Ep. 8 : Peace In The East

The third battalion of the facebook marketplace army has thrown up their white flag!

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Well, we are back, back, back, back, back again, ladies and gentlemen. That's right. It's me, Jack, and I'm back with the eighth episode of Run On Sentence. You know what? And another thing. Now we had a blessed and highly favored week this week, guys. So let's just jump right into it. What's new, Jackie Pooh? Well, lots is new. Lots and lots of fun things came down the pike this week. Uh, we had some fun spontaneity and some weird last minute plans that popped into our experience. I finished filming the pod last Thursday and got a random call from my cousin Jen. Shout out Jen. She called me literally like 10 minutes after I stopped recording and said, Hi, I have two tickets to this random interactive theater experience at a theater like 40 minutes from you, and I am just too tired and beat to go. So do you have somebody that you'd want to go with? And I'll send you the tickets. So it was called the jury experience. It was interactive in the sense that like you you weren't talking and like you didn't have lines and stuff um to interact with the people on stage, but you were the jury in a court case, and the people that were acting were, you know, the plaintiff and the defendant and um the judge and their attorneys, and there was like three or four different points throughout the performance that you pulled up a QR code on your phone and voted for certain things that you wanted to see happen. Um, so you know, it was different evidence selections. Uh, you know, there were two pieces of evidence presented to you that gave you a description of what the evidence pieces were, and you as an audience voted which of the two you wanted entered into the case, and then you would like see the full details of the evidence. It was fun for sure, but it wasn't as like nail-biting and thrilling as I was hoping it was gonna be. Uh, the acting was a little chopped. They all of the actors kept fumbling lines and like I thought it was intentional at first. I thought it was supposed to be like the nerves of court and like hyper-realism, but I don't think regular I mean I've been on an actual jury before the like the plaintiff, like DAs were very put together, very professional, were not fumbling, weren't buckling under the pressure. The defense attorney was it was like as if it was his first day in court. He was a hot mess. Uh, but I don't think it's normally like that. So I couldn't tell if they were doing it on purpose or not, but then it happened too many times for it to be an accident. Uh, you know, they kept fumbling and going, sorry, uh, and then starting over. I'm like, that is acting 101, you keep going with conviction, so the audience doesn't know that anything's wrong. It was kind of pulling me out of it, and I mean, I sort of was, I mean, I'm just gonna say I don't blame them because I don't understand how the show was structured script-wise. Like, if the audience is voting on different pieces of evidence to be entered into the case, then your next lines and like the rest of the show is totally dependent on which piece of evidence they pick. So, like, you have to have it's like a choose your own path. You have to have like three or four like different shows memorized, and you have to like volley back and forth between them depending on which audience picks which pieces of evidence. It's like mind-boggling to think about, and yes, it seems difficult, but at the same time, like you signed up for it, it's your job, you're an actor. Sometimes people are performing two different roles at the same time. There's swings, there's understudy, is like you can have multiple, and sometimes they have to, you know, switch off in the middle of a performance. If a lead actor goes down and gets sick or hurts their voice, and the swing is a like ensemble member in that same show, then a different swing person has to come in and take over their dancing role and ensemble role, and then like in between scenes during the same run of a show, a swing actor will have to switch roles, switch costumes, and get on stage for a total and like completely change character and get into it with you know completely seamlessly. So you know what you signed up for, know your lines a little better. I don't know, it was I felt for them, but at the same time, like you knew what you were getting yourself into. Learn your lines. Uh yeah, but it was overall a very interesting experience. I would love to direct a show like that. I feel like I would have had a lot of fun putting all the puzzle pieces together, and like I feel like I mean it's a big undertaking, I'm sure, as a director, though, because there's so many different outcomes. So you have to like on paper, that must be crazy to lay out like, okay, let's say the audience picks this piece of evidence and then this piece of evidence and then this piece of evidence, this is how the show would go. But let's say they pick the same first piece of evidence, but then a different second piece of evidence, and then a the same third, like it's like ten different outcomes for the like completely, you know, last scene in the show. It could yes, it's guilty or not guilty at the end of the day, but the closing arguments and like stating all of the facts that were presented in the case are completely different depending on the audience that it's being performed for, so yeah, it was really, really cool. I just wish they were like a little bit more refined, but I don't want to get too picky. It was a cool experience. Thank you, Jen, for the tickets. It was something I was so not anticipating doing last week, and it was a very happy accident that it fell into my lap. And while we were there, I went with my friend Krista, shout out Krista, uh, we stumbled upon this new antique store that Krista had heard about before. I had never heard about. Uh, it was in the same parking lot as the theater that we went to, and we were like, oh my god, that place looks like a gold mine. It looks like it was a huge flea market type store with like a bunch of different vendors setting up shop. It was packed floor to ceiling with unreal antiques