SPEAKER_01 0:06

Yeah, alright. Nothing like a little podcast to brighten up your Friday night, eh? Yo. Alright. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Lively bunch tonight. Yeah, big response to that one. I always say it. We should really consider eating dinner after the podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:30

We used to do that.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

I know, but when we we do it before, everybody gets like kind of sleepy.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

Yeah. You mean when we do it when we have a wake up, America.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

It's what the podcast. I'm Ryan.

SPEAKER_00 0:43

And I'm Joan. And together we are. Super tired.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Super sleepy. Joining us in the booth this week. The Bluuth, that is. My lovely wife, Kara Tefoya.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Alright. And back again for another Rousing Go at Podcasting.

SPEAKER_03 1:03

You're acting like you're at the end. Can you stand attention? Oh, wait, this is you standing on attention.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

Excuse me. Can you turn on the freaking on air sign, please? Oh my god. Annie the Scope Sculptman doing her job. My God! The Tiki! Oh no. Okay. Backwards. Yeah. He thinks.

SPEAKER_05 1:19

Yeah. He twerked.

SPEAKER_00 1:20

I was gonna say, um, I know we've already we've already been in the set for a long time, but every once in a while I walk by the set, I'm like, this is a great podcast set. How is it uh having it in your house? Is it cool or is it like a so I forget I have it sometimes when people who haven't been here before, they walk by and they go, What's the like what is this? What's that? I'm like, it's the podcast. Like, that's it, like pretty universally everyone's like, that's really cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Who's that? Like Facebook Marketplace people, like who's just like walking through here that's never seen it?

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Well, so my neighbors, the like so the ones I was talking to, yes, they were around when we were building it, and so I didn't realize like a couple weeks ago they hadn't seen it yet. And they're like, oh, how'd it turn out? And I was like, I want to come down. And then she was like, Wow, this is actually really cool. I was like, Did you think it wasn't gonna be?

SPEAKER_01 2:04

Thanks, it's the Bluth.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Welcome to the Bluuth.

SPEAKER_01 2:07

Watch the show.

SPEAKER_00 2:09

I think we should stream from the Blue. I think that's next for us. I would love that. Facebook Live or YouTube stream from the Bluetooth.

SPEAKER_01 2:15

Let's do a MySpace Live from the Blue. Yeah, Facebook Live is kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 2:22

Oh completely normal.

SPEAKER_01 2:26

Couple new shows I've got on my radar. Are you watching um Euphoria? No, I'm finally making a comeback, season three. No kidding. Running Blacklist back again, huh?

SPEAKER_04 2:37

Is Blacklist the one with Robert California? President Fitz?

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Uh James Spader. But that's is that Scandal? Scandal, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:44

I'm thinking of Scandal.

SPEAKER_01 2:45

The guy that's Robert California on The Offos.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

I realize I like a certain type of show. It has to be like the main character needs to do an epic monologue every episode. A blacklist. Because I why I watched um the government show. What was it called? It's about the government in the 90s. Um West Wing. Why I watched West Wing. That is like a Martin Sheen monologue. Like the whole thing is a Martin Sheen monologue. Right. And then obviously James Spader is Blacklist monologue. And then I just watched Yellowstone, and that is a monologue show. Kevin Costner. Yep. Kevin Cost Kevin Costner. Like he every episode he says when I was a rancher. They don't think. And I'm like, literally, every episode is stupid. It's like a script. It is like it's like a few.

SPEAKER_03 3:26

If you want a Kevin Costner, like Landman's got one of those too. I'm I'll be there soon. And also, so I mean, not as dramatic. Don't watch Landman. Criminal Minds has that like little quote portion at some point.

SPEAKER_04 3:38

If you if you watch Euphoria, Zendaya, that's the whole time she's talking. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:44

Zendaya, really unrealistic. She like narrates it. She's the narrator, and she's supposed to be like this drug addict that's like down on hard times. And they make her do all kinds of crazy crap. But she's like, it's just hilarious because she's so attractive. She's so good looking, and the whole time you're like, why do they have her like you know, cleaning up the strip club toilet? Like, why is she running drugs across the border? So unattractive to the show. It's like, okay, that's Zendaya.

SPEAKER_00 4:10

Like, what are you talking about? It's a season three.

SPEAKER_01 4:13

Season three. Okay. Long hiatus between season two and season three. And it's the final. I finally got it together.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

Because some of them, some cast members died.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Yeah, Angus Cloud passed away. Yeah. That and I don't know if that really halted the show. The COVID of it all.

SPEAKER_04 4:26

The strikes.

SPEAKER_00 4:27

Remember how much of like how much of a um like just crazy show it was when it first came out. Oh, it was like it still is. They're showing sex on the TV. Like lit like literally, that was the whole remember it was like that's the whole vibe, right?

SPEAKER_01 4:43

It's still the vibe. They still very much are doing that vibe. Yeah. Um, little show got a season two called Beef. Did you ever watch Beef? No. Great show. It's they're kind of doing a White Lotus approach where it's like a similar situation happens, but it's like all new characters, all new storyline.

SPEAKER_04 5:01

First season was about two people who had beef with each other.

SPEAKER_01 5:05

They were beef.

SPEAKER_04 5:06

The whole time it was just the two people.

SPEAKER_01 5:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 5:08

This one is about two couples. Yes, four people. Oh, four people.

SPEAKER_01 5:13

Well, more people.

SPEAKER_04 5:14

But it's more of their lives being entwined. Where the first one was like these two strangers have beef with each other.

SPEAKER_01 5:19

It's a it's an easy watch. We watched it in like two days. It's very good.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

I was kind of spiraling about the fact that you're watching the black list. I think that I've talked about this before, so stop me if I have. Just the fact that like there's just so much media, and all we do is for for I I don't even want to see, even at my life at on nearly 30 right now, sure. I would cringe to see the my life counter of hours I've spent watching television or slash, I guess, streaming, Netflix, or something like that. I'm like, even you know it's even staggering. More moreover, ones that stuff that I watch by myself. I'm like, I like I I feel like I've spent so much time watching these shows.

