Society Chats: Summer Shorts and Hot Takes

In this week's parasocial episode, Rachel and Laura announce a quick break, our hot takes of the week, and the tv shows we are rotting away watching. 

Transcript

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 0:33

Welcome to Impolite Society, society Chitchats, the chitter-chatter of impolite society. This is our little bonus minisodes where we do all that fun yapping and bullshitting that a lot of other podcasts do. At the top of the episode, we just take it out and let you get straight to the meat in the

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 0:55

The meat.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 0:56

so that, uh, we put it here as a little hordy dve if you like to listen to it. Outside of our normal taboo nonsense. I'm Rachel,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 1:08

I'm Laura. And uh, we just wanted to pop in this week with some first news. I made a noise.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 1:16

hot off the presses.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 1:18

That we are taking a little bit of a break for summer. We gotta get our summer on. We got some vacations coming up and uh, yeah, so we will be back probably in mid or late July. With our summer shorts, if you are a socialite from way back, you'll know that our summer shorts are our short, short episodes where we have the same kind of content, the same high quality research, just in a shorter, tighter format. Keeping it, keeping it tight this summer in our short shorts.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 1:55

Yeah, I have this chronic condition called summer laziness, where I'm just like, I don't wanna work in the summer.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:01

That's fair.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:01

get to Europe. Um, but I, it's not unusual for us to take a little bit of time off in the summer and a

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:08

No.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:09

with holders.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:10

And also, yeah, you got Christmas. I was gonna say.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:13

At the end of the day, we totally didn't know what month it was. And then we probably should have talked about this a little bit before, but you know what? You can't. You doesn't.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:21

Yeah, it's fine. It's fine.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:23

doesn't stop us. We've been doing this for five years. You know

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:26

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:26

I feel like people hear these kind of things like, oh no, a podcast is taking a break. You know, the podcast isn't coming back.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:34

We'll be back.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:36

We'll be back in one way or another. Who knows?

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:39

Who knows. We're always changing shit up around here.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:41

itch that I get where I'm like, I'm gonna do something different. Like last year it was the video

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:46

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:47

two summers ago it was becoming employee society

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:50

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:51

two summers before that. And you know,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:53

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 2:53

just ANGs we make along the way.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 2:56

It's always good, you know, keep things fresh, keep things different. So our summer shorts might be a little bit different in format. We're not gonna tell you what those changes are. You let us know if you sleuth it out.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 3:07

Well, maybe, we'll, we'll try a couple different styles of episodes and then you guys can on your favorites.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 3:14

Let us know what you like.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 3:15

you vote

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 3:17

You know, send an email. Yeah, text. Send it. Oh yeah. Like we don't have like 1 million ways for people to get in contact with us.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 3:24

text option A to 1 8, 1 8, 1 8 5 to vote for option one.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 3:30

Send us$2 on buy me a coffee.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 3:33

Right. You. That's a good way. And then this isn't also, the timing is impeccable, but this is not a hostage situation. Situation. You don't have to pay ransom to get your podcast back, but if you wanted to, you know, sir. Yes, sir.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 3:47

Yeah. And thank you for those of us who have, given already. We appreciate it. Did you wanna do some of those more? Getting to know you q and a as this episode, Rachel?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 3:57

Okay, here's one right off the fence, off the fences.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 3:59

Okay.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:00

not a sports term sports ball off the gate, whatever.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 4:04

the backboard.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:05

a

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 4:05

Is that a thing?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:06

hot take this week

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 4:07

A hot take this week?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:10

like,'cause I'm always pissed about many things in my day-to-day life, and so I just have misses my hot take of the week.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 4:16

Laura's hot take of the week. This, uh, old money trend.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:21

Yeah.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 4:21

bullshit because it. Okay, so for the uninitiated that aren't, you know, on the pulse of the internet, like Rachel

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:32

fingering things with the pulse or something like that

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 4:35

and me, who learns about them

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:37

through

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 4:37

months and months later through Rachel,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:40

Because I am hashtag unemployed. I'm fun employed baby BB boat.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 4:46

so the old money trend is like, oh, that's a fashion trend of like everyone wants to look like they're old, old money first. What?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 4:56

said thanks, Saltburn or whatever that movie was.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 5:00

I don't, no idea what you're talking about.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 5:01

up the tub water of that uh, old money aesthetic.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 5:06

