Ep. 7 : Sinner Sinner...Chicken...Dinner

Waging war on facebook marketplace never looked this good. 

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Come on now. What's up, y'all? It's me, Jack, and I'm back with the seventh episode of Run On Sentence. You know what? And another thing. Now, we had a good week this week, ladies. Let's just jump right into it because we got a lot of fun stuff to talk about. What's new, Jackie Pooh? Well, I finally went to go see my niece, Carly's Kitty Pajmina. That's right. She decided on a name without my help. It is Pajmina officially. Uh Pajmina is the sweetest little angel baby on the planet. I went into Brooklyn on Sunday night to go meet her, and she is just the most fearless, affectionate, brave, social, just warm kitten that I've ever met. She is so ridiculously tiny. All the pictures that Carly has sent me of her make her look much more big and greedy than she is. She is so light and so petite and so dainty with her little girl voice. She is everything and more. I am so sad that I don't live closer so I could see her more often. Carly landed on Pajmina because she found I forget what the name of the anime is. One of their names was Pajmina. And the description of her character was that she is most known for her affection and friendship for another hamster in the series whose name is Penelope. And that is the name of Carly's kitty that passed away this year. So it just seemed like the perfect aligned name for her, uh, because she's little Penny's like angel sister. So I thought it was very fitting. Carly had brought the name up like a week ago, and she just like wasn't totally settled on it, but I had a feeling that was the one she was gonna lean toward. And lo and behold, she locked it in, and Mish Pajmina is uh here to stay. So could not be more happy for Carly, and I cannot wait to see my niece again. She is just so silly and goofy and the sweetest thing ever. Poor baby has giardia and an upper respiratory infection right now. So she, despite not feeling well, did not show it. She was so rambunctious and climbing the curtains and climbing the walls and running all over the place, uh, despite her extremely stinky shits and farts. She had high spirits and high energy. So I can't imagine what she's gonna be like when she's feeling better and gets rid of these little illnesses. She's gonna be buckwild and crazy. So Carly's got her hands full and she has got a wild little kitty phase ahead of her. So love every minute of it, girl. Love you, Ziva, love you, Paggy. Uh, and what else is new? I have been at war with this man on Facebook Marketplace. I have been trying to buy this vintage Sony CD player with two speakers that come with it for two weeks now. I've have been collecting more CDs in the last couple of weeks during my hoarder hauls, and I don't have a CD player to listen to them on. And I want to get something a little bit nicer and you know, higher quality than just like a boom box from Walmart. So I found this not the exact model of Sony CD player that I wanted, but the one that I want is like$500,$600 on eBay, and I'm just not spending that on a CD player. It's a different model version of the CD player I was looking for. I think the one I wanted was like the CMT X1 or something, I don't know. But the one that I found is a town over from me, much cheaper than the one I was looking for. And this guy is playing games with me. I don't understand. Like, are you trying to sell this product or not? Like, why are you posting it if you're gonna be this difficult? I have been going back and forth with him for two weeks. He s he takes hours and hours and sometimes days to even look at my responses and times to try to coordinate meeting to get this product. And when he does read them, half the time he's leaving me on red and not answering, and then I have to circle back and like text again. And then when he answers, he's like, Oh, so sorry for the late response. Can you meet later today or tomorrow? And I will respond immediately and say, Yes, I can meet today. I'm around. What time do you want to meet? What's your address? And then by the or and then I'll give him a time. I'll say, Okay, I'm gonna, I'm available at five o'clock. Can we meet then? He will not answer. 5 30 will roll around and I'll say, Okay, obviously not tonight then. You said you could do tomorrow. What time tomorrow do you want to meet? I can meet at these times. He will open it and leave me on red. And then at the end of the next day, he will text me, Hey, sorry for the late response. Something came up. Can you meet? It has just been back and forth and back and forth. He's supposed to meet with me today. We will see what happens. I'm not feeling very confident about it. I texted him. He texted well, I blast texted him like 10 different messages two days ago when we were supposed to meet, and he just was leaving me on red, leaving me on red. And then yesterday, while I was at work, I texted him, is there an issue? Are you trying to sell this product or not? And he responded back with this gigantic message of like, hey, so sorry, I like didn't get back to you yesterday. My dad passed away in September, and things have been just really hectic since then. Baby, it is March. Sorry for you, that sucks, but like that's preventing you from answering my message. I don't understand. Then he says, Oh, I also have would you be interested? I can meet today or tomorrow. Would you also be interested in other audio equipment? I have instruments, subwoofers, other speakers, now trying to upsell me on products when he hasn't even sold me the one product yet. It's just so confusing. So I texted back immediately and I said, Yes, I can meet today. I get out of work at this time, I'll be back in town at this time. Like, does that work for you? Or I can meet tomorrow anytime I'm off. Hasn't even read the message yet. Oh no, sorry. Lying, he did get back to me after I said I was gonna be back in town, and he said, Hey, sorry, I'm out now grocery shopping. It was 8 30 at night, and can we meet tomorrow? Okay, yeah. What time tomorrow? I'm off tomorrow. Anytime. Let me know. Hasn't read the message. And if this man leaves me on red, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I really want the CD player, but this is just causing me too much of a headache. I'm getting so aggravated for no reason. I'm just really like it just is really genuinely confusing me because why are you posting this on Marketplace with a shit ton of other products that he's trying to sell and has sold? You clearly do meet up with people, you do sell things. Why is this so difficult? I am also so close to him. I'm maybe five minutes away from where he lives. This could be one and done, in and out. I don't understand the difficulty that is like happening. It's I need to not get heated about it because it's not that serious, but I want this damn CD player, it should not be this tough. So, besides the whole Facebook marketplace war that I am in the middle of at the moment, I did some fun recording last night of movies on TVHS. I have a bunch of movies