2024 Impolite Society Recap

In the final episode of 2024, we're giving you a peek into our daily lives and a year-in-review for Impolite Society. We chatted about our favorite episodes this year, the best behind-the-scenes moments, and a sneak peek into the topics we hope to cover in 2025.

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Episode Transcript

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (00:32):
Welcome to Impolite Society.
I'm Laura.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (00:36):
And I'm Rachel! I was trying to
think of a holiday pun, butRachel the red nosed reindeer.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (00:44):
It's alliteration.
It works and no intro guys.
We're just straight in it today.
We've got nothing to teasebecause it's just us.
Sorry to disappoint you all, buttoday is something a little bit
different for our last episode.
Of 2024, or not quitting again,guys, it's just a, it was a fake

(01:09):
out, uh, it's just a year endrecap for all things impolite
society, because we're taking alittle bit of a break.
Because winter and Christmas is,I know, kicking my ass.
We've gotten a little bit behindon our recordings, so we're
going to take this time torecord.
Banks some episodes to get readyfor us to re release in 2025,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (01:35):
Woo!

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:35):
what, February or something?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (01:37):
I think we could be back in
January.
But yeah, things got a littlerough there, and we were living
the podcast equivalent ofpaycheck to paycheck, and had no
time to squirrel away anythingfor a rainy day.
So I don't know what happened inOctober, but we just really,
like,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:54):
I got, my kids got sick and destroyed
everything.
My kids got sick.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (01:59):
Ah, those kids.
Send them back.
But, while we are going away, wedon't want you to have tears
this holiday season, becausethere's always the backlog,
folks! We've got so manyepisodes out there! Like, almost
five fucking years of stuff!This in 2020, it will have been.

(02:21):
Or 2025, it will have been fiveyears, half a decade of Implied
Society.
Back then I think it was BigTalk.
So I don't know if thoseepisodes are still available,
maybe on certain, maybe oncertain browsers or whatever,
podcast aggregators, you may beable to find them, but we've
been at this for quite some timeand we've put together what,
like, I think we're in sixties,upper sixties, maybe close to 70

(02:43):
episodes.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (02:45):
oh I think, yeah, honestly, I don't
know because The way that Inumbered them, I do it by
seasons, which is fuckingstupid.
And I'm not going to go back andfix it now.
So

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (02:54):
No, I was wondering when you changed
the seasons, I was like, Oh, Ididn't know we did seasons.
Yeah, it's like 70, so that'salmost like 70 hours of content
that you can look back on

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (03:05):
yeah, I'm not going to say quality
content, just

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (03:07):
Some of it's better than others.
It's always getting better.
So today we're going to lookback, we're going to continue
looking back at this last year.
We're going to talk about someof our favorite episodes, some
of our favorite moments,favorite tidbits that we've
learned and just kind of likehave a more casual conversation.
Some behind the scenes withRachel and Laura, unscripted.

(03:31):
And first, to start with,outside of podcasting, what are
you obsessed with these days?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (03:38):
I've got a couple that have been taking
up my time that I should bespending podcasting.
I am watching or obsessing aboutwhat I learned in the Buy Now
documentary on Netflix.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (03:50):
Yeah, that is a lot of processing
power in my head too.
A lot of guilt.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (03:55):
Yes! I watched it two weeks ago?
Week and a half?
Like whenever it Debut I watchedit and it was just a fucking
punch in the gut and I had beenon an anti consumerism kick
anyways, and this just likeramped it up to a thousand and
I'm I think I'm gonna have totake a chill pill Like I'm kind

(04:16):
of like writing myself ragged alittle bit like mentally with
this kind

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (04:19):
Well, and that's what I've been
thinking as I go through tryingto consume less, buy less, spend
waste less, right?
Is how much of it should fall tothe individual consumer and how
much should fall to, like,people whose jobs it is to do
this kind of shit instead ofmaking us feel like we have to
carry the back, you know, theweight of the world on our
backs.

(04:40):
Maybe somebody should just makeThings not in plastic that
doesn't degrade for 50 millionyears.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (04:47):
It's a little bit of column A and a
little bit of column B, right?
Like, they wouldn't make it ifwe didn't buy it.
So

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (04:56):
buy it through sus practices,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (04:59):
a hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
And the documentary, it,honestly, it only kind of
touches on those things, Ithink.
I don't think it goes

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (05:07):
I wanted to know all the tricks
and trade of the trade

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (05:12):
many, there's so many ways that they
do it and they just brushed overit and they didn't talk about,
consumerism and the effect thatit has on our happiness and our,
our, like, perception of,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (05:23):
up with the Joneses kind of like
the envy right

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (05:28):
Exactly.
And it, so I, I want to see likea multi part documentary of Buy
Now on every different facet ofthis consumerism culture and why
it's toxic, not just to theplanet, but to us.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (05:43):
Right, and I tried to pitch you on a
limited series podcast aboutthat same thing, but Laura did
not bite

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (05:49):
It just, it, it, it, just seems hard.
It seems like a lot of brainpower

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (05:55):
It seems like maybe that's beyond
our capabilities like maybe ifWondry or whatever wants a
really sick podcast idea.
I can I can steal that

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (06:04):
Yeah.
Do it, Wondery.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (06:06):
But only if it's hosted by a washed
up sitcom actor

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (06:12):
I got plenty of those

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (06:14):
They sure do can't can't be Throw a
microphone without it connectingwith

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (06:19):
hitting some fucker in the head.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (06:20):
yeah, some former sitcom actor.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (06:25):
So other things that I've been obsessed
with, another Netflix, causeapparently this is what I do is
I watch Netflix, the JonBenétRamsey case, their documentary
just came out last.
Last week, and I have not lookedat that case closely in years
and it sent me down a rabbithole, dude, like I have been,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (06:46):
Oh.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (06:48):
I have been looking at so much shit
I've been all over the Reddit,for JonBenet and talking to
people and throwing out theoriesand throwing out questions,
reading.
Police interview transcripts at11 p.
m.
in my bed.
Like that's what I've beendoing.
It's

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (07:07):
I, I just, you can't bring her back
to life.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (07:11):
It's hella depressing, but I can't
like wrap my brain around it andI think i'm I think i'm finally
backing off though.
I think i've like reached thepoint that i'm like, I think
i've

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (07:21):
out of that hyper fixation?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (07:23):
Yeah, that definitely happens.
But like, it's also like I hadquestions and I answered them to
the best of my ability.
I mean, Lord knows I'm not goingto crack the case.
It's been 30 fucking years.
Yeah.
No, it's uncrackable

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (07:36):
if you die, and you get to ask one
question of the universe, areyou asking who killed John Benet
Ramsey?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (07:42):
as of right now.
Yes.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (07:46):
Wait, what if she's not really dead,
what if she just faked her deathand she's with Elvis and Michael

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (07:50):
a, there's like a conspiracy theory
that

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (07:52):
She never existed?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (07:53):
Perry or something?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (07:58):
She's, AI.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (07:59):
yeah, I would want to know about it in
any case.
It was the fucking parents.
I know it was the parents.
It was some combination of theparents.
One parent, both parents.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (08:07):
I think it was like an accident,
and they just covered it up, andit got out of hand.
And all of a sudden, every thenation is watching.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (08:14):
totally, totally, That's it.
I think that's exactly whathappened.
And, but I'd like thepermutations, that's the thing
that drives you crazy.
You run through it in your headof the permutations, like who
had the accident?
Who did this?
Like, what was the onus?
And da da da da.
Like, that's what keeps yourbrain like on the treadmill of
trying to figure it out.
And cause no, no, no, nopossible permutation makes a

(08:36):
hundred percent sense.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (08:37):
Yeah, well, maybe that's our unlimited
series.
We're gonna do a deep dive intothe John Penne Ramsey

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (08:43):
thanks.
I didn't, we say in the verystart, we're not going to be a
true two white girls talkingTrue crime!

