Howdy, Neighbor

Episode Transcript

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Hey, imagine that, Two millennials doing a podcast to
avoid legalizing the purge. Yeah, probably because they
can't afford therapy. This is mostly true opinions.
Hey, mostly true opinions. I'm Cameron.

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That is KDK Comedy at KDK Comedyon Instagram, TikTok, Twitter X.
Technically, I don't post, I don't tweet.
And. What's the verb now for X?
It's not. Post, you post, but nobody, it's
everybody still calls it Twitter.
It's the camera, It's Cameron Lewis on Instagram.

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I change like I said the other week, I change it and I forget
it. And just own it, it's fine.
Yeah, it's Cameron Lewis. Me.
That's me. Hi, everyone.
Hi. Welcome to ANOTHER week post
Memorial Day. That was a couple weeks ago.
No, this last last week was our Memorial Day episode.

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Right, four score and seven years ago was Memorial Day
moving along. Did I say something wrong?
It was post Memorial Day. It was me after memorial anyway.
'Cause we had an episode come out right after memorial.
Oh, you're right already. So you're right, yeah.
Or double post or yeah, anyway, welcome.

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Hello. Hi.
It's good to have you here. I don't think I did I ever even
say that my Drybar comedy special was out on our own
podcast. You did.
But let's remind everyone yet again.
Well, it's fully out on the Drybar Comedy Plus app.
You can use code KDK to do a free trial, watch it and then

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Dealer's Choice if you choose tosubscribe and pay or bounce out
of there. There's a lot of great comics on
the app. There's also free clips on their
YouTube and my Instagram at KTK Comedy.
Their YouTube is Drybar Comedy and they've basically released

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like 10 minutes of the special in clips and then the full thing
will be out for free in a few months on YouTube.
I it's a great special and it's really fun.
They did a really good job with it.
You did a really good job with it.
I'm interested in watching more Drybar specials.

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Yeah. After I I was on the page today
kind of re watching some they have on there.
I really like it because it's it's a lot of people that you
would otherwise maybe not know. Like if you go on Netflix and
scroll through comedy specials, it's like Kevin Hart.
Ellie Wong. You know what I mean?
Like these massive people who are selling out arenas.

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I think it's really cool to do. It reminds me of what Comedy
Central used to do more of. Yeah, with their half hour
specials. And I just saw they posted a
clip of Jay Leno on some podcasts saying he really likes
to watch dry bar specials because it's clean humor.
And he said he's he's he doesn'thave anything wrong with non

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clean humor, but he finds when you have to be clean, people are
more creative and tell a better story.
And So what I'm trying to say isJay Leno approved.
Sure, you're special. Uh huh.
I'm sure he would approve this message.
Yeah, I think so. Mm hmm.

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Anyway, we had our our big housewarming party.
We did. At the new place Most common
thing I heard. How long have you been in the
house? 3 weeks.
What? I would still be in boxes.
Yeah. I thought that was really nice.
It, yeah, it was a nice compliment and then a couple of

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our friends that feel more comfortable were like, you're
fucking insane and you should becommitted.
And William, one of our friends said you're such a Capricorn ass
bitch that it's already done, everything's done.
And 'cause he's been really busywith a new job.

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And one of my last texts to him was, hey, I'm living with my mom
for a couple weeks. I'm closer to you if you want to
grab dinner. My next text to him was, hey,
wanna come to our house warming.And he's like, what the fuck?

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I thought you were living with your mom.
You bought a house and you movedin and you're doing a house
warming. And I was like, oh, yeah, sorry.
And he's like, I missed a chapter.
But I'm like, listen, I'm not going to put out a press release
to my friends when I when we bought the house.
Like if we hung out with people in person, I will tell them, but

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I'm not going to text all of my friends and say we bought a
house. It just feels ostentatious.
I agree. I'm not going to do a press
release about it and like sound the alarms.
I didn't even like cause a few of our close friends knew that
we were were moving and knew that we found a place and a

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couple of them asked to see it. I didn't even like.
Sending the link. Sending the link.
But here's the thing. Because it could be the
shittiest lowest price house ever or the most expensive it
still feels. Weird to send the link, but
here's my thing. I get that and I feel weird
about it too, but they're going to look it up anyway.

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You're. Right.
Just as we would. You're totally right.
We would absolutely sleuth find the address from the invitation,
Zillow it and figure out photos price because we're nosy
bitches. 10,000. Percent.
So I would rather just send you the link I like with nice photos

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and cut you like or save you some time and some sleuthing
because if we're close enough friends that I'm sending you the
link, then that's OK. If we're not that close, what
are you doing inside of me? Yeah, I agree.
We have. We would do that.

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We have done that. I'll do it again.
You know. I'm doing it right now.
One of the most fascinating things in the world, and I think
that's why HGTV is such a success.
People love looking at other people's houses, people.
'S houses, yeah. I This is why the TV show came
we came up with a few weeks ago is going to be a smashing

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success. I don't even think HGTV deserves
it. So you want a private network?
I want I'm going straight to Netflix, I think.
Speaking of, there's another season of The Circle we have to
watch. Do people still like that show?
I don't know, but they don't deserve my viewership because
they didn't cast me as part of the cast.

