April 21, 2025 • 29 mins
In this week's relaxed fit episode we discuss the horror movie Woman in the Yard, the ending of Orange is the New Black, Rachel's new gaming hobby, and Laura's Operation Spring Cleaning.
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rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (00:33):
Hello and welcome to Society Chats.
Laura, you've, you've done likethe last three, so I'm jumping
in
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (00:39):
do it.
I love it when I don't have to,you know, do the thing,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (00:44):
Talk on the podcast you host.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (00:46):
you know, just do the introduction
to the podcast.
It's a lot of stress, weirdly,even though we've been doing
this for like, what, five years?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (00:55):
Yeah, and if you haven't been here for
the past five years, you willnow need to know that this is in
implied society, specificallyour little mini relaxed episodes
where we don't do any realresearch.
We talk about the media we areconsuming and little random
facts we've learned in theweeks.
This is that, um, part of anepisode where the podcasters
(01:16):
asks.
Well, how was your week?
But instead of making you listento that before, getting to all
the fun taboo research, we juststick it to the side.
So if you want it, here it is.
If you don't go listen to one ofour real episodes because pretty
fun.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (01:32):
I had like to think, so what are
you up to?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (01:36):
What am I up to?
I've lived like a human thislast week
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (01:39):
What?
What is that like?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (01:41):
I've consumed so many mediums.
I've consumed, I've watched afilm.
I went to the cinema
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (01:46):
Oh, what did you see?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (01:48):
I consumed a feature film.
Um, it was the Woman in theYard, which was not anything I
had heard about until we werelooking for a movie to see.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (01:57):
I never even heard of it.
Is it a horror?
It sounds like a horror.
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (02:02):
movie
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (02:02):
Yeah.
Is she like just hanging out inher backyard?
The woman in the yard, she's gota good bottle of soft blanc.
She's just sitting out there.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (02:13):
Uh, I mean, it's a movie about a
woman who wakes up one morningand finds that there is a woman
sitting in the yard of her ruralfarmhouse that she and her late
husband bought to fix up thatshe now lives at alone with her
two kids, and no spoilers, butit's an al in a
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_ (02:34):
Allegory,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (02:35):
Yeah, it's an allegory
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (02:37):
is it her?
Is it her past self in the yard?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (02:40):
grief.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (02:41):
Uh.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (02:42):
it.
Okay.
No spoilers, but kind ofspoilers.
It's so, it, it gets pretty darkand it deals with, um, big old
SLR slide.
I don't, why am I saying, why amI speaking an allegory speak?
It's about suicide and
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (02:54):
We're not, we're not really on
YouTube.
I mean, we are on YouTube, butwe're not really on YouTube.
We're certainly not monetized.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (03:00):
review.
Anyways, it was really dark attimes, but still not, it was
scary to me as a not scary movieperson but the whole time I was
really pulled out of the story,which, you know, was pretty
good.
But I was pulled out of it bythe fact, and this is just me
being insane that the castingwas.
(03:21):
Not your typical horror movie.
It was cast with a black familyand
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (03:26):
Okay.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-20 (03:26):
actually have anything to do with race,
which I
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (03:28):
Wait, a black family in a rural, like,
like lot of land.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (03:32):
Yeah, they bought a farmhouse
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (03:34):
Yeah, that's, I would be distracted by
that as well.
I was like, no, I'm not sayingit can't happen, but I'm also
like, I wanna hear that storymore than I wanna hear the other
story.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (03:44):
it was an
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (03:45):
Mm-hmm.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (03:45):
casting too, because a lot of the horror
stories or where people arecast, where black actors are
cast, race is a factor.
But it, at least not to myuneducated eyes, I didn't see it
factor in at all.
And which is kind of cool,right?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (03:59):
no, I, yeah, you're right.
I do like that.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (04:01):
yeah, the
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (04:02):
Playing against type.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (04:04):
Well, and it's just that, you know, it
shouldn't matter what color skinyou have, but at the same time
it does matter because the wholetime I watched it, I was like,
this is some white people shit.
If, if I'm like being so honestand not just buying the fixer
upper farmhouse, but like thewhole feeling so sorry for
herself.
I'm like, I know this is gonnasound reductive on some level,
(04:25):
but I feel like the strongestamong us are black women.
And so it's just like.
I don't, something about howshe's sliding.
And I'm not saying thatdepression picks and chooses or
is exclusionary, but I'm justlike, this isn't matching up to
my lived experience.
And then at the very end whenshe is she's actually fighting,
(04:48):
killing herself.
She is using a gun, a shotgun.
And I'm like, well, this isjust.
Reeks of white man.
You know, when women do commit,it is typically not guns,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (05:00):
no
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (05:00):
So
laura-b_1_04-11-202 (05:01):
nonviolent.
There's pills or.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (05:03):
Well, and I also stop me if I'm wrong,
internet or whoever listens tothis, but I also feel like
suicide, big taboo acrossAmerica.
I feel like it's even more of ataboo within black communities
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (05:15):
Correct.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (05:16):
once the big twist was revealed and
that we learned, she wasdebating or fighting, the woman
was her inner desire to killherself.
Like a whole black family got upand left
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (05:29):
Good for them.
They're like, fuck this shit.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (05:31):
Well, I was like saying, fuck this
shit.
She's a single parent to two
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (05:36):
Yeah, that's immediately when you
thought, when you said that, Iwas like, dude, you got two
fucking kids in the house.
That ain't an option for you.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (05:43):
Yeah, I wanted to reach through the
screen and slap her,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (05:46):
her.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (05:47):
but
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (05:47):
Get your shit together.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (05:48):
the kids were the, the coldest part,
like there was her little innervoice just talking to her.
And that actually delivered thecoldest line of the whole movie
where she asked her innersuicidal ideation,
manifestation, will they be okaywithout me?
And she goes, yes.
You set them free
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (06:08):
Ooh.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (06:08):
it was just like, as a mom
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (06:10):
And is that, is that where they got
up and left?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (06:13):
I think it was right around that
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (06:14):
Because I would've too, I'd be like, I
ain't watching this shit.
If this movie ends with a womankilling her kids, peace out.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (06:20):
Well, well, she didn't kill the kids.
She didn't, that was never herintention.
Setting them free meant likesetting them free from her.
Right?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (06:29):
Yeah, but you know, that's the.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (06:32):
Well there, then there's the whole
surprise ending.
Did they didn't, did she didn't,did she, didn't she?
Because the dog that my dearlydisappears, shows up in the end
and I'm like, oh, there, youknow, you think it's a happy
ending,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (06:45):
But is it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (06:46):
And anyways, like I said, the whole
thing, I was like, this just resin white people's shit.
And sure enough, I look it up.
The writer Steve Stefanki orsomething?
Steve?
No, Sam.
Sam Stefanak.
So, a, a white male writer whowrote this movie about his own
struggle with depression
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (07:05):
Yeah.
Well then cast yourself in it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (07:07):
Right.
It, it, it did.
I think they probably would'vefelt too much like a shining if
it went that route.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (07:12):
Fair.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (07:13):
uh, I just say.
Kudos on the casting decisions,but maybe we need to, it, it, it
kind of read like I don't seecolor, but you do have to to
some extent.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (07:25):
That's fair.
I have not seen the movie, butfrom all of the things that
you're saying, I'm just likenodding in agreement.
Definitely see where you'recoming from.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (07:34):
Yeah.
Well, and I'm a certified hater,so I don't like anything.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_ (07:37):
Certified hater.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (07:39):
But I do have some things that I
like, but I don't want it tomonopolize.
Laura, what's going on in yourworld?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (07:43):
Well, mostly I have finished, orange
is the New Black.
10 years after it ended.
I don't even know, like when?
When did it end?
