Ep. 12 : Alone In The V.I.P.

Jack is back in the studio and left to his own devices.

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Bonjour. That's right, y'all. It's me, Jack, and I'm back with the twelfth episode of Run on Sentence. You know what? And another thing. Now we are back, back, back again in the Long Island studio, guys. Last week's episode, well, the last two weeks' episodes that we filmed in Brooklyn, uh, but I filmed them one day apart, so it was really just last week. Uh, were so much fun. I love my friends so dearly, and unfortunately, I don't have any fun, exciting guests in the studio today. Um, I really don't want to film alone anymore. It's so fun to do it with somebody else. I was so happy that it worked out that I could film two episodes in a row after Liam's episode with other people because after Liam's episode, I was like, Liam, I don't think I can do this alone anymore. This is just too much of a better flow and vibe with somebody else to bounce off of. But you know me, I could talk to a wall all day. So I have no problem doing it by myself, but it is so much fun when you have somebody else to like match each other's vibe and take the conversation somewhere that you wouldn't be able to take it, you know, just by yourself. So, friends out there that are listening, if you would like to be on the pod, please let me know. I have a couple of other friends I've talked to that will definitely be guests at some point. It just has to, you know, work out in perfect timing to film with them. But if we have not discussed it and you want to be part of the pod, let me know. Reach out. But I'm super excited to be back in the Long Island studio. We are back in my bedroom. Let's just jump right into it. What's new, Jackie Pooh? We did some fun stuff after we filmed last week's episode before I came home. Like I said, we were going to that prison break escape room, which was so much fun. It was in the Del Cobb food market in Brooklyn. It was uh it was so funny. Me and Megan, when we were filming the pod in the park the day before, went to the food market that's in Dumbo, and we were like, oh, this is too bougie, this is like too sterile and like cold. We I want something more fun out of a food market. I want something like Grand Central Market in LA, like bright neon signs, fun, funky food. And I got my wish the next day. The Del Cobb food market was so much better than the Dumbo one. It was exactly what I just described: fun, funky, weird food, all different types of cuisine, really bright uh advertisements and neon signs and really, really just cute food stands. And the escape room was lit. It was super detailed, it was really immersive. We started split between two different rooms. It was the four of us. It was me, Liv, Carly, and Alessia. And me and Alessia were in one jail cell, Carly and Liv were in the other, and we had to like yell through the wall at each other to solve different puzzles in each of our rooms that the other room had the clues to. So we had to work together to get out of the first section of cells, and then we were all together in a separate larger cell, and then we had to break through a wall into a boiler room, and then open a pipe and slide down into a library. It was three different rooms. It was super fun and really scary at one point. It was they had a dummy set up underneath this glass panel in this dark room that you were so and I actually like I don't get scared too easily. I fully jump scared. It was so spooky, would highly recommend it. I think it was called the Escape Game in Brooklyn. We definitely want to go back, but we did do the hardest difficulty room, which was the prison break room. So any of the others are probably obviously going to be easier if that was the hardest. And we did it with like 15 minutes to spare. It was only an hour. We did get a couple of hints. We used a couple more hints than I would have liked to. I l preferred not to use hints and like really try to challenge ourselves. But some of the puzzles, it was like, how was I supposed to know that like that's where my brain was supposed to go? I might have gotten to some of those conclusions if we had more time, but with the time crunch and the pressure of only having an hour, we used a couple of hints. It probably would have been totally fine if we had 90 minutes. Then I think we would have been able to breathe a little bit more and really just like step back and take a couple like a couple of extra seconds to think through a really challenging puzzle or two and would have, you know, been able to do it with no hints. But we did really good for the most part. But I definitely think it was like totally digestible and doable. So I if any of the other rooms are less challenging than that, then they probably aren't going to be hard enough and entertaining enough. But it's just for the experience, you know, it was super cute. Like I said, really, really detailed. I loved the attention to detail and all the props and everything. I will say though, it was so hot in there by the end of it. I was drenched in sweat. The pictures that they took of us at the end, my wig looked like a wet rat. It was so ridiculous. But we lived to tell the tale. We escaped from prison and I want to do another escape room now. It was so fun. But then after that, we just went home and hit the hay. And then the next day, me and Carly just hung out the whole day. She was off from work again. So I stayed in the city longer than I was planning to because Liv ended up having a film screening thing she was doing in the evening. So I decided to just hang out the whole day. Me and Carly just sat in the park in my hammock and read. And then we went and got pedicures. The