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Yeah, I think it's past its prime anyhow.
I don't know if it had a prime. Do you know anyone that's like I
love the circle the. First couple seasons, yeah, but
then I think it started getting kind of old.
I think it really did well during COVID.
Because everyone was isolated so.
That was the choice. Wow, we're all isolated
technically. I also saw that they put out the

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cast for the new Bachelorette season today.
Yeah, does not. I'm still I, I'm.
I don't think I'm ever going to watch that those shows again.
I think once you're in it, you're in it.
And once you're out, you're it'scold Turkey because I'm out.
And I saw all over Tiktok the announcement of the new guys for
her season and I felt nothing. I wasn't getting FOMO like I

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wish I was watching or I wish I cared.
I was like, oh God. Yeah, I'm kind of over it.
Nothing against her. It's not.
I haven't watched for a few seasons to clarify because I
want to clarify because she's the first Asian Bachelorette and
a lot of people thought it should have been someone else
from the season or whatever and that they liked other people

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better for the role, blah blah blah.
I don't. I'm not invested in any of them
'cause I also didn't watch last season of Bachelor.
I didn't watch The Bachelor. I haven't watched in a couple
seasons. So I'm not all out because I
don't agree with her. I'm all out because the the show
is boring now. Yeah, it really, I think when we
started watching Love Island, itmade it seem so much worse.

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I think her name is Jen. Well, congratulations to Jen.
Yeah. But also there was like they're
already making it. I don't know, they're already
making it weird because the TikTok I saw was like there's
only one Asian guy on her seasonbut it's like but she.

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Also may have told. What if she said that her type
was white? Nerdy guys.
Exactly. We don't know what her type.
Is. You can't pick it apart that
way. So people are already making it
weird or like they're, I mean, sure.
Should there be more diversity in Bachelor Nation?
Duh. Yeah, but I think.
The beginning of time. I think the stronger argument

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there is the actual contestant like the Bachelor or The
Bachelorette being like, let's choose somebody diverse as in
terms of who they're courting. That's most likely completely up
to them, You know what I mean? No, it's not up to them.
Producers decide every. I know, but you just you're

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countering your own point then, because she might have said that
her preference was. But I'm saying like I could
totally see ABC being like, well, I don't care what your
type is, we have to fill a quota.
Yeah, that's true. Like the network gets the final
say. That's true.
I don't know it's. All either way, I'm not
watching. Yeah, we're not watching.

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I also maybe watch Bachelor in Paradise even though I won't
know who anyone is so maybe I won't I.
Will borderline watch just for the intro to that show 'cause I
love the song Almost Paradise. We're knocking on heaven's door.
OK, stuff. Almost Paradise.

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You Can't Sing it without finishing it.
It's one of those, you know, Oh, I tried to harmonize.
It didn't work. It really didn't.
Oh my God. Oh wait, I have one more thought
about the house warming party. But real quick there's this

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nerdy guy in his like 50s I found on TikTok.
I'll have to look him up later and see what his name is.
He just records himself in his car singing harmony.
As to songs, it's so good. OK.
But it's like it does not feel like it should be coming out of
this man's body. How your algorithm is?

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Fascinating. I agree.
It's so diverse and you know, each week it gives me something
different. It's freestyle swing dancing,
pressure washing. 91 year old grandpas in the UK that taste
American food love that guy. And you know old clips of whose

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line isn't. Anyway, I'm trying to see if I
can quickly find the guy but. You know what we should do right
now? What, Since we're not recording
video on our phones? What?
Tell me the first four things onyour 4U page like the first four
videos. Real quick, the guy's name is
Jeff and his handle is at Frankie dot J .224.

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OK. He has.
I'm sure everyone listening is running to their phones.
I know you're never going to wake up.
I got to give up. Wait for.

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It. Is that good?
It's so satisfying. Hold on, I have.
First of all, I have goosebumps.Second of all, say his handle

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again, because you, if you're listening to this, I urge you to
go. You have to look him.
Up on TikTok, this man, his voice does not match his face.
His face at Frankie Frank IE dotJ .224 Wait one more.
How many followers does he? Have he has 300,000?

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This is a good one. It'll tell you baby, it was easy
coming. Back, back into harmony.

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It scratches my brain. So I'm telling you, I can listen
to this shit all day. Hold on.
That's so good, his. Handle is Frankie whatever, but
his name is Jeff, Yeah. What?
I don't get it. Wait one more.

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I love you, Jeff. What made you?
Start posting I wonder. Good for him 300,000 These are
the people that deserve all the followers and not some like
rando that. Oh God OK ready first four
things my for you page yes POV you let your indoor cat out and

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have never seen her happier I. Just got that on mine so it
feels like our phones are listening to each other.
A Nick Kroll stand up clip. OK.
Four new features coming to iOS 18.
These are two normal. A $1.00 head massage in
Malaysia. I'll keep going for a second.

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Pop goes musical theater. Espresso.
People look so cute wrapped around my finger.
I. Hate this.
That's really bad. And then that's another ad.
I don't know, this is just some guy.
I'm the first one that's watchedthis one.
I hate that on tik. T.O.K Oh my God.

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You know what I mean? She's.
Creepy. Oh my God.
And I always, for whatever reason, I have to find this.
It's in my I saved it somewhere.There's this old couple that is
now coming up on my For You page.
It's an old married couple who just constantly bitches at one
another. Yeah, I've seen them too.
You've seen them? Oh no, not them.

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Look, look, right there. This way, you bastard.
Honey, I can see the birds, I'm saying.
She punched him. This way, you bastard.
This way, you bastard. Alright, what's the first four
on yours? Oh monopoly go ad fuck that

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Monopoly go. Chipotle's CEO doing his
apology. Oh, right, OK, I've seen that go
around this week. Someone trying to find a man at
a bar that she got a video of tohave a love connection.
Interesting. How to get Kim Kardashian's

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lashes? I would love to know.
And someone doing an audio trendabout a podcast.
Bachelorette released the cast today too.
Yeah, TikTok shop that doesn't count, OK.
Oh, and Reiki energy healing. Oh, interesting.

