Badlands Media - Alphas Make Sandwiches Ep. 65: Rise Attire, Creative Projects, and Community Connection

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Hosted by Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, Jackie Espada, and guest Cristina from Rise Attire, this episode blends humor, creativity, and community updates while spotlighting independent business and upcoming Badlands events. Cristina shares what Rise Attire is bringing to GART, including new gear, designs, and a behind-the-scenes look at upcoming projects like a short film and future product drops. The conversation weaves through lighthearted segments like the camera roll challenge, idiom breakdowns, and “this day in history,” alongside ongoing anticipation for Nashville and community meetups. The hosts keep things fun and engaging while highlighting the importance of supporting parallel economy brands, staying creative, and building real-world connections through shared experiences.

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Honey bunnies? Honey bunnies. Honey bunnies. All right, so this week, we took pictures of flowers. It's time for your camera roll. Yes. So this week, you guys showed up. I'm like seeing the thing.

It's doing the thing. Of course it is. Well, is it better now? Now it's better, yeah. Is that what mine did before when you guys told me that's what was happening? Oh, okay, I get it now. Yes, yes, yes. So this week we were taking spring photos in some places

because some parts of the country have not experienced spring yet. So if you were not one of those places, Ash, this is for you. Hopefully sending those spring vibes to you so that you can practice taking photos of those flowers. So here is the photo challenge for this week. Still taking your nature pictures like this. Stop taking them like this. Take it like this instead.

Put your camera on 2X zoom, then find a flower or something close to zoom in on. You're going to want to take your photo from a low angle and make it center and take a picture whenever you're ready should look like this. So that was the challenge. That was a challenge. And like I said, you guys really showed up with submissions. In fact, we have a three minute video of. submissions you can yeah go ahead i didn't realize there was a video i thought i was just pulling in a slideshow oh are we ready yeah go ahead okay so the music's low enough that we

can still talk over it if we needed to but this is all these were mine and then christie sent in a bunch this was in the tulips yes city of marietta they know that my nursery yeah all of these are and then i got a little crazy with a plan area because back you really like. They're my favorite. The Gardinia. Hong Kong Orchid. Grandinanny.

Akaranda. Queen, Great Myrtle. Another Grandinny. Another one. Those are tulips. That's Michelle. Those are Michelle. I forgot who's...

These are audience submissions now, and honestly I forgot whose they were because there was just so many. So if you see yourself, identify. But, yeah. Yeah, I tried to get as many people, even like people who sent in their submissions right up at the last second. Guilty. I was making the video. So everybody should be represented from around the country.

I love the ones with the pee. Yes. Lots of tulips. The right thing here. That flower was cool. Yeah, that one's pretty. These are beautiful. Yeah, they are.

Hydrangea. Yeah. Ooh, the sun in the background of that last. The butterfly. That's a coal flower. Wow. That one has a bee on it too. Oh, more bees.

Doggy. Oh, geez. Oh, salamander. They're not salamander. What do you just call a skink? Yeah. A skink. Maybe it was a witch at one point.

Got better. Oh, dragon fly. That was a doubles ducini flower. Oh, dragon snappers. Look at our beautiful country. Right? Everyone did so good. I keep thinking it's like almost over and I'm like, whoa.

Nope. So many beautiful flowers. The red clover or white color. You're feeling springy? Yeah. That's for sure. Feeling jealous that all of you are experiencing spring. Oh, we skip straight to the summer.

Yeah, we did. It's warming and it's hot. Hot. There's ashes flower. It's my one. My cheetah. And that was fantastic. Thanks everybody for submitting your pictures.

It's really inspiring. I want to be outside now. And we're not done yet with spring photos. In fact, we're going to do a round two. But next time we have a little bit more intentionality. We're going to do spring trees. So spring trees is going, and there's three different ways for us to kind of line up the shot a little bit. shot a little bit. So this one's going to, it's a little bit more work, but I think it's

that the pictures will turn out really great. So here is that this video that's down here? Yeah, that's that. Adding a little bit to the floor. No. Leaves from a tree. Now tree branches off to the side. Now using our hand. Three side. Four. Actually five. I thought it was three. Five. So yeah. Nice. That's a beautiful tree, by the way.

Yeah, it is. It's a cherry blossom, right? Yeah, I think so. You have to go out into the world to find something like that. Why did you go out shopping today? Well, I just went to go find a tree. I swear. He was looking for trees, man. I could go a different way.

All right. That is the challenge. We're doing trees next week. So everybody bring your game next week. However, we are going to have the Battle of the Sexes, I believe. Ah, okay. Here on, it'll be a hybrid show between the Y Crohn's and the alphas that make sandwiches. And we're going to have a fun little contest next week for Gart week. We kick off the, kick off the animosity.

Get the fun tivities. The shenanigans. Yeah, lots of shenanigans. So I don't know if we'll have, if we'll do the camera roll next week. or if we'll do it the following week. And then the following week, I think we'll all be traveling, so we might not have a show that day. But this challenge will eventually be shown.

So everybody take your tree pictures. And you have more time, as for the trees, to like start peeking out flowers. Maybe in a couple weeks, we'll actually have something to photograph. That would be nice. We should all take Nashville pictures of like the same tree to see how we do. We like that. We could take, yeah, I bet Nashville has better tree pictures

than are in my general vicinity. So I'll be looking for that. Yeah. And that, everyone, is this week's for you from your camera roll. Yeah. Always dancing when I'm talking. Yeah. Good stuff.

All right. Next up, we're going to get a little bit smarter with the idiom of the week. Professor Rabbit is here to keep us next. Finding in for duty. Let me switch what I'm sharing with you guys because I can't. Because I'm looking at your legs. Ooh, yeah. The AI legs.

I love, I love Christy's AI legs. Wait, let me. Bitch, you'll turn me. Share this tab and shed. Okay. Present. Look at me doing stuff. So, today we're going to talk about where a baker's dozen comes from.

Nice. Is this because you made bagels this weekend? Maybe, possibly. I always just try to find the one that I think is the most interesting or that I can find, like, more than just, like, one little blurb about where it's from. So this one actually has a lot of interesting historical references. So a baker's dozen means 13 items instead of the usual 12. Picture grabbing a dozen donuts and getting a free 13th. Sounds pretty awesome to me.

This quirky idiom stems from Baker's age old generosity and a clever historical workaround. Pro tip, eat the 13th on your way home from picking up the donuts. You deserve it and they don't have to know about it. just saying that sounds like a win-win to me exactly I didn't need to be told that I don't well just just to let everyone know and we're all pros I would assume I don't know if you notice the name of this bakery I do like the name I do like the name I know I clocked it right away I was like oh it looks so clean what should I add to it I was like oh I got the best idea so you welcome to baddie's bakery where you always will get a 13

donut or bagel. The practice began in medieval England under strict laws like the Aziz, Aziz, assize of bread and ale, which tied bread prices to weak costs and punished the short weight loaves with fines, flogging, or oven destruction. Oh, my God. Ice scales, the bakers added an extra loaf, the vantage loaf to ensure the dozen met or exceeded the weight requirements and dodged the brutal penalties. Oh.

