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Society Chats- Gabby Petito, Alone, and Belle Gibson

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Join us for this week's chat where we discuss the newest Gabby Petito documentary, Belle Gibson, and the reality show Alone.

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rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Welcome to Society Chats. I'm Rachel.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I'm Laura.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

And this is our little bite sized nugget of Impolite Society where we do all the Bullshitting, shooting the shit, lots of shitting.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

We're shitting? A

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

We just do all of the chit-chatting that a lot of other podcasts do in the beginning of their shows. We, we know you might want it maybe, so we put it together conveniently outside of our main episode so you can listen to it if you want, skip it if you don't. Or at the very least, it gives you a little taste of impolite society to hold you. Over, between, release, dates.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

little slurp a slurp.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yuuuum. Speaking of yum,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I got a yum,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

yeah, what's tickling your taste buds this week?

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

alone.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Oh, yes.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Okay. Uh, you know, Rachel, but I don't know if I talked, we have not talked about this in the show. I do not watch reality TV. I have a general ban on unscripted television.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

You've talked about it on the show, and I believe you've passed some significant judgment against the kind of people who like the show. Those kind of

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

No, I, I know that I've talked against reality TV show. I'm saying, I don't know that I've ever talked about alone. Ha,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

something like that, along those lines.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

But alone is the one thing that gets a pass. And you turned me on to it. Um.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

I like the reality TV.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

And I have watched, I don't know how many seasons, but you, you can't watch too many, like back to back to back. Cause you start to get immune to it. Right. It starts to be the same shit different day. And so it's been a while since I watched it. And then I saw the Australian season of Alone pop on Netflix and I'm like, yep, play watching. Very interesting. Very good. And then I noticed that there was another season on Netflix of Alone that I hadn't seen started that. I fucking love that show. I It's so good, and it's, I think it's because it's like a lot of just people you don't see on television, you know what I mean? Like, they're, they're all exceptionally rural individuals, and Kind of their perspective, I think, is very interesting and there's just so many aspects psychologically of the whole thing. It's interesting. If you don't know the premise, it's basically ten people put on a super remote place. They are survival experts of differing levels and the question is who is going to survive the longest wins the prize.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

the key component is that you have to be alone, right? Because so many of these other shows pair people up or put them in tribes, like Survivor.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

or they're, they're alone, quote unquote, but they have cameramen there. There's nobody there. They, they film themselves.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Which is also impressive because not only do they have to be good at surviving, but they have to also have some kind of idea on how to, like, set up a shot

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah, I know. It's interesting. Cause I imagine

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

if you have all day, you probably figure it out.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah, but I, I think they probably go through a very exhaustive, as in like reading a lot of people out, um, screening process. Like I think they do like test runs, like they send them out into like the wilderness for a day, and then are like, show me how you do this. Yeah. Yeah. And, cause they have to get good footage.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Otherwise, you're just sending a person into the woods for no reason.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Exactly.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

So, okay, some of my favorite alone moments. There's like some that pop into my brain. And this just summarizes the show. Number one, the guy who took down a moose. And then he just, he, they had to come pull him out of the woods, essentially. He was gonna survive all winter. He was gonna make it. And the frickin Wolverine ate the moose fat that he had and he had to kill it and I felt so bad for the wolverine because I'm like it Didn't choose to be there, but that's neither here nor there the woman who Filmed herself taking off her clothes talking about how she loved her new body and how she like felt strong

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

And she was like dancing in front of the fire naked.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, and then they pulled her out like the next day because she was emaciated and you could tell from the video

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Another highlight is the cop that tapped after like 24

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

That I think was the first season or like the first season that I saw, he was like all going to be big man on campus. And yeah, within 24 hours, he's like, you got to come get me. There's there's bears and wolves here.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, he was like, I'm done. I'm out. And I'm like, that's right. Cause that's the key trend that we were talking about. The more they talk, the bigger they talk at the beginning, the harder they fall. I'm curious. I'm going to watch it in once it's into my rotation, but I'm curious to see how Australians differ. Cause I feel like the personalities,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

They were.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

is going to be a lot more mellow.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

It's kind of a, a mix. It was delightfully different in the sense that there were familiar notes, but yeah, there was definite cultural differences and just the terrain difference because where they are in Tasmania is not Arctic. You know, it's not balmy, but it's not Arctic the way that the Canada seasons are because I think literally all of the U. S. alone.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Vancouver, Island. There's one island on the Pacific Northwest that they

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah. And the most recent one I watched, because I finished Australian alone, and then I watched this other one, and this one is Northern Saskatchewan, Canada.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Oh wow.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

And yeah, just very different terrain, and it was very interesting, but I, I'm really interested to see your thoughts on Australia, because there was somebody very early on that I was rooting for so hard, and I just wonder what your thoughts are going to be.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Well, I'm excited to check it out. And I've been doing a little bit of my own research about da na da from my own Netflix purse per viewing. Is that the right word? Um, but this is a drama series in the vein of inventing Anna

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Belle Gibson.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Val Gibson. I'm sorry. I just, I, I, I, love Aussies. I think the personalities, they're always a hoot. They're so good natured. I hate the accent. I think it makes you sound so dumb and that's

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Really?

