about it at this secure website. And so people were able to like click on secure website, like a secure like portal to the CIA and just give them information about where their son or daughter was like shipped off to,

[00:43:22] like what was the last time they heard from them when they're expected to come back, like all sorts of stuff. Right. And so Russia not so happy about it, but apparently in the before they like are taking it down or attempting to take down if it's still

[00:43:37] up or what the current situation of it was. But apparently something like 50 million people like received the video and like half of them watched it. And the CIA said that they are not disclosing at this time how many actually clicked on the link and provided information.

[00:43:53] And I was like, yeah, where'd it go? A little UNO reverse espionage. So you actually made me really curious. I was like, what social media platforms do they use in Russia? Like, I haven't no idea. The top one is called VK in Russian. It is VKONTAKTE.

[00:44:12] I don't know how to say it. I don't know Russian. Yeah, is it like they're using a TikToker? They call it VK. I don't know what that is. And then followed up by WhatsApp and Telegram. I have heard of Telegram before.

[00:44:24] I've like in Reddit, I've like a lot of other countries use it, I guess. But OK, so also the way this study is labeled, they say leading social media platforms in Russia by monthly penetration rate. Oh, heck yeah. What a word to use.

[00:44:39] It's so undervalued, but so versatile. I don't think people understand. You can use it for so many different things like you can use it for just eating. You could use it and be like, yeah. And then I penetrated the chicken with my fork. Like that's it.

[00:44:52] Like you just you just pick up some chicken with a fork and you can use that word. And then people are just like, what? Why would you use that word? Like no, like sending with a lubrication. See, I don't I don't think of lubrication that way just because

[00:45:05] I mainly deal with like vehicles, engines, weapons, things like that that all require lubrication like in order to work properly. So that one I'm not like a huge iffy on it, you know. Yeah. Moist moist is another one.

[00:45:23] It doesn't make a lot of sense because like a lot of things are moist, you know, like yeah, I think it's like the association and connotation of the word. I think so too. You know, people now associate it with Vagina. With what? Vagina. Who? Vagina. Oh, with what?

[00:45:50] Moist. I forgot what I was going to say. It was something that I just wanted to say moist again. OK, I just so you know that that quote this too shall pass. Sure, sure. I know a better one. Go on. This too shall fuck off. I like it.

[00:46:16] I really want another Netflix account because I want to see the live action avatar. It's not even out yet. Yeah, well, I also need to watch one piece and then the new season of Bridgerton is coming out. One piece is on Crunchyroll, which we have.

[00:46:32] Bridgerton is. No, the live action one piece. Oh, the live action one piece. OK. Yeah. So like I want to see that and that. And that and that. You'll be up, you'll be up, you'll be up.

[00:46:47] I think like once all the shows we like are really interested are coming out, we should just get like a one month subscription. You know, yeah. And then just kind of be like, hey, this is the month to watch.

[00:46:56] If you don't do it this month, it ain't happening. But OK. Yeah, because like, like I love Bridgerton. I love Bridgerton. I don't think I've talked about it on this podcast before because, you know, it's been out for a while, but Bridgerton was so good.

[00:47:08] And then Queen Charlotte came out. Oh my God, Queen Charlotte was even better than Bridgerton. And it was a spin off show. Yeah, what is that about? I saw an ad for it the other day, but I didn't know what it was related to. Queen Charlotte.

[00:47:19] So it's like a prequel to the Bridgerton series. It's about how the Queen and King like fell in love. It's so beautiful, Jordan. It is actually like really devastating emotionally, like because it's like it's showing them in the past and the present, you know.

[00:47:33] And at the end, like the king in the show has like really bad all timers. It's he's based off of King George, I think. But he's got really bad mental problems and I can't remember where he is or what

[00:47:44] time it is. And there's a scene where he and the Queen, like they always lay under the bed when his brain gets like that, like over the years. And like she helps him calm down. And there's a scene where it like mirrors them when they're young doing it.

[00:47:57] And then it's like them really old and he's like probably going to die. And like them just under the bed holding hands. And she's like, I'm always here for you, you know. And I just see it was beautiful.

[00:48:07] And yet when I say I'm going to die first, you're like, no, it's impossible. I just I don't know how I would come back from that. Like even talking about that makes me want to cry. Hey, we'll talk about something else.