and tchotchkis and just all types of bullshit. And we decided to set a date and go back uh the next week when they were actually open because the show was at like 6 p.m. Uh, so we went a couple of days later to go shopping and thrifting, and but I will get to that in a minute because it'll be my little segue into the hoarder hall. Uh, but I hadn't seen Krista in a quite a while. I probably hadn't seen her since her wedding in October, and she is one of my good friends from high school, and we are both big drag race lovers. So after we saw the show, we were like, wait, let's watch Drag Race together this week. So I did go over to Krista's on Saturday and we watched the um latest episode of Drag Race, which I will dive deeper into during the dragooning section of the pod. But it was really fun seeing Krista. But before we get into all of that fun news, I have a huge update for you guys. Peace has been reached in the east. I finally got the CD player. This man on Facebook Marketplace had me at my wits' end. I have never shown so much patience and like grace for a person in my life, I think. Like it was really uh it was selfish grace because I really wanted this CD player, and I was trying not to pop off and like ruin my chances of actually getting it from this man. I didn't want to be a total dickhead over Facebook Messenger and you know have him block me. So I kept my cool and I had been talking to him since March 3rd. I looked back in the messages and I finally met up with him last Friday after work, which was the 20th. So we were going back and forth for a while. I did kind of feel bad for him. He was very nice when we met up. Uh, my friend Megan, shout out Megan, she went with me to, you know, be my backup security, and she uh she can vouch he was we got his whole life story, his whole sob story, and he was a very nice person. We went to the same high school. He graduated in the year 2000 when me and Megan were both born. So um, you know, we were just talking about local town lore, and I just don't understand. He was so chatty and so like full of character, where I'm like, oh, well, where was all of this energy over text? Why weren't you, you know, you want to talk so much right now? Like, why didn't you want to text me back? Why didn't you want to talk to me and sell me this product sooner? Uh, but all of that aside, I finally got my hands on it. It looks beautiful. I'll throw up a picture of it for the video watchers. I have it set up in my room already. The audio quality is phenomenal. It is so clean, it's so bright, and it sounds amazing. And yeah, I couldn't be happier. It is everything I wanted and more. I have been listening to CDs every single day since I've gotten it. The you like I always knew there was a difference um with audio quality, you know, with Spotify and remasters that are on streaming platforms, it just doesn't sound the same, and the instruments you can clearly hear aren't as authentic and like acoustic sounding, and it really just makes all the difference in the world when you actually listen to like the original recordings of songs. I mean, vinyl is even better, but listening to like Fluid Mac and even just like the early 2000s, like pop punk um albums I've listened to, Daughtry, um, All American Rejects, uh, I've been listening to the B52s, you know, all different generations of music. They all just sound better through a like a system like this. So I'm very pleased with it. And it's kind of forcing me to listen to more music. I tend to be a big video YouTube watcher in my free time. Um, I usually, you know, when I'm getting ready for work or, you know, when I get home from work and I'm like just doing work on my computer, I usually have a YouTube video on in the background. And sometimes I just don't want to hear people talk. But, you know, sometimes I'll put on like ambiance videos and uh like meditative frequency sounds and like round noise and stuff on YouTube, but for some reason I never listen to music like on Spotify on my computer or on my TV uh when I'm home just chilling because I don't know, for some reason I only really listen to music in the car, and it's been really nice putting a CD in and just letting the whole thing run from start to finish uh and not like thinking about what music I'm putting on, like reshuffling my cue or picking the right playlist. It's nice to just like listen to an album cover to cover and have no distractions. So really been loving that. I what else have I done this week? Oh, I made a doctor's appointment. I that might seem so menial, but I have not been to the doctor since 2018. It is 2026. I yeah, the last time I went to get a physical was before I went to college because you had to to go to college. Uh, so I was in high school. I just am under the mindset of like if it ain't broke, don't fix it, and there's been nothing wrong with me since then, so I just haven't gone to the doctor. I'm also a big um believer that all sickness stems from emotion, so I think I take pretty great care of my mental and spiritual health and mind, body, and soul. So nothing has come up in the last eight eight years since I've been to the doctor, and I, you know, my personal belief is that a lot of it stems from being of a sane and peaceful state of mind, and uh the only times I've ever gotten sick, I've gone to the walk-in like two or three times in the last eight years because I was like in bad like mental states for a couple of weeks, and sure enough, get sick as a you know product of that. And, you know, all disease is at the root of the word dis-ease in the body. So I have not been in a big state of dis-ease in the last eight years, so it just hasn't come up. Um, I know it's important, like a car, you know, maintenance it, taking care of your body, it's your temple, but if something was wrong and I felt like it needed extra taken care of besides what I do for it, I would have gone, but I haven't. But I am turning 26 in two weeks. My birthday is April 14th, Aries rise up, and I just decided to, you know, schedule a full physical before I get bumped off my parents' insurance. So I guess in hindsight, like if anything does turn up to be an issue, it's too late. I won't be able to do anything about it with my parents' insurance