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squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Welcome to Impolite Society, society Chitchats, the chitter-chatter of impolite society. This is our little bonus minisodes where we do all that fun yapping and bullshitting that a lot of other podcasts do. At the top of the episode, we just take it out and let you get straight to the meat in the

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

The meat.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

so that, uh, we put it here as a little hordy dve if you like to listen to it. Outside of our normal taboo nonsense. I'm Rachel,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I'm Laura. And uh, we just wanted to pop in this week with some first news. I made a noise.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

hot off the presses.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

That we are taking a little bit of a break for summer. We gotta get our summer on. We got some vacations coming up and uh, yeah, so we will be back probably in mid or late July. With our summer shorts, if you are a socialite from way back, you'll know that our summer shorts are our short, short episodes where we have the same kind of content, the same high quality research, just in a shorter, tighter format. Keeping it, keeping it tight this summer in our short shorts.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah, I have this chronic condition called summer laziness, where I'm just like, I don't wanna work in the summer.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

That's fair.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

get to Europe. Um, but I, it's not unusual for us to take a little bit of time off in the summer and a

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

No.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

with holders.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

And also, yeah, you got Christmas. I was gonna say.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

At the end of the day, we totally didn't know what month it was. And then we probably should have talked about this a little bit before, but you know what? You can't. You doesn't.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah, it's fine. It's fine.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

doesn't stop us. We've been doing this for five years. You know

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I feel like people hear these kind of things like, oh no, a podcast is taking a break. You know, the podcast isn't coming back.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

We'll be back.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

We'll be back in one way or another. Who knows?

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Who knows. We're always changing shit up around here.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

itch that I get where I'm like, I'm gonna do something different. Like last year it was the video

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

two summers ago it was becoming employee society

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

two summers before that. And you know,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

just ANGs we make along the way.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

It's always good, you know, keep things fresh, keep things different. So our summer shorts might be a little bit different in format. We're not gonna tell you what those changes are. You let us know if you sleuth it out.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Well, maybe, we'll, we'll try a couple different styles of episodes and then you guys can on your favorites.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Let us know what you like.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

you vote

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

You know, send an email. Yeah, text. Send it. Oh yeah. Like we don't have like 1 million ways for people to get in contact with us.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

text option A to 1 8, 1 8, 1 8 5 to vote for option one.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Send us$2 on buy me a coffee.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Right. You. That's a good way. And then this isn't also, the timing is impeccable, but this is not a hostage situation. Situation. You don't have to pay ransom to get your podcast back, but if you wanted to, you know, sir. Yes, sir.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. And thank you for those of us who have, given already. We appreciate it. Did you wanna do some of those more? Getting to know you q and a as this episode, Rachel?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Okay, here's one right off the fence, off the fences.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Okay.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

not a sports term sports ball off the gate, whatever.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

the backboard.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

a

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Is that a thing?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

hot take this week

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

A hot take this week?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

like,'cause I'm always pissed about many things in my day-to-day life, and so I just have misses my hot take of the week.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Laura's hot take of the week. This, uh, old money trend.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

bullshit because it. Okay, so for the uninitiated that aren't, you know, on the pulse of the internet, like Rachel

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

fingering things with the pulse or something like that

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

and me, who learns about them

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

through

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

months and months later through Rachel,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Because I am hashtag unemployed. I'm fun employed baby BB boat.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

so the old money trend is like, oh, that's a fashion trend of like everyone wants to look like they're old, old money first. What?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

said thanks, Saltburn or whatever that movie was.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I don't, no idea what you're talking about.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

up the tub water of that uh, old money aesthetic.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I mean, I fucking love old money aesthetic. But here's the thing. This is, this is my bitch about it. Is that number one. A lot of the, the women or people or whoever, you know, the whole trend, quote unquote, is I don't really get a lot of old money vibes actually from them. It's all just like preppy, right? And also the trend of buying quiet luxury. That should always be the trend. The trend being have less stuff of higher quality. That is exactly what we should be doing all of the damn time because everything that we buy now is absolute shit, and it's because we buy so much of it. And if we actually bought fewer things, then the companies wouldn't feel the need to put out tissue paper, t-shirts on repeat. Every fucking year over and over and over. And in fact, companies will put out a t-shirt and like you're like, Ooh, this is nice. And then after like six months or so of it selling, well, they'll start to make it thinner and shittier. And I've seen it happen to like multiple clothes'cause I'm a big person, but I, when I find something and I like it, I will buy it over and over again. And I've seen it in action from all kinds of different places. And if we. We're just more dedicated to quality over quantity. As consumers, we would not be in this pickle. So that's, that's my bitch about