that I recorded on T VHS when I first got my like vintage TV. Uh, it's kind of the reason I got this TV and like expanded my physical media collection. About a year ago, actually, almost to the date probably, I saw a TikTok of this guy watching Wicked on VHS, and I was like, whoa, where did you get that? Um seeing Wicked in theaters for the first time kind of disappointed me. I was really excited when I was reading about Wicked before it came out, that they used all practical effects and physical sets, and they built most of the stuff. That is the thing I think is missing most in modern movies is real sets, real practical effects. It makes all the difference in the reality of a movie, and they just don't do it anymore. So I was hyped when I found out that Wicked of all things was gonna be doing it, only to watch the movie and have all of the physical sets look fake and CGI with all the filters and editing that they did over it. I was really disappointed, but then when I saw this guy post this TikTok of Wicked that he had recorded onto VHS, I was like, and watching it on an old type of TV like this, I was like, oh my god, this is how this movie is meant to be watched. Making it grainier and bringing the quality down a little bit on a VHS film and on this TV, I was like, oh, now these sets look real. So I was like, how do I get my hands on that? He was selling VHSs of modern movies that he had copied onto VHS. I had a suspicion that there was a copyright issue. Obviously, how he's getting approval for these movies. He wasn't, but I did go ahead and I did have my notifications on for the next drop he was doing. And I bought Challengers, I bought The Terrifier, I bought Common Buyer Name, I bought Wicked, I bought uh I don't know, something else. And lo and behold, none of them ever got shipped to me because his website and company got shut down for copyright infringement before I ever got them. So I kind of got scammed and I was really disappointed because I was really looking forward to getting these movies, and I had gone on Facebook Marketplace and found this TV to watch them on, so I was like, I'm not gonna just not have these tapes. So I went to the thrift store and I found a huge selection of, you know, at-home blank VHS tapes that people used to use to record TV shows and stuff, like on their DVR. And I did it myself. So I recorded Wicked, I recorded Call Me by Your Name and all that. I recorded Halloween Town and other movies that I had saved on my computer. But I really wanted to watch Sinners the other night, and I was like, you know what? Sinners would be a great movie to have on VHS. So that's what I did last night. I recorded Sinners on to VHS, and then I also recorded uh Trixie Mattel's Moving Parts documentary on to VHS. I don't know what it was about those two movies, but those are just two that stood out to me in the last couple of days when I was trying to think of stuff to put on tape. So I did those last night. I tried to do Sinners two days ago and I totally fucked it up. I'm I connect my laptop to the TV with an HDMI converter and then put the tape in and record over the movie. I tried to do Sinners two nights ago and forgot to put on Do Not Disturb. No, I know I put on Do Not Disturb on my computer, but I forgot to turn the Bluetooth off. So I started the movie, started recording it, and then I went downstairs to cook dinner and I put a timer on for like two hours. And as soon as I got downstairs, maybe like five minutes into the movie recording, I put my AirPods in to listen to a video on my phone while I was cooking, and my AirPods tried to connect to my laptop and fucked up the recording, paused the movie and ruined the take. So I'm downstairs cooking for like two hours while the rainbow like test screen is on my TV, just recording over the tape instead of the movie. So I was pissed off when I came upstairs to find that. And then I decided while I was eating my dinner to rewind the tape all the way back to the beginning and record over it, only to find out by the time I was done recording it after another two hours, the rainbow bright colors of the test screen were so bright that they are sh they shine through the recording of centers that I put over it. So even though the second recording went off without a hitch, no notifications, like there's no pop-ups on the screen during the movie, the whole movie has like a rainbow underlayer coming through it. So that tape is not ruined, but it's just like not the quality I wanted. So if any of my friends want a copy of Sinners on VHS with like a little rainbow backing to it, let me know. Uh, but I had two other tapes. I just recorded it again on a different one, it looks amazing. And then I did Trixie Mattel Moving Parts. Honestly, Trixie Mattel Moving Parts looks fantastic on tape because the colors are so vibrant, like all of her costumes and her makeup and her sets for her shows that she was doing in that documentary are so bright and pop on screen. So everything looks really clear and beautiful. Sinners looks good, but half the scenes take place like at night in the bar, so it's not the like highest quality because the colors aren't popping super heavy on screen. Uh, anything during the day and outside looks great. Uh and it looks good enough in the dark too, but it's just not as like vibrant as I wish it was. And Sinners, I don't I'm sure there's some like directorial meaning behind the framing in Sinners, but it really was annoying me. I didn't notice it when I watched the movie in theaters, but they go back and forth between full screen and widescreen so many times in the movie. Like anytime they're outside and they're doing like a landscape shot, it's full screen, which is what I hate widescreen movies. Personally, I want the whole screen to be filled, and especially on the little vintage TV that I have, it just looks better when the whole screen is filled, and the images are just clearer. And the scenes that are full screen that I recorded of Cinners look beautiful, and then like every five minutes it tightens in or white the shot widens, and then the image on the screen tightens into a widescreen shot. I just hate the black borders on the widescreen, and I I'm sure, like I said, there is some filmmakers like deeper meaning behind the wide shots and the full shots, but girl pick a lane. It looks it looks good with the with the full shot. But yeah, now I have Sinners and Trixie Mattel moving parts documentary on VHS, and that's a great segue into our hoarder haul for the week because I got a couple of new VHSs at the thrift and a bunch of new DVDs and one new CD. I found two really great movies on VHS. I was very excited. I found Bring It On with Miss Kristen Dunst. Love her, my girl, Miss Mary Jane from Spider-Man was like my first introduction to her. She is just she's such a powerhouse actress. I love her so much. And I also found The Witches of Eastwick with Miss Cher and Jack Nicholson and Susan Sarandon and who's the third woman in that? I don't know. Another icon, I know. I just am forgetting her name, but two really iconic movies