just a little shady - Holiday Shade - Not for Kids | Ep. 19

Episode Date: December 22, 2023

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Hello and welcome back to the podcast. We are off to an interesting start today considering I will be holding a brand I will not mention, although you can maybe see it if you're watching. You can probably tell if you're watching. This is not an advertisement. I just need ice on my finger because I grabbed my curling iron today for whatever reason um while I was getting ready yeah I need to slow the down because genuinely I just lost my second pinky toe now that's in the last month that's tough dubbed them both in a rush lost at the same time or on different

occasion then that's when you know it's a problem is when it's reoccurring yeah different occasions in a small window of time probably not ideal yeah so i need to calm down and now i'm burnt so i'm just holding this cup and you might hear the ice in the mic but just please ignore um also this past week I think we mentioned in the last episode that I was going to be doing a gingerbread making party I believe so I believe this was referenced and to be honest at the time I was thinking like is that a childish thing to do I'm not sure but I'll tell you what what not child it's not for the kids I'm telling you right now this is a warning for any parents who think oh so cute we're gonna make gingerbread houses don't i mean our friend group was actually struggling multiple gingerbread houses collapsed after like 20 minutes of working on them

i literally had to restart which was fine because i ended up winning the competition i had to toot my own horn but um I want to see a photo of which one was yours I saw the photos of the various houses in said competition it was a blind vote no one knows whose was whose and I would like to know yeah I did vote I was a part of the vote so I want to know who I voted for we'll put the pictures up um but yeah I ended up somehow winning even though I was literally the underdog in the situation. I was working at my house for 20 minutes.

Finally got it to stay together. By the way, the house like that we were at, I destroyed. There was icing everywhere on my pants, on the floor, everywhere. Is this the first time that you've made a gingerbread house? No. As an adult? No. So, like, you've done one in your seniors?

Yeah, but I don't remember it being that traumatic. And I don't know why it was this time. But it was actually a mess. And I ate so much icing during the process because it just kept getting everywhere. So, like, to, like to like go along I was eating it I felt so sick after two from eating so much icing um so it's not for the week and it really pissed me off too because after we were done I was getting gingerbread making house no gingerbread making gingerbread house making videos on TikTok.

Right. And they were beautiful. And I'm like, how did these people do it? It doesn't make any sense to me. But I heard, I saw a trick on one of the videos. You decorate the pieces separately, like while they're flat, so you can draw on them and whatever. And then you connect them once they're dry. We didn't know that. We thought the first step was connecting them yeah um because i was also

going to say if you do it by the ones that are already put together because those exist now they do they saw my target i i wouldn't even do that because it's not going to be easy to decorate so yeah it would still be a little tough to decorate um i did want to say i would consider myself and brian because he does help to be an expert gingerbread maker i did insert a photo and we can add this in here as well of the pink chateau that we created did you last year this together i did sing it that? I did. We used hot glue. We started with icing and it was starting to fall apart and then we used hot glue. So we specifically said no hot glue that would be not fair because that's like I mean I mean I think some of these pieces are held up with the hot glue

but the hot glue definitely helped. You can see that's why the candy canes are on the front of the house well that would have solved all our issues but we wanted to be authentically crafty with i mean this pink chateau looked pretty authentic and pretty cute and we do plan to make another one we made this one i think the day after christmas last year i would do it again with hot glue but i wouldn't do it again with icing. I mean, it was such a disaster. Yeah, and it's just frustrating at that point if it just keeps falling apart. Oh, my God.

I love crafting. My morale was so low. So low. Because as soon as I would get confident, fall apart. I'm like, great, thank you. This is exactly what I needed. Holiday cheer.

Speaking of holiday cheer, I also. This is exactly what I needed. Holiday cheer. Speaking of holiday cheer, I also went to an ugly Christmas sweater party, which is a vibe, is a vibe, but I got a sweater just from Target, and honestly, it wasn't ugly. It just had that pattern that you think of when you think of ugly Christmas sweaters. Right. So I got it. And it was like still a cute sweater. But I felt so bad. Because when I got there. Somebody was like. Oh. I saw this at Target.

But like. I didn't think it was an ugly sweater. So like. I didn't wear it. And I was like. Oh. Shit. I mean.

And then someone after was like. Oh. Like. Do you think this is ugly? Do you think this is a sweater? No. Like. They wore it for just a regular holiday party.

