Ep. 18 : Brooklyn Baby

Catch me in these city streets baby, we Brooklyn bound!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Are you from New York even? What's up, y'all? It's me, Jack, and I'm back with the 18th episode of Run on Sentence. You know what? And another thing. My, oh my, what an eventful week it has been. We had a roller coaster of emotional turmoil go down this week, but it led to a very, very exciting feat and win and conclusion and really exciting new development that came out of it. I said I wasn't going to talk about this like new developing secret that was in the works that I thought was going to take a few more weeks to be finalized, but I am going to talk about it now because by the time all is said and done and finalized with this thing, I will have already told my job about it, and it won't be a secret to those people that are at my job currently that are listening to this. So I have a huge announcement to get into. So let's jump into it. What's new, Jackie Pooh? Well, I have some of the most exciting news of my lifetime. I am moving to Brooklyn. Brooklyn! That's right. I'm gonna be up in these city streets. Me and my friends Michael, Harry, and Tyler, who were all friends from elementary school and high school, are all moving to Bushwick. We're going to be Bushwick Trade, and we couldn't be happier. We found the most amazing apartment. It was everything that we could have wished for, and a bag of chips. And it took a monumental effort to get it and to get approved and get everything finalized. But we got her done and we are moving in July 1st. I don't know what to say. Like I've like I said, I've had like such an emotionally draining week from fighting for this apartment so hard. We got denied like three different times, and we had given up all hope. We literally put all our cards on the table. We were in it to win it, and we lost like three times. It was so defeating. We were really like walking away with our tail between our legs. It was so sad, actually. And we came out on top, baby. We applied on Monday, which is like it's Saturday today, so almost a week ago. And it was June 1st. They listed this amazing apartment, prime Bushwick territory, steps away from the train. It is literally on the corner of our street. That is probably the part I'm most bricked up and excited about because, like the fact that I can come home from work or come home from going out, get off the train and be home. Like, I don't gotta walk anywhere. Like it's right there. I don't gotta walk like 25 minutes up the block to my house. That is the ultimate luxury, but there's plenty of other things to love about it. We applied like day of listing after Michael went to go see it, like 30 minutes after it was posted. And we applied at 5,000, which was the asking price. It's a four-bedroom, one and a half bath, fierce, ridiculously low ball price for the area, the amenities, everything about it. So we hopped on that bitch. We were like the first application. And then overnight, while we were waiting to get approved, we woke up the next morning and we saw that they upped the rent to 5,500. So we texted the broker and we were like, Mama, what is this? And he was like, Yeah, that's what they want. Sorry. Does that take you out of the running? And we were like, kind of, but like we want this bad. So we ran some numbers, we divided up the rooms, how we would each spend, you know, on different rent tiers. And we came to the agreement that we wanted it bad enough that we would go above our budget and make it work. So we said, Yes, let's go on 5,500. And he was like, Great, I will let them know your application looks great. And then the next day they came back and said, Hey, somebody offered six thousand, you guys are out. And we said, I'm sorry, what are we buying a house? What do you mean offering more than asking price? Who was paying like offering to pay six grand in Bushwick above asking price? I mean, we kind of ended up offering that later, but we'll I'll get into that. But I just don't believe that there was ever anybody else bidding on it at that price. I think they realized they had lowballed too hard and they got so much interest in it the first day it was posted that they were like, fuck, we need to ask for more. And once we like so quickly agreed to the $500 upcharge, they were like, wait, let's see how much more we can get out of these kids and made up a $6,000 offer to get us to like offer more because the landlord came, or not the landlord, the broker came back to us and said, Hey, yeah, this application looks a little shaky though, that's offering $6,000. Why don't I go back and offer $5795 for you guys? And we immediately texted back and we were like, sorry, I think it's a little disrespectful to be asking us to pay more at this point, especially after we already agreed to a $500 increase from the price that we applied at. And he came back to us and he was like, Well, sorry, then it's a no. And we were like, um, okay, what if we sign a two-year lease at $5,500? Because we can tell we're gonna love this apartment bad and we're not gonna want to just spend a year there. So he came back to us and he's like, No, I don't think that's gonna work. But I could try to offer a two-year lease first year $5,500, second year $6000. So we were like, Yeah, go ahead, try that. I doubt it's even gonna work. And it didn't for like two more days, and I think they literally said no to it again. And then yesterday morning, Friday morning, they called and they said, you know what, this $6,000 application is just being too weird and too difficult. We want to get it off the market. Well, we're assuming they wanted to get it off the market within the week, and they were like, You guys got it, we'll draft up the lease and send it tonight. When I