because I won't really have enough time. But uh I nothing is wrong, so that's not gonna matter. It's just for like the principle of like, oh, might as well get it done before I don't have insurance anymore. I do, I am full-time at my vineyard. I do have the option to have health insurance, but I am pretty sure it's like an annual um sign-up for insurance. So like when I started the job, I could have signed up for it immediately last May, but I was I didn't see a point in that because my parents' insurance is a little better. So I was staying on that. And then I think it's in like every start of a calendar year in January, you have the option if you're not on the insurance to opt into it. And I didn't do that this January. Maybe I should have, but I was like, well, I still have insurance, whatever. Uh, so I don't know if I will be able to join my works insur had about you know medical insurance until next January. But we'll just have to cross our fingers. Nothing will go wrong in between April and January if that's the case. Uh, I mean, we've been good so far, but let's just, you know, keep the good energy flowing and we'll be good until January. And while we're on the topic of like medical stuff and the doctor, uh, I'm sure many of you saw, but Nicholas Brendan from Buffy Xander passed away this week from natural causes, I guess his family said, uh, in his sleep, which he was only in his like late fifties, but I guess natural causes being, you know, defects from his heart condition that he had. He's pretty sure he had a lot of like drug and alcohol issues for a long time, so had heart conditions and issues related to that, and passed away from it. It was so sad. Yeah, I haven't watched an episode of Buffy since he passed away a couple of days ago. Uh, but it's gonna be so sad now, like every episode knowing that he's no longer with us. I actually I knew him from Criminal Minds first. I didn't really I mean, I guess I had watched Buffy like on TV before Criminal Minds growing up, but like wasn't really paying attention and like wasn't attached to the characters as much as I was before I saw him on Criminal Minds, and like that was when I started watching Buffy again, I was like, oh my god, that is uh the guy from Criminal Minds, not like oh my god, when I watched Criminal Minds for the first time, I wasn't like oh my god, that's Xander. Um, but yeah, just a staple in some of my favorite TV shows. So rest in peace to you, girl. Alright, well, let's get back into the story about the antique store and segue into our hoarder haul. Uh, me and Krista went back to the antique store that we saw in the parking lot of the Performing Arts Center that we went to, and baby, let me tell you, it was a like not even gold mine, it was a diamond mine. There were so many adorable vintage items in the store. Uh, it was some of the things were a little pricey. I didn't buy too too much, mainly because of the one amazing find that I had that I spent most of my money on. Uh, so I limited myself to what I purchased after that. I there wasn't really anything that was gonna top what I found, so there wasn't a point in getting anything else because it was the ultimate find of finds. My oh, I I'm not gonna get too far ahead of myself. Uh, this place was filled to the brim with shit. Uh, it was, I think over a hundred vendors had, you know, little shops in there, and it was just some of the cutest shit you've ever seen in your life. Uh, there was a lot of collectibles, there's a lot of Disney stuff. There was uh a pretty big VHS selection. I didn't find anything worth getting VHS or physical media-wise there uh that was worth the price. Pretty much every VHS was priced at$10 to$12. And like I've said in recent episodes, I don't have a problem spending$10 to$12 on tapes. If it is something that I've like really been looking for forever and really want in my collection, there was nothing there that was, you know, under that category. Uh, there was some stuff that if it was cheaper, yeah, I probably would have gotten just to have, but nothing that needed to come home with me. So I left, you know, with no VHSs from there. But I did find some cute little trinkets. I found this little thing next to me. I don't know if you can see it. I'll throw up a picture if you can't see it well enough. It is a little Madame Alexander Wizard of Oz toy from McDonald's, uh, the little Wizard of Oz toy collection that he did for them. Uh, it is the Tin Man. Uh, a couple episodes ago, I had the Scarecrow version next to me. I don't know if you clocked it, but I got the Scarecrow one at a flea market in Vermont over the summer when I was there for the Dead of Summer Greatfield Dead music festival. But I was doing like one last lap around this place uh before me and Krista headed out and spotted this on a shelf tucked away. So I was like, oh, gotta have it. Uh so I picked it up. It's so cute. Uh they also had the Dorothy one, the Glinda one, and the wizard one, but they were kind of ugly. I didn't like them as much. The Tin Man one is so adorable, the scarecrow one is my favorite. Um, I do the only other ones I want are the lion and the wicked witch. Um but that'll be for another thrift find. Uh, and then I also found a little trinket. Uh, you definitely can't see it, it's on the frame of this window behind me, but it's definitely too high. I found a little figurine of E.T. in drag when he dresses up in his little blonde bust down unit, uh, and little, you know, like pink dress and hat to hide in the pile of toys so the parents don't find him. I will throw up a picture if you're watching. I love E.T. I don't think I've talked about it in previous episodes. T E.T. was my favorite movie growing up as a kid. Uh it was one of the first VHSs I ever had. Okay, wait. I totally take that back. My favorite movie growing up was Free Willy. Don't get it twisted. Free Willy was on my television every single day. Every single day, no question. I would do the VHS version has the like uh what song is it from Free Willy? It's um I Will Be There by Michael Jackson is the theme of that movie. Uh there's a live performance of him doing it in like Florida somewhere at some festival that pull the music video plays at the end of the tape. And