Run On Sentence
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Run On Sentence
Ep. 13 : Jabbie Dabbie Doo
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Yay! Y'all, you already know it's me, Jack, and I'm back with the 13th episode of Run on Sentence. You know what? And another thing. Y'all, we have a fun and exciting episode for you today. We have my good sis, Abby, in the studio. Hold for applause. Now, Abby is one of my longtime friends. Well, it feels like a long time, but it's pretty like a relatively newer friendship in the grand scheme of things. We met three years ago at our winery job. We're not gonna shout out the job because we're not gonna dox ourselves. But Abby and I became fast friends when I was training her her first day. And here we are three years later in the studio. Abby, any uh opening remarks?
SPEAKER_00It seems like only yesterday I was following Jack around, listening to you give your little spiel and just absolutely in awe of your beauty and your aura. The aura really got me, guys. It really got me. And yeah, ever since then we've just been running around having a good time, giggling, always giggling.
SPEAKER_01We kind of have a animalistic representation of ourselves sitting in between us if you're visual watchers of the show. We have uh Chippy and Olive here, Kayla's puppies. Shout out Kayla. We're actually in Kayla's house. If you're watching, you can see we're not in the normal studio in my bedroom. We are on Kayla's couch. Me and Kayla were uh going to film on the beach yesterday, and uh time got away from us, and so did the sun, so we did not. But we have her beautiful little puppies here with us. Chippy is leaving the shot. All right, bye girl. Oh, and bye Olive. Okay, now we don't have them anymore. Uh but Chippy is a little shihtzu, and Olive is what a Shih Tzu schnauzer. Yeah. Well, thank you so much again, Abby, for being in the studio today. I love you. Love you so much, girl. I just love you.
SPEAKER_00I'm in love with you.
SPEAKER_01I think I'm in love. Well, let's just jump right into it. What's new, Jabby Pooh? I uh don't have too much new with myself this week, but Abby has had a pretty uh eventful last couple of weeks. So do you want to update us about what's new in your life?
SPEAKER_00So your girl has a new stamp on her passport. Um, yeah, number three. Only been to three different countries outside of the US.
SPEAKER_01Dubai.
SPEAKER_00Dubai, Duby Duob. Um, that was a lot of fun. That was the first time I ever left the country was to go to the Middle East. Sorry, mom. Sorry for the frights. Um, but yeah, that was a lot of fun. Uh and then I went to Italy. Ciao, bella, ciao, bella, ciao, ciao, ciao. Uh, yep. Love it. Love. You know I love pasta. Mi amor. Mi amor. L'azzamore. Uh, and then yes, so my mom and I just got back from Paris last week. Period. My cousin ran a marathon in Paris. Like the health fit queen she is. I tried to run not too long ago.
SPEAKER_01I mean, you're a very active diva. I am under the personal belief that running is like the highest form of self-harm. I think it is like the most masochistic thing you can do to yourself. Like, oh, let me just exert myself. Sadistic. Yeah. It's like, oh, let me just destroy my knees, give myself shin splints, push myself to the point of complete exhaustion for pretty little reward, in my opinion. But you do you. You love a little, you love a little run, a little jog. So I'm not gonna hate on your your your journey and your health and fitness. Obviously, Abby is much more fit than I am, so who am I to speak on that? But anyway.
SPEAKER_00But yes, so my cousin ran the marathon. Um, the thought of having to run 26 point whatever the hell miles, and in Europe, it's in kilometers. 40 so it was like 48 kilometers. Hey, no, hey, absolutely not. I've heard of those 5K's. I've heard of a 5k. I know that's three point something miles. 48 kilometers.
SPEAKER_01You couldn't even get me to run the mile in high school. Bitch, I actually I don't think I ever ran it once. I would trot for three laps. Yeah, I would do like a little trot for three laps, and at that point it would be like 13 minutes, and I'd be like, when I finish the third, and like trick the gym teacher into thinking it was my fourth lap. Like because she was like, Well, surely like he can't be only at three laps at 13 minutes, like but my big ass certainly was not finishing a mile, it just wasn't happening.
SPEAKER_00It's the way that I'm picturing you galloping around the track like a horse, a horse girl, neighing, trotting. But yes, she ran the marathon, we had fun, I spent a majority of my money on food and wine. Love it. The French. I bought one of those little French hats, a beret, a brette, some are calling it. I'm fully French now. Bonjour, bitch.
SPEAKER_01How was prices in France? I know everything is like inflated in America right now. Was it crazy expensive food? Was it cheaper than you were anticipating?
SPEAKER_00So this is where like a little bit of brain power had to come into the equation. The US one euro was like a dollar and change. So we did end up getting a ticket on the metro. Keep in mind for anybody that's about to travel or go to Paris and take the train, you are not allowed to put your feet on the seats of the train. You get a $60 or 60 euro fine. So that in USD at the time that I had gone to Paris was about $75.
SPEAKER_01Did you get charged for that? How would you know that?
SPEAKER_00You know, my ass had to pay it. I had to pay it. It was one of my cousins put their feet on the train seat just to like rest a little. Like, not even it wasn't banned, it wasn't kicked up like the annoying Americans that whatever. Just had her foot like up, like resting. The guy goes, That's against the rules. Cash your card. We think everybody in my family, there's 12 of us now trying to be respectful, like trying to keep, I don't know, not trying to get in trouble. She has her little foot up, he goes, cash your card. You can't do that, no exceptions. And then he starts getting a little nasty because then my aunt, my other cousin, where does it say that? We're pulling up to the stop that we have to get off at, and that we needed to get off. I was like, oh my god. I was like, just give it to me, give it to me. I forgot to tell Chase Bank that I was going abroad. I was that I forgot to tell Chase Bank that I was abroad period. I'm abroad.
SPEAKER_01Women aren't allowed to have their own bank account, so you had to go in disguise to the bank to open, yeah, right.
SPEAKER_00And um, I will send you a photo. I did wear a mustache in Paris. Um anyway, so my card got declined twice, and he said, not working. I said, Oh shit. Here's here's Euros. I I'm standing there, my fat wada Euros counting them out. I'm like, here you go, sir. Wham bam, thank you, ma'am. Paid that ticket. I kept the receipt and I gave it to my cousin. I said, we have to frame that. You're an international criminal.
