Some More News - Even More Qs – Super Post-Holiday Holiday Edition

Episode Date: January 5, 2024

Hi. Here's an episode of Even More Qs we released to our patrons just before Christmas. Let's keep the holiday spirit going well into January! Katy and Cody answer questions about the Warmbo Extended Universe, dating as a single parent, Christmas presents for pets, and Freaky Fridaying with each other. We'll be back next week with all new episodes of "Some More News" and "Even More News." Check out our MERCH STORE: https://shop.somemorenews.com   SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh   Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA   Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/   Facebook:

Hello and welcome back to Even More Q's, the show where we answer even more of your Q's. We A the Q's. We A the Q's. A very special holiday edition. I don't know if it's that special. Do we have holiday questions? I do have a few holiday questions, yes. That's nice.

Also, it's just around the holidays, which counts as special. A very special few holiday questions. It, that's nice. Also, it's just around the holidays, which counts as special. A very special few holiday questions. It is around the holidays. I can holiday up the questions if you want. Just like saying them as a Santa voice? Whatever you want. Yeah, I can say them in a Santa voice or I can just add jingles. I was going to say we add sleigh bells during the read.

We're going to really lean into the holiday nature of this holiday episode or just like the sounds of hellfire and demons you know be inclusive all the satanists out there we'll think about that we'll think about it gsq j okay gsq j so we can A. A? D V N T Pinky asks, have you ever considered fully fleshing out the W E U Wormbow extended universe as an SMN side quest episode? Huh? No. And yes,

we're, we got our Wormbows in order. They're all lined up. got our warmbos in order they're all uh lined up um we do think about warmbow lore and uh the warmbowification of i don't know the universe it wouldn't be in a side quest episode that's only like here's the story of warmbow but uh you'll probably see in the coming year more events and more things with that little lovable scamp i would say is that vague enough is that answer appropriately vague excellent answered by the time this comes out everyone will have seen the episode that we're just that's right putting out on the holiday one which has which kind of wraps up or extends the corn cream saga a little bit yeah

depending on how you interpret it exactly yeah so uh check out that episode um it's got uh it's got warm bow it's got corn cream it's got whatever comes next from that said corn cream burrito asks i want to avoid giving all the data to google and such but also i live in a crummy neighborhood any suggestions for outfitting my house with cameras that can't be used by bad actors in nefarious ways maybe great question i so i don't i actually don't know um the specifics i think there are you know obviously there's so many different camera products that you can get with these. I imagine there's probably some, at least, that you can turn off and disconnect, not turn off, like disconnect from your network. I know everything is like smart these days, but surely there is some product out there that can be set up so you can record.

That's just a camera. Yeah, that's just a camera. some product out there that can be set up so you can record. This is the camera. It's tough because I think that most things are, you know, attached to cloud storage in some way. But there are trail cameras that people have up here and put out. And there's things that people use to watch wildlife and whatnot that have been around for a long time that I have to imagine are separate from this infrastructure, this ecosystem that's been built more recently.

But yeah, I need to look into this as well. Burrito. What kind of burrito are you? Are you like a, like a fish burrito, veggie, carne asada?

We're really changing up how we do cues by asking them. Yeah. Hit us up with your answers, burrito. I love a burrito. Ooh, are you a breakfast burrito?

I could go for a breakfast burrito. Always could go for a breakfast burrito. Another cue, please. Fabian Rose Dolan asks, did you ever believe in something that you now know to be BS? I really like this question.

Santa Claus? Wait, what? Whoops. Okay. Well, that's, I got to talk to my parents after this. Awesome. Yeah, this isn't the space for that. Yeah, big reveal.