bitch, you better believe I was up there in my replica outfit. It was a white button-down shirt popped open with black slacks and uh brown penny loafers. You better believe I was hitting those Michael Jackson moves in my living room every day like clockwork. But second to Free Willy was E.T. I love E.T. uh. It's just one of the most comforting, nostalgic, perfect time capsule pieces. Um I can't say enough about it. It is what got me addicted to Reese's Pieces as a kid. I love Reese's Pieces. It is my go-to. Well, actually, maybe a little sacrilege. I have shifted from Reese's Pieces as my movie theater snack to peanut butter MMs. Only because the peanut butter MMs are like had they have or they're denser and they have more peanut butter in them. Uh, but nothing beats a classic Reese's Pieces. Uh the Reese's Pieces actually goes with popcorn a little easier. Like if you're gonna pour it over popcorn, I tend to have the popcorn and the peanut butter MMs separate and like, you know, have a little handful of one, a little pinch of the other. But if you're gonna like mix them into popcorn, Reese's Pieces is smaller and mixes better. Pro tip. But besides those two cute little trinkets that I found, which I was very happy with, both of them pale in comparison to the PS de resistance item that I found. Holy shit. Guys, I have been looking for this item for years. I cannot tell you how many hours I have spent looking for this item every time I go to a savers, every time I go to an island thrift, every time I go to a goodwill. I am hunting and searching and like ripping apart homeware sections looking for this item. It is uh the 70s uh vintage fairy lamp, which you can see right here in my shot. If you're not watching the YouTube video, tune to my YouTube channel, Run on Sentence Podcast with Jack. But if you're listening, you'll just have to look it up. It is I can't even ooh, am I like heart's racing looking at it? Uh it is a little um saucer like cup that you put a candle in, and then it has a little matching glass bell that goes over the top of it with a hole in the top, obviously, so there's air getting into the candle. Um it is I don't know what about it like just gets my gears turning, but I saw a picture of one on some like Pinterest board years and years ago, and I was like, oh baby, I gotta get my hands on one of those. And they are so hard to come by for a good price. Um, they are pretty price gouged online, specifically a colored one. Uh, this one that I got is a beautiful red color. Red is one of my favorite colors, orange and red are my top two. I have found a handful of them on eBay and Etsy that are like clear glass for like$60,$70, which is a decent price, but I didn't want it clear. I wanted a color, and the ones that are colored are just too expensive online. Most of them are like$200 to like$400. Uh, I mean, there's some really fancy ones. This one that I got was um, it's more of like a diamond cut. Uh, it's, you know, a bunch of spiked points on the glass. There are some really like Tiffany looking ones that are like um like etched glass that have different designs on them, and there's different shaped ones that are a lot, you know, much more like handcrafted glassware uh that aren't so cut and dry as this one is. Um, those are very expensive, but I just wanted this classic style, and you this one I will say I did spend$150 on it, which I kind of didn't even flinch at. Krista can vouch, I did, you know, you know, mull it over a little bit, but I was pretty set on buying it as soon as I laid my eyes on it. When I tell you, I audibly went, oh my god, like screamed when I turned my head and saw it sitting in a china cabinet and in some person's shop. I freaked out. Uh luckily I was alone, nobody was around me, but I was literally panting like a dog. I like my heart rate went up and I was like cold sweating. It was it was a magical I the if you know you know if you're a thrifter, if you you know are a lover of the hunt, when you find an item that you've been looking for for a long time, it is like a drug, it gets you going. And I saw the price, it was 165. I ended up getting it for 150, and it was I didn't even have to ask too. I was totally set on just buying it at full price. I did not give a shit. I was leaving the store with this fairy lamp, but when I went up to the counter, the woman was like, Oh, I can take 15 off, by the way. I was like, Oh, awesome, thank you so much. I didn't even need to try. Uh, it was just it was non-negotiable, it was happening, I was getting it. So I brought her home with me and I set her up. I rearranged my little um bookshelf over here, as you can see if you're watching, um, to make room for her. Uh, I moved the little figurines that I had here and I put her right here, and then I also um moved over from my other bookshelf this little shadow box with uh these little ruby red slippers in them. Obviously, as you can see, there's a theme, the little Tin Man trinket, the scarecrow trinket. These I am a big Wizard of Oz lover, and these are the little red shoes that I used to wear um at my grandma's house. It was kind of like my first like not queer experience, but like for some reason the Wizard of Oz has so many ties to gayness for people. It was like so many gay kids' like first um like queer obsession, I guess you could say. I mean, it's somewhere over the rainbow, it became such a symbolic thing for pride and the gay community, and you know, a friend of Judy. There's so many ties within the gay community to the Wizard of Oz, um, and just like leaving your mundane life and going over the rainbow into a world of technicolor, and like it's kind of a metaphor for coming out of the closet, so uh, which I never even really did. I was just it we knew, girl. And uh it was just one of the first like gay things I ever remember doing, and like my grandma totally accepting and just um like being okay with it was going around her house in these little ruby red shoes. Uh, they were also my cousin Emily's, um, she got them for her, of course, but my little gay ass would come in and be like, Oh, my turn, girl, give me those shoes. So uh we always had to, you know, swap off who got to wear the ruby slippers. And yeah, they just have such a sentimental