[00:48:22] Like, like I said, you know, I would be fine, like monetarily and like, like I have friends, I have family, like I know your family would fucking surround me and be like, we're not letting you go. You know, so like all of that is fine.

[00:48:36] But that doesn't replace you. Yeah, there's going to be another cat or something. Oh my God, I don't think you understand how many cats I would have. If you I'd buy like a little house in Las Vegas and I'd get like four cats and like two dogs.

[00:48:53] Oh boy, maybe I'd start a farm or something. I don't know. Live a cottagecore life and play video games on Twitch. Yeah, that is exactly what one of my grandparents said on my mom's side. We would go visit her.

[00:49:06] You would walk up and you'd be like, yep, that's grandma's house. You'd be like, how can you tell? You'd be like, you know how you can just smell cat pee from years away? Oh yeah. You walk in your house.

[00:49:17] You're not smelling cat pee if you are taking care of your litter boxes. OK, you understand how old she was, how many cats she had, how many dogs he had. We don't know. We you could get out of her and you couldn't count

[00:49:30] because she'd be like, what's that one? You'd be like, oh, that's so much. I thought you said it was this one. You're like, no, there's two that looks very similar. But that one's got a red whisker on one half of his left cheek. And you're like, oh, OK.

[00:49:42] Oh my god, you would have loved my baby everywhere. My grandma, we call her Mimi. She was the same way. But like so they lived in Florida and their backyard was literally like a jungle. Like it was just filled with cages and cages and like they would rescue

[00:49:57] dogs, cats, like any animal. They had an alligator that lived in their bathtub. You couldn't take a bath in that bathroom or use that. You would have to wait if you wanted to pee, we'd have to walk past the alligator in the bathtub or the crocodile.

[00:50:10] I don't know. It was really little. I feel like your grandmother was like selling illegal things. No, she just had a big heart. Alligators in Florida. And like, I guess he was hurt. So she was like helping nurse it back to health or whatever.

[00:50:26] Like his leg was hurt. I think that's still illegal. I'm pretty sure it's probably illegal. But you know, she just she couldn't say no. And they were they were antique stillers and hoarders. So like you walked into their front room and it was literally just word there.

[00:50:39] Yeah, it was filled from like selling to floor with like antique dolls. I eat, creep me the fuck out. I remember one Thanksgiving, they set up a table in there for us to eat and we were just surrounded by all these dolls.

[00:50:50] She would give me some once in a while and I was convinced they were haunted every time they creep me the fuck out. Oh yeah, I bet that sounds very creepy. And I wasn't even there. I actually pulled the head off of a life-sized Victorian doll.

[00:51:02] She had gave me because it stared at me at night and I was convinced it was trying to steal my soul. Well, maybe don't anger the doll. Maybe that's why you got nightmares. All you got cursed as a kid because you just ripping the part dolls.

[00:51:12] Oh, my gosh. OK, me. I don't know if I've talked about it because you don't believe in stuff like that. But me and my sister are 99 percent sure we're haunted by something. But I don't I haven't noticed anything. I do believe it. You know why?

[00:51:23] Because you spent your childhood ripping dolls heads off and like just like they were like, yeah, this is little Annabelle. She's modeled after this life-sized girl, but she was murdered. And you're like, wow. And then you ripped her head off because he's creepy

[00:51:36] that she was trying to ask you for help. And then I guess who's haunted? Like it's not like I know what two and two adds up to. All right, it's like we used to see things in the hallway.

[00:51:47] And like I would say I was just a kid with imagination, but my sister would see the exact same thing like from her room. Like I would see this like long black shape walk down the hallway walking in my room and then hide behind the door.

[00:51:58] But, you know, I also have severe insomnia, night terrors, nightmares. I used to sleepwalk. So like I don't know what was dreams and what was real when I was a kid half the time.

[00:52:10] You know, I still am so mad at my parents for not taking me to get a sleep study done. I mean, you can probably go get one done now. Can you just like request one? Or do you have to get like a doctor?

[00:52:20] You go to the doctor and you're like, hey, I sleep terribly. Can we do a sleep study? And they're like, I think that's a decent plan. Give us more money. Like that's what it is.

[00:52:30] Because there is like a sleep study place, like literally like right across from our apartment. Yeah, I don't like you. I don't know why you couldn't request one. Be crazy why you wouldn't be able to do that. Because I just I never feel well rested.

