SPEAKER_00 0:20

Hello. Oh. How you doing, girl?

SPEAKER_01 0:23

I'm good. How are you doing?

SPEAKER_00 0:23

That's how I always start these episodes. Hello. How you doing, girl? I'm good. But just so you guys know, that's just normally how I talk to Ashley.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Pretty much.

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna jump right into it. I wanna confront you on something. Oh shoot. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Are we fighting?

SPEAKER_00 0:40

In the prior episode, I said the juice is worth the squeeze, and you lost your ever loving mind about it.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

Juice is not worth the squeeze. Is not a saying. It is.

SPEAKER_00 0:53

It is, and we are absolutely gonna put that on the the grams. You are okay. Because you manage that. But it is. And I was vindicated yesterday. I was having a conversation with another parent at baseball, and this person said, Yeah, it's just not worth the squeeze.

SPEAKER_01 1:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:12

And I said, Hold on, can can we call my friend real quick?

SPEAKER_01 1:15

You should have. Because I would have been like, that is inherently sexual, and I'm not and they said, No, don't talk to me again. They're like, This conversation's not worth the squeeze.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Speaking of not worth the squeeze, this conversation, don't speak to me again.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

No, but anyways, um, but my spouse also said, like, oh, that's a very common maybe in your circles, but we don't squeeze anything if it's not worth the juice.

SPEAKER_00 1:42

So you do like the saying because you just said it.

SPEAKER_01 1:45

Yeah. I like it now. I had never heard it before that episode. Never. Never.

SPEAKER_00 1:50

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:51

I think there's other ways to say it that don't have such a visual aspect to it.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

It's so rare that I know something that you don't. I'm gonna put this in my note. I'm gonna write about it in my diary later.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

Oh gosh, I can't wait to read that. Do you read my diary? You can't ask me that.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

I don't have a diary. I always think about having one and then I it's too much commitment.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

And you just have to like schedule it. Yeah, and then like how do you even open it? That's my thing, is like, hey diary.

SPEAKER_00 2:16

That feels very like your diary. Actually, I think that would be really fun. I always just like think about it like later on in life, like after I pass, maybe my kids will look at it and be like, oh, look what mom's up to at this time.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

Oh my god, do you did you do diaries when you were younger?

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Yeah, and they were mortifying.

SPEAKER_01 2:34

They are mortifying. Shredd it. You don't have it? No, because I shredded it.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Well, because you go you go through the phase where you are writing in your diary and it's all very intense, and then you you know, age four or five years, and then you look back and you're already more mature at that point, and you're like, girl, get your life together, and then you shred it because you're so embarrassed.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

And now I'm like, I would die to read that. I wish you had it because I have all of my old ones, and it would be so fun to do like a podcast episode where we just read each other like the most unhinged shit from our childhood.

SPEAKER_00 3:10

I wish I could. Well, there was those TikToks of that girl that was doing that.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

Oh no, I didn't I haven't heard that. Oh, they were so good.

SPEAKER_00 3:17

I'm gonna have to try and find her. Hold on, let me make a note to myself to find that because it was so funny. TikToks.

SPEAKER_01 3:26

I remember seeing a meme once, and somebody had put like on like July 4th, they're like, Happy New Year, whatever. Like, like, wrote like something to the effect of like, I can't wait for next year, like thinking it was gonna be New Year's Eve. Yeah, like goodbye 2008, hello 2009, or something like that. That was so funny. And someone was making fun of themselves, saying, like, I was such a dumbass.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

I just love it. Yeah, I really would like to write in a diary, just like little things.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

I'm gonna see if I can find my old ones. They're probably in a box of shit somewhere at my mom's house, but I'm gonna bring them up.

SPEAKER_00 4:05

You don't have those locked down? No, because you didn't write anything unhinged.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Oh, I probably did. I just assumed they were reading it anyways. You know?

SPEAKER_00 4:15

Oh, I'm st I am what do they call it? Like embarrassed, adjacent embarrassed for you. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:22

Second hand embarrassment.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

Second hand embarrassment, that's what it is. Adjacent embarrassment. Stupid.

SPEAKER_01 4:27

Yeah, it's close enough. Second hand adjacent. Yeah. Um, do you have any other comments before we get started? I do.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

What?

SPEAKER_01 4:34

We finished OG Dexter. Okay. And I have to tell you, I'm not a fan of child abandonment. No. And I have there's like so many plot holes for me. Because the only person that knew that Harrison was with Hannah was Deb. So like, so so like nobody from Miami Metro was like, hey, where's this child? Like they wrote an obituary for Dexter. Nothing for Tony.

SPEAKER_00 5:06

There was like a writer's strike or they all just moved on, they were bored.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

Something.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

Yeah. But then we started New Blood. Oh, you know what? I wonder if they just assumed he was dead.

unknown 5:18

No. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

Because later on he's alive and everybody knows it.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

Yeah, so we what we started watching New Blood, which is the one that's 10 years later. Um, and Harrison comes back. It's not a spoiler, it's in the very first episode. Get be so for real right now if you haven't watched it. It was released in 2001. Anyways. Um not 2001. Not 2001, 2021. Yes, 2021, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Be why don't you be so for real right now?

SPEAKER_01 5:42

I be so for real right now. I'm trying to talk faster than my brain can work. But, anyways, yeah, and Harrison shows up. And so, but then there's that one part of it, we were not super into it, but the police chief goes to a police conference in New York and sees Batista there, and Batista mentions that Dexter had a son, but he never mentions anything about assuming that son had passed away. He just says like something like, Yeah, it's a really sad situation. Like this really bright detective, Deborah Morgan, figured out the Trinity Killer thing and her brother, and then and oh, he had a son too. I can't remember his name, and then he turns around and was like, Oh, it was Harrison, and then that police chief, like whatever. But it's like he never it never even occurred to him to wonder where he is. To wonder where he is, or like to not say like the tragedy of how awful that is to lose not only a grown adult who drove into a hurricane, but a child. Yeah. So there's a big plot hole, and the writers of Dexter need to contact me immediately because I have questions.

SPEAKER_00 6:56

Yeah. And they all know. You can just comment and let us know.

