just a little shady - Unlocking Childhood Memories (By Singing) | Ep. 18

Episode Date: December 15, 2023

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Hello and welcome back to the podcast. We are going to start this one off by just a little recap of some birthday celebrations, some talk about some future birthday plans, and just get into a few things that's been going on. So starting off, I celebrated my 28th birthday this past weekend. Wild. I'm not actually 28 yet. So like. Calm down everyone.

Not yet. Let's take it back a little. But I always do it a little bit early because it's Christmas Day. That's my birthday. So usually my friends cannot gather on my actual birthday. So usually we do it a few weeks in advance. And I actually did switch it up a little bit this year. Yeah, you did. One, with the timing, mainly because Brittany made some birthday plans of her own

the weekend that I usually do my birthday. And also, I did a brunch, which was kind of just out of pocket. I mean, I said it on my way to said brunch that we are not particularly what you would call or categorize as a morning person. I genuinely can't. And it was just pretty ambitious because, I mean, the brunch didn't start all that early. It started at 11, but however, we had to get there early to set up. And that was when you started getting crazy. Because initially, set up started at 10. And when you moved it from 10 to 9.30 a.m., I knew things weren't going as planned.

I moved it earlier because I realized I had more things to set up. Mm-hmm. But I definitely... And how did that go up. Mm-hmm. But I definitely. And how did that go for us? It didn't go that well. But somehow we finished everything on time. Honestly, and it looked really good. That's all that matters.

Yeah. But it was pretty ambitious to do. And it's funny because in my, like, get ready with me, I was like, somehow still in 28 28 years I haven't learned how to be on time um yeah and I was still somehow late to the initial setup plan um but I swear to god this I was on track to be in time okay but this keeps happening to me and I don't know what's in the fucking air to use my language but at night if I think about having to like wake up at a certain time and it can be something, obviously I'm very excited about my birthday plans, but it wasn't like an excitement thing. It was like, okay, I need to get this much sleep because I am becoming

an older woman and I need my beauty rest. So then I think about how many hours I'm getting. And then my heart just starts just a little bit. And then I'm like, oh shit, my heart's racing. And then I look at the clock an hour later. I'm like, oh my God, I have one less hour to sleep. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Now my heart's beating faster a little bit. Yeah. Then by the time I find the problem, I did not fall asleep until 5 30 AM and I had to And I had to get up at 7.30 a.m. So I was really panicking by the time I had fell asleep. And also it was one of those things where I sometimes am a melatonin galley. Yeah.

I will grab a little melatonin if I know I'm not going to be able to sleep. And you didn't do that that night? I didn't do that because I was like, I don't want to be tired the next day. Because sometimes it does be doing that. Sometimes it lingers. Yeah. And I was trying to be responsible. I said no.

But then by the time that I realized, like, oh, my God, I needed it, I should have taken it, it was too late. Because then it was like, for sure, I won't be getting up when I'm supposed to get up if I take it now. Right. No, no way. So then I was having anxiety about that when I'm supposed to get up if I take it now. Right. No, no. So then I was having anxiety about that because I kept making the wrong decision to postpone that.

And so I just really did myself dirty. And it is what it is. It was what it was. Somehow, I still drank an absurd amount of mimosas and had a good time. As you should on your your birthday do it on my celebration on your celebration of your birthday um but it was actually really fun because i got a champagne gun from britney last year for my birthday and it was because we always used to go to this place in Chicago which RIP I know called the Fremont and they're closing now which we just found out this

past weekend which is so like full circle because literally two years ago or yeah two years two years ago this past weekend we did a brunch for our birthdays. We did. There. And they had a champagne gun. So it inspired us last year to get said champagne gun for our house. We never used it. We never really had a reason to. But I brought it to this brunch, and I was like, this is going to be a great idea. However, the place that we were at was very nice and letting us use it because we didn't really

know how to operate this thing they were really boy did evan just take the champagne gun over to like the servers and we're like and asked well use this yes well we kept saying we we had like a private room for there was like 35 of us so we had our own space and everything so we're like oh we could do this but some of us were like should we just own space and everything. So we're like, oh, we could do this. But some of us were like, should we just try it and like see if it works? Because we had we had like unlimited mimosas. So there was champagne in there. So we're like, I just like do it and see what they say. Yeah. And Evan was like, no, let me go like talk to them and make sure it's fine. I'm like, they're responsible. I think I was on those things like, oh, just try. I had like one too

