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• Di: And then the dogs had to literally start barking as soon as I did that. They Mads: They wanted to say hello. Di: are they are wanting to be a part of whatever this is. Mads: They wanted to say hello. Hello puppies. Di: And they have like the deepest barks because they're the biggest dogs, so of course, like Yeah. Of course. Of course they do. do we have a PowerPoint for this week or are we just we just winging it? Mads: I'm a big dog lover, so Nada. Ain't got shit. Di: good! Mads: You get to see me the whole time. Di: We are winging it. I do have one because I will Mads: Welcome back, guys. Di: welcome back. Mads: Yeah, I did no preparation this week, so we're just gonna wing it. We're gonna have a whole yap session. I hope you're ready. But we are doing Di: I think like literally it was yesterday or the day before Maddie like, I don't know what we're gonna do, so we're gonna drink and yap. Yep. Mads: Mm. I did think of some things between then and now though. I just did not make a PowerPoint 'cause I didn't feel like it. So Di: That's a lot of work. That's a lot of work. Mads: I have we are both over twenty one, so don't come for us. But I do have some peach soju that has been in my fridge that I need to get out of there 'cause I'm tired of looking at it. That's where this idea came from. Di: I have I have yes it's in a giant cup just so you know it's only like that full but I have Mads: Hurr hoo. Di: it's listen okay if anyone wants to know I have a Pyrenees border collie mix and I have a Black Lab something giant mix Mads: Thing giant. Di: And now I've like forgot the breed. It's a big dog. massive. Mads: Hm. Di: So I have two very large dogs with two very deep barks who like to bark at the wind. So we'll just we'll just let them I don't even know what they're barking at at this point. Mads: They're having a grand old time. They're having a grand time. Di: Something over at my parents' house, which I should probably go check out, but you know. Mads: Mm. Di: So I dressed tomorrow as red, and then I realized that my children and my husband destroyed my favorite palette. And so like the one eyeshadow that I was gonna use is like gone. Look. and it's such a pretty color, too. It's like this. Mads: Is that one of the ones that they've dropped? Di: Yes. Like, look, so this is broken. So they dropped my I have a I have a Hannah Bang one color palette. And this one's okay, but it's more browns. Like I like reds because I have green eyes and reds just look better. This one's like more browns, though I do really love like this is probably my favorite one because it's like this really nice like sparkly white. But this is Mads: No, my favorite, I I do a lot of reds too, because it brings out the blue in my eyes, but like I'll do like red on Di: Mm-hmm. Mads: the outside crease and then I'll do white on the inside. And I'll do okay, so what I typically do mm-hmm Di: Yeah, I love to do like white on the Mads: on the inner eye. So what I usually do is Di: Mm-hmm. Mads: I'll do like a like a brown and then I'll transition to red and then white. Di: Yeah, I like to do like I okay, listen, I am a millennial and I'm gonna my age is gonna show. The smoky eye is still the way to go always. I just think it looks good. Mads: I've never done it. Di: But what I like to do is I like to do like a up on the upper lid I actually because of how my eye shape it or like my lids are on the upper eye I like to do a lighter color just because my lit like the upper eye is so big but then here I do like a pink and then a darker color like out to the side to like go with my eyeliner. But I like to have like a little bit of a shimmer and then I like to make my eyes bigger with like something on the bottom and then in the center with the white. But okay, so this is my favorite palette though 'cause it's all like I don't know. It's all pinks and Mads: Timmery. Di: and sh this one is like this one right here. is so shiny. It's literally just sparkles. I love it so much, but it's so shimmery. But this was like a really beautiful Mads: I see it. I love it. my god, did you see the did you see what I sent in the the TikTok of the the fall, autumn orange ones? Di: my god. I need them. I have a really Mads: my god, I want them. Di: beautiful I have a really beautiful fall palette. Actually, maybe that's what I'll use tomorrow. I have a really beautiful p fall palette. I have it here. But this one right here, I just really love Romand because I think that they're their color. what is what am I trying to say? Like they're Mads: The pigment. Di: the pigment is really strong. You don't have to Mads: Mm-hmm. Di: put a lot and for it to go a long way. But this one was like this really beautiful, like like it was like This color, but a little bit lighter and shimmery and pink. And it was my favorite one. And naturally it was the one that got dropped. But I have some I need a new blush because I hate this blush because it's a blush, it's a it's a blush highlighter combination and I just and it's like really orange and I just don't really like it. So I need to get me a new blush. Mads: Mm. I have one of those too, but like I also put actual highlighter Di: Great. Mads: on over it. So it's like just a blush for me. It like it like Di: This one is my Mads: if I don't want to put on both, then I'll wear that one. Di: Yeah, I usually put on highlighter anyway just because I have like a I have a shiny face and so highlighter just does a good job with shiny faces, I think. But this is my fall one. Look, it's called cinnamon and spice. And it's like really pretty like oranges and browns. There's some Mads: Those are pretty. Di: pink. This was my wedding palette. This is the one I got for my wedding. Mads: Lily texted me. I sent her Di: Mm. Mads: a a video of the basement yard boys, Frankie and Joe, doing a game Di: Right. Mads: called where they have to like figure out a word with these two letters that start and end with this letter. And I was like, another game idea and she was like, I can't with them. Di: I miss Lily. By the way, Lily's not here. She's doing something exciting in her life other than us. man, you know she's on a little trip. Mads: She's in Kansas City with her family. She's on a little little trip. She went to a concert the other day with them. She's been there since Wednesday. Di: What concert? Mads: A group I don't know. Di: okay. Well I'm going to see Breaking Benjamin on the seventh. Mads: OMG I haven't been to a concert in years. Di: that is my husband's anniversary gift to me, I guess. Which is okay, actually. I like Breaking Benjamin, so like, well Mads: At least he did something. Di: Yeah, yeah. Well I think it was more for him than me. And then I just was But I don't know if he's ever been to a concert like that. I don't think he's ever been to like anything super loud like that. So we'll see how he handles it. He went to Aerosmith, but I think Yeah Mads: So has he ever been to a concert? 