SPEAKER_01 6:59

Yeah. Please, someone tell me. Please.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

Um one thing I do want to know about you would you say you're superstitious? Or maybe a little stitchious, or you're medium stitchious.

SPEAKER_01 7:10

I'm not superstitious, but in the words of the greatest Michael Scott. I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitched.

SPEAKER_00 7:20

Oh, he says that. Oh, I didn't know that. That's funny. No. When?

SPEAKER_01 7:27

I thought that's what In the Office.

SPEAKER_00 7:29

Well, yeah, but when.

SPEAKER_01 7:31

Oh, what episode is it?

SPEAKER_00 7:32

No, I had no idea. I thought I was being clever.

SPEAKER_01 7:35

No, I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitchious.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

It was probably like in the back of my brain already. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I manifested it as being my own.

SPEAKER_01 7:42

I don't know why I can't remember the specific episode. I've literally watched The Office from beginning to end hundreds of times. Like the liter literally, like lines from The Office were in my vows. It's one of the greatest TV shows of all time.

SPEAKER_00 7:56

It is pretty good. Okay. Well, let's talk about superstitions today. Okay. I thought that'd be fun. Um, so a superstition is an irrational belief or practice that attributes magical or supernatural significance to unrelated events. It's typically rooted in fear of the unknown, a desire for control over fate, or traditions that lack scientific evidence or logical reasoning. Okay. Pulled out from the web.

SPEAKER_01 8:21

Got it.

SPEAKER_00 8:22

Um, and most superstitions fall into a couple categories. So, like signs and omens, so believing that certain objects or events are a sign of future, good or bad. So, like you you pass or you cross paths with a black cat. Right. Something bad's coming. Or like magic and rituals. So things we do because we think it will result in something lucky or prevent misfortune. So throwing salt over your shoulder.

SPEAKER_01 8:47

Right. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

Yeah. Okay. Let's talk about the common ones and where they come from.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 8:52

And I was kind of surprised about a bunch of these.

SPEAKER_01 8:55

Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

Like, I just do them because that's what you do.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Knock on wood. Do you know what that is?

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Yeah. I always do this though. Knock on my head.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

That's super funny that you said that because all the like I I I love to go to Reddit. So I was like reading on Reddit, and people were constantly saying the knock on, like they would talk about the knock on wood, and then they're like, and then the bunch of idiots would just tap on their head.

unknown 9:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:20

That's me. Yeah. I'm the idiot.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

They think you're idiots.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

That's okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

Um, but I also found out that like a lot of other country people in other countries, rather than saying knock on wood, they say touch wood. And it comes from um, and this is just like a prevailing theory, that people long ago believed in sacred spirits that lived in trees, and so knocking on the wood would tell these or knocking on the wood would call on these spirits for protection or as a way to thank them for like good fortune. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

Yeah, I love that. I love trees. I love it. Well, and it made me think of like the grass fairies.

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Like the little fairies in the trees, and you say thank you. Um and again, I like this one because before reading this pod, I didn't know why I did it. I always do it, and I always do it more of a like knock on wood, I hope this doesn't happen, right? Um, situation. But I mean, we're it just made me realize we're just all out here knocking on crap with no idea why.

SPEAKER_01 10:18

Some of us are knocking on our heads like idiots.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Some of you out there, some of you idiots, knock it off because people don't like that.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

People in Reddit, which is like the manosphere.

unknown 10:31

I love Reddit.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

There's a lot of good information on Reddit. You're gonna get red pilled. Don't you say that to me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:40

Knock on knock on our MRI machine. Knock on our MRI machine. Okay, next one. Blessing a sneeze. I have heard of this. Okay, so it's an old superstition that your soul separates from your body when you sneeze, and saying, bless you keeps that pesky devil from yoinking it. Oh. Yoink. Yoink. Um, and I I before I looked that up, I thought it was more like you say, bless you, just like shove that bitch soul back in.

SPEAKER_01 11:10

Like, I like that better. Get it back in there.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Get it back in there. Because I had heard that before, but but I also full like fully believe that a dad sneezing not only separates his soul from his body, but everybody's in the room. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:24

Bless us is what you should say.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

Yeah. Um, super love my dad, he's the best. But yesterday we were at baseball and we were watching from the sideline, and they were sitting in their truck because it was so windy yesterday. Anyways, he sneezed, and I was like, that's my dad. I could think I could recognize that sneeze anywhere.

SPEAKER_01 11:43

Seriously, when you what is it about the dad scream sneeze? At some point in their lives, they pick up smoking meats, they pick up World War II interests, and scream sneezing.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

Yeah. I mean, like, sometimes though, like when you're having maybe like an allergy attack or whatever, sometimes like that heavy sneeze feels good and you let it rip. Oh yeah. Hell yeah, brother.

SPEAKER_01 12:11

I love a good scream sneeze. Like when I do it, it feels great. But like I it's not very often, and it scares the shit out of me every time.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Well, I hope I hope someone says bless you to shove that bitch back in.

SPEAKER_01 12:23

No way, let it go. Get it out of there.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

I'll grow a new one.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

I'll get a new one.

SPEAKER_00 12:30

It's fine. I'll pick one up. Yeah. Pick one up at the target.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

Suck it out of somebody. No, that's not that's not what I meant.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

Was the juice worth the squeeze on that one?

unknown 12:42

No.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

I meant like Dementors like sucking the soul out of you. That's how I envisioned it. But I see where your head went and I appreciate that about it.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Is there a counter curse for that? Oh, it's no. I don't remember. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 12:57

We'll I don't think there's anything you can do, but but hap-find happiness, right?

SPEAKER_00 13:00

Oh yeah. Oh yeah, because like the in Harry Potter, the what are they called? Those little ghostly figures come and like you. No, the the dementors come to suck your soul. Oh but then the little ghostly features come and thwart them.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

I don't remember, but I know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 13:17

I love Harry Potter. Just don't know that situation. Yeah. Okay, next one. Broken mirror resulting in seven years of bad luck. Do you know where that comes from?

SPEAKER_01 13:27

I don't, but it makes sense because cleaning that shit up sucks. Yeah, it's like just shards. It just feels like you're cleaning it up for seven years.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

So ancient Romans and Greeks believe that our reflections are magical and tied to our souls. So by breaking a mirror, it was seen as like damaging your soul and leaving it in fragments and trapping it in that, you know, broken shards.

