Video! Plus New York nightlife and people in a hurry

This week we experiment with doing a video episode. Did it work? You decide! Also, Baffler article about being a writer, Helen DeWitt, attacks on Lebanon, New York City nightlife, a Hell's Kitchen-aissance, and people in a hurry

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I don't like this, I don't like this, I don't like this video cast. So hello. We're testing, we're testing something new, that being you. This video format, you know, it's all about video these you know it's all about these days doing everything. Doing everything and video videos coming back. I was just seeing on Twitter the journal has like a 95 person Wall Street Journal has like a 95 person video team. People are hiring, people are hiring video, it's all about video. Video's coming back. We're pivoting to video again. Boom. And with podcasts, you know, every podcast, every podcast is a video podcast now, right? So hello, hi, it's me. It's it's your boy, it's your boy, um, it's your person, and I feel like I have to have some video component. Maybe not have to. I don't have to do anything. You don't own me, phone. Senor phone, you don't own me. Right? Oh. Oh, also I realized I don't think you're supposed to hold it in front of you because I think the mic is designed to be there. The mic, I'm talking about my corded headphones. See, I'm doing something visual. If you're just listening, you can't see what I'm doing. You're only getting half the story. Um my exhalations, we'll get to that later. I don't like those. Uh no, we gotta be doing video, I guess, for maximum engagement, whatever it helps to share on social. What do you share for an audio podcast on social? Even on Twitter, you share the video, right? So we're doing video, we're pivoting to video, we're trying it, we're testing it. I don't know that we're gonna stick with it because already I feel constrained. Already, I mean, this is putter patter, right? And what am I what can I do if I'm holding the phone? Do I have to get do I have to get one of those things that's gonna like hold it in front of me, like like that Janet Jackson video? In dude. That would actually be kind of fun. What if that Janet Jackson video becomes the creative direction for this for this podcast from now on? If you can't see, if you're only getting half the story, I'm holding the phone out stationary in front of me while I sort of dance around. In dude. I thought during pitter patter I would put away my laundry. Uh, but is that a two-hand job? Could be. Could be. So I don't know. Maybe I will do video. I'm actually kind of having fun as I do this. And it seems easy and low stress. How will I put this on social media? I don't know. We're experimenting. We're experimenting, people. We have five five episodes in the can, as they say. Actually already uploaded. Actually already live. Three people downloaded the first episode. Nobody downloaded the rest. That's okay. We're not doing this for the numbers, as they say. As that saucy Santana clip. We're we're you know, we're doing this for the digital streets. We're doing this for you and me. Um we're doing a lot. I don't know. I don't know. We're writing a book. Another book. Yes, book number two. We're working on a sci-fi novel. So many sheets. So many sheets now. Um, no space. Set those aside and figure out where to put them. Um, I'm working on a sci-fi novel. Yes, you might have guessed. Put together the clues. There's been a lot of context clues in the podcast. I'm dropping hints. Dropping hints that I'm wrong, a sci-fi novel, no one's commenting on it. Not cool guys. Not cool people. Um it's fun. You know, it's fun. I enjoy the writing part of writing quite a bit. And I'm not gonna start complaining. Don't worry, that's not where this is going. Not about that. It's just maybe I am complaining. Alright, fine. Sue me. Sue me. Can't a person complain anymore? No, it's just this whole thing where it feels like okay, so I guess what I'm thinking, what's kind of spurring this, is that Baffler article, which mind you, I still have not read. But I've now opened it, actually. I've opened it via the the Twitter website on the phone, because I use the website, I don't use the app. Because I, you know, try to mind my mind my internet hygiene, whatever. Um so it's open there. It's open there, it's in a tab. We're gonna read it. And, you know, I feel multiple ways, but the the clips that I'm seeing of like, oh, you can't be a writer, it's not a full-time job. I think that's the the thrust of the article that again have not read. Um, and part of me is like, okay, well, that's fine. Like, well, I think it's kind of fine. I think where there's a will, there's a way. No profession is ever guaranteed to anyone, you know. I feel maybe it hits harder if like you grew up thinking you're gonna be a staff writer at the New Yorker or whatever, and you know, had tailored your whole career and maybe gone to like MFA programs and whatnot, but you know, ya boy, ya person did not. So I I've never felt like anything was promised to me. So, you know, as I think it does get harder to be a professional writer financially, it I don't feel like I've I'm losing anything that was promised to me. So personally, I don't relate to it. This current I'm really just stuffing this underwear in there. Got this organic underwear to them. Trying out organic clothing. We're gonna get to that at some point as a topic, you and me. Um so I don't feel like anything was promised to me, uh and nothing's lost. So I don't relate to it in that way, and there is, if I'm gonna be totally honest, a teeny bit of me that does kind of roll my eyes at that as kind of being somewhat entitled, you know, entitled to be paid to write, maybe also because you