May 2, 2023 • 59 mins
Melissa and Amanda discover the subreddit called Xennials. Hypercolor. Cabbage Patch Kids. Serendipity books! Also, Melissa blames everything bad that happens on perimenopause. Also, men are Mars; women are superior.
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So I think I'm now ninety percentback. My voice is still seeny tiny
froggy, but I think I'm back. You sound good. It only took
three weeks. That's insane. That'sa long time to be sick. You
had special COVID for sure, That'swhat I think. One hundred percent undiagnosed
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or non testable COVID or or becauseI've had COVID in the past, my
body now forevermore when it gets acold or sore throat or whatever else,
my immune system is now just dumband doesn't know how to react to ship,
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right, That's what I think.Well, that's I mean, can
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you even test for that? Arethere ways that they can see if you
have a diminished response? That's whatI think, because any time I get
even just a little under the weather, it's not like, Okay, I'll
be over it soon. It's like, Okay, everything sucks for this time
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until I get better. It's likebeing a man who wants that. That's
what I'm saying. It's like everythingjust does. I just don't recover,
right. It could just be age, Like you know, you can get
off the couch wrong and you've busteda hip. Hm. Hmm, it's
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just um, it's everything all atonce. Um. Yeah, So but
I do feel better. Well that'ssounding better, sound a lot better.
Yeah, I won't be cutting twominutes of coughs out of our entire conversation.
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Well, I was doing those notesand I was getting sick of myself.
I was like, a girl,can you shut the fuck up?
It's just cough, cough, cough, your cough cough. Oh my god,
the fucking slack started to auto populatethe word cough. I was like,
I've never seen that before. Ihaven't either. Yeah, that was
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a beast to get through that one. I was like, I am so
sorry. It was the worst editingever, Worse than our kids running around
in the background, worse than JustinBeck coming in and out of these doors
with the chimes going, worse thanglass job practice. I was like,
this is the worst sound we've everhad, and it is my actual fault.
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Wow. I listen to this podcasterwho if she has if she knows
she has like sound things coming upbecause her kids were home or the dogs
were making noise, she'll preface atthe beginning of the episode like, just
in case you hear x Y orz. This was the only time that
I could do this, And it'salways so funny because like it just makes
me think of like how difficult itis to podcast if you're doing it in
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your house and you live with youknow, three tiny people that make a
lot of noise, or this ladyhas like four Westies that are seniors and
they live in her office and theyjust like yawn and snarl and growl and
you can hear little toe taps,and I don't why doesn't she edit it
out? You know, I don'tknow if she just doesn't want to,
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or if she's you know, ifshe knows how to. I don't know.
I think people about their association forthe amount of work that it takes
to make good, clean audio,they really don't, I mean, and
I we just are we know enoughto be dangerous, Like there are there
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are so many more things I'm surethat I could do. Like, for
one, every like podcaster says thatthe microphone that I use is shit.
So I've started to get really insecureabout my microphone, and I'm like,
well, if I had a betterone, our sound be better. But
then I'm like, what the fuckfor what? It sounds fine? And
it's not echoe girls. I thinkour podcast sound good as hell. I
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think it sounds great man, andwe've been getting into sound design lately,
like we are killing it. Ijust can't believe people don't go in and
like edit out. Yeah, whydon't they take that out? Take that
out? I think you have to. You have to find that balance between
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in and out right, because ifit's all removed, any of the ums
or likes or awkward pauses, itstarts to sound unnatural. So I think
you have to leave a few in. But you don't. I don't think
that you're like degrading the authenticity ofthe conversation by taking those things out.
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No, I like to when I'mlistening to the audio, I like to
go through show see. We wouldtake that shoe at it correct, we
would take out the sneeze, wewould take out the bless you, we
would take out the word edit,and then we'd be picked back up with
coughs, arms, throat clearing,mispronunciations. Do do do words that are
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not real? Uh? You know, obvious dumb shit right. Um.
Sometimes I'll be in a bad moodand say fuck a lot. I'd be
like, can you take out twelveof those. Um, but like,
I don't think that it's a detrimentto the to the art file. It
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still sounds like a smooth conversation.Yeah. Um, but I think that
we're really just very picky and II don't know, I think that that's
okay, I think that very picky. No, I hope that the podcasters
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that I listen to are picky,right, Like, oh, I thought
you were saying I thought you weresaying that that's a bad thing. Out
picky we got So I was like, okay, I'll say it's just me
then. No, No, Ithink that I think that we are.
I think that if you're um,I mean, listening to a podcast is
a voluntary experience. Nobody's making youdo it. But if you're if you're
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going to give me an hour ofyour time every week, then I want
that one hour to be like areally really good hour for you. Yeah.
That's that's important to me because thattime is precious and you could be
listening to a million other things.You could be watching something else, you
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could be you know, who knows, doing a million other things. But
if you choose to to subscribe tothis and to come listen and look at
the Instagram and all that shit.Then like it needs to be good.
I want you to walk away beinglike wow, like I learned something or
that was funny or that made mefeel better. Well. Also, and
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this is secondarily maybe even third,fourth, fifth down the line, I
also like it. Like say you'rein mom's own and someone finds out you
have a podcast, and they checkit out. I like them to think,
maybe perhaps it is a network backedpodcast, you know what I'm saying,
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Like, I'm just kinda just skirtby and let them think it's a
real thing. True. I don't. I don't. I don't give any
clarifiers. I'm like, yeah,I have a podcast. It's up to
you to think whether or not thisis real. The second that that thing
says fucking FedEx in the middle ofthe thing, I think people assume it's
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real. It's later I seem likea real podcaster and I'm like yeah,
and then I get to act allmodest and ship when the reality is I
am sitting in a pile of clothesright now. Um, anyway, I'm
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going to work through my bad moodbecause I uh, I just had to
apologize. Oh shoot, I know, I love. I love how you're
like, oh no, wait,what did you have to apologize to a
child or a grown man to justinyou know, the worst? Oh no,
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what you do? I had tobe accountable for a horrible attitude that
I had three whole days ago.And it's like we're not over that yet,
like really, stop, I said, I have to go. I
have an appointment move with Amanda.Can you please make me a cup of
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coffee while I go set up?And he goes, no, I was
an excuse, to which Shalan goes, Dad, honestly, really, just
make it a cup of coffee.She was sick for like three whole weeks,
like the least you could do,and he goes, no, she
was mean on Saturday, and shaloonso my daughter, and she was like,
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that was Saturday exactly. So hegoes, are you gonna say sorry?
And I go, fine, I'msorry that I overreacted to a question
that you asked me on Saturday,and then he walked out of the room.
I go, but the question wasdumb. There you go not would
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not know? Nope, that wasin a real Bolgic nope. And I
was like, fine, I'm sorryfor overreacting on Saturday and having a bad
attitude after you asked me a questionI didn't like or think wasn't necessary.
Nope, So I just had tokeep apologizing it. I just couldn't do
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it. So shoot, because thereality is it was a dumb question.
It was, it was dumb,but my level of disdain was disproportionate.
Yeah, so it was perimenopause.Correct, I already know what's gonna and
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I said, and I even wentin the discord. I was like,
guys, do I have a personalitydisorder? Or was the questions? And
like at least four women in therewere like no, if that was a
dumb ask question. No, SoI just looked at the discord to be
enabled, um, because I dothink that perimenopause has and I hate you
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guys are just like is this justcan you guys just really keep your talk?
But I really do think that it'schanging my base personality, Like I
have zero patience none and my moodswings are outrageous. Do you find that
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you experience it every day? Yes? Really, but only with him.
I don't have a problem with nobodyelse, just him, just just a
poor thing. Like for example,he could not find his arm band thing
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for orange theory. I couldn't findit and searched all over scial over.
He's like, I'm just gonna haveto buy a new one, and I
go, no way, you're gonnahave to find it because that thing wasn't
cheap. Yeah. Um, Andhe couldn't find it because you know,
I'm very busy and our houses clean, but it's not tidy. Yeah,
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you know, like we're at theend of two weeks. We get into
a place where there's shit everywhere.You know, there's yes, you know,
somebody went and got a facial,so now her beauty products are on
the counter, their shoes everywhere.There's um, you know, homework crafts,
Pom Pom's glue, scissors, coloredpencils, que dips, not dirty
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ones, just life stuff. Nailclippers. Yes, so there's life stuff
around the house. And he's notused to that because I used to have
a lot more time to be veryparticular about life stuff. Like I can't
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believe the amount of time I usedto have on my hands. Yeah.
I used to judge people whose fruitbowl had stickers still on it as like,
why the fuck would you read thestickers on your fruit, asshole.
God. Meanwhile, I'm the fuckingasshole. I'm the asshole, and no
one told me I'm the asshole.Wow, Melissa, Oh shut up.
I'm so happy she's here. Thisjudgemental bitch finally get I'm sitting. Yeah.
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I used to just be very particularabout my house being oprah ready.
And my house used to be oprahready. I'm gonna say a good seventy
nine percent of the time. Yeah, that's wow, which was looking back
on it impossible, but I didit. I was doing it, and
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now I'm like, I don't fuckinggive a shit. Okay, guys,
as long as there's no doodoo shrieksin the toilet, my dishwasher is running
and or being loaded up every dayall the time, and the trash is
taking out in a timely manner,and the coffee table doesn't have fingerprints on
it, like, there is stilla level of cleanliness around here. There's
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just stuff that doesn't find its homein an appropriate time frame. So anyway,
he couldn't find his fucking thing.Yeah, and he was upset about
that. So he was just like, real, nice, babe, when
you get home, we should alleverybody has a team find homes for things,
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because there's just shit everywhere and it'slike kind of stressing me out.
