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Society Chats: The Woman in the Yard, Gaming, and Spring Cleaning

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In this week's relaxed fit episode we discuss the horror movie Woman in the Yard, the ending of Orange is the New Black, Rachel's  new gaming hobby, and Laura's Operation Spring Cleaning.

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rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Hello and welcome to Society Chats. Laura, you've, you've done like the last three, so I'm jumping in

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

do it. I love it when I don't have to, you know, do the thing,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Talk on the podcast you host.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

you know, just do the introduction to the podcast. It's a lot of stress, weirdly, even though we've been doing this for like, what, five years?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, and if you haven't been here for the past five years, you will now need to know that this is in implied society, specifically our little mini relaxed episodes where we don't do any real research. We talk about the media we are consuming and little random facts we've learned in the weeks. This is that, um, part of an episode where the podcasters asks. Well, how was your week? But instead of making you listen to that before, getting to all the fun taboo research, we just stick it to the side. So if you want it, here it is. If you don't go listen to one of our real episodes because pretty fun.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I had like to think, so what are you up to?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

What am I up to? I've lived like a human this last week

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

What? What is that like?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I've consumed so many mediums. I've consumed, I've watched a film. I went to the cinema

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Oh, what did you see?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I consumed a feature film. Um, it was the Woman in the Yard, which was not anything I had heard about until we were looking for a movie to see.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I never even heard of it. Is it a horror? It sounds like a horror. Yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

movie

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah. Is she like just hanging out in her backyard? The woman in the yard, she's got a good bottle of soft blanc. She's just sitting out there.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Uh, I mean, it's a movie about a woman who wakes up one morning and finds that there is a woman sitting in the yard of her rural farmhouse that she and her late husband bought to fix up that she now lives at alone with her two kids, and no spoilers, but it's an al in a

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Allegory,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, it's an allegory

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

is it her? Is it her past self in the yard?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

grief.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Uh.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

it. Okay. No spoilers, but kind of spoilers. It's so, it, it gets pretty dark and it deals with, um, big old SLR slide. I don't, why am I saying, why am I speaking an allegory speak? It's about suicide and

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

We're not, we're not really on YouTube. I mean, we are on YouTube, but we're not really on YouTube. We're certainly not monetized.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

review. Anyways, it was really dark at times, but still not, it was scary to me as a not scary movie person but the whole time I was really pulled out of the story, which, you know, was pretty good. But I was pulled out of it by the fact, and this is just me being insane that the casting was. Not your typical horror movie. It was cast with a black family and

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Okay.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

actually have anything to do with race, which I

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Wait, a black family in a rural, like, like lot of land.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, they bought a farmhouse

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, that's, I would be distracted by that as well. I was like, no, I'm not saying it can't happen, but I'm also like, I wanna hear that story more than I wanna hear the other story.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

it was an

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Mm-hmm.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

casting too, because a lot of the horror stories or where people are cast, where black actors are cast, race is a factor. But it, at least not to my uneducated eyes, I didn't see it factor in at all. And which is kind of cool, right?

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

no, I, yeah, you're right. I do like that.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

yeah, the

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Playing against type.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Well, and it's just that, you know, it shouldn't matter what color skin you have, but at the same time it does matter because the whole time I watched it, I was like, this is some white people shit. If, if I'm like being so honest and not just buying the fixer upper farmhouse, but like the whole feeling so sorry for herself. I'm like, I know this is gonna sound reductive on some level, but I feel like the strongest among us are black women. And so it's just like. I don't, something about how she's sliding. And I'm not saying that depression picks and chooses or is exclusionary, but I'm just like, this isn't matching up to my lived experience. And then at the very end when she is she's actually fighting, killing herself. She is using a gun, a shotgun. And I'm like, well, this is just. Reeks of white man. You know, when women do commit, it is typically not guns,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

no

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

So

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

nonviolent. There's pills or.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Well, and I also stop me if I'm wrong, internet or whoever listens to this, but I also feel like suicide, big taboo across America. I feel like it's even more of a taboo within black communities

