Ep.5 : Death of a Reseller

Death to all of them...them being greedy, nasty resellers at thrift stores! 

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Well, y'all, you already know it's me, Jack, and I'm back with the fifth episode of Run on Sentence. You know what? And another thing. Now, this week has been a light at the end of the tunnel type of week. The snow that came and bombarded Long Island last week has quickly melted. And the last couple of days had been like 40 degrees. Why am I starting every episode with like the weather? Like this is some weather segment now. It's so ridiculous, but it's just been so heavy on my mind because winter has been so torturous and exhausting and evil and dark-sided and just demented. And I am craving nice weather so so badly. So the little sprinkling of like 40-degree days that we had the last week felt like the tropics. So I'm just really looking forward to the nice weather. And we got a little tease of it this week. Yeah, super exciting. We were able to have the windows open in the house. I was driving to work with the windows down. It felt so lovely. My cat has been loving it because he loves nothing more than an open window. And I'm just not playing with an open window in the middle of winter. But he was very happy today, chilling and watching the birds. He is sitting on my bed right now. He is curled up asleep. He looks so cute. He has never in the last four episodes been in my room while I was filming. I did lock him out because I don't trust him to not try to get cute with it and fuck up the shot and jump into frame and knock something over or knock the camera over or knock the light over that's teetering on my bed. But he's so eepy right now that I think it's safe to just let him rock and hopefully he won't intrude. My dog, however, might try to come in here and act a fool and start whining and being all cute. I don't think I've mentioned that in the pod before. I do also have a dog, as well as my little kitty, uh, Ace. For those of you who know him, to know Ace is to love Ace. He is an angel that walks amongst us on Earth. Uh, but he is upstairs right now, sleeping somewhere, and he likes to try to act a fool and just start whining for no reason, so he might come up in here and test it. Uh but really fun news this week. What's new, Jackie Pooh? My parents are in Florida at an RV show, so we are home alone, so we can do the pod with the door open and not run the risk of being interrupted like we were last week. So let's get loud. We are so lit. Uh, love my parents, but it is so lovely having the place to myself. I really, really need to get a place of my own. I am such a neat freak. Like I've mentioned before. My Virgo runs my life, my Virgo moon, and my parents are not slobs by any means, but they are not as neat and OCD and anal as I am about cleanliness, and I can agree that sometimes maybe my cleanliness is no, actually, I take that back. I was gonna say I would agree that my cleanliness is um over the top sometimes, but can you be too clean? It looks lovely when everything is like off the counter and tidy and in its place. And I just don't like clutter. So which I mean looking at my room, you would think, bitch, there's so much shit in here, this is cluttered, but everything has its place and everything's in its place. So it's been really lovely having this space be to my liking the last couple of days, and it just makes the day feel more peaceful and it flows better and feels more productive. But I do love my parents, and they're having a great time, they're at an RV show, they have been looking for the last like year into getting an RV, and I don't think they're looking for like one of those big rig, like tour bus type RVs, because I do not think that either of them are capable of driving one of those. I think they're looking for one of the more like minibus style ones. Uh, but that'll be really fun for them. They are both retired, and I feel like do not take the amazing opportunity of retirement to go travel as much as they should and as much as they want to. And I feel like having an RV will really open up the doors to like not have an excuse to not go on like a last-minute vacation, uh, just you know, on a whim, just get in the RV and go wherever you want. You're not gonna pay for hotels and housing. You just go and figure stuff out on the way. So I'm hoping that they find something and start a nice little travel journey for themselves in the next year. But what else is new this week? I had a little visit, a little fun surprise visit for my bestie Carly. Shout out, girl. Uh, she came out to Long Island yesterday. Uh, she was coming out here to visit her brother's dog, her brother's on vacation, and we hung out with the puppy for a little bit. Love Miss Yazzy. Shout out, Yazzy. I know you're listening. Um, she is the craziest, craziest little dog. Um, but yeah, it was super fun and spontaneous seeing Carly. I totally forgot that she was coming to do that. And we hung out and we got Chinese for dinner, but before we got Chinese for dinner, we went thrifting, uh, which will lead us into the hoarder hall. But before I get into the hoarder hall, super exciting news for Carly. She's getting a kitty this Saturday. The kitty is so stinking cute. I'm so happy for her. She lost her kitty, Penny. Shout out, Penny, my girl. Uh, she passed away over the summer, I believe. Um, and it's been really hard for Carly. So she is such a crazy cat lady. She is put on this earth to have a cat at all times. So I know she is really hype about this. The cat is going to be the perfect match for her