Ep. 17 : What Happened To Horror

What's happening to the horror genre is scarier than most of the horror movies.

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Hi, me again. That's right, y'all. It's Jack, and I'm back with the 17th episode of Run on Sentence. You know what? And another thing. Well, here we are again, y'all. Another week, another episode. I am by my lonesome again. I don't have a guest this week. I kind of love doing it alone, though, at the same time. I know I've said when I did my first guest appearance with Liam that I was like, oh my god, it made me never want to do it alone again. It's so much fun to do with another person. It is very fun, and I love my friends, and it is fun to have those types of conversations and actually like go back and forth with somebody because it takes the conversation somewhere. It can't go just by yourself, because you have other perspective, obviously. But it's also really nice, like when I was filming last week, to just ramble and kind of do this like video diary almost. Like it's getting everything off my mind in like out loud in real time, and it's kind of therapeutic in a way and meditative. So I love having guests, but I also love doing it alone. I am feeling fresh and clean and ready to film. I just got out of the shower. I got home from work a little bit ago, and it was a busy, hectic day. It was kind of like everyone's do-over for Memorial Day weekend, it felt like, and everyone that couldn't go out last week pulled up this week. So it was a hoot and a holler, and it was freezing cold on Long Island this morning. It was windy as hell, felt like middle of fall, and then like halfway through the day at work, the sun came out and it got not hot outside, but the sun started like cooking the tasting room. And I was dripping sweat because I wore like a flannel and GNs because it was freezing. And did I need a shower? I feel rejuvenated and refreshed and ready to film. So here we are. Let's just jump right into it. What's new, Jackie Pooh? Well, a lot's new. I have a lot in the works that I'm not going to talk about now that I'm very excited about and will talk about in a couple of weeks and a few episodes, once everything is more set in stone and the train is, you know, barreling down the tracks, and you can't stop that train, get wrecked in theaters June 21st, whenever that new RuPaul movie's coming out. But I will get into that once the manifestation is more fully formed. But really exciting news coming down the pike, and we will be having more guests for sure because of it. Uh, I'm not gonna hint too much at it, but it's a very, very exciting development that's happening, so be on the lookout for that update. But in other news, we are locking the fuck in, ladies and gentlemen and them. I am done pussyfooting around with my eating and my dieting and my body yada yaddy. I am officially locked into eating healthier, being more driven, being more just healthier all around. Obviously, the first step that I took, not totally related to health, was just deciding to be sober for the year. And I was in the back of my mind hoping that not drinking was gonna make me lose a little bit of weight. I have had my journey with weight loss and weight gain. I was very heavy in high school, for those of you that know me. I was like 300 pounds, and I went on a crazy diet my senior year of high school. Me and my mom went on it together. It was to like reset your metabolism. It was a ketogenic diet. Definitely took a little too far. I burned that weight off, and I got down to a very slim weight, and I was in full twink mode. I went from full on bear to full on twink. It was a big swing in the opposite direction from what I was used to and loved being skinny, but like definitely was too skinny. And once COVID hit, I started, you know, just eating a lot more because that was all there was to do. I wasn't dieting in college, but I just like had to reset my metabolism. When I went in for the beginning of the diet in like 2017, they ran some numbers and they said that my metabolic age was about 30 years old and my metabolism was running at the rate of a 30-year-old man. I was 17. So definitely needed a change, but then I just wasn't like I was eating less in general over those next two years, and my metabolism had it reset to like that of a 17-year-old. So I was just continuing to burn weight because I was walking a lot once I went to college, going to classes, just you know, I was more active and I was just I wasn't not eating enough at college, but I was just eating differently than I had for years. You know, I wasn't overeating, I wasn't eating excessive portions of things, and then pendulum swung in the opposite direction with COVID because there was what else was there to do but cook all the time and eat your heart out. So I definitely started to gain a little bit of weight back, and then I think I just like screwed my metabolism up again with all the pendulum swinging and continued to gain weight the last two years of college and in the last few years after graduating. It's been four years since graduation now. Holy shit. That is so crazy. Uh, but I am like relatively the same weight I was like two years ago. Um, it hasn't been like a steady increase in weight. I guess trigger warning if you're weight sensitive. And I don't not like the way I look. I'm very confident in who