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Correct.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

once the big twist was revealed and that we learned, she was debating or fighting, the woman was her inner desire to kill herself. Like a whole black family got up and left

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Good for them. They're like, fuck this shit.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Well, I was like saying, fuck this shit. She's a single parent to two

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, that's immediately when you thought, when you said that, I was like, dude, you got two fucking kids in the house. That ain't an option for you.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, I wanted to reach through the screen and slap her,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

her.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

but

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Get your shit together.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

the kids were the, the coldest part, like there was her little inner voice just talking to her. And that actually delivered the coldest line of the whole movie where she asked her inner suicidal ideation, manifestation, will they be okay without me? And she goes, yes. You set them free

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Ooh.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

it was just like, as a mom

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

And is that, is that where they got up and left?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I think it was right around that

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Because I would've too, I'd be like, I ain't watching this shit. If this movie ends with a woman killing her kids, peace out.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Well, well, she didn't kill the kids. She didn't, that was never her intention. Setting them free meant like setting them free from her. Right?

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, but you know, that's the.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Well there, then there's the whole surprise ending. Did they didn't, did she didn't, did she, didn't she? Because the dog that my dearly disappears, shows up in the end and I'm like, oh, there, you know, you think it's a happy ending,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

But is it.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

And anyways, like I said, the whole thing, I was like, this just res in white people's shit. And sure enough, I look it up. The writer Steve Stefanki or something? Steve? No, Sam. Sam Stefanak. So, a, a white male writer who wrote this movie about his own struggle with depression

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah. Well then cast yourself in it.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Right. It, it, it did. I think they probably would've felt too much like a shining if it went that route.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Fair.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

uh, I just say. Kudos on the casting decisions, but maybe we need to, it, it, it kind of read like I don't see color, but you do have to to some extent.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

That's fair. I have not seen the movie, but from all of the things that you're saying, I'm just like nodding in agreement. Definitely see where you're coming from.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah. Well, and I'm a certified hater, so I don't like anything.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Certified hater.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

But I do have some things that I like, but I don't want it to monopolize. Laura, what's going on in your world?

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Well, mostly I have finished, orange is the New Black. 10 years after it ended. I don't even know, like when? When did it end? I have no idea. The animal, which is, I looked it up. Regina Specter did that. Especially for the series, which I thought was cool. As soon as I heard that, I was like, that's Regina Specter. Like I, I didn't have to look it up immediately. I knew, and it was specifically for the series, so I just finished it. You know, overall I enjoyed it, but there were definitely some things that I didn't like. But did, did you finish the series? You, I think we were talking before you said you didn't

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

remember. That was a lifetime ago.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

truly.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

the beginning. I feel like I dropped off after that. Um, straight woman lesbian thirst trap character showed up. Ruby Rose.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Oh yeah, I, that was annoying. I agree. Um, she was a little bit, I think, kind of before, I think the series kind of took a dip, but I, I know who exactly who you're talking about. so I finished the last season and I have a lot of thoughts, but mostly what I wanna talk about is just. Compassion fatigue about the end is origin. The orange is the new black. So I will be totally honest, vulnerable, like about who I am and where I live, you know what I mean? Like

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

getting serious. We started with racial issues and

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

truly.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

getting tough.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

No, like I have never thought that much about the prison system because I have never been to prison, nor has anybody I know, at least not closely, right? So this has never been something that I had ever really thought about before. And so I give big props to Orange is the New Black for making. White, middle class or whoever, middle class people, you know what I mean? Think about it and

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

out of our butts and be

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

All these, this is, it's not, people don't choose to go to prison. In some circumstances.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