and her household. Um, I'm really excited to meet the kitty probably next week if I have time when my parents get home. I'm gonna go try to get to Brooklyn and see her. Uh, we were brainstorming names the whole day yesterday when we were together, and we haven't landed on one that like really resonates yet. Um, I am hellbound on getting her to name the cat Prue from his Prue from Charmed, but she's also considering the other charmed names, but Piper, I'll throw up a picture of the kitty. Uh she's not really giving Piper to me, she's not really giving Paige, she's not really giving Phoebe. I don't know, she's just a Prue to me. But there's plenty of other names she could name her. We came up with a handful of good ones, but you know, when the right when you say the right name, it just clicks and you feel it, and her name will pick her. She probably just needs to spend a little bit more time with her and it will it'll make sense later. So that is super exciting. I cannot wait for Carly. I'm so happy for her. But to segue into the Hoarder Hall, me and Carly went to two different savors yesterday, and then I also went to a brand new antique shop that I had never been to today. I guess it's not really an antique shop, it's like a vintage store, is a better way to put it. Because it wasn't necessarily a thrift store because it's like a reseller's store. You know, he goes, he purchases things and has his own shop curated to his like very retro 70, like 60s, 70s, 80s vintage style. So it's more of a vintage shop. Uh, but I'll get into that after. But I don't know. The vibes at Savors when me and Carly went yesterday, it was like we jumped timelines back to like my thrifting days in high school. You are not able to find things in thrift stores the way you used to be able to. If you're a thrifter, I'm sure you know if you've been in the game for the last like 15, 10 years. Thrifting was trendy a number of years ago, but it wasn't super popular. There weren't resellers everywhere, it wasn't like a grind that people were you know going to every single week to find product to put on Depop and shit. Like you could find really good things for really cheap prices. It was regular thrift prices, clothes were things were three dollars, VHS's DVDs were no more than 99 cents to$2. I would get VCRs. Well, not that I was getting multiple VCRs, but I would get, you know, a VCR, a brand new Polaroid camera, like nice electronics for like no more than$10. You just can't find those things anymore. And if when you do find a good quality thing, or um, like a really well-known album or record or good movie, it's or especially like good branded clothes, Carhartt, um you know, just any good brand of clothes. The prices are like again, not ridiculous, like twenty dollars, twenty-five dollars, but that's ridiculous in my opinion for a thrift store, especially what like the definition of like thrift is supposed to be affordable secondhand upcycling, you know, reduce, reuse, recycle. Like, why are we charging so much money for a thrifted item, a pre-owned used item? I just don't get it. It has become a whole different beast than what it used to be, and it sometimes makes the hunt a little bit more fun when you're there, but I don't know. Like, you know, when you find a good thing now, it feels extra special because you're like, holy shit, you don't find this anymore, which is exactly what happened to me this thrift yesterday. It was really incredible, vibes were amazing, but it shouldn't have to be like that. Like, I'll get into I'll dive deeper into that in a bit. But to start off the list, we found a couple of good TV shows on DVD. We found Dexter season one. I watched Dexter in middle school, and I think I talked about it a little bit in a previous episode, but I got like three or four seasons in, and I kind of just lost interest after a certain point because I was like, oh, is Dexter gonna get caught? No, there's four more seasons. So I really enjoyed the show. It wasn't something that hooked me all the way to the end, but season one and two specifically are incredible. So I've seen Dexter a couple of times at the thrift in the past few months, and it's always super scratched up. So I found one in really good condition yesterday, and then I also picked up uh the box set of Freaks and Geeks. I have never watched Freaks and Geeks. I really went back and forth debating on whether or not to buy this yesterday. I was looking up reviews of it in the store. I've heard good things about it. I just was like on the fence because I was like, oh, a TV show about high schoolers in the 80s. You know, I'm not a big fan of like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles. Like the 80s were cool, don't get me wrong, but I think like the metal punk rock scene of the 80s is much cooler than like the high school teeny bop shit that was going on. And like it worried me that Freaks and Geeks was gonna be more like that, but from the reviews I read, it's supposed to be like one of the most endearing, funniest shows of its time. I mean, it wasn't made in the 80s, but it I don't know. The reviews that I read convinced me enough to pick it up for three dollars and maybe give it a shot eventually if I run out of things to watch, which at this point with my collection I'm never gonna run out of st run out of stuff to watch. Uh but for movies on DVD, we found Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the OG movie. I was super excited about that. I found it on like a last-minute lap of the DVD section. I always start there and then I go to like the homeware section, maybe go