'Cause like all concerts are like that. Di: Yeah, so he but he's been like the only concerts he's been to have never been like concert arenas or anything like that. Like they've all Mads: Mm. Di: been like stampedes or like you know Mads: Mm. Di: rodeo rodeo concerts which are very different because Mads: Mm-hmm. Di: trust me I live where there is a very old ro I'm not gonna I'm not gonna dox myself and tell you what state I live in and like anything because I can dox myself. I can tell you that The oldest rodeo in the state that I live in takes place in a town forty-five minutes away from me. And so we always have like a big concert, but it's very different. And so that was like my first concerts were the rodeo concerts. And now like I've branched out and now I do arena concerts and they're very different. did you see? Mads: You decided to do red? Di: I did it again. I Mads: Good up. Di: kind of missed it. And then I was like, I have a job now. I don't care anymore. Mads: Mm-hmm. Di: I'm not trying to look professional. Mads: But like also you are the manager, so like who's gonna stop you? Your sister? She don't care. Di: Though I have though I have been narking on people at work and I feel really bad 'cause then they're probably getting all these texts being like, Hey, in the future, can we not do this? And I'm like, I'm sorry Though for anyone who works in the food industry, grocery or whatever, there are changes to Snap and EBT coming up that are very strict and like really ignore my kids screaming at each other. This has been an all-day thing. there are changes to Snap and EBT that are gonna be really hard for small retailers and small grocers. And one of the things that like they're adding is that they're gonna do random inspections just whenever they feel like it. And so we're having to be a little bit more strict about like food safety handling. things, but also like we have to have seven varieties of each food group, but like that doesn't mean like you can't have like seven varieties of cheese. That means cheese plus seven other different types of a dairy. We're struggling in the dairy department. Mads: So like cream cheese so like cream cheese, cottage cheese, milk. No? Di: So you so all the cheeses are in one category and as one variety. So you have to have like cheese and then like milk Mads: Is there enough dairy? Di: and then like y so they're counting like non non dairy products, like non animal products that Mads: Like oat milk. Di: are like like oat milk and stuff as as it but yeah, it's a little hard because it's like you have to have creamers and you have to have all yogurts and stuff like that. Mads: Especially with where you're at. Di: Yeah, especially with where I'm at, because the people here are not gonna be buying oat milk and Mads: Yeah, no, they're all they're all carnivores. Except for one that works in your store apparently. Di: Literally my apparently yeah, well, you know, but apparently that is a thing in our area is people not just carnivores, but on the carnivore diet. All of our regulars, all of our regulars, I swear, like at least 80% of them, are on a carnivore diet, so they don't eat vegetables or anything Mads: And not be me. I fear Di: like that. They just eat meat. You're like it's like the opposite of me Mads: I fear I am like your survive in your town. Di: I mean meat is kind of like a Mads: Or in your store. Di: actually we don't actually have that much meat and you could kind of ignore that we have it. Because it's in like closed like st steel freezers. So Mads: Mm, mm, mm. Di: as long as you're not like going into them, you won't even know that we have meat in our in our store. The rest is like Grains and fresh produce and lots of bread things, lots of pastries. we have the most beautiful pies. I did not grab a pie this time because I figured other people should buy them. But I was really tempted. Cause we got some like we got ten pies this week. Mads: What would you order? Di: So I got I don't even remember. a cherry pie, Mads: Mm. Di: a pumpkin pie, an apple pie, a key lime pie, a lemon meringue a peanut butter chocolate meringue, a coconut cream meringue, a chocolate meringue, sort of like the one I had last week. I'm missing two. strawberry rhubarb. And then I can't remember. Pecan. Mads: Hm. You just get one of di f each flavor, you don't get more than one. Di: No, I just get one of each flavor. Just cause we're trying them out. We're seeing which ones sell. We have like this is like a brand new vendor for us, so we're seeing like which Mads: Mm. Di: ones sell. And then we'll from there we'll go forward and we'll decide like which varieties we're gonna we're gonna be buying more often. Mads: Mm. Di: but we're probably also gonna be doing like more things with this vendor. So like cheesecakes, which I'm super excited about because I love cheesecakes, Mads: Mm. Di: and they do like these. pre-made casseroles that you just put in the oven and then heat them up, and then you have like a pre-made meal. We might be doing those. and then Mads: So do they cook everything and then bring it to you or how do they do that? Di: No, but I have to go I have to go get it myself. Mm-hmm. It's a Mads: No no no but do they make them? Is it like a bakery type thing? Okay. Di: bakery. It's a bakery. It's owned by the Mennonites and they're just really sweet. Mads: Mm. Di: and so yeah, I just go to the bakery and I get the stuff I want. And then, yeah, they have like breakfast burritos that we buy from them and we even have a vegetarian we have vegetarian options Mads: They sound like nice people. Di: for everything. she's so sweet. Yesterday we we chit chatted like a good 25 minutes and then I was like, I should probably get back to work. I'm getting paid for myself to chit-chat Mads: Mm-hmm. Di: with you. That's okay. Mads: I love that. Di: Cinnamon rolls, pecan rolls, like they have yeah, but their pies are so good. Like Mads: So fine. Di: I showed you I showed you the pie last week. Like the meringue was Mads: Yeah. Yeah. Di: the biggest meringue ever. Mads: The coffee shop at work is like a I guess kinda like a vendor because it's not like my organization's coffee shop. It's like an outside local coffee shop. And they do work with local bakeries too and they bring into the sh the building and like sell them. And I'm like, this is so sweet. I love supporting local. Di: Yeah, and they their idea is to like expand their business out and the best way to describe where I live, it's a really big area. It's six counties, but like all six counties kind of work together as like one big entity, I guess is the best way to describe it. And so where three counties away from this bakery, but they really want to like expand into all six counties. And so they're really excited that we're like taking their product down to our county because we're probably the only business that would where we're at. Cause our our county is like one of the poorest in in our state. It's the second poorest I think. and so there is another county right next to ours that is the poorest in the state and then we're the second poorest. So that should tell you everything you need to know. we actually