tell you, we were like hyenas, like screaming and jumping for joy. It was the most amazing feeling in the world. Like, imagine going from like rock bottom and skyrocketing to the top in an like an unforeseen instant. It was so emotional, it was so just full of gratitude, full of like vitriol, and oh my god, it was so amazing. We could not be more excited. We don't love having to pay $6,000, but we all agree that the apartment is actually worth $6,000. Like we understand why they would want that. And the apartment was listed for $6,000 for over a month before it came down to $5,000 and we bid on it. But sorry, we are allowed to feel the type of way because we applied at $5,000. That's on you for lowballing so hard and then realizing you fucked up and should have gone higher. Um, but we are in agreement that the apartment is worth $6,000. So we don't have a total problem paying that. Uh, and we honestly kind of unintentionally secured ourselves big time because if they were being this sneaky and like finicky about like nickel and diming and getting more money out of us now at this lower price, like imagine how much they might have tried to charge us in a year had we not locked this in. Like they might have tried to get $6,500 for the apartment next year and then booted us out if we didn't pay that. So now we guaranteed that they cannot charge us more than $6,000 for this apartment next year. So we kind of goaded on accident, though. It was not intentional. We were just like trying anything to get approved and get this apartment, but we unintentionally like really secured our financial safety in a year, even though we're paying more money. We at least know that we're paying it and know what we have to like save up for and expect for another year, and we won't be blindsided by them trying to charge us even more than that in a year. So everything is always fucking working out, baby. I am so beyond elated. I really can't even express it. I am so sorry to do my work on my vineyard out here. I am gonna put in my notice this week. Actually, we are waiting to sign the lease in a couple of days. We were supposed to sign it on Friday, uh, yesterday. And they got back to us later in the evening on Friday, and they were like, hey, so we're Jewish. We were trying to get this done before sunset, but it's it didn't happen and it's Shabbat, and we can't work again until Monday. So we will get you the lease on Monday. So I was gonna tell work this weekend and give them like a three-week notice, but now I'm gonna wait until the lease is signed and I'm in person next. So that'll probably be like Wednesday, and give them like a two and a half week notice. I need to make my last day the day before New York City Pride, even though it's not gonna be July yet and I won't be able to like stay in my apartment. I need to go to Pride and I forgot to take off for Pride, so I was like, this is perfect timing. I can put in my notice and quit literally the day before the parade, so I can just go in. But yeah, I'm gonna go to Pride, I guess probably stay over with Miss Carly Lynn and then come back the next day home and gather my things, turn around two days later and move into Brooklyn for good. I will never need to crash in Carly's bed again unless we're having a good old slumber party. But now she can come and crash in my bed too, because we will be a 25-minute walk from each other. Hi, what do you mean? It's going to be the time of my life. I am just so excited to do all of the things that I see pop up so last minute on like Instagram or any of my feeds, like drag shows, uh, you know, drag race queen coming to do a guest spot at $3 bill last minute. Like, I'm going to be down the road from $3 bill. Maybe I can go every night if I wanted to. Like all of the like art galleries and film screenings and stuff that my friends do that, like I'll see posted last minute. And I'm like, that's a whole ordeal to get in there and go see. I can't do that. Like, I have work. I can't just like I won't make it in there in time after work, even if I drove straight there. So guess what? I'm gonna be able to just go and I will be able to just like stop by after work. It's going to be so amazing. The opportunities that are going to be available to me are endless compared to what's out here on Long Island. And the theater that I'm about to be seeing is going to be ridiculous. Catch me in the motherfucking Palace Theater seeing Oh Mary for a second time with the Megan Stalter. I could actually start screaming at the top of my lungs right now with how excited I am that this bitch is going to be on Broadway, especially playing Mary. Meg Stalter was born to play this role, or should I say this role was written for her? Like the two people in my mind, besides Cole Scola, obviously, Blueprint and Creator, but the two people in my mind that were the only other best options for this role besides Cole were Jinx, who has already done it twice, and I've seen, and Meg Stalter. Like this is everything to me. So catch me up in that theater, laughing my ass off for 90 minutes at this insanely funny bitch doing her Broadway debut. It's gonna literally change my life even more than this apartment, and I can't wait. But you will be hearing a lot more about this move in the coming weeks. I'm gonna have to really start packing shit up and figuring out what I'm gonna be able to bring. I'm not even gonna be able to bring like a fraction of the shit that is in this room. I have so much stuff. Obviously, you know me, hoarder till the day I die, and I have so many collectibles and just tchotchkis and bullshit everywhere. I've always known if I move to the city, I'm not gonna be able to take even a like sliver of it. So it's really all for like a future house, of course. But I need, I am so attached to the