crayons, communism, and hospital smells.

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Hi, I'm Travis. And I'm Emma. This is Bestie

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Approved. Hello. Hello. It's been so long. How's

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it? I guess it has been for us. Since we recorded.

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Yeah, it's been a couple weeks because I was

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sick. Yeah. I feel really annoying because the

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last thing I listened to was, yet again, Pierce

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the Veil, but it's a cover of Just the Way You

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Are by Bruno Mars. It's if you like it, I love

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it. I was just on my walk. Where was my last

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song? It was. You know, it was Body High by Mike

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Taylor. Yeah, the last song I listened to was

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Body High by Mike Taylor. Beautiful. Here we

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go. So we have a lot today. Today's going to

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be it's going to be a wild ride. You want to

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start with. Well, let's let's start with the

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last update our dear listener got about you was

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that you didn't get to go to Louisiana. Yeah.

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OK, so my car is fixed now. Thank God, because

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it's a million degrees outside and I was literally

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dying and I was just picturing myself like picking

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Jack up from school every day. And it being a

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million degrees, the hottest part of the day

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and no AC in my car. And now I don't have to

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do that, which is beautiful. Today is Jack's

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first day of school, first day of first grade.

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How are you doing with that? How do you feel

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about that? I'm sad. Are you? Yeah. I asked my

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mom when it's going to get better. Like, when

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does it not feel so sad? And she was like, high

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school. Really? I feel like. it would like inherently

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feel more sad in high school because it's like

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that we're almost we're almost there like this

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is almost over yeah but like you have a bratty

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teenager who's going from a sophomore to a junior

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it's like yeah okay she's she did say it's you

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feel the same feeling again at college obviously

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um but yeah so last The pregnancy update I gave,

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I was only like 19 weeks or something. I think

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August was the size of a papaya at the last one.

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Oh, so it was two weeks ago, so I was probably

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like 20 weeks. Yes, you were measuring it. You

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were 19 weeks, but you were measuring it 20.

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Yes. Yeah, I'm 22 weeks now and I take back everything

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I say about feeling mostly normal. I feel like

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shit. hate that i well i was sick for a couple

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weeks a week really and then the back pain began

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i have scoliosis dear listener it's pretty mild

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honestly but it sucks when i'm pregnant oh my

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god because like your spine stretches out right

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and like Are you bending forward when you're

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pregnant? Because you feel like you're leaning

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forward, right? Well, yes and no. You can keep

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your posture, but you're so misshapen. And also,

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your joints are more flexible than they're supposed

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to be, really. Because your body releases this

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hormone that I think I've talked about before

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that loosens up. All of your joints. It can't

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just, like, target your uterus. It's everything.

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Oh, is this, like, the reason why a lot of women

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have problems with calcium or, like, their bones

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after they have a baby or, like, their teeth

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and stuff? Is that related at all? They're not

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eating enough calcium, probably. Okay. But it

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is why, like, you'll hear some women talk about

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going up a shoe size after they have a baby and

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stuff like that. Like, everything spreads out.

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All of your bones. Really? Yeah. That is fucking

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wild. So I have scoliosis and I have hip issues

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and they don't appreciate that at all. Yeah,

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that's the biggest update, really. I'm excited

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for my belly band to arrive. It's me, my heating

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pad, and my maternity pillow against the world.

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What's a maternity pillow? It's like... basically

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a huge u -shaped body pillow so that you don't

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lay on your back because you're supposed to stay

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on your side and also you can put it in between

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your legs so like your hip is supported while

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you're sleeping oh i love this it is so comfortable

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and i got this one that's like supposed to stay

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really cold and it actually does it's like that

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material that's like It's perpetually 10 degrees

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colder than the room. Love her. Do you want to

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know something else? I don't understand that

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technology. I don't know either. I don't know

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because I had sheets that did that once and consistently

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15 degrees colder than the rest of my room. It

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makes me so extremely happy. Oh, right, because

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I need everything to be freezing cold. My house

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is freezing cold. If I could set it to 66 degrees,

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I would do that. But we've agreed that the house

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minimum is 68, unfortunately. And also, I can't

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hear anything. You can't. I can't. And I didn't

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even know that was a thing. So, dear listener,

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the last time I was over at Emma's house, we

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were watching Modern Family or something, just

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something for background noise before we recorded.

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And I already get overstimulated as it is, but

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like the TV was so loud and like I kept saying

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to myself, it's it's got to be me. Surely I'm

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the problem. Like surely to God. I just think

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it's too loud. And I said to Emma, can you turn

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it down like just just a hair? And I look and

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it was up at like 32 or something insane. And

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I was like, oh, it's just really loud. And then

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she turns it down to like. And she's like, I

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can't hear it now. I literally can't. I don't

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know. I just like I didn't even know this was

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a thing for me. But apparently I did this when

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I was pregnant with Jack, too, where I just had

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everything loud as shit. Like I think I talked

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about living with my mom when I was pregnant.

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She said like she couldn't hear her own TV upstairs

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if I was watching TV downstairs because my. I

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just can't hear anything. And I, my theory is

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the increase in blood flow. I think it's blocking

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my hearing. I just Googled it. And hearing loss

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and tinnitus can occur in pregnancy due to hormonal

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and circulatory changes as well as other medical

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conditions. I do have tinnitus, I found out,

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unfortunately. It's like the... They're ringing

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in the ear, right? Yeah, mine is not a ringing

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in my ear. My ears do ring a lot, but the one

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I get every single day and like multiple times

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a day is like a thumping. It feels like my eardrum

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is like being triggered by something, but there's

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no noise. It feels like a heartbeat almost. The

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way I would like go in and poke my eardrum out

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with a Q -tip, I could not handle that. There's

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no way. It's not, like, constant for me, so it's

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not bad. I know people have it, like, really,

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really bad and all the time. Yeah, it is annoying,

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though. It feels weird. I feel weird, like, hearing

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that out loud. Like, I'm uncomfortable with that.

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It feels like when you have water in your ear.

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You know what I'm talking about? I do. Yeah,

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it's like I have to get earplugs for when I swim

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because I cannot handle that feeling. Like, it's

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the most uncomfortable feeling. Oh, my God. Last

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time I went swimming, I had water in my ear for,

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like, six hours. Like we came home from swimming

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and I was like, dang, I really can't get this

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water out of my ear. And I was I woke up from

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literally sleeping in the middle of the night

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and the water was still in my ear. And I was

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like, OK, I'm going to get an ear infection.

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And so I literally hung my head off the side

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of my bed like a bat until it came out. And it

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finally did. And the relief from that is really

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an amazing feeling. I love that. Yeah. I love

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that. Um, we have a lot today. Um, where do you

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start? You want to start? Oh, fun fact. We got

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listeners in Australia and Argentina recently.

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Love that. The A's, the A countries. Oh, we can

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work our way down the alphabet. I love that.

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I've never been to Argentina. We could do that

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too. I've never been anywhere in South America.

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I've only been to Central America. Yeah. I would

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love to go. I would too. Next is Brazil because

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that's a B. There are other Bs. Belize, Belgium.

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Belgium. We have a listener in Belgium. So we

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already have a B. Yes, we have a B. It's time

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for C. OK, we can start with the heavy thing

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first. And I. I went back and forth about talking

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about this, but and I actually wrote out a little

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script because. Like, I don't know, I just it's

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it's a lot, so buckle up. In the past, I've taken

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the position that I want to keep the show lighthearted

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and fun to avoid talking about some of the real

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issues that we have going on in our country right

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now. And I think that's an irresponsible choice

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today. Earlier this week on Tuesday, August 5th,

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the Department of Homeland Security announced

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a new partnership with the state of Indiana to

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expand ICE detention facilities with what we're

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calling the Speedway Slammer in Indiana. Kristi

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Noem posted a statement on. twitter about indiana's

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version of alligator alcatraz saying today we're

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announcing a new partnership with the state of

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indiana to expand the tension bed space by a

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thousand beds thanks to governor braun for his

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partnership to help remove the worst of the worst

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out of our country if you were in america illegally

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you could find yourself in speedway or in indiana

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speedway slamer avoid arrest now or i'm sorry

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avoid arrest and self -deport now using the cbp

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home app Governor Mike Braun gave the following

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statement to Fox News. We're proud to work with

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President Trump and Secretary Noem as they remove

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the worst of the worst with this innovative partnership.

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Indiana is taking a comprehensive and collaborative

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approach to combating illegal immigration and

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will continue to lead the way amongst states.

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Before we go any further, what are your thoughts?

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Boo. I literally just don't understand it. We

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have literal murderers and pedophiles and people

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like that. And you're saying the worst of the

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worst are people who are seeking asylum. It's.

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The thing that like really stood out to me, well,

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because I'm not going to lie, like I spiraled

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over this yesterday, like I woke up, I saw this

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on TikTok and like I. well it's so triggering

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yeah like i was like for the next four and a

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half hours i was like putting this together because

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i was so mad um it is the way they talk about

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these men women and children is the most dehumanizing

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disgusting rhetoric that i've ever heard in my

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life and just can't understand i just can't understand

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it and then you you're telling them to get on

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some app to take them back to the hell that they

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were experiencing that they to make them think

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that this country would be better what happened

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to being a melting pot what happened to what

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happened to the Whole point of America. What

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happens? I don't understand. So. Yeah, I don't

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know. I like and that's the thing. I don't know

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the answer to that question. But, you know, while

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we're on the topic of Indiana leading the way

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among states, I want to take a look at where

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we stack up in a few areas. Indiana's number

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40 on the list of like. ranking of most educated

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states across the United States. Our economy

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is also number 40 with a job growth rate at less

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than half of the national average. We're dead

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last for natural environment attributes with

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26 more days with unhealthy air quality and three

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times. More industrial toxins in the air than

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national averages. Oh, my God. I had no idea

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about that, by the way, about how bad the air

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quality is. Oh, it's horrific. Until my grandma

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has been paying attention to it and she'll text

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me. And it's literally like almost every day

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where it's like, hold your breath if you go outside.

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If you ever look at the weather app, it will

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tell you there's an air quality thing. And I

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was like, I swear, I thought that was like a

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glitch for the longest time. I was like, there's

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no way at the end. the air in indiana is that

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bad no it's because we have no environmental

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regulation in indiana it's horrible it's so bad

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yeah so no regulation and then so many farms

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and so we're just like kicking up dirt and dust

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and chemicals and who knows what else right all

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the time anyway and then Our Hoosier health is

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also problematic with our health care quality

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ranked at number 37, public health ranked number

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42 and obesity rates higher than the national

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average. So this whole leading the way conversation,

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I think, is I'm so sick of this like exceptionalism

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argument where it's like, oh, we're the best

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and we need it like shut down. Like we're not.

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America's not right now in a lot of areas like

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we have to just like we're not living in reality.

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And I'm so sick of like. Taking these issues

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where it's like we're literally going to destroy

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people's lives. We're going to ruin families.

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We're going to rip families apart. And this is

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how we're successful. And that's how we'll be

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first. We'll be the best state at being the worst.

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Yeah. Like what? Like what the fuck? And so I

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also. Really want to drive this point home. People

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are not illegal. Being an undocumented person

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in the United States is a civil violation rather

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than a criminal offense. Under U .S. code, entering

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the country without inspection by immigration

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officials is illegal, as is reentering the country

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after being deported. But simply existing is

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not a crime, and data released by the Census

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Bureau and Pew Research estimates that roughly

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45 % of undocumented immigrants did not enter

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the United States illegally. I'm just going to

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say, even if you did. I don't care. Even if you

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did. I do. I care about you and I hope you are

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doing well. Sure. Because I don't think there's

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any circumstance where you are entering a country

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illegally. You cannot wait for the paperwork.

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You cannot wait to be cleared. I don't think

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there's any circumstance where that is your first

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choice. No. No one wants to do that. Well, the

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thing that I struggle with is like you. We're

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telling people, well, you have to go about it

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in the right way. OK, the process for someone

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to naturalize themselves in the United States

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is the most insanely complicated process. It's

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incredibly long. It is. And then we're at the

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point where we're sending ICE agents to courthouses

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to pick these people up while they're trying

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to do exactly what we've told them to do. It's

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insane. We have a family friend whose wife, they

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are married, is from Germany. They've been married

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upwards of two years now, and she still doesn't

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have her citizenship. It is incredibly lengthy

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to become a citizen, let alone just immigrate.

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It's not as simple as you think, and if you have...

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Whatever it is, cartels burning your city down

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or terrorism or whatever the case may be, it

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is our duty to offer asylum, especially if we're

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going to go poking our noses in every other country

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in the world. We're going to have an embassy

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everywhere you can think of. We're going to stick

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our ugly white noses into every single problem

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that exists. Throughout the world. And then we're

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going to say, oh, but we are not going to help

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those who need it. It's disgusting. It is. And,

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you know, you have this this party of Christian

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white nationalists who. Love to talk about Jesus

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in the Bible and like, you know, how you need

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to have religion and like the Ten Commandments

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in schools or whatever. And I want to ask you

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right now, first of all, with who you believe

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Jesus was. Would you have seen him at the store

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and been like, oh, yeah, he belongs in the United

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States? I saw a thing about this on TikTok not

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too long ago about somebody said, if Jesus came

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back right now, most Christians would reject

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him. Yes. Yeah. I'm not trying to make it like

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a left versus right thing, but like this is inherently

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where we are today. Who do you think Jesus would

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have voted for in this election? I mean, come

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on. You're going to tell me Jesus doesn't believe

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in socialism and helping those who need it. I

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don't I don't think it's about socialism like

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in this in this case. But like, I think for me,

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it's just like. Something when Jesus said was

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like that, I what is it that the poorest among

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us, like the worst among us or whatever, I am

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this person like he identified with the marginalized

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people. And that's kind of the whole thing is

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to stand up for people who need help. And I just

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don't understand how we've come to this place

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where we can be so heartless and so cruel to

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these people to where we're literally building

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a compound in the Everglades in Florida and putting

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people there and then bringing in alligators

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or maybe the alligators were already there. I

00:19:03.690 --> 00:19:07.700
don't know. That story is muddy, too. But we're

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excited that if these people try to escape from

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this facility, they will be eaten by alligators.

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Like, fuck you. I mean, so and then going on

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to alligator alcatraz while we're talking about

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it. This place was constructed in the Florida

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Everglades with in just eight days under a state

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of emergency declared by Ron DeSantis, which

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allowed for the bypass of typical regulations

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that should have been in place. Concerns have

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been raised about the facility, including allegations

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of detainees being held without charges and being

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barred from meeting with their attorneys. And

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a former corrections officer who worked at the

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facility described the conditions as being inhumane,

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with people being held in cages with no sunlight,

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limited access to showers and being overwhelmed

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with mosquitoes. And Jesus Christ, I mean. Let

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me just take this time now to tell you, you have

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a right to an attorney. It's not a privilege.

00:20:02.180 --> 00:20:05.740
You have a right. You cannot. This is the thing

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is they're they're trying to argue over the citizenship

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and like whether or not the Constitution applies

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to you. And that's like we've declared that habeas

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corpus applies to people within the borders of

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the United States, regardless of your. Your status.

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Like and we're arguing over whether or not people

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are entitled to basic human dignity at this point.

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And then. And I'm going to say I'm I'm not going

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to pretend like we do not have. A need to reform

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the immigration system, like a complete and total

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overhaul, and I think it's irresponsible to.

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To say that we don't we don't need to do that.

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But I don't think this approach like we're taking

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a fucking sledgehammer to an upholstery nail

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here. Like, what are we doing? Yeah. Do you know

00:20:59.160 --> 00:21:02.500
what? Like, we should abolish ice. And that's

00:21:02.500 --> 00:21:08.940
where I am. That we're not doing anything in

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a way that the founding fathers. imagine no when

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writing this in the constitution no we are not

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respecting people we are not i i just can't wrap

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my head around being like yeah that's my country

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and supporting that but like what is why is like

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why is it so exciting to be like if if someone

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does a crime Yes. Do do deal with that. Please

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deal with that. Like deal with someone doing

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a crime that like hurt someone, whatever. I'm

00:21:46.640 --> 00:21:50.039
not saying we should have anarchy. Right. But

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Jesus Christ, most immigrants are people who

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want to work and they want to do the jobs that

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we don't. To be frank with you. And they're not

00:22:02.700 --> 00:22:07.700
these criminals. No. I saw a woman. On TikTok,

00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:10.339
again, I've been spending a lot of my time on

00:22:10.339 --> 00:22:13.200
TikTok, apparently. That's okay. This woman arguing

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with her Republican friend who was like, illegal

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immigrants are responsible for something like

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4 % of the crimes in America. Like, in total.

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Big total. Men? are responsible for 85%. I'm

00:22:39.779 --> 00:22:43.039
sure. They take up approximately 50 % of the

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population and their crime rate is over 85%.

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So if you actually wanted to stand on crime being

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a concern of yours, you're saying there are too

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many criminals in America. Why aren't you digging

00:23:04.240 --> 00:23:07.880
into why men commit most of the crimes? That's

00:23:07.880 --> 00:23:10.059
the thing. It's not about the crime. It's not

00:23:10.059 --> 00:23:12.339
it's never about what we say it's about. It's

00:23:12.339 --> 00:23:14.900
about having this idealized version of what you

00:23:14.900 --> 00:23:16.559
want America to look like. And it comes back

00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:17.759
to what I was talking about with the Heritage

00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:20.920
Foundation a couple of weeks ago, where you have

00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:23.960
this vision of like, I want it to be this traditional,

00:23:24.019 --> 00:23:27.660
like this thing that like exists in my mind.

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And I want the world to look this way. And if

00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:33.640
it doesn't look this way, I'm. i'm gonna i'm

00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:38.420
gonna kill someone basically and i i for the

00:23:38.420 --> 00:23:40.799
life of me i don't get it because it's it's it's

00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:42.819
never it's not about the baby it's about controlling

00:23:42.819 --> 00:23:45.279
women it's not about it's not about crime it's

00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:50.140
about making sure that america is white it's

00:23:50.140 --> 00:23:52.680
a racist thing it's it's a it's a supremacy thing

00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:57.180
it's what it is they're racist that's all it

00:23:57.180 --> 00:23:58.960
is oh and that's the thing is like we're saying

00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:01.700
we're not targeting specific races but i'm just

00:24:01.700 --> 00:24:05.839
like oh really because i feel like an illegal

00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:09.819
immigrant from europe is a lot less likely to

00:24:09.819 --> 00:24:13.299
be deported oh yeah they wouldn't know it's like

00:24:13.299 --> 00:24:17.980
i but again i come back to this this this thing

00:24:17.980 --> 00:24:20.839
over and over and over again of like these people

00:24:20.839 --> 00:24:22.559
aren't hurting you these people are not hurt

00:24:22.559 --> 00:24:25.440
like yes grand there is there's a bad apple in

00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:29.180
every bunch like it is it is It's impossible

00:24:29.180 --> 00:24:31.900
to say that, yes, every single person crossing

00:24:31.900 --> 00:24:36.420
any border or flying into the country or boating

00:24:36.420 --> 00:24:38.180
here or like coming over. I don't care where

00:24:38.180 --> 00:24:39.160
they're coming from. I don't care how they're

00:24:39.160 --> 00:24:40.519
getting here. But like, it's impossible to say

00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:43.599
that everyone is going to be an angel. But you

00:24:43.599 --> 00:24:45.940
couldn't say that about any group of people ever.