place in my heart. And when my grandma um moved out of her old apartment, we had to move her into a assisted living. She has dementia. Love you, girl. You're not watching this, but uh love you dearly, and she was also a very sentimental person and kept a lot of things. So these were always in her house, um, even after we were long, you know, grown. And she I knew exactly where they were when we were clearing her house out to um her apartment out to sell it, and I took them with me and put them in this little shadow box and just love having them on display. So, yeah, that's not really part of the hoarder haul, but I thought they went beautifully with the red color of my new 70s fairy lamp. But you guys know me, I can't go to a thrift and do a hoarder haul without getting some physical media, also. So after I had my milestone thrift find at this antique store, me and Krista did end up going to Savers as well, and I picked up a couple of DVDs. Well, it was technically only one DVD, but it was a set of DVDs. It was six different ones. It was season six of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I was so happy to see it on the shelf. It is one of the three seasons I was missing, so now I'm only missing season four and season seven. Um, I did kind of spoil a piece of the Buffy storyline that I didn't know about yet, uh, based on the description that was written on the back of the season six box set, but whatever. I'm just gonna try to like wipe it from my memory and try to be surprised when I come across it during my watch through. Uh, but I was very, very excited to find season six of Buffy, and then I found two new VHS tapes. Uh, one of them was Ruthless People with Bed Mittler and um Danny DeVito. I almost bought this VHS a couple of weeks ago when I was thrifting with my friend Megan, but it was like$3 and it was a movie that I've never seen before. I don't really have like an emotional tie to it, so I didn't really need it in my collection, and I was like, uh, it'll just take up shelf space if I never watch it. But I found it again, and it was like brand new, wrapped in the plastic, and it was only 99 cents. So I was like, you know what? I might as well get it. It's also a beautiful box cover, uh, it's very like vibrant neon blue colors and like uh pink and yellow, and it has like a cool cartoon um like artwork piece on the front. So I did end up picking that up, and then I also found one of my favorite horror movies, The Fly, on VHS. Oh, baby Jeff Goldblum is so young and hunky and sprig and spuri in that movie. He looks too good. Uh, and I was very excited to find that on VHS. Usually it's hard to find, especially on Tuesdays, like I said, which is the like senior discount day. Uh it's hard to find classic horror movies on VHS because those damn resellers are up in those aisles just scalping any good movies off the shelves. So you gotta go at the right time, you gotta, you know, luck out. I try to go early for that reason, um, so I can try to beat the crowds. But um I mean we got there at a decent time. It was probably that's we got there like noon after the antique store, so that's probably why I found, you know, a good movie. Uh but you know, every now and then you just hit a gold mine and there'll be like five on the shelf that nobody's gotten to yet. Kind of like a couple of weeks ago when I found all of those insane records in the music section. That just like doesn't happen anymore. So, but once in a blue moon, if you're consistent and you go every week, you lock out sometimes. And for CDs, now that I have the CD player, I am really gonna focus on growing my CD collection even more. I did only find one worth getting this week, though. I found the Cosmic Thing album from the B-52s. I love the B-52s are just the funniest band in the world to me. Their music is so ridiculous, uh, but in the most uh like brilliant way. They are uh so queer and they're so ridiculous and they're so cartoonish while still being like really thoughtful inquisitive uh lyricists and songwriters. Like I you can listen to them just for fun and like kind of not focus on what they're saying and you know just like vibe out to like their kooky ass music, but then you can also listen to what they're saying and really be moved. So love the B52s. Uh the CD was so dirty. I can't even tell you how like brown and disgusting the paper towel got when I, you know, wiped it down when I got home. Every time I come home from the thrift, anything that is a plastic covering, like a DVD case or a CD case, I wipe it down with rubbing alcohol. Um, I don't do that to my VHS tapes or my DVD box sets, obviously, because they are cardboard and would like strip the you know images off of them. But uh yeah, I always wipe down any plastic coverings, and my god, this CD was filthy and nasty, but that did not reflect on the inside. The disc was pristine with no scratches on it, so I don't know what the previous owner was doing with this disc, but they were storing it in a filthy place. But yeah, that kind of concludes the hoarder haul. It wasn't a super high quantity of items this week, but my god, was it the highest quality of items? I am going to cherish this fairy lamp to the day I die. This is gonna be like a family heirloom for me if I ever have children or any like next of kin. This is going to be passed down from generation to generation, even if it's just to like my besties. I am going to actually, no, it's probably not even going to go to anybody or any loved one. It's gonna go to the grave with me. I love it so much I can't say enough about it. I like just smile from ear to ear every time I look over at it since getting it. And thrifting is my drug. Alright, let's move on to the content corner. I have been listening to a lot of good music this week. My CD player, like I said before, has inspired me to listen to a lot more music while I'm just hanging out in my room. Uh, but not all of the music on my content corner this week is from CDs because I also have to drive every day, so I'm always listening to Spotify in the car. Two of the Spotify songs that I've been listening to this week are Night of the Worm Moon by Shanna Cleveland and Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill. Uh, it's funny. I