SPEAKER_04 5:58

I'm like I have so many shows that are just my shows that he doesn't watch.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

And I'm like, I gotta watch my show. Okay, just so I'm clear. You're you're upset with yourself, you're you're that's lost time to you.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

Well, I enjoy it, obviously, but I just yeah, I feel like I'm I it just it just feels like it's not like I guess it is we're admiring art, right? It's it is art being made and we're and we're watching it, we're consuming it in a way that it's supposed to be consumed. But I don't know, it just feels like I'll never get that time back. And not in a negative way. I like I said I enjoy myself. I just I'm like, should should I be like out doing something different? Should I be more out? Should I make more friends? I'm like, I don't know. I just feel like it just feels like kind of a loss.

SPEAKER_04 6:40

Yeah, but then it's also your your social battery. Right. Like I I need that time.

SPEAKER_00 6:47

But that's what I'm saying. What would you do 50 years ago when there was no TV? You'd milk the cow. You do a craft. I think what do you mean? What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 6:56

Well, that was like we saw that um movie where Anthony Hopkins plays the guy who helped save a bunch of kids from Nazi concentration craft.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Right. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

And there was a there was a there was a portion where it's set in like the 80s, and he's alone at his house at night, and it was super quiet. And I was like, Yeah, like what would you do? Like, oh my gosh, you probably what you probably did sit, and he was like reading. And the whole idea is like his wife like uh it walks in and starts talking to him, but like it was just quiet, and I was like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 7:27

Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

SPEAKER_03 7:30

In the quiet and red?

SPEAKER_00 7:31

You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Yes, now I have. I give myself migraines doing it.

SPEAKER_00 7:35

I did the other I've been doing lately. She doesn't wear her glasses. I mean I do I do mouthwash when I'm going to bed, and I usually use like my phone or something, right? Count down from 30. But then I was like, I can freaking count down from 30. Why am I using a timer for that? Like 30 seconds. 30 seconds?

SPEAKER_03 7:50

You're using a timer for 30 seconds?

SPEAKER_00 7:52

Well, because that's how that's how pro that's how institutionalized I am to this moment. Maybe you need something that goes ding ding-ding to tell you to stop. Well, so I I've been counting down. It's scary, guys. Some days I'm like, what number I'm no, you know what?

SPEAKER_01 8:07

He you're totally valid. Like, I totally get the feeling. And lately I've been like listening to the baseball game. I like to listen to the Ponders game on the radio.

SPEAKER_00 8:15

The radio hosts are the best.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

Now, normally, like traditionally, I'll ask she who must not be named, who I'm feuding with in my house, starts with an A. Rhymes with Shmexa.

SPEAKER_05 8:27

Shmexah.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

But I've like a few times now gone to be like, put this on the radio. And I'm like, no. I've got my boom box, it's in the kit living in the kitchen. Awesome. Flip it on. I'm like, screw you. Like, I don't need her, and I don't need phone. And I I feel like little things like that. I've been trying to. I'm trying, but it's no, I'm really not because there's so many things that I still really rely on.

SPEAKER_00 8:51

I heard you're the one that likes Googling things.

SPEAKER_04 8:53

I like, I like laying in bed, and if there's a random lamp on, just telling her to turn it off.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

It's weird because when we moved into the house, I was the one that did it. I put in all the smart lights, I put in the the schmecksa, and now I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna I want to get rid of her. No. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 9:09

I like it for when we're out of town.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

What do you mean?

SPEAKER_03 9:12

That is nice to turn the lights on, turn lights off, make it seem like you're home.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

Right. That's fine.

SPEAKER_03 9:16

You didn't your parents ever do the timer, the plug timers? Yeah. Man, my dad was all in on those plug timers. Plug timers.

SPEAKER_04 9:23

We have that for Christmas lights. Totally.

SPEAKER_00 9:25

Yeah, that's great. I don't know. I think I and I think we talked about this at dinner before. I and I was talking about like I want to do like a trip where we just go and like put down the phone. Like, not do so like just like try it. Obviously, not I'm not a c I'm not trying to be crazy about it. I'm not saying lock our phones up. I'm just saying like try our best to do like stuff where you're just like talking. Yeah. And then we're just scrolling, and then all we c we come back, what are we talking about? I'm like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 9:54

There's something there's something I love when you got someone in town and you're doing stuff all day, and you come home after a long day, and it's like that one hour before dinner, it's like, oh, TikTok time.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

Yeah, you take it. Totally get the TikTok for it. It's fun. Same thing, like, watch a movie, like it should be in little doses. Yeah. I find myself being like, oh, I'm on scrolling all the time.

SPEAKER_04 10:19

See, for me though, a lot of my scrolling is information.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:23

That's what you're telling yourself.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

That is what you're that's what you're telling yourself.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

Okay, go through my entire TikTok. It's all baby stuff. Okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

At any given time, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 10:32

Research. It at one point it was little guys.

SPEAKER_03 10:36

That's not mine, that's his. At one point it was Shmeebos and Bebos and Schmidsky. It's all Ryan's now. La Boo-Boo. He's gonna ruin his.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

I'm realizing we've had this conversation before, obviously. Yeah. And it ended the same way. Kara had been like, I can stop anytime I want. I don't need it. But I left, but I wanted it. We're gonna do a new social man. And Kara was like, no, I'm good.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Which that's my job now. So I can't really not do it.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

What do you okay? So which is it? Is it all information or is it your job? Or do you like it? You just gave me like three different things.

SPEAKER_04 11:06

I couldn't fully get rid of social media because I run social media. Right. So I can't.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

And that's fine. And nobody's asking you to give up your job. I'm saying like in between time, you know how we both sat on our phones for like two hours today? Now wait.

SPEAKER_00 11:20

What if we do this? What if you what if you had uh just a single hour every day? So you could still get your work done.

SPEAKER_04 11:26

Oh, I could do that.

SPEAKER_00 11:27

But the screen time it's done.

SPEAKER_04 11:30

I literally left the house today to run errands, couldn't find my phone. And Ryan was like, Are you sure you don't want to look for your phone? I was like, No, I don't need it.

SPEAKER_01 11:37

Okay, so that is true. So for that 30 minutes that we were out, you didn't have your phone.

SPEAKER_04 11:41

30 minutes? It was an hour and a half, two hours. No.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

Our Costco trip. Our Costco trip.

SPEAKER_04 11:48

Think about before that. Okay. Went to the water store. He literally said, drop me off here and I'll let you know where I am. And I said, I don't have my phone.