Great. Thank you for that. So I guess Santa, apparently. Yeah, no, i really like this question and i was trying to think of one and i know that i know i know that there are things out there that exist about that that uh i can't think of and i'm so sorry this is a really great question i would like to revisit it in the future um well so that's that's the thing they're like they're like political things where it's like yeah i thought this but then like this happened or like yeah i was expecting this and

ah you know but i don't think that's really the question i think it's more like you thought this was this fact right like um like bullshit like the uh you only use 10 of your brain like that kind of factoid they're like ah that's a thing that i know is true and then you're like, oh, that's a thing that I know is true. And then you're like, you find out like, no, it's just complete bullshit. I think that's kind of more what the question is about. And I think we all have to be very much open to it. I think I was listening to something recently, just talking about how at every point in time, we always think we have it figured out that we know the answers and then more information is revealed or science evolves in such a way where we totally, we learn more,

we have more information. And so I think that we all have to be open to changing our perspectives or I don't think that, I think we all have to be aware that everything is changing and that we can't hold on to limiting beliefs just because, or old data or old science. That's true. I think that, um, I think at least my interpretation of the question, it's not, there's no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Like I there's there's no like like strong belief that has that I've you know, I know people that like grew up very religious or like X or Y and then like something like open up their mind to something else. And then they, you know, go down that path. There's nothing that significant for me. So I'll just say the 10 percent of your brain thing. And I'm going to stick with Santa Claus. I have an answer for this. I remember reading the George Carlin book,

Brain Droppings, years and decades ago. It's a collection of his bits and other writings and stuff. And he has a whole chapter in there about like grammar and how everyone's using grammar wrong. And I just like embraced all of that. And it was stuff like, you don't call it your forte it's actually your fort because it's you know means strength in latin or whatever and i'd be like yeah that's right you know um and you just become an annoying correcting person and uh i now believe that

language evolves and changes over time that's a good answer jonathan that's a really good answer oh thanks maybe uh yeah punctuation has changed for me a little bit over the years i used to really really really dislike a lot of the lack of punctuation and like the all the emojis and stuff going on but i've accepted that yeah it's just how it's gonna be yeah that dovetails perfectly into this next question a jar full of bees asks how would you guys rank punctuation in terms of sexiness what perhaps i'm revealing something it's up there i you know taking the time doing like correct uh punctuation capitalization uh in text and stuff and like crafting your sentences and writing it out. I find it.

I'll be honest. I'm into it. I'm into it. I don't want it to be atrocious, you know, and super lazy, but we all know how difficult it is sometimes when you're texting and you miss this thing. It's very annoying to go back and fix this thing. I put your cursor in the right spot to just insert this comma or whatever i think personally there's a balance because you can try too hard and feel stilted so i think also this is like and then also it's like okay period

fuck you motherfucker is my response to that punctuation. That's why you have exclamation points and other forms of punctuation. Yeah, but language is so malleable. And yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm saying it's definitely not high up there on my list of things that I require. I don't think it's a phase thing. Like there's a there's a phase where things get more natural and comfortable and then you get like goofy and you kind of have your own sort of rhythm

and communication. No backsies, Cody. You said that it's high up there in your list. You know, I like a good sentence. You're a dork and I'm cool, so. I like a good sentence. I interpreted this question completely differently. I thought at first we meant the punctuation,

which is the sexiest punctuation. That's what I thought it meant. Like semicolons are the sexiest. That's definitely what the question is about. Okay. Oh, is it? Okay. So I don't know what's the sexiest.

I think the sexiest punctuation is ellipses. Really? It's suggestive. I think they're all equal. I think everybody is sexy in their own way and that includes punctuation uh no an ellipses is um i think up there probably in terms of sexiness for what you're talking about um it can be very suggestive it can also be uh confusing and well that's very telling into my romantic life you know i've sent you each like 20 emails a day for a couple of years now and now it's like oh my god i've been putting in a ton of punctuation turning Katie off with every email.

No, I've just always been confused as to whether or not you're flirting with me. By using correct punctuation. No, what's my second sexiest? I can't think of anything sexier than LMC's. In the punctuation arena. Not an exclamation point. That's like giving away your power.

Too eager, you know? Yeah. Sean Piper asks, what are your pets getting for Christmas this year? Benny is going to get a new cozy dog bag because he threw up all over the last one and it was just beyond cleaning. Got into the crevices.

I cleaned it and he kept licking at the spot. So it's trash now. That's cute. Oh, we do need to get Maggie a new bed. We're going to get Otto a little cat tree. A little perch for him. He finds perches in the house because he's a cat. He'll do that.

But we have his window out front with a little bench. And both pets really love watching outside. We call it they're watching their shows. But they cannot be in the window together. They just do not tolerate it. There's room for both. So just find something for him so he can perch while they're both there and stuff like that. And love.