I am. I love myself, I do love my body. I, you know, have gone through a journey with that, but I want to just be healthier in general and want to have more intentionality behind everything I'm doing, like I've talked about before. Started with the drinking. I want to be more intentional about that, and I just want to be more intentional about what I put in my body in general. I am really locked in right now to just eating vegetables, meat, chicken, you know, red meat, protein, fish, eggs, fruit, and try to keep it to that. I'm not completely limiting myself. I'm putting a little feta in my turkey burgers, and you know, I will have a little chip here and there. I'm not like cutting shit out completely, but just here and there. I'm trying to be much more conscious and much more intentional behind the things that I'm putting on my body, at least for the next couple of months. And just intentionality all around, like I said, a healthier lifestyle all around. I am trying to lock into going to bed no later than midnight every day, preferably like 11, 11:30, and then getting up no later than 7, 7:30. I definitely have a problem with going to bed at like 2, 3, sometimes 4 a.m., and then waking up at like 9:30, 10. And I just want to do more with my morning. I did it for the first time today, went to bed at 11:30 and woke up at 7 and got up with the birds. And I, well, I mean, I'm sure people get up much earlier than that. I know they do, but I just got up. I started a new book, which I'll get into. I wrote all my notes for the podcast today. I went and sat outside. It was low-key freezing, but it was nice and refreshing, and it woke me up. I put on some sweats and a hoodie and bundled up outside on the couch and just like had a very meditative morning to myself. I ate my breakfast and got ready for work and wasn't like rushing, and it was, you know, all nice and easy and paced out, and it was really lovely. I definitely want to commit to it and stick with it, but we'll see. I don't really know what I'm planning or hoping to get out of it, other than just like feeling good and getting more done and like having more like bliss and peace in my day. It really started in my brain uh when I was thinking about just having more of an analog life in general. I really, really, really want to stop going on my phone like first thing in the morning when I wake up. It's a real problem in our world right now. And this was like the thing that my brain thought of first to do. Like just get up, don't open your phone, get right out of bed, brush your teeth, and pick up a book. Go outside, meditate, do something else other than go on your phone. And you really just have to s commit to it. You have to just like fight that demon. It really is like a drug. Like, it's a second nature, like, uh, wake up, pick my phone up. Like you just have to like hard stop. And I mean, at least that's how I function. If I'm gonna do something, I need to like I can't like I'm gonna do a little bit of this each day, and like I'll only go on Instagram this morning, and or like I'll only no, like I need to just stop and set a new routine if I'm gonna do something like that, like with drinking. I couldn't have or in smoking too. I couldn't have just like, well, I'll only like drink a couple of glasses this day or like drink a couple of days this week and cut it down to like no, I had to just be like, you know what, hard reset, let's re-evaluate this and come back to it later. So that is kind of what inspired me to do it today. It felt great. I can imagine it's only gonna feel better. But it was really funny because my mom is the queen of unsolicited opinions and loves telling me what she thinks I should be doing when I didn't ask. And she's always like, You need to stop eating so late, you need to work on portion control, you need to start waking up earlier and eating breakfast so you don't eat so late in the day. Meanwhile, she ain't the pinnacle of health. I don't know who she is, you know, who she is giving me that opinion, but she always, always, always brings that up. And when I get up this morning, 7 a.m., she got up at 6 and was downstairs already. I come downstairs with my book, left my phone inside. She's on the couch scrolling on TikTok. Like, girl, you're telling me to get up earlier and seize the day. Look how early I get up. You're getting up to go sit your ass on the couch and scroll on your phone. Like, that's a waste of your morning. Why even get up? Stay in bed, girl. Like, I just it really was a perfect, like, billboard in front of me of like, oh, so this is how I look when I'm in my bed for an hour in the morning, just like wasting away on my phone when I could be like getting up and doing something productive and mentally healthy and stimulating and fulfilling, and even again, just reading a book, meditating for 20 minutes, grounding, just putting yourself at peace and in a flow state, and just like being a chill when you wake up and being kind to your body and being kind to your mind and waking it up and just like going into the world and going into your day better because you didn't immediately flood it with you know overstimulation and news and social media and comparison and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This isn't the run-on-sentence segment. I'm not gonna go into that, but I'm really gonna try to stick to that. And what