I mean, I fucking love old money aesthetic. But here's the thing. This is, this is my bitch about it. Is that number one. A lot of the, the women or people or whoever, you know, the whole trend, quote unquote, is I don't really get a lot of old money vibes actually from them. It's all just like preppy, right? And also the trend of buying quiet luxury. That should always be the trend. The trend being have less stuff of higher quality. That is exactly what we should be doing all of the damn time because everything that we buy now is absolute shit, and it's because we buy so much of it. And if we actually bought fewer things, then the companies wouldn't feel the need to put out tissue paper, t-shirts on repeat. Every fucking year over and over and over. And in fact, companies will put out a t-shirt and like you're like, Ooh, this is nice. And then after like six months or so of it selling, well, they'll start to make it thinner and shittier. And I've seen it happen to like multiple clothes'cause I'm a big person, but I, when I find something and I like it, I will buy it over and over again. And I've seen it in action from all kinds of different places. And if we. We're just more dedicated to quality over quantity. As consumers, we would not be in this pickle. So that's, that's my bitch about

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 6:37

the

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 6:37

old money,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 6:37

rush of buying new things.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 6:40

dude. Everyone go to that thrift store. It's fun. And you do get a dopamine rush.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 6:44

Yes. Instead of buying the crap at Marshall's, go buy crap at the Goodwill.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 6:48

it is. It's fun. Yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 6:51

you feel a little better about it.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 6:53

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 6:53

just got a shit ton of furniture for a hundred dollars. I don't think anybody needs any new furniture anymore. There's enough out there. Just

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 6:59

Truly, and you cannot find furniture built like it used to be in like what the fifties, sixties, seventies. Like everything now is ply oil.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:07

Yeah. I think it's like 80. She said it was like 40, 50

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:10

Oh,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:10

so.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:11

is eighties is still fantastic in quality, comparatively.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:15

Right, right. We

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:16

I mean, shit, even the nineties,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:20

before, you know, the early two thousands when everything

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:22

Basically before Amazon, like anything before Amazon, the quality is gonna be far superior or anything that we can buy now.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:28

But also the quality pieces are really, really expensive too, at the same time, and you know that everything's more expensive, but I mean houses of the early two thousands, either. Here's something that I just learned. It's really simple.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:40

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:40

don't know why I didn't know this before, but houses are just literally two by fours in sheet rock.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:48

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:48

Insulation.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:49

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:50

I'm like, you could just punch through that.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:52

Yeah,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:53

like go straight to the siding outside and no wonder cars drive through houses all the time.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 7:58

yeah,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 7:58

mean, that's nuts. My house here is inches of masonry.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 8:02

yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 8:03

safe in this bitch.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 8:04

No, I get it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 8:05

are, you're camping, Laura,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 8:09

Basically, I grew up in a brick house. I mean, it was like a suburban brick house, so, you know, it wasn't like you said, 18 inches of masonry. But yeah, I mean that's, that's the kind of thing that I strive for is that older style everything. We were just talking about this the other day, about the, I don't want old money, I want oligarchy money. Like that's, that's what I envy. Just so much fucking money.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 8:39

that lot in life. I'm sorry. I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 8:40

no, I know that I didn't. I know that I didn't, but I wanna fake it. Or at least, no, not enough. No, that's not true. I don't wanna fake it because I don't want people to think that I have money when I don't. I want to give that vibe. Does that make

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 8:56

you

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 8:56

sense? Yes.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 8:58

See,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 8:59

that make me say something about me?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 9:01

I don't want to emulate, like, I don't wanna be worried about what the rich people are wearing. I want whatever I'm wearing to be something a rich person's wearing. That's my vibe. Hashtag motivational podcast. Grind it out people.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 9:16

I just like just seeing like the old craftsmanship and all these old houses and all this different kind of stuff, and I'm like, that's what I want. I don't want mass produced bullshit. I want custom carved, you know, I want.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 9:28

you know, get a good old, creaky old house with a stanky basement.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 9:35

If only, okay. What's your hot take of this week?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 9:38

We don't need any more adaptations. Live tape, blah, blah. We don't need any more live adaptations of animated films.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 9:44

Preach.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 9:45

is, I mean, that is like the literal least hot take. Hot take in the world right now. I just keep seeing, um, snippets of Lilo and Stitch, and I'm just like, if it's a shot for shot remake, why I saw an ad for How to Train Your Dragon. I didn't even know they were making that a live action.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 10:02

either.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 10:03

And I, it looked animated. It still looked animated. I'm like, what is the point of this?