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

words. Maybe just specific areas

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah, I don't know, like, the regional differences, but I like Australian accents.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

we were in Ireland, we went on a pub crawl with, uh, you know, a group and there was two Australians and I'm just like, I am sorry. You are such lovely people, but I do not like the accents.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Oh, and you were going to say what we guessed it on the, uh, the

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

more tame. It's like, there's some that sound more English, and there's some that sounds like English with a southern drawl, and that's the one that I'm not so big on, not so keen on. And so after watching this show about Australians, uh, the con artist, the wellness guru who said she could cure cancer with diet, I just like, every time, the biggest takeaway is one, why did I watch this? It's, it's. It's gonna be sad. There's gonna be people with actual cancer in there. And I'm just like, shit, that's sad. And then B, I'm never gonna be able to say cancer again without

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Kansa.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

trying to say it like an Australian. Cause they must have, I, every 30 seconds they were saying the word.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

So did, did you watch the documentary on Netflix or the fictionalized, the drama series?

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

It was good. It was well done. I liked it. You know, uh, breaking the fourth wall was a big part of, well, not a big part of it, but a

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I always liked that in a show.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah. and it just was like, it was kind of cool the way they did it. Uh, still sad story, such a sad story. And I'm going to say it here. If my arm is threatening the rest of me, cut the arm off. I don't need it. I don't want it.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I have not seen it yet, but we did a recap on, actually on my other podcast, NerdTalking.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Oh.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

about this just a few days ago. Uh, I do not want to watch Apple Cider Vinegar until I have a more solid understanding of the, that's okay, I knew exactly what you were talking about, uh, before I had a more solid understanding of the, the factual aspect that it's based on. And Netflix just released a, um, The, basically the, the Instagram con artist, which is about Bill Gibson. So I want to watch that

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

That's good

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

and then I'm going to watch Apple Cider Vinegar.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, I'll have to add that to my list after Alone, once I've forgotten all about it. But I mean, we can't talk about Netflix and Netflix documentaries specifically without the real Belle of the ball. Fuck you, Belle Gibson. The real Belle of the ball right now is the Gabby, Pedito documentary, which, my gut reaction was, too soon. But, it is made with

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

but then you did end up watching it. So.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Well, because I saw, uh, comments. Somebody was, they were talking about how they were using AI to replicate her voice or whatnot.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah, and they, they did, they did a disclaimer when they did that,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Oh, yeah. But it was just like, The way that they were telling the story was a lot more, sensitivity to the victim, right? And with her parents support and telling her story. And, you know, it's not just, oh, it's not, her story didn't start the day she died, right? It kind of, like, covered her life up to it. Um, and her parents and the baby pictures. And, oh, it rips your heart out.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

It does.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, I'm not finished with it. I've only watched the first two episodes. But

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

a three parter, I

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, but to the part where the rest of the country catches on what's happening. So, I've kind of lived that

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Did you see the body cam footage of them when they went to the house of the parents? Yeah.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yes.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

That was the thing, because I had seen a lot of the footage, like I had seen Her, like, when the cops pulled them over, you know, the, like, the domestic violence intervention or whatever, I've, I had seen that on the internet before, I'd seen some of the videos that she had released, and things like that, but that body cam footage was new to me from start to finish, and, because I don't, I don't think it had been released at all before this documentary, at least I had never seen it, and I was like, whaaaaat?