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OK, I feel like these. Mine's pretty good.
Both of ours is pretty good. I think ours is very diverse.
That's what you know what? Like but I wonder.
It makes me suspicious of the people whose for you pages are
only like dogs Like. Do you have any other interests

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If your whole algorithm is only feeding you cute dogs, 'cause I
love a cute dog video. But if it's only dogs like are
you good? Right.
You should have other interests,some other interests, some other
interests. Anyways I get a lot of energy
healing Reiki and I'm surprised like astrology new moon thing

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didn't pop up. I'm very sorry as well.
There are 8 planets in alignmenttoday.
How many as we live and breathe?So all the planets, because
Pluto is no longer a planet, so all of them are aligned.
That feels dangerous. Yeah, and.

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For some reason. Yeah, it's a big manifestation
day. So how often does that happen?
Like, not a lot. Because that feels like it's
more rare than an eclipse. Would be and so she was saying
in her TikTok, like if you look up at the sky, you can kind of
see like. OK.
No, but like you know how some days the North Star looks

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brighter or the moon looks bigger?
And it's like Neptune or something.
Right. So wait, So what was she saying?
You can see the planets. She was just, I mean, not like
you can see each planet. That's what I.
Thought you were saying stars look bigger and it's actually
that we're in the right sight line now.

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I gotcha. OK, relax.
I gotcha. She wasn't like you can see any
planets from Earth. You know I've never.
Astrology fascinates me. I think I'm opening myself up
and becoming more woo woo over the last six months or so, and

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the woo woo part of astrology really interests me.
But people who can memorize and spot constellations, I'm like,
how in God's name do you fuckingdo that?
It's cool. I can occasionally spot the Big
Dipper. That is it.

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A constellation tattoo would be cool.
Yeah, I've thought about cuz I have like some freckles and.
Connecting them. Yeah, I've thought about doing
that. Like, I think I have the Big
Dipper somewhere, you know? Yeah, but I think that's crazy
cuz there's some people who are like, really scarily good at it.
Yeah. And there used to be that app,
I'm sure it still exists, where you can put your phone up in the

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sky and it'll show you like where they're at.
Mm Hmm, I think that's pretty cool.
Thank God for phone apps. Yeah, real quick, back to the
house warming party. OK, I had one thought from it.
OK. I think I'm getting more social

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anxiety the older I get. OK.
And it's about one particular thing.
OK. Not the act of socializing, but
the act of beginning to socialize.
I'm realizing this and it's all surrounding introductions.

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Oh. Yeah.
There's several things about introductions in a social
gathering that make me uncomfortable.
But you're not giving the peopleyou're introducing enough credit
they can handle. It's not.
It's not that I'm discrediting anyone.
It's that, for example, there was a group of five people that

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came to our house warming party.I knew all of their names but
then when I had to introduce them to one person I started
like stumbling all of their names and the second I started.
Did you get them wrong? I didn't but the second I
started stumbling on the first one I started getting anxiety

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and then messed up. I didn't get them wrong, but I
was like, oh, this is Jeremy andthat's Katie and that is Robert.
And that like I felt like it took me longer because I was
nervous and then I felt self-conscious about it.

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But my least favorite thing, I don't, I don't mind when people
like if I don't know a person, of course we're going to get to
know one another. I don't.
I don't care if you ask me questions, but my least favorite
question is how do you know so and so?
People are just trying to connect the dots.
I totally get it and I I do not fault anybody.

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I'm not. I'm not coming at this point
from a place of judgement. I totally get the question but
it makes me uncomfortable when Ianswer for some reason because I
feel like am I misrepresenting our friendship?
You know what I mean? I always go, I always go and the

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rest is history. That's a good.
Because it makes it sound romantic like, like my friend
William again, I we met at a stand up show and the rest is
history. Like, because it's it's
acknowledging that like we met in an arbitrary way and then we
became good friends. Like how you met really doesn't

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matter because then your good friends ten years later.
So like, who cares? So I think that like is an ode
essentially to yeah, we met in college and then the rest is
history of like we've been through a lot since then.
So it kind of isn't relevant anymore.

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I see what you're saying. So yeah, I don't know, like our
my other friend, she's, I'm like, yeah, we met in college
and she's like, yeah, we both happen to have Disney passes and
we went with mutual friends and the rest is history.
Like, you know, I don't know, but I haven't been to Disneyland
with her since college. So it's not like Disney defined

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our relationship. It's just we.
Have that's how we met that I think that's the aspect of it
that makes me a little uncomfortable.
Yeah. I and I hate that I'm even in my
head about it. I think it's.
The I I mean in the best way possible.
I think it's a you thing. Oh, it's totally amazing.
I don't think anyone else is thinking about it that hard.

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It's totally a me thing, but that's just like I realize.
That they're using it as a barometer for like it's almost
like a roundabout way of asking what the other friends do.
Like are they work friends or are they comedy friends or are
they your neighbor? Like they're just trying to
place them? Are they your family?

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You know, one thing I was reallyhappy about is nobody was like
judging the playlist because I just went on Spotify.
And by Spotify, I mean Amazon Music unlimited.
My employer and I put on like summer pool party 2024 and then

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we just didn't think about it. But there's a lot of times when
you're at social gatherings or parties or whatever that people
will be like, what are what are these songs like let's get
something like up here or let's go nostalgic.
I want to hear blah, blah. And it's like.
I did at one point consider curating a playlist.
Yeah, that's. And then I 2 minutes later was

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like I don't have the time for that.
I also would much rather be in the scenario where people
complain about it and then I canblame it on somebody else.
But I oh, I was like, oh, I justsearched this like I didn't
curate this. Yeah, so.
Not my taste, but. My mom was like, you know how to
throw a pool party? You've been planning like this
your whole life because we at one point in my childhood had a

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home with a pool in Arkansas andI had a lot of pool parties and
I would make a new burned CD. For each.
Pool party, and I literally wrote on them with a sharpie.
Pool party number one. Whole party #2 I don't know.
I would love if we could get some of those again.

