March 13, 2025 • 20 mins
A lot of us are dealing with a lot of disappointment. We chat about dealing with that, and the importance of shouting out the good things.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
one never told you protection by her radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour where it's a wine.
Except I don't have wine. Do you have wine any.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I wish if you had told me it was a wine,
I would have got.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Sorry, my bad, I did not plan this correctly.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh that's all right, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well it is a happy hour. And you know, we
love to sip on things as we are talking about
our woes or thoughts or whatever has been on our minds,
or sometimes sex in the city. But today, like I said,
it's a jin wine. And if you are partaking of anything,
do so responsibly. Be good to yourself and to your
body and to those around you. Annie, are you partaking
(00:54):
of anything? No, just war water, swarm water. Sometimes it's
got to be like that. It's got to be like that.
You are partaking of taking care of yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I am drinking on a diet doctor Pepper, not a sponsor.
But it is that cream soda one that I like. Yeah,
I know Annie hates it. And he made a face.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
She made a face that was visceral.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It was it was a lot of like a lot
of feeling came into that one. But also yes, again
not a sponsor. I doubt they would want to sponsor us.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Tried to sponsor once on Savor and we had to
be like, well, yeah, sure, are you open to one
of those actively hating it? To be fair?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I guess the new way they're transitioning it, it would work.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I think it would be funny.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, they don't like it on our segments. They
don't want us to be funny. We can't have personality.
What are you talking about, Annie?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah? These women no way funny.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What are you talking about anyway? Yeah, so today's happy hour,
I am going to have a moment of like, why
so just content warning, I am talking today's political issues,
not fully in depth because we're not going all into it,
but like just the theme or subject of us is
just disappointment, Like how do we get beyond this? Because
(02:23):
people that I trusted, people we have vouched for on Mike,
you know, like and then they come out doing things
that you're like, wait, what, but why Recently our state
senators voted in favor of the upcoming Secretary of Labor.
(02:44):
I don't understand, and I the amount of disappointment that
exudes because for a minute I thought they would at
least like not partake, But no, that they did, because
I have a feeling that has everything would like not
wanting to shut down the federal government, YadA, YadA, YadA.
And I'm sure maybe they have thoughts to this, But
(03:09):
why when we are in such a state of peril,
Just why? Of course, this also comes down to the
conversation of like, not necessarily, I do not idolize politicians.
Let's just go ahead and put that out there, because
I know too well, especially in the US, people like
to straddle defense. And it's really upsetting to see that.
(03:31):
You thought when you thought some people held to certain standards,
and then you see them not because they vote for
the interest of their pockets or for like preconceived ideas
of God. To play the game, I guess. And there's
been so much of that recently, so much of this
nonsense of trying to play the game in order to
(03:52):
appease everyone. So therefore they're making everybody angry, and especially
here in the state of Georgia. We talked about it
recently about John Ossoff. He's the next one to be
going through an election possibly being unseated here in the
state of Georgia, and we hear Marjorie Taylor Green is
the favorite favorite to run against him, and this is
(04:15):
not helping, This is not this is not helping seeing him.
He's also gotten some several stances of things that's happening
with Israel and Gaza that I found it very disappointing
as well. I know that he is a part of
the Jewish community, and I get a lot of this
conversation in that perhaps there's some confusion. I don't know.
