A Little Recap

After two and a half long years...we're back! Kinda? Sorta? How does podcasting work again?

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Transcript

00:00.54
Ermily
The one time I'm ready.

00:02.29
Kyra Seegmiller
The one time you're ready. Okay, wait.

00:21.53
Ermily
Hello and welcome to Stuff I Didn't Write My Dissertation On. I'm your lovely host, Emily, and that is the droid I'm looking for. It's Kyra.

00:35.29
Kyra Seegmiller
Sorry, I had no response.

00:35.77
Ermily
And that's our new our new theme song.

00:38.01
Kyra Seegmiller
we We clearly couldn't pick, so I played both.

00:41.59
Ermily
Was that good? Do you approve of my intro?

00:44.06
Kyra Seegmiller
I have proof. We're going to keep running. And you're probably wondering why it's been two full years since you last heard from us. And I'm here to break the news to you all firsthand.

00:53.53
Ermily
hit the

00:59.10
Kyra Seegmiller
Emily hit me with her car and we broke up

01:03.22
Ermily
I was trying to sell you tell you about your car's extended warranty. My car's extended warranty? How does that? That's not a good joke.

01:13.10
Kyra Seegmiller
that's not a bad joke it's not a good joke it's not a bad joke we're just clearly we missed some really okay also intentionally

01:17.50
Ermily
We're getting back into it.

01:23.19
Ermily
Okay, I would never hit you with my car.

01:27.64
Ermily
Right, which is why it was an accident.

01:30.81
Kyra Seegmiller
i also debated saying we got divorced

01:34.45
Ermily
Yeah.

01:34.90
Kyra Seegmiller
not to each other but that's also that would that would freak people out

01:35.34
Ermily
well which

01:39.50
Ermily
I know. we we had We had some rough times together. We had to take a break, go to individual and couples therapy,

01:50.46
Ermily
not with each other but it's like no you should not work together

01:53.10
Kyra Seegmiller
had to do team building exercises with different teams we also at We also came to the conclusion that I have a face for radio and Emily has a voice for silent film.

02:14.08
Kyra Seegmiller
We're so funny.

02:14.44
Ermily
it's true it's true

02:18.66
Ermily
But that what a what better pair than us?

02:19.00
Kyra Seegmiller
I'm going to...

02:23.34
Ermily
So we can never appear anywhere because on radio, I shouldn't be there and on film, you shouldn't.

02:34.63
Kyra Seegmiller
It's like the when the arms, like you're standing with your arms by your back and I'm your arms like waving in front.

02:39.42
Ermily
Yeah, that's the team building exercise we should have done.

02:45.00
Kyra Seegmiller
Cooking. Cooking with, you know.

02:47.49
Ermily
No.

02:50.40
Ermily
Wait, that would be so funny, though. Wait, were we going to do that?

02:54.80
Kyra Seegmiller
I think we did we were, we need to be in the same city for that, probably.

02:58.98
Ermily
In probably the same room.

02:59.04
Kyra Seegmiller
It would be really

03:00.70
Ermily
Yeah.

03:01.06
Kyra Seegmiller
It would be really hard. you're You're still in.

03:04.06
Kyra Seegmiller
You're you're living in an ocean. Not in an ocean. You're living on an island. In the middle of the ocean.

03:09.67
Ermily
I'm in the middle of the ocean.

03:10.91
Kyra Seegmiller
We're so bad at this.

03:13.12
Ermily
I'm filming from undersea.

03:13.40
Kyra Seegmiller
We're so bad at this. Should we tell them why we we're rolling? Because there's and there are two episodes.

03:24.70
Kyra Seegmiller
That are in my queue. To upload and edit. And then I, the laptop is staring at me right here.

03:34.20
Kyra Seegmiller
who just like, saying

03:35.60
Ermily
but It's like, hello, I have your audio.

03:36.69
Kyra Seegmiller
and

03:39.64
Kyra Seegmiller
and it's going to get done Probably.

03:42.77
Ermily
So we have two episodes that we're... like mostly done editing that we just never finished and we being Kyra because she does she has so far in our entire podcast history done all of the editing for our our episodes and she's done an incredible job wow wow can you let me compliment you okay go now

03:50.28
Kyra Seegmiller
Correct. Correct. Me.

04:00.25
Kyra Seegmiller
That's right.

04:04.37
Kyra Seegmiller
Sorry, I'm playing with this like soundboard.

04:08.95
Kyra Seegmiller
Yes.

04:12.76
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, it it be was it it was the Dracula episode that we recorded with Charlie. That was the last one we recorded. Yeah, I was pregnant when we were recording that, and Emily had just gotten accepted to the University of Phoenix online.

04:30.73
Ermily
I hate you.

04:35.98
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay.

04:38.81
Ermily
It's a, it's an online master of fine arts.

04:44.38
Kyra Seegmiller
I want to say Trump University, but that's even worse.

04:45.10
Ermily
I have to, I was going say, I'm going to pray for you.

04:53.28
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, that's... She didn't get accepted to grad school. And I got accepted to the School of Hard Knocks.

04:57.56
Ermily
No, it,

05:01.01
Ermily
Yeah, that's true.

05:01.68
Kyra Seegmiller
Which is parenthood.

05:03.54
Ermily
It's true.

05:06.58
Ermily
So you had a kid and I went to grad school and we said to each other's faces, we're going to take a year off and, and get back to it.

05:09.44
Kyra Seegmiller
I did.

05:12.12
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah. You...

05:19.32
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah. And

05:22.38
Ermily
You know, like we'll get into the the rhythm of our new lives and then we'll get back into it.

05:23.98
Kyra Seegmiller
yeah.

05:27.33
Ermily
And as, as Dear listener, you are listening now. We have posted this two years, three two and a half years maybe after that.

05:36.82
Kyra Seegmiller
Hey, yeah no, no, because the last one was December 2023.

05:42.98
Kyra Seegmiller
It's two and a half. Yeah, it's two and a half. Oh, well, okay.

05:45.06
Ermily
Yeah. boom o

05:45.81
Kyra Seegmiller
to be fair, we came we came back. You're still in school. I still have a kid. So that means we're doing something right with our lives.

05:52.90
Ermily
You're doing so good.

05:55.18
Kyra Seegmiller
I've kept a human alive.

05:56.04
Ermily
And I'm still in school two and a half years later because my grad program is three years. I'm not that bad at grad school.

06:06.50
Kyra Seegmiller
And meanwhile, I'm still keeping a kid alive because the longer you keep the kid alive, the better.

06:12.65
Ermily
Right. Yeah, that's the goal.

06:15.18
Kyra Seegmiller
Parenthood. Oh, wait. This is now an audio and video medium, apparently. We're going to try a YouTube, but I'm giving two thumbs up.

06:23.62
Ermily
Two thumbs up.

06:25.38
Kyra Seegmiller
Wait.

06:26.57
Ermily
Yes.

06:27.46
Kyra Seegmiller
There we go. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no.

06:33.40
Kyra Seegmiller
I'm leaving that. My goal coming back with no editing.

06:35.68
Ermily
It's a loop.

06:37.12
Kyra Seegmiller
it's I saw the infinity side and I went, oh, that's cool. And I clicked.

06:42.66
Ermily
What does that do?

06:46.18
Kyra Seegmiller
and what is Okay, this one says ballpark. Let me just play it.

06:51.78
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, okay

06:52.58
Ermily
Yeah, yeah.