[00:52:44] It's like sometimes I sleep for four hours and that's great. And then sometimes I have to sleep for like 12 hours. But I still like, you know, I move like crazy in my sleep. Like the cat doesn't sleep at the end of the bed anymore.

[00:52:54] She will only sleep on the pillows. Yeah, because you keep throwing her off every night. Yeah, so I just I got to figure it out because I don't want to live like this. Crazy. I don't know. I've just been watching a lot of like weird, sexy, scary movies.

[00:53:13] Sexy, scary movies. What's a sexist scary movie? I was watching another one earlier. I was called House of Darkness and I called. I had to look up the plot because I was like, I think this is what's

[00:53:22] happening, but I need to know and you know, I can't wait. So I looked it up and I was like, wait the full like hour and a half for the movie to finish. Well, we had a record too.

[00:53:31] So like I was pretty sure I wasn't going to get to finish it. Like I had to pause it. But. It's like this guy picks up this woman in a bar and drives her home and like.

[00:53:43] Like they start making out and like the house is all really creepy. Like it's a castle and I was like, this lady's a vampire called it. And then at one point she like bites his lip and he's like, oh, you knit me. And she's like, oh, sorry, T.

[00:53:54] And then she like sucks the blood out of his mouth. And he's like, well, at least you're into it. And I was like, she's a vampire. But basically her and her sisters like are a coven of vampires who go

[00:54:03] around punishing men because like one of them was raped hundreds of years ago. So now they go around and punishment. And hold a grudge much. Oh my gosh. Crazy hundreds of years ago. And you're just like, let's keep doing it.

[00:54:15] Like, you know, if I was an immortal, I could see myself doing something like that. Like. I think vampire would be one of the only like undead or like mythological species that would be a decent depending on like the type you are, you know, yeah.

[00:54:30] Like if you're the type that can't go outside in the sunlight, or else you're like burned to death, maybe not as fun. If you're the kind that just can go outside in the sunlight, but people are like, oh, he's sparkly, a little more fun, you know, like.

[00:54:45] No, honestly, I don't think I've missed the sun. Like I love sunshine and I love being warm. But I feel like immortal life and like getting to do whatever you want. Like, that's my favorite forever. Do they the Fae can live for hundreds of years.

[00:55:02] Yeah, some of them for thousands. OK, well, it's still not immortal, though. But like, I feel like maybe after a couple of hundred years, I'd be fine. You know, I'd be like, OK, I'm done now. Like are you talking about like an elf?

[00:55:15] Like that's what you want to be. Oh, I'd love to be an elf. I'd be a great elf. I have elf features like people tell me that sometimes. And I'm like, yeah, like, yeah, a hundred years is a mere blink in the life

[00:55:27] of an elf and they just go back and I just aren't how old are you? What's that lady? Is her name the blonde one? Is she Toriel or I can't remember. I don't know them all. Yeah. No, I look a lot like the blonde lady.

[00:55:41] I feel like I could cause. I also like that point in the law rings where it's like, yeah, she's thousands of years old, but that guy's like 20. So obviously, you know what? I'm down for that because normally it's the other way around in like books and

[00:55:53] movies, right? It's like the thousand year old, hot, immortal warrior dating the 19 year old who can't read. That's what it was. What do you mean? Like he couldn't really read. It was just the genders that are swapped. Like she was an immortal warrior. Like she fought.

[00:56:07] She had like a sword and everything like she wasn't like she was helpless. Like not a sort of bow and arrow. That's what I'm saying though. Like it's cool to see that like that trope reversed, you know, like the flip side of it.

[00:56:18] Yeah, but it's the same trope. It's the same no matter if it's a woman doing it to the man or the man doing it to the woman. It's the same. Like it's the trope itself is the same.

[00:56:27] Yeah. I think seeing things like that, like gender swap that normally aren't. It's cool. Like, yeah. Women can be the predator too. What you're looking at, not the not the trope itself. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that part is not like this 10,000 year old guy

[00:56:43] who doesn't know how to read being like, hello, 12 year old warrior. Like, you know, also Crescent City 3 is about to come out. It's on its way to our house as we speak. I'm so excited. I cannot wait to look at it here. Is that a book? Yeah.

[00:56:58] It's the third book in the Crescent City series. It's the one that's connected to the Accord of Thorns and Rosa series. Of course. You read that first one. I read one of them, sure. Yeah. You should read the others. I'd be so happy.