And nobody can find their stuff.Maja couldn't find her yellow folder, Sara
couldn't find her blue scrunch. Peoplecan't find things, and so you know,
we're just getting on. I waslike, okay, fine, normal
me, well perry menopause me.It would be like, first of all,
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motherfucker, why does it need tobe a team effort? Watch if
you see the mess, if yousee something, say something, be the
MTA do something about that shit.But I said, you already mean last
weekend? Okay, okay, sure, no problem. I come home.
I started straightening up, I'm puttingthings away, things are finding homes.
I will say shit. I wouldsay shit, but um, I can't
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even remember where this was going menopause, his arm band, cleaning up,
organizing, putting things away. Hecouldn't find his arm band. So you
got you got mad at them aboutsomething and had to apologize. See so
then look at me obfuscating the detailsso I don't have to where I had
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to say sorry. So I'm inthe closet putting things away, and I'm
listening to a podcast, but Idon't have my ear things on because they're
charging so that we can do ourwork tonight with this podcast. Yeah.
So I'm just listening to the phoneout loud and he goes, oh,
babe, pause that I want toshow you something. And he shows me
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this woman that he's been following onInstagram. So I pause my datelined episode
that I was getting into while Iwas folding in here so that he could
show me this Instagram account that he'sbeen following. And I'm like waiting for
the punchline. Okay, but insideI'm going, don't be perimenopause. We
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gotta come up with a name formy perimenopause person. And I'm like,
how Beyonce is Sasha Fiers when shegets on stage. We gotta come up
here with perrymenopause Melissa. So I'mtrying to stay in Melissa's own and not
become Perry, right. Yeah.And it's this fucking woman and her dog,
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and she says that she is livingvan life, but really she's in
her Honda pilot and I think shemight actually be a regular person who just
became homeless but is now romanticizing thatand giving tips on how to live out
of her Honda Pilot. But she'scompletely gross. So at one points like
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how like self care? Justin Beckshowed me a video that she put on
the actual Worldwide Internet where she goes, hey guys, it's me and such
and such. She names the dogand she goes, I just want to
give you a few tips on howI handle my period while I'm on the
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road. Oh, this motherfucker ladyshows a thing of baby wipes, shows
a garbage bag, shows some dishwashingliquid I think, etc. This motherfucker
talks about how she handles her periodstuff, the tupperwares that she puts her
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dirty fucking shit in and show disposeof it when she gets to that place.
But then she showed I swear toGod, her underwear that she washed
out with soap and water, andshe motherfucking hung them on an errant bush
in the desert and then ghost upon the underwears. And I was like,
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is this parody? He goes,Dude, she's dead ass serious.
She thinks she's an influencer. Thismotherfucker had sixty thousand followers. There was
another one where she said, hey, guys, I just want to show
you how I handle going to thebathroom when I can't find a bathroom.
This motherfucker, with her clothes on, proceeded to act out how she opens
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a guard garbage bag, ties itaround her bottom half. Doodoo's in the
motherfucker, and she goes. Butif I have to go pee two,
I pull it up closer to thetop. Doodoos or peas in the bag,
so she's squatting and pretending she's doingthese things. Then she put rocks
in the bottom of this bag sothat they could look like doodoo. She
goes. Then I tie it asclose to the poop as possible. Then
I put that bag along with mydogs dogshit in a type where she goes,
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and I get rid of it assoon as I can. I just
have helped. But she's dead serious. There was no joke, not and
he was like, dude. Everyday she discussed me more and more.
So I go, okay, Isaid, babe, I was about to
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get to the bottom of whether ornot this man killed Anne, and you
just came in and interrupted my foldingand all of that to show me this
disgusting lay. And I'm waiting tofind out when what the montherfucking That's what
I'm saying in my head. That'swhat Perry is saying. And I go
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turn that off and I go reportthat account right now. That's disgusting.
Report that account, report it.And I think, I don't send me
no links to that, none ofthat, because I don't want that in
my algorithm. Don't do it.So like normal couples, I think probably
show each other stuff on the internetall day and they go haha, okay,
yeah, funny. I had tocontain my rage. I can't.
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Husbands don't like men don't look atfun things on the internet because Chris,
We'll be cracking up about something andshow it to me and I'm like,
really, like, this is whatwas causing you to laugh the biggest belly
laugh I've ever heard, Like thisman looking through blinds talking about people cooking
food. Would really this is funnyto you that some duty follows who's like
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a bodybuilder. That's what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying, where
is that funny? Please? AndJustin is just horrified that somebody out there
is doing this like and trying toglamorize it. Well, then like he'll
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send me other things. Yeah,and I'll be like, you know what,
I'm going to need you to neversend me anything. Okay, everything
you look at is literally the andyou're sucking up my algorithm. I want
to look at nail art. Iwant to look at vintage Valentino. Okay,
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I don't want. I don't want. I don't want to see a
very rare you know, on aperson who is doing a full face of
makeup. Somehow, I don't wantto see it. Editor's note right around
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minute twenty two, sensor beat listen. I can't do it. Don't send
it to me. So then theother day I don't know how we got
into it, and I was like, yeah, he looks like ready word
stuff at the internet. We're alljust sitting around, you know. It
was like a lull at work andwe were just chatting and dude at work
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who justs is known for thirty yearswas like, huh, he sends me
a lot of weird stuff. Iwas like, okay, I was like,
didning fuck up your algorithm? Yeah? Really bad, really bad?
And he was like, now Isend him stuff. So like I'm like,
you know what, then that's specialfor you too. You guys have
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a special relationship. I want youto keep that over there. Yeah,
yeah, you can lead me outof it, thank you. I don't
get it. I don't get it. I would like you to go to
your husband's explore page and and findsomething funny. It's it's impossible. I
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don't get it. Am I notfunny? I just don't find anything.
He thinks it's funny, he's funny. I don't either. You know what
have you seen? It's on HBO. The guy from step Brothers is the
main character in this show, andhe's like a doctor of something or other.
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It is the strangest comedy sketch showI've ever seen, and it is
not funny and the slightest and hethinks it is the funniest thing, just
old laughing the entire time. Withthe curly hair. I'm pretty sure that's
him, Thomas. Wow. Weshould have had that in the game Boom.
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I would have had that point them, the one with the brown hair.
See Thomas Riley. I think ishis name? Okay? I probably
him? Yeah? Is it?Is it on the same wavelength of the
guy? Sure about that? Sureabout that? You know that guy?
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I think some of his are funny. I don't think any of this other
one are funny, but it's yeah, it's along the same line, but
it's even like even more out there. If you couldn't believe that, dude,
are you sure about that? Thatguy Justin Beck can watch those over
and over like they're good. Idon't know. I don't know. I
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don't get it. I don't Idon't get it. I'm like, so
everybody's just falling out the casket.I don't understand, and he will be
dying, like when I tell you, I look over at him and he's
like, oh god, tears.He just thinks this is so funny.
I'm like, are you okay becauseI don't And I'll say I'll come into
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the room and I'm like, absolutelynot. No, turn it off.
I don't want to hear his voice. I don't want to see his face.
Turn it off. Turn it off, turn it off, turn it
off, babe. I'm almost like, you've seen you've seen this one.
You've seen this one, the onewhere he goes on a ghost tour.
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I don't think i've seen that one. The tour guide says, you know,
you can ask your questions whatever,and he goes ask any question,
so then he goes and he's like, do ghost take a ship? Like
he just asked, all this fuckedup? You gotta know what I'm talking
about. Oh, Jessin Beck willbe dying. I'm gonna have to look
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it up tonight when we're done.Please don't because then your husband's gonna like
it. He probably already does.I think you should leave, I think
is what it's called. Yeah,yeah, I don't get it. I
think it's like in celle comedy.I don't get it. I don't,
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but I mean, I guess JessinBeck doesn't get anything. I think it
is funny because anytime I'm looking atsomething that is really fucking funny to me,
he'll go, what's the funny?I'll show it to him and he
just won't get it, isn't it? So I think that's so interesting because
the same thing happens with us too, And it's like, don't you think
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that in order to be compatible asa couple or friends like you have to
find the same things funny. I'mI mean, we have overlapped sometimes,
but here we are twenty years deepin marriage. Yeah, how does that
work? I don't know? Butlike the things that I think are like
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really funny. Yeah, like peopleon Spirit airlines and someone getting cussed out
by another person and that person says, which, you're river rats smelling ass,
I'm fucking by. I think that'shilarious. And he's just like,
I don't what do you mean?What the fucking TikTok where they put the
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mouse fucking filter on their face andthe mice think they're going to a restaurant,
but they just ate poison. Youknow what I'm talking about. I
haven't known. It's so good.I fucking crying. Then he watched it
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and we don't even know what itlooks like, but just imagining it.
I'm also very high right now.Oh they think, okay, we're breaking
our own girl, don't explain TikTok'sBut yeah, that I think is so
funny. And he's just like lookingat me like it's not funny, and
I'm like, I don't understand.How could you not? There have been
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times where I have scrolled on Twitterand been crying at shit that was so
funny to me. Yeah, Andthen and then turned my phone to him
and he's like what But I'm likein tears, and I'm like you ye,
This thing has been retweeted one hundredthousand times. It's clearly hilarious.
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I don't get it really made outmy sense, and I thought it was
cultural. I was like, Okay, this is just your white so but
it's not that. I think it'smen and women. Yeah, that could
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be it too, because I don'tend the things that I find intriguing.