Uh-huh. Like, as a cute sweater. Yeah. And I wore it as an ugly sweater. So they felt offended. They felt offended. And I was like, no, like, I just got it because of the pattern. Yeah.

And it's, I mean, it's like the shadier, nice crew neck. They're not necessarily ugly. I would say they're pretty cute. It's just the pattern. It's just the pattern. It's just the pattern that makes them the classic ugly sweater. Exactly. I mean, that's at least what I think. Same.

I mean, that's what I was going for. I think you achieved that. I saw the little video. It was cute. Thank you. You're welcome. But yeah, I felt bad. I was like, no, I'm not saying that it's an ugly sweater.

No one needs to be offended. That's tough. But yeah, you had some fun this weekend for your birthday. I did. As we mentioned multiple times on the podcast, I did go to my favorite place. That is Disney World with Brian. We spent a few days there.

Some highlights, drinking around the world you saw I think all of my friends saw bits and pieces of me drinking around the world because I thought it was a great idea to film here I am with my first drink in Mexico

oh I did I only got a couple I'll show you them all after. You can tell when I'm at country one, because there are 11 total countries. I have never, and probably will never again, have a drink in every single country, but it is not for the weak of heart.

They do actually drink them, because I was debating with Tracy while we were at this party Saturday I'm like if I was drinking drank them all I drank there's no way you know how much liquid that is I don't even think you could drink that much water in a day I drank up until I think country four or five my drinks and then Brian and I split I think for the next five countries drinks so I had at least a sip or like half a drink in every single country. A sip though? One or two of them were gross.

No, I'm not blaming you because like there's no chance I could drink 11 drinks. It's tough. And it was just. Especially they're like, some of them are very sugary. Some of them are. Oh yeah, one was. They're all different themes. The second one.

Well, we started with a Marg oh yeah one was the second one well we started with a marg and that one was strong second one was a vikings coffee which was just like chocolate syrup like frozen coffee so that's why every time you mention it to me i'm like i don't know if i would actually even enjoy it because too many it was kind of like those christmas drinks that we made yeah the bonus content it's like once you have like a sip of, you're like, oh, delicious, but I'm good. That's where the sharing came into hand with some of the sugary ones. All in all, it was a pretty good trip.

There was a minor, as what some news outlets wanted to consider a minor or mini hurricane on the south part of Florida. So there was a lot of rain and wind but it wasn't where you were it was just like no yeah it was just the aftermath of it so I mean that's good yeah it could have been worse we thrive I was kind of wondering like how the weather would be in Florida and normally it's really nice in December it's like like 70 degrees, so it's not too hot, not too cold. It's after hurricane season, so it's usually not too rainy.

Yeah. We just got pretty, you know, a little unfortunate, but never a bad day in Disney. We powered through the rain. We had a poncho, raincoat. It was good times, good vibes. Except your experience at dinner. At dinner.

We were, Brian and I genuinely thought we were being pranked. Because, and I told you and Evan about this when we were on our way over here today. So Brian and I, you know, we get done with our really rainy day. We just want to put on some warm clothes, watch the Lions game, have a nice dinner in this like Italian restaurant lounge at our hotel. So we're sitting there. It's chill. It's casual. And then this group of people come and they are like up by the bar.

There's not a ton of like seats around. So this woman and seemingly her mom, just based off like the bits and pieces we hear, sit at the bar. And then the table behind us is the dad and the girl's boyfriend husband whomever um and they just start talking so loud to the point where i think everyone in the lounge could hear and this girl i did not know if she was speaking to her boyfriend husband or her father But every five seconds it was Daddy daddy daddy

Do you like the tierman suit also To preface didn't you say She seemed like she was probably in her 30s Yes yes that was What I like typecasted her as And she was yeah it was not like a young Girl like she was out here drinking Like probably was at Epcot before this Daddy do you like your espresso martini daddy's martini looks a little full do you

want another martini daddy then also interchanging with baby yes and then she kept saying baby baby and I was like what is the dynamic here where do you think it was for the guy whoever is her husband boyfriend to not also look when she's saying he like not knowing i think he might have been and i couldn't what if she's calling me right now because i was sitting like i was sitting facing the tv and the bar was to my right so she was kind of to my right and i was trying not to look the table was behind me brian was to my left so he could see the whole situation so i just want to be like who is looking when she's saying this like is she calling her boyfriend daddy and baby interchangeably in front of her

parents um i don't think so based on what i gathered well still an awkward scenario it was so we and it did not stop i was about to start counting how many times she was saying you should have took a drink every time she said it. I really needed to. I would have got you worse than around the world. Honestly, I would have been hammered. That's so funny. Well, in some other hotel news, speaking of, I don't know. We kind of talked about Vegas a few times in the last few episodes.