I have no idea.
The animal, which is, I lookedit up.
Regina Specter did that.
Especially for the series, whichI thought was cool.
As soon as I heard that, I waslike, that's Regina Specter.
(08:03):
Like I, I didn't have to look itup immediately.
I knew, and it was specificallyfor the series, so I just
finished it.
You know, overall I enjoyed it,but there were definitely some
things that I didn't like.
But did, did you finish theseries?
You, I think we were talkingbefore you said you didn't
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2 (08:20):
remember.
That was a lifetime ago.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (08:23):
truly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (08:24):
the beginning.
I feel like I dropped off afterthat.
Um, straight woman lesbianthirst trap character showed up.
Ruby Rose.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (08:34):
Oh yeah, I, that was annoying.
I agree.
Um, she was a little bit, Ithink, kind of before, I think
the series kind of took a dip,but I, I know who exactly who
you're talking about.
so I finished the last seasonand I have a lot of thoughts,
but mostly what I wanna talkabout is just.
(08:56):
Compassion fatigue about the endis origin.
The orange is the new black.
So I will be totally honest,vulnerable, like about who I am
and where I live, you know whatI mean?
Like
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (09:08):
getting serious.
We started with racial issuesand
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (09:11):
truly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (09:11):
getting tough.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (09:13):
No, like I have never thought that
much about the prison systembecause I have never been to
prison, nor has anybody I know,at least not closely, right?
So this has never been somethingthat I had ever really thought
about before.
And so I give big props toOrange is the New Black for
making.
(09:34):
White, middle class or whoever,middle class people, you know
what I mean?
Think about it and
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (09:42):
out of our butts and be
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (09:43):
yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (09:44):
All these, this is, it's not, people
don't choose to go to prison.
In some circumstances.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (09:49):
No, they don't choose and
necessarily like, how are wetreating them and like, are we
really looking to rehabilitateor are we Yeah, exactly.
Like I've, I've never reallythought about these things.
And so I give big props to theshow for bringing that to the
forefront and making me think alot of thoughts.
I was like, the privatization ofprisons is something that I had
(10:12):
seen in like think pieces orheadlines, but I.
I never thought, I never caredto look into it.
And I, and I, I even, I haven'tdone so since watching the show,
but when they were talking aboutin the show, immediately it like
clicked and I'm like, oh, that'sa bad idea.
Like, it was like, you, you verylike follow the threads and
(10:35):
you're like, oh no, that, that'snot good.
And so it really did get a lotof thoughts going.
But then in the last season ofthe show.
They really went off the rails.
And when I say off the rails, Imean they tried to bring in
about a thousand different likesocial issues that we should
(10:56):
care about.
Not to say that we shouldn'tcare about them because they
should, but this is where thecompassion fatigue comes in.
So like the entirety of theshow, I'm thinking now about the
prison system, racism.
Sexism, addiction, police forbrutality.
Like those are a lot of heavysubjects, right?
That weigh heavily.
And then in the last season, butnow we're throwing in a whole
(11:20):
new mix of things that I need tobe worried and concerned and
compassionate about.
Deportation abortion.
Me too.
Infant death, like one of theprisoners.
Infant died.
Female genital mutilation out ofnowhere.
We have somebody that came fromEgypt or like somewhere in that
(11:44):
region and was like, I don'thave a clitoris.
And it's like, it's not thatthese aren't issues, they
definitely are issues, but likethey're like jamming it into
that last season.
And I'm just like, I feel likethis got really far away from
where we started.
Like you need to stay on messagea little bit.
I don't,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (12:02):
Y.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (12:02):
is that
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (12:03):
Netflix show.
Can't solve all the world'sproblems.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (12:06):
Exactly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (12:07):
it did a good job, like you said,
of bringing attention to thatspecific issue.
And then at this point you bringit in at the end, like is it
because you're trying to raiseawareness or are you trying to
do a little bit of traumatourism and just show all the
ways that the world can goaskew, especially with the
infant loss.
'cause like I think everybodyknows that that happens
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (12:26):
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (12:26):
for it.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (12:27):
Yeah.
Yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (12:27):
know.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (12:28):
exactly.
I'm like, I feel like, yeah,you're just like layering on
like the traumas.
Like there was a major characterdeath, I think like the, the
second to last episode, and it'slike, really?
Did you really need, I, I neverexpected the show to end.
Like, and then everybody livedhappily ever after.
(12:49):
You know what I mean?
Like there was.
But it just left like a badtaste in my mouth.
I think that show should haveprobably ended in season four or
season five and would've like,you know, top tier.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (13:02):
A blanket statement that
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (13:03):
True.
So true.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (13:05):
four or five.
Um, but I mean, what are yougonna do?
Because the book that it wasbased on, she served her
whatever, 18 months and then sheleft,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (13:13):
Yeah, totally.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (13:14):
and I mean, that doesn't make that
good of TV show
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (13:16):
But that's, but honestly that's the,
the span of the TV show is like18 months.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (13:22):
Jesus, that's a busy 18
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (13:24):
It truly is.
It truly is.
Like, it's not seven years orhowever long like the series
went, and it did such a good jobof making you really care about
these characters and think aboutthings in a different light.
And so I give it hard props tothat.
And then I also give hard propsthen to HBO.
Because I know it's not an HBOshow.
(13:45):
HBO generally cap shows out atthree seasons.
There's a reason
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (13:51):
Oh yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (13:53):
because you keep it going for too long,
you lose it, man.
And, and they lost it.
And so I think
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (14:00):
what show
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (14:00):
I'll rewatch it again, but in like a
couple years and maybe stop atlike season four.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:06):
I have no desire to re-watch it.
You were talking about it andI'm like, mm.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (14:10):
Some of the characters.
Some of the characters are sogood.
Tasty.
Ugh, she's my fucking favorite.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (14:17):
Yeah,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (14:18):
Casey.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (14:19):
liking them, but again, I don't
remember enough about them.
And I feel like in a coupleyears maybe you won't remember
them either,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (14:25):
I don't know.
You'd be surprised.
I can really hold onto stuff.
I'm, I really latch onto mymedia.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (14:31):
yeah, we'll see.
The
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (14:33):
I
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (14:34):
will
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:34):
True, true time will tell.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (14:36):
Ah, so I feel like we need to get on
something a little bit lighter.
This is heavy
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:40):
Yeah.
That's fair.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (14:41):
which is, you know, not necessarily
what we talk about.
We actually got a little bitmore opinionated on the, what we
normally do, we
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (14:48):
Mm-hmm.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (14:49):
toe the line.
So we offended you in a way thatmakes you wanna interact with us
or
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:56):
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (14:56):
or keep hate listening.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:59):
Yeah.
You know, shoot us an email.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (15:01):
spicy right now because the other
thing that I've been doing, I amnow a gamer.
I am
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (15:08):
What?
It's not Sims.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (15:11):
No.
Well, the Sims that, I mean,off.
That's my
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (15:14):
I mean, it is a computer, isn't
it?
It's,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (15:16):
affair.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (15:17):
a computer game.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (15:18):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But I wouldn't like considermyself a gamer.
So this all started when Idiscovered my husband and I just
were watching YouTube.
I now, I have a un favoriteYouTube creator too,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (15:27):
Ooh.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (15:28):
really coming into the 21st century.
Uh, but we were watching hisrandom.
Ch random movie documentary,fake documentary, made by a
video game person about aJurassic alligator going from
pond to pond and taking over aserver, and I'm like, okay, what
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (15:49):
Taking over a server.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (15:51):
there's these games, they are like
survival games.
I don't know if you've heardanything about survival
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (15:55):
Mm-hmm.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (15:56):
husband and I used to try to play arc,
but the skill gap was just waytoo big.