00:24:46.319 --> 00:24:49.960
You couldn't be like you couldn't say any group

00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:53.700
of adults you gather for any reason at any geographical

00:24:53.700 --> 00:24:57.319
location ever. they're all gonna be angels you

00:24:57.319 --> 00:24:59.920
can't no right but it's like you okay so you

00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:03.680
take the oh god the lake and riley that that

00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:07.079
situation which granted was horrible but you

00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:09.839
take that and then you make that the reason why

00:25:09.839 --> 00:25:17.220
we must deport everyone now and it's insane but

00:25:17.220 --> 00:25:21.740
also on the other side of that it was like the

00:25:21.740 --> 00:25:24.359
it just it was in the same year when when later

00:25:24.799 --> 00:25:28.500
The Brian Koperker situation happened. Why are

00:25:28.500 --> 00:25:32.799
we deporting him? Why are we deporting... I think

00:25:32.799 --> 00:25:35.940
I just said why a few minutes ago. That's the

00:25:35.940 --> 00:25:39.579
question I ask. If it's about crime, why aren't

00:25:39.579 --> 00:25:42.720
we dealing with the crime? Yeah. People aren't

00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:44.400
worried about crime. If they were worried about

00:25:44.400 --> 00:25:47.059
crime, they would have to persecute men. And

00:25:47.059 --> 00:25:52.000
that's something we'll never do. So... So I'm

00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.160
but dear listener, I'm going to put some resources

00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:57.599
in the show notes because I do think this is

00:25:57.599 --> 00:26:02.019
something with the building of of what a Speedway

00:26:02.019 --> 00:26:04.539
slammer. Jesus. And that's the other thing to

00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:08.180
call these little names like fuck you. Disgusting.

00:26:08.180 --> 00:26:17.460
Like it's disgusting. Like. And I. I know I've

00:26:17.460 --> 00:26:20.099
said like I've said it before. Trump is a marketing

00:26:20.099 --> 00:26:22.240
genius. Like this is where this is. This is where

00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:24.839
I'm drawing the line is like I can't have these

00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:28.859
like. Because it's I'm not going to let that

00:26:28.859 --> 00:26:30.819
cloud the judgment anymore of like, oh, he's

00:26:30.819 --> 00:26:32.460
funny. Oh, he's this. He's that. Like, no, we're

00:26:32.460 --> 00:26:34.799
literally talking about like you're making a

00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:37.440
mockery of what you're doing to these people.

00:26:37.500 --> 00:26:39.099
Like these are these are people. Your wife's

00:26:39.099 --> 00:26:41.299
an immigrant, by the way. Yeah. Your fucking

00:26:41.299 --> 00:26:44.559
wife's an immigrant. Fuck you. And I just I mean.

00:26:45.180 --> 00:26:48.500
Listen, the man is funny. And if he were a drag

00:26:48.500 --> 00:26:52.220
queen, I would be a huge fan. I'd give him a

00:26:52.220 --> 00:26:55.059
dollar. But he's not. He decided to be the fucking

00:26:55.059 --> 00:26:57.819
president of the United States. Right. And he's

00:26:57.819 --> 00:27:01.140
disgusting. And that fucking bitch, Kristi Noem,

00:27:01.140 --> 00:27:02.619
don't get me fucking started on that fucking

00:27:02.619 --> 00:27:08.700
Barbie little cunt. Like, we're, it's, she, and

00:27:08.700 --> 00:27:10.579
this is, this is the thing that I struggle with,

00:27:10.619 --> 00:27:14.069
with this entire administration. For the most

00:27:14.069 --> 00:27:18.549
part, this entire administration. I can't tell

00:27:18.549 --> 00:27:21.029
if they actually believe the crock of bullshit

00:27:21.029 --> 00:27:23.230
they're trying to sell the American people or

00:27:23.230 --> 00:27:28.150
if. If they're deluded into believing it. Do

00:27:28.150 --> 00:27:30.109
you think so? I think they know that they're

00:27:30.109 --> 00:27:33.809
spinning the story and they are just as dark

00:27:33.809 --> 00:27:37.509
and evil as you imagine them to be. And this

00:27:37.509 --> 00:27:39.650
is where I'm conflicted because what's the the.

00:27:41.309 --> 00:27:43.230
Caroline Leavitt, because like at one point I

00:27:43.230 --> 00:27:45.569
felt genuinely bad for this girl who like had

00:27:45.569 --> 00:27:47.430
to get up in front of the American people every

00:27:47.430 --> 00:27:52.890
single day and try and sell Donald Trump's crock

00:27:52.890 --> 00:27:54.609
of bullshit to the American people. And then

00:27:54.609 --> 00:27:56.950
like I saw the way she started treating the reporters.

00:27:57.230 --> 00:27:59.609
And I was like, is she acting that way because

00:27:59.609 --> 00:28:01.490
like she's like so triggered or is she acting

00:28:01.490 --> 00:28:02.849
that way because she actually feels this way?

00:28:02.910 --> 00:28:05.490
And like that's the thing is I can't tell. Like

00:28:05.490 --> 00:28:08.369
I cannot tell. With Sean Spicer at least. She's

00:28:08.369 --> 00:28:10.660
not trapped there. She's not trapped there. Oh,

00:28:10.720 --> 00:28:14.359
you're not wrong, but... She could go work for

00:28:14.359 --> 00:28:16.960
Fox News any day she wanted to. Oh, God, I thought

00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:19.680
this... Like, and they'd love her, because what

00:28:19.680 --> 00:28:24.019
a good liar she is. Right. Like, she's chosen

00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:29.680
this position. I do not feel pity. No. But, yeah,

00:28:29.740 --> 00:28:32.119
I'm gonna... Dear listener, I'm gonna put some

00:28:32.119 --> 00:28:37.799
resources in the show notes. Write to... Literally

00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.700
any legislator you can call them there. I will

00:28:40.700 --> 00:28:43.980
put a link to find who your legislator is in

00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:46.200
Indiana and outside of Indiana, because like

00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:48.440
this is if you think it's going to stop in Florida

00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:50.099
and Indiana, that's going to be the end of it.

00:28:50.119 --> 00:28:52.500
Like, I mean, here I was like I was like, oh,

00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:54.359
this will never happen to us. And here we are.

00:28:54.500 --> 00:28:56.740
We talked about what happened in California.

00:28:57.180 --> 00:29:02.000
That was a month ago, maybe. Yeah. Just insanity.

00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:05.119
Right. Insanity. We're living through history

00:29:05.119 --> 00:29:09.039
and it is not looking fine. It's not looking

00:29:09.039 --> 00:29:12.099
good. And then for the love of God, just vote.

00:29:12.259 --> 00:29:16.680
Like, please, please, please vote. Because like

00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:22.059
Jesus Christ, like. Yeah. Even if you feel like

00:29:22.059 --> 00:29:24.720
your vote doesn't matter, the number will be

00:29:24.720 --> 00:29:27.099
in the history books of the number of citizens

00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:31.200
who didn't agree with what's happening. Oh, yeah.

00:29:32.299 --> 00:29:36.000
And then I'm going to close out this incredibly

00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:41.500
heavy segment with this. The Oxford English Dictionary

00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:43.720
defines the term concentration camp as a place

00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:46.000
where large numbers of people, especially political

00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:48.279
prisoners or members of persecuted minorities,

00:29:48.539 --> 00:29:50.759
are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small

00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:54.220
area with inadequate facilities. That's where

00:29:54.220 --> 00:29:59.180
I'm leaving that. Yep. And I'm going to tell

00:29:59.180 --> 00:30:02.299
this isn't the first time America. Has done this.

00:30:02.339 --> 00:30:07.380
No, it hasn't. That's the thing. Pearl Harbor

00:30:07.380 --> 00:30:11.019
happened and we locked down every Asian person

00:30:11.019 --> 00:30:13.859
we can find. They didn't even have to be Japanese.

00:30:14.200 --> 00:30:20.660
No, it's there. So, yeah. Yeah. It's gross. It

00:30:20.660 --> 00:30:24.960
is. It's gross. All right. Anyway. Moving on.

00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:29.960
Here we go. Babletics can go fuck themselves.

00:30:31.039 --> 00:30:34.240
No, I'm actually obsessed with this diva. Tell

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:39.559
them your story. So you guys know I'm going to

00:30:39.559 --> 00:30:42.039
Dallas. It was it next week? Yeah, next week

00:30:42.039 --> 00:30:47.880
for the podcast movement 2025. And I. This has

00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:50.279
been what, like six months ago, I got a membership

00:30:50.279 --> 00:30:54.180
to Fabletics because I saw at the mall they had

00:30:54.180 --> 00:30:56.599
like three pairs of shorts for eighteen dollars.

00:30:56.680 --> 00:30:58.460
And I was like, oh, let me just sign right up

00:30:58.460 --> 00:31:02.059
for that. I go in and they like sell you the

00:31:02.059 --> 00:31:04.039
membership. It's like fifty nine dollars a month

00:31:04.039 --> 00:31:06.099
or something. And then they just keep charging

00:31:06.099 --> 00:31:08.559
your credit card. But you get a credit to use

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:13.319
on whatever you want each month. And. I had never

00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:15.700
used one up until this point, so I was like,

00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:18.480
let me let me buy some clothes for the plane

00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:20.259
and like if they have anything for Dallas. Great.

00:31:20.599 --> 00:31:25.480
So I go on the app. I order a couple of outfits.

00:31:25.579 --> 00:31:28.579
And by the way, what Validics is, they think

00:31:28.579 --> 00:31:31.069
it's really, really fun to do this. There's a

00:31:31.069 --> 00:31:33.950
line item for everything you buy that is that

00:31:33.950 --> 00:31:39.009
says tariff fee or it's very specifically references

00:31:39.009 --> 00:31:42.650
tariffs. And it pisses me off because that's

00:31:42.650 --> 00:31:44.509
that's not how it's supposed to work. Like you

00:31:44.509 --> 00:31:46.569
are not supposed to just like charge line items

00:31:46.569 --> 00:31:51.410
for tariffs. But that's just raise their prices

00:31:51.410 --> 00:31:55.089
like everyone. They could or they could accept

00:31:55.089 --> 00:31:57.390
like, hey, you've already paid for the credit

00:31:57.390 --> 00:32:00.670
for the item. Well, I think you're seeing the

00:32:00.670 --> 00:32:02.490
same price for everything as someone without

00:32:02.490 --> 00:32:06.789
a membership would anyway. I I so that's the

00:32:06.789 --> 00:32:08.869
thing is like they try and con you into not using

00:32:08.869 --> 00:32:11.609
the membership and you get cheaper prices. So

00:32:11.609 --> 00:32:14.490
like you just keep accruing the credits, I guess.

00:32:14.509 --> 00:32:21.049
I don't the whole thing is a racket. But I. Ordered

00:32:21.049 --> 00:32:24.119
the outfits online and. I wake up this morning

00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:27.319
and I get a shipping confirmation. It says, oh,

00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:29.759
your order's on its way. And at the very top,

00:32:29.900 --> 00:32:32.000
it says shipping address. And then there's an

00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:38.519
address I do not recognize. And I said, oh, no.

00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:41.680
And at the bottom of the email, it says, for

00:32:41.680 --> 00:32:44.819
questions or for help with your order, please

00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:48.099
call this number 24 -7. I said, I'm going to

00:32:48.099 --> 00:32:51.099
call them right now. You bet. You're asking well.

00:32:51.800 --> 00:32:54.859
I immediately thought to myself, I, I must've

00:32:54.859 --> 00:32:56.539
done something wrong. Like, I know I didn't enter

00:32:56.539 --> 00:32:58.000
the address incorrectly, but you know, like when

00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:59.500
you're typing in an address, like, and it'll

00:32:59.500 --> 00:33:02.079
like give you suggestions of like addresses,

00:33:02.079 --> 00:33:05.599
like with the same numbers in it. I, I was like,

00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:08.740
maybe I clicked on it or so. I don't know. So

00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:11.900
I'm like waiting on hold for, and I'm not exaggerating

00:33:11.900 --> 00:33:14.619
26 minutes for someone to pick up the fucking

00:33:14.619 --> 00:33:17.799
phone at fabletics. I get someone on the phone

00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:26.480
and. And while I'm waiting, I thought to myself,

00:33:26.680 --> 00:33:28.720
let me go back and look at the original order

00:33:28.720 --> 00:33:32.000
like confirmation just just to see if I missed

00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:36.259
it the first time I go back. The right address

00:33:36.259 --> 00:33:41.660
is on that email. And so I. When the woman picks

00:33:41.660 --> 00:33:42.960
up the phone, I was like, I tried to explain

00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.460
to her what was going on, and I said, hey, I

00:33:45.460 --> 00:33:47.220
got an email with like the shipping confirmation,

00:33:47.319 --> 00:33:49.460
but it has the wrong address on it and I'm not

00:33:49.460 --> 00:33:52.000
really sure what happened. Can you help me? And

00:33:52.000 --> 00:34:01.160
she goes. I don't know. She was so perfect in

00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:03.339
everything that she did. If I didn't hate her

00:34:03.339 --> 00:34:05.759
so much, I actually would love this woman. She's

00:34:05.759 --> 00:34:10.420
such a diva. You've never met someone who cares

00:34:10.420 --> 00:34:13.099
about fabletics less than this woman. Oh, yeah.

00:34:13.539 --> 00:34:17.000
So she goes, I don't know. And I said, OK, so

00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:20.730
where are we at here? And she goes. Well, did

00:34:20.730 --> 00:34:22.349
you put in the wrong address? And I was like,

00:34:22.409 --> 00:34:24.829
no, that's the thing. I'm looking at the original

00:34:24.829 --> 00:34:27.150
order confirmation and it's got the right address

00:34:27.150 --> 00:34:29.929
in it. And she goes, do you have a screenshot

00:34:29.929 --> 00:34:31.889
of that? And I said, hang on a second. Do you

00:34:31.889 --> 00:34:34.070
do you not have the original email that you sent

00:34:34.070 --> 00:34:35.429
me? She goes, that's a different department.

00:34:36.230 --> 00:34:41.210
And I said, of course it is. And we're not connected

00:34:41.210 --> 00:34:44.250
to them whatsoever. I said, can we get them on

00:34:44.250 --> 00:34:49.130
the horn? And she goes, no. funniest thing she

00:34:49.130 --> 00:34:53.809
ever could have said i love her so much we worked

00:34:53.809 --> 00:34:56.210
in a call center and i wish i would have just

00:34:56.210 --> 00:35:01.730
said that more no that is not me and no i cannot

00:35:01.730 --> 00:35:04.389
connect you to the person who it is and i said

00:35:04.389 --> 00:35:07.369
okay um so i guess what do we do she goes you'll

00:35:07.369 --> 00:35:09.550
have to wait to receive the order and i said

00:35:09.550 --> 00:35:12.119
receive it where like i don't know where this

00:35:12.119 --> 00:35:14.880
address is i'm just gonna show up to someone's

00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:18.480
house like what well so the address is it doesn't

00:35:18.480 --> 00:35:20.599
exist i don't know where i don't know where this

00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:25.309
town in indiana is and Like you're really going

00:35:25.309 --> 00:35:28.590
to be some porch pirate for some for some clothes.

00:35:29.190 --> 00:35:32.070
Oh, my God. I was like and then I thought to

00:35:32.070 --> 00:35:33.769
myself, OK, maybe this woman doesn't understand

00:35:33.769 --> 00:35:36.769
what I'm trying to explain to her. So I proceed.

00:35:36.889 --> 00:35:38.369
I said, hang on, hang on, hang on. Let's take

00:35:38.369 --> 00:35:41.110
a step back. I'm I'm going to tell you from my

00:35:41.110 --> 00:35:43.349
perspective what happened. And you tell me if

00:35:43.349 --> 00:35:45.670
you're on the same page as me. So I said I placed

00:35:45.670 --> 00:35:49.079
an order on Fabletics. I. Entered the address

00:35:49.079 --> 00:35:50.780
for my shipping address that was already part

00:35:50.780 --> 00:35:52.360
of my profile, by the way, because I don't even

00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:55.199
think I entered an address. And then I said I

00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:57.099
received an order confirmation with the correct

00:35:57.099 --> 00:35:59.980
shipping address in the order confirmation. I

00:35:59.980 --> 00:36:01.900
then receive an email with a shipping confirmation

00:36:01.900 --> 00:36:03.800
that says it's shipping to a different address.

00:36:04.019 --> 00:36:07.099
Tell me where the breakdown is here for me. I

00:36:07.099 --> 00:36:09.300
bet it's when they printed the shipping label.

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:12.500
I bet you anything when they printed the shipping

00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:14.980
label, it's exactly what you thought you did

00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:18.000
for a second. And it like auto filled an address

00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:21.239
and they were like, yeah, that looks right. See,

00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:24.579
I just I swear to God, I assumed every bit of

00:36:24.579 --> 00:36:26.840
this was automated and like it just spat out

00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:28.599
like a shipping label or something like that.

00:36:28.739 --> 00:36:31.780
I don't I don't think I don't know. I don't know.

00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:35.639
But this woman, this woman goes, I don't I don't

00:36:35.639 --> 00:36:37.519
think you can do that. I don't think you can

00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:40.769
just change an address. I said. Well, looks like

00:36:40.769 --> 00:36:43.690
we're breaking all the rules. What do you mean?

00:36:44.309 --> 00:36:49.489
She was so not even unhelpful. It was like the

00:36:49.489 --> 00:36:52.190
most indifferent stance I've ever seen in my

00:36:52.190 --> 00:36:54.130
life. And she goes, you'll just have to return

00:36:54.130 --> 00:36:55.690
it when you receive it. And I said, get me a

00:36:55.690 --> 00:36:59.730
manager. Like, what do you mean? First of all,

00:36:59.750 --> 00:37:02.489
I'm not going to receive it. And the clothes

00:37:02.489 --> 00:37:06.289
are not the problem, mama. I was like, I don't

00:37:06.289 --> 00:37:09.190
think you understand. I won't receive it because

00:37:09.190 --> 00:37:11.730
I don't know where it's going. And then she goes,

00:37:11.809 --> 00:37:14.869
my God, I said, I said, can you get, is there

00:37:14.869 --> 00:37:16.369
any way I could speak to a manager? Because I

00:37:16.369 --> 00:37:18.469
don't think we're on the same page and I understand

00:37:18.469 --> 00:37:21.289
this is not your fault, but like you, you're,

00:37:21.329 --> 00:37:23.210
we're just, we're not, we're not buying it. She

00:37:23.210 --> 00:37:25.250
goes, because you've asked to speak to a supervisor,

00:37:25.369 --> 00:37:28.849
I'm going to put you on hold. She's said that

00:37:28.849 --> 00:37:33.210
line at least 10 times a day for her entire career.

