Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Happy Hour #149: End of the Year Chaos Ramblings
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. Welcome to stuff I
- 0:07Speaker 1: never told you production if I heard.
- 0:08Speaker 2: You, And welcome to another happy hour where I'm just
- 0:20Speaker 2: gonna complain. So it's a good wine. Okay, it's up
- 0:25Speaker 2: gen wine without my wine. But Annie, are you drinking something.
- 0:29Speaker 1: No, we're kind of on the we're on the car
- 0:32Speaker 1: the run. That's all right, We're busy. We've got a
- 0:36Speaker 1: lot of technical issues today.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Yeah, we were trying to quickly get things done just
- 0:40Speaker 2: in case power goes out or system goes down, systems
- 0:45Speaker 2: getting updated. So many things are happening, including the fact
- 0:51Speaker 2: that TikTok is about the go away. I'm not gonna lie. Well,
- 0:55Speaker 2: we don't know that for sure. There's a back and
- 0:57Speaker 2: forth in this conversation. And by the way, nothing's we'realking
- 1:00Speaker 2: about right now is currently being sponsored, so things can
- 1:03Speaker 2: change if you want to sponsor us. Cool cool, cool cool.
- 1:07Speaker 2: But anyway, so, so many things are happening. But one
- 1:11Speaker 2: of the things I've talked about many of times is
- 1:13Speaker 2: that I do, as much as I hate social media
- 1:16Speaker 2: and it is like a time suck, I really enjoy TikTok.
- 1:19Speaker 2: The amount of Highland cow videos that I've sent to
- 1:23Speaker 2: my partner's sister. Is joyful, like I get to see
- 1:28Speaker 2: all of these animals that I don't really interact with
- 1:30Speaker 2: but look so cute in these videos that I'm like,
- 1:34Speaker 2: I need this as my uplifting, you know. To be fair,
- 1:39Speaker 2: that's also really bad news because we're seeing things about
- 1:41Speaker 2: drones constantly.
- 1:43Speaker 3: Have you seen this Annie? Have you seen any drones?
- 1:47Speaker 3: That's the other question.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Smith. I'm gonna be real with you. Had a really
- 1:53Speaker 1: rough past couple of days. I have not been looking
- 1:56Speaker 1: at the sky. I'm lucky. I'm looking down at my
- 2:00Speaker 1: fee and trying not to fall over again.
- 2:02Speaker 2: So yeah, So we just had Joey on Peete behind
- 2:06Speaker 2: the gardeners and they were talking about the fact they
- 2:09Speaker 2: ate sidewalk is what they said, or assholet and and
- 2:12Speaker 2: he goes like, well, yeah, me too. And I'm like,
- 2:14Speaker 2: what are y'all okay? Are y'all okay? Legitimately, are you okay?
- 2:18Speaker 1: I'm struggling, but I'm doing all right. I look horrible.
- 2:24Speaker 1: I should send the picture of my legs to you.
- 2:26Speaker 3: It's not oh my goodness.
- 2:27Speaker 2: So yeah, she is bruised up, and we think it's
- 2:30Speaker 2: because of a corky it is not Peaches or remember
- 2:32Speaker 2: the first time you came on and we told on
- 2:33Speaker 2: peachas or I came on, you came on?
- 2:35Speaker 3: What the hell is wrong with me?
- 2:37Speaker 2: When I came on and we told the tale about
- 2:40Speaker 2: Peaches when you were trying to be nice and said
- 2:41Speaker 2: cat And I'm like, are you don't you mean my
- 2:43Speaker 2: dog peachas don't I don't.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Try to be But then past host, friend of the show,
- 2:50Speaker 1: friend in general, Caroline was like, that was definitely Peaches,
- 2:53Speaker 1: wasn't it. I was like, oh, yeah.
- 2:56Speaker 2: We outed are so quick because I mean, let's just
- 2:58Speaker 2: be honest. Peaches is a like all over the place
- 3:02Speaker 2: sometimes and she has calmed down a lot, but her
- 3:05Speaker 2: hyperness still kicks in pretty hardcore.
- 3:08Speaker 1: I didn't get to tell you this, so Joey, I
- 3:11Speaker 1: kind of bonded over our general like dogs are fine,
- 3:14Speaker 1: but they're not for us. Yeah yeah, this Corky beat
- 3:17Speaker 1: me up, but I also pulled my piece. I feel
- 3:25Speaker 1: like it was some kind of karma, like the Galaxy
- 3:28Speaker 1: New Use what did you say about?
- 3:32Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the Cordy was getting their revenge?
- 3:36Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yes, and also Peede on my.