had a raid the other day In the town that our store is at. and I kid you not, there were people running down the Mads: It's it's giving. Di: streets, there were dogs chasing after them. And then I was like, I I was like, what's going on? And everyone's it's a raid. And I was thinking, like, you know, maybe the local law enforcement or something were like raiding a home. And then I like read the news report and was like, everyone, National Guard, the ATF, US Marshals, the CBI, the feds, like. Everyone was there. I know. Mads: The hell? It's giving wild wild west, but in modern daytime. Di: Yeah no. It's it's a trip, man. I I could write stories about where I live. Like it's just it's a hoot. But yeah, so anyway, no, but this bakery they're really nice to work with. I really like working with them Mads: Did we even introduce ourselves to the podcast the other day if we just Di: Nope. We said it was gonna be a yap session, so here we are. Hi guys, welcome back to the Giggle Gremlins Mads: Guys. Di: podcast. I'm Di. Mads: We have nothing planned. Well, I have a few things planned today, but like nothing, like we have no no slideshow. Except for Di's PowerPoint that she didn't do last week. Di: I have a PowerPoint. I have one. It's not as good as Lily's or Maddie's, but i I have one. I have videos and I'm not sure if I'm gonna show Mads: Do you wanna do it? Di: the videos. Yeah, I can do it. I have videos and not gonna I'm not sure if I'm gonna show the videos, but I came with receipts. If we wanted them. Alright, this is my K pop VL pipeline. Look how how do you like my I know It is not like my keyboard. I I am a Mads: Pipeline. That's so MacBook coded. That is like that is like my keyboard. Legitimately. Like with the whole tap the whole the touch bar and everything up at the top. Yep, that's my that's my computer guys. Di: Yeah, I I am a PC person. I have a HP. Hmm. Alright guys. Mads: I am apple through and through. Di: So this is my pipeline of how I ended up here and obsessed with pretty boys who kiss each other. So here we go. And yes, I am including K pop in that because we are third gen fans and at this point in time third gen and past are also part of the boy kissing community. Fourth gen. Sorry, fourth gen. Mads: Like literally stray kids is like stray gays. And we we agree with them. A polycule. Di: Stray gays. Mm-hmm. And then ATs is just we agree with them. And then ATs is just a polyc is a polycule at this point. So let's go into where it all started. This is where it all started. yes, it did not start with K dramas or anything like that. It started with Bollywood movies. So I was obsessed with Bollywood movies and I was watching it was like right when Netflix came about. This is how old I am, I'm aging myself. And so like a bunch of Bollywood actually this was maybe even before Netflix, because I had this on DVD. This particular film is called Doom Two. I have not seen Doom One or Doom Three, but Doom Two specifically. Mads: Did you know? Did you know Netflix used to be like a movie rental service before they went to streaming? Yeah. It was like Blockbuster all over again. Di: Uh-huh. Yes, because I remember when it was a rental it was a movie rent. I remember when we got our first Netflix, like our first Netflix box, like everyone was so excited. And like you could do it online and stuff, Mads: I never got. Di: but we didn't really have internet. yeah, nope. Mads: We were Blockbuster through and through. I still have a movie from Blockbuster. You know Stardust, the movie? I bought that one at Di: Mm-hmm. Mads: at Blockbuster and I still have that one. Di: Did two. I have it on Mads: that Di: yeah, I have it on VHS, so that should also tell you everything you need to know. Mads: Mm. I don't but I have Barbie movies on VHS. Di: I also have all of the Lord of the Rings extended versions on VHS. So you know, that's Mads: Such a tragedy, we can't watch those anymore. Di: I know, I miss my VHS. Like you always had to like, you know, like make it so that it wasn't all Mads: Yes. Di: like ha ha ha ha Mads: And to rewind the whole thing. Di: Yes! my god. I missed those days. my god. I just aged myself really well there. But anyway, so yeah, my first my Mads: Okay, so did we I both did if we both Di: My very first, but my favorite Bollywood movie even to this day. I mean look at him. Look at this guy. Look at look at this guy. Yeah, and if anyone knows, you'll probably recognize her. She was in the new like Pink Panther with Steve Martin. her name's Ashwarya Rai, she's like gorgeous. But anyway, so yeah, I got into my sister went to India for a study abroad program, and when she came back, she was like, We should watch Bollywood movies. And so we started watching Bollywood movies. We started with Doom, and then we watched like a whole bunch of other ones. My other favorite is Krish. then there's Joda Akbar, I really Mads: Is that your middle sister? Di: oldest sister. So she did Mads: really? Di: like a study abroad. So her program when she was in college was like international exchange and agriculture. And so she did Mads: Mm. Di: a study abroad program where she went to Tanzania, India, New Zealand, and Mexico for like a year. anyway, so then Netflix became like a Mads: A year each or just a year in general? Di: a year in general, so like a quarter each for each of those places. Mads: Like three months each. Di: Yeah, and so we went to visit her when she was in New Zealand. So I I went to New Zealand at that time. Yeah, it was so much fun. it was so much fun. We climbed Mount Doom. I'm such a Lord of the Rings nerd that it was like the best thing in the world. You said my Mads: I have not ever seen it. Or Harry Potter. Di: Okay, Harry Potter, I can actually get a I by the way, we have a very like probably queer base fan base, and I'm just gonna tell you it's okay if you don't watch Harry Potter. I will stand by you on that one because Mads: What other what other big franchises are there? I've seen Star Wars. 'Cause of my brother. I haven't seen haven't seen Lord of the Rings. didn't watch Di: Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Lord of the Rings. Mads: those. I didn't w Di: My kids love Jurassic Park. They have seen all the Jurassic Park, all the Jurassic World, including like right now, I kid you not, they are watching the Camp Cretaceous series, because they love dinosaurs. But yeah, no, watch Lord of the Rings. If I was gonna tell you to watch anything, Lord of the Rings, watch Just watch Mads: I fear that's not gonna happen. Di: Okay, well you don't have to, but I love them. They're my favorite. Mads: I mean you'll have to literally force me to sit down and watch it. Di: Well then I'll like go tie you down to a chair and make you watch it with me. You don't have to watch The Hobbit though. Don't watch The Hobbit. They're terrible. They ruined the books. Okay. Anywho. so yeah, Doom was my fate was like my first Bollywood and my favorite Bollywood. And this is all gonna come full circle as to where I ended up where I am, because it will come full circle. it is still one of my