many mimosas at that point. And I was like, they don't I think I was the one that was saying like, oh, just try. I had like one too many mimosas at that point. And I was like, they don't care. They'll be fine, which they thankfully were. But we pull it out and it just starts squirting everyone in the face, like uncalled for. No one's pressing the button, making an absolute mess. It turned out to be fine, though. We kind of got it under control. I shall insert some videos for everyone here. It was so funny

because I had, I had got it down pat and I went around the entire table doing it to everyone who was like down to do it. It was really funny though. Cause like sometimes it would just kind of squirt and I'm like, Oh, sorry. Yep. A little whoopsie, but by the time we had gotten like to the end, I figured it out. And then right at the end, I'm like, Evan, you do it to me. Like I want someone to do it to me, but he was not the one that had just practiced for 40 people. So we go over to do it and he's like, okay, like, are you ready? I'm like, yeah. I'm'm like just don't squirt me in the face and he did and immediately in my face like just in my eyeball and I'll put that video up because Evan's face was just so devastated he couldn't believe he did the one thing that he was not supposed to do but scared

as he should be it worked out I wasn't even like a it didn't do anything it was just like oh my god shocking um right in my eyeball but uh highly recommend if you know if you're interested champagne guns really adds to the vibes the brunch vibes that they do um but it was a lot of fun there was a point we need to insert this video as well what what um britney was doing the worm at my house we okay let me let me clarify we went back to my house after to watch the lions lose and britney ended up somehow doing the worm so like no one and i talked to brian about this after like no one asked for me to do the worm no one was prompting any sort of like worm like behavior i just did it out of pure

instinct and i can confirm that instinctively you thought in that moment it was time to worm. It was time to worm. And that's on being 28. Mm-hmm. That's the vibe. But we're both about to be 28. You before me. So let's calm it down. By six days.

So not by much. I'm very excited. I think we said this last week. I'm going back to Disney, as one should when they turn 28. It's going to be a vibe. It adds up. It adds up. I'm going to drink around the world.

I'm going to eat some Mickey waffles, and I'm going to have a great time. I'm jealous because you're going to be in some warm weather. Well, hopefully. Fingers crossed. It's been a little chilly there. Regardless, it'll be warmer than here. It'll be warmer than here. One day we'll get

you to come come down to disney yeah i uh i feel like kind of lost i need to do some christmas activities this weekend i feel like i haven't really been doing any and it's weird because at the beginning we thought we were so early to the season and we're like we're gonna be christmas girls this year i'm not a christmas girl year. And I haven't really done anything. So maybe that's what I'll do this weekend. You should. Brian and I went and saw Christmas Light Saturday night, which was pretty Christmassy.

I just feel like it's awesome because there's no snow, which I'm not necessarily mad about. I'm pretty happy about that. I just won't be happy when there's snow all January through March. Then I'll start to get sick of it. I'd rather there be snow right now to add to the Christmas feel. You know what I mean? I guess.

I just feel like. You know, technically, I don't even think winter officially started yet. Oh, really? That's perfect. That's exactly what I wanted to hear. Let me see. I'm going to put my parka on today. When is the first official day?

I feel like it would have been December 1st in my book. No, it's the 21st of December. So we're not even there yet? Yep, technically the first astronomical day of winter in the northern hemisphere is the 21st. See, that's the stuff that doesn't make sense to me it's like when we use fahrenheit instead of celsius in celsius it's like at boiling temperature is 100 degrees freezing temperature is zero degrees but we have to use fahrenheit where shit doesn't make sense yeah and it's the same thing with measuring in, like, feet and inches

instead of meters and... What are meters and kilometers like? Is it easier? Different. I don't know, and to be honest, though, it really screws with my head because I genuinely can't think in anything else. And when I have to do conversions, it hurts.

Conversions do hurt, just here's the thing who wanted to make life so hard for all of us I saw some SNL skit I think it was SNL and it was basically about like how none of it makes sense how people just like they were like oh you know what makes sense Fahrenheit like I don't know like like who like that it's like i don't know it's the kid you know who did it was the kid pounds we use pounds instead of kilograms is kilograms easier probably but here's not in our heads it wouldn't be you know who made all this up i don't know who it really was but it was probably the same kid that would be like oh you forgot to assign the homework for us tonight.