pedicure actually kind of sucked shit. I have had much better pedicures. I wanted like a really good, like shave down, like intense pedicure, like walk out of there two inches shorter, uh, you know, scrape off all the dead skin. I made the mistake of wearing my super like run-down Birkenstock clogs most of the day on Wednesday and Thursday, and I definitely need to get a new pair. They are at the end of their lifespan pretty torn up on the inside, and they were just like ruining my feet. So I was like, let's go get pedicures. So wish I could say it was a better pedicure, but it definitely did the trick for what I needed to be done for the time being. And then me and Carly went to go see Liv at her film screening. Her and her friends run a microcinema in Brooklyn called Alcove Cinema. Shout out Alcove. It was super cute. This was their third screening. They do it at the Brooklyn Peace Center. It's like an old church that they renovated into a community rec center type thing. And her and her friends take film submissions and they show like four to five short films once a month. So this was the third month they were doing it. I didn't get a chance to go to the first two. So I was like, what are the chances I'm here for it? I might as well stay and go check it out. It was so much fun, really great turnout. Uh the films were really moving. Some of them were more like storyline-based and had, you know, like scripts for them and like higher production value, I guess you would say. Or uh, you know, their the production teams were much larger and it was a on a larger scale. Uh, but the show Stealer was a short film called Springfield USA. It is actually a longer film. We were all so excited to find that out at the end because everyone in the audience, it was, I think, definitely everyone's favorite film. The way Alcove does it is they show three films, two, two or three films for the first half, and then they do a QA with the filmmakers who usually come in person for the screening, and then they take a little break, and then they do the other remaining films, and then do another QA with those filmmakers. So when the Springfield USA filmmakers came up for the QA, everyone had a lot of questions. And the main question was like, how did you get these people to talk to you this way? Like, it was a very like raw footage, low-quality camera, like super intimate, just walking like walking up to people on the street and having them tell their life story type of thing. It was just so mesmerizing. These people were so full of character, and like it was as if the camera wasn't there. But all of us were really curious, like, how did you know these people? Did you have pre-existing relationships? Like, what was your intent in making this short film? And they were like, actually, one of the it was a guy and a girl. The girl was like, I actually grew up here. I moved here when I was in like second grade, and I was back in town for my sister's graduation, and there was a wedding in town, so I was just like walking around town filming the town I grew up in because I thought it was really cute and you know, out there, and people just started walking up to me because they saw us with the camera and they were like, What's that camera for? Let me tell you my life story. And the biggest message that they had was like, People just want to be heard, so it was really easy to just stand there and wait for people to come up to us and ask to tell their story. We didn't have to ask them. So then they disclosed this is actually just a shortened film version of the hour-long film that's on YouTube. They wanted to get it out to more audiences and get more people to see it, so they made a short film version of it. And when I tell you everyone was like, shut up, I'm going home and watching this right now, because you just left the short film Wanting More. The people were so, like I said, mem mesmerizing. They were so unfiltered. It was very like lost footage or found footage coded. It was like Blair Witch Project meets Grey Gardens type of vibe. Well, not okay. When I say Blair Witch Project, I don't mean it was like sinister. There was like one part in this person's basement that was giving like sinister found footage, but mixed with Grey Gardens, like oddball commentary from the people that they were filming, it was everything and more. I was like, the first thing I'm doing when I break my sobriety next year is getting drunk with a bunch of friends and watching this film. It was so good. Everyone go watch it on YouTube, Springfield, USA. But the other films were really great too. It was very inspiring being there, and it just made me think back to when me and Liv, you know, were in high school and we would go around and vlog and make little like short film, like clip videos of our town, and just like wanting so badly to be artsy and creative and like just do the damn thing. So it kind of made me very like reminiscent and nostalgic, and just made me want to do more artistic things and really made me want to go to the city. I really love all my friends so much, and I'm so proud of all the really inspiring creative work that they're in the throes of at the moment, and it just makes me want to go join them. I am so proud of Liv and all her friends. If you are in the New York, Brooklyn area, go check out Alcove Cinema. They're on Instagram. They post, you know, when they're going to be doing their screenings once a month. So go check it out at the Brooklyn Peace Center if you want to go see some good films. But that was it for my New York excursions, and then I came home and worked the whole weekend, and then I had a really fun sleepover with one of my longtime besties, Lydia. Shout out