happy to have in my collection. And for DVDs, we hit a little gold mine of DVDs this week. I found another Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I don't know what's in the air. I'm finding like one every week. Uh now I have the original, I have the 2007 remake, and then I found this week Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Beginning, which is like the prequel to the 2007 movie. Well, it's just like the origin story of the Texas Chaw Massacre family, but I think it was made in 2009, so it's like the prequel to the 2007 remake version of Texas Chaw Massacre. And I also found Twitches 2 on DVD. I do have Twitches 2 on VHS. That's one of the movies uh a couple of months ago that I did record onto VHS because I had purchased the movie on my laptop, and I like I said, I like having the DVD sometimes because the like menu screens are sometimes so cute and campy. So I haven't thrown it in the DVD player to see what the menu screen looks like for Twitches 2, but I just had to have it. I couldn't leave Twitches 2 sitting there. And to stick on the childhood movie train, I also found Sky High on DVD. Big, big, big sleigh. I was so happy to find that on the shelf. And I also found the first Cheetah Girls movie. So now we have Cheetah Girls 1 and 2. And I also found another One Direction movie. I have both One Direction tour documentary movies that they made. Um This Is Us and Up All Night. But I found another one while I was at Savers this week, and I was like, I have never heard of this before. I didn't know there was a third movie. Lo and behold, I don't think it's an actual like One Direction approved or like authorized movie. It's called One Direction, The Only Way Is Up. I think it's like some random woman who is just who like made a movie about One Direction's rise to fame. I think it's like an unauthorized documentary type thing. Uh, but it'll be really interesting to see what it's about. And for TV series that I found on DVD, I found season five of Ghost Whisperer. I haven't talked about Ghost Whisperer before, but that is like one of my OG childhood shows that got me into super spooky and creepy spiritual, you know, ghostly, magic-ish television. Uh, Charmed was the first one, of course, but Ghost Whisperer was one of the shows that really shaped my like my love for the macabre and spooky Halloween-y things. So very excited to have that. I have season one, and I think I have season two somewhere in storage. Uh, I was so annoyed though, I also found season one of Ghost Whisperer, and it was in the box specifically, was in much better condition than the one that I have, but it was like nine dollars, and I was just like, the discs that I have are beautiful and not scratched. Yes, the box matters to me, but like not enough for me to have two copies of this, and I don't have any friends that love Ghost Whisperer enough for me to give them my box set of, uh, you know, and replace mine with the newer one. But yeah, it just wasn't it wasn't worth I showed some really good self restraint and I did not buy it, but uh you know, sometimes you gotta you gotta make those hard decisions and not double up on something you already have. And yeah, and for CDs, I found the All American Rejects Move Along album. That is one well, not the entire album. Specifically Dirty Little Secret off of that album was one of the first songs that I remember like listening to it to death. I had it on my iPod Nano. No, I had it on my iPod Shuffle before I even had my nano. That song was on repeat. I remember some kid in my karate class. If you are a white person from New York, Long Island specifically, you know karate was like a huge thing from like 2006 to 2010. Like every bitch in their mother took karate lessons, and this one kid in my karate class recommended that I listen to Dirty Little Secret, and I sunk my teeth into that song, and I listened to it to the cows come home. My god. Talk about early 2000s pop punk royalty. All American rejects are elite. And for Tchotskis for the Hoarder Hall, Carly was so sweet, and she got me one of my favorite things in the world, Smiskis. Uh, she got me a Smisky for Valentine's Day, and when I opened it while I was in Brooklyn, one of the pieces was broken. So she returned it and she got a replacement. So she gave it to me when I went to go see Pajmina this week. And it's actually sitting right here. It is from the Sunday Smisky series. Um, and it was the one that I wanted. I was so excited. It's the little Smisky playing guitar, super cute. I love the ones that are sitting, so you can put them on like picture frames um and like little nooks and hide them. Uh I mean, all of them you can hide them in nooks, but the ones that are sitting specifically, I just find so adorable. Um, it is actually ridiculous how many smiskies I have in my room at this point. I I did not realize it until last night, actually. I was watching Buffy, and when I finished, turned the TV off, turned all my lights off, and like all I forgot that they glow in the dark. All of a sudden, like it hit me how many were surrounding me and staring at me. I'll count them now. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. There's one behind me. Yeah, there's um twelve. Yeah, there's twelve smiskies in here right now. Uh, and I have a thirteenth one, my thirteenth reason. Uh, my thirteenth one is one of the toothbrush holders um in the bathroom. So yeah, I just love these little fuckers. They are so adorable, so cute. My brother, this is like one of the things that my brother got into first that I stole from him. It he was like the classic younger brother growing up, where like if I showed any small amount of interest in something, he would take it and run with it and make it his thing and be obsessed with it, which imitation's the sincerest form of flattery, right? Whatever. But this is like the one thing of his that like he got one Smisky, and I was like, Oh, that shit is so cute. Give me 20 of them. So he literally only has one, I think. He's never gotten another one, and I have popped off and I've gotten so many of them. Uh, and my cousin Emily, too. Shout out Emily for listening. She is also a Smisky lover. I went to go visit her. She lives in Nashville in January of 2025. I went for New Year's, and she has so many of them in her house, and it inspired me to get even more. Her boyfriend Ty, shout out Ty, also just got back from a business trip in Japan, the birthplace of Smiskies, and he brought her home so many Smiski's. I'm sure they're so much cheaper there than they are here. They're like$12 a pop here, which is ridiculous. But, you know, I've spent$12 on much stupider shit that I don't love and appreciate as much. So, you know, every now and then when I'm at the mall, I have no problem picking up a little$12 Smisky to brighten my day. But my god, did she get the hall of halls on Smiskis? I think she got like at least 10 in the picture that she posted, probably more. Uh jealous of you girl. Guess who's jealous of Adele? Beyonce. Emily equals Adele, Jack equals Beyonce. Like, ugh, so cute. I gotta. I've always wanted to go to Japan, but now I really want to go to Japan to just fill a whole suitcase with cheap ass smiskies. Alright, let's move on to the content corner. We have been listening to a lot of music this week. I, like I said, went to Brooklyn, so I was listening to some bops on my drive to the train, on the train, my walks around the city, and the number one song in my rotation this week, keeping on the theme of Sinners. Congrats on the Sinners, uh, Oscar wins, y'all. Uh, right, because I know the Sinners team is listening to this. Duh. And I have been listening to The Rocky Road to Dublin from the Sinners soundtrack. It's also the week of St. Patrick's Day, so it has been very on brand and very on theme for the week, and it's just too good. Jack O'Connor. Ooh, girl, he has been looking too fine. Him on the Oscars red carpet with the vampire fangs. Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. My god, it was it shut me up real quick when I saw him walk down that red carpet. My god. But yeah, the Rocky Road to Dublin has been turning me out this week. I've also been listening to Disconnected by Five Sauce on repeat. I have been very into that, like, you know, 2013 sound again, and Disconnected hits like no other five sauce song. I mean, there's plenty. Obviously, she looks so perfect. Um, Voodoo Doll is like always in my rotation of five-saw songs, but disconnected is just that like blood pumping, like love, love, love. And I've also been listening to Good Life by Jesse McCartney from the Stuck in the Suburbs soundtrack. Which I'll know about Stuck in the Suburbs. What a classic decom Miss Disney Channel original movie. I totally forgot about this song. It came on Shuffle when I was listening to my Dead of Summer playlist on Spotify. If you don't follow my Spotify already, Jack Martin underscore, go check it out. I have lots of beautiful curated playlists on there. But the Dead of Summer playlist is like a 35-hour playlist that I made with the help of my friends Liv, Carly, and Lydia. Shout out girls. Um, we went to a Grateful Dead music festival in Vermont over the summer, and we were there for like a week, and we I hate like having to pick music in the moment. I like thinking about it beforehand, thinking about the vibe of the event that I'm going to, and making a playlist curated to the sound that the people that are gonna be there like to listen to, so you can just throw it on and not think about it. And we were gonna be gone for so long, I was like, let's just make at least a 24-hour long playlist, and I think we got it up to like 35 hours. Lydia has some crazy deep-cut music choices, and Good Life by Jesse McCartney from the Stuck in the Suburbs soundtrack was one of the songs she threw on there. So I've been listening to that, and also to top it off, uh I Used to Love Him from Miss Lauren Hill featuring Mary J. Blige. I talked about it in my the first episode, one of my top five albums of all time, The Misseducation of Lauren Hill. It's the blueprint. It is literally like the perfect representation of dropping a perfect body of work and then not needing to do anything else after that. It's kind of how I feel with Rihanna right now, with people being like, Rihanna needs to release new music, she needs to come back to music. Why? Because is she ever going to do it better than she already has? Probably not. Like she I mean it'll be good, but it won't be it won't be her previous body of work. Like what Miss Lauren Hill did didn't need to be expanded upon. Like it was gold perfection, and anything else that came after it would have paled in comparison. Because it's the miseducation of Lauren Hill. Like you just can't there is no going up from there. Like it is the standard. So just walk away and just ride that train for the rest of your life, just sing those songs. That's all that matters. So I used to love him from Miss Lauren Hill, featuring Mary J. Blige, always a classic. And for TV, I actually switched it out this week. I watched a new show with Carly and her boyfriend Zach. Uh, we watched Neighbors, an episode of Neighbors, uh, the new series on HBO. Holy shit, what a funny show! It is so wack-a-doodle time. These people are so unhinged. It's that type of unhinged reality where you know these people are not acting, like they're so mentally ill and they're so off their rocker that like they are taking the show so seriously and they mean everything that they're saying. Like, it seems like satire, these neighbors at war with each other, and these like years-long battles um of like petty grievances that really make no sense and have no like basis, but like are so serious to these people. It seems satirical, it seems fake, and it seems like they're putting on a show, but like these people are so unhinged and unwell that you can tell they mean it with every fiber of their being. It is so ridiculous. The episode that I watched was I think it was episode five, was the latest one that came out. Um, and it was these two women, one was like an old like porn star sex worker, crazy, crazy, like um, like OG, she like one of her ex-husbands, like did some like OG revenge porn, like takedown of his life back in the day. Like, she was psychotic, and then this like other old woman that was her neighbor who was being like uh like had squatters in her home. I don't know, they were a hot mess. But then the other one was these two neighbors from the East Coast, I think they were in Jersey, um, and it was like Battle of the Halloween decorations. One of them was like a well-known Halloween house decorator, claims to have like taught his neighbor everything he knows, and now the neighbor is like always competing with him for the best Halloween decorations, and he felt like betrayed and snubbed, and they were competing for like the best Halloween decorations on the block in some contest, and the protege won, and it was not as entertaining as the other uh set of neighbors, but it was a great episode, made me want to watch more. But I did cancel my HBO subscription a couple of months ago because I felt like HBO was slacking, and there wasn't really too much that I wanted to watch on HBO anymore. And then as soon as I canceled it, there was like three things that popped up, neighbors being one of them, that I was like, oh, of course now I'm interested after I've cancelled it. Uh the other one was I think like the glitter ball or something. It seems like it's some docuseries about the ballroom scene. Uh I've heard mixed reviews about it, but I still would want to check it out. So if anyone has an HBO subscription and want to, you know, wants to give me their login to watch a couple of things, I would really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Hit my line, uh, send me a DM, drop it in the comments. Oh, don't drop it in the comments, uh, then everyone will have access to your HBO. So yeah, hit my line. If you know me, text me. I've also not watched Heated Rivalry, which I know is on HBO also. I don't really have any desire to, but I feel kind of left out of the conversation since everybody and their mother