And then everyone got fucking homework that night. How is that the same? Because those are the annoying ass people that would be like, let's make life harder for everyone. Okay, but it's also the same thing as like in the English language when we have random letters that'll be like silent. Or like sometimes it means this, but sometimes it means that. Yeah, that makes no sense like a g sound is like but not in lasagna there is no i did not think that's where it was that's where i was going with it and um yeah and it just bothers me so or like the word effect

oh my god i'll still never get that right i don't use the word effect or effect because i know i'm gonna get it wrong and i could google which one is which but i don't want to there's another word like that oh the word definitely i don't ever spell it because i get it mixed up with defiantly and i still could not tell you how to spell one over the other. That I'm going to not lie to you is so personal. Is it? Because I avoid using that word. That is so personal. Because I don't know which is which.

They're so separate. And I'm really good with grammar and shit. Definitely. And one is defiant. Yeah, I couldn't tell you what the difference is there. Definite or defiant? I don't know. I really don't know.

Defiant is like if you don't listen. I know the difference between weather and weather i would hope so i mean specifically you're just definitely and defiantly like i like no i have to be honest definitely what i have to be honest there is one word that no matter what i can look it up a hundred times and I never spell it right. Is what I just typed out definite, wait, definitely or defiantly? Did you text me? No, I just typed it onto our note.

How can I see what you wrote? On our note. Where? Underneath happy news. You just wrote definitely. That's what I was trying to do. Definitely. Yes.

Yes. Defiantly. What word do you was trying to do. Definitely. Yes. Yes. Defiantly. What word do you have a problem with? Oh, no. Let me restart this because it's serious. Oh. There is one word for my entire life, and I still to this day, I will look it up every time that I spell it.

Restaurant. I can't spell restaurant. That word sucks. I can never get it right. Ever. And every time I think, like, if I actually take the time, half the time, you know, you type something out and you're like, ah, spell check, we'll get it. But, like, even when I do take the time to be like, let me see how I would spell this. Wrong.

Immediately no. You know what? I got two. I think you just might not be that good i'm spelling was always the fucking subject at school that at the beginning of the school year when you had to write down what do you want to improve in what do you want to be better on spelling i wrote spelling because i was so bad at it and i never got better i can remember in fifth grade, in Mr. Coyle's class, I was not, there was like three different levels of spelling tests that you could be in. I was obviously in the beginner.

And I'm pretty sure one of our tough words, that was like a word that was also used in like the higher ones. I don't know. It was the word chocolate. And that was a really hard word for me to learn how it was spelled. I would always say. And sometimes I trip myself up now because of it. I would always come up with little, like, rhymes or songs.

Chocolate, I would say, like, chocolate. Like, chocolate. Like, I would, you know, try to sound them out. That was a tough one for me. But I specifically remember for some reason, and we were probably in, like, second was down the word down and I made a whole song I remember how to sing down it's like d-o-w-n that's the way we get down and I would like literally dance to like make sure I remembered it um and that seems like a pretty simple word but at at the time. It was tricky. That was what chocolate was for me.

But also Wednesday. When I spell the word Wednesday, I have to think. Today? Right now, today. Like if you, if you needed to write that. Tomorrow's Wednesday. No, but if you needed to write that out today. I just, I have to remind myself to think W-E-D.

Wednesday. Wed, and then N-E-S-D-Aa-y it just seems so different than all the other listeners how to spell at this point i'm sorry we got off track but um yeah i agree there's definitely words that don't make sense a lot of things we do just really truly don't make sense um and that kind of leads to our next point because i watched this past week. What? Actually when I was hungover. I watched that movie that came out on Netflix that everyone's been talking about Leave the World Behind. It's got like some big actors in it. Ethan Hawke, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon. Is that why Julia Roberts was on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen this week? I would say so. That makes sense. But it's basically about

things start going wrong. Nobody really knows what's going on. People start turning on each other or whatever. And what was so scary about this, and if you haven't watched it yet, it's kind of spoilers. So maybe fast forward this part, but basically how other countries would be able to easily take down the U.S. because we're so reliant on technology and we're already like kind of in turmoil within so it would easily cause like civil war and lead to disaster because you know people would turn on each other um what was really creepy about it which i didn't even know until after i watched it was that obama actually helped with this movie to make it more realistic realistic and one of the main points of the movie was the guy knew somebody that was powerful.

And he had said in the past that, yeah, we know about this three-step program that other countries have thought about implementing to take down the U.S. And it was what was happening. And he realized it in the end. And so now everyone's kind of wondering, like, was this really a thing that people in the government and, like, powerful people know about other countries trying to do? And, like, is this a warning to the U.S.? Like, if the technology ever goes out, like, basically don't panic and don't turn on each other. Like a lesson, almost. A warning.