through the clothes a little bit. I was about to check out, and something was just telling me, just go do one more lap and see if you like really weren't paying attention to certain shelves and see what you can find. And I found two things that I was very happy that I went back for. The first was the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Love, love, love that movie. Uh, then I also found One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with Jack Nicholson. Never seen it. It was another movie that I was like on the fence about getting. I was like, am I really gonna watch this? Is it worth it? It's just gonna take up more shelf space if I never watch it. But again, I read enough reviews about it that I was like, you know what? It's a classic. I'm gonna check it out eventually, so might as well get it. Uh then I also found a movie that I've never heard about before. It's called Stonewall by Nigel Finch. Uh, Nigel Finch was one of the executive producers of Paris' Burning, which is one of the most incredible documentaries of all time. And I think it's, I mean, safe to assume about drag queens and trans women at Stonewall in New York during, you know, the Stonewall riot era. We'll see what it's like. I did not really read anything about it. I didn't look up any reviews about it or anything. The cover just looked really interesting. I was actually on the hunt. My manifestation going into the thrift yesterday was I Wanna Find Star Booty with Rue Paul from 2007, directed by Mark Ruiz, on DVD. I want to watch that movie so bad. Rue has been posting a bunch of clips from the movie the last couple of days, and he's pretty much wiped the movie from the internet completely. You cannot find it anywhere. I did see a video that this one drag queen posted that she found it on some like secret, like dark web porn site that someone put the whole movie on there. I did not find it. I could not find it anywhere on the internet. And the only copies of it that seem to exist in the world are the limited like DVD releases that they did. So some people have it. It's for sale on eBay for like$200. I don't need to see it that bad. So I was like, you know what? Let me manifest finding it at Savers or just at the thrift in general. And instead of that, I found this other weird like 90s Stonewall movie that seems to be kind of like the filming style of Starbucks, so I'm excited to watch it. And we also found Not It Savers at this vintage shop. It's called Deep End of the Sandbox. Um, I found two DVD movies there today. Uh Great Finds, Nightmare on Elm Street 2, Freddy's Revenge, and Nightmare on Elm Street 3, Dream Warriors. Been looking for Nightmare on Elm Street anything, like any of the Nightmare on Elm Street movies for a long time. They are again, horror movies are just impossible to find in thrift stores anymore. I wish I started my VHS collection sooner because I feel like there would have been more options for horror movies to pick from at thrifts when I was going back in like in a middle school, beginning of high school, and all through high school. I just wasn't collecting at the time and wasn't really looking in those sections. I was there for clothes. And I bet there were so many that were sitting right there that I just didn't know about because I wasn't looking. So whatever, the past is in the past. But Nightmare Elm Street, I would have loved to find VHSs of it, but I am totally fine with DVDs also. Honestly, sometimes the DVDs are more not more interesting, but they're more efficient because you can fast forward and rewind much easier. You can see and skip and see and select. But the thing I love most about DVDs that VHSs don't have is interactive menu pages. I love a campy interactive menu page. There's a couple of movies that I have on DVD and VHS that like when I watch them, I'm like, I kinda have to like pick the DVD be just because of the menu. The Cat in the Hat, the live-action one specifically, that is one of the best interactive menu pages ever. Um, but and the nightmare on Elm Street DVDs have really funny interactive menus, so happy with those finds. Another doubled movie that I now have. I know last week I said that I bought Contact on DVD from Savers at Deep End of the Sandbox today. I did find the VHS of Contact, and it was$3. And I just like the box sets of VHSs a little more than DVDs. There's more surface area, there's more, you know, pictures wrapped around the whole thing. It looks nicer on the shelf because it's wider and bigger text. So I ended up getting it. So now I have two copies of contact. Also, deep under the sandbox, also had Scream 3 on VHS, and I really had to hold myself back from getting it, but it was$10, which I just didn't I was gonna say doesn't didn't feel right about spending$10 on a VHS. I spent$10 and$12 on two other VHSs from there, but I didn't feel right spending the$10 on Scream 3 because, like I said in episode 2, I think, I did buy Scream 3 already on DVD, thinking I didn't have it, and I did have it already in a triple feature with Scream 1, 2, and 3. So I already have two copies of Scream 3. I did not need a third just because it was a VHS. I I showed amazing restraint with that decision, for me specifically. If you know, you know, I have no problem having lots and lots of copies of something. I've literally bought like the full collection of charmed well, the full collection of charmed twice, one for myself, one for Carly. I've bought a couple of seasons of Charmed like three times. I gave some to my brother. When I see them, I can't just leave them on the shelf. I'm like, this is