Embarking on the path to parenthood can feel like navigating a labyrinth by torchlight, but we're here to guide you through every twist and turn. Our latest episode charts the often unspoken trials of fertility—from the home use of a speculum to a perilous trek for a cryogenic chamber amidst a blizzard. We also stumbled upon serendipity, meeting a midwife whose expertise bolstered our spirits and resolve.
Then we shift gears to a candid conversation about how financial support systems intersect with our daily lives. We discuss groundbreaking healthcare initiatives combining medical aid with essential social services, and the ripple effects of universal basic income on communities. We're not just talking theories here; we're examining real-world impacts, from better school attendance to reduced crime rates. And as family structures evolve, we dissect the intricacies of custody and parental rights that play a critical role in navigating financial aid for children.
Our exploration doesn't stop at the edge of reality; we also venture into the realm of fiction and its portrayal of relationships and secrets. We analyze the impact of adverse childhood experiences through the tangled tales of "The L Word" and personal stories, reflecting on how these narratives mirror our own lives. Finally, we send you off into the night with a heartfelt reminder of the power of empathy and self-care. As you close your eyes tonight, know that we're here, sharing in the collective quest for understanding and connection.
Embarking on the path to parenthood can feel like navigating a labyrinth by torchlight, but we're here to guide you through every twist and turn. Our latest episode charts the often unspoken trials of fertility—from the home use of a speculum to a perilous trek for a cryogenic chamber amidst a blizzard. We also stumbled upon serendipity, meeting a midwife whose expertise bolstered our spirits and resolve.
Then we shift gears to a candid conversation about how financial support systems intersect with our daily lives. We discuss groundbreaking healthcare initiatives combining medical aid with essential social services, and the ripple effects of universal basic income on communities. We're not just talking theories here; we're examining real-world impacts, from better school attendance to reduced crime rates. And as family structures evolve, we dissect the intricacies of custody and parental rights that play a critical role in navigating financial aid for children.
Our exploration doesn't stop at the edge of reality; we also venture into the realm of fiction and its portrayal of relationships and secrets. We analyze the impact of adverse childhood experiences through the tangled tales of "The L Word" and personal stories, reflecting on how these narratives mirror our own lives. Finally, we send you off into the night with a heartfelt reminder of the power of empathy and self-care. As you close your eyes tonight, know that we're here, sharing in the collective quest for understanding and connection.
So we are on episode five. I think Lies, lies, lies from lies, lies, lies.
Speaker 2:Okay, but also I didn't tell you about my week.
Speaker 1:I'm so sorry. I completely neglected to ask you about your week and that was not very empathetic or good-friending of me, tell me about your week.
Speaker 2:You had other stuff that happened today, so you're definitely forgiven. I should have said something. Okay, so let me overthink. Might take a bunch of them.
Speaker 2:On Saturday we're trying to track her LH surge to see if she's gonna be ovulating, but it's really hard to measure and so, like, a lot of the things you have to do involve like actually looking at your cervix. I don't know how much you know about it, but you have to like look at the cervix to see what color it is, how open the hole is in the center of it, and then you have to like squish it to see how squishy it is, and the squishier it is, the closer you are to ovulation. And you have to take a look at all the like fluids and analyze what color they are and, as you can imagine, it's a pretty hard thing to see for yourself unless you have very flexible wrists and a good mirror. So we bought a like plastic clear speculum and I basically was playing doctor and took a look and, yeah, you can see the whole thing. It's crazy. It looks like a little mini donut from the fair. You know what I mean, like the small ones that are in the little machine. Yeah, just looks like that and it's wild. So, yeah, now I've seen somebody's insides in an interesting way, so we couldn't determine whether or not she was having an LH surge or ovulating. But then her numbers started to decrease on Sunday afternoon and we're like, shit, like it's happening, and if we miss it then we've gone through a whole round of hormones for nothing and we've lost an entire month of time. So we're like, okay, we're gonna do this.
Speaker 2:So we got up at 3.45 in the morning, which was really felt like 2.45 in the morning because of daylight savings time and we drove all the way to Seattle to go to this burn bank and pick up like the big cryogenic chamber with the hassle sample inside. It's huge, it's like bigger than a cooler you take to the beach and it's just got this 80, 80 sample inside and they keep it like minus 280 degrees. And I suspect we may have been that place's first real customers, cause they gave us a gift card to PF Changs for like a hundred dollars American. It was like a thank you for choosing them. So that was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:The blizzards on the way there were horrendous, so like I couldn't see the road, I couldn't see the side of the road. I couldn't see anything. It was a blizzard, but I knew like it kept hitting the rumble strip. So I'm like, okay, so I must be like I'm not on the side of the road but like I'm on the safe side. But there's no other cars right. It's four in the morning and then I see headlights coming up towards me, but they're not like to my left, they're straight ahead of me. I was on the fucking wrong side of the road. I was on the wrong side of the road. I was driving carefully and cautiously on the wrong side of the road and I only realized it when I saw the headlights. And then I was able to cross three lanes and get back into my own lane. That's how poor the visibility was.