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I like probably. But I would burn the CDs, I
would curate the playlist on iTunes and then I would do the I
would put it in the CD-ROM thingand burn the CD and make a new
CD for each party I had. You did it on iTunes.
Yeah, good for you. I wasn't.
You do Limewire. I grew into Limewire after I

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figured it out. I didn't know you could.
I didn't. I was a late bloomer to
Limewire, but I did iTunes 1st and then Limewire, Yeah.
So I transitioned into that. I found a couple, but this is
years ago. A couple old, like, burn CDs.
Yeah. And I was like this.
This was eclectic. And we had a six disc changer.

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Whoa. So I would put the newest one at
the top and then my other old pool party mixes would go below.
Wow, you had the fancy. Yeah, we did the fancy shit,
Yeah, and. Legally buying songs and six
disc changer. Yeah.
Wow. So I had my favorite thing about

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like, making those mixed CDs wasthat like every three or four
songs there was a song that was like, really shitty quality
because either you or the personthat made it for you downloaded
the wrong version of it on Limewire.
And it was like, so obviously not correct.
It's good stuff. Nostalgia, man.

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And riding on the CDs was like the best part.
Yeah. Yeah.
Playlists are are tough. They're stressful.
Well, yeah, no one commented on it.
I was happy. I was happy they didn't 'cause
that's another point of contention.
Then somebody's like, oh, give me your phone, I wanna click
some other songs or what, you know, right?
Don't, Don't be that person. Don't be that guy.

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Would you couple other things totalk about, Judy?
I wanted to note because we've talked on our podcast for
literal years about how much we hated our neighbors before.
Oh, right. Like, I hope that our neighbors,
our old neighbors choke, you know what I mean?
Like, oh, I don't wish them wellor I don't wish them harm.

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I do. I wish them harm.
They are awful. They're horrible, they're bad
for society. They're raising monsters.
Our realtor actually was like, Ithink you guys undersold it.
Yeah, you guys said it was bad. It was worse.
It was really bad when and she was only there for a couple two

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open house days. Total of 8 hours.
And she has children, she's birthed children and they're
grown up now. Multiple.
And she was like, yeah, it's it's bad.
She was like, I hope you don't get sued for selling the home
without disclosing this. Yeah.

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So we like sort of did disclose it.
We did in like the most. In like family friendly
neighborhood, yeah, we like disclosed it in a very positive
way. Yeah.
Anyways, so I don't feel any remorse about how I've painted
it because upon someone else seeing it for five seconds, they

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were like, Oh my God. Anyways, coming from that, we
have turned a new motherfucking leaf, OK?
We have reached a level of Nirvana that I didn't think was
possible. Not only do we like our

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neighbors, but we invited them to our house warming on a whim,
mostly as a heads up that we were having to get together.
Like as a courtesy. Because they're older and I
didn't want them to feel accosted by any sounds.
Even though we were having it atnoon on a Saturday.

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I thought, let's start off on a good foot.
Let's text them the day before, letting them know it's
happening, inviting them to pop in for a beverage or a burger.
Come on by whenever you'd like. Not only did they come by, they
brought a gift, a card, and theywere the bells of the ball,

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talking to all our friends, chatting it up with my mom,
chatting it up with your parents, and they were just
delightful. They were so sweet.
They're so they they walked in and they were talking like you.
Said going on and on about our home, it's.
So beautiful. You guys have done a great job,

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blah blah blah if you need anything at all blah blah blah.
Just I, I didn't think it was possible after the other place.
I really didn't. I didn't know if I had it in my
heart anymore. I thought I don't.
Blame you and I didn't know thatyou had it or hide it.

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I had it in my heart either. I thought I was ruined forever.
I also just thought that that was a thing of the past.
Like, I just thought I'd thought, oh, people don't, like,
have that relationship with their neighbors where they
borrow a cup of sugar. These are those neighbors.
Yeah. If we knocked on their door, I
mean, it's late right now, but tomorrow, 5:00 in the afternoon,

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if we knocked on their door and said, hey, we ran out of olive
oil, do you have any? They would absolutely give it to
us. Yeah.
I just, I I'm so, so happy with the neighbors.
Thank God, and they seemed like thank God you moved in because I

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think that I think the neighborsbefore us, they didn't love.
They're giving that I they won'ttalk shit, which is a good sign
I guess. Yeah, I think so.
Even though I want the tea. We'll get it eventually.
I think so. I think we'll get it.
But I made a comment of we're sohappy to have neighbors we love
finally. And she goes, oh, us too.

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Yeah. And so it makes me feel like
we've all been through something. 100% and and the the
the guy the husband had mentioned to, I think it was
your mom. Yeah, how he said.
I can just. I knew from the 2nd we met them
that it was going to be great. I can really tell that they're
from the Midwest. Oh, that's nice.

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They have those sensibilities. Yeah.
Just the sweetest. It's so funny.
My mom said that he was joking around and was like, so should I
give Katie a hard time about when she's going to have kids?
And my mom goes, oh, Nope, you're not going to want to make
that joke. And then the wife was apparently

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hitting him in the arm going, will you stop it?
No, that's none of your business.
Which first of all, go off, Queen, pop off.
We love to hear it. Thank you.
Keep going. And then my mom was like, yeah,
they're not, They don't, They'renot interested in that.