SPEAKER_01 11:55

You're better than us. I'll I'll give you that. You are better than I'm gonna do. I know I'm just an object, maybe it is so play a little bit with it, this idea that you're just, you know, on your phone as much as we are.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

I do you are more you you are just as institutionalized as the rest. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 12:10

I've finished my punch card and I have even more punches for no phone before bed.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Yeah, that's great.

SPEAKER_03 12:17

I have been, which and this is where I feel I it's a hard time. I've been reading before bed consistently every night. I haven't been scrolling, I've been fully falling asleep reading, but it's on my phone. And then I wake up to the app still open. And so now my screen, which this happened before when I was falling asleep to TikTok, so it would stay open all night. Right. And my screen time is always F. What are you reading on your phone? Books. I do all my books on the book app. I'm reading books on the book.

SPEAKER_05 12:46

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

Like Apple Book? Yeah. We're purchasing books. Yeah, I buy books because you know what? I'm reading their books. They deserve, they wrote it. They deserve to have my money.

SPEAKER_04 12:55

Reading a book on your phone is the worst thing for your eyeballs.

SPEAKER_03 12:58

And that's why I give myself migrates, Carol. You gotta get a Kindle.

SPEAKER_04 13:02

Maya used Kindle for 10 bucks.

SPEAKER_03 13:04

I can't use a Kindle at night.

SPEAKER_01 13:05

What about a book?

SPEAKER_03 13:06

It has light. That's the whole thing about Kindle. My mom had one of those old Kindles that didn't have no lights. We need to get you a Kindle.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

How about a book?

SPEAKER_03 13:16

It's so much easier. Oh, because it'd be dark. Dark.

SPEAKER_00 13:19

I think what's even more than a bit more.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

Now I'm gonna put I'm gonna put you onto something amazing.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

Kindle.

SPEAKER_01 13:25

Light. No, no, no. It's dark. You turn off all the lights in your house. Dark book. But you got the phone light on.

SPEAKER_03 13:32

It's reverse. So white words, black page. I like.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

Go ahead, John.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

You can do that on Kindle too. I think the only thing that's more dangerous than being institutionalized by society with phones is thinking you're not. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:46

Being surrounded by people being like, no, that's not a problem. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

I'm like, I I just I know I realize where the thing is.

SPEAKER_01 13:54

I'm like, right, guys? And he's like, yeah, I fall asleep going on. I'm like, the other day, I'm like, Annie, how's your screen time? She's like, the problem is I fall asleep looking at this thing, so it looks like I'm on it all day, but I'm actually not.

SPEAKER_03 14:04

I just found out the screw you. By the way, I don't believe that. For a second, I didn't believe that. My screen time is okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:10

Annie, just save it. Okay, we're not gonna look at your screen time. We're moving on from this. Let's talk about something else.

SPEAKER_00 14:17

See, the way I know your brain works is a part of me believes that maybe you leave it on. So that you can say that's I I kind of feel that too. Because everything you do is so measured, there's no chance to leave your phone on my own.

SPEAKER_04 14:31

Okay, that just means that you need to set your phone to turn off after 10 minutes. I just forgot to do that.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

Your screen time's 13 hours. Give me that. Let me see it. Let me see it. Oh, that's crazy. Let's see how long we can do it. I've been watching the book app is about 45 minutes. No, it's a TikTok time nine hours.

SPEAKER_03 14:50

Average daily on Safari, because I've been reading stuff on Safari. Seven hours on Safari.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

What have you been doing? What are you doing on Safari? Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

Hold on.

SPEAKER_04 15:00

Pull up your screen time. Pull it up.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

We need to move on from this. I'm not doing that.

SPEAKER_04 15:04

Pull it up.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

I'm not doing this. Mine's five hours.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

Okay. You're still institutionalized, Caroline. I hate to break it to you. What is that?

SPEAKER_01 15:13

So media. Okay. You're saying your average is still four hours a day. You're telling me all that is for work?

SPEAKER_03 15:22

Number two, Instagram, number three, Facebook. Safari, then messages. Where's messages, Lance?

SPEAKER_04 15:27

That's it. The TV app where I watch Padres for four minutes. Hack, if you ever want to watch baseball. Wait, stop. There's a website.

SPEAKER_03 15:36

Yeah, messages. Mine goes.

unknown 15:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:39

We do this like once a quarter. I love it.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

Maps is my number one. Oh, I'm surprised Maps isn't it?

SPEAKER_00 15:45

I guess I haven't really gone anywhere this year. Calculator. I spent 20 minutes on the calculator today.

SPEAKER_03 15:49

Well, buddy. 45 minutes. No, I was making the timer out.

SPEAKER_00 15:54

No, listen. Quick, quick, quick explanation. I was making a rendering of one of our spaces that we're renovating, and I had to convert how like I had the feet dimension of the room, but the rendering software only let me use inches, so I had to divide like 20 feet by 12, which is like how many times did you have to do it for 20 minutes?

SPEAKER_04 16:12

Yeah, for like it shows you how many times you've picked up your phone in a day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Okay, so how many times you got a wake up?

SPEAKER_03 16:19

How many times a day do you pick up your phone? This today says 43. Mine says 62.

SPEAKER_00 16:25

81. Yesterday it was 160.

SPEAKER_03 16:27

You can go yesterday?

SPEAKER_00 16:29

Yes. You think you can't go to yesterday? Oh, yesterday? I appreciate that.

SPEAKER_03 16:34

Whoa, yesterday. That's a boundary out of it. Yesterday 31. Today 66. Monday, 99. Oh, we were.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

You know who's a screen time obsessed person? Uh like literally once a week is my brother. He'll like, he'll literally, David, he'll literally come in. What's your screen? He'll come to me, what's your screen time at? And I'm like, I'm like, it's at this. He goes, Really? You spent six whole hours on your phone today. You know who's a one person always stepping out taking calls and text messages? Is my freaking brother. He's always on his phone.

SPEAKER_03 17:03

I think I might get a burner.

unknown 17:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

Because then that will really enjoy at the same time. You want to spend money on a burner? It's like 20 bucks, Hira. I don't know what burner score nowadays.

SPEAKER_01 17:13

The going rate of a burner. You just want to burn it because it won't keep screen time. That's why.

SPEAKER_03 17:18

And then I'll be like, oh, you guys are losers. Oh, your screen time's 16 hours. Five minutes. Four minutes.