He doesn't. Yeah, but thethings that he finds intriguing. I'm like,
girl, this boring shit turned thisout? What is this solar system?
Space? I don't want to seein the deep sea. You get
that shit out of here. I'mscared. He's fascinating. Does space make
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you feel uncomfortable too? I'm notgonna. I don't want to watch that.
I can't do it. He lovesit. It makes me so anxious.
As they start to talk about likehow vast the universe is, and
they get into all of them,you know, the measurements and the light
years and the planets and the possibilitiesof other universes about it, and the
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TV starts getting farther away. Yes, your head starts to spin. And
then they start talking about in measurementsthat you've never even heard of. M
hmmm, I'm like a quantum.Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. He
loves that. I think about likegetting lost in a spaceship and out of
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space like anytime. I think therewas a movie within probably the last twenty
years where I think that, likethe spaceship like got off track and would
never be recovered, and so theywere just outfloating in space indefinitely. And
I was like, oh my god, that, Oh how miserable to think
that you're just like strand in thisplace until you eventually wither away and you're
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just like untethered, like in themiddle of nothing. And why would you
watch that? I don't know.I can't even remember what the movie was
about. I don't remember why theywere out there or what they were doing,
but I think I saw that movie. But then like the ship landed
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somewhere right but on Earth, someonejust looking at the ocean, but where
they were, they were looking atthat same ocean, but like they had
they had cross some kind of timerealm shit, oh god, it's been
so long. I can't remember.I just remember that feeling of like hopelessness.
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I know exactly what I'm talking about. And they had to try to
meet up with each other. Yes, oh girl, what the fuck was
that? Justin love? That shit? I don't know. Do you ever
see the movie? Uh? Wasit called Open Water? Those people that
got stranded while they were scuba diving. That gives me the same kind of
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hebgvs. Well that's they're dumbass,didn't see didn't nobody tell you get in
that kayak and get out there?Though they went with like a dive like
this is a true story. Theythis married couple went out on a dive
boat to go scuba diving in themiddle of the ocean, and the boat
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left without them and did realize,and so they were stuck in the middle
of the fucking ocean until both ofthem died. And that's what the fuck
they get the whole movie. They'rejust like floating, They're they're cold,
they're getting sunburned, they're thirsty.Things are like swimming near them, biting
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them. He oh god, it'sit's rough se And that's what I'm saying.
Everybody's like, you don't go inthe ocean. No, you don't
even just put your no. You'venever just no, no, I've been
made really though, if you canI've been neck deep maybe twice in my
life and said absolutely the fuck notbecause it's one false it's one false move
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and you're wash the fuck away.No, okay, but if it's clear
and it's shallow and it's gentle,I can do that. No, it's
not, it's not ever gonna beclear. No, it is clear.
Like when we were in the Dominicanlike, it was beautiful, beautiful,
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beautiful, beautiful. We went snorkeling. The water was blue, the sand
was white, was gorgeous, yourwhole body and yeah, absolutely, we
went snorkeling with nurse sharks. Girl. No, no, yes, absolutely
or not. When we were inFlorida a few years ago, we went
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down to h Fort DeSoto and there'sa place on the beach there that's like
a huge sand bar and in someplaces the waters only knee deep. It
was really warm, you could likewalk for like really long stretches. It
was gorgeous like love that now thatbugs bunny gift now. But if it's
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shallow, like what's there's no harm? Girl, I don't give a fuck.
If I'm on land, I don'twant to do anything having to do
with animals. The ocean is justa giant animal to me is just a
big lot of animals and issues init. I don't want to be No.
I don't want that parrot on myshoulder. No, I don't want
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to look at that wall. No, I don't want to touch that crocodile.
Y'all go ahead. No, No, I'm not interested in any of
that because I know me. Iknow me. It's gonna be me.
It's gonna be me. It's gonnathe bird is gonna shot on someone's head,
it's gonna be me. If analligator's gonna bite somebody's gonna be me.
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No, I don't put myself inthose situations. Oh, I don't
want it. And I just Ijust think that that's a level of adventure
that I'm never gonna have. Soyeah, I'm still trying to think of
God, I'm so distracted because I'mstill trying to think of I know the
movie you're talking about, and itwas really sad. I'm gonna have to
look it up. All of those, all of I can't space the ocean.
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What else creeps me out? Theuncertainty of death, I don't know.
Um, I feel so bad.I was doing carpool yesterday, Yeah,
thinking about earth stuff and I don'tknow how we got on the topic
of recycling. And I go,but I mean, do they really recycle
(36:54):
it? Oh shit? And thelittle girl in the vaccine was like yes.
I was like, oh yeah,yeah, sure yeah, And she's
like what do you mean, missBeck. I was like, you know,
like you put the recycling bin outthere, but then the trash guy
comes and gets it in, likewhere do they really put it? And
(37:14):
like is it being recycled? Becauseevery day they still tell us that the
ocean is so dirty. And I'mas I'm talking, I'm like, shut
up, shut up. She's like, she tells this whole story. She
goes, well, my grandfather onetime he got into a fight because the
trash man came and he took therecycling and so he went outside and he
(37:35):
told the man, I'm waiting hereuntil the recycling people come. And the
trash man told him that the recyclingand the trash goes in the same place,
and my grandfather said, no,they don't, because I called down
to the recycling and they answered thephone and it was recycling. And she
said, and then the trash manand my grandfather got in a big fight
because the trash man was like,Okay, well then I can just leave
(37:57):
this here and come back later whereit's just gonna go in the trash.
Yeah, oh my god, andwrote the town and etcetera, etcetera,
and she goes. Anyway, itended up that the recycling people called my
grandfather and confirmed for him that,yes, it did get recycled. Into
my mind, I was like,no, that shit did not. They
just, oh my god. Inmy mind, I was like, that's
(38:21):
wonderful. That's wonderful. And then, because I'm an asshole, because I'm
a whole asshole. After she gotout of the car, I go,
Maja day recycling ship. They didn't. What did Masa say? She goes,
I know, oh my god,Oh my god. This little girl
had this whole little story to tellyou about how she knew that it was
(38:45):
going into the recycling. Oh God, love her. But it wasn't.
Oh hold on, you know thatthough, right. I know that gets
you upset, but I'm just keepingit real. You know that though,
right? Yeah, I mean theydo recycle some stuff. No they do
not. Man, my god,I feel bad. Greta Thumberg be yelling
(39:08):
at us the ship and I'm like, girl, we're cleaning the ship,
we separate the shit. We doall that, I am telling you it's
going to the same motherfucking place,and then we're rude as hell and putting
it on someone else's continent. Andso when I can't think about it,
(39:30):
I'm just saying, when you seeimpoverished people poking with a stick through fucking
endless rags of our fast fashion thatwe've thrown away, yeah, yeah,
I really think they're recycling your shit. They not. Okay, I feel
bad everyone show. This episode justtook a dramatic ninety degree terms. I'm
(39:55):
just saying things that suck deep seaocean were Pity City. Think about the
twenty six million staffers at the officefurniture company Miller Knoll. Ask their CEO
during a video town hall how theycould stay motivated if they do not get
a bonus. But her pep talkmay not have had the intended effect.
(40:19):
Get her orders out our door.Treat each other well, be kind,
be respectful, Focus on the futurebecause it will be bright. It's not
good to be in a situation we'rein today, but we're not going to
be here forever. It is goingto get better. So lead, Lead,
by example, treat people well,talk to them, be kind,
and get after it. Don't askabout what are we going to do if
(40:43):
you don't get a bonus? Getthe damn twenty six million dollars. Spend
your time in your effort thinking aboutthe twenty six million dollars we need and
not thinking about what are you gonnado if we don't get a bonus?
All right? Can I get somecommitment for that? I would appreciate that.
I had an old boss said tome one time, you can visit
Pity City, but you can't livethere, so people leave PITTYCD. Let's
(41:07):
get it done. Thank you.Um. That was so I know.
I got a design with it reachthe other day and it was like no,
and I was like, fuck themthrough that shit. And it's just
like, lady, first of all, if you're on a zoom, you
(41:28):
should just assume you're being recorded onehundred percent. I wanted to be like
at first, I was like,she's her voice was like her voice didn't
match the things that she was saying, and that was so disjointed for me.
We should probably explain what we're talkingabout. Oh yeah, in imperfect
stranger's fashion. This thing that wentviral on the internet literally a week ago.
(41:50):
We will discuss it now. Soshe's the CEO right of Herban Miller,
or she like the president, Ican't remember. She's like the top
of the pyramid in that company.And they were would you say her name
is Andy? Oh? Andy,that's right? And Andy was on a
(42:15):
zoom call with her. I don'tknow if it were her, you know,
general managers or district managers or storemanagers, whoever it was she was
talking to. She was pissed thatthey were down twenty six million dollars and
was telling them to not worry aboutwhere is our bonus. We need to
(42:37):
think about what we can do toget out there and get that twenty six
million dollars. While this bitch waspocketing how much of her own bonus Melissa
six million? Ah, she wasstill sad, descending she said, take
those take that attitude to pitty cityor some shit. She said, you
(43:00):
can't stay in pity city. Andthen her apology wasn't a problem. It
was in her non apology. Herapology did not end with that said,
I'm going to distribute my six milliondollar bonus that I took to all of
you who have made this company whatit is today. Thank you. Yeah
(43:22):
she didn't say that. I don'tknow how I came across that story,
but like Reddit wanted me to seeit. Twitter wanted me to see it,
everybody wanted. Instagram wanted me tosee it. And I was like,
the problem that is, I stillreally like Noel furniture. See there,
see see how it happens. Problems. I know. I know it's
(43:46):
you can't escape anything. You can't. It's everything's tainted. Everything's terrible.