have been watching a lot of Jane Don't's um vinyl collection videos that she has going, like some series on her Instagram feed right now, and two of the albums she was talking about in one of her most recent posts were um a Bikini Kill album and a B-52s album, and I was listening to Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill on the way to the thrift with Krista, and then found a B-52s CD when I was at uh Savers. So Jane Don't was with me that day and uh helped me with some good thrift finds. So yeah, um, Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill is just such a punk rager perfect like angsty song. And then I've also been listening to on CD, uh June Bug by the B-52s from Cosmic Thing and Sympathy by the Google Dolls. Ooh, baby, ain't nothing do it for me like the Google Dolls when I'm in like a rainy day, early 2000s mood, they just especially, I mean, keeping it on the theme of rainy day, their performance of Iris uh at that music festival in their hometown in the rain is so iconic. If you know, you know. Uh, but yeah, that is my music for the week. And for movies, I actually watched some movies this week, guys. I, like I said, tend to not have the attention span by the end of a day to want to watch a full movie. Uh, but for some reason this week I was just in the mood. So I watched two Stephen King movies. Um, I know after all that Stephen King slander a couple of weeks ago, you would think I wouldn't want to, but I've also said I love Stephen King movies. I just have learned I don't like his books. Uh, so I was watching Sleepwalkers by Stephen King with Brian Krause as the star of the movie and Maitin from Twin Peaks, of course, as the female Ingenue. Uh, but Brian Krause, Mr. Leo from Charmed, my baby daddy, he I think it was his first feature role in a film, uh like a major film like that. And he did so incredible. He's so young and beautiful, and it was such a good movie. I can't believe I had never seen it before. It was just so quintessential, Stephen King. It was so campy, it was so like actually chilling at some points while still being um like it's very, you know, high fantasy while still being grounded in reality at the same time. So, so good. Uh, and then I did start watching Rose Red also. I don't know whether to categorize that as a movie or a TV show, so I guess it'll be a segue into TV shows also, and we'll count it as both, uh, because I'm pretty sure that it was like a limited series type of thing with long episodes, um, and the way that it's playing all the way through as one, it's two discs, uh and but it like it's playing through as one episode or one long ass movie. Um, but the way that some of the shots are cut, like and the landscape shots and shots of the front of the manor are like it feels like the end of an episode and the beginning of an episode, so I'm pretty sure it was a series. Um and yeah, it's pretty good so far. I finished the first disc. I am probably gonna start the second disc tonight, but I'm kind of like losing interest in it. It's a little too drawn out. Um I wish it was like actually split up on the disc into episodes instead of just playing all the way through. There's no like episode selection. Um there's scene selection, but I don't know which scenes like start and end an episode. So I've just been like kind of watching until I get tired of it and then like it gets to a conclusive point where I feel like I can pause it and like pick up no problem the next day. Um but yeah, it's fine, but I'm like starting to lose steam with it. I don't know how long the second disc is, but like I am worried I'm not gonna want to finish it after a certain point if it's too long. Uh and I've watched like one or two episodes of Buffy this week, and I fell asleep during one of them, and I have to rewatch it. I don't know what is up with me. I'm usually like a big night owl. I usually stay up until like 2, 3 a.m. every day, but I just have been so eepy by like 1 a.m. and like have been passing out during Buffy, so I gotta rewatch the episode I watched a couple of nights ago and power through. I am still in the middle of season two. I have like six more episodes to watch. Um but I don't want to get through it too fast. I mean, I still have season three to watch, also, there's another 22 episodes, but I haven't found season four yet on DVD. So the thrift gods need to shine down upon me and put that box set into my possession in the next couple of weeks before I finish season three and then I can't continue watching Buffy. I refuse to start watching it, or I refuse to watch season four on streaming because, like, what's the point of me buying the rest of this collection on DVD if I'm just gonna skimp out and watch one of them on streaming? That's not happening. So Thrift gods, please, please, please look out for me and have my back and guide me to a shelf with season four Buffy on it. Please and thank you. Um, but yeah. Oh, also big TV update. How exciting for all my Chronal Minds lovers out there. The new season of Chronal Minds Evolution is coming out May 28th. So be on the lookout. I'm so excited. I can't wait. I am so annoyed though, because the last two seasons of the new series of Criminal Minds have done the same thing that a lot of new TV shows are doing, and they are releasing weekly until the halfway point of the season, and then taking like a month break and coming back and starting the season again from the halfway point. High Potential did it, uh, FBI, another uh CBS show did it. It is so aggravating and irritating, and it makes you lose interest in the show. Uh, I mean, I'll never lose interest in criminal minds, they're the ones that I care the least about doing it because they could literally cut it off like halfway through the season and then not post the rest of the season for like another year, and I would still tune in and be in love with them. So criminal minds can get away with it, but the rest of the shows you need to stop. It's very annoying. But that's kind of all the content that I consumed for the week. And with that being said, let's get into the self-interview portion of the pod. Because if you can't interview yourself, how in the hell are you going to interview somebody else? Can I get an