SPEAKER_01 0:21

Let's do it, lady. Welcome to the show. What's up?

SPEAKER_02 0:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:25

There we go.

SPEAKER_02 0:26

There you are. Hello.

SPEAKER_01 0:27

I can hear you now. Thank you. Good.

unknown 0:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

Verizon. This this Epi is a bit unstructured. Hell yeah, brother. Hell yeah, brother. Can you pass me another? Hell yeah. Oh, I like those. Brother. Okay. Um. So you know life is sometimes pretty heavy.

SPEAKER_02 0:50

Oh, geez.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

But then there's also the minor annoyances that like detract us from like. And sometimes when I'm like thinking about these minor annoyances, I'm like, hey girl, there are other hardships out there. Bigger fish to fry, my dear. Bigger fish to fry than you thinking about this for as long as you've been thinking about this. You you're letting this little minor thing ruin your day when there are there are actual real things happening.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:16

So this episode, we're gonna we're gonna categorize some of my frustrations into immediate trash. Okay. Reluctant leave. It's like you hate it, but we accept it. Okay. Um, this is a me problem. You're gonna say, Christy, you're the only one that thinks about this. I doubt it, but okay. Okay. And society needs to fix this.

SPEAKER_02 1:39

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

So immediate trash, no discussion, straight to the garbage. Okay. We done with you. Okay. Reluctant leave. You hate it, but you accept it. Okay. This is this is a me problem, and society needs to fix this. Okay. Up first, we're starting off strong. Okay. Our state, which is Utah, having no snow, but our state motto is best snow on earth. Go. Trash. No discussion straight to the trash. Trash. No, I'm a society needs to fix this. Society definitely needs to fix this. But we need to fix the lake. Our Great Salt Lake. Our our freaking the only thing that our state is known for. I mean, our state's known for a lot of things. Most notably Secret Lives of Mormon Housewives. Which I love.

SPEAKER_02 2:28

I can't. I can't. I can't.

SPEAKER_01 2:31

I love it when it comes out, and then I just finished the most recent season, and I'll forget about it until the next time. I have trauma, I think. Anyway, yeah. Yeah. We don't have to go into it. Yeah. But I will say, we need to fix our lake because our lake is the reason we have no snow. Yeah. Folks.

SPEAKER_02 2:48

And it's also the reason we're diverting water.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

And also we're diverting water from heading to our lake, which guys, where do you think our snow comes from? It's the lake. Yeah. Lake. The clouds plus the clouds pass over, they suck up that water like an alien. Yep. Like a laser beam. Yep. That's science. That's what aliens are for. Yeah. And then we take it to the the basins.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

After we build a crop circle.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

So also the Utah's supposed to have the Olympics in 2034. And it's like, if I tried to have the Olympics in 2026, the year of our Lord and Savior Taylor Swift. No. No. No. So, anyways, I'm just like, nobody cares. And people care, but the right people don't care. Yeah. And our politicians don't care because they cannot monetize off of it. And so we need to figure out a way that our politicians can monetize off of it. I hate that I just said that.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

Yeah, but that's true. That's the only way to get things done around. It's the only way to get things done.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

People gotta make money. Um so I think it's a society needs to fix this. But I think about it a lot.

SPEAKER_02 3:52

I don't think you're alone in that.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

That might be a a Roman Empire for me.

SPEAKER_02 3:55

I think the the thing that's the most frustrating is we just finished out a legislative session, and there's a again, these two amazing girls, they run the Elevate Utah page.

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Elevate Utah.

SPEAKER_02 4:06

They're amazing. They always are so amazing at explaining some of the policies that are going through. And and I appreciate that because I'll as the normal human person, I don't understand a lot of it. But they just started a podcast too, and they're they're really great. Anyways, um I don't know where I was going with that, but I I know that they said that there was some legislation towards something like that, but a lot of the stuff that was being pushed through was stuff that was just like inherently racist, like stuff that we're spending time on that doesn't need to be like has time spent on it.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

Why can't we all care about literally the Great Salt Lake that's keeping our yeah because if because if the lake dries up, guys, it's just a we're in a a toxic dust bowl.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

Toxic dust bowl.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

And they've talked about there's like proposals being like we can we can raise the levels of the Great Walt Salt Lake, but they're talking about damming it up so so short like shrinking the s the overall size, but it raises the thing. So that's where people get confused. It's like, nah, guys, we need it to be big, we need it to be deep.