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Well, that stuff takes time, right? So then, Yeah. the news cycle has moved on by the time the Freedom of Information Act Pulls that out. Um, the one where they went to the parents. Is that what you're talking about? Yeah. I mean that was honestly the part that I had the least amount of problem with them, right? Is them just like being like no talk to our lawyer because everybody has the right to that. That's like a right. What really got me was when they blocked Gabby's parents on their phones. That's heartless. That's

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah. Yeah.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

To not even say like, you know, I don't know what you say, but something, right? Even if you are in the mindset, you're going

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Or you just say, Brian is home. He doesn't know what happened to Gabby. Or literally anything.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

this is the last place he saw her. Just so they have a jumping off, but they didn't want them I mean, they didn't want them to find her, so that's

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Nope.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

I just, it really took I was trying to cast The Benefit of the Doubt, because I didn't really know that much about the case. Just thinking like Again, the book that I read about disaster psychology is like, it's so easy to pass judgment on people who are in these situations because we know the whole story. Like, people in 9 11 and the World Trade Centers ran up to the

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah. That's so sad because they didn't know.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

they had no idea what was happening. And so in hindsight, we're like, why would you do that? But, you know, they didn't have the information. So to me, it's like, oh, maybe they didn't know the whole thing that he came back and said, you know, we left. I don't know what happened to her. I'm gonna get blamed for it, or whatever, blah, blah, blah, and so they try to close the wagons, or whatever. But,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

the wagons. Yeah.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

yeah, but the fact that they didn't have anything, and they just locked out parents who were worrying about their kid, that's,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Well, and he called them. I don't know if you've seen that in the

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

called them twenty times, or something, on the day she disappeared. So, Yeah.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

on a 55 minute phone call that immediately ended with them hanging up and calling a lawyer.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, that's, ugh.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

And listen, I get it. That's my whole thing, is like, protecting your children, Getting them a lawyer. Yeah, that is the right thing to do. You know, you love your kid no matter what. You are going to try to protect them but you don't, in my eyes, you don't protect them to the extent of your integrity, your compassion. Like, you, you don't protect them at all costs. You protect them the best as you can while maintaining what's right.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Well, and protecting them is also helping them do protecting

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

The right thing?

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

And their soul. I mean, I thought I believe in that, but it's just like you help them by helping them do the right thing. Not Yeah. Getting you a momentary, what's going to be best for you in that moment.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah. And that's my whole thing is like when, you know, you, they, as his parents and the fact that like, yeah, he's an adult, like you can't compel him to go talk to the cops, like, but I can, you know what I mean? Like if I had a kid, they told me, you know, a version of what happened or they told me what happened. And then over time, like the cops are knocking at my door and their parents are texting me. I'd be like, listen, I have to do what I can live with. You know, I have to sleep at night and so I can go to the cops and say this is all I know and he, you know, he has a lawyer and he's refused to speak with you and I support his decision in that, but I have to tell you what I know because I have to live with myself when this is all over.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Right, and the fact that they kept him, like, in the house when the police officer was there, and they had her ban, I'm like, what a flippin idiot, too. Like, that's not even a good way to get away with a crime. Because it was, anyways. That's neither here nor there. Uh, I saw some people talking about how his parents were probably more apt to do that, because they had whatever personality defect that enabled him to kill his girlfriend. Ha

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

That's, I mean, that's what I said. I was like, shit. Well, no wonder why he ended up killing his girlfriend. He's raised by these psychopaths.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Well, I'm, you know, abuse is cyclical, right? So, you know, maybe that's what was going on in that house as well. But I did see a sister, like, I saw that part where a sister kind of tried to talk out a little bit. She said they've been iced out. Yeah, I mean, they weren't not spared the wrath of the internet. Uh, but,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

bad for her, the sister.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

cause she probably did know the least, right? Um, and she said, I'm losing my parents and my brother. So. She kind of grasped the gravity of it all,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

And I think at this po

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

than she should have been.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I saw something on Reddit that said And, and, take this with a grain of salt, you know, the internet, uh, because I didn't verify it, I just read it, but it, they said that she posted something semi recently, something of like, I haven't spoken to my parents in two years, and da da da da, yeah, so I

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

cause hopefully, I mean she has kids, she's like, how am I going to raise my kids and like, not, you know, knowing that I

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

yeah,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

to this. That's, hmm.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

yeah,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

And it's such, and this case, for whatever reason, really grabs a hold of people's attention, and you see all kinds of reactions online, I guess I, cause I, somehow TikTok figured out that I was watching it or talking about it, and it started giving me TikToks about it and people are just saying, you know, there's people, the, the more kind of common side of like, oh, he's a monster, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then there's also the side that people are like, oh, why would I care about her? She's an abuser. She did blah, blah, blah, blah. Um, and there's just like, there's a lot of anger towards her too. And this is like, well, because she, And who's to say, and there's like reactive abuse and all these kind of things, but these two were just a festering cesspit. I mean, they took a relationship that was already on the fray and on the edge and they put it into a pressure cooker of being in a van 24 7. Uh, yeah, and, but she was involved, like the scratches on his face and people were saying that she was like, As abusive as he