SPEAKER_01While I do think that that is a little steep for a price, I can't believe your cousin actually look when you originally said that, I was like, Well, who's putting their feet on the seat? That's gross. So, like, I'm kind of like on their side because like that's sort of insane to me. But it should be like max 30 euro. 75 is really crazy. But or no, 75 dollars. So it's like, but still, 60 is really crazy. Maybe 25.
SPEAKER_00But I kind of felt better. I was like, okay, yes, we messed up, we broke your rule, we'll pay it, whatever. I support the locals. I support the local parliament. Local parliament, local jurisdiction. I said, where is your leader? Where is his white curly wig, the powdered wig? Yes, you know, you know the one. There were three French speaking, like teenagers, I'll say, maybe early 20s, sitting in the car with us. Boom! All three of them have to pay. So it wasn't just that we were being targeted via the Americanness of us, but they each had to pay because all three of their little tootsies were up on the seats. It's like a beautification fine or something. Meanwhile, there's like graffiti all over the outside of the train. I'm like, ooh, are these these are from the 70s? Velvet. But hey, it was a great trip. I absolutely loved it. I can't wait to go back.
SPEAKER_01Well, be careful next time because they keep a record, and if you get caught three times putting your feet up on the train seats, you do get taken to the guillotine and killed because the guillotine is still legal in France. So just be mindful the next time you go back. Ratatouille gets too. And Ratatouille gets to drop the blade on your head at the guillotine in the town square. Well, speaking of French Parliament and powdered wigs, the only real new thing in my life this week was taking off my wig for the first time and fully cleaning it and changing the tapes and reapplying it. It went much smoother than I thought it was going to. I was very proud of how well I think I reinstalled it and placed it. I thought I was going to majorly fuck it up and put it way too far either down or too far back on my forehead and just have it look the fool and then have to redo all of it. Because I think with the gluing, it's a little easier because you can you have to do it in like two parts, like clip it onto your side hair in the middle, and then pull the front back, glue that section, then put that down and then flip the back up. And with the glue, you have to like put a layer on the wig and your skin separately, let both dry, put a second layer on, maybe a third, and then press it down. So like it's easier for you to place it right and like change it if you mess it up a little bit. The tape's the tape. If you put the tape down, bitch is stuck. Like if it's not in the right spot, you're screwed. So I white knuckled through it, but I think I did a fantastic job. If you're watching, drop a comment and let me know. But I think it looks identical. But what else is new in my life? Well, I guess this can lead us into the hoarder hall, because the only other real new update for me is I got my Cat Salem a new litter box, which is kind of changing, changing my life in some ways, because now I don't have to clean his litter box out because I got him a robotic litter box. It is not the name brand $600 litter robot. It is the pet pivot from TikTok shop. It was $96 on sale. I was a little skeptical that it was going to be kind of sketch because TikTok shop, but honestly, I've had great success on TikTok shop. Everything I bought has been pretty high quality, fast shipping, great prices. It's like a little too easy to buy things on TikTok shop, but I guess that's the point. But it is really lit, not having to scoop litter anymore. However, my cat is a big litter kicker and it is open compared to my covered litter boxes that I've had in the past. So he does fling the litter out of the box a lot more, but I'd much rather be just sweeping up litter and dumping it back into the litter box versus scooping shit. So it's a give and a take. So that's been very exciting for me. Uh, did you get anything fun from Paris or buy anything new and exciting in the last week?
SPEAKER_00I did get, well, like I said, my French, my little French hat. One of my bigger purchases. I got myself a little bracelet, really cute, loved it. It was from this little boutique shop from like the tallest point in Paris. I'm gonna butcher the name, but it's like Monmart. Montmartre. So adorable, very like artsy kind of vibe. So I got myself a bracelet from there, but then I also had to get a little something special for my girl Ruth. Um, my big fat chocolate lab baby. Love her to death. Hi, Ruthie, if you're watching. Hi, love you, chunky. So, one of the things that we did in Paris was every single day my mom would have to have a baguette. She saw a woman walk by the hotel with a baguette sticking out the back of the woman's bag, and she said, I need that. I need to give that vibe, I need to look the part, and she did. She got the baguettes, she got everything. So I in turn had to get a baguette, but for Ruth. So there was a pet store that had a dog toy baguette, and Ruthie ate it up, loved it. It had like the crinkle paper in it, and she's uh she's a girl that loves like a noise. She did rip it apart in about 30 seconds. She did literally eat it up, um, but she did just rip it apart to get out the crinkle paper, threw that aside, and we still do have the baguette. It's not as fun for her anymore because now the crinkle is gone, the magic is gone. But I still, ugh, love her to goddamn death. That's my baby. I also got her an Eiffel Tower dog toy.