this is gold. You can't just leave this here to fall into the wrong hands. But I should just leave shit that I already have for other people to buy and appreciate. But then I worry that like it's gonna be resellers that are getting it, not somebody. Like me, who's really going to appreciate it and give it to somebody that will appreciate it. I can't with resellers. I'm going to get into that later. And for the other VHS movies that we found besides Contact, I found Scooby-Doo Zombie Island. That was the second movie that I found in my last go-around at Savers. I have been looking for Scooby-Doo Zombie Island for a while. It is one of those Scooby-Doo movies that is kind of impossible to find nowadays because it is so many people's like favorite. They consider it their number one Scooby-Doo TV movie. And it's it's good, don't get me wrong. I definitely wanted it in my collection. But it's definitely not my favorite out of the Scooby-Doo movies. I think it's safe to say that Cyber Chase, like, changed the game, and is probably the one that is most ingrained into all of our brands, or at least my generation's brand. Um, but I mean I think my favorite is probably Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghost. I just love Salem and Bitch, the Hex Girls first introduction to the Scooby-Doo universe is in The Witch's Ghost. You just can't beat the Hex Girls. Uh or Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire, which is also the Hex Girls' second appearance in the Scooby-Doo universe. It's Sami Island is great, don't get me wrong, but I definitely don't think it's the best, like most people hype it up to be, but still very happy that I found it. I've been on the lookout for it for a while, and I just never see it anywhere. Uh and then I also bought, like I said, two more VHSs from the vintage shop today. One of them was$10, which kind of hurt my heart a little bit. It was Jeepers Creepers, though. Jeepers Creepers won. Um, so I had to pick it up. I love that movie. And I also doubled up on a movie again. I did buy for$12 the VHS of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. I do already have the Rocky Horror Picture Show on DVD. I got it a couple of months ago. But it was a brand new sealed in the plastic Rocky Horror VHS. I could not just leave it there. That movie is one of the greatest of all times. It I I I did not really feel bad about spending$12 on it. Don't don't come for me. Don't don't look at me like that. I it's my money, and I can spend it how I want to. But again, like I said, shit should not be that expensive. I don't I have less of a problem spending that much money on a VHS at a vintage shop like that, where it is like handpicked by somebody who has a specific taste and vision for their shop, and they're, you know, curating a collection for people to come and buy. It's not like a Dpop reseller. Um, if it was any more than that, I probably would have been like, oh, I don't know about that. But thrift stores, Savers, Goodwills should not be charging more than two US dollars for a VHS. Miss me with that. Now, baby, you want to talk about crazy OG thrifting level fines. We need to talk about the records that I found at Saviors yesterday. When I tell you my blood pressure was through the roof when I walked over to that record section, like I said in earlier episodes, I don't really collect records that much. It is mainly because of the thrifting trend that is happening right now. Records were the first thing to really pop off, in my opinion, when it came to thrifting and just you know vintage stuff. Uh, that was like the first tumblr like cool hipster thing to do was to like get a record player, get the Arctic monkeys, snap out of it record. Like it was the first, like, oh, let's be vintage, let's be thrifty. Like everyone and their mother had a record player. The records were the first things to like be depleted and ran through at a thrift store, and were the first things to be like harder and harder to find as they got more popular. So I really never even look in the record section anymore because it's like opera records and like 60s Christmas albums of like people you've never heard of before. It tends to be like the Badlands, it's just nothing. I out of the corner of my eye saw Are You Experienced by the Jimi Hendrix experience, front and center in the record section. If there had been people in front of me, I would have run them down with my cart. I ran over there. Mind you, this is a Tuesday. Tuesdays at Savors is senior day. Senior citizens 55 and older can go and get 30% off of all of their sales. So there's usually mad old heads in this place. And old the old people are always raiding the records and the CDs. Oldies love physical music specifically. And I just I never even bothered going over there. And I went pretty late yesterday. I usually get to the thrift on a Tuesday or Wednesday around like noon or one. I think me and Carly got there at like 2.30, almost three. So I was kind of worried that things were gonna be kind of picks through at that point. I don't know what was in the air, I don't know what karmic like goodness was owed to me, but the thrift gods shone down upon me so fiercely in the savers. It was just like another one, thank you. Another one, thank you. I was flipping through these records, and it was just my eyes just kept getting wider and wider, and my pupils were dilating. It was like, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. It was one after the other. Let's get into this. We found, like I said, Are You Experienced by the Jimi Hendrix experience? We found Sheer