all time favorites, and everyone should watch it, just for the ridiculousness of it all, because if you think that like product placement and stuff in K dramas and T dramas is funny. This is like even worse because like imagine all of the worst filmography things you could do, like using PowerPoint or very obviously making things like slow, like not speeding things up that are supposed to be sped up or speeding them up too much to make them obvious. Like it is like a filmographer's nightmare and it's hilarious and I love it so much. Mads: So what I'm hearing is I should not watch that. Di: You should. my god, you would laugh so hard. You should absolutely. This is like a heist film. So the two guys in in the the guy in the green shirt and the guy in the red shirt are cops and they're trying to find this like famous thief that's the guy without the shirt. and so he's so hot, by the way. He's so hot. Anyway, and they dance. They just like randomly break out in song and dance. You would hate that, but you should still watch it. Mads: I'm glad you know me so well. Di: It's actually good. It's not like cringe. Like, okay, it's cringe because it's singing and dancing, but it's not like poorly done, if that makes any sense. Like the music's actually really good. and so they hire like an ex-convict who is the girl in the middle to like Mads: The girl in the front? Di: yeah, to like get close with him and find out what he's up to and then they fall in love because that's what happens. And then the girl on the right is just sort of there. She's like housing the cops and then she and the guy in the green shirt fall in love. There's like there's really no reason for her. She's just there to have like a second couple, I guess. And the guy in the red shirt ha ha like is in the first one and so he's already married and his wife is pregnant through this whole thing. But yeah, no, it's it's super ridiculous. Everyone should watch it. I love Doom. But I Netflix became a thing at the time that Doom, like became like a big part, like Bollywood, I guess, all in general, because I was watching like Krish a lot. And then also Joda Akbar was also another one. I really loved. I love that one because it's about Akbar who like united Hindustan and then it's not united anymore. But anyway, yeah, so then Netflix came about, there were all these international films. I watched like all the Bollywood films and then suddenly we were out of Bollywood films and I had no more to watch. So I had to switch languages up. If we're being honest though, this is where really started. Listen, I was an emo goth girly. I feel like the pipeline was straight, even though I'm not. Mads: Smoothie cast. Di: And also the content I cons I consume is also not straight. So but House Moving Castle was my very first anime. I guess anime. It has my heart. I watched it as Mads: It has my heart. I adore that one. That one is my absolute favorite. Di: I watched it as soon as it came out. I literally got it like the day it came out into the stores. I went to Blockbuster because we were talking about Blockbuster and I rented it. And I it was during Lent and I was not supposed to be watching TV because my family like made TV watching for Lent band. And so I went to my aunt's house and I watched it at her house and then it just stole my heart. I bought it like literally the next day and it still it has my heart. My kids watch it all the time and I love that. Mads: It's the best. It's one of my favourites. Di: And then my there It's one of my favorites. I love it so much. I love Hal. I love when he throws the hissy fit. He's so funny. I love The Witch of the Ways. She's so I love Calcifer. I think every character is so whimsical. I think every character Mads: Calcifer is my favorite. I love calcifer. Mm-hmm. Di: is so whimsical and so fun. I would have to say Sophie's actually like my least favorite character. Like she's just there. But like everyone else, I just I love Califer. Mads: Kelsifer is my favorite. And then Hal is just so attractive, dude. my god. Di: Hal's Hal is my first crush, everyone. Other than Galadriel from Lord of the Rings. We're gonna go back to Lord of the Rings, but Galadriel was my all-time like first crush, Eomere, and then Howl. and then my first manga was School Rumble, and then I read like a ton of manga, and then this is also part of the pipeline is that I started with straight manga, they were great, and then I went to gay manga at a certain pi point in time. But then anyway, I was talking about how I ran out of things to watch that were in That were Bollywood films, so I watched my very first K drama and that was Boys Over Flowers. So that would have been 2012, something like that. Mads: Very problematic things about this script. Di: Okay, looking back, there are some if anyone wants to know what this says, okay, so my very first ever K drama was Boys Over Flowers. Looking back, there are some very problematic things with the script, like trauma making somebody autistic. But I still love it and I watch it every year. But this year I am replacing it with F4 Thailand. to try that out because I want to see the Thai version of it. Plus it has Wyn, Bright, Nani, and and do. as the four boys. I don't know the girl. Mads: Okay, pause real quick. Pause real quick. Win I haven't seen anything he's in, but he's hot. Second of all. Di: He's so hot. Mads: Lily now has a huge crush on do as well. So Di: I'm so glad I did that for everyone. So she should watch F four. Mads: And she's like, He's not he's age appropriate for me. Di: He is not age appropriate for me, but I still have a huge c he sounds like he's crying. I don't know what I don't know what to tell you. You should just Mads: She likes who else, who else. she feels that way about William too. Di: okay, William is like a baby to me in my opinion, but Mads: No, but about his voice. She says that about his voice too. Di: Mmm. He also has yeah, he has a little bit of a cryy voice too. I get it. Anyway. Mads: He's so cute. Di: so yeah, I'm watching F4 Thailand currently. That's what I'm like watching as my background noise, because I don't really have to pay full attention. Can I tell you though? Nani is I think the first person that like has had that ponytail look that I was just like Mads: It's not it's not up for me. Also, we're on bottle two, I'm on yogurt Di: It's it's it for me, I'm realizing. Mads: now. Di: well there you go. I do like the yogurt one. I think the yogurt one's my favorite. Mads: So if you see reactions from my face, that's what this is. Di: anyway, yeah, so Boys Over Flowers is one I watch every year. and I still love it. And if I'm being honest, it's another one, sort of like True Beauty, that I think she ended up with the wrong guy. Mads: No, absolutely. I've been sending deed TikTok edits of In Yup and I'm like Di: What's his name? Mads: she chose In Yupp Huang In Yup and I'm like she chose the wrong guy. I'm like, I would have chosen him in a Di: So this Mads: heartbeat. Di: so I put a picture of who I wanted her to end up with, which is the broken fiddler guy that