Where, you know, we're two likenaked people on the island
trying to survive.
And meanwhile, like I'm justbefriending the dodos and he's
actually doing everything.
Um.
But it's like a dinosaursurvival game.
So you literally, you play as adinosaur and you just like go on
an island and you try not to geteaten by the mixed packers that
(16:17):
are out there trying to eat you.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (16:19):
Okay.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (16:19):
and I
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (16:20):
Are you a her herbivore or a
carnivore?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (16:22):
want.
Every dinosaur on the island isanother person.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (16:26):
Ah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (16:26):
And so you're playing against other
people and terrifying.
Like my little, my little watchthat tracks my stress, I.
When I'm playing.
Um, but
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (16:37):
It's good for you.
It's that primal need, right?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (16:39):
okay.
Any delusion I had that I woulddo good in a disaster after the
disaster psychology episode outthe
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (16:46):
You need to role play as the
dinosaur that's.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (16:49):
I, I need to get used to conflict
'cause I'm like, oh my God, Ipanicked.
I didn't even finish this.
So the, the game is called PathaTitans, the creator that I
watch, he's pretty good.
He like makes thesedocumentaries, the storytelling
and like narrative construction.
Is really good.
And he takes these dinosaurs andhe like, makes you care about
(17:09):
them even though they're, they,he probably dies like a thousand
times while doing it, but heslices it together and makes it
look like a nature documentaryand I'm like, this is so
enjoyable.
He doesn't have that manyvideos.
His name's Yellow Tones
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (17:22):
Yellow tone.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (17:23):
have that many videos.
He's only been, he's been doingit for like a year or two and
there's like 12 videos total.
So I believe breeze throughthose and I'm like, okay.
I'm gonna try my hand at this.
And so someone who's just notgame at all, I buy it on a
fricking console, uh, like onthe switch.
And so I have no idea what thehell I'm doing.
I'm just a small little dinosaurout there running and my
(17:44):
strategy is to run fast and Ipick the fastest dinosaur'cause
I ain't,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (17:47):
That's a,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (17:48):
to
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (17:48):
that's a fair strategy.
I feel like.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (17:50):
again.
The panic sets in.
Today I died very spectacularly,uh,'cause I was being attacked
and I ran and I ran, ran, ran.
And I ran off a cliff, fell intoa creek or a river and survive.
Survived all that.
While I'm swimming, I'm like,oh, I'm gonna go underwater and
hide and they won't be able tosee me anymore.
'cause I think they jumped inafter me to be fair because it
(18:12):
defies all ration.
These people are just outration.
Rationale.
Was it, what am I saying?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (18:16):
All rush all out the window.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (18:18):
It defies all reason.
They just wanna kill you, sothey, they're just gonna like do
whatever to
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (18:22):
They're on a mission.
It's not like hunter predatorprey relationship.
It's human grudge.
I'm gonna win.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (18:28):
Uh, yeah, I wanna torture and
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (18:30):
Yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (18:30):
pain on other people.
Um, so then I dive underwater.
Mistake.
I did not know how to come backup from, from under the water,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (18:38):
you drowned yourself.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (18:39):
I drown myself and I'm like, I
could've just, you know, letthis person kill me and then
they could've eaten my body andgot sustenance.
But nope, I look like an assholediving into
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (18:49):
No, that's you.
This is again, this is the humanaspect that comes into play.
You didn't let him get you.
You didn't let him get you.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (19:00):
yeah, I know.
Well, I didn't mean to die, butI
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (19:02):
He doesn't know that
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (19:04):
Yeah, my body's just down there at the
bottom of a river somewhere
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (19:07):
you're like, good luck fucker.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (19:09):
Also, why is it so hard to get out
from under the water?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (19:12):
it seems like up would be the
obvious way to get up.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (19:16):
I get maybe I got turned around
and was swimming down.
I don't know.
It looked like I was in theabyss.
That's all I got.
But anyways, that's my newthing.
That's what I did today.
I played a lot of that
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (19:25):
That sounds really fun.
After we had this flub aboutwhat time we were gonna record,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (19:30):
I
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (19:30):
I, I, uh, that was all my fault.
My phone did, wasn't working andso I, I wasn't that bothered
because I was deep cleaning.
Our master bedroom, our bedroom,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (19:42):
oh, you gotta do that every once in
a while.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (19:45):
oh my God.
I don't even know how long it'sbeen, Rachel.
There was so much dust and just.
Disgusting.
I pulled up all the furnitureout from the wall, dusted the
walls, you know what I mean?
Like when it gets like that, didlike the, you know, the tool for
the vacuum along the baseboardsand like all that shit.
(20:06):
I'm like, there is no fuckingallergens in this room.
We better, we were gonna sleepso good.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (20:12):
Right, which I did.
I pulled up our, uh, airpurifier and that helped us a
lot sleeping wise.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (20:18):
we were talking about that, about
getting an air purifier.
They cost a lot of money andwe're on this whole new no, no
buy thing.
So
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (20:26):
yeah.
You
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (20:28):
no buy.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (20:28):
for rooms, but we got like a big one
'cause we have all the fuckinganimals.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (20:32):
Yeah, that's fair.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (20:33):
why we did it.
And I wish I had more, but
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (20:38):
I also, I.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (20:40):
as well, just to kind of a whole
house reset.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (20:43):
the dying dinosaurs.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (20:44):
I make myself do all my chores
first.
So everything I
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (20:47):
That's smart.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (20:48):
the kids were over at my in-laws
today, so
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (20:51):
Good for you.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (20:51):
yeah.
My husband was nice enough toarrange that, so I cleaned like
a mad lady for a couple hours.
Did you know my, the things thatneeded to get done, my run
grocery shopping, had a goodlunch, and then just like played
dinosaurs for five hours.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (21:06):
There you go.
Living your best life.
Living your best life.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (21:09):
myself some Wagyu ground beef
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (21:12):
Ooh,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (21:12):
from Aldi.
I know.
I'm gonna regret it in themorning'cause that was greasy,
but it was a nice, nice littletreat to self day.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (21:22):
I also made, because I was like
going through the kids' socks,uh, the drawers, I was putting
away laundry.
And I'm like, why do I have somany fucking socks?
So I took out all the kids'socks and like cold?
Yeah.
Cold out the socks that I don'twant.
Put'em in the moppet swap pile.
And then I was like, I stillhave too many fucking socks, but
(21:44):
like, I just need them to likescooch.
I asked Austin, I was like, doyou have any of the more of
those drawer dividers, like theplastic, you know, the thingies?
He's like, no, I don't have anymore.
He said, I can order some.
I'm like, no buy.
We're on this no buy thing, son.
Like, I don't need every, like,every tiny inconvenience that
you have does not require anAmazon purchase, which is very
(22:07):
much so his mindset.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (22:09):
Yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:10):
I was like, no.
And so I made my own drawerdividers with uh.
Diaper box.
Very good.
Cardboard
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (22:19):
Yeah,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:20):
and some duct tape.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (22:21):
do you wanna know what's holding my
kids' clothes?
Separated boxes, cardboard andpainter's tape.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (22:27):
Exactly.
And that's as, as God intended,Rachel?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (22:31):
I was like, ah, you don't need to
buy it.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:33):
No.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (22:34):
use the box.
Your other purchase came in.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (22:35):
Yeah, you don't need to buy shit.
Like that's, that's, I'm tryingto get him in this mentality.
Austin's very much so a gadgetguy.
He likes
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (22:44):
Oh
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:44):
buy things for every little need.
And, uh, that's not really mystyle, but I've, so we're
finally on the same page oflike, no, we don't need to do
this anymore.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (22:55):
Yeah,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:57):
And he was like giving me all these
like, well, you should probablydo it like about two separate
pieces of cardboard and thenmerge them together so they can
slide.