SPEAKER_01Well, I, as per usually, bought too much shit this week. I got a couple of good tchotchkis this week. I feel like I haven't found a lot of good like trinkets and like non-physical media related things in my last few hoarder hauls, besides my birthday presents from two weeks ago. I guess to start off, Abby did bring me back a little birthday present from Paris. She got me a little wire like ring with a stone in it. For me, she said it was outside the Eiffel Tower, I think, a little guy that was selling on the side of the street. So I got that. She got me a little Marie Antoinette bookmark, which I'm using in my little podcast notebook here. And she got me a little postcard with I forget what that type of artwork is called. It's like 20s, like art deco-y kind of artwork. Of it's a pretty famous picture, like the Chat Noir, like the black cat. It's like um, there's a specific artist who's known for that type of artwork, and I just I don't know the name. I'm not art literate. And the Moulin Rouge girls, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Uh, so loved those little gifts. I also found a couple of good thrift finds for Tchotchkis this week. I found a little Audrey II, like, not doll, little Audrey II, like figurine in a mini cage that was only a dollar. I wasn't gonna get it at first, but I'm glad that I did because I hung it on an old like necklace that I had and hung it from uh my ceiling in the corner of my room by my desk. I'll throw up a picture of it. It is super cute, uh, just really charming and darling. And I also found a super cute key holder to like put on the wall and hang your keys on when you come in the house. My parents wouldn't let me put it downstairs to like actually hang keys on, so I just put it up in my room for the time being until I move. But it is a gold-plated cat that says home sweet home underneath it. It is just so sweet. And I also got a sun and moon celestial three candle stand holder. It is very 90s coded, very whimsy goth. I haven't really talked about it too much on the pod before, but I am a huge celestial print, sun and moon 90s like whimsy goth lover. Uh, it's just very similar to the teenage witch, very of that era. So it's one of my favorite prints to find on things. I have a little trash bin with the print on it. You know what print I'm talking about. It's like the sun and moon with a face on it, usually, and it's very 90s vintage. And I also ordered on accident two weeks ago when I got the Harold and Maud poster, the guy at the store told me and Carly that the posters were 14 by 22. So I ordered a 14 by 22 poster uh frame, and it was in fact 14 by 20. So instead of returning the frame, I just decided why not just spend more money and got a custom poster made that was 14 by 22 because there were I could not find any online that I liked that were cut to that size. So I got a poster of Frankenfurder from the Rocky Horror Picture Show made. It was super cute. The website seemed kind of sketchy, I forget what it was called, but I was like worried it was going to be kind of scammy. Super fast shipping, really cheap price, and it was such good quality. It was like really high-resolution picture, wasn't grainy at all, and it was cut perfectly to size for the frame. Super lit. And today me and Abby actually went to the mall with Kayla to try to find Kayla a graduation dress, which we did end up finding, just not at the mall. Me and Abby were the only ones that got anything from the mall. We got Smiskies from Newberry Comics. So I think to well, not to finish off the Hoarder Hall because we got I have other stuff to talk about, but to have a little fun Smisky unboxing section of the Hoarder Hall. We will break those out now. So I picked up the Smisky dressing series because I don't have any from this series, so I'm not risking getting a double of anything. Abby, which one did you pick up?
SPEAKER_00I picked out the yoga. Um I this is my very first Smisky. Uh and it is a major moment, and I love a blind box. I do. I really do.
SPEAKER_01I think out of all of the selections on the box, the one I want the most is the Smisky trying to put the sweater on over his head with both of his arms. If I don't get that one, I want the other Smisky trying to put his sweater on with just one arm up in the air. And if I can't get either of those, my third option would be the Smisky sitting on the ground struggling to put his pants on. I guess they're all super cute, but those are the cutest ones.
SPEAKER_00And for your girl with my yoga smisky, I really like the guy that's laying on his back and he has his little candle pin his feet. Yeah, candle pin. Is that what it's called? I think he's like candle opera ink. I also really like the guy. What pose is that? It's like warrior It's Warrior 2 or something something like that. It's one of the warriors when he's got his arm up. I don't know. Um, and then if not, I really like I guess the guy just meditating. But yeah, we'll see. Here we go.
SPEAKER_01Alright, I'll go first.
SPEAKER_00Wait, shall we have her first?
SPEAKER_01And reveal. Alright, we got our second choice. We got the Smisky trying to put his shirt on with one arm up, not two arms. But I'm totally okay with it. This one is super Darlin and super cute. He is kind of like mean mugging with like half his face covered, but it is okay. No, it's super charming. Alright, Abby, take it away.
SPEAKER_00Okay, here we go. Oh my god. Guys. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01His little butt is so cute.
SPEAKER_00Look at that darling little touch.
SPEAKER_01All those little smisky cheeks. This rarely happens. We both got in our well, you got your number one choice. I got my number two choice. This is this is a very successful unboxing, y'all. Alright, we got a wine delivery from Kayla for Abby. We have a we got a full glass of Sauvignon Blanc in the studio. Well, give us a taste test. What do we think?
SPEAKER_00Mm-mm. That's delicious.
SPEAKER_01What are we getting notes of? This is a North Fork of Long Island Sauvignon Blanc, which is pretty different from a traditional New Zealand style. What are you tasting?
SPEAKER_00I'm tasting a lot of tropical fruit notes. Um, I'm also tasting just a tinge of cat pee, but in the best way possible.
SPEAKER_01That super quenching cat piss. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, cheers, Abby. Have some for the both of us. Girl, fill fill this glass up to the top so she drinks for both of us. Ugh. I was saying in my episode with Megan, I I'm shocked at how much I don't miss weed and how much I do miss wine. I mean, I knew I love wine, so I knew I was gonna miss it a little bit, but I thought I was gonna be like, I need weed so bad. I literally have not thought about it even twice like once. But I mean, serving wine every day, you're just constantly thinking about wine. I cannot wait to fall off the wagon so hard next January. We are gonna be doing so many wine tasting episodes. We need to do, we could go international, we can go abroad, and we could do wine tasting, like we could do pods at vineyards in France, in Italy, but that's for a future date. Let's continue on with the hoarder hall. Abby covered everything on her hoarder hall, so I'm just gonna blast through the rest of my physical media in this hoarder hall. We found a good amount of DVDs this week. We found another good selection of CDs, and we found a couple of VHSs and books this week. So for DVDs, we found The