Ep.6 : Spring Has Sprung

Spring is coming with a microphone in her mouth...

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Ooh la la la la la la la. Guys, it's me, Jack. And that's right. I'm back with yet another episode of Run on Sentence. You know what? And another thing. Now, guys, if you are from the East Coast, specifically New York, you know what an exciting time it is in the world right now. Minus the war, minus all the horrible political stuff going on. It is spring. Oh my god, we are back, back, back again, baby. I cannot express to you the quickness that the shackles of seasonal depression have fallen off of me. I didn't even realize how bad it was until that thermometer hit 60 degrees yesterday. 60 motherfucking degrees in the beginning of March. Is give it give it to me, give it to me, give it to. Like it is everything I needed and more. Today was no different. It was like 58 degrees. Obviously, we gotta hit it with the weather segment yet again. And ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, my blood has been pumping the last two days. I wore short sleeves to work yesterday. We had all the doors open. I was outside all day today. I have the windows open in my room. You can probably see a little bit if you're watching here. It is still light out because Gloria's Daylight Savings is back, and we are back to sunsets at like 6 50. And there'll be sunsets after 7 o'clock in just a couple of days. Ooh, I just got goosebumps. I am just so so so so so happy. Which I'm sure lots of you can relate to. But if you're my West Coast friends, the sunset might be exciting to you, but you don't give a shit about the weather because you're so spoiled. I'm I was gonna say jealous. I could just move there, but East Coast summers are elite. Elite. Uh, which is just like the little you know, carrot at the end of the stick every winter, you know. We uh we New Yorkers, we gotta suffer the long game in the winter to be rewarded with really gorgeous, beautiful summers and springs. And autumns, too. Oh my god, fall on the east coast, the leaves changing color, it is just like picture book perfect. But that is the main excitement of my life this week, other than the weather completely revitalizing and rejuvenating my soul. What's new, Jackie Pooh? Pretty much just work. I worked a lot this week. Today's my only day off after five days, and then I'm working again for another five, and it's wine club week at work to all of the North Fork of Long Island vineyard goers. It is that time of the year or that time of the quarter. We most vineyards have uh wine clubs where you can do a quarterly subscription and get a certain amount of bottles per month or per quarter, depending on you know which amount of bottles you wish to purchase. And my vineyard does a little quarterly pickup party where you get a little complimentary food and wine pairing. So the sun is out later than usual, and the temperature is up, and people have been out and about and super happy to be back out of the vineyard and getting their wine and having their little snacks and their food. It's been honestly a fun week of work. It's been a lot of fun, little combos, seeing club members I haven't seen in a while, so can't complain. I thought I was going to be like running on fumes for this upcoming week, like only having one day off in between, but I'm like ready to go. This weather has totally re-energized me. Uh, sitting outside all day has just fueled me with the sun, and I'm ready to bring the sunlight to the customers. So I couldn't be happier that spring has sprung. But besides that, I did get my car inspected and I got an oil change and I got new brakes this week, also. I have had my car since 2018, and I have never gotten new brakes on it before. I thought that I was crazy and like that wasn't true, but I was pretty sure that I had never brought it in for brakes before. Every time I've gotten an inspection in the last eight years or almost eight years, I got it like summer of 2018. He's never called and told me that I needed brakes before I can pass the inspection. I don't know how new the brakes were on the car when I got it originally. It was a used car, it's a two uh 2004 Jeep. I called them and I was like, listen, I need to get my inspection and I definitely need an oil change. Can you please look at the brakes and let me know? Because I just have a gut feeling that it's time. It's time. I just I just had the intuition that it was about damn time. So I did in fact need them, and when I went in, the uh the guy who runs the shop, his wife, uh, who I'm pretty friendly with, she was there and she was like, Do you know you've never had your brakes changed on this car before? And I was like, Yeah, girl, I know. That's why I that's why I inquired about it. And she was like, Yeah, I was going through the system uh to all your past transactions with us, and like all the way back to when you first brought the car in in 2018, and I don't see any brake changes. And I was like, You're telling me, I know, I thought that was weird. And the two of them were like, No, I guess you're just really good on the brakes, you're soft on them, you're you know, I guess I'm a very cautious driver. Uh, but