SPEAKER_02 5:11

And we also need to recognize that there's ecosystems that survive off of that that help with some of the problems that we're dealing with, like mosquitoes and all of that stuff. Like, and we need to focus our attention on that and not like what flag you can have in a government building and get your be so for real right now. Nobody gives a shit if we're all choking on toxic dust.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

Wow, I'm spicy. Shoot, I said save that one to left. Okay, let's move on. Let's move on. How did you not know that? I don't know. It's just it's just the one I think about a lot.

SPEAKER_02 5:45

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_01 5:46

Okay, I think we all do. Next item that's taken up brain space in my life. Tech not working when you need it to.

SPEAKER_02 5:54

That's always worse. I just had this realization. What we always talk about how we are each other's spouses. Yes. My husband loves tech. It does not love him. So, like, for example, these types of lights and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

Folks, Ashley's saying, hey girl, you love tech, but tech don't love you. And that's true.

SPEAKER_02 6:20

Exactly. He loves it. He loves like the idea of like, there was one point that he wanted to put, he saw like a video on TikTok, of course. And he wanted to put lights behind the TV that like move with whatever's happening on the TV. Yeah. He got sold into that being a thing. Two separate lights. This was before we had babies. So we had that dual income, no kid money. Dink. Dink. Um, and not neither one of them he could get to work. Also, before we had kids, we spent money on a sound bar that he swears is the one of the best sound bars. We dropped some cash on it. That thing never freaking works.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 7:03

Tech. I just tech. I just hate when I have literally done nothing to cause these problems, and all of a sudden it's like, you can't log in. Yeah. There was a there was a point maybe a year ago where every day when I got to work and I'd go to login, it would be like, your account is locked.

unknown 7:22

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

And I was like literally on like I could just like message RIT and be like, hey man, and he's like, You locked out again. And I was like, Yeah. And he would unlock it. So I don't know what was going on there. That pissed me off, and I was like, hey, I'm gonna quit. One more parking ticket, I'm out of here. Christy's Christy's motto is if I get one more parking ticket, I'm gone. I am gone. And I haven't had that many, but like, don't give me a freaking parking ticket.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

I just think the idea that we have to pay for parking is insane, anyways. Don't even get me started on that crap. I'll quit. Like, well, it's just because it seems it it is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 8:05

The parking people at our work, like I've seen them ticket a cop before. They don't give like any apps about nothing. I can have two cars on my permit, and like there's been a kid, like a a small number of times, three times maybe, that I've shown up in like a different car. Like maybe my car has to be in the shop, and so I have to borrow a car from my sister or whatever. And I like literally I'm like, okay, I get into the parking lot, I'm in a different car, I will run straight downstairs and I will log into my computer and I will I will add this new car to my thing. In that four and a half minutes it takes me from to get to the parking lot to my office to log in. To do I have a parking ticket. But there's really issues that occur at work are like, you know, we'll get back to you in 10 to 12 business weeks.

SPEAKER_02 8:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Or not at all. Like you can't log in, it doesn't matter. Or I got logged back in really quick.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Yeah, our IT is pretty good. But it's one of those things where it's like, I don't know, this is just how we've always done it.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

Well, and when I'm like, hey, I work here, like, and they're like, well, you can give you like a reduced fee. And I'm like, I'll tell you right now one more and I'm gone. And you don't want to see this talent walk out.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

I'm gonna start my pop star career. Hey, don't you? Hey, you threaten me, man. I'll get famous.