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (08:50):
crime! We would've been famous, but no.
No, just kidding.
We'll never be famous,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (08:54):
No, you might, we might've been

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (08:56):
you know, um, I've also been
watching Netflix a lot and myobsession lately is the cheesy
Christmas movies that they haveon there.
I'm like literally watching,yeah, I'm watching like one a
day.
So, I just wanted to let youknow that I gave up my prime
Christmas movie time to behaving this conversation right
now.
So, you're welcome.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (09:17):
Yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (09:18):
they're bad.
They're all bad.
Two thumbs downs, but they'rehilarious.
I just watched one about a ladywho gets kicked out of
imaginary.
universe's Rockettes

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (09:26):
The fake rockets.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (09:28):
Yeah, it goes back to her hometown and
starts a male stripper review, amale, a gentleman's review in
her parents bar, her parents barwith the handyman that she signs
up for it without his consent orpermission.
She's just like, yeah, he's adancer.
And then this man who had nointention of being a stripper
suddenly is just like, yeah,I'll take my shirt off and dance

(09:48):
for people.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (09:49):
Match made in heaven.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_ (09:50):
Apparently, because she turns down her gig
to go back and be a rockette,um, for the three year contract,
mind you, to stay and be thisguy's unemployed girlfriend.
So, good choices, good choices,because he got mad at her for
potentially leaving, because hislast girl also left him for the
big city.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (10:09):
He has abandonment issues.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (10:12):
and it's Chad Michael Murray.
Is a heartthrob from my teenageyears.
The other

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (10:20):
these like, are these newer movies or

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (10:23):
mm hmm, next up on the docket is
about a hot snowman

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (10:27):
where

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (10:28):
who comes to life.
ha

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (10:30):
of it on Reddit.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (10:32):
Hell yeah.
Hot Frosty.
That's next.

lb_1_12-03-2024_2110 (10:37):
definitely saw people making fun of that on
Reddit and I thought it was ajoke post.
Nope, not a joke post.
Ha

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (10:43):
reviews will be in.
That'll be the next episode, thenext holiday episode.
Also, equally cringy, thingsthat have been occupying way too
much of my brain space is theWicked press tour.
Not just the movie Wicked, butlike, I see so much content from
the press tour and it's justAriana Grande and the lead,

(11:06):
other lead actresses crying andbeing so moved and holding space
and it's just all.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (11:14):
are they holding space for?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (11:15):
The gays or something.
I don't know.
I'm sorry gays.
I don't know I'm not a member ofthe queer media, so I don't know
what's happening

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (11:24):
just know they're real upset about
it.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (11:27):
They're just like, we have to hold
space, because Defying Gravityis about being gay, I guess.
I don't know, because I'm notincluded.
I'm not cool enough.
All I know is they're always,and then, like, Ariana Grande's
holding the other girl'sfingernail to, like, comfort
her.
She's like, they're there, like,patting her fingernail.
This is my life.
This is my life.

(11:47):
This is what I see all the time,because I was a theater nerd.
They are the reason I quittheater.
It's because I could not handlepeople like that.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (11:56):
Yeah.
That we're holding space andpatting each other's
fingernails?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (12:01):
mean, if we should all hold space for
something, don't get, don't tryto pin me into antique corner
here because I'm not, I'mholding space for all the gays
that the gays and the theysfolks, but the drama and the
crying.
I cannot.
The crying on the last night andthe weeping and all holding on

(12:21):
to each other and all of thepeople playing piano and they
only know the one song.
What was the one song?
It was just every theater dudeknew how to play one song on the
piano.
I'm not gonna write you a lovesong or something like that.
It was just, get me out oftheater.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (12:41):
That's how I felt about improv.
Way too much, like, in yourfeels, and like felt a little
bit culty, so I, I can feel

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (12:49):
Well, I think improv is notoriously a
cult, right?
So that's legitimate, but.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (12:54):
fun, but also weird.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (12:55):
Theater people.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (12:56):
Yeah.
Next level theater people.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (13:00):
No, thank you.
That's, yeah, that's my mediaconsumption corner.
That and trying to overwinter mybananas in Zone 6, you know.
Wish me luck.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (13:12):
I don't even know what that means.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (13:13):
built a greenhouse over my banana
trees and I have been trying to

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (13:17):
And they're still outside.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (13:19):
Yeah.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (13:20):
are they doing?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (13:21):
They're frozen, but that's beside the
point.
The greenhouse is sort ofworking.
They, I just waited too late toput it up and also I should have
just dug them up and put them inmy basement, but I have to be as
difficult as possible and todayI turned my greenhouse into a
smokehouse because I put acandle out there and then the
candle

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (13:40):
trying to thought.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (13:41):
Well, that's what online said to do is
put a candle in your greenhouseto help it like stay warm
Because I put it out before theWhile the sun was away, and now
the sun's back.
So hopefully it's warming upmore, but any who do I look out
the window And I see smokecoming out the top of my
greenhouse like

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (13:57):
Your bananas are hot boxing it in
there.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (13:59):
I was like, oh I better go get
that before it burns down My sonwas impressed when I told him I
was putting out a fire not gonnalie.
He's he's too He's like mamafight fire and I'm like, yeah,
baby.
I sure did Aka I smothered alittle candle that was going out
of control But that's our lookinto our lives, a peek behind
the scenes.

(14:20):
That's what we do, and you're

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (14:22):
exciting lives we

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (14:23):
I'm sure you're gonna miss us.
Over the next couple weeks.
So let's talk about some of ourfavorite episodes that you can
revisit if you miss the sound ofour voices.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (14:34):
So looking back at this year's
catalog, one of the ones thatjumped out to me immediately is
the Clitoris, a tiny penis.
That episode was really good.
I ended up talking about thatepisode to a stripper in New
Orleans because I was that proudof it.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (14:54):
Did she show you her tiny penis?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (14:56):
No, we were just, I actually, the
conversation started aboutbreast implants and I was trying
to show her what, uh,encapsulation looked like on our
Instagram and then, but beenscrolling through the photos,
she saw the clitoris and waslike, is that a penis?
I was like, no, yeah,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (15:20):
yeah, that's a good place to bring up
clitorises.
I feel like they're not focusedon enough in strip clubs.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (15:26):
well, yeah, I

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (15:27):
they're hard, they're hard to flaunt,
you know?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (15:30):
They're kind of, sometimes they're a
little hidden.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (15:33):
Peek a boo! No, that was on my list
as well, cause it's literally,it's not everyday that I feel
like I'm doing a podcast aboutchallenging our notions of
gender and sexuality.
Well, not sexuality, of sex,right?
Because that episode was likelife changing information when I
learned it.
That the spectrum of humangenitalia is not A or B, it's