(04:38):
I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not gonna explain things
away because I don't know this man. I thought we
agreed on most of the things and again we don't
have to like the morality and the values for the
beginning of his campaign aligned and then it feels like
things are falling apart. And I don't know again if
this is my level of everything's the worse and I
(05:01):
hate it here type of mindset and I need to
back up. But I'm just trying to figure out and
listeners and Annie, how do we deal with these types
of disappointments outside of like, yes, we need to be
active and make sure that they understand we are unhappy
and that we need to vocalize it. We need to
come through and people are protesting. I love seeing the
(05:23):
Tesla take down. It's been really rewarding to see and
encouraging to see. But what do you do when it
feels like it's so out of control? Because if it
comes down to John Ossoff versus Marjorie Tayler Green, obviously
I'm gonna have to vote one way over the other
for the betterment of all of Georgia, society, humanity, however
(05:49):
you want to look at this. But at the same time,
I want him and the other people who are supposed
to be our voices, who are supposed to protect our rights,
to understand how severely disappointed we are and that you're
grifting because I've gotten how many texts from his campaign
and emails saying they need donations to fight against Trump,
but they're not fighting anything. So it seems I am
(06:15):
trying to figure out how do we handle this type
of disappointment.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's tough, it's difficult.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I feel like they really betrayed us. Well, he sound
like my mom at the beginning of those Well, Samantha.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I mean, I mean, it's true, and that's the whole
thing about, you know, holding your politicians accountable for what
they said, but things also change, and also I mean
how much can I hold them accountable? But also, no
one's doing what they said they were going to do
(07:00):
really right, So I think every I think right now,
everything is just a constant state of we don't know
what's happening here, even for politicians in some circumstances. So
I don't know, I have no good answer for that
other than yeah, making it known. This is not what
(07:23):
I wanted. That's not why I voted for you, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And I mean there's so many states like statuses that's
happening around the country. And again, I think I talked
about it in a previous Happy Hour about like this
chaos is the point. There's so much the things that
we are supposed to do as citizens and voters we did,
and it feels like it's coming back to bite us
(07:49):
because even the ones where we had victory, I'm not
seeing the victory. I'm not seeing that portion of them
standing up. Al Green, a presentative of al Green, really
did some kind of did what we wanted in that
like he was very vocal and very like no, we
do not respect this man. You know, we need accountability.
And then Democrats came about like, oh, calm down, this
(08:10):
is not appropriate. We need to be respectful, and then
forgetting like, hey, you know, this administration is literally taking
away the rights of a big chunk of the population
that voted for you, most of the people that voted
for you, and you're sitting here talk about being respectful
to a speech versus actually being appalled at the speech.
(08:34):
So it's just such an odd place to be that
when those who like we have touted that if you
do it the right way, if you do this in
this play, and if you vote, go out and vote
and let your voices be heard, then things will be
taken care of. But it has been far from that.
And of course when we talk about this like type
of administration that came in full force ready to implement
(08:58):
Christian nationalism, implement billionaires over the vast population and their citizens,
is a whole different story. It's this whole different conversation.
The fact that we are now on a human rights
watch list, you know, like it's all of these things.
I'm going back and forth about this disappointment because I
(09:18):
really am like, how do we gauge this, How do
we gauge this conversation? I am wanting to see my
family less and less. Of course I've been disappointed, and
I know they are disappointed in me. Like this goes
back and forth in that level and like to co
and see them right now. I'm scared because, like I said,
I feel like this could be the ruining of my
second family, my family because of this politics. I don't
(09:44):
want that to be. But if they come in touting
about how great a Musk is doing, I'm gonna fight
somebody verbally because that's definitely you're telling me everything I
need to know and how much you don't care about
me as a person, as a human and as your
adopted daughter you brought over here because you empathetically thought
I need to save the children from a different country
(10:09):
and bring him them here and then have them on
a green car till they were fourteen, Like so many
things that doesn't make sense and the level of disappointment,
and I'm trying to like like wade through to the
other side of like how do I get to this
point because again, even when we do things respectfully, it
doesn't feel like it's working. There's I know we're all
(10:34):
in the same state too, But my biggest question is
how are you going through this disappointment? Like, how are
you getting through it outside of just being angry and
trying to find a solution? Like personally, like it's I
I feel it. I feel it in everybody's conversation, and
everybody's just like willingness to go out. People want to stop,
(10:57):
like just the freeze, like everybody freezing in like anxiety
and fear and like just interacting is so palpable that
it's alarming. At the same time, it just makes me,
honest sleep a superpower. So I'm just trying to figure
(11:29):
out how are y'all doing? How are y'all surviving this? Annie?