This savvy better safe than sorry tactic turned fear into a tradition that stuck, which pretty interesting, I think. My thing is, if they, like, do the destruction of the ovens, that way, that's kind of, like, you can't bake after that. So what's the point? Exactly. They're, they're, what's, it's another idiom, chopping off your nose to spite your face. Yes, that's it.

There we go. We've got to find out where that one is. Throwing out the baby with the bathwater. Ooh, that's another good one. So this legislature in 1266 locked bread and ale prices while dictating exact weights tied to grain costs. Baker's slashed loaf sizes during shortages and a farthing loaf may weigh two pounds at low prices, but just ounces when wheat soared. violations brought brutal justice fines up to double the loaf's value, days at the pillory, enduring public jeers, and garbage.

I would assume they're throwing garbage while you're at the pillory, which you guys know what a pillory is, yes? Yeah, oh, yeah. Actually, I think I have a picture of me in one. I have one of me one at the Renaissance Fair. I was at the Museum of Medieval Torture in Naples, Italy. That's even better. Nice.

So parades of shame or outright oven forfeiture and bakery shutdowns. But again, I agree with Jackie. Like, wouldn't that be, you know, not helping their cause? Yeah. Like, you can't break more bread if you get rid of all the things that you make the bread with. Fair point. Well, but then you also can't make any profit from people that you would normally buy it, not just the people that came to get their taxes.

So the modern usage first appeared in print. I put modern in quotes because it first appeared in print in 1596. Oh, nice. And Thomas Nash's Saterical pamphlet have with you a Saffron Walden. Nash wrote, Ash, we need your accent. Oh, okay. Where am I starting at the top? Coining with this aforesaid. Cognongyang.

with his Air Force said Dr. Brother in 88 Brownie Baker's dozen of the arminarchies. Link to Bakers, giving 13 locusts to retailers with the extras profit wiggle room. Imagine dodging a medieval

beating over a crumb today. It's a cheeky way to score that bonus treat. Yes. But, Christy, what the hell does that sentence meet? The original 1596 sentence from Thomas Nash's have with you a saffron Walden translates to joining with his aforementioned Dr. brother in 88 brown baker's dozens of almanacs.

This cheeky line mocks someone teaming up to produce 88, roughly seven baker's dozens, dingy, dinky, worthless almanacs, early calendars often printed on poor or two. cheap brown paper it slyly nods to the baker's habit of tossing in an extra item and that was the first time it was ever written in um in english language so that that is what i have for baker's dozen so i always thought it was because if you mess one up you make 13 i now i know that it was just to avoid severe tyrannical punishment and yep and an oven breakage because you know when i like this. Exactly. I think your head's supposed to go through the hole.

My head was too large, is what she said. Because you have a giant brain. Yes. All the better to think with. Yes. Indeed. Pillaried. What is that?

What happened? Bring back the pillory thing. I should. I would love to throw tomatoes at some people. Yeah, it could be fun. Yeah. Rotten. ball of cabbage.

That's what's so much fun about, like, going to the Renaissance fair is that you, they have a station set up for that. You get like, for $5, you get a basket of like half raw. And I pay $100 and get to choose who gets to go in the pillow. Well, they do make fun of

whoever's throwing the fruit, vegetables, whatever. Put you back into it. Yeah. No, and the guy, he like roast the crap out of you when you do it to. It's hilarious. I'll have to. show you guys a video i had um my little sister's boyfriend who was in the coast guard he was there with me and brian and they the guy was so i can't remember what he said but i videotaped it

so i'll have to find it for for you guys but all right so everybody go out get a dozen donuts and eat the 13th one on the way home because you deserve it that's the area of the week what i miss there's this weird bunny professor talking about bread but and and donuts I can't, I still can hear the song in the background and I'm not sure if I'm losing my mind or it's, if it's playing on a TV somewhere, I don't know. I could hear it like when I was just talking. Is Brian near you listening? Oh, he's downstairs. Working.

Do you have a rogue tab somewhere? Oh, it might be playing because I had Ychrome's playing in the background on my phone. Maybe. Anyways. I can't hear it. All right. well moving right along time for this week in us history there's so much this week

and i'm going to kind of try and go through somewhat quickly a little bit from each of the days we got on let's see what was the 24th i think it was the tuesday yeah we got last tuesday um the quartering act so this is where the british were like this is my house now, bitch, and they took over. It was by ordering, order of the king, provided also, and be it further enacted, that no justice or justices of the peace, having executed any military office or commission in His Majesty's regular forces in America may, during the continuance of this act directly or indirectly, acts will be concerned in the quartering, billeting, or

appointing any quarters, any soldier or soldiers, according to the disposition made for quartering of any soldier or soldiers by virtue of this act, except where there shall be no other justice or justices of the peace, but that all warrants, acts, matters and things, or things, executed or appointed by such justice or justices of the peace, for or concerning the same, shall be void anything in this act contained to the contrary, notwithstanding. So, yeah, those guys were dicks. We also got germ theory. So in 1882 on March 24th, German scientist Robert Koch announced, or Koch, I don't know,

announced his discovery of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis, a breakthrough that transformed modern medicine. And the science, because we trust the science, right, on this show, we trust the science. The science at the time said, however, on many occasions, I examined normal blood and normal tissues, and there was no possibility of overlooking bacteria or confusing them with granular masses of equal size. I never found organisms. Thus, I conclude that bacteria does not occur in healthy human or animal tissue.

That was bullshit. So it was wiggling in a weird way. And he said that normally it doesn't wiggle that way. I'm guessing. Allegedly. Very scientific language. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. And then we got the ex-Ix. I'm Valdez Oil Spel. 8 in 1989. And I remember this as a child. I was 10 years old or almost 10 years old. And remember these images, right? Of all the, is this on the screen?

Yeah. Of all the oil soaked animals, which led to a ton of changes. All of these things happen. Every time we have a disaster, there are a bunch of government changes. Dawn ducks. Mm-hmm. Yeah, the Dawn bucks. I still see those commercials to this day.

I just saw him the other day. And then finally, Elvis went into the Army in 1958. New York. I appointed departure for Germany. I was relieved the reporters didn't ask me about my mother. Elvis, do the other soldiers give you a rough time because you're famous? No, sir. I was very surprised.

I've never met a better group of boys in my life. They probably would have. It's been like everybody thought. I mean, everybody thought I wouldn't have to work and I would be given special treatment and this and that. But when they looked around and saw I was on KP and I was pulling guard and everything just like they were, well, they figured, well, it's just like us. Elvis, what do you think about going to Germany? Well, sir, I'm kind of looking forward to it. I mean, just before I came in the Army, we were planning a tour of Europe. quite a bit of mail from over there and everything and all. I'm kind of looking forward to it, really.

Arriving in Germany was something else. I'd never been out of the States before except for one weekend when I played in Canada. It was some kind of surprise that welcomed the German fans gave them. I just couldn't believe it. It was as wild as anything back home. Pretty crazy. Yeah. Those girls were, that was a high octave they were screaming at.