SPEAKER_01 9:28

Give me a parking ticket and I will sick the bulldog on you, and you will not like it. Yeah, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

We you don't want the bulldog. We keep that bulldog locked up until we absolutely need it, but then when we get that bulldog out, okay. Yeah, he a boss.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

What other tech do I hate when it doesn't work? Printer. My printer doesn't work.

SPEAKER_02 9:43

Your scanner? Hey, do you want to update your scanner?

SPEAKER_01 9:45

I do not want to update my scanner. Too bad, bitch. I too bad. Um my Adobe not working. That sometimes bugs me. I've been using Adobe all day, and then all of a sudden it's like, you gotta do an update.

SPEAKER_02 9:57

Oh yeah. My thing lately has been jumping on calls and my headphones like not picking up my microphone, but it doesn't give me an option to switch anything. For whatever reason, on my laptop, it won't tell, like it won't even use the laptop microphone. At one point, I had to completely shut my computer down. Yeah. And then it never came back up for a while. And I was like, did I break this thing? Like, what is going on? Also, just in general, like Dell is trash. I don't like Dell laptops. But if you want to sponsor us, but Dell, please try to redeem.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

Please try to redeem yourself because trash. Holy oops, what we're using right now. No, nothing but trouble.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

I want my Lenovo back. Yeah. Those were the days.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

Okay. Next, next item of business. We're gonna get sued. Diet Coke not being available. I just hate when I go somewhere and it's like they don't have it.

SPEAKER_02 10:56

I used to be a Pepsi girl. That that shakes out. Yeah, that shakes out. And then I got very ill on Pepsi once and I was like, never again. Oh, when you were pregnant. When I was pregnant. I ended up in the ER. Not fun. Never again.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

We're not saying that was due to the diet Pepsi, but we're not not saying it.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

We're not not saying it, but I'll tell you what, having to puke every like 15 seconds was not fun for anybody. I don't like to puke.

SPEAKER_01 11:21

Nope. But that's not on my list of okay, wait. Is it? We didn't we didn't classify tech not working. That one is a that's probably a me problem.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

You uh you-ish.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

You ish, you and like a handful of other people. Because other people just it other people don't let it wreck their day where I will dwell on it and it's like, how is your day? I don't know. My Adobe wouldn't work. I don't know my adobe for five minutes.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

I don't know though, because that just reinforces my idea. Like tech never, I just expect it not to work. Yeah, people are always saying, like, like, oh yeah, it's the greatest new thing, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then, like, literally half the time, I'm like, no, it doesn't work.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Great.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

It's lovely when it works, but like this great new feature that everybody says, except for that it never works. Yeah. Especially like even with AI. Like they'll say, like, oh yeah, with this new AI feature in Adobe Express, you can get rid of certain things in your pictures, and then you go try to do it, and it's you click on it and wait 10 minutes, and you're like, dude, I could have figured this out all on my own. Or it adds like another entire person that you tried to remove out of there.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

You want a freaking nightmares, man. Yeah. Okay. So we'll say tech not working is a it's a me, is an us problem. It's an us problem. Okay. And then Diet Coke not being available, also that's a me problem. Because not everybody feels that. Okay, next. Waking up at the same time in the middle of the night, like the 4 a.m. club, the 3 a.m. club. That's immediate trash. Straight to the garbage. Like it doesn't even need extra discussion. I know, that's what I'm saying, but like it is very annoying.

SPEAKER_02 13:00

That's like a spiritualism thing. Have you heard about this?

SPEAKER_01 13:04

I think so. Okay, yeah. Yeah. Anyways, okay. Being overly polite and getting trapped in conversations.

SPEAKER_02 13:12

That's a you problem.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

That is a me problem.

SPEAKER_02 13:14

You need to channel your inner Ashley and just high tail it out of there, man. I know. Just look at them and then turn off like I did that one time and just turn it off. Like a light bulb. They're like a light switch. Yeah, next time they come, I want to see that.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

I doubt they will, but I am overly polite to a T and it gets me into conversations that I don't want to be a part of.