Are you surviving? Well?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's something.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You have a visceral reaction to Dr Pepper that counts.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I still have reactions to things. There was a point
in time where I couldn't even get excited about the
Last of Us two, the second season because I was
too worried about politics. And now I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
No, it's I mean, it's tough. I feel like I
think all of us have really good days and really
bad days, and a lot of days that feel like
you're just in a haze than trying to get by
and maybe not look at the news that day because
it's just gonna change the next day and it's gonna
(12:21):
be worse or better and you don't know because it'll
change the next day again and you don't know. So
I'm surviving.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, I think that is the key. I will say so.
Listener Susie Hi, who also follows us on Blue Sky,
she wrote something about she's gonna tooot her own horn
because she did something and she's very proud of that,
and I'm like, yes, I think that's the that. I
don't know why. That was just a small post about
(12:48):
like how she feels accomplished and I love that. I'm like,
I think that's that's what I want to see more of.
I want to see more of the individuals who are
triumphanting over whatever that day and I am loving that.
I don't know why it gave me so much encouragement.
So Susie, if you're listening to this episode, which you
might not be, thank you. Like I like, I went
(13:11):
wiped in immediately. I'm like, yes, toot that horn, like
because it just felt like, Ah, I don't think we're
in such a bad headspace. And I say this about
myself as well, that feeling like I can do that
is a impossible be too much and ce not done enough,
(13:32):
like all of these things like I don't know, let
me see if I can think of something that I
could toot my own horn. I haven't heard that phrase
in a long time, so I appreciate that too, you know,
like we are, I think we're bringing out good content
even in this dreagery of a year. I think we're
doing some good content. I feel like we're doing some
informative conversations, we're looking at insights. We're doing a great
(13:54):
job in bringing both your personality and my personality into
this show, and that we are keeping true to it
no matter what is happening in the state of the world,
and hopefully we are balancing things out. I also am
very on edge about saying the wrong thing and feeling
like I might offend a group of people who are
(14:16):
already feeling ostracized. So I hope that's not the case.
And we just talked about sin of empathy, and we
were talking about like how they equate being queer as
being like overly sexual and polyamorous, all the things I
actually want ab out there that we don't think there's
anything wrong with that. If you're consenting adults living your
(14:36):
life and are happy, that is a beautiful thing. So
even if like that should have been part of that conversation,
but we were bypassing it because there's so much to
be said. But you know, in the back of my head,
I'm like, we do not. I hope for the most
part that everybody understands that when we are talking about
these types of conversations that it's not about shaming a
(14:58):
group of people that are just trying to live. It's
about shaming people who uses their own judgment as to
say what's right and wrong, and that's the only way
to be slash use it to take away people's rights,
which is awful. So all of those to say, is
this type of conversation that we're having, we want to
(15:20):
keep having it, And I think I think for the
most part we're doing a pretty good job and doing so.
So that's the way I think we can toot our horn.
Even though I did bring a bit of like, but
we could do this better. Apparently, I really can't do
that well.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Always looking for ways to improve to your horn.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Annie, what you got, Yes, let's see.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I mean I agree. I'll also say personally, at the
beginning of the year, I was like not, I didn't know.
I didn't know how we were going to continue to
do how I was going to continue to do it,
just because it's miserable. A lot of times I say
this from a very privileged place. I get to work
(16:11):
from home researching a thing. I was thinking to es
today about like previous jobs I had, and how I
prefer this one the most, so to put that out there.
But it does mean that you have to delve into
some things that you'd rather on some days be like why, why,
(16:32):
why do I have to do this? This is horrible?
Why are any of us doing this? But so I agree,
I think for me, I've also you know, I've hung
out with a lot of people. I've seen a lot
of people. I saw my mom last weekend, which was
(16:55):
a much less fraud experience for me than it is
for you. But it was really nice seen her forever
and I forgot I forgot how much I missed her.