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

the

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

old money,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

rush of buying new things.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

dude. Everyone go to that thrift store. It's fun. And you do get a dopamine rush.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yes. Instead of buying the crap at Marshall's, go buy crap at the Goodwill.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

it is. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

you feel a little better about it.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

just got a shit ton of furniture for a hundred dollars. I don't think anybody needs any new furniture anymore. There's enough out there. Just

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Truly, and you cannot find furniture built like it used to be in like what the fifties, sixties, seventies. Like everything now is ply oil.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah. I think it's like 80. She said it was like 40, 50

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Oh,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

so.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

is eighties is still fantastic in quality, comparatively.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Right, right. We

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I mean, shit, even the nineties,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

before, you know, the early two thousands when everything

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Basically before Amazon, like anything before Amazon, the quality is gonna be far superior or anything that we can buy now.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

But also the quality pieces are really, really expensive too, at the same time, and you know that everything's more expensive, but I mean houses of the early two thousands, either. Here's something that I just learned. It's really simple.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

don't know why I didn't know this before, but houses are just literally two by fours in sheet rock.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Insulation.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I'm like, you could just punch through that.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

like go straight to the siding outside and no wonder cars drive through houses all the time.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

yeah,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

mean, that's nuts. My house here is inches of masonry.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

safe in this bitch.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

No, I get it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

are, you're camping, Laura,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Basically, I grew up in a brick house. I mean, it was like a suburban brick house, so, you know, it wasn't like you said, 18 inches of masonry. But yeah, I mean that's, that's the kind of thing that I strive for is that older style everything. We were just talking about this the other day, about the, I don't want old money, I want oligarchy money. Like that's, that's what I envy. Just so much fucking money.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

that lot in life. I'm sorry. I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

no, I know that I didn't. I know that I didn't, but I wanna fake it. Or at least, no, not enough. No, that's not true. I don't wanna fake it because I don't want people to think that I have money when I don't. I want to give that vibe. Does that make

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

you

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

sense? Yes.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

See,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

that make me say something about me?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I don't want to emulate, like, I don't wanna be worried about what the rich people are wearing. I want whatever I'm wearing to be something a rich person's wearing. That's my vibe. Hashtag motivational podcast. Grind it out people.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I just like just seeing like the old craftsmanship and all these old houses and all this different kind of stuff, and I'm like, that's what I want. I don't want mass produced bullshit. I want custom carved, you know, I want.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

you know, get a good old, creaky old house with a stanky basement.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

If only, okay. What's your hot take of this week?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

We don't need any more adaptations. Live tape, blah, blah. We don't need any more live adaptations of animated films.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Preach.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

is, I mean, that is like the literal least hot take. Hot take in the world right now. I just keep seeing, um, snippets of Lilo and Stitch, and I'm just like, if it's a shot for shot remake, why I saw an ad for How to Train Your Dragon. I didn't even know they were making that a live action.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

either.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

And I, it looked animated. It still looked animated. I'm like, what is the point of this?

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I don't understand it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

have we reached the point where there's no new stories to tell? I mean, I know there's no new stories, but like at least let somebody like try to tell something new and original.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah, I completely agree. I was so confounded by the whole live action thing when it first started, I think with Jungle Book I think was the first one,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I don't

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

and I'm still like, I was like, what's the point exactly?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

seen a single one. I've never even seen Beauty in the Beast,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I haven't seen that one.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

that

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

A Scene Jungle book, and I think that's honestly it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

all animated animals.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I know,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

the, what the hell is the Lion King that.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I know. And the Lion King is so good and it doesn't have all the songs. Like that's the thing that pisses me off. I mean, I, like I said, I've never seen them, but I've heard they don't have all the songs. That's part of the fun or all the songs.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah, and it just like, you can't make a lion express that much emotion you are making it look realistic. I mean, I think I heard somewhere horses can make. 18 distinct emotions on their faces. Horses, and that's one more than dogs who have like, you know,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

non-verbally

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

lions have zero.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah, I'm sure a lion is two. So it's just like, how are you gonna stretch that over the course of a movie? I don't know. I didn't see it. I'm not a Disney person. I'm not a Disney adult. I also have, hmm. I get the best chat in Freud when people post long videos about how their trips to Disney World were bad. I'm like, yes, yes. It's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

fun.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I am not a Disney fanatic, but I do. I just love, I am not a Disney fanatic. I am an amusement per person. I love amusement parks, kind of across the board. Even a shitty trip to Six Flags St. Louis. I'm in.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

of, it's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I'm in.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

like it.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I love it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

been in a long time because

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I need to take the kids. I wanna take the kids