No, they don't choose and necessarily like, how are we treating them and like, are we really looking to rehabilitate or are we Yeah, exactly. Like I've, I've never really thought about these things. And so I give big props to the show for bringing that to the forefront and making me think a lot of thoughts. I was like, the privatization of prisons is something that I had seen in like think pieces or headlines, but I. I never thought, I never cared to look into it. And I, and I, I even, I haven't done so since watching the show, but when they were talking about in the show, immediately it like clicked and I'm like, oh, that's a bad idea. Like, it was like, you, you very like follow the threads and you're like, oh no, that, that's not good. And so it really did get a lot of thoughts going. But then in the last season of the show. They really went off the rails. And when I say off the rails, I mean they tried to bring in about a thousand different like social issues that we should care about. Not to say that we shouldn't care about them because they should, but this is where the compassion fatigue comes in. So like the entirety of the show, I'm thinking now about the prison system, racism. Sexism, addiction, police for brutality. Like those are a lot of heavy subjects, right? That weigh heavily. And then in the last season, but now we're throwing in a whole new mix of things that I need to be worried and concerned and compassionate about. Deportation abortion. Me too. Infant death, like one of the prisoners. Infant died. Female genital mutilation out of nowhere. We have somebody that came from Egypt or like somewhere in that region and was like, I don't have a clitoris. And it's like, it's not that these aren't issues, they definitely are issues, but like they're like jamming it into that last season. And I'm just like, I feel like this got really far away from where we started. Like you need to stay on message a little bit. I don't,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Y.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

is that

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Netflix show. Can't solve all the world's problems.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Exactly.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

it did a good job, like you said, of bringing attention to that specific issue. And then at this point you bring it in at the end, like is it because you're trying to raise awareness or are you trying to do a little bit of trauma tourism and just show all the ways that the world can go askew, especially with the infant loss.'cause like I think everybody knows that that happens

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

for it.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah. Yeah,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

know.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

exactly. I'm like, I feel like, yeah, you're just like layering on like the traumas. Like there was a major character death, I think like the, the second to last episode, and it's like, really? Did you really need, I, I never expected the show to end. Like, and then everybody lived happily ever after. You know what I mean? Like there was. But it just left like a bad taste in my mouth. I think that show should have probably ended in season four or season five and would've like, you know, top tier.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

A blanket statement that

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

True. So true.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

four or five. Um, but I mean, what are you gonna do? Because the book that it was based on, she served her whatever, 18 months and then she left,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, totally.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

and I mean, that doesn't make that good of TV show

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

But that's, but honestly that's the, the span of the TV show is like 18 months.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Jesus, that's a busy 18

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

It truly is. It truly is. Like, it's not seven years or however long like the series went, and it did such a good job of making you really care about these characters and think about things in a different light. And so I give it hard props to that. And then I also give hard props then to HBO. Because I know it's not an HBO show. HBO generally cap shows out at three seasons. There's a reason

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Oh yeah.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

because you keep it going for too long, you lose it, man. And, and they lost it. And so I think

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

what show

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I'll rewatch it again, but in like a couple years and maybe stop at like season four.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I have no desire to re-watch it. You were talking about it and I'm like, mm.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Some of the characters. Some of the characters are so good. Tasty. Ugh, she's my fucking favorite.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Casey.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

liking them, but again, I don't remember enough about them. And I feel like in a couple years maybe you won't remember them either,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I don't know. You'd be surprised. I can really hold onto stuff. I'm, I really latch onto my media.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

yeah, we'll see. The

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

will

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

True, true time will tell.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Ah, so I feel like we need to get on something a little bit lighter. This is heavy

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah. That's fair.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

which is, you know, not necessarily what we talk about. We actually got a little bit more opinionated on the, what we normally do, we

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Mm-hmm.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

toe the line. So we offended you in a way that makes you wanna interact with us or

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

or keep hate listening.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah. You know, shoot us an email.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

spicy right now because the other thing that I've been doing, I am now a gamer. I am

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

What? It's not Sims.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

No. Well, the Sims that, I mean, off. That's my

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I mean, it is a computer, isn't it? It's,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

affair.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

a computer game.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Oh, yeah, yeah. But I wouldn't like consider myself a gamer. So this all started when I discovered my husband and I just were watching YouTube. I now, I have a un favorite YouTube creator too,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Ooh.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

really coming into the 21st century. Uh, but we were watching his random. Ch random movie documentary, fake documentary, made by a video game person about a Jurassic alligator going from pond to pond and taking over a server, and I'm like, okay, what

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Taking over a server.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

there's these games, they are like survival games. I don't know if you've heard anything about survival