in the in F4 is the guy who plays that do plays, which is like the broken character whose family is all dead and he's just like sad and depressed and shit. So, you know, we like the broken emo guy. So yep, first ever K drama. And then my first K pop experience, yes, was BTS. I will admit it. I do not consider Psy K pop. So Gungnum style does not count. That was just somebody like JY Pappy who just was bored with their life and decided to make a song that was like for some reason everyone picked up on and then associated K pop with that Mads: Listen to that on the radio. Di: song. Yeah. Mads: That song was all over the radio. Di: Yeah. It was all over the radio. I did not know it was K-pop either. And Mads: I did not know it was K pop at the time either. I just thought it was a a groovy song. Di: I didn't actually know it was K-pop until like much, much later when I f You wanna know how long it took me? It was like last year that I realized that Psy was Korean. And the reason is because I Mads: I mean honestly probably same. Di: I hated the song, but then he got arrested for drug charges and like for having marijuana and I was reading up on it and I was like, he's Korean! Okay. So that but I'm just gonna say like I was Psy was inflicted on me very early on, like very as soon as he came out with music. But yes, my very first like K-pop that is actually K-pop experience was BTS and I Will Die on the Hill That Fire or Burning Up is still fire. quite literally. It is my absolute is still one of my favorite K-pop songs altogether. And I will listen to like I it's a no skip song for me. I love it. I learned the choreography for it for dance and that's how I got introduced to K pop. And so I, like Lino, will do the choreography for the dance if I ever hear it. So Lino and I have that in common. If anyone ever didn't know this, Mads: Speaking of Leno. Di: what did he do? Mads: Exist. Di: well. I mean he does that, yes, that's that's true. Mads: He's a shithead. Di: Mm. He is, I love him. anyway, if you didn't know if you were new to Stayville or if you're new to Army or anything like that, Lino was one of the backup dancers for BTS before he contributed with JYP and with Shree Kids. Anyway, so that's my first K pop experience this Mads: And now he's the mum. Di: and now he's the mom. This would have been like 2016, 2017, something like that, somewhere around there. Mads: Mm-hmm. Yeah. Di: And then we have my desert. So from 2017 to 2021, where my dark ages where I tried to fit in and listen to country and pop. And let me tell you, country is not the music for me. I tried really hard. I was even like a cowboy. I even wore like cowboy boots like a car heart and everything. Like I really tried to fit in with like A, my community and B, my classmates. and then it was a trying time. It was a trying time for me. I I Mads: Could not be me. Could not be me. Di: will be honest, especially during the pandemic, because I was watching like Well, during the pandemic, right, we had Game of Thrones and it was all coming out and it was just awful. And well, it ended awful. And then like so I was watching that and like The Witcher and things like that, and just The Witcher pissed me off because I'm such a whatever with the games that it just yeah, it just wasn't doing it for me. Anyway, so this was my desert. This was my Western media whatever desert. Then in We have my postpartum ass and the Felix effect. So back in twenty twenty one, twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, something like that, my friend who actually went to the straight kids concert with me, when I went last June, she sent me a video and was like, listen to this guy's voice. And she's like, It's so low. And so I discovered the Felix effect because she sent me this video on Instagram and I got, you know, the Looking like a chef on a five star Michelin, which we now know that Felix actually thought five star Michelins were a thing. sweet baby angel. Mads: He's so precious. Also, I never had the Felix effect. I just had the visuals of Bing Chan. Di: Yeah, so I actually the Felix effect did not make me go down the straight kids rabbit hole. So that's what this is kind of about. So, no, this is not when I fell down the straight kids rabbit hole, shockingly. And the reason why I said the reason why is really funny and dumb. It's because I wanted to know who he was. So I kept looking up like I don't know, the I don't know I think it was because I like in postpartum brain fuzz and like people who have had children, you probably know how this works. But whenever I would try to like look up Felix's deep voice, it would never bring him up. And so I just sort of like lost track of him and I lost track of stray kids because I just couldn't find who had this low voice and who this guy was. like I thought he was hot. I think I think I'm pretty sure I told my friend when she sent that that like that's what I imagined Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII looking like. I also played a lot of like Japanese RPGs. All like the Final Fantasy games and stuff like Mads: When you look at it now Di: that. Mads: when you look at it now it does pull up Felix. Di: When you look at it now, but this was like twenty twenty one. So Mads: Yeah, I was just curious what it would pull up now. But I wonder if it's also because of Di: Yeah, and so Mads: my search history. Di: and I'm wondering if it's also now because of my search history too. But I just really struggled to find who he was. And then like whenever I said like low voice K pop artists, it would bring up Shoot. Why can't I think? He does like covers. I can't think of his name, but it would bring up him and it wasn't bringing up Felix. I don't know if this was like before they really became big and that's why they it wasn't really like Mads: Yeah, because God's menu is what made them blow up. Di: Yeah, and so this was like right when God's menu came out. no, it came out like a little before this. But anyway, yeah, so I could not find Felix. I could not find who this guy with the deep voice was. I also am pretty sure, because I do remember, it did tell me like something about stray kids, and I was like, That sounds like the dumbest band name ever now. I don't know if that's actually what I thought, but I think that I thought that that wasn't correct. And so I just didn't I just didn't fall down the Stray Kids rabbit hole yet. But I did know about Stray Kids. They were in my radar at this point in time. And I was Mads: I found them and immediately fell down that rabbit hole. Di: Okay, so then we have postpartum take two. And this is when I finally fell down the stray kids rabbit hole, and boy did I fall. Here we are. I'm wearing a stray kids shirt even right Mads: I blame cover. Di: now. And I blame cover me because I was and social media like TikTok, because this is about the time that I had tick I got TikTok and it was really on TikTok a lot. I was like on book talk, but then I think because I was watching a lot of C dramas and a lot of K dramas that started coming into my FYP like K-pop did, and so