I was like, Yeah, I'm pretty sure like my mom, like every two to three years, I feel like when she gets an inspection, gets a call that she needs brakes before she can come pick it up. And she was like, Well, yeah, you must be much softer on the brakes than her. And I was like, Yeah, tell me about it. I I could have gathered that. But uh, yeah, just uh just a little band out of my pocket on my car, which yeah, a thousand dollars is a lot, but it was a used car and I don't have a car payment, and it was honestly less than I was expecting for four new brakes, an inspection, and an oil change. So what are you gonna do? I gotta use the car every day. So a band here, a band there. You gotta do what you gotta do. But that's kind of all the updates I have for my week. Like I said, I just worked a lot, but I did manage to get to the thrift today. I only went for a little bit because I wanted to enjoy the beautiful weather as much as I could, but I did have to get a little something for the hoarder haul. So let's get into it. Uh, besides my thrift finds, I did get two new things, Tchotsky related, this week. I did order a mug from Etsy that came in this week. It is it's just a blue mug. I don't know what possessed me to buy it. It is from well, it's not from Charmed, but I followed this new like Charmed archival account that posts different like screen grabs from episodes of Charmed, and they zoom in and find products and things that they were using in episodes, and they you know just post like the brands of certain like clothing items and shoes and mugs and stuff that they had on screen, and they posted a picture of this mug, and I thought it was kind of cute. Like I said, it's just a plain blue mug, nothing special, but I found it on Etsy, it's just like a vintage 90s blue, like pastel ceramic mug. So I bought it. It was 25 bucks. Probably didn't need it, but it was just like one of those late night impulsive buys. And then I also got a new Awala water bottle. I am a collector of water bottles, but not a buyer of water bottles. I have a lot of water bottles. My mother hates me for it with all of the, you know, clutter in the cabinets. But I rarely buy a water bottle. The only one I've bought in the last like six years was my Stanley when like the Stanley was all the craze. But I tired of that really quickly because it's super annoying having to lug a giant Stanley around and like having to have your whole hand around the handle versus just like a little hook that you can put your finger through, like the Awala, which is why I shifted to that. But I usually just take water bottles from like the lost and found at like you know, work if it's been there for months and months. Uh, my last Awala that I had I took from my old jobs, Lost and Found. My new job doesn't have a lost and found. Uh it's a much smaller vineyard, and there isn't like crazy boatloads of people that are coming, you know, just in the summer and leaving shit all the time and like never coming back for it. It's a lot more, you know, local Long Islander based, and we have closer connections with most of our members and customers that we could probably call them if they ever lost anything and or know how to reach them in some way. But I have found water bottles that have been like sitting in the green room at my college's like recital hall that have been there for months. That I'm just like, well, no one's gonna claim this, it's just been sitting here, I'm gonna take it. So, yeah, I decided I wanted a new Awala because I was tired of my old one not fitting in anybody's goddamn cup holders in their car. It's the only flaw of the Awala. So, but you know, they made a new version of it that's tapered down, so it'll fit in almost every single cup holder. And I did order some new stickers for it also, which have not come in yet, but they should be coming in the next day or two. I got a Buffy the Vampire Slayer sticker and a Maddie Healy for President sticker. I was sticking with a blue theme. Uh the water bottle's like a tan, not tan, like light beige skin color, and it has like a green and blue top. I did swap the top with another Awala that it was not actually designed for from Target. I know that's you're not supposed to do that, but I wasn't the first one to do it. I took the cap that I wanted off of a water bottle that it was swapped onto already. So it wasn't on the original bottle that it was supposed to be on. It was on it's supposed to be on like a sage green bottle, it was on like a purple bottle that somebody must have swapped with a sage green bottle. So I felt a little less bad about it. And I still paid for it, so get over it. It I didn't steal anything, I just customized my bottle. But other than Tchotskis, I like I said, I did get to go to the thrift today for some physical media. Let me tell you, the savers that I usually go to, I finished at today. I didn't I found two things at that savers today, and it was a pretty tame crowd there today. Usually there's more people than there were today. But let me tell you, I started at a new thrift store that I'd never been to. I'm trying to check out like a new one every week if I can find one. There's more than you would think on Long Island, and