is talking about it still. It will not die. Um I don't know. I've talked about it in previous episodes. I just don't love super sappy love story type shows, and it doesn't seem like there's enough like high stakes and drama in Heated Rivalry for me. It looks like it's just happy endings and foo-foo like love, and it's just not something that appeals to me for at least on the surface. So maybe I'll give it a shot if someone gives me their login, but it's definitely not the first thing on my list, but I'd be watching on HBO. But yeah. Oh, also, I totally forgot to mention in the Hoarder Hall, I finally got my emergency intercom plushies. You can see one right here, the Drew plushie. Uh, the Enya one is over there on my bed. They're super cute. They do have the posable skeletons inside of them, so you can like shape them the way you want them and pose them, but the they kind of don't work that well, and I'm kind of disappointed the uh like the pelvis bone in them like doesn't really move. I wanted to like have them sit and like just leave them on this chair when I, you know, I'm not using it. Um but you can't really like move their pelvis to like put them in a sitting position. You can kind of really their arms are really the only things that move and pose well, um, and sort of the legs, but not really. So that's kind of been the only disappointment of them, but other than that, they are super cute, they're really vibrant colors, and I love them. I live. Alright, back to the content corner. I also did some good reading on the train to Brooklyn this week, too. We're getting juicier in our book. I'm not gonna go deep into it because we're getting into the territory where like some spoilers are happening, and if you plan on reading 20 years later, uh you don't want to hear about this stuff because we're like deep enough into the book now where we're past just like storybuilding elements where it's not really giving anything away, and now we're getting into twists and turns. So all I can say is the book is great so far. I'll probably not give any updates on the book until I am done with it, and I'll give a big spoiler alert when I like give away the ending when I talk about it once I'm done, so be on the lookout for that. And I also have been playing a video game this week to switch it up. I have not talked about it before, but if you know, you know. I am one of the probably handful of people on this planet, Carly is one of them as well, that know, well not know about. I'm sure plenty of people know about it. Just nobody in my friend groups and my inner circles talk or know about this game at all. Uh, any of the Nancy Drew PC games. If you know, you know. These games have run my life for as long as I can remember. It seems like me and Carly are the only ones that know about them, but I know there is like a community of Nancy Drew lovers out there. These games are so comforting to me. They are they were ahead of their time when they first came out, in my opinion. They her interactive is like the you know larger company that produces these games, and they are like point-and-click games. There is dialogue you go through, there's a mystery, obviously. It's Nancy Drew. Uh, there's a mystery attached to each of them. She goes to like a new country and a new place to go help someone solve some weird stuff that's been happening. Hilarity ensues, of course. Um, you go and you talk to different characters, you pick the dialogue that you're speaking to them with. Um, you collect evidence, you collect clues, and you solve puzzles, and it is it sounds kitschy, but like the first 20 games are so iconic and so like they exist in this bubble of like perfection, and then the company tried to get cute and tried to you know get with the times and make updates and make better graphics. They didn't need better graphics, baby. They didn't need to change the blueprint, they had it down. The graphics got worse somehow when they tried to make them better. The dialogue got so bad and so booboo the fool. The dialogue in the original games is so, I mean, not so realistic. Some of them are, you know, are a little funny, but like they're much more realistic and like true to what an actual conversation would be like than the newer games. The newer games are so clunky boots and so chopped. Um, yeah, I don't know. The graphics also are just so much like softer and not realistic in the original games, but like comforting and nostalgic, of course. I mean anything from the past is gonna be nostalgic, but I don't know, they just lost the plot so hard, and like the concept of all of the mysteries and the storylines were so much better in the original ones, and the voice acting, the voice acting has gone so severely downhill. Uh, the original Nancy Drew voice from like the first game through like the 21st or 22nd game, I think, was the voice actress who voices Sindel from the original Mortal Kombats. She is too good and just like the quintessential Nancy voice, whoever the new actress is, is absolutely chopped. The like their hearts just aren't in it, they're not convincing. The original dialogue is so realistic and amazing acting, and everything about the new games is just so so so so wrong. But I was going through like a pile of games in my basement the other day, and I found Nancy Drew The Curse of Blackmore Manor, the DVD game, which I think is the only one they made as a DVD game. All of them are PC, you know, computer games, but they made two for other consoles, Blackmore Manor on DVD being one of them. So you put it into a DVD player and you use your television remote to move through the game and select things. It's slightly different than the PC game. Uh, there's like certain like puzzles and tasks that are missing because you can't really do them properly with the point and click of the remote. Um, like there's certain challenges that like have like timers attached to them and you have to do them quickly. And the like the lag time with the remote uh and the time it takes for you to like just move forward, let alone like move a piece of something, is too slow to and it takes too much time to like load between screens to do those faster challenges. So they like ixnade some of the tasks that are in the PC game, but there's this one, and then they also did uh one of them that's called the Ice the What is it? Nancy Drew and the Oh my god, why am I blanking? The White Wolf of Icicle Creek. They made that game also for PC, but then they also made a Wii version of it. I do have that somewhere, but obviously, like so many others, my Wii got that like red ring virus or whatever, and like doesn't work anymore. So I don't remember how that game functioned. Either if it was like slightly different from the PC game, and like like the DVD one is eliminating certain puzzles and tasks uh because of the like gameplay that differs from the Wii and the PC. I don't know. But um yeah, I've been playing the Curse of Blackmore Matter on my little vintage TV. It's super cute. I probably won't finish it because I mean I know how the story ends, and it is kind of clunky boots