00:37:33.289 --> 00:37:35.150
I bet she has said that to every person that

00:37:35.150 --> 00:37:41.030
has spoken to her about it. and so she um she

00:37:41.030 --> 00:37:43.429
puts me on hold and I'm sitting there and like

00:37:43.429 --> 00:37:46.289
I'm just kind of like annoyed because I was like

00:37:46.289 --> 00:37:48.989
it's not like I spent money on these clothes

00:37:48.989 --> 00:37:52.130
but but you did that's the thing is like I was

00:37:52.130 --> 00:37:55.610
like I have given you people so much upwards

00:37:55.610 --> 00:37:57.150
of hundreds of dollars I don't know how much

00:37:57.150 --> 00:38:01.449
it's been but like whatever and the one time

00:38:01.449 --> 00:38:02.969
I tried to use this membership, but it's fucked

00:38:02.969 --> 00:38:05.489
me. So like, I don't know. And then she comes

00:38:05.489 --> 00:38:08.269
back on the phone and she goes, sir, I've looked

00:38:08.269 --> 00:38:10.889
into what you said happened. And it does appear

00:38:10.889 --> 00:38:14.420
that that happened. And I said, thank God. But,

00:38:14.420 --> 00:38:18.139
like, why did it take so long for you to look

00:38:18.139 --> 00:38:20.320
into it, girl? But also, why am I still talking

00:38:20.320 --> 00:38:26.099
to you? Yeah. And then she goes, as a courtesy,

00:38:26.300 --> 00:38:27.980
this is what pissed me off. Like, this is what

00:38:27.980 --> 00:38:31.980
really got me. As a courtesy, we can reship your

00:38:31.980 --> 00:38:35.300
items and it'll be free of charge. And I said,

00:38:35.380 --> 00:38:39.860
okay, couple things. One, yes, you will. Obviously,

00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:42.639
that was. First of all, the bare minimum. That

00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:46.940
was the lowest bar. Miss Diva, that is what I

00:38:46.940 --> 00:38:49.820
assumed was going to happen. Two. Well, no, what

00:38:49.820 --> 00:38:52.179
I assumed would happen was I just got the shipping

00:38:52.179 --> 00:38:54.500
confirmation. So I assumed FedEx hadn't even

00:38:54.500 --> 00:38:56.179
picked it up yet. So I was like, just go fucking

00:38:56.179 --> 00:38:57.960
find the label and put another sticker on it.

00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:03.380
I don't care. But then she. Then and like and

00:39:03.380 --> 00:39:06.679
then number two, when you say as a courtesy to

00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:11.119
someone. A courtesy is when. You get free shit.

00:39:11.280 --> 00:39:14.239
You get free shit. And like, if I'm the customer,

00:39:14.280 --> 00:39:16.480
I fucked something up. So as a courtesy, we're

00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:17.820
going to look the other way about you fucking

00:39:17.820 --> 00:39:20.599
up. A courtesy is not. No, we fucked up your

00:39:20.599 --> 00:39:23.880
order. We did something wrong. And now as a courtesy,

00:39:23.980 --> 00:39:26.159
we're fixing. No, no, you're correcting your

00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:31.119
problem. You're being a business. Yes. That fulfills

00:39:31.119 --> 00:39:34.659
orders. Yes. Which is kind of what I assumed

00:39:34.659 --> 00:39:37.610
you were already. I thought that's what we thought.

00:39:37.829 --> 00:39:43.769
And what are we doing? So then I proceed to be

00:39:43.769 --> 00:39:45.050
on the phone with this woman. And she goes, and

00:39:45.050 --> 00:39:49.429
as as also a courtesy, we'll give you 50 percent

00:39:49.429 --> 00:39:53.530
off of one of the items. And I said, I paid for

00:39:53.530 --> 00:40:01.690
it with a membership. So. My God. OK, OK, so.

00:40:02.360 --> 00:40:04.679
The whole thing was a racket and I spent it was

00:40:04.679 --> 00:40:06.659
an hour of my morning that I am never getting

00:40:06.659 --> 00:40:09.179
back. But like I can definitively tell you I'm

00:40:09.179 --> 00:40:13.179
never shopping there again. I never really liked

00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:15.960
Fabletics. I don't know what the men's side is

00:40:15.960 --> 00:40:17.940
like, because I know Kenny has some shorts from

00:40:17.940 --> 00:40:19.400
there that are like good shorts. That's fine.

00:40:19.960 --> 00:40:23.659
But on the women's side, everything has a weird

00:40:23.659 --> 00:40:29.309
effed up. pattern or colorway like nothing is

00:40:29.309 --> 00:40:34.449
just a basic and i hate that i hate that it reminds

00:40:34.449 --> 00:40:37.429
me a lot of what was that legging company um

00:40:37.429 --> 00:40:41.949
the one that was a cult or not a cult but yeah

00:40:41.949 --> 00:40:44.050
the one that was like it was a pyramid scheme

00:40:44.050 --> 00:40:47.070
and like it was these leggings that people were

00:40:47.070 --> 00:40:52.130
obsessed with lularoe Oh. Do you remember this?

00:40:52.329 --> 00:40:55.510
No. I'll cut that. Was it in the galaxy legging

00:40:55.510 --> 00:40:58.730
era? No. Yes. Yes, it was. Yeah. They were the

00:40:58.730 --> 00:41:03.789
galaxy leggings. I see. Yes. I. Anyway. So, yeah.

00:41:03.829 --> 00:41:08.510
Fuck you. You are not bestie approved. No, you

00:41:08.510 --> 00:41:12.489
were bestie denied. Yeah. We have a couple shout

00:41:12.489 --> 00:41:18.219
outs. So my friend Elena is. a bestie proof super

00:41:18.219 --> 00:41:20.780
fan she says she loves our relationship and like

00:41:20.780 --> 00:41:22.619
she loves to listen to us talk i think that is

00:41:22.619 --> 00:41:28.760
so cute and then my friend cory um he and his

00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:30.599
partner were listening to us and he said that

00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:32.780
they were just having a time listening to us

00:41:32.780 --> 00:41:34.989
and i was like I think I thought it would be

00:41:34.989 --> 00:41:36.809
weird, like, having people in our lives that

00:41:36.809 --> 00:41:39.449
listen to the show. Oh, I'm humiliated. Are you

00:41:39.449 --> 00:41:42.690
really? Yes. I don't know why. I also feel like,

00:41:42.690 --> 00:41:45.889
like, posting on Instagram to me is a humiliation

00:41:45.889 --> 00:41:49.449
ritual. Like, that's so embarrassing. Oh, when

00:41:49.449 --> 00:41:50.949
we start doing video, I'm going to feel the same

00:41:50.949 --> 00:41:55.320
way. About like Amanda has listened and my mom

00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:58.139
has listened and I'm just like so embarrassed.

00:41:58.300 --> 00:42:02.480
I'm like, I'm just talking. I don't know. I don't

00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:05.360
like, I want people to listen, but it is the

00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.719
equivalent to me like equally as embarrassing

00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:11.900
as posting anything on the internet. I don't

00:42:11.900 --> 00:42:15.199
know. I felt, I think I, I thought I would feel

00:42:15.199 --> 00:42:18.840
the same way. Like. but now that i'm like oh

00:42:18.840 --> 00:42:20.900
people are like super cool and supportive and

00:42:20.900 --> 00:42:23.260
like people listen oh also alex says that you

00:42:23.260 --> 00:42:27.039
sound like megan stelter oh which i think is

00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:29.139
it i mean i think that's a compliment i love

00:42:29.139 --> 00:42:30.659
her so much yeah he like literally just texted

00:42:30.659 --> 00:42:36.079
me that today but yeah that's uh so thanks to

00:42:36.079 --> 00:42:38.079
my friends for being an amazing and supportive

00:42:38.079 --> 00:42:41.239
group of friends i love that and then we also

00:42:41.239 --> 00:42:44.789
um our first commenter ever jordan That we didn't

00:42:44.789 --> 00:42:47.150
know last week or two weeks ago, whatever it

00:42:47.150 --> 00:42:51.530
was. Love him. He's also one of the winners for

00:42:51.530 --> 00:42:55.929
the podcast movement scholarship things. And

00:42:55.929 --> 00:42:58.809
he hosts a podcast called What's Your One Thing?

00:42:58.869 --> 00:43:00.489
And it's all about being like the best version

00:43:00.489 --> 00:43:04.190
of yourself. Speaking of which, I was thinking

00:43:04.190 --> 00:43:08.690
about his podcast earlier today. There's this

00:43:08.690 --> 00:43:11.780
thing called like. He would know much more about

00:43:11.780 --> 00:43:15.000
this. It's called like Occam's razor or something.

00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:18.219
And you're supposed to like determine your life's

00:43:18.219 --> 00:43:22.940
razor, like your one purpose in life, which is

00:43:22.940 --> 00:43:25.500
like what his podcast does. Anyway, I was just

00:43:25.500 --> 00:43:27.420
thinking about that. I had like heard of that

00:43:27.420 --> 00:43:30.659
before and I finally pinned it. It's like a very

00:43:30.659 --> 00:43:33.659
helpful tool, especially for people in leadership

00:43:33.659 --> 00:43:38.039
and people who are overwhelmed. Oh, cute. Well,

00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:40.380
we can ask him about it because he's going to

00:43:40.380 --> 00:43:44.519
be coming on the pod. We're going to hang out

00:43:44.519 --> 00:43:46.679
in Dallas. He's actually such a sweetheart. He's

00:43:46.679 --> 00:43:50.099
so cool. He's so funny. So he's going to be a

00:43:50.099 --> 00:43:53.699
guest eventually. So that's exciting. Yeah. Love.

00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:58.980
So shout out to my friends. Yay, friends. Speaking

00:43:58.980 --> 00:44:02.659
of divas. Jen Shaw and Elizabeth Holmes have

00:44:02.659 --> 00:44:07.940
a new prison mate. I. hope they bully the shit

00:44:07.940 --> 00:44:12.460
out of her. I feel like Jen Shaw and Elizabeth

00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:15.440
Holmes are about to be the meanest they've ever

00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:18.199
been in their lives. And you know I'm not an

00:44:18.199 --> 00:44:21.300
advocate of bullying but god damn if there ever

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:26.300
was going to be one. Glenn Maxwell is joining

00:44:26.300 --> 00:44:30.059
Jen Shaw and Elizabeth Holmes and she is about

00:44:30.059 --> 00:44:33.039
to be a victim for the first time in her life.

00:44:34.670 --> 00:44:37.210
I was watching something on TikTok or YouTube,

00:44:37.289 --> 00:44:40.070
something where they were like, do you think

00:44:40.070 --> 00:44:41.570
Jen Shaw is going to beat the living fuck out

00:44:41.570 --> 00:44:42.789
of her? Like, do you think Jen, like, cause like

00:44:42.789 --> 00:44:44.489
you, you remember like how she would like, and

00:44:44.489 --> 00:44:46.610
this was very big in the first season where she

00:44:46.610 --> 00:44:48.010
would like Hulk out and just start screaming

00:44:48.010 --> 00:44:50.110
at people for no reason. Like, I want to know

00:44:50.110 --> 00:44:54.170
if Jen will do that to Ghislaine Maxwell. A hundred

00:44:54.170 --> 00:44:56.349
percent. I don't think she'll do anything physical

00:44:56.349 --> 00:44:59.110
because I think she's. She's ready to get out

00:44:59.110 --> 00:45:01.570
in 2026. Yeah. She really wants to get out of

00:45:01.570 --> 00:45:04.519
prison, but I. Do you feel like she's going to

00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:09.920
be mean as hell? So in some of the I don't know.

00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:12.119
I know it is in men's prisons. I don't know how

00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:13.860
it is in women's prisons, but like in men's prisons,

00:45:13.940 --> 00:45:16.840
like if someone has done like horrendous crimes,

00:45:17.019 --> 00:45:20.820
like especially to kids. Yes. My understanding

00:45:20.820 --> 00:45:22.900
is sometimes the guards just don't know what

00:45:22.900 --> 00:45:30.260
happened. Yeah. So. My only kind of knowledge

00:45:30.260 --> 00:45:32.340
about women's prison is this woman on TikTok

00:45:32.340 --> 00:45:35.480
who talks about her time in prison. Is it the

00:45:35.480 --> 00:45:37.039
woman that like shows you how to make makeup

00:45:37.039 --> 00:45:40.320
from? No, she just talks about like people she

00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:42.739
was locked up with because she was in this prison

00:45:42.739 --> 00:45:46.019
in Florida that has a lot of like really insane

00:45:46.019 --> 00:45:49.900
people in it. And it is the same. If you have

00:45:49.900 --> 00:45:56.539
harmed children, good luck. And actually, bad

00:45:56.539 --> 00:46:00.519
luck to you. 100%. This is the thing. It's not

00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:02.380
alleged anymore because she was convicted of

00:46:02.380 --> 00:46:05.599
her crimes. I wish nothing but the worst for

00:46:05.599 --> 00:46:08.320
you. 100%. And I hope that Jen Shaw has a really

00:46:08.320 --> 00:46:11.789
bad day with you. Oh, really bad one. And she

00:46:11.789 --> 00:46:14.469
has a little henchman now because you're not

00:46:14.469 --> 00:46:16.110
going to tell me for one second that Elizabeth

00:46:16.110 --> 00:46:18.269
Holmes is running that show. Oh, you know, they're

00:46:18.269 --> 00:46:20.590
plotting their next fraud together. They're like,

00:46:20.610 --> 00:46:24.349
yeah. And Jen Shaw might not believe in elderly

00:46:24.349 --> 00:46:26.909
rights, but she will stand up for children. I

00:46:26.909 --> 00:46:29.349
do believe that. I 100 % believe because if nothing

00:46:29.349 --> 00:46:34.650
else, like we joke about the Jen Shaw situation.

00:46:34.750 --> 00:46:37.090
I do believe at the end of the day, she's probably

00:46:37.090 --> 00:46:40.380
a really good mom. And I do believe that in the

00:46:40.380 --> 00:46:42.460
back of her mind, at some point, she's like,

00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:47.340
I have to protect kids. I, yeah, I don't think

00:46:47.340 --> 00:46:49.739
she's all in all a bad person. I know that she

00:46:49.739 --> 00:46:55.219
did bad things. Yeah, she fucked up. But she's

00:46:55.219 --> 00:47:00.000
nowhere near Ghislaine Maxwell. Jesus. Yeah.

00:47:00.420 --> 00:47:04.460
Yeah. So today's Jack's first day of first grade.

00:47:05.039 --> 00:47:09.360
How was school supply shopping? fine did you

00:47:09.360 --> 00:47:13.340
happy to do it okay so i've seen a lot on tiktok

00:47:13.340 --> 00:47:19.820
about um about parents being mad about i guess

00:47:19.820 --> 00:47:21.539
school i i don't remember this from when i was

00:47:21.539 --> 00:47:22.860
a kid but i guess schools are putting on the

00:47:22.860 --> 00:47:25.099
list like don't label your kids stuff or whatever

00:47:25.099 --> 00:47:28.880
that wasn't on our list but i know people are

00:47:28.880 --> 00:47:33.159
saying that i don't remember everything being

00:47:33.159 --> 00:47:37.480
so communal When we were in school, I like like

00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.159
I feel like your box of pencils was your box

00:47:40.159 --> 00:47:42.500
of pencils and your dry erase markers were your

00:47:42.500 --> 00:47:46.099
dry erase markers kind of. But I also don't have

00:47:46.099 --> 00:47:50.179
a problem with what we're doing anyway. So I

00:47:50.179 --> 00:47:52.840
guess I I don't understand because I don't have

00:47:52.840 --> 00:47:55.980
kids. I do know that I love school supply time

00:47:55.980 --> 00:47:58.159
because I do love nothing more than to go buy

00:47:58.159 --> 00:48:01.119
like a really big package of pens. So I like

00:48:01.119 --> 00:48:07.440
I have good pens. I don't I don't understand

00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:09.599
what the argument is here. So like you're saying,

00:48:09.659 --> 00:48:11.159
OK, so you're not labeling stuff. So it's all

00:48:11.159 --> 00:48:12.980
like when you send the stuff to the school, it's

00:48:12.980 --> 00:48:14.920
all going into like a communal bin and like everyone's

00:48:14.920 --> 00:48:17.699
using the same supplies. Most of it. So like,

00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:21.800
for instance, in Jack's list, I'll give you two

00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:26.760
examples. Jack's list. It called for three boxes

00:48:26.760 --> 00:48:30.119
of crayons because kids run through crayons like

00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:33.480
you would not believe. Right. One box. When we

00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:36.780
went to, like, the open house night was meant

00:48:36.780 --> 00:48:40.920
to go in his pencil box. Okay. The other two

00:48:40.920 --> 00:48:45.219
boxes go in a bin for the whole class to share.

00:48:46.199 --> 00:48:51.059
Okay. I don't have an issue with that, right?

00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:55.019
Right. Because I know Jack will break a crayon

00:48:55.019 --> 00:48:57.940
and need a replacement. There are other kids

00:48:57.940 --> 00:49:01.059
who will do the same and need replacements, too.

00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:05.239
I mean, isn't that ostensibly just like contingency

00:49:05.239 --> 00:49:06.940
planning for when they run out of stuff? Because

00:49:06.940 --> 00:49:09.059
the stuff you get on August 1st is not going

00:49:09.059 --> 00:49:14.179
to last you through May 30th. Yes. And I'm not

00:49:14.179 --> 00:49:18.300
upset about some Crayola crayons. So that's what

00:49:18.300 --> 00:49:22.099
people are mad about. People are mad that. You're

00:49:22.099 --> 00:49:24.880
buying a box of pencils and the box of pencils

00:49:24.880 --> 00:49:27.880
are going in a bin and all the kids get to share

00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:31.199
because people hate underprivileged kids, apparently.