Making headlines. But a new hotel just opened there, the Fountain Blue. this big opening they did like a whole thing and supposedly allegedly paid justin timberlake 6.1 million dollars to perform for the opening night he also placed the first bet at the casino but there was some drama surrounding this for two reasons. One, he does this performance and then posts a photo of him and his wife, Jessica Biel, after the performance at a hotel walking down the hallway. And it wasn't the Fountain Blue that they stayed at. was the win and so the win sees that they're staying there and not at this new hotel they take it as a marketing opportunity of course they did they posted to their own page saying everyone ends up at the win i that mean that's clever that's really clever so they

obviously they ended up taking it down. Obviously, it didn't look too good for him that he just got to perform there and didn't stay there. But people were saying maybe it was because the hotel wasn't open prior and they might have came in early. So then they don't want to move hotels. Right. Regardless, it just didn't look good. Not a good look. But then also, he performed Cry Me a River for the first time in years. And he prefaced the song by saying, no disrespect.

And then did the song. Just went into it. And so obviously everyone was like, oh my God, he's talking about Britney Spears because this song is about her. Oh yeah. And he hasn't performed in so long. Well, she responded with an Instagram post. Of course. And it's now deleted, but the caption was,

Oh, Jesus Christ, the stories I could tell on the set of this one. There's always more to the story, and that's not even half of it. It was shot in Arizona in 120-degree heat. Two different version videos were shot for this song most boys say oh I'm shook he asked I never mentioned how I beat him in basketball and he would cry no disrespect so out of pocket well you know in memoir, she talked a lot about her relationship with him. Right. And so I guess maybe that compelled him to perform this song.

I think that's exactly what did it. But definitely not a good response. And I don't think Britney fans were too happy. But for whatever reason, she deleted the post. Interesting. Very interesting. Lots of drama. But yeah, it was like one of the biggest hotel

openings in vegas in a while which we always talk about like we're not that not that compelled to go to vegas brian and i were actually just talking about that because when we were at the airport the gate next to us was going to vegas and we're like what if we just did a switch up and like went to vegas for the weekend like what would that be like and we're like, what if we just did a switch up and went to Vegas for the weekend? What would that be like? And we're like, it doesn't seem like our vibe. I think if you like gambling, it'd be a lot of fun. But that's just not what I'm into. Same.

But other than that, it just doesn't entice me too much. I actually just watched this show on Netflix that came out. It's new. It's called Obliterated. And kind of a wild show, by the way, like warning, like there's so many uncalled for sex scenes, I feel like. But it was good overall. It was like an action show about people that work for the U.S. government saving Vegas from like, I don't know, just saving Vegas. There's a bunch of things going on.

And it was actually pretty good. And it made Vegas seem a little fun. But then I was like, I don't know. Vegas is like, and I feel like I had the same perception of Miami before I ever went there. They both just seem very overwhelming, very overstimulating, and just not a good time like I feel like there's no no chill cute vibes you are not going to Vegas to chill no which I I don't know that's kind of what you want in a vacation not chill or chill no chill yeah no i definitely want to chill yeah because that's how i am too but we did i think i talked about this before maybe we had to stay we had a flight that got overnight there delayed or whatever so we stayed there for literally one night and evan just thrives like absolutely loves it But he loves blackjack.

So he also got pissed because I think I said this too. I ended up winning like $400 playing blackjack with him. Did you really? But I don't. It wasn't fun. It was just something to do. And he was so pissed.

He's like you sit down and win $400. This is what I always try to do. And I'm like, yeah. Beginner's luck or something like that. I know. I agree. But, yeah, I don't know if I could do it. Because even for, like, Bachelor Bachelorette, we've talked about it.