06:52.94
Kyra Seegmiller
right

06:53.78
Ermily
That'll come in handy.

06:55.48
Kyra Seegmiller
okay.

06:55.65
Ermily
How come I don't have one?

06:57.25
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay. cause you're not the You're not the software holder person.

07:01.56
Ermily
I'm not in charge.

07:02.62
Kyra Seegmiller
You're just the guest.

07:06.92
Ermily
I, oh really?

07:08.70
Kyra Seegmiller
Per Zen...

07:08.84
Ermily
Where would you be without me?

07:10.88
Kyra Seegmiller
It's true. Per Zencaster's things, you are in a guest capacity. In my life, and in this podcast, you are...

07:17.80
Ermily
I still am so insulted by this.

07:22.12
Kyra Seegmiller
Hey, I remember like the first like three episodes you were like, I'm just a guest and then we kept

07:26.76
Ermily
you And then at some point I went to, I went from your podcast to our podcast.

07:33.36
Kyra Seegmiller
And me just very being very quiet. I was just like, oh, oh, this is hers now too. We have, what do you call that?

07:41.100
Ermily
And at some point I went, oh no, we have a podcast.

07:42.44
Kyra Seegmiller
Joint custody?

07:46.02
Kyra Seegmiller
We have a podcast.

07:47.13
Ermily
Yeah.

07:49.74
Kyra Seegmiller
this point of this episode was us to recap the last two and a half years since you last heard our dulcet tones on your little eardrums.

08:03.12
Ermily
Our melodious voices straight to your phone or car radio.

08:04.70
Kyra Seegmiller
Orf car or computer

08:08.32
Kyra Seegmiller
or or computer I think that's all the mediums places to get your podcasts.

08:17.99
Kyra Seegmiller
But, you know, I had a train of thought with that. I was like, oh, we are going. We just wanted to catch you up on our lives. And you can catch us up with yours stuff. I didn't write or it's stuff. I didn't write at gmail.com. Maybe I'll read your email.

08:40.14
Ermily
like how I thought you were going to be like, you you can catch up on our lives and we can we won't catch up on yours.

08:49.46
Kyra Seegmiller
Hey, I offered. I said maybe.

08:51.69
Ermily
I think, yeah, we love to get emails.

08:54.98
Kyra Seegmiller
We really do.

08:57.10
Ermily
when When our single listener sends them.

09:01.77
Kyra Seegmiller
Is it you, single a listener? i know. It's so bad.

09:04.42
Ermily
Could it be you? It could.

09:06.06
Kyra Seegmiller
Or it could be you.

09:09.25
Kyra Seegmiller
We're so bad at this, but that's okay.

09:11.82
Ermily
This is, yeah, we're getting back into it. We're we're getting back on the horse.

09:14.99
Kyra Seegmiller
It just...

09:18.09
Kyra Seegmiller
we do have an And then I'm like, and if you want some more quality podcast episodes from us, we do have an episode about the original horse girl, Genghis Khan.

09:26.57
Ermily
I forgot about her.

09:26.74
Kyra Seegmiller
did itday

09:28.76
Ermily
just Why didn't you just do the sound effect?

09:32.25
Kyra Seegmiller
just didn't click it in time.

09:35.57
Ermily
Oh no.

09:36.69
Kyra Seegmiller
We're doing great. I mean, it also just hit me. I forgot like our typical outro. And then I looked down to see my leg is covered in chocolate. So clearly I'm doing great.

09:46.38
Ermily
Wait, that's extremely mom life, I feel like.

09:49.20
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah, but I almost blamed it on my daughter who for listening purposes, you are welcome to call her Babbo or Dor because Emily called my daughter dora baby dora we can call her dora on this podcast i think we should do that but yeah i i was gonna blame it on door that i realized it is not door's fault at all because door went to bed three hours ago and i ate ice cream cake and it's my fault i did it's my was for my birthday things i do so what have you been up to

10:00.29
Ermily
Baby door.

10:19.04
Ermily
And you deserve it. You deserve that ice cream cake.

10:27.97
Ermily
I have no idea. Because, okay, wait, but you know when people, you see someone after a long time and they go, what have you been up to? What have you been doing? And then you don't remember what you've been doing for the last X amount of time since you last saw them.

10:41.45
Kyra Seegmiller
Right.

10:43.15
Ermily
So like I started grad school and I got so busy because apparently it's a lot of work.

10:58.69
Kyra Seegmiller
Apparently.

10:59.62
Ermily
I knew, okay, for real, I did know it was going to be a lot of work, but you know how you are prepared for something in theory and then you are humbled often.

11:09.48
Kyra Seegmiller
yes

11:10.53
Ermily
Yeah. That's kind of how it was. So my first and second years have have come and gone, and I passed my thesis proposal last semester.

11:22.44
Ermily
So my final year will be making all of the art and writing all of the paper.

11:29.29
Kyra Seegmiller
All of art. All paper.

11:31.40
Ermily
All the art and all the paper.

11:32.49
Kyra Seegmiller
well All the paper.

11:33.59
Ermily
It's not that long of a paper, to be honest, but it does have to be good. So that will take a while. But I'm really excited about it.

11:40.96
Kyra Seegmiller
I'm excited for you. i don't have an applause. I should have uploaded an applause stock sound before this, but...

11:46.26
Ermily
Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap for me.

11:46.80
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, I think that's going to pick up.

11:50.21
Ermily
I feel like, okay, but one person clapping.

11:54.60
Kyra Seegmiller
there There has to be a ratio of like people clapping because one is pitiful.

11:59.21
Ermily
Wait, maybe if we both clap.

12:00.90
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, ready?

12:03.73
Ermily
Yay.

12:04.36
Kyra Seegmiller
Yay!

12:05.25
Ermily
he

12:08.74
Ermily
That didn't sound enthusiastic at all.

12:11.49
Kyra Seegmiller
I was going to...

12:11.65
Ermily
Okay, okay.

12:13.00
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, are we clapping again?

12:14.02
Ermily
Oh my gosh. my My dog is attacking my cat right now. Playfully.

12:18.76
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, yeah. She also got a cat. i Did you have a cat?

12:20.68
Ermily
Oh, I got a cat. Oh my gosh. I got a cat two days before grad school started.

12:27.56
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, yeah, so you didn't have a cat previously.

12:27.78
Ermily
Which... Yeah. Which was stressful. So... I can't remember. Do we say... our partner's names on this podcast.

12:39.56
Kyra Seegmiller
think I think we have. Because they were on the show.

12:41.73
Ermily
I think we have.

12:42.82
Kyra Seegmiller
They were on the show.

12:44.62
Ermily
No. Yeah.

12:45.39
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah, yeah! They were...

12:47.53
Ermily
like I'm trying to be good.

12:47.70
Kyra Seegmiller
No, we we did a doctor of this episode.

12:49.25
Ermily
I'm trying to be a good little podcaster.

12:54.01
Ermily
Oh, we should post a picture of my cat.

13:00.26
Kyra Seegmiller
She can see the chat. The chat is definitely working. We should post a picture of your cat.

13:03.10
Ermily
We should. On the Instagram. Okay, so Wade brought home this kitten that he found on the side of the road like three days before I started grad school.

13:17.98
Ermily
And we were like, well, I was like, okay, what are why are you doing this to me? And he said, but he's so small and he needed us and And so then I knew we had a cat.

13:34.68
Kyra Seegmiller
if when When it gets the spouse, you're done goofed. Source, that's how we got Dremmy, our second dog.