Love a warning love a warning um not sure our ability to not panic I feel like there would be panic people would be buying mass amounts of toilet paper again true I don't even think it was that kind of panic but yeah it was it was it was similar but what was really funny too which I guess more spoilers but the whole time the little girl in the film just wanted to watch the last episode of friends because she had started watching all the episodes and she was hooked on it and you know they didn't have internet or anything so she couldn't watch it and the whole time she's just trying to find a way to watch friends of course that's her problem and she ends up finding like the dvd at another like neighbor's house and puts it on and everyone's

saying now on tiktok like going to stock up on dvds where's blockbuster when you need them truly honestly we still have a million dvds at house. I'm pretty sure we do, too. Like, just, like, never got rid of any of our DVDs once the transition to streaming happened. We just have a plethora of DVDs. Well, we just talked about a couple weeks ago how Netflix just now ended their DVD service. Which is, like like bad timing that is what if people are trying to stockpile on dvds now it was a rental service though true true i guess that's a good so maybe blockbuster will have a comeback that'd be absolutely crazy i would be not on my 2024 bingo card, but maybe I should add it on. Well, speaking of nostalgic, this new McDonald's spinoff.

I don't know how I feel about it. Cosmix. I feel kind of hype, but also kind of like, I wonder if this will, you know, stick. Like, are people going to be about it? It kind of reminds me of a sonic in a way it does i've seen the comparison to sonic also kind of starbucks but not really like starbucks for people who don't know cosmix is essentially a new chain McDonald's is launching. It's a spinoff. It's inspired by an old character.

That's why I said speaking of nostalgic. Because they had this character. It was like an alien. And from the 80s to the 90s. And the character was supposedly an alien who came to Earth because they were craving McDonald's. And so. You're joking. I was like what is this based off us there's not a single alien I think that would come to earth specifically for McDonald's who

knows if I was here visiting I'd want to say what was up you're not wrong um but that's why they're saying like it's nostalgic inspired but it's also space inspired the design so it's supposed to look like futuristic but like also be nostalgic for people who knew about this alien creature that was with the McDonald's back in the day um so they're starting next year with 10 pilot locations um The first one is just outside of Chicago and the menu is mainly based like you were saying around drinks and lemonades, coffees, slushies, frappes. I am not, I'm going to be honest, I'm not that thrilled about it because I don't think I could have, I don't think I could justify going out of my way just for like some other specialty drink. Like I have enough liquids in my life. I don't know how to say that in the correct way.

I love a specialty drink. I really do. Yeah, but like don't you have enough in your life? I do. Like we've got our liquid IV, Coke Zero. We just have so many things that we drink regularly. I love a liquid IV, love a Coke Zero. I don't see myself going to a new

place kind of gives me duncan vibes for some reason really i don't know something about like the way these photos are lined up with the menu items i will say i was a little excited because they do have pretzel bites on there that's's the one thing I keep going back to. But also, these pretzel bites look exactly like the pretzel bites they have at the movie theaters. So, I think we're good. Well, I will say that. I love a movie theater. I just love pretzels.

I think we did talk about that before. It appears as if they will be serving hash browns regularly. That little hash brown bites, that's a game changer. And that could change things for me. But you know who already does that? Duncan. Yeah, but it's not the same as a McDonald's hash brown. You're right. These are better.

That could be good. I wish they were also selling french fries all day long. Yeah, I don't see fries on the menu. That's going to be a big, I think, I don't, I think this will be a thing for the beginning.

I don't see it being evergreen. No, that's what I don't think it being a long lasting thing. I feel like this is a phase and it's going to be something that like, it's just a phase. Right. 10, 15 years down the road, we're going to look back and be like, just a phase mom. Right. 10-15 years down the road

we're going to look back and be like remember when they tried to make Cosmix a thing? Yeah. Kind of like Fetch. It's just never going to fully happen. I think they have the money to do it. So let them do it. They definitely do. They're going to have their fun. I don't see it lasting.

These McPops those look a little interesting. Kind of like a beignet situation yeah but i don't specifically see myself venturing here like i just have enough drinks in a day i just if one popped up we'd probably go to it but also i'm not about going to new fast food places as soon as they pop up around us like when we got our first chick boy i don't think i went to it for the first year and a half two years it was open because the line was always wrapped around the building and out to the road i don't i don't know if i see this like that i don't know you don't think people will like be real hype i don't know maybe i almost feel

like we venture to the one that's already open the one outside of chicago well that's just an excuse to go to chicago yeah maybe we go and say goodbye to fremont isn't it already closed no december something we don't got much time um that was just my my last ditch effort effort to try to go on a trip real quick. I mean, hey, you still have time. Yeah. Well, speaking of some other businesses that kind of popped up and disappeared, Smile Direct Club filed for bankruptcy. I did not see this one coming.