things I have. So like I'm gonna need to do some real pondering and decision making on what I'm going to bring with me. I will obviously update y'all along the way, and there will be so many more guests coming you don't even know because now I'm gonna be a train stop away from all my friends, and it'll be so easy to find people to film with. I cannot express how life-changing this is gonna be. I don't even think I realized how much I missed community and how much I've missed just like living around your peers and people your age and like thriving, artistic, motivated, go-getting people, which was exactly what I had at Purchase. And purchase was just such an amazing breeding ground for creativity and artistry, and I have not had any of that in the last four years since moving back home, and I've kind of just like survived my way through it and like put blinders on so I didn't feel like that lack of it's you know, the artist's artistry presence in my life. And I now that I know I'm going to Brooklyn, I have like senioritis bad at work, at home. I'm just like, get me out of here. Like I can't get there soon enough, but I need to like rebel and relish and really appreciate these last couple of weeks home in this era of my life that is ending. It has been such an amazing time. I started the podcast in this room. I mean, I've grown up in this room. I literally grew up in this house and in this town and came back to it after college and developed a whole new passion for wine and met so many new friends through the wine industry. And I am so grateful for the time that I've had here after college and the things I've done with my time, and like the bliss of not paying rent and the savings I've been able to acquire, and everything about it has been so undescribably beneficial and life-changing. But I am so ready to like shed the cocoon again and let my freak flag fly and like get back to a queer artistic community where I can just like flourish and maybe fucking finally find a man. Oh my god, there are no gay people on Long Island. I am so ready to be around gay people again. I'm just excited for there to be like a dating pool period, you know. But there will be plenty more where this came from. So be on the lookout every week for new Brooklyn baddie updates. And the only other thing new in my life this week, besides that incredible amazing news, is I had my second beach day of the year and I got extremely burnt. If you can't see me, if you're not watching the YouTube video of this. Well, at this point, it's settled down a little bit. I'm also being dramatic. I didn't get severely burnt, I got burnt. Uh, but it definitely is not the worst sunburn I've ever had. But it's mostly on my face because this is the first time I went to the beach, well, in the last like five years without a hat on, because I did my hair and I wasn't planning on going in the water, so I like just didn't wear a hat. And my face was so used to being covered by shade and a hat that it was like, oh hi, what is sun? I put face sunscreen on too, twice, and it it just didn't help. You can literally see like where the wig hair was like sitting on my forehead, and it it's like a white streak and then red, and my nose got so burnt from wearing sunglasses and like the glasses reflecting the sun onto my nose. It also made a very distinct burn line across the lace of this wig. So when I change it next week, if the color hasn't subsided more and like kind of tanned, there's going to be a very drastic line across my forehead. So it's gonna be very easy for me to line up and put my wig on next week because once I take it off, I don't have to make sharpie marks along the hairline that I want to put the wig down on. I will have a clear sunburn line to show me exactly where it was this week. With all that being said, let's jump into the hoarder haul. This is probably gonna be one of the last few hoarder hauls that I do, at least to the magnitude that I do them, because there's no savers and island thrifts and like big actual, like semi-affordable at this point. You know how I feel about the current thrift prices, but compared to city thrifts, which are like astronomically expensive for no reason, the savers and island thrift are pretty affordable. And there really aren't shops like that in the city, so I'm not gonna be able to go to savers and my usual spots every week, especially because I won't have a car either, so I can't go to like western Nassau ones either. So that'll be really sad in a sense, but at the same time, good for my wallet because I won't be spending money on new BHSs and CDs every week. But like that's the thrill of the hunt. Like, there's new stuff every week, and like if you don't go, you will miss out on something that you would have never found or might never find again because you weren't there that week. So, I mean, that's literally what addiction is, I guess. Like, but I am sad that that will probably decline a little bit, at least the physical media portion of the hoarder haul. You know, you always gotta be buying something and some facet. So, but with paying rent, I won't be spending frivolously on whatever. So I will probably not have as much to update on for the hoarder hall each week, but we will see. That might also not be true. I might win the lottery and be fucking buying everything under the sun. But the few like VHS stores and physical media stores I've been to in the city are stupid expensive, so I probably won't be frequenting those either. And I have pretty minimal storage space to begin with, so I'm going to have to leave like a giant portion of my collection at home anyway. So I'm gonna have to like really, really carefully pick what I want to bring with me, and I don't need to be growing my collection when I have like maxed out space to begin