Heart Attack by Queen. We also found A Day at the Races by Queen. We found Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janice Joplin. And if that wasn't enough, we also found Pearl by Janice Joplin. And to top it off, we found Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel and Dreamboat Annie by Hart. Again, I don't know what I did to deserve this, but I don't even I can't even imagine what was there before I got there. Like, somebody must have picked through other stuff that was sitting there and left these, I guess. I don't know who would have left them, but like you can't tell me that this whole stack of bangers was just sitting front and center in this record section, and like nobody the whole morning picked through them. Like, it was such a like healing, happy moment because you just don't have those crazy abundant, like one after the other after the other, like snowball thrift finds anymore. You'll maybe find one or two good things that'll you know make your thrift trip, but it's just not like I used to raid the thrift store with amazing finds for like$25,$30. Now I'll get like six DVDs and VHSs, and it'll be like$50, and I have to do like a donate before I get there to get a 20% coupon to like make it worth it. It's it was just a really like blast from the past, amazing thrift moment. It was I was very happy. But enough about all that shit that I got and Lord knows where I'm gonna put it all. Uh let's get into the content corner. We didn't watch too too much this week. I did I say we didn't watch too much new stuff, I guess I should say. I did start and finish season three of The Rookie. Uh I was talking about the Rookie last week. It's just kind of a silly, like corny, cheesy cop show that like I don't have to pay attention to the whole time. So it's something to put on if I wanna like watch something while I'm eating dinner, and then by the time I'm done eating, I can like do something else on my phone while it's play-like, I don't have to like really pay attention to it. But I did also reach the halfway point of season two of Buffy. We got Kendra into the mix, the second slayer, some amazing combat scenes in the second season so far. I'm so in love with Spike. I'm so happy every time he is on screen. I love that little bleach bond bitch. Um, and me and Carly also watched the first three episodes of the new season of House of Villains last night with Miss Plain Jane and Tom Sandoval and Kate from Below Deck, and of course, Miss Tiffany New York Pollard. I I don't know. I House of Villains isn't my favorite. This season is definitely the best of the three so far. I have not seen all of seasons one and two. I've watched a couple of the episodes and then I get super bored. It's just one of those reality shows that isn't formatted super well and is like really cringe sometimes, so it doesn't really hook me, and I kind of get like skeeved out and like don't want to watch it anymore. So far, this one is good enough where I think I will see it through and watch at least more than just the first three episodes. Uh, but I don't know, the challenges are just so stupid. The filming style just isn't true like reality competition filming style. It's just a little like hodgepodge and messy and not fully realized, in my opinion. So we'll see where it goes. But Miss Plain Jane is just too much, she's just too funny, so I gotta watch it for her. Uh but yeah. There were no movies this week and no updates on my book either. I've just been staying on that illiterate ass behavior and not picking up my book and just doom scrolling, which needs to stop. It's actually so bad. I need to like go to phone rehab. It like I put that down. It's like literally what I say to myself every day when I'm sitting there on my phone. Technically, I didn't watch any movies, like I said, but I did apparently on accident in my sleep watch Ransom with Mel Gibson on YouTube. I guess the full movie is on YouTube somewhere, and I fell asleep while listening to ASMR the other night, and I guess autoplay was on, and that movie was the first suggested thing after an ASMR video and played all the way through in my AirPods while I was asleep. Uh so I don't recall having any crazy dreams related to ransom, but I guess I can add that to my letterbox because it says completed and watched on my YouTube. Uh, but for music, I completely forgot to do music for the content corner last week. I was so embarrassed when I was editing the video. I apologize since I know you guys all are looking for music recommendations every week. I got you covered this week. We got four bangers that we've been listening to on repeat the last couple of days. Uh, Current Affairs by Lorde. I listened to it like four times today in the car. Virgin is quickly becoming like my second favorite album of hers. Quickly becoming like it hasn't been out for like over a year. What am I saying? Um, or like a little under a year. I don't remember exactly when that came out, but it is it's a really incredible body of work. It's so Laura just has that super identifiable, distinct sound that nobody can replicate. She's just such an icon. Uh, and then baby, we lost the plot so hard when it came to early 2000s music. We had it right. We had the recipe, we had the Krabby Patty Formuli, we had it done, it was done. Signed, sealed, delivered. Why did we stray from the early 2000s sound? That being said, Over You by Daughtry has been blowing out my speakers in my car. Oh my god. That whole album front to back is just the absolute blueprint for pop punk music. But over you, ooh, baby, baby, baby, it gets my blood