13:40.44
Ermily
Yeah.

13:43.58
Kyra Seegmiller
so

13:43.67
Ermily
he

13:46.30
Ermily
Yeah. So my cat is an emissary of the devil.

13:50.26
Kyra Seegmiller
a

13:51.38
Ermily
He has paperwork saying so. And although he, right, card carrying member of the underworld and

13:54.87
Kyra Seegmiller
Card carrying, yeah.

14:02.42
Ermily
He's gotten better, but is still doesn't like any of us very much. But he likes us more than he likes anyone else. And, you know, sometimes that's the best you can do.

14:17.06
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah, sometimes that's... It's not about do they love you. It's just do they not actively wish for your demise?

14:27.72
Ermily
Right. And he, I think he likes it here way better than he liked living on the streets.

14:33.86
Kyra Seegmiller
Well, yeah, that's an upgrade.

14:37.54
Ermily
Yeah, it's sometimes I think he doesn't, but I don't know. He has a way better life now.

14:42.80
Kyra Seegmiller
I was gonna I did have a question for you which was when I ask what have you been up to do you get like a montage of every ra random bit flashing through your head

14:46.85
Ermily
hmm.

14:57.80
Ermily
No. Do you?

14:59.06
Kyra Seegmiller
oh kinda like I get the little film like didter did and then yeah

14:59.17
Ermily
Wait.

15:03.75
Ermily
Oh, you get like, what are the bullet points sort of? Okay. Oh, I'm so jealous because what happens for me is I get stressed out about answering correctly and then I forget everything I've ever done.

15:17.22
Ermily
Like for me right now, it's a, it's a white wall.

15:18.25
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, like this because because we put the spotlight on you.

15:20.16
Ermily
It's blank because of the question. Yeah.

15:24.17
Kyra Seegmiller
Right. OK, well, I'm not going ask you the question anymore so you can repopulate this.

15:27.44
Ermily
I'm not telling you anything.

15:29.24
Kyra Seegmiller
What's new? what's new

15:31.91
Ermily
There's nothing going on up here anyway. Okay, okay, so what's what's new with you? You had a child.

15:40.71
Kyra Seegmiller
That's really it. It just took all...

15:41.90
Ermily
Baby door.

15:43.15
Kyra Seegmiller
Baby Dwarf, it took a lot of energy three d printing a human. It took a lot of energy expelling said human.

15:48.14
Ermily
Yeah.

15:50.90
Kyra Seegmiller
And then it took even more energy and time figuring out how to keep said human alive...

15:51.35
Ermily
Okay.

15:58.86
Kyra Seegmiller
And then now it's the, i have almost a two-year-old and it's like, how do we prevent this child from actively seeking ways to, dot to like off themselves or eat themselves? And like, there's, there's this switch and that's what,

16:19.63
Kyra Seegmiller
that's what i've been up to so it sounds like i feel like your life has been just so much more eventful with like the new cat school and then i'm just like i'm here sustaining someone that i just dated for the foreseeable future and keeping them alive oh i i

16:39.25
Ermily
know I don't know. feel like if you've, I feel like it it sounds kind of like that either way. Wait, you have to talk about skating.

16:46.68
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, yeah. And I also got laid off. So I did have i had two more things. Man.

16:51.35
Ermily
Yeah.

16:52.17
Kyra Seegmiller
woo That's also why we came back.

16:52.95
Ermily
Yeah.

16:53.61
Kyra Seegmiller
Because I was.

16:53.87
Ermily
See, you have things.

16:54.69
Kyra Seegmiller
I do. Like yours is like, oh, my God, I got a new cat. I started grad school. And I'm like, I lost.

16:59.23
Ermily
I got a new cat.

16:59.99
Kyra Seegmiller
I got laid off.

17:00.89
Ermily
i've been I've been taking such cool classes in grad school.

17:01.03
Kyra Seegmiller
I've doing such a bit. And then I'm like, I got laid off. oh Now, so.

17:09.33
Ermily
Okay, but I also have all of these moments where I'm in a room with my the thesis committee and they're like, okay, but why did you make this? Like in that like, okay, but why? And I'm like, like holding back tears, like trying to answer all of these questions about what this art is about.

17:28.99
Kyra Seegmiller
It makes me feel things inside in a good way.

17:31.02
Ermily
Like, because it's important to me.

17:33.90
Kyra Seegmiller
It's pretty. It's pretty and I like it.

17:36.81
Ermily
No, it's not supposed to be pretty.

17:36.91
Kyra Seegmiller
I want you to... Oh, because it's ugly.

17:38.99
Ermily
That's the worst art can be apparently is that it's pretty.

17:41.49
Kyra Seegmiller
because it's Because it's ugly? i

17:44.40
Ermily
No, my art is pretty and that's a problem.

17:47.09
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh. Well, stop that.

17:50.83
Ermily
I know, i know. I really have to make it weirder.

17:56.59
Ermily
I've been told that.

17:56.81
Kyra Seegmiller
no i have no response to that other than you got this.

18:02.04
Ermily
Thank you.

18:02.91
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah, I have been skating more. Because I got laid off, I was, I guess I think that's a fair thing to say.

18:10.95
Kyra Seegmiller
i was very stressed trying to balance every aspect of my life because, dear listener, if you know me, you know I can't sit still. And maybe that's a diagnosis for another day.

18:22.47
Kyra Seegmiller
don't know. But for some professional, yeah, I...

18:24.47
Ermily
for a professional.

18:28.70
Kyra Seegmiller
play D&D. DM one game. in another game. I played in a... light I was doing a lot of one-shots for different groups of friends in my life. Like, one was my co-workers, and then I had my main D&D group.

18:43.26
Kyra Seegmiller
i was going around the city where I live, finding, like, one-shots around... For example, Alamo Drafthouse hosts one. This is not sponsored. It's just one that I attended.

18:54.35
Kyra Seegmiller
They did dungeons in Drafthouse. I was skating. i was good.

18:58.23
Ermily
Oh, I like that name.

19:01.15
Kyra Seegmiller
I was gearing up for a skate competition. You know, just all of these things. And then I...

19:08.46
Kyra Seegmiller
I had to, oh, i you know, and then i crocheted. Oh, I was crocheting a lot because I i started, i picked up crocheting because I was on bed rest when I was pregnant because my daughter is a behemoth of a giant child.

19:21.71
Kyra Seegmiller
I joke she might be also part of the Hellspawn committee because when Brian touched my belly and said, are you Rosemary's baby? He felt her kick for the first time.

19:33.10
Kyra Seegmiller
Interpret that as you will. Oh my gosh, I was on a roll.

19:37.28
Ermily
Okay, so you had a baby.

19:38.88
Kyra Seegmiller
I lost it.

19:42.85
Kyra Seegmiller
I did.

19:43.75
Ermily
You were working full-time until you weren't.

19:46.05
Kyra Seegmiller
I was. Yes?

19:47.94
Ermily
you were doing you were You were doing ice skating lessons, taking them and teaching them and doing competitions.

19:54.72
Kyra Seegmiller
And teaching. Yep, giving and taking. Uh-huh.

19:59.30
Ermily
You were also DMing for at least two games.

20:03.15
Kyra Seegmiller
Mm-hmm.

20:06.11
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah, we'll say two.

20:07.55
Ermily
And then playing also in a handful of other, in like different ones.

20:11.11
Kyra Seegmiller
Whoa. True. In two games.