[00:57:12] You can't tell me you need me to read your stuff, but your stuff keeps changing and you need me to read that. But that stuff is you don't know if you want me to read it because you want me to read your stuff back and forth.

[00:57:20] I'm like, which one you want to read? Now you got to pick. You only read one thing at a time. Yeah, I'm a very straight person. I do one thing at a time. Like, straight people. All right. I'm not reading two of the books

[00:57:32] and then trying to memorize six different characters. Well, how much of my book have you read? Not a ton. Well, then just read the other book. Why? Because you've had it for so long. So I've had the other one for longer.

[00:57:49] I don't know. Just pick something and read it. Yeah, that's what I thought. I was thinking of complaining. But I am very, very excited for this book. I've only been reading fan fiction so far this year. I don't know what it is. I've never done fan fiction before,

[00:58:03] but like it's all I've been reading. When is this supposed to be? My friend just sent me a Twilight one. Um, I think it'll be here on Monday. It might already be here. I don't I didn't receive like a notification

[00:58:14] that it got here, but it might be in the mailbox. I don't know. It was shipping with the USPS, so it could just be the mailbox. Do you know how big it is? Because it's it's her longest book ever.

[00:58:27] So like 40 pages or well, like her previous longest book ever was like 900 something. So I'm thinking it's got to be over a thousand pages. Geez, that's long book. Yeah, I'm hoping I can get through it in a week. I believe in you. I've also just got the hiccups.

[00:58:43] So forgive me. Oh, OK, you're fine. Still haven't read Iron Flame, especially with all the reviews and like the controversies coming out with the author lately. Like I just I'm not interested. I can't even get past three pages.

[00:58:54] It feels like a completely different author wrote it to me. Like it I mean, I'll try and read it, but because I haven't seen any of the controversy or any reviews on it. So I can read it and let you know.

[00:59:04] And the first book, the part I liked the least was how fucking whiny Violet is and how she doesn't understand that the guy she loves is literally like fighting for his people and like, you know, trying not to get massacred. I didn't see her whiny.

[00:59:21] Yeah, I mean, like at the end, she was like, oh, you didn't share the secret. And I'm like, yeah, why would he tell you that he's known for like three months? Everything that you know and hold dear, right? And then, you know, like it's it's insane.

[00:59:34] And apparently, like the second book is just like that's all it is. Is them fighting back and forth about the same shit and like her getting mad at him about the same shit. I'm like, I just can't see.

[00:59:45] But yeah, if that is all the second book is then that'd be annoying. I was hoping they'd dive more into like the rebellion and like her brother's back story. Like I was hoping more for that, you know? I'm sure there's some of that in there, but like,

[00:59:56] I don't know if I have the patience to get to it with all the other stuff. Yeah, we'll see. I'll try it again. But like every time I've sat down to read it, I just I'm like, no,

[01:00:05] I'll grab it next time I'm around and take a look at it. If I've got some time, like I said, I told you, maybe I should have gotten it on Kendall because I do prefer reading digitally. It's just easier for me, especially with how big some of

[01:00:17] but it big some of these books are like they're hard to hold for long. I prefer like this copy still. Now, my hands start cramping, especially if I'm reading for hours, you know, because sometimes like I'll just sit there and read and it's like,

[01:00:29] OK, my hands are getting a workout right now. Is that all you have to say today or your hiccups so bad you can't talk? I'm just trying to fight them a little bit, but. Um, let's see what else is going on in this millennium.

[01:00:45] Or 20. Did you see a lot of people are starting to point out like things that are wrong with airplanes after that door flew off of one of the 737s? Yes, I saw one person like a flight got grounded

[01:00:56] because they noticed there were screws missing or just just throw on this out here. Air travel is still the safest mode of transportation available like per day, per amount of people moving in and out like transportation wise. Flying is the safest mode of transportation.

[01:01:14] The the bolts missing on the wing. Yes, airplanes lose bolts all the time. It's because of the frequencies that sometimes they fly at it. Vibrates it away that that makes the bolt. Some of the bolts come out still safest.

[01:01:28] There are no external bolts that would make the wing of an aircraft fall off the wing of the aircraft. It will still be attached. Those like one of the panels may fall off, but the wing itself will still be there.