Speaker 1:Oh, my fucking God.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I had lots of time because it was pitch black. I saw the lights very far in the distance. The semi wouldn't have even been able to tell. But yeah, that was crazy. And then over the Coca-Cola, I was going faster than I wanted to. It was at 70. That's how low they lowered the speed limit and I started like hyperventilating and panicking a little bit. Close trap between the semi and the wall, that tunnel, you know the tunnel that's scary on the Coca-Cola. And Lauren was asleep in the backseat and I'm like I have to make sure we don't die. So I had a terrible time driving there.
Speaker 2:But it was a pick up, the cryogenic thing. And we go down and Lauren thought it was an hour north so we would be backtracking and then we would have cut an hour off our time. No, it was actually an hour further south, so it added two hours to our driving time. Fuck, he's an hour at least. 12 hours to 14 hours minimum driving Cause we're doing this in one day. So we drive down there.
Speaker 2:It's like Pialla and we go to see this midwife in some place. That looks weird. But then we came to find out. So like we've been following this book kind of religiously. It's like the number one book that all queer couples try and conceive recommend. It's got the best data. It's got information that's tailored to people in our situation. It's written by this midwife. So we started talking about the book that we were reading and she was like, oh, was it written by this person? And I'm like, yeah, she's like. Oh, that's who trained me. Like we're really good friends of my mentor. She's the one who trained me and taught me everything I know. So we have the like perfect person to help us, who's like pretty much like the expert's protege. So that's really cool. So we may have missed the window because it's only viable for 12 to 16 hours after your egg. So we don't know if we got it, but either way, we're happy that we have this midwife and that we got the policy figured out.
Speaker 2:Then we drove all the way back. We went to PF Chang's it wasn't very good Sorry, pf Chang's, we'll never get an endorsement from them and then drove all the way home, got home at 9 pm, went to bed, went to work the next day and we no surprise why I'm sick. That's a lot for the poor old immune system. When did it? But you did it. You did it in the state. Yeah, because you can't bring like human fluids across the border. I guess if it's like in your uterus, you can. You just can't bring it back in like a container. Okay, you can go across the border and do medical treatments, right, anyone can. Yeah, okay, you're not illegally smuggling a pacemaker over the border if you get heart surgery like it's in you. True, very true, yes, okay, okay, that's just interesting. So we'll find out. Two weeks We've got four more vials with the same guy. It's a guy that Lauren really likes, the worst case scenario we have those four vials Tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I'll be staff meeting Friday's the last day and then it's spring break.
Speaker 1:Oh fuck, yeah, it's spring break.
Speaker 2:That's good or bad if you're a parent.
Speaker 1:If you're a parent, it sucks.
Speaker 2:Do you have to arrange child care?
Speaker 1:Well, okay, so I am lucky my parents are going to do it. But, like, for people not in my position, like, like, especially like I think about, like my low-income clients, those who are on like income assistance or whatever, and like the ones who are on income assistance consistently, like they're not doing well mentally, there's a reason that they're not able to work, and so to have their kid in school, for those like, however many hours a day is the break that they need Mentally to be able to be a good parent when their kid is home. So these two weeks are like they just they really suck, but it is what it is. Um, I am officially, apparently this year I am no longer identified as a struggling single mother by the government by the school.
Speaker 2:Okay, what are you losing?
Speaker 1:Well, no, I'm not really losing anything, but, like up until now I was, I was like barely making ends meet, like life was hard. So every Christmas break, every spring break and every summer break I got a food hamper, yeah, and then some like gift cards sometimes, and I was, like always, extremely thankful because, like the reality is, without those gift cards, especially Like the food hamper amazing it would have, like you know, the pasta, the pasta sauce, the cereal, all the all that shit. But those gift cards made it so that, like, I could buy a watermelon. It's his favorite thing to eat, he loves watermelon, so I would be able to go and buy him a watermelon with the gift card, but without the gift card, like you know what? That's expensive, not gonna happen. And and now this year is like my first year of being of an income where I don't really meet the threshold for that. No, I don't get that anymore, which is great because, like, yay, I'm doing better for myself. But also I really liked that.
Speaker 2:Did you hear in the state some states they've brought into medical care to include so some social services. So I think it's just five states down south where you can go to the doctor with housing problems and they can prescribe you a rent subsidy Holy, yeah. Or you can go to the doctor with food scarcity and they can prescribe you pre groceries yeah, and it's just five states, but like they're doing it as a way to like if you can prevent people from like getting really sick, maybe you can save medical costs down the line.