20:14.34
Ermily
Yeah. And then you're like, I haven't done anything.

20:17.83
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah. yeah What is my life? Yeah, crafting. I was I was like, oh, going to make a quilt. Haven't finished it. Crocheting. lot of crochet because I was on that bed rest I mentioned.

20:29.72
Kyra Seegmiller
Still working on Brian's graduation gift from residency, which was two years ago. But it's fine. that's Whatever.

20:37.35
Ermily
it

20:38.66
Kyra Seegmiller
or I guess one year ago. One year. But still. Yeah, so all of that to say, podcast had taken a natural hiatus because was like, I just don't have the mental capacity to take care of it and give it the attention and love I deserve.

20:55.02
Kyra Seegmiller
Because Emily deserves the love and attention that I give this podcast, if not more.

21:00.07
Ermily
is it it's It's like our main... interaction and hangout time. Like I was thinking about that because the main time we hang out is is podcast related because and we've talked about this before where we basically we just have so much fun talking to each other and we're both so hilarious that at some point we decided to hit record.

21:06.79
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah.

21:16.95
Kyra Seegmiller
o so funny exactly that's the source of this thanks internet oh yeah emily is also the godmother to my child

21:31.76
Ermily
Yes. Love baby door.

21:35.73
Kyra Seegmiller
i think she loves you well she's seen you a few times

21:38.42
Ermily
I don't think, I don't think yeah she's seen me sort of, I don't think she knows me as more than a concept.

21:46.26
Kyra Seegmiller
No, she... That's okay. That's okay. When, if, and...

21:49.51
Ermily
There's time. There's time.

21:54.00
Kyra Seegmiller
I point you out when you call. and we And she's around.

21:56.27
Ermily
Yeah. And when I, when When she gets older, I'll be able to, like, more personalized gifts that hopefully she'll associate.

22:05.90
Ermily
And, like, since I'm far away, then that's my idea.

22:06.79
Kyra Seegmiller
Whip you. Right. Oh, yeah. That's gonna be two doctor incomes spoiling my spawn.

22:15.14
Ermily
And then I'll actually be able to visit.

22:18.26
Kyra Seegmiller
Yay!

22:19.40
Ermily
Yay!

22:20.87
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, so in this third we learned Emily's doing so many meaningful things and Kyra has too many hobbies.

22:27.27
Ermily
done basically nothing.

22:28.90
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah.

22:30.34
Ermily
Wait, no.

22:30.62
Kyra Seegmiller
Correct.

22:30.86
Ermily
See, I feel like mine feel sounds like I haven't really been doing much because all I do is I'm in my studio all the time. And if I'm not in my studio, I'm working at my graduate assistantship, which is in the computer lab.

22:44.67
Ermily
So I'm like sitting helping students print and stuff.

22:46.49
Kyra Seegmiller
You're

22:49.47
Kyra Seegmiller
So you're just basically like on campus all day every day.

22:52.77
Ermily
Right, I'm just on campus all the time. And so the most interesting things to me are like as a concept, started grad school, got a cat.

22:54.72
Kyra Seegmiller
Right.

23:01.73
Kyra Seegmiller
Right.

23:02.24
Ermily
And then the electives that I've been able to take are the most fun to talk about.

23:03.55
Kyra Seegmiller
Like they're...

23:06.81
Ermily
Yeah.

23:07.30
Kyra Seegmiller
Right. It sounds like miled like it's more milestone-based achievements. D&D nerd are here. And then mine are more, excuse me, like XP?

23:21.19
Kyra Seegmiller
per Mayhaps? Because mine it's like, I definitely don't think I've hit certain big things, but mine is maybe like sustaining my child's life and my first competition.

23:35.11
Ermily
And she'll hit big things.

23:35.39
Kyra Seegmiller
but the Right. But the tiny things in my day-to-day, think are, you know, like, God, I'm just using a D&D.

23:46.37
Ermily
Well, they don't feel as quantifiable, maybe, where I can say, OK, I passed my first year milestone.

23:49.47
Kyra Seegmiller
Correct. So that's why I

23:53.35
Kyra Seegmiller
right right

23:54.05
Ermily
I'd like this big exam I was supposed to take. And the second year I had the thesis proposal and I passed that. But there's all of these little milestones that you're achieving along the way.

24:05.44
Ermily
that people don't quantify the same way.

24:08.83
Kyra Seegmiller
right and that's not that's not bad i i don't think i and i also think after i got laid off I was able to revisit more things and give more time and attention to the things that I love. And this is one of them.

24:24.99
Kyra Seegmiller
And so maybe this is a milestone in itself, you know, and me too.

24:26.10
Ermily
Yay. I know I've been really missing recording with you.

24:30.23
Kyra Seegmiller
We talked about it for a while and I knew it was kind of on the, okay, I think this is the year we're kind of getting into our groove. Like we're feeling not like we're drinking out of a fire hose for our respective parts in our lives.

24:42.39
Kyra Seegmiller
And we're more, more,

24:43.11
Ermily
Yeah.

24:44.32
Kyra Seegmiller
maybe not confident but self-assured in how to do things and then I was like hey leader I have so much time

24:47.52
Ermily
Yeah.

24:53.15
Ermily
So in D&D terms, is Baby Dor your familiar?

24:57.60
Ermily
Or more like a new member of your party?

24:59.89
Kyra Seegmiller
I'd say a new member of the party because I let her pick her D&D class and she picked Warlock and Bard. Well, technically she picked Bard first and then Warlock.

25:09.62
Ermily
Multiclass?

25:10.67
Kyra Seegmiller
So she is she is a charisma-based, multi-class, I guess human. i The jury's still out.

25:17.66
Ermily
And do you see that? the You're not sure sometimes.

25:21.60
Kyra Seegmiller
No. Yeah. the The flailing makes me think, oh, maybe not. Sorry, what were you thinking?

25:27.97
Ermily
And do you think that the do you think that tracks so far? The bard-warlock combo?

25:32.57
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Very charming. Very sassy. And, yeah.

25:42.33
Kyra Seegmiller
She does not she does not strike me

25:42.84
Ermily
That does seem very bard to me.

25:47.45
Kyra Seegmiller
she does She's a very particular for my astrology girlies listening. If any, she was born like hours into Libra. So she's like a Virgo Libra baby. So she's very particular and very fastidious.

26:05.66
Kyra Seegmiller
But I don't think that's a trait that you necessarily see across a D&D class. I think that's just her. So, yeah. But, oh, sorry, this is, I'm like, oh, and that just reminded me, we were also going talk about any books we've read, any shows we've watched, movies we've watched, podcasts.

26:24.95
Ermily
Oh yeah.

26:25.38
Kyra Seegmiller
What have we, what have we consumed in popular media in the last two and a half years?

26:34.45
Ermily
Okay.

26:35.35
Kyra Seegmiller
And the reason why this...

26:35.38
Ermily
Okay. Oh my gosh.

26:36.83
Kyra Seegmiller
from my Well, the reason why this question... Like, your question reminded me of it is because I just started reading Dungeon Crawler Carl, and I'm only on book two So don't spoil it for me, but like Brian and I will drive in the car, and I'll say, hey, if you were in an RPG, like, just you, what would be your class?

26:47.05
Ermily
Oh yeah.