- 3:38Speaker 3: Friends, So that's what.
- 3:42Speaker 2: I would just like to say that cord game makes Peacha's.
- 3:46Speaker 3: Look so calm.
- 3:48Speaker 2: But to be fair, I think probably the Corky is
- 3:50Speaker 2: younger than Peacha's, so yeah, probably around that same age.
- 3:54Speaker 3: Peacha is also Peede.
- 3:55Speaker 2: When she would get excited, like this was a very
- 3:58Speaker 2: short time, she'd like couch because she got so excited
- 4:01Speaker 2: about someone visiting her. But I was like, oh, but
- 4:04Speaker 2: it only happened once, thank goodness. But maybe it's just
- 4:08Speaker 2: the excitement. They were just excited. The pulling of the
- 4:11Speaker 2: pants down, that's new.
- 4:12Speaker 1: That was funny. I mean, I'm mad about it, and
- 4:14Speaker 1: I'm glad my underwear stayed up.
- 4:18Speaker 3: I show it all your underwear.
- 4:19Speaker 2: I hope it was cute. Well was it a Star Wars?
- 4:23Speaker 2: Was it a Star Wars one? I don't imagine it.
- 4:25Speaker 1: I don't have any Star Wars underwear.
- 4:26Speaker 3: What i'd be weird for us about?
- 4:29Speaker 1: For you? I know, I don't know how I feel
- 4:30Speaker 1: about like there's certain prints on underwear. I'm kind of
- 4:34Speaker 1: like iffy about. I think I wouldn't say no if
- 4:37Speaker 1: somebody got me them, but I don't. I'm not seeking
- 4:39Speaker 1: it out myself. But the I was so tired because
- 4:43Speaker 1: we've just gotten back from New York. Yeah, I was
- 4:45Speaker 1: just wearing pajama pants and they were Star Wars themed, OK,
- 4:48Speaker 1: and apparently easy to pull.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Down for we need to talk about you doing the
- 4:53Speaker 2: draw strings a little time or something, or like downgrading
- 4:57Speaker 2: your size.
- 4:58Speaker 3: I don't, I don't know, but yeah, so there's been
- 5:02Speaker 3: a lot happening. I think the I don't know.
- 5:08Speaker 2: I can't grasp because you don't know from your present
- 5:12Speaker 2: to the past and definitely not in the future, like
- 5:14Speaker 2: how bad or how chaotic a situation seems or a
- 5:18Speaker 2: timeline seems, or if it's just we're noticing it because
- 5:22Speaker 2: we're present at this moment.
- 5:24Speaker 3: And yeah, the.
- 5:25Speaker 2: Drone thing is odd, and I'm like, I should we
- 5:28Speaker 2: be concerned? People are saying they see it in Georgia,
- 5:31Speaker 2: and I'm like, are people lying to me? Every time
- 5:34Speaker 2: I see a video of a like a celebrity doing something,
- 5:37Speaker 2: I'm like, is this AI?
- 5:39Speaker 3: And I have been told.
- 5:40Speaker 2: By my partner who is in the AI industry it's
- 5:43Speaker 2: not that good unless they are probably government people who
- 5:48Speaker 2: have ways of doing things with deep fakes of things.
- 5:52Speaker 2: It's probably you're gonna be able to at least tell,
- 5:55Speaker 2: especially like normal people cannot access really really really good
- 5:58Speaker 2: AI for.
- 5:59Speaker 3: The most heart. Watch someone come on, tell me that's
- 6:02Speaker 3: a lie.
- 6:02Speaker 2: Because I saw a Taylor Swift video and she comes
- 6:05Speaker 2: out of the curtains of a hospital and dances with
- 6:08Speaker 2: two unknown people and not that they're not they're now
- 6:11Speaker 2: TikTok famous because of this TikTok and I was like,
- 6:13Speaker 2: is that her? Or is this the lookalike?
- 6:15Speaker 3: Or is this AI? Like I literally had to wait because.
- 6:18Speaker 2: Be like, oh, because you know, and I've heard of
- 6:20Speaker 2: Taylor Swift doing nice things, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure,
- 6:23Speaker 2: But I've also seen people do really silly things and
- 6:27Speaker 2: with lookalikes, especially on TikTok. TikTok has done a lot
- 6:31Speaker 2: about I'm talking a lot about TikTok, but a lot
- 6:33Speaker 2: about like showing lookalikes, especially like the lookalike contests. Apparently
- 6:37Speaker 2: recently there was a Jason Kelcey lookalike contest. There's and
- 6:41Speaker 2: it's just random people decide they wanted to do a contest.
- 6:44Speaker 1: Yeah right, Yeah, from.