every time I dive a little deeper and look for a new one, I'm surprised to find one like right around the corner from places I've been that I had no idea was there. Uh, but I started at that place. It was called Mr. Cheapo's Records and DVDs. It was kind of overwhelming. There was a lot of stuff there, but it was like a whole lot of nothing. It was a lot of just basic DVDs and movies that I didn't really care about. Uh their main focus was records, which, like I said before, I don't really look for records too much. I did look through some of these because, again, it's a record store, so it's not like a luck-of-the-draw thrift find where a lot of them are going to be shit. Uh, you know, it's a more curated collection, but record stores are notoriously extremely expensive. Uh, they're all like$30 plus dollars, so I didn't get any records, but I did, you know, just peruse a little bit to see what they had. But for DVDs from there, I almost bought season two of the OC, but I don't want to run the risk of watching the season one that I already have and not liking it. I've never watched it before, so I didn't really feel like wasting the money on it, only to find out that like I don't actually like the series when I start it eventually. And I just don't have enough shelf space to run that risk. So I did not get that, but I did find a VHS that I've been looking for for a long time at this place. I found Stephen King's It, the original one with Tim Curry as Pennywise. Big sleigh. It's the like double VHS box set where they had to split the movie into two tapes. So it's, you know, the children's POV on the first tape, and then their adult version's POV on the second tape. It was only 12 bucks. I, like I said, don't have too much of a problem paying more than$10 for a VHS if it is at like a reseller's place. Well, not like a reseller Depop, like sleazy website or shop, but like a curated person, like a person's curated shop, and you know, with a vision, and you know, they're it's like their company and it's their their collectors themselves, like they have their own collection, and they also want to share collections with others. I can get down with that. This guy though was kind of a dick. Not to me, he was pretty nice to me, but I hated the way he was talking to his employees. I like really wanted to get out of there as fast as possible. I almost didn't even see the VHS of it because I was like skimming really fast after a certain point because I was just like, oh, I can't listen to this guy talk to these people anymore. He's so just abrasive and like rude. So glad I found it, but probably will not be going back there because he kind of just gave me bad vibes. But then I went to a savers that I had been to once before, but I didn't realize I had until I got there. I just thought it was a new one on the island that I hadn't seen before. But let me tell you, I will never, ever, ever go back there on a Tuesday. There were so many old people there with no spatial awareness. It was scary, it was like absolute like war zone behavior. They were uh, I guess not a good reference with what's going on in the world right now, but they were just running rampant around this savers. They were ripping through DVDs, ripping through CDs, ripping through clothes. I the people I saw like two different people break things in like the glassware section. They just like couldn't control themselves all and it smelt like piss everywhere. It was disgusting. There were the smells in there were I have never been in and out of the thrift store so fast. I like glanced at the DVDs and stuff, I didn't even like touch them and go through them because there were so many people, and I just high-titled it out of there. It was so not enjoyable. So then I headed over to my usual savor spot, and I found two DVDs over there. Um, one of them was The Hills Have Eyes, which I have seen like on TV years ago. I haven't seen it in a long time. So I picked that up because I figured, you know, a horror movie to the collection is never a bad thing. And then I also found another Stephen King movie, uh, Stephen King's Rose Red. Actually, I don't know if it's a movie or if it's a TV series. I think it's in like chapters, it's two discs, so I think it might be more of a limited series type of thing. I've never even heard of it before. I just saw that the main actor in it is the actress from Halloween Town, uh Marnie. So I was like, might as well pick those up, give it a try, at least, you know, have something to watch for spooky season, which I'm not trying to rush. I always I always get in that mindset of like, ooh, it's like almost Halloween, but I am not rushing summer this year. I'll, you know, look for things horror-related and collect some stuff to get ready for Halloween, but I will not be rushing my summer this year. Uh the algorithm is already trying to get me to. I saw like even in February, I was seeing like only this many days until Halloween, like all the horror and like Halloween nuts on Instagram and TikTok. Like, no, miss me with that. We're not doing that this year. When the time is right, we will move to fall, but we are not we're not skipping this beautiful, gorgeous summer that is upon