26:58.34
Kyra Seegmiller
What would be your primary stat? And i think we settled on him would be... wisdom and then mine would be charisma so that's what's got me started on it and i was listen i think my dex would be the lowest for what it's worth maybe strength

27:08.87
Ermily
Oh, yeah. i've always I always make the joke that that my constitution is really low because I get an upset stomach a lot.

27:25.81
Kyra Seegmiller
oh that's the thing we said the same thing or i said the same thing about him because he gets an upset tummy

27:30.80
Ermily
Yes, exactly.

27:32.66
Kyra Seegmiller
oh

27:33.49
Ermily
it would be absolutely the lowest for me.

27:36.31
Kyra Seegmiller
Right, it would be minus two, probably.

27:38.71
Ermily
Yeah, it would be bad.

27:40.27
Kyra Seegmiller
i think...

27:40.27
Ermily
I really gotta work it up.

27:42.80
Kyra Seegmiller
could say dexterity for yours.

27:45.31
Ermily
You think?

27:46.24
Kyra Seegmiller
Dexterity and and charisma because of the performance-based aspect. and Not in get-out-there-and-sing-and-dance, but in a create art.

27:57.33
Kyra Seegmiller
Create something.

27:58.19
Ermily
Don't you dare ask me to do that.

28:01.50
Kyra Seegmiller
not hey you want to go sing a dance and three yes

28:05.43
Ermily
In front of how many people? All of them? No, that's too many.

28:14.01
Kyra Seegmiller
yes

28:14.20
Ermily
Three is too many.

28:16.41
Kyra Seegmiller
okay what have you read what have you watched what have you consumed not food other things

28:18.30
Ermily
Okay.

28:21.60
Ermily
Okay. the A book I recently finished. Okay. I've read a lot of books in grad school that our listeners are probably not that interested in But one book that I finally finished for fun for me was...

28:37.50
Ermily
The Traitor Baru Cormorant, which is a kind of like fantasy-esque novel. I don't know if I would describe it too much on the podcast, but just that if you're interested in something a little bit more written by like, you know, in the last few years, as far as like fantasy goes.

28:52.40
Kyra Seegmiller
can you

28:57.59
Ermily
Yeah,

28:57.97
Kyra Seegmiller
Can you drop the title in our chat so I can put it in our episode description?

29:01.46
Ermily
yeah, yeah.

29:02.52
Kyra Seegmiller
We can call it like the little stuff I didn't write book club.

29:06.60
Ermily
I'm typing with my left hand, so I'm so sorry.

29:06.75
Kyra Seegmiller
What a

29:09.42
Ermily
Anyway, it's a series, so I read the first one and I'm on the second one now. Highly recommend. i like how it's written. the The main character is very smart and cool, and it's very, I support women's rights and women's wrongs.

29:31.58
Kyra Seegmiller
That should be a... is that a bumper sticker yet?

29:34.22
Ermily
I think it is. It must be.

29:36.52
Ermily
Do you need that one?

29:36.92
Kyra Seegmiller
I mean, to say... I don't need it. Not to say that, like, we couldn't do one, but that would be funny. Video games.

29:44.33
Ermily
Oh, I see what you're saying. No, i definitely took, I heard that from somewhere.

29:49.63
Kyra Seegmiller
drat. Okay, what video games you've played?

29:50.66
Ermily
I know.

29:54.34
Kyra Seegmiller
Destiny 2? Perpetually?

29:55.68
Ermily
Okay, I've been playing Destiny 2. Actually, my update for Destiny 2 is I think I've gotten a little better.

30:05.13
Kyra Seegmiller
I wish we could have like pre hiatus stats for you and just to see how they've gotten better.

30:12.23
Ermily
Okay, for context, as far as, okay, Destiny 2 is a first-person shooter game. It's like you're an alien on an alien world sort of thing, right? And if you're unfamiliar.

30:25.01
Ermily
And Wade plays it, and he's very good. And I play it. And at the end of the games, there's a stat that says, like, how many enemies you killed and how many assists you have, and you know, that kind of thing.

30:38.13
Ermily
And

30:38.20
Kyra Seegmiller
i have to I have to guess.

30:39.78
Ermily
wade almost cons- like, not almost always, consistently. Every single time. Do you want to guess?

30:48.50
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, not for him. For you, I want to guess.

30:50.52
Ermily
Oh, oh, oh. No, no. So, Wade consistently gets at least double my kills. If not triple. Like, I'm over here with like, 49 or something. And he has like, 270, whatever. Like,

31:08.21
Ermily
seventy whatever like

31:10.92
Kyra Seegmiller
But that track.

31:16.56
Ermily
Okay, so i have played over 200 hours of this game and Steam is always like, oh, you've played over 200 hours of this game. Would you recommend it to others? And my definitive answer is no, I would not, absolutely not.

31:33.01
Ermily
It is not my favorite game ever, but the things we do for love.

31:38.90
Kyra Seegmiller
Right.

31:40.85
Ermily
Oh, I am so close to finishing a Nancy Drew game, though, that I made Wade play with me.

31:40.73
Kyra Seegmiller
Like raise a kid.

31:46.14
Kyra Seegmiller
I have been seeing i've been seeing you play it on Discord and on Steam and I'm like, yeah, that looks that sounds like an Emily game. And then I like chuckle to myself and then I keep playing my games.

31:58.94
Ermily
I have loved playing Nancy Drew games since I was like 12 or 13. twelve or thirteen

32:05.60
Kyra Seegmiller
So I played one and then I got scared so I never finished it. like i kept I kept anticipating a jump scare that never would come to be.

32:15.65
Ermily
Okay, the some of those games are kind of spooky and there are only jump scares occasionally, like they do happen and it'll be all a sudden like like a cut scene where it's a little video, right, instead of the point and click.

32:20.44
Kyra Seegmiller
Mm-hmm.

32:33.39
Ermily
And that's where sometimes things will happen.

32:33.72
Kyra Seegmiller
Mm-hmm.

32:35.79
Ermily
The worst part of those games is that all of the sudden they'll turn into a little point and click action adventure thing where you have to do something on a timer before somebody gets to you or does something else.

32:36.40
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay.

32:47.77
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh.

32:50.07
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh.

32:50.52
Ermily
And that is so scary.

32:50.81
Kyra Seegmiller
I hate quick time events.

32:52.44
Ermily
But up until then, it's a point and click mystery adventure.

32:52.59
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah.

32:58.92
Ermily
And then all of a sudden you're like, you have to get out of this cage before the the the water fills up or whatever.

32:59.15
Kyra Seegmiller
Drop.

33:05.80
Ermily
like,

33:06.14
Kyra Seegmiller
Which Nancy Drew game are you playing right now?

33:09.20
Ermily
I'm currently playing Nancy Drew and the Labyrinth of Lies, which is very like Greek God coded.

33:18.20
Kyra Seegmiller
I might have to look it up. I might try that one. That sounds fun.

33:21.79
Ermily
yeah i Okay, my absolute favorite Nancy Drew game was one of the first ones I ever played, and it is Danger on Deception Island.

33:32.08
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay.

33:32.29
Ermily
And you are in like a misty seaside town, and there are orcas and like boat rides, and you have to solve a mystery that I can't remember what it is. But i would I think I would recommend maybe you start with that one.

33:48.05
Ermily
Okay.

33:49.42
Kyra Seegmiller
Drop it in the chat again. I might have to cut that little bit out.

33:52.69
Ermily
You know I can't spell deception.

33:54.83
Kyra Seegmiller
I know. or hear Or say it again. Nancy Drew and what?

33:57.72
Ermily
No, wait.