But it's just, like, he would probably thrive. But I feel like by the second day, I'd just be like, can we, like, chill somewhere? Yes. With, like like more calm vibes but continuing on some vacationing going on right now that we could also probably never um there is there's no way no way a nine month long cruise that everybody's talking about right now. A lot of people on the cruise are actually sharing their journeys on TikTok. So it's kind of going viral right now, but this cruise is 274 nights, 11 world wonders, 60 plus countries. So you can either do the full, the full nine

months at one time, or you can pick segments and go into smaller segments there's four different segments um but the price supposedly the range from if you go to one segment or all of them is from 66,000 to 112,000 per person that's insane I have so many questions about this cruise same but. But I thought this was kind of interesting. Some people were saying they feel like this is a good deal because you're not if you work it out where you're not paying for a place to live at the time. Yeah. This includes all your food, all your laundry, all your groceries, all your normal expenses that you would have in the real

world, but it's all included in there. So at the end of the nine months, are you really saving money and you're on vacation or are you spending money? Potentially, but are they working at the same time? Because that was one of my initial questions. Are people working from home on these boats or are they just there I mean maybe a mix of both I think there's definitely some people who are going to try to swing it with the wi-fi I don't know if it's going to go well I think there's going to be a period of travel where they're like oh my god why did I try to do this um but yeah I think some people are for sure going to be trying to like work, work from home there. It doesn't seem like, I don't know.

I get very motion sick very easily. I have gone on two cruises in my life. Once when I was very little. And then once when I was, like, 22. And I was motion sick the whole time. Sea sick. Which is wild. They say that cruises are supposed to be not motion sick and I was I

definitely do get motion sick if the boat is like very rocky but normally I think I'm okay um imagine being just motion sick for nine months I don't think you would do this if you got motion sick you never know um that would be really concerning also though there are a lot of people making tiktoks about this because they're just saying they're concerned they feel like people are going to become like alcoholics because they just have unlimited drinks for nine months people are going to cheat on people because you're going to be on this boat with 700 other people the whole time making connections, making friends. And then people are also concerned about illness.

Like what happens if everyone gets sick or like a lot of people get sick? Bro, these poor, could you imagine being on this boat right now? Because apparently this isn't the first ever like multi-month, nine-month nine month cruise being on this specific cruise and realizing that a large portion of tiktok and of the world are just like watching and projecting all of this like crazy dialogue people are treating this as if it's a bravo i wish i've seen that why haven't they done that i'm you know i wouldn't be surprised if, I mean, they have nine months. There could be a camera crew that gets sent out there and starts filming a documentary or something out there. Oh, they should.

And I think it could happen with this specific cruise because there's so much interest in what is going on. Whoever's on these cruises, like good for them that are doing TikToks because people are invested, like very invested in what's happening my biggest concern that with this whole thing is what did people pack you would have had to pack like you were going on the titanic when they brought those like big ass trunks yeah like you would have had to pack snow boots, bathing suits. They're literally going to every single kind of weather you can get. Dude, this is.

And what are they doing? Like are they laying out? Isn't it going to be cold in most spots? I did see lounge chairs in some of the TikToks that I seen. I did watch one tour of the boat. There's a lot of stuff on it. It's really hard to say. But I have the same concern about when people go on shows

like The Bachelor, Bachelorette, where they don't know what the weather's gonna be the whole time. You can only pack so much with you. And then what? Like, you're, like, not sure. I mean, I guess you literally just have to bring one of everything.

Like, one big coat. I would do so unwell with that. We are chronic, chronic over packers i mean a weekend trip is you're checking a bag for sure oh yeah i was gone for three days and i had a largest size suitcase very large largest one you could get that was at 49 pounds plus a rolly check-on bag plus my big ass backpack that had all of my toiletries in it so what what did I have I don't know but I had everything I needed yeah and in this situation I feel like I mean I've never been on a cruise so I don't know for sure but I feel like the rooms are way too small to be everyone be bringing that much stuff

like enough stuff for nine months like when you think about it a lot of stuff you have to basically bring like I don't know you just it would be very difficult to pack for I feel like um especially too like if you are trying to work from home there I'm assuming you're working in your room and you just have nine months worth of stuff in there I just can't imagine the commitment to like. Take nine months of your life to go on a cruise and to just say, I'm going to forget all of my obligations back home, miss out on whatever happens between now and what August they're going to be on that. Like, think of the holidays, the birthdays, the anniversaries, the events. I don't know.