Speaker 1:And I bet it would like investing in people so that you can help them stay afloat so you don't have to pay for what happens to them if they don't oh total, like there was, there's some, there's some town in the state and it was like this billionaire guy that like just did a guaranteed basic income for everybody there and what happened? Everyone was like, oh my god, it's gonna be a bunch of drug addicts, and on and on and on. What actually happened was the School attendance went up. A criminal rate drastically decreased. Like, oh my goodness, if people can afford to live, they Don't do things that are not so great yeah that was Andrew Yang's whole thing.
Speaker 2:Right, ebi, the great idea and we could but during over it.
Speaker 1:So we know it can, yeah, but now they're clawing back some of the money. Some people that I know have been told that they need to pay it back, and it is crazy. Yeah, so. And then they're talking about a universal. So here's the thing. They're talking about universal basic income and then they're also talking about a universal income supplement and how. They're two very different things and basically like universal basic income, everybody makes this much a month, no matter what. So if you're making less, get a top up. But a universal income supplement or something like that is basically where everybody, no matter how much money you make, yet X amount of dollars per month. Yeah, so all of the people who are like in the higher income brackets get the money, but all the people who are in the lower income brackets get the money. But that's not gonna happen. It's going to be more like universal basic income is what I've been seeing on the tiki-taka.
Speaker 2:I don't know. If it's true, do moms get a certain amount of money?
Speaker 1:Do moms, moms, well. So if you have worked for the 12 months prior to having a child and contributed to like EI and shit, then you are given or you get like maternity leave for a year, but it's not that much so and you have to like. When I went on that leave, the first six weeks were paid for like I got the. It is EI in a sense. So I got the EI plus the top up. So when I went on that leave I had contributed the maximum, which meant that while I was on Matleaf I got the top up for the first six weeks and then after that it was basic EI of I think it was $918 by weekly was what I got.
Speaker 1:But that was 2015 and so I'm sure that the amount has gone. But you get that for a year and then you have to go back to work. You have the option to be off work for 18 months in Canada. The only trick is, whatever amount of money that you would have gotten in the 12 months, they just space that entire amount over the 18 months.
Speaker 2:Is my understanding the same amount of money.
Speaker 1:Just with just smaller payments over a longer period of time.
Speaker 2:I mean, can you just do that yourself? I guess, if you could, if you could, yeah.
Speaker 1:And so then you go back to work, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then you get, as long as you are up to date on your taxes, you get child tax credit every month and that is universal. And I think, oh no, it's not. Nope, nope, that's income tested. So it's income tested. So for my six year old boy, with me making 90,000 a year now, my monthly child tax is, I think, $400 a month.
Speaker 2:How much you get.
Speaker 1:That's how much I get, but you have to do your taxes or else you don't get the payment. So it encourages people to do their taxes. Um, if you have a lower income, you get more money, which is interesting, because when I had a lower income I actually got less money. But I mean it was during covid. It was a crazy time.
Speaker 2:It is a crazy time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, um, and so that's something that you get once you become a parent. Um, and it's. It's the parent who is entitled to custody. So if you have primary care and custody of your child, you're the one that gets that. Or if even a grandparent has primary care and custody of a child, they can apply for it and get it.
Speaker 2:But like say, for instance, if I had Matt leave from my work, then Lauren would be able to apply. Or like, if I have benefits or something through my work, or if my income is too high, then she would be able to apply for it.
Speaker 1:Well, you don't apply for income or a child tax. Everyone is going to say that, yeah, it's automatic. If you have a child who is a dependent, you just get it. Oh, but I don't know how it works if you have a two parent household.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I'm saying oh, oh, that's interesting. Yeah, I don't know how two parent households works. I've never had one.
Speaker 2:Do I count automatically as a parent? I don't believe so. I think I have to file for um secondary parent ship or whatever and like sign a document, but I'll automatically become the parent when the child's born. I don't know if we'll. We'll get there and pass that between we get to it.
Speaker 1:You're also going to have like nine months to figure it out, ten months, figure it out.
Speaker 2:It just depends on whether I like do um self-study teaching next year or whether I try and get a contract position. Yeah, but they like you. Oh, yeah, I know, but like it's up to the HR person for the whole district, it's not up to my principal, and I've heard rumors that not only is he not going to be not coming back next year, but they think he like one person suspects he's not coming back after spring break. Oh, is this allowed to go on the internet? It is. It's just a rumor. It's not a bad route. It doesn't have health problems.