else is new? The Facebook Marketplace wars continue. We wage on. I am currently in the search for a kegerator fridge, you know, with a tap coming out the top of it to give to my dad for Father's Day. He loves himself a blue moon, and I figured that would be a really cute gift to put in the garage. Get him a blue moon keg, throw it in there. I found a blue moon like tap handle on Poshmark, but I haven't bought it yet because nobody is following through on Facebook Marketplace. There's plenty of keg rators. I've messaged multiple people, and they are just playing in my face. I've had one person tell me that they had another person come to look at it and they would let me know if they didn't come. Then they texted me, hey, this person fell through. Do you want to come pick it up? And then just stopped answering me. I had another person just completely block me and they did not sell the product. So I don't know what it is that I said, other than, hi, can I come see this next week? Uh and then I had another guy keep me on the line, had a time to meet up, was ready to go see the product. And then he texted me last minute. He was like, Hey, my son just came over and he actually wants it. Sorry, I'm out of sale. Baby, don't try to make me feel bad for you. I'm out of sale. You're out of sale because you chose to give it to your son and not sell it to me. So I don't feel bad for you. Don't try to, you know, be the victim here and be like, what am I gonna do? My son took it. Like, it's I'm missing out on money too. No, that was your choice. Live with it. So I don't know if I'm actually gonna get this thing by Father's Day. It's June 1st in two days, and I think Father's Day is June 12th. So we shall see. Keep me on your prayers and manifest that I find a cagerator in time for a good price and in working condition. And another thing, not that it's really new, it's been happening for the last month or two now, but these gas prices are so twisted and evil. I don't know how much more of it I can take. I don't know how California divas have been doing this. My girl Chloe, my my boy Jace. Like, I don't know how y'all have spent more than $4 a gallon all of these years. I'm sure it's even crazier now. I really haven't looked at the California prices, but I remember the first time I went there, I was like, oh my god, five dollars for gas. Like, that's psychotic. I'm sure it's what, eight dollars now, I'm assuming. Because if it's four in New York, $450, $460, $470, $480 some places. Like, I mean, it fluctuates a little bit every day, but like it hasn't left the $4 range in weeks and weeks. So I can't handle it anymore. I will be on a quarter of a tank and put $45 in, which should not even fit in my tank at that level, and it doesn't even fucking reach full. So I am so over it. I have a sneaking suspicion it's never gonna come down. I don't know why. I just smell blood in the water, and I feel like we are just on the path to complete economic ruin in the next few years, and I just feel like this is the starting point, and I don't think it's really ever gonna come down, but I hope it does, but not to be pessimistic, I'm not hopeful, but I can't control it, I guess. And what am I gonna do? I need gas, so we march on. Well, with that being said, let's jump into the hoarder haul to talk about all of the things that I wasted my gas on to go thrift and buy this week. So let's start with some VHSs. I found two VHSs this week. We found Shelly Duval's bedtime stories. I was jumping for joy when I found this on the shelf this week, and then I realized it wasn't what I thought it was. I thought it was Shelly Duval's like Mother Goose series, which is so campy and so cuntsy, but it's her bedtime story series, which I also very cool. It's wrapped in the plastic, it's beautiful. I am happy to have it in my collection. Love anything, Shelly Duval. It's just like not initially what I thought it was when I saw it on the shelf. It was like a roller coaster emotion when I saw it. I was like, let's fucking go. And then I was like, oh, that's not it. And I was like, but it's still something. I'm happy with it. And the second VHS I found, I know I keep saying fuck the Beatles, and each week it seems like I'm more of a poser, but I did buy the Yellow Submarine movie, you know, The Beatles like animated hour-long Yellow Submarine movie. Again, I don't love their music, it's not my favorite. I think they're a little overrated. Did they change the face of music? Yes, I guess. But I just figured I'd buy the Yellow Submarine movie because the visuals are so cool. And I was like, even if I don't listen to it, it's like a fun thing to like have on in the background, just on the TV visually. So I picked that up. And for DVDs, we didn't have any this week. It was kind of a bust for DVDs, but we found some good CDs this week. To start off, the CDs, we found The Mamas and the Papa's greatest hits record. I found this last week and was super excited to see it. Opened it up and it was scratched to hell. Was very upset, only to find it again this week in perfect condition. So I was very happy to pick that up. We also found The Color and the Shape by Foo Fighters and The Search for Everything by John Mayer. I completely forgot about this album when I was thinking about like my John Mayer CD collection. I was like, oh, I think I have everything except for Sab Rock. Completely