SPEAKER_02 13:41

Yeah, but on the flip side, I am an asshole, and it also causes more problems sometimes than is necessary. But sometimes it just needs to be a reality check for people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

Okay. Having to figure out dinner every single night. I think this is a reluctant leave. It is a something we we hate, but we have to accept it because we do need to feed ourselves every single night. And I will say, ever since that cooking episode where I like romanticized my cooking, I have been like trash. Food is cookie. Yep. I don't know why. It always kills me when I see these like I think it's because the sunlight is out. I think I'm not meant to cook in the daylight. I think I'm only meant to cook at night. A vampire. I am a vampire.

SPEAKER_02 14:29

I I always see these videos of these people that are like, here's what I make when I don't want to cook, and then they make this whole ass mail. I'm just like, okay, I put dino nuggies in the air fryer. Okay. It's called takeout. It's called DoorDash, friend. Yeah. Me and my husband always look at each other and are like, again? Yeah. We have to do this again? Yeah. We have to eat again? We should just be like plants in the sunshine, just absorb up all that stuff.

SPEAKER_01 14:57

That's why I maybe think it was like a seasonal depression. Oh truth bomb. Uh-oh. Truth bomb. Which, okay, so if it is a seasonal depression, then society needs to fix that because we could fix that by changing the daylight savings. Yes. Stop being just because we've always done it this way doesn't mean it's correct. Oh my gosh. We don't have to go there. Alright, because that's an immediate trash. Yep. Okay. Jeans, sizing, style, all of it. Absolutely trash. Trash. Society needs to fix it though. So I had the worst realization just what's today? Sunday? Friday? Was it Friday? Thursday?

unknown 15:37

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:40

It was Friday. We were working together on Friday. You guys. I wore these jeans. I've worn these jeans many a times. And I fold my jeans. I love them so much. And it's on multiple occasions when I have folded my jeans and I see the bottom cuff. I'm like, something is wrong with the bottom cuff. No, no, no.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

You have to explain this. How you were sitting in a chair talking to me and I was explaining something to you, and all of a sudden you just go, I put my legs out. That one's longer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

Okay. So back up. Forget what I just all said. Yes, I was sitting in a chair, I kicked my legs out, and I was like, that pant leg is longer. And then I got up close and personal with the bottom cuff of my pants, which I have again, as I'm folding my jeans to put them away, I've noticed that one cuff looks different. Like it looks wrong. And it's because one side, and I have a picture, and we can post it if you want. Yes, we will post it. One side doesn't have an original hem. And then I'm like, I bought these pants from the store. Who who literally bought these pants? Change the hem because it is like what like a half inch, like a half inch shorter. But like.

SPEAKER_02 16:51

But why just on one leg? On one leg. Somebody was like, I'm really gonna mess with somebody.

SPEAKER_01 17:00

And now they're gonna be like listening to this, and they're like, who got him? Taking their time to go to the store, buy a pair of pants, modify one leg, send them back.

SPEAKER_02 17:09

That's like some long game joke stuff, like my husband.

SPEAKER_01 17:14

It is the worst joke, and I have been I've been played. But, anyways, I I will say I've noticed it all along. I'm like, every time I fold these pants, I'm like, this ham is not original.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

No, it's not.