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Mm-hmm.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

husband and I used to try to play arc, but the skill gap was just way too big. Where, you know, we're two like naked people on the island trying to survive. And meanwhile, like I'm just befriending the dodos and he's actually doing everything. Um. But it's like a dinosaur survival game. So you literally, you play as a dinosaur and you just like go on an island and you try not to get eaten by the mixed packers that are out there trying to eat you.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Okay.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

and I

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Are you a her herbivore or a carnivore?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

want. Every dinosaur on the island is another person.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Ah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

And so you're playing against other people and terrifying. Like my little, my little watch that tracks my stress, I. When I'm playing. Um, but

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

It's good for you. It's that primal need, right?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

okay. Any delusion I had that I would do good in a disaster after the disaster psychology episode out the

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

You need to role play as the dinosaur that's.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I, I need to get used to conflict'cause I'm like, oh my God, I panicked. I didn't even finish this. So the, the game is called Patha Titans, the creator that I watch, he's pretty good. He like makes these documentaries, the storytelling and like narrative construction. Is really good. And he takes these dinosaurs and he like, makes you care about them even though they're, they, he probably dies like a thousand times while doing it, but he slices it together and makes it look like a nature documentary and I'm like, this is so enjoyable. He doesn't have that many videos. His name's Yellow Tones

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yellow tone.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

have that many videos. He's only been, he's been doing it for like a year or two and there's like 12 videos total. So I believe breeze through those and I'm like, okay. I'm gonna try my hand at this. And so someone who's just not game at all, I buy it on a fricking console, uh, like on the switch. And so I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. I'm just a small little dinosaur out there running and my strategy is to run fast and I pick the fastest dinosaur'cause I ain't,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

That's a,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

to

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

that's a fair strategy. I feel like.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

again. The panic sets in. Today I died very spectacularly, uh,'cause I was being attacked and I ran and I ran, ran, ran. And I ran off a cliff, fell into a creek or a river and survive. Survived all that. While I'm swimming, I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go underwater and hide and they won't be able to see me anymore.'cause I think they jumped in after me to be fair because it defies all ration. These people are just out ration. Rationale. Was it, what am I saying?

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

All rush all out the window.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

It defies all reason. They just wanna kill you, so they, they're just gonna like do whatever to

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

They're on a mission. It's not like hunter predator prey relationship. It's human grudge. I'm gonna win.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Uh, yeah, I wanna torture and

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

pain on other people. Um, so then I dive underwater. Mistake. I did not know how to come back up from, from under the water,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

you drowned yourself.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I drown myself and I'm like, I could've just, you know, let this person kill me and then they could've eaten my body and got sustenance. But nope, I look like an asshole diving into

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

No, that's you. This is again, this is the human aspect that comes into play. You didn't let him get you. You didn't let him get you.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

yeah, I know. Well, I didn't mean to die, but I

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

He doesn't know that

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, my body's just down there at the bottom of a river somewhere

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

you're like, good luck fucker.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Also, why is it so hard to get out from under the water?

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

it seems like up would be the obvious way to get up.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I get maybe I got turned around and was swimming down. I don't know. It looked like I was in the abyss. That's all I got. But anyways, that's my new thing. That's what I did today. I played a lot of that

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

That sounds really fun. After we had this flub about what time we were gonna record,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I, I, uh, that was all my fault. My phone did, wasn't working and so I, I wasn't that bothered because I was deep cleaning. Our master bedroom, our bedroom,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

oh, you gotta do that every once in a while.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

oh my God. I don't even know how long it's been, Rachel. There was so much dust and just. Disgusting. I pulled up all the furniture out from the wall, dusted the walls, you know what I mean? Like when it gets like that, did like the, you know, the tool for the vacuum along the baseboards and like all that shit. I'm like, there is no fucking allergens in this room. We better, we were gonna sleep so good.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Right, which I did. I pulled up our, uh, air purifier and that helped us a lot sleeping wise.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

we were talking about that, about getting an air purifier. They cost a lot of money and we're on this whole new no, no buy thing. So