- 6:46Speaker 2: What I understood, Jason Kelsey did show up to his
- 6:51Speaker 2: own lookalike contest, which also makes me sad, is like,
- 6:54Speaker 2: I don't look like anybody. I don't think I don't
- 6:58Speaker 2: know adopplogating or do you have a celebrity look alike
- 7:01Speaker 2: people point out to you.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Though I get Hillary Swank a lot and I get Brookshields.
- 7:09Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's true or not. Those are the
- 7:11Speaker 1: two that I get a lot. One time I got
- 7:13Speaker 1: Jennifer Aniston almost died, so like, oh my gosh.
- 7:17Speaker 3: Interesting.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Maybe I'm like I get any Asian person because people
- 7:22Speaker 2: are microaggressive towards me when it comes to not knowing
- 7:26Speaker 2: Asian people, so it doesn't matter who it is, or
- 7:29Speaker 2: like you're just definitely this Asian person.
- 7:31Speaker 3: I'm like, I am definitely not.
- 7:33Speaker 2: The one closest from what I understand is Sandra Oh,
- 7:36Speaker 2: and that's because we have similar mannerisms and I've never
- 7:41Speaker 2: I've not really studied her enough to know this, but
- 7:43Speaker 2: I'm like, really to the point that, like, you did
- 7:45Speaker 2: this exactly like Sandro would do, and I'm like, I
- 7:48Speaker 2: don't know how to because I love Sandra Oh, but
- 7:51Speaker 2: I don't think I can.
- 7:51Speaker 3: Get that credit.
- 7:53Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure it's just because I'm Korean, which at
- 7:56Speaker 2: least they're close on that one, because usually is anybody
- 8:00Speaker 2: and everybody I'm like, okay, cool with any like Asian affiliation.
- 8:04Speaker 2: But you know, with this chaotic time and my constant
- 8:09Speaker 2: struggle and like, I must be joyful and Christmas y
- 8:11Speaker 2: for the love of Jesus so I can seem normal.
- 8:15Speaker 1: The love of Jesus is funny.
- 8:17Speaker 3: Thanks for that. Say it really is? It really is.
- 8:22Speaker 2: It has made it feels like it's making this time
- 8:24Speaker 2: go a lot faster. Or maybe it's just because we're
- 8:29Speaker 2: so busy that it feels like it's getting away from me.
- 8:33Speaker 3: Does it feel like that to you as you fall
- 8:36Speaker 3: apart at the end of this year.
- 8:38Speaker 1: I'm falling apart. It does feel that way to me.
- 8:41Speaker 1: I was discussing this with one of the friends I
- 8:44Speaker 1: hung out with, which, by the way, I feel like
- 8:48Speaker 1: I always trap her inadvertently into staying way longer than
- 8:51Speaker 1: she plans to stay. So if you're listening, apologies. I
- 8:54Speaker 1: was just putting on Taylor Swift in the background until
- 8:57Speaker 1: you got your lift.
- 8:58Speaker 2: But anyway, is this how like I trapped you by
- 9:02Speaker 2: putting on the other the star wars again?
- 9:06Speaker 3: Yeah, but we now have to finish this.
- 9:08Speaker 1: I feel like mine is worse because we start at
- 9:10Speaker 1: three am and the Taylor Swift airs to our movies
- 9:15Speaker 1: three hours and thirty minutes.
- 9:17Speaker 2: So.
- 9:18Speaker 1: I'm really tired. But yes, it is similar. It's accidental
- 9:26Speaker 1: on my part. It is very accidental. And when I've
- 9:30Speaker 1: had a couple we went to some Christmas bars and
- 9:32Speaker 1: I'd had a couple of drinks and drunk, Annie is
- 9:35Speaker 1: so happy to continue the night.
- 9:37Speaker 2: Yeah you really are, but a lot of awesome conversation people.
- 9:41Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, anyway, drink responsible kids. I do feel
- 9:46Speaker 1: that way, and in part because Thanksgiving came so late
- 9:48Speaker 1: this year and then we went to New York and
- 9:53Speaker 1: now Christmas feels like it's just coming so quickly. I
- 9:57Speaker 1: also am experiencing I we'll be honest with you, I'm
- 10:04Speaker 1: really avoiding a lot of news stuff. I get it
- 10:06Speaker 1: through text because I feel like I can handle text
- 10:09Speaker 1: a lot better than video or audio. But it feels
- 10:14Speaker 1: like that is like barreling down on us as well.