SPEAKER_04 17:24

More minutes. You don't have any of your old flip phones or anything?

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Lying around.

SPEAKER_03 17:29

Oh. I'm a I'm a trader inner. Trader inner. Trade up. I could grab it. Trade up and trade in. One of my first phones. That's a Philly effect. That's a few effects.

SPEAKER_00 17:38

Having everything of everything you've ever had is a Philly effect. I love it. That is true.

SPEAKER_03 17:41

Yeah, that's crazy. I love pulling out my old phone. Wow.

SPEAKER_00 17:45

I have a couple old phones.

SPEAKER_03 17:46

I like old things. I like having old phones.

SPEAKER_00 17:49

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

Transition.

SPEAKER_03 17:50

Do you guys like change? Well, I'm pregnant, so.

SPEAKER_04 17:57

Oh, so you like change. Okay. That's a change. We can't keep bringing the show. Forget it.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

I like change. I like change. No, never mind.

SPEAKER_01 18:07

Um, just in general.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Yeah. You asked the question, buddy. I had a whole thing for it. Forget it. Alright. I like change.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

Generally speaking, yes. She's on her phone. I think I do like change. He's taking photos of Artie because he's being so cute. I'm not gonna pick that scat, man. I'm just not gonna do it. I'm just gonna look at the phone. What was your transition?

SPEAKER_03 18:29

Go ahead. I'm just gonna go in on change.

SPEAKER_01 18:31

You're doing great. You're doing great podcast. No, let's talk about Mormon wives. Forget it.

SPEAKER_03 18:36

Mormon wives. Change in Mormon Wives World. Okay. They announced, I believe, today, that they are doing a spin-off of the Mormon Wives very similar to how they do the Housewives of different areas. Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Orange County.

SPEAKER_01 18:53

Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Orange County.

SPEAKER_04 18:56

A couple names you might know. Okay. Aspen Ovard.

SPEAKER_01 18:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:01

Why would I know that name?

SPEAKER_01 19:02

Why would I know that name? Aspen Ovard?

SPEAKER_04 19:05

Her younger sister was a big YouTuber. That's the only thing I know of. Poor Aspen. We were supposed to know that so. Every single person who is in that cast, I looked at it, they're all originally from Utah. Okay. And they all moved to Orange County because they're bougie.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

So can you really call it the Mormon Wives of Orange County? No. If they're all from Utah.

SPEAKER_04 19:24

One of the girls, her name is Brooke. Okay. Brooklyn. Brooke? She was the girl who on TikTok she was like, I breastfed my baby w using only one of my boobs. And that was such a problem because when I tried to switch the other one, it didn't work. And it was like months of her having like a triple the triple the size for everyone. One boob bigger than the other? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

What's her name?

SPEAKER_03 19:47

That's the only reason I know her. Isn't she the girl who's like super monotoned? Yes. She's the one that's she's on the show. Her whole thing was she was like in this marriage and she would pretend to call her kid concrete. She wouldn't like release her kid's name. Yes. And she'd call her kid concrete. That's hilarious. And she's like concrete still refuses to feed on the other boob. Yep. And all this stuff. And then she like got divorced, and now she has like a YouTube show or something. She has like an interview show where she interviews celebrities like super monotoned and someone said that she's not even Mormon and she's she's divorced.

SPEAKER_04 20:21

She's like, she's not a Mormon and she's not a wife.

SPEAKER_00 20:25

I can't tell you the the complicated relationship I have with the original Mormon Wives. I love it so much. I think it's kind of the worst thing that tele modern television has produced. So I don't know. So I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

But there's more drama in the world. But you've watched every episode. So all the problem.

SPEAKER_03 20:49

My older Taylor Frankie Paul stuff. Yeah, they had their deposition, everything. They had their deposition.

SPEAKER_01 20:55

I don't know how to feel about that whole situation.

SPEAKER_04 20:56

The judge said there's there's not enough evidence. Right. Both of you have done this to each other. There's not enough evidence saying that you did this purposely to hurt your kid.

SPEAKER_01 21:08

Right.

SPEAKER_04 21:09

So we're dismissing the case. No one's being charged. And also because the statute of limitations in Utah, I guess, is two years with like domestic violence. And this happened three years ago.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

Right.

SPEAKER_04 21:23

So the judge is like, there's not enough evidence of the whole thing. And then someone released a TMZ of photos of like the photos that both of them sent to the police of like after effect of like the abuse of like bruises and like cuts and stuff. It's crazy. And then there was, I think, Entertainment Tonight or something posted like oh Mormon Wives set to start filming again without Taylor Frankie Paul. And it was like a full on, like credible source all this stuff because she commented and said, Wow, that's not the phone call I got. She commented on that post.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

She I she'd be in the comment section. I saw a bunch of TikTok videos where she was like commenting on it and I was like, what are you doing? You're like in litigation right now. Yep. Like, I don't know. It's very confusing.

SPEAKER_03 22:14

Yeah. She's a few years.

SPEAKER_01 22:15

Obviously obviously there's two sides to every story, and I'm not like shaming her or whatever, but like the video I saw plus you know your whole career is based on like being in the public eye. I'm like, I don't know, those are pretty like gnarly things. But everybody's like fully standing for her. Being like, yep, she was abused, and actually she was defending herself and XYZ. I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

Yeah. The photos are gnarly.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Gnarly.

SPEAKER_02 22:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

I think a whole new string of uh Mormons, huh? Yeah. In Orange County.

SPEAKER_04 22:51

But the whole thing about Mormons is there in Utah.

SPEAKER_03 22:55

That's the everywhere. Guys, you were just talking about how the San Diego Mormon temple is opening its doors and you guys want to go see it. Give me a tour. John.

SPEAKER_01 23:04

Let's see them aliens.

SPEAKER_03 23:05

Would you rather go see the inside of the Mormon temple or go to Shenyun?

SPEAKER_01 23:13

It seems like it seems like it's a non-class.

SPEAKER_04 23:16

Shenyun is the billboard you see that says China before communism dancing at the Civic Center.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

You know, that's like always coming to town.

SPEAKER_00 23:23

Always. I mean, I'm I'm I'm more interested in that personally.

SPEAKER_03 23:26

Thank you! Thank you. Everyone has been saying, I want to see this other Mormon Temple.