00:49:34.179 --> 00:49:37.679
And I'll give you another example, though. So

00:49:37.679 --> 00:49:40.860
like this year, every kid needed a composition

00:49:40.860 --> 00:49:45.340
notebook. Sure. We found one that had the exact

00:49:45.340 --> 00:49:48.320
right number of pages and was ruled correctly,

00:49:48.559 --> 00:49:52.289
like wide ruled for a first grader. And it was

00:49:52.289 --> 00:49:54.550
a bluey one instead of just like a black and

00:49:54.550 --> 00:49:58.269
white one. When I saw that those were going into

00:49:58.269 --> 00:50:01.690
bins and not into their desks, I did write his

00:50:01.690 --> 00:50:05.780
name on that one. But because that's like. But

00:50:05.780 --> 00:50:08.320
a notebook is something that you are writing

00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:11.840
in and like you're it's like your notebook. That's

00:50:11.840 --> 00:50:14.719
right. That makes sense. And so when they got

00:50:14.719 --> 00:50:17.559
handed back out, I didn't want him to see that

00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:20.260
his bluey notebook was going to someone else.

00:50:20.460 --> 00:50:23.960
That is an exception because everything else

00:50:23.960 --> 00:50:29.119
is like black Expo markers. So so Jax, I guess.

00:50:29.119 --> 00:50:32.139
So when I was. in elementary school like our

00:50:32.139 --> 00:50:34.460
desk was our desk and like it was always our

00:50:34.460 --> 00:50:36.940
desk no it was no one else's desk so like it's

00:50:36.940 --> 00:50:38.699
still does he not just have his stuff in his

00:50:38.699 --> 00:50:43.539
desk they do but then there are bins too and

00:50:43.539 --> 00:50:46.619
the notebook was like not supposed to go in his

00:50:46.619 --> 00:50:50.380
desk it was supposed to go in the bin And since

00:50:50.380 --> 00:50:53.079
those once they got passed back out, I wanted

00:50:53.079 --> 00:50:55.980
to make sure he got his. Why were they like taking

00:50:55.980 --> 00:50:58.380
them to pass them back out? You know what I mean?

00:50:58.780 --> 00:51:00.639
That's one of those things that like, OK, like.

00:51:02.039 --> 00:51:04.179
It feels like we're putting too much effort into

00:51:04.179 --> 00:51:06.159
some of this stuff. Anyway, OK, sorry. But yeah,

00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:11.039
it's like, why do you care? I don't know. And

00:51:11.039 --> 00:51:14.380
it's like each person was supposed to get one

00:51:14.380 --> 00:51:19.099
tub of Play -Doh so that. When they use the Play

00:51:19.099 --> 00:51:20.800
-Doh, they have all kinds of different colors

00:51:20.800 --> 00:51:24.039
and they have 30 different things. Sure. And

00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:28.460
people being up in arms, I don't know. I think

00:51:28.460 --> 00:51:31.659
they want to put the onus on the teacher to buy

00:51:31.659 --> 00:51:34.539
everything that is needed for the classroom.

00:51:34.539 --> 00:51:37.920
I think that's fucking insane. It is. Why should

00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:41.579
teachers have to pay for that? So I, two of my

00:51:41.579 --> 00:51:46.019
cousins are teachers and love them to death.

00:51:47.809 --> 00:51:50.769
I don't think it's their responsibility to provide

00:51:50.769 --> 00:51:53.869
school supplies for kids because it's not their

00:51:53.869 --> 00:51:58.269
fucking kids. If they had any type of budget,

00:51:58.409 --> 00:52:02.010
I can understand, but they do not. They pay for

00:52:02.010 --> 00:52:04.590
everything. Well, I don't see why it's not falling

00:52:04.590 --> 00:52:06.769
on the school district. I don't understand why

00:52:06.769 --> 00:52:09.170
the amount of money, especially in Hamilton County,

00:52:09.349 --> 00:52:13.710
that we pay in property taxes. Why the fuck kids

00:52:13.710 --> 00:52:17.130
are not like just handed a box of shit when they

00:52:17.130 --> 00:52:19.389
get to school. I do not understand that. So there

00:52:19.389 --> 00:52:23.570
is something where you can like sign up is through

00:52:23.570 --> 00:52:27.610
the PTO. So it might still be parent funded for

00:52:27.610 --> 00:52:32.369
all I know. You can just have it be like a box

00:52:32.369 --> 00:52:37.050
is on their seat. But like, I guess what I don't

00:52:37.050 --> 00:52:40.150
understand is like, you're mad that you're putting

00:52:40.150 --> 00:52:43.079
stuff in. this been that other kids are going

00:52:43.079 --> 00:52:45.239
to do you not want the other kids to use it or

00:52:45.239 --> 00:52:48.460
do you not like are you worried that someone

00:52:48.460 --> 00:52:51.059
else is like not going to buy something so not

00:52:51.059 --> 00:52:52.340
everyone's putting in their fair share which

00:52:52.340 --> 00:52:54.460
comes back to this argument like against socialism

00:52:54.460 --> 00:52:56.539
that everyone has that like i can't really get

00:52:56.539 --> 00:52:59.440
on board with but like it's like people who are

00:52:59.440 --> 00:53:02.440
against free lunch right i feel like it's the

00:53:02.440 --> 00:53:06.679
same demographic but i just like we're fighting

00:53:06.679 --> 00:53:09.340
over fucking notebooks man like then don't buy

00:53:09.340 --> 00:53:11.320
the notebook like what don't do whatever you

00:53:11.320 --> 00:53:13.059
want to do i don't care but like why are you

00:53:13.059 --> 00:53:16.179
on tiktok like screaming about it like for the

00:53:16.179 --> 00:53:18.519
life of me i don't understand that all the ones

00:53:18.519 --> 00:53:21.599
i've seen are parents of like young kids it's

00:53:21.599 --> 00:53:24.500
not like we're putting texas instrument calculators

00:53:24.500 --> 00:53:28.539
into a bin for everyone to share we're talking

00:53:28.539 --> 00:53:32.340
about colored pencils my papa when i was in eighth

00:53:32.340 --> 00:53:33.980
grade so this was like actually a thing in eighth

00:53:33.980 --> 00:53:36.099
grade it was i To this day, I remember it was

00:53:36.099 --> 00:53:39.179
a TI -36X solar calculator that we had to have

00:53:39.179 --> 00:53:41.619
for Mr. Bridgewater's science class. We had to

00:53:41.619 --> 00:53:44.739
have it. And well, I took like pre -calc and

00:53:44.739 --> 00:53:47.440
stuff like that. So, yeah, like they'll tell

00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:51.519
you a specific calculator. Yes. And I very vividly

00:53:51.519 --> 00:53:53.639
remember being at Staples and my papal said,

00:53:53.840 --> 00:53:55.159
some of the parents are going to be able to afford

00:53:55.159 --> 00:53:58.329
this. And he bought four of them. Yeah. And that

00:53:58.329 --> 00:54:01.510
is how communities should work. But we are so

00:54:01.510 --> 00:54:04.690
far devolved from that. And this is something

00:54:04.690 --> 00:54:07.110
you mentioned the other day is like you see parents

00:54:07.110 --> 00:54:09.570
on TikTok talking about how like, you know, the

00:54:09.570 --> 00:54:12.030
conversation used to be like it takes a village

00:54:12.030 --> 00:54:13.650
to raise a kid or whatever. And like, where did

00:54:13.650 --> 00:54:16.329
community go? And this is where it went. Like

00:54:16.329 --> 00:54:20.150
you got so selfish. Yeah. You built the wall.

00:54:20.590 --> 00:54:25.920
Yeah. And it's like. I don't know. How can you

00:54:25.920 --> 00:54:29.159
not have some sense of compassion to be like,

00:54:29.260 --> 00:54:32.659
oh, well, if I couldn't afford this, I would

00:54:32.659 --> 00:54:35.820
really want my kid to still be able to participate.

00:54:36.159 --> 00:54:40.059
Why can't you empathize with that? I just don't

00:54:40.059 --> 00:54:42.719
understand it. It's a weird thing to me that

00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:46.960
we've we've lost all sense of empathy when it

00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:49.579
comes to things that are happening, like right

00:54:49.579 --> 00:54:56.860
in front of us. But like when it comes to. It's

00:54:56.860 --> 00:54:58.920
like when it comes to being pro -choice or pro

00:54:58.920 --> 00:55:00.579
-life. It's like, think about the baby. I'm like,

00:55:00.639 --> 00:55:02.219
when did you stop thinking about the baby then?

00:55:02.239 --> 00:55:04.639
Tell me at what point that got cut off. As soon

00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:06.500
as it's born. As soon as it's born. God damn.

00:55:06.579 --> 00:55:08.980
They don't want to reform the foster care system.

00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:11.139
They don't want to reform any of that. They just

00:55:11.139 --> 00:55:15.099
want babies to be born for some reason. And there's

00:55:15.099 --> 00:55:18.119
another point I've seen being made. People are

00:55:18.119 --> 00:55:21.420
turned off by teachers sharing their Amazon wish

00:55:21.420 --> 00:55:24.760
list. I'm going to put an Amazon wish list out

00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:26.500
there for us just to piss these people off. Fuck

00:55:26.500 --> 00:55:29.360
you. Every teacher should have an Amazon wish

00:55:29.360 --> 00:55:31.500
list and they should send it to every parent.

00:55:31.579 --> 00:55:35.280
I love Jack's teacher already. Hers is a link

00:55:35.280 --> 00:55:38.099
in her signature of her email. She said, you

00:55:38.099 --> 00:55:41.179
will see this. And that's beautiful. I think

00:55:41.179 --> 00:55:44.199
that is wonderful. And I hope she gets everything

00:55:44.199 --> 00:55:46.920
on her wish list. And I hope every teacher out

00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:49.059
there gets everything they want on their wish

00:55:49.059 --> 00:55:51.579
list. I would go a step further to say I don't

00:55:51.579 --> 00:55:54.159
I wish that they didn't have to have Amazon wish

00:55:54.159 --> 00:55:56.719
list. Like if it's something like I want to bring

00:55:56.719 --> 00:56:02.699
in a. God, like what? One of these like cool

00:56:02.699 --> 00:56:05.619
learning tool, like the toys that are like also

00:56:05.619 --> 00:56:07.500
like really good for learning. I have I have

00:56:07.500 --> 00:56:09.079
no kids. I don't fucking know. But like something

00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:11.079
like that where it's like it's a little expensive,

00:56:11.300 --> 00:56:14.800
but like. how many kids will benefit from it?

00:56:14.840 --> 00:56:17.880
I can buy that for an Amazon wishlist, but I

00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:19.800
would go one step further to say, why is the

00:56:19.800 --> 00:56:22.579
district not like saying, Hey, let's like have

00:56:22.579 --> 00:56:24.960
a program in which we can say, Hey, like we can

00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:26.739
allocate dollars for these things. If there's

00:56:26.739 --> 00:56:29.539
like a good enough use case made for it. And

00:56:29.539 --> 00:56:32.079
I don't even need a use case. If you want decorations

00:56:32.079 --> 00:56:35.530
for your classroom. The district should pay for

00:56:35.530 --> 00:56:37.909
them. Period. Every teacher should get a credit

00:56:37.909 --> 00:56:40.730
card on the district's name. You get like $500

00:56:40.730 --> 00:56:42.909
a semester or whatever it is and like go for

00:56:42.909 --> 00:56:45.309
it. I think they do get like, it's something

00:56:45.309 --> 00:56:49.849
ridiculously low, like $200 a year or something

00:56:49.849 --> 00:56:52.869
like that. What are you supposed to... To pay

00:56:52.869 --> 00:56:55.429
for everything in their classroom. I also think

00:56:55.429 --> 00:56:57.150
it's fucking insane that we're expecting people

00:56:57.150 --> 00:56:59.349
to pay for things in their classroom. Like, in

00:56:59.349 --> 00:57:03.269
what job do you have to pay for your... room

00:57:03.269 --> 00:57:07.670
to be aesthetically usable yeah like i don't

00:57:07.670 --> 00:57:10.130
understand it and have you and on top of that

00:57:10.130 --> 00:57:13.269
we're paying them pennies we're paying them nothing

00:57:13.269 --> 00:57:15.090
we're basically paying them in cole's cash but

00:57:15.090 --> 00:57:17.190
like have you ever been inside of a fucking classroom

00:57:17.190 --> 00:57:19.130
it's it looks like a prison cell it looks like

00:57:19.130 --> 00:57:21.269
jen shaw lives there if you don't decorate it

00:57:21.269 --> 00:57:25.389
yeah it looks horrible and i really commend like

00:57:25.389 --> 00:57:28.610
jack's teacher this year her classroom so cute

00:57:28.610 --> 00:57:33.170
i love that so so so cute And it kills me to

00:57:33.170 --> 00:57:36.489
know that she probably spent some of her and

00:57:36.489 --> 00:57:40.489
her husband's hard earned money to decorate like

00:57:40.489 --> 00:57:43.590
that because it should just be a given. I don't

00:57:43.590 --> 00:57:47.090
know why we hate giving kids enjoyable experiences.

00:57:47.110 --> 00:57:49.449
Well, that's the thing is like you are so hell

00:57:49.449 --> 00:57:53.440
bent on. posting the 10 commandments in the classroom

00:57:53.440 --> 00:57:55.519
posting this posting that but like god forbid

00:57:55.519 --> 00:57:56.960
someone else wants to do something to improve

00:57:56.960 --> 00:57:59.320
the classroom like that's god forbid a teacher

00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:03.380
have a rug for kids to sit on jesus h i mean

00:58:03.380 --> 00:58:07.960
i just don't understand i don't understand but

00:58:07.960 --> 00:58:11.480
anyway anyway yeah big teacher supporter i think

00:58:11.480 --> 00:58:13.719
they should make probably five times what they're

00:58:13.719 --> 00:58:18.019
making minimum uh they should make six figures

00:58:18.019 --> 00:58:20.760
if you are a teacher especially in the public

00:58:20.760 --> 00:58:22.599
school system you should make six figures oh

00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:25.260
a thousand percent i think the thing that i struggle

00:58:25.260 --> 00:58:29.159
with is like the the fact that like there there's

00:58:29.159 --> 00:58:32.559
any argument against paying teachers what they

00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:35.519
deserve you're literally like trusting them with

00:58:35.519 --> 00:58:39.420
your fucking kid like come on and even if you

00:58:39.420 --> 00:58:42.750
don't have kids like Your future politicians.

00:58:43.250 --> 00:58:46.690
Your future policemen. The world's future. Literally

00:58:46.690 --> 00:58:49.250
the future of the world. Just everyone. Like,

00:58:49.309 --> 00:58:51.789
you're going to have no more engineers because

00:58:51.789 --> 00:58:56.929
you hate teachers. What a weird hell to die on.

00:58:57.210 --> 00:58:59.530
Yeah. And I think everyone can think of a teacher

00:58:59.530 --> 00:59:02.289
that, like, literally changed their lives. So,

00:59:02.489 --> 00:59:06.389
like, what a weird, weird thing. I just don't

00:59:06.389 --> 00:59:09.269
understand. I never will. It is a wild argument,

00:59:09.329 --> 00:59:11.659
but. Yeah, I was curious how you felt about that.

00:59:12.059 --> 00:59:15.280
I would buy more school supplies if they asked

00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:18.699
me to. If my sister -in -law came to me and said,

00:59:18.780 --> 00:59:21.300
hey, some of the parents like couldn't get school

00:59:21.300 --> 00:59:23.239
supplies, I would go buy out the rest of fucking

00:59:23.239 --> 00:59:25.420
my school supplies section. Like some of this,

00:59:25.480 --> 00:59:30.300
like you have to like really put things in and

00:59:30.300 --> 00:59:32.860
the reality in which we live. And it's like some

00:59:32.860 --> 00:59:34.480
of this stuff is not that deep. You're telling

00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:37.949
me right now that you. Think that this is the

00:59:37.949 --> 00:59:39.949
slippery slope to communism. This is what you're

00:59:39.949 --> 00:59:43.389
worried about. Like, come on. And by the way,

00:59:43.409 --> 00:59:46.769
just to like give you an idea, Jack is in first

00:59:46.769 --> 00:59:49.050
grade, so he doesn't need anything that's like

00:59:49.050 --> 00:59:54.630
ultra expensive. We're talking about $200 max

00:59:54.630 --> 00:59:59.690
in school supplies. Yeah. We're not talking about

00:59:59.690 --> 01:00:03.869
if we were having to spend $2 ,000 on school

01:00:03.869 --> 01:00:09.139
supplies. Fine. I understand most people can't

01:00:09.139 --> 01:00:12.739
afford that. Most people can't afford less than

01:00:12.739 --> 01:00:17.440
$200. But also if you can't, you shouldn't be

01:00:17.440 --> 01:00:19.579
made to feel like you're a piece of shit. Like

01:00:19.579 --> 01:00:24.219
that's like, I know. And yeah. Okay. So like,

01:00:24.219 --> 01:00:29.059
this is not to be interpreted as me saying, no,

01:00:29.059 --> 01:00:32.360
no, no, no, no, no. Like, Underprivileged kids,

01:00:32.519 --> 01:00:36.480
underprivileged kids and kids from families who

01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:39.760
just can't afford school supplies are the reason

01:00:39.760 --> 01:00:43.780
I support the communal bins of school supplies.

01:00:44.340 --> 01:00:48.480
They shouldn't feel different or left out or

01:00:48.480 --> 01:00:52.960
have to feel it in any type of way. They shouldn't

01:00:52.960 --> 01:00:57.139
know. And this is like a bigger, a bigger argument.

01:00:57.179 --> 01:00:59.840
I think people have really lost the plot on this.

01:01:00.599 --> 01:01:04.260
You're if you are having money problems or you're

01:01:04.260 --> 01:01:07.980
not having money problems, your kids shouldn't

01:01:07.980 --> 01:01:10.380
be none the wiser. I agree. They should have

01:01:10.380 --> 01:01:13.360
no idea how much or how little money you have.

01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:18.420
It's not like I get like it's. You can't tell

01:01:18.420 --> 01:01:20.179
families how to live, but like it shouldn't be

01:01:20.179 --> 01:01:22.719
the kids struggle to. That's what I'm saying,

01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:25.500
because you're going to send them to school with

01:01:25.500 --> 01:01:29.519
a complex of being less than all of their peers.

01:01:30.699 --> 01:01:33.360
A lot of kids already feel that way without you

01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:36.940
doing that. Well, I remember being at Triton

01:01:36.940 --> 01:01:41.159
and like I mean, I I grew up with my like, let's

01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:43.260
just let's call it what it is. And I never knew

01:01:43.260 --> 01:01:46.730
what it was to struggle. But like I would. Being

01:01:46.730 --> 01:01:49.349
a lunch line with kids where the lunch lady would

01:01:49.349 --> 01:01:50.909
start making the lunch and then like they would

01:01:50.909 --> 01:01:52.489
look at like it was a little book or whatever.