Lydia. You're definitely not watching this when this episode comes out because you told me you were super behind and only on like episode four of the pod. So maybe you'll be seeing this in like three months from now. But we had a really fun sleepover. Me and Lydia had sleepovers and like hung out with each other like two to three days a week for like two, three years. Um, once I graduated from college and moved back home. But you know, life gets in the way, and we haven't really seen each other in the last six months. We went to our friend Krista's wedding, shout out Krista, and that was in October, and we had not seen each other in person since then. So we had a good old Kiki. We had so much to catch up on. It was so refreshing and just like recharging and healing. It was lovely. And I got to see her dog. She got a puppy over the summer. Her name is Annie, she's an Australian Shepherd, and she has just gotten so big, she is so frickin' cute. She's super full of energy, really, really loving and cuddly, and just the light of my life. But that's kind of all that's new in my life for the week. So, with that being said, let's jump into the hoarder hall because, baby, so we got a lot to talk about this week. The thrift gods said, Oh, you want to take a week off to go into the city? Well, we got back pay for you. Here is a mountain of physical media that you missed last week. So I'm gonna need my little notebook for this because the list of shit that I got this week is a little ridiculous. Specifically CDs. I I got a couple of good movies, but the carem de la creme of this week's haul was CDs. First of all, I got a brand new CD rack. I'll throw up a picture of it. It is very groovy and funky. It holds 216 CDs and it's like a like wavy shape to it. It's super cute. I picked it up on Facebook Marketplace as I was going out to the thrift, and the thrift god said, Well, we got you, girl. You need to fill that thing up. So here is a truckload of CDs for you. But we're gonna start with some other physical media before we get into those. The first thing that I picked up this week was actually a game for the Switch 2 that I bought. It is just Mario Kart World. It is so ridiculously expensive.$90 for a fucking game on the Switch is absolute robbery. But you can't not have Mario Kart for the Switch. It is just too much fun. It's like the thing you think of when you think of the Switch. Like, oh, what should we play? Mario Kart. So I just bit the bullet and bought it instead of like putting it off longer. And guys, it's super fun. I mean, I knew it was gonna be, but like the maps on Mario Kart World are out of this world. It is everything I expected it to be, even though I didn't want it to be because I wanted to be pissed about the price. But price aside, it's a really good game. And I did pick up a couple of books this week. I know that I said I was not going to be buying books for the next couple of months until I read a bunch of the books that I got for Christmas, but I found two books that I've been looking at for a while that aren't like high on my reading list, but they were both$2 at the thrift, and both of them were that mass market copy size, that smaller size I was talking about last week. So I had to pick them up. It is The Paris Apartment by Lily Foley, who is kind of like a Agatha Christie-ish type writer, I think. I have another one of her books called The Guest List, which I have not read yet. I picked it up like over a year ago, and I still haven't gotten to it. So again, why am I buying this other book when I have plenty of others to read? But I saw my friend Annette reading it the other day. Um, she went to St. Petersburg, shot at Annette, and I saw her post a picture of the Paris apartment. And then when I saw it at the thrift, I was like, might as well pick it up. She didn't say that it was good or not. I didn't talk to her about it, but I just felt inspired by seeing it. So I picked that up, and then I also picked up The Maidens by Alex McCandless, or I don't know how to pronounce his last name. It's Michael Diaz. Like, I I don't know. Look it up. He's the author of The Silent Patient, one of the best books I've ever read. Um, but I'm gonna say it's Michael Alex McCandless. So even though that's definitely not how it's pronounced, I don't really care to find out how it is pronounced. I did read a little bit of The Maidens when I finished The Silent Patient. It was like at the back of the book as like a, you know, here's the first couple of pages of his next bestseller. Go check it out. So it was good enough when I read that. So I figured I'd pick it up for when I have nothing else to read. And for DVDs this week, I found three different TV shows. I found The Nanny, seasons one and two. I am a huge The Nanny fan. It is one of those comfort shows that you could throw on at any time. It fits any occasion. It is just like a creature comfort of mine. And I also found season one of Adventure Time and season three of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Adventure Time is not a show that I watched like religiously as a kid. It was a show I really enjoyed. Like that era of Cartoon Network kind of not missed me, but didn't grip me the way that earlier Cartoon Network did. Adventure Time, regular show, Amazing World of Gumball, like kind of fits into that vein. It was like on the later side of that era. Uh, but all like all those types of shows I enjoyed. I even named my first dog after Finn from Adventure Time. But it was like, you know, I was a Spongebob girl growing up. I love the you know, Scooby-Doo. That was more when I was like super into cartoons, and then that era of Cartoon Network like definitely had my attention, but not my like full