left this one out in my brain, and it has one of my favorite songs on it, Emoji of a Wave. So fierce. And it was wrapped in the plastic, brand new, so love to see it. We also found Sam's Town by The Killers. They also had the Killers album with Mr. Brightside on it, but it was worn in. Baby, it was scratched, it had been used and put to good use. We also found two The Who albums. We found Tommy and we found Who's Next? Fierce Finds. And we found another Lenny Kravitz album. We found Mama Said and we found two Daughtery albums. We found Break the Spell and Leave This Town. I'm not even really familiar with Leave This Town from Daughtry. I didn't realize it was them when I pulled it off the shelf. And I was like, oh, gotta give this a listen. And we also found Emotions by Mariah Carey. I almost didn't get this one for some reason, only because I really only know emotions off that album. I mean, I'm sure I know more of them if I heard them, but that's like the only iconic one in my mind that I know off of it. So I was like, do I need this? Uh, but I have so much space to fill in this CD tower that I was like, okay, you know what? Props to the queen. I'll I'll grab emotions. And to finish it off, I found Can't Take Me Home by Pink and A Girl Like Me, Rihanna, some fierce early 2000s divas. I forget about Can't Take Me Home by Pink. It's her first album, I think, her first studio recording. And it is so quintessential RB Pink. It is so too. I mean, it I think it came out in 2000. It is the 2000s like pop RB sound. And Pink on the cover with her pink ass, hot pink hair, and her little like kissy face. Oh my god, she is just such an icon. I love her down. And Rihanna, I mean, you can't beat her. She is mother. And what do you know? It was wrapped in the plastic and brand new. Love to see it. And to close off the hoarder haul, I bought some pants this week. I decided to buy a pair of harem pants on Amazon. They, you know, are the big billowy, like super low crotch, flowy, like festival pants, hippie pants. Uh, they have like the cuffed ankle, like the jogger ankle, and then that very flowy, like it's basically a skirt that is stitched like right above the ankles to make it a pant. And they're super comfy. I don't know what possessed me to buy it. I think it was like last week when I was filming the pod. I almost wore this pair of shorts that I bought at a Grateful Dead music festival last summer, the dead of summer, in Manchester, Vermont to Manchester. They're like that very typical festival pants. They're, you know, multicolor patchwork with uh like screen printed images on some of the patches. And I've seen plenty of people wearing longer pant versions of those, harem pant versions of those, even just like tie-dyed ones. And I was like, oh, I kind of want a longer pair of. Shorts like this, maybe like a harem pant, maybe just like a you know a flowy sweatpant type look, and got to looking and ended up on these like beige walnut colored harem pants. So I decided to roll the dice and try them out. They are so comfortable. However, I need to just like not wear underwear with them because it feels lovely and flowy, like you're not wearing pants, but then you're wearing underwear and they're you know all up in your business. And it's like, well, I might as well just be wearing regular pants right now because like this is still all up in my grill, and they're it's counteracting the space and the flowiness of the harem pants. But at the same time, the harem pants are like a linen material, and they be showing print if you don't wear uh underpants with it. So I don't know, I might just have to get like a pair of boxers or something, some looser type of underwear, because I'm a boxer brief kind of girl, and I might have to get like a looser underwear to wear with them so it's more comfortable, but I will be stunting them this summer. They are super, you know, airy and flowy. So catch me, catch me outside in my new flowy harem pants. All right, let's get into the content corner. I finished the retreat this week. It was pretty okay. I was really hoping that it would take more of a turn at the end. I suspected that it was gonna be kind of a boring ending as I started nearing the end because I was like, there are too many like open ends to this story that they are there's no way they're gonna be able to tie them all up in the few pages that are left. So it was kind of like a cliffhanger-ish ending, but not really a cliffhanger because like you didn't really need to know more. There was like suspicion of maybe some like supernatural spiritual elements to it that like could be cool if they dived more into, but like at the same time, it's also plausible that like that wasn't the case, and like it's kind of the loose ends at the end are like self-explanatory and don't need more in-depth explanation if it is just like natural and non-super, you know, non-spiritual related. So it was okay. It was a very quick, easy read. So I'm not mad at it, but I did start a new book today. It's called Lock Every Door by Riley Sager, my favorite author. I am very happy to be back on a Riley Sager book. I said a couple of weeks ago when I was reading that Charles Don Leah book that I had read one of his books before and was happy with it and was hoping that the rest of his books were going to be just as good. And 20 Years Later was not nearly as gripping