Oh, sure. Next cue. perch while they're both there and stuff like that and love oh sure next cue moira becker says as a single parent to a three-year-old i don't have much energy for dating is my balder's gate three romance an acceptable replacement for real life connection you know what i'm gonna say no i was gonna lightly say. It is not a replacement. I would encourage you to enjoy it. Gosh, what a perfect, amazing game. We love it.

Although I have some issues with it, but we can talk about that another time. It's fine. I would say that perhaps you can also use this Baldur's Gate 3 romantic relationship as an inroad to perhaps other people out there who are also huge fans of the game and want to talk about that and connect on that level and then perhaps form a lasting romance based on your love, your mutual love of, I assume, a starian. I assume

that you're an a starian person, but based on that, I'm nothing. Wait, what does that mean? A starian is a character in the game that you can romance. Uh, he's very, very popular among the ladies. And what does that mean? You can romance.

Uh, the game. So it's a role playing game. So it's like, it's kind of built on D and D and like the, the D and D rules loosely. Um, so there's a plot throughout the game that you're like any video game you got to do

this you got to this ah the monsters or whatever the plot is i know the plot i'm not gonna explain to you but uh amidst it you get companions throughout the game that also that have other classes and powers and abilities to build a party to go through this game like in dnd you got your like you know if you watch stranger things, that's the kids are like, I'm a wizard, I'm this, I'm this. So the game is built in companions for you to pick up to make your team. And also you sort of, your actions gain approval

or disapproval from these characters based off of their ideas of like how the world should work some people they're like sims as well they're kind of like sims where like if you you know if you treat animals well there are certain characters who really approve of that if you're a dick to people there are characters who really approve of that so you sort of go through this game gaining approval gaining disapproval and at a certain point you can like romance those characters and form a relationship, which also influences

the story beyond there. It's more or less how it works. Moira. Moira. This is a fun game, and I think it's a really good addition to your life when you need to unwind. But no. No, no. This is not an acceptable replacement for real

life connection but i agree that it you know maybe perhaps your second run through will be maybe you'll meet somebody that wants to play it with you it's really hard to be a single parent especially for a three-year-old and i was just talking to a girlfriend whose son is two and a half and she's single. She's really struggling with the same kind of situation without knowing any specifics about yours. I just kind of we kind of arrived at this spot, which is it's going to get easier in the next couple of years, too. Not that that is an immediate answer, but I know that as your child gets a little bit older, once they're in preschool, it will definitely be a little bit easier for you to free up the time. You know, more kids and sleepovers. This is maybe bad advice because as I'm saying it, if I was a single parent of a three year old and I'm like'm like wait a couple years I'm not suggesting you wait but I'm just having compassion for how tough that must be to balance but you're doing great I mean you're asking us for advice you're that's a great start yeah great start that's good advice

I think there's also you know putting uh so much pressure on needing to go out and date and stuff. You know, I oftentimes, if you aren't focused on that and you're focusing on other things, it happens. I know it's like, it's, it is cliche. Like it happens when you're not looking for it, but it often does. And working on like, you know, Katie saying like, you got to relax. You do things to help you relax, take care of your kid and wait a few years, I guess. Sorry. Well, I just was trying to instill some hope for this process.

But also, why don't they have single parent playdate mixers where it's like all the single parents have a party and the kids are playing and you know parents are fucking okay i answered my own question yeah i was gonna say like just keep keep going and you'll find out why it probably doesn't happen a lot well i don't know maybe there's a market for it none of us are single parents go out get that swarthy vampire boyfriend and uh have a wonderful time in the lands of faerun and um keep on keeping on okay another question please monsieur oh uh we we put the jingles in you've been putting the jingles in the whole time lustful octopus asks do you think the some more news movie from 2020 has aged well or poorly and why that's a good question i don't think it's aged at all uh yeah i don't know if it's aged at all um i haven't seen it in a long time i haven't either i mean i don't know if we would necessarily