Village by M. Night Shamalad. We found SpongeBob Goes Prehistoric and SpongeBob Tide and Seek, which are just like episode compilation videos. It's the prehistoric one is obviously the one where they're like cavemen and they go back in the time machine, but then it's other episodes like from that season. It's not just prehistoric ones. I don't know why it's titled that. Uh, but they're both like 10 episode compilations. And I found a documentary called Jesus Camp, which I talked about last week. I'm a huge cult religious documentary, docuseries lover. So I had to pick that up. I think I've seen it on like Netflix before, but I never watched it. And Lord knows I need another fucking DVD to like clog up my shelves, like I have enough space for that. But picked that up. I also found a 90s British film called Virtual Sexuality, which seems kind of like a build-a-bitch sort of situation. It's like a girl who's trying to be more like sexual and like step into her sexuality, but then this like new hot girl arrives on the scene and is like taking all the men's attention, and she like accidentally generates and like builds this perfect man on the computer somehow, like on accident. She 3D prints a man. Literally 3D prints a man. So at least that's the gist I got from the back of the DVD box. So and I found a 23 classic cartoons collection of Betty Boop cartoons. This is another one of those things where like I picked it up because I'm like, oh, I'm imagining myself with a house one day, having my little kitchen TV with like my vintage TV, and just putting these things on in the background. Who knows if I'll ever actually watch them, but I can't you when you see something in the thrift, you can't just leave it there because you're never gonna find it again. So had to pick that up. And for VHS's, I found Max Kebler's Big Move, which go did find, one of Josh Peck's best roles. And I also found Interview with a vampire with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. Never seen it before. I actually thought Romstroker's Dracula with um Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder. I thought that was the same thing as Interview with a Vampire. Apparently they're different. For books, I found the Element Encyclopedia of Birthdays, which is just like a page for each birthday in the year and like character traits about that zodiac sign and like how they apply to that person based on the day they were born. It kind of clocked me. I went thrifting with my coworker Kat and Bestie, shout-out girl. She's probably not watching this, but she didn't really relate to her birthday, but she related a lot to her rising sign. So it's never just, you know, astrology is a multifaceted onion. It's like an onion, it has layers, right? For CDs, we found, like I said, another beautiful selection. We found More Than You Think You Are by Matchbox 20, Steel Wheels by the Rolling Stones. We found Wide Open Spaces by the Dixie Chicks, or whatever they're called, the chicks now. I don't subscribe to that. I still call them the Dixie Chicks. We're growing our Dixie Chicks collection. I think the only one that we're missing now is Fly Away. That's the one with Cowboy Take Me Away on it. I think it's called Fly Away. And we also found Skeletons from the Closet, The Best Of compilation, The Grateful Dead. We found Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We by The Cranberries. I Am An Elastic Firecracker by Tripping Daisy. We found Fetish by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Purple by Stone Temple Pilots, Blurring the Edges by Meredith Brooks. And to close out the Warder Hall, we found My Private Nation by Train. It's like the only train album that I don't know any songs off of, but it's that classic, like early 2000s sound that train gives. So I figured might as well pick it up, you know. Well, I think that concludes the Hoarder Hall. So let's move into the content corner. I had Abby pick her top four favorite songs of the week. So do you want to tell the audience what you've been listening to?
SPEAKER_00Yes, I would literally love that. Really kind of Modge Podge collection of songs. Growing up, we listened to anything that my parents listened to, um, which was a lot of Johnny Cash, Jimmy Buffett, a lot of oldies, but a lot of goodies. The first song I literally cannot stop. Anytime I'm on the way to work, I have to listen to it is Baby Come Back by Player. Baby Come Back. You can blame it all on me. Oh my god. It just like really itches my brain. I don't know what it is about it. That like melody and the music, it just really it gets me every time.
SPEAKER_01What genre would that song be considered? Is it like yacht rock or is it like a little more disco?
SPEAKER_00Great question because you said yacht rock. Like in my mind, is it 80s? Or am I uncultured? I am so sorry.
SPEAKER_01I feel like it kind of blurs the lines. I feel like it's sort of like giving BGs disco, but also giving like Toto yacht rock.
SPEAKER_00Yes, I would say maybe yacht rock because also usually when I'm listening to that more than a woman by the BGs usually is not too far off of the queue. Kind of switching gears. Um for number two, I do have stateside um with Zara Larson and Pink Panthers. I think them and player the band that sings baby come back would get along swimmingly. That one I feel just speaks for itself. It's all over my for you page. It's just so catchy. I can't get enough of it. Boots, that's my ego boost. Schedule ain't been loose for a minute. Man, I'm that girl. I bent it. Ah ah ah. God. And she said what she said, and she stood ten toes down, period. Okay, next. Fantasy by Mariah Carey. Speaks for itself, honestly. This last one. So ever since I saw Biebercella, I still have yet to watch the full YouTube video of like his set because I just think it'll affect me in ways that I will need five to seven business days to recover from.
SPEAKER_01I don't know if we've ever talked about this. Are you a believer? Like childhood believer, like longtime lover.
SPEAKER_00So I can't even lie, I was not. Okay. Just because my mom made the joke once, Justin Beaver, and they made fun of his hair.
SPEAKER_01We don't bully literal children who are just trying to entertain the world. No, but that's totally fair. I I've always loved Justin's music, but I mean, he was totally like hated on by the masses. Well, by the masses, but like society was really mean and cruel to him, I thought, in his early days. But there's been plenty of new believer, like believers that have come up in recent years. You know, his newer music definitely reached a larger audience, and Bieber fever never dies. Like I've been seeing straight men on TikTok watching Bieber Cello with their longtime believer girlfriends, and then being like, wait, you hear that Perrin? Like what is like what's going on? Like they are feeling the Bieber Fever. So no shame in becoming a late-in-life convert to the Bieber Revolution. I also agree. It's I haven't watched the whole recording of either weekend of Bieber Cella because it's like I can't even get through a couple of clips on TikTok because like my heart starts to hurt because I just love him so much. It is I get that way with Larry videos, like any one direction video, call me by your name. Like, there's just certain videos that like open a vortex that take me to like a bad mental place. I'm like, oh, I can't sit in this too long, or else I'm going to lose my mind. So speak on a girl.