(15:55):
like A through Z.
And that rhymes.
Boom.
I'll have to go back and relisten to that one, too.
I had kind of forgotten aboutit.
It's so early in the year.
It's like, pfft, 2023, baby.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (16:09):
In the rearview.
Another one that I really likedwas the fan fiction episode.
That was like a labor of lovefor me.
It wasn't popular.
Not a lot of people listened.
I don't care.
I loved it.
It was a fun episode.
And even when I like listened toit back, the, the intro music,
like I really love that song,it's a little like twangy kind

(16:32):
of like college rock guitar.
And I just want to put it on aplaylist and listen to it.
I just, I love that one.
Um,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (16:39):
We'll have to dig it out just for the
twangy music at the beginning.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (16:43):
I have it like in my downloads and
every once in a while it'll comeup when I'm looking through
music and I'm like,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (16:49):
Twang, twang, twang to twang, twang.
Nice.
Now that one, I did not know alot about fanfiction.
I did not, like, have, I did notoccupy a big piece of my life.
Bye.
It sure set me on a newtrajectory, not a new
trajectory, but it added somespice to my life, we did that
podcast in February, so this hasbeen a work in progress since

(17:12):
February, because, uh, well likea little side project to our
side project, I'm going to beI'm going to Launching another
podcast with my sister of allpeople, uh, talking about fan
shipping.
So it was based on this episode,Laura and I had teased that we

(17:33):
had a concept after trying topitch her on it.
I apparently, I, I likeliterally a dynamic of our
friendship is I'm alwayspitching podcasts to Laura and
she's like, no, one's enough.
I'm like, but what if we do thisone?
And she was like, girl, I don'tneed to do this other podcast.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (17:48):
I have another podcast, nerds talking.
I don't need three.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (17:53):
So, well, and this one would involve
more work than nerds talking,for sure.
But maybe we could do like alittle crossover where we can
come over, because that's likeliterally fandoms and nerd
talking, like, there's somemagic there.
But essentially, me and mysister are just going to be
talking about different, Top fanfavorite couples that didn't end

(18:16):
up working out.
So we explore all differentkinds of media like, Movies, TV
shows, those kind of things.
We've talked about like, anime,um, And we

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (18:29):
Gi Oh! is very popular on fanfiction.
net, I believe.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (18:32):
Well, yeah.
Kiva, no, but I've learned a lotapparently.
Uh, not apparently.
I've learned a lot.
I am not cool and not saying mysisters or either, but she knows
a lot more about this stuff thanI do.
And I'm like, uh, so this hasactually been good.
'cause I've been consuming a lotmore stuff.

(18:53):
I feel like I could, now I'mstarting to be able to hold the
conversation if I found myselfin an improv situation, or maybe
with a group of people who playD& D.
Which is kind of like, DIRDimprov, as far as I understand.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (19:08):
Yeah.
Yeah.
It seems accurate.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (19:10):
yeah, check it out.
I should mention the name of it.
It is called, Ship Happens.
the trailer will be out on, Yourpodcasting platform of choice
when this episode airs, so goand follow it, and then when
episodes drop, they will appearin your feed.
So,

lb_1_12-03-2024_2110 (19:29):
definitely put the trailer in our feed as
well.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (19:32):
okay, I will do that once we have it.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (19:34):
Yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (19:36):
Which, it should be soon.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (19:38):
I'm excited.
I know very little about it.
I knew you were doing it, but Ididn't know you were this far
along and I'm excited to listen.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (19:44):
been recording since September.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (19:46):
That's awesome.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (19:48):
Yeah, it'll be fun.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (19:49):
Send me a preview.
I get

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (19:51):
Yeah.
I think we might dump a few atthe top and then, give us like a
little bit of a wiggle room.
It's also going to be biweeklyfor sure.
Cause you know, we all havejobs.
Well, I don't, but other peoplehave jobs and, um, you know, it
is fun.
I enjoy it.
It's a lot more casual thanemployed society.
You don't have to do deepresearch.

(20:11):
And I am a stan for Raylo,apparently.
I love, yeah.
Oh, that one was so cute.
I was like, I watched so manyfan edits and I'm like,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (20:23):
Aw, I love fan videos!

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (20:25):
like it.
I like that.
Other ones, I'm like, I learneda lot about a court of roses and
thorns or whatever.
It's not good in my opinion, but

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (20:36):
We can have a whole side conversation
about that.
This is very popular.
Yeah!

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (20:42):
it started me on this side project
because that I, that was analternative concept to even
bringing back and play society.
I feel like at some point, but

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (20:51):
was.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (20:52):
Laura did not want to, uh,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (20:55):
I had more stuff that I wanted to

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (20:57):
She wanted to keep beating this dead
horse.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (21:00):
I wanted to keep digging, delving,
exploring, whatever otheradjectives, Diving.
yeah, into this weird shit thatwe do.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (21:09):
Yeah.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (21:10):
one of

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12- (21:11):
Speaking of weird shit!

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (21:14):
Was the, uh, deadly fashion trends of the
past.
The ones about like the poisondyes.
I, I thought this was just sointeresting.
The research was great.
It's people are people arepeople, right?
Humans poisoning themselves withdumb shit for forever and ever.
Whether it's arsenic green orall the microplastics we're

(21:35):
eating.
So what?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (21:38):
We'll be fine.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (21:39):
want what we want.
And we don't give a fuck.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (21:42):
Well, we're evolutionarily primed to
want specific things, and wecan't fight that, and that's why
we need the Nanny State to saveus! Laura?
No.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (21:53):
the nanny state, as we learned in
that did not learn, the U.
S.
did not save us from arsenic andfelting.
So

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (21:59):
It did eventually

lb_1_12-03-2024_211 (22:00):
eventually, but it was like ridiculous.
I think it was like 1940 orsomething.
It was ridiculously

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (22:07):
And if you're looking for a much
faster way to kill yourself, Ma,another one of my favorites, was
the Can I Masturbate Myself toDeath?
I think that that was just like,such a good, Title, right?
That just people are already,you have a reaction to it.
and the stories were fun, and Ireally liked how I, uh, ended up
organizing it.
It was like a mixture of, facts,and then using the stories to

(22:29):
kind of support it.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (22:31):
I was a big fan of that one.
Like, and around that time wehappened to get a bunch of
listeners from, uh, Some redditpost that I had made and they
were like, Oh, should I listen?
Which episode should I startwith?
And I was like, definitely themasturbation.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (22:44):
Yes.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (22:45):
it was just a good mix of a lot of
laughs and good information.
It was, I, that was a highquality episode.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (22:53):
I, I thought it came together well.
I think it was different, and Ithink that that's also one of
the things that this, we,Struggle with is our episodes
end up being a little differentevery time or there's sometimes
some that are very differentJust the way it is it is the way
it is

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (23:11):
Another one that was, I think, kind of
along that same range.
Not, not as good, I don't think,with the alternating stories and
fact and stories and fact, butthe pedophiles in prison, what
happens to pedo's in prison.
It was actually pretty wellliked on YouTube, at least for

(23:32):
our first episode, and we kindof hit a niche.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (23:35):
Yeah, no kidding apparently somebody
offered to have us on theirprison talk podcast and I'm like
that's a mistake We know nothing

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (23:45):
Exactly.
And it was, I think one of theones that we did as the summer
short, and I think it was aproper short in the sense, I
mean, yeah, it was 45 minutes,but it was pure and it was kind
of to a point that we normallymanaged to just sail by, you
know, like we managed to keep iton that one topic and not dive

(24:06):
off and do a million different

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (24:07):
hmm.
I agree.
I think those shorts were like avery important training piece
for us, right?
You run farther or faster duringtraining so that you can perform
better in the competition orwhatever, the race day.
And so by striving for thoseshorts, I feel like our overall
content got sharper too.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (24:26):
I absolutely agree.
And

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (24:28):
and that was a good model for it.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (24:30):
yeah, and we tried to keep that format
kind of as we went on throughoutthe year.
You know, sometimes we didn'tquite hit it, but it was the
intention and it just, you know,keeping to a focus in that one
topic and I think also becausewe have so many background
episodes, like we don't have togo into some of the stuff that
maybe I felt like we needed tobefore.