They went nuts. Yep. He went nuts because he was hot and he was in uniform. It's really all it takes, isn't it? Yeah. Something like that. All right. So that was the 24th.

On the 25th, we saw the commemoration of the triangle shirtwaist factory fire. This is in Manhattan Garment Factory, killing 146 workers. Most of them young immigrant women, they were trapped by locked doors. So they had locked the doors allegedly to keep. them from taking too many breaks and stuff. And so what this gave birth to, however, was a massive labor movement, started predominantly by Jewish immigrants. This is from Rose Schneiderman, who was one of the, I didn't bring in that part.

The link to this will show you kind of the backstory of her. But she stood up to speak and she said, I would be a traitor to those poor burned bodies if I were to come here to talk about good fellowship. We have tried to get you, you good people of the public. We have tried you good people of the public, and we have found you wanting. The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumb screws and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

We know that these things are, we know what these things are today. The iron teeth are our necessities. The thumb screws are the high-powered and swift machinery close to which we must work, and the rack is here in the fire-trap structures that will destroy us the minute they catch fire. This is not the first thing. time girls have been burned alive in this city. Every week I must learn of the untimely death of one of my

sister workers. Every year, thousands of us are maimed. The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job. It matters little if 140 odd are burned to death. We have tried you, citizens. We are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers and brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift. But every time the workers come out and the only way they know how to protest against conditions which are unbearable, the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us. Public officials have only words of warning for us, warning that we must be intensely orderly and we must be intensely peaceable, and they have the workhouse just back all of their warnings. The strong hand of the law beats us back when we rise back into the conditions that make life unbearable. And again, 146 women burned to death. It was a galvanizing moment for the

for the communists though and they made a move at that point we had the end of the Selma March oh wow and the English settlers in 1634 landing at St. Clement's Island in Maryland nice

yeah all good things and 1975 Saudi Arabia's King Faisal was allegedly assassinated by his nephew oh that's fun History is fun, Jackie. Well, the history that you're giving us is fun. I'm pretty sure there's some stories out there that are not so fun.

Yeah. So last Monday, you guys will remember that we talked about Patrick Henry's Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death speech. That was the, it hit on the Monday. This week, on the 26th, we had Thomas Payne and Common Sense. And I have talked about this on some of the shows. but as I was reading this, it was crazy. Oh, am I back? Yes.

Yeah. When you were doing the first one, it's just your face was frozen, but your voice was fine. I don't know. But as soon as you exited out, it was fine, yeah. So this week, we have Thomas Payne's Common Sense. And as I was reading this, it's freaking Chris Paul, man. Chris Paul is on the same point, on the same ideas. as Thomas Payne.

And that just, you know, it kind of just hits you in the brain because Chris Paul is often attacked these days for being radical and forwarding dangerous ideas. They are the ideas that founded our nation. You can see here he says, common sense will tell us that the power which have endeavored to subdue us is of all others the most improper to defend us. Why are we begging illegitimate institutions

to fix their own corruption? Right. airpoint another quote a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom but the tumults in subsides time makes more converts than reason again yeah chris ball everybody should read that it is linked in the march 26th version um we also had in 1953 on the 26th we had uh we had uh vaccine propaganda. Again? Yeah, I mean, so Dr. Jonas Salk announced the successful testing of a vaccine against polio, a breakthrough that marked a turning point in one of the most feared public health crises of the 20th century. You can see them given a vaccine to a little kid here.

A large-scale effectiveness results were announced the following month and hope soared that large-scale immunization could eliminate a disease that had paralyzed or killed thousands annually. Forbes said, quote, decade and a half before America sent a man to the moon, the country embarked on its first moon shot to develop a vaccine for polio. The campaign galvanized the nation with ordinary Americans literally sending dimes to the White House to fund the effort. Well, first of all, I will say that the whole moonshot thing should have given it away because moon is fake and gay. So there's that. Let's go. I love a fake moon story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um, the, the galvanizing effort and convincing the people to send their money to the White House to start a vaccine effort.

Um, that is, I mean, that's, that's powerful propaganda. Yeah. Getting people to part with their money is, you know, in and of itself, uh, a challenge and doing it for like, the government needs you to just send us extra. We're already taxing you. We're already doing whatever we want. but we need you to send us your extra dimes. I'm going to need a shit ton of dimes. They're still making their gold in eventually too, right?

Send us all your gold. You're not allowed to own any of that. The government needs to, and if you don't, we'll arrest you. Uncle Sam, we need you, right? No, no, we don't. We need you to comply. Oh, my grandfather had polio. So, I mean, do you really?

Yeah, by and large, I would assume it did help. But I guess I'm just kind of out of the loop with this. But what I guess is the overshadowing bad thing about a polio vaccine? I'm sorry that I don't know this. I'm not going to make assertions about the polio vaccine. I'm more looking at the tactic and the galvanizing effort around a public health. crisis because the never let a crisis go to waste thing is not new. And this was in the wake of World War II. So it's 1953, just, you know, six years earlier, we had the end of World War II,

the dissolution of the Kingdom of Prussia and of rebuilding of a lot of those power structures in the private sector. And health care is a big part of that story, the way that you can control people through fear about their health. If you think about COVID, right? Yeah, definitely. Yeah. I don't know specifics about the polio vaccine, but like the way, like my, I don't know, framing or the way I look at things like that, where I don't know, no, but I guess, and I think that like the sciopping that happens and the way that like even in our lifetime, like our age people, we started with like, I don't know, 12 or 15 shots or something when we were kids and now it's 70 something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you don't get there if the first ones are poison, right? Like, maybe, and if they prove that they can eradicate a serious illness that used to be around and now it's gone, then that it's the perfect vehicle to put in whatever else they want to try later. But I don't know that.

It might have been bad back then, too. I don't know. Well, yeah, no, I think it was my, I have to get the story, the real story for my dad, but I think he had it. And it was right when the vaccine came out. So he ended up being paralyzed in one of his legs. Like he couldn't bend his leg or anything, but he was in a wheelchair. And, you know, he got a driver's license and everything and all that stuff too. But I have to get the real story.

But I think it was like he had it. And when the vaccine came out, it kind of just like paused it. And so it didn't get worse for him. But I'll get the full story. Maybe I'll do a little thing about that. That would be good. Yeah. I feel like we could use some broad education.

All right. Moving to the 27th, I think we're at, yep. So we had the Great Alaskan earthquake. Oh. I've never heard of this. Crazy. Yeah. So 1964, March 27th, Great Alaska is an earthquake.