And I was like, nah son, I'mjust gonna get a piece of
cardboard and then wrap it insome duct tape.
It's fine.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (23:11):
yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (23:11):
And uh, it worked great.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (23:13):
Yeah, I just put the cardboard in and
then tape the paper or use thepaper to like
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (23:17):
Yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (23:17):
and
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (23:18):
yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (23:18):
mostly keep it in place.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (23:19):
exactly.
Exactly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (23:21):
Doesn't need to be perfect.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (23:23):
I feel like his dad is, his dad
was an engineer, and I feel likethat like seeped in hard, you
know what I mean?
Like optimization and like, likenever, not, not everything has
to be optimized when you're in aplane, you know, 30,000 feet.
Yeah.
Things need to be optimized, butin this drawer right now, some
(23:44):
cardboard will do just fine.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (23:45):
Well, I would say that that's
optimized, right?
You don't have to over-engineer.
You could
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_ (23:49):
engineer.
There you go.
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (23:51):
you just gotta whatever works,
works.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (23:53):
Yeah, precisely.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (23:55):
Put some duct tape over that hole in
the plane.
It's fine.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (23:58):
It's fine.
I've been doing a little bit ofgaming as well.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (24:03):
Oh,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (24:04):
a different kind of game.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (24:06):
A can phone game.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (24:07):
It's called Paired.
It's an app
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (24:11):
Oh, a phone game.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (24:15):
it's not a game.
It's uh, it's an app that mytherapist recommended to me
about, like couples and stuff.
So, yeah, you like, you pairwith your significant other and
then you.
Like answer questions togetherand I don't know, I'm looking
for a little bit more connectionin my life.
(24:36):
It's hard, you know, with thekids and I'm sure you've
experienced the same thing, butI feel like you and Dan like do
more stuff together than me andAusten do.
So
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (24:45):
What do you mean do more stuff?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (24:46):
I don't know.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (24:47):
whole day out for my birthday.
That's when we saw the movie.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (24:50):
That sounds great.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (24:51):
we did putt putt, uh,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (24:53):
fun.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (24:54):
I didn't let Dan eat dinner
because I'm a psycho.
It was like a food court thatfood court plays downtown,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:01):
Oh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (25:03):
and I'm like, I don't want to eat at
a food court for my birthday.
It's my
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:06):
Oh, but Foundry is so fun.
You can get a little bit fromhere, a little bit from there.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (25:10):
like my nightmare.
I don't wanna stand in line andhave to look for a place to sit.
Like that's just, no, it's Is
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (25:15):
Fair.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (25:16):
No.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:17):
Was it a week weekend?
Because it gets real.
It gets real busy.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (25:21):
It was just not what I expected.
I thought it would be a littlebit more open, but it was cute.
That's where we saw the movie atthe fancy, uh, the fancy movie
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (25:28):
Yeah, I know which one you're talking
about.
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (25:30):
That was nice.
We should have got dinner there,but the popcorn smelled so good,
so we just had popcorn fordinner and then drank for like
five hours straight, and we wentto the speakeasy.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:39):
I bet.
Isn't that a beautiful one?
I, we went to that too.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (25:42):
it was a fun little experience.
It
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (25:44):
Mm-hmm.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (25:44):
maybe not what I needed at that
moment.
We
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (25:47):
Because you had been drinking for five
hours.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (25:49):
Yeah, it just was, it was down cold
and I don't know, I wasn't asdecorated as well as I thought
it could be, but
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:55):
Oh, I was, I guess I was kind of
drunk the last time I was there.
I remember liking it.
I just remember it was dark andthat the drinks were good and
strong.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (26:04):
Yeah, the drinks were good and strong.
My husband and I had to splitour second drink and then, yeah,
we went
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (26:10):
That's how you know it's good.
You're like, let's split thisdrink.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (26:13):
think we got home at 9 35 or
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (26:17):
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
You were in there early.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (26:19):
Because our reservation was at like
eight 15 or something.
So yeah, we flew througheverything you can do at that
fancy little entertainmentdistrict.
But it was cute.
I had never, I had never beenbefore.
So now we say check, done it.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (26:31):
You, did you go to the Museum of
Illusions?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (26:34):
'cause I didn't wanna spend more money.
Yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (26:36):
Yeah.
It is kind of expensive to getin, but it's pretty fun.
I didn't do it there, but I dida Museum of Illusions in Arizona
with the, with Charlotte, and itwas kind of fun.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (26:46):
Yeah, I bet that's something that's
more fun with your kid than yourhusband.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (26:49):
Yeah, but I mean, if, if you're really
into taking selfies, I could seehow you could really like it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (26:56):
looks like the things that the, not
the Magic House, the sciencecenter used to
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (26:59):
Yeah, yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (27:00):
just got rid of.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (27:01):
yeah.
But there's like a whole likeroom after room of them
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (27:04):
Yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (27:06):
that which you can take pictures of.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (27:08):
Right.
What, and you didn't have cellphones back then, so what?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (27:12):
Exactly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (27:12):
do?
So, I don't know, maybe I'lltake the kids back there
someday.
I wanted to do the VR stuff too,but my mom got a VR headset for
her birthday, and it depends on
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (27:22):
Your mom got a VR set for her
birthday.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (27:25):
Yeah, I don't remember the thinking
behind it, but, um, some of thegames are really fun.
Like
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (27:31):
They are.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (27:31):
it's augmented reality, uh, that's
good.
But the ones where you're likemoving around in a video game,
like, I think it was like BatmanBegins or something.
Nauseous
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (27:40):
Very, they're very disorienting.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (27:43):
'cause you're shooting forward and your
body's staying still.
And I get nauseous and I'm like,got the sweats.
Um, but I think the VR and likethe big.
would be different
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (27:53):
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (27:54):
your body's moving with
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (27:56):
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (27:56):
The only thing is like, just wanna
shoot stuff, you know, like,like
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (28:01):
Why not?
Are you not an American, Rachel?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (28:04):
I don't know.
I just like, come on, let's havea new idea.
Like the squid game ones was theone I was the most intrigued in,
but like I didn't wanna getmurdered instantly and like,
what?
You wasted your 80 bucks orwhatever.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (28:13):
Well, I'm sure you get like a set
amount of time.
It doesn't matter how many timesyou die.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (28:17):
my luck, it would.
I don't have a speedy littledinosaur to run
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (28:22):
We should do it together.
I would totally play squid gameswith you.
I haven't watched the series,but I'm familiar with the
concept, so, uh, let's do it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (28:29):
version of it,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (28:30):
Oh geez.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (28:31):
better, a little bit more fun.
And speaking of more fun, it'stime for us to go do our real
show.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (28:43):
Our real jobs that aren't jobs.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (28:45):
And that is in itself fun.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (28:48):
Yeah, exactly.
We choose to do it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (28:51):
Yes, it's uh, are nice little, these
get us warmed up for the bigepisodes that we record.
So we would do these convosanyway, so we thought might as
well
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (29:03):
Record 'em.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (29:04):
and put'em out there for you for
free.
You're welcome.
Do
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (29:10):
Well, all right guys.
Catch you on the flip side.
Catch you on the flippity flopas I think Rachel who said
before.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (29:17):
Yeah, flippity flop, flop flip.
us know your drip and what youthink about the things that we
talked about.
You probably have opinions.
Let us know.
Email us atroot@impolitesocietypodcast.com
or use the link in the shownotes to send us your, to
laura-b_1_04-11-2025 (29:37):
Questions, thoughts.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (29:38):
send us your que to send us an
anonymous text.
We can't text you back.
Don't fear.
Um, and then the rating, review,all that stuff.