deep diving, like really attached attention. Except for Steven Universe, I did really get into the Steven Universe gig at one point because I mean everything about that show, if you know, you know the music, the character arcs, the relationships between the characters, the illustration. It is just one of the best cartoons of all time. And for VHS's this week, we actually found a pretty good handful of stuff. We found a lot of classics, which is always an exciting find. The best thing I probably found this week is, well, actually, it's kind of a toss-up. I feel very equally excited about both of them. I found I Know What You Did Last Summer, the OG. I found I still know what you did last summer, the sequel to that, like six months ago, and I've been on the hunt for the first movie since then, so was super excited to find that. And then I also found the full VHS box set of season one of Sex in the City. I have the full box set of season three, which I found a couple of months ago, and I have a couple of I think the full box set of season one is four tapes. I have two of the tapes that I found like loose, not in the box set, like a year ago. So I've been looking for the other two, which is obviously super hard to find. Like, you know, I think I have tape one and tape three. So like how am I gonna find Sex and City season one, tape two, and four, like randomly in the wild? So was very, very, very happy to find the full box set at Savers this week. I don't know what I'm gonna do with the other two tapes that I have. Maybe I'll give them to friends. If anyone wants them, let me know. But that was probably the most exciting part of my VHS finds. But like I said, I also found a couple of other good ones. I found Rocky with Sylvester Stallone. I think I've maybe watched Rocky all the way through like once, but not at an old enough age where I like really recall it. So that's one of those, you know, super classic movies that I've never seen on the shelf of VHS's before. So I picked that up. I also found Total Recall with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I've heard of it before, never seen it, looked it up, and it seems like it is a super like campy practical effect, physical set driven movie, so had to give that a try. I also found Men in Black 2, which is probably the best Men in Black movie, in my opinion. And I did a little bit of Christmas preparation. I did a Halloween and Christmas movie series on my TikTok, like I said, this past holiday season. So I did a movie or TV show every day for October and December leading up to Halloween and Christmas. And I don't know if I'm planning on doing it again next year, but I figured if I decide to, I might as well pick up this super cute find or you know, just to have to watch next holiday season, regardless if I do the series or not. I found the Simpsons Christmas special on VHS. I don't know if there's multiple Simpsons. Simpson's Christmas specials. I'm sure there is at this point with how many seasons there are, but the artwork on the box is super like OG Simpsons cartooning. So I'm sure it's like from the first couple of seasons. It's probably the first Christmas special that they did. So I don't know what year that was, but you know, something to throw into storage until next Christmas season to pop in the VHS player. And for tchotchkis this week, I didn't get any like little actual tchotchkis, but for you know, non-physical media related things, I did get my first piece of run on sentence merch from my friend Annette. Shout out again, Annette. She made me a t-shirt for my birthday with the run-on-sentence logo, the little clay model of my set here in the corner of my room. And it says run on sentence on the back. It is super cute, very, you know, inspiring for me to make more merch. I don't know what I want to do. I mean, obviously, I'm not going to make like a huge selection of merch because I don't have that big of a following yet. But I think it would be super cute to like make a couple of shirts and different designs just to give out to my friends. Um, so if you have any ideas, any graphic designers out there, let me know. I am brainstorming, you know, different things that I could make. But if you have any bright ideas, feel free to shoot me a message. And I also got, like I mentioned, the C D Tower, which leads us into the C D hall that I found. I am just gonna power through this. I'm gonna read it off this list and just go one after the other because I think it was a total of like 25 CDs that I found this week. So we don't got time to get into too many of them and like really, you know, get into the nitty-gritty of each album. We just gotta power through this. So to start off the list, we found Fever by Kylie Minogue, Funky Divas by In Vogue, which, how funny, two weeks ago, one of my content corner songs was My Lovin', Never Gonna Get It by In Vogue. So I was super happy to find that. So-called Chaos by Alanis Morissette. We found the Jagged Little Pill Acoustic album by Alanis Morissette. I love the acoustic jagged little pill album. I've never seen it at the thrift before. I was super happy about that. We found All the Way, the greatest hits of Celine Dion. We found My Own Prison by Creed, A Boy Named Goo by the Goo Goods. I am really trying to find every single Goo Goodolls album. So one more to the collection. We are on our way. We found Hymns to the Silence by Van Morrison, Moondance by Van Morrison, The Cry of Love by Jimi Hendrix, Let Love Rule by Lenny Kravitz, Whitney Houston, self-titled by Whitney Houston. That's the one with I Wanna Dance with Somebody, How Will I Know, Iconique. We found Stop Making Sense by The Talking Heads, Full Moon Fever by Tom Petty, Promise by