SPEAKER_01 17:27

You know what? You know what, old navy, do better. That's where I buy my jeans, is old navy. Please sponsor us. I love your clothes. And Madewell. I do love Madewell. And Madewell always makes them well. But Old Navy is I'm buying, I'm getting what I'm buying. Yeah. So I need to recognize that. Getting what I'm buying. Yeah. I'm getting what I'm buying. My English, what I do is this. I got it. But also jeans in general, like the sizing. It really depends on the fabric that is being used, even by the correct size. And then you wear them one time and then they stretch out, and you're like, well, cool. Now I can never wear these again till I wash them again, and then I can wear them for four hours because then by the time I've worn them for four hours, they are stretched out. Also, in like standing pants versus sitting pants. Why is that a thing? Yeah. I will give one kudos to jeans right now that it's nice to be able to wear cropped for the first time. I mean, we've been wearing cropped for a while, like cropped style. And that coming from tall, tall girl over here, like finally, like I don't have to feel bad about myself. Anyways, that's all. Stupid jeans. Cropped is just normal jeans for me. That's not them's just jeans for me. Them just jeans. You're the one that needs the the original the French cut, whatever. And I know how to do that because I used to do that quite a bit. Um also jeans, also jeans that just smell, even though like you buy them and like I hate that. It's either the dye or the elastic. And you're like species always smell. I've I literally just washed these. They came out with all my laundry that smells phenomenal. These jeans smell terrible.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

Yeah. And there's nothing you can do. You've I've tried everything for that. You can't.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

It just and then you just have to say the smell of these jeans is none of my business. Yeah. That's somebody else's problem. Okay. Yep. That one doesn't make sense. My next point didn't make sense, so we'll just move on. Well, I don't know. Now I kind of want to hear it. So this is one that you said in a recent podcast, our bodies being literal play-doh. Yeah. And that I think I don't know if men experience this, but women experience this where it's like, I wore this exact outfit last week, two weeks ago. I put it on again, and it's like this looks off. The fuck? Did I go out in this before? And then you put it on one or two weeks later and you're like, great. So it's just you get to your 30s. Everything's great in your 20s. Even after having babies, like in your 20s, like you kind of like snap back. Or you snap into a a new norm. It doesn't matter that you don't go back to your 20 sides. But then all of a sudden in your 30s, it's like every day it's like however I slept is my body.

SPEAKER_02 20:08

You're like memory foam.

SPEAKER_01 20:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:10

You're like the musinex like monster thing in the music.

SPEAKER_01 20:14

Whatever like somebody like comes in and just like puts but they gumby. They gumby me. And anyway, so yeah, trash. So that one is uh I think that's very relatable for most women though, because it's a it's immediate trash, no discussion.

SPEAKER_02 20:29

And but also I think society should fix that because the sizing is ridiculous. Yeah, just for standard. Can we just be like men and do waist and length?

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:38

That would be great, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 20:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:41

Not that I can ever tell you what size of waist I got, because uh depends on the time of month, you know? Depends on the day. Yeah. Depends on the day. Did I look at something salty? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 20:50

Yeah. Did I think was I salty yesterday? Okay. Did I think too much about sugar? And now I'm okay. So this one gets me really heated. Okay. Four-way stops and people not knowing how they work. You've already covered that. Did I? Well, it needs to be covered again. Okay. Guys, be predictable. Be predictable. I have a new driver, well, assumed to be driver in six months. And trying to explain to him how, well, the the actual rules of a four-way stop are this. But idiot over here is trying to be polite and they got hit there first, but they're gonna wave you through, even though it makes no sense for you to wave them through. Don't drive.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

All you gotta do is just look at make eye contact with the person and be like, what are you doing, bud? You know? That's we're in Utah, and spoiler alert for everybody who lives outside of Utah, we're not great drivers around here. Nope. Nope. Because driver's ed is left to the parents. And not it used to not be. It used to not be, but many parents do not care. They think the school should teach it, and there's a there's a battle, and I have ridden in many a car as a teenager that I probably should not have.

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Should I start flipping people off when they wave me through when they shouldn't? Okay. It's like, hey, thank you. Also, there you go. Yes, correct. Do better.

SPEAKER_02 22:10

Do better.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

I've actually been thinking about getting a tattoo just on that finger so that when I flip people off, they think in like showing them the right tattoo.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

Oh, I thought you were gonna say do better. Oh yeah, that too. Okay. Did I also mention the zipper merge? Yes. Oh okay. Well we won't go there, but we got heated about it.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Do better on the zipper merge, guys. Yeah. Cause I remember I said like Yes, zipper merge. We also flashed. Um, this is Utah, so you also have to get over as soon as you possibly can. Yeah. Like because people go as far as you can, but zip like as soon as you see an opportunity, get over there.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Yeah. Okay. Next. Protein shakes tasting like trash and hurting your tummy. Yep, that's trash. They're making you so fardy. I hate that. I don't get farty with them.