Bye.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (29:47):
Bye.
Hello and welcome to Society Chats.
Laura, you've, you've done likethe last three, so I'm jumping
in
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (00:39):
do it.
I love it when I don't have to,you know, do the thing,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (00:44):
Talk on the podcast you host.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (00:46):
you know, just do the introduction
to the podcast.
It's a lot of stress, weirdly,even though we've been doing
this for like, what, five years?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (00:55):
Yeah, and if you haven't been here for
the past five years, you willnow need to know that this is in
implied society, specificallyour little mini relaxed episodes
where we don't do any realresearch.
We talk about the media we areconsuming and little random
facts we've learned in theweeks.
This is that, um, part of anepisode where the podcasters
(01:16):
asks.
Well, how was your week?
But instead of making you listento that before, getting to all
the fun taboo research, we juststick it to the side.
So if you want it, here it is.
If you don't go listen to one ofour real episodes because pretty
fun.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (01:32):
I had like to think, so what are
you up to?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (01:36):
What am I up to?
I've lived like a human thislast week
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (01:39):
What?
What is that like?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (01:41):
I've consumed so many mediums.
I've consumed, I've watched afilm.
I went to the cinema
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (01:46):
Oh, what did you see?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (01:48):
I consumed a feature film.
Um, it was the Woman in theYard, which was not anything I
had heard about until we werelooking for a movie to see.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (01:57):
I never even heard of it.
Is it a horror?
It sounds like a horror.
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (02:02):
movie
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (02:02):
Yeah.
Is she like just hanging out inher backyard?
The woman in the yard, she's gota good bottle of soft blanc.
She's just sitting out there.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (02:13):
Uh, I mean, it's a movie about a
woman who wakes up one morningand finds that there is a woman
sitting in the yard of her ruralfarmhouse that she and her late
husband bought to fix up thatshe now lives at alone with her
two kids, and no spoilers, butit's an al in a
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_ (02:34):
Allegory,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (02:35):
Yeah, it's an allegory
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (02:37):
is it her?
Is it her past self in the yard?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (02:40):
grief.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (02:41):
Uh.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (02:42):
it.
Okay.
No spoilers, but kind ofspoilers.
It's so, it, it gets pretty darkand it deals with, um, big old
SLR slide.
I don't, why am I saying, why amI speaking an allegory speak?
It's about suicide and
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (02:54):
We're not, we're not really on
YouTube.
I mean, we are on YouTube, butwe're not really on YouTube.
We're certainly not monetized.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (03:00):
review.
Anyways, it was really dark attimes, but still not, it was
scary to me as a not scary movieperson but the whole time I was
really pulled out of the story,which, you know, was pretty
good.
But I was pulled out of it bythe fact, and this is just me
being insane that the castingwas.
(03:21):
Not your typical horror movie.
It was cast with a black familyand
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (03:26):
Okay.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-20 (03:26):
actually have anything to do with race,
which I
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (03:28):
Wait, a black family in a rural, like,
like lot of land.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (03:32):
Yeah, they bought a farmhouse
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (03:34):
Yeah, that's, I would be distracted by
that as well.
I was like, no, I'm not sayingit can't happen, but I'm also
like, I wanna hear that storymore than I wanna hear the other
story.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (03:44):
it was an
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (03:45):
Mm-hmm.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (03:45):
casting too, because a lot of the horror
stories or where people arecast, where black actors are
cast, race is a factor.
But it, at least not to myuneducated eyes, I didn't see it
factor in at all.
And which is kind of cool,right?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (03:59):
no, I, yeah, you're right.
I do like that.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (04:01):
yeah, the
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (04:02):
Playing against type.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (04:04):
Well, and it's just that, you know, it
shouldn't matter what color skinyou have, but at the same time
it does matter because the wholetime I watched it, I was like,
this is some white people shit.
If, if I'm like being so honestand not just buying the fixer
upper farmhouse, but like thewhole feeling so sorry for
herself.
I'm like, I know this is gonnasound reductive on some level,
(04:25):
but I feel like the strongestamong us are black women.
And so it's just like.
I don't, something about howshe's sliding.
And I'm not saying thatdepression picks and chooses or
is exclusionary, but I'm justlike, this isn't matching up to
my lived experience.
And then at the very end whenshe is she's actually fighting,
(04:48):
killing herself.
She is using a gun, a shotgun.
And I'm like, well, this isjust.
Reeks of white man.
You know, when women do commit,it is typically not guns,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (05:00):
no
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (05:00):
So
laura-b_1_04-11-202 (05:01):
nonviolent.
There's pills or.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (05:03):
Well, and I also stop me if I'm wrong,
internet or whoever listens tothis, but I also feel like
suicide, big taboo acrossAmerica.
I feel like it's even more of ataboo within black communities
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (05:15):
Correct.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (05:16):
once the big twist was revealed and
that we learned, she wasdebating or fighting, the woman
was her inner desire to killherself.
Like a whole black family got upand left
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (05:29):
Good for them.
They're like, fuck this shit.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (05:31):
Well, I was like saying, fuck this
shit.
She's a single parent to two
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (05:36):
Yeah, that's immediately when you
thought, when you said that, Iwas like, dude, you got two
fucking kids in the house.
That ain't an option for you.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (05:43):
Yeah, I wanted to reach through the
screen and slap her,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (05:46):
her.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (05:47):
but
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (05:47):
Get your shit together.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (05:48):
the kids were the, the coldest part,
like there was her little innervoice just talking to her.
And that actually delivered thecoldest line of the whole movie
where she asked her innersuicidal ideation,
manifestation, will they be okaywithout me?
And she goes, yes.
You set them free
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (06:08):
Ooh.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (06:08):
it was just like, as a mom
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (06:10):
And is that, is that where they got
up and left?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (06:13):
I think it was right around that
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (06:14):
Because I would've too, I'd be like, I
ain't watching this shit.
If this movie ends with a womankilling her kids, peace out.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (06:20):
Well, well, she didn't kill the kids.
She didn't, that was never herintention.
Setting them free meant likesetting them free from her.
Right?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (06:29):
Yeah, but you know, that's the.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (06:32):
Well there, then there's the whole
surprise ending.
Did they didn't, did she didn't,did she, didn't she?
Because the dog that my dearlydisappears, shows up in the end
and I'm like, oh, there, youknow, you think it's a happy
ending,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (06:45):
But is it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (06:46):
And anyways, like I said, the whole
thing, I was like, this just resin white people's shit.
And sure enough, I look it up.
The writer Steve Stefanki orsomething?
Steve?
No, Sam.
Sam Stefanak.
So, a, a white male writer whowrote this movie about his own
struggle with depression
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (07:05):
Yeah.
Well then cast yourself in it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (07:07):
Right.
It, it, it did.
I think they probably would'vefelt too much like a shining if
it went that route.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (07:12):
Fair.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (07:13):
uh, I just say.
Kudos on the casting decisions,but maybe we need to, it, it, it
kind of read like I don't seecolor, but you do have to to
some extent.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (07:25):
That's fair.
I have not seen the movie, butfrom all of the things that
you're saying, I'm just likenodding in agreement.
Definitely see where you'recoming from.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (07:34):
Yeah.
Well, and I'm a certified hater,so I don't like anything.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_ (07:37):
Certified hater.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (07:39):
But I do have some things that I
like, but I don't want it tomonopolize.
Laura, what's going on in yourworld?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (07:43):
Well, mostly I have finished, orange
is the New Black.
10 years after it ended.
I don't even know, like when?
When did it end?
I have no idea.
The animal, which is, I lookedit up.
Regina Specter did that.
Especially for the series, whichI thought was cool.
As soon as I heard that, I waslike, that's Regina Specter.