know, because I've always had a a job, I've always had a full-time job. It's it's never been um a majority writing job. I do get to write, I do get to write for work regularly now, um, and that's great, but you know, there've been many years where I was just writing on the side and working other other things, and I've always been writing on the side, so so I don't know. I um it does it does feel a little, I guess, entitled to me that some writers expect that they will be able to just write full time, or they should be able to, though it does sound lovely. I guess it's never been an expectation in my mind for me personally. So that possibility has never been on the radar. So it blipping off some people's radars, you know, boom, boom goes the battleship, is not hitting me maybe as hard as it is others. So I'm just saying this to say I hold space for my fellow writers because what do I not want to do is alienate other writers in my fields who, solidarity, etc. And what I will say that I really do sympathize with, again, with this story that I have not read, but will, but will, click, support the baffler. They do have good stuff. Um, look at this shirt. I got a lot of compliments when I wore this shirt on the other day. My birthday. My birthday was Easter Sunday. I think it's nice. Territory ahead. We're gonna get into that. We're gonna get into Territory Ahead because I did it, I did a little, I'm gonna call it a deep dive. I did a Google search. Um and it's the clothing brand, Territory Ahead. Just explain in place that wasn't clear. And where I really do sympathize with my fellow writers is that I feel like there's this expectation that you're not only a writer, you're you're a one-person marketing team. But you're supposed to be doing the work of like a ten-person marketing team. Cafe comic. Um you know, we we have to have podcasts, which I am enjoying so far, so don't catch me complaining about that. But then, you know, we also have a video, you know, we have to figure out how to do video content, we have to figure out how to do social media, we have to figure out how to put clips on social media, and blah blah blah blah blah. And already, as I'm saying this and feeling like I am become the younger version of Helen DeWitt, the novelist who has gone sort of viral on like literary Twitter because she wasn't she I guess she lives in Amsterdam. I don't know, I haven't figured that part out yet. She's American. Um and she won she won this literary prize that would have given her $175,000. Huge, right? But she needed to get Wi-Fi to do a video call because they record it's cheesy. It is cheesy. They cheesily record all the winners. The video call getting notified, like a reality TV show, like you're going to Switzerland or whatever. I don't think they have to go anywhere, but they record them getting all this notification of being the winner. An example of reality TV infrastructure lives. Read Dream Facades out now. I think I have a copy over there. A copy over there. Should we go get it? Promo. Oh, do you have a copy? It's your boy, it's your person. Um, and Helen DeWitt, I guess, just could not figure out how to get Wi-Fi in Amsterdam, which I think for many people is confounding. You know, it sounds like she has some emotional issues or um, you know, mental health issues perhaps that were hindering her. So we hold space, and it's truly none of my business. But I do kind of feel like in the same way that I think many people were rolling their eyes at her, being like, I gotta get a Wi-Fi. Why writers have to get a Wi-Fi and do these acceptance speeches? And people are like, It's $175, all they needed you to do was just appear on video for like five minutes, probably, and be like, oh my god, I want blah. You couldn't even do that. 175k? Really? People would die for that amount of money. So many writers would. Like, come on, just figure it out. Don't complain about that. And now I feel like there's probably writers out there who were rolling their eyes, being like, oh, I'm sorry, you have to make a video clip. I mean, that's exactly what I people are writing rolling their eyes at that home do it. So, point taken, Jack. Point taken. It's not too much to put a video clip online. It really isn't, it's also kind of fun. I look I got a face for it. My exhalations! Oh my exhalation is that normal? It's not always when I breathe, because I can breathe silently. We're gonna breathe silently, so bear with. Um, and I guess it's only the deep breath and it's like the front part of the nose that you really hear it. I don't know. I guess it's normal. I just heard somebody else do it the other day. You know when I was little, I would laugh like I kept my mouth closed. I don't know why, because I got a I got a nice set of teeth. All naturals, baby. No braces. No braces. Let me knock on wood that I don't jinx my teeth. But yeah, I got a nice set of all naturals there. So I don't know what was going on why I didn't open my mouth. Maybe I was shy. Maybe I was shy. I was kind of a shy child. I'm still a shy adult sometimes, I guess. Not really, let me be honest. Not in the grand scheme of things. I'm actually fairly comfortable in the social situations, except for I think the kind of social situations that everybody feels a little uncomfortable in. Like you walk into a room and everyone knows each other and you don't. Everyone's gonna be a little shy in that, right? I don't think that's shy. I think that's just being human. Um gosh, I'm so happy with these shirts. My territory headshirts. I've gotta put this down. I'm gonna keep rolling. Because you know we don't edit. So I don't know. I don't know, but I am sort of feeling that whole um uncertainty about being a writer. Because it's like I mean, I not do I want to be a writer. I am a writer