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

yeah. You

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

no buy.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

for rooms, but we got like a big one'cause we have all the fucking animals.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, that's fair.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

why we did it. And I wish I had more, but

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I also, I.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

as well, just to kind of a whole house reset.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

the dying dinosaurs.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I make myself do all my chores first. So everything I

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

That's smart.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

the kids were over at my in-laws today, so

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Good for you.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

yeah. My husband was nice enough to arrange that, so I cleaned like a mad lady for a couple hours. Did you know my, the things that needed to get done, my run grocery shopping, had a good lunch, and then just like played dinosaurs for five hours.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

There you go. Living your best life. Living your best life.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

myself some Wagyu ground beef

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Ooh,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

from Aldi. I know. I'm gonna regret it in the morning'cause that was greasy, but it was a nice, nice little treat to self day.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I also made, because I was like going through the kids' socks, uh, the drawers, I was putting away laundry. And I'm like, why do I have so many fucking socks? So I took out all the kids' socks and like cold? Yeah. Cold out the socks that I don't want. Put'em in the moppet swap pile. And then I was like, I still have too many fucking socks, but like, I just need them to like scooch. I asked Austin, I was like, do you have any of the more of those drawer dividers, like the plastic, you know, the thingies? He's like, no, I don't have any more. He said, I can order some. I'm like, no buy. We're on this no buy thing, son. Like, I don't need every, like, every tiny inconvenience that you have does not require an Amazon purchase, which is very much so his mindset.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I was like, no. And so I made my own drawer dividers with uh. Diaper box. Very good. Cardboard

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

and some duct tape.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

do you wanna know what's holding my kids' clothes? Separated boxes, cardboard and painter's tape.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Exactly. And that's as, as God intended, Rachel?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I was like, ah, you don't need to buy it.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

No.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

use the box. Your other purchase came in.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, you don't need to buy shit. Like that's, that's, I'm trying to get him in this mentality. Austin's very much so a gadget guy. He likes

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Oh

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

buy things for every little need. And, uh, that's not really my style, but I've, so we're finally on the same page of like, no, we don't need to do this anymore.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

And he was like giving me all these like, well, you should probably do it like about two separate pieces of cardboard and then merge them together so they can slide. And I was like, nah son, I'm just gonna get a piece of cardboard and then wrap it in some duct tape. It's fine.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

yeah.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

And uh, it worked great.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, I just put the cardboard in and then tape the paper or use the paper to like

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

and

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

yeah,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

mostly keep it in place.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

exactly. Exactly.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Doesn't need to be perfect.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I feel like his dad is, his dad was an engineer, and I feel like that like seeped in hard, you know what I mean? Like optimization and like, like never, not, not everything has to be optimized when you're in a plane, you know, 30,000 feet. Yeah. Things need to be optimized, but in this drawer right now, some cardboard will do just fine.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Well, I would say that that's optimized, right? You don't have to over-engineer. You could

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

engineer. There you go. Yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

you just gotta whatever works, works.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, precisely.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Put some duct tape over that hole in the plane. It's fine.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

It's fine. I've been doing a little bit of gaming as well.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Oh,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

a different kind of game.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

A can phone game.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

It's called Paired. It's an app

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Oh, a phone game.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

it's not a game. It's uh, it's an app that my therapist recommended to me about, like couples and stuff. So, yeah, you like, you pair with your significant other and then you. Like answer questions together and I don't know, I'm looking for a little bit more connection in my life. It's hard, you know, with the kids and I'm sure you've experienced the same thing, but I feel like you and Dan like do more stuff together than me and Austen do. So

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

What do you mean do more stuff?