I found Cover Me. I was not in a really good place mentally with either of my children when I had either of my children, and so Coverme made me sob. And you know what? Something you should know. Things that make me sob are immediately a favorite of mine. So this is Mads: I will add to that any show that makes me cry, automatically a ten out of ten. Di: Ten out of ten. It does not if it makes me cry, immediately loved. I love it. I just I need more of it. Just hurt me. Mads: Yeah, because if it makes me cr if it moves me so much to make me cry, it's incredible. Di: Well, and I think that what it comes down to is that you put so much emotion and you put so much work into it to the point that like it actually had the emotion null side of things. So Mads: Mm. That yeah, that emotion that emotional effect on the audience, absolutely. Di: Yeah, so Cover Me was the first song I think I found and then I think my second one was Megaverse. So it was right when this came out and then when Rockstar came out and then I just like listened to the whole album and I love I think it's my favorite album still to this day. Like I think I like this and that though was pretty good. But I think this one is a no skip track album for me, if I recall. Mads: I'm gonna be honest, the first album that got me into this, well I got I got into Stray Kids before Five Star came out, but now I can't mm mm. It was like right before Five Di: You got around five star. Mm-hmm. Mads: Star was released. But I cannot listen Di: So right like before me. Mads: to that s that album anymore. The only one I can handle in that entire album is like Super Bowl. Is that the right song? Di: Na na na Super Bowl. That one? Mads: I think so. Hang on. Di: And I'm trying to think of what songs are on five Mads: But I can't Di: star. Mads: I can't do S class. I cannot. I can I can do Hall of Fam. I can do okay, I Di: S class is not my favorite. I can do Hall of Fame. Mads: can do really any of them besides S class, actually. S class is the only one I can't do. Di: Yeah, so mine was Rockstar, Megaverse, La La La. Okay, I do have to say the rock version of La La La La La La La La is better than the original, but I s like both of them. Blind Spot, which I love, Conflex, Cover Me, Leave, Social Path with Lisa. Like that is the those are the tracks on Rockstar. So like they're all my favorites. They're it's like it's a no it's a no skip album for me. So anyway Now we know back in 2023, this is when I finally fell down the straight kids rabbit hole. I like I fell down, I started listening to their music. I didn't start learning their names. I'll be a hundred percent honest. I didn't start learning all of their names. I like like was keeping tabs of them until the Met Gala. And then I learned all of their names at the Met Gala. And it like a really exciting moment for me until like I realized how badly they were being treated there. But like when I first saw them, that was 2024, May, I think, May of 2024, something like that. Mads: Was that twenty twenty four? That was, wasn't it? Yeah. Yeah, May. Di: So I didn't like know all their names. I knew a few of them, but I didn't know all of their names. And then I saw them all in the line and I was able to name every single one of them and it was like a super exciting thing for me. And then they were treated shitty and I like Mads: They looked incredible there. Di: They looked incredible, people. Listen, Boys Mads: Tommy did a great job dressing them. Di: Over Flowers was my very first K-drama, and they were very Boys Over Flower coded at the Metgala. So of course I was like all over it. And then this is also around the time that I read my first MM romance book, which is important for the pipeline. the first MM romance was a tragedy of Felix and Jake. I think everyone should read it. It made me sob. It is a 10 out of 10 for me. Mads: Felix from Stray Kids and Jake from In Hyphen? Di: No, I hope not. Mads: Ha ha ha. Di: But you know what? They're gay enough. We'll go with it. this is if anyone wants to know The Tragedy of Felix and Jake is by Jay Daniels, I think is the author. I have it somewhere over here. Anyway, it is about two boys, so Jake, who was in the military and he gets I think he kind of gets kicked out because he has a relapse. He was a drug addict until he joined the military. He has a relapse after his girlfriend cheats on him. And so he goes back home to live with his brother. And so he has to go to like his meetings and stuff, his intervention meetings. And his sponsor is a boy named Felix who loves donuts and is like the super energetic, happy golden retriever character who is also a recovering addict. And they fall in love with each other and they realize that their love probably isn't good for them because they're both recovering addicts, and so like they could potentially both fall down this rabbit hole, but they just like form this really beautiful relationship. And it had me sobbing. The very last chapter, the very first page, if you have ever read it, I I did not think I was gonna recover from that. So anyway, it's it's about two recovering addicts and it's Mads: When was that do you know when that Do you know when that was posted? Di: What posted? Published? Mads: This this yeah. Di: Twenty twenty one twenty twenty four. Mads: Hm, I think it could have been those two characters. Di: They're white, I think. Hold on. One of them's tatted. Hold on. Now I have to find all my gay books that Mads: Because Di: my kids like took out of my thing. Mads: Because Drake has debuted in twenty eighteen and then I've been debuted in twenty Di: That's true. Mads: twenty. Di: Okay. sorry. Yeah, so it's by J. Daniels. This is the book. Mads: Ha ha ha. Di: I'll tell you. I have mine signed actually because I talked to the author and so mine is a signed copy. Twenty twenty three. So there you go. So it was all happening around the same time. But I'm Mads: See, it could have been. Di: pretty sure they're both white. Mads: mean anything. Di: But and also Felix has a lot of tattoos that are like not like are discombobulated, which is like part of his characters. So he has just like random, like cartoony like tattoos. He's just a cutie pie. I wouldn't say it's like really a grumpy sunshine, because I don't think like Jake is really a grumpy, but it's definitely a shun s shun sunshine, beautiful, whatever story. I will have to say trigger warning. If you do want to read it, if you do struggle with addiction or you know somebody and you love somebody who struggles with addiction, I do. this one is really rough because it talks about some of the harder sides of of that journey. But yeah, this was my first MM romance. Most people, it's like God of Fury. I do have that one also on my shelf. But yeah, this one's my first one. And I loved it. And it had me sobbing. And it was like when also I realized as I was reading it, I was like, I'm not even noticing that it's Two men, I'm just realizing it's two people falling in love. And that was also, I think, kind of with the like BL Mangas. I felt like my sister and I had a conversation