- 10:20Speaker 1: So every day feels like, oh, yeah, this is one
- 10:22Speaker 1: less day I have before this. So yeah, it does
- 10:25Speaker 1: feel and like you're right, like so much of what
- 10:28Speaker 1: we deal with now, it makes every day feel surreal
- 10:32Speaker 1: and like I'm not sure what's quite real or what
- 10:36Speaker 1: isn't And it's just it feels I know it sounds
- 10:41Speaker 1: kind of silly, but to me, it feels like some
- 10:43Speaker 1: kind of crazy dream I've been having since twenty twenty. Right,
- 10:48Speaker 1: it's just kept going and going and going.
- 10:50Speaker 3: No, yeah, that's feels right.
- 11:02Speaker 2: I think as we're watching like Germany's government collapse, what
- 11:05Speaker 2: does that mean?
- 11:06Speaker 3: South Korea impeach their president? What does that mean?
- 11:09Speaker 2: And I like I've already mentioned once in our episode
- 11:12Speaker 2: with Joey recently that I want to come back and
- 11:15Speaker 2: look at feminism today around the world because things are changing,
- 11:19Speaker 2: whether good or bad, and things have whether it's changing
- 11:23Speaker 2: because it's backtracking, which I feel like, is what's in
- 11:27Speaker 2: the US, or is progressing in a different way, Like
- 11:30Speaker 2: Mexico is doing some amazing things.
- 11:31Speaker 3: Go ahead, Mexico, look at you.
- 11:34Speaker 2: But Canada is backtracking. I just found out through Etsy
- 11:37Speaker 2: that they're having a huge postal strike. I did not
- 11:40Speaker 2: know this. I was like, what, And I'm being told
- 11:43Speaker 2: by several centers, ay, just FYI are you good, because
- 11:46Speaker 2: we don't know. We could be two weeks from now,
- 11:49Speaker 2: or it could be three months from now, or in
- 11:52Speaker 2: like just talking, I was like, really, so the Canadians
- 11:55Speaker 2: who are boasting about oh yeah, America is in a home like, uh,
- 11:58Speaker 2: y'all are not much better, so and I hate it
- 12:01Speaker 2: for you. I don't want which you know, I don't
- 12:03Speaker 2: wish like that on anyone, but everybody's going through something
- 12:07Speaker 2: and I'm not really sure what to make of this.
- 12:09Speaker 2: It does fill apocalyptic, which I want to come back
- 12:12Speaker 2: and talk about women in the apocalypse a little bit.
- 12:15Speaker 3: But like, there are so.
- 12:17Speaker 2: Many conversations and so many question marks and it feels overwhelming.
- 12:21Speaker 2: But again, I'm like, I know many a times where
- 12:25Speaker 2: I've heard my parents say, oh, it's the end of
- 12:27Speaker 2: the world. These things have happened, and this is a sign.
- 12:31Speaker 2: This is a sign, And of course that's very religious based,
- 12:35Speaker 2: like Christian Western Christian based revelation base and if y'all know,
- 12:39Speaker 2: y'all know. So there's a lot of question marks that
- 12:43Speaker 2: I feel like is happening. This is my end of
- 12:44Speaker 2: Like I will title this in the via chaos rambling
- 12:47Speaker 2: because it just feels that way, you know what I mean?
- 12:51Speaker 1: It does it does. And I had this conversation with
- 12:55Speaker 1: same friend who I accidentally trapped into some kind of
- 12:58Speaker 1: Taylor Swift We're early Morning watch because she was saying
- 13:03Speaker 1: that too of you know every I bet every generation
- 13:06Speaker 1: always has felt that, And I think the difference is
- 13:09Speaker 1: going back to TikTok. We're exposed to it all the time.
- 13:14Speaker 1: That's not to say like during the time of like
- 13:17Speaker 1: the plague, when you had no idea why that was happening,
- 13:21Speaker 1: you had no information that that wasn't scary. It's just different.
- 13:26Speaker 1: It feels like we're exposed to so many things and
- 13:30Speaker 1: we can't tell if they're real, and it's all happening
- 13:33Speaker 1: so quickly that so it gets buried before you can
- 13:36Speaker 1: even figure out if it was real, and then there's
- 13:38Speaker 1: something else to take its place. It does feel very
- 13:42Speaker 1: chaotic and unstable right now.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Yeah, And of course again I'm also comparing, as you
- 13:50Speaker 2: were talking about our future and pending doom, compared twenty
- 13:54Speaker 2: sixteen to now, Like I'm trying to see, did this
- 13:57Speaker 2: look feel like this? Did it look like that's and
- 13:59Speaker 2: it didn't. It feels worse like we I think it
- 14:02Speaker 2: was unexpected and we really clung to the belief that
- 14:05Speaker 2: it's not as bad as we think and knowing and
- 14:08Speaker 2: now we've experienced the bad and we're like, oh no, it's.