I feel like I've seen so many people online that use Smile Direct Club. I thought it was very big. I thought so too. I want to say Brian used either Smile Direct Club or maybe it was like Invisalign. Isn't there another company just like it? I don't know. I don't think so. This one always got a little bit of heat because you never see or come in contact with a dentist or orthodontist. It's all yourself at home.

Maybe it was. And you like send your results in and they have dedicated people in their labs or whatever that look at it. But you never come in contact with an actual dentist or orthodontist and so people always kind of gave them flack for that i just messaged brian to see if it was smile direct club but i was accidentally on all gaps locks i went did you use smile direct he is gonna be like what's wrong what happened um no so apparently they're nearly $900 million in debt. And what was really interesting about this whole thing to me is they are basically, if you were using them, the response allegedly is too bad. That's it. Go see a real dentist.

You're joking. And if you owe payments, like let's say you were doing your monthly payments on what you got, they still want you to pay those, though. Oh, hell no. But you're not getting services anymore. No. You can't. If you paid for your molds and sent them in, you're waiting for your thing. Too bad, so sad.

Kiss it goodbye. You're never seeing it. So a lot of people are not happy oh no i would not be happy so it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out i'm sure we will have a class action lawsuit soon oh yeah that yeah none of that sounds ethical none of that sounds not none of it but that doesn't sound legal keep paying us but you don't get service anymore bullshit go away like what are you gonna do you're not passionate you're not a company anymore right they're not a company anymore i definitely feel like it was it was kind of always sketchy i think to dentists and orthodontists because you're not actually seeing somebody.

So nobody's actually looking at your teeth. They're looking at molds of your teeth. I need to know if Brian used this. We'll follow up with this. But speaking of not ethical slash maybe. Maybe. We don't really know. New AI has come out officially.

So ChatGPT was out. We talked about about chat GPT a lot within the last year and we always said Google was going to be trying to compete oh yeah they kept saying they're coming out with their own AI well they came out with something called Gemini apparently to use it you have to use their BARD tool that already exists. And it's similar to ChatGPT, but now they came out with this Gemini. So you have to use a BARD account, sign in, go to this Gemini thing. And it's a multimodal AI that can process text, images, and audio. so it's it's new in that sense but apparently they are planning to release over the next year two more models of this Gemini tool that are going to be like more capable throughout um and so people are starting to use Google's instead of ChatGPT and you know it's a little alarming that it feels like the AI race is actually on now too yeah it's on now Google said game set match but I don't like

the word bard like what is bard right this is not like lard it yeah i don't like that at all gemini okay don't really love that they used a zodiac sign for it but i guess that's their own um prerogative um that's all i have to say on the matter yeah i guess we'll see what happens with it what it solves what it doesn't what people use it for what they don when ChatGPT came out, people were using ChatGPT to come up with business ideas, make money for them. I still see all the time they're like, I had ChatGPT or maybe just AI create this hotel

based around this cartoon or this movie. And it's like this massive hotel with like themed restaurants and bedrooms and like a barista and themed pools and just like how did it come up with this it's crazy it's it's definitely like we always were saying like it's scary but at the same time like could it probably i think we need to be more concerned about the users that are using the ai users that we need to be using concerned about the humans and using if they're using it for bad or for good because i mean it's it's learned behavior at the end of the day so if we're teaching it bad bad or for good, because, I mean, it's learned behavior at the end of the day. So if we're teaching it bad behavior, AI is going to go bad.

Well, that was the thing about the Google one that also kind of separates it from ChatGPT is that it's more able to guess what the user wanted to ask because it has all the information about users from Google just being so involved with everything already. So it's more able to guess what you were trying to ask and the answer that you want out of it as well. Interesting.

But I seen that you lit up, so I'm guessing that Brian did use SmileDirect. He did. He did. Did it work for him? Yeah, I think so. Did it work? Well, he's lucky he finished. He's lucky he finished his

time before they went out of business. I said they went bankrupt. But it audio corrupt itself. It went bankrupt. Because it's listening to us talk about chat gpt um no but also a few other things came out this week um first of all wanka came out this week and the

main thing i just really needed to say about this because i did not know god do your research, was that Wonka is a musical. And not only is Wonka a musical, the new Mean Girls remake is a musical. Well, it's not a remake. It basically is, though. You can't take something that wasn't a musical and turn it into a musical. They did. They put it on Broadway as a musical. Yes, but that's different.