change any of like the analysis much because i feel like like it's good that uh he wasn't re-elected which i know the movie was uh sure but you know the movie was worried about that i would have to revisit it more in depth i think but i don't think you know the sort of because so much of it was analyzing like the films and movies we were talking about in the context of the man so i don't know if there's anything that would have necessarily aged poorly but i'm definitely open to that being true it feels almost time to re-watch it let's be like almost that time before like the quote-un sequel. Or the quote unquote sequel. Oh yeah, we'll definitely be watching it before that. Jess Hrudi asks,

why do so many would-be dictators and fascists have stupid hair? Lack of self awareness? Distracts people

from the fascist things they say and do. Too much self awareness. It is an interesting, unique thing. I think, you know, part of fascist movements movements the thing that like really brings it all together you know there are so many uh reasons

for uh these movements to take hold and uh succeed or fail or you know all the the conditions that sort of are required for like it to really bubble up but one of the main things is that you have this uh quote unquote charismatic uh male leader um and i think it's because of you know they're like they're kind of there's an alien thing there's something uh oddly to some people oddly magnetic about a person like that and some of that comes from you know there's like a lack of shame or a lack of interest in that um and you know you gotta there's a charismatic person you gotta uh spice a little uh there's like a uh an iconicness i think to a lot of a lot of those aesthetic decisions not necessarily

on purpose not like they're like oh how's my goofy hair gonna be I think that there's a high likelihood that well we know that they're hard people to to be around and you, I bet that the people that work for them hate them so much and just make them look stupid. That's the many theories out there. Yeah, I think that one's based in reality and science, social science. Trump has never heard about how his hair looks stupid. He's never, never, never been indicated to him that his hair is uh but remember when he went to buckingham palace or whatever and they had to give him a dinner jacket and they definitely gave him one that was way too small remember well he's not he's a big oddly shaped guy but they have other sizes they don't have trump size they absolutely

have trump size but whoever styled him whoever styled him did that on purpose you will never be able to convince me that they didn't i honestly i think like i don't know if there's an answer to this because like some fascist dictators don't have weird hair although a lot of them do um even like these days any but i think you know ultimately they're all just fucked up little freaks. They're fucking weirdos with fucking stupid ideas and they're liars. And, you know, so they got their stupid fucking hair. It's ultimately what I think it is.

This one comes from Jay Philly. A friend pointed out that sleeping isn't the same as relaxing. And I've been really tense. I try to do hobbies but it all feels like it requires more buy-in in terms of time and emotion how do you relax well that is such a good question video games is a hobby uh sometimes um even though i've mentioned them many times i'm not like a gamer i just have like every once in a while there's like a game where like this game is amazing

but i'm not always like when's the new game out you know but yeah so that i would say i also play music a lot um i play music every day whether it's you know guitar piano drums or whatever and that is uh very relaxing for me it's really meditative i find that if i kind of zone out for like 40 minutes and just play uh i'll when i stop i'm kind of in this sort of like floaty almost like it like sometimes it feels like i just did drugs a little bit where it's like oh yeah my my mind is sort of like gotten to the space and i come out of it like oh that that was that was an experience. So that is very relaxing for me, though. I do understand that started out as a hobby for me, as a hobby that I'm like, I'm going to work at this.

I'm going to learn how to play these instruments. And that wasn't necessarily relaxing to like run through scales and like learn chords like that's not relaxing. scales and like learn chords, like that's not relaxing. So there is this sort of hump, I think, for at least for some activities, where like your hobby is work until you get to a certain point where it becomes this sort of meditative practice. That's what makes it hard, I think, as we're adults with busy lives, because there's all this pressure and people say, like, I relax with my hobbies. Well, I have to put in a lot of work to a hobby to make it something that feels relaxing. And I understand and very much relate to that. I think there's got to be things that you do enjoy, even if that means sitting on the couch and looking out the window or reading a book or whatever. I think taking the pressure off of finding a hobby that feels like it will be a gateway to relaxation is important. What makes it hard for me to enjoy

those is because I'm not actually giving myself mental space to relax. And I'm beating myself up in lots of ways. I'm putting pressure on it. Or I'm thinking about all the other things I could be doing. So even though, so ultimately, I end up feeling like I've wasted time and not relaxed. And what I'm personally working on right now is how to give myself full and complete time off. Awareness that this thing that I have to do will get done. It's just going to get done at a different, just going to get done in a different moment than this one. And to trust myself more, to trust myself that I can be allowed to rest and then continue. I'm not sure if any of that lands with you because you are