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And then he was like, oh, thank God I asked you first instead of
putting my foot in my mouth. So we've got that out of the
way. Thanks, Mom.
Shout out. Thanks for.
Thanks for doing the leg work. Yeah, so I didn't have to.
That's fine. I mean, it's funny 'cause it's
like you don't want a screaming child living next to you, do you
really? No, you know, I will say.

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None of our friends ask us anymore ever, about that.
Definitely not. Oh, by the way, Miley Cyrus said
today. No kids.
Hell yeah, Miley. No kids.
God, I knew I liked her. I love Miley Cyrus.
I've only I've only grown to love her more and more every

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day. I think she's amazing.
Yeah. Goes by the beat of her own
drum, does what she wants, doesn't give a fuck, but not in
a bad way. Yeah.
Not actively an asshole either. Right.
But this? This spurred conversation at
work today because Miley said this and then I basically echoed

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it to my coworkers. Did they know that about you
yet? Yes, 100%.
OK. But the one guy I work with was
like, yeah, you know, Cameron doesn't really want kids.
I want kids. And I said, I think it's
becoming more common. And he was like, I don't know, I
think that's, you know, your view or whatever.
But I think a lot of people, it's their journey and every

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single person I work with said they do not want children.
You work with a lot of women. All of the women, in fact.
Said no, Said no. Hell yeah.
And I, you know, we talk about it a lot on the podcast.
I have no issue with people thatwant children.

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I think it's just let's not stopignoring the elephant in the
room things. The tide is turning a bit.
Yeah. On that and just in general,
what like the American Dream looks like.
And the expectation for housewives?
Yeah. And so.
Harrison Butker, looking at you.Yeah.

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I think it Katy Perry posted a video today of re editing his
speech to be like supporting women.
It's really good. You should watch it.
It's like women have a bright future and.
Like they like she Frankenstein his.

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It's really good. OK.
It's really good. OK, well I want to get into it.
OK, before we go, we're not currently into it, I.
Want to get into it further? Deeper.
OK. Every now and then we'll do the
podcast and talk about somethingand we get nice messages all the

(35:44):
time from you listener. Thank you.
But every now and then we'll bring something up that sparks a
reaction, and I would say nine times out of 10, it's the
silliest shit I don't remember. What it?
Was I don't, yeah, I don't remember.
It was what it was the last couple of times.

(36:05):
It was the how many tabs is normal to have open?
And time before that, what to dowhen the cat pees on something?
Yeah. And so this is kind of a multi
leveled point, but I'd like to start by saying don't be
self-conscious when we talk about these things in detail

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because they are often the thingthat people have a reaction to.
OK. Which brings us to this week's
Mail Time. Welcome.
You, You, You, You got mail. You, you, you, you got mail.
Goodbye. You might remember on last

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week's episode of Mostly True Opinions, we discussed the
pronunciation of a word in the English language, that word
being. Aesthetic.
Aesthetic. And then we asked your parents.
I typed it out on my phone and Iasked them to pronounce it.
And your dad said it like me andyour mom said it like you.

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So we were no closer. Divisive.
Divisive. I'll give you my We've had a
week to think about it. I'll give you my thoughts after
I read a few messages. Let's start with Myra's.
Hi, I have a few things to tell you guys, but let's begin with
the word. Aesthetic.
Aesthetic. At first I thought Cameron was

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totally reaching, and after listening to Katie repeat the
word a few more times, I heard it.
Aesthetic To be completely honest, if Cameron hadn't
pointed it out, I wouldn't have noticed it.
But if the point is to solve this debate once and for all,
I'll have to take Cameron's side.
Sorry, Katie. What?

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What? Dead to me as you think.
You think aesthetic is not as jarring aesthetic?
Whatever, all that to say this there's a reason I started with
that message. Oh, 'cause you wanted to come
out hot. Eric, Yeah, Eric says.

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I love you Cameron, but Katie's 100% right with how she
pronounced aesthetic her you're.Still saying it wrong while you
read message. Yeah, 'cause I'm not gonna
change. Just say it right?
Her, Julian, the guy on YouTube that pronounced it, and the lady
you checked with all said it thesame way.
Julian was a little creepy though.
Everyone agrees with that, Nicole says.

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Cameron, I think deep down you know Katie and Julian are
correct with aesthetic. Love you guys, Alyssa says.
I've lost track of who said aesthetic and how.
You're still saying it wrong. Just say it right?
She says ask Ted Ick with the T being like the TNT.
But I think aesthetic with the TH is fine though.

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So she's kind of agreeing with me.
Either is correct. Like pecan Pecan.
OK. I think that's a pretty decent.
Argument. That's a pretty good comparison.
She says I never used the tomatotomato analogy because nobody
ever says fucking tomato. Hold on Pecan.

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Hold on pecan. Pecan, pecan, pecan.
I say pecan. Yeah, who the fuck says Pecan?
Some people say pecan pie. Well, those people are idiots.
Or pecan pie. No one says pecan.
You are. What?
Oh what you idiot, was what? Or yes, you were about to say

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you caught yourself. Because you're not an idiot.
I've never accidentally called you an.
Idiot. And I didn't.
Yeah, if someone on Tiktok was saying the same sentence as you
and they were a stranger, I would call them an idiot.
Oh, that's interesting. Listen you I didn't say it.
OK. David says on Instagram.

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In my household, we don't pronounce the age aesthetic.
OK, seems legit. Agreeing with me.
What do you mean it is legit? The most legit message?
We've gotten don't shit on him, I'm not gone and that's

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basically it, so. So how many were in favor of me
then? Four or five.
It was right down the middle. No, it wasn't, no.
Let me count one more time. Well, technically, I think
somebody was Switzerland. So I think we're tired because
there was Eric that agreed with you.