us. And I actually forgot, I did find three DVDs at Savers this time. I found the Hills High Eyes, I found the you know Rose Red series, and I also found High School Musical 3, senior year, in perfect condition, and completed my high school musical collection. I'm telling you, all the high school musical movies are well, high school musical one and two are pretty much always at the thrift, but they are really hard to get not scratched. Those were like movies that our generation ran through as kids and just put them to use and scratched them the fuck up. So senior year, I have never found that a copy that is not like covered in scratches, and I finally found it, and we have completed our collection. So now let's move on to the content corner. We have been listening to some good tunes this week. Baby, oh, not even ironically. Let me tell you the first song that has been on my radar this week is Baby Eye by Ariana Grande from Yours Truly. Oh, I forgot about that song, and it came up on a TikTok a couple of days ago, and it has been on repeat. Yours Truly is probably Ariana's best body of work. It is just banger after banger. It's peak Ariana vocals. She is just so like full of life and drive and happiness, and she's dating Mac, and she's just like in her era, and all of that good energy really seeps out, and all of that music. It is just too good. And then I've been listening to Weather With You from Crowded House, uh, Brown Eyed Woman, the live recording from Cornell in 1977 by The Grateful Dead. It is just such a springy song to me, and I just have been hyperfixated on that specific live version. It is just such a you know, any deadhead out there knows their music is just so easy, breezy, and relaxing and transcendent, and it really just takes you into that zen meditative place, and you just flow and you want to dance and you want to like frolic through the fields, and ugh, it's been my go-to like windows down driving around song the last couple of days with the weather being nice, and to top it off, I've been listening to Insecurity by Girls Love Shoes. I found this song a couple of days ago while I was watching a charmed episode. I find a lot of good music from the early charm seasons. They do the little like intros after the first the they'll do like the first opening scene and they'll like set up the plot, and then it'll go to commercial, and then it'll come back with like a landscape, like aerial shot of Just the San Francisco area. It'll go, you know, go over the trolley's and like the San Francisco the Golden Gate Bridge, and they'll be playing like a really niche early 2000s song. And my Shazam always comes out, and I'm always looking to see what songs are playing in those episodes. They are just so quintessential late 90s, early 2000s songs that um some are like not as good as I think they're gonna be. Like they pick definitely the best portion of the songs to play for the little, you know, intro clip in the episode. So sometimes, you know, I'll shazam that part and then I'll find the song and listen to the whole thing. I'm like, oh, this is actually like kind of not as good as I thought it was, but most of the time I find one of my new favorite songs. But for TV this week, I I gave House of Villains a chance last week. Like I said, wasn't really loving it, but got a rep for my girl Plain Jane. Spoiler alert, if you are watching House of Villains and haven't seen the fourth episode, or you're planning on watching the third season of House of Villains as it's coming out, do not listen to this. I'm not watching it anymore. They eliminated Plain Jane. She was the only good character on that show, and there's just no point in watching it anymore. I was super disappointed. I mean, I'm not that disappointed because I didn't really like the show to begin with, and I didn't really want to watch it. And now that she's not there, I don't have to. But I just feel bad for her because I know how bad she wanted it, and just wanted to, you know, like be on a show and in the mainstream at the moment. So sad for her, but not that sad that I don't have to watch it anymore, because my god, the production on that show is so boo-boo-the-fool. But let's talk about some good television production. I've been having a criminal mind spree the last couple of days. Those of you who know me know that my love for criminal minds runs deep. That is probably the show that I've watched front to back the most times in my life. I can watch the first two seconds of an episode and tell you the entire plot point of the entire rest of the episode. Every single episode, every single season. I've seen every episode too many times to count. It is just one of those comfort shows of mine, which I don't know what that says about me. You know, plenty of girlies out there. We love our SVU and our criminal minds and our crime shows that should not be comforting to us, and like a show that we should always have on in the background with all those like dark plot points and uh, you know, evil topics. But if it's good, it's good. You just can't beat the blueprint of criminal minds. The episodes are paced so perfectly. It's the same blueprint every episode. You get your crime that happens, you get your