Speaker 2:No, I've heard that he is moving on to like he wants to join the school board, so he wants to move up and on to bigger things. And it's true he's way too big a fish for our school. He's like really good and he could be working an admin and making like changes for like the whole district. That would be positive, have a bigger impact, but I've really enjoyed working with him for the last two years, so like that'll be a bummer, but the other admin teams seem to like me and I have a good report and yeah, I don't think it'll be a problem. I think they exaggerate how hard it is to get a job, to make teachers feel really grateful when they get one, so they're less likely to complain about their workload when actually it's been pretty easy. Well, that's, that's encouraging, ish.
Speaker 1:Yeah, on that note, l word, the L word, the L word. Fuck. Episode four, episode five episode five right. Episode five Lies, lies, lies. And, like last time, I was talking about how the episode that we watched was the first time they did like this historical flashback to gay shit in the past and I was all excited because I really enjoyed that. And then this time the quote unquote flashback wasn't actually a flashback, it was present day, but it was just a different storyline and it wasn't actually a storyline. It was just something that happened in the gay community and, surprise, surprise, it was just lesbians and there was cheating happening and that was it. It wasn't really anything big.
Speaker 2:So this was the first episode so far of the series. I think one of the only episodes that was directed by a man.
Speaker 1:Oh, interesting.
Speaker 2:Every other episode has been directed and produced by female directors. This is the male episode. Okay, okay, okay. So just to summarize, dana grapples with her pressure to keep the relationship with Laura a secret. She doesn't wanna come out publicly. She's worried about losing her Subaru gig. That was the last one. That wasn't the series you said. Season one, episode four lies, lies, lies, yeah, okay, then Dana continues to struggle with keeping the relationship a secret. That make you feel better. I mean like, but she didn't even mention Subaru. No, but like we know that. That's why she's worried about it.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I'm extrapolating and drawing conclusions. She doesn't wanna come to the fray to losing Subaru. They didn't say that, I just know that to be true. Okay, jenny and Tim are really strained because she's still obsessed with Marina. She's confused. There's a lot of tension. Tina is pregnant and Beth's excited, even though things are going shitty for Beth at work. Yes, she almost gets fired. Yeah, shane feels bad. Shane feels guilty and uncertain, apparently. And what happens to Alice?
Speaker 1:Alice decides that she no longer wants to be with women and meet Lisa, the lesbian in a man's body. Also, Alice's mom comes into town.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that was really bad. Alice's mom, she's not okay.
Speaker 1:Ew.
Speaker 2:Is this where Alice also starts to realize she kinda likes Dana, no, okay, no, this is where Alice starts to like Lisa, the male lesbian. Like, honestly, we could never you could never do an episode like that today.
Speaker 1:No, no, it seems very techie, but also so. In this episode there's also Kit, not a huge story, but she gets a letter from her son so she hasn't heard from him in five years where he just needs some medical info for school. But but Dana's big thing in this episode was that while she and Laura were together, dana squirted.
Speaker 2:Oh did she.
Speaker 1:Yeah Right, so embarrassed. She didn't know what it was and she felt super embarrassed. She was so worried and like talking to everyone and she was like, oh my God, did this thing happen? And then she was like, but I don't know what I did. And then people are like, what did you queef? Like what the hell's going on? And she like whispers into Alice's ear and Alice is like, oh you, female ejaculated, yeah, yeah. And then Dana was all like worried. She's like, oh, but I didn't like, I just worried. And then Dana was worried because she had and this is the gayest thing, this is the gayest thing in this entire fucking episode. I'm so ready, I'm worried because Laura hasn't called me in 21 hours. And then Laura shows up with a rose.
Speaker 1:Aw, so fucking gay Mm-hmm, out of everything, even more gay than little miss Jenny going to the planet with Tim. She and Tim go to the planet together and then Jenny goes and sneaks off with Marina into the bathroom and they bang in the toilet stall. Well, tim's just out there. Well, tim's out there at the table and then he's like, oh, I have to go to the bathroom. So he goes into the bathroom as they're banging in the toilet stall and then Jenny's like oh hi. And then like makes out of the toilet stall and is like talking to Tim. And then Tim was like, okay, I have to go pee now. And like goes to the next one over. Thank goodness, almost caught them like in the act.
Speaker 1:This is also where Mrs Peabody comes to the aid of Bet, because Bet was gonna get fired. I like her, I like Mrs Peabody. Yeah, she came in and she was like I will absolutely let you have provocation, but that needs to be here. Yeah, only if you keep Bet. Fuck. Yeah, go Bet. See what else. That was it. That was it Shane's friend Lisa, I've got Alice who who's friend? Lisa Is Shane's friend. Oh, lisa is Shane's friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought Lisa was just hanging out at the planet and they bumped into her.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, no, no, no. Lisa is Shane's old friend, and then Shane and Lisa are talking and then that's when there's the exposition of, you know, lisa is a lesbian in a man's body. And then Alice is like, ooh, I'm interested in Lisa, and Alice's mom is in town, blah, blah, blah. I know that she like charged $5,000 to the hotel and Alice has to pay it off. And then she was like, hey, drive me to the I don't know movie thing. And then she's like, yeah, for sure, mom, I'll drive you to the movie thing. And she drives you to the movie thing. And then she gets to the movie thing and then she looks out the rear view mirror and mom is like sneaking across the road and so she follows mom into some like derelict building Jesus Christ, and mom is reading for a part in a movie that's like a questionable movie. I don't know like what it is, but it's like someone who's been a director for two years.