Um. The other thing I wantedto say it, Oh, no,
everything's not terrible because today you knowhow I I said I was going to
get more into Reddit. Yeah Ihaven't been, like yes, I have
just been like collecting more places togo on Reddit. I found the place
(44:09):
for us. It's called it's asubreddit called Zennials. It's for us.
It's it's for the nineteen seventy sevento whatever the fuck year it stops.
I think you're included. M Oh, I'm so excited. And it's all
the stuff we like, you getmy phone, my grandma. It's like
(44:37):
do you remember this? Do youremember that? And I'm like yes,
and so like I just went downthen re lane. Okay, so it's
just called Zennials X yeah x EN. I hope I'm saying it right,
am I even saying it right.That's zennial of me. That's yeah.
(45:00):
Yep. Go to the one Zennilsthat has seventeen thousand members. Oh
my god, I already see thecover of a Sweet Valley High book.
Yep, yep. Oh my god, I love those. I had the
board game, dude, just scroll. I was in here for like ten
(45:21):
minutes. Just my heart was gettingso full. The Heathcliff heath Cliff theme
song. Look, no one shouldneighborhood, but he could just won't be
under Bay branks on everyone. Umhey you guys. Dude, Oh my
(45:59):
god, that just made like theI think the part that makes ASMR people's
brain tingle. That just made mylittle spot there tingle too. Hypercolor t
shirts, Oh my god, Iwanted one of those so bad. There
was a whole thing about cabbage patchkids. Oh my god, Oh my
(46:24):
god, all those little clips,the butterfly, the dark green flowers,
that poodle. Oh dude, Iwas just like, this is all so
specific, and if you said itout loud to someone that wasn't around at
this time. The sit and spinyep, Oh my god. I just
(46:50):
bought one of those for my nephewfor his birthday. And it comes with
two people can sit on either side, so my niece can sit on one
side and then their legs cross overand he can sit on the other.
But it hooks up to the sprinkler, so as you spin it around,
every time you open up a spoton the holes, the sprinkler comes out.
I was so excited to give itto him. I had a care
(47:10):
bear sit and Spin. I wasin my girlfriend's car and she had the
um speaking Spell Oh for her daughter, and I went and by it for
Shara. And Shara be using thatship on Saturday morning. She has to
do her speaker spell. Oh mygod, that's so cute. What color
(47:30):
is it? Is it red?It's the old school regular ass speaking spell,
yes, with the voice and everything. Then I went on here,
do you remember the serendippity books?Why does that sound so familiar? When
you get to that threat. Whenyou get to that section on here,
(47:51):
you'll know it had a little umIt said a Serendippity book at the top,
and then it would like to addyeah, The moral of the story
is, yes, I used tohave all those motherfuckers. Oh my gosh,
is this not just a wonderful walkthrough memory? Not the sheer energy
(48:15):
control top? Oh my god.Pantyhose in an egg Yeah, that was
a really great invention. Actually,pantyhose legs, l apostrophe eggs. Yeah,
that was great. Oh my goodness. I was gonna send it to
you, but I was like,I have to, I have to.
(48:36):
And then then I came across thatmeme that said Zenniel's in the eighties,
and then it has the toys rus Zenniel's in their forties, and it
had the Costco and I was like, oh my god, this is exactly
who I am. I just gotthere. Holy shit, dude, oh
my trolled doll, Blockbuster? Wow? See okay, Oh my god,
(49:02):
it is the Creola markers with thefucking stamps. I had every Oh my
gosh. When I tell you Ilived for those, I need you to
keep going because when you're gonna getto the charm necklace, you're gonna scream.
Is it the plastic one with thelittle oh oh oh? I had
one of those. Watch, Ohmy god, that little girl in that
(49:25):
boombox. Get there, get tothe um, get to the charm necklace.
Okay, this was quite a collection. Oh, oh my god,
I love Oh my god, Iloved it, said, do you remember
(49:47):
that? Yes, I remember thelittles too. They went through that little
tiny door in the wall. Yeah, you went to the second picture of
the baby bottle, of the tinytoilet, the tennis racket, the plastic
hairbrush that you could put hairspray inand then screw the top on. I
always wanted one of those so bad. All the cool girls had those.
(50:09):
What about the banana clip, Yes, oh my god, I had that.
I yall love the banana clip.That fucking minute made pulp shit and
you would take the long water Ohwe were we weren't allowed. Oh we
would have that going ahead in thereand make some orange juice. Dude,
(50:36):
this is amazing. I want tobush you around. We will, we
will, girl, this whole shit. I was so happy scrolling through here.
I was just like, this isthis is outrageous because I haven't thought
about any of this ship in along time. But if you think about
(50:59):
it. Bourd nineteen seventy seven,nineteen eighty whatever, we're truly the generation
where we were half analog and halfuh everything digital whatever the fuck? Yeah?
Yeah? Do you remember your allscreen natips? Yep? Do you,
(51:24):
yes, Sally? What your alscreen name is? Well? Before,
before college, I was manned askis and then once I was accepted
to how University, I became BobKid and O four. Not Bob kid
(51:44):
and No four that's hysterical. Whatwas yours? Um? I was Shorty
and Mercy, but then I hada Lurker account huh and my larger account
was I hate animals because like,who's gonna talk about? Do you remember
(52:08):
your hotmail address? I didn't havehotmail. We had we always had AOL.
What was my AOL? Well?My AOL was also shorty and Mercy
at AOL. Well, then I'mguessing. I'm guessing I would have had
to have been Bob kitt no forat aol dot com when I was in
(52:30):
college. But I feel like whenI was in high school, I had
a different one. I don't remembershigh school. Yeah, wow, I
didn't get an email address to college. See, my dad is like my
(52:51):
dad has always been a gadget guy, and so I mean, growing up,
we always had like video recorders likehe had, like the original when
I was born. He had thevideo recorder where you had to wear that
whole pack with the tape in athing like a VCR on your shoulder.
And then you had that giant asscamcorder with a big microphone on the front.
(53:14):
So we had computers. I whenthe Nintendo Super Nintendo first came out,
he bought that. I remember wegot it for Christmas. It was
like a big deal. So wehad our rich I had Internet. I
probably had Internet. Let's see,I had we had it before we moved
to the house on so fourth grade, I think fifth grade, Wow,
(53:37):
we had we had a Prodigy.I would log into Prodigy and like go
and chat rooms and that kind ofship. What were your game systems?
Because there's one thing, girl,we would have no motherfucking phone. But
we had a game system. Okay, well, we had the original Nintendo.
(54:00):
We had the power pad and thegun like that, all that stuff
that came out, Duck Hunt andSuper Mario Brothers. Duck Hunt was a
ship and that was so fun.And then we got Super Nintendo and then
I feel like we had Nintendo sixtyfour and then at some point when I
(54:22):
was in college, my dad boughtan Xbox, and I think that was
the last gaming system we had.But you guys, well remember I'm like
ten thousand years older than you andshut it always, no, bro.
We had an Odyssey. You evenremember that one nod It was just this
(54:45):
big console and then you got onesquare thing with a joystick on it and
you you put the game like inthe top, in a big slot in
the top. Yeah, we hadOdyssey. We had ad Um. Oh
my god, what was that onecalled? Who was one that came after
(55:06):
Odyssey? It was real obscure too. Then we got the Sega. My
dad was the kind of person whowaited in line outside the best buy for
the new game system. Really yes, and I'm in dedication, and I'm
thinking he must have been doing thatwhen he was like in his late thirties,
you know what I'm saying, Like, Dad, yeah, like so
(55:28):
my age now, Yeah, itwas early forty waiting in line because I
remember when I was in college.Ah, what fucking it was like ninety
nine something like that. Nine anew game system was going to come out,
(55:51):
and he came all the way toTampa. I was living in Tampa
at the time he came all theway to my house, like really stupid
early in the morning, stopped byand said hey, and he was like
up headed to them all. Igo, what are you doing? He's
like, I'm about to go waitin line. He had a chair and
everything. He was gonna go getin line to get his motherfucker new Game
System. I was like, wow, does he still play video games?
(56:12):
Yes? He was like wow.I was like, can you get the
fuck off? I have to googleit now because I can't. Maybe I'm
misremembering, but I think New GameSystem came out and my dad was really
excited. Hold on, wow,Yes, that's funny. I think my
(56:36):
dad just bought him because he likes, like, every time a new phone
comes out, he just gets anew phone. He just loves like all
that kind of shit, and healways has. Oh my god, I'm
not lying. This day in videogame history, September ninth, nineteen ninety
nine, Sega Dreamcast launches in NorthAmerica. The Sega Dreamcast console launched September
(56:59):
ninth, nineteen ninety nine, andwould end up being Sega's last home video
gaming platform. Yep, my dadmade a mine for that shit, Sure
did. I did not misremember.Wow, Okay, that's crazy that I
have nine embedded in my brain.Yeah, that was like a core memory
(57:22):
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So I think I'm now ninety percentback. My voice is still seeny tiny
froggy, but I think I'm back. You sound good. It only took
three weeks. That's insane. That'sa long time to be sick. You
had special COVID for sure, That'swhat I think. One hundred percent undiagnosed
(00:56):
or non testable COVID or or becauseI've had COVID in the past, my
body now forevermore when it gets acold or sore throat or whatever else,
my immune system is now just dumband doesn't know how to react to ship,
(01:17):
right, That's what I think.Well, that's I mean, can
(01:46):
you even test for that? Arethere ways that they can see if you
have a diminished response? That's whatI think, because any time I get
even just a little under the weather, it's not like, Okay, I'll
be over it soon. It's like, Okay, everything sucks for this time
(02:07):
until I get better. It's likebeing a man who wants that. That's
what I'm saying. It's like everythingjust does. I just don't recover,
right. It could just be age, Like you know, you can get
off the couch wrong and you've busteda hip. Hm. Hmm, it's
(02:30):
just um, it's everything all atonce. Um. Yeah, So but
I do feel better. Well that'ssounding better, sound a lot better.