as the first book of his I read. So the whole time I was reading 20 years later, I was like, oh my god, I have like four other Riley Sager books on my shelf. I just want to read one of those. He's like my comfort author. He does it every time. He writes the perfect thriller, in my opinion. He tends to write almost all of his books in like split time. So he'll open a book with like right after the climax of the book in present time when like something has just happened to the main character, but obviously there's no context, so you don't like know what's going on, and it's just like a crazy hectic moment, and then he cuts back to the beginning of the story before you like you have to flip-flop back and forth so many times that you don't realize that like pieces are falling into place and like elements are being explained without him like explicitly showing you the explanation, and then you like flip one page and something crazy happens, and like all of a sudden all the puzzle pieces fall into place, and you're like, Oh my god, wait, holy shit, that meant that. I mean, that's literally the definition of a thriller. I it's nothing new, I'm sure, obviously, but I just love the way he does it, it is so seamless and effortless. Regardless, he is fierce. If you are looking for a good thriller, pick up any Riley Sager book, but specifically House Across the Lake, I think I've mentioned it before, one of the best books I've ever read. And for music this week, I have been in a very early 2000s poppy mood. My most listened to song this week has definitely been Pieces of Me by Ashley Simpson. I saw a TikTok the other day with autobiography by Ashley Simpson playing, and I was like, oh my god, I forgot about this album, and have just been diving deep into it. She really just has that perfect pop punky sound down to a science in that album. Every song on it just like injects that early 2000s energy into your veins. It is so fierce. And even though it is not from the early 2000s, my second most listened to song this week is definitely Fuck the DJ by Eli. I don't know if any of you know Eli, but they are a newer artist. I mean, she's been around for quite a while. I think she was pretty big on Vine at one point, actually, uh, when she was much younger. And sh I think she's like 28, probably or 27. She was actually just on Zara Larson's newest album. They released a song called Girls Trip. It is so, so good. But Eli is really going to be one of the new up-and-coming pop divas in my mind. I hope, when I say in my mind, like I hope she's going to get the recognition and the flower she deserves, but she is really harnessing that early 2000s sound so perfectly. It's very similar to After. After is doing it in a more like futuro ergo way, whatever groovy, like funky, like mellow kind of early 2000s sound. And Eli is going for more of that, like very Brittany, very in-sync, very that like late 90s, early 2000s sound. Her fashion for this album, I think it's called Stage Girl the album. Uh, the outfit inspo and the era that she's going for is very like Ashley Tisdale, Sharpe, like Miley Cyrus, like, you know, that skirt over a white jean, and like a sparkly top over like a lacey camisole, and like a sparkly pink fedora with like fingerless gloves. Like it's she has the vision and she is executing it exactly the way it needs to be done. Very excited to see where she goes and what she continues to produce. It's going to be a very fun journey for her. And sort of not 2000s related, uh, but it kind of has a 2000s-ish sound. I've been very into The Precipice by Jesse Mazin or Mason. I don't know, it's M-A-Z-I-N. Uh, she is a newer artist. I found her on TikTok a couple of days ago and have been bumping this song. It is very like Julia Wolf meets like Caroline Polichek almost, but with like a super well, I mean, that's where I'm getting like the early 2000s vibe from is like the Julia Wolf kind of sound because she also draws inspiration from that sort of after sound, also. But she is so gorgeous and she is such a mesmerizing singer. She is really incredible. Can't wait to see what else she puts out. And to finish it off, staying on the pop diva train, I've been very obsessed with You Drive Me Crazy by Britney Spears this week. And this is a good transition into my TV shows for the week because I have been watching a lot of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and I was watching an episode from season four where Brittany gets like zapped in by Sabrina's dad to like put on a performance for her, and then Britney's like in it later at a concert or whatever. But then at the end of the episode, they show a clip from the You Drive Me Crazy music video, and I was like, oh my god, this makes so much sense now. It never made sense to me why Melissa Joan Hart was in that music video, but I guess it was because Britney was on set filming this episode with her, and she was I'm it was a pretty big show at the time, so I guess maybe they did like a trade, like Britney would come do this show, and then Melissa would be in the music video, or maybe they were friends too. Maybe they were closer than I I know they were. I don't know. I didn't do too much deep diving into the story behind it after, but I was just like, oh, this was probably filmed at exactly the same time. That makes a lot of sense. That music video is so cunty. It is, I was