(08:03):
Like I, I didn't have to look itup immediately.
I knew, and it was specificallyfor the series, so I just
finished it.
You know, overall I enjoyed it,but there were definitely some
things that I didn't like.
But did, did you finish theseries?
You, I think we were talkingbefore you said you didn't
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2 (08:20):
remember.
That was a lifetime ago.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (08:23):
truly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (08:24):
the beginning.
I feel like I dropped off afterthat.
Um, straight woman lesbianthirst trap character showed up.
Ruby Rose.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (08:34):
Oh yeah, I, that was annoying.
I agree.
Um, she was a little bit, Ithink, kind of before, I think
the series kind of took a dip,but I, I know who exactly who
you're talking about.
so I finished the last seasonand I have a lot of thoughts,
but mostly what I wanna talkabout is just.
(08:56):
Compassion fatigue about the endis origin.
The orange is the new black.
So I will be totally honest,vulnerable, like about who I am
and where I live, you know whatI mean?
Like
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (09:08):
getting serious.
We started with racial issuesand
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (09:11):
truly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (09:11):
getting tough.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (09:13):
No, like I have never thought that
much about the prison systembecause I have never been to
prison, nor has anybody I know,at least not closely, right?
So this has never been somethingthat I had ever really thought
about before.
And so I give big props toOrange is the New Black for
making.
(09:34):
White, middle class or whoever,middle class people, you know
what I mean?
Think about it and
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (09:42):
out of our butts and be
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (09:43):
yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (09:44):
All these, this is, it's not, people
don't choose to go to prison.
In some circumstances.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (09:49):
No, they don't choose and
necessarily like, how are wetreating them and like, are we
really looking to rehabilitateor are we Yeah, exactly.
Like I've, I've never reallythought about these things.
And so I give big props to theshow for bringing that to the
forefront and making me think alot of thoughts.
I was like, the privatization ofprisons is something that I had
(10:12):
seen in like think pieces orheadlines, but I.
I never thought, I never caredto look into it.
And I, and I, I even, I haven'tdone so since watching the show,
but when they were talking aboutin the show, immediately it like
clicked and I'm like, oh, that'sa bad idea.
Like, it was like, you, you verylike follow the threads and
(10:35):
you're like, oh no, that, that'snot good.
And so it really did get a lotof thoughts going.
But then in the last season ofthe show.
They really went off the rails.
And when I say off the rails, Imean they tried to bring in
about a thousand different likesocial issues that we should
(10:56):
care about.
Not to say that we shouldn'tcare about them because they
should, but this is where thecompassion fatigue comes in.
So like the entirety of theshow, I'm thinking now about the
prison system, racism.
Sexism, addiction, police forbrutality.
Like those are a lot of heavysubjects, right?
That weigh heavily.
And then in the last season, butnow we're throwing in a whole
(11:20):
new mix of things that I need tobe worried and concerned and
compassionate about.
Deportation abortion.
Me too.
Infant death, like one of theprisoners.
Infant died.
Female genital mutilation out ofnowhere.
We have somebody that came fromEgypt or like somewhere in that
(11:44):
region and was like, I don'thave a clitoris.
And it's like, it's not thatthese aren't issues, they
definitely are issues, but likethey're like jamming it into
that last season.
And I'm just like, I feel likethis got really far away from
where we started.
Like you need to stay on messagea little bit.
I don't,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (12:02):
Y.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (12:02):
is that
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (12:03):
Netflix show.
Can't solve all the world'sproblems.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (12:06):
Exactly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (12:07):
it did a good job, like you said,
of bringing attention to thatspecific issue.
And then at this point you bringit in at the end, like is it
because you're trying to raiseawareness or are you trying to
do a little bit of traumatourism and just show all the
ways that the world can goaskew, especially with the
infant loss.
'cause like I think everybodyknows that that happens
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (12:26):
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (12:26):
for it.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (12:27):
Yeah.
Yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (12:27):
know.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (12:28):
exactly.
I'm like, I feel like, yeah,you're just like layering on
like the traumas.
Like there was a major characterdeath, I think like the, the
second to last episode, and it'slike, really?
Did you really need, I, I neverexpected the show to end.
Like, and then everybody livedhappily ever after.
(12:49):
You know what I mean?
Like there was.
But it just left like a badtaste in my mouth.
I think that show should haveprobably ended in season four or
season five and would've like,you know, top tier.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (13:02):
A blanket statement that
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (13:03):
True.
So true.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (13:05):
four or five.
Um, but I mean, what are yougonna do?
Because the book that it wasbased on, she served her
whatever, 18 months and then sheleft,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (13:13):
Yeah, totally.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (13:14):
and I mean, that doesn't make that
good of TV show
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (13:16):
But that's, but honestly that's the,
the span of the TV show is like18 months.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (13:22):
Jesus, that's a busy 18
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (13:24):
It truly is.
It truly is.
Like, it's not seven years orhowever long like the series
went, and it did such a good jobof making you really care about
these characters and think aboutthings in a different light.
And so I give it hard props tothat.
And then I also give hard propsthen to HBO.
Because I know it's not an HBOshow.
(13:45):
HBO generally cap shows out atthree seasons.
There's a reason
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (13:51):
Oh yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (13:53):
because you keep it going for too long,
you lose it, man.
And, and they lost it.
And so I think
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (14:00):
what show
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (14:00):
I'll rewatch it again, but in like a
couple years and maybe stop atlike season four.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:06):
I have no desire to re-watch it.
You were talking about it andI'm like, mm.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (14:10):
Some of the characters.
Some of the characters are sogood.
Tasty.
Ugh, she's my fucking favorite.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (14:17):
Yeah,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (14:18):
Casey.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (14:19):
liking them, but again, I don't
remember enough about them.
And I feel like in a coupleyears maybe you won't remember
them either,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (14:25):
I don't know.
You'd be surprised.
I can really hold onto stuff.
I'm, I really latch onto mymedia.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (14:31):
yeah, we'll see.
The
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (14:33):
I
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (14:34):
will
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:34):
True, true time will tell.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (14:36):
Ah, so I feel like we need to get on
something a little bit lighter.
This is heavy
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:40):
Yeah.
That's fair.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (14:41):
which is, you know, not necessarily
what we talk about.
We actually got a little bitmore opinionated on the, what we
normally do, we
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (14:48):
Mm-hmm.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (14:49):
toe the line.
So we offended you in a way thatmakes you wanna interact with us
or
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:56):
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (14:56):
or keep hate listening.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (14:59):
Yeah.
You know, shoot us an email.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (15:01):
spicy right now because the other
thing that I've been doing, I amnow a gamer.
I am
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (15:08):
What?
It's not Sims.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (15:11):
No.
Well, the Sims that, I mean,off.
That's my
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (15:14):
I mean, it is a computer, isn't
it?
It's,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (15:16):
affair.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (15:17):
a computer game.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (15:18):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
But I wouldn't like considermyself a gamer.
So this all started when Idiscovered my husband and I just
were watching YouTube.
I now, I have a un favoriteYouTube creator too,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (15:27):
Ooh.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (15:28):
really coming into the 21st century.
Uh, but we were watching hisrandom.
Ch random movie documentary,fake documentary, made by a
video game person about aJurassic alligator going from
pond to pond and taking over aserver, and I'm like, okay, what
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (15:49):
Taking over a server.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (15:51):
there's these games, they are like
survival games.
I don't know if you've heardanything about survival
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (15:55):
Mm-hmm.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (15:56):
husband and I used to try to play arc,
but the skill gap was just waytoo big.
Where, you know, we're two likenaked people on the island
trying to survive.
And meanwhile, like I'm justbefriending the dodos and he's
actually doing everything.
Um.
But it's like a dinosaursurvival game.