The second largest earthquake ever recorded globally. Whoa. The magnitude of 9.2 struck southern Alaska. How long is this? Oh, it's 11 minutes. So if you want to read about or hear about it from the U.S. Geological Service. The video is in the March 27th update, but the quake and resulting tsunamis devastated Anchorage

and coastal communities, killing over 130 people and causing massive infrastructure damage across the Pacific. This is from Mike, who lived in Anchorage, firsthand account. At 5.36 p.m., the ground under my feet began to rumble. Our family had lived in Alaska for many years, and we had felt many earthquakes. But this earthquake was different. Seconds later, the ground was moving viciously, and ground fissures, cracks in the ground, were opening up all around me. I quickly realized that this was a really horrible earthquake

and I could be killed down there in the gravel pit and no one would know. Scary. So scary. Yeah. And I also hadn't really, I don't think I knew at all, that that took place. March 27th, 1977, the Tenerife airport

disaster. Deadliest aviation accident in history. Two Boeing 747s collide on a runway in the Cary Islands. It took me a minute to realize that. Holy crap. 583 people, including many Americans. Check this out. This is like our reenactment video.

This is crazy, like to see what. Oh, no, it must have been like the wind conditions. Yeah, and I think they were probably taxied into the wrong spot. Yeah. Well, they're going to use that as propaganda for why we can't have heavy bags on our plane. Oh, fuck off. We just had that other accident on the runway last week. Oh, yeah, with a fire truck.

I have to fly two days after we get home from Gart, and I'm not. I already have to take, like, drugs to fly. So that's, if I'm going to die, I'm going to die. Like, that's the way I want to go home and see my mom. I'm just going to not think about that video. I'm so sad. Yeah, so from the testimony about it, neither plane was supposed to be there.

Is he not clear, the Pan American? Oh, yes, he's clear. he's clear he was wrong wow well that's crazy how they show it like bottoming out how does that happen the air i think it was trying to stop right or maybe it could have been that and so like obviously from what i understand with cam you know doing the pilot thing like you have to hit a certain and you have to maintain a certain speed in order for you to like actually take off with like wind conditions it's like a whole like mathematical thing so my guess is that it probably either they were like slowing down and it was like pulling them back a little bit and that's where it bottomed out or it was

that yeah it was taking off too early and it didn't have the right like airlift to be able to lift it up high enough well that's a bit i can't even imagine those highs planes like actually flying i got in an algorithm where you see all the like those guys traveling and like the best first class thing and you're like going up a spiral staircase yeah i've seen that airplane and you're like what why do we need to play in that big just yeah it's like three thousand dollars for one way flight yeah and they all start with caviar service love it never forget what they've taken from us um so march 28th you know one of the keys to all of these stories uh each day that i spotlight in the america 250 updates is the transformational ones and usually what we see i prioritize

events that changed our way of life, changed how Americans did things, whether that's in a specific industry or all Americans, had a kind of collective mind update about something because of some event that happens. And on the 28th, we had Three Mile Island. So partial nuclear meltdown, 1979, occurred at Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station

near Harrisburg, marking the most serious accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States. Combination of equipment failure, design flaws, and operator error led to the release of radioactive gases and a nationwide crisis of confidence in nuclear energy. Quote, this is from Dick Thornberg, the Attorney General at the time. Nuclear power was still the technological marvel our time to some that the ultimate answer to our growing, and to some the ultimate answer to our growing energy problems, a source of

electricity once described as too cheap to meter and an industry whose safety record had been, or at least was thought to have been second to none. I had neither reason nor inclination to challenge these assumptions, except perhaps the one about my light bill being too cheap to meter. Nuclear jargon was a foreign language to me. My exposure to emergency management and nuclear power plant was limited to perfunctory briefing just after taking office. I knew enough, however, that the thought of issuing a general evacuation order first entered my mind at 7.50 a.m. that morning never left me through the unprecedented days of decision that followed. There were no immediate deaths, but it did fundamentally reshape nuclear federal regulation. Sweeping reforms and plant safety

and operator training effectively halted the expansion of nuclear power in the U.S. for decades. and I would encourage everybody to read Burning Bright on the Energy Wars and kind of look at how transformational this event actually was because it was quite. And scare the people. Yeah, always. You got to keep them on their toes. They get them to conform. Yeah.

All right. So we did the. Yes, she is. What's that? Yeah. Her picture. Audio was fine. Okay.

You're back. You're back. Yeah, when you go to the next tab, you went to a different tab. Let me show you'd make a cute face before you do it. Perfect. Oh, boy. That's the one we want, right? Okay, so we had the Alaskan earthquake.

On the 29th, we had the purchase of Alaska. Oh, fun. The Russians. So we got the treaty of Alaska. They finalized the text of it the following day, which is today, is when they actually signed it. And it went into law, quote, Russia offers. This is from the purchase of Alaska page on the U.S. State Department website. Russia offered to sell Alaska to the United States in 1859, believing the United States would offset the designs of Russia's greatest rival in the Pacific, Great Britain.

The looming U.S. Civil War delayed the sale, but after the war, Secretary of State, William Seward quickly took up a renewed Russian offer and on March 30th, 1867, agreed to a proposal from Russian minister in Washington, Edward de Stuckel, to purchase Alaska for $7.2 million. This is Steele. Wow. Senate approved the treaty of purchase on April 9th. Andrew Johnson signed it on May 28th, and Alaska was formally transferred to the United States on October 18, 1867. This purchase ended Russia's presence in North America and ensured U.S. access to the Pacific Northern Rim. For three decades after its purchase, the United States paid little attention to Alaska, which was governed under military, naval, or treasury rule or at times no visible rule at all.

It's a simpler time. Seeking a way to impose U.S. mining laws, the United States constituted the civil government in 1884. Skeptics had dubbed the purchase of Alaska Seward's folly, but the former Secretary of State was vindicated when a major gold deposit was discovered. in the Yukon in 1896, and Alaska became the gateway to the Klondike Goldfields. The strategic importance of Alaska was finally realized in World War II. Alaska became a state on January 3rd, 1959. It was also the day that they came up with.

What would you do for a Klondike bar? Obviously, the same day. 1862. Klondike bar, she needs donuts. Please send her. Adrienne. very hungry today. And might be PMSing a little bit.

Donuts and chocolate ice cream. You can't eat sugar till guard. No sugar till guard. Oh, yeah. I've only got a week. That's okay. That's easy. Notable also on March 30th today, anniversary of Florida.

Coming a state. Oh, happy anniversary. Florida. Happy Florida, everybody. So Florida and Alaska in the same week. Yeah. Happy birthday. Same day.

Same day. From an agreement standpoint. And then finally. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted in federal court of espionage for passing information to the Soviet Union on March 29, 1951. This is what Julius had to say. This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be. There had to be a Rosenberg case because there had to be an intensification of the hysteria in America to make the Korean war acceptable to the American people.

There had to be hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets. And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to be. tell them that you are no longer going to give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for contempt of court, but we're going to kill you. Dang. What a quote. Yeah, right. And, you know, if you are curious more about that idea, Brian and I on Book Club, we did

it in one episode covered Smedley Butler's War is a Wrecked. And I would encourage everybody to check out that episode because war is, in fact, all right and that my friends is this week in the sister wrapped up in a little bow that was so perfect love it all right where are we going next um

we want to do it we can't hear you oh yeah your mic's doing the thing it's doing the thing okay I love that it's happening to yours and not mine though It's only when we call it out. When we call it out, we're like, hey, it's happening. It's just like, oh, oh, okay.