Amen? So, Jack, thank you again for being in the studio. It is a pleasure as always. We really appreciate you making the time every week. I have a Bernie question for you this week. What would you consider is your biggest pet peeve? Ooh, Jack, don't even get me started. Again, thank you for having me, and thank you for letting me put my petty grievances on this pedestal. I think my biggest pet peeve by far is incomplete tasks or leaving something for later. People that don't finish something that they started drive me crazy. Whether it be coworkers, roommates, friends, my parents are big perpetrators of it, uh, my brother, anybody that picks something up, starts doing something, and then loses steam halfway through and just like puts it down and says, Oh, I'll I'll just do it later, I'll finish it later. No, you won't. Or you won't do it in a healthy amount of time where it's not inconveniencing me. Like dishes, people that do like start some dishes and then just don't finish the dishes, laundry when you do like half a load of laundry, and then you're like, Oh, I'll I'll do like another load later, like just do it all. I am just so not that type of person. I I complete a task even when it's like inconvenient for me. Like, I will, if I start reorganizing my room, if I start cleaning something, if it gets away from me, like I go too deep into detail, I deep clean, I go over the top, and I will do it until it's done, no matter what. I'll pull an all-nighter if I have to do it to finish the task that I started. Like, I will not stop until I'm finished because I know if I put it down, if I stop, then I'm killing the momentum and I'm not gonna do it again. And or I'm not gonna complete it to the level that I will be able to complete it if I just keep the fire burning and keep that momentum going. I'll like half-ass it the next time I try to do it. So I am just so not that type of person. I am going to get it done, and people that aren't like that drive me up the wall because then I just have to do it. Like, I I was it was a big problem when I was in college with my roommates, not my girl Alessia. Shout out Leslie. She is like one of the cleanest, most like minimalistic people I know. She like never created a mess. We're very wired the same way, and obviously, like we spoke the same language, we like didn't even have to communicate with each other like with words, like we would just with a look, we would you know, tell the whole story to each other. So we never ran into any issues living together. We were great roommates, but our other roommates that we had in our apartments were just so not like us, and they, you know, just dishes and like laundry and cleaning, like if they were to start a task or try to do something, they would stop halfway through and they or they would just completely not finish it and leave things like more of a mess than when they started. And instead of me or Alessia going through the trouble of like talking to them about it and asking them to finish it, and that always just seems like more work to us than just finishing it and doing it ourselves, which is what we always ended up doing. Uh, I'm that way at work too. If like something is signed off on and like not actually done to completion, instead of me saying, like, hey, you know, did you actually do this? It says you did it, like, I just want to make sure, like, are you like are you gonna finish it? I just go and I do it. Like, it takes more work like for me to go out of my way and say something and fix it, versus just doing the task myself because I know I'm gonna do it properly, versus explaining to somebody like how to do it properly. That's I again that's my own issue. Like, you don't get what you don't ask for. Not everyone is wired the same way as you, and you know, no one's ever gonna do something exactly to my liking unless I ask them to do it that way. Uh except Alessia. We, like I said, we're just wired that way, where I never had to like worry about what she was gonna do because she always did it exactly the way I would have done it. Uh, and my friend Kayla too is that way. We just like uh share a brain when it comes to tasks like that. Um shout out Kayla. And yeah, I just I just don't understand and can't wrap my mind around people that function that way. But just get it done. It feels so much better to have everything like tied up with a nice little bow and finished after you start it. Um maybe that's OCD, maybe that is some like deeper mental issue that you know some people probably don't relate to, and they're like, oh girl, it's not that serious. Yeah, it might not be that serious, but like, goddamn, does it feel good to just have it done? So if you start something, finish it, please, and thank you. All the love to you. Kisses. All right, and let's close this podcast off with some good old dragooning. Now, I had the lovely privilege of watching this week's episode with a friend again. There is just nothing like watching drag race with another person in the room, so you actually have someone to talk to about it in real time. And like I said, after me and Krista went to the jury experience show, we were like, oh my god, wait, let's watch drag race this weekend together. So went over Krista's house, we were hanging out with her kitties. Love you girls, and I mean they don't really love me that much, but uh, all the love to you. And we had a good old Kiki. This week's episode was the makeover challenge, which is always kind of a hit or miss for me. Uh the makeover challenge is like kind of tired and played out, um, just based on the way that the judges critique. They the whole family resemblance thing is so subjective and so like up for interpretation, and the judges flip-flop back and forth on it depending on the person. Like it's when we got into it, the I think the biggest example of their flip-flopping was between Jane Don't and Juicy Love Dionne. They kept telling Jane that her family resemblance wasn't there because the dresses were different colors, and the cuts of the dresses were slightly different, and you can't just have the same hair color and consider that family resemblance. Mind you, the dresses had similar top cuts and were complementary colors, and they had the same like feather