Oh I'm getting a little teary about it. So I've
made I kept up with these relationships that actually kind
of died off when I was so stressed about the election.
(17:16):
It's funny how that works. But I've done that and
I've still still writing. I told you my fan fiction.
People are mad at me, but I'm that chapter is
almost done. If anybody happens to read it, I swear
to god, it is almost done.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I love it. People will probably come tuning in for
the first time. People coming from your fans like to
find you, and they found you.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I'm pretty sure that you know I'm an audio because
I accidentally write a lot of times at the end.
Thanks for listening, you know what. I like that.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm pretty good, buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
They might they might have translations on it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I have audio.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I love it audio readers. Yeah. I think that's that's
a really big conversation, like having friendships. Because I've been
slowly working my way into the public, into the like
actual environmental social places, I'm like, okay, I can do this.
I even instigated. Some of them are like, whoa, look
at me, trying to be all active. But yeah, I
(18:30):
think that's important because it feels you and I've already
talked about our struggles and trying to come back into society, yes,
especially now, and everything being as odd and feeling like
everything's extra work, like putting on appropriate clothes that's not stained.
You know, Am I wearing a stain hoodie? Yes? Do
(18:51):
I still love it?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
But yeah, I think that's part of the big thing.
And and for our listeners, please write in, please let
us know what you or how you navigate your disappointments,
because I know as vast especially right now, and I've
heard from We've heard from many of y'all talking about
how you've been disappointed in your politicians, as your local politicians,
your people who you really thought had your best best
(19:14):
interest and then they come out in a very unexpected way.
How do you navigate that? And then yeah, to your horn,
let us know what's going good and how you are
accomplishing things, because those are the stories we need as
a reminder that, yes, we're going to get past this.
It's going to take a minute, we're going to have
to go through some really dark things together, but in
that end we're going to come out. So yes, thank
(19:37):
you for letting me whine.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
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Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
one never told you protection by her radio.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And welcome to another happy hour where it's a wine.
Except I don't have wine. Do you have wine any.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I wish if you had told me it was a wine,
I would have got.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Sorry, my bad, I did not plan this correctly.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Oh that's all right, that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Well it is a happy hour. And you know, we
love to sip on things as we are talking about
our woes or thoughts or whatever has been on our minds,
or sometimes sex in the city. But today, like I said,
it's a jin wine. And if you are partaking of anything,
do so responsibly. Be good to yourself and to your
body and to those around you. Annie, are you partaking
(00:54):
of anything? No, just war water, swarm water. Sometimes it's
got to be like that. It's got to be like that.
You are partaking of taking care of yourself.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
I am drinking on a diet doctor Pepper, not a sponsor.
But it is that cream soda one that I like. Yeah,
I know Annie hates it. And he made a face.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
She made a face that was visceral.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It was it was a lot of like a lot
of feeling came into that one. But also yes, again
not a sponsor. I doubt they would want to sponsor us.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Tried to sponsor once on Savor and we had to
be like, well, yeah, sure, are you open to one
of those actively hating it? To be fair?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I guess the new way they're transitioning it, it would work.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
I think it would be funny.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, they don't like it on our segments. They
don't want us to be funny. We can't have personality.
What are you talking about, Annie?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Yeah? These women no way funny.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
What are you talking about anyway? Yeah, so today's happy hour,
I am going to have a moment of like, why
so just content warning, I am talking today's political issues,
not fully in depth because we're not going all into it,
but like just the theme or subject of us is
just disappointment, Like how do we get beyond this? Because
(02:23):
people that I trusted, people we have vouched for on Mike,
you know, like and then they come out doing things
that you're like, wait, what, but why Recently our state
senators voted in favor of the upcoming Secretary of Labor.
(02:44):
I don't understand, and I the amount of disappointment that
exudes because for a minute I thought they would at
least like not partake, But no, that they did, because
I have a feeling that has everything would like not
wanting to shut down the federal government, YadA, YadA, YadA.