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 10:10

I don't understand it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 10:11

have we reached the point where there's no new stories to tell? I mean, I know there's no new stories, but like at least let somebody like try to tell something new and original.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 10:20

Yeah, I completely agree. I was so confounded by the whole live action thing when it first started, I think with Jungle Book I think was the first one,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 10:29

I don't

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 10:29

and I'm still like, I was like, what's the point exactly?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 10:33

seen a single one. I've never even seen Beauty in the Beast,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 10:36

I haven't seen that one.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 10:38

that

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 10:38

A Scene Jungle book, and I think that's honestly it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 10:42

all animated animals.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 10:43

I know,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 10:44

the, what the hell is the Lion King that.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 10:49

I know. And the Lion King is so good and it doesn't have all the songs. Like that's the thing that pisses me off. I mean, I, like I said, I've never seen them, but I've heard they don't have all the songs. That's part of the fun or all the songs.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 11:00

Yeah, and it just like, you can't make a lion express that much emotion you are making it look realistic. I mean, I think I heard somewhere horses can make. 18 distinct emotions on their faces. Horses, and that's one more than dogs who have like, you know,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 11:19

Yeah,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 11:20

non-verbally

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 11:21

lions have zero.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 11:22

Yeah, I'm sure a lion is two. So it's just like, how are you gonna stretch that over the course of a movie? I don't know. I didn't see it. I'm not a Disney person. I'm not a Disney adult. I also have, hmm. I get the best chat in Freud when people post long videos about how their trips to Disney World were bad. I'm like, yes, yes. It's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 11:42

I,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 11:42

fun.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 11:43

I am not a Disney fanatic, but I do. I just love, I am not a Disney fanatic. I am an amusement per person. I love amusement parks, kind of across the board. Even a shitty trip to Six Flags St. Louis. I'm in.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 11:57

of, it's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 11:57

I'm in.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 11:58

like it.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 11:58

I love it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 11:59

been in a long time because

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:00

I need to take the kids. I wanna take the kids

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:03

I gotta, I'm going to Silverdo City one of these days. These kids gotta get a little bit older,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:07

go this fall.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:08

we're gonna vote a number one theme park in America or some shit like

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:11

That's what they kept saying, the billboards. I'm like, is that true? I don't know.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:14

like, I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:15

It is. If ask Laura, it's definitely number one in my book.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:18

like what other theme Park has a domestic terrorist group running around it, you know, it's just like.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:24

Oh,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:24

Nobbs.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:25

got it. I was like, took me a minute, and I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:28

I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:28

The bald numbers.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:29

think Donald Duck or whoever the villain of Disney World has anything on the ball. Nobbs.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:34

Donald Duck is not a villain in Disney.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:37

like a villain. He's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:38

He's, he's just crabby. He's just crabby.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:40

Same.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:43

You should identify.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 12:44

house, that's for sure.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 12:46

Well, another thing that I've got going on is my latest binge watch, uh, been watching White Lotus. I've never seen it. I'm wa I just watched

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 13:00

know what it's about at

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 13:01

Oh. So I, IKI kind of knew. Yeah, I kind of knew too. So I just finished season one. Yeah, each season is like a new cast of characters, rich people in like a resort location, wherever. Like the first one was in Hawaii. The second one is in Sicily. I think the third one is Thailand. That's the one that just came out and it's, I, I'm gonna, I finished the first season pretty quickly. I will continue watching. I am a little bit confused on why it's such a hit. I don't.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 13:39

because it's scandalous. I heard the latest season has incest and

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 13:41

Yes.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 13:42

all I know.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 13:43

Yeah, I have heard that as well. In the first season, there's not really a ton of scandal. Scandal. There is a full on shot of cock and balls, which is not something that you see often.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 13:54

that is a rarity.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 13:56

Yeah. And I was like, oh, okay. And it wasn't in a sexual contents context, which I thought was even funnier.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 14:02

Was there Bush

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 14:04

Oh yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 14:05

men

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 14:06

It was a, it was a middle, it was a middle aged man. And he is like, my balls are swollen. And his wife is like, are they like, it's just me.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 14:16