about it the other day because we were talking about how we like prefer MM over like no, please Mads: FM Di: don't come for me. But over FF. FM is Mads: Mm. Di: fine, but like over FF, I don't read a whole Mads: Hm. Di: lot of FM anymore, but I do read it occasionally. But the reason is because we like men who have emotion. And so we like that dynamic of two men who actually have feelings who are like sharing and communicating and having those feelings towards each other and stuff like that. I mean, there are some that I don't really like as much, but like my sister, my other sister was like, I don't really think I'm gonna get into these books and then I had her reading Red, White, and Royal Blue, and she's like, I'm obsessed. This is my favorite book. This is so good. Why is this so good? Mads: So all all of you are? Di: All of us are reading MM romances, so listen, we're all This is where we're all at Mads: What does your mom think? Di: My Mom doesn't know, but I'm gonna get her into them too. Listen, I think she'd be super into it. She'd Mads: No. Di: like smut, so she'd be so into it. My mom was the per first person to give me my first smut novel. I guess it's not really Mads: Fair. Di: smut, it's like spice. But she had me reading Anne McCathry and like Isabella Yende and stuff like that. So like I think that it's not as shocking. In fact, I will be a hundred percent honest. She decided she wanted to read Akitar. And her first comment to me was, This is really tame. I thought this was smut. If anyone Mads: Girl, she's so me. Di: wants to know where I got it from. My mom is the coolest. I love my mom. My mom also has a similar haircut except not red as me. She's blonde. But yes. Anyway, so this is my first MM romance. Read it. Hundred percent guarantee. And then we're gonna talk about picking my bias. there is a video with this one. I'm not gonna show the video, but if anyone wants to know, first of all, n need I say more, if anyone wants to know, my bias for Shrekids is Shangbin. And I have a picture of him with his muscles in full glory. So if anyone needs to know. Mads: He's beautiful. That's all I have to say. He is beautiful. Di: He makes me laugh. He brought a lot of joy into my life when I really needed somebody to bring me joy. so yeah, I noticed him like as I said, I didn't fall down the Felix effect rabbit hole. And then the reason I found them again was because of Cover Me. But then in Megaverse, there's like the part right after the after the elevators with the Aussie boys where he starts rapping and I was just like He raps so dirty. I love it. Now, if anyone needs to know, so I told you guys my first experience with K-pop was BTS. I immediately clocked Suga so fast as one that I would listen to all the time. In fact, when BTS was doing their individual work, I still continue to listen to August D. So I really like like a dark rapper. Like dark in the terms of like dark voice rapper, I should say. So like Mads: Mm. When you were talking about Chongbin, the there was like a clip that went in through my head of him like smiling and laughing and that's what made me laugh. Di: I know like he has chili chili crab crab chili chili crab crab. My favorite Felix Just a minute Felix Mads: Well that's one of my favorites. I love him. He's such an angel. Di: I love him. He brings so much joy to my life in the time that I really needed somebody to bring joy to my life. for anyone who needs to know, at the time that I had well, a year after I had my first child, my husband moved away and then he was gone for the first year that I had my second child. So during that time I was all alone and it was just like a really dark time for me. And so it was really important me for me to find things that were making me laugh. Chongbin made me laugh and it was really a big deal. But When I picked my bias was because of Mirror Mirror. I did not realize that that was also my transition into the T-pop world because I didn't know that Millie and F Hero were like T-pop artists, but his rap in that one is so good. So Mads: it's so good. So good. Di: good. If you guys have not heard Mirror Mirror, what are you doing? Go listen to it. Mads: Right now, pause us and go listen to it. We will wait. Di: Like right now, like stop. What we are y stop. Here, we'll even like pause here. Okay, now, what'd you guys think? Yeah, I've said shit. Anyway, but yeah, look at this picture. Did I say more? Look at him. Look at him. Look at his arms. Mads: Big biceps, big pecks, small waist. And I'm like, can can you share? wait, I kind of have that. By default, I fear. Di: Yeah, yep, yep, yep. Okay, so now we're gonna talk about sh discovering Mads: I don't recommend being a female. Di: I don't recommend listen, I am on my time of month and I am super sick of it. Mads: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So am I. Di: Mm. This is part of the pipeline, because it's important to know that this is where I found K-Rock. And I found out that K-pop and K-p rock are two different things. And I love K-Rock. I discovered Excenary Heroes. And yes, this is a sore subject for me at the moment because if anyone didn't know, they did fire their drummer. And he is was also their leader and their songwriter. and I will get over that someday, but today is not the day, and it's really hard for me to Mads: I love I love the hair on the one on the far right. I don't know their name, but I love him. Di: That's my bias, by the way. Let's go. I love him. Mm-hmm. Mads: is it? I love his hair. Di: The the like candy whatever. So the Mads: I've done a hair kind of like that. Di: cotton candy. I think it's so good. so yeah, so I will get over the Excenary Heroes thing eventually, not today. it's really hard for me actually to listen to their music right now just because I am just it's just it's sore for me. But I discovered them. And the reason I discovered them is because of straight kids. So before they debuted, my gosh, it's just like that. Mads: That was me. In twenty twenty two. Di: Here, you'll probably cut this out anyway, but I'm gonna show you what got me into Excellency Heroes. Cause Mads: the hair is gorgeous. Mine was more red, Mine was more red and like a darker blue. Di: Anyway, so that's how I found them. Is before they debuted, they did a cover of Helevator by Stray Kids as a rock song. And also how I picked my bias is Gaon did Chungbin's rap part. So but also he's a goober. He's such a goober. I think he forgets he exists ninety percent of the time. I love him so much. He's the guitarist singer, and yeah, no, I He like one time lost I I think he loses like six or seven picks and like legit loses them. So he like looks around like trying to find where he puts them. so yeah, the Shake is rabbit hole led me down the Excenary Heroes rabbit hole and I discovered K Rock and my two favorite K Rock groups though have both lost members in like the last month, which has been rough because my other favorite is Dragon Pony. Dragon Pony. Mads: This one who's the other one? Di: They're basis left. Mads: Mm. Di: Anyway, yeah, so the one with