SPEAKER_01 13:52

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 13:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

I love this so far. Yeah. I'm I'm into it. And this might have to be like a series.

SPEAKER_00 13:59

I should ask, like, when you break a mirror, are you kind of secretly like, oh shoot, seven years.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Now I have to go walk under a ladder and pet a black cat.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

No, I mean, I don't talk about broken ladders. I'm not going to talk about or not broken ladders. I'm not going to talk about walking under ladders, but I did read that um it's bad luck because it was seen as like kind of resembling people hanging, like from back in the times of people when they were hanging people in the ancient times. Okay. Groundhog's day. Do you like that movie? I do like that movie. I should make my kids watch that movie.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

Yeah, it's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 14:38

It's a good one. But it was just funny reading that one because it just made me think like, oh, we just definitely think animals predict the weather.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

Yeah. Yeah. We love a good groundhog prediction.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

Yeah. I I didn't look up or I didn't see where that one came from, but I thought it was funny that it was like, yeah, animals kind of predict the weather because we're always like, oh, cats are outside eating the grass.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

We're in for a storm.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

I've never heard that one, but I I mean, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:03

Animals eating grass?

SPEAKER_01 15:04

No, I know. Like my animals eat grass when their stomachs hurt. I just assume, like, oh, I'm in for a storm of vomit on my in my house.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

It can be it can be one of two storms. It's either an actual storm outside or yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

A storm's a brewing in there. Yeah. Because I've heard they eat grass to make their stomachs feel better. Yeah. Yeah. But maybe that's the thing.

SPEAKER_00 15:23

Which is why when we're cleaning up cat puke, there's cat there's sometimes grass in there.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Love those cats. You yeah. I do. I know. They're best. They're good. Friday the 13th. So I read that 12 i I read online it said 12 seems to be in many cultures like the perfect number, which I was like, I think like 10's great. But 12, whatever. I mean. But adding just one more to that throws off the world.

SPEAKER_01 15:54

There's places, you're probably gonna go over this, but there's places that don't even have a like 13th floor, or they don't have like it's wild. I've been to some of those places, and I'm like, what is happening?

SPEAKER_00 16:06

I I have something sad to tell you then. Okay, but we'll talk about biblical roots. So Judas was the 13th guest to arrive at the Last Supper, and Friday was widely believed to be the day Jesus was crucified, which apparently has kind of been debunked, or I don't know. Um, but then as far as mythology, Loki was the 13th guest to arrive at a dinner for the gods in Valhalla and wreaked havoc on the whole event. Ooh. So kind of two bad actors there.

SPEAKER_01 16:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

But apparently, us humans really like pattern recognition. So we kind of saw that there was the the 13th person that you know rained on the parade and we don't like it anymore, and now we're all afraid to stay on the 13th floor of hotels.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:50

Like you are.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

No, I'm not afraid. I just thought it was fascinating that there's not like a 13th floor.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

Yeah, well, and I looked that up and it said allegedly, everything is allegedly, um, up to 85% of hotels that have that many floors will skip the 13th floor because a lot of people just won't be interested in staying on that 13th floor. But I need to tell you something.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

Yeah. Even though it's not labeled, just because the floor doesn't say 13, it doesn't mean it ain't the 13th floor.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

So if you're staying on 14, you're on the 13th floor. So just maybe like, I don't know, stick to lower high numbers. Just kind of leave that out. If you're worried about it, I might be interested to stay on the 13th floor.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

I think it's cool.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:34

But as a I mean, I as a self-proclaimed witch, I don't really that doesn't really bother me.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Well, it would just enhance your powers. Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

But every all of this just tells me I just don't want to be the 13th person at the party.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Ooh, yeah. Or do you? Because then you know what's gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 17:53

Or you show up and you're like, well, I mean, who who's standing outside to be like, ah, I'm number 13 walking in, and then you're like, all games off, I'm gonna be unhinged this party.

SPEAKER_01 18:04

Like you just pushing things off the tables.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

I am throwing a Mrs. Doubtfire style birthday party with animals inside. Yep. A horse eating a cake, all of it. Yep. I just watched Miss Doubtfire over the weekend, that's why I referenced that. Classic. It's a classic. It's so good.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

It's so good.

SPEAKER_00 18:21

Yeah. Especially when he like has to pretend to be the and he puts the pie on his face. Yeah, he puts the pie on his face because his mask fell out the window. That was really good.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

Alright. Fingers crossed. To remember something.

SPEAKER_01 18:36

Right? No.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

That's me. Yeah, I know. Nobody else does that but me. And people that are mocking me. Oh. And my mother.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

And you're so my mom is so like a good range of people.

unknown 18:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

A fair amount of people in your orbit. Fair amount of people in your orbit are crossing their fingers at you. No, but it was to symbolize a cross, which people love crosses and see them as being powerful and unifying. And so you do it for luck. Okay. Yeah. But again, I just do it so I don't forget that I need to schedule that appointment or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 19:12

Interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:14

All right. Spilling salt and it equaling bad luck. So you're sitting at your diner and you just knock over the salt and you're like, Arnar, what am I gonna do? So I looked into the origin of that one, and salt was once an expensive trading commodity. So we're obviously talking oldie times. And spilling that precious white gold was just a taboo. It was just a narnar.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

Um, but it was also considered a magical substance and used to perform like rituals, like witchy stuff, witchy witch. So spilling it invited the devil. Oh. So throughout all these superstitions, like we're just really trying to combat that devil.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

Got the devil.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Got the devil in her.

SPEAKER_01 20:02

Foosball's the devil.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

So when you do spill salt, the only way to Uno Carter reverse it is to throw it over your shoulder. What shoulder?

SPEAKER_01 20:12

Your left shoulder. Yeah, it's had it.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

Ah, I wouldn't have known that.

SPEAKER_01 20:15

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

I mean, I would have had a 50-50 a guess, the good guess.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

That's from Dumb and Dumber, though, right? That's what I got it from. Because he doesn't need to just throw the whole thing over his shoulder.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

Yeah. He spilled the salt. So you have to toss it over your left shoulder because apparently everybody else knows, except for me, that the devil is always on the left.