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

You have no idea.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

of what's going on, but even if she was, that's still not a death sentence. Like, come on.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Absolutely not. And also, I will say, whoever called the police on that, on, you know, yeah, he had no idea. He, yeah, he had the, the model of the van, a good description, like that is a good citizen. And I trust him when he says that he was slapping her because he was, you know, I mean, he had enough detail of saying like, this is the van, this is where they went. Like this is a concerned citizen who pays attention. And I believe him.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Right. Yeah. I mean, they didn't know anybody, it wasn't like it was a plan.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah. Yeah.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

But it was just like, I think the heartbreaking thing too, is just that she was, Maybe even younger than her years, you know, like a

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Oh, well, of course she was. That's, I mean, pfft, that's every 22 year old nowadays. They're really 16! Like, back when we were kids, it was

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

the fact that when her relationship was imploding, she went back to her ex boyfriend.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I know, that was so classic, yes.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Being like, he's going to be the one to save her. And I

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Oh, I thought about him too, and I'm like, oh my god, that guy must live with a lot of guilt. Because he didn't take that last phone call from her. Because he was at work,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

what's he gonna do? He was 2, 000 miles away!

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I know, but still, that, I mean, I just know that that would weigh on me, and it seemed like from his, you know, the way he was talking, it weighed on him too.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, it's, mm. It's just a tragic situation all around.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

It is. And I really liked, um, Gabby's dad at the, you haven't gotten to this episode yet, do you want me to talk about

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, that's fine.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Okay. Where he, they talk at the end about how, Gabby's case got so much attention. There are thousands of indigenous and people of color who do not get this kind of attention. yeah. And the, his dad, her dad was saying, you know, when I first heard that I was not happy, you know, uh,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

by that association that no, like, you know, people only care about my daughter because the color of her skin, dah, dah, dah, dah. He said, but that's not true. You know, as time went on and I looked at it and thought about it, he's like, Yeah, that's fucked up. And I like, that's, I think he had a really good perspective on it.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah. I mean, cause

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

And then,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

this case? Like, women are killed all the time by their romantic partners. Why is this one?

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

because she had someone who, she had people who cared about her. That's, I mean, she is, she is a white, attractive, blonde woman who had people who cared about her. So when she went missing, they went into action. That's, that's the truth of it.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah. And that's what I, that's what I have in my brain anytime I imagine somebody's gonna murder me. I'm just gonna be like, people love me. People will, you don't want to do this. You're not, you don't want to do this. I'm not an easy victim, even though I didn't really think anybody's trying to kill me. But you know, that's like in my head, that's what I was saying. It's like when Tina, never mind. I was gonna talk about Tina Fey's memoir, but I don't need to do that. But it's just like, people,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

you like, you don't like to talk about Tina Fey because she's problematic,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

doesn't make any sense. It just doesn't make any sense in con, it's like me, me, us, not us, us. Making obscure 30 Rock references that I don't know if anybody else gets. Cause I do my other podcast with my sister and she's like, sometimes you say things and I'm like, I don't know what you're talking about. I'm like, those are 30 Rock references.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

And you're like, oh, you're not Lara.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

yeah, I'm used to being able to say them. And she's like, okay. But um,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Okay.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

but it's, yeah, it's just like, you know, people will look for me. They're not going to drop the, they're not going to just drop it.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I always think that, like, when, when I, I, cause I, you know, consume a fair amount of true crime and I'm, I look at these men who go after, you know, Suburban women or whatever. I'm like, what are you doing? Like, this is terrible, but like, advice. If you're a serial killer, do not go after, you know, young women that have families who love them. Like, you are just fucking yourself over.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Well, let's not give serial killers advice.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

know, I know. But I'm just like,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

jump in the river, and then drown. Step two, pick better targets. No.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Truly.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

From the afterlife. Oh, man. Well, I think, I think that's been everything I've been watching lately.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah, kind of

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Oh, love is Blind is out. But I know you don't. wanna hear about that.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

No, I really

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Blind. It's a snoozer.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Ooh, I'm watching Severance. That's

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

I'm watching severance too.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Did you finish the

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

No, we just got to the point where they went camping on that little camping trick and I, I called the Twist I from the Be I

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

You, you're on season two, but you never finished season one.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

We finished season one. Oh, sorry. I started watching it again because Dan wanted to watch it. So I,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Because I thought you said you started watching it and you couldn't get into it.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

but we started watching it with Dan and it just gives me a sleep Well excuse to sleep on the couch next to him So I like catch bits and pieces but I like got enough of the plot because you know, we both

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

It picks up, like, because I re watched it with Austin, and it was like, the first season, like, after like three or four episodes, then you're like, oh shit, and like, you're really invested. It has a build, you know?