But this is the movie of the Broadway production. So it's a remake of Mean Girls into a musical. It's a remake of the Broadway production Mean Girls on Broadway. Which was incredible. I went and saw it in New York City.

I was there for work and I went to this musical by myself. It was a very big girl thing of me to do a little nerve-wracking got myself a little drink a little snack and I sat down and I saw Renee Rapp sing her heart out on Broadway she was starring as Regina that that's makes sense it was beautiful when you go to Broadway you're expecting to see a musical and you're seeking a musical. However, if you're going to the movies and you don't know you're sitting down for a musical, you might be a little shocked.

You might be a little scared that all of a sudden they burst into song. Yeah, no, that definitely is something that should be warned and warranted. I just feel like in the trailers that I saw for both movies, they did not show enough that there was singing involved. I did not realize that Wonka was a full-on musical, but I mean, and people have said this online, how did you not know it was going to be a musical? All of the movies are musicals. I would never categorize previous Willy Wonka movies as musicals. Yeah, the

Oompa Loompa Sing, Oompa Loompa, Doop-Dee-Doo. I would not say musical. There's a difference between there being musical scenes in movies or it being a musical. That was really well said. And I don't really choose usually to watch

the latter. No, I don't like movies where there is no dialogue at all. It is purely just singing. That's why I have never seen La La Land or Les Mis. For that reason alone. I've heard that both movies are...

I'm going to be honest. I don't even know what those are. So that's crazy. So yeah. La La Land is a really great movie, apparently. Well, you wouldn't know. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone just singing their little hearth out. And I'm happy for them.

I am too. But I will be seeing Mean Girls, Wonka, 50-50 for me. It just depends if I've got a free day. It's just. And a hankering for going to the movie. It's just like I was fine with High School Musical. But sometimes musicals can take a serious moment and make it so unserious that it's really hard for me. I love Broadway humor.

I genuinely think the jokes that are made in musicals on Broadway are hilarious. Objectively. I have seen Have you ever gone and seen something on Broadway? What have you seen? Wicked.

Wicked is beautiful. And I liked Wicked. But I knew what I was getting into you did and musicals can feel along i've seen not a lot but i've seen many musicals i've seen um were you a theater kid i got in high school in middle school i was in a couple musicals i'm not musically gifted in any way, shape, or form. No, come on. No, it's a running joke on my family that I auditioned to be Susie Snowflake in the frickin'

Here comes Susie Snowflake. In our Candy Cane Lane production of, what, 2004? Maybe 2005. It's Christmas. It's Christmas. I'm kidding. Yep, that was what we sang not very good love it because in the need to find clips of it how long how long ago was that 20 years ago oh my god that's scary but anyways 20 years ago yeah when we sang that as friends. As friends.

And that as friends. Okay, but I just need to say this because between me, you, and Tracy, 20 years ago singing that together. Yes. That still 20 years later, we can't say anything about Christmas without singing that song. It's Christmas. And I don't think our music

teacher knows how much of an impact of an impact that made on our lives on our friendship knows i should tell her i run into her every year on the day of our halloween party our music teacher for some reason is always at the exact store that i am at on on the, not on Halloween, the day of our friend's Christmas, or Halloween party, I See Her. And she also sang another song to us. Stirring and stirring and through. Yeah, and it's just crazy how long that those songs have stayed in our heads.

The Christmas one comes up even when we're not talking about christmas we'll just be talking about nothing and one of us will start saying but i feel like people can relate to this like there has to be songs from it's specifically elementary school too like middle school we did choir but i don't those don't really stick with me well we were out here singing wild, wild songs in middle school. The elementary school one specifically have stuck with us so deeply ingrained in my brain. But the Christmas one I think is very nation specific. I've tried Googling Candy Cane Lane musical because it was what?

We were in second or third grade? Or how about the beginning of the class? I'm so glad to be here. She made that up here. I'm so glad to be here. She made that up here. I'm so glad to be here. And honestly, even that. And there was another layer unlocked every year. Do you know that?

Why do we? Yes. But why do we can't let it go? It's burned into my brain. No, there's other songs like the state one where it's like, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona. Other people learn that because in college like Alabama, Alaska, Arizona. Other people learn that because in college.