01:01:52.710 --> 01:01:55.829
Yeah. And their name would be highlighted and

01:01:55.829 --> 01:01:58.190
they would just like reach under the cap or the

01:01:58.190 --> 01:02:00.849
counter and pull out a bag with like a peanut

01:02:00.849 --> 01:02:02.269
butter sandwich or a bologna sandwich, whatever

01:02:02.269 --> 01:02:07.269
it was that day. And I remember the kids in line

01:02:07.269 --> 01:02:10.170
just being mortified over that. And it was like

01:02:10.170 --> 01:02:12.289
it was a pretty good chunk of kids because like

01:02:12.289 --> 01:02:14.909
in Shelby County, you're either wealthy or you're.

01:02:15.150 --> 01:02:17.750
or poor like there is no yeah there's a huge

01:02:17.750 --> 01:02:22.849
disparity there and I remember like I didn't

01:02:22.849 --> 01:02:24.849
I don't think I was conscious of what was happening

01:02:24.849 --> 01:02:28.849
but then like you know you start to like grow

01:02:28.849 --> 01:02:30.889
an understanding of it and then like I told my

01:02:30.889 --> 01:02:32.849
papa about it one day when I came home and like

01:02:32.849 --> 01:02:36.610
he grew up in one of the poorest poorest counties

01:02:36.610 --> 01:02:40.650
in um they they were in Alabama and then they

01:02:40.650 --> 01:02:45.110
moved to Kentucky but um he remembered He didn't

01:02:45.110 --> 01:02:47.969
have shoes to wear to school at certain points

01:02:47.969 --> 01:02:50.590
in his life. And that's when he said he just

01:02:50.590 --> 01:02:52.469
started giving me extra money to like if someone

01:02:52.469 --> 01:02:55.570
needed it. That's yeah, that's what it was. And

01:02:55.570 --> 01:02:58.309
it's like and he's probably as Republican as

01:02:58.309 --> 01:03:00.289
you can get. But I mean, Jesus Christ, if he

01:03:00.289 --> 01:03:01.829
can get on board with some of this, like, why

01:03:01.829 --> 01:03:04.429
can't it's like you just take care of people

01:03:04.429 --> 01:03:06.210
like it's not some of this is not going to hurt

01:03:06.210 --> 01:03:08.690
you. And it's and it comes back to this thing

01:03:08.690 --> 01:03:10.630
that I'm talking about with with life is not

01:03:10.630 --> 01:03:14.500
a zero sum game. Life is not. I have to fuck

01:03:14.500 --> 01:03:16.960
over every other person on God's green earth

01:03:16.960 --> 01:03:19.280
so my kid doesn't have to eat a free lunch. Like,

01:03:19.280 --> 01:03:23.159
fuck you. I just don't understand how you can

01:03:23.159 --> 01:03:28.159
think that way. It's like, in first grade, they

01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:30.300
probably wouldn't really understand. But you

01:03:30.300 --> 01:03:33.980
really want some kid to look back and be like,

01:03:34.500 --> 01:03:38.300
oh, that's embarrassing that I had to ask for

01:03:38.300 --> 01:03:41.599
colored pencils. Because I didn't have any and

01:03:41.599 --> 01:03:45.159
everyone is too hateful to have it be a communal

01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:51.480
supply. Right. Like, I just can't fathom thinking

01:03:51.480 --> 01:03:56.079
that way. No, but like. Why would you want that?

01:03:56.159 --> 01:03:58.639
And I it's like part of me is like, God, I hope

01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:00.320
you never have to fucking struggle because like

01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:03.519
I cannot imagine. how horrific it would be. But

01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:05.619
at the same time, I'm like, no, I hope you do

01:04:05.619 --> 01:04:07.320
struggle. Like, I hope that you fall on hard

01:04:07.320 --> 01:04:09.159
times so you know what you put other people through.

01:04:09.380 --> 01:04:12.420
It feels like that's the only way for some people

01:04:12.420 --> 01:04:16.739
to, like, envision that. Some people have such

01:04:16.739 --> 01:04:19.960
a lack of empathy, it feels like, that, like,

01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:22.659
it really feels like the only way you would get

01:04:22.659 --> 01:04:25.739
it is if you had to be really poor for a while.

01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:28.780
Because then you would understand that no one's

01:04:28.780 --> 01:04:31.159
there to help you because of people like you.

01:04:31.420 --> 01:04:35.670
Yeah. And by the way, I was like very middle

01:04:35.670 --> 01:04:39.090
class growing up. We struggled with money a little

01:04:39.090 --> 01:04:42.710
bit, but not anywhere near the extent that some

01:04:42.710 --> 01:04:45.150
people do. I never had to worry about whether

01:04:45.150 --> 01:04:47.230
or not I was going to have school supplies. But

01:04:47.230 --> 01:04:50.889
some people do. And that is why we've started

01:04:50.889 --> 01:04:53.349
sharing. Well, and I think that's the thing that

01:04:53.349 --> 01:04:56.909
I get so annoyed with is like, I'm not here to

01:04:56.909 --> 01:04:58.329
count anyone else's money. I don't care how much

01:04:58.329 --> 01:04:59.869
money anyone has. I don't care how much money

01:04:59.869 --> 01:05:02.289
anyone doesn't have. The problem that I have

01:05:02.289 --> 01:05:05.670
is like you have people on TikTok saying you

01:05:05.670 --> 01:05:08.750
you had enough money to buy your kids shoes,

01:05:08.909 --> 01:05:10.469
but you didn't have enough money to buy like

01:05:10.469 --> 01:05:12.070
buy them school supplies, like whatever the case

01:05:12.070 --> 01:05:13.849
may be. And I'm like, OK, so you're telling me.

01:05:13.969 --> 01:05:20.789
Come on. You don't remember. You don't remember

01:05:20.789 --> 01:05:22.449
going to school and like wanting to wear a nice

01:05:22.449 --> 01:05:24.030
outfit or like whatever the case may have been

01:05:24.030 --> 01:05:27.769
like you. But like, do you want these kids to

01:05:27.769 --> 01:05:31.090
show up like with like a fucking. Like a stick

01:05:31.090 --> 01:05:33.449
with a handkerchief tied around it and a fucking,

01:05:33.530 --> 01:05:35.289
like, dirty. Like, what do you want from these

01:05:35.289 --> 01:05:37.869
fucking kids? And, like, you want them to wear

01:05:37.869 --> 01:05:39.289
shoes that are too small? Because that's what

01:05:39.289 --> 01:05:41.510
I'm hearing. Kids outgrow their shoes. That's

01:05:41.510 --> 01:05:45.250
what happens. I just don't understand the argument.

01:05:45.670 --> 01:05:49.110
I get that you don't want to be taken advantage

01:05:49.110 --> 01:05:52.389
of. Let me say that. No one wants to be taken

01:05:52.389 --> 01:05:56.809
advantage of. However, how could this possibly

01:05:56.809 --> 01:06:01.130
be taking advantage of you? How? You think your

01:06:01.130 --> 01:06:03.690
10 little markers are going to supply a class

01:06:03.690 --> 01:06:09.070
of 30? Yeah. Like, what? I don't. It's all exhausting.

01:06:09.329 --> 01:06:11.510
But I was just curious how you felt about that.

01:06:11.670 --> 01:06:14.349
On the subject of school supplies, we need to

01:06:14.349 --> 01:06:17.409
go back to schools sharing their school supply

01:06:17.409 --> 01:06:22.949
lists with the... Powers That Be, Meijer, Target,

01:06:23.090 --> 01:06:26.829
all of those. I had to order something from Jack's

01:06:26.829 --> 01:06:29.469
school supply list off of Amazon because I went

01:06:29.469 --> 01:06:33.030
to Meijer and I went to the Forbidden Place,

01:06:33.389 --> 01:06:38.190
Target. And neither of them had it. It was like

01:06:38.190 --> 01:06:44.510
the Crayola watercolor set. Hang on. Hang the

01:06:44.510 --> 01:06:49.110
fuck on. Yeah. Neither of them had it. Are we?

01:06:49.760 --> 01:06:54.380
OK, a couple of things. One, maybe and like this

01:06:54.380 --> 01:06:55.900
is going to sound like the most boomer gig ever.

01:06:56.019 --> 01:06:57.860
Like, I feel like there were like six things

01:06:57.860 --> 01:06:59.559
on my school's playlist. It was like notebooks,

01:06:59.780 --> 01:07:08.860
binders, folders, whatever. What? But like, is

01:07:08.860 --> 01:07:11.199
there not just like a standardized idea of like,

01:07:11.280 --> 01:07:12.659
OK, this is what we're going to do. And like,

01:07:12.679 --> 01:07:15.360
we know that this is available like in our market.

01:07:15.420 --> 01:07:19.500
So like. Well, yeah, but I don't know. I don't

01:07:19.500 --> 01:07:22.800
know. I don't know. It was a watercolor set.

01:07:22.960 --> 01:07:24.519
Also, what the fuck is he doing with a watercolor

01:07:24.519 --> 01:07:31.280
set? Painting? Oh. Okay. Okay. I'm not the teacher,

01:07:31.320 --> 01:07:34.280
so I'm in business, I guess. Okay. I don't know.

01:07:34.579 --> 01:07:36.940
Maybe it goes to the art class, in which case,

01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:39.119
that's wonderful, too. I thought they did away

01:07:39.119 --> 01:07:42.119
with art class in Indiana. No. Oh, okay, good.

01:07:42.239 --> 01:07:45.340
Dad has an art class. And they have this website

01:07:45.340 --> 01:07:50.599
now where you can see digitized pictures of his

01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:54.559
art. Oh, the way all of mine sat in a box for

01:07:54.559 --> 01:08:00.980
years. And I'm not exaggerating. We had boxes

01:08:00.980 --> 01:08:03.559
of all this shit from my school. Report cards,

01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:06.239
all of it. I have no idea where any of that is

01:08:06.239 --> 01:08:07.739
now. And I love that it's digital now. I think

01:08:07.739 --> 01:08:09.639
it's amazing. Yeah, I mean, they send it home

01:08:09.639 --> 01:08:13.579
too, but like... My parents are connected on

01:08:13.579 --> 01:08:15.679
it and they can like leave comments and stuff

01:08:15.679 --> 01:08:17.920
and they see it. Yeah, it's cute. I love that.

01:08:17.960 --> 01:08:22.340
It's very cute. Look. Are you ready to complain?

01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:26.579
Yeah. I actually have two things to complain

01:08:26.579 --> 01:08:30.359
about today. Okay, you go first. The first one

01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:36.159
is really easy to just complain about really

01:08:36.159 --> 01:08:42.539
fast. Arugula. I hate arugula and it has infiltrated

01:08:42.539 --> 01:08:45.560
everything good and holy in our lives. It is

01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:50.920
everywhere and it is bitter. I hate it. It's

01:08:50.920 --> 01:08:55.520
the new kale. I hate it so much. Okay. And also

01:08:55.520 --> 01:08:59.899
I'm complaining about back to school night and

01:08:59.899 --> 01:09:04.239
here's why. Okay. They don't stagger the times.

01:09:05.310 --> 01:09:07.689
For the different grades. I feel like there should

01:09:07.689 --> 01:09:10.390
be a 30 minute gap in start time for each grade

01:09:10.390 --> 01:09:13.289
because what if you have multiple children? It's

01:09:13.289 --> 01:09:17.569
only an hour long. So I don't understand what

01:09:17.569 --> 01:09:19.369
you would do if you have two kids going into

01:09:19.369 --> 01:09:21.750
school number one and number two. There are so

01:09:21.750 --> 01:09:26.869
many people there. His school is huge. It is

01:09:26.869 --> 01:09:29.810
like the size of my middle school and they have

01:09:29.810 --> 01:09:32.930
had to put trailers outside for additional classrooms.

01:09:33.689 --> 01:09:38.430
It's gigantic. So now you have pretty much every

01:09:38.430 --> 01:09:43.949
single student plus mom or dad or both or their

01:09:43.949 --> 01:09:48.899
guardian, whatever, with them. It is so jam packed

01:09:48.899 --> 01:09:52.479
and hot and they don't put extra chairs out for

01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:56.979
pregnant ladies. It was so overstimulating that

01:09:56.979 --> 01:10:00.479
like we saw moms we know. And I fear what the

01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:04.119
look in my eye was because I was so frazzled.

01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:07.039
Like I saw a mom that I'm like friends with.

01:10:07.100 --> 01:10:10.020
We text all the time. And I was like, I'm honestly

01:10:10.020 --> 01:10:13.520
so overwhelmed. Like I am overstimulated. And

01:10:13.520 --> 01:10:15.420
she was like, me too, girl. I don't know what's

01:10:15.420 --> 01:10:20.460
going on. So you just go and see where your kids

01:10:20.460 --> 01:10:23.399
go to school? Well, yeah, you meet their teacher.

01:10:23.939 --> 01:10:25.859
That's when you drop off their school supplies

01:10:25.859 --> 01:10:30.739
so they don't have to have a backpack full and

01:10:30.739 --> 01:10:34.359
arms full of heavy school supplies. It's too

01:10:34.359 --> 01:10:37.319
big for a little kid. Oh, okay. And you find

01:10:37.319 --> 01:10:39.579
their classroom so that hopefully they can find

01:10:39.579 --> 01:10:42.640
it on the first day. You find their desk and

01:10:42.640 --> 01:10:48.109
all of that. Do you want to know what? I never

01:10:48.109 --> 01:10:51.430
attended as a child that a back to fucking school

01:10:51.430 --> 01:10:53.510
night. And I feel like my granny and pap were

01:10:53.510 --> 01:10:57.050
just not interested in that. If that was a thing,

01:10:57.090 --> 01:10:59.869
I have no idea. I remember doing it back in the

01:10:59.869 --> 01:11:02.310
day. And it's like helpful because we get stuff

01:11:02.310 --> 01:11:05.930
like you saw earlier. Like I now I know his class

01:11:05.930 --> 01:11:08.869
schedule. So I know when he's eating lunch and

01:11:08.869 --> 01:11:13.829
like I can talk to him about. what his day is

01:11:13.829 --> 01:11:16.829
gonna look like so like for a kid like mine who

01:11:16.829 --> 01:11:20.689
really doesn't like change and really needs to

01:11:20.689 --> 01:11:23.369
be like prepared for what's gonna happen it's

01:11:23.369 --> 01:11:27.189
really nice okay that's fair but otherwise yeah

01:11:27.189 --> 01:11:30.890
i mean i don't it's not required it's not like

01:11:30.890 --> 01:11:32.949
oh i would hope you have to be there but it does

01:11:32.949 --> 01:11:34.869
feel like logistically it could have been planned

01:11:34.869 --> 01:11:38.279
better though yeah right And I get like they

01:11:38.279 --> 01:11:40.840
wanted to do it at six so that most people are

01:11:40.840 --> 01:11:43.819
off work so they can come. But like have one

01:11:43.819 --> 01:11:47.659
start at 530 and then six and then 630 and then

01:11:47.659 --> 01:11:49.779
seven. But also, can you imagine like being these

01:11:49.779 --> 01:11:51.619
teachers and like you spent the whole day setting

01:11:51.619 --> 01:11:53.520
up a classroom and it's like, God, now I have

01:11:53.520 --> 01:11:57.500
to talk to parents. They are frazzled and I don't

01:11:57.500 --> 01:12:00.319
blame them. You have. OK, so these class sizes

01:12:00.319 --> 01:12:02.100
are huge because we don't have enough teachers

01:12:02.100 --> 01:12:05.180
because we don't pay them enough. And so you

01:12:05.180 --> 01:12:10.260
have. 30 kids plus at least one parent each.

01:12:10.420 --> 01:12:14.819
That's at least 60 people in a classroom that

01:12:14.819 --> 01:12:20.260
is tiny and has 30 tiny chairs. It's a nightmare.

01:12:20.520 --> 01:12:24.279
It's a nightmare. And I wish it were calmer and

01:12:24.279 --> 01:12:27.520
cooler and more relaxing, but it's just fucking

01:12:27.520 --> 01:12:31.500
not. Oh, my God. I was so overstimulated. I literally

01:12:31.500 --> 01:12:36.470
was sweating the whole time. Oh, I'm sure. and

01:12:36.470 --> 01:12:39.670
we got there at like it started at six we got

01:12:39.670 --> 01:12:42.810
there at like 5 40 probably because like parking

01:12:42.810 --> 01:12:47.789
is always a nightmare and i assume yeah i assume

01:12:47.789 --> 01:12:52.109
they would let us in early no no we waited in

01:12:52.109 --> 01:12:54.949
a line outside the door are you fucking shitting

01:12:54.949 --> 01:13:02.010
me six on the dot i swear to god Jesus Christ.

01:13:02.529 --> 01:13:04.710
And I had just like thrown his school supplies

01:13:04.710 --> 01:13:07.350
on the sidewalk. I was like, I can't hold on

01:13:07.350 --> 01:13:10.869
to these the whole time. I am huge now. You're

01:13:10.869 --> 01:13:14.050
having a fucking baby. Like, oh my God. And I'm

01:13:14.050 --> 01:13:18.170
like, what is going on? It was not ideal. And

01:13:18.170 --> 01:13:21.310
I'm sure some people had like no problems with

01:13:21.310 --> 01:13:26.550
it, but. Well, good for them. What a day the

01:13:26.550 --> 01:13:28.630
Lord has made for them. Yeah, I just feel like.

01:13:28.890 --> 01:13:31.289
That's exhausting. That doesn't, I, it was so,

01:13:31.350 --> 01:13:33.890
I got back home and I was in the worst fucking

01:13:33.890 --> 01:13:38.170
mood. I was like, the way I, so like, I would

01:13:38.170 --> 01:13:40.890
have loved to have gone to support you and like

01:13:40.890 --> 01:13:42.689
be there with you. Cause you know, I'll do, I

01:13:42.689 --> 01:13:44.649
will go to the ends of the earth with you the

01:13:44.649 --> 01:13:46.810
way I would have been so fucking furious, like

01:13:46.810 --> 01:13:49.289
four minutes into it. I would have never subjected

01:13:49.289 --> 01:13:52.470
you to what I went through. Oh my God. Were there

01:13:52.470 --> 01:13:54.189
a bunch of parents there that had too many questions?

01:13:55.909 --> 01:13:59.479
No. Okay. The teacher was occupied the whole

01:13:59.479 --> 01:14:03.340
time. She had like a line of people. For what?