the cotton hair can the cotton candy hair, that's my bias, that's Gaon. And then this one who plays the synthesizer, that's Ode or Sungman, his name's Sungman, but he goes by Ode because they're under JYP. So we already have a Sungman. He's my wrecker. But this guy who plays the keyboard, Jungsu, his voice like it's sort of the same as Han. Something about his voice just like scratches and itch. I just love them. Anyway. So I discovered Excenary Heroes. And this is important because this is my second favorite group. Because then we're going to lead into how I discovered lichen. Mads: Go. Di: And I said this was going Mads: My favorite. Di: to go full circle. So this is where the journey takes full circle. And we thank you, Diva. I'm also going to show you the video that got me to find Lego. Mads: If only I could look that pretty as a female. Di: right. Anyway, so this performance, where he wore this outfit, he sang a song called Doom Doom. the Bollywood film that I told you about is called Doom. And that is the theme song, like that's the intro song of Doom. And so it all came full circle because I was scrolling through TikTok and suddenly I saw this diva dancing to the Doom Chale song, and I was like, wait. No one knows about Doom. What is this guy this kid doing dancing to Doom with Chale? And why is he so like So anyway, I found Lego because of him doing the Doom Chale dance. because I told you before I even found K-dramas and everything like that, Doom was my absolute favorite Bollywood. And that's like the intro song is like the Doom Chale song. Someday I'll show it to you because it's like it's a great time. But anyway, so I found Lego. And I thank you, Diva, because when I found Lego, Mads: I love Lego. Di: I found Lycan. And when I found Lycon, I was like, they're in a TV series. Well I gotta go watch that. And so I discovered Tampo. And this is where it was game over again. Thank you, Diva. We love Lego. Mads: Yeah, I fell down the same s situation. Di. would not shut up about Tane Pill, so was like, Fine, I'll go fucking watch it And then I watch it and that's all. That's it. Di: Okay. It's so good. I love it so much. I love it. So this is where we're at now. Mads: I legit I legit was like I legit was like this is the only one I'm watching. Di: No, Lily literally Maddie was like, I'm not gonna get into the BLs. It's just not really gonna be my thing. I'm trying to get my aunt into this. She says she doesn't like the Thai language, and I'm like, You'll like it. Trust me, just do it. Just do it, do it, do it, do it. But anyway, no, Maddie was like, I'm not gonna watch anywhere, I'm just gonna watch this one. Here we are. Here we are. Mads: Yeah, here we are. Di: So now this is where we are, and I'm spending way too much money and regretting very little of it. So in the bottom picture that was me at the stray kids concert. And then at the top picture, that's me literally taking That's me literally taking a picture with Lycan. Yes, Lego looks annoyed, but it was because people kept touching him and I don't blame him for being like a little bit annoyed. But our hair's matched. Mads: No, I too would be. Our hairs match. Di: This was right after he got out of his his like monkhood and so he was bald and so he was wearing wigs and so his wig was like red and black and so he even told me he was so sweet. my god, he was so sweet, guys. If you could ever get a chance to do like a fan meet with Lycan, Lego is the sweetest. He told me that we matched and I was so pretty, and then like at like high touch, he was like, I love you, please come back. I hope I see you again. He was just so sweet. Lego is just the sweetest. They're all the sweetest. But yeah. So that's a picture of me with Lycan. So that's where we're at right now. Anyway, so thank you for you know, coming on this journey with me. Also, if you if you need to know, I have listened to Luk Pow about fifty times this month. Actually I'm pretty sure more than that. And I have no regrets because that's such a good song. And also Mads: Wait what is that? Di: it's Dice Red. Dice Red is a teapot group. And it's like part of Dice. So Dice is a big group. It's like twelve members or ten members or something like that. but then they broke up into Mads: So it's kinda like in s in in city where they're like broken into Di: Y s Mads: smaller subgroups. Di: no, I would say it's like more like like if three racha did a song or if dance racha did a song. I'd say it's like more like that. So the subgroups, there's Dice Red and Dice Blue. I didn't hear the Dice Blue song, but Look Pow is the Dice Red song and it is the gayest song ever. And and I'm not just saying that because I'm saying it's gay. I like it's literally like they said even that the reason they did it was because they wanted to share the queer or the non like conformative sexuality experience. And so like a lot of it is them yeah, so like the music video is like some of them are only talking to a guy, some of them are talking to a girl and a guy, some of them are not talking to either. Some of them are only like it's it's the it's probably the gayest music video I've ever seen, but I love it so much. But the song is so good. And if you're watching any of like the BL people, you've probably heard the song and you may not have noted like noticed, but it's like my favorite song right now. And it's so and like Appo had like the longest hair for it. I care. Had like the longest Mads: Not MileApo, but a different Apo. Di: not your Appo, Appo from Dice. so this Appo Mads: Hm. Di: is the one who was in the White Rabbit music video. Mads: Mm, yank you told me that. Di: Yeah, he's like here Mads: Little side note, I need enter rage out immediately. Di: Okay, we'll do a short so you don't have to listen to this whole thing. Hold on. Maybe if we can find one. Let's do Uppo because he's just so here. This is a good one. no, that's not a good one. Mads: Is that Otto? He's so cute. Di: Anyways, the song. I'm sure you've heard it. The Into Lind Mads: I couldn't hear it. You didn't share with audio. Di: I didn't share with audio. Hold on. I didn't share that other one with audio either. Mads: Mm mm. Di: show you the Mads: You can go to your history and rewatch Di: There. Mads: that one. Di: No, that's not the one I wanted. that's actually a good one. Here. Mads: Nope, I've never heard it. Di: Really? Mads: Mm. I've heard this part. Di: It's so gay. And I love it. Like they just I love them. Here. We can d just Mads: What about that one? Di: do this one. Mads: If only I could dance like Lego, I would be unstoppable. I said if only I could dance Di: Huh? What? Mads: like Lego, I would be unstoppable. Di: No, but actually like look at that. Even Diamond doesn't want to compete with that. He's like, listen, I am an idol, but we're not competing with that. and then like Mads: like I was like, come on Di: Like I was like, come on. that's my presentation. Now you know about Luke Pau. I love Luke Pau so much. Mads: thanks for watching. I'm gonna go Bye bye. Have a good day. See you next week. With Lilly returning. Bye bye.