with, with like there's just no place to put new tapes because I'm going to be bringing the most that I am able to from what I already have, which is gonna be even a really small fraction of what I have. But we might as well enjoy the last few hoarder hauls in the next couple of weeks the way we know and love them. So we are gonna start off with some non-physical media items this week. One of them is a very exciting Facebook Marketplace find. This is gonna be posted before Father's Day, but I don't think it's a problem because my dad doesn't watch this, so he'll be missing it anyway. Uh, I got my dad a Father's Day present. I got him a kegerator off Marketplace. So it's a mini fridge with a rounded door on the front that, you know, makes it slightly wider, and it fits small kegs, medium kegs, and large kegs, and it has a tap running out the top of it to pour beer, obviously. And the people were so nice that I picked it up from. My dad loves Blue Moon, and that's what I was planning on getting him a keg of to put in there once I set it up. And I was gonna look online for a blue moon tap handle. There's plenty on like Poshmark and stuff, and this one had one attached already. I was like, this could. Be more fucking perfect. So I went to go pick it up. The people were so sweet. They gave me a CO2 can for the tap full already. So I don't have to buy that. And they gave me an empty keg. So when I go buy a Blue Moon keg at the beer distributor, I don't have to pay the $30 keg deposit because I'm returning one that they gave me. How sweet is that? So very excited. I mean, the keg is stupid expensive. It's $162 for a small keg of beer, but I guess it's supposed to be like eight cases, like eight six packs. And a six pack is like 20. So that's like 160 plus tax, 162. I guess it makes sense. But shit, I didn't really think that through when I thought of the gift. The fridge itself was 250, which is not terrible. But I was like, damn, this is gonna be an expensive Father's Day gift. But I guess I won't be around for his birthday since I'll be in Brooklyn. So this is kind of like a double whammy, two and one. My brother's gonna go half on it with me, also, because I was like, I asked him if he wanted to, because I knew it was gonna be at least a little nice chunk of change, but it's a little bit more than I even thought it was in the first place. But it's gonna be a very sweet gift. He's going to fucking love it. I already know not to pat myself on the back, but I am an amazing gift giver. It is like my love language, it's something I am so good at and something I love doing so much. I love hyper-personalizing a gift for somebody. Ooh, that just even gave me a better idea. If I were to get him something else for like his birthday or Christmas, getting him a custom beer tap handle with his like name engraved on it or something, or he's a retired police officer, maybe like with like a badge of his, like in like resin or something, like as the tap handle. I don't know, like something super personal and unique and one of a kind. It's what I love to do. And this is like one of the best gifts I've given. I feel like it's gonna have I hope it has a great reaction from him, and I know he's gonna love it, so I'm not worried. And I also bought a really cute Rolling Stones yellow sleeveless t-shirt from Walmart. They had some cute clothes selections when I was there this week, looking at a mattress and like a bed frame and a small desk and stuff for the apartment that we hadn't been approved for yet. But I was just manifesting and deciding in my mind that we had it already. So I was like, hmm, let me get the measurements on like these things that I need to get for this apartment because I have a queen size bed. I cannot be bringing that to Brooklyn. I need a full, and I obviously need a bed frame for that also. And then I need, like I said, I need the smaller desk, but I'm looking for one on marketplace. But I was there looking for that and stumbled into the clothes section, and this shirt was just like so like big and comfy looking, and I loved the like vibrant yellow. I don't have any yellow t-shirts, and it just really stood out to me, and it was like 12 bucks. They also had like rainbow tie-dye ones for pride, and I was like, girl, get out of my face. Come on, Walmart Pride collection. It was so stupid. But for VHS's this week, I actually didn't buy any at the thrift store. Me and my coworker Kat, shout out girl. You don't deserve the shout-out though, because you don't fucking watch this. But we had a sleepover, a little slumber party after work on Sunday, and she was giving me a tour of her house. I'd never been over her house before, and she was like, Oh my god, bitch, let's go to the basement. You can go through all of my childhood VHSs, take whatever you want. Like, I don't use any of them. Please have them. So I did some digging and we found four really cute items. We found a short film called Little Witch. I have seen clips of this in like those Halloween early 2000s nostalgia videos I was talking about in The Run on Sentence a couple of weeks ago. And it looks really cute and kitschy. It kind of gives me like scary godmother vibes, totally different animation, but like that kind of childhood Halloween animated, like mini movies. So we will give it a watch next spooky season, which is coming up so fast, that's insane. But we also found a classic Scooby-Doo episode. It is Which Witch Is Which? I haven't looked up scenes from it. I'm sure I've seen it before, but I just based on the title, don't know the plot point of the episode. I could have read the back. I only have what's new Scooby-Doo episodes on DVD and like the classic Scooby-Doo movies on VHS. So I'm excited to have like a OG Scooby-Doo episode by itself on VHS. So that is really