talking about it with Liv and Carly this week. They were talking about wanting to go clubbing, and I was like, I just watched the You Drive Me Crazy music video, and like I was thinking the same thing, and how that music video and like P3 and Charmed were the blueprint in my mind of what clubs were supposed to be like, and I'm sure what they were like in the early 2000s, but it is just so not the case and not what they're like now. Uh, but that is actually a great topic of conversation that relates to the run-on sentence for the week. So we will get into that in a minute. Club culture, just going out culture in general right now. But let's wrap up the content corner before we get into that. Like I said, for TV, I was watching Supered and the Teenage Witch a lot this week. I did a huge meal prep. Like I said, I am locking the fuck in with my eating, and I was cooking like seven different vegetables and four different like three different types of protein, and it took me a while to cook. It was like three, four hours in the kitchen, and I put my little kitchen TV out and popped a DVD of Sabrina in, and I watched like six episodes on one disc, and then I went to go switch it to a new disc, and I don't know what the fuck happened, but I literally it was playing, it was on the menu screen. I opened the DVD player, take the disc out, put a new one in, push it back in, and all of a sudden it starts clicking, not spinning the disc, says it can't read the disc, says there's no disc in there. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. It's like broken. I don't know what happened. I don't know what to do. I'm like devastated. I've only had it for like a month and a half, and I'm like, I haven't used it enough. This is ridiculous. I guess I'm gonna try to find somewhere to get it fixed. I can't imagine it's that difficult of a fix because it must just be some like gear that skipped a tooth or something that's you know not spinning the disc properly, or like dust or something like on the laser that reads the disc. I I I don't know. Like it was working one second, opened it, closed it, and it wasn't working. I didn't do anything to it, I didn't smash it, I didn't like jam it, you know, in, I didn't like I nothing happened. I just used it for its intended purpose and it just suddenly broke. So I've been trying not to spiral about it, but I am going to try to get it fixed and I'll keep you updated on that. And I actually saw a couple of movies this week. I went to the theater this week and I saw I Love Boosters and I saw Obsession. So before I get into either of those, if you haven't seen them and you want to see them, click off now because spoilers are on their way. So if you're still here, you signed up for this. Let's get into I Love Boosters, baby, Borean. I was really upset with this movie. Well, honestly, I became a little less upset with it because I was really, really upset and disgusted and I guess disgust is not the word, disappointed in obsession, which I'll get into in a minute. But because I hated obsession so much, it made me like I Love Boosters a little bit more, only because it was less worse, but it still wasn't great. I d had no expectations going to Isla Boosters. I didn't look up the plot, I didn't look up anything about it, so I just went in blind, which is like it's what I like to do with most movies that I'm seeing. And it was just like whatever. I thought it was lacking like a real message. I understand there was a message in there, but like it didn't really like bring it home at the end. Like you didn't really feel moved, you didn't really feel changed, or you didn't have any perspective difference by the end of it. Like it didn't do anything for me. And I understand it was supposed to be like sort of like surrealist and oddball and like theater of the absurd in some ways, and I just thought, yeah, you can do all of those things, but still have a through line of like a serious message that you're trying to get through, and some like real character development and arc, and I just didn't feel that happen. And it was just so all over the place with like the teleporters and the like deconstructors and the it was just like your head hurt from like going back and forth and like where like what what is this new thing? How does this fit into the story? Like, again, it was of course supposed to be oddball and like out there, but I don't know. There's just like better ways to do it, I felt. And again, who am I? I've never made a movie who like it's just my opinion, but I just love Kiki Palmer so much, and I love Demi Moore, and I just wanted it to go somewhere, and it just didn't go somewhere for me. But maybe it was nothing compared to the stinker that was obsession. I don't understand what people are smoking online, talking about how much they love this movie, talking about how unbelievable this movie was, talking about how disturbed they were. They were leaving the theater, throwing up, they were so twisted about it, and they uh left, they couldn't stop thinking about the movie, they can't sleep because of the movie, it was so disturbing, it was so dark, it was so sinister, it was so gut-wrenching. What are we talking about? I went with my brother, and me and my brother have pretty similar opinions on shit like this, and I was really worried that he wasn't gonna be on my side. But when that movie ended and