Here, let me work now. Like what? Yeah. Like, every time I say, hey, clockwork elves, I think. Interestingly, it's the same thing that happens, like, from the audience, like, what we hear on the streams, when anybody, like, ghost plays music and then starts talking over it and, like, geopolitics or any stream yard, like, video. And anyone tries to speak, you cannot hear both.

It's, like, one completely ducks out. and I wish that I could fix that for everyone. I don't know how to do that yet. Well, we just need a new system. Throw stream yard out and start over. Oh, don't listen. Don't listen to our stream yard. You know, right?

It's the duck. They changed the platform when we're done with the show, it's okay. I literally just paid stream yard like a few days ago. So I've locked in for a year. Well, they changed the logo. So I don't know what's going on. Instead of a goose, it looks like a duck now.

Yes. Anyways, sorry. All right. So, Christina, you ready? I think so, sure. I can do that. Can I hit share screen? You sure can.

Share screen. Oh, you know what? Why don't wait, like, maybe I've had to do this. I got to put in my, new computer. So it's got, like, permissions that I need to allow. Three-factor authentication. Paxie. You know what?

Jackie, do you or anyone else have anything? I have my video. It says I have to quit and reopen, so I'll be back. Okay. Yeah. Thanks. I'll miss you. We said. See you soon. Love you, miss you.

Come back soon. Speaking of talking out. All right. Jackie, what do you got for us? Poached eggs. So last week, Christy was talking about how to perfectly boil eggs so that you get the shell completely off. This week I figured why not figure out how to poach an egg at home without

all the hassle. So this is this is a video I put together for you all. I know that you can poach an egg really quickly and easily at home without having vinegar or putting the egg actually in the water. Let me show you how the secret to a perfectly poached egg is a string. So we are going to use our metal mesh strainer. Let's go ahead and give it a try. We need to put water into our pot. So we want just enough to cover the bottom of the strainer. It's a little bit in the bottom there. And boil this. All right, it is now time to put in our eggs. What I went ahead and did is I sprayed this with some oil, which is just 100% pure avocado oil. This guy.

Go ahead and put your thing in your pot, crack an egg. What I like to do is I like to just take my egg, drop it on the counter like this. So just take it, drop it once. That's going to give you a purple crack. I swear my match. I'd scatter everywhere. It won't. That's a thing. You don't get shells.

No shells. What? What magic is this? You just drop your egg on the counter. And then like in the thing. For about two to three minutes. Pop it out. So now what we're going to do is we are going to take the cover off.

I think it depends on the quality of your egg. It could be that. The ones with the shells that are that color. I don't think they'll break. Ooh. Hey, look at that. Let's bring this close. so you guys can see it is a little it needs a little bit more just a little too

runny so we're gonna let it see what i just the term that i chose all right we should be good now that looks pretty darn good let's go ahead and put this on our food and we'll be back in just a second let's go ahead and plate this we've got our egg which should come right out this beautifully and we've got our nice runny egg there beautifully done easy simple takes about five minutes and you have poached eggs and no time perfect awesome yep i'm going to have to drop an egg on the counter now i'm i swear when i made the boiled eggs when i was showing you guys like how to do the boiling eggs the first time i did it i put him in a strainer and you know dropped them in I did that so gently with three eggs, two of them cracked still.

Oh, it's because of the temperature. Oh, no, no. So I figured that out. Okay. But these ones I had bought at the store and I brought them home and they were on the counter until I was ready to do it. So those ones were definitely warm, but it's, I think I tried to put four or three in at once and I think they like hit each other or something. And it just cracked. But it's really funny when you peel the shell off, it still comes off in like one piece.

but it just has like a, like a little squirts out of the side of it. Yeah. I've had that happen before where the yoke, like the complete yoke came out, and it was just like a ball outside of the egg. It looks so weird, but it tasted good. You can eat it.

Wow. I'm hungry. Oh, yeah. I do also want to try breaking the egg that way. The whole no-shells thing is kind of blown in the mind. Yeah, right. I love the eggs that we have, like, since I became a baker with the cookie thing, I had a lot of trial and error with different kinds of eggs.

And I don't know if they're everywhere, but I think the three of us from Jackie and Chrissy flaked south, I think we all might have the same. They're called Vital Farms, and they have this really cool thing. I don't know, they might go all the way. I don't know how far they'd go. But I love that they work with, like, home, like people like that we would be friends with. that are like, we want to sell our eggs, but we're not going to put any chemicals. It's so free range with the chickens that they have.

Each dozen comes with a little code that you can scan with your phone or type in on their website. Type in, you'll see the name of the farm. And you can literally watch a live camera that the egg company gave to all of their independent farmers to show off their hens around like grazing. And this is the, you can see the actual hens that your eggs come from. even though you bought it at a grocery store or not at a farm stand. So it's like really, I don't know, unique and that's incredible marketing. And they even have like recycled egg carton paper with a little like newsletter in each one with like a picture of the chicken of the month.

And it's just adorable. I love it. I'm on the website right now. I'm trying to see. It's literally at the bottom. It says keeping it bullshit free. Keeping it what? Bullshit free.

Oh. It has a little asterisk. But you can search, enter your. your farm name. I just don't know any names of a farm or I look it up and see if we can watch it. But, but, Mama Bear 731 asked in the

chat, is she retarded? Yeah. The answer is probably yes, but we need you to be more specific about which one of us. Yeah. It's probably me. And yes, I am retarded. What's it to you? Yeah. You want to join me? Come on over. We got plenty of room in the retarded bus.

Huh. It's down there if you wanted to look at it. I'm trying to figure out if I can see the... It's trying to. It's cute. I just love the little cartoons that they include in the carton. I know. I always feel, I don't want to throw them away.

Like, if they do a puzzle, like, I want to do it. Like, they made the time, they took the time, right, to print this. And I have this issue where, like, I can't cut a piece of paper if it has, like, a picture of an animal on it. Like, I just... So if there's a, like, I can't throw it away unless I read it. And then I'll recycle it. It's cute. nice that's very cute i just i searched for chicken so oh see i don't know it's working hard to get

footage from this farm not everybody has the cameras yet i guess cackle chicks sounds like a place there are really fun like you can you can look around in a 360 view and like drag and scroll the camera around and they're like live cameras of the actual hens sometimes you you can tell it's not fake because there are no hens you're like why would you leave this like there's no hens here because like a fake video that would tell you it's live would have perfect view of a bunch of hens eating and like whatever but sometimes you can't see any because they're just so far away grazing it's really cute I don't know awesome yeah no it makes you you you believe it because you can see it with your own eyes yeah yeah keeping it real nice all right so did you fix your I think so are

we ready for me to try again I think so yeah screen share screen This one, share. Excellent. Woohoo. Present. Yay. What happened to cozy. Okay.