SPEAKER_01 23:32

What do you think we're gonna see at Shenyun? I think the amazing dancers are.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

I think there's a higher percentage of the Shenyun you're gonna be able to do that. Probably poorly. You know how they treat those? It's gonna be more enjoyable, I think. The Mormon Temple, I think it's gonna be like just kind of weird. I think it's a little bit more. It's a tour.

SPEAKER_03 23:48

It's not they're not gonna show you everything. They're not gonna show you the secret underwear. They're not gonna show you the secret. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

You know what I've been seeing lately is the speed runs of getting as far into the Scientology building as you can. Have you seen these like mobs of they're like teenage guys or whatever, like young guys, and they all mob into you know the Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard. They blast through the front door, they blast downstairs, they start running down the hallways, and it's like this maze of rooms and hallways of just like white walls and like little office rooms. Yeah, no, it's like I don't know who they are, but they're all wearing like balaclavas and like ski masks and stuff, and they're like, it's like you know, longest Scientology speedrun yet. And then they get down to like the bellows of this building, which is just like long hallways. No, and then these security guards pop up and they're like, get out of here! Get out, you're trespassing!

SPEAKER_00 24:42

And they're like pushing them to an exit, basically. Yeah. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Oh, hold on, here comes the podcast on. Go ahead, buddy. Go.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Hurry up, you're gonna hurt, it's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt. You gotta just go. There you go. Holy hell. But um I I think it's the funniest thing I can see. And the protocol for the um Scientology people is just to like push them to an exit. So a lot of them are just like, one lady's like standing on the door, she's like, go out that door right there. And they're like, What? It's so good.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

Here it is.

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Oh, he's just in a ball cap. Yeah, this this is a well I don't think they can get it. Go, go, go. Okay, it looks like a library. Yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 25:23

Oh, not the gesture.

SPEAKER_03 25:25

I saw the um I saw pretty much where they do their classes, yes. They try to serve please, sir, this way. Please this way.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Did you see that? I've seen longer ones. Did you see that the Scientology TikTok? There's like this really there's this woman that's like doing basically social media for Scientology. She's like, and this is our lobby, and this is where you can learn all about Scientology. There's eight, like she's like going to the like the eight tenets of Scientology. I'm like, it's wild.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

Yeah, it's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 25:53

But this is and this is funny because on one of the comments there was an old a screenshot of an old video game where you know the ones where we used to dig in like underground for stuff. Yeah. And this guy, like his character in the picture turned around and he was right next to like a diamond. And the and the uh the thing was like they were this close to Tom Cruise's office.

SPEAKER_04 26:11

It's always like gamblers right before they quit. Yeah, yeah. It looks like hospital or like retirement home.

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Always it's it's really creepy. Weird.

SPEAKER_00 26:21

Scientology is wild to me. Just like I know it's it's like a lot of things where religion's just kind of created, but I'm like it just the fact that it's based so heavily in Hollywood is wild.

SPEAKER_01 26:33

It's not it's more like I don't know how to describe it. No, it's like not even about the aliens necessarily. Like South Park had this whole episode where they talk about what Scientologists believe, and that's like obviously memed now because it's so ridiculous. But I think Scientology is more about the like connections that they promise you in Hollywood. That's why people like so many people like Tom Cruise are like because they're like, Oh, your life, you know, just it's super manipulative. Like, oh, you you need you know, community and you need connections in this new town that you're in. And then the crazy thing is like these people like have really good lawyers and they have really good like private investigators, and they kind of learn a lot about your life and then use that against you. And I mean the whole Leah Remini thing we've talked about before about escaping Scientology. I think that's happening to celebrities. So if that's happening to celebrities, it's definitely happening to normal people that are like down on their luck and being taken advantage of.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

So everyone just wants they want a direction in life.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 27:42

Like I was talking to someone the other day about cold. And they're like, Do you think you would fall for a cold? And I go, I think anyone could fall for a cold. Yeah. Like that's the whole point of them. It's like I don't think the people who fall for them are dumb. I think it's a matter of like they find what you're craving, whether it be community or a higher power or whatever, and they latch onto that and they give you an easy way in. And you still want to go to Shenyun. And I want to go to Shenyun! If I'm choosing between cold time picking Shenyun.

SPEAKER_01 28:09

There was a um I agree with that. What's the place, the restaurant, the Yellow Deli? Have you guys heard about the Yellow Deli? Yes. Oh my god. So awesome.

SPEAKER_04 28:19

What do we always talk about? That passing squaw.

SPEAKER_01 28:22

Yeah, squaw valley. The yellow deli.

SPEAKER_04 28:24

Yeah. Squaw valley is like scary. And there was like a hotel that was like they would bring people in and like it was culty and I don't think you know you're in a cult when you're in a cult, right?

SPEAKER_01 28:37

You you must figure it out after.

SPEAKER_04 28:38

Something happens. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 28:40

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how. You ever see that? I'm sure it's this is circa 2020 area. And before that, like 2017, um, the wild, wild country that talks about the the buckwan. The buckwan. What is that? There's no way those people that they were in a cult. You're all wearing matching red outfits. Come on. Yeah, if it's anything with matching outfits, matching outfits, number one sign of a cult.

SPEAKER_00 29:02

See, I don't know. A uniform. I think I think there's a shot.

SPEAKER_01 29:06

I think absolutely, because if you're in this world that like you feel so singled out on whatever the internet or in your local watering hole, or if you live in a big metropolitan area, like you're like, I just want it's normal human stuff to be like, I just want like to live off the land and to be more you know, get away from all the noise. And if somebody's like, yeah, like hey, you can go live on my friend's farm. That's good. Hell yeah. And if you're already on your own. Well, and I think that's still really on the table for us.

SPEAKER_00 29:38

I think that I was literally literally five minutes ago, I was like, we all need to go and just get in our microphones with and just start driving.

SPEAKER_04 29:45

I do have to say, where if I had was completely by myself, had no family, yeah, like yeah, like nobody, no family, didn't know anything, and someone came up to me and was like, Hey, do you want to like live on this farm with us and like have like girl community and like all this stuff? I'd be like, hell yeah!

SPEAKER_01 30:06

Everybody does their share, free food, and that goes on well for a few months, and maybe like you form some real connections, maybe it's like really working out for you. And then a few months into it, the main guy's like, Okay, so now I'm gonna have sex with all of you. No, it's not one by one.