Yeah, I won't be cutting twominutes of coughs out of our entire conversation.
(02:51):
Well, I was doing those notesand I was getting sick of myself.
I was like, a girl,can you shut the fuck up?
It's just cough, cough, cough, your cough cough. Oh my god,
the fucking slack started to auto populatethe word cough. I was like,
I've never seen that before. Ihaven't either. Yeah, that was
(03:12):
a beast to get through that one. I was like, I am so
sorry. It was the worst editingever, Worse than our kids running around
in the background, worse than JustinBeck coming in and out of these doors
with the chimes going, worse thanglass job practice. I was like,
this is the worst sound we've everhad, and it is my actual fault.
(03:35):
Wow. I listen to this podcasterwho if she has if she knows
she has like sound things coming upbecause her kids were home or the dogs
were making noise, she'll preface atthe beginning of the episode like, just
in case you hear x Y orz. This was the only time that
I could do this, And it'salways so funny because like it just makes
me think of like how difficult itis to podcast if you're doing it in
(04:00):
your house and you live with youknow, three tiny people that make a
lot of noise, or this ladyhas like four Westies that are seniors and
they live in her office and theyjust like yawn and snarl and growl and
you can hear little toe taps,and I don't why doesn't she edit it
out? You know, I don'tknow if she just doesn't want to,
(04:21):
or if she's you know, ifshe knows how to. I don't know.
I think people about their association forthe amount of work that it takes
to make good, clean audio,they really don't, I mean, and
I we just are we know enoughto be dangerous, Like there are there
(04:45):
are so many more things I'm surethat I could do. Like, for
one, every like podcaster says thatthe microphone that I use is shit.
So I've started to get really insecureabout my microphone, and I'm like,
well, if I had a betterone, our sound be better. But
then I'm like, what the fuckfor what? It sounds fine? And
it's not echoe girls. I thinkour podcast sound good as hell. I
(05:11):
think it sounds great man, andwe've been getting into sound design lately,
like we are killing it. Ijust can't believe people don't go in and
like edit out. Yeah, whydon't they take that out? Take that
out? I think you have to. You have to find that balance between
(05:32):
in and out right, because ifit's all removed, any of the ums
or likes or awkward pauses, itstarts to sound unnatural. So I think
you have to leave a few in. But you don't. I don't think
that you're like degrading the authenticity ofthe conversation by taking those things out.
(05:55):
No, I like to when I'mlistening to the audio, I like to
go through show see. We wouldtake that shoe at it correct, we
would take out the sneeze, wewould take out the bless you, we
would take out the word edit,and then we'd be picked back up with
coughs, arms, throat clearing,mispronunciations. Do do do words that are
(06:24):
not real? Uh? You know, obvious dumb shit right. Um.
Sometimes I'll be in a bad moodand say fuck a lot. I'd be
like, can you take out twelveof those. Um, but like,
I don't think that it's a detrimentto the to the art file. It
(06:45):
still sounds like a smooth conversation.Yeah. Um, but I think that
we're really just very picky and II don't know, I think that that's
okay, I think that very picky. No, I hope that the podcasters
(07:12):
that I listen to are picky,right, Like, oh, I thought
you were saying I thought you weresaying that that's a bad thing. Out
picky we got So I was like, okay, I'll say it's just me
then. No, No, Ithink that I think that we are.
I think that if you're um,I mean, listening to a podcast is
a voluntary experience. Nobody's making youdo it. But if you're if you're
(07:36):
going to give me an hour ofyour time every week, then I want
that one hour to be like areally really good hour for you. Yeah.
That's that's important to me because thattime is precious and you could be
listening to a million other things.You could be watching something else, you
(07:57):
could be you know, who knows, doing a million other things. But
if you choose to to subscribe tothis and to come listen and look at
the Instagram and all that shit.Then like it needs to be good.
I want you to walk away beinglike wow, like I learned something or
that was funny or that made mefeel better. Well. Also, and
(08:18):
this is secondarily maybe even third,fourth, fifth down the line, I
also like it. Like say you'rein mom's own and someone finds out you
have a podcast, and they checkit out. I like them to think,
maybe perhaps it is a network backedpodcast, you know what I'm saying,
(08:39):
Like, I'm just kinda just skirtby and let them think it's a
real thing. True. I don't. I don't. I don't give any
clarifiers. I'm like, yeah,I have a podcast. It's up to
you to think whether or not thisis real. The second that that thing
says fucking FedEx in the middle ofthe thing, I think people assume it's
(09:01):
real. It's later I seem likea real podcaster and I'm like yeah,
and then I get to act allmodest and ship when the reality is I
am sitting in a pile of clothesright now. Um, anyway, I'm
(09:24):
going to work through my bad moodbecause I uh, I just had to
apologize. Oh shoot, I know, I love. I love how you're
like, oh no, wait,what did you have to apologize to a
child or a grown man to justinyou know, the worst? Oh no,
(09:46):
what you do? I had tobe accountable for a horrible attitude that
I had three whole days ago.And it's like we're not over that yet,
like really, stop, I said, I have to go. I
have an appointment move with Amanda.Can you please make me a cup of
(10:09):
coffee while I go set up?And he goes, no, I was
an excuse, to which Shalan goes, Dad, honestly, really, just
make it a cup of coffee.She was sick for like three whole weeks,
like the least you could do,and he goes, no, she
was mean on Saturday, and shaloonso my daughter, and she was like,
(10:33):
that was Saturday exactly. So hegoes, are you gonna say sorry?
And I go, fine, I'msorry that I overreacted to a question
that you asked me on Saturday,and then he walked out of the room.
I go, but the question wasdumb. There you go not would
(11:00):
not know? Nope, that wasin a real Bolgic nope. And I
was like, fine, I'm sorryfor overreacting on Saturday and having a bad
attitude after you asked me a questionI didn't like or think wasn't necessary.
Nope, So I just had tokeep apologizing it. I just couldn't do
(11:20):
it. So shoot, because thereality is it was a dumb question.
It was, it was dumb,but my level of disdain was disproportionate.
Yeah, so it was perimenopause.Correct, I already know what's gonna and
(11:43):
I said, and I even wentin the discord. I was like,
guys, do I have a personalitydisorder? Or was the questions? And
like at least four women in therewere like no, if that was a
dumb ask question. No, SoI just looked at the discord to be
enabled, um, because I dothink that perimenopause has and I hate you
(12:11):
guys are just like is this justcan you guys just really keep your talk?
But I really do think that it'schanging my base personality, Like I
have zero patience none and my moodswings are outrageous. Do you find that
(12:31):
you experience it every day? Yes? Really, but only with him.
I don't have a problem with nobodyelse, just him, just just a
poor thing. Like for example,he could not find his arm band thing
(12:58):
for orange theory. I couldn't findit and searched all over scial over.
He's like, I'm just gonna haveto buy a new one, and I
go, no way, you're gonnahave to find it because that thing wasn't
cheap. Yeah. Um, Andhe couldn't find it because you know,
I'm very busy and our houses clean, but it's not tidy. Yeah,
(13:24):
you know, like we're at theend of two weeks. We get into
a place where there's shit everywhere.You know, there's yes, you know,
somebody went and got a facial,so now her beauty products are on
the counter, their shoes everywhere.There's um, you know, homework crafts,
Pom Pom's glue, scissors, coloredpencils, que dips, not dirty
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ones, just life stuff. Nailclippers. Yes, so there's life stuff
around the house. And he's notused to that because I used to have
a lot more time to be veryparticular about life stuff. Like I can't
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believe the amount of time I usedto have on my hands. Yeah.
I used to judge people whose fruitbowl had stickers still on it as like,
why the fuck would you read thestickers on your fruit, asshole.
God. Meanwhile, I'm the fuckingasshole. I'm the asshole, and no
one told me I'm the asshole.Wow, Melissa, Oh shut up.
I'm so happy she's here. Thisjudgemental bitch finally get I'm sitting. Yeah.
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I used to just be very particularabout my house being oprah ready.
And my house used to be oprahready. I'm gonna say a good seventy
nine percent of the time. Yeah, that's wow, which was looking back
on it impossible, but I didit. I was doing it, and
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now I'm like, I don't fuckinggive a shit. Okay, guys,
as long as there's no doodoo shrieksin the toilet, my dishwasher is running
and or being loaded up every dayall the time, and the trash is
taking out in a timely manner,and the coffee table doesn't have fingerprints on
it, like, there is stilla level of cleanliness around here. There's
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just stuff that doesn't find its homein an appropriate time frame. So anyway,
he couldn't find his fucking thing.Yeah, and he was upset about
that. So he was just like, real, nice, babe, when
you get home, we should alleverybody has a team find homes for things,
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because there's just shit everywhere and it'slike kind of stressing me out.