cute. And if you are a super fan and you can remember back to the episode I talked about Pajmina, Carly's kitty, when Carly first got Pajmina, and I was talking about all the names that she was between choosing for her, and when she eventually landed on Pajmina, she got the name from an animated series of a bunch of little hamsters, and I couldn't remember the name at the time, but turns out the name is Ham Taro. And I found an episode of Hamtaro on VHS in Kat's Basement. It is the cutest cover. There is a little picture of the Pajmina hamster on the back. It is super cutesy bootsy. I am gonna wait to watch it with Carly one night. You know, one of my first nights in Brooklyn when we're having a Kiki. And the PS de Resistance of Cat's collection that I took home was an episode of Bear in the Big Blue Motherfucking House, baby. I was so obsessed with Bear in the Big Blue House growing up, and this is such a goaded S tier find. I was like, baby, you don't even know what you're sitting on here in this basement. This is gold. Um, I mean, maybe not to others, but to me, it was so exciting, and I am so thrilled to have it in my collection. Let's move on to some DVDs. We found a pretty decent amount of DVDs this week. I found two movies. They were Hellboy and Fantastic Mr. Fox. I haven't seen Hellboy in years. That was just like one of those T That was just one of those movies that was like always on TV, I feel like, and I watched it like in pieces here and there over the years. I don't know if I can say I've ever watched it start to finish. So happy to have that in my collection. And Fantastic Mr. Fox is obviously Wes Anderson. Love me some Wes Anderson, but I like debated not getting it because Wes Anderson is so new that pretty much all of his stuff is in widescreen, and I don't love widescreen, especially on my little CRT TV, but it is what it is. I was like, I still want it in my collection, so I picked that up. And all of the others that I found were TV series. I found season three of Niptuck. I think I have season two. I wouldn't have bought the season three if I didn't have season two, and I was really confident I did, but I don't see it in my bookshelf here. I have season one for sure. Maybe I just put season two like in the garage storage of tapes that I have, but I don't know why I wouldn't have just kept it with season one here with my other TV shows. So if I don't have it, I guess I gotta be on the lookout for season two. Because like, what's the point of having one and three if I don't have the second one to watch in order? Because I've never really I've never watched it start to finish. So if I were to start it, I'd want to keep going. I also found season one of Monk. I have never watched Monk before. I have no one in my life that has watched it or, you know, referred me to watch it other than my favorite ASM artist, my girl Grace V ASMR. She is probably like the first person I ever watched do ASMR, and she is my homegirl. She has stayed with me for years and years. I love her videos. And her and her twin sister Maddie, Mad's ASMR, are big monk fans. They've done like ASMR videos of like their DVD collection and like just them chatting about their favorite movies and stuff and TV shows, and they always bring up Monk. It's one of their favorite shows. So I was like, you know what? Let me throw this in my collection and give it a go one day. I also found the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Christmas episode on DVD. I love Always Sunny in Philadelphia, as I've discussed before. And I was like, what a perfect thing to add to my Christmas collection for the holiday season. So picked that up real quick. And I also found the Naked Brothers Band Polar Bears episode. I don't know how long the episode is. I'm sure it's like a longer, like short movie, longer episode kind of thing. But I can't remember it from like when the show was on. I was a big Naked Brothers band fan growing up. Me and my cousin Emily, that was like our show that we watched together. And Emily is getting married this year. Shout out, girl. I don't know if you watch this consistently, but she is getting married next spring. She just got engaged. She's doing like a less than year from engagement wedding, which I live for. Get it done. Why wait? And her bachelorette party is in October in New Orleans. So I was like, wait, this episode takes place in New Orleans. This would be such a cute thing to like bring with me and watch while we're there together. Like a little full circle moment, like us watching Naked Brothers band together in New Orleans for her bachelorette party in an episode about New Orleans. Like could be so cute, but it depends on if the Airbnb has a DVD player, or else that would be pointless. And the last DVD we found was probably one of the most exciting things I found in weeks. It is season six of The Real Housewives of Orange Motherfucking County. I am the biggest OG Housewives fan. Like, not the newer seasons, except one of the newer seasons, which I will get into in the content corner, but the OG franchises of Housewives are elite reality TV. I can't really say that season six of OC Housewives is notable in my mind. It doesn't have like the most iconic girls on it. It has Vicky, it has Tamara, and then that's kind of it for me when it comes to like my queens. So the it's just a really fun thing to have on DVD and like put on in the background. It's gonna be something me and Carly definitely watch together just while we're like cutting up and kiki and so definitely had to put into my collection. But I didn't even realize the housewives were like on DVD, so I'm definitely going to try to manifest finding more of those. And for CDs, we only picked up one this week. It was pretty slim pickings for some reason. Usually I have much