boa around their shoulders, and their makeups looked exactly the same, and the hair, yes, it was the same color, but it was also similar styling. Like, it was clear family resemblance, and then Juicy is standing next to her wearing identical outfits with her partner, but slightly different because her partner had like a shirt on underneath it, so it was like very similar with like a slight difference to it, but completely different colors, just like Jane. The makeup on Juicy looked amazing, but the makeup on her partner looked the fool. She looked like the crypt keeper, and they said that was giving family resemblance, and then they had two different colored headpieces on with the same wig, and they were like, Oh, down, this is family resemblance, this is mother and daughter. Like, it just is so crazy. Like it was pre they were pretty much giving the same family dynamic with their girls, and like uh they were standing right next to each other, and the judges were like, no, this one is family resemblance, this one is totally not. Well, it was really just Michelle Visage that was saying that. The rest of the judges thought that Jane looked fine, but Michelle had a lot of has a lot of poll in this episode because she's known for being like the family resemblance, um, you know, strict judge on the panel, and she knocked Jane out of her, you know, top placement streak that she had going because she was so adamant about it, but I didn't really agree with it. Um I thought Mikey's look was the best, and I totally think she deserved to win, and happily, you know, was right about that. She did end up winning the challenge. Um I fucking hated Darlene's makeover look. I love Darlene, but my god, was that an atrocious makeover look? And it really pissed me off that the judges were so in love with it. Me and Krista were gagged. We just kept screaming back and forth at each other, like, are you kidding me? Like, what are they talking about? Are we on drugs? Like, are we missing something? Like, what are are we looking at something completely different than what the judges are looking at? It was really maddening to listen to. Uh, I think the bottom two were no, I don't think the bottom two were right. I was gonna say it was, but I think Nene Coco definitely deserved to be in the bottom. I just think her looks were ugly as hell. And like the butterfly and the caterpillar thing just looked chopped. And I don't think Discord should have been in the bottom. While I did want her to go home, and I am happy that she did finally go home, uh, because I think she had like a stolen spot because I think she should have gone home a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think she should have been in the bottom this week. I think it should have been Darlene because it was so bad. But I'm happy Darlene is still there. Like I have mixed feelings about it. I want Darlene to still be there, and I don't know how Darlene would have done in the lip sync and if Neene would have sent her home or not. And I wanted Discord to go home, so I was happy to see her go. But challenge-wise, if we're judging based on the challenge, like we should be, I don't think Discord did worse than Darlene. So I don't know. That's why I'm not a judge on Drag Race, I guess. It was kind of conf the whole episode was kind of confusing. I other than Mikey winning, everything else kind of didn't go the way I expected it. It was gonna go. So now that that's over, I am very excited about next week's episode. I'm gonna go over Krista's again to watch it. Uh, this is Krista's favorite type of challenge on Drag Race. It is one of my favorites, also. It's gonna be the improv challenge with RuPaul acting with them. I love when RuPaul gets up in these scenes and acts a fool. Obviously, she does it all the time on her Instagram. She has been giving that classic theater of the absurd RuPaul acting for months now. And I'm super excited to see Miss Mikey Meeks show her talent on full display. This is so Mikey's wheelhouse. Uh, I mean, she's done it before in like the political ads challenge. It's gonna be very similar to that, I think. Um, where Mikey is the only queen that really gets RuPaul's humor. I think Jane Do also gets it, but not in the sense that Mikey does. Mikey just gets that wack-a-doo, oddball, out there, theater of the absurd type of comedy that RuPaul does. So I think they are going to have the Kiki of all Kikis in their scene. I can't wait to see it. Uh, and I think Darlene's gonna do really well also, and I think Jane's gonna do really well. I think Nini is going to flop. I think um Juicy is going to flop because it's from what it seems like, I think it's gonna be like individual scenes. So I don't think that Mikey is going to and it's improv, so it's not gonna be scripted. Mikey can't help her through a character in a script uh because there isn't one. So improvisational acting we've seen with Juicy. The snatch game didn't go too well. So I think she's gonna buckle under the pressure. I think the bottom two is gonna be Nini Coco and Juicy, and Juicy's gonna send that bitch packing, and Nini Coco is going to be gone, and then we're gonna have a top four. Juicy, Mikey, Darlene, and Jay and so I guess we'll just have to tune in next week to see if my predictions are right, and if they're not, oh well, sue me. Well, that is all I have for you this week, guys. That concludes the eighth installment of Run on Sentence. I don't have too much new stuff going on next week. Like I said, I'm going to the doctor tomorrow, so tune in next week to see if I have any fun updates for my first doctor's appointment in eight years. Uh, I'm going to Krista's to watch Drag Race this week, and then I'm working all week, and I'll probably, you know, go thrifting one of the days, and hopefully we'll find some good stuff. I don't know how much luck I have left in my tank after this week's legendary thrift find with this fairy lamp. Uh I always have luck, but I don't know. I feel like I used a big chunk of my thrift luck savings with this one. But yeah, that's all I got for you guys. Thank you so much. It is a pleasure as always, and I will see you next week for the next episode of Run on Sentence. Bye y'all! You know what? And another thing.