Speaker 2:So how far she's fallen. She just want her daughter to know Like a lot goes into it, like what is? How many points and how many different criteria are there for like an A score?
Speaker 1:Oh, we don't even get into A scores.
Speaker 2:And so, like, if a kid's A score is super high, it wasn't any one thing that did it. It's like a combination of like 50 horrible things simultaneously.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, it's really interesting because if you look at a child protection workers, their A scores are 10 out of 10. But like they, at least have four. All child protection workers have four.
Speaker 2:Right and all therapists have mental illness and all teachers made HD. It's a thing.
Speaker 1:It is really is the first time I did my own A score. I was like holy shit, oh really, that's a problem?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's not mine. I know I'm really privileged.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally, I mean you are. But hey, here let's do your A score. Oh God, let's close that A score. Take the A's quiz, hmm, where is like an interactive one? Okay, so, while you were growing up, during the first 18 years of your life, or 19, or whatever, did a parent or other adult in the household often, or very often, swear at you, insult you, put you down or humiliate you All the time, all the time. So there's, yeah, humiliation for sure. Hold on, I'm gonna make a little ticky mark, okay. So number two, all right. Number two did a parent or other adult in the household and this is also other adults in the household, doesn't have to just be your parents, it can also be another adult in the household. If you have an adult sibling, whatever Did they push, grab, slap or throw something at you often, or very often, or ever hit you so hard you had marks or were injured?
Speaker 2:No, okay. We crush each other's personalities, not our both.
Speaker 1:Did an adult or a person at least five years older than you ever, oh, sexually abuse you? No, okay. Did you often, or very often, feel your internal feelings no one in your family loved you or thought you were important or special, or that your family didn't look out for each other, feel close to each other or support each other? The second one yeah. Did you often, or very often, feel that, oh, this is about having food in the house. Did you not have enough to eat? Were dirty clothes, had no one to protect you, were or your parents were too drunk or high?
Speaker 2:My physical needs were met.
Speaker 1:Yeah, number six were your parents ever separated or divorced? Was your mother or stepmother so? Was there ever any domestic violence in your home that you witnessed or that you knew about? No, did you live with anyone who was a problem drinker or alcoholic or use strict street drugs? At the time, street drugs included marijuana.
Speaker 2:Anyone in the home. I would have been too young to know, but I know for a fact that he struggled with some of those things, most of those things.
Speaker 1:Like a half way. Was a household member? Any member of the household depressed or mentally ill?
Speaker 2:Every single one of them.
Speaker 1:Uh-huh, and did anybody in your house ever go to prison? No, okay, so you have 4.5. Yeah, like I say, pretty low. Your A score is 4, that's high. What? That's the answer? 4 and more is high. What's low 1.
Speaker 2:I don't believe you. 4 is such a small number. Google A score of 4. Just do it. Google A score of 4. Oh my god, that's not great. The 220% more likely to attempt suicide. 460% more likely to have recent depression. 400% more likely to consider themselves an alcoholic I know, I'm an alcoholic.
Speaker 1:Also cancer, diabetes, being overweight and something else that are all correlated with the highest score.
Speaker 2:Well, we're not weirdos. Currently, 17.3% of people have a score of 4. So that's 1 in 5. Is it 1 in 5? I think so. It's like 2 in 10 would be 20%.
Speaker 1:So it's less than 1 in 5.
Speaker 2:It's like a front hair shy of 1 in 5,. Ok, I can't believe you've never done your.
Speaker 1:A score.
Speaker 2:No, I never thought about it Just because I didn't really think at the time you should have something that would really just trauma in there. I never thought at the time because most of the people I know who are fucked up now that's why At the time people kept telling me how lucky I went.
Speaker 1:You weren't. I love you. I love you. You weren't.
Speaker 2:I mean we know we're friends because we relate to one another in some ways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so do you know what the biggest like? So having a high A-SY score can actually reduce your life expectancy by 20 years. Yeah, and high is 4. So even A-SY score of 4, your life expectancy is reduced by 20 years. But the way to overcome, mitigate blah, blah, blah blah is by having a healthy like, basically having healthy people in your adult life.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like Victor who makes me a citron. Yes, if I think of all the questions, her A-score is like 1. And like not even 1, because, although her parents are divorced, we all live in the same house and they hang out together and they take care of each other, so like when you're being hard on yourself for anything.