SPEAKER_01 20:38

Yeah. I don't know. That's why you got your wedding ring on your left hand too. Just kidding. I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

I've always heard that it's Oh, so that to be like I'm not married to the devil?

SPEAKER_01 20:49

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

Or to signify to the devil that I'm married that I'm taking.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Maybe. The devil's like, damn, she fine.

SPEAKER_00 20:56

But also someone said bless you, and so like I sucked myself back in.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

You can't have me.

SPEAKER_00 21:01

Devil not getting me today.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

Not through a sneeze or through or through single ladies.

SPEAKER_00 21:08

Dang it, I wish I would have looked up the left hand. Okay. Okay. But yeah. There's still time. It just said you're essentially throwing salt in the devil's eyes. Oh. Which would hurt.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

That's so rude. Yeah. He's just trying to hang out on your left side.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

It's just a baby.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

It's just literally just a baby.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Baby devil. Okay. Next one. And I had kind of heard this one, but I didn't know why. I know why I thought people did it, but it was probably not the reason why. So covering mirrors at night, or just people in general not like having mirrors in their bedrooms. Oh.

SPEAKER_01 21:43

I don't know anything about this.

SPEAKER_00 21:45

So some people believe that mirrors are the doorways to other realms. So leaving them open at night leaves you susceptible to um someone coming to get you. I don't like mirrors in the bed. Well, for me, it would be like I'd walk past it in the night and scare the crap out of myself. On the way to the bathroom, I'd just have a jump scare.

SPEAKER_01 22:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Because it's me.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Who is that? Who is that?

SPEAKER_00 22:12

Who's that person? Okay. A black cat crossing your path. So Mr. Wasabi crossing your path. He's black and white though.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Yeah, he's cute. Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

Um it goes back to the Middle Ages in witchcraft, so kind of tying back to our last one of people vilifying those beautiful felions. Yeah. And then they they got the plague.

SPEAKER_01 22:34

So they straight up died from the plague.

SPEAKER_00 22:37

Learn from our ancestors. Yeah. Love those cats. Yeah. I have a really serious one now to talk to you about. Oh jeez.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Let me take a drink of my of my claw.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

Your claw?

SPEAKER_01 22:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Get ready for it. This one's real. Don't step on a crack. You'll break your mother's back.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

Or you're just like a little bit on the got a little bit of the dog in you and you don't want to step on a crack.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Yeah. Fall through it.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:10

I have an irrational fear of sinkholes.

SPEAKER_00 23:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

And so, you know, like they're kind of freaky though.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Like when you see those online, like you're like, well, the common just the earth just opens up. It's the devil. Yeah. Someone didn't say bless you.

SPEAKER_01 23:25

Yeah. Somebody was mean to it.

SPEAKER_00 23:27

Yeah. I just sometimes when you're walking, like you mean you maybe you're on a hot dog walk. And it just maybe gets a little boring and you're like, I'm just not gonna step on any of the cracks.

SPEAKER_01 23:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Do you know what other kind of walk I like?

SPEAKER_01 23:41

Hot girl walk.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

A hot girl walk in fall when you get to step on the crunchy leaves.

SPEAKER_01 23:45

Oh girl. That's like my that's like my entire personality. Stepping on crunchy leaves, it's like the greatest thing ever.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

And then you're just doing all sorts of dances on the sidewalk because you're trying to jump from one to the next.

SPEAKER_01 23:58

Yeah. Crunchy leaf. Oh. Crunchy leaf walk. That's my favorite. I like the jills.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

I wonder how many people love a crunchy leaf walk.

SPEAKER_01 24:04

Probably everybody who has fall.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

But one thing I learned about the don't step on a crack or you'll break your mama's back is there's a dad equivalent. Do you want to take a stab at it?

SPEAKER_01 24:18

Don't step in the gutter because you'll break your father. Wow, you got it. Yep, that was it. Why you gotta do me like that? What is it?

SPEAKER_00 24:31

Step on a line, you'll break your father's spine. I was like, that's kind of good. Whatever. Um, anyways, it comes from an old notion that cracks in the street were actually connections from the earth to the spirit world. So you don't want to step on them.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Well, and I mean it makes sense that it would be your mother too, because your mom literally summons you from the ether.

SPEAKER_00 24:53

Which it just so at this point in like figuring out or like looking into all this stuff, I'm just like, do I do I want to be messing around in the spirit world? Because I initially thought no, but I'm like, maybe I do. Yeah. I don't know, do you?

unknown 25:08

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

You're interested. Yeah. Um I dabble. You dabs. Dabs in there. You have cats, you're halfway there. Yeah, they're watching me.

unknown 25:17

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

Um, okay, another one that's kind of funny but serious, because I do believe in this one. The full moon bringing out the crazies.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

Yes. It does. Anybody who works in healthcare or education, like like Education? Yeah. Like teachers have experienced what the full moon does.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

Like their kids show up. Is it before the full moon or after the full moon? Children are crazy during the full moon. Oh, I've never heard that about students.

SPEAKER_01 25:48

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

I'm gonna pay attention.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Like little, like little kids are more s like more susceptible to it.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

So I was gonna write more about that one, but that could be just another podcast episode because again, I went on Reddit, and people have some very interesting um ideas about why the full moon does it. And I saw one that was like all about microbes and your microbiome.

SPEAKER_01 26:11

Yeah. I mean, there's definitely something to it, right?

SPEAKER_00 26:15

Oh, there is for sure.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

The moon has something to do.

SPEAKER_00 26:17

And then when it accidentally happens on like Friday the 13th, or my favorite, I one time worked on a um New Year's Eve, and it was a full moon. And it was this chaos. Yeah. More because it was just all the the things combining.

SPEAKER_01 26:35

I'm sure I've told you this before, but my eldest was born five and a half weeks early on a blood moon. Full moon. Yes. And it was like completely out of nowhere. Like completely out of nowhere. Oh yeah. She was very early, like, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:50

Yeah, you were like, I'm in labor.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

And you were guys are like, what?

SPEAKER_00 26:54

Uh we were like, what? We have a brunch planned.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

I was like, what do you want?