I just feel like a lot changes in life in nine months. You could literally have a baby. Like somebody could get pregnant this month on the ship and give birth by the end of the cruise. I just saw TikTok saying that. It is kind of wild. To drop everything and go on a cruise? I'm not going to lie. The website was enticing.

Really? Because like if you're somebody who has this bucket list of seeing all these things, I feel like for a lot of people there's not really an opportunity that you're going to do all of those things separately. Yeah. So to get it all done at once, if that is something that is on your bucket list to see, this is, like, I think the most easiest bang for your buck way to do it. Brew. So. So. like I think the most easiest bang for your buck way to do it through so so I could see it for people who really care about their bucket list that is true I don't even think I have a bucket

list yeah I don't know if I'd necessarily do either I'm just living life I'm living life too I feel like when I was younger I was like oh yeah I want to skydive and do this and that. Couldn't be me. No, couldn't be you. Couldn't be me after my frontal lobe developed. Because once that thing was done, I'm not getting in a plane and jumping out of it ever, ever again. Too many scenarios that could go wrong. But I don't really know what I would say at one point I wanted to go to every

single state and go to like a sporting event like a football game or a basketball game baseball game whatever in each different state just because I think that would be interesting to see the different stadiums but I don't know I don't

ever intend on doing that and I'm like I'm not going to be not content with life if I don't do that. I think I just said it. I think the craziest thing for me is not traveling places because when I go, I feel pressure to see everything. Oh my gosh. So then I just don't go. And then like that is like makes no sense at all.

Yeah. And I need to stop doing that because when you immediately said like I wanted to go to every state I I could do that and I would want to do that but then I would be like oh my god well I went here but I didn't see this this and this so like did I even go and I think that's the kind of pressure that I would it is pressure why do you think I keep going back to Disney because they've got so much stuff in here that I I just keep no I swear to god everything we did on this trip was stuff that we said we wanted to do on the last trip that Brian and I went on there and didn't get to do and now we have a longer list of things that I feel like I still want to do there I know but then do you ever think like instead of doing that like wow we could have went to Alaska or no yes and no yes and no I do think of that sometimes like

dang we probably could have gone like somewhere new but I also get anxiety about going new places like I feel like I have my little routine I know the area I feel very safe there so I can just go and even though Disney's not that relaxing relax in a sense because I know what's going on whereas when you go somewhere new you kind of got to be on your a-game to like to your point know where things are and not like waste time doing things not to say out of order but in a way that isn't time efficient because I feel like I did that when I studied abroad in Italy we like just happened upon the Trevi Fountain and then like I don't know we were just like doing things like really out of order and just like could have done a lot more with our time that's better in a sense because there was no pressure on it

yeah but and then that's also my fear too is like if you go somewhere and you take all this time planning it and then you're like it doesn't live up to it yeah that's a that's a that's always a fear of mine I think with every vacation there's like a lingering thought in the back of my head like am I really having fun right now or is like this just like what I planned out to do, but I'm not actually having fun doing it? I think any trip that's like a little like intrusive thought in the back of my head like, did you even have fun? Which is like weird. I know. It's like a weird anxiety around traveling that I think we both kind of get.

And that's why sometimes I'm just like, eh. I just want to be home. I'm cool with staying home. I like being home. I like comfy clothes. I like. You can wear comfy clothes. Anywhere.

I kept saying that on this past trip. I was like, that's a great part about Disney. They don't care what I wear. I can wear sweatpants. Meanwhile. Wherever I want. No one cares what you wear anywhere. No. I can wear sweatpants meanwhile wherever I want no one cares what you wear anywhere no I can wear sweatpants anywhere dude yeah I know because I've got a plan like I don't have to plan and I'm like looking forward to it but even with the honeymoon

I've been feeling so much pressure to pick the right location and what if we pick the wrong location yeah you know I've just been feeling a lot of pressure around it it's like supposed to be such a fun experience but when you have travel anxiety it's just like god and what if we go to that place and we don't see the things that we should see and right it's just yeah that's one of the overwhelming things about like a Europe trip or something like that because you want to go relax enjoy your time but there's so much there and throughout all the countries and all the cities that it's just yeah a beast in itself overwhelming maybe that's why people want use like travel agents probably that's probably yeah yeah