SPEAKER_04 30:23

It's all it's all women.

SPEAKER_01 30:24

Okay, so whoever's at the top, this is how pyramid schemes work. You're saying you're gonna live in a female community.

SPEAKER_04 30:31

That's nothing else to go go back to.

SPEAKER_03 30:34

Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

Exactly. That's who they prey on.

SPEAKER_03 30:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:37

And so I'll join.

SPEAKER_03 30:38

The gays can have cults too, Kara. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

A woman cult leader could have sex with you still. It's called Hill Curts. I and so then they start every club on Hill Curts. Now, Kara, you don't want to. You've got nothing to go back to. You know, the implications.

unknown 30:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:55

You can't find the meaningful money. Whatever. Whatever. You know, I think you know, there's pros and cons to cults, okay? Pros and cons to cults.

SPEAKER_00 31:05

I don't want to know what you guys think accessibility, but I'm I genuinely feel like an electronic cult.

SPEAKER_04 31:15

John's joining.

SPEAKER_03 31:16

You can think, but I mean, in some way, like there's culty stuff in everything. Anything that gathers big groups.

SPEAKER_01 31:24

Throw around the word cult quite a bit.

SPEAKER_03 31:26

Yeah, but like cult classics. Look at sports fans.

SPEAKER_04 31:32

A group of people that make a single movie. Oh. She's coming for us. Padres cult.

SPEAKER_03 31:37

Like sports, sports fans in general. No, I think that people have so much emotional like tied to it. Plus, like, then the financial, these people who spend all this money on the case.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

Okay, but what about crazy Americans?

unknown 31:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 31:49

What do you mean? Like America. Pride.

SPEAKER_03 31:52

Yeah, but like Well, there, yeah, I think there's like you know what the difference is?

SPEAKER_01 31:57

Is that Fernando Tatis Jr. has never demanded sex from me. He hasn't. That's true.

SPEAKER_00 32:03

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

Up until this point, he hasn't. He's never demanded sex from me. So I feel like off the table is what he's saying. You can be a fan, even a fanatic of something, right? But that doesn't make it a cult necessarily.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

It's like a cult following. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

You can't really join it.

SPEAKER_03 32:21

Oh, the Padres losing every season is in the circle of abuse. Well, well.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

No, I think when they turn around and like take advantage of it. That's not gonna happen this season. That's not gonna happen this season, Annie.

SPEAKER_05 32:33

We're going all the way.

SPEAKER_04 32:34

We're still number one.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

Number one, baby. We were one yesterday.

SPEAKER_05 32:37

One did it.

SPEAKER_03 32:38

We're still one of classic. They lure you in into the beginning of the video.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

In a pyramid scheme, there has to be some pyramiding going on.

SPEAKER_03 32:45

Pyramid scheme and cults are different.

SPEAKER_01 32:47

Uh me giving money to watch them play baseball isn't like them taking advantage of me. It's like I like to watch baseball and they like to make money to watch to do baseball. I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 32:55

Sometimes I feel like I could do a M MLM.

unknown 32:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:00

Multi-level marketing.

SPEAKER_04 33:00

100% pyramid scheme. I could sell I could sell fun, cute little drinks. The key about being a good thing. Is that what you're selling drinks?

SPEAKER_00 33:08

You're in a pyramid scheme for drinks?

SPEAKER_04 33:10

Oh, well, it's like carbon and socket and like this change your life.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

No, and the the part that makes that a pyramid scheme is that you're not just selling them and making the money for it. You're selling a bunch of stuff, and then you're giving a chunk of all your sales Yeah, to the company. No, to a person, to one person. And that person gets a bunch of people selling for them and they're receiving money all the time, receiving it.

SPEAKER_04 33:34

I'm gonna get a Benz. That's right. Gonna get the pink.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Quite literally.

SPEAKER_03 33:40

That's a pyramid scheme. That's what I'm telling you. Okay, but people do. You know what's a pyramid scheme? Girl Scouts.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 33:46

Have you ever met someone who went all the way up in Girl Scouts? Like the high levels? Got the helicopter remote? Yeah, the more cookies you sell, the more like whatever badges, then you get to the next level, and then you get people selling cookies under you, and that counts for your numbers, and then you go up to the case.

SPEAKER_04 34:06

I made it to the very end of Girl Scouts, and that's kind of it.

SPEAKER_03 34:11

You ever do a Girl Scout headquarters speed run where you try to get down to the bottom? And then you get a free trip to Europe.

SPEAKER_00 34:18

And he goes, and then this girl has to be a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

And then you get girls for your girls. And then those girls have girls for her, but their cut goes back to you. By the way, nobody's doing that.

SPEAKER_03 34:28

I thought the brown like the ones the brownies like help the brownies sell.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Like they age out at some point, right?

SPEAKER_03 34:40

No, because you're you're a daisy. And a daisy is like kindergarten to first grade.

SPEAKER_04 34:45

They don't think for the brownies. The brownies at work for the Girl Scouts. Yeah, Girl Scouts. You're Girl Scout. There's more. Super brownie. No, there's extra chunks. There's not.

SPEAKER_00 34:56

Am I wiggling Girl Scout hierarchy right now? There's not.

SPEAKER_03 35:00

The highest you can get is the Green Vest. Yeah, that's it. No, they go, dude, you can be in Girl Scout until you're like 18. Yeah, you get more badges. Oh, 12th grade. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:11

Oh, it's Daisy Brownie, Junior Cadet, Senior Ambassador. Yeah. These are all Girl Scouts, but those are categories. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:19

A junior cadet and a senior cadet.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

Yeah, a junior cadet. And then I guess a mom, some cadet. Senior ambassador. These are all different levels.

SPEAKER_03 35:27

Would you go to the brownie? Yeah, I did brownies. And then when we weren't selling, yeah, because that was dumb as hell. Selling cookies? They're like that was. I went to eighth grade.

SPEAKER_05 35:38

What were you? What would you do?

SPEAKER_04 35:40

I was a Girl Scout. You were a cadet on that. Cadet. It was a green vest. Yeah. Green vest. Yeah, there was a green vest hot. Sorry, green beret. She was a girl scout. That was the that was you had to go to San Francisco and you had to bridge. What the hell's a bridge? Oh my god. So it's it's your way of getting to different levels.