Speaker 1:Just take into account the fact that you do have a high A-SY score.
Speaker 2:There's degrees too, though, Like there are, Like I would say, my sister and I. She encountered way more trauma, but on paper our scores would be similar.
Speaker 1:But you've still had to like overcome all of the obstacles of somebody with a high A-SY score. You're considered to have a high A-SY score. Like there's shit that's gone into the like research and stuff. And yeah, like when I did family finders, like having a successful family finders process where there was someone who was able to be connected to this and live a life long would reduce the impact of their A-SY score. Like it would be significant to the point that they were like hey, this is how we reduce the fact, the 20-year life expectancy, whatever, like if you just find someone who's going to be around.
Speaker 2:But shouldn't also like are you cis or trans beyond there? And shouldn't also like are you neurodivergent beyond there? Those are also correlated with substance abuse, earlier deaths, higher levels of stress, health problems, et cetera.
Speaker 1:They are, but also they are in relation to your connection with your family of origin.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's true. If you're family supportive, you don't talk. Okay, yeah, You're so crazy.
Speaker 1:I know things sometimes and then I'm like, hey, look at me. I don't know how it relates to the L-word, but like whatever. Also, hey, I've noticed that the L-word has been popping up on my TikTok. And then I was like, why is the L-word popping up on my TikTok? Are they like listening into my podcasty Shit? Like what the fuck? And then I realized like I've kind of been like googling the L-word moment so that I had like ideas of the synopsis, yeah. And then I was like, oh, hey, and I messaged you but like to just like outwardly admit it, like I go through the, then I take out the information that can't be on the internet and we will talk for almost two hours and then I have to take out 90% of it and we have 30 minutes left.
Speaker 1:I know Absurd, we just it, just shows that we talk about a lot of personal stuff that just can't be on the internet. Well, we're friends. Yeah, exactly, I posted. Hey, I posted an episode this morning. Let's see if anybody listened to it while we're on this, let's see, let's see, let's see, because I have the app on my phone. There are two downloads today. Let's see the stamp for it Two downloads. There have been two downloads of our last episode, which went live this morning, because I set it to go live at like 7 o'clock in the morning. Now, on the day that we record the next episode and tell me about yourself, tell me about yourself. Yeah, eight downloads in the last 30 days. Look at us, go Fuck. Yeah, no, go away, mr. Okay, what's the most recent? Tell me some more downloads, stuff. I kind of have to do for this one, which is 14 hours sold, and there were two downloads and they were in Canada and I don't know we're pretty entertaining I think we're entertaining.
Speaker 1:Yeah, actually I think we're entertaining. I am entertained, I have to be. I have to listen back to this every time that we do one, because I have to edit the fuck out of it so I can put it on the internet.
Speaker 2:Sometimes that's how it be.
Speaker 1:I've gone pretty good at it. I can set it to hold on. I can set it to two times the speed to listen to it.
Speaker 2:But do you find it nicer to listen to everything that fast when I'm on TikTok, when you're on TikTok, you? Just come on the side, for, like almost every video, they just need to get to the point sooner. I don't need all the backstory. Get on with it.
Speaker 1:I mean, like I'll be completely honest If they go. This is something that happened most recently and it's about this person and this person, by the way, I'm so, and so, from blah, blah, blah, I fucking scroll as soon as they say that.
Speaker 2:I scroll but sometimes they hook me and they get invested and I have to listen to it on like super speed.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't even care, I scroll. If it's that important, I'll see it on some other news feed somewhere.
Speaker 2:Well, it's only if I've already gotten hooked and invested.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, I don't get hooked If they do it right, if they're like hey, okay. So like, the big thing right now is Jacqueline and her daughter, ren. Have you seen?
Speaker 2:that Actually. Yeah, I think I saw something oh right.
Speaker 1:So like Jacqueline and her daughter Ren. So Jacqueline has been posting videos of her daughter Ren and, like, basically, not good people have been saving the videos, yeah, yeah. And that she must be aware of it. She must be. There's no way that you couldn't be. It's because those videos.
Speaker 2:The engagement is so much higher.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I will see the video. I don't know where I was going with that. The moral of that story is I don't post a lot about my kid on the internet. Yeah, fucking scary. The shit that people will put into their little light folders are atrocious. You don't even know what works.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but you have a proper glass and everything. Oh, check this out.
Speaker 1:Okay, are you?
Speaker 2:going to go. I can't hear yet I can't hear it.
Speaker 1:The fuck is that noise? Oh, hold on. Okay, let's try that again there. Try some water. Oh, I heard it. Wait there.