SPEAKER_00This was back kind of like in his like rap-ish era. Um, he was trying out like a little RB. Uh, so number four is gonna be Right Here by Justin Bieber and Drake. Good girl got a mind, right? Okay, yeah. Because I do love Drake too, I will say. Copyright, copyright. Uh-huh. Music infringement. They might think you that you just played the real thing. Right. From what I sang. I was cut from the play in sixth grade. But yeah, that's my four. Those are my four songs of the week. Did you want to give your four?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'll give my four also. Back you up. I have not been listening to a lot of new music. I've been in a very throwback mindset this last week. My top song that I've been listening to the most definitely has to be Gotta Get Out by Five Seconds of Summer. There is just nothing like old five sauce. They were just so baby. They were so angsty. They were so like, ugh, like, I just want to get out of my little small, literally, gotta get out. All my love to evil one direction. They are just so they're just so baby and so little in this era. My second most listened to song this week is definitely China Cat Sunflower by The Grateful Dead, specifically the 1972 Paris recording. Speaking of Paris. Uh, and then we also got Celebrity Skin by Hole. This is, I think, the first repeat artist in my content corner. I've listened to a lot of Hole recently. They are just so rock and roll and so like they're not Riot Girl, but like kind of fit into that riot girl uh rock vibe. I don't know if maybe they are considered Riot Girl era. I don't think they were from like Seattle when the Riot Girl craze was happening, but Love Holds Music. And to wrap up our little music segment, I've been listening to Echo by Vertical Horizon a lot. Echo was like my song of the summer. Last summer it was on every single one of my playlists that I made. I found it from a One Tree Hill soundtrack playlist. I find a lot of my favorite music from One Tree Hill. Whoever the music producer on that show was knew the fucking T because they picked the perfect early 2000s, late 90s music to encapsulate the vibe of One Tree Hill. Props to Yamama. Well, let's move into some cinema watches. I watched two movies this week. Well, I'm gonna consider the movies, they were probably more like made-for-tv movies. They were like 70 minutes each, so I would consider that a movie. That's not really a TV episode. It was Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders. So I was feeling very nostalgic, like I said, with my music this week. I have a really cute Scooby-Doo collection. I have both the live-action Scooby-Doo movies on VHS. I have the first three seasons of What's New Scooby-Doo on DVD. I have Scooby-Doo Cyber Chase on VHS. I have obviously these two movies on VHS. Um, Scooby-Doo and The Curse of the Vampire, the second feature with the Hex Girls, and Scooby-Doo and the Witch's Ghosts, which is the first time the Hex Girls were introduced, and Tim Curry voices. That Scooby-Doo and The Witch's Ghost, I used to think Cyber Chase was the best one. I honestly think that cast is so goaded. Well, I mean, the cast Tim Curry is like the really like the only star from that movie, but the Hex Girls, like everything about that, like the Salem vibe, it is probably I don't know. That and Cyber Chase are probably tied for me. But first time I've ever watched Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, like with an adult brain, I think. I haven't watched it in a really long time. And honestly, spoiler alert, if you haven't watched it, the twist at the end, where it's like the women are actually like cat goddesses, like is so crazy. It's wild to me that as far as I can remember, that's the only Scooby-Doo movie where they actually encounter like a supernatural force. Like the zombies are real, the women are actually like cat goddesses, and there's actually like magical supernatural forces at play. And then they just like keep on keeping on, and they're like, Well, that's just a man with a mask, and like they just seem to not be shaken by the fact that, like, oh shit, we just actually ran into real magic, real supernatural things. But like, let's just keep it and then like continue on being like, Well, that doesn't exist, like, it's always a man behind the mask. Like, girl, you just disproved yourself. Anyway, have you been watching any good movies this week?
SPEAKER_00Yes. So I'm not really one for like a scary, scary movie, like jump scare kind of like bloodbath kind of vibe, but um, I do love like a thriller, I love suspense. Well, I do love like criminal minds and all that. Like, really, that's yeah, it's literally on the TV now for background motion picture. Yeah, to set up, yes, love it. Um, but yeah, so I love that. I love true crime. Um, so recently, I want to say this past Saturday, Kayla and I watched a movie called Apex on Netflix. It's about this girl who she's like a crazy like adrenaline junkie, whatever. She has something tragic happen to her and like her partner. Um fast forward six months, boohoo. Oh, you climbed a mountain. Oh, completely optional, by the way. What are you doing up there? Get down. Get down.
SPEAKER_01My parents were just watching some movie the other night. It was some like Australian mountain climbing movie.
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SPEAKER_01People that free solo climb cliffs and mountains, and people that you don't have to do this, and people that cave dive and go splunking, y'all have a death wish, and you are taking up precious air from normal human beings that want to live a safe life. Like you are so mentally unwell if you find that kind of shit exciting and worth your time.
SPEAKER_00No, truly absurd. Um, but yes, so that girl goes through something traumatic. She could have been completely avoided, by the way. Um, the movie never even had to happen, but hey, I guess that's why it's a movie. Um, anyway, so she then goes on a trip like a couple months later to find herself, I don't know, to heal or do something. I don't know. So she's in Australia, actually. Shout out. Uh, it's not a real movie. Like it's not based on a real story or anything. So she is then hunted. Honestly, you find out who the the hunter is, like, pretty early on in the movie, but it is kind of a twist. But I did guess who the hunter would be.
SPEAKER_01Obviously, spoiler alerts. Does she find a bunch of bodies in a cave? This is literally the yeah, this is the movie my parents watched. This is the same, we're talking about the same movie. Yeah, like messed up.
SPEAKER_00No, like wildly messed up. So it's not it's not all white men, but it's always it's almost always a white man. Um a short white man in this case, and probably in most cases. Sorry to my short kings, but what can I say? So yeah, he basically hunts her through like the forest, like a jungle. Yeah. Like she goes down the riverbank, is like falling down waterfalls, like climbing things. I'm like, girl, I don't know what I would do in this situation, but I would not be very good. But she always seems to be climbing up a hill and he's up at the top. Yeah. I go, girl, get to higher ground faster. Let's have a game plan. Or hide somewhere or kill yourself.
SPEAKER_01Kill yourself. Thank you. Literally took the words out of my mouth. Trigger warning, kill yourself. I just whenever I see movies like that, you just couldn't you couldn't pay me to have more of a survival instinct. Like, I don't need to live that bad. I am not scaling a cliffside and risking death to say my I'm just killing myself. Like, I'm j I mean, I don't know how I would. I just like don't think it's that serious. Like my will to live like wouldn't be strong enough to put myself through all of those trials and tribulations. Like, miss me with that.
SPEAKER_00Well, that and she just for a woman that seemingly is outdoorsy, adrenaline junkie, this and that, survivalist, survivalist instinct, attack him.
SPEAKER_01Right.
SPEAKER_00What are you doing? He plays his song on the radio and is dancing around. Honestly, he does look like a freak. My man is a five foot three, little white bold, freaky dee man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he says, You have until the end of the song to get away from me, and then I come after you. Hey, I'm picking up a boulder and I am I am ending you. I'm sorry. This game that you're gonna you're not making it till the song is over. We're not making it to the ending credits scene here. No. Uh-uh. The man in the movie, we also we googled him as well. He plays the gorilla in sing and sing too. Oh fabulous work. Give him his Grammy. The Grammy is the singing one.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Grammy, what is Emmy?