01:14:03.720 --> 01:14:06.560
I mean, it's just like asking silly questions,

01:14:06.619 --> 01:14:08.859
introducing themselves. Even there are just so

01:14:08.859 --> 01:14:11.539
many of them. Let me. And she wanted to say hi

01:14:11.539 --> 01:14:13.260
to everyone. I'm sure she did because she was

01:14:13.260 --> 01:14:16.239
probably a lovely, magnanimous human being. She

01:14:16.239 --> 01:14:19.420
seems really nice. The issue that I have, though,

01:14:19.479 --> 01:14:24.840
is like. You think you are so much the main character

01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:27.180
that you need to go monopolize the teacher's

01:14:27.180 --> 01:14:31.840
time to. I mean, there's also like she had like

01:14:31.840 --> 01:14:34.840
a classroom scavenger hunt for the kids to like

01:14:34.840 --> 01:14:37.260
look around and find stuff like the classroom

01:14:37.260 --> 01:14:41.119
library and the pencil sharpener and stuff. And

01:14:41.119 --> 01:14:42.920
so like. That's actually kind of smart. Like,

01:14:43.060 --> 01:14:48.010
yeah. Yeah. And so like. I don't know. Like Jack

01:14:48.010 --> 01:14:50.109
went up to her just to show her that we had finished

01:14:50.109 --> 01:14:52.590
it and stuff like that. So I'm sure she's getting

01:14:52.590 --> 01:14:54.670
a bunch of stuff like that. Okay. That's different.

01:14:54.810 --> 01:14:58.289
That's fine. And, but no, I can't imagine that

01:14:58.289 --> 01:15:00.369
it's any less overwhelming for the teachers.

01:15:00.470 --> 01:15:02.789
Cause it's like, I bet it's like 40 times worse.

01:15:02.890 --> 01:15:04.310
Cause it's like, Oh God, they don't want to talk

01:15:04.310 --> 01:15:08.850
to me. I am the main character. and they give

01:15:08.850 --> 01:15:11.470
them like tasks they have to do like she kept

01:15:11.470 --> 01:15:13.729
having to tell everyone like you need to scan

01:15:13.729 --> 01:15:17.149
this qr code for this google doc to tell the

01:15:17.149 --> 01:15:19.430
front office how your kid is getting to and from

01:15:19.430 --> 01:15:23.930
school on the first day and she had to like like

01:15:23.930 --> 01:15:27.250
do that for the front office like they give them

01:15:27.250 --> 01:15:29.970
tasks they have to do okay so here's my question

01:15:29.970 --> 01:15:33.529
when you were in elementary middle and high school

01:15:34.189 --> 01:15:36.529
Was there not like a day, two or three weeks

01:15:36.529 --> 01:15:38.750
before school where you had to go like in the

01:15:38.750 --> 01:15:41.510
morning to the school and there was like a paper

01:15:41.510 --> 01:15:44.630
your parents had to fill out? Like, yeah, we

01:15:44.630 --> 01:15:48.789
did that, but they don't do that anymore. They

01:15:48.789 --> 01:15:52.449
sent an email with like who? No, they didn't

01:15:52.449 --> 01:15:54.850
even send an email. They sent an email saying

01:15:54.850 --> 01:16:00.270
this website that like has your. Grades and stuff

01:16:00.270 --> 01:16:02.449
like that. I don't know if you remember Skyward.

01:16:02.510 --> 01:16:06.909
It's basically that. Whatever. It has your grades.

01:16:08.470 --> 01:16:12.390
No, because they don't work on it. It just has

01:16:12.390 --> 01:16:15.069
their grades and their absences and stuff like

01:16:15.069 --> 01:16:18.850
that. And they sent an email that was like, at

01:16:18.850 --> 01:16:21.189
4 p .m. tomorrow, you'll be able to see who your

01:16:21.189 --> 01:16:23.569
kid's teacher is. And that's how you found out.

01:16:24.619 --> 01:16:27.140
We knew, like, before we left for the year before

01:16:27.140 --> 01:16:28.720
who our teacher was going to be the next year.

01:16:28.840 --> 01:16:32.319
No, no. I didn't either, though. We found out

01:16:32.319 --> 01:16:34.020
in the middle of the summer. Well, I also graduated

01:16:34.020 --> 01:16:36.079
with, like, 90 people. So, like, it was probably

01:16:36.079 --> 01:16:37.659
very easy to figure out where we were going.

01:16:37.840 --> 01:16:42.960
Yeah. It was all just based on last name. I want

01:16:42.960 --> 01:16:47.220
to say I graduated with, like, this number feels

01:16:47.220 --> 01:16:51.520
fake, but, like, 600 people. Yeah, your school

01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:56.430
was huge. Well, I'm sorry that that happened.

01:16:56.470 --> 01:16:59.770
I hate that for you. It's OK. We like got everything

01:16:59.770 --> 01:17:02.829
done that we needed to do. Good. All in all,

01:17:02.989 --> 01:17:07.850
a success. But I want to complain about people

01:17:07.850 --> 01:17:12.270
in the Lifetime locker room who these guys just

01:17:12.270 --> 01:17:14.229
make themselves at home and they use like two

01:17:14.229 --> 01:17:17.350
or three lockers and they have three bags with

01:17:17.350 --> 01:17:20.170
them. And it's always like a whole production

01:17:20.170 --> 01:17:23.109
every time they get into the locker room. And

01:17:23.109 --> 01:17:26.260
then. They spread all of their shit out all over

01:17:26.260 --> 01:17:28.539
the benches like so in lifetime in each like

01:17:28.539 --> 01:17:31.399
bay of lockers. There's two like significantly

01:17:31.399 --> 01:17:34.560
large benches that realistically like eight guys

01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:36.840
could sit on. They're huge. So you have two of

01:17:36.840 --> 01:17:39.180
those and these guys will spread all of their

01:17:39.180 --> 01:17:42.930
shit out on these benches and. You're literally

01:17:42.930 --> 01:17:46.029
crawling around their shit to like move it because

01:17:46.029 --> 01:17:49.350
they open up the lockers and it's there. They're

01:17:49.350 --> 01:17:51.090
just feeling the fantasy and getting ready. And

01:17:51.090 --> 01:17:52.649
there is a whole production while they're getting

01:17:52.649 --> 01:17:54.689
ready for like whatever their day is going to

01:17:54.689 --> 01:17:57.329
bring. And it's 45 minutes of that. But then

01:17:57.329 --> 01:17:59.810
what is even worse is when they have a friend

01:17:59.810 --> 01:18:04.109
who does the same thing as them. And that's been

01:18:04.109 --> 01:18:07.010
my experience. And I'm I think it's the time

01:18:07.010 --> 01:18:08.710
that I'm going to the gym. I think like I have

01:18:08.710 --> 01:18:12.279
to like readjust that because it is. far too

01:18:12.279 --> 01:18:14.079
much for me to handle because like you know i

01:18:14.079 --> 01:18:17.819
can't control my face so like yeah it's hard

01:18:17.819 --> 01:18:20.539
for me i'm the same way i've been told that since

01:18:20.539 --> 01:18:28.680
i was a tiny child okay okay are you ready for

01:18:28.680 --> 01:18:35.880
reality roundup i am um what so We started rewatching

01:18:35.880 --> 01:18:37.579
The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, the first

01:18:37.579 --> 01:18:41.220
season. And boy, oh boy, does that not disappoint.

01:18:41.260 --> 01:18:44.319
I love the first season. It's so good. It is

01:18:44.319 --> 01:18:51.060
incredible. Like, so. Yeah. I think I've talked

01:18:51.060 --> 01:18:53.600
a little bit about this before. I truly thought

01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:56.159
this show is going to be hot garbage. I thought,

01:18:56.260 --> 01:18:59.180
like. Why are they taking such a prestigious

01:18:59.180 --> 01:19:02.380
show such as The Real Housewives? And now that

01:19:02.380 --> 01:19:03.960
I'm saying it out loud, I'm just like, Jesus

01:19:03.960 --> 01:19:06.880
Christ, I was the worst. But why are they taking

01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:10.460
that to Salt Lake City, Utah? And these ladies

01:19:10.460 --> 01:19:12.659
showed us how wrong I could have been. Yeah,

01:19:12.819 --> 01:19:18.399
Salt Lake City, really epicenter. Their taglines

01:19:18.399 --> 01:19:22.859
are amazing. So I listed all their taglines here,

01:19:22.899 --> 01:19:25.729
but which one's your favorite? Um, I like Lisa

01:19:25.729 --> 01:19:29.310
Barlow's because she was, she has her tequila

01:19:29.310 --> 01:19:33.390
company or whatever. And so she says, when you

01:19:33.390 --> 01:19:36.770
take cheap shots, always expect a hangover. I

01:19:36.770 --> 01:19:39.029
actually really do like that one. Yeah. What's

01:19:39.029 --> 01:19:41.130
your favorite? Uh, Mary Cosby. Your favorite.

01:19:41.949 --> 01:19:45.850
Oh, I love God, but I will read you like a scripture.

01:19:46.130 --> 01:19:49.630
I just hated her so much the first season. Pardon

01:19:49.630 --> 01:19:57.079
me. Get set. So, um, We get like the first episode

01:19:57.079 --> 01:20:00.239
of every Real Housewives is like giving you some

01:20:00.239 --> 01:20:03.439
kind of like introduction in this town, like

01:20:03.439 --> 01:20:05.260
whatever. It's a lot of that. Then you start

01:20:05.260 --> 01:20:08.579
to meet the woman. So we meet Jen Shaw at her

01:20:08.579 --> 01:20:11.439
chalet with her husband, Sharif, who is cooking

01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:14.500
the family breakfast. Jen is Tongan and Hawaiian.

01:20:14.680 --> 01:20:16.720
She's originally from Hawaii and moved to Utah

01:20:16.720 --> 01:20:20.119
when she was like seven. And she and Sharif have

01:20:20.119 --> 01:20:25.989
two sons, Sharif Jr. and Omar. Love. So I guess

01:20:25.989 --> 01:20:27.869
Jen was raised Mormon. This is actually kind

01:20:27.869 --> 01:20:30.069
of interesting because they jump right into it.

01:20:30.310 --> 01:20:34.250
Jen was raised Mormon and Sharif was Muslim.

01:20:34.310 --> 01:20:36.789
And like, I love that. Like when they got married,

01:20:36.850 --> 01:20:38.569
it just wasn't like a big deal. Like they were

01:20:38.569 --> 01:20:41.550
just doing their thing. And then Jen says, well,

01:20:41.590 --> 01:20:43.250
why don't you come to church with me? And Sharif

01:20:43.250 --> 01:20:45.010
goes, because your church didn't accept black

01:20:45.010 --> 01:20:51.060
people until like 1974. And Jen goes, OK. I guess

01:20:51.060 --> 01:20:53.819
I'm done there. Yeah, I feel like she just didn't

01:20:53.819 --> 01:20:57.020
know. Well, no, because, like, the church isn't

01:20:57.020 --> 01:20:59.039
going to tell you that they were racist. Yeah.

01:20:59.039 --> 01:21:01.699
You know? Yeah. Yeah. Also, the pictures of them

01:21:01.699 --> 01:21:06.180
from college, they're so hot. They were very

01:21:06.180 --> 01:21:09.659
attractive. They're so hot. Sharif, I like Sharif.

01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:12.180
I think Sharif is very handsome. I think he is.

01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:14.539
Like, I would listen to him talk. Like, I would

01:21:14.539 --> 01:21:16.479
go to, like, a speech or something he was giving.

01:21:16.579 --> 01:21:21.890
I think he's so fun. Yeah. And then one of these

01:21:21.890 --> 01:21:23.829
tropes that I really do hate on the housewives

01:21:23.829 --> 01:21:26.130
is like, they're all sitting at the table and

01:21:26.130 --> 01:21:27.550
then it's like, we have to bring up the like,

01:21:27.649 --> 01:21:29.770
oh, we're going to talk about sex talk. I'm like,

01:21:29.810 --> 01:21:32.310
I'm not, I'm not going to do that. They love

01:21:32.310 --> 01:21:35.810
to show mothers making their children uncomfortable.

01:21:35.909 --> 01:21:37.310
It's really weird. They do love that. And like

01:21:37.310 --> 01:21:39.149
the way that. It's weird. I would have blown

01:21:39.149 --> 01:21:43.359
my brains out on camera. No. It was a different

01:21:43.359 --> 01:21:46.260
conversation, obviously, but they, like, did

01:21:46.260 --> 01:21:49.600
the same thing when Giselle's girls were young.

01:21:49.680 --> 01:21:52.460
It was a lot of, like, oh, mom's so embarrassing.

01:21:52.779 --> 01:21:56.319
Why is that always your... Anyway. Right. I do

01:21:56.319 --> 01:21:58.779
love that Sharif Jr., like, when she's, like,

01:21:58.819 --> 01:22:01.319
telling Omar, like, kissing can give you herpes

01:22:01.319 --> 01:22:05.319
and AIDS, like, Sharif Jr.'s like, oh, no, no.

01:22:05.619 --> 01:22:09.119
Like, I thought he was so funny. Yeah. We go

01:22:09.119 --> 01:22:11.460
over to meet Heather Gay at Beauty Lab and Laser.

01:22:12.220 --> 01:22:17.359
She apparently opened Beauty Lab because Mormon,

01:22:17.560 --> 01:22:20.640
Mormonism, the whole thing is. Perfection. The

01:22:20.640 --> 01:22:25.659
endless pursuit of perfection. And I guess that

01:22:25.659 --> 01:22:30.340
like leans into also being beautiful. Yeah. Well,

01:22:30.479 --> 01:22:34.279
yeah, it's like perfect inside and out. I didn't

01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:37.529
know how to feel about her when we first. met

01:22:37.529 --> 01:22:40.569
her like in the first episode because i was like

01:22:40.569 --> 01:22:44.390
oh you own a beauty lab and you have three daughters

01:22:44.390 --> 01:22:47.750
like oh i didn't even think about that what are

01:22:47.750 --> 01:22:52.369
you teaching them sort of thing obviously we'll

01:22:52.369 --> 01:22:54.250
talk more about heather gay love heather gay

01:22:54.250 --> 01:22:56.710
lover lover love but i wasn't sure how to feel

01:22:56.710 --> 01:23:00.970
about her like early early on um she's got three

01:23:00.970 --> 01:23:02.949
daughters and like i have to tell you i look

01:23:02.949 --> 01:23:04.869
at their family and like i get really really

01:23:04.869 --> 01:23:07.260
jealous because i'm god i would have given anything

01:23:07.260 --> 01:23:09.560
growing up for a family like that like that just

01:23:09.560 --> 01:23:13.680
like it feels like she's such a cool mom she

01:23:13.680 --> 01:23:17.979
is yeah um i feel like you could tell her anything

01:23:17.979 --> 01:23:24.220
oh yeah she married into money like money because

01:23:24.220 --> 01:23:26.619
like if you do anything the parents of mormonism

01:23:26.619 --> 01:23:28.600
yeah like have you ever like looked into his

01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:33.159
family though yeah scary they're scary oh my

01:23:33.159 --> 01:23:36.300
god you know whatever it takes get your bag heather

01:23:36.300 --> 01:23:39.039
um heather loves rap music gay people and black

01:23:39.039 --> 01:23:42.119
men and i'm a big fan of heather like i like

01:23:42.119 --> 01:23:44.760
when she said that i immediately liked her yeah

01:23:44.760 --> 01:23:47.020
i don't i still like didn't know how to feel

01:23:47.020 --> 01:23:49.720
because i was like okay white lady why are you

01:23:49.720 --> 01:23:54.319
saying that i That's fair. I get that. But, like,

01:23:54.319 --> 01:23:57.619
I didn't know her. Yeah. Now I get her. She's

01:23:57.619 --> 01:24:00.939
wonderful. We meet Meredith Marks at her house

01:24:00.939 --> 01:24:03.260
where she's getting ready to go on a hike with

01:24:03.260 --> 01:24:07.920
her husband, Seth, and her son, Brooks. What

01:24:07.920 --> 01:24:10.260
did you think about Meredith, like, immediately?

01:24:10.739 --> 01:24:12.840
I thought she was kind of boring. I did, too.

01:24:13.079 --> 01:24:15.800
Yeah. But, like, it's so funny now looking back

01:24:15.800 --> 01:24:17.279
on it because I'm just, like, I worship the ground

01:24:17.279 --> 01:24:20.640
she walks on. Yeah. I watched it like looking

01:24:20.640 --> 01:24:22.420
through the lens of everything I know now and

01:24:22.420 --> 01:24:24.300
I'm like, God, she was so fabulous. But I remember

01:24:24.300 --> 01:24:25.939
like I used to not be able to tell the difference

01:24:25.939 --> 01:24:27.560
between her and Lisa Barlow. I thought they were

01:24:27.560 --> 01:24:31.060
the same person. I thought that Meredith was

01:24:31.060 --> 01:24:35.060
like, I don't know. I just was like, yeah, boring.

01:24:37.539 --> 01:24:39.979
So she and Seth have been together for 24 years.

01:24:40.119 --> 01:24:42.319
They have three kids, Reed, Chloe and Brooks.

01:24:42.819 --> 01:24:44.880
Brooks is taking a year off of college to spend

01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:47.380
with his mom. He wanted to be on this show. Like,

01:24:47.399 --> 01:24:49.720
let's call it what it is. Good for him. If my

01:24:49.720 --> 01:24:51.739
mom was on reality TV, I would be like, hello.

01:24:52.000 --> 01:24:53.920
Oh, yeah. Well, you know, he's got that next

01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:57.659
gen show with Teresa Giudice, his daughter. And

01:24:57.659 --> 01:25:04.779
yeah, out of New York. Yeah. Yeah. But they I

01:25:04.779 --> 01:25:06.819
like Brooks. Let me let me start by saying this.

01:25:06.880 --> 01:25:09.699
I think Brooks is cool. He puts on this Paris

01:25:09.699 --> 01:25:11.760
Hilton voice in the first season, though, that

01:25:11.760 --> 01:25:15.729
Paris used to do in The Simple Life. And it bothers

01:25:15.729 --> 01:25:19.729
me. But there's a 0 % chance that Brooks has

01:25:19.729 --> 01:25:22.649
not seen The Simple Life. If we're being so honest.

01:25:22.930 --> 01:25:28.109
If we're being so honest. Yeah. Love her now.

01:25:28.250 --> 01:25:29.949
But yeah, I thought she was kind of boring. I

01:25:29.949 --> 01:25:32.789
liked Lisa Barlow more. Oh my God. I loved Lisa

01:25:32.789 --> 01:25:36.010
Barlow. So we meet her where she's trying to

01:25:36.010 --> 01:25:39.069
wake her kids up from school or for school. She's

01:25:39.069 --> 01:25:41.829
got the like word art above her kids beds that

01:25:41.829 --> 01:25:45.119
you buy at Hobby Lobby. I was like, hustle and

01:25:45.119 --> 01:25:49.199
grind. Okay, Lisa. Stage that house, mama. Oh,

01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:54.479
yeah. So, you know, John Barlow dated Lisa's

01:25:54.479 --> 01:25:56.439
sister before they got together. I thought that

01:25:56.439 --> 01:26:00.920
was so funny. I did not know that. So she presents

01:26:00.920 --> 01:26:03.220
it in the first season as, oh, they were just

01:26:03.220 --> 01:26:05.199
friends. I met her because they went on a mission

01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:08.520
trip together. And then come to find out, like

01:26:08.520 --> 01:26:09.939
it was season two or three is when we find this

01:26:09.939 --> 01:26:12.640
out, that they actually dated. And Lisa, like.