Sade, and Love Deluxe by Sade, Rock Steady by No Doubt, The Divine Miss M by Bet Midler, and Somebody Must Have Gotten Rid of their whole John Mayer collection this week because I found every John Mayer album that I'm missing. Well, I didn't find Sob Rock, but I don't know if he made CDs for that one because it's newer, but if he did, I'll find it. But I found Room for Squares by John Mayer, I found Heavier Things by John Mayer, and I found Continuum by John Mayer. Maybe I was tingling in the thrift store when I found those. Then we also found Cheryl Crow, self-titled by Cheryl Crow. We found Terrapin Station by The Grateful Dead. We found the best songs of Sugar Ray compilation by Sugar Ray. And to close it off, we found Off the Ground by Paul McCartney. I know two weeks ago with Megan, we were saying fuck the Beatles, but like we said, Paul McCartney's solo music is incredible. So was happy about that. I thought that like that was going to be too many CDs. I don't know why I thought I had so many at home that like the ones that I got at the thrift this week plus those were gonna completely fill up this new CD rack and then I wasn't gonna have any more space to get more. But it actually only filled like a third of it. So we got plenty of more space now, ladies and gentlemen, to get more physical media, which what more could you ask for? Well, that concludes the hoarder hall for the week. So let's jump into the content corner. I have not been listening to a lot of new music this week. I've been very much in my creature comfort music, and there have been four songs in particular in my rotation that just hit every time. The first one being Beaches by Biba Doobie. I love Mies and Biba Doobie. She just has that feel good, easy listening voice that just puts you in the best mood. So Beaches has definitely got to be on the list for this week. I have also been listening to Back to Oz by Sufi and Stevens a lot. Sufi and Stevens is like so night and day in his style. He has like the super depressing emo, like, oh my god, I want to jump off a tower music like the Common Bayer Name soundtrack. Like that, anytime I hear the beginning of Feudal Devices or Visions of Gideon, it's like actual war flashback, PTSD shivers through my body, puts me in like the worst mental place ever, but like you know, a mental like a bad mental place that I also yearn for at the same time. It's like so fucked up. But then he also has super like fun, weird eclectic music like Back to Oz or Chicago. So have not been in the mood to be depressed lately. So I've not been listening to his sad songs, but I've been listening to Back to Oz a lot this week. And I've also been listening to Rockman by McGee a lot. Um, I am a big lover of McGee. He is one of like the most exciting up-and-coming artists at the moment. He has really made such a huge step into the public eye in the last year, I would say. His whole first album is so incredible. Are you looking up, Candy? That like every song on that album is such a smash hit. So really excited to see his trajectory in the future and to see where he goes. He is going to be such a staple artist in our generation, I think, going forward. So love you, D.Va. And to close off my music, I would probably have to say Touching Yourself by the Japanese House. I don't know if I've talked about the Japanese House on here before, but they are in my top three artists of all time. The music that they make is in its own universe, it is so unique to them. They have one of the most like standalone sounds I've ever heard. I discovered them on accident because I've definitely talked about this concert before, but in junior year of high school, I went to see the 1975 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and opening up for them was Wolf Alice, and there were two openers because Wolf Alice had their own opener, and that opener was The Japanese House. So I found them through that. It was such an incredible concert. I fell in love with them. The first like five notes of the first song of theirs I listened to, which was Cool Blue from their first EP. Uh, if you know, you know. And it was a that concert was amazing. The drummer from the Japanese house actually stepped in for George and played for the 1975 because he had hurt his wrist in the previous show. So it was just like a melting pot of unbelievable artists that night. But that's it for music. So let's get into some movies and TV. I actually watched way more TV and movies than I usually do this week. I did the damn thing, and I actually watched both VHS's that I got from last week's Hoarder Hall, uh, which I usually never do. I usually get a movie, put it on the shelf, and then like forget about it for a couple of months and then decide to watch it later. But I don't know, I was just feeling inspired this week. So I watched Witchboard 2, which Liv got me for my birthday, shout out girl, and it was so good. It seems like it was gonna be like super 80s, like camp horror, but like maybe gonna be bad. And I totally misjudged it. It was one of the funniest movies I've seen in a while. Uh, I mean, it wasn't meant to be super funny, I don't think, but it also wasn't meant to be like super scary either. I think it was meant to like live between those two worlds, and it did it perfectly. One of the themes of the movie was obviously using a Ouija board. Um, but I thought going into it that it was like a witch was inhabiting the Ouija board and causing terror, but it was really just like the spirit of a woman talking through a Ouija board and them like doing more research on Ouija boards throughout the movie and finding out that they used to be called witchboards, not Ouija boards. So it had nothing to do with