(24:51):
You know what I mean?
Because if you.
At least from my perspective.
I've done the research before,so I know the foundation of some
things.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (24:58):
Yeah, like, we would start broad.
We'd be like

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (25:02):
the history of the prison system! Ha

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (25:05):
like, here is what everybody has had
to say about menstruation sincethe dawn of time.
Why can't I poop on a vacation?
Well, let's just talk about howthe digestive system works as a
whole.
This is like, okay, guys, like,let's, let's focus in a bit.
But yeah, I think we're gettingto that point.
But also, on the bit of theasides, like, you know,
listeners, you tell us what youthink, right?

(25:27):
Like, do you want more fun kindof aside pieces?
Do you like it to be tight?
Um, and focus just on the topic.
You let us know, right?
We're, we're just kind ofwatching the numbers and trying
to divine what they mean.
So, and at the end of the day,we're making what we think you
guys will like.
So if you want to answer us andlet us know what you like, that

(25:49):
would be helpful.
Or you can write about it onyour kink forum and then me find
it through some of my obsessiveGoogling.
Um, and that is, of course,yeah.
Referencing the Diapers Loverepisode, which will live in
infamy as her top downloadedepisode.
Ha! Ha ha! Ever! It's number oneof all time, it beat Batman

(26:12):
Going Down, which is so muchbetter in my opinion.
So, if you listen to that, ifyou are a diaper lover who is
either hate listening to us, orlove listening to us, check out
the Batman one, cause that wassuch a good episode.
From years ago, but yeah, thatone, it struck a nerve for sure.
And I think the fact that Inamed dropped some accounts is

(26:36):
really what made it stand out.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (26:38):
Hey man, you're out.
It's not like it's, it's notlike we doxed them.
It's not their first and lastname and their address.
It's their username on a publicforum.
I'm sorry.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (26:46):
Yeah, but, and there was a good, I
mean, it was an interestingquote.
I was, I was giving them creditfor the methods that they used
to find their parents orwhatever.
I don't know what to call it.
Caregivers.
Um, I do feel like maybe I, I,if I regret anything, it's
naming the name, dropping theiraccounts because apparently that
offended, our friend BobaFetish.

(27:07):
So I just wanted to say, I'msorry, Boba Fetish.
If you're still listening allthese years later, all this year
later, six months.
Um, I do feel bad about thatbecause I don't like to be
singled out.
We all know what it's like to besingled out.
Like when you find your podcaston a forum.
I'm being.
Trash.
No, everybody in the forum waslike surprisingly chill about

(27:28):
it.
They're like, what are you gonna

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (27:29):
so too.
I was yeah that I saw the threadand I thought that they were
pretty chill about it And I willgive you some credit Boba fetish
because I think that's a prettyclever username

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (27:38):
I thought so too, and in honor of
that, I'm wearing a diaper rightnow.
That's for you.
That's for you, Boba Fetish.
How many times can we say it?
It's gonna be the, the Easteregg at the end.
Boba Fetish.
We're your number one fan now.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (27:58):
Boom, boom.
That was fucking weird.
Please cut that out.
I don't know what the fuck thatwas.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (28:05):
Laura likes to make sounds.
That's another thing that I'venoticed from editing, is when
you don't have a quip orsomething, you just go like, Buh
boy! You just make a sound.
Or you say, like, it's, if it'san animal, you just make an
animal sound.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (28:22):
I don't

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (28:24):
There's a lot of wolfing in the And
howling in the lycanthropy one.
The werewolf one.
The

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (28:34):
know what to say about that.
I feel very called out becauseit's very true.
I'm just, I'm not clever.
I'm not quick on my feet, saysthe person who's been making a
podcast for the last fivefucking years.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (28:47):
And all I have to say to that is, Or
whatever sound is appropriate.
The things that you learn aboutus on the cutting room floor.
That's where you find the realRachel and Laura.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (29:06):
right.
Since I don't have a cleversegue, I'm just going to go into
one of my next favoriteepisodes, which was the, uh, why
does Southern women eat dirt?
That was one of those episodesthat does that one 80 in your
thinking.
Like I started in with justlike, what the fuck this is

(29:28):
nonsense.
And at the end, I totally getit.
I.
I totally understood.
And I actually, I really wantedthis Southern guy that I follow
on TikTok to do a video on it.
His name is Landon and heactually commented, he was
somebody that I followed.
and watched and then hecommented on our video

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (29:48):
he did.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (29:48):
some, yeah, something like that.
What the fuck is this?
I've never heard.
He did not say that because he,he's a very Southern gentleman
and he would never say that kindof thing.
He would never say what thefuck.
Uh, but he was just like, that'scrazy.
I'd never heard of it.
And I was like, please.
I commented like, please do anepisode on it.
I've got tons of notes andlinks.
Like if you want to learnanything about it.
And he never did.

(30:09):
So Landon, I'm sorry.
You broke my heart.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (30:11):
Listen to our podcast and cite it.
But that was like breaking news,I guess then.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (30:16):
Yeah.
I mean, and he was, um, he'sreally funny if you guys don't
know him, check him out on TikTok, Landon.
It's just his username, Landon.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (30:25):
Wow.
Well, I will have to do that.
I didn't know he commented.
I'll have to go back and checkour TikTok.
Yeah.
That one was a lot of fun.
And I will say it was also a 180episode for me because when you
pitched that topic, I was like,I seriously don't care at all
about this.
This sounds so boring.
And then we did it and I waslike, okay, okay, okay.
I get, this is really good.

(30:45):
Yeah.
I remember you explaining it tome after we had recorded a
podcast.
I was like, Laura, I don't knowif we should do that topic.
And then you ran through it.
I was like, oh, I get it now.
I get it now.
Okay.
Yeah.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (30:58):
the discovery.
That's why we do this.
The discovery.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (31:01):
Yeah, and it's that one might, again,
I don't know the numbers off thetop of my head, that one might
have been looked over morebecause other people had the
same reaction as me.
Don't do that.
Don't do that.
Go back and listen to it becauseit was interesting.
Why do those women eat dirt?
We know.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (31:16):
Do you?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (31:18):
Glee!