uh the gameplay. It's not the most seamless and smooth, and it is kind of frustrating like how long you have to wait between scenes and stuff, and like just moving down a hallway takes like two minutes because of how long each like step loads in the game. It's definitely not as uh it doesn't flow as easy as the PC versions do, but it's still like a fun little nostalgic thing to switch it up, you know. But yeah, if you haven't played the Nancy Drew games to each their own, I would highly recommend you check them out. Uh they might seem a little silly boots if you're playing them now later in life. I mean, I think they still hold up. I think they're a lot of fun. I don't think they're childish. I think they shaped me a lot as a kid to be who I am today. I love puzzles, I love escape rooms, I think they really, you know, challenge my critical thinking skills as a kid, thinking outside the box with all the puzzles and stuff and all of the like it's a big reason why I love mysteries, specifically like mystery novels and thrillers and twists. Like I think it definitely like feeds that part of your brain that you know forces you to think outside the box and look at something from a different angle and try to think like three steps ahead of something. I I've always when I played the games growing up, I loved the suspense of trying to figure out while you're talking to characters and while you're having dialogue with them and you're doing tasks for people, trying to read through the lines and figure out who the culprit of the mystery is before you find out at the end. Like, you know, could because the game makers were really smart and or at least used to be, they were so much more like they paid so much more attention to detail with character movements and character dialogue where they would slip in subtle hints and emotions and body language and um like telltale signs in characters to let you know that they were the culprit without actually letting you know, like in your face. When you know, when you would get to the end and you would find out who was responsible, you'd be like, you know, puzzle pieces would fall into place and you would think back to conversations and interactions that you would have with that character, and you'd be like, Oh my god, yeah, they it was them the whole time. Like, how did I not see that? So it's oh my god, it's just too good. I could talk about Nancy Drew all day. Um, ooh, maybe if I like make a regular YouTube channel too, I should do like a Nancy Drew like Twitch style playthrough. Uh, but that's like no fun because I've played almost all of them and I know like all the stories and all the twists and like the puzzles and stuff, so it wouldn't be like me experiencing it for the first time. It would kind of just be, you know, too easy. But I think there's one or two. I'm I would not play one of the newer ones because they suck so bad, but uh I think there's maybe one or two of the original ones that I've never played back in the day when I would play them as a kid, um, they were like, you know, pretty expensive. They were like$30 to buy the actual disc uh to own. So I would just take them out at the library. I would rent them and then just return it when I was done. But yeah, I don't think the library had all of the originals um when I would, you know, take them out as a kid. So I'm sure there's like one or two that I haven't played growing up that I could do like a playthrough of, but we'll see. I don't know if I'll actually do that. Well, that kind of concludes the content corner for the week. So let's jump into the self-interview section because if you can't interview yourself, how the hell are you gonna interview somebody else? Am I right? Jack, what a pleasure it is to have you in the studio yet again. I have a burning question for you this week. What is a hill that you will die on, no matter how controversial it is, what is something that you will never ever let up on? Ooh, Jack, thank you so much for the question. Baby, when I tell you I am so fired up about this topic, a hill that I will die on and may die on because we don't know what this thing is gonna turn into and how serious it's gonna get in society, and I might have to martyr myself for it. I'm kidding, it's probably not gonna be that serious, but I mean hopefully it won't be that serious. You never know. Science fiction movies do come true sometimes. The hill I am willing to die on is AI usage. I will never ever use AI for anything. I think it is rotting humanity's brain. I think people that use AI for things that are so menial are absolutely losing all critical thinking skills. They had very little to begin with, usually, because it was just like a dying thing to begin with with the internet. But creativity and critical thinking is really, really in danger right now. And anybody that uses AI every day consistently for any task, instead of just doing it yourself and using your brain first, is really in danger. I have friends that their first, you if you, you know, you know who you are. Uh, this isn't a read, it is kind of a read. Do better, use your brain. But I mean, I say it to their face when they suggest it. If something comes up like, oh, what should we do? What should I do about this? What should I name this thing? What are we like any type of creative left brain type question, the immediate response is, oh, just ask chat, just ask AI. No, like absolutely not. We cannot come to this as a society where like anything that gets in our way, any question, any roadblock, anything that requires any type of like thinking and inquisitive nature, just turning to the turning to AI, oh, it makes my blood boil. Just use your brain. And I don't care if this is controversial or not, when somebody tells me that they use AI regularly, and when they talk to AI like it is a human being, and someone that has like feelings and like they have a relationship with them, I immediately like write them off in my brain. It is becomes such a like decision-making thing for me of like, oh, do I value your opinion at all, or do I completely write you off as a lunatic psychopath who anything that comes out of your mouth goes in one ear and out the other for me? Like, you are just not human to me anymore. I don't value anything that you have to say, any opinion that you have, get away from me. Like, you are mentally ill. And I had a run-in like this at work the other day. I had a woman come into the winery alone. She came up to the bar and she was talking to me about how she, you know, she travels all over the world to different wine regions. She's a big wine lover, uh, but she doesn't really have any like wine-loving friends, so she just does it herself. And she was telling me, like, at first I thought it was cute. I thought it was like, oh, you know, she, you know, that's a nice thing for her. But then the tides turned, and she told me, yeah, I come up with all of these schedules with chat. And when I tell you my eyes turned red and my pupils dilated, I was like, ooh, girl, tread lightly, wrong one. Don't like, I'm not the one to talk to you about