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I gotta, I'm going to Silverdo City one of these days. These kids gotta get a little bit older,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

go this fall.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

we're gonna vote a number one theme park in America or some shit like

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

That's what they kept saying, the billboards. I'm like, is that true? I don't know.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

like, I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

It is. If ask Laura, it's definitely number one in my book.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

like what other theme Park has a domestic terrorist group running around it, you know, it's just like.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Oh,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Nobbs.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

got it. I was like, took me a minute, and I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

The bald numbers.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

think Donald Duck or whoever the villain of Disney World has anything on the ball. Nobbs.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Donald Duck is not a villain in Disney.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

like a villain. He's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

He's, he's just crabby. He's just crabby.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Same.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

You should identify.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

house, that's for sure.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Well, another thing that I've got going on is my latest binge watch, uh, been watching White Lotus. I've never seen it. I'm wa I just watched

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

know what it's about at

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Oh. So I, IKI kind of knew. Yeah, I kind of knew too. So I just finished season one. Yeah, each season is like a new cast of characters, rich people in like a resort location, wherever. Like the first one was in Hawaii. The second one is in Sicily. I think the third one is Thailand. That's the one that just came out and it's, I, I'm gonna, I finished the first season pretty quickly. I will continue watching. I am a little bit confused on why it's such a hit. I don't.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

because it's scandalous. I heard the latest season has incest and

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yes.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

all I know.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah, I have heard that as well. In the first season, there's not really a ton of scandal. Scandal. There is a full on shot of cock and balls, which is not something that you see often.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

that is a rarity.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. And I was like, oh, okay. And it wasn't in a sexual contents context, which I thought was even funnier.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Was there Bush

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Oh yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

men

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

It was a, it was a middle, it was a middle aged man. And he is like, my balls are swollen. And his wife is like, are they like, it's just me.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Domestic

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I, I, I, and it's also the whole thing with White Lotus is that like they're all supposed to be just like the worst kind of people in the world. And to be fair, I am only on the first season and I hear that it gets worse and I feel like none of the people were. Great. But none of them were like evil. You know what I mean? And I'm like, is this the point? Am I supposed to hate everybody because of their privilege? Or am I supposed to be looking at this critically and being like, yeah, they're kind of fucked up, but aren't we all kind of fucked up? I don't know it. It's leaving me with a lot of questions and I wanna, I wanna go to Reddit with those questions.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Do it. Go on Reddit. There will always be lots of discussion.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. And they'll always tell me I'm wrong.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Probably a racist. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

probably. And if you mention you have children, oof, get ready for some down votes

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Get back.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

or mention being happy as a parent. That's another thing that really sets people off.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Mm, fair.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yep. But I've also watching a show about rich people, I'm only like two episodes in, or three episodes in, it's called Sirens. It's on

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Ooh, I have that on my list. That's on my watch list. It seems weird. I like it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

is, it's, I mean, that's what makes it interesting to watch. It's got Julianne Moore in it,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I love her.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

is like, one of the great beauties of our time, like

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Agreed.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Right. Which is before our time, I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

never would've been famous today. We never would've got to see her because she doesn't have iPhone face. She has a unique face.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yes.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Julianne Moore and thinks that woman isn't attractive?

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

That that woman needs an iPhone face.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah, she needs to have her buccal fat or whatever. Buckle fat suckled out,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

or you know, like nose job and all these things. And it's just like,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Everyone looks the fucking same nowadays. It's awful. It is.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

is. Oh man. But

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

And that

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

it and I just keep expecting her to be like, Jack, I can't do it. I can't do a Boston accent.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

you know the bean town tonight? Oh God. That was terrible.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Town, the pirate Pilgrims Round Ya Be Town Water

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

a.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

ya. So let's watch the Suns play ball be town. It has it all.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