little in, you know, look into all of the team's personal lives when they're starting their day, then they get the you know, debrief on a case, and then wheels up, and then you get another little bit of the crime, and then you get a little bit of the plane action where they're talking and debriefing on the plane. It's just you know what you're signing up for. It's a creature comfort of mine. If you have not watched Criminal Minds, you have a gold mine of a TV show that you can dive into. That is probably the one thing that I would choose to do first. Like, if I was able to wipe my brain of something, I like one of my friends is always saying, like, I would I would wipe my brain of all information of Skyrim to be able to play Skyrim for the first time again, which is totally valid, but my wiping of the brain would be Criminal Minds and being able to watch Criminal Minds for the first time again. It is it's just too good. And guys, I've kind of been slacking on Buffy this week. I have just been enjoying my parents not being home this week and being able to like enjoy the living room and just the downstairs of my house freely to myself the last week. So I have the Buffy DVDs in my room and I watch it on my little CRT TV up here. So I have not been watching them up here because I've been downstairs until all hours of the night on the couch in the living room watching TV, specifically criminal minds. So by the time I come upstairs, it's late as hell, and I want to go to bed and not watch an episode of Buffy. So I've only watched one episode this week. It was the Ted episode where Buffy's mom starts dating that guy Ted, and he's like super invasive and like wants to be daddy and like is super uncomfortable, and then he turns out to be like a robot. Uh great episode. But if you hadn't watched it, sorry I spoiled it for you. And guys, big news I actually read this week. Not the whole week, I just read one day. It was today. I but I I got it done. I did it. I read uh a good portion of my book. I took the opportunity to put my hammock out in this beautiful weather and just lay out in the sun and read for half the day. And this book is pretty good so far, from or at least from the you know, point where I left off like three weeks ago, the last time I read it. Um like I said about the description of it, it's a woman who's suspected of killing this person that she's sleeping with, the famous novelist. She is supposed to go on trial, but then she dies in the 9-11 attacks, and then 20 years later, her remains are identified with this new like DNA processing software that you know identifies her remains, and this news reporter is coming to New York to do a story on the DNA testing, and then finds out the woman's history and the murder trial that she was supposed to go on before she died, and like that story kind of died off in the wake of 9-11. Obviously, that story totally like eclipsed the the murder trial uh and it kind of went unsolved. So she thinks she has, you know, just like a cool, like, you know, 20-year anniversary story uh with DNA testing for 9-11, and then is coming to find out that she also has this like cold case attached to it, so the story, you know, gets juicier. Um and the original detective that was assigned to that case is currently living in Jamaica. He had to like have a forced retirement because of a uh police shooting that happened and he was injured and like couldn't keep working, so he's living in Jamaica. And let me tell you, the way this author is describing Jamaica is really making me want to go on a tropical vacation. I typically don't ever have the desire to go on a tropical vacation because I I don't know, I love the beach, but I live on Long Island, and when it's summer, there's no better beach to be on, in my opinion, than Long Island beaches or just East Coast beaches. They are so beautiful, especially in the last like five, six years. Like the water has been almost almost Caribbean blue sometimes. It is been it's been so clean, it's been so warm. Uh I just don't feel the need to spend the money to go to a tropical resort or to a you know tropical location when my backyard is a beautiful beach. So in the winter, yes, I definitely miss the sun and I miss the beach, but never enough where I want to go to a resort. Uh, but this book is really making me question why that is, because it does sound so lovely to go to like the Bahamas and the Caribbean. I the last time I was there, I was in seventh grade, I think. We went, me and my family went to Turks and Caicos, and it was lovely from what I can remember. So I don't know why I haven't ever really wanted to again, but this book is definitely sparking a little desire in me to do so. But that brings me to our self-interview question, because if you can't interview yourself, how in the hell are you gonna interview somebody else? So, Jack, thank you so much yet again for being in the studio. And with all that tropical talk, I gotta ask, are you a lake, cabin, mountain vacation person, or are you a tropical island resort getaway type of person? Ooh, good question, Jack. I think I definitely would. I I know it I just made it seem like I would, of course, be a mountain lake cabin type of