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There was Nicole that said she agrees with you.
Alyssa was in the middle. David agreed with me.
I don't. Think it's too much to ask for
someone to start their message with Team Cameron or Team Katie
so we can really clarify? I mean, I think it's pretty

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clear when they say in the message, I don't pronounce it
with the age. Fine.
You know. Sure.
I just think the people that agreed with me had like more
valid points and longer dissertations.
So I just think like, look at the quality of the message and
not just who agrees with who. I think that's really what we

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should take into account. That's not how voting works, you
know. You should take into account
their background. You should take into account
their life experience. By the way.
What aesthetic do they even have?
Myra also added. The other thing I wanted to

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share is I've been feeding a fewstray cats for a couple months.
I placed the food bowl directly underneath one of the ring
cameras in the driveway so I cansee who's eating the food.
So far, four different cats, fewpossums.
But the latest and most excitingvisitor was a chunky raccoon.
I found him on the roof of the house the other day, so I gave
him some food and he took it. To my surprise, he was actually

(42:15):
pretty friendly. I know how much you want cute
furry friends to stop by your house, so I thought this would
be cool to share with you. And then she sent a couple
videos. You've been holding out.
Here's what sucks about it 'cause I forgot I already looked
at them. And on Instagram you can only
fucking look once, which is the stupidest feature.

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Damn. So Myra, if you're listening to
this, will you go back and resend them, please, to Katie?
Thanks. And thank you for your support.
Thanks Myra. Aesthetic.
Also, you need to name the raccoon and he's just going to
get chunkier. Yeah.

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Big man. Love a chunky raccoon?
Or lady who knows. Are you prepared for duting?
I suppose we didn't talk about the railing.
Oh shit, that's right. Guys.

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I hit the wrong. Button that was the right.
Go ahead. Oh, it felt right.
It did. We did a project again.
We painted our stair railing black.
With your parents? Yeah.

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They're really good at house projects.
They're really good at painting.And you were like, it'll be fun.
And we did it. And.
And it took a few years off my life.

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And listen, am I grateful they helped us?
Yes. Do I like the railing now?
Yes. Yeah.
So those two things can be true while also wishing I could go
back in time to pay someone elseto do it and we could have the

(44:29):
same result. We'd be a few 100 bucks down,
but we could just live our livesand not go through what we went
through. Guys, I didn't know paint is not
the color in the can. You got to drop paint colors
into the paint. You got to prime it.
You got a TSP, You got to fucking hit it with a sandpaper.

(44:52):
You got to do 2 coats. You got to let it dry overnight.
You got to. You got a painters tape.
Oh, the painters tape. All we pulled off the painters
tape after two coats. Guess what, instead of the black
being on the railing and the white being on the walls, guess
what? It looked like we threw black
paint in the direction of the railing and the black paint.

(45:14):
It looked like we shot paintballs towards the railing
and hoped for the best. I could have done a better job
of not getting on the white wallif I free handed the whole
thing. The painters tape essentially
acted like a tie dyeing mechanism and we tie dyed part
of the wall the whole edge of the railing.
I would say it's pretty. Accurate it was there was a tie

(45:37):
dye effect the painters tape it didn't work is what I'm saying
so then we had to go get the wall color the trim color and
the wall color and and scrub thewall and paint back over the
black spots. They've got it, it I it was like
what, a 17 hour project. I would my body, my ribs were

(45:59):
out of place, my arms were out of place.
I was dizzy. Something wrong happened.
I don't, I at the end of it, your parents, God bless them,
started cleaning the brushes andthey were like your mom had

(46:21):
brought. Your mom had brought brushes
from Saint Louis. Yeah, that are her favorite
brushes. And then we also purchased
brushes and they were cleaning them.
And I said if those are your brushes that you brought here,
feel free to clean them. If those are the brushes that we

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purchased, throw them out. Light them on fire.
I won't ever be painting again. I will be hiring someone to
paint anything further that I ever need in my life.
It was a fucking nightmare. It's funny you make fun of me
when I'm cursing while I do a project and then afterward
going, yeah, that was, you know,it's kind of what just happened.

(47:05):
No, because I'm not. I'm what do you mean?
It's the opposite of what just happened because I'm not looking
at it with rose colored glasses.I'm saying if I could go back
and do it all, I didn't have a good time and if I could go back
I would pay someone and I wouldn't do it.
You do something, lose your shit, rip your face skin off,

(47:27):
swear up a storm and then go oh look, wasn't that good.
'Cause I still think it's satisfying to figure it out.
I think I'm happy with the result now.
Thank God. Yeah.
By the grace of God himself in your mother and father's hands,
it's looks good. That's it.

(47:50):
It was a fucking journey, that'sfor sure.
But you know what we could have done?
Spared ourselves 17 hours of ourlife and had a fucking
professional do it. We could have done that.
We could have. So hot seat.
But there was a reason we did itthis time around.
Do we not have music? For hot seat.
Well, big question, Shark Tank. I don't know, whatever.

(48:16):
What is it? Gunpoint.
I don't. If this were two weeks ago.
There we go. That's the music I wanted.
Yeah. Let's say this was two weeks
ago. Right now we're time traveling.
Yeah. And I could tell you how it was

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going to go. Uh huh.
Would you hire someone instead? No.
Are you high? Here's the reason.
Are you with us on this earth? If it was.
Six months, if it was six monthsfrom now, yes, I would hire
somebody. But it was because I think
because we've, you know, bought some furniture and appliances

(48:58):
and all that, like it was a headache if I had to go back or
in a different timeline could pay somebody.
What do you think, people? Charge honey.
It would be a couple $1000 to doit for.
No it wouldn't. I guarantee.
You a stair rail. Yes, I guarantee you it would
be. Let's.
Look it up. Go.