SPEAKER_02 22:56

Sorry about that. Some people do. Some people do. I don't know who, but talking for a friend. Somebody does. It's not me. I don't know what you're talking about. I had to go to the bathroom really quick. I'll be back.

SPEAKER_01 23:09

No, but I love a I love a protein shake. I was I I think just getting like a little bit of protein before my workout in the morning, like just a little bit. But then like change it's a game changer for sure. But then if I forget to drink the other half immediately after my workout, so before, you know, before the sun rises or whatever it is, then if I drink it in the afternoon, it's like the gusting.

SPEAKER_02 23:32

I also don't like when they like promote the ones that are gross. Yeah. Like I don't know if your gym does it, but mine's like, this is five dollars off or whatever, and I'm like, oh yay! And then I if you get in here, like, oh I get it. I'm like, yeah, this is you're right. You just scrape this off the pavement and put it in a bottle. What do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 23:49

This is garbage. Yeah. And they just laughed when I bought it. Um, yeah, trash. So I just don't need my tummy hurting. Nobody likes that.

SPEAKER_02 23:58

You know what is a fun hack though that you gave me once apple cider vinegar? No, not apple cider vinegar. It's the protein shake in your in your fridge cig. Oh, we haven't done that in a while. Yeah, we need to do that again because that was top-tier beveraging right there.

SPEAKER_01 24:13

I one time used a coffee-flavored protein shake in my regular coffee, and it was so gross.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

Oh, it was gross? Yes, it was disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 24:27

Alone the coffee protein is good. Yeah. And alone coffee in general is good, but mixed.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

I was for a while putting that vanilla protein shake in my coffee when I was trying to like count macros and stuff, and it was 10 out of 10 recommend that. As long as it's a good protein.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

Yeah. So that's probably just a us thing. Maybe probably just an us thing. Because I know there's a lot of I don't know, a lot of protein stuff that people are like, this is the best one. I love it. Like people I actually know and talk to in real life, and I know they're real people and giving me their real opinions, and then I try it and I'm like. What are you new? Are you okay?

SPEAKER_02 25:03

Do you chase that with a gas axe? What do you mean?

SPEAKER_01 25:05

This is gross. I'd rather starve. No, I wouldn't. That's rude. That's rude. Okay. I know you're gonna love this one because uh shoot. I feel like I've already said this one on a pod too, but who cares? It it deserves it deserves a re-up. Okay. Reply all on emails when it absolutely does not need to happen. I appreciate a reply all. That is behind getting another parking ticket. That would also be a reason I quit, is if I got like a replay all. Too many reply alls.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

Yeah, I appreciate it because I work there's someone on our team that I work very closely with, and her and I just kind of tag team things.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

So if somebody replies all, it makes it our jobs easier because then I know you guys do that, and I don't know how you do that because that makes me insane. Yeah, no, it it's really hard. I just want to take the ball and run, or somebody else take the ball and run. No, it's really which is often why I don't reply all with you. And you're probably like, that's a problem. Yeah. Hey, I'll reply all if I need to. I usually I guess if it's just a me thing, you don't need to know. It's none of your it's none of your business. I know.

SPEAKER_02 26:16

But like you got into my head about that last time, and so I messaged my colleague and I was like, Hey, I'm getting ready to send this. Do you want me to include you on it? And she was like, Yeah, of course. Oh, okay. Okay, it works for you too. And then especially if the person replies with what we need and like she's available to handle it versus what I yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

What I'm talking about is the hey everybody, I'm retiring. I'm leaving. Thanks so much for working with me. And then everybody be in reply all to be like, oh my gosh, I'm so sad to leave you. See you leave. Hey, that's that's a just a you conversation with them. I don't need to know it, and I get real upset when I know that. I also hate the reply all, why am I on this?