vacationer because I just said I don't ever really have the desire to go to a tropical resort. But that doesn't mean I don't want to go for like a beach vacation. I have enjoyed going to Florida. I like going to other beaches and other states in the US. I just haven't necessarily wanted to spend the money to go travel to like a Caribbean Bahama type resort or you know beach vacation. Uh, but that doesn't mean that I don't like a beach trip. But that being said, I definitely am more of a mountain cabin wilderness type vacationer. I just love being in the woods. I love lake life. I just the summer in the mountains, there's just nothing like it. I like I said, love the beach. You can't get me away from the beach in the summer, but especially even when I'm in the mountains, I'm at a lake on a beach on a lake. Like I you you can't get me away from it. But I'm also canoeing, kayaking, I'm going for hikes, I am going to waterfalls, we are quading, we are just enjoying nature. Me and my family are big Vermont lovers. We would go up to Vermont at least once a year, usually in the summer, sometimes twice a year. We would go skiing every now and then in the winter, but summers in Vermont were a staple for us. It was like the thing we looked forward to most every year. We would rent a different house in a different town every time we would go. Uh, usually we would stick to southern Vermont. I haven't really been to northern Vermont. It is a hike and a half from Long Island, and why go through all the trouble of going all the way north in Vermont when there is just as much beauty to be had in the southern tip of Vermont, and it's only like three, three and a half hours from Long Island. You just can't beat it. So yeah, I'm definitely gonna say I'm more of a wilderness, rustic mountain cabin lake vacationer, but I mean be on the lookout. I might be jet-sent into the Caribbean soon because I just have this like itch all of a sudden to be on the beach with some blue water and a frozen drink in my hand. I don't know. I we'll see. We will see. Alright, let's finish it off and get into some dragooning. Girl, this week's episode was some tomfoolery. I gotta say, I am kind of happier this week than I have been in the past couple of weeks with the dynamic of the girls on this episode. I am liking the relationships that the seven of them have. Uh, you know, I'm now that like half the cast is gone, I like the the the way that these girls are bantering and I like the vibe that they have with each other. I feel like Juicy kind of is letting a little bit more loose not having her mother there and her and her auntie and her family uh, you know, behind her. I feel like she I feel like now these girls are like friends. Yeah, and I just feel like a more organic dynamic happening with this group of girls, you know, the way it is now. And honestly, like all of the workroom cutaways and workroom conversations were much more pleasant than previous weeks. It wasn't so like laborious and like hard to listen to, and like, oh my god, just skip forward. There was there wasn't really any like big trauma dumping this week, it was just silly, fun, gay times that these girls were having. I actually enjoyed that. Now let's talk about the runway and the challenge. The design element of this was kind of confusing to me that like all of these girls that didn't seem to know how to sew and like really put a look together, specifically Kenya and Juicy, like now all of a sudden can construct fully realized garments with no help from anybody else. I just thought it was like very strange. Uh I I mean, obviously they can do it. I just don't know why they fumbled so hard in previous challenges then. But props to them, props to Yamama. Uh, you know, I want to see them succeed, I don't want to see them fumble. I just thought it was very strange that like they didn't pull out those tricks when they had to do the challenges prior. I I just I thought it was I thought it was kind of weird, but I don't think that the challenge was good enough to warrant having nobody go home. I hate when nobody gets eliminated, other than like the first episode. Sure, keep everyone around, kumbaya, blah blah blah, whatever. But we're at the halfway point. Girls, send somebody home. Like, we Juicy's outfit was not good enough to warrant her not being in the bottom, and Discord cheated. Discord did not do the challenge that was assigned to them. Like, even after the judges found out that she did not pull any of those safety pins from the suitcase that was provided to her, they still were like and after every girl dogpiled on her and said that they think she should go home tonight, they still decided, like, oh no, it was too good. I didn't even think the outfit was that good to begin with. I couldn't believe that the judges were gushing over it the way that they were. I thought it was clunky, I thought it was overly done, I thought it needed to be edited more. Um, I thought the gloves, the red gloves, and the red boots were a really strange choice. I did hear that she did try to wear a red cat suit underneath the whole thing, which those would have tied into, but production made her take it off because it was not appropriate for the you