And nobody can find their stuff.Maja couldn't find her yellow folder, Sara
couldn't find her blue scrunch. Peoplecan't find things, and so you know,
we're just getting on. I waslike, okay, fine, normal
me, well perry menopause me.It would be like, first of all,
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motherfucker, why does it need tobe a team effort? Watch if
you see the mess, if yousee something, say something, be the
MTA do something about that shit.But I said, you already mean last
weekend? Okay, okay, sure, no problem. I come home.
I started straightening up, I'm puttingthings away, things are finding homes.
I will say shit. I wouldsay shit, but um, I can't
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even remember where this was going menopause, his arm band, cleaning up,
organizing, putting things away. Hecouldn't find his arm band. So you
got you got mad at them aboutsomething and had to apologize. See so
then look at me obfuscating the detailsso I don't have to where I had
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to say sorry. So I'm inthe closet putting things away, and I'm
listening to a podcast, but Idon't have my ear things on because they're
charging so that we can do ourwork tonight with this podcast. Yeah.
So I'm just listening to the phoneout loud and he goes, oh,
babe, pause that I want toshow you something. And he shows me
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this woman that he's been following onInstagram. So I pause my datelined episode
that I was getting into while Iwas folding in here so that he could
show me this Instagram account that he'sbeen following. And I'm like waiting for
the punchline. Okay, but insideI'm going, don't be perimenopause. We
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gotta come up with a name formy perimenopause person. And I'm like,
how Beyonce is Sasha Fiers when shegets on stage. We gotta come up
here with perrymenopause Melissa. So I'mtrying to stay in Melissa's own and not
become Perry, right. Yeah.And it's this fucking woman and her dog,
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and she says that she is livingvan life, but really she's in
her Honda pilot and I think shemight actually be a regular person who just
became homeless but is now romanticizing thatand giving tips on how to live out
of her Honda Pilot. But she'scompletely gross. So at one points like
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how like self care? Justin Beckshowed me a video that she put on
the actual Worldwide Internet where she goes, hey guys, it's me and such
and such. She names the dogand she goes, I just want to
give you a few tips on howI handle my period while I'm on the
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road. Oh, this motherfucker ladyshows a thing of baby wipes, shows
a garbage bag, shows some dishwashingliquid I think, etc. This motherfucker
talks about how she handles her periodstuff, the tupperwares that she puts her
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dirty fucking shit in and show disposeof it when she gets to that place.
But then she showed I swear toGod, her underwear that she washed
out with soap and water, andshe motherfucking hung them on an errant bush
in the desert and then ghost upon the underwears. And I was like,
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is this parody? He goes,Dude, she's dead ass serious.
She thinks she's an influencer. Thismotherfucker had sixty thousand followers. There was
another one where she said, hey, guys, I just want to show
you how I handle going to thebathroom when I can't find a bathroom.
This motherfucker, with her clothes on, proceeded to act out how she opens
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a guard garbage bag, ties itaround her bottom half. Doodoo's in the
motherfucker, and she goes. Butif I have to go pee two,
I pull it up closer to thetop. Doodoos or peas in the bag,
so she's squatting and pretending she's doingthese things. Then she put rocks
in the bottom of this bag sothat they could look like doodoo. She
goes. Then I tie it asclose to the poop as possible. Then
I put that bag along with mydogs dogshit in a type where she goes,
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and I get rid of it assoon as I can. I just
have helped. But she's dead serious. There was no joke, not and
he was like, dude. Everyday she discussed me more and more.
So I go, okay, Isaid, babe, I was about to
(20:47):
get to the bottom of whether ornot this man killed Anne, and you
just came in and interrupted my foldingand all of that to show me this
disgusting lay. And I'm waiting tofind out when what the montherfucking That's what
I'm saying in my head. That'swhat Perry is saying. And I go
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turn that off and I go reportthat account right now. That's disgusting.
Report that account, report it.And I think, I don't send me
no links to that, none ofthat, because I don't want that in
my algorithm. Don't do it.So like normal couples, I think probably
show each other stuff on the internetall day and they go haha, okay,
yeah, funny. I had tocontain my rage. I can't.
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Husbands don't like men don't look atfun things on the internet because Chris,
We'll be cracking up about something andshow it to me and I'm like,
really, like, this is whatwas causing you to laugh the biggest belly
laugh I've ever heard, Like thisman looking through blinds talking about people cooking
food. Would really this is funnyto you that some duty follows who's like
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a bodybuilder. That's what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying, where
is that funny? Please? AndJustin is just horrified that somebody out there
is doing this like and trying toglamorize it. Well, then like he'll
(22:27):
send me other things. Yeah,and I'll be like, you know what,
I'm going to need you to neversend me anything. Okay, everything
you look at is literally the andyou're sucking up my algorithm. I want
to look at nail art. Iwant to look at vintage Valentino. Okay,
(22:52):
I don't want. I don't want. I don't want to see a
very rare you know, on aperson who is doing a full face of
makeup. Somehow, I don't wantto see it. Editor's note right around
(23:18):
minute twenty two, sensor beat listen. I can't do it. Don't send
it to me. So then theother day I don't know how we got
into it, and I was like, yeah, he looks like ready word
stuff at the internet. We're alljust sitting around, you know. It
was like a lull at work andwe were just chatting and dude at work
(23:38):
who justs is known for thirty yearswas like, huh, he sends me
a lot of weird stuff. Iwas like, okay, I was like,
didning fuck up your algorithm? Yeah? Really bad, really bad?
And he was like, now Isend him stuff. So like I'm like,
you know what, then that's specialfor you too. You guys have
(23:59):
a special relationship. I want youto keep that over there. Yeah,
yeah, you can lead me outof it, thank you. I don't
get it. I don't get it. I would like you to go to
your husband's explore page and and findsomething funny. It's it's impossible. I
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don't get it. Am I notfunny? I just don't find anything.
He thinks it's funny, he's funny. I don't either. You know what
have you seen? It's on HBO. The guy from step Brothers is the
main character in this show, andhe's like a doctor of something or other.
(24:48):
It is the strangest comedy sketch showI've ever seen, and it is
not funny and the slightest and hethinks it is the funniest thing, just
old laughing the entire time. Withthe curly hair. I'm pretty sure that's
him, Thomas. Wow. Weshould have had that in the game Boom.
(25:10):
I would have had that point them, the one with the brown hair.
See Thomas Riley. I think ishis name? Okay? I probably
him? Yeah? Is it?Is it on the same wavelength of the
guy? Sure about that? Sureabout that? You know that guy?
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I think some of his are funny. I don't think any of this other
one are funny, but it's yeah, it's along the same line, but
it's even like even more out there. If you couldn't believe that, dude,
are you sure about that? Thatguy Justin Beck can watch those over
and over like they're good. Idon't know. I don't know. I
(25:57):
don't get it. I don't Idon't get it. I'm like, so
everybody's just falling out the casket.I don't understand, and he will be
dying, like when I tell you, I look over at him and he's
like, oh god, tears.He just thinks this is so funny.
I'm like, are you okay becauseI don't And I'll say I'll come into
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the room and I'm like, absolutelynot. No, turn it off.
I don't want to hear his voice. I don't want to see his face.
Turn it off. Turn it off, turn it off, turn it
off, babe. I'm almost like, you've seen you've seen this one.
You've seen this one, the onewhere he goes on a ghost tour.
(26:45):
I don't think i've seen that one. The tour guide says, you know,
you can ask your questions whatever,and he goes ask any question,
so then he goes and he's like, do ghost take a ship? Like
he just asked, all this fuckedup? You gotta know what I'm talking
about. Oh, Jessin Beck willbe dying. I'm gonna have to look
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it up tonight when we're done.Please don't because then your husband's gonna like
it. He probably already does.I think you should leave, I think
is what it's called. Yeah,yeah, I don't get it. I
think it's like in celle comedy.I don't get it. I don't,
(27:30):
but I mean, I guess JessinBeck doesn't get anything. I think it
is funny because anytime I'm looking atsomething that is really fucking funny to me,
he'll go, what's the funny?I'll show it to him and he
just won't get it, isn't it? So I think that's so interesting because
the same thing happens with us too, And it's like, don't you think
(27:51):
that in order to be compatible asa couple or friends like you have to
find the same things funny. I'mI mean, we have overlapped sometimes,
but here we are twenty years deepin marriage. Yeah, how does that
work? I don't know? Butlike the things that I think are like
(28:15):
really funny. Yeah, like peopleon Spirit airlines and someone getting cussed out
by another person and that person says, which, you're river rats smelling ass,
I'm fucking by. I think that'shilarious. And he's just like,
I don't what do you mean?What the fucking TikTok where they put the
(28:45):
mouse fucking filter on their face andthe mice think they're going to a restaurant,
but they just ate poison. Youknow what I'm talking about. I
haven't known. It's so good.I fucking crying. Then he watched it
(29:11):
and we don't even know what itlooks like, but just imagining it.
I'm also very high right now.Oh they think, okay, we're breaking
our own girl, don't explain TikTok'sBut yeah, that I think is so
funny. And he's just like lookingat me like it's not funny, and
I'm like, I don't understand.How could you not? There have been
(29:36):
times where I have scrolled on Twitterand been crying at shit that was so
funny to me. Yeah, Andthen and then turned my phone to him
and he's like what But I'm likein tears, and I'm like you ye,
This thing has been retweeted one hundredthousand times. It's clearly hilarious.