And I'm sure maybe they have thoughts to this, But
(03:09):
why when we are in such a state of peril,
Just why? Of course, this also comes down to the
conversation of like, not necessarily, I do not idolize politicians.
Let's just go ahead and put that out there, because
I know too well, especially in the US, people like
to straddle defense. And it's really upsetting to see that.
(03:31):
You thought when you thought some people held to certain standards,
and then you see them not because they vote for
the interest of their pockets or for like preconceived ideas
of God. To play the game, I guess. And there's
been so much of that recently, so much of this
nonsense of trying to play the game in order to
(03:52):
appease everyone. So therefore they're making everybody angry, and especially
here in the state of Georgia. We talked about it
recently about John Ossoff. He's the next one to be
going through an election possibly being unseated here in the
state of Georgia, and we hear Marjorie Taylor Green is
the favorite favorite to run against him, and this is
(04:15):
not helping, This is not this is not helping seeing him.
He's also gotten some several stances of things that's happening
with Israel and Gaza that I found it very disappointing
as well. I know that he is a part of
the Jewish community, and I get a lot of this
conversation in that perhaps there's some confusion. I don't know.
(04:38):
I'm not I'm not gonna I'm not gonna explain things
away because I don't know this man. I thought we
agreed on most of the things and again we don't
have to like the morality and the values for the
beginning of his campaign aligned and then it feels like
things are falling apart. And I don't know again if
this is my level of everything's the worse and I
(05:01):
hate it here type of mindset and I need to
back up. But I'm just trying to figure out and
listeners and Annie, how do we deal with these types
of disappointments outside of like, yes, we need to be
active and make sure that they understand we are unhappy
and that we need to vocalize it. We need to
come through and people are protesting. I love seeing the
(05:23):
Tesla take down. It's been really rewarding to see and
encouraging to see. But what do you do when it
feels like it's so out of control? Because if it
comes down to John Ossoff versus Marjorie Tayler Green, obviously
I'm gonna have to vote one way over the other
for the betterment of all of Georgia, society, humanity, however
(05:49):
you want to look at this. But at the same time,
I want him and the other people who are supposed
to be our voices, who are supposed to protect our rights,
to understand how severely disappointed we are and that you're
grifting because I've gotten how many texts from his campaign
and emails saying they need donations to fight against Trump,
but they're not fighting anything. So it seems I am
(06:15):
trying to figure out how do we handle this type
of disappointment.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's tough, it's difficult.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I feel like they really betrayed us. Well, he sound
like my mom at the beginning of those Well, Samantha.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
I mean, I mean, it's true, and that's the whole
thing about, you know, holding your politicians accountable for what
they said, but things also change, and also I mean
how much can I hold them accountable? But also, no
one's doing what they said they were going to do
(07:00):
really right, So I think every I think right now,
everything is just a constant state of we don't know
what's happening here, even for politicians in some circumstances. So
I don't know, I have no good answer for that
other than yeah, making it known. This is not what
(07:23):
I wanted. That's not why I voted for you, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
And I mean there's so many states like statuses that's
happening around the country. And again, I think I talked
about it in a previous Happy Hour about like this
chaos is the point. There's so much the things that
we are supposed to do as citizens and voters we did,
and it feels like it's coming back to bite us
(07:49):
because even the ones where we had victory, I'm not
seeing the victory. I'm not seeing that portion of them
standing up. Al Green, a presentative of al Green, really
did some kind of did what we wanted in that
like he was very vocal and very like no, we
do not respect this man. You know, we need accountability.
And then Democrats came about like, oh, calm down, this
(08:10):
is not appropriate. We need to be respectful, and then
forgetting like, hey, you know, this administration is literally taking
away the rights of a big chunk of the population
that voted for you, most of the people that voted
for you, and you're sitting here talk about being respectful
to a speech versus actually being appalled at the speech.