this. She I had to put on my poker face and just let her run on sentence. Uh, she started going off about how she talks with chat, and she kept using pronouns, by the way. She was like, Yeah, I talk to her, and she uh, you know, I tell her everything that I like about wine. She knows my palette, uh, she knows what I like, and I, you know, put in the region that I'm planning on going to, and she gives me a whole itinerary and schedule of the different wineries to go to and times that I'm gonna go to each of them and where to make reservations for them, and the wines on the menus at these places that I really like based on my palette because she knows me so well, and you know, I go to the regions and it's always spot on. And I had, you know, I went to this one winery before I came here, and she told me what the winery was. It is one that I don't think very highly of. The wine is pretty terrible, it's like a tourist trap spot, it's one of the first spots on the wine trail, and it's just where like all of the buses of people go who have no wine experience and just want to like go and get drunk and party. So, of course, she was not gonna have like a good wine tasting experience there because the wine isn't good. But you know, she would know that if she just read reviews herself and did the research herself, or you know, asked recommendations from human beings at vineyards that she goes to to see what's good, or you know, watches videos of people reviewing wineries and like actual human beings making content, not chat, not AI. But she said she went to this place and she was like, Yeah, and the wine was so terrible it tasted disgusting. I didn't like the hospitality, everything about it was just bad. And I I had to tell her, her being chat, mind you, don't forget about that. I had to I had to talk to her and I had to say, you know, I hated everything about this experience. I hated this wine. I thought you knew me better than this. Why would you send me here? You know, I was so like hurt that she would, and I was just so confused why she would do this to me. I was so speechless. I I had to fight so hard not to clown this woman so fiercely and play in her face. It was one of the like best displays of c self-control for me. It was I mean, obviously, she's a customer, I'm not gonna be rude to her, but I was like, uh-huh, oh right, oh for sure. Hey, I I gotta go. Like, like what is there to say to that? Like, you are so far down the rabbit hole, you are so out of touch with reality. I mean, what's there to say? It was really, really concerning. It was deeply like sickening and scary to listen to. And like this is an adult. She was like in her 50s. What's gonna happen to like these kids that are using this stuff in the same way that she was? I I'm really like the kids are not alright. Like, I'm really worried how it's gonna be integrated into schools, how it's gonna be integrated into government, how it's gonna be integrated into every facet of our lives, and how people are going to actually turn their brains to mush. Like by not using them anymore, and pretending to have these relationships with a fucking robot. Like, people talk about AI like, oh my god, it's crazy how humanistic AI sounds and how like real the dialogue sounds. Yeah, because you keep using it and talking to it like it's a human and altering the code to sound more like you. Like, it's I'm like getting nauseous talking about this. It is something I try not to think too hard about because it makes me physically ill to think about where this is going to go. I mean, how far it's already come and how horribly it's affecting people already. Um and there's just nothing I can do about it. There's nothing anyone can do about it, which is really sickening and and not in the good way. It's not sickening, it's actual like stomach turning sickening. And we're just gonna have to let the snowball effect happen. Like it's just the chain is just gonna keep moving, we're not gonna be able to stop it, and they're going to ruin humanity's critical thinking skills more than they already have with it. And I will martyr myself if I have to to never use AI and never integrate it into anything that I do creatively, artistically, and just daily. Like, I don't need chat to make daily decisions that my big, juicy, beautiful human brain can make for myself. Thank you so much. And let's lay that to rest there. Enough is enough. Fuck AI. If you use AI, I see you as lesser than somebody that doesn't, and I'm not sorry about it. Because you can come back from it, you can come back from it just put that down. Put it down, stop talking to AI. Take back your brain, take back your thinking skills, and death to AI. Thank you so much. That's my TUD talk. With that being said, let's finish off the pod with some good old dragooning. Now this week's challenge is one of my favorite challenges usually because the roast is another make or break challenge like snatch game where it you either float to the top so fiercely and kill it, or you absolutely just shit the bed. And this week the only person that I thought really shit the bed was Juicy. She was the only one that it really got like zero laughs. Uh Kenya was also pretty bad, but at least she had assembled confidence and like landed one joke at least. Um, but for the most part, everyone else did pretty good. It was not like a total like half slugage, half like clown fest uh or circus. It was uh pretty evenly killed. The obviously, in my opinion, Mikey did the best. I am a Mikey stan till the day I die, and I thought she should have won the challenge. I do think Jane did incredible also. Uh, I do feel bad for Jane though that she's kind of reached this point where the judges just expect the best from her anyway. So like her performance was probably the most refined and polished and perfect and witty and had the most like natural air to it that would have won for anybody else, but because it was Jane, the judges were like, Well, duh, yeah, of course she was gonna do that well. This is what she does. So, like the wow factor was kind of lost for it, and I think that's like that hurt her chance of winning. Uh, Mikey, I think should have won personally, but Darlene winning, I went back and forth on. I was in the moment kind of okay with it. Uh, I think Darlene had the best runway for the category, the Gometha Wind or whatever. It was so beautiful, especially for her. I don't know like where this beautiful drag is coming from, but she looked incredible. It had the most like campy elements to it while still being really fashionable. Uh, I loved Mikey's runway, but I think Darlene's like theme and like storyline was cooler attached with a fashionable look. Mikey's was just like a really fierce, beautiful outfit. Yeah, I think that put Darlene like a step above Mikey runway-wise, because there was like beautiful fashion and a theme, and Mikey's was just beautiful fashion. I hated Jayne's runway personally. I thought it like in concept it was cool, but it was just too like heavy and chunky and clunky. I think it could have been like daintier tassels and jewels