(49:18):
On. I'm gonna look it up.
OK. 'Cause it's time you're paying.
You think it would be a couple $1000?
Yeah. Honestly still worth it.
Let's see here. Yep.
OK, the cost to paint most stairwell stairway railings

(49:43):
$2500. Still sounds worth it I.
See in a in like again six months from now, I.
Agree with you, we got a free mattress so it evens out you.
Can't. So you got it.
That's a slippery slope. You can't quantify everything
that way. Well, I did.

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You can't go We we bought a new car for $20,000, but we didn't
fly private to Fiji, you know? Oh yeah, that's what I said.
But I mean, it's the same concept.
I'm saying we didn't pay for a bed so we could pay for someone
else to take on this toll. We also already had a bed.

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I don't feel like that's right. I don't think that's correct.
Yeah, I think if it was a different like if, if we hadn't
just moved in and spent money onother things, yes, easy
decision. Do you want to do a partial Jude
about our paint store experience?
Yeah. I not really.
I want you to be able to Jude properly, and I feel like I

(50:47):
never authentically Jude, so I'll just kind of talk about it
as a way to transition to Jude. Your words.
I just don't feel like I'd nail it the way you do, you know what
I'm saying? Unless we're currently in a
motor vehicle, you don't have the same level of rage
accessible. But put us in a car.
Yeah, maybe if we do it there, I'll feel differently and I can

(51:09):
lose my shit properly, right, ifI'm driving.
But we went to Lowe's to find a paint color and I had no idea,
just like you said I had. No, I thought maybe we wipe the
rails down and then we paint them.
I didn't realize we'd have to use a specific type of cleaner
to do it. And then to wipe water on it

(51:31):
after, and then to sand it and then use this tack cloth to take
all the sand off. And then it's like a seven step
process. And we didn't even have to
fucking prime it. At the end of the day, we just
painted. It we didn't do a primer or a
top coat because quote UN quote the paint we use didn't need it.
And. And we had to decide if it was
water based or oil based. It was a.

(51:53):
Whole science experiment, God damn it.
We go to Lowe's, we find the guyworking the paint counter, which
I'm surprised there's even a guyworking the paint counter
anymore in 2024. I kind of figured it was like a
self-serve thing. We found this guy Ray, and we
both realized we did not know that you can buy any type of

(52:16):
paint and have it done any type of color.
I thought when you walked down apaint aisle, there's buckets
that have here's gold paint, here's black paint, here's blue,
here's eggshell white, here's regular white.
You can color match anything. Did not know this.
So we find Ray. We talk to Ray, he's talking us
through the proper ways to test for oil or water and all these

(52:39):
things. We had to go back three
different times. He's really proud of his job.
He is like an SNL character. Yeah, he's like Target Lady of
Lowe's. Yeah.
He's so stoked to be working there, is so proud to be there.
He loves his vest and his mustache.
He walked around with like a bigproud chest like.

(53:01):
Puffed up. He had, like, pep in his step
for sure. Yeah.
So we go back like the third time, I think it was to finally
get the the paint done and to buy the paint.
And you were there. My mom was there.
And he's talking to my mom aboutpainting and keep saying like,
they're like commiserating. He can tell that she's painted a

(53:25):
bunch in her life and he was kept being like, well, you
already know this, but I'm telling them.
And then he's like, she's a goodone.
She's a good mom. And we were like, yeah, she is.
Yeah, and then he goes. You 2GO check out.
I'm going to talk to him. So we go to buy the paint.

(53:46):
So you walk away, but even though you walked away, he felt
the need to move me into a different area.
He wanted to have a heart to heart, Father, son, son.
And then he like literally corners me and is like, listen,
there's a reason I'm telling youthat you have a good mom.
It's because you do. Is his mom like dead?

(54:08):
I don't know. I didn't want to ask.
Yeah, she died from a pain accident.
Pain inhalation. And your wife, I can tell she's
a Good Wife. And I'm like, right, These are
true things and you need to keepthat in mind.
You know why there is a lack of good moms and good wives.

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And when it comes to home projects, you don't cut corners.
You just don't. You spend the extra money, you
spend the extra time to do it right the first time.
Because you know, what happens if you don't do it right the
first time I go, you have to redo it.
That's correct. You're going to have to do it a
second time and you're going to spend more time and more money.

(54:55):
And then he reaches his hand outto shake my hand, which I didn't
think they were allowed to do post COVID, you know?
Yeah. Shakes my hand, grabs it and
then puts the other hand on top of it, you know, one of those.
And then, like, pulls me close. And he's like, God bless you.

(55:15):
God bless you, God. And I was like, I thought I was
just going to Lowe's today, I'm not going to lie.
Didn't think I was going to. Church, I didn't think I was
going through a religious fucking experience, but thank
you, Ray. Thanks, Ray.
Anyway, you see why I couldn't Jude with that?
Yeah, let's see what you got do.You get it.

(55:38):
Listen to me very carefully. I know everything.
Hey, I want you to stop. You're a moron.
So is your mother. You are an example of why people
should have to take tests beforethey're allowed to have
children. Do you get it?
I went to a birthday dinner, which is red flag #1 and it was

(55:59):
for my friend who's in her 40s, and she has other friends at the
dinner that are in their 40s. So out of just circumstance, I
was the only person not in their40s at this dinner.
Didn't think that that would matter at all.