(08:34):
So it's just such an odd place to be that
when those who like we have touted that if you
do it the right way, if you do this in
this play, and if you vote, go out and vote
and let your voices be heard, then things will be
taken care of. But it has been far from that.
And of course when we talk about this like type
of administration that came in full force ready to implement
(08:58):
Christian nationalism, implement billionaires over the vast population and their citizens,
is a whole different story. It's this whole different conversation.
The fact that we are now on a human rights
watch list, you know, like it's all of these things.
I'm going back and forth about this disappointment because I
(09:18):
really am like, how do we gauge this, How do
we gauge this conversation? I am wanting to see my
family less and less. Of course I've been disappointed, and
I know they are disappointed in me. Like this goes
back and forth in that level and like to co
and see them right now. I'm scared because, like I said,
I feel like this could be the ruining of my
second family, my family because of this politics. I don't
(09:44):
want that to be. But if they come in touting
about how great a Musk is doing, I'm gonna fight
somebody verbally because that's definitely you're telling me everything I
need to know and how much you don't care about
me as a person, as a human and as your
adopted daughter you brought over here because you empathetically thought
I need to save the children from a different country
(10:09):
and bring him them here and then have them on
a green car till they were fourteen, Like so many
things that doesn't make sense and the level of disappointment,
and I'm trying to like like wade through to the
other side of like how do I get to this
point because again, even when we do things respectfully, it
doesn't feel like it's working. There's I know we're all
(10:34):
in the same state too, But my biggest question is
how are you going through this disappointment? Like, how are
you getting through it outside of just being angry and
trying to find a solution? Like personally, like it's I
I feel it. I feel it in everybody's conversation, and
everybody's just like willingness to go out. People want to stop,
(10:57):
like just the freeze, like everybody freezing in like anxiety
and fear and like just interacting is so palpable that
it's alarming. At the same time, it just makes me,
honest sleep a superpower. So I'm just trying to figure
(11:29):
out how are y'all doing? How are y'all surviving this? Annie?
Are you surviving? Well?
Speaker 1 (11:36):
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
That's something.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
You have a visceral reaction to Dr Pepper that counts.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
I still have reactions to things. There was a point
in time where I couldn't even get excited about the
Last of Us two, the second season because I was
too worried about politics. And now I'm excited about that.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
No, it's I mean, it's tough. I feel like I
think all of us have really good days and really
bad days, and a lot of days that feel like
you're just in a haze than trying to get by
and maybe not look at the news that day because
it's just gonna change the next day and it's gonna
(12:21):
be worse or better and you don't know because it'll
change the next day again and you don't know. So
I'm surviving.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, I think that is the key. I will say so.
Listener Susie Hi, who also follows us on Blue Sky,
she wrote something about she's gonna tooot her own horn
because she did something and she's very proud of that,
and I'm like, yes, I think that's the that. I
don't know why. That was just a small post about
(12:48):
like how she feels accomplished and I love that. I'm like,
I think that's that's what I want to see more of.
I want to see more of the individuals who are
triumphanting over whatever that day and I am loving that.
I don't know why it gave me so much encouragement.
So Susie, if you're listening to this episode, which you
might not be, thank you. Like I like, I went
(13:11):
wiped in immediately. I'm like, yes, toot that horn, like
because it just felt like, Ah, I don't think we're
in such a bad headspace. And I say this about
myself as well, that feeling like I can do that
is a impossible be too much and ce not done enough,
(13:32):
like all of these things like I don't know, let
me see if I can think of something that I
could toot my own horn. I haven't heard that phrase
in a long time, so I appreciate that too, you know,
like we are, I think we're bringing out good content
even in this dreagery of a year. I think we're
doing some good content. I feel like we're doing some
informative conversations, we're looking at insights. We're doing a great
(13:54):
job in bringing both your personality and my personality into
this show, and that we are keeping true to it
no matter what is happening in the state of the world,
and hopefully we are balancing things out. I also am
very on edge about saying the wrong thing and feeling
like I might offend a group of people who are
(14:16):
already feeling ostracized. So I hope that's not the case.