33:59.41
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, you got it?

34:00.01
Ermily
I got it.

34:00.75
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay.

34:01.04
Ermily
Wait. Deception. It's

34:05.19
Ermily
really hard to type.

34:06.48
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, cool.

34:06.53
Ermily
Did I do it?

34:07.30
Kyra Seegmiller
You got it. i got it.

34:08.93
Ermily
yeah

34:10.02
Kyra Seegmiller
I'm trying to think what games I played. We can do games and then movie slash TV chefs then we can call it an episode.

34:17.19
Ermily
Oh, and I'm also kind of playing Gato Roboto just for funsies. It's like a little i side scroller where you are a cat in a little robot and you have to save your pilot slash owner who crash landed on this planet.

34:27.73
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, nice. Oh, that's cute.

34:38.60
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay.

34:43.61
Kyra Seegmiller
for me, I've really only been playing two games, Baldur's Gate 3 still.

34:48.80
Kyra Seegmiller
I have over 750 hours on one playthrough or on one account.

34:49.09
Ermily
Hell yeah.

34:54.04
Kyra Seegmiller
I have it on my PlayStation account, Brian's PlayStation account, and my Steam Deck. So we'll just say, let's just call it about 900 hours.

35:05.28
Kyra Seegmiller
Let's just call it a nice even 900. My goal is to try every iteration, or nice round even 900.

35:08.96
Ermily
Nice round 900.

35:14.58
Kyra Seegmiller
test drove three cars. Oh, I got a new car. That's also fairly recent. And we we called it a nice even three that we test drove.

35:19.18
Ermily
Woo!

35:24.28
Kyra Seegmiller
But yeah, with Baldur's Gate 3, it's been out since 2022, think, at least, or 2023, because it got Game of the Year.

35:34.73
Kyra Seegmiller
they're It's a D&D, and I love the story. They've... they've and they've not encountered they've accounted for that's the word they've accounted for basically like every type of iteration with this game with with whatever choices you pick so it's fun to try each potential outcome and I want to try like every class I want to try every character I want a romance every person and yeah that's why I'm still playing it years later and it's fun highly recommend I'm finally trying go ahead

36:08.84
Ermily
It's, it sounds really fun. I also want to play it. I think that you were really, really into it, especially like right before I started school.

36:13.98
Kyra Seegmiller
Please do.

36:18.57
Kyra Seegmiller
Yes.

36:18.83
Ermily
And so I was like, okay, but I know that if I get this now, I'm going to be really distracted. So I'm going to get it after i graduate and play it.

36:23.98
Kyra Seegmiller
I think you should.

36:28.23
Kyra Seegmiller
It's getting on the PlayStation. It works just fine. Yeah, it's good.

36:31.98
Ermily
Not for a PC.

36:33.90
Kyra Seegmiller
I don't think you know, it's both.

36:33.97
Ermily
Oh, is it only PlayStation?

36:36.37
Kyra Seegmiller
I just with your PC specs, my gut is telling you PlayStation.

36:39.86
Ermily
woe Whoa, whoa.

36:40.77
Kyra Seegmiller
oh Whoa, whoa.

36:44.73
Ermily
Yeah, that's fair.

36:45.20
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah. And I was like, and I'm right.

36:46.51
Ermily
yeah

36:47.40
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah.

36:48.53
Ermily
I think I could probably do it, but I might have to get one of those little pads that has fans for my computer because it likes to overheat a little.

36:56.71
Kyra Seegmiller
You know what? I'm just going to say your report back if you get it on PC and I want it to, I want it to be, you heard it here first. I suggested PlayStation.

37:07.00
Ermily
I'm gonna send you a little picture of my laptop and it's on fire. hey

37:13.67
Kyra Seegmiller
And the caption was, I cast Fireball. Oh,

37:19.31
Ermily
This game is so realistic.

37:23.44
Kyra Seegmiller
that would be great. The other game I recommend and have been playing is a JRPG. And it's available also on PC and PlayStation. It's called Clear Obscure Expedition 33.

37:39.55
Kyra Seegmiller
If you like JRPGs like Final Fantasy, I think you'd like it. And I'm saying this you, Nebula audience.

37:48.00
Ermily
Royal you.

37:48.83
Kyra Seegmiller
Royal you. The soundtrack, the story, the art of It's just, as the youth say, it's absolute cinema. And i will not go into any spoilers at all, but I will give the premise of it, if you haven't already heard it.

38:05.47
Kyra Seegmiller
The people in Belle Époque, which is like early nineteen hundreds France live in this weird world where like their Eiffel tower is like shattered in half. And every year they gather for this thing called the gommage because there's this big monolith with the numbers on it.

38:24.93
Kyra Seegmiller
And every year this mysterious woman named called the, that they call the paintress wakes up and she writes a decreasing number on the monolith. And if you are older than that number, you die. Like,

38:38.49
Kyra Seegmiller
without like you're erased completely like you just dissolve into rose petals and every year an expedition sets out to destroy her to save their city and to save the world dun dun dun

38:53.63
Ermily
And what's that called again?

38:55.16
Kyra Seegmiller
Clair Obscure Expedition 33. And it is it's an indie game.

38:59.58
Ermily
Ooh.

39:02.09
Kyra Seegmiller
It actually won game of the year this year because it came out last year. And it's gorgeous. I actually, my speaking of skating from earlier,

39:13.73
Kyra Seegmiller
My competition programs are from this, and I have a dress that it's meant to model after a character. And because it's such an indie game, only a very specific group of people have caught on to the music and the program. And it's really cool to find my fellow nerds in the wild.

39:33.46
Ermily
Nice. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

39:34.30
Kyra Seegmiller
I... I don't know if you'd like it necessarily in terms of game mechanics, but I think you would absolutely love the music, the art, and the story. Yeah, the story is just...

39:50.25
Kyra Seegmiller
i don't I think the thing that I like more about Baldur's Gate is the replayability, whereas Clear Obscure, I think I've played through it three times, and I'm like, okay, I think I could take a break.

40:01.71
Kyra Seegmiller
but That also includes a DLC, whereas Baldur's Gate, I'm like, okay, what if I'm just an evil hobo this time? Sort of thing. And you don't really have that with Clair Obscur but...

40:13.59
Ermily
yeah

40:13.71
Kyra Seegmiller
Also, it's in French. Or you can play it in French or English. There are some voice actor overlaps. And Clair Obscur also has Andy Serkis. so

40:25.58
Ermily
who's that one oh yeah yay nobody's ever cheered for Gollum before

40:26.67
Kyra Seegmiller
the He's Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Yeah. Yeah.

40:35.95
Kyra Seegmiller
Until now.

40:37.71
Ermily
Until now. he did

40:41.49
Kyra Seegmiller
i we hear more I like the software. I like getting sound bites. This is fun.

40:45.03
Ermily
buddy.

40:46.50
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh.

40:47.25
Ermily
Okay, here you can see my cat.

40:48.24
Kyra Seegmiller
For the video, for the peeps, the video peeps, there's a cat.

40:53.80
Kyra Seegmiller
He's staring right at me.

40:55.58
Ermily
Yeah, I think he's staring outside because the window. Go on.

40:59.70
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay. Any movies, TV shows? I can't really think of any. I'm blanking.

41:04.79
Ermily
I feel like I'm really bad at thinking of when TV shows actually came out because I often watch them like several years after everybody else already knew about it.