the lights came up, the two of us turned to each other and just went, Well, that sucked. I don't want to get too deep into this movie, but I thought the biggest fault of this movie was lack of taking it there, almost sort of like I love boosters. There was an opportunity to make obsession so sinister and so dark. I thought that Nikki, we could have gone so much deeper into like what love demon was possessing her, or like what was taking over her body, where her actual soul was being held when she was like breaking through and being like, She's asleep right now. Like, it's me talking to you, like, please kill me, please save me, like release me from this. When he calls the number on the back of the one wish willow, and it's the customer service line is like, Do you want to talk to her? And she's like screaming, like, help me, help me, like, get me out of here. Where is she? What is that realm? What is that universe that she's in? How does this spirit or demon or whatever that is now possessing her body, where do they live in that realm? Like, what is the what's the hierarchy in that realm? Like, I just thought it had that potential to like go really dark and really supernatural and really twisted. Who is the guy on the other end of the line for the customer service? Like, what the fuck is this company? Is it related to weapons? Also, I haven't done any research on that. I would like to look into it more, but I also don't because I don't care about this movie anymore. And I like don't like really care to take too much of my time finding out more about it. But like, what the fuck is up with the stick? Like weapons, like you set an intention, make a wish, break it, and then the thing happens. Like, are they in the same universe? I don't think they are. I'm pretty sure this guy was a first-time filmmaker. And I think I'm sure this screenplay was like being written and like production was like in the works when weapons was like coming out, I'm sure. So I doubt it could be the same, but like what a weird fucking coincidence within a year of each other. Like, it's such a similar plot point. I just think it's crazy. And I'm a big horror movie lover, as we know, and I just want to get back to the classics. Like, when I left there, I said to Liam, I just feel like I need to go home and I need to watch Halloween. Like, I need to watch a classic blueprint horror movie where it's chilling and actually scary, and the soundtrack works in tandem with the jump scares, and it just like feels like a full roller coaster of emotion and takes you on a journey. These newer horror movies are all about the jump scares. Obsession was almost like conjuring level wannabe jump scares. Like it was so corny, it was so tired and played out. Every single scare that happened, I saw from a mile away, which I don't want in a m a horror movie. I want to be scared, I want to be taken aback, I want to be surprised. And every single fucking scene that started, I went, well, this is gonna happen. The way they set everything up, it was just like so in your face and obvious where it was gonna go. And the hints that they would drop at the beginning of a scene. I think I'm assuming the big like, oh, I left the movie theater throwing up part of the movie is when he eats the cat sandwich and he she cooks his cat. That was so obvious. It was so obvious that that was gonna happen. And the gasps that I heard in the theater, I was like, hello, were any of you paying attention the whole rest of this scene, like or the whole rest of this movie? Like, I don't know. Maybe I just need to like go in a little bit more brain dead to these movies and like not look for but I wasn't looking for bad things in this movie. I only heard great things about it. I was really excited, I was hopeful and like not looking to shit on it. I was really excited, and as soon as we were like off to the races, I was like, what is going on? Like this was just nothing like my expectations and not something I want to see again, and something I just don't understand the hype that it's getting. I love everyone, I know we all have different opinions, and we all have different likes and things that pique our interest. So love to y'all that enjoy this movie, but I cannot say that I enjoyed a second of this movie. Well, that concludes it for the content corner this week, guys. So let's jump into the run-on sentence. What am I gonna be bullshitting about this week? Well, glad you asked. I have been thinking about this topic for quite a while now, but it has really been prevalent in the last few days. I was in the city and we were talking about clubbing, like I said, and wanting to go out to the club, and we just started talking about people of our generation and just people in general right now, how they're acting, how they're moving through the world. And my run on sentence for the week has to be: people are way too self-conscious and worried about how they are being perceived in the world by others. It has been a growing issue for like the last 15 years, I would say. I of course think the birth of social media was the cornerstone of this issue. Having more access to other people's lives and comparing yourself to people that you don't even know, parasocial relationships, just constant access and just opinions on other people's lives and the things other people do, and the facade and the front that they're