SPEAKER_02 26:55

Can you please take me off of this? I'm gonna piggyback on that to say workplace invites to like baby showers of a person that I don't know, not necessary. Just because I'm on a committee with you in one of the things or whatever does not mean I need to come to celebrate your hump dumpling. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 27:19

If you don't have my phone number and we don't have a text thread that has at least one gif, Jeff, nobody knows. Don't invite me.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Yeah, I I appreciate the hustle. Like I get that you probably need some like baby gear or whatever, because that shit's expensive. But please don't invite me. I also don't want to come to your bridal shower. Unless I'm planning to come to your wedding, please don't invite me to your bridal shower. That's a good one. Or your open house, whatever. I don't, I'm not coming. And I'm not gonna pretend that I'm coming because I'm not coming.

SPEAKER_01 27:50

I'll be so happy to push no.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

I will push no, and then if you text me about it, I'm gonna push no again to your face. I'm not coming. Yeah, don't invite me.

SPEAKER_01 27:59

Society needs to be.

SPEAKER_02 28:00

I have Dexter to watch. I'm busy.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

Okay. Uh lazy authors. Lazy authors? Yeah. In what context? So I've read a couple books as of late that people are like, I loved this book. It was so good. And then I read it and I was like, this person didn't develop any of these characters. Oh yeah. Looking at you. I won't say your name. Can we say people's names on things like this? I'll I'll do a Schmorgensburg. Schmrita Schmidshmadden.

unknown 28:36

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Okay. I thought you were gonna say Schmefany Schmeyers.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

Because talk about not developing a character. Schmita Schmidschmadden and the Schmann made schmil. No, wait, I said that wrong. The housemaid.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Okay. Somebody get Rosetta Stone. I don't know what the fuck's going on. No, the hand the housemaid.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

I don't know. Probably just say it. That was our following book. Not as much as it should be. That was not a good book. Okay. It was did it have the potential? For sure. Yeah. But it had like zero character development. One character in the book maybe had interaction with another character three times, two times, before all of a sudden character A was in love with character B. And I was like, you gotta give me more than that. That's not how that works. But then, I mean, but I will say again at the end, there was a good twist, but it was like lazy. Yeah. It was lazy. I'll say it. Did I watch the movie? I sure did.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

Second half was good.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

I still don't know what the hell you're talking about.

SPEAKER_01 29:57

The housemaid.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

The housemaid.

SPEAKER_01 30:00

Yeah. Oh, because I really liked the show. I really, well, it's a movie. I really like all the actors, actresses that were in it, like um Amanda Siegfried. Oh yeah. The girl from Seyfried? Seyfried. Siegfried. I don't know. Siegfried and Jensen. Yeah, I don't know, man. She's from Mean Girls and she can tell the weather.

SPEAKER_02 30:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

There's a 90% chance it's already raining. Yeah. I love her, and she was phenomenal in the movie, but the storyline lacked. So I'm just saying, let's stop pumping out books so fast.

unknown 30:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

Except that's probably how you make your money, and people I guess if people will read it, like whatever, but I'm telling you, I just need a little more character development.

SPEAKER_02 30:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:43

So society needs to fix that.

SPEAKER_02 30:45

Is that also maybe on the editor, too, though?

SPEAKER_01 30:47

Like I don't know. My last one. The last three miles of a half marathon. Oh god. This is a you. Get better. It's so hard. I bet. That is consuming my thoughts right now.

SPEAKER_02 31:01

I fall apart. I'm insanely impressed that you can even run up to those last three miles.