41:10.25
Kyra Seegmiller
Same

41:13.17
Kyra Seegmiller
I watched Bridgerton.

41:13.25
Ermily
But let's see. Did you go see Project Hail Mary? That was really good.

41:16.93
Kyra Seegmiller
I did two thumbs down.

41:17.13
Ermily
i feel like everyone's seen it though.

41:19.23
Kyra Seegmiller
Two thumbs down.

41:19.52
Ermily
What?

41:19.87
Kyra Seegmiller
a mate No, get it. Rumor from the thingy. Because Rocky always did the thumbs down.

41:23.71
Ermily
Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes.

41:24.87
Kyra Seegmiller
Wow.

41:25.07
Ermily
You're right. You're right.

41:25.59
Kyra Seegmiller
Wow.

41:26.69
Ermily
I don't even know.

41:27.12
Kyra Seegmiller
Ooh.

41:29.31
Ermily
Okay, but you said it was such a straight face. You were like two thumbs down, honestly. Like worst movie I've ever seen.

41:35.65
Kyra Seegmiller
are you Is your deadpan tone rubbing off on me? Is your deadpan, like, delivery?

41:41.18
Ermily
Yeah, we're switching.

41:43.81
Kyra Seegmiller
No, because when I was telling people I was...

41:45.17
Ermily
I'm the peppy one now.

41:47.77
Kyra Seegmiller
Yay.

41:47.94
Ermily
wait was that even peppy?

41:49.06
Kyra Seegmiller
No, that was pretty good.

41:49.06
Ermily
i don't know. I'm the peppy one now.

41:51.93
Kyra Seegmiller
Yay. When I would tell people I was pregnant, I would actually be like, I'm pregnant.

41:53.71
Ermily
Yay. Yay.

41:57.57
Kyra Seegmiller
And it was just that. And people would actually stop and be like... okay, are you happy?

42:02.34
Ermily
is this are you are we happy you're like yeah yeah it's great I'm really excited extremely stoked

42:04.55
Kyra Seegmiller
Are we happy about this? And I was just like, oh, yeah, I'm really happy. Exactly, exactly. so Well, as I was, two thumbs down, amaze, amaze, amaze.

42:19.14
Ermily
amaze amaze amaze I'm trying to think of other I feel like I don't watch movies that often anymore but oh if

42:21.07
Kyra Seegmiller
That was good.

42:26.87
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, you first. Ladies first.

42:31.89
Ermily
We're not sure what you are.

42:34.45
Ermily
No, wait, you go first, because I was going switch to music.

42:37.81
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, okay. I went to watch a movie for the first time in our absence. and It was pretty fun. I liked it.

42:45.97
Ermily
Yeah, in in the

42:46.42
Kyra Seegmiller
I should, I, in the theater with a bucket of popcorn and it was great. I sat next to people I didn't know.

42:53.53
Ermily
it.

42:54.33
Kyra Seegmiller
I didn't care. i just, I went in to watch a movie. Movies are a solo endeavor. You can't talk to the people next to you. i mean, you can, but it's a no-no.

43:07.38
Kyra Seegmiller
So watch, I watched a movie by myself.

43:09.05
Ermily
Okay.

43:09.78
Kyra Seegmiller
It was great.

43:10.97
Ermily
Yeah?

43:11.73
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah.

43:12.22
Ermily
I don't think I've ever seen a movie by myself. Like at a theater.

43:15.48
Kyra Seegmiller
i yeah i challenge you I challenge you to do it just just once.

43:16.92
Ermily
You would recommend it?

43:20.73
Kyra Seegmiller
It's, I was nervous and then I just stopped caring and it was the best thing ever.

43:27.48
Ermily
I was thinking about how you said that nobody, you like you're not supposed to talk to other people in the theater and immediately was like, oh, but my favorite thing is to talk to people in the theater.

43:38.64
Kyra Seegmiller
Really?

43:38.72
Ermily
But wait, I don't do that.

43:38.91
Kyra Seegmiller
Right. Yeah.

43:39.91
Ermily
I don't, I'm not like obnoxious about it. It's like, what I mean is when like the little moments where you're all having the same experience, which is the fun thing about going to a movie theater where it, especially if you're seeing like a scary movie,

43:54.48
Ermily
and you're all reacting to the same thing at the same time, then it's like your one moment, everybody can like say something really fast, like, oh, hell no.

44:03.09
Kyra Seegmiller
Right. But that's different from, like, turning to the person next to you being like, wait, what did Ryan Gosling just say to Rocky? Is that...

44:11.32
Ermily
Wait, what's he gonna, he's not gonna do that, is he?

44:11.99
Kyra Seegmiller
well Is that Meryl Streep's voice? Don't do that. Okay?

44:19.60
Ermily
no no, no, I would never.

44:21.56
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, then we're fine. I think you should try it just once. i i I think what prompted it was I wanted to watch something, but Brian had to watch Door, Baby Door.

44:32.83
Kyra Seegmiller
So I was like, screw it. you You're on kid duty. I'm going to go to the movies. And I went like after her bedtime, and I came home, and it was great.

44:42.88
Ermily
That sounds awesome.

44:44.70
Kyra Seegmiller
All right, what's music? what What is music, Emily? What?

44:48.22
Ermily
What is music? Yeah, let's let's get into it because I am clearly the best person to ask.

44:55.68
Ermily
no No, no. I was just going to recommend an album that came out, I think last year, but I've still been on it.

45:00.83
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay.

45:03.94
Ermily
You know how you hear like a full album and you're like, oh, this is a hit from start to finish. Rosalia's Lux is amazing. Highly recommend it

45:15.78
Kyra Seegmiller
Is it L-U-X? Okay, going write that in there, chat. Did i spell it right?

45:22.40
Ermily
Yeah.

45:22.91
Kyra Seegmiller
Look at that.

45:23.36
Ermily
And then her her the I in her name has a little apostrophe know the yeah exactly it's it's yeah hey oh

45:28.38
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, it's the this the slash. Rosa Leah's Lux.

45:36.63
Kyra Seegmiller
Like that. Hey.

45:37.24
Ermily
yeah

45:39.03
Kyra Seegmiller
okay

45:39.09
Ermily
a

45:40.95
Kyra Seegmiller
Oh, God. Do I have any music that I recommend? Now i'm like...

45:46.13
Kyra Seegmiller
I've really been into Sabaton. I've gone into metal music. Really into metal. Like, really, really. So that would be probably my contribution to this. I've i've enjoyed it. I'm I'm like looking at my my Spotify right now.

46:05.23
Kyra Seegmiller
I did also meet Chris Kirkpatrick from NSYNC on Hiatus. That was pretty cool.

46:11.51
Ermily
Oh yeah, you were so excited.

46:14.23
Kyra Seegmiller
I have a thing about meeting celebrities. It's such a thing. And so once I do, I'm like, I like to meet them.

46:19.25
Ermily
What is your thing?

46:21.78
Kyra Seegmiller
I like to get pictures with them.

46:22.10
Ermily
You like to meet celebrities?

46:23.60
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah, I like to get pictures with them. It's such a, it's a cool thing for me.

46:28.37
Ermily
Do you have like a little album of pictures with the celebrities you've met?

46:32.58
Kyra Seegmiller
No, but I really should. going to do that.

46:35.60
Ermily
Yeah.

46:36.87
Kyra Seegmiller
It's mostly like they get uploaded to Facebook and I'm like, all right, cool. That was, I did it.

46:41.20
Ermily
I did it.