and just like lighter and shh, I don't know, it just felt really like heavy and clunky boots. But I think the runway aided in Darlene's win, and was part of the reason I was sort of okay with her winning at first. Uh but then when I watched it back, I was like, you know what, fuck this. You shouldn't have won this challenge. Mikey should have won. It was funny, but not for the right reasons. Like, I hate the con like the judge feedback of like, you were just so stupid, girl. Like, it wasn't a real roast, but like it was just funny. Like, okay, but the challenge is a roast. Like her roast jokes weren't like written well. Like, it was the props that were the gag. It was the like outlandish theater of the absurd type comments that were funny and getting laughs, but it wasn't the reading and the roast, which is the challenge. Like, yes, it was outside the box for Darlene, it was a big swing, it was very different. I'm happy she has a win. Like it she's one of my favorites, she is my top three, Jane, Mikey, and Darlene. But and you know, what else is she gonna win besides this at this point? So good for her for that. But like I'm tired of that. Like, I mean, yeah, it wasn't really what the definition of the challenge was, but it was stupid and it was ridiculous and it made us laugh, ha ha ha ha. Like no, that wasn't the challenge. Like, Mikey and Jane did the best roasts, and Mikey's outfit was better than Jane's. I think Mikey should have won. But happy for Darlene. And the lip sync with Miss Kenya and Juicy was fine. I hated Kenya's outfit. I hated Juicy's outfit also. Just that fitted bed sheet attached to her was just absolute clownery, and it was really annoying me that the judges thought it was like fashionable. I would love to know what fashion runway Juicy said she saw that reference from because it was not good. Uh, but yeah, Juicy definitely turned it. I don't know who's gonna be Juicy in a lip sync. I was talking about this with Liv and Carly. Juicy is one of those rare queens that can do all types of lip syncing. She can do a huck and buck dance number and dance the house down, but she can also do a park and bark and just give you face. She embodies a song in her face so well and really makes you believe that she's singing it, which is a skill that I feel like uh Simone captures really well. Simone can, you know, do tricks and I mean not as many tricks and flips as Juicy can, but she can, you know, she can move her body, she can do a high energy number, but then lock in, stand still, and just give you that park and bark face and really sell the song. Juicy has that. Uh, and so I don't really know who's gonna beat her. I don't think she'll make it to the top, but I'll be damned if someone can uh lip sync her because the bitch knows how to l l sink her lips to a goddamn song. It is really impressive. And yet again, I'm totally forgetting Nene Coco through the whole episode. She is just such a filler queen to me at this point, and she's really getting on my nerves. She has no confidence and she is just buying time at this point. She needs to go. And Discord needed to go last week. Um, I think she should have been eliminated. She was kind of a waste of space this week. Also, I thought her runway was clunky, chunky, uggo, fuggo boots. I hated the uh like big flame thing on the back of her head. It was so messy. And yeah, the motorcycle thing was cool, but it was just knockoff moo glare. Like it was just not we've seen it done better, and we shouldn't have even seen it this week because she shouldn't have been there and she should have gone home. But yeah, that's kind of it. We're getting down in numbers. There's only six girls left now, so I mean, there's gonna be less and less to talk about every week, and then the season's gonna be over, and then well, we're gonna have all-stars 11 this year. What is it, 11 or 12? I don't know, crazy. Drag race, she just keeps on going, girls. She is the gift that keeps on giving, no matter how bad you want it or not. Uh, but yeah, and then once that's over, I don't know, maybe I'll continue dragooning for All Stars if it comes out. Uh, but Dragooning will turn into a Big Brother review this summer. I haven't talked about it yet because obviously Big Brother isn't happening right now, it's only in the summer, but I am a massive Big Brother fan, so the Dragooning section of the pod will become a Big Brother corner come June. I cannot wait. I almost applied to Big Brother this year, but I think I'm gonna wait until next year, get the podcast out for a good amount of time. I think I want to be a little bit more present on social media before I send in a tape for Big Brother, so I just have more of a presence for them to like bump me up in the casting process. So I will be watching very closely this summer, and then I'll probably apply next year. I love Big Brother. I think I would be such a good contestant personally. I think I have a lot of personality. I think, like I said about Nancy Drew, I am a very like s inquisitive, like mastermind type thinker, and I think I would play the social game incredibly well. I just I I read people really well, and I think I would be able to infiltrate every group in the house and make them think that I am only writing for that team. And I think I would make every team think that. And I think I would like Andy my way to the end. Andy was the winner of, I think it was season 13 or season 14. Um, and he did exactly that. He was like in every single alliance and had every single alliance believing that he was in it with them to the end, and it took him all the way to the wind. So I think that would be very much my game. I think my only downfall in the Big Brother House would be copyright infringement. I am always singing and humming a tune and not being able to listen to music A, but like sing songs, and like the vocal stems that I have with music are ridiculous. They would constantly have to cut out shit that I would be saying on the live feeds, and like I I think I would get in a lot of trouble for unintentionally just singing and humming all the time uh with copyright music. But yeah, that is it this week, guys. I have not too much planned for next week, but you know me, I always find something fun and fresh to talk about and bring it to you every ball and bring it to you every week. So tune in next week to see what's new with Jackie Pooh, and tune in to see if I finally put an end to this Facebook Marketplace war and get my goddamn CD player. I'm going to check Facebook Marketplace as soon as I stop recording this and see if this man has finally answered me. So yeah, you'll just have to tune in next week to see if peace in the east, uh, not the Middle East, because that probably will not have been solved in the next week, unfortunately, but see if peace on the East Coast has been met in this Facebook marketplace war, and if I get my hands on the C player. But that is all I have for you guys. Thank you so much. It is a pleasure as always, and tune in next week for yet another episode of Run on Sentence. Bye y'all. You know what? And another thing.