SPEAKER_01 31:08

I have fallen apart at the last three. I'm nervous. I'm not nervous. I'm actually really excited to challenge myself this c this May. But why is it the last three that you just fall apart? Because you can see it, man. You're almost there. That is it. I need to not be able to see it. But this particular one I'm doing, you get to maybe, I think it's like the last, I want to say it's the last half mile, maybe the last quarter. So you come out, you come out of a canyon, so you've already got like this downhill momentum. You're feeling like a rock star. And I think the problem is you come out of a downhill trying to keep the the same pace, and you can't do that. Like you can't keep your downhill pace, cannot be your flat, your flat road pace. So I have a plan for that. But I just fall absolutely apart. The last one I did with my really good friend, she I remember she like I I gave up. I she she's amazing, and she just kept going. And but she looked back at me at one point and was like, come on, come on, and then I she literally grabbed my hand and like pulled me through, and I was like, Okay, because I stopped, I had stopped, I was like, I'm just gonna walk this last little bit. Like I resolved myself, it was sad, and I was like, I'm just gonna walk it. And I started walking, and I was like, Oh my gosh, if I walk, I'm gonna fall because your legs are just so dead at that point. But and then I so then I kind of kept like hobbling along, and then she grabbed my hand and pulled me. But I'm just like, come on. So yeah, last three miles, you're trash, immediate trash, tiny discussion, straight to trash. Go to trash, and I'm gonna but oh, I was saying the last 0.5 miles of this particular race, you can see the finish line, and you just keep looking at it, and then like it doesn't get close to it. And then you look up again and you're like, get farther? Am I running backwards? And then you're like trudge along, anyways. Do you want me to put on a bear costume this time and chase you? I don't know if that would help because even the last like half mile, there's so many people, and they are just like yelling and they are they are just like clapping, and it's just like it should just give you all the vibes. So when you see those videos of people running and they're like they're like dancing, and they're like, look, I'm making it to the end, and I'm like, I don't know where you got that energy. They must be they must be the runner's high. I'm hoping to have the runner's high on my next race.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

I'm insanely impressed by you. I'm so glad you have a plan. I would love to support that plan in any way possible.

SPEAKER_01 33:30

Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. That's amazing. Training hard. Yeah, but yeah, say that last three miles trash. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:38

But you can do it. I probably can.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

I probably will. Yeah, you will. Not probably.

SPEAKER_02 33:43

And then you'll be like, it wasn't even that bad.

unknown 33:45

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Done it before, right?

SPEAKER_01 33:47

I've done it before.

SPEAKER_02 33:48

But what did you say to me in that one last episode that we just had about why are you worrying about things you're accomplished?

SPEAKER_01 33:55

Why are you worrying about things that you've figured out? You always figure it out. Yeah, yeah. You figure it out. That was just that was just my thing when I was like, I hate you last three.

SPEAKER_02 34:03

I'm gonna get an electric scooter and just ride next to you.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

I've decided I like to listen to a podcast for the first I'm gonna listen to the a podcast for the first eight miles, and then I'm gonna do the last five with vibes. Yeah. Music. It's just the music that I love. Yep. That's it. There's some music that you can literally like listen to a whole song and then you like tell it to repeat, and then you just listen again and again and again. So okay, sorry, that was kind of weird. So you're good. I like it. Do it later. I'm gonna vibe it. Yeah. Eight podcasts where I zone out. Yep. Five vibes. But like what kind of podcast do you listen to when you run? I listen to the This Is Important podcast. It's um Blake Anderson.

SPEAKER_02 34:47

Yeah, the funny guy.

SPEAKER_01 34:49

Yeah, they're so, so funny.

SPEAKER_02 34:52

From workaholics. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:53

Just listen to them. This there's just so good. Yeah. All right. Okay. Well, that was it. Uh that's another mini-ish. A mini-ish. Yeah. Goodbye. Okay. Thanks for listening to us talk. Thanks. Uh this is two brains, one bot. Stay. Oh my gosh, you guys. Stay human. Stay human, stay curious. Don't let the robots get you.

SPEAKER_02 35:19

Don't let the robots win. Goodbye.

SPEAKER_01 35:25

One thing about me is if I get something wrong first, I will never get it right again. Fossilization. Yeah, we'll talk about that another time. Okay. So what is it? Stay human. Stay curious. Don't let the robots win. Got it.