46:43.15
Kyra Seegmiller
But now I'm motivated to get off of the digital landscape and put them in a book.

46:49.93
Ermily
Yay.

46:51.04
Kyra Seegmiller
I'm trying to think. Oh, nah, nah, nah. was like, oh, I did this. Oh,

46:58.01
Ermily
I know. I'm like, oh, well, oh, who well, no.

46:59.90
Kyra Seegmiller
yeah oh, o oh. All right. I think on another life front, Brian graduated, which is great.

47:11.80
Kyra Seegmiller
He starts a big boy job pretty soon.

47:14.71
Ermily
Wait, you are taking on my monotone. You're like, Brian graduated, which is great.

47:21.43
Kyra Seegmiller
And you're so much more expressive. Oh, no. Did we switch bodies?

47:25.97
Ermily
Yeah, no. Yes.

47:29.33
Kyra Seegmiller
Yes.

47:30.03
Ermily
We switched personalities.

47:31.63
Kyra Seegmiller
We did. Yay.

47:33.12
Ermily
Yay.

47:38.32
Kyra Seegmiller
I think my new goal is to be deadpan as dead panda possible. No one will tell us apart.

47:46.17
Ermily
Wait, but I can't keep that up because i'm I'm much more up and down. I think sometimes I say things pretty straight.

47:53.55
Kyra Seegmiller
You do.

47:54.10
Ermily
And then other times I'm like this. I don't know. I was trying to turn it on for the pod. For the pod.

48:02.12
Kyra Seegmiller
She's so peppy, everyone. because she doesn't have a kid. I'm

48:05.44
Ermily
Yeah, I'm so sorry. It's it's it's gross.

48:08.58
Kyra Seegmiller
just like, ugh. Maybe the life has hurt.

48:11.38
Ermily
Okay, but also it is like 5 p.m. for me.

48:14.93
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah, it's almost 11pm here. Can you please get into my time zone at some point, please?

48:16.69
Ermily
Yeah.

48:19.77
Kyra Seegmiller
I beg.

48:20.24
Ermily
yeah It's like get on my level. Get into my time zone.

48:27.28
Kyra Seegmiller
Yes, that's it.

48:29.58
Ermily
Well, no, I won't. Because I live here.

48:33.80
Kyra Seegmiller
Well, you'll move eventually.

48:36.11
Ermily
I will.

48:36.87
Kyra Seegmiller
Not here, but closer.

48:39.82
Ermily
I know. I know you wish it was there.

48:42.15
Kyra Seegmiller
i do.

48:46.28
Kyra Seegmiller
Shake my fist. Like, no, I could have been. no

48:49.39
Ermily
It shakes fist at cloud.

48:50.99
Kyra Seegmiller
You know, I think, as they say, God gives his toughest battles to his strongest warriors.

48:57.63
Ermily
It's true.

48:57.76
Kyra Seegmiller
He could not put us in the same city.

49:02.05
Ermily
It would be pandemonium. Pandemonium.

49:06.14
Kyra Seegmiller
It would have...

49:09.70
Ermily
Pandemonium.

49:13.44
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, I'm not gonna lie. I forgot how the outro...

49:15.78
Ermily
I think we've devolved.

49:17.12
Kyra Seegmiller
I forgot what the outro sounds like. Or what I say.

49:21.07
Ermily
Oh my gosh.

49:21.80
Kyra Seegmiller
What to do I say?

49:22.50
Ermily
Wait, don't you usually go, wait well, I forgot about that.

49:24.19
Kyra Seegmiller
Class dismissed.

49:29.69
Kyra Seegmiller
This has been...

49:29.67
Ermily
What is a podcast?

49:31.27
Kyra Seegmiller
I don't know. I should have listened to her an old episode, but I was also nervous.

49:36.19
Ermily
Wait, I, uh, well, this has been an episode of

49:42.91
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay, no, no, no, I gotta do it. I'll just do it. I'll just...

49:45.31
Ermily
No, no, no, I know. I was- no, no, no i I just remembered it. I'm not stopping you from doing it, but I am talking over you right now.

49:49.95
Kyra Seegmiller
Okay. You are, you are. Who is she, guys? And gals. And theys. And these.

49:59.93
Ermily
They- yeah.

50:00.96
Kyra Seegmiller
Some, I do notice, like, I've heard of people using the XE pronoun. I pronounce it as Z.

50:06.37
Ermily
I thought it was Z.

50:06.69
Kyra Seegmiller
c I thought it was Z.

50:07.78
Ermily
Is it not Z?

50:08.35
Kyra Seegmiller
Anyways, I thought...

50:10.47
Ermily
Z and Zerg?

50:13.19
Kyra Seegmiller
Well, this has been an episode of Stuff I Didn't Write, my dissertation on. Let's see if the muscle memory kicks in. You can find us on Mark Zuckerberg's internet at Stuff I Didn't Write, which is our Instagram. That's our only account.

50:33.09
Kyra Seegmiller
For now. Maybe we'll make a YouTube and get onto the Google form of the internet. You can also email us, which is on the Google form of the internet, stuffididinwrite at gmail.com.

50:43.84
Kyra Seegmiller
Do you miss us so much that you want to send us money? You can, folks. We have a Patreon somewhere.

50:56.78
Ermily
It's on Where do they search it, Kyra?

50:57.91
Kyra Seegmiller
It's on Patreon. Why don't you, you know... Search for that

51:06.82
Kyra Seegmiller
on patreon.com.

51:08.47
Ermily
No, what do they type in? Everywhere.

51:10.16
Kyra Seegmiller
stuff I didn't write my dissertation on. and We have the same name. We also have a...

51:15.25
Ermily
Everywhere.

51:15.72
Kyra Seegmiller
wa Yeah, we have a coffee link. If you don't feel like giving us a lot of money on a monthly basis, you can give us money on a one-time basis. I'll take it.

51:25.51
Ermily
Little man.

51:25.95
Kyra Seegmiller
We'll take it. Oh my god, I have so devolved. There's more. But wait, there's more. We, all right, our coffee link is how we were donating to United Help Ukraine.

51:40.54
Kyra Seegmiller
We're still doing that. And we also apparently have an Etsy shop, but Emily will probably text me after this and say, you haven't logged in, you stupid poop monster. I can't swear anymore at my house because I have a toddler.

51:55.77
Ermily
We're going to have to get creative with that.

51:57.55
Kyra Seegmiller
You stupid... Oh, changed the words. Like, you stupid duck witch.

52:09.72
Ermily
I cannot believe you would call me this.

52:13.13
Kyra Seegmiller
you Yeah, there's an Etsy. Emily's in charge of it. That's all point fingers at it.

52:16.63
Ermily
Okay, there's sort of an Etsy. We don't...

52:19.36
Kyra Seegmiller
There's an Etsy?

52:19.53
Ermily
There's nothing on it right now.

52:20.95
Kyra Seegmiller
Yeah, there's an Etsy?

52:21.58
Ermily
there's There's an Etsy question mark?

52:22.43
Kyra Seegmiller
Question mark? who I think that's the outro. And then I think I say I think I say I'm Kyra.

52:32.51
Ermily
Thank you for...

52:34.15
Kyra Seegmiller
That was Emily. We'll see you next time. Class dismissed. Bye!

52:40.45
Ermily
Bye!

52:42.52
Kyra Seegmiller
but Wait, now I have to do the end. Okay, wait.

52:47.90
Kyra Seegmiller
and