I've thought about becoming a travel agent on the side multiple times i really i did a class um for my major my trip what you're saying i could if i really took the time i do love planning a good trip but just well i know who to bother now yeah um this is so random but i had to bring this up because I was thinking about like on this cruise they're obviously getting off and exploring these places yeah and I don't know if Alaska is on this list I'm sure somewhere with polar bears are and I was thinking about it mainly I thought about it because I for some reason am on bear talk I get videos about bears all the time interesting I'm not really sure are you accidentally on the stem channel on tiktok

what's that okay let me show you for 0.2 seconds because this was the craziest thing that I realized that I was one time I go wow when did my TikTok become so educational and why am I getting so like yes like why is why am I learning so much from this why do I feel like these videos are trying to teach me something so if you look here on your TikTok there's your for you page if you swipe to the left it becomes tiktok shop which i still don't understand following and explore following no stem oh no mine's not you don't have a stem randomly you were on that randomly i'll just be on this one out of nowhere and you won't notice look at this nadp plus is a molecule that accepts and delivers two electrons in one hydrant.

What does that mean? What does it represent? That's literally science talk. It is science talk. I'm on like just a bunch of different kind of animal talks, I think. And bear is one of them. Interesting. Which I don't know.

It feels very specific. Guys, this is not like a specific. There is no aisle for this on TikTok. It's just something like there is no swipe over to bear tuck but i just get it on my page i don't know why um and one of them was and i also think i've thought about this because i've been like well randomly like oh it'd be cool to go to alaska and i know cruises there is a specific cruise for to go to Alaska um but apparently that's where polar bears live and apparently and I didn't know this I just found this out polar bears are

considered marine mammals which wait they are marine mammals yeah I thought that that was a question you were posing in today's show notes was are they marine animals because they're always be in the water they are marine mammals they spend more time in the water than on land how long can they breathe underwater i'm not sure but i also found out that if you encounter one you're gone they do not care and they will commit crime crime against you wait seriously that's really sad because they seem so aren't they so cute and like i would always see videos like oh my god they're so cute like i want to pet it and then like no they will they will attack attack and without question without questions asked. Without any.

They won't even ask you anything first. Just, you won't even be able to think. You're just done. Correct. In probably a really tragic way. Tragic. Yeah. Wow.

So they say if you encounter one, like, you have to find somewhere to hide. Like, hide immediately. And lock the doors. What if there's no shelter? I feel like if you encountered a polar bear this is just my personal thought because it's just snow and nothing because did we talk about this before i swear to god i told maybe i just told you this long long time ago i saw a video that there's a certain town in alaska where everyone keeps their doors unlocked so that if people encounter polar bears wait i didn't know they

kept them unlocked they the certain town everyone in the town where they all live in the same building no i don't think so there's a building like their doors unlocked and so if anyone ever encounters polar bear they can go inside and lock the door that's that sounds like a lot of trouble um i would not enjoy keeping my door unlocked because if that's just you know like the norm like you run in someone's house if there's a polar bear, like that. Not the house, the car. Oh, the car? The car.

Because everyone keeps their cars unlocked. Interesting. Yeah. But the saying is, if it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back. If it's white, good night. I don't think I could fight back against the black bear. I don't think you actually fight.

They just say, like, make yourself as big and loud as possible, and they get scared. Apparently that's the saying, and they, yeah, will attack. And they also, polar bears can only hold their breath for two minutes underwater, which seems like a very short period of time, considering they spend most of their time in water. I guess this is something I don't understand, which we're getting way too deep into this, and we'll move on shortly.

But you know how, like, they say rhinos, or, yeah. No, hippopotamuses are so big that they just sink to the bottom and they're actually running, they're not swimming. They don't swim, yeah. How is a polar bear just out here just swimming around like i feel like it's a big creature i feel like it's almost as big as a hippo i don't know animals are swimming effortlessly like i feel like even if my dog went into the pool like if wolf on the pool i feel like he's too big to swim

like i'm not judging him, but like. I mean, like whales swim. Yeah, but they're like a fish. Yeah, a mammal doing it is a little. We've got to stop because I feel like we're sounding like we're not on STEM talk. No, but I do know, I learned this, that dolphins, they can't breathe underwater. I mean, they can, but like not for long periods of time. They have to come up for air. Yeah. Every so often.