(56:20):
But they sure thought it mattered.
Like, I just thought we could all share a meal, mix it up,
chat a little. I don't know her friends very
well. I was just, you know, happy to
celebrate her, happy to be included.
Cool. Sounds good.
See you there at 7:30. Yeah, need anything like

(56:43):
whatever. Then they make it a big deal
because when I ordered a drink Igot carded but the server didn't
card anyone else and I was like oh sorry ha.
Ha. Then they're commiserating and
talking about well 'cause I guess most of them have been
divorced. So they were like, well, we've

(57:04):
been divorced and we are have a kid or we whatever, like, OK.
And no one's trying to take thataway from you.
I said one thing like I was talking and I made a joke about
someone brought up astrology that wasn't me.
And I was like, yeah, are the planets going crazy lately or am

(57:28):
I just deeply depressed? Like I said it like that clearly
a joke. Even though I am depressed and
have depression, I wasn't layingit on thick.
I wasn't like, yeah, so I've been really depressed lately.
I was like, Oh yeah, are the planets crazy?
Or am I just, you know, whatever, just being a just

(57:48):
making conversation and playing off something someone else said
in the in at the table. And instead they go, Oh yeah,
you don't know what's hard in life.
You don't know depression. Are someone went, are you
depressed or did you just pay rent today?
And I was like, first of all. Joke's on you, joke.

(58:10):
'S on you. Did you miss the part where I
have a mortgage? But OK anyways, I just was like,
OK, we get it. You have so you have it so much
harder than everyone else 'causeyou're older than me.
Like whatever, it's not a competition.
It's not a, it turned into like a weird pissing contest of like
who's had a harder life? And I was like, I'm not trying

(58:33):
to compete with you. Like I just didn't even say
anything 'cause I was like, you seem like you really need this.
Like you seem like you need to win the My Life is Sadder award.
Which is a weird contest to to be a part of.
Like, OK, we were all like joking about something and then
you made it weird. So I'll just let you have this.

(58:56):
Like, I just don't care. Also, I'm never we're never
going to see each other again. So if you think my life is so
great and yours is so awful, it.Is funny how some people feel
the need to one up and a lot of people feel the need to one
down, yeah. You know, my life is worse.
Yeah, OK. Like, oh, you think that story's

(59:18):
crazy? Listen to this one.
Or oh, you think you have it bad?
Check this out. But also, it's just such a weird
thing to do in a group scenario,'cause there's only five of us
at this dinner and you're essentially ganging up on me for
being younger than four people. What also and you don't know me?

(59:41):
The one person say, oh, you looklike a teenager.
Yeah, that's not a compliment. Right.
I mean, kind of. It's not OK.
You don't look like a teenager. You look like a young woman.
You don't look old. You look like a young woman.
But saying you look like a teenager is like you look like a
child. You know what I'm saying?

(01:00:04):
Yeah, I don't think that's a compliment.
OK, Well, I don't. OK, that was the least offensive
thing. That sure, sure.
I was like chalking that up too.I was chalking that up too.
Oh, I have good skin. Sure.
You know you're good. You look like a baby.
But yeah, it's when anyone givesa compliment but follows it up

(01:00:28):
with an insult. It's like cool.
Or gives a compliment and follows it up with something
negative. Right.
It's like, OK, so which thing amI supposed to respond to then?
Yeah, I feel weird about it now,Yeah.
So, judgment to the plaintiff, thanks for going out of your way

(01:00:51):
to tell me you know more about me than I know myself.
And making a group dinner. Weird as always.
Shove that split bill and your negativity and your two divorces
up your ass. Also.

(01:01:11):
Oh God, it's like a fever dream.More is coming back to me, a
different person at the dinner who arrived after like an hour
of us sitting there, which is fine.
It was all shared plates and shemade it in time for the food,
said she didn't want to eat because she wanted to make it
clear she wasn't paying for any food.

(01:01:34):
And I was like, I completely respect whatever.
Do whatever's in your budget. There's just a better way to say
that you don't have to go. I'm not eating this bite because
I don't want to pay for your dinner.
The to the birthday girl, she was like I don't want that bite
because I don't want to pay for food.
Yeah, you could say I really wanted to come out and celebrate

(01:01:56):
with you tonight. I'm so happy I'm here.
I'm sorry. I'm going through some financial
stuff. There's another way to say.
It so I'm gonna, I'm just gonna kind of sit here and enjoy
everyone's company. Right, instead of being like,
no, I'm not eating that 'cause Idon't want to buy this.
Tact. There's just just fucking
someone. Grow a God damn social meter in

(01:02:17):
any set. Like yeah fuck God, just no one
has etiquette anymore. It's true, they don't.
And like, I get it, times are tough.
Whatever things are tight. No one else got her a gift or a
card but me. A card is.
You can get a card at the dollarstore.

(01:02:39):
Right. Anything.
Yeah. No one wanted to treat her to
dinner. They were.
She bought her own dinner. Like, yeah.
It's horseshit. It's like I'll sit next to you
and not eat and you and not get you a card and make weird
comments. Oh, OK.
Sounds like a great time. God.

(01:03:02):
You gonna tell her to shove something up her ass or?
No, I'm. I'm exhausted.
That's a first. I just, I just don't have it in
me. I get it.
Well, listen, I don't think we really solved anything today.

(01:03:25):
Well, we solved. Who's correct?
No, we didn't. It was two and two and one
abstaining. Someone else please write in
aesthetic. Start it with aesthetic, start
with Team Cameron or Team Katie.That being said, I'm willing to

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admit that I'm pronouncing it incorrectly.
Are you willing to admit that? What?
No. I'm not doing it 100% correct,
but I think you're going too farin the other direction.
Does it feel good to say it out to get that off your chest?
Yeah, after you doubled down so many times.

(01:04:13):
Yeah. Do you feel lighter?
No. Do you?
I feel great. Do you feel heavier?
No, I feel validated and I will continue to say it this way.
Which way? Aesthetic.
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