better luck, but you can't win them all. I picked up 1459 by Sugar Ray. I really only know one song off this album, but again, it's just nice to have an album to like put on in the background. And as long as you know one of the songs on there, it's worth giving it a full listen through. That is all I hoarded this week, though. So with that being said, let's jump into the content corner for music this week. It might be a little corny, but it has been the number one most played song in my life the last 24 hours. I played it the whole ride to work this morning, some of the ride back, and I've been playing it like the last two hours since I've been home before I filmed this, like getting everything together and ready to film. It is Brooklyn Baby by Lana Del Rey, my girl. Ugh, I know. So corny, so ridiculous, because I'm that's me, baby. I'm a Brooklyn baby, soon to be in these city streets. And listening to the song on repeat the last 24 hours has reminded me what a fucking trailblazer and tastemaker and amazing, unfathomable artist, Lana Del Reyes. She literally carved her own path in such a fierce way. Her sound is so distinguishable, it is so unique, it is so Lana. You can't touch her. Ultraviolence, that whole era is so like branded in my heart that I can't even express like the feelings it makes me feel when I listen to it. Shades of cool, like every song from that era is just so like cool. It's so cool sounding, and she is just the fucking queen, baby. I've also been listening to Give Yourself a Try by the 1975 a lot the last week. It's like one of the 1975's perfect hybrid songs of like upbeat, synthy, poppy, but also like really flowy and mellow, and just really is smooth and easy to listen to while still like pumping you up at the same time. It is the perfect balance. I've also been loving What a Feeling by One Direction. I am so in love with Made in the AM, which is so unfortunate. Well, not unfortunate that I'm in love with it, but it's just so sad how good that album is without Zayn. Like, I think everyone was expecting their first album without him, well, first and last, without him, to not hold a candle to their other works because maybe like a piece is missing. But honestly, Made in the AM has probably like four of their best songs of all time. Hey Angel, What a Feeling, History, Drag Me Down, maybe even more. It is so, so good. I mean, I thought four was gonna be a really hard album to beat, but like they gave four a run for its money. Obviously, there's oh, but midnight memories to I mean, okay, I'm not gonna go too deep down the One Direction rabbit hole. They're all good, but what a feeling has been bumping the last few days. And my last song for the week has gotta be Buzz Me In by Remy Wolf. I completely forgot about this song. I put on a random radio at work the other day. I think it might have been like a it wasn't just a Japanese house radio. Oh, it was a radio off of the smiley face Japanese house song, and Buzz Me In played on this radio, and I like had a like PTSD in a good way moment where I was like, oh my god, I totally forgot how amazing this song is. It's so high energy, it just like injects like happy, jumpy energy into your veins, and I don't like stand Remy Wolf. I love most of her work, but like she can be a little corny sometimes, but like I love corny at the same time, so like I'm not hating on Remy whatsoever, but she doesn't have any like serious music, at least that I know of that I've listened to. And I feel like she could show a little bit more range. I feel like she has it in her for sure. Maybe I'm totally wrong though, and I just don't know her discography that way. And maybe it is totally the case that she has more depth that I'm just not seeing. So maybe I got a deep dive into Remy Wolfmore. And for movies this week, I only saw one movie in theaters. Not that I go to the movies every week, but I have the last two weeks. And mind you, this movie was far better than the two I saw last week. And if you follow me on TikTok, you can see nobody fucking agrees with me about my opinions from last week's movies, specifically obsession. I am getting raked through the fucking coals on TikTok in my comments from people completely wholeheartedly disagreeing with my opinion on the movie. I mean, baby, I don't give a shit. Thank you for the engagement. Any press is good press, like keep the comments and the views coming. But there's a lot of tasteless bitches out there who got a lot to say as their little keyboard warriors, you know. But the movie I saw this week was backrooms, and this is what I want out of a modern horror movie. If it's not going to be blueprint classic, it needs to be wacky and mysterious and funky and weird, like this. This was the type of movie where like I didn't need everything tied up in a nice little bow because the concept itself is ever changing and undefined. Like the backrooms have no answer and they're always evolving and they're always changing, and there is no finish line. Like they go on for infinity, and there is no explanation for them. So that I mean I guess the concept allows it to be more, you know, outside the box and absurd and surreal. But in a sense that but it's expected and it makes sense. So I'm happy with it because it works, because that's what it is. When you try to be like that with a concept that doesn't really fit that mold and needs explanation for it to have finality and like make sense and have substance, then maybe you gotta do it right or it stinks. So I was very pleased with backrooms. I thought they did a really great job cinematically. I loved some of the like first shots in the movie in the therapy office. I was like, oh my god, this is the Hollywood lighting I'm looking for. It's not totally that old style, but it's the closest to what I'm