witches, but the effects of using a Ouija board too frequently on a person can cause like hypersexual behavior, excessive use of profanity, you know, XYZ, more stuff. But the excessive use of profanity like wasn't discussed until later in the movie. So in the beginning of the movie, when she starts using more profanity, it is just like so out of left field, and you don't know why she's doing it, and like why she's snapping at the most random times and being like, shut the fuck up. Like it was so like left field, it was hysterical. I've haven't laughed out loud like at scenes in a movie like that in a while. It was really entertaining. And then I also watched Cape Fear last night. I realized only like three-quarters of the way through the movie that the title was Cape Fear and not Camp Fear. I think I literally called it Camp Fear in last week's episode during the Hoarder Hall, and then threw up a picture of it saying Cape Fear. Like it was right in front of me the whole time, and I just like am fucking dyslexic and cannot read. But in my defense, it was like all water themed. Like the whole the the title image has like a lake with eyes above it, like it seems like it's at a camp. The opening like credit scene is a whole water sequence. Granted, again, it shows up right at the title sequence, Cape Fear, and I just didn't read it. I don't know. But the whole movie takes place in like a suburb, and three quarters of the way through, I'm like, where is this camp? When are we getting to camp? Like, I don't understand. And then I looked up at the box of the tape that was sitting on top of the TV, and I read it, and I was like, Oh, bitch, you are just illiterate and you don't pay attention. So, but they did end up going to a river, but it wasn't a it wasn't even like it was like, you know, Cape Cod. It wasn't like a you know, uh like Cape body of water. It was just a river that they had a houseboat on that they were trying to escape the serial killer from. It was not good overall, like I said, it was very uncomfortable at points. There was like underage rape, and there was like really uncomfortable like kissing scenes, but like it was trying to be like edgy and like high concept, and it was just like super uncomfortable and not the tea. Like, I I definitely wouldn't recommend watching it. You're not missing anything. I mean, Jessica Lang killed it as always. Robert De Niro looked very delicious. He had body for days, he was jacked in this movie, but face card wasn't really giving it for me. Face card was kind of declining, but body yaddy yaddy, baby. Uh, but he was like almost 50 when that movie was made. So if your body's looking that good at 50, you were doing something right. Uh, but then he's like 50 years old and he's like doing a makeout scene with Juliet Lewis, who was like 17 during the time of filming. It was just like it was not it. So wouldn't recommend watching Cape Fear and for TV this week. I finished season 10 of Love is Blind. Like I said before, I only started watching it because I love the Love is Blind reaction videos on Trixie and Katya's Queens Who Like to Watch channel on Netflix. So I wanted to actually watch a whole season of it through to be able to like understand the references that they were, you know, making in their reaction video and suffered through it. The season was horrible, the contestants were awful, and then there was no payoff. I watched the Queens Who Like to Watch video of it with Lydia the other day, and it was the worst one. They like didn't hit any of like the actual entertaining points in the season. They just like weren't funny, they weren't giving good commentary on it. It was like very disappointing. I was like, of all seasons of Love is Blind for me to watch to parallel with their video. This was the fucking worst one. It was really disappointing. And me and Lydia also watched the first three or four episodes of The Neighbors on HBO, which I talked about a couple of weeks ago. I watched like the fifth episode with Zach and Carly. So I've been wanting to watch the beginning of the season, and I don't have HBO anymore because I just wasn't watching anything on it. And then, of course, as soon as I cancel my subscription, a bunch of new things that I actually am interested in come on it. So I think I'm gonna have to re-update my HBO subscription. But yeah, Lydia has HBO, so we watched the first few episodes of that. That's like very her type of TV, also, so it was right up her alley. It actually was kind of giving Springfield USA. Like Springfield USA has a little bit of like the neighbors element to it, like uh mixed with Great Gardens. And I also started and finished Trust Me, the False Prophet on Netflix, the new FLDS documentary. I am a big cult documentary, docuseries lover. I've watched anything and everything there is on all streaming platforms that has to do with a cult. My favorite one by far is Love Has One on HBO. Holy shit, what a roller coaster of a TV show. But if you have not watched Love Has One, go watch it immediately. But any type of FLDS, Mormon, Jonestown, like anything cult-related, gimme gimme more. So it's been a while since a new one's been put out, and this one was one of the best ones in a while that's been made. It was so good. I won't spoil too much about it, but if you like cult documentaries, this one's definitely worth a watch. It was like infiltrating a Mormon sect in the FLDS and like pretending to be no, I mean they weren't pretending to be documentary makers, they were filmmakers that befriended this group and kind of like tricked them into thinking that they were supporters of them and wanted to like film their journey with God, but it was really to collect evidence of underage