Domestic

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 14:17

I, I, I, and it's also the whole thing with White Lotus is that like they're all supposed to be just like the worst kind of people in the world. And to be fair, I am only on the first season and I hear that it gets worse and I feel like none of the people were. Great. But none of them were like evil. You know what I mean? And I'm like, is this the point? Am I supposed to hate everybody because of their privilege? Or am I supposed to be looking at this critically and being like, yeah, they're kind of fucked up, but aren't we all kind of fucked up? I don't know it. It's leaving me with a lot of questions and I wanna, I wanna go to Reddit with those questions.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 14:56

Do it. Go on Reddit. There will always be lots of discussion.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:00

Yeah. And they'll always tell me I'm wrong.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:02

Yeah,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:03

Probably a racist. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:05

probably. And if you mention you have children, oof, get ready for some down votes

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:10

Get back.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:13

or mention being happy as a parent. That's another thing that really sets people off.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:16

Mm, fair.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:18

Yep. But I've also watching a show about rich people, I'm only like two episodes in, or three episodes in, it's called Sirens. It's on

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:26

Ooh, I have that on my list. That's on my watch list. It seems weird. I like it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:31

is, it's, I mean, that's what makes it interesting to watch. It's got Julianne Moore in it,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:36

I love her.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:37

is like, one of the great beauties of our time, like

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:42

Agreed.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:42

Right. Which is before our time, I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:44

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:45

never would've been famous today. We never would've got to see her because she doesn't have iPhone face. She has a unique face.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:50

Yes.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:51

Julianne Moore and thinks that woman isn't attractive?

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:53

That that woman needs an iPhone face.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 15:56

Yeah, she needs to have her buccal fat or whatever. Buckle fat suckled out,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 15:59

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:02

or you know, like nose job and all these things. And it's just like,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:06

Everyone looks the fucking same nowadays. It's awful. It is.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:10

is. Oh man. But

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:11

And that

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:12

it and I just keep expecting her to be like, Jack, I can't do it. I can't do a Boston accent.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:19

you know the bean town tonight? Oh God. That was terrible.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:24

Town, the pirate Pilgrims Round Ya Be Town Water

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:29

a.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:30

ya. So let's watch the Suns play ball be town. It has it all.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:37

She can sing the whole thing.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:38

I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:39

a 30 rock reference. Y'all Steel trap?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:41

steel trap. Especially for song lyrics. Not all of them. Is it the Met the Mets who plays Red Sox? The Sox, I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:48

Socks. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:50

the socks play ball

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:51

Is it the Red Sox or the White Sox?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:53

one of the socks.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:54

Yes. SOX, right? That's how they spell it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 16:58

Yep.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 16:58

know. I'm not a sports person. I want her to watch that. Maybe that'll be next after our white lotus, because yeah, she is a great beauty, a unique, a unique beauty, and I do enjoy watching her.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:08

the rest of it's pretty good too. It's interesting. I, I wanted to continue watching, which I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:14

That's the hallmark of a good show. Do you wanna watch the next episode? Yeah, it's good.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:18

Yeah,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:18

it doesn't matter. Whatever else you think about it. If you're like, God, the acting is bad, and duh, the sets are dumb and the themes are stupid, do you wanna watch the next episode? If the answer is yes, it's a good show.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:31

and Netflix has the formula worked out though.'cause you'll be like losing interest about 40 minutes in and then

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:36

Oh yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:36

a bunch

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:37

And

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:37

right at the end. You're like, okay,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:38

then a sting gotta come back. Yep.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:40

They got that formula down, they perfected that with Stranger things and they've been riding that forever. Um, another

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:46

Good for them.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:47

show that I've watched that we consumed really quickly was the residence,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:51

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:51

like a clue murder mystery in

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:53

I watched that one.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:54

watched it?

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:55

I did. Yeah,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 17:56

I thought it was too long, too long,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 17:59

I would agree with that.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 18:00

A little less narrative, like, okay, just

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 18:04

Little less bird talk.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 18:05

I mean the, I like birds. I didn't need the whole time lapse. Like she could've just solved it that night. That would've been fine. But I guess they had to, I don't know the whole, her having to go to South America, it was just such a cute, the first episode was so good, and then it just, it's just too long. They needed a little bit heavier hand in the editing room.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 18:23

I would agree with that. I really like the, the actress she was in, uh, oranges, the New Black. She's really fun to watch. She's really good.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 18:30