01:26:13.420 --> 01:26:15.760
I don't I don't know if she stole him, but like

01:26:15.760 --> 01:26:18.279
Lisa ended up with John and I'm happy for her.

01:26:18.340 --> 01:26:20.680
Yeah, whatever. I also think John Marlowe is

01:26:20.680 --> 01:26:25.060
really hot. Like I think he is. And I love a

01:26:25.060 --> 01:26:28.399
man who's like, yes, honey, do what you want.

01:26:29.859 --> 01:26:37.119
So my favorite thing that Lisa says is I know

01:26:37.119 --> 01:26:38.920
other Mormons care that I have a tequila brand.

01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:41.409
What matters is that I don't. Yeah. I thought

01:26:41.409 --> 01:26:46.310
that was so cut. I love her. I think she's so

01:26:46.310 --> 01:26:49.130
cunty. I love Lisa. I love that her son's names

01:26:49.130 --> 01:26:51.529
are Jack and Henry. Those were my dog's names

01:26:51.529 --> 01:26:58.090
growing up. I love that. So we were meeting all

01:26:58.090 --> 01:27:00.550
the women individually and then we see the relationship

01:27:00.550 --> 01:27:03.069
starting to happen. So Jen goes to beauty lab

01:27:03.069 --> 01:27:06.069
to get Botox in her armpits for sweating. I thought

01:27:06.069 --> 01:27:10.020
that injector doctor was really cute. Yeah. I

01:27:10.020 --> 01:27:13.020
don't remember. And then Jen presents the idea

01:27:13.020 --> 01:27:14.460
that we're going to throw merit at the birthday

01:27:14.460 --> 01:27:16.720
party. Because we have to have a reason to get

01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:19.939
everyone together, whatever. We go over, we meet

01:27:19.939 --> 01:27:22.180
Whitney Rose, where she's getting ready for a

01:27:22.180 --> 01:27:24.619
vow renewal at her house. And I also hate this

01:27:24.619 --> 01:27:26.399
trope on Real Housewives where they do the vow

01:27:26.399 --> 01:27:29.180
renewals. I hate it so much. I know people in

01:27:29.180 --> 01:27:32.560
real life who have renewed their vows. Ugh. Yeah.

01:27:33.819 --> 01:27:36.720
I kind of get it if, like, something happened.

01:27:37.239 --> 01:27:39.619
Like if someone cheated and you guys were separated

01:27:39.619 --> 01:27:43.340
and now you're back together, I get renewing

01:27:43.340 --> 01:27:47.000
your vows. It's like a restart. I don't think

01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:49.899
you need to do it just because. You know what

01:27:49.899 --> 01:27:51.399
I mean? I feel like there should be a reason.

01:27:51.899 --> 01:27:56.880
Anyway. So Justin is 18 years older than Whitney.

01:27:57.020 --> 01:27:59.260
They met at work while they were both still married

01:27:59.260 --> 01:28:03.159
and they got. They ended up getting married while

01:28:03.159 --> 01:28:05.399
Whitney was five months pregnant. And this got

01:28:05.399 --> 01:28:07.699
them excommunicated from the Mormon church. Don't

01:28:07.699 --> 01:28:09.859
let your husband keep you from finding your husband.

01:28:13.899 --> 01:28:18.779
You're not wrong. They have two kids. Whitney's

01:28:18.779 --> 01:28:21.760
fourth great grandfather was Joseph Smith's bodyguard.

01:28:21.899 --> 01:28:23.840
So that's kind of how she fits into this beautiful

01:28:23.840 --> 01:28:25.680
Mormon picture. So it's a big deal that she was

01:28:25.680 --> 01:28:29.149
excommunicated from the church. Yeah. And I thought

01:28:29.149 --> 01:28:33.689
the best part of the vow renewal was when Whitney's

01:28:33.689 --> 01:28:37.289
cousin, who was wasted, stops Whitney on the

01:28:37.289 --> 01:28:39.649
stairs and apologizes for not believing that

01:28:39.649 --> 01:28:42.310
the marriage would work out. You know what? Good

01:28:42.310 --> 01:28:44.729
on that. I thought this when I was watching it,

01:28:44.770 --> 01:28:48.119
too. Good on you for saying it. Honestly. And

01:28:48.119 --> 01:28:50.500
I appreciate that she was honest. I really do.

01:28:50.680 --> 01:28:54.180
Because I don't think they hid it from her at

01:28:54.180 --> 01:28:57.140
the time that they did not approve. Oh, no, they

01:28:57.140 --> 01:28:58.859
didn't. So for them to turn around and be like,

01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:01.899
you know what? I'm glad you guys are happy. That

01:29:01.899 --> 01:29:05.600
took some courage, some bravery. I agree. I'm

01:29:05.600 --> 01:29:09.819
glad they said it. Anyway, moving on to Meredith's

01:29:09.819 --> 01:29:13.579
house. Yes. So Jen and Lisa go over to Meredith's

01:29:13.579 --> 01:29:15.340
house. We find out that Lisa and Meredith have

01:29:15.340 --> 01:29:18.430
been friends forever. And then. Jen met Lisa

01:29:18.430 --> 01:29:20.210
a couple of years back at a Sundance festival.

01:29:20.789 --> 01:29:22.810
I have a feeling that Jen is one of these people

01:29:22.810 --> 01:29:24.750
and knowing everything we know now, this actually

01:29:24.750 --> 01:29:26.310
kind of makes sense. I have a feeling that Jen

01:29:26.310 --> 01:29:33.470
like found people that were like higher up with

01:29:33.470 --> 01:29:35.310
like Sundance or whatever, like where Lisa Barlow

01:29:35.310 --> 01:29:38.029
is literally running Sundance. And she's like,

01:29:38.090 --> 01:29:39.909
I need to get in with her. Like, and she was

01:29:39.909 --> 01:29:41.270
like a really good networker with that. Cause

01:29:41.270 --> 01:29:43.130
I could see Jen being very good at networking.

01:29:44.109 --> 01:29:47.270
um and i think that's how also sundance if you

01:29:47.270 --> 01:29:51.390
didn't know huge deal in salt lake city huge

01:29:51.390 --> 01:29:54.289
deal massive deal like well and it's well not

01:29:54.289 --> 01:29:55.909
anymore because it's this is the last year they're

01:29:55.909 --> 01:29:57.409
next year's last year they're doing it in salt

01:29:57.409 --> 01:30:00.670
lake city really it's moving to boulder colorado

01:30:00.670 --> 01:30:05.170
should we go before the uh should we go in 2026

01:30:05.170 --> 01:30:08.649
i don't care to go to a film festival if i'm

01:30:08.649 --> 01:30:12.939
being honest fair enough I don't know if I thought

01:30:12.939 --> 01:30:17.399
I would run into Lisa Barlow that I would go,

01:30:17.460 --> 01:30:21.079
but I would. I don't think we would see them.

01:30:21.260 --> 01:30:23.779
No, I'm sure we wouldn't. Oh, and this is where

01:30:23.779 --> 01:30:27.539
Lisa gets shady towards Heather. So this is where

01:30:27.539 --> 01:30:29.880
I started to develop a little bit of like a thing

01:30:29.880 --> 01:30:32.100
with Lisa where I'm just like, oh, you're going

01:30:32.100 --> 01:30:33.659
to be a little bit of a wild card this season.

01:30:34.000 --> 01:30:37.340
I think she just says whatever comes into her

01:30:37.340 --> 01:30:40.000
brain and she like just doesn't filter it out.

01:30:41.690 --> 01:30:45.130
Yes, I think you're right. And I kind of admire

01:30:45.130 --> 01:30:47.069
that. I don't know if you've gotten to that episode

01:30:47.069 --> 01:30:50.829
in the second season yet that this really, really

01:30:50.829 --> 01:30:54.590
is true. But like, oh, yes, that she does do

01:30:54.590 --> 01:31:04.420
that. Let's see. So Lisa says that. Heather,

01:31:04.420 --> 01:31:07.180
she doesn't really remember Heather from college,

01:31:07.260 --> 01:31:10.340
but what she does remember is that Heather was

01:31:10.340 --> 01:31:14.460
a good time girl. And she used to flash her titties.

01:31:14.460 --> 01:31:18.859
Like, okay. If you don't remember her, how do

01:31:18.859 --> 01:31:21.439
you remember that was my question. That and also,

01:31:21.600 --> 01:31:26.100
like, this is one of those things where, like,

01:31:26.100 --> 01:31:28.600
this was a weird fight to have for me. Like,

01:31:28.600 --> 01:31:31.520
if Heather flashed her tits, she flashed her

01:31:31.520 --> 01:31:35.020
tits. Like, whatever. like why did you say that

01:31:35.020 --> 01:31:37.760
on bravo though yeah like why did you do that

01:31:37.760 --> 01:31:41.000
it was weird um we meet mary cosby while she's

01:31:41.000 --> 01:31:43.779
getting ready to go to dinner with she's getting

01:31:43.779 --> 01:31:49.319
to dinner with whitney mary cosby dresses like

01:31:49.319 --> 01:31:52.800
a character from a storybook like i think she

01:31:52.800 --> 01:31:59.659
is a mythical creature i mean I'm all for it,

01:31:59.659 --> 01:32:04.420
to be honest. The closet is closeting. Closets.

01:32:04.560 --> 01:32:08.680
Yeah. Which are bedrooms. Yes. I think she's

01:32:08.680 --> 01:32:11.760
fabulous. I do. I just something about her was

01:32:11.760 --> 01:32:16.979
so off to me. She gives very disingenuous. I

01:32:16.979 --> 01:32:19.239
don't know if it's disingenuous. We'll get into

01:32:19.239 --> 01:32:21.699
this, but I think there's something there that

01:32:21.699 --> 01:32:24.199
like she needs to go to therapy for. I'm just

01:32:24.199 --> 01:32:25.800
going to say this, but like it's also connected

01:32:25.800 --> 01:32:29.739
to. Whitney tells us everyone in Salt Lake City

01:32:29.739 --> 01:32:31.699
knows the story about Mary and her step grandfather.

01:32:32.039 --> 01:32:35.439
And Mary has been married to her step grandfather

01:32:35.439 --> 01:32:42.680
for 21 years because Mama Cosby, who is Mary

01:32:42.680 --> 01:32:47.039
Cosby's grandmother, before she passed, said

01:32:47.039 --> 01:32:51.060
to Robert Senior, when I die, I want you to marry

01:32:51.060 --> 01:32:52.720
one of my girls because they'll be good to you.

01:32:54.960 --> 01:33:04.329
Allegedly. I don't know. So the thing is, right,

01:33:04.510 --> 01:33:06.869
it's this whole shady situation, but they've

01:33:06.869 --> 01:33:10.329
been married now for 21 years. That's the part

01:33:10.329 --> 01:33:11.710
where I struggle with it a little bit because

01:33:11.710 --> 01:33:14.710
it's just like. At what point do I just accept

01:33:14.710 --> 01:33:16.989
what's happening? If you're happy, if you like

01:33:16.989 --> 01:33:19.670
it, I love it. My concern is, is that. They don't

01:33:19.670 --> 01:33:22.869
like it. She was trapped. Like, I feel like she

01:33:22.869 --> 01:33:27.539
was trapped in a marriage. My question from the

01:33:27.539 --> 01:33:31.760
very beginning is where was her mother? So that

01:33:31.760 --> 01:33:34.920
was the whole thing is. We do find out about

01:33:34.920 --> 01:33:38.180
this. Like the mom was mad that she didn't marry

01:33:38.180 --> 01:33:41.380
Robert senior. Oh, I do remember us getting into

01:33:41.380 --> 01:33:44.199
that, but I, and like the mom wanted to take

01:33:44.199 --> 01:33:46.319
the church and like, she like split off half

01:33:46.319 --> 01:33:48.659
the congregation. Like there's, we'll get into

01:33:48.659 --> 01:33:51.880
it. I do remember that now. The Bravo docket

01:33:51.880 --> 01:33:53.619
gets into this though, where like they, they

01:33:53.619 --> 01:33:56.300
do a deep dive into what happened with the mom

01:33:56.300 --> 01:34:03.039
and mama Cosby and everyone. the whole thing

01:34:03.039 --> 01:34:05.439
is we'll have to get into that a different time

01:34:05.439 --> 01:34:09.680
i can't even that is a lot um we go back to jen's

01:34:09.680 --> 01:34:12.539
house oh wait hang on so she's the first lady

01:34:12.539 --> 01:34:14.979
right she's the first lady of uh faith temple

01:34:14.979 --> 01:34:17.199
church that she inherited from her grandma i've

01:34:17.199 --> 01:34:21.520
been to churches like this this is i am uncomfortable

01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:23.699
with the church itself i'm just gonna tell you

01:34:23.699 --> 01:34:27.979
that like it gives a little culty from episode

01:34:27.979 --> 01:34:31.949
one yes yes it's like The crying, the speaking

01:34:31.949 --> 01:34:34.569
in tongues, like the whole thing. And like, if

01:34:34.569 --> 01:34:37.750
you believe it, great. I just feel like I'm not

01:34:37.750 --> 01:34:40.489
going to tell you that you shouldn't believe

01:34:40.489 --> 01:34:42.869
in something or you shouldn't go to church or

01:34:42.869 --> 01:34:47.289
you shouldn't. But as an outsider looking in,

01:34:47.470 --> 01:34:51.470
I'm uncomfortable. Yes. And then we go ahead

01:34:51.470 --> 01:34:56.050
first into there was a conversation between Jen

01:34:56.050 --> 01:34:59.399
and Mary where. Mary apparently said something

01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:02.680
smelled like hospital and she said Jen smells

01:35:02.680 --> 01:35:06.079
like hospital. She said. Oh, OK. OK. So she said

01:35:06.079 --> 01:35:10.739
Jen smells like hospital. But she knew that Jen

01:35:10.739 --> 01:35:13.500
had just come from visiting her aunt who had

01:35:13.500 --> 01:35:15.779
to get her leg amputated. Did she know that?

01:35:16.060 --> 01:35:20.960
Yes. OK. She admits to knowing that. OK. OK.

01:35:21.000 --> 01:35:23.760
Maybe I missed her saying she I thought she admitted

01:35:23.760 --> 01:35:26.609
to saying it. I didn't. Okay, the whole thing,

01:35:26.670 --> 01:35:29.250
this was also a wild fight. Like, this was one

01:35:29.250 --> 01:35:30.989
of those things where I'm just like, Jesus, God.

01:35:31.109 --> 01:35:34.710
I feel like they weren't one -on -one. They were

01:35:34.710 --> 01:35:37.970
at a dinner with other people. Don't tell someone

01:35:37.970 --> 01:35:40.189
they smell bad unless you're offering them perfume

01:35:40.189 --> 01:35:42.890
or deodorant. That's, okay, that's a good point.

01:35:42.909 --> 01:35:45.670
Don't say that. You smell like hospital. Like,

01:35:45.710 --> 01:35:48.729
okay, and here's the other thing. You're the

01:35:48.729 --> 01:35:52.710
first lady of a church. And you're going to shit

01:35:52.710 --> 01:35:57.170
on someone for smelling like hospital? I don't

01:35:57.170 --> 01:36:00.029
think Barry lives out a lot of the values sometimes.

01:36:00.189 --> 01:36:02.649
No. I'm just going to say that. But it's also

01:36:02.649 --> 01:36:05.550
like, I know that you're clocking what you're

01:36:05.550 --> 01:36:08.630
saying. You're on a stage once a week, every

01:36:08.630 --> 01:36:11.430
single week. Once a week minimum, by the way,

01:36:11.470 --> 01:36:16.069
probably twice. And I know that you're watching

01:36:16.069 --> 01:36:18.649
what you say and you just don't care. You said

01:36:18.649 --> 01:36:22.220
that to hurt her feelings. I just popped my neck

01:36:22.220 --> 01:36:24.840
and it was like the biggest release of like,

01:36:24.859 --> 01:36:30.220
Oh my God. So good. Um, anyway, anyway, we go

01:36:30.220 --> 01:36:31.579
back to Jen's house, but they're getting ready

01:36:31.579 --> 01:36:34.720
for the party. Um, Jen's walking around and like,

01:36:34.779 --> 01:36:36.920
I, I think I loved this about Jen in the beginning.

01:36:36.939 --> 01:36:38.340
And then I was just like, God, this would be

01:36:38.340 --> 01:36:39.859
grating if I had to be with her every single

01:36:39.859 --> 01:36:41.239
day. But she's walking around with one of those

01:36:41.239 --> 01:36:43.500
like reverb microphones and just like screaming

01:36:43.500 --> 01:36:47.720
into it. I know that if I were on her team, her

01:36:47.720 --> 01:36:51.680
Shaw squad of 18 assistants, I would want to

01:36:51.680 --> 01:36:55.880
die. I could not work for John. Sorry. I love

01:36:55.880 --> 01:36:58.979
her and I could not work for her. This is a question

01:36:58.979 --> 01:37:02.779
that comes up for me. And like, like even with

01:37:02.779 --> 01:37:04.899
the amount of money that was coming in that we

01:37:04.899 --> 01:37:07.180
know about now, how the fuck was she paying?

01:37:07.300 --> 01:37:09.500
She has like seven people working for her. How

01:37:09.500 --> 01:37:13.960
the fuck was she paying all them? No idea. Anyway,

01:37:13.960 --> 01:37:17.880
so they're getting ready for it. That would aggravate

01:37:17.880 --> 01:37:21.199
the ever loving fuck out of me. Heather's walking

01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:24.739
or Heather shows up and we find out that Coach

01:37:24.739 --> 01:37:26.399
Shaw doesn't know anything about the party. We're

01:37:26.399 --> 01:37:28.319
hiding things from her husband, which is not

01:37:28.319 --> 01:37:31.210
the this is not. The only thing that Jen's hiding

01:37:31.210 --> 01:37:34.229
from her husband. And it seemed so natural. She

01:37:34.229 --> 01:37:37.010
was like, what? I literally never know. Like

01:37:37.010 --> 01:37:38.989
she had done it a million times. She's like,

01:37:39.229 --> 01:37:42.569
oh, yeah. Anyway, they unpack the good time girl

01:37:42.569 --> 01:37:47.890
comment and Heather gets triggered. And then

01:37:47.890 --> 01:37:50.770
and then this is like this is the first time

01:37:50.770 --> 01:37:54.029
we hear about. A recurring theme that comes up

01:37:54.029 --> 01:37:57.189
where Lisa is very dismissive of Heather and

01:37:57.189 --> 01:38:01.050
also Whitney, like very like whatever. Like they

01:38:01.050 --> 01:38:03.289
don't like she for some reason doesn't want to

01:38:03.289 --> 01:38:05.689
be associated or something. Yes. Yeah. It's weird.