(29:59):
I don't get it really made outmy sense, and I thought it was
cultural. I was like, Okay, this is just your white so but
it's not that. I think it'smen and women. Yeah, that could
(30:33):
be it too, because I don'tend the things that I find intriguing.
He doesn't. Yeah, but thethings that he finds intriguing. I'm like,
girl, this boring shit turned thisout? What is this solar system?
Space? I don't want to seein the deep sea. You get
that shit out of here. I'mscared. He's fascinating. Does space make
(30:57):
you feel uncomfortable too? I'm notgonna. I don't want to watch that.
I can't do it. He lovesit. It makes me so anxious.
As they start to talk about likehow vast the universe is, and
they get into all of them,you know, the measurements and the light
years and the planets and the possibilitiesof other universes about it, and the
(31:19):
TV starts getting farther away. Yes, your head starts to spin. And
then they start talking about in measurementsthat you've never even heard of. M
hmmm, I'm like a quantum.Yeah, yeah, that's crazy. He
loves that. I think about likegetting lost in a spaceship and out of
(31:41):
space like anytime. I think therewas a movie within probably the last twenty
years where I think that, likethe spaceship like got off track and would
never be recovered, and so theywere just outfloating in space indefinitely. And
I was like, oh my god, that, Oh how miserable to think
that you're just like strand in thisplace until you eventually wither away and you're
(32:01):
just like untethered, like in themiddle of nothing. And why would you
watch that? I don't know.I can't even remember what the movie was
about. I don't remember why theywere out there or what they were doing,
but I think I saw that movie. But then like the ship landed
(32:25):
somewhere right but on Earth, someonejust looking at the ocean, but where
they were, they were looking atthat same ocean, but like they had
they had cross some kind of timerealm shit, oh god, it's been
so long. I can't remember.I just remember that feeling of like hopelessness.
(32:47):
I know exactly what I'm talking about. And they had to try to
meet up with each other. Yes, oh girl, what the fuck was
that? Justin love? That shit? I don't know. Do you ever
see the movie? Uh? Wasit called Open Water? Those people that
got stranded while they were scuba diving. That gives me the same kind of
(33:07):
hebgvs. Well that's they're dumbass,didn't see didn't nobody tell you get in
that kayak and get out there?Though they went with like a dive like
this is a true story. Theythis married couple went out on a dive
boat to go scuba diving in themiddle of the ocean, and the boat
(33:27):
left without them and did realize,and so they were stuck in the middle
of the fucking ocean until both ofthem died. And that's what the fuck
they get the whole movie. They'rejust like floating, They're they're cold,
they're getting sunburned, they're thirsty.Things are like swimming near them, biting
(33:51):
them. He oh god, it'sit's rough se And that's what I'm saying.
Everybody's like, you don't go inthe ocean. No, you don't
even just put your no. You'venever just no, no, I've been
made really though, if you canI've been neck deep maybe twice in my
life and said absolutely the fuck notbecause it's one false it's one false move
(34:17):
and you're wash the fuck away.No, okay, but if it's clear
and it's shallow and it's gentle,I can do that. No, it's
not, it's not ever gonna beclear. No, it is clear.
Like when we were in the Dominicanlike, it was beautiful, beautiful,
(34:37):
beautiful, beautiful. We went snorkeling. The water was blue, the sand
was white, was gorgeous, yourwhole body and yeah, absolutely, we
went snorkeling with nurse sharks. Girl. No, no, yes, absolutely
or not. When we were inFlorida a few years ago, we went
(34:58):
down to h Fort DeSoto and there'sa place on the beach there that's like
a huge sand bar and in someplaces the waters only knee deep. It
was really warm, you could likewalk for like really long stretches. It
was gorgeous like love that now thatbugs bunny gift now. But if it's
(35:21):
shallow, like what's there's no harm? Girl, I don't give a fuck.
If I'm on land, I don'twant to do anything having to do
with animals. The ocean is justa giant animal to me is just a
big lot of animals and issues init. I don't want to be No.
I don't want that parrot on myshoulder. No, I don't want
(35:43):
to look at that wall. No, I don't want to touch that crocodile.
Y'all go ahead. No, No, I'm not interested in any of
that because I know me. Iknow me. It's gonna be me.
It's gonna be me. It's gonnathe bird is gonna shot on someone's head,
it's gonna be me. If analligator's gonna bite somebody's gonna be me.
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No, I don't put myself inthose situations. Oh, I don't
want it. And I just Ijust think that that's a level of adventure
that I'm never gonna have. Soyeah, I'm still trying to think of
God, I'm so distracted because I'mstill trying to think of I know the
movie you're talking about, and itwas really sad. I'm gonna have to
look it up. All of those, all of I can't space the ocean.
(36:30):
What else creeps me out? Theuncertainty of death, I don't know.
Um, I feel so bad.I was doing carpool yesterday, Yeah,
thinking about earth stuff and I don'tknow how we got on the topic
of recycling. And I go,but I mean, do they really recycle
(36:54):
it? Oh shit? And thelittle girl in the vaccine was like yes.
I was like, oh yeah,yeah, sure yeah, And she's
like what do you mean, missBeck. I was like, you know,
like you put the recycling bin outthere, but then the trash guy
comes and gets it in, likewhere do they really put it? And
(37:14):
like is it being recycled? Becauseevery day they still tell us that the
ocean is so dirty. And I'mas I'm talking, I'm like, shut
up, shut up. She's like, she tells this whole story. She
goes, well, my grandfather onetime he got into a fight because the
trash man came and he took therecycling and so he went outside and he
(37:35):
told the man, I'm waiting hereuntil the recycling people come. And the
trash man told him that the recyclingand the trash goes in the same place,
and my grandfather said, no,they don't, because I called down
to the recycling and they answered thephone and it was recycling. And she
said, and then the trash manand my grandfather got in a big fight
because the trash man was like,Okay, well then I can just leave
(37:57):
this here and come back later whereit's just gonna go in the trash.
Yeah, oh my god, andwrote the town and etcetera, etcetera,
and she goes. Anyway, itended up that the recycling people called my
grandfather and confirmed for him that,yes, it did get recycled. Into
my mind, I was like,no, that shit did not. They
just, oh my god. Inmy mind, I was like, that's
(38:21):
wonderful. That's wonderful. And then, because I'm an asshole, because I'm
a whole asshole. After she gotout of the car, I go,
Maja day recycling ship. They didn't. What did Masa say? She goes,
I know, oh my god,Oh my god. This little girl
had this whole little story to tellyou about how she knew that it was
(38:45):
going into the recycling. Oh God, love her. But it wasn't.
Oh hold on, you know thatthough, right. I know that gets
you upset, but I'm just keepingit real. You know that though,
right? Yeah, I mean theydo recycle some stuff. No they do
not. Man, my god,I feel bad. Greta Thumberg be yelling
(39:08):
at us the ship and I'm like, girl, we're cleaning the ship,
we separate the shit. We doall that, I am telling you it's
going to the same motherfucking place,and then we're rude as hell and putting
it on someone else's continent. Andso when I can't think about it,
(39:30):
I'm just saying, when you seeimpoverished people poking with a stick through fucking
endless rags of our fast fashion thatwe've thrown away, yeah, yeah,
I really think they're recycling your shit. They not. Okay, I feel
bad everyone show. This episode justtook a dramatic ninety degree terms. I'm
(39:55):
just saying things that suck deep seaocean were Pity City. Think about the
twenty six million staffers at the officefurniture company Miller Knoll. Ask their CEO
during a video town hall how theycould stay motivated if they do not get
a bonus. But her pep talkmay not have had the intended effect.
(40:19):
Get her orders out our door.Treat each other well, be kind,
be respectful, Focus on the futurebecause it will be bright. It's not
good to be in a situation we'rein today, but we're not going to
be here forever. It is goingto get better. So lead, Lead,
by example, treat people well,talk to them, be kind,
and get after it. Don't askabout what are we going to do if
(40:43):
you don't get a bonus? Getthe damn twenty six million dollars. Spend
your time in your effort thinking aboutthe twenty six million dollars we need and
not thinking about what are you gonnado if we don't get a bonus?
All right? Can I get somecommitment for that? I would appreciate that.
I had an old boss said tome one time, you can visit
Pity City, but you can't livethere, so people leave PITTYCD. Let's
(41:07):
get it done. Thank you.Um. That was so I know.
I got a design with it reachthe other day and it was like no,
and I was like, fuck themthrough that shit. And it's just
like, lady, first of all, if you're on a zoom, you
(41:28):
should just assume you're being recorded onehundred percent. I wanted to be like
at first, I was like,she's her voice was like her voice didn't
match the things that she was saying, and that was so disjointed for me.
We should probably explain what we're talkingabout. Oh yeah, in imperfect
stranger's fashion. This thing that wentviral on the internet literally a week ago.
(41:50):
We will discuss it now. Soshe's the CEO right of Herban Miller,
or she like the president, Ican't remember. She's like the top
of the pyramid in that company.And they were would you say her name
is Andy? Oh? Andy,that's right? And Andy was on a
(42:15):
zoom call with her. I don'tknow if it were her, you know,
general managers or district managers or storemanagers, whoever it was she was
talking to. She was pissed thatthey were down twenty six million dollars and
was telling them to not worry aboutwhere is our bonus. We need to
(42:37):
think about what we can do toget out there and get that twenty six
million dollars. While this bitch waspocketing how much of her own bonus Melissa
six million? Ah, she wasstill sad, descending she said, take
those take that attitude to pitty cityor some shit. She said, you
(43:00):
can't stay in pity city. Andthen her apology wasn't a problem. It
was in her non apology. Herapology did not end with that said,
I'm going to distribute my six milliondollar bonus that I took to all of
you who have made this company whatit is today. Thank you. Yeah
(43:22):
she didn't say that. I don'tknow how I came across that story,
but like Reddit wanted me to seeit. Twitter wanted me to see it,
everybody wanted. Instagram wanted me tosee it. And I was like,
the problem that is, I stillreally like Noel furniture. See there,
see see how it happens. Problems. I know. I know it's
(43:46):
you can't escape anything. You can't. It's everything's tainted. Everything's terrible.