looking for. It was like bright saturation, we have color, we can see everything. It is bright daylight with no backlighting, everything is lit perfectly. It doesn't have too much high definition where it looks like I'm in the room, but like is clear enough where it's still modern, obviously. I thought it was a really beautiful film, just aesthetically, uh, in many ways. And I thought the set design was really fierce. The backrooms were so eerie and so cool. And I thought the only thing I would have maybe changed a little bit in the movie was the well, obviously, spoilers, don't listen if you haven't watched it, but the sequence where he brings the two kids or young adults down to the back rooms with him, and then like the killing starts to happen, and like that kind of hilarity ensues. I don't really think that whole section was necessary. I wish he had just like immediately brought the therapist down there to show her instead of like having to get the like I don't know. I thought that's where the story was just sort of getting a little not messy, but just like unnecessary. You know what I mean? And like that was wasted time that could have been spent exploring a different theme or like going down a different rabbit hole or explanation for some other more like juicy, meaty parts of the story that the viewer wanted to see. But overall, I was very happy with it. I would give it like four and a half stars, maybe four stars. Yeah, I would highly recommend going to see backrooms. And for TV this week, the only new thing I watched is the new Real Housewives series that I was talking about that actually holds a candle to the energy and the vitriol of the older seasons, and that is The Real Housewives of Rhode Island. Me and Kat binged a bunch of episodes during our slumber party. She's already been like caught up to date for weeks, but I don't have Peacock, and she does, and she gave me her login. So we binged a bunch of episodes, and then I'm gonna watch more later, and it is some good ass reality TV. These women are completely unhinged. Yes, of course, they are like out of touch with reality because they are rich ass real housewives. So I don't, you know, eat up the housewives the way I used to because it's like a little tasteless in some ways. I mean, it always was, but at least they were like so wacky and outside the box that it was like entertaining to watch beyond the wealth. But it's really good so far. These women are ready to fight, they just came in to fight, and they go toe-to-toe, like pretty off the bat. Like there is no lack of drama, they are ready to duke it out, and I think what makes it so real and so juicy is that they all have known each other f since like childhood, or at least most of them have like deep ties to each other. So, like they know the dirty little secrets, they know the skeletons in the closet, they know the buttons to push, they know like the deep dark crevices that are going to elicit reactions from girls when they start poking the bear. So the producers picked a good cast because these girls like know how to get under each other's skin and make good TV. So kudos to you. Bravo. It is probably the best franchise of Housewives to come out since I don't know, probably one of the later seasons of Beverly Hills. I feel like the Beverly Hills cast, like Erica Jane, Lisa Renna, Lisa Vanderpom, Kyle, like that last few seasons with those girls was like the end of the classic Real Housewives era. And then it entered into like Salt Lake City and Potomac and New Cast of New York and New Girls on Jersey, I think, too. At one point, it was just like, maybe we're reheating the nachos. Like, let's get some good bitches up in here. And Rhode Island is doing the damn thing. So very excited to keep watching that. But that about sums it up for the content corner. So let's close out the pod with my new favorite segment, The Run-on-Sentence. What is my run-on sentence for the week? I think it's gonna have to be that there is no right time. Just do it. This is not a Nike sponsorship, but seriously, just do it. Like there is no point in waiting for timing to be right because you like I said two weeks ago, there is only now you will wait forever for something that you want to do to feel completely ready and right to do in this moment. There's always gonna be something that you would change. There's always gonna be something that you wish was different before you do this thing that you've idealized and like fantasized and like done imagery of in your brain. Like you have a perfect way that you expect it to work out and want it to go. And there's always gonna be factors in your head of like, okay, well, I can do it when this happens, or I can do it when I stop doing this, or anything. There is a mountain of reasons why it's not the right time that you can create in your head, and none of it's true. None of it's true, none of it's true. It's BS. They made it up, but for real, like you only have right now. If you want to do something, fucking do it. You'll learn as you go. If you don't think you're prepared for something, chances are you actually are way more ready to do it than you think. You have everything you need to get what you want, always. What is meant for you is meant for you. And if you set your mind to something and you just do it, the universe has to answer and like you will make it work. I have kind of been like a living example of that this year to myself. This has been like my renaissance year. I stopped drinking and smoking and proved to myself that I could do that. And it was one of those there is no right time moments. I was just like, it needs to just be now. I keep saying I want to do this, but there's another wedding, I want to do this, but there's a birthday I have to drink at. It's like, no, there's always