SPEAKER_00 26:57

You had to miss the company brunch.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

What are we talking about? We have things to do. A squeeze meet? I text our boss and he's like, okay. It's happening. Yeah. I think he thought I was messing with him. But yeah, the moon does crazy things. It does, especially when you're a witch. And to women too. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

I feel like I need to lean into that energy.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

You should. Okay. It's really cool. Also, have you heard of people making moon water?

SPEAKER_00 27:28

No, what does that mean?

SPEAKER_01 27:30

It's a thing. So you take water and you put it out during a full moon, and it's believed that it's cleansing. So you can like so you just set water out in a full moon and then you can use it to like water your plants, and it's supposed to help your plants feel better and like yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

Can it water me and make me feel better? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

People think like people think it's cleansing. Spiritual communities use moon water a lot.

SPEAKER_00 27:55

I have never heard of moonwater.

SPEAKER_01 27:57

Google that. Okay. And it's interesting that we're going down this path because a lot of colleagues of mine that knew me or know me as like a science girly now are like, what do you mean you're like into spirituality stuff? It's a weird left turn that I took, and I say left turn because of the devil. Left turns are the hardest ones to make.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

They are. The next full moon is in four days from when we're recording this. So I know. We're recording on the 27th, May 31st, which is Sunday. There is a uh what do we call this? I don't even know. Superstitions are very prominent in this type of situation. Okay. Sports! Sports! Yeah. And the internet said superstitions in sports are a prime example of thinking you are the main character. I have to wear these socks because every time I wear these socks, the red socks win.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

The funniest thing about sports is that you're literally wearing someone's work uniform to their work.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

Yeah. It's so weird. Just like me, day. Every time I go to work. Yeah. Are you mocking me? Yeah. It's so funny. Yeah. Allegedly, a lot of professional athletes put on their uniforms in a very specific way. So if they have like multiple components to their uniforms, they'll put them on in like the same way. So like left pad, right pad, you know, like left shoe, right shoe, whatever. And then I was like, you know what? That just tells me that's that was my problem with sports. That's why I wasn't ever good at sports, is because I was just chaotically throwing on all my gear.

unknown 29:49

Right.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Mine was that I couldn't catch a ball to some light. My mom said I was great, but I think it was just the fact that I was putting on my shirt wrong.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

Well, put your shirt on the way you're supposed to, and then tell us how you are at sports.

SPEAKER_00 30:02

I can I can sport okay.

SPEAKER_01 30:04

I've never had an interest, honestly, if I'm being honest. Never really had an interest in sports.

SPEAKER_00 30:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

There's it's a lot of cardio. Which I like, but like on my own terms.

SPEAKER_00 30:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

It's the competition aspect of it that I don't love.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

I'm not competitive. You have to be competitive. And I'm not. I'm like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

No, let's just all have a good time. Yeah. I don't want to hurt your feelings. I want both teams to win.

unknown 30:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

You you score.

unknown 30:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

Uh okay. So Jeff Hornisek from the best era of the Utah Jazz. Yeah. Is that ringing a bell? No. Is that juice in the s? Is that juice and the squeeze?

SPEAKER_01 30:42

Stop trying to make it happen.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

No, I don't know. I don't know. He was in the participation. What was the name you just said? John Stockton. Oh, John Stockton. Yes. He was in the John Stockton era, Carl Malone, Jeff Hornesek. Um, but he would brush his right cheek. So he at the the free throw line. So he'd get up there and he would just like brush his cheek, his right cheek. And I didn't look into this too far because I just like my mom's theory, which is my mom was always like, he's just waving to his family. He's saying, I love you to my family. But he would do that before every single one. He would wipe his cheek.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:20

Kind of cool. And then there was like, um, I think it was Carl Malone, which maybe I'm wrong on this, but he would like mumble, not mumble, but like you couldn't tell what he was saying, but he would say the same thing before every single shot.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Did it work? I don't know. Jeff Hornisek was a good at free throws.

SPEAKER_01 31:38

I wonder if they also eat the same thing every morning, like but on a game day and like that kind of stuff too. Well, I'll tell you. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:49

It seems like when I was looking up superstitions, it seems like baseball like all sports are superstitious, but like baseball seems to be kind of the leader of the pack. Right. Don't correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not ESPN. But like the Cubs. Don't man explain it to me.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

The Cubs is a thing. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 32:06

Um, but one of the mo one of the more well-known superstitious players was Wade Boggs. And speaking of food, he ate chicken before every game. So he apparently at a certain point in his career like saw that he had a good game or noticed that he had a good game every time before he ate chicken for dinner or whatever. Wow. And he started eating chicken before every meal.

SPEAKER_01 32:28

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 32:28

And then it was like, he his wife had 50 recipes for chicken, and I'm like, huh. Good job.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

Cool. So does literally everybody.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

So does the internet. The internet has thousands of recipes for chicken.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

Have you ever been on Pinterest? Come on. Be so for real right now.

SPEAKER_00 32:45

Well, it was, I mean, Pinterest is well before that game. Yeah. Um, so yeah, he's he ate chicken before everything. He was very ritualistic. He woke up at the same time every day, which I've heard that like if you wake up at the same time every single day, it sets your rhythm well, and I'm always like, that's a great idea. And then like the weekend comes and I'm like, sleep in.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:06

He did batting practice at 5.17 p.m. and ran sprints at 7.17 p.m. He had that dog in him.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

Yeah, he's got that dog in him.

SPEAKER_00 33:17

Because it would increase the chances of him going 7 for 7.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:23

And if I don't know, you don't care, but apparently 7 for 7 is when they get seven hits in one game, which is hard because you have to get through the whole batting lineup. Right. Um his route to and from his position in the field, he would take the exact same path, so it like it would beat a path into the the grass because he would walk in the same path.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Interesting.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

And the groundspeople were like, hey, knock it off.

SPEAKER_01 33:53

Can you not?

SPEAKER_00 33:55

I don't get paid enough to do this. And then he even reportedly requested that a Fenway announcer skip saying his number during introductions after a previous accidental omission coincided with the end of a slump. So he had been having like I think it was like a batting slump, and then he had a game where the announcer didn't say his number and he batted great that time, and then he was like, hey, lose my number.