And basically, when they sleep at night, it's like, oh, well, if you need air to breathe, but you're sleeping, how does one do that? They have a function in their brain that turns on when they're sleeping that can help protect them from potential harm and allows them to sleep underwater. Why don't we have that? That's i'm saying that would be sick i feel like we're like one organ away from mermaid from what being mermaids i thought you said we're one organ away from being murdered by dolphins no probably i bet i bet mermaids exist there's no way i mean

i feel like we have a lot of organs that like you can live or with live you could live with or without so why can't we just like we specifically don't yes we do we have like one you could live without your gallbladder okay two, two. Your tonsils, your adenoids. Those aren't. Your appendix could come out. The appendix and the gallbladder organs. I don't think. I'm pretty sure you can live with one kidney.

Why can't we grow something that like. We're getting way too deep. Like that's just crazy. We clearly don't know enough. I don't have tonsils. Or adenoids. Do you? I don't even know what an adenoid is. I don't know. It. Or adenoids. Do you?

I don't even know what an adenoid is. I don't know. It's something in that general facility. They just took them. That's fine. I don't have an appendix. They just took that. They just took that.

Next thing you know, we're going to be missing a warg. You know. Yeah, no. We definitely just went down a rabbit hole. That is pretty much all that's going on this week, though. But we do have some shady stories for you. Let's get it. Let's get into shady story number one.

I was home from college for Christmas when I was 18, and in my freshman year, we always celebrated Christmas with my dad's side of the family and my grandma's on Christmas Eve. My uncle's wife, my aunt through marriage, is very outspoken and abrasive personality type. That Christmas, she started reprimanding me in front of the entire family, claiming I wasn't thanking people for my Christmas gifts while we were all opening presents at the same time. I have no idea where that came from. I was fed up and super pissed to be called out like I was a child. I was a legal adult at that point, and she wasn't even my mom. So I called my best friend who lived nearby, same best friend I rescued the pit bull puppy with that summer, wink wink.

She picked me up since I didn't have my car. I told her I was late for my period and just didn't feel like dealing with my aunt that night, so we came up with the idea to find a store open late on Christmas Eve to get a pregnancy test. We finally found an open drugstore, got a test, and went back to her house to take it, fully expecting it to be negative. It came up bright and positive immediately, and I was shook. I had to go home and get through Christmas Day with my family, acting like nothing was wrong, but I just found out I was 18 and pregnant. my daughter is 18 herself now and just graduated high school this

year she's a beautiful and wonderful young lady that I love very much I've told her the story about how I found out I was pregnant on Christmas Eve and me and my best friends still laugh about it to this day merry effing Christmas to me that story took took a wild turn. Like, I did not expect it to go from, yeah, I was pretty pissed at my aunt, too. Oh, and then I was pregnant. Yeah. I mean, I guess it was a blessing in disguise that you, like, needed a reason to leave.

That's true. It was just like, oh, let me just see. Yeah. Just for funsies. Just for funsies. So casual about it. Yeah, I thought we might as well go to a drugstore, you know, pick one up. Well, it all worked out in the end.

It did. Beautiful full circle moment. Shady story number two. We got to jump back a couple of months. Beginning of March, I started a new job with a good friend, and I was telling her how I was hooking up with my ex again. She proceeds to tell me that a girl at our work used to talk to someone with that same name. His name isn't that common.

So my first day I brought it up and found out that it was the same guy. And it was whatever, honestly, and she talked her shit about him too. We never had any issue we just became friends when we found out our good old boys others ex was stalking us on both of our instagrams well jump to now and i noticed i wasn't seeing the girl i worked with instagram stories and happened to follow it happened to follow her on a different page and she had a story up so obviously she was blocking me from the stories but why well good old boy lives around the block for me so one night when one night when I was driving home to his house and whose car was in it of course no one else but the

girl I work with I was so baffled how could she be so upfront and honest with someone and find out that she's being a snake behind my back? Needless to say, we still work together. So I told her not to speak to me, but of course I had to be a little petty. So while at work, I played the song, quote, use a hoe. And I said, yours a hoe or use a hoe. And I sang along very loudly but I have to learn to work

with someone who did me did me dirty like that I feel like that's just awkward I just wouldn't so awkward I hate it but also why did they pretend to also be like, oh. Yeah, oh, F that guy. He sucks. And then she just went right back to him. Yikes. Not cool. Not good.