SPEAKER_01Emmy is like daytime TV. So, like, or not necessarily it's just TV, like TV awards. So, yeah. Speaking of TV, what TV shows have you been watching this week? I have pretty much only been watching The Rookie. I am now fully caught up on The Rookie. It has taken me over a year. I started it like last February and kind of fell off. I didn't realize that it was still in production and releasing every week currently. The last episode came out this past Monday, and I watched it yesterday while I was cleaning out my closet. So I am now fully caught up, eight seasons into the rookie. It's okay. It's no criminal minds, it's no law and order SVU, but it's like a good old crime show that like kills the time, you know. So I'll definitely continue watching it, but now I'm I need something. It was like an easy show to watch and something that I had so many episodes to watch that it was like not a comfort show, but like it was a nice thing when I I didn't want to think too hard about what to put on. Oh, let me just put on the rookie and I'll watch a couple episodes. Now I don't have that, so I'm gonna have to find like another show with a shit ton of seasons that I can like not because I don't like to binge, but I like something like I just said where I don't have to like search through Netflix, search through Hulu, find something good to watch. I can just be like, oh great, I have a bunch of episodes of this that I can catch up on. Let me throw it on. So any good recommendations, please comment and let me know. Have you been watching anything fun?
SPEAKER_00Yes, sir. So I recently well this show has been on my list for quite some time to watch because the coming attractions um just looked like something I would be into. Turns out Mindy Kaling was the creator behind it, and that show that I'm talking. About is called Running Point with Kate Hudson. Okay. It's a basketball show.
SPEAKER_01Oh, you're a big basketball.
SPEAKER_00And I'm a big basketball girly. I love my New York Liberty. I love the Knicks. Shout out Kate Hudson for that too. Love how to lose a guy in 10 days. She wants a soda, no ice. It has to be diet. Anyway, so the Running Point show, really good. Really loved it. It's just like funny. And like I've never been to LA and I've never I don't know. I don't know like the lore. I don't know the vibes and like the how it'd be out there. I don't know the people. I know New York. But this show just feels like it encapsulates what LA is and kind of the business structures out there. Just very much like the family and like just the way that they act and the different things. It just I don't know. I feel like it gives a really good understanding of certain things out there. But it's just so funny. It really is just hilarious. I love it. So same kind of same thing. It was just something to kill the kill the time. Another show that I've been watching that I was hooked and I've fallen down a really deep rabbit hole with this one. You mentioned how you like cults. I watched the false prophet. The false prophet. A white man. Again.
SPEAKER_01Another white man. I know you didn't see it because I literally just released last week's episode today, the day that we're filming this. That was in my content corner last week. Finished all three episodes in one day. Insane.
SPEAKER_00No, truly insane. Like I get it. Like, religion is organized religion. There definitely has in any organized religion, there are like cults-like aspects to it. I love it. Believe what you want to believe, but don't hurt people in the process. The way that these people, specifically the LDS, yeah, the F the F L DS, the fundamentalists, but like the Mormons. Oh, I'm in like a weird Mormon cult deep dive, especially with the secret lives of Mormon wives, too. Because I'm like, why do you think that? Right, right, right. It's crazy because like I know how we grow up out here on like in New York on Long Island.
SPEAKER_01Very Irish Catholic.
SPEAKER_00Very Irish Catholic. But especially this day and age, every single one of the Mormon wives, leave the leave your husband. Leave your husband. They are terrible, except for Macy. Macy and Jacob, you know them. Oh, I'm obsessed. Macy, hi girl. Love you, Jacob. You are a green flag and Whitney and Connor. Connor's a green flag too, because they let the wives flourish. They let their wives take over they know this is their wives' moment. And yeah, let her take the reins. She's the breadwinner right now, and she's the breadwinner for the foreseeable future. Let her go and accomplish all these amazing things. Everybody else, leave the husbands, kick rocks. It infuriates me to watch these little tiny men tell these women what they should and shouldn't be doing. Zach, Zach of Zach and Jen, the blonde man, grow up. Seriously, grow up and also zip it. Zip your lip because I cannot hear it anymore. Let Jen go run, do dancing with the stars. Jen, right now, she's in a little bit of a villain era. I feel. But look how much they've been oppressed and just like not allowed to do what they want to do and like need to be the mothers, need to be the making dinner, need to get back in the kitchen. Hey, a man's place is in the kitchen. I'll tell you that. Period. But yeah, the cults, I just can't get enough of them. I really can't.