So you literally, you play as adinosaur and you just like go on
an island and you try not to geteaten by the mixed packers that
(16:17):
are out there trying to eat you.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (16:19):
Okay.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (16:19):
and I
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (16:20):
Are you a her herbivore or a
carnivore?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (16:22):
want.
Every dinosaur on the island isanother person.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (16:26):
Ah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (16:26):
And so you're playing against other
people and terrifying.
Like my little, my little watchthat tracks my stress, I.
When I'm playing.
Um, but
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (16:37):
It's good for you.
It's that primal need, right?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (16:39):
okay.
Any delusion I had that I woulddo good in a disaster after the
disaster psychology episode outthe
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (16:46):
You need to role play as the
dinosaur that's.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (16:49):
I, I need to get used to conflict
'cause I'm like, oh my God, Ipanicked.
I didn't even finish this.
So the, the game is called PathaTitans, the creator that I
watch, he's pretty good.
He like makes thesedocumentaries, the storytelling
and like narrative construction.
Is really good.
And he takes these dinosaurs andhe like, makes you care about
(17:09):
them even though they're, they,he probably dies like a thousand
times while doing it, but heslices it together and makes it
look like a nature documentaryand I'm like, this is so
enjoyable.
He doesn't have that manyvideos.
His name's Yellow Tones
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (17:22):
Yellow tone.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (17:23):
have that many videos.
He's only been, he's been doingit for like a year or two and
there's like 12 videos total.
So I believe breeze throughthose and I'm like, okay.
I'm gonna try my hand at this.
And so someone who's just notgame at all, I buy it on a
fricking console, uh, like onthe switch.
And so I have no idea what thehell I'm doing.
I'm just a small little dinosaurout there running and my
(17:44):
strategy is to run fast and Ipick the fastest dinosaur'cause
I ain't,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (17:47):
That's a,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (17:48):
to
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (17:48):
that's a fair strategy.
I feel like.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (17:50):
again.
The panic sets in.
Today I died very spectacularly,uh,'cause I was being attacked
and I ran and I ran, ran, ran.
And I ran off a cliff, fell intoa creek or a river and survive.
Survived all that.
While I'm swimming, I'm like,oh, I'm gonna go underwater and
hide and they won't be able tosee me anymore.
'cause I think they jumped inafter me to be fair because it
(18:12):
defies all ration.
These people are just outration.
Rationale.
Was it, what am I saying?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (18:16):
All rush all out the window.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (18:18):
It defies all reason.
They just wanna kill you, sothey, they're just gonna like do
whatever to
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (18:22):
They're on a mission.
It's not like hunter predatorprey relationship.
It's human grudge.
I'm gonna win.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (18:28):
Uh, yeah, I wanna torture and
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (18:30):
Yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (18:30):
pain on other people.
Um, so then I dive underwater.
Mistake.
I did not know how to come backup from, from under the water,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (18:38):
you drowned yourself.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (18:39):
I drown myself and I'm like, I
could've just, you know, letthis person kill me and then
they could've eaten my body andgot sustenance.
But nope, I look like an assholediving into
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (18:49):
No, that's you.
This is again, this is the humanaspect that comes into play.
You didn't let him get you.
You didn't let him get you.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (19:00):
yeah, I know.
Well, I didn't mean to die, butI
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (19:02):
He doesn't know that
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (19:04):
Yeah, my body's just down there at the
bottom of a river somewhere
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (19:07):
you're like, good luck fucker.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (19:09):
Also, why is it so hard to get out
from under the water?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (19:12):
it seems like up would be the
obvious way to get up.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (19:16):
I get maybe I got turned around
and was swimming down.
I don't know.
It looked like I was in theabyss.
That's all I got.
But anyways, that's my newthing.
That's what I did today.
I played a lot of that
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (19:25):
That sounds really fun.
After we had this flub aboutwhat time we were gonna record,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (19:30):
I
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (19:30):
I, I, uh, that was all my fault.
My phone did, wasn't working andso I, I wasn't that bothered
because I was deep cleaning.
Our master bedroom, our bedroom,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (19:42):
oh, you gotta do that every once in
a while.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (19:45):
oh my God.
I don't even know how long it'sbeen, Rachel.
There was so much dust and just.
Disgusting.
I pulled up all the furnitureout from the wall, dusted the
walls, you know what I mean?
Like when it gets like that, didlike the, you know, the tool for
the vacuum along the baseboardsand like all that shit.
(20:06):
I'm like, there is no fuckingallergens in this room.
We better, we were gonna sleepso good.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (20:12):
Right, which I did.
I pulled up our, uh, airpurifier and that helped us a
lot sleeping wise.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (20:18):
we were talking about that, about
getting an air purifier.
They cost a lot of money andwe're on this whole new no, no
buy thing.
So
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (20:26):
yeah.
You
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (20:28):
no buy.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (20:28):
for rooms, but we got like a big one
'cause we have all the fuckinganimals.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (20:32):
Yeah, that's fair.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (20:33):
why we did it.
And I wish I had more, but
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (20:38):
I also, I.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (20:40):
as well, just to kind of a whole
house reset.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (20:43):
the dying dinosaurs.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (20:44):
I make myself do all my chores
first.
So everything I
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (20:47):
That's smart.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (20:48):
the kids were over at my in-laws
today, so
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (20:51):
Good for you.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (20:51):
yeah.
My husband was nice enough toarrange that, so I cleaned like
a mad lady for a couple hours.
Did you know my, the things thatneeded to get done, my run
grocery shopping, had a goodlunch, and then just like played
dinosaurs for five hours.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (21:06):
There you go.
Living your best life.
Living your best life.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (21:09):
myself some Wagyu ground beef
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (21:12):
Ooh,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (21:12):
from Aldi.
I know.
I'm gonna regret it in themorning'cause that was greasy,
but it was a nice, nice littletreat to self day.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (21:22):
I also made, because I was like
going through the kids' socks,uh, the drawers, I was putting
away laundry.
And I'm like, why do I have somany fucking socks?
So I took out all the kids'socks and like cold?
Yeah.
Cold out the socks that I don'twant.
Put'em in the moppet swap pile.
And then I was like, I stillhave too many fucking socks, but
(21:44):
like, I just need them to likescooch.
I asked Austin, I was like, doyou have any of the more of
those drawer dividers, like theplastic, you know, the thingies?
He's like, no, I don't have anymore.
He said, I can order some.
I'm like, no buy.
We're on this no buy thing, son.
Like, I don't need every, like,every tiny inconvenience that
you have does not require anAmazon purchase, which is very
(22:07):
much so his mindset.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (22:09):
Yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:10):
I was like, no.
And so I made my own drawerdividers with uh.
Diaper box.
Very good.
Cardboard
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (22:19):
Yeah,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:20):
and some duct tape.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (22:21):
do you wanna know what's holding my
kids' clothes?
Separated boxes, cardboard andpainter's tape.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (22:27):
Exactly.
And that's as, as God intended,Rachel?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (22:31):
I was like, ah, you don't need to
buy it.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:33):
No.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (22:34):
use the box.
Your other purchase came in.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (22:35):
Yeah, you don't need to buy shit.
Like that's, that's, I'm tryingto get him in this mentality.
Austin's very much so a gadgetguy.
He likes
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (22:44):
Oh
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:44):
buy things for every little need.
And, uh, that's not really mystyle, but I've, so we're
finally on the same page oflike, no, we don't need to do
this anymore.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (22:55):
Yeah,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (22:57):
And he was like giving me all these
like, well, you should probablydo it like about two separate
pieces of cardboard and thenmerge them together so they can
slide.
And I was like, nah son, I'mjust gonna get a piece of
cardboard and then wrap it insome duct tape.