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I don't know.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

whole day out for my birthday. That's when we saw the movie.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

That sounds great.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

we did putt putt, uh,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

fun.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I didn't let Dan eat dinner because I'm a psycho. It was like a food court that food court plays downtown,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Oh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

and I'm like, I don't want to eat at a food court for my birthday. It's my

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Oh, but Foundry is so fun. You can get a little bit from here, a little bit from there.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

like my nightmare. I don't wanna stand in line and have to look for a place to sit. Like that's just, no, it's Is

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Fair.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

No.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Was it a week weekend? Because it gets real. It gets real busy.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

It was just not what I expected. I thought it would be a little bit more open, but it was cute. That's where we saw the movie at the fancy, uh, the fancy movie

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, I know which one you're talking about. Yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

That was nice. We should have got dinner there, but the popcorn smelled so good, so we just had popcorn for dinner and then drank for like five hours straight, and we went to the speakeasy.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

I bet. Isn't that a beautiful one? I, we went to that too.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

it was a fun little experience. It

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Mm-hmm.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

maybe not what I needed at that moment. We

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Because you had been drinking for five hours.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, it just was, it was down cold and I don't know, I wasn't as decorated as well as I thought it could be, but

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Oh, I was, I guess I was kind of drunk the last time I was there. I remember liking it. I just remember it was dark and that the drinks were good and strong.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, the drinks were good and strong. My husband and I had to split our second drink and then, yeah, we went

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

That's how you know it's good. You're like, let's split this drink.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

think we got home at 9 35 or

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Oh, wow. Yeah. You were in there early.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Because our reservation was at like eight 15 or something. So yeah, we flew through everything you can do at that fancy little entertainment district. But it was cute. I had never, I had never been before. So now we say check, done it.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

You, did you go to the Museum of Illusions?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

'cause I didn't wanna spend more money. Yeah.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah. It is kind of expensive to get in, but it's pretty fun. I didn't do it there, but I did a Museum of Illusions in Arizona with the, with Charlotte, and it was kind of fun.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, I bet that's something that's more fun with your kid than your husband.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, but I mean, if, if you're really into taking selfies, I could see how you could really like it.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

looks like the things that the, not the Magic House, the science center used to

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, yeah,

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

just got rid of.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

yeah. But there's like a whole like room after room of them

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

that which you can take pictures of.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Right. What, and you didn't have cell phones back then, so what?

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Exactly.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

do? So, I don't know, maybe I'll take the kids back there someday. I wanted to do the VR stuff too, but my mom got a VR headset for her birthday, and it depends on

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Your mom got a VR set for her birthday.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, I don't remember the thinking behind it, but, um, some of the games are really fun. Like

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

They are.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

it's augmented reality, uh, that's good. But the ones where you're like moving around in a video game, like, I think it was like Batman Begins or something. Nauseous

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Very, they're very disorienting.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

'cause you're shooting forward and your body's staying still. And I get nauseous and I'm like, got the sweats. Um, but I think the VR and like the big. would be different

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

your body's moving with

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

The only thing is like, just wanna shoot stuff, you know, like, like

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Why not? Are you not an American, Rachel?

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

I don't know. I just like, come on, let's have a new idea. Like the squid game ones was the one I was the most intrigued in, but like I didn't wanna get murdered instantly and like, what? You wasted your 80 bucks or whatever.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Well, I'm sure you get like a set amount of time. It doesn't matter how many times you die.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

my luck, it would. I don't have a speedy little dinosaur to run

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

We should do it together. I would totally play squid games with you. I haven't watched the series, but I'm familiar with the concept, so, uh, let's do it.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

version of it,

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Oh geez.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

better, a little bit more fun. And speaking of more fun, it's time for us to go do our real show.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Our real jobs that aren't jobs.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

And that is in itself fun.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Yeah, exactly. We choose to do it.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yes, it's uh, are nice little, these get us warmed up for the big episodes that we record. So we would do these convos anyway, so we thought might as well

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Record'em.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

and put'em out there for you for free. You're welcome. Do

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Well, all right guys. Catch you on the flip side. Catch you on the flippity flop as I think Rachel who said before.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

Yeah, flippity flop, flop flip. us know your drip and what you think about the things that we talked about. You probably have opinions. Let us know. Email us at root@impolitesocietypodcast.com or use the link in the show notes to send us your, to

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Questions, thoughts.

rc-guest222_1_04-11-2025_203815:

send us your que to send us an anonymous text. We can't text you back. Don't fear. Um, and then the rating, review, all that stuff. Bye.

laura-b_1_04-11-2025_203817:

Bye.