SPEAKER_01 34:23

Yeah, lose my digits.

SPEAKER_00 34:24

Lose my digits. I love that. But what he's best known for, or what I know him for, because I didn't know any of that other stuff, but I did know this. He self-reported that he drank 73 beers during a cross-country flight. Oh my god. 73 beers.

SPEAKER_01 34:45

This is the guy from the It's always sunny.

SPEAKER_00 34:49

That episode is so good. The gang beats bogs.

SPEAKER_01 34:52

The gang okay. It's connecting now. My favorite part of that episode is where Dee passes out on the luggage thing.

SPEAKER_00 35:02

So if you have never experienced It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, that episode is so good. The gang beats bogs. So they all go on the airplane in white t-shirts. I think who was uh orchestrating it? It was Mac.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

Mac, yeah, that sounds about right.

SPEAKER_00 35:18

So they would um, which apparently this is before you could bring um liquids onto flights, but they had just packed so many beers on this flight, and so every time they drank a beer, they got a like a marking on their shirt. Because they were trying to be wade bogs.

SPEAKER_01 35:36

73 beers.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

73 beers. Okay. How? I looked that up. So if they were like standard like 12 ounce cans, that's 876 ounces, almost seven gallons of beer. I'm like, I don't even know if I could drink seven gallons of water in a day. I think you would be deceased. Yeah. Well, there's no way. And then I don't know if this is on the same day, but he there's like a larger legend that he actually drank 170 beer or 107 beers in a day, but it included the like before the flight and after the flight on the flight.

SPEAKER_01 36:16

Oh jeez. So how like cross-country, so like New York to California? Yeah, probably. Okay. That's a lot of liquid. That is a lot of liquid. Also, having to use the airport bathrooms, I guess it's different for guys, but that sucks. Yeah. And like once you break that seal, you're just peeing and peeing. You're like a friggin' camel.

SPEAKER_00 36:36

That just feels like it's none of our business.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

It's none of our business, but man, just camped out in that bathroom. People think he's doing nefarious stuff and he's literally just peeing. Yeah. For like four hours.

SPEAKER_00 36:47

He's like, I have had four forty beers in the last hour. That is so many. I'm like, was there even enough beers on the flight? Like, how did you do that? Literally, I wonder if he set out to do it.

SPEAKER_01 36:58

He would float away from all the carbonation. You would just like and talk about beer shits. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 37:05

That's like colonoscopy prep. He's never been cleaner.

SPEAKER_01 37:09

Squeaky clean.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

So this is this next one is not necessarily a superstition, but it's a tradition that I think is really, really funny. And I like seeing these videos. But have you heard of the tradition in baseball that after a player gets like their first career home run? Like when they get to the dugout, everybody just ignores them. No, it's very funny. So they like will come into the dugout and everybody just like ignores what just happened. Like they're not like rallying that they just got like all these points or whatever. And so a lot of players will come in and they'll just like air high-five nobody because they're just like I think it's hilarious. I also think that's hilarious. Okay. So let's talk about some other like cultural, um, like non-US superstition. So in Russia, and I like this one. I'd never heard this one, but I like it, and maybe there's something to it. It says, Don't go back if you forget something. You could get in a wreck. So, like you leave your house and you're like, Oh, I forgot. For me, it's my watch. I hate I hate going anywhere without my watch. I love my watch. Yeah, don't turn around. You you forgot it for a reason.

SPEAKER_01 38:21

Oh my god, I love it.

SPEAKER_00 38:22

Yeah. And then this one's super funny. If you whistle inside, you'll be poor. Okay. Because only stupid people would whistle inside, and stupid people are poor. Okay, Russia. Like, we get it.

SPEAKER_01 38:41

You're the mean guys.

SPEAKER_00 38:43

You get it. But I also read that exact same one about Ukraine. So it maybe is like a regional thing.

SPEAKER_01 38:47

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

Only stupid people whistle inside. But also, like, sometimes I have to be like, if my kids are whistling, I'm like, hey guy.

SPEAKER_01 38:55

Stop. You're not gonna be poor.

SPEAKER_00 38:57

And well, now I can tell them that they're gonna be poor.

SPEAKER_01 38:59

Is that from the whistle while you work? Oh, I don't know. Maybe.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

I also saw a funny thing on Reddit that was saying that like somebody's aunt like got after them about whistling in their house, and then the poster was like, Well, little do they know I stayed in their house for a whole month prior and I whistled every single day.

SPEAKER_01 39:19

Whistling is like intentionally being obnoxious. Yeah, it's like why why do you think that your sounds need to be directed at me?

SPEAKER_00 39:30

And sometimes when I am whistling, I sometimes whistle on occasion. I'm like, you are the most annoying person.

SPEAKER_01 39:35

Yeah. And then I continue. Yeah. Like you have to have some self-awareness to be like, oh yeah, I'm a freaking annoying person. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 39:45

Okay. Next one, Germany. Okay, I like this one. When having beers or drinks and you're clinking your glasses together for a chair's, you must hold eye contact with the person you're clinking, or else you will be cursed for seven years with bad sex.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

Oh, yeah. And you have to drink after too, right? Yes. I've heard that if you don't drink after, it's it's bad luck too.

SPEAKER_00 40:08

Yeah, so I thought that was funny.

SPEAKER_01 40:09

That's cool.

SPEAKER_00 40:10

Um, and then I this one was for Germany, but also I read it for a couple other countries. Wishing somebody happy birthday before the actual date is bad luck. So people being like, oh, we celebrated so-and-so's birthday this weekend, but it's like not till next week. Oh people are are cringing with you saying that.

SPEAKER_01 40:29

Interesting. Yeah, why does it say why?

SPEAKER_00 40:32

Just bad luck. Oh, like you get one day to celebrate yourself, and then I don't want to hear another word about you.

SPEAKER_01 40:38

And then stop your freaking whistling.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

Like, stop your whistling and move on with your life. Nobody cares, nobody cares about you. Um but speaking of clinking glasses, and this wasn't a Germany, but I also read about clinking glasses with water instead of like a a fun drink or whatever, um, will result in bad karma. So it comes from a myth that the dead drank from the river leth in the underworld to leave behind their their life. Um, so by toasting with water, you are wishing bad luck or even death upon someone. So just gotta say, everybody better be watching because if I'm clinking you with water, I'm wishing you bad luck. Cause it's me. Like, oh, you want to toast? Here's some water.