Uzo,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 18:32

Zy sounds right. But yeah, I, I did really like her and actually. It was interesting as I was watching it, I think it was right around the time that we did the asexual episode, and I was like, is she asexual?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 18:44

Probably.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 18:45

like, yeah, like it made like no reference to, you know, being an interested in men or women or like, you know, kind of like a, I don't give a shit about relationships at all. And I was like, huh. I don't know. It just, it came to me, but I, I did, I enjoyed it, but I agree it is, it was a little bit too long.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 19:03

Yeah, because I mean the fir, the first episode or two was just like so tight, so snappy and like the style, the editing, the quick cuts. I liked it. It was really engaging. And then by the time she was like in South America, wherever. She was looking,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 19:16

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 19:16

nephew started coming in, I'm like, I don't care about

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 19:18

Oh yeah. Yeah, totally.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 19:20

I'm like, this

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 19:20

I was like, what is happening? I don't care.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 19:23

Yeah. Flashbacks to her childhood of how she got to be such a good, I'm like, say that for the sequel or something,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 19:28

Yeah, no. Agreed.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 19:29

to know that right now. And

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 19:31

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 19:31

don't think anybody would, that sounds so bad. I don't think people would care this much. I don't know if there'd be like a national or a big conference. It's congressional investigation into somebody's death if it

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 19:42

I think it would, if it meant that they could nail the opposite political party, I a hundred percent think that it would, yeah, that, and I think that's what they were playing on,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 19:50

And

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 19:50

I like that.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 19:51

what was the end? I, I didn't really think that was super satisfying either. Um, where they were just like, oh, the rich people. It was like commentary,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 20:00

I don't even remember.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 20:01

Oh, the rich people buying politics or their way into politics or the real villains, something like that.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 20:08

I don't even remember. Maybe I had lost interest by that point. I also watch TV shows sometimes when I'm like half asleep, you know what I mean? And I'm like, I, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 20:20

I was like, oh, it's time for me to

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 20:22

That's one you. Oh, that's one you really have to pay attention to. That's one you really gotta pay attention to. I got the chest. Well, maybe now though, instead of watching TV until I fall asleep, maybe I'll be playing video games because apparently I'm beginning my new video game era. Uh, we got a free Nintendo switch and I'm ready to relive my glory days. Playing Mario Kart and Soul Caliber in a smoky, nasty, nasty basement. I gotta get the smoky and the nasty basement.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 20:59

Well, it's just a different kind of nasty when you have children. It's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 21:02

True.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 21:04

but because of jelly this

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 21:05

vaguely of pee.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 21:07

yeah, not beer this time, it's

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 21:10

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 21:10

piss.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 21:11

Yeah. But I'm looking forward to it. I think it'll be fun for Austen and I, my husband to, uh, play some games together and I don't know, instead of just like staring at our phones or watching a TV show that neither of us enjoy.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 21:25

Yeah, it's cooperative. Like my

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 21:26

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 21:27

I were really into a bird board game for a while there, and that was pretty nice times. Uh, video games are, I say are good, like they're good at rewiring your brain. Like my husband plays a lot of video games and he's like really good at recognizing

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 21:38

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 21:39

doing those kind of things. I felt that too when I started. I'm not a big video game. I play like the Sims. Like that's my, that's my game. Um, but I started playing this Dino game, which is like a multiplayer online,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 21:52

Oh, we know all about your Dino game.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 21:54

I know, I, I mean, I just talk

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 21:56

What's the name of it? Is it just Dino Game?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 21:58

No, it's called Path of Titans.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 22:00

Path of Titans. Got it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 22:02

with me and grow some Dinos, I do play on the switch and we're outta switch jail. So I actually am playing with other people now and not just like the handful of other switch players.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 22:11

How'd you get an OUTTA switch? Jail. What is Switch Jail.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 22:15

Nintendo wasn't taking their updates.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 22:18

Oh,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 22:19

here. Um, so all of us who were playing on Nintendo switches were on like two update old. Uh, game.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 22:28

you were all like segregated with each other.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 22:31

could only really play with each other because

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 22:33

You were in the ghetto.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 22:34

who was smart yeah. Downloaded the new version. So I guess you could play with us if you didn't update your game. But anyways, I am out there in the real world now and it goy, but it, like,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 22:46

scary,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 22:46

rewiring my brain. You know, the, like the first couple days I played it, I was very attuned to like footstep sounds that are around