putting up on their profiles is just so toxic and so draining and so unhealthy. And we got introduced to it really young as a generation, we didn't really know any different, and I think we are seeing a really sad development of that life of comparison as we get older. People are so self conscious, and I I I can say that I am too for sure. I everyone is a little self conscious in some ways, but it Just so obvious to me when I go into like a coffee shop or a grocery store or any sort of social scenario. You can literally see it on people's faces when they're like looking around and thinking, like, oh, how do I look to these people right now? Like, am I giving? Is it giving dura? Like, am I how am I being perceived? Do I look fat? Oh my god, like, does my outfit hold up in this room? Like, oh my god, that person's outfit looks so cool. Like, do I I feel like I don't look cool enough? Like, we've we're starting to lose the ability to just like be cool with people and go up to someone and be like, oh my god, love your jacket. Like, I I would love to have conversations like that with people, but I've become almost jaded myself in some ways because A, I know that I would be awkward in an interaction like that if someone were to say it to me, and I have been when people do, because I'm sometimes so in my head in a social scenario like that where I'm like, ugh, I don't look good enough, or like, oh my god, there's so many cool people here, like they probably don't think I'm cool. You know, just get into that mindset. And then when somebody does say something like that, it's so normal to like self-deprecate and be like, oh no, girl, like you look so cool. Instead of just like appreciating each other and being like, Oh my god, thank you so much. Love your outfit too. Like, or don't say that if you if you don't actually love the outfit, don't lie. But I just I feel like it's become worse over the years, where people have become almost more disingenuous, not because they don't have it in them, but because they're like afraid of coming off like uncool or cringe. I think that's the biggest issue is the cringe factor. People don't want to seem like strange because judging people online and judgment in general has just become such a normal thing that people just assume everyone is judging them at all times because everyone is low-key judging everyone themselves at all times. So I think we really just need to come back to like a sense of community and like supporting each other. And I can totally do this myself too. Like, we need to get off the fucking phone and we need to come back to like genuine human connection in person. When Liv and Carly were talking about wanting to go clubbing, I was like, I cannot imagine what clubbing feels like right now. I mean, I haven't been to like a proper New York club, and I just I'm like, you guys want to go to that? Like you've been recently. Like, is it not awful? Like, I I just feel like the people I see all the time in a scenario is like I just feel like people would be so unfun and in their heads. Like, I feel like no one would be dancing. I feel like no one would really be like themselves and loose and you know free. And I I just kept thinking about like the Britney Spears uh You Drive Me Crazy video, like that promise in my head of like what clubbing was supposed to be like, dancing, fun, energetic, lively, connected with the people around you, because they were vibing without phones. So I'm like, how can you have fun in a club these days or have fun in a situation like that when everyone's on their phone or like worried about what they're gonna post and how they're gonna look cool in a club like that? And like I just feel like people would be so t uptight and like stiff in a club, and they say no, or not totally, like, yes, there's some people like that, but there's also people looking to have fun like themselves. So I don't know. I guess I just need to like get out there and live more uh before I have more of an opinion on this. But and like maybe I'm totally wrong, you know. Maybe people aren't again, I can't speak for every person on this earth. I'm making a big blanket statement for like our generation and like just people in general right now, but I don't think I'm totally out of pocket when I say I feel like people are more self-conscious than ever because of social media and because of just being online and having eyes on you at all times. And it makes me sad to see when I see people in public just clearly being bogged down and like limiting themselves because they're afraid of how others are going to perceive their actions. When baby, like RuPaul says, if they ain't paying your bills, pay them bitches no mind. And if I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, and I'll say it until my last breath. Get off the damn phone, plug into the world, get analog, ground yourself, and come back to reality with me on this journey. I am with you. I'm working along that journey myself. Let's get back to vibing with no phones. Please and thank you. Well, that's all I got for you this week, guys. Thanks for tuning in for yet another episode of Run on Sentence, and I will see you next week with a guest. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows? You'll just have to tune in to find out for the 18th episode of Run on Sentence. Bye y'all. You know what? And another thing.