SPEAKER_01 41:22

Oh, we toast we taught my youngest, well, both of my kids to clink like we say cheers and they drink their water and we drink our beverages.

SPEAKER_00 41:34

So you might might want to stop doing that.

SPEAKER_01 41:36

So are they giving me bad luck or am I giving them bad luck?

SPEAKER_00 41:38

They're giving you bad luck. If they're toasting with water, they're wishing bad upon you.

SPEAKER_01 41:43

Gotcha, that checks out.

SPEAKER_00 41:46

Actually, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:47

Yeah, that checks out.

SPEAKER_00 41:48

Wow. Okay, in the Philippines. If you get sick after you visit a funeral, it means that the soul of that dead person has touched you. Gross. I believe that one.

SPEAKER_01 41:59

Yeah, that checks out.

SPEAKER_00 42:00

Um, if you stepped over someone, that person won't grow taller anymore. But you can Uno reverse it by stepping back over them again.

SPEAKER_01 42:10

Can someone step back over me? Because I'm just a little guy.

SPEAKER_00 42:14

A lot of people, a lot of people grow a couple inches in their 30s. But I think it has to be the original person. So whoever stepped over you originally has to now step back over you. So you're gonna have to figure out who that was. You're gonna have to go back and refer to those journals, which you're gonna have to go to your parents' house and find those journals.

SPEAKER_01 42:30

It was probably my siblings, and they ain't gonna do that for me. Not for free, anyways. There's gonna be consequences.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

And you don't want to just blink it, be like everybody step over me because then it'll undo the react, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Well, no wonder I'm so short. The math will so many people have been stepping over me.

SPEAKER_00 42:46

The math will not math. Okay, I liked this one. When drinking hard drinks, drop the first shot on the ground or dump it, whatever. And that one's for the devil, so he won't mess with your drinking session. This one's for you. Appease your spirits with some spirits.

SPEAKER_01 43:02

So is that why they say like pour one out for the homies? Oh, I like it.

SPEAKER_00 43:05

Pour one out for what?

SPEAKER_01 43:06

The homies.

SPEAKER_00 43:07

Oh, I don't know. I thought that was more well, I thought that one was more like for your homies that aren't there, the homies that have passed on.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

Yeah, yeah, okay. They're down there with the devil.

SPEAKER_00 43:18

Pour one, pour one out for the homies. Let's look up and see what that is. Pouring one out is a symbolic gesture of reverence used to honor friends or relatives who've passed away.

SPEAKER_01 43:29

I like it.

SPEAKER_00 43:30

But it just involves spilling a small amount.

SPEAKER_01 43:33

Gotcha. Okay. Probably the foam at the top of your drink.

SPEAKER_00 43:36

Yeah. Okay, in Brazil.

SPEAKER_01 43:39

Hold on, hold on. In this economy, who's dumping a shot?

SPEAKER_00 43:43

Nobody.

SPEAKER_01 43:43

Nobody.

SPEAKER_00 43:44

Nobody. It's water, and then it actually means bad luck.

SPEAKER_01 43:46

Yeah. Unless your friend's laying on the floor to catch that shot.

SPEAKER_00 43:50

Oh, that's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 43:51

The friend that you just stepped over.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

I like those videos when people are like, I'm stopping drinking, and it shows them like dumping it out, and then it's like in a bowl that they then sip from. Have you seen those? No, but that's funny. Oh. Okay. Brazil. If you mix mango and milk and eat or drink it, however the consistency is, you'll die. This is a fun little like.

SPEAKER_01 44:18

That escalated so much.

SPEAKER_00 44:19

This is a fun little like. Tell your kids. And this is because the mix is actually quite good. But at the time the superstition was created, mango was really expensive. So people told this to their kids so that they weren't like big back in there with mangoes.

SPEAKER_01 44:34

In this economy, you'll die.

SPEAKER_00 44:36

Hey, listen.

SPEAKER_01 44:37

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 44:38

Yeah, I thought that was funny.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

Mangoes and milk. Superstitions are all just things we've told our kids once because we didn't want to do something.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

Hey, like knock it off, or else your teeth are gonna fall out.

SPEAKER_01 44:48

Stop stepping on those cracks. You're gonna break my back.

SPEAKER_00 44:50

Yeah. Alright. Um, in Korea, you should never oh, this one is so funny. This one is so funny. In Korea, you should never trim your nails at night because a mouse could come into your house. And not only does it come into your house, it eats them clippins. And then it gains a supernatural ability to transform into humans who steal your life. That was definitely a parent that was like, I told you to go to bed 30 minutes ago. Now is not the time to trim your toenails, and it is especially not the time to trim your toenails at the kitchen table.

SPEAKER_01 45:29

And stop whistling while you do it.

SPEAKER_00 45:32

Disgusting. But it's like it's like hi to kids, hi to your wife. These doctors trim their tail nails everywhere. That's so funny. And I actually read that on Reddit several times of people being like, I remember a time in my childhood when my mom dreamed me for like trimming my nails at night, and I did not know why.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

I love that so much. They're such better storytellers than we are.

SPEAKER_00 45:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 46:00

That's so funny.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

Yeah. Love it. I'm gonna internalize that one and use it. Also, it's kind of kind of making me freak a little bit because I usually do my nails at night.

SPEAKER_00 46:12

I usually like put a new set on and I literally did my toes last night and trimmed my nails. Oh, jeez. I'm a mouse now. You don't even know. It's not even Christy anymore.

SPEAKER_01 46:21

It's two mouses in a trench coat.

SPEAKER_00 46:25

I'm probably like three to four mice in a trench coat. I'm pretty tall. Okay.

unknown 46:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 46:31

Somebody didn't step over you.

SPEAKER_00 46:32

Last. Yeah, no, thank you. Thank you. I did not do that. Um, last little category is healthcare because you and I are in healthcare.