So I don't think that the room on the right looks uncomfortable, but is it cozy? Which is more cozy? Which one do you think? Left. It's the lighting for me. It's the orange lights. Give me the orange lights. It's so warm.

Exactly. It's the like clean white. straight line, like, that's the style now. You guys are nailing it. This is exactly the differences that I'm going to point out today. And how do we get to the one on the right? And where do we come from? So first, we're going to go over a brief history of living room design going back to the

Victorian era. Yes. So many people don't know this, but in high school, I wanted to become an interior designer and, like, did interior design classes and everything. because it was offered at my high school. And then they told me I couldn't do it because you had to wait four years to get in college to actually get in the door to take interior design classes. And I was like, I don't have time for that.

So no. But yes, this is so cool. We actually learn this in school. Yeah. Yeah. And you can learn, like, today you don't even need to go to that college. You're probably a better designer because look, if you go backward slide here, look at what the best designers are coming up with, right?

You can skip the college and creativity is dead. This was so fun to put together. It was very difficult to limit just two pictures from each era because there's a lot of different things going on in each era and just like different rooms, of course. I try to stick to just living spaces specifically because that's the area that we have the biggest contrast today. And there's also the issue of like high end upper class living and design. There's the lower class, the middle, when there was a middle class that formed. And then there's also, especially in like more modern eras, like the TV magazine version of the era, like the 80s is a great example of when we like, especially even now we've romanticized. The 80s list have been so colorful and fun, but like really when we get to it, you guys will probably remember real life.

80s was like wood paneling and like not as cute as the memes today. But really quickly we'll see, of course, the Victorian era named after Queen's. Victoria and a lot of people conflate the Edwardian era which is right after the 1900s. Edwardian is what you actually call from 1900 to the start of World War I and a lot of people think that that's the Victorian era because they go they think well at least I used to always think Victorian and then like Art Deco and then the 40s and then the 50s of atomic age and like there's subtleties in between and I do kind of like doing an I spy, like looking for the elements that came along over time, especially middle class,

would pass things down from generations that would look like something from the 30s and the 50s and vice versa. So, or not really the other way around, but every like further like 90s can look like 70s depending on the money, really. So it's hard to find the best examples, but I think you guys will get the progression. The 30s is when, oh, most importantly, We want to pay attention to technology because the hearth was the heart of the home from medieval times all the way up until when the radiators were invented and mass produced and affordable for the middle class. So they stop being functional.

Here's the 30s. They're still being used for like cooking. Like there's a pot in the 30s there over the fire. And you don't have that in like the 40s and 50s and it's gone after that. And instead it gets replaced here. we see some of the technologies starting from the 30s with the radios. Of course, in the 40s, the radios were like at the center of the home and the living room. Yeah.

Well, and the changeover, which is, you know, just after I think, if I, and you can probably add more to this, but the changeover from having the parlor in the home to having the living room when the parlor changed to the living room was a societal conditioning push. And a big part of that was removing death out of the home. So all of a sudden, funeral homes became a big thing. And kind of the rise of removing death from the home and the living room replaced the parlor. And, you know, death became a massive industry. That's actually, I did not know all of that.

That's really interesting. And it makes like there are so many things that in what I'm talking about here, the way that society and those who control it manipulated our. living spaces that's an important one I hadn't even thought of that and that's a good point to add on I was wondering when the living room and a sitting room also was a thing that later was removed between 1910 and 1918 is when that transition happened and it was there was a bunch of propaganda around it my I used to do the show today's history on my own channel with Frantic Missy and she talked a

lot about this transition after the turn of the century when the, a big, her, I mean, her big part of her focus was on death being brought out of the home. People all of a sudden much more afraid of death, seen less as, you know, end of life and something that everybody goes through because they watched it. Right. It was, you know, the end of life and the beginning of life happened in the home. And it was, you know, kind of a big part of life. And then, you know, shortly over time, transformational change, right? Yeah.

Yep. they used to do the photography with their dead, like, people. Like, they were, like, this is our dead mother. And they're, like, 1800s. They would be, they would not be right. Yeah. I can't help but think of, like, the modern day version of that of, like, people setting up, like, their relative, like, in a chair, like, with sunglasses on.

And it just, like, the way that we've, we as a society have, like, progressed from it being, like, a beautiful event to being a mockery, essentially. It's been very sterilized, too. like we wouldn't want to be you know like there's not as much respect and reverence we don't like let our dead stick around i guess as long but it's crazy because they used to let them stick around a lot longer before we they had the technology and the chemicals to make that palatable but anyway uh a population that's terrified of death is much easier to control there is there that's where all of this is being funneled this is where all this being funnels um i got to look this one up arler's tricks i wonder if if it has to do what it has to do with.

So you can see remnants of previous eras are going to linger and then modernizing awkwardly as technology changes. In the 60s, our fun, design got adventurous, especially for the upper middle class and the elites, I guess, could go really crazy and sort of completely reject the classical traditional beauty or classical beauty that was obviously Victorian and Edwardian and neoclassical. like the White House, Neoclassical is one of my favorite new things,

which I didn't know anything about until Trump came in the White House, and now all of a sudden I'm like, I want to study this. I want to know about this. But I love mid-century modern. I really do. It's been a very popularized, you know, made a resurgence, and I don't hate it because of the soft colors, and it's still very, I don't know, just design forward.

Yeah, that room in the top left is life goals for me. That looks just delightful. I love anything about it. I do too. And then the next two, not so much for me. This is like your TV home in the 70s. It's a wood paneling, bro. I can't.

I know. It's real. The wood paneling and like the carpeting. Like they're still carpeting everywhere. Not rugs. We've went all the way into carpeting for a long time that just recently kind of went away with the wall-to-wall carpeting. But this is the TV home in the 70s and below you see like a very more realistic average home

in the middle class in the 70s. And I feel bad for the 70s because I feel like the colors that they lived are just so faded from the photos. And they had cheap, bad film. They were cutting costs. Like the film in the 60s was better. And the film in the 80s was a mix of cheap and better. But like the 70s, all the photos are really degrading much faster because of cutting costs in the industry of photography. And the photo printing and the film, both.

But then you think that was a cause of like, us coming out of the war kind of thing, the Vietnam thing? Oh, it could have been. I couldn't tell. I don't know enough about that. I would not be surprised if a lot of these things are connected, especially because there's just so much of our society that affects the way our homes look,

the way we capture what happens in them. All of it, like this whole presentation could go on for a really long time. And I do get to a point here where I'm funneling it into like a thesis and a point. But those 80s, that's like a nice looking 80s. A lot of brown. A lot more brown than

people who look for like 80s design. Now you're going to find neon colors and stuff, but it was much more like this. Did any of you guys, wait before we go to that, in that 80s one, did any of you guys own that exact entertainment center?