- 14:09Speaker 3: Going to get worse.
- 14:10Speaker 2: But I can like trying to cling to the hope
- 14:16Speaker 2: and the idea that when we are in these moments,
- 14:19Speaker 2: that's when we see the biggest revolutions ever. Unfortunately that
- 14:24Speaker 2: means it costs a lot, whether that's lives, whether this livelihood,
- 14:28Speaker 2: whether it's our health, so many things. So there's definitely
- 14:34Speaker 2: conversations and things that are popping in my head. It
- 14:37Speaker 2: feels an ending. Also, like again with this end of
- 14:42Speaker 2: the year holiday ramblings, I know that I'm about to
- 14:46Speaker 2: face my family again now Thanksgiving. I didn't have to yet,
- 14:50Speaker 2: so I haven't seen them yet and I haven't talked
- 14:52Speaker 2: to them yet. I know there's gonna be a religious
- 14:53Speaker 2: point of view and a conversation. I really hope that
- 14:58Speaker 2: we don't have to deal with any slight or like
- 15:02Speaker 2: you know what I mean, like aggressiveness of passive aggressiveness
- 15:06Speaker 2: either way. But I'm also anticipating that and like trying
- 15:11Speaker 2: to figure out how to handle that. Of course, my
- 15:13Speaker 2: anti anxiety medication and I'm very grateful for that and
- 15:16Speaker 2: I will be using them, don't you worry about me.
- 15:19Speaker 2: But it's it feels wild and it feels unfamiliar at
- 15:24Speaker 2: the same time familiar.
- 15:27Speaker 1: Yeah, it does. If it feels. I don't know about you,
- 15:34Speaker 1: but I assume most people can relate to the fact
- 15:36Speaker 1: that I feel like in twenty sixteen, I was a
- 15:38Speaker 1: very different person. Dad was younger, and we hadn't had
- 15:42Speaker 1: the pandemic yet, and I did go through like it
- 15:46Speaker 1: was bad, don't get me wrong, but it's weird to
- 15:49Speaker 1: be back and like that was eight years ago, right,
- 15:55Speaker 1: and it feels like, well, here it is, but now
- 15:58Speaker 1: I already know how terribly that went, and here we are.
- 16:06Speaker 2: We are.
- 16:07Speaker 1: Yeah, it just feels very repetitive, right, yeah, right.
- 16:14Speaker 2: And with that, we're going to power through whatever that
- 16:18Speaker 2: might mean, whether it means we are going to have
- 16:21Speaker 2: a crisis every month and we're going to have to
- 16:23Speaker 2: learn to deal with that, whether it's personal or whether
- 16:26Speaker 2: it's in a large scale. Hope that we can keep
- 16:30Speaker 2: being voices in this conversation. I'm hoping that we can
- 16:33Speaker 2: have a conversation. That's the biggest point, and that's what
- 16:37Speaker 2: we need from you listeners. This is our request, I
- 16:40Speaker 2: guess this is my request, is that you do make
- 16:42Speaker 2: this a conversation. Let us know what's happening with you,
- 16:45Speaker 2: let us know are you dealing with these things and
- 16:48Speaker 2: how are you dealing with these things? And let us
- 16:51Speaker 2: know what you hope for, and we've already sent us
- 16:54Speaker 2: out before, but what you hope for for our podcast,
- 16:57Speaker 2: because we will keep trucking as long as they we
- 16:59Speaker 2: an't allowed to. I guess whether it's by our own
- 17:03Speaker 2: company or by this country, or by me not being
- 17:06Speaker 2: deported or you know, any not being arrested for being queer,
- 17:10Speaker 2: any of those things, which is an unfortunate nightmare that
- 17:14Speaker 2: could become reality. And that might sound dramatic, but these
- 17:17Speaker 2: are things that go through my head which keep me
- 17:22Speaker 2: up at nights sometimes. But with that that we can
- 17:26Speaker 2: continue to speak out about it and have a conversation
- 17:29Speaker 2: about it. So we would love to hear from you
- 17:31Speaker 2: about what you need from us in twenty twenty five,
- 17:34Speaker 2: and we will do our best to try to make
- 17:36Speaker 2: it possible.
- 17:38Speaker 1: Yes, we will, And we hope that everyone's doing about
- 17:44Speaker 1: as well as they can be.
- 17:46Speaker 2: You're doing great no matter what. If you're here listening,
- 17:49Speaker 2: you're doing amazing. One step up, you're awake an activity,
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