She can sing the whole thing.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

a 30 rock reference. Y'all Steel trap?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

steel trap. Especially for song lyrics. Not all of them. Is it the Met the Mets who plays Red Sox? The Sox, I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Socks. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

the socks play ball

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Is it the Red Sox or the White Sox?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

one of the socks.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yes. SOX, right? That's how they spell it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yep.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

know. I'm not a sports person. I want her to watch that. Maybe that'll be next after our white lotus, because yeah, she is a great beauty, a unique, a unique beauty, and I do enjoy watching her.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

the rest of it's pretty good too. It's interesting. I, I wanted to continue watching, which I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

That's the hallmark of a good show. Do you wanna watch the next episode? Yeah, it's good.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

it doesn't matter. Whatever else you think about it. If you're like, God, the acting is bad, and duh, the sets are dumb and the themes are stupid, do you wanna watch the next episode? If the answer is yes, it's a good show.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

and Netflix has the formula worked out though.'cause you'll be like losing interest about 40 minutes in and then

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Oh yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

a bunch

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

And

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

right at the end. You're like, okay,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

then a sting gotta come back. Yep.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

They got that formula down, they perfected that with Stranger things and they've been riding that forever. Um, another

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Good for them.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

show that I've watched that we consumed really quickly was the residence,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

like a clue murder mystery in

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I watched that one.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

watched it?

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I did. Yeah,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I thought it was too long, too long,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I would agree with that.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

A little less narrative, like, okay, just

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Little less bird talk.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I mean the, I like birds. I didn't need the whole time lapse. Like she could've just solved it that night. That would've been fine. But I guess they had to, I don't know the whole, her having to go to South America, it was just such a cute, the first episode was so good, and then it just, it's just too long. They needed a little bit heavier hand in the editing room.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I would agree with that. I really like the, the actress she was in, uh, oranges, the New Black. She's really fun to watch. She's really good.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Uzo,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Zy sounds right. But yeah, I, I did really like her and actually. It was interesting as I was watching it, I think it was right around the time that we did the asexual episode, and I was like, is she asexual?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Probably.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

like, yeah, like it made like no reference to, you know, being an interested in men or women or like, you know, kind of like a, I don't give a shit about relationships at all. And I was like, huh. I don't know. It just, it came to me, but I, I did, I enjoyed it, but I agree it is, it was a little bit too long.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah, because I mean the fir, the first episode or two was just like so tight, so snappy and like the style, the editing, the quick cuts. I liked it. It was really engaging. And then by the time she was like in South America, wherever. She was looking,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

nephew started coming in, I'm like, I don't care about

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Oh yeah. Yeah, totally.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I'm like, this

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I was like, what is happening? I don't care.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah. Flashbacks to her childhood of how she got to be such a good, I'm like, say that for the sequel or something,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah, no. Agreed.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

to know that right now. And

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

don't think anybody would, that sounds so bad. I don't think people would care this much. I don't know if there'd be like a national or a big conference. It's congressional investigation into somebody's death if it

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I think it would, if it meant that they could nail the opposite political party, I a hundred percent think that it would, yeah, that, and I think that's what they were playing on,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

And

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I like that.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

what was the end? I, I didn't really think that was super satisfying either. Um, where they were just like, oh, the rich people. It was like commentary,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I don't even remember.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Oh, the rich people buying politics or their way into politics or the real villains, something like that.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

I don't even remember. Maybe I had lost interest by that point. I also watch TV shows sometimes when I'm like half asleep, you know what I mean? And I'm like, I, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I was like, oh, it's time for me to

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

That's one you. Oh, that's one you really have to pay attention to. That's one you really gotta pay attention to. I got the chest. Well, maybe now though, instead of watching TV until I fall asleep, maybe I'll be playing video games because apparently I'm beginning my new video game era. Uh, we got a free Nintendo switch and I'm ready to relive my glory days. Playing Mario Kart and Soul Caliber in a smoky, nasty, nasty basement. I gotta get the smoky and the nasty basement.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Well, it's just a different kind of nasty when you have children. It's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

True.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

but because of jelly this

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

vaguely of pee.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

yeah, not beer this time, it's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

piss.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. But I'm looking forward to it. I think it'll be fun for Austen and I, my husband to, uh, play some games together and I don't know, instead of just like staring at our phones or watching a TV show that neither of us enjoy.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah, it's cooperative. Like my

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I were really into a bird board game for a while there, and that was pretty nice times. Uh, video games are, I say are good, like they're good at rewiring your brain. Like my husband plays a lot of video games and he's like really good at recognizing

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

doing those kind of things. I felt that too when I started. I'm not a big video game. I play like the Sims. Like that's my, that's my game. Um, but I started playing this Dino game, which is like a multiplayer online,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Oh, we know all about your Dino game.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I know, I, I mean, I just talk