Speaker 2:No, I had it last night. Ryder was so impressed. I just want to make jokes like inappropriate jokes. There we go. I believe you and I'm very impressed. They're actually these lately friends. But we didn't talk about Jenny. Jenny, and yeah, we did. She went to the. I always want to call it the bronze from Buffy. She went to the planet and then hooked up. What more did Jenny do? I don't remember.
Speaker 1:My goodness.
Speaker 2:Well, remind me then.
Speaker 1:Jenny. Tim walks in and they're being sneaky. Tim was worried about Jenny sleeping. Oh, tim was worried about Jenny sleeping with her professor from when she was in school. Yeah, because she had given him a blow job when she was a student. Yeah, when she was a student. So I'll let you be. And then Jenny met the professor for supper, alone Alone, and worried about Jenny sleeping with the professor. And then Jenny came home and she seduces Tim in a very so you saying that it was like a male, yeah, like it makes sense, like how the sex scene played out, because it was a very homo, heterosexual, it was a very heterosexual sex scene.
Speaker 1:Jenny seduces Tim, then Jenny meets the professor for lunch. Jenny goes oh wait, no wait, no. Jenny meets the professor for supper. Tim then talks to the professor and then he goes to the planet and that's where oh oh, there were two banging scenes for Jenny and Marina. So there was the first one where Jenny and Marina bang in the bathroom, right, yeah. And then Tim talks to the professor and goes to the planet. Okay, so when they bang in the bathroom, that's because Jenny and Tim are there. Then Jenny goes there on all on her own and Tim goes to talk to the professor and then he goes to the planet and then Jenny was already at the planet and she went to go.
Speaker 1:Jenny goes to bang Marina. I hope I can answer that. It's cute, you're thinking about that. I always am thinking about that, going to bang Marina in the office. And then Alice is like, hey, tim, what you doing here? And then she runs back to the office and is like, oh, hey, you guys should stop banging because Tim's outside, and that was kind of it. And then Jenny is a very, very important writer. She's very serious. She's a very serious writer and I then wrote off.
Speaker 2:You're like fully taking notes while you watch this. Huh, oh, do you want to see?
Speaker 1:Yeah, Look at that Lies lies, lies, and then there's the little intro part, and then I try to write down everything that happens for Jenny throughout the episode. Then I try to write down everything that happens for Dana throughout the episode.
Speaker 2:Nice Well, Dana, but cute.
Speaker 1:Then everything that happens for Bet and Tina Multiple pages of notes, oh, there are multiple pages of notes, everything there. And then Alice, everything that happens for her right there. What color pen is?
Speaker 2:that Blue, because I know what color blue is. But what kind of?
Speaker 1:notebook are you on? I am writing an A. I don't know, it's black, no, brandy.
Speaker 2:From the dollar store.
Speaker 1:Okay, from the dollar store, and I'm using a highlighter. You're a monster. Then kit, all the shit for kit. Two whole bullet points here. Shane Shane has one point for the entire episode. She has one little bullet point. That was it. That's the entire thing, there's nothing more. Then that's your ASUS score, right there. That's a four and a half more.
Speaker 2:How's your free time looking? Until next week.
Speaker 1:Are you coming to Casper? No.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I should have worded differently. I have a recommendation for you to watch, but it's over two and a half hours long. What is it? It's.
Speaker 1:Contra Points. I watched it, I've worked on it. I'm like a third of the way through her. The new one when she talks about Twilight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, because I'd actually love to talk about it, because we're talking about how, like Jenny and Tim were fucking in a very straight way, so fucking straight.
Speaker 1:And then he is like where did you go? And she's like I'm right here, but like she's not, she's thinking about Marina.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, I know this is a long video, but it was really interesting and it sparked a lot of conversations between me and Lauren, because she's only been in queer relationships, whereas you and I have been in some straight-appearing relationships.
Speaker 1:I've turned it on while I fell asleep. I've turned it on while I fell asleep.
Speaker 2:If you wanted to finish watching it, I would watch it again and take notes. I guess you just put YouTube on in the background with headphones while you do stuff around your house. Let me know, I love, I love. Contrapoints as well, and such a cool topic, and she expresses things in ways that I feel that didn't put into words before.
Speaker 1:Okay, there we go. Homework, I hit homework Yay.
Speaker 2:And if you're anything like my students, you won't do it and you'll Google it last minute. No, which is definitely not what I did about episode four.
Speaker 1:What's the next episode? Five, no shit Sherlock.
Speaker 2:I don't know. That was a great answer.
Speaker 1:The L word? I don't know, just the L word. No, just fucking tell me about the L word. Where are we at? So we're on season one. Fuck off this Tenty motherfucking bullshit. Okay, does it have episode Pilot? Longing lies, lies, lies. So the next one is lawfully. Oh, my goodness, the next episode is going to be.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I don't want to say it because I don't want to ruin it for the people that aren't listening.