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (31:18):
glee! No,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (31:30):
So, speaking of things that we've
learned, right, learning is whywe do this and, uh, what are
some of your favorite tidbitsthat you learned in 2024?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (31:41):
The number one thing that I come
back with is, the best sellingdildos are totally average sized
dildos.
That is from the

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (31:53):
So, that thing that needs to be in
like every men's room, men'srestroom, just like plastered
over the urinal

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (32:00):
yeah, we had like a PSA sticker and
that's from the, uh, is a big,is bigger, really better.
And it's just the sales don'tlie.
Not many women want a monsterdick.
I mean, maybe some, but not, notthe money follow the money.
Yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (32:22):
a baby was so enjoyable.
Mm mm.
No, that's not what, that's notwhat they say about it,
actually.
It's the opposite.
Mine is also dirty in nature.
One of my top facts.
And this is, again, going backto fanfic, and You would think
that when things were inventedthat they're kind of wholesome,
right?

(32:42):
There's like pure intention.
Thinking of the furries, right?
Fursonas were like cute littletrading cards or pictures.
No, that's not the case withfanfiction.
Fanfiction started off just asraunchy and as a way to portray
two characters getting it on.
That was the first one!

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (33:00):
where it wanted to end.
It went exactly there.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (33:04):
It was all, it's, it's always been,
well, what if these two belovedcharacters of mine, Fuck.
And that is an integral part ofmy new podcast, Ship Happens,
where we also look at fanfiction and AO3 stats for the
couple that we're looking at.
So I have read a lot more fanfiction this fall than I have
ever in my life.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (33:25):
can't fucking wait.
I have so many questions, butwe'll take that, that offline.
That's, that's secret.
That's behind the curtain foryou guys.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (33:34):
Get that at the end of 2025 when I
do this episode

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (33:37):
okay, another fact that I learned, and
this one, it never, whenever Isee the episode title I think
about it.
A woman once accidentally killedherself by stabbing herself in
the twat with a pointy carrot.
That just boggles my mind.
When you dropped That, in theepisode, I was like, no fucking

(33:59):
way.
I just like, I didn't believeit.
And you're like, it wasn't apeer reviewed research.
And I

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (34:03):
a scientific

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (34:04):
and I read it because it, I could not
fucking believe it.
But yep.
Yep.
It fucking happened.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (34:11):
It pokes, for those who didn't
listen, go back, it's a greatstory.
Essentially, it, she pushed airinto her bloodstream through a
carrot in her vagina, and thenshe died, and that's why I still
don't trust vegetables to thisday.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (34:24):
At least not carrots.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (34:25):
Mm mm.
Well, the other veggies, theveggies are out to get us,
because they were involved in

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (34:29):
In several.
Yes.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (34:31):
So just, when you're thinking of
your erotic activities, pleasedon't include a veggie.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (34:38):
Just don't do

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (34:38):
They're looking for the opportunity.
They hear, you know, when youcut them, they scream.
They scream.
They've been, they've beensaving that.
When they're, when they gettheir opportunity the screams of
their family and friends are intheir brain and they just,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (34:51):
Barf it into your bloodstream,
apparently.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (34:53):
Yeah, they will kill you at the first
opportunity.
Don't trust a vegetable.
Also, don't trust that cutesuitor from your village because
odds are you're related.
That was another top fact of theyears that 80 percent of all
marriages throughout historywere, are probably between
second cousins or closer.

(35:15):
What?
We're all inbred here.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (35:18):
Goes back to that Envy episode,
right?
The pool was a lot smaller for

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (35:21):
Right.
Well,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (35:23):
VIII.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (35:23):
just, your proximity is just people.
Yeah.
Who, who are you around?
That's, that's who you get tomarry.
That's who you get to freakwith.
And, um, most likely they'redistantly or not so distantly
related to you.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (35:36):
is that so bad as we covered in our

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (35:38):
Right.
Ends

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (35:39):
don't go back and listen to that one.
That's one of my least favoritesfor other reasons that we won't
talk about.
Yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (35:44):
Oh.
Oh,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (35:48):
of like the research, how you did the
research and then I read it andit was super awkward.
And it was nothing to do withthe research, but just like the
whole

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (35:55):
that's, yes.
I mean, we could talk aboutthat, but the fact that I was
trying to help Laura out and belike, well, Laura has like work.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (36:05):
I had something, I had started, did I
start my new job?
I had started my new

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (36:09):
Yeah, no, it was just that you didn't
have, you didn't feel like youhad a lot of brain power to
expend on research, which washarder.
It is harder than editing.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (36:17):
harder.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (36:18):
not in like harder and it's harder
in the fact that like.
You have to take a lot ofinformation and sort it and put
it together.
where editing, you just kind ofsit down and deal with what's in
front of you,

lb_1_12-03-2024_21103 (36:27):
mindless.
You can hyper focus on editing.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (36:32):
It's just like, it's the difference
between like washing dishes andmaking a meal plan, right?
Uh, it's that, that kind ofstuff.
So, I was like, well, I can helpyou with that because I am not
working and I like, I need tokeep my brain doing that kind of
activity.
And it, and I had forgotten weeven had this arrangement for
that one episode because I wasreading the outline looking for

(36:53):
facts, fun facts, and I waslike, why, I remember doing
this, why are the quotes in my,me, why are like the, the notes,
and you know, the extra stuff,my perspective, I'm like, I
swore I wrote this, and I waslike, well maybe me and Laura's
brains really are just meldinginto one.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (37:13):
Nope.
You wrote it.
I tried to read it.
It was super fucking awkward.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (37:18):
I don't remember.
I need to go back and listen toit.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (37:21):
It's better on the edit, obviously,
you know, we clean it up in theedit,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (37:25):
Yeah, well that's a look behind the
curtain for sure.
Oh man.
Well there you go folks.
Now you know.
We don't have, uh, researchstaff writing our stuff for us.
I tried it and it didn't evenwork.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (37:40):
Rachel tried being research staff, it
didn't work.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (37:43):
It didn't.
But it was a lot of fun tidbitsin that one too.
I'm pretty sure I probablytalked about my tutor love in
that one as well.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (37:49):
And the table of consanguity, you just
referenced that in a text theother

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (37:54):
Yeah, consing I pulled that out at a
family get together.
I can't remember what thereference was, but I, consing I
still can't say it.
Only on the fly when I'm makinga joke.
Another fun tidbit that Ilearned, that sticks with me, I
jumped out onto the page as soonas I saw this, or thought of

(38:14):
this.
was from the Resurrectionistepisode, which was also a real
fun one, was that a president'sdad's body was stolen and found
hanging on a meat hook twostates over within, like, what,
24 hours after his funeral?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (38:32):
Yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (38:33):
That's nuts! Who is it, Harrison or
something?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (38:35):
It was.
It was Harrison's dad.
He was both the, he was the inbetween.
His great, His father was apresident.
He wasn't a president.
And then his son was apresident.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (38:46):
the president hanging on a meat

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (38:47):
Yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (38:48):
Because they stole his body for science.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (38:51):
Yup.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (38:52):
Hmm.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (38:53):
they had got or maybe they did.
Who knows?
But yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (38:56):
a prized corpse.
We're trying to figure out whyhis progeny was so successful.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (39:02):
That was fun.
That was a mind boggler.
Other classic items or topmoments for 2024.
What do you got?
What, what big news happened inthe world in polite society

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (39:15):
I, I am a fame monster.
Like, I just do this for thepublicity, right?
Like, I just want to be seen!