pump in. It's so so good. Chris Daughtery has one of the most incredible male voices. I don't understand how somebody can have that much power and like chest resonance in that higher register. It is uh wow. I can't say enough about it. Anyway, all the love to you, Miss Christaltree. But I've also been really into Fall in Love by Fantagram. It is so 2013. I'm pretty sure that is when that album came out. Uh, but it just is so tumbler like ravenetes sounding. So so good. And also throwing it back to the 80s conversation from the Hoarder Hall, Shout at the Devil by Motley Crew. I've been listening to a lot of Kiss Motley Crew, just all of that 80s grungy punk music. Can't get enough of it. But yeah, that's kind of it for the content corner. I really need to start watching some of these movies and shows that I have on DVD and VHS. I've pretty much only been watching Buffy on DVD the last couple of months. I buy all of these and then I I doom scroll on my phone and I don't watch them. The Halloween and Christmas series that I did really held me to, you know, burning through some of my collection and putting some of them to use. Uh, but I just keep accumulating more and more every week, and the others keep collecting dust, so I love I mean a big part of the reason I collect them is because of the look on the shelf. Also, I love like color coordinating them and like the way all the titles like flow together, but I need to start putting them to use. Alright, let's get into the self-interview section because if you can't interview yourself, how in the hell are you gonna interview somebody else? Now, Jack, thanks so much for being here again. I and everybody else is so curious. What is a current trend that you want to stay relevant and a trend that you want to fall off? Well, thank you so much for asking, Jack. I have been thinking about this a lot recently. I've actually already touched on it a little bit in this episode, but a trend that I want to see fall off in a major way, in the most major way possible, is thrifting. I need all of you little white boy resellers to get up out of these thrift stores. Now, I am not a little white boy, but I am a I'm a big old white boy, but big big girl. I yes, I am up in these thrift stores, but I am buying these things for my personal collection. I'm I'm speaking hyper-specifically to media and like technology at thrift stores. Uh, but I am buying these things for my personal use in my personal collection. The fury that runs through my veins and the like like werewolf, like skin-ripping, like violence that comes through me when I see a reseller skimming through all of the DVDs and tapes, pulling anything off the shelf that they think seems relevant and could be worth a couple of bucks, and scanning it and looking up to see what the value is on eBay and what it's selling for. And brrrrrrr. I want to I want to I I want to die. Like I just I don't have any words for it. I get violent. I start, but of course, not like actually physically violent, but I like start giving them death stares and sending the most foul evil energy their way. And I hope they feel it. I just, it makes my blood boil when I see these men like zipping through the clothes looking for any type of label and brand and scanning and looking up the resale value. It's just like get out. The thrill like the thrill and the art of the thrift is dying, if not dead already. The feeling that you get when you are a person that is going for personal, you know, use, personal, like your own personal collection. Uh, or you know, most people are also going because it's what they can afford. They can't go to Dpop and buy super upcharged clothing pieces or you know designer clothes or just major brands, even even fucking HM and shit like that, mass market, mass-produced fashion, fast fashion is even too expensive these days. And you know, sometimes you you people need to go to the thrift, but even then, the thrift is like up there with like HM at this point with certain items, it's ridiculous, but it's just also evil. But it makes it even like worse when you could be going because you can't afford brands, and you go and like the feeling of finding a brand item that you maybe have been looking for, or it's a brand that you always wish you could purchase, but you you know just can't afford it, and finding it there at the thrift in good condition for a good price, it is the best feeling in the world. Yeah, it's just and now it's riddled with these just goblins, these creatures coming in here and bleeding the thrift dry, putting anything and everything that they see that think that they think might be worth something in their cart and walking out with just mounds of clothes that they are not even gonna wear and might not even be worth it to them to upsell, and it could have meant something to somebody else. It's just really disappointing and sad to see when it happens, and it's something that I have loved for so many years, and it's such a fun experience, or it I still have fun at the thrift, I still find a lot of great things because I am looking for media specifically, and that's a little bit. Easier to find diamonds in the rough nowadays, but it's still not great. But it's better than clothes at this point. I don't even look at the clothes anymore when I go to thrifts. The last like five years, I'll like do a like quick walk through a rack and not even flip through anything, just like look to see if anything stands out to me that fits my style. But it's just like dust. Just dust. They people come through like tornadoes and just snatch up anything that they think