gonna be something, there's always gonna be an excuse, there's always gonna be some reason not to do it. So if you want to do it, you have to just commit and fucking do it. This podcast is another example of that. I'm telling you, it was literally 14 years that this podcast or just like some video content in general was sitting on the back burner in my brain, just eating away at me, being like, I really want to do this, but I don't have the right equipment. I really want to do this, but it's just not the right time. I'm too busy. I really want to do this, but but nothing. All I did was say, you know what? Enough is enough. If I really want to do this, then I'll just turn the camera on and do it. And here we are 18 episodes later, 18 weeks of this. That is just so insane to me because of how long I put it off and how easy and fulfilling it's been. It's the perfect example. And same with eating healthier right now. You just gotta pull the trigger when thought comes to you. If an idea sparks in your brain, that is a message from your higher power and your inner voice and your inner being giving you a message. It's literally telling you, hey, maybe you do this thing. And if you don't act upon it, then you're wasting the message. I had the impulse to start eating healthier and start losing weight. And instead of being like, uh, yeah, and questioning that impulse and saying, Yeah, but like I have this thing that I want to eat at next week, or you know, I want to be big, like and I have like an event in a couple of weeks that like I know I'm gonna like eat the house down and like I can't like you know, structure myself for the next couple of weeks just to like blow it off on that. Like, of course, excuse after excuse, just do it and make it work if you really want to do it. If it's something that you actually want to set your intention toward and listen to that, you know, message that comes through, you're gonna make it work and you're gonna do it and you're gonna feel good about it because you're committing to your desires and you're doing the damn thing. And hello, look at this apartment. I was so not planning on moving this year. And when the opportunity arose, instead of questioning it like I have for years at this point, I just said, you know what? Fuck it, yeah. Let's start looking. And I could have put so many hurdles up. I could have been like, what am I gonna do for work? What if I can't find a job? What if we don't find the right apartment? What if I don't like my roommates? I mean, love you boys, I know I like you, but I, you know, you never know what's gonna happen. I've never lived with any of you before, so that's always a thought in my mind. What if it just doesn't work out? What if it what do you mean? What if it doesn't work out? Everything is always working out. Instead of letting all of those hurdles and roadblocks and limitations get in my way, I didn't even focus on them at all. And I just said, you know what? Yeah, let's go. Brooklyn baby. Everything's always working out. I'm gonna find the perfect job that I would have never been able to even dream of because I wasn't in Brooklyn where the opportunity is presenting itself to me. I can't let the universe open new doors for me and new opportunities if I don't close other doors and cue myself up for new ones to be open. So I'm finally closing this door on this, you know, post-college chapter of my life and living at home and saving up, and I'm allowing the universe to open this new door into this amazing technicolor, like next chapter of my life, Wizard of Oz style, like walking into Oz. I just can't stress it enough. From personal experience, there is never going to be a right time. There is never a perfect timing to jump on a decision or to make a life change or to try something that you've been getting intuitive signals to do, but don't wait. Just get it done. There is only action and reaction, and you can either pull the trigger and take action on the things that you say you want to do, or you can react to the way things pan out after you decide not to do the thing you wanted to do. I just think for me personally, this year has been all about putting my money where my mouth and my brain is, and instead of dreaming up things that I wish I was doing and talking about them, I'm just living them. So, long story short, if there is something that you are dreaming of that you want to do, that you want to have, that you want to pursue, there is no time but now. There is nothing standing in your way. There is no right time. There's only now. Now is the right time. Now is the perfect timing. Get it done. And I'll get off my soapbox now. Thank you so much. Well, that's all I got for you this week, y'all. I am just gonna continue riding this cloud nine high that I have right now, and just really enjoy these next few weeks packing up my things, going through old things and reminiscing and just being really appreciative and full of gratitude for the life that I've lived here and how it's prepared me to enter this amazing next chapter of my life and all the amazing things that are gonna happen because of it. And I'm gonna really revel filming these last few episodes right here in this corner where I started this whole thing. And eventually you're gonna see me in a new spot, in a new location. You're gonna see my new little window behind me. I'm really interested to see how I'm going to fit this chair in the room with everything and configure my new space. But you'll just have to keep tuning in to see and find out. So thank you all so much for tuning in to the 18th episode of Run on Sentence. And for all my new, exciting, ever changing life updates, tune in every Thursday for a new episode. And I'll see you next week with episode 19. Bye y'all. You know what? And another thing.