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (39:21):
You must be sad and unfulfilled.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (39:24):
I feel seen, because I get to
stare at my own image on thescreen.
For an hour every couple weeks.
But, there was a TikTok that Imade that was semi successful in
the world of

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (39:38):
blew up.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (39:39):
Small, small

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (39:41):
Well relative to other Tik Tokers,
but relative to us, it

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (39:44):
We were like, yeah, yeah, it was
our most, well, I think you hadanother one about cunnilingus
that also was pretty hot,because come on, it's
cunnilingus, but this one waslike semi political so I think
that's what helped it becauseapparently that's the only kind
of content that WORKS THESEDAYS, folks, it was referencing
dog for dinner, our episode whycan't I eat dog for dinner,

(40:04):
because of, A quote about ourformer and future president
saying that Haitian immigrantsare eating

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (40:12):
Dogs and cats.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (40:13):
Yeah, in Ohio.
So I made a little tidbit abouttrying to promote the podcast,
but it ended up just beingpolitical discourse in the
comments.
But, c'est la vie! We didrepublish that episode, though,
in the Society Select, so I hopeyou enjoyed re listening to it.
That's a fun one.
That's always been a fun one.
And I just like talking aboutour hometown, St.
Louis, so that's always a goodlittle horrible bit of St.

(40:35):
Louis history.
The human zoo.
The people zoo.
Bleh.
How about you?
What are some of your topmoments, moments?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (40:43):
I, when I was thinking about this, I was
looking back through theepisode, episode catalog for
2024.
And I saw those two genitalaugmentation episodes, the, uh,
the anal bleaching and then thefemale done genetic female
genetic cosmetic surgery, femalegenital cosmetic surgery.

(41:05):
And.
I remembered how you werecalling me out on it.
You're like, Oh man, you've donetwo genital episodes.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (41:13):
Well, at some point I'm like, wait,
why does this seem vaguelyfamiliar?
I was like, oh yeah.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (41:20):
because we did something similar a few
weeks out.
Well, I would just have to say Ifelt called out

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (41:25):
And I think I know, I think I know
really what your motivation was,Laura, because one of my top
moments was when you told methat you literally asked your
dermatologist for a referral forsomebody who does intimate area
bleaching.
So,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (41:39):
that was fun.
That was my dermatologist.
I

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (41:42):
and her poor receptionist.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (41:44):
Yes.
And the receptionist, I happenedto have a dermatologist, uh,
appointment while I was doingthe research.
And I don't know, I wanted toask her about it and she was.
a really good sport and had alot of good information for me.
I asked her some questions aboutlike, you know, genital and
coloring and how, how it allworks and those kinds of things.
It was very interesting.
It's, it's, I got to actuallytalk to an expert, which we

(42:07):
don't do on this show.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (42:09):
Not typically.
Yeah, Laura's been really goodabout, uh, taking our research
into the real world.
Yeah.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (42:16):
Just for the record, I did not get
anything bleached.
That was research only,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (42:20):
Just to find out if it even exists,
as you will know if you listento the episode.
And I think there was anotherbig moment for us in 2025, 4,
whatever year.
And what is it?
You tell me.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (42:37):
Oh, YouTube.
we did YouTube over the summerwhen we did our summer shorts.
Just trying to dip our toe

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (42:46):
Into video.
We said lights, camera, action.
We're ready for our close ups.
Get us from behind the mics toin front of the camera.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (42:55):
camera,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (42:57):
it sucked! That's why

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (43:01):
I mean, our first one, the pe

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (43:03):
in the first place.
Come on.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (43:06):
The first one, the pedophile one, it
did well.
Like you said, we kind of hit aniche, uh, gave us a little bit
of false hope, but the, God, thefucking effort involved in
editing those videos, it wasjust so much, I, I hated editing
video, hated it.
And I, I liked also just showingup, you know, my face is what it

(43:29):
is.
I

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (43:30):
I was

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (43:30):
like getting dressed.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (43:31):
to every recording because I took
like 45 minutes to get ready.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (43:35):
Yeah,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (43:36):
I also

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (43:37):
and like your background and your makeup
and all that shit and it wasjust exhausting.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (43:43):
And we probably didn't need to do
all that because people streamand just whatever but like I had
also heard of like the hollywoodhair theory where like you have
to have memorable hair Forpeople to like you so that I
committed to like having bigcurly hair because it was summer
And then I spent all this timecurling my stupid hair to be
like 30 people to maybe likesomething was like less right?

(44:04):
I don't even

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (44:04):
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They were really, really badviews.
the Christian domesticdiscipline one, pretty mean,
again, for us, shot off.
And we still get some goodcomments on it.
I, yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (44:19):
No, it's like, it's, it's pretty
considerable, the views.
That's like, what, a quarter ofour total podcast downloads.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (44:28):
totally.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (44:30):
yeah, I thought that was, I thought
that was really cool.
That made me excited and made mealmost want to do it again.
But then you start, you lookedat the stats and I'm like, oh,
those aren't, those aren't ourpeople.
That's, we just, again, hit in aspecific niche or.
It's not who I want my people tobe.
Maybe that's, that's who'slistening now, if it is.

(44:50):
Hey, if it's not, or if it, welljust tell us who you are.
Just give us all yourinformation.
Mother's maiden

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (44:59):
data.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (45:00):
the street you grew up on, um, last
four of your social.
No, but if you wanna like, Iguess maybe one day we'll do a
survey.
Nobody would take it, but I'mjust curious to know more about
you guys out there.
So, let us know.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (45:12):
I think in general, I just don't think
our topics are controversial ortimely enough, you know, like in
the, in the cycle of what's inpeople's brains right now to be
really popular on YouTube.
And I just, I don't want tochase the thing that I think
people are going to click on.
I just want to do the thing thatseems interesting to me.
So

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (45:33):
and that's why we're here doing what
we do.
And if we were people withhonest, like, I feel like in
polite society, if it was just adecade earlier, maybe we would
have been able to grow like asmall cult following, right?
Because it's just, you wouldhave to trust in us and like us
enough to come back week afterweek to hear about something

(45:54):
completely new.
Like stuff you should know,right?
I,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (45:57):
And I fucking love stuff you should
know.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (45:59):
would never make it today.
If they launched stuff, youshould know, if we did not have
20 years of parasocialrelationship with those two, we,
nobody would listen.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (46:10):
think you're

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (46:11):
Come at me.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (46:15):
So to our 77 YouTube subscribers, I'm
real sorry.
I know it really let you down.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (46:23):
Uh, we may be, I, I, what I do here
on those podcasting subredditsis that, we should probably at
least put the audio out theresome kind of way, cause the
majority of people listen topodcasts on, on YouTube now.
So it doesn't have to be video.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (46:38):
Yeah, I think we can do the final, audio
and then like convert it intojust like talky bubbles, you
know?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (46:46):
Yeah, I've seen sometimes you can also
get an AI avatar to do yourtalking for you.
So that's kind of cute.
Then I don't have to do my hairevery day.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (46:54):
I just don't want to be on camera and I
don't want to edit video.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (46:57):
It's very vulnerable.
Very vulnerable