Yes, I feel that. Our friend group in college had a collective moment where we all just started like singing these random niche songs. And realized we all knew them. And everyone knew them. That's what I'm saying. So like maybe people listening will know. Christmas on Candy Cane Lane wasn't one of those. That's a special thing that happened whenever we did that production and we need to find the video

footage of it. We both are confident that our parents recorded it. Confident. I gotta look it up. Wow. We just, we gave you guys a musical. A version of what we didn't want. And that was a musical and you're welcome.

Crazy. I'm just glad we got to reference Candy Can Lane, the musicale. We had to get it out there. It was truly an iconic moment. All right. Well, let's get into some iconic shady stories. Starting with a pretty long one. Shady story number one.

This story is a little bit long, but I'm going to try and cut it down because it's shady as fuck. LOL. Here's a little background. My parents have been divorced for multiple years now, and they have been in the same vicinity multiple times throughout the last 15 plus years due to me and my brother doing sports and other activities that involve them having to be around each other. So two years ago, I decided to throw my dad a 50th birthday party. I invited a bunch of his high school friends and just friends that he has had throughout the years, and I invited family members. Side note, my mom lives in the same city as my dad, and I just felt like it wouldn't be right for me to have this big huge party and not invite my mom, considering some of the

people that are invited to the party still stay in touch and communication with her even though her and my dad are not together anymore. So before even confirming with my dad if it would be okay if my mom came I took the initiative and said I don't care if he agrees with me or not but my mom absolutely is invited. With that being said my dad's girlfriend reached out to me to let me know that she really wants to help me plan my dad's 50th birthday party and if there's anything she can do she wants me to reach out to her. I reach out to her and basically we came to the conclusion that she'll take care of the taco bar and she'll take care of the cupcakes. The cupcakes I wanted were very specific to Wu Tang which is his favorite rap group and I wanted them to be a specific design and I sent her the inspo and she

said that she can get it done. Meanwhile I talked to my dad a few weeks before the party and without even bringing anything up to him about my mom coming, he's the one that had said, I almost have half of a mind to tell you to invite your mother. So I told him that I already told her she could come. Now fast forward to the day of the party. We all get to the hall to set everything up. The taco bar looks good from what I can see and the cupcakes I haven't seen yet. My mom brings my brother and she's one of the few people there first alongside my dad's girlfriend, her kids, my grandma, and etc. My dad's girlfriend had no idea my mom was invited.

I didn't need to tell her because it's not her business and my dad obviously didn't share that with her so that's not my problem. She sees my mom come in and all of a sudden she just disappears. I don't see her for probably about 10-15 minutes. Meanwhile my dad isn't even there yet so everybody is just gathering into the hall waiting for him to arrive. My dad arrives and makes his grand entrance. So after about 10 minutes of him being there, he disappears and I can't find his girlfriend either. Mind you, I'm hungover and already drunk so I'm super irritated because I'm just like, where is my dad? I texted him and was like, where are you at? Your friends are here to see you. And he texted me back, I'll be out in a minute.

Long story short, I ended up finding out that my dad's girlfriend was extremely pissed off that my mom was there, so she decided to go hide in the back kitchen and vent to my dad about how pissed off she was. About an hour goes by, there's still tension, but I don't really care because I'm having a good time, my dad's happy, and that's all that matters. My mom decides to go to the bathroom. She's in the stall and she hears people walk into the bathroom and start talking. The people that walked into the bathroom were my dad's girlfriend, her daughter, and her sister. All my mom heard was them talking shit on the party, my mom being there, and basically decided to proceed and say they're all stupid, basically

referring to me and my family because my mom was invited to my dad's party and she was pissed off because she feels like my mom should have not been invited my mom doesn't say anything to them because she knows that it wasn't the right place to do it she proceeds to tell me and my god sister and we both ended up being furious but we didn't let it ruin our night because we had no beef so with that being said i had reached out to my dad a few days later after his party and basically told him what was said, and he was just not on my side whatsoever, which is fine with me because I don't care. To end the story, the taco bar was trash and the cupcakes were good, but they were ugly and not what I wanted.

Mind you, this was not the first time she talked shit on a party that I threw for my dad, so me and her have just been on opposite ends for years now and I don't care if she likes me hopefully this makes it in not the cupcakes being ugly I would actually be pissed about that about the cupcakes being ugly oh yeah same but like she had a vision and it wasn't executed i think the real moral of this story is like don't don't go in the bathroom and talk shit if you don't know who's in the stalls you have to you know in inspect that it's gotta be cleared out you gotta make sure that every stall is empty before you start talking shit in the bathroom that's that's rule number one. But also, I mean, at least the dad's 50. You need to go have an argument at 50 years old.