know the rules of the challenge. I don't know why that was, you know, dinged by production, but the safety pins weren't, whatever. I but she should have changed the shoes and the gloves then if she wasn't wearing the cat suit, but whatever. That wasn't even the worst that wouldn't have even been the worst part of the look. I just thought the look looked clunky and heavy and just not cute. I cannot believe Amon was so like enthralled with it and was like, this is the most fashion thing on the runway. I beg to differ, but I'm not a fashion icon, I guess, so who am I to say? But I just really didn't think all of those factors against Discord warranted her to be safe and have a top two instead of a bottom two. And I thought Juicy's look was constructed and not falling apart and looked fine, but I don't think it was cute. I I just thought it was okay and would have been a safe look amongst other bad looks for sure, but everyone else killed it. Mikey did a cute job. Kenya did a insane job, especially for Kenya, and like the work that she's shown and like the design abilities she's made it seem like she lacks. It was pretty astounding the look she was able to put together. It was like picture perfect, totally fitted to her body, proportionized, immaculate. And Jane, don't even get me started with the material she had to work with. The look that she produced was out of this world. I uh hats off to her. It was definitely her challenge to win. I do think Kenya won the lip sync, though. I gotta say, Kenya knew those damn words for once in her life. I all of a sudden I don't know what's happening to Kenya. She can sew and she can know the lyrics to a lip sync all of a sudden. But Kenya kind of cleared her with that lip sync, I thought. I thought it was a little a little more even toward the end of it, but I think Kenya steamrolled the first half of it. So I would have probably given it to Kenya, but Jane definitely did a better like feat at least in the challenge. So I don't think the lip sync always has everything to do with it. I think it also has to do with obviously production and what they want the storyline to continue to be with who they want to stay. Not that anyone was going home, but they probably, you know, want Jane to have more wins and body of work in the episode. Jane's hurdle that she had to get over was much more intense than Kenya's, and she produced an insane look. So I definitely think Jane deserved the win. And Darlene, I think, was outstanding for what I thought she was gonna construct. I was gonna say should have been in the top. I don't agree, though, with myself. I think that the top two was the correct top two. I just feel bad for Darlene that she kind of got outshined a little bit because she could have been in the top. That was a pretty fierce look, and I don't know what else there's gonna be for her to win. I definitely want her to get at least one win, uh, just so she can leave the competition feeling somewhat, you know, accomplished, but we'll see. We're getting we're getting down there in numbers. I mean, not this week, since we didn't eliminate anybody, but we, you know, we're getting toward the end of the competition that there's not too many challenges left to show us what you got. So we'll see what happens with her. All the love to her, though. Darlene, Jane, and Mikey are definitely my top three. I totally forgot that Nene Coco was even in the running. I hated her look this week. And she's just kind of like a sleeper like snooze fest to me at this point. I think she'll probably be in the top though. I think she'll probably take Darlene's position in the top three if Darlene gets to that point. But Mikey, Jane, and Darlene are my picks to win at this point, or picks to make it all the way to the end. I uh Kenya's time is definitely coming, Discord's time is definitely coming. Juicy has kind of shown us, I think, all there is to see. And that's the tea, honey bee. Well, guys, I think that's all I got for you this week. I need to go make some dinner and fuel up because I gotta go pick my parents up from the airport. They are on their way home from Florida, so I gotta tidy up the house a little bit, even though it is spotless compared to how the you know the way they leave it most of the time. But make some dinner, tidy up, and then go get the rents from the airport. So I'm working a lot again this week. I may or may not have some fun updates next week. I really want to get out to Brooklyn to see Carly's new kitty. The kitty is secured and she is home, and she is so cute. I've seen so many videos. She is so rambunctious and so full of energy and life, and she is just the cutest thing ever. Carly still hasn't named her, so we have to do some more brainstorming. Sound off in the comments if you have any ideas for Carly's cute little kitty. But I definitely Want to get into Brooklyn to see her, my niece, and I don't know when that's gonna happen, though. I do have a couple of days off after the stint of work, so maybe I will head in there and I'll have some fun city updates for y'all next week. But until then, stay blessed and I will see you next week with another episode of Run on Sentence. Bye guys. You know what? And another thing.