might make them a couple extra bucks. And they their heart just isn't in it. It's greedy, it's nasty, it's gross, it's vile, and thrifting needs to fall off in such a fierce way so we can build back up the thrift culture and like make thrifting great again. Oh my god. Like, come on, come on. Uh, but a trend that I do fuck with and want to keep around and want to see more of is lying. I I love to lie, I love I go through hell lying. I just I love lying, I love the bit, I love spinning a yarn, I love telling a tale, and I feel like there has been a big trend recently of just like lying for the bit to your friends, and it's just too good. Specific I'm specifically referring to like the hang xiety um TikTok trend that's been going around where people will, you know, their friend will have blacked out the night before when they're out drinking, and then the next morning they're lying to them and saying, Oh my god, you don't remember? Like you asked the Uber driver to come upstairs, like when we were done, or like you you told the bouncer that you wanted to bounce on it, like and watching their friends like tweak out and be like, No, I didn't, oh my god, don't say that. Oh my god, I'm gonna die. Like, it's it's just too good when you really lock into the bit and you're so committed. I not to pat myself on the back, but my years of acting training and musical theater do pay off uh when I commit to the bit. I love just like making up a fantasy and a fallacy for no reason other than to just like have fun and fuck with a friend. Uh, I literally I did it the other night at work. My co-worker Kat was in the kitchen. I mean, it's not even that funny. It really isn't even that funny, but she was in the kitchen and I popped my head out when somebody walked in the door and I was like, Oh, cat, your mom's here. And she was like, No, she's not. And I was like, Yes, she is. She just walked in the door. Like, why would I like what do you mean? Why would I joke about that? And she was like, Oh my, why why is she here? Is something wrong? She like whips her head out of the kitchen so seriously, and like happened to lock eyes with this woman and her husband that had walked in that were not her, it was not her mother, I was kidding. But uh lying. And she locked eyes with these people in such a frantic state, and they like recoiled and they were like, oh my god. And she was so I felt bad. She was like so embarrassed. I didn't think she was gonna do that, I was just lying to lie, but I don't know. I just love a good bit, I love a good a good tale. Um, so yeah, lying, keep it up, keep up that fucking fallacy and death to the thrifting resellers. Thrifting needs to be burned to the ground so we can rise from the ashes and build it back up better than ever. But with that being said, talk about burning it down. Let's get into some dragooning. Baby, RuPaul's drag race, don't fucked up drag. We need to burn it down, burn it all down. We this show needs to come to an end. It's it's getting to a point where like the magic of the show is it's fading. Like, it's like Tinkerbell, like we gotta like clap and believe in her to keep her alive, and like I feel like no one's clapping anymore, and like the the the fairy dust is is it's wearing off, baby. It's not cute. I I don't know what production is doing. This last week's episode was not the worst overall. I think the rusical from what was it, Fanny the Rusical. It was better than I anticipated. I hate Annie the musical, so I thought it was gonna be Boo Boo the Fool. Uh, it really wasn't as atrocious as I was anticipating it being. Definitely wasn't the best, but could have been worse. I ain't the best, but I ain't the worst. And Mikey did incredible, of course. My girl would expect nothing less. Weaponize that fucking BFA, baby. But aside from the challenge, you know, everyone did decent enough in the challenge. I don't think they did decent enough for Rue to reiterate numerous times that they were splitting hairs with the judging decisions, and oh girls, this was just so hard because again, we are splitting hairs. You all did so incredible. This is so hard to pick from. No girl. There were clear bottoms. Athena did shit. It was shit, baby. That was shit. Like, especially compared to the other girls in her scene, it was just not good. And I think the bottom two were definitely correct when I was watching the episode. I clocked the two Juicy and Athena immediately. It was gonna have to happen. You can't have a mother and daughter on a season and not have them lip sync against each other. And it was the perfect time because it was perfectly justified. They both did the worst. I say did the worst in quotes for Juicy because she performed physically well, but she just wasn't giving enough face and personality, and Athena just shit the bed. That lip sync should have been enough for not even a double sachet, which it should have been, but in reality, it should have been a actually, you're all going home. We're actually just gonna wrap the season right here, right now. None of you deserve to win. Actually, maybe we can just crown Mikey right now and move on, and just we're gonna close this chapter and we're gonna move on to season 19, or not move on to season 19, and just give up the ghost Mary. I hate to say that about Drag Race because it's brought so much joy to my life and to my friendships and to the community. It's been such a light and a source of jo just amazing, queer joy. But they either gotta just pack it up or they gotta change hosts and the judging panel. We need a changing of the guard, these old queens need to be