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (47:01):
Or I guess we could do, we could do
where we release just, uh,unedited audio or unedited video
on YouTube.
And then the more polished audioon

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (47:12):
Well, I say we would just edit the
audio the way we want it.
Re add the video and justwhatever choppy bullshits put
out there, right?
I don't care.
I don't care.
It's either gonna get, it'seither gonna get thousands of
views or it's gonna get five.
So who cares?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (47:30):
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (47:32):
ha.
And most people put it on thebackground anyway.
They're not really watching it.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (47:37):
Yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (47:38):
That would be weird.
Oh, I'm gonna sit here andintently watch two people
talking to microphones.
Weird.
I mean, it was a good year.
I would not say it was.
A banner year for ImpliedSociety.
We used to do a lot, right?
Go to conferences, do guestshows,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (47:59):
all had kids since then.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (48:00):
yeah.
We're, um, kind of, we're in ourcozy era of Implied Society
where we're just making, makingthe show we want to make.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (48:10):
I'm good with that.
So next year, 2025, what are youlooking forward to?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (48:16):
If I was trying to make it a banner
year, Better year, not a betteryear.
If I was trying to like hustlemore in the next couple years I
would definitely look for morecollab opportunities.
Not only was that I think goodfor getting our name out there
But it was also really fun.
I will never forget Talking topeople in Australia who were
talking to us from the futureand that was just so cool and

(48:38):
then I like went and drank withmy neighbors after and I was
like I was just talking tosomebody in Australia Like,
that's really cool!

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (48:45):
And I met the guys from nerds talking
the podcast who I'm stillpodcasting with

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (48:49):
You're right, yeah.
That was, I, and that was, Ithink that was some of the,
like, the camaraderie of thehobby that I miss a little bit.
Again, don't necessarily know ifI have the bandwidth to sustain
it, but if, it's not super hardto guess for a lot of people,
you just kind of show up andtalk.
Which is like, what if we justmake that, we pretend to have a

(49:11):
podcast and then we just go anddo other people's

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (49:13):
We just released the same episodes over
and over again.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (49:17):
So that we can go talk to other
people and just come in and becharming and then roll out and
let them download, you know,edit their podcast.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (49:25):
Yep.
Yep.
That's the dream.
That's the dream.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (49:30):
Uh, what about you?
What would you do?
What do you want to resolve tolike a loser?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (49:35):
Ah, I've got my dream topics, but I don't
really have, I mean, I'm prettyhappy.
I think, I mean, just forever isus just making the process more
streamlined, getting my brainall right to do research.
I don't know why it's such aslag for me.
Um, just, just trying to like.
Get better at synthesizinginformation.

(49:57):
I guess that would be my goalfor next year.
That's not very sexy, but that'sthe truth.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (50:04):
Yeah, well, we all want to get better
at synthesizing information.
Maybe the AI will eventuallycatch up and just do it for

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (50:10):
No, we've tried.
We tried.
Well, I mean, true.
It has been a while since wetried to do

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (50:14):
I mean, this was the year of AI,
and yeah, it never worked.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (50:17):
it did not.
We tried.
We Tried.
so many times.
We spent more time fuckingtrying to get AI to work than it
would have taken us to just doit ourselves.
Yes.
Yep.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (50:29):
Yeah, not cute.
Not cute.
And besides, you don't want tolisten to us read our virtual
research assistance stuff, anyhoodle.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (50:38):
can always tell.
Even when you go through andpolish it, I feel like, you can
just tell.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (50:42):
It's just, it's a lot of words that
don't say anything.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (50:46):
Just politicians wrote it.
Ha ha

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (50:49):
you go.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (50:50):
ha.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (50:50):
So while we're looking to the
future, what are some of yourdream topics or like ideas that
you have for next year?
Just to kind of like titillatethe listeners who have made it
this far.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (51:00):
god, we've got so many fucking
episodes ideas.
Okay, I'm just gonna run throughthem real quick.
Okay.
Some of the ones that are onthere that jumped out at me
today.
Peeping Toms.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (51:12):
That's a

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (51:12):
is that about?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (51:13):
Yeah.
What is the thrill?
Well, why do that?
I mean, I guess I understand thethrill a little bit, but

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (51:18):
some deep psychology there that I, I
can't

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (51:21):
Like, why is Princess Leia in her
slave outfit sexier than, like,just a lady in a bikini?
It's because she doesn't want tobe wearing it, right?
There's like some, it's alwaysmore exciting to catch like a
peep of somebody's underwearthan it is for a stripper to be
flapping their, uh, clitoris inyour face.

(51:42):
Right?

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (51:42):
Totally.
Totally.
And that's, that's what I wantto find out.
Um, chiropractors.
This is one of the ones thatsounds super

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (51:49):
keep tweaking it up and I'm like, I
don't care.
No, I'm

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (51:53):
It's gonna be interesting, the story
of how chiropractor started.
I'm telling you, it'sinteresting.
I just, I have to sit down andwrite it.
So, keep that one in your hat.
That's a thing people say,right?
Put it in your hat?
Whatever.
Uh, penis pumps.
That's just going along with ourgenital shit that we've been
doing.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (52:13):
It's what the people love.
You gotta keep giving it tothem.
Keep pumping those penises.

lb_1_12-03-2024_2 (52:18):
circumcision.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (52:19):
That's, oh, that's such a good one.
That's such a good one.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (52:22):
there's some like funny, weird stuff in
the, in the history books onthat one.
Uh, and last one, I don't knowhow I'm gonna make it a full ep
full episode, but I've beenwanting to do it forever.
The bodies that are left onEverest.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (52:35):
That, uh, that's a creepy

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (52:36):
I know! It's so fucking weird and I
can't just Yeah, I I wanna doit.
I wanna do it.
I

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (52:42):
Oh, they just just dropped dead.
They're just doing their thingand they just like kind of fall
over and they're dead.
There's no oxygen.
Why go

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (52:49):
and nobody can come go up and get
them.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (52:51):
Cuz there's no oxygen! Why would you
do it?
What's it just a top of amountain?
It's just a top of a mountain.
It's just white.
Okay, those are good.
I'm excited to hear about atleast three of them.
Ha No, it's because I feel likeI already know about the bodies
on Everest.
So that's, that's why I'm like,okay, I feel like I know that

(53:13):
one.
But the other ones, I'm like,Oh, I'm going to learn
something.
And then there's chiropractors.
I'm just kidding.
I'll learn something for

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (53:20):
You will.
You will.
You'll learn it and you'll likeit.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (53:23):
White Dirt has made me a believer.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (53:25):
Yeah.
Trust in Lara.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (53:27):
Okay, so my topics, okay, these are
the ones I have and the one Iwas gonna do for this year
before we decided to cop out anddo this instead.
I really want to do child free,like people who don't have kids,
because it is such a taboo andit was recommended by one of our
Time Sucks spillover fans.
I hope you're still there.

lb_1_12-03-2024_2110 (53:47):
Hopefully.
Hi.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (53:48):
been hanging on by the skin of her
teeth being like, Oh, they saidthey were gonna do a topic that
I recommended.
So I'd love to do that becauseit seems very topical right now.
But then on the flip side, Ialso want to talk about just
like infertility in general andlike what's going on there,
because that is something thatyou cannot touch with a 10 foot
pole and polite conversation.
And I feel like it's happeningmore.