It's fine.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (23:11):
yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (23:11):
And uh, it worked great.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (23:13):
Yeah, I just put the cardboard in and
then tape the paper or use thepaper to like
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (23:17):
Yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (23:17):
and
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (23:18):
yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (23:18):
mostly keep it in place.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (23:19):
exactly.
Exactly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (23:21):
Doesn't need to be perfect.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (23:23):
I feel like his dad is, his dad
was an engineer, and I feel likethat like seeped in hard, you
know what I mean?
Like optimization and like, likenever, not, not everything has
to be optimized when you're in aplane, you know, 30,000 feet.
Yeah.
Things need to be optimized, butin this drawer right now, some
(23:44):
cardboard will do just fine.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (23:45):
Well, I would say that that's
optimized, right?
You don't have to over-engineer.
You could
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_ (23:49):
engineer.
There you go.
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (23:51):
you just gotta whatever works,
works.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (23:53):
Yeah, precisely.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (23:55):
Put some duct tape over that hole in
the plane.
It's fine.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (23:58):
It's fine.
I've been doing a little bit ofgaming as well.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (24:03):
Oh,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (24:04):
a different kind of game.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (24:06):
A can phone game.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (24:07):
It's called Paired.
It's an app
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (24:11):
Oh, a phone game.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (24:15):
it's not a game.
It's uh, it's an app that mytherapist recommended to me
about, like couples and stuff.
So, yeah, you like, you pairwith your significant other and
then you.
Like answer questions togetherand I don't know, I'm looking
for a little bit more connectionin my life.
(24:36):
It's hard, you know, with thekids and I'm sure you've
experienced the same thing, butI feel like you and Dan like do
more stuff together than me andAusten do.
So
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (24:45):
What do you mean do more stuff?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (24:46):
I don't know.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (24:47):
whole day out for my birthday.
That's when we saw the movie.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (24:50):
That sounds great.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (24:51):
we did putt putt, uh,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (24:53):
fun.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (24:54):
I didn't let Dan eat dinner
because I'm a psycho.
It was like a food court thatfood court plays downtown,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:01):
Oh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (25:03):
and I'm like, I don't want to eat at
a food court for my birthday.
It's my
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:06):
Oh, but Foundry is so fun.
You can get a little bit fromhere, a little bit from there.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (25:10):
like my nightmare.
I don't wanna stand in line andhave to look for a place to sit.
Like that's just, no, it's Is
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (25:15):
Fair.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (25:16):
No.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:17):
Was it a week weekend?
Because it gets real.
It gets real busy.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (25:21):
It was just not what I expected.
I thought it would be a littlebit more open, but it was cute.
That's where we saw the movie atthe fancy, uh, the fancy movie
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (25:28):
Yeah, I know which one you're talking
about.
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (25:30):
That was nice.
We should have got dinner there,but the popcorn smelled so good,
so we just had popcorn fordinner and then drank for like
five hours straight, and we wentto the speakeasy.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:39):
I bet.
Isn't that a beautiful one?
I, we went to that too.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (25:42):
it was a fun little experience.
It
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (25:44):
Mm-hmm.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (25:44):
maybe not what I needed at that
moment.
We
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20 (25:47):
Because you had been drinking for five
hours.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (25:49):
Yeah, it just was, it was down cold
and I don't know, I wasn't asdecorated as well as I thought
it could be, but
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (25:55):
Oh, I was, I guess I was kind of
drunk the last time I was there.
I remember liking it.
I just remember it was dark andthat the drinks were good and
strong.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (26:04):
Yeah, the drinks were good and strong.
My husband and I had to splitour second drink and then, yeah,
we went
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (26:10):
That's how you know it's good.
You're like, let's split thisdrink.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (26:13):
think we got home at 9 35 or
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (26:17):
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
You were in there early.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (26:19):
Because our reservation was at like
eight 15 or something.
So yeah, we flew througheverything you can do at that
fancy little entertainmentdistrict.
But it was cute.
I had never, I had never beenbefore.
So now we say check, done it.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (26:31):
You, did you go to the Museum of
Illusions?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (26:34):
'cause I didn't wanna spend more money.
Yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (26:36):
Yeah.
It is kind of expensive to getin, but it's pretty fun.
I didn't do it there, but I dida Museum of Illusions in Arizona
with the, with Charlotte, and itwas kind of fun.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (26:46):
Yeah, I bet that's something that's
more fun with your kid than yourhusband.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (26:49):
Yeah, but I mean, if, if you're really
into taking selfies, I could seehow you could really like it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (26:56):
looks like the things that the, not
the Magic House, the sciencecenter used to
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (26:59):
Yeah, yeah,
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (27:00):
just got rid of.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (27:01):
yeah.
But there's like a whole likeroom after room of them
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (27:04):
Yeah.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (27:06):
that which you can take pictures of.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (27:08):
Right.
What, and you didn't have cellphones back then, so what?
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2 (27:12):
Exactly.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (27:12):
do?
So, I don't know, maybe I'lltake the kids back there
someday.
I wanted to do the VR stuff too,but my mom got a VR headset for
her birthday, and it depends on
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (27:22):
Your mom got a VR set for her
birthday.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (27:25):
Yeah, I don't remember the thinking
behind it, but, um, some of thegames are really fun.
Like
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (27:31):
They are.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (27:31):
it's augmented reality, uh, that's
good.
But the ones where you're likemoving around in a video game,
like, I think it was like BatmanBegins or something.
Nauseous
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (27:40):
Very, they're very disorienting.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025 (27:43):
'cause you're shooting forward and your
body's staying still.
And I get nauseous and I'm like,got the sweats.
Um, but I think the VR and likethe big.
would be different
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (27:53):
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (27:54):
your body's moving with
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (27:56):
Yeah.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (27:56):
The only thing is like, just wanna
shoot stuff, you know, like,like
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (28:01):
Why not?
Are you not an American, Rachel?
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2038 (28:04):
I don't know.
I just like, come on, let's havea new idea.
Like the squid game ones was theone I was the most intrigued in,
but like I didn't wanna getmurdered instantly and like,
what?
You wasted your 80 bucks orwhatever.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (28:13):
Well, I'm sure you get like a set
amount of time.
It doesn't matter how many timesyou die.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203 (28:17):
my luck, it would.
I don't have a speedy littledinosaur to run
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (28:22):
We should do it together.
I would totally play squid gameswith you.
I haven't watched the series,but I'm familiar with the
concept, so, uh, let's do it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (28:29):
version of it,
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (28:30):
Oh geez.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-202 (28:31):
better, a little bit more fun.
And speaking of more fun, it'stime for us to go do our real
show.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817 (28:43):
Our real jobs that aren't jobs.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (28:45):
And that is in itself fun.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (28:48):
Yeah, exactly.
We choose to do it.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (28:51):
Yes, it's uh, are nice little, these
get us warmed up for the bigepisodes that we record.
So we would do these convosanyway, so we thought might as
well
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203 (29:03):
Record 'em.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_20 (29:04):
and put'em out there for you for
free.
You're welcome.
Do
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_2038 (29:10):
Well, all right guys.
Catch you on the flip side.
Catch you on the flippity flopas I think Rachel who said
before.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_ (29:17):
Yeah, flippity flop, flop flip.
us know your drip and what youthink about the things that we
talked about.
You probably have opinions.
Let us know.
Email us atroot@impolitesocietypodcast.com
or use the link in the shownotes to send us your, to
laura-b_1_04-11-2025 (29:37):
Questions, thoughts.
rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_2 (29:38):
send us your que to send us an
anonymous text.
We can't text you back.
Don't fear.
Um, and then the rating, review,all that stuff.
Bye.
laura-b_1_04-11-2025_20381 (29:47):
Bye.
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