4: The Sad Self-Saucing Squonk

Samara’s 33rd birthday is tomorrow! Show her some love by leaving a comment here or on your IG story (don’t forget to tag her @sojourner_samurai and the podcast @sauceboxed)!! Have ideas of what we can do for her birthday? Hit us up on IG!

Nikki and Samara reminisce on their most recent paintball experience and discuss the sorry ass food scene in our area. The Portland food event Nikki couldn’t remember is called Ticket to Dine, it used to be called Portland Dining Month and it happens in March. The dynamic of it has changed from what Nikki talked about. Feel free to Google Portland’s Ticket to Dine. Nikki talks about how she misses hosting parties at her home and having lots of people over. Samara recalls being obsessed with Hilary Duff as a little girl while traveling to Yellowstone with our grandparents.

Nikki discusses the overwhelming number of men who have been swiping right on her Tinder account and sliding into her Reddit DMs and wonders how the hell she’ll ever filter through ‘em all. And her dumb ass signed up for ANOTHER dating site?? Samara creates a missing person milk carton image for one of the men who has never met her, but wants Nikki to kidnap him and give him Stockholm Syndrome.

Samara teaches us about cryptid zoology and introduces our first cryptid of the show, the Squonk! Nikki side bars briefly into the 1995 film, Mall Rats. Samara gives a brief background of the ‘founding fathers’ of cryptid zoology. What will Nikki’s reaction be to this apparently hideous creature? Will she be repulsed by it or will she want one of her very own to love? As Samara attempts to describe and teach Nikki about the Squonk, Nikki can’t seem to keep her shit together to make it through the entire thing without laughing her ass off. (Sorry, Squonk, Nikki is a good person, I swear.)

Nikki was close to the groundhog’s name: Punxsutawney (Punk-sa-tawn-ee) Phil.

Fear not! The links for the amazing music videos that Samara shared with Nikki a few months back are below. YOU WILL LOVE THEM!!

Check out our IG @sauceboxed for pictures of the Squonk and Samara’s beautiful pitties, as well as our book recommendations for the month of February.

Links to strange music videos:

Dadi (Somebody Else Now, song with the hands): https://youtu.be/ZPsIIXkvEOQ?si=OZxoFQsEu_ZSr2I7

Dadi (Think About Things, another of the many videos we love of theirs): https://youtu.be/VFZNvj-HfBU?si=KF2IDbBaY7GrXI0Q

Wheeler Walker Jr. (Drop 'Em Out): https://youtu.be/BgiE6iR6GWU?si=ikLdUI-wV74Eu4QO

February Book Recommendations:

Samara: I Was A Teenage Slasher by Stephen Graham Jones, a stand alone horror/thriller that takes on the perspective of the slasher.

Nikki: Ruthless Boys of the Zodiac by Suzanne Valenti and Caroline Peckham, a five-book, reverse harem, adult romantasy series (4 out of 5 chili pepper spice level).

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