(54:10):
I don't know.
Those forever plastics are justreally wrecking our junk, but
I'll find out if that's true ornot, because those are, those
are two like procreation thingsabout our genitals, those things
that come out of our genitals,very.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (54:24):
come out of our genitals.
Oh,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (54:32):
and then based on our conversation
today, we both had a lot to sayabout like consumerism.
So there's gotta be, and youwon't, you won't bite on my
limited series, but maybethere's some kind of topic or
episode about it, without,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (54:45):
I've had on my, my list for a really long
time of, like, marketingtactics.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (54:50):
yeah.
Yeah.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (54:51):
con your brain into buying shit.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (54:53):
I think that that's what have to
be the spin.
Like if we could just go throughlike, kind of like, The
masturbation one, but justtidbits about ways that
companies trick you intospending more than you want to
or then you more than yourealize How is that a taboo?
I don't know.
It's interesting and

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (55:10):
just, it's interesting.
That's all, that's all I needed.
The, you know, podcast,pretense, whatever.
It's interesting.
That's why I'm going to talkabout it.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (55:18):
Yeah.
So that's definitely on there.
I've started doing, I'veliterally started doing the
research on that one before andcould not find enough.
So I feel like that's whatyou'd, like, because the
companies don't want you toknow.
So you have to literally, like,dig into it or, like, talk to
people and that's always been mybarrier.
But on top of that, I definitelygot to get into, like, these are

(55:39):
more abstract concepts that arefloating in my head.
Topics around fetishes or kinks,those always are our best
downloaded episodes.
And they're always interesting.
Like, I've had sounding on thelist for,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (55:50):
Ah, yes.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (55:52):
ick factor,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (55:53):
Don't even tell people what that is.
The let their imaginations.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (55:57):
right?
Or if you know, you know.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (55:59):
Yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (56:00):
Um, and then the other thing is,
like, this is another big, heavyone that's been, like, weighing
on me, is what is going on withThe battle of the sexes that's
happening right now in theworld.
Like there is such a huge dividebetween men and women that I'm
like, there's definitely tabooin that to pull apart.
Is it too big for a politesociety?

(56:21):
Maybe, but I just, yeah, it'sthe divide is there.
I read and there are littlenotes.
I wrote the lost boys.
Cause I feel like we're losingmen to this.
online internet siren song,right?
And it's just, what's happening?
What's going on there?
Why is this so intense these dayand age?

(56:44):
And then the last one is just,all I need is one word.
Sinkholes.
Sinkholes.
What the fuck?
They're terrifying.
I just saw a news article today.
This grandma disappeared.
They think she got swallowed bya sinkhole.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (56:56):
What the fuck?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (56:57):
It's horrible.
In Pennsylvania.
Look it up.
It's got three things that justtug at my heart string.
One.
Grandma.
Get, like, already, oh my god,no.
Nothing bad can ever happen to a

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (57:08):
Not granny.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (57:09):
Two, she fell in the same coal whilst
looking for her lost cat.
Heartbreaking.
She thought her cat was hangingout at this restaurant.
She went looking for him andthey think that she stepped on a
gone, swallowed three.
Her granddaughter was in the carwhen she got swallowed.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (57:26):
Oh God.
Why do you even tell me about

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (57:29):
It was terrifying.
Yeah.
Little daughter, granddaughterwas taking a nap in her car

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (57:33):
But she's fine, right?
The granddaughter's fine.
Like she

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (57:35):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh God.
Yeah.
No, it's December.
It's in Pennsylvania.
Um.
So yeah, she's taking a littlenap, her grandma pulled over to
get, look for the cat, nevercame back.
Her family eventually called, Iguess found the little girl at
one in the morning, and likecalled the police.
This is, it's like a horriblestory.

(57:55):
And there's just like thislittle sinkhole that's right
there, and then the people atthe restaurant that it happened
next to were like, Yeah, thatwasn't there before.
So

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (58:02):
oh God,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (58:03):
You do the math.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (58:06):
can't they find her?

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (58:08):
They're looking.
This is breaking news when thisis being recorded, not when
you're listening.
This is breaking news.
I'm gonna Google it as soon aswe get off the phone again to
see if there's any updates, butI will be following this story.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (58:20):
And we'll be doing our sinkhole
episode.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (58:23):
They're terrifying.
Don't go to Florida or anywherethat minds.
Which, we've had a lot ofsinkholes in our area up north
in St.
Louis.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (58:31):
County, yeah.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (58:32):
They do, uh, there's a whole road
they call it sinks because Yeah,sinkholes.
He's lucky he didn't getswallowed.
We have sinkholes in mybackyard, but that's because
there was a pool there that my,like, the people before my
parents filled in,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (58:46):
And in ground pool.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (58:47):
Mm hmm.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (58:47):
Yeah.
I don't know.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (58:49):
So we have an under I grew up with
an underground pool.
We're really fancy.
No, but like, uh, becausethere's a lot of natural gas up
there, right?
That's where the sinkholes comefrom.
And lots of caves.
Maybe, maybe we'll do a two partseries.
Sinkholes and caves.
Because they're all spooky.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (59:05):
Ooh.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-0 (59:07):
People, people above ground.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (59:10):
Go below ground.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (59:12):
People know below ground.
I saw what happened to thatsoccer team, Southeast Asia.
People stay up,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (59:20):
People up.
People up.
Ha!

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (59:23):
people on ground, people over ground,
people know under or no too farover Everest style

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (59:33):
There's a sweet spot,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (59:34):
where there's oxygen and you don't
fall to your doom.
That's a

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (59:41):
Well that's it, that is,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (59:43):
high note to end on sinkholes,

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (59:46):
I

squadcaster-f0f6_1_1 (59:47):
hopefully.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (59:47):
is, this is how our brains work, this is
the peak behind, uh,

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (59:51):
And you're like, no, pull the
curtain, please.
It's too much.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (59:57):
You just blather and blather.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03 (59:59):
script back.
No, but we hope you have alovely holiday season.
Don't fall into any sinkholes.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:00:08):
Don't climb Everest.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (01:00:09):
Test the ground before every step you
take.
God, some people think the catfell in the sinkhole too.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:00:16):
Oh, I'm sure the cat is fucking fine.
If history has taught meanything, the cat is fucking
fine.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (01:00:22):
damn.
Cats.
I love them.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:00:25):
Okay.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2 (01:00:27):
Just

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:00:28):
Anyway, happy Happy holidays, everybody.
We love you.
We'll be coming back in Januarywith some new episodes.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-20 (01:00:39):
you might have heard about already.
The topics.
So get excited.
I'm excited.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:00:43):
Oh, and we hope to see you there.

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-202 (01:00:46):
So stay curious and don't forget to
keep marching to the beat ofyour own drum.
And until then, remember shiphappens.
No, sorry.
You can take that out.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:00:58):
Goo!

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03-2024 (01:01:02):
I swear I've edited that sound out
like explicitly.

lb_1_12-03-2024_211031 (01:01:07):
I feel attacked! I feel attacked!

squadcaster-f0f6_1_12-03- (01:01:10):
We'll take this as an opportunity to
do better.