[01:01:44] But like there was that and then there was one other person that was like, oh, missing from next to one of the doors. And so we couldn't like they shut down the thing right to put on a bolt.

[01:01:54] You know, like, yes, you they should be the bolts in there. They should be replaced. I agree that the airlines should be checking them over and be like, there's a bolt missing here. We can just put it in real quick before the plane takes off again.

[01:02:04] I think people's disregard for it is utterly ridiculous. Like their reaction to it is utterly ridiculous. It is still the safest mode of transportation. If you would like to go to stand in one place next to any road

[01:02:19] and watch the amount of decrepit, beat down cars that drive by in like an hour. You you will immediately think, wow, look at all those cars that are missing bolts, parts, paint, like pieces of it are gone.

[01:02:35] And it's still like it's still the preferred method for most people, even though it's more dangerous to be driving a car than it is to get on an airplane. Yeah, I'm not too worried because I usually fly with Southwest.

[01:02:47] And it seems like there are a lot of these airplane companies that like chose to skimp out on like maintenance and things like that during covid and then like their cost cutting measures. And that's probably like what these issues are

[01:02:57] because they had to pull like an entire fleet of planes. The other the other part of it was, yes, after the door thing, they pulled those planes in like that model plane like in particular because they wanted to do a study about why that happened.

[01:03:11] Not that they weren't saying that all they still don't know safe. They wanted to do an investigation into why that happened so that if they basically they basically did a recall in case there was a defect with the plane or if it had been

[01:03:24] like if they hit a rock or whatever and it plane and that's why the door flew off. They want to know like they want to know before they just like send more of those planes up. That's what's happening with that.

[01:03:36] It's not because they're like, oh, the planes are all unsafe. They're not there's like they could be. Let me use it like it could be like a structural problem with that model plane itself. But people also got to understand if you like say you're in a plane

[01:03:50] or you're at the airport, you're waiting for a flight. That flight lands, right? Everybody gets off the plane. Do you wait for them to do maintenance on that plane? Or do you immediately want to get on the plane so you can get to where you're going?

[01:04:05] You every single person wants to get on the plane. They get in that giant line so they can get on first. They can get out to where they're going, right? And the way it works is the plane will fly for a certain number of trips

[01:04:17] or a certain number of miles or a certain number of hours. And then it will go in to a maintenance bay like a hangar. And they will do all the maintenance that is required, like annually, monthly, whatever, including putting on any missing bolts that came off,

[01:04:33] doing all the maintenance that they don't do every time because people are so impatient. Like if you wanted to fix that problem, there's a very easy solution. It would cost everyone time and patience. The plane would land. People would get everybody would get off of it.

[01:04:48] You would sit there and wait for an hour or half an hour or however long it was while everyone looked over the entire plane, fixed every little thing they could and then let you on the plane.

[01:04:58] Damn, like there's no there's no reason for people to be this crazily upset about it. Like everyone's freaking out about it for no reason. Like this has been happening for years and years.

[01:05:09] Yes, there was one plane that something went wrong and the door fell off of it mid flight. That's got it. Go for it. You want to compare that to the number of like flat tires you get every day.

[01:05:20] Just didn't like the United States, like it's ridiculously or how many car events are every day. Mind you, like no one got hurt. No one was injured. So even though the door flew off, everyone just went, oh, guess we're putting on gas mask. Somebody lost their phone.

[01:05:35] That's about it. You know, but like when somebody's driving down the highway at 70 miles an hour and the tire pops, they crash and someone gets hurt. Like, but nobody wants to be like, oh, no, we need to look at tires on this manufacturer.

[01:05:48] Nobody can drive this car for until we figure out what happened with this tire, you know, or whatever, whatever the case may be. So I think it's just ridiculous, like a proportionality of of of what happened to what the response is now.

[01:06:02] And they're like, ah, flying is no longer safe. You're like, yeah, we've had a major plane crash once every 10 years on average. Like, oh no. What's I don't get it. So I kind of went off there at the end. Yeah, that was a you go off, King.

[01:06:22] I was just like it's when people are upset about shit that doesn't matter. I get you dumb. I get upset about things that don't matter all the time. Yeah. And then I give you facts and logic and you're like, I'm personally

[01:06:34] attacked. I know we go round and round. Well, I think that's going to do it for today's episode. Thank you for listening. I'm going to say that here Ripley quickly before he says something crazy.

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