SPEAKER_03 35:56

We're gonna sit down. I've been saying you're explaining this. There's no way in hell this isn't considered something to be a brownie.

SPEAKER_04 36:05

This is like Nexium, but for babies.

SPEAKER_02 36:07

There it is.

SPEAKER_04 36:09

Or to a to a junior, to a cadet, you had to do some type of ceremony, and we crossed the Golden Gate Bridge.

SPEAKER_03 36:15

A uniform. You have to go to the Girl Scout store and buy all the gear. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:20

Okay, were you?

SPEAKER_03 36:20

It's one vest. No, you can get multiple gear. It's one vest. You can get the you can get the sash or the vest.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

Can I just make an observation? Yeah. You guys are talking about two completely different things right now. You are absolutely on complete two completely different playing fields.

SPEAKER_04 36:35

And he made it to level two.

SPEAKER_01 36:37

Level two? Here's the level Daisy, Brownie, Junior Cadet, Senior Cadet.

SPEAKER_00 36:42

I went to four. No, I just said juniors, cadets. They're not, they're not juniors. There's juniors and cadets and seniors.

SPEAKER_01 36:49

And you said you went to level two. What is level two? Brownie?

SPEAKER_03 36:52

No, you can just jump in whenever, depending on your age. I started as age.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

Are we all agreeing that the ambassadors, the 11s or 12s were probably horse girls?

SPEAKER_03 37:00

Yeah, they all no after, yes.

SPEAKER_04 37:03

Either horse or like really science-y. Yeah. After a while. Women and stem girls.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

Boy scouts, they'd be saying loud and probably like, I'm a boy scout, I'm Eagle Scout. Girls, after like Brownies, you kind of start hushing it down. Yeah, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 37:19

You start sliding a paper over and it's just like an order menu. I'm sorry. Literally, they're like, yeah, I'm like, run that back for me.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

And you're telling me that guys that are Boy Scouts are saying that they're announcing that out to the world. Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 37:29

Boy Scouts that go to Eagle Scout are dangerous.

SPEAKER_03 37:31

I've been on the certain thing.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

The Boy Scouts had some bad PR recently in the past few decades.

SPEAKER_03 37:39

But they're really bad. Okay, first of all, that kind of bad PR has not stopped many places. The Catholic Church. Still going strong. Jeffrey Epstein. He's still the boy levels are.

SPEAKER_01 37:52

Wait, let me see. Let me see if I can tell you.

SPEAKER_03 37:53

Because the girls are thinking about like learning how to do switches and no tiger, just scout.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

No.

SPEAKER_01 38:00

Okay, wrong, first of all. Wrong.

SPEAKER_00 38:01

This BSA National.

SPEAKER_01 38:02

There's tiger, there's wolf, there's bear, there's Weeblo.

SPEAKER_00 38:06

Oh, you're okay. Ask me how I know.

SPEAKER_03 38:12

How you got to the Weebloy? I'm realizing as I say it out loud how it sounds.

SPEAKER_01 38:19

Weeblow stands for Weebly Loyal Scouts.

SPEAKER_03 38:22

Weeblo and Boy Scouts. Hold on.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

Hold on. I'm realizing how attends now. Actually, I've never even made that kind of. I was never a Weeblo. I just want to say I was a wolf. It's a Weeblo, right?

SPEAKER_03 38:39

Weeblo Boy Scouts.

SPEAKER_01 38:40

No, no, no, no, no. It's really nice. It's Weeblo Scouts. Weeblo Scouts. Weeblo Scouts.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

Anyways, let me distinguish really quick.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

I'm just not even joking a little bit. I'm just realizing how that's actually.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

You're right. You're right about the lion tiger thing. That's for when they're when you're little. When you're little. Then there's progressive ranks, which means you have to do the things to get on. Eagle Scout. So just for your age, at kindergarten, you're a lion. You're a lion. You're a lion. Okay, a lion. First grade, you're a tiger. Second grade, you're a wolf. Third grade, you're a bear. Fourth grade, you're a weeblo.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

Nice. Hilarious.

SPEAKER_00 39:18

Fifth, fifth to the highest club cub ranking, which is different. Yes. Is an arrow of light. Arrow of light. Thank you. Arrow of light.

SPEAKER_03 39:27

That's, you know what? I think that's a cult, too.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Now, listen, listen. All those people were scouts. Those are all scouts. Because they're all scouts. Once you progress from a scout, you're a tenderfoot. That sucks. Which is forces you to found out foundational outdoor skills, fitness and camping. Gotta get your badges. Okay, which is furthering your developing skills, hiking, uh, camping, and first aid. Then your first class, which is mastery of basic scout skills, including cooking and navigation. Cooking and navigation. Then you're then you're starting to.

SPEAKER_04 39:59

Didn't you know someone who made it like all the way through?

SPEAKER_01 40:02

My brother went to an arrow of light. Oh, Richard. Yeah. Richard uh people.

SPEAKER_04 40:08

It sounds stupid, but if you do Boy Scouts, Boy Scouts was a little bit more like you're gonna learn survival skills.

SPEAKER_03 40:17

Like, here, sell cookies. Yeah, it sets out.

SPEAKER_00 40:22

Helps you get it. Let me finish it. Oh, yeah, it is. Star Scout emphasizes merit badges, service, and leadership roles. Hilarious. A Life Scout continues focus on leadership service and additional merit badges. An Eagle Scout is the highest achievement, requiring 21 merit badge and a major service project and sustained leadership. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 40:42

We got the cabinets in our um. It's like your Mormon mission. Yeah, they do a big Eagle Scout.

SPEAKER_00 40:47

Yeah. I'm gonna say the boys sound like they sound like like military.

SPEAKER_04 40:51

First of all, it kind of was kind of was. Well, I mean, you think about it, it literally was home economics. Girl Scouts was literally like learn how to sew, learn how to cook.

SPEAKER_03 41:00

I have a clear memory of it's like we're gonna learn how germs get spread and why we should wash our hands. And I was like, oh, that's kind of like that. What level were you?

SPEAKER_00 41:07

Well, on what level were you again? Brownie. You were a brownie? Yeah, I said this.

SPEAKER_01 41:11

I was doing brownie.