SPEAKER_01I was saying last week that the false prophet was it had the potential to be just like any other Mormon FLDS documentary, like Keep Sweet, Pray and Obey, that other one. That was a crazy like there's only so much new information about the FLDS that can come out because it's like we've been none new. There's been plenty of documentaries on it so far, but this one was so unique in the fact that it was like an infiltration into this cult, and it was like undercover, like obtaining information, wiring it to the FBI. Like it was one of the more exciting FLDS documentaries to come out because it was like outside infiltration into it. I wish it was like a little juicier and like more. I don't know. I really am obsessed with the really strange practices and like ritualistic elements of the Mormon church that the FLDS doesn't really practice because they're like an offshoot of the Mormon church. They're not part of like they're not going to temple every week. They're like, it's obviously it's their own, their own prophet. They're not subscribing to like the larger Mormon church. Those other documentaries, uh, did you watch I forget what it was called? I think it was Heather Gay from Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. She left Mormonism, she wrote a book about her experience in the Mormon church, and then she just made like a three-part docuseries like talking about her childhood in the Mormon Church and just some struggles of like people that live in towns near where she grew up and friends that she's made from leaving the church and like hearing their stories and stories of their partners and people in their family that you know just spreading awareness of like harm that the Mormon Church has done and like good things that the Mormon Church has provided for her and her family and her friends and in their lives, but like also the dark underbelly of what the Mormon Church and organized religion at large can do to people. I'm a big believer that all organized religion is low-key occult. I mean, I grew up in a Roman Catholic family, and again, my family wasn't super religious, but they were indoctrinated themselves when they were growing up, so it was like, well, yeah, we go to church. Like, and we I was an ultra server for 12 years, so I have plenty of backing when I make the claims that I do. I'm not like I wasn't like, oh, we go to church like for the major holidays, and like I think church sucks. Like, I have skin in the game. I'm not speaking from like no experience. I went to church every single week, sometimes every other week, 6:45 a.m. mass on Sundays, or literally earlier than I had to get up to go to school. Like the Catholic and Christian church in particular is a really interesting one. I can't speak for Mormonism. Mormonism is like up there with Scientology for me, where it's like true fantasy. It's like, guys, what are we talking about? Jesus came to America. What are we talking about? There's like the commandments written on gold plates buried, like that, whatever that like their prophet found. Like it's a little wacky where it's like, guys, come on. Not to say that Christianity isn't just as like crazy, like we're talking about a burning bush and like a fucking like given to me. There's like parting the Red Sea, like there's a lot of also very whimsical stories in the Bible and in scripture. Obviously, the Bible is stories, a lot of it is fables in a sense that like we're just meant to like get a message out of that it like represents a larger theme and larger lesson. Not to say that there aren't good lessons and teachings in the Bible, but like take everything with a grain of salt. There's always layers to it, and it's not absolute truth. Because at the end of the day, it is written by man, and man does not know all. I am a firm believer that like the whole like the Bible is the word of God, that is just not true because it was ever anything that has ever been written in the Bible, all of the revisions, all the different versions of it. People may be claiming that it is channeled to them from God, but at the end of the day, it is a person, a human, putting pen to paper, and there is just no ultimate truth that can come from one person. We are all a giant quilt of consciousness that makes up one larger life force that we all come from, and we're all here to learn from each other and to teach each other. We're all on different paths and different parts of our journey, and all of the information that each of us know come together as a collective and like you know, bring each other up and teach each other in different ways. There is no one absolute truth. That's why community is so important, and why I do support church and I support having like a spiritual community like that. It is important for mental and spiritual health, but the institutionalization of religion the way it is, and having not to say priests are bad, but like you know, it's good to have a spiritual figurehead in those scenarios to lead the conversation. But I'm like going off on a tangent right now, hello, run-on sentence, but like the institution of the church is a little crazy because in Christianity specifically, like church itself and scripture the way it is is kind of like the opposite of what Jesus' intention was. All of the words that he used when he was alive to teach people and bring them toward enlightenment are what got him killed, and then they took his words, put it in a book, attached fear of God to it, and used it to control people. So it's like kinda like Jesus' words were meant to free people, and now they're used to control people. So like I have my own hangups with it. I don't know where that was going, but like I just had to let the fire I just had to let God speak through me and speak through me and for me.
SPEAKER_00So And God just spoke through me, and he said that you have to give me all the money that's in your pocket and bank account right now and get me a fuck ass little white leather jacket. Um, literally as you were saying, like, yeah, the priest should be like the lead the conversation. Not if he's wearing a leather jacket and doing parkour in the Grand Canyon. Yeah. No, literally, what was that man's name?
SPEAKER_01Samuel Baker.
SPEAKER_00Was it Samuel? Yeah. Well, Samuel said, watch this, watch this. He said, God said that you God said you have to watch me do this, and did a little spl did a spin and jumped off of a rock, a small little rock. So, not the most religious of figures, but he was entertaining, but not somebody to follow. But yeah, so it's crazy.
SPEAKER_01Certainly not somebody to marry off your 12-year-old child to.
SPEAKER_00Multiple children. I'm pretty sure he had the sisters, he had the mom, he had cousins, gnomes. Have you seen her TikTok? Gnomes, the girl gnomes, she now they all have TikTok. And I hope that they are thriving. I hope that they are enjoying life to the fullest. Um, but she has been reposting videos, like liking comments. She's made a couple of videos. She also's not messing with that white leather jacket. She sees now what a mistake that was.
SPEAKER_01I have to say that was like the most vindicating, like joyous moment in the documentary. I literally started clapping and I was like, let's go! When she came out of the shadows and she sat down in gentile clothes and regular clothes, and it was revealed that she had escaped him and like escaped the FLDS as a whole, and like wasn't now like a normal person, and like was on like a mental health journey to like come out of the brainwashing she'd endured. So because she was down bad the worst. She was the most brainwashed by him, it seemed, and I was just so happy to see that she had been saved and like was back to reality.
SPEAKER_00It's just so wild too, because as I'm watching any any cult show, I just would not I don't think I guess no one really thinks that they would fall victim to sure a cult. But you're telling me a white man with long hair wearing Jesus sandals is your prophet and your God? Embarrassing. No. No, next, next, next. I think it'd be fun to live on a little compound, me and all my friends running around.
SPEAKER_01Well, that is kind of a good segue into our final section of the pod, which is the memory lane section, where we're gonna go take a stroll down memory lane and tell our favorite memories of each other. And speaking of running wild and free, one of my favorite memories of Abby has to be well, okay, not to be like super general, but I'll pick a specific one you know in a minute. But in general, just all of our time upstate. Yeah. We're in Kayla's house. Kayla's family has property in upstate New York that we have gone to what five times at this point. Uh we went up about four times on vacation the summer of 2024, and then we went up two times this past spring and summer of 2025. So just like all of our time up there in the trailer, living off the land, no Wi-Fi, no cell service, just roughing it, reading, quatting, shooting, just just everything outdoorsy. But yeah, the giant I okay. So for a specific favorite memory within all of our Amazing Times Upstate, it has to be. We went fishing though one day, very fruitless fishing excursion. We did not catch anything, but just spending that beautiful summer night waiting in the waters of Bowman, throwing our lines out. We had a nine-liter bottle of rose, uh, which we didn't drink at the lake that day. We just took it for a photo op to post on our story. But fishing and just vibing in the lake with you was probably my favorite memory of all of those trips. Uh-or just like riding with our hair blown in the breeze in the back of the truck down like those backcountry roads, like oh, just such fond memories. All of those trips were just those moments where, like, in real time, while you were experiencing them, you were like taking a step back and going, like, holy shit, these are gonna be the memories that we think of when we're like 50, 60 years old, being like, Oh, remember back in the day, way back when I it's like I feel like our parents weren't doing that as much, but with social media and with how big like nostalgia is such a trend right now, and like film cameras and like trying to make things vintage feeling and like feel like the past, like looking back on things has become so much more important to our generation than I think it was for our parents' generation. They were much more in the moment. It's phones too. Everything is so much more documented, and there's so much more of a oh, my snap memory is mad, like, oh look, I just got like my phone, just generated a video of like our trip from two years ago. Like, memories and documenting things is so much more ingrained into our lives than it was for older generations, so I think that has a lot to do with it. They just weren't living in the moment more, and they either had like a film camera and had to get it developed two months later, or they were forgetting about it. So but those have to be my favorite memories of you for now. We're gonna make plenty more in the future, but you want to share anything about me?