marriage and human trafficking and taking it to the FBI was fierce. So check that out if you haven't. But that's all that I watched for this week. So, with that being said, let's get into the self-interview section. Because if you can't interview yourself, how in the hell are you gonna interview somebody else? Can I get an amen? So, Jack, thank you so much for being back in the Long Island studio. We're so happy to have you back. My question for you this week is if you could see one deceased artist in concert, whether you know it was a new concert today or going back in time to a different era of this artist, who would it be and why? Well, thanks for having me back, Jack. It is a pleasure as always to be in the studio. That is a really tough question, though. I have so many legacy artists that I would love to have gotten a chance to see in concert while they were alive. But the God, I don't know. The toss up between my top two is like really difficult. I think I would probably have to say Amy Winehouse. But it's a really hard choice to pick between her and Whitney Houston. Uh they're just like completely different artists, totally different types of music, ridiculously different performance styles. But I think I would have to give it to Amy Winehouse. That is probably like one of my biggest regrets. Well, I can't really regret it because there was nothing I could have done about it, but like not being older when she was alive. She died when I was like 10, I think, or 11. So like I wish I had been in my late teens, early twenties when she was performing to be able to have gone and like seen her live. She was just such a gifted musician. Her voice was one of the most unique voices that has ever graced this earth. In her early days, she had this light and just gift from God shining through her, and the industry destroyed her and ruined her, and it was one of the most tragic journeys to watch unfold, I think, out of any artist that has ever gone down that path and lost the battle to the industry and to you know what it can do to you. And it was one of the hardest ones to watch because she was probably like the most talented of anybody that has like gone through that journey. Well, I mean, I guess that is subjective. I'm sure other people would have other artists that they would put into that, you know, into that spot. I mean, Whitney Houston could even be put into that category also. She definitely had a longer run than Amy did, and like at least kept a better front and like saved face about her drug issues and her challenges and like the way the industry was getting to her. She kept it, you know, at bay to the public a little better than Amy did, a lot better than Amy did. But I mean it eventually unraveled. It always unravels for whoever's going through something like that. So Amy's was just really raw and more apparent and unfiltered and just out there for the world to see. So I love her so dearly, wish she was still here. I cannot imagine the amazing music that she would have created by now since the time she passed. She is just uh one of the greatest of all time, and I would give anything to be able to have seen her in her prime doing what she was put on this planet to do. So love you, Amy. Rest in power queen. And to close out the pod, let's get into the final dragooning of season 18. What a motherfucking season. I don't think I've ever been more excited for a season of Drag Race to be over. I have made my opinion known in the last few weeks how annoying and laborious this season was to watch. First of all, congrats to my queen Mikey. Nobody saw it for you in the beginning, but I was with you since day one from the promo shoot. I said, that's my winner. She is going to win. She's going all the way. She's the one. I don't know what it was, just her aura, everything about her. I was like, that is my girl, Mikey for the win immediately. So lo and behold, I was right. I think more people saw it for her as the season went on, but I didn't need to see literally anything from her before she even walked on the workroom. I was like, I know she's gonna win. This is my girl. So very happy about that. Like I said last week, if Mikey didn't win, I'd never watch the show again. But since she did, I guess I'll have to give it a go. The finale was only like half good. Everybody's looks were shit. They were so ugly. All of the girls that were returning looked the fool. And even the final three kind of looked the fool in their runways before their performances. Mikey's was like the best of the three, but not even great. Like I would have done some tweaking to it. The uh Nini Coco look was way too much. It was like uh too many different concepts going on, and Darleen's was just like, what the fuck am I looking at? It was uh like trying to be over the top and campy, but like there is an editorial way to do too much, you know? Like you can do too much and have it look fashion, and you can do too much and have it look like shit, which she did, kind of like her makeover challenge look. Like, I don't understand why the judges liked it so much because they were like, it's exactly what I just said. Like, it looks like it's too much, but in the right ways. Like, no, it did not. It was too much in the wrong ways. But then we got into the performances, and that's kind of where the episode redeemed itself. Darlene's performance of Cookin' with Gas was fine, it was average, it was a good performance for her. Mikey's performance was very Broadway, very musical theater kid, very entertaining. But Nini Coco's performance was probably the best performance in any drag race finale in history. It was like a full VMA award ceremony level performance. It was like Brittany coded, it was so