01:38:05.850 --> 01:38:14.220
I don't know. Oh, yeah. And then Seth, Seth,

01:38:14.520 --> 01:38:18.199
Seth Marks, Meredith Marks, his husband can't

01:38:18.199 --> 01:38:22.720
be in Utah for her birthday. And so he has Brooks

01:38:22.720 --> 01:38:25.960
setting up roses and candles for Meredith's birthday.

01:38:26.819 --> 01:38:34.460
And it is hard to watch. It is hard to watch.

01:38:35.319 --> 01:38:37.500
It looks like there's a coffin on the coffee

01:38:37.500 --> 01:38:43.210
table. That's one. Yeah. I hate, I hate, hate,

01:38:43.229 --> 01:38:45.829
hate, hate, hate the idea of like rose petals

01:38:45.829 --> 01:38:48.329
because I feel like, oh, it's beautiful in the

01:38:48.329 --> 01:38:49.909
moment, but then it's like, who the fuck's going

01:38:49.909 --> 01:38:53.729
to clean this up? They have cleaners. There's

01:38:53.729 --> 01:38:55.829
no way Meredith Marks is cleaning that house.

01:38:55.829 --> 01:38:57.029
Oh, they never, she's never cleaned a day in

01:38:57.029 --> 01:38:58.270
her life, but I'm just like, just the logistics

01:38:58.270 --> 01:39:00.609
of it for me. I'm like, I don't want to, I don't

01:39:00.609 --> 01:39:02.489
want this shit everywhere. Can I be, I don't

01:39:02.489 --> 01:39:04.689
like the smell of rose either. It's like very

01:39:04.689 --> 01:39:07.130
popular in like perfumes and stuff. I know that,

01:39:07.189 --> 01:39:09.090
but I don't like that smell. I could do without

01:39:09.090 --> 01:39:13.229
it, yeah. Um, yeah, she's 48. She's turning 48,

01:39:13.350 --> 01:39:16.350
but she lies about her age as she should. She

01:39:16.350 --> 01:39:19.029
still doesn't look 48 years old as we're recording

01:39:19.029 --> 01:39:21.970
this. So she said that if she like when she lies

01:39:21.970 --> 01:39:24.529
about her age, she says she's 35. I also say

01:39:24.529 --> 01:39:28.510
that I am 27. So God bless. I think it's beautiful

01:39:28.510 --> 01:39:30.649
to lie about your age. When someone asks how

01:39:30.649 --> 01:39:32.270
old you are, you should really tell them how

01:39:32.270 --> 01:39:34.529
old you feel. I ask people, how old do you think

01:39:34.529 --> 01:39:37.529
I am? Kenny does that too. I love that game.

01:39:38.029 --> 01:39:40.289
I think once you turn 30, you start doing that.

01:39:40.409 --> 01:39:46.649
I love to watch him squirm. But I would have

01:39:46.649 --> 01:39:49.149
bought that she was in her very early 40s, 100%.

01:39:49.149 --> 01:39:53.649
Yeah. And she has not aged since season one.

01:39:53.689 --> 01:39:56.090
If anything, she looks younger now. I think so,

01:39:56.149 --> 01:39:59.149
yeah. She's had good work done. If she has had

01:39:59.149 --> 01:40:03.090
work, I don't know. Mama. I worship the girl

01:40:03.090 --> 01:40:07.520
she walks on. Let me have it. We get to the party.

01:40:08.859 --> 01:40:11.039
I'm not mad about the shirtless men running around

01:40:11.039 --> 01:40:12.819
this party. I thought I thought that was a nice

01:40:12.819 --> 01:40:16.000
touch. I love it. Heather looks gorgeous as she's

01:40:16.000 --> 01:40:19.579
walking up. She talks about the alcohol situation

01:40:19.579 --> 01:40:21.779
in Utah where Mormons, I guess, will hide in

01:40:21.779 --> 01:40:23.840
a corner and drink. And like, it's a whole thing.

01:40:23.840 --> 01:40:25.619
We watch The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. We

01:40:25.619 --> 01:40:30.340
know they be drinking. Right. But like. We'll

01:40:30.340 --> 01:40:32.000
get into this eventually, but I'm like, who are

01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:33.140
you pretending for? They love to drink, and then

01:40:33.140 --> 01:40:35.939
they also love to do a performative mocktail.

01:40:36.159 --> 01:40:39.760
Yeah. It's so weird. Anyway, yeah. This girl,

01:40:39.800 --> 01:40:43.319
Sarah, walks in, and she was 100 % supposed to

01:40:43.319 --> 01:40:46.720
be on the show, but a fun fact, she was at January

01:40:46.720 --> 01:40:50.659
6th. She was? Yeah, the girl, the one that comes

01:40:50.659 --> 01:40:54.020
in going, happy birthday, like that girl, she

01:40:54.020 --> 01:40:58.010
was at January 6th. Ew! I'm glad they kicked

01:40:58.010 --> 01:40:59.869
her off the show. Well, because there are several

01:40:59.869 --> 01:41:02.710
scenes that they filmed. She filmed with Whitney.

01:41:02.750 --> 01:41:04.729
I think they were they were set up to be like

01:41:04.729 --> 01:41:07.770
best friends in the show. But like and you could

01:41:07.770 --> 01:41:09.649
tell they scrambled at the last minute to get

01:41:09.649 --> 01:41:11.029
her cut out of the show because like they talk

01:41:11.029 --> 01:41:13.270
about her for a part of the reunion. Talking

01:41:13.270 --> 01:41:18.350
about. Yeah. Lisa shows up. Her hair always looks

01:41:18.350 --> 01:41:22.310
incredible. She's stunning. Incredible. Whitney

01:41:22.310 --> 01:41:25.720
shows up and. I like Whitney. Let me say this.

01:41:25.739 --> 01:41:30.479
I like Whitney, but like. She has two very different

01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:33.439
aesthetics, like it's pretty. Her face card is

01:41:33.439 --> 01:41:36.300
insane. She's beautiful. She has a stunning face.

01:41:36.399 --> 01:41:38.460
She's gorgeous. But like, I think she had a hard

01:41:38.460 --> 01:41:40.020
time with the hair in the beginning because like

01:41:40.020 --> 01:41:44.689
that short. hair yeah and like her outfits are

01:41:44.689 --> 01:41:46.670
questionable from time to time but also she has

01:41:46.670 --> 01:41:49.109
a killer body oh my god it would kill she's like

01:41:49.109 --> 01:41:52.130
so just like stunning with no clothes on that

01:41:52.130 --> 01:41:54.430
it's like whatever girl do what you gotta do

01:41:54.430 --> 01:41:55.630
she's so hot when she's like wearing leggings

01:41:55.630 --> 01:41:59.270
and a little sports bra i'm like god damn i didn't

01:41:59.270 --> 01:42:01.090
love the look that she walked up with i'll just

01:42:01.090 --> 01:42:04.069
no she has many questionable fashion choices

01:42:04.069 --> 01:42:07.899
i won't give you that right um Meredith and Brooks

01:42:07.899 --> 01:42:10.359
roll up looking great and Meredith goes, this

01:42:10.359 --> 01:42:12.659
was never for me. This party was never for me.

01:42:13.260 --> 01:42:17.939
Oh, and we knew that. We watched Jen plan this

01:42:17.939 --> 01:42:20.319
thing and she did not mention Meredith not a

01:42:20.319 --> 01:42:22.520
once. Well, the producer was like, what do Tongan

01:42:22.520 --> 01:42:24.979
dancers have to do with Meredith? And Jen goes,

01:42:25.100 --> 01:42:34.439
nothing. Nothing. So, I love that. Heather's

01:42:34.439 --> 01:42:36.460
eating a meatball on a stick and I love that.

01:42:37.050 --> 01:42:40.810
I love a good meatball. I would have had 60 of

01:42:40.810 --> 01:42:46.609
those things. Jen comes out with a three foot

01:42:46.609 --> 01:42:50.050
tall birthday cake and the guy that pops out

01:42:50.050 --> 01:42:52.210
of the birthday cake. I was super into that guy.

01:42:52.710 --> 01:42:54.930
Well, you can't have an ugly guy pop out of a

01:42:54.930 --> 01:42:59.449
cake. Well, that's fair. Jen pulls Mary aside

01:42:59.449 --> 01:43:03.090
to talk about the hospital smell comment and.

01:43:04.779 --> 01:43:07.079
Apparently, Mary had to get all of her odor glands

01:43:07.079 --> 01:43:10.199
removed and they lost her on the table twice.

01:43:10.340 --> 01:43:12.960
And that's why the smell is so triggering to

01:43:12.960 --> 01:43:19.439
her. OK, so let me just say this. Almost everyone

01:43:19.439 --> 01:43:23.359
who's been to a hospital has a bad relationship

01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:26.800
with hospitals. Sure. They're not. It's not a

01:43:26.800 --> 01:43:30.300
fashion mall. It's not like, oh, my God, you

01:43:30.300 --> 01:43:32.880
smell like Brooks Brothers. One time I got shot

01:43:32.880 --> 01:43:36.060
in a Brooks Brothers. No, the hospital is where

01:43:36.060 --> 01:43:39.899
you go for horrible, horrible things. OK, so,

01:43:40.060 --> 01:43:43.180
yeah, no one likes to smell and no one likes

01:43:43.180 --> 01:43:49.060
a hospital. No, you're not special, Mary. The

01:43:49.060 --> 01:43:53.020
whole thing to me was like. I wish Mary just

01:43:53.020 --> 01:43:54.359
would have been like, yeah, I said it. Like,

01:43:54.359 --> 01:43:56.539
it was a weird comment. Whatever. The fact that

01:43:56.539 --> 01:44:00.060
this spanned an entire fucking season, like.

01:44:00.479 --> 01:44:03.539
It comes back over and over and over. And if

01:44:03.539 --> 01:44:06.060
she would have just said, I shouldn't have said

01:44:06.060 --> 01:44:08.560
that. I'm sorry. Whatever. Just at any point.

01:44:08.680 --> 01:44:11.800
Yeah. But she has to make it about her. Yes.

01:44:11.819 --> 01:44:14.340
Which is a huge problem I have with Mary. By

01:44:14.340 --> 01:44:17.140
the way. Everything's about Mary. Okay. That's.

01:44:17.380 --> 01:44:20.369
You're not wrong. by the way what by the way

01:44:20.369 --> 01:44:23.829
so does jen but like oh for sure and that's why

01:44:23.829 --> 01:44:25.649
i feel like this goes on for so long because

01:44:25.649 --> 01:44:29.289
a normal person would see mary not apologize

01:44:29.289 --> 01:44:32.850
for saying something horrible and be like okay

01:44:32.850 --> 01:44:35.550
but that's yeah like like at some point and this

01:44:35.550 --> 01:44:37.109
is something that jen's incapable of we come

01:44:37.109 --> 01:44:40.270
to find out jen cannot just say oh she's not

01:44:40.270 --> 01:44:43.600
living in the same reality i am and You cannot

01:44:43.600 --> 01:44:46.060
just move on from that. What do you do? I do

01:44:46.060 --> 01:44:48.520
feel like sometimes Jen does that because she

01:44:48.520 --> 01:44:52.939
wants to preserve the realness of their relationship.

01:44:53.140 --> 01:44:55.840
She wants to be real friends. I see that with

01:44:55.840 --> 01:44:59.260
her and Heather in season two. I think she's

01:44:59.260 --> 01:45:01.180
like, well, I'm not going to forgive Heather

01:45:01.180 --> 01:45:03.000
until I hear what I need to hear because I want

01:45:03.000 --> 01:45:05.600
our relationship to stay the same. I want us

01:45:05.600 --> 01:45:10.699
to be on the same wavelength. But with Mary,

01:45:10.920 --> 01:45:13.479
you just got to be like Mary girl. I don't know

01:45:13.479 --> 01:45:19.020
what type of you're good girl. We don't have

01:45:19.020 --> 01:45:22.100
to be friends. I don't know. There was a woman

01:45:22.100 --> 01:45:23.920
named Carrie floating around the party that was

01:45:23.920 --> 01:45:26.819
so desperate to be on camera. And she comes up

01:45:26.819 --> 01:45:28.739
and confirms that Mary did, in fact, make the

01:45:28.739 --> 01:45:30.680
hospital smell comment. And Mary just goes, yeah,

01:45:30.760 --> 01:45:38.000
I said it. And you smell like that, too. thought

01:45:38.000 --> 01:45:42.520
it was so funny just so that you're sorry yeah

01:45:42.520 --> 01:45:46.479
i so that and then we move on to this and this

01:45:46.479 --> 01:45:48.039
is probably one of my favorite comments from

01:45:48.039 --> 01:45:49.739
the entire season i'm gonna read it right um

01:45:49.739 --> 01:45:53.140
this all feels ridiculous to me and mary proceeds

01:45:53.140 --> 01:45:55.420
to get into a confessional and say i don't know

01:45:55.420 --> 01:45:57.279
what you want me to do about your aunt her legs

01:45:57.279 --> 01:45:59.420
are gone why are you getting your legs cut off

01:45:59.420 --> 01:46:02.380
at 60 that means your diet's bad you know it's

01:46:02.380 --> 01:46:04.380
just like she's not she didn't eat right like

01:46:04.380 --> 01:46:10.779
drink water This wasn't about the aunt. You didn't

01:46:10.779 --> 01:46:13.899
even have to bring that up. I'm so glad she did,

01:46:14.020 --> 01:46:18.439
though. I'm so happy she did. When she was saying

01:46:18.439 --> 01:46:23.380
that, I was like. I remember this clear as day.

01:46:23.420 --> 01:46:25.819
Like, I can see in my brain her saying that because

01:46:25.819 --> 01:46:30.680
I was like, Mary. I forgot that this scene happened.

01:46:30.739 --> 01:46:34.199
And I was like, oh, this is why Mary got cast

01:46:34.199 --> 01:46:38.630
on the show. Yeah, this is it. She'll say anything.

01:46:39.189 --> 01:46:41.909
Her diet's bad. Her diet's bad? Why are you getting

01:46:41.909 --> 01:46:46.329
your legs cut off at 60? What? Mary! What? Mary,

01:46:46.409 --> 01:46:48.529
you have to get all your odor glands cut out.

01:46:48.689 --> 01:46:51.109
Mary, meanwhile you're married to your step -grandfather.

01:46:52.149 --> 01:46:57.420
Grasshouse Mary! Oh, my God. And then we get

01:46:57.420 --> 01:46:59.840
this thing that becomes a recurring theme with

01:46:59.840 --> 01:47:01.979
Jen going into like the end of the episode where

01:47:01.979 --> 01:47:04.500
she storms off and it's like this hulking out

01:47:04.500 --> 01:47:07.220
like, don't disrespect my family. And I'm like,

01:47:07.300 --> 01:47:13.239
she's a crash out. Yes, she just is. I love her

01:47:13.239 --> 01:47:15.920
or hate her. Jen is good TV, but like there is

01:47:15.920 --> 01:47:19.199
there is like it always feels like you're probably.

01:47:19.949 --> 01:47:22.010
so stressed out being around her. Cause it's

01:47:22.010 --> 01:47:23.689
like, Oh my God, when is she going to start screaming?

01:47:23.770 --> 01:47:27.250
When is she going to start screaming? Yeah. So

01:47:27.250 --> 01:47:29.489
that brings us to the end of the first episode

01:47:29.489 --> 01:47:31.729
and we get a to be continued, um, at the end

01:47:31.729 --> 01:47:33.869
or well in the middle of Meredith's party. But

01:47:33.869 --> 01:47:36.069
my question for you is who would you want to

01:47:36.069 --> 01:47:39.750
be friends with from the first episode? Me? Yes.

01:47:40.829 --> 01:47:45.850
So first episode alone, Lisa Barlow. Okay. I

01:47:45.850 --> 01:47:49.810
loved her. And I was like, Yes, give the Mormons

01:47:49.810 --> 01:47:52.670
tequila. I love that. Yes, have your little boys.

01:47:52.909 --> 01:47:56.970
And also, isn't the first episode when they went

01:47:56.970 --> 01:47:59.310
through like three different drive -thru fast

01:47:59.310 --> 01:48:03.010
food places to get food for everyone? Okay, we'll

01:48:03.010 --> 01:48:04.869
talk about that when we get there. Because I've

01:48:04.869 --> 01:48:07.470
done that before too. I'm obsessed with Lisa

01:48:07.470 --> 01:48:12.029
Barlow. Like from episode one. Loved her. Who

01:48:12.029 --> 01:48:18.029
would you want to be friends with? I think. also

01:48:18.029 --> 01:48:21.670
lisa yeah i i really really don't like her now

01:48:21.670 --> 01:48:24.130
but i i go back and forth with her i think she'll

01:48:24.130 --> 01:48:26.949
grow on me this coming season just from what

01:48:26.949 --> 01:48:31.670
i've seen like in in the news but i i think i

01:48:31.670 --> 01:48:33.050
would have been friends with lisa i think lisa's

01:48:33.050 --> 01:48:34.850
really cool and i also think she's probably super

01:48:34.850 --> 01:48:37.189
like fun to be around like just as friends like

01:48:37.189 --> 01:48:38.449
she's probably she probably has the greatest

01:48:38.449 --> 01:48:42.510
parties yeah she seems like very chill but also

01:48:42.510 --> 01:48:46.859
like She's not taking shit from anybody either.

01:48:47.380 --> 01:48:51.420
Like, I don't know. Love her. Love her. Dear

01:48:51.420 --> 01:48:54.039
listener, that brings us. I know this is kind

01:48:54.039 --> 01:48:56.939
of abrupt. We're only covering one episode today.

01:48:57.060 --> 01:48:59.779
We'll do two or three next time. But Emma has

01:48:59.779 --> 01:49:04.140
to go get Jack from school and I have to go take

01:49:04.140 --> 01:49:06.300
to the bed because I am tired and I need a nap.

01:49:07.060 --> 01:49:13.500
But. From Indy to Argentina and Australia, we

01:49:13.500 --> 01:49:17.779
love you, Emma. We love you so much. I'm so happy

01:49:17.779 --> 01:49:21.159
people in Australia are listening to us. Australia

01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:23.899
is definitely bestie approved, except for all

01:49:23.899 --> 01:49:28.520
the critters. Yeah, that's hard. But we love

01:49:28.520 --> 01:49:30.180
you so much. Thank you for listening. Thank you

01:49:30.180 --> 01:49:31.720
for being here. And we'll see you next week.