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

but okay the camping episode I hate it I thought it was so ridiculous and blew any kind of realisticness and realism

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I think that was kind of the point.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Oh, I don't know. I did not like it. But I did call that twist from the beginning of the episode, like the beginning of the

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I did too. Yeah.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

I was like, that's not And it's funny because I talked about it with my dad who had watched it already and he knew. And I was like, I don't think that's her! Not to get too much into it if you haven't watched it. But,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I am, uh, so an episode airs tonight, and then I haven't watched the previous one. The last one I watched was the camping one, so, mum's the word.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, okay, that's the last one we watched too. So there's one after that, isn't there?

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah, there was one, the one that released last week, and then there's one

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Okay, well, Dan and I will probably be watching that sometime this weekend, because it's his birthday weekend and the kids are spending the night at Grandma and Grandpa's.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Oh, how nice.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Okay, so that's a lot of TV talking. Uh, what's something you learned this week? I thought we were trying to make these a little bit more, I got a fun fact.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Okay, give it, give it.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Um, I learned about this thing called lecturers, uh, lectors, sorry, which is something that you think you know about. Lectures, uh, like lecturers, but it's something that happened back in the 18, like sixties. Pre-industrial revolution, maybe a little bit industrial. No, it was a part of the industrial industrial revolution. So factory workers doing menial tasks 14 hours a day, they, like, you would go fucking mad. So all of the employees there would chip in together to pay someone to read them books, um, or read them the news and like.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

It's like old timey podcasts!

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

That's why I was like, I learned that? I was like, no way! It's like the OG podcast. So you could go be rolling cigars in Cuba, which is where it started, and somebody's reading you frickin War and Peace while you're working. Like, suddenly, yeah, that's so human. Um, and like suddenly that doesn't sound so bad. You know, cause I, as I clean my house with my audio books and my

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

It's the fucking best. If no one is bothering me, oh my god, it's so nice. There are times when I'm like, all I want to do is clean this house with my headphones in and nobody talk to me.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yep. Yep.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Yeah.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

So that's what I learned. Lectures is a fun little thing. It was interesting bit of history, but definitely not enough to make a full episode on. So that was the fun thing that I learned this week.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Fun facts. I have one about glitter, but I don't have my notes in front of me. It's a little bit more intensive. So I

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

We'll save that We'll leave everybody on the edge of

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Edge of their glitter on the edge of your glitter.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Ed. Yep. Yep. The glitter is coming. Thing. Can't wait to learn more about it.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

All right. Well, this is it for society chats. I think I ain't got nothing else to say.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, I thought the elector thing was going to take longer, but no.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

It was interesting.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, I learned it from this lady who sings weird songs on TikTok, so

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Did you verify it though?

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, I did. I have an article pulled

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Oh, okay. All right, that's fair.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, because she

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

I don't trust anything I hear on TikTok.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

She started singing songs about unicorns, no, dragons. It's the first time I saw her, but then she also just started doing weird history, like in weird songs.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

fun.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

I do like her.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Send me her stuff. I

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Okay, I'll find it. It's out there somewhere, uh, starting with lectures. And then if we could just make this the Rachel Talks About TikToks She's Seen podcast.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

That's fine by me. Cuz this is us,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

is that out there? I'm sure somebody has a podcast.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Oh, yeah, definitely. That's not, yeah, that's not a bad one.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Yeah, but also, just kidding, I don't want to spend that much time on TikTok.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

All right,

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

will see you there!

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

next time, next episode. Don't know what order these go in, but you know.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

it's, it's around, but, uh, hopefully it's somewhat topical.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Rate, subscribe, review. Let us know what you think. What are you watching?

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Tell us, give us recommendations,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

everyone needs a good show recommendation. You can email us, rootedinplaysocietypodcast. com. You can comment on YouTube. You can send us a text message to the link in description. If you are listening on a podcast app, just let us know you're here. Just literally send us, hi.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

that would be nice,

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Would be nice.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

it's, it's the void out there. Hello?

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

We know people are listening because we see the, you know, the stats, so you're out there.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

30 seconds. Okay.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

And in that note.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

We'll see you next time on Society Chats. Chats. Chats. Chats. Chats.

laura-b_1_02-21-2025_204654:

Lame.

rach-guest573_1_02-21-2025_204656:

Why was that lame?