I feel like we haven't been rating them. No, I don't think we have. We forgot the last, like, multiple. I think all last week we didn't. That's crazy. This? Um, pretty shady. Not that shady.

7 out of 10? 7 out of 10. Yeah. Feels about right. All right. Let's finish with some good old holiday shade. Shady story number three. The holiday shade you asked for.

When I was little and still teetering on the edge of, is Santa real? My brother, who is five years older, came to me and said, if you pretend to believe in Santa, mom and dad will get us more presents. My stupid brain was like, great, will do. Fast forward like a week, and my mom said, your brother told us you said you were going to believe in Santa so that we'll get you more presents. I didn't tell her the but i'm 31 years old now and it still bugs me how dare he throw the weight of that on me i think about it every december i would be so pissed this kind of

stuff i feel like still happen where it's like it's somebody else's idea and then they throw it back on you once they get caught like how, how are they about to do that? You guys, I have the best story about our friend who we were talking about at this gingerbread making house. Gingerbread house making party. I can never get it in the right order. I say gingerbread making house instead of gingerbread house anyways at this thing we're talking about how we all found out santa wasn't real which obviously we we need to put a little content warning at the beginning here don't let your kids listen to this with you right now yeah no no no um too late probably for that though but we maybe

we tried yeah shit i don't know we'll say it at s into israel in the description um but we were all talking about how we found out that santa wasn't real and she said the craziest thing so our friend shawna says oh yeah my parents every christmas night the night before christmas christmas eve would paint her nails and while she was sleeping so she would think she was told from her parents that santa painted her nails every christmas eve and so she would wake up in the middle of the night look at her nails and if her nails were painted she knew santa came and that's how she would know santa came to her house i mean we couldn't believe it and i go you didn't think at that time like to ask no other kids were getting their nails painted by santa and like she genuinely thought that santa came to her house and painted her nails every night. Are we sure? Yes.

And I was like, you know that that is just like not a universal experience. What was their thought process there? Why did they have to go the extra mile to paint her nails while she was sleeping? That seems incredibly difficult. She said she used to sleep with their hands on her chest so that Santa would paint her nails. Did she want that to happen? Was that what she was asking for santa like from santa when she was little like i want my nails painted no christmas she just that's what they did and that's how she knew santa came that's the craziest story i've ever heard isn't it so

crazy i couldn't wait how did she find out that santa wasn't real her nails stopped getting painted no so she said one time she had a suspicion and so while her mom was in the room painting her nails she like opened her eyes and saw her mom painting her nails and then she said she also like compared the handwriting to oh like her mom yeah but still like I was like that is so risky for no reason as a parent i feel like every parent is just always stressed out like hopefully they don't catch me you know and then they're in there just straight up painting your nails that's wild yeah dude do you know how i found out i think this is like 90 i'm 99 sure this is like what confirmed for me that Santa wasn't real

because I think at this what however old I was in some point in elementary school I think there was like chatter talk of people Santa's not real or whatever like you don't fully believe that always when you're a kid and I was reading a book and I want to say it was one of like uh like magic treehouse books you know that brand and I remember it was like our class had gone to the library and everyone was just kind of like had your book and you were sitting somewhere in the library and I was sitting over by the door that led to the computer lab by a case of books reading it and in the book the character found out and it was like certain that santa was not real and i was like why would they put that in a children's book looking back on it that like

that is so crazy i did not know that was in yeah it was in like one of the books where like the character the main character was finding out that santa wasn't real and like his parents were telling him or something like that and it like it but it wasn't like a book where it was like other kids were talking about, oh, Santa might not be real, but it's never confirmed. Santa's kind of real in the book. No,

it was like, Santa does not exist. That is messed up. Is it? To be in a children's book? Yeah. I feel like they should have vetted that and like not had that in the library.

Yeah. And I was like, oh, oh shit. And then what? You call your mom. I don't know. i don't even know if i said anything to my parents about it when i read you're like the person in the last story you just wanted more gifts no no no i'm just kidding um well that concludes this week's episode and we're doing for the bonus content we're gonna go through gifts that we got people this year gifts we asked for this year um and yeah that we'll see you guys

after the holidays all right see y'all then see you in the new year bye everyone