SPEAKER_00Little old you. Well, those are some of my favorite memories as well. I would have to say something that really pops into my mind um when you first said we're going down memory lane was some of the first times that I had worked with you. Um, and also some of my favorite times were when you were sneaking around trying to scare people. Some of those times I I still tell these stories to people because you are a legend in the scaring community. Truly a god, like you your name is in written in a pumpkin-shaped star on the ground.
SPEAKER_01And my current coworkers, cat shout out girl, can attest my ways have not changed. I'm still on my jump scare bullshit.
SPEAKER_00No, like truly terrifying. The commitment to the bit of the scare that you're trying to pull, it would be pitch black. It would be pitch black in the vineyard at night, going to take the garbage out. All right, I'm with another coworker, we're on a golf cart, bringing the garbage back. It's cold out. This must have been winter. Jack takes off running while myself and another coworker are on the golf cart bringing the garbage out to the dumpster. He must have taken off running, probably like lightning, white lightning.
SPEAKER_01The only time I'll run is for a good scare.
SPEAKER_00And somehow beat a golf cart. And we were going. I like to think we were going like kind of fast. I guess as fast as a golf cart can go, an old golf cart can go. Beat us to the garbage. We're getting out, we're about to throw the garbage away. All of a sudden, a dark giant figure comes out of the shadows.
SPEAKER_01Oh, because I'm the big one, giant.
SPEAKER_00Um, you're you're six foot fucking three, my man. You're a tall tall drink of water. Tall drink of water. And there's no lights, keep in mind. No lights by the dumpster. You could have been a killer. And I love how before I'm talking about, yeah, I'd just pow whack him. Yeah, I'd get that bad boy. Oh no. I have never screamed so loud in my life. First instinct was to like kick with both feet and both arms out like that, to I guess push you away. I don't know. Oh boy, oh boy. If it was a real life situation, done. Kidnapped, dead, crazy. But it was snowing. He was wearing a t-shirt, didn't have time to grab a sweatshirt, didn't have time to grab a jacket, just grabbed his handsome, devilish good looks and wit and ran out the door. And was hiding behind the dumpster. And also scared the shit out of me. And there's many, many more where that came from. I love the time when you were up on the catwalk. Well, how do you even describe that?
SPEAKER_01It's just a bunch of like metal walkways above the fermentation tanks in the the cellar where they make the wine at the vineyard I used to work at. And yeah, I would like sneak up there while people were taking the garbage out.
SPEAKER_00Or turning the lights off.
SPEAKER_01Or turning the lights off, yeah. Like there was a there was a special like private room that was downstairs in the cellar that you had to walk customers through. So at the end of the day, when people would be cleaning that room up and like closing it up for the night and coming up from the cellar and turning all the lights off, I would wait for them to go back downstairs for their last like sweep through of the place, and then I would climb up onto the catwalks and stand very silently, like over the spots where they would have to walk and then start growling or screaming like when they would come by. Like gargoyles. I would hide between the tanks, or one of my favorite scares that I got on you was at the end of the days during the summer when it was the like peak busy season and everyone would be sitting outside. We would have to go around on the golf cart and go through the plot of vines that surrounded the tasting room to make sure that there were no like stragglers left over, like sleeping in the vines or like doing nefarious things in the vines. Each other. So Abby and another coworker were going and doing a lap of the vines, and then I proceeded to then go once they passed through the first time ran and hid between one of the first sets of vines. So when they looped back around and came back toward the tasting room, I sprinted out between full speed, like get out style between the vines, straight at them, and almost made you like veer off and crash into like the barbed wire. Yeah. Uh I the list goes on. There are plenty and plenty of scares under my belt. Um, but yeah, the one that you mentioned behind the dumpster, that was probably one of my greatest feats. I there was a side door that you would load the garbage onto the golf cart from, and it was maybe a 30-second drive from that doorway to the dumpster. As soon as I saw them take the last bag of garbage out that side door, I sprinted even further around the other side of the tasting room, through the kitchen, down the stairs, through the crush pad where they crush all the grapes. Like through the parking lot. In the snow, in a t-shirt, and stood there behind the dumpster, freezing, having to pee. But you do it for the love of the game. I it's like a drug. Nothing does it for me than getting a good scare out of people in my my my my true monsters ink ways. Where I literally like run on screams. Like it's it's just too good. Too good. Well, I think that kind of concludes it. I think we've said all there is to be said. Abby, thank you so much for being in the studio today. It was such a pleasure. Do you have any closing remarks? Do you want to plug anything?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Yeah. Um, well, thank you so much for having me. This was so much fun. Um, hopefully, maybe we'll do it again soon. I don't know. We'll definitely have to go back and get more smiskies because now I'm addicted. Oh, I'm addicted to that young gentleman. Um, but yeah, love. Thank you so much for having me. And yeah, love you.
SPEAKER_01Love you, sis. Well, thanks for tuning in, y'all, for the 13th episode of your favorite podcast. Tune in next week for lucky number 14. Well, I don't know how lucky of a number it is, but it's my lucky number because it's my birth date number. But tune in next week. Maybe Kayla will be our special guest judge. Special guest judge, Judge Judy. Uh yeah, but maybe Kayla will make an appearance, or maybe I'll be by my lonesome again if I don't have any friends that want to join me. So you'll just have to come on here next week to find out. Well, thanks again, y'all, and see you next week for your favorite podcast, Run on Sentence. Bye.
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SPEAKER_01You know what? And another thing.