Because I had that exact entertainment center in my house. It looks familiar. It definitely does. I definitely remember friends having that exact one or ones you know they were they were ubiquitous that was what replaced the hearth that was the new fireplace is the entertainment center in the 90s they got even bigger and more pervasive and oops i skipped a slide that i gave it away um there's a slightly bigger uh and then yet

even bigger entertainment thing um and that at least they still have a fireplace here but how many homes like the majority of middle class homes right now do not have fireplaces um and maybe that is kind of one of the central points that what I'm about to present gets us to. It's got to be a- That's funny, because our house was built in the 70s and we don't have a fireplace. You don't. Was it removed after? Do you think, well, 70s, I don't know. I don't think so.

I don't think so. I think, I mean, if we're- And also in the South. Yeah. Maybe that has something to do with that. My parents' house was, I think, built in, like, very early 1900s, but they didn't have their fireplace on the first. first floor goes through two rooms. You can see it in the den and in the living room. Like it goes through the wall and that was a problem during a hurricane at one point. But the craziest thing about it is

before they bought the house, that fireplace, that chimney also opened up on the second floor and they had a fireplace in their bedroom. Oh. Like for what? So my parent, when they got the house, it was like a knockdown. Like they got it for super cheap. They had to like block it all up, but they couldn't block the chimney. So, like, there's this weird wall in their room now that's just like... Is it a fat wall? Well, she made it into a closet, so it can be that it's a wall now. But anyways, but it's crazy that, like, there was three rooms that had a fire place.

I know, I know LK. Tuck doesn't mean this 1890, but I was like, damn, your house is real old. I mean, maybe they weren't. Maybe. but I don't know here is new. I don't know that it was necessarily like a thing that got phased out on purpose everywhere all at once like a sci-op type of deal. I think it was a lot of it was function and income and area and all of that and there's a lot of different things.

But generally in terms of fireplaces being the heart of the home was a functional thing. And then with the radiator that opened up like rooms became empty. Like what do we put there? wasn't radios yet or TV's yet, there was radios, but do you sit around it? Do you put it in the corner? So people actually sat and spoke to each other in those rooms. And I think what we all probably noticed most might stand out when I go to the next slide. After the 90s, something happened and we ended up with this. Millennial Gray. And I'm guilty of some of this myself because I don't have a ton of money. It's our first, like, place. And I buy some great stuff. I do. And I like

some of it. But it's not cozy. It is comfortable and not cozy. But it's very overplayed right now. And I get into cozy here. All right, the thesis. Cozy and comfortable are not the same thing. Comfort is about support, like temperature, ease, function examples, like good mattress, an ergonomic chair, a soft couch, not being too hot or too cold, just that's comfortable. Those rooms don't look necessarily uncomfortable to me. This looks comfortable, but is it cozy? Do you want to cuddle up with a good book and why? What is it about the word cozy that this is so lacking?

Comfortable means your body can relax. Go on the next one here. Cozy is about warmth, familiarity, softness on the emotion. sense, not just physical. Feeling held by your environment. Examples dim lamps instead of overhead lights with the warm light bulbs. Blankets, textures, clutter with meaning, like livable clutter, not just this meticulously clinically removed Instagram, social media ready, we don't even live here look, which is I'm going somewhere with that too. Signs of life, books, photos,

wearer on objects, real materials, real materials, real wood, not this like pack in a box stuff, wicker, wool, things like mirrors and glass and ceramics, like all of the plastic that came into our homes and into our lives has taken soul of the space out with it. Cozy means your nervous system feels safe. Just your body feeling relaxed, your nervous system can feel safe in a cozy space. Comfort is what something does for your body. Cozy is what a space does for your soul. Oh, I love that. Yeah, that's nice. Why? They systematically offshore American handmade goods, especially furniture, leaving us with imported, flat shipped, cookie cutter, low-quality furniture in our homes.

We didn't just lose handmade goods. We lost a culture where furniture was built, repaired, and kept. We also became a society of renters. Young people are no longer buying their first homes until their late 30s and 40s. Therefore, big family pieces like armoires and hutches have been replaced by today's lighter, out of the box, fit any personality and any apartment banality. Loss of permanence, loss of tradition. Interior design trendsetters followed suit and that's why everything became gray. The designers tried to soften the white-gray trend with the modern farmhouse style, which

which is mass produced in China and it's affordable and it's better than like the modern like coldness but it's not still not cozy. It's comfy. It's not cozy. Here's my final statement. The good news, cozy is coming back. Seriously, this is a thing. Even young renters are sick of all of the gray.

They're sick of the box living. They feel like they need to break out of it. The new trends coming in hot for 2026 are all of. about going back. Literally the key words are heritage, traditional, real materials, old money look, Americana vibes. And one designer that captures all of these aesthetics is of course Ralph Lauren.

Famous for fashion, but little known, incredible interior designer as well. Mixing old world Americana with European and also textiles and some really interesting fashionable modernizations from previous designers. For, I did a bunch of research, it's too much to put on here, but this is a massive trend. And their brand is like skyrocketing right now. Ralph Lauren Christmas searches up 600% on social platforms in 2025.

Google trends soaring to unprecedented heights searching all of the Ralph Lauren interior design, Ralph Lauren look, Ralph Lauren Polo, all of the interior design. And every company out there is now scrambling to try to provide real things. And the best part about this, people emulating this. this look is that you can't buy it out of a box. You have to buy antique furniture and treasure it and learn how to clean it and learn how to paint it or whatever, refab it yourself and collecting, going into antique stores and connecting with history and asking mom for stuff from the attic and it's a beautiful human thing. Becoming one of the most viral interior design trends of 2025, strong alignment with the

old money aesthetic, nostalgia heritage interiors. The Ralph Lauren effect is taking over, taking us back. and I'm here for it for a great video diving into what makes Ralph Lauren design what it is, all of the elements and how to use them. You can search for Vivian Albrecht on YouTube, but I also have the link, so I will drop it. And that is my done sharing. Fantastic. Thank you so much. That was awesome. You can watch when the people realized that, that, oh, we can make more money if we just make crappy furniture.

People will have to continue to buy it every single generation. And like it really went from from homemade things that people crafted and loved what they're doing to just how much money can I make and how fast can I do it. Exactly. Yep. It's funny though, because you do see like I've, as a millennial, I've seen a lot of my friends pick up this. antiquing and thrifting because they want to get all of the, and getting like the artwork especially

because they want to bring all that, you know, having the collage walls where they're doing like the the one, what is it, the silhouettes, the black and white silhouettes. People are eating those up right now. And it doesn't matter if it's like a random person that there's like 15 years ago at Disney. People are buying them and it's just, it's interesting to see it all come back.

Yeah, and the real picture frames that people, like a handmade, not just like a white square. Yeah, I'm so glad because that, if you keep going, we end up with like nothing. Like there's no gender, there's no color, there's no life, there's no, and I love that humanity rejects the, and because all of this is, we did the, one of my first appearances on the show was the brutalism architecture

and how it's meant to oppress and meant to make you feel depressed and make you feel that the government is sort of a, impenetrable fortress of power and unmovable as concrete. And all of that crap that has taken beauty away from us. So much of that comes from designers who are absolutely involved in secret societies or elites that control fashion, especially fashion and the colleges where they get educated. All this stuff, they tend, I don't want to be like everybody's a Satanist and everybody's, But I mean, there's a war against God. And God wants us, like in my cookies analogy before, we are created in his image.