SPEAKER_04 41:12

I was doing it for the the I ain't washing my hands. When you start writing when you hit cadet, it literally was like, oh, you don't have this many patches, you can't graduate to the next level.

SPEAKER_01 41:21

Can't do it.

SPEAKER_04 41:22

Like, oh, you didn't put enough hours.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

Or do you think it hinders them?

SPEAKER_01 41:26

I honestly, I honestly think it helps. In the beginning, in the beginning, yeah. I think there's a lot of like skills involved that were like it's like I think valuing skills like that are is important. And I think that's a good idea.

SPEAKER_04 41:40

There's a reason why Boy Scouts allows girls in and now. Why?

SPEAKER_03 41:42

Yeah, because they actually do stuff. Do nothing.

SPEAKER_01 41:45

Right. So if we sell money, where's all the money going? Speaking of speaking of books, I think they just call it scouts now.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

Well, yeah, whatever. Girl Scouts did a lot of volunteering. The Mormons are deep in that.

SPEAKER_01 41:55

The Mormons. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:56

No, they're because I used to fun fact about it. Cult. I used to go to the Mormon church. Um and we would have the it would be on Wednesdays it was a small group.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

No, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 42:06

And on Wednesdays it would be a small group, and the girls would go and we'd literally learn how to have modest makeup. We would learn how to bake cakes and make cards. The boys, their small groups were Boy Scout troops. That they had like, so like the leaders were Boy Scout leaders. And so they like they grew like their small groups were Boy Scout troops. We blow. So they would like through whole the whole time through their small groups until they graduated, they'd go through Boy Scouts.

SPEAKER_01 42:31

Did you learn anything from those uh makeup classes? Anything you retained from those?

SPEAKER_03 42:35

I remember being like, wow, this is crazy what they're saying. Did you learn anything about those makeup classes?

SPEAKER_04 42:40

I remember blush. I loved going to Girl Scouts after school because it was always a craft. Yeah. I loved it.

SPEAKER_00 42:50

Mormon recruitments church center. There's a picture of Annie, and they're like, we couldn't get her. Exactly. Couldn't get her.

SPEAKER_03 42:55

You know how they got me in? They had a volleyball team that they needed help with, and my friends knew I played volleyball and they said, You know how they got me? They had a volleyball net.

SPEAKER_00 43:03

I love hearing how dangerously close you were from the city.

SPEAKER_03 43:06

This is why she doesn't want a tour of the Mormon church. She's been there. She's talking about it was too close, too.

SPEAKER_01 43:11

She's talking about cold. I go back because I might join. They had a volleyball net.

SPEAKER_03 43:15

You know what kept me? You know what kept me from joining? When I remember saying to my friend, I was like, I think I want to get baptized. This is so fun. Mainly because they were just nice people. Right. She handed me a legit. We're in the eighth grade, hands me a little rule book she carried with her. And she said, and I it on it was a little packet. It unfolded, and I'm reading all of them. Impressive. And the spot is so tiny, and it says, No dating till you're 16. I said, I can't do that.

SPEAKER_01 43:37

Annie in eighth grade said, I've got a long dating life ahead of me. I have a boyfriend. And there's no way that's gonna be copacetic.

SPEAKER_03 43:44

Yeah, and he was gay, but that's okay. Um, and we were like eight months in. I said, I'm not breaking up with my boyfriend, and I'm not waiting until I'm 16.

SPEAKER_04 43:52

That was not gonna happen about Tina, her best friend, Mormon, all through high school. They'd go to parties, she would get a Drink because she didn't want people to think she was a prude for not drinking alcohol, she'd give it to my mom.

SPEAKER_01 44:07

Nice scapegoat, those bad Catholics. But I'll say I love Mormons. I love that. Up until that point, you got all the way to I want to be baptized in the Mormon church, which is like a pretty involved thing. And then they were like, oh, there's rules.

SPEAKER_03 44:22

They were just so fun.

SPEAKER_00 44:29

Like hell.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

Like hell, I'm becoming a Mormon.

SPEAKER_00 44:33

One of her goals last year was to go on 12 days, and she's like, I don't know if I can do that.

SPEAKER_03 44:39

She's like more.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

You know who's gonna be cool with dating Christian God. I'm going over to that church over there.

SPEAKER_03 44:44

It took me many a minute to jump those.

SPEAKER_01 44:46

You telling me he's not cool with it either.

SPEAKER_04 44:48

Remember when I told the like two Mormons you knew in high school that were like, I'm so excited to go on my mission. Yes. You're like, what the hell?

SPEAKER_03 44:55

No, not me personally, but I was listening to this interview with um Wyatt Russell, uh, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hahn's son. Okay. And he was talking about, because he um played like he was a pro hockey player in Germany, and he has a new he has a new drink coming out. And he was talking about he had a guy that he played like played the juniors with, who's literally the number three draft pick, and decided to go on his mission instead. And went and didn't they were like, You're making this too easy for me. And he goes, he goes, which would be cool for him. And then he just kept going, but I was like, that's crazy to have a complete pro-athlete career and then just to randomly be like, nah, mission.

SPEAKER_00 45:35

I don't know what they do on those missions. Oh, for so long.

SPEAKER_04 45:39

I'm sorry. The if they if someone had a Mormon come to your front door in the United States, why even go on a mission?

SPEAKER_01 45:46

Oh, because they dispatch them to like rural parts of the world.

SPEAKER_04 45:50

The whole thing about going on a mission is going to a cool new place in the world. They've that's Christian mission right there. No, I know that. No, I know that. I'd say no.

SPEAKER_01 46:00

Speaking of telling you where to go, uh why don't you head on down to the bio, listener viewer? We got a link to our Patreon. For just$4 a month, you can support this podcast. Keep the lights on, keep the cameras rolling, and get access to the post show. We're gonna leave right now and record an extra episode of the pod that you get to listen to. We're gonna get real in the nitty-gritty. We're gonna say whatever the heck we want. Yeah, that's right. That's what we do on the post show. Um, guys, where would you go on your Mormon mission? Um, probably We're gonna answer that question right after this on the post show. In the Bluth, as always, care to foya, any the Scove Scovin. I'm Ryan.

SPEAKER_00 46:43

I'm John. And we'll see you next week on What the Podcast.

SPEAKER_03 46:56

Wow, that was really good. Actually, I think you guys we should all choose each other's mission location. Just like the trip. That's good, I like it.