fierce, it was so tight, it was so clean, it really made me have a different opinion about Nini being in the finale. I don't think she showed enough during the season, but then after that performance, I was like, okay, you have proved yourself, you definitely deserve to be in the final two. But it also made me nervous for the final two lip sync between Mikey and Nini because now it's a toss-up. Are we gonna go on track record and let Mikey win, or are we gonna go on finale performance and have Nini win? Because even though Mikey's performance was amazing, and they're kind of not fair to compare to each other because it was like VMA music video insane pop performance versus Broadway vaudevillian, you know, musical theater performance. So they are totally different genres, they're totally different styles. So is it fair to compare them? Not really, but I mean the most entertaining one was definitely Nini. So it's a toss-up for what Rue's feeling. Are we gonna go with performance in the finale or performance overall on the season? And it's not like Mikey gave a bad performance either, but if there was a winner between the two for the finale performance, it was definitely Nini. So made me a little nervous, but Mikey turned that damn lip sync and definitely showed the world why she deserves to be the winner if she hadn't proved it already, which I think she did. And then her crowning performance at$3 Bill in Brooklyn for the viewing party, doing Immaterial by Sophie. I just like couldn't imagine a better song for Mikey to perform for her crowning. It was so touching, it was so heart-wrenching and really, really moving. And I just love you, my queen. The Meeks shall inherit the crown, and she did the damn thing. So very happy the season's over. And you know, drag race, they don't skip a motherfucking beat. They moved right into the All-Stars announcement, and All-Stars season 11 is something else, girl. They robbed some graves and they brought some bitches back to life. World of Wonder said, Why don't we do All-Stars 11, Jurassic Park versus the world? Like they are pulling out some dinosaur old queens from all the way back in the beginning of Drag Race to come back, back, back again and show us what they can do. We got Mystique Summers Madison, we got Morgan McMichaels again, we got Kennedy Motherfucking Davenport again, we got April Carrion from season six, which we got Vivacious Mother Has Arrived again, and then we got some weird left field choices like Joey J or Maori. I'm kind of excited about Joey. She seems kind of funny, but like Aura was a very strange choice. And then we got some like repeaters that don't need to be here again. I know I said Kennedy and Morgan, they're also repeaters, but like I'll take Kennedy Davenport on every season of Drag Race. She is mother. And Morgan, I don't really feel like got a fair run on her second time around on All Stars 3. So like I'm okay with her coming back because we didn't really see her anyway on her second time back. But Silky Nut Meganash, baby, get off the screen. We're done with that. We've seen enough. It's like Eureka coming back again at this point. Like, we don't like we don't need to see you a fifth, sixth time. Ugh. And Akira C Davenport, like, I can't even believe World of Wonder asked her to come back. She literally played in their face the last time she was on All Stars with Silky and opted not to come back for the lip sync like redemption arc, and Silky had to lip sync alone to Barbie Girl. So like I think it's a really strange choice that they even asked Akiria to come back. I can't believe Akiria said yes after she was like, nah, fuck Drag Race, I'm done after last time. I just think it's really weird. But yeah, it's gonna be an interesting season. I definitely will watch it because it's such a weird mix of people. I don't really know if I have a clear winner. I mean, I'm gonna say Crystal Method. Crystal Method is one of my all-time favorite queens from the show. I loved her so, so, so much on her original season. So I'm excited to see her back. I don't know how she'll do in the bracket style system, but we'll see what happens. I'm also excited to see what Lucky Stars brings because we didn't see really much of her at all on her last go-round on season 17. But I think it's gonna be really interesting to see Crystal Method and Lucky Stars together on a season because they have such outside the box oddball type of drag. I mean, Lucky's drag is like on a whole different planet, but Crystal is also on a different planet and the closest planet to Lucky's, but like they're also on different planets at the same time. So it'll be really interesting to see what the two of them bring. I mean, they're in different brackets, so it'll be spread out, but if both of them make it to the second section of brackets together, it'll be interesting to see how their two drags like you know, mesh in challenges and on the runway and stuff. But yeah, Drag Race does it again, and they definitely piqued my interest enough to get me to at least watch the first couple of episodes of this all-star season. We'll give it a go, and I guess we'll do a dragooning for that also. It's coming out in a couple of weeks, so you know them. They can't let you breathe for too long. I think it's coming out like three weeks after the finale of the regular season. So, on to the next girls. Well, that's all I got for you this week, guys. Thank you so much for tuning in yet again. I don't have too much going on in this upcoming week besides work, but I always find something fun and exciting to get up to. So tune in next week to see what's on the slab for episode 13 of Run On Sentence. Thanks, y'all. Bye. You know what? And another thing.