Speaker 2:That's a pretty Like. I'm sure they would.
Speaker 1:It'll be fun, though, also, my girlfriend is going to be coming here in like two and a half weeks.
Speaker 2:Oh, really, for which days?
Speaker 1:Where's my phone? Here's my phone Okay, she is coming here. Calendar Calendar Come on, linda. My, there it is. She's coming on the 28th, okay, and then coming for Easter, and so we're going to have Easter together.
Speaker 2:You can do a big Easter egg hunt.
Speaker 1:Okay. So here's the thing. Thing is, I have found on the Amazon they have like packs of pre-filled Easter Easter eggs, easter sleep. Amazon has pre-filled packs of Easter egg for like $40 and it's 150 eggs.
Speaker 2:That sounds awesome.
Speaker 1:It is awesome because I. So here's the thing. But them they're filled with toys and, like. I live in an area where there's animals and so every year the Easter Bunny has gone out and hidden the eggs at like five in the fucking morning, because there's usually like candy or something in them. And then the animals in the area like if the Easter Bunny hid them the night before, the animals would find them and tear them apart. But if there's no candy in them, then the Easter Bunny can write, the Easter Bunny can hide them the night before, and then the Easter Bunny can get a good night's sleep, which I'm sure the Easter Bunny needs. The Easter Bunny really needs that and it'll be a lot of fun and so that's really exciting and so the two children that will be here will be finding on the Easter egg. It's going to be so much fun and if a couple of the Easter eggs don't get found there's no candy in them, matter.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah, she's coming, they are coming. They're coming the Thursday before Easter and they're gonna experience Easter with my family. Are you going to math? We'll see.
Speaker 1:Like she had, like she was, like they were here around Christmas time, but there wasn't really a big family like, although it was Christmas time, it was after Christmas time, so it wasn't really like a big family event. So this time is a big family event in the sense that at Easter and we're all gonna be at my parents house for supper blah, blah, blah, and also because of my parents house for supper, my mom also asked if it could be my birthday at the same time because, like logistics, so that's gonna happen and so she'll be here with all my family around and like she's already met everybody, I think, except maybe my other sister, but like she's met almost everybody else. So I don't know, we'll see what happens. It's gonna be great either way. It's gonna be great. I'm excited that she's gonna like be able to be a part of that and see kind of what happens. But yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the moral of that story is I don't know.
Speaker 2:You gotta go to bed though.
Speaker 1:You do. You're sick, I need to go to bed. I need to go fill up my water bottle. Can't believe I have to go to work tomorrow. I'm sorry that you have to go to work tomorrow.
Speaker 2:I'll just wear a mask all day because, like I got it from a co-worker this cold and so I know I'm contagious. And if I give somebody I work with fucking this cold and then it ruins their spring break plans, I will feel like such an asshole.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, but they also gave it to you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know the one time that I get invited out to go for drinks after work, because I'm not very good at knowing when people want to be my friend, unless they're really obvious about it. So I actually got a direct invitation that I couldn't like negative self-talk my way out of. I was actually invited. Aww, you're so good, I'm making friends. No, I'm really not. I just assume that people don't want to hang out with me and if they do, it's because they pity me or because they want making plans in front of me, and so they're obligated. Right, and I know that's not true because I have friends. Some of them I've had for quite a few years. Who would that be? Nobody, no idea. So, yeah, so I wasn't gonna say no, and then I immediately get sick from that. Aw, she said she's sick from dating and I've only taken one day. So we'll see. We'll see.
Speaker 2:I might be spending the first little bit of spring break just recovering, but there's also a staff meeting tomorrow, so I can't skip a staff meeting. Like it's extra important that I go tomorrow, for sure. How often do you have a staff meeting? Once a month, okay, never mind, and like it'll be the one that's the lead up to like how the spring break procedure is going to work, report card's coming out soon, how it's going to be coming back All this stuff, I don't know. The spring agenda.
Speaker 1:Very important information that you should probably actually know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, last time I went to the staff meeting I won a prize. It was a chocolate bar, which I don't but I gave to Lauren and she really liked it. Aw, but Meds, she's on. She's permanently PMSing all the time. That doesn't sound pleasant at all, poor thing, and she's paying for the privilege. Speaking of, I better go check in see how she's doing. You have a wonderful night you too. Drink water, get a good sleep, look forever. Good night, have a good sleep, you too. Bye.
Speaker 1:Have a wonderful sleep and I'll see you in a week, yeah you will yeah, you will yeah, I will yeah, we will yeah, we will. All right, I'll talk to you later. Love you, bye, bye.