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

What's the name of it? Is it just Dino Game?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

No, it's called Path of Titans.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Path of Titans. Got it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

with me and grow some Dinos, I do play on the switch and we're outta switch jail. So I actually am playing with other people now and not just like the handful of other switch players.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

How'd you get an OUTTA switch? Jail. What is Switch Jail.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Nintendo wasn't taking their updates.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Oh,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

here. Um, so all of us who were playing on Nintendo switches were on like two update old. Uh, game.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

you were all like segregated with each other.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

could only really play with each other because

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

You were in the ghetto.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

who was smart yeah. Downloaded the new version. So I guess you could play with us if you didn't update your game. But anyways, I am out there in the real world now and it goy, but it, like,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

scary,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

rewiring my brain. You know, the, like the first couple days I played it, I was very attuned to like footstep sounds that are around

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

like in real life.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

'cause you play

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Interesting.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

and you have to like listen out for the other Dinos around you and that kind of stuff. So I was like in tune to it and I would like recognize plants that looked like the plants in the video game.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Hmm

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

it just, you, the problem with video games is it get your brain all geared up after your kids go to bed, and then it messes with your sleep and

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

like a zombie the next day.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

And kind of like the, probably the blue light stuff doesn't help as well.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

well I have my little, my, my Fitbit watch and it would tell me like my stress levels, like playing video games and then sometimes it wouldn't calm down until like four in the morning, and

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

What?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

two hours before my kid wake up,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Geez. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

it's just like I'm sleeping, but it's not super restful.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Interesting.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

So I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Interesting.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

games because I think it's fun. I would like. When you first get into a game, all you wanna do is sit and play the video game.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

literally get addicted and it's kind of hard. There's just not a lot of room in my life, and I'm assuming your life either for like, to be that level of obsession.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

but I mean, if you play like fun z games, like that'll be fun.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. I like, I'm not so much into, yeah, I'm, I'm into those kinds of games. Like, I used to really like fighting games because it's like quick to the point, like soul caliber. So, you know, you choose your character and you learn.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Super Smash Brothers.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. Super Smash Brothers is fun too. I like that one. Uh, it's hard. I, I find Super Smash Brothers to be very difficult. I get my ass kicked every time.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

it's either like people have been training their whole lives to play it like they're like Olympic levels

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

somebody who just like is playing with their friends and has no clue what they're

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yep, yep, yep. Same. Same.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I'm like, oh wait, I think my person got knocked off the little game piece here or whatever. The little board.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

But yeah, that's why I like the self-contained ones because it's fun. You do it, and it's kind of over. But I can definitely see the appeal of the immersive, you know, and, and my husband is definitely, uh, vulnerable to that kind of addiction as I have seen. Several times throughout our relationship in marriage that there has been several rabbit holes. He's gone down throughout the years, uh, of games that we maybe had to have a talk. So, uh, hopefully we don't get this way with switch, but we'll have to see. Or at least maybe if it's something we can play together, like a Zelda game, maybe we can go down the rabbit hole together and then our whole lives will fall apart. We'll just quit our jobs. It just

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yep.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Zelda.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

games all day.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. Yeah. Just, you know, go down the rabbit hole.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

the day of the, you have unlimited PTO.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

True.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Fortnite off and play video game.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Alright, well I think we're kind of wrapping up here. We're getting close to time. Anything else for our listeners as we send them off for the summer? Go

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

You guys have a good summer too. Enjoy your June. Do fun things.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

places. Enjoy

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Learn lots.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

What'd you say?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I said learn lots

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Learn lots.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

or don't learn it's summer. I don't wanna learn. I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Go enjoy nature.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

papers

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

My, my tip is to go out and enjoy nature while, uh, the summer last,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

while we have it.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

something nice about backyard barbecues and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I you to say summer's like my least favorite time to be outside.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

It's like the early summer. It's wonderful. Like right now. Right now it's really good. But then, you know, as we start to get in and you step outside and you're like, oh my God, did I just step into a pool?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Yeah. It's like it's a sauna.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah. Especially here in the Midwest. All right guys, well enjoy it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

yapping at you again.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Yeah, soon enough. Uh, look forward to seeing us in July. Happy summer, and we'll be back with our shorty shorts.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

I cannot believe it's already almost June. Ooh, that's nuts.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433:

Time flies. All right, y'all catch you on the flippy flap.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432:

Bye.