And we just talked about sin of empathy, and we
were talking about like how they equate being queer as
being like overly sexual and polyamorous, all the things I
actually want ab out there that we don't think there's
anything wrong with that. If you're consenting adults living your
(14:36):
life and are happy, that is a beautiful thing. So
even if like that should have been part of that conversation,
but we were bypassing it because there's so much to
be said. But you know, in the back of my head,
I'm like, we do not. I hope for the most
part that everybody understands that when we are talking about
these types of conversations that it's not about shaming a
(14:58):
group of people that are just trying to live. It's
about shaming people who uses their own judgment as to
say what's right and wrong, and that's the only way
to be slash use it to take away people's rights,
which is awful. So all of those to say, is
this type of conversation that we're having, we want to
(15:20):
keep having it, And I think I think for the
most part we're doing a pretty good job and doing so.
So that's the way I think we can toot our horn.
Even though I did bring a bit of like, but
we could do this better. Apparently, I really can't do
that well.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Always looking for ways to improve to your horn.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Annie, what you got, Yes, let's see.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
I mean I agree. I'll also say personally, at the
beginning of the year, I was like not, I didn't know.
I didn't know how we were going to continue to
do how I was going to continue to do it,
just because it's miserable. A lot of times I say
this from a very privileged place. I get to work
(16:11):
from home researching a thing. I was thinking to es
today about like previous jobs I had, and how I
prefer this one the most, so to put that out there.
But it does mean that you have to delve into
some things that you'd rather on some days be like why, why,
(16:32):
why do I have to do this? This is horrible?
Why are any of us doing this? But so I agree,
I think for me, I've also you know, I've hung
out with a lot of people. I've seen a lot
of people. I saw my mom last weekend, which was
(16:55):
a much less fraud experience for me than it is
for you. But it was really nice seen her forever
and I forgot I forgot how much I missed her.
Oh I'm getting a little teary about it. So I've
made I kept up with these relationships that actually kind
of died off when I was so stressed about the election.
(17:16):
It's funny how that works. But I've done that and
I've still still writing. I told you my fan fiction.
People are mad at me, but I'm that chapter is
almost done. If anybody happens to read it, I swear
to god, it is almost done.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I love it. People will probably come tuning in for
the first time. People coming from your fans like to
find you, and they found you.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I'm pretty sure that you know I'm an audio because
I accidentally write a lot of times at the end.
Thanks for listening, you know what. I like that.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I'm pretty good, buddy.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
They might they might have translations on it.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I have audio.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I love it audio readers. Yeah. I think that's that's
a really big conversation, like having friendships. Because I've been
slowly working my way into the public, into the like
actual environmental social places, I'm like, okay, I can do this.
I even instigated. Some of them are like, whoa, look
at me, trying to be all active. But yeah, I
(18:30):
think that's important because it feels you and I've already
talked about our struggles and trying to come back into society, yes,
especially now, and everything being as odd and feeling like
everything's extra work, like putting on appropriate clothes that's not stained.
You know, Am I wearing a stain hoodie? Yes? Do
(18:51):
I still love it?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:52):
But yeah, I think that's part of the big thing.
And and for our listeners, please write in, please let
us know what you or how you navigate your disappointments,
because I know as vast especially right now, and I've
heard from We've heard from many of y'all talking about
how you've been disappointed in your politicians, as your local politicians,
your people who you really thought had your best best
(19:14):
interest and then they come out in a very unexpected way.
How do you navigate that? And then yeah, to your horn,
let us know what's going good and how you are
accomplishing things, because those are the stories we need as
a reminder that, yes, we're going to get past this.
It's going to take a minute, we're going to have
to go through some really dark things together, but in
that end we're going to come out. So yes, thank
(19:37):
you for letting me whine.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
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