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 22:54

like in real life.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 22:55

'cause you play

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 22:56

Interesting.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 22:57

and you have to like listen out for the other Dinos around you and that kind of stuff. So I was like in tune to it and I would like recognize plants that looked like the plants in the video game.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:06

Hmm

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 23:06

it just, you, the problem with video games is it get your brain all geared up after your kids go to bed, and then it messes with your sleep and

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:14

Hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 23:15

like a zombie the next day.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:16

And kind of like the, probably the blue light stuff doesn't help as well.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 23:20

well I have my little, my, my Fitbit watch and it would tell me like my stress levels, like playing video games and then sometimes it wouldn't calm down until like four in the morning, and

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:32

What?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 23:33

two hours before my kid wake up,

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:35

Geez. Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 23:37

it's just like I'm sleeping, but it's not super restful.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:40

Interesting.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 23:42

So I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:42

Interesting.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 23:43

games because I think it's fun. I would like. When you first get into a game, all you wanna do is sit and play the video game.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:48

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 23:49

literally get addicted and it's kind of hard. There's just not a lot of room in my life, and I'm assuming your life either for like, to be that level of obsession.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 23:59

Yeah.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 24:00

but I mean, if you play like fun z games, like that'll be fun.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 24:04

Yeah. I like, I'm not so much into, yeah, I'm, I'm into those kinds of games. Like, I used to really like fighting games because it's like quick to the point, like soul caliber. So, you know, you choose your character and you learn.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 24:16

Super Smash Brothers.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 24:18

Yeah. Super Smash Brothers is fun too. I like that one. Uh, it's hard. I, I find Super Smash Brothers to be very difficult. I get my ass kicked every time.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 24:27

it's either like people have been training their whole lives to play it like they're like Olympic levels

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 24:31

Mm-hmm.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 24:31

somebody who just like is playing with their friends and has no clue what they're

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 24:34

Yep, yep, yep. Same. Same.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 24:36

I'm like, oh wait, I think my person got knocked off the little game piece here or whatever. The little board.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 24:41

But yeah, that's why I like the self-contained ones because it's fun. You do it, and it's kind of over. But I can definitely see the appeal of the immersive, you know, and, and my husband is definitely, uh, vulnerable to that kind of addiction as I have seen. Several times throughout our relationship in marriage that there has been several rabbit holes. He's gone down throughout the years, uh, of games that we maybe had to have a talk. So, uh, hopefully we don't get this way with switch, but we'll have to see. Or at least maybe if it's something we can play together, like a Zelda game, maybe we can go down the rabbit hole together and then our whole lives will fall apart. We'll just quit our jobs. It just

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 25:24

Yep.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 25:24

Zelda.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 25:25

games all day.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 25:26

Yeah. Yeah. Just, you know, go down the rabbit hole.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 25:31

the day of the, you have unlimited PTO.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 25:33

True.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 25:33

Fortnite off and play video game.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 25:38

Alright, well I think we're kind of wrapping up here. We're getting close to time. Anything else for our listeners as we send them off for the summer? Go

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 25:46

You guys have a good summer too. Enjoy your June. Do fun things.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 25:50

places. Enjoy

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 25:52

Learn lots.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 25:54

What'd you say?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 25:55

I said learn lots

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 25:57

Learn lots.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 25:58

or don't learn it's summer. I don't wanna learn. I

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 26:02

Go enjoy nature.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 26:03

papers

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 26:06

My, my tip is to go out and enjoy nature while, uh, the summer last,

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 26:13

while we have it.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 26:15

something nice about backyard barbecues and getting eaten alive by mosquitoes.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 26:20

I you to say summer's like my least favorite time to be outside.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 26:24

It's like the early summer. It's wonderful. Like right now. Right now it's really good. But then, you know, as we start to get in and you step outside and you're like, oh my God, did I just step into a pool?

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 26:36

Yeah. It's like it's a sauna.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 26:38

Yeah. Especially here in the Midwest. All right guys, well enjoy it.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 26:44

yapping at you again.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 26:46

Yeah, soon enough. Uh, look forward to seeing us in July. Happy summer, and we'll be back with our shorty shorts.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 26:56

I cannot believe it's already almost June. Ooh, that's nuts.

laura-b_1_05-26-2025_205433 27:00

Time flies. All right, y'all catch you on the flippy flap.

squadcaster-442g_1_05-26-2025_205432 27:05

Bye.