Um. The other thing I wantedto say it, Oh, no,
everything's not terrible because today you knowhow I I said I was going to
get more into Reddit. Yeah Ihaven't been, like yes, I have
just been like collecting more places togo on Reddit. I found the place
(44:09):
for us. It's called it's asubreddit called Zennials. It's for us.
It's it's for the nineteen seventy sevento whatever the fuck year it stops.
I think you're included. M Oh, I'm so excited. And it's all
the stuff we like, you getmy phone, my grandma. It's like
(44:37):
do you remember this? Do youremember that? And I'm like yes,
and so like I just went downthen re lane. Okay, so it's
just called Zennials X yeah x EN. I hope I'm saying it right,
am I even saying it right.That's zennial of me. That's yeah.
(45:00):
Yep. Go to the one Zennilsthat has seventeen thousand members. Oh
my god, I already see thecover of a Sweet Valley High book.
Yep, yep. Oh my god, I love those. I had the
board game, dude, just scroll. I was in here for like ten
(45:21):
minutes. Just my heart was gettingso full. The Heathcliff heath Cliff theme
song. Look, no one shouldneighborhood, but he could just won't be
under Bay branks on everyone. Umhey you guys. Dude, Oh my
(45:59):
god, that just made like theI think the part that makes ASMR people's
brain tingle. That just made mylittle spot there tingle too. Hypercolor t
shirts, Oh my god, Iwanted one of those so bad. There
was a whole thing about cabbage patchkids. Oh my god, Oh my
(46:24):
god, all those little clips,the butterfly, the dark green flowers,
that poodle. Oh dude, Iwas just like, this is all so
specific, and if you said itout loud to someone that wasn't around at
this time. The sit and spinyep, Oh my god. I just
(46:50):
bought one of those for my nephewfor his birthday. And it comes with
two people can sit on either side, so my niece can sit on one
side and then their legs cross overand he can sit on the other.
But it hooks up to the sprinkler, so as you spin it around,
every time you open up a spoton the holes, the sprinkler comes out.
I was so excited to give itto him. I had a care
(47:10):
bear sit and Spin. I wasin my girlfriend's car and she had the
um speaking Spell Oh for her daughter, and I went and by it for
Shara. And Shara be using thatship on Saturday morning. She has to
do her speaker spell. Oh mygod, that's so cute. What color
(47:30):
is it? Is it red?It's the old school regular ass speaking spell,
yes, with the voice and everything. Then I went on here,
do you remember the serendippity books?Why does that sound so familiar? When
you get to that threat. Whenyou get to that section on here,
(47:51):
you'll know it had a little umIt said a Serendippity book at the top,
and then it would like to addyeah, The moral of the story
is, yes, I used tohave all those motherfuckers. Oh my gosh,
is this not just a wonderful walkthrough memory? Not the sheer energy
(48:15):
control top? Oh my god.Pantyhose in an egg Yeah, that was
a really great invention. Actually,pantyhose legs, l apostrophe eggs. Yeah,
that was great. Oh my goodness. I was gonna send it to
you, but I was like,I have to, I have to.
(48:36):
And then then I came across thatmeme that said Zenniel's in the eighties,
and then it has the toys rus Zenniel's in their forties, and it
had the Costco and I was like, oh my god, this is exactly
who I am. I just gotthere. Holy shit, dude, oh
my trolled doll, Blockbuster? Wow? See okay, Oh my god,
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it is the Creola markers with thefucking stamps. I had every Oh my
gosh. When I tell you Ilived for those, I need you to
keep going because when you're gonna getto the charm necklace, you're gonna scream.
Is it the plastic one with thelittle oh oh oh? I had
one of those. Watch, Ohmy god, that little girl in that
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boombox. Get there, get tothe um, get to the charm necklace.
Okay, this was quite a collection. Oh, oh my god,
I love Oh my god, Iloved it, said, do you remember
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that? Yes, I remember thelittles too. They went through that little
tiny door in the wall. Yeah, you went to the second picture of
the baby bottle, of the tinytoilet, the tennis racket, the plastic
hairbrush that you could put hairspray inand then screw the top on. I
always wanted one of those so bad. All the cool girls had those.
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What about the banana clip, Yes, oh my god, I had that.
I yall love the banana clip.That fucking minute made pulp shit and
you would take the long water Ohwe were we weren't allowed. Oh we
would have that going ahead in thereand make some orange juice. Dude,
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this is amazing. I want tobush you around. We will, we
will, girl, this whole shit. I was so happy scrolling through here.
I was just like, this isthis is outrageous because I haven't thought
about any of this ship in along time. But if you think about
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it. Bourd nineteen seventy seven,nineteen eighty whatever, we're truly the generation
where we were half analog and halfuh everything digital whatever the fuck? Yeah?
Yeah? Do you remember your allscreen natips? Yep? Do you,
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yes, Sally? What your alscreen name is? Well? Before,
before college, I was manned askis and then once I was accepted
to how University, I became BobKid and O four. Not Bob kid
(51:44):
and No four that's hysterical. Whatwas yours? Um? I was Shorty
and Mercy, but then I hada Lurker account huh and my larger account
was I hate animals because like,who's gonna talk about? Do you remember
(52:08):
your hotmail address? I didn't havehotmail. We had we always had AOL.
What was my AOL? Well?My AOL was also shorty and Mercy
at AOL. Well, then I'mguessing. I'm guessing I would have had
to have been Bob kitt no forat aol dot com when I was in
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college. But I feel like whenI was in high school, I had
a different one. I don't remembershigh school. Yeah, wow, I
didn't get an email address to college. See, my dad is like my
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dad has always been a gadget guy, and so I mean, growing up,
we always had like video recorders likehe had, like the original when
I was born. He had thevideo recorder where you had to wear that
whole pack with the tape in athing like a VCR on your shoulder.
And then you had that giant asscamcorder with a big microphone on the front.
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So we had computers. I whenthe Nintendo Super Nintendo first came out,
he bought that. I remember wegot it for Christmas. It was
like a big deal. So wehad our rich I had Internet. I
probably had Internet. Let's see,I had we had it before we moved
to the house on so fourth grade, I think fifth grade, Wow,
(53:37):
we had we had a Prodigy.I would log into Prodigy and like go
and chat rooms and that kind ofship. What were your game systems?
Because there's one thing, girl,we would have no motherfucking phone. But
we had a game system. Okay, well, we had the original Nintendo.
(54:00):
We had the power pad and thegun like that, all that stuff
that came out, Duck Hunt andSuper Mario Brothers. Duck Hunt was a
ship and that was so fun.And then we got Super Nintendo and then
I feel like we had Nintendo sixtyfour and then at some point when I
(54:22):
was in college, my dad boughtan Xbox, and I think that was
the last gaming system we had.But you guys, well remember I'm like
ten thousand years older than you andshut it always, no, bro.
We had an Odyssey. You evenremember that one nod It was just this
(54:45):
big console and then you got onesquare thing with a joystick on it and
you you put the game like inthe top, in a big slot in
the top. Yeah, we hadOdyssey. We had ad Um. Oh
my god, what was that onecalled? Who was one that came after
(55:06):
Odyssey? It was real obscure too. Then we got the Sega. My
dad was the kind of person whowaited in line outside the best buy for
the new game system. Really yes, and I'm in dedication, and I'm
thinking he must have been doing thatwhen he was like in his late thirties,
you know what I'm saying, Like, Dad, yeah, like so
(55:28):
my age now, Yeah, itwas early forty waiting in line because I
remember when I was in college.Ah, what fucking it was like ninety
nine something like that. Nine anew game system was going to come out,
(55:51):
and he came all the way toTampa. I was living in Tampa
at the time he came all theway to my house, like really stupid
early in the morning, stopped byand said hey, and he was like
up headed to them all. Igo, what are you doing? He's
like, I'm about to go waitin line. He had a chair and
everything. He was gonna go getin line to get his motherfucker new Game
System. I was like, wow, does he still play video games?
(56:12):
Yes? He was like wow.I was like, can you get the
fuck off? I have to googleit now because I can't. Maybe I'm
misremembering, but I think New GameSystem came out and my dad was really
excited. Hold on, wow,Yes, that's funny. I think my
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dad just bought him because he likes, like, every time a new phone
comes out, he just gets anew phone. He just loves like all
that kind of shit, and healways has. Oh my god, I'm
not lying. This day in videogame history, September ninth, nineteen ninety
nine, Sega Dreamcast launches in NorthAmerica. The Sega Dreamcast console launched September
(56:59):
ninth, nineteen ninety nine, andwould end up being Sega's last home video
gaming platform. Yep, my dadmade a mine for that shit, Sure
did. I did not misremember.Wow, Okay, that's crazy that I
have nine embedded in my brain.Yeah, that was like a core memory
(57:22):
for you. Why was that?I don't know. I don't know,
but he was really excited and Iremember being like, why what hello out
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