And God created beauty. And we want to create little beauty. And the enemies of that want to get beauty. Beauty is synonymous with God. And creating it is too. And they want to get rid of all of that and sell us like futurism and replacing humanity with efficiency. and all of these things that are basically a war against beauty because of its godliness. And individuality too, right?

Because it seems like a lot of that design template. And we see it from Joanna Gaines to some of the photos that you showed. It doesn't matter what type of structure you're in. You know, the farmhouse looks like the dentist office. Yeah. We have clean lines and all this kind of thing. But it seems to scrub out any sort of. creativity and individuality and it's a race to the bottom make everybody the same yeah i mean also

if you're think about i was thinking about this from a different point of view if you don't feel comfortable or happy in your home you're going to go out and buy more stuff go to the bar and drink go x y z go to do something outside of your house because your house isn't a place you want to be in and it's probably subliminal. I mean, I want to be at my house, but I do have the great couch, but I try to get as many blankets as I possibly, and pillows. There's so much Star Wars stuff at your

house that nobody would ever accuse you. And you have colorful, like, paint, too. Your walls are not white. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But in Florida, you can get away with that. I don't know if you could do that color in New York, but if you're creative, there's the other trends that are also coming back.

are maximalism, which is the opposite because people got so strangled by the minimalism. They just want to go, I want to get all these things. And they want to display like colors and collect different art and make different things. And I love seeing that humanity has the like the instinct to reject what's being kind of forced fed of them instead of like, you've got two types of people, the people that will try to achieve that Pinterest perfect presentable exterior. And then there's people that want to go, stop. telling me what I want what what's an acceptable living room I want to put an organ in the middle of mind if I want or whatever it is and I think that that's a beautiful thing to see coming back and it gives me faith in the youth especially that they're catching on to the Ralph

Lauren thing oh my god that's so hope for humanity inspiring for me the only thing that with the maximalism that they should just stop and let it die as wallpaper oh my god not again did you ever help your parents put it up with like the glue on the back took it down. Oh, and taking it down. Yeah. So my, my parents did, my mom was very much against, like, wallpaper. So what she did instead was, she took, yeah, she took stencils to the fucking walls.

I was like, mom, this is literally going to take us forever. She's like, yeah, but it's going to be painted when we fucking leave. And she's like, oh, but it's okay. And then, well, wait, it gets better. That was in my room. So I had, like, flowers on my border. I had that one. In our living room.

She thought it was great. And I know like it's like it's making a comeback now where like the dentist wall where it's like the wall with like three different colors, but it's like the same color. And you like it's like a painting technique where you take. Oh, and you do like the X. Lime washing. Lime washing. My niece just in her salon.

Whatever it is. My mom thought it was nice to get a sponge and do four different colors on the wall. Wow. Oh, that was in the 90s. No, it was early 2000s. Early 2000s. Remnants of the 90s then. We used to, that was my favorite part about going to Home Depot with my mom.

If we were going to pick out new borders or new wallpaper, like I was the one, you remember those big books at the home of you? I used to, that's where my mom brought me off there. And I just like, and then I want this room. And then my best friend's room can be like this one. And then we can have the, like. Anyways. Okay.

Thank you, Christina. That was excellent. And we're all a little mad about modern design now. So thanks for that. Make America cozy again. Make America cozy again. Maka. Bring back molding in the rooms too.

Yeah, I like that. I like shiplap. Makes your house at home. All right. So final topic, we are one week out from Gart. So if you don't know your line dances yet, you're behind. That's me. I haven't learned them yet.

But I'm going to, this weekend, I'm going to be a pro by the time I get there. But we have one more, right? Yes, we do. And this is one, I have a group of girls that I talk to that all do line dancing with me in different capacities. And I was asking them, like, give me a dance that they definitely will do in Nashville. And my friend sent me actually four of them. I only did one. But this one to me. Send me to me. Yes, I will. And this one is Honky Tonk Highway by Luke Holmes, but it's at the bottom if you want to pull it. This is a new song, too. Yeah, it's a newer song. And it's a very, very, very easy dance.

Let's learn another line dance. This one is to Honkietongk highway by Luke Combs. You are going to start by pointing out with your right foot. Point in, point in. Grapevine to the right, right, left, right together. Now we're going to point with our left foot. Point. and point and grapevine to the left,

left, right, left together. Now we're gonna rock forward with our right foot. Rock step, now rock backwards with the same right foot. Each range on. We're gonna do a quarter turn using two steps. So little,

Turn, little turn. From here, we're going to do a K-step, stepping forward at a diagonal with your right foot. Right, touch, left, touch, right back, touch, left forward, touch. That's the whole dance. Let's do it with counts. 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Okay, I'm pausing there. You see the black on the ground? Yes. So I was doing, yes, I was doing, I was practicing the line dances because we did an event this Saturday. And I didn't realize it until after that I scuffed. I put black scuffs all over my tile floor.

But all right, here it is with music guys. That one I know everyone, everyone will get that one. Are these posted on your Instagram for us to find or do we have to go, like I can screenshot them from the episode and put them in the Gart chat or something forever. I've been posting them in my I've been posting them in my telegram chat for the people better. They're on X. Yeah, they are on X. Are they threaded?

All together on X? Oh, no, that's a good idea. So basically, Christy, a thread is basically you're just replying to the same video and just adding the new videos to it. So you have them all together in one thread and then you can pin it to your X. Okay, yeah, I wasn't sure what to do with it.

I was just pinning the one. Remedially learning the dances this weekend. Yes. And they're all in our chat too. So I will put them in the the guard chat. I didn't even think about that. That's a good idea. And that's going to have so much fun. Yeah. I got to break in my new boots. I got two pairs. I got a white pair and a brown pair. But those are like the ankle. The ankle ones. They got like a full length white white ones though. Because that's the one I really wanted. Yeah. I love it. This was hard. I got fringe though. I got white fringy ones. I'm really excited. Yeah. Actually, I have three because I have my black ones that I got from left. Deadwood last. here. Nice. Perfect. All right, everybody. That's the show we have for you today.

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So we shall see. Sure. Go ahead. I'm excited to see that. Yeah, I do want to just say that we're definitely looking forward to Gart. If we haven't met you in person yet, come to. come say hi at the rise of tire booth. That's where you'll get to hang out.

And we got a bunch of gear. Everything came over the weekend. We did a live stream of unboxing a bunch of what we're bringing. So you can see some of what we'll have and maybe pre-shop or whatever. But we got some really cool, like giant beach towels with great designs on them, some of the new Badlands things we've never seen before. Also, Adrienne's working on Vibes 2.

So we're hoping he might be done before guard, but if not right after. So stay tuned for Vives 2. And I'm making my first short film as well. And I'm really excited about it. I'm really hoping, because it's short, I can finish it before Gart and show you guys. But stay tuned for the trailer because that'll be definitely before Gart. So that's all.

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