not here in front of me. And so I'm not looking at your face as you're listening to this. But I have this hope that as I'm better at just allowing my body to physically unclench, so to speak, I will then be creating space to try hobbies with zero pressure attached. I bought a paint by numbers kit that I keep looking at that I feel like I should do. And I haven't started it because I'm like, well, that's not going to be relaxing this out of the other. No, I need to relax. And then once I'm relaxed, maybe I'll. The mood will actually strike me to pick that thing up. the mood will actually strike me to pick that thing up.

Right. There's an element of relaxing, I think. And I think it's in the question, too, of the sort of pressure to make relaxing an activity. It doesn't need to be that you're doing something to relax. And, you know, your mileage may vary, but just sit and like let yourself sit and let your thoughts sort of flow through you. You're saying you're tense to meditate. I was going to say like, uh, look into like, even just like meditation, just a way to sit still. Um, and let part of it is letting your thoughts happen. Um, and, uh, cause you know, you're saying you're very tense. I assume there's a lot of stress going on in your life and you have like all these worries and this, I'm going to do this. I got to do this. You have all these sorts of

thoughts floating around and you're not necessarily giving yourself time to let those thoughts happen and then float around. And then maybe they sink to the bottom, maybe another one pops up and then maybe they sink to the bottom maybe another one pops up and then that sinks to the bottom and so uh looking into just like letting yourself relax without it being like an activity i think is helpful yeah also uh you know little things like saving up for like getting like a massage can get a lot of that stress out. Just if that's something you're open to as well. I don't know. Steven Smith asks, what would you do? The two of you,

Katie and Cody, what would you do if you woke up in a freaky Friday situation and had a full body switcheroo? So you must be in a vice versa situation. I would definitely panic. I'll be honest. That would be so upsetting. If we're talking in

a real sense boy that would be i scream scream like am i always gonna be stuck like this i wouldn't know there'd be like this this uh this intense disconnect um i feel like those movies really miss out on like that element like they play it for goofs you know but like there would be like at least a day where like you just it would be a horror movie you're stuck um yeah thriller terrifying a psychological thriller then i'd probably call cody and and to confirm that it was a switch yeah i think it might yeah i think it might be very interesting and good to see yourself from a outside perspective though i think that would be, you know, you can see the things that you're self-conscious of

or the things that you're completely oblivious of. Maybe it would be a real learning moment to... You just got to meditate, step outside yourself, look down. Yeah, especially if you're able to meditate. I think it would be really cool to be able to play guitar for that day, though. So I'd just be like shredding.

I could just teach you. Yeah, but that's... See, this is going back to that question. That's not very stressful when you're like, I'm bad. The harmonica. That's fine. Teach me the harmonica. Saying that for years.

I want to see if I could crush trivia night and I'd have a chat with some mountain folk. Yeah, that'd be fun for you guys. I'd be like, I bet I can. I want to see if I could destroy Trivia Night. You can come do that anyway. You don't have to be mean. I'd call everybody we mutually know and be like, don't you hate Cody? Oh, OK.

Well, that does it for us at this holiday qa session q and a session i don't know why i said it like that gosh gosh you know jeez you've been having such a nice holiday season i hope that you have time to rest i hope that your family um doesn't act weird this year um and that you don't get stuck in a lot of holiday travel i just i hope and if you do i hope you listen to our shows. Hope it's real smooth for everybody. I hope it's real smooth for everybody. Any message for the people listening to this on January 10th or later? Guys, join our Patreon. Happy New Year, everybody. Welcome to the news.

That's better. Or if you had just joined Patreon, you would have gotten this episode weeks ago. But I'm also grateful for you guys. You know what? We got to have listeners that listen to the show with the ads. And we love that we have listeners that listen to the show on the Patreon. We love you all. Oh, gosh darn it.

Either happy holidays or happy new year or both. And you know what? Happy January 6th and you know what happy January 6th everybody we missed January 6th unfortunately but to all who celebrate I hope it was a good one and you know what we love you very much