SPEAKER_01 46:40

We are in healthcare. Um and I'm tired, grandpa.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

The minute someone mentions a previous patient or like thinks about a previous patient, they will appear.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 46:50

Yeah. So 100% of the time. This was one that I read so much, and every everybody again was like, yep, this happened. So it's referring to like the frequent flyers, as they call people that are always in and out of the ER. This is like, oh, I haven't seen so-and-so for so-and-so. And then all of a sudden, boop, here they are. Okay. Laboratory specific. The body fluid that comes at your like the very end of your shift. It's like literally, you are wrapping up, you are cleaning up, you are, you are just trying to do something. Printed your pending list, whatever. And then all of a sudden they're like, here's your here's your your body fluid. And it's probably one that's already been ordered for like three straight hours that you saw three hours ago, and you were like, Oh, this is this one's never coming to me because it hadn't come. But it always comes with that shift change.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

And you can't be the dick that leaves it.

SPEAKER_00 47:45

No, it's like I'm way too afraid to look at my coworker in the eyes and be like, can ow. And they're like, oh, is there anything I need to be like looking for? And you're like, nope, nope, everything's like ship shape.

SPEAKER_01 47:57

As far as as far as I know, everything's like intentionally not looking at the box that I was like dropped in.

SPEAKER_00 48:05

When someone says a loved one came to see them, they know that the person is passing soon. So when people are like, Oh my, yeah, my sweet spouse came to visit me today, and you're like, ma'am, yeah, he died 15 years ago. Yep. You know they're coming. I really believe in that one. Absolutely. There's a I had not heard this one, but tying a knot in the corner of the patient's bed sheet to keep their spirit in their body.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

Oh, that sounds awful.

SPEAKER_00 48:33

Yeah. So they'll um and it I a couple accounts that I read said it's more for someone that will be passing soon, but maybe their family is on the way, so the nurse will go in and tie a knot in the bed sheet corner to like hold their soul there.

SPEAKER_01 48:49

Oh my god, I love that.

SPEAKER_00 48:51

Yeah, that's kind of fun. Um three crows signaling that death is coming soon. So if you like pull into work and there's three crows, not two, not four, maybe thirteen.

SPEAKER_01 49:05

I mean, more than two is considered a murder, right?

SPEAKER_00 49:08

Yeah. But it also goes back to like death in threes. Yeah. Which is true. I really feel like that's true. I've experienced it. Well, when you experience it over and over again. Because again, we like patterns. We human. Okay, and this is the final one. You're at work, you're in healthcare, and you say, Man, it's quiet. Oh, slow. You're like, you know, someone asks you, how'd the night's going? Oh, it's like slow. That's a just a how dare you. Yeah. So people will say that and then everybody hates you after you say that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 49:43

Don't say that. You're not a key word. Don't. No.

SPEAKER_00 49:46

That's it. That's all. That's all. Okay, I like it. Isn't that fun? That was so fun. Okay. We're gonna end this by I'm gonna read you a bunch of um superstitions, and we're gonna decide if we want them to be, they're not real, but we're gonna decide if we want them to be a thing or not a thing. Okay. So you're gonna decide yes, this should be a thing or no. Okay. Okay. Alright, so we're gonna decide these made-up superstitions if we should adopt them or get rid. Got it. Or just or just continue with our lives as normal. Okay. If you sleep with wet hair, your dreams can be stolen by ghosts.

SPEAKER_01 50:24

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 50:25

I'm gonna say past because sometimes you have to sleep with wet hair.

SPEAKER_01 50:27

Sometimes you have to sleep with wet hair, but I know all the hairstylists out there are like ghosts.

SPEAKER_00 50:32

So maybe we shouldn't sleep with wet hair because it's so wet hair. I don't know about you, but oh why?

SPEAKER_01 50:37

Because your hair is in the most fragile state when it's wet. And if you introduce friction, it breaks it apart.

SPEAKER_00 50:43

Well, I have noticed when I sleep with wet hair, it doesn't look clean in the morning. Even though it's very clean, it's not clean in the morning. So interesting. You know what? Let's adopt that. Okay. We're gonna put a yes on that one.

SPEAKER_01 50:53

I'm still gonna do it. Bring it on.

unknown 50:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 50:56

Bring it on. We have beautiful hair, so you're probably fine. Okay. A flickering bathroom light means your spirit or means a spirit is nearby trying to judge your skincare routine.

SPEAKER_01 51:10

I like it.

SPEAKER_00 51:11

Relevant.

SPEAKER_01 51:11

I really like it.

SPEAKER_00 51:12

Yeah. You like you like wash your face like subpart, and it's like your lights start flickering, and it's like, all right, I'll do a skin. Second cleanse.

SPEAKER_01 51:22

Thank you. All right. Channel your inner Adam Sandler.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

Get out of here. Fine. Okay. Okay, if your phone auto-corrects a name three times, you should trust that. You shouldn't trust that person. Oh. No, because a bad speller. I can think of like one person. I'll I'll spell their name correctly every single time, but it always autocorrects. Because it's just uh there's just a more common name.

SPEAKER_01 51:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:49

But I like that person. So that one's we're gonna leave that one behind.

SPEAKER_01 51:52

Yeah, leave it behind. I don't I'm just really bad at spelling now that we have auto-correct for everything.

SPEAKER_00 51:57

Yeah. This last one is very serious. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 52:01

You ready? I'm ready.

SPEAKER_00 52:02

If you don't listen to T Brain's One Bought Weekly and you don't like and subscribe, your favorite snacks will always be slightly still, no matter when you open them.

SPEAKER_01 52:12

Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 52:12

Yeah, that one's true.

SPEAKER_01 52:13

Like those uh dark chocolate peanut butter cups that you gave me last time.

SPEAKER_00 52:18

I hadn't listened to T Bob that week.

SPEAKER_01 52:20

You hadn't.

SPEAKER_00 52:21

Yeah, it was bad.

SPEAKER_01 52:22

That's facts. It's facts.

SPEAKER_00 52:24

Okay, well that's the episode.

SPEAKER_01 52:26

I love it.

SPEAKER_00 52:27

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SPEAKER_01 52:34

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SPEAKER_00 52:42

Go ahead. Don't make me do it. I am just bad at it. I am bad at ending these these podcasts. And the last one that I edited, I just I just cut off at the end. To stay human, stay curious, and don't let the robots win. Bye.