In the kitchen. In the kitchen. Come on. How did they even allow her to just stay sulking in the kitchen? I don't know. That seems immature. It does. But I think, seriously, the lesson is clear out the bathrooms before you talk shit at a party.

Not don't talk shit. Just be aware of your surroundings. For sure talk shit. Yeah. And then write it in. Yeah. But just don't let anyone hear you. That's the lesson.

If you're going to be dumb, don't be stupid. Exactly. Great point. Great point. Something to live by right there. Number two. if you're gonna be dumb don't be stupid exactly great point great point something to live by right there number two and I quote okay buckle up bitches

sounds like something my mom would write in I love it okay so when I used to live with my mom my stepdad would always go through my room where her and I when her and I weren't there. Fucking sus, eh? Eh?

Eh? They're obviously Canadian, right? I don't know. Eh? Eh? So I did have my vape hidden in my underwear drawer was 16 he fucking found it bitches he went through my underwear drawer what exclamation point question mark exclamation point question mark so cut to Christmas and that was a couple years ago my mom told me to get him a Christmas

gift so I got him some new thongs so he doesn't have to go creepin'. Can't wait to see his face when he opens. Oh this is right now. I love this. I love the pettiness. I love the execution. And I can't wait to hear what he thinks of his new

thongs. Agreed. You should write a cute little note too so you don't have to borrow mine. Bitch. Clearly I'm not afraid to use that word. I love this. Short, sweet, to the point. You wasted no time. You figured out the right way to be petty in this situation.

Perfect full circle. 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. This is the shadiness we strive for. Keep it up. Strive. You know, just keep going in 2024. Keep up the bit. That's the one.

That's a great part about a bit is you can continue that. It doesn't have to end here. Just something to note. Great point. Don't draw the line. Keep going past the this is getting bad to be bad advice um it's not anyways all right shady story number three i have an incredibly large family my mom is one of 11 siblings so family get-togethers are large

and usually have some sort of drama that occurs so So for Thanksgiving, we were having a potluck like we usually do for family events. Each family member brings their signature dish and no one usually strays from what they normally make each Thanksgiving. My mom makes mashed potatoes, my brother makes ham, my aunt makes turkey, etc. Well, this year, my brother wasn't able to provide the ham, so my mom decided to make one in his place. Let me just tell you that his ham recipe came from my now-deceased grandpa and was passed on to my immediate family, so my mom, me, and two brothers. No one has ever asked for the recipe or attempted to learn or make it, so it's been a family secret recipe. Had someone asked for it, we definitely would have shared. All hell broke loose when my mom said in our family text thread that she would

be making both the mashed potatoes and the ham. cousin who was in her 40s started talking shit saying it better be a damn good ham does everyone just want me to make the ham my mom said it's going to be delicious because it's grandpa's recipe and she completely flips the script she starts texting while i'm not special enough to know grandpa's recipe, I should have the recipe because I loved grandpa and ham more than anyone. And this family doesn't deserve my ham. It was both comical and psychotic at the same time. Fast forward to Thanksgiving day, my mom and cousin had talked on the phone and they decided that both of them would make a ham. There were about 50 people that were attending, so two hams weren't needed.

The whole family, without discussing it, barely touched her ham. My mom's ham was devoured. I think it was my family's silent protest to her outrageous outburst. What goes on? I just love how something so small really can turn into such a big drama in a family.

Sometimes it's the best kind of drama. It is because it's so innocent but also so entertaining. It is entertaining. That little text thread led to at least 50 side combos about this cousin. That's the best. That's the beauty of it. The side conversation. That's the beauty of it. And that's the beauty of it and that's

literally i feel like how reality shows are made and every family should have their own reality show really yes do you want one no no no but um oh my mom would make great reality tv put us on one right now we would do i could be a We would do. I could be a side character in yours. You could be a side character. Like you just call me to tell me about the ham drama and I'm like oh my god. Should we go get lunch? Yeah. That would be great. It would be

so fun. I know I talk about this regularly. Um. I love this. I do too. It's really funny. Um. And I love how everyone was just in cahoots, but like no one actually planned to not do it. It's a good one. We love the holiday drama. That we do.

So keep writing them in. We will see you guys in the Patreon bonus content. We're going to be doing a little Christmas this or that. Talking about some of our Christmas traditions. And we'll see you guys in the next one. Bye, everyone. Bye.