like suit up their coffins and lay it to rest. Like, we need new blood, we need new energy up in this bitch. But even that I don't think would totally work because the girls just aren't the same anymore. What are we doing? Like sitting on each other's lap, mother goose style, like crying and sobbing to a Gracie Abram song with like AI clip art projected in the background. Like it was just like the performances are lacking, the production is lacking, the drive from the girls is lacking. They are coming into these seasons now just completely unprepared because they are not the queens that the show was originally built for. Like, charisma, uniqueness, nerve, talent. I'm not seeing it with most of them, and even the ones that do really well sometimes don't even possess all those things. Like the new generation of queens that has come up and started drag might like most of them because of the show. They only were introduced to drag because of drag race, and it's been their only point of reference when becoming queens. They have no like true backbone of education for entertainment, period. Like drag queens are entertainers first, who then put on the glitz and glam to make it extra. These girls are doing the glitz and glam first, and then trying to like figure out how to entertain with it, and it just it just isn't working. Like they suck. Like, I I don't know what else to say about it other than like you don't possess somebody lied to them several times and told them that they were charismatic, unique, full of nerve, and talented, and they are nothing like that. They are nothing of the sort. Obviously, there's you know, few that are. There's my girl Mikey, there's my girl Jane. They, you know, there are girls that do have what it takes, but when they are surrounded by these absolute monsters and creatures and bricks, it's hard to like want to watch them because, like, yeah, I want to see them do well, but I want to see like just a good production overall, and like it's hard to focus on the good and watch them do well when there's like a shit storm happening off to the left that like you're forced to pay attention to and you're like, oh fuck that, I don't want to watch that, so like I just don't want to watch this at all. I don't know, it's it's really sad. And I just have all the hope in the world that it will get better. I think that they will at least take Drag Race to season 20. We got at least two more to go. I don't see Rue giving up the ghost and stopping after that. But I think it would be wise of him, but I don't think it will happen. Uh but hopefully if that you know, if it does not happen, we get a little bit more drive and talent and training and uniqueness from these girls. It's just something's gotta give. Something's gotta give. Because they're not giving. Alright, well, I've been ranting for far too long. Well, honestly, when I say far too long, I don't think it's too long. I could talk for hours and hours about any goddamn thing, and I feel like most podcasters these days ain't doing enough. Not to call out my girls, Trixie and Katya, to stick with the, you know, dragooning theme. Their episodes are half ads at this point. Now, I'm not saying that they shouldn't be doing ad reads. Get your coin, absolutely. I'm not saying if I was ever offered an ad read, I wouldn't do it. I I totally would. Like, why would you not, you know, get your coin? But I sit here and I talk for an hour, and I could talk for longer. If you're doing an ad read, you need to be talking for at least three quarters, if not a little more than that, worth of the episode, and then have the ad reads, you know, in the beginning and the end only. The and have them as short as possible while still getting your money's worth. The Bald in the Beautiful has like four different ad reads now, most of the time, and they're like six minutes each. Six six six or seven minutes each. It is crazy. Like it sometimes if I'm in the middle of something and I'm listening to a pod, I don't want to break my flow and fast forward through an ad because I'm like, oh, it's just gonna be one, maybe two, I can deal with it and I'll just listen to it. It's like three or four, sometimes five ad reads in the middle of these episodes. It's infuriating, especially when they're put in like the worst spot of the conversation. You're in the middle of a sentence, you're in the middle of flow state, and you're cutting off the vibe with an ad read for better help. Like, baby, I'm gonna kill myself because of these ads. Which I guess maybe that's the point. Hey, do you want to kill yourself because I'm putting all these ads in and you know, fucking up your episode? Get better help and talk about it. Honestly, this is my better help though. This is my therapy. Just airing out my petty grievances and making it all of your problems. So, with that being said, I gotta get going. It is 3.37 in the morning, and I got work tomorrow. I mean, like I said last week, I am definitely a creature of the night. I love staying up and acting a fool into like the witching hour. Uh, it's just when I get my best work done. I don't know, I just love the quiet and like peace and stillness of night, and I just feel like I get my best inspiration and flow at night. What is that quote from Twitch's? Like with because they're both like one is attached to the sun and one's attached to the moon, like when the moon is up, I'm up. I don't know. That's I can relate though. Alright, well, enough of that. Good night, y'all. I'll see y'all next week with another installment of Run on Sentence. Bye guys. You know what? And another thing.