and I'm quite happy being a writer, but uncertainty about what's the best way to succeed in this avocation, in this calling, in this grand tradition. Paris is burning. Um yeah, because it's like, because I'm on, you know, I'm like very kind of lamely doing the thousand words a day, schedule-ish of writing. So it's, you know, the act of writing, you know, obviously I'm reading a lot of stuff, like both like direct research for this project, and then also, you know, other books, just general books to, you know, keep my brain tingling for style, people who've done similar kinds of topics, how they have approached it, blah blah blah. So I'm reading all that, all the good stuff. And you know, I'm like trying to feed my brain in other ways. Art, movies, all those things we've talked about. Paul Verhoeven! You know, I'm watching well, I haven't watched a Paul Verhoven movie in a minute. Trying to watch um this old sci-fi movie. What is it? It's like supposed to be like the first sort of like modern sci-fi Forbidden Planet, Forbidden Planet. It's beautiful so far, but I'm having trouble getting into it, not attention-wise, but just timing-wise, because I'm doing so much. I don't know. I don't know. I just feel like talking about this is maybe something that people will relate to. There are a lot of writers out there. It is a very weird time to be a writer, maybe. It's always a weird time to be a writer. There's just less and less money in being a writer. And then on top of that, there's a whole AI situation. So there's like potentially even less money in being a writer. I have a friend who's a writer who's looking for jobs, so it's sort of on my brain talking to them every day about like the job search and like what should they be doing, and blah blah blah. So it just feels a little heated, it feels a little dire, the situation. In a way that maybe it otherwise wouldn't. And maybe didn't a month ago. And you know, I'm also doing like book promo, and so I'm very much in it. I'm very much in sort of like the full cycle of being a writer. Like, I have a book fresh out, I have a book that I'm working on that I've mentioned to my agent that they're gonna get a manuscript this summer, which I think is very doable. But will it be good? Who knows? I think it will be. I think it will be. You know, I wrote a fiction manuscript that got me the agent but did not sell. So, you know, I'm a little bit I'm a little bit whatever on that. But I can write so much faster now after having written a book on a deadline. Because you know, non-fiction books, a lot of times you sell the idea for the book, and then they hire you to write it, and usually you don't have that much time unless you're like a star. And I had maybe like 14 months to write it. Maybe I just had like a year and ask, I don't know. It's something like 14 months, which is actually very fast once you start writing, because it's also the research, it's pretty much everything. Um, but it's like a little boot camp, so so now I'm like 70,000-word novel. One do you need it by champ? Tomorrow? No problem. I gotcha. I gotcha. So we'll see. I feel like that's something fun to talk about in here. Is this compelling visuals? Oh, look at my shirt. I didn't dress up for you. I didn't dress up for you, don't expect that. MZF Austin Mexico Design for Austin, which I went to. This is a free t-shirt. Got just wearing around the house. I do dress up a little bit more when I leave the house. Don't you worry. Maybe we'll do fits and fashions at some point. And I'm wearing my Beirut cap because of everything going on in Lebanon being attacked by Israel, as they're saying. Um and uh that sucks. So, you know, I'm donating, you know I'm posting. I'm trying to do all that. But I don't know 100% what else to do besides encourage everybody I know never to vote for another politician who is supporting the country that is attacking Lebanon. Don't support that country in any way whatsoever. Because the US has done too much of it. So it's basically like the US is attacking Lebanon. Which is horrible. Which is really, really horrible. Um so yeah, well, we're not even, I think, gonna speak the name of that country, because why? Because why? Goodness. What a damper. What a damper to the mood. But again, this is real, this is life. This is what's happening. And I guess that's sort of a good transition into what I don't like. Or into things that I don't like. I'm not trying to link the thing that I don't like with that. And what do I not like? What we're 18-19 minutes in. We're getting there. I don't like, and this is controversial. I've said it before. I'm not afraid to be controversial. I truly am not, guys, people, folks, F O L X, New York City nightlife. New York City nightlife. Oh, I'm sorry, let's take the cap off. I still support, still support Lebanon. Um I'm hot. I'm hot. All this putter patter. New York City nightlife. I don't like it. I don't like it. And I actually don't think it's very good. It's much worse than, for example, Lebanon's, in my opinion. Because here's the thing about New York City Nightlife. Sure is there a lot going on. There's so much to do. Blah blah blah blah blah. Stuff that, yeah, maybe some things you really couldn't do anywhere else. Maybe, maybe. Um but it's all a production, it's all expensive, it's all about being on some secret Instagram, being on a list, paying $60 for a ticket, paying $60 for the Uber there, paying $60 for the Uber back. That's not even including if you're drinking or doing drugs, which I also don't do. So it makes it hard also to do all this stuff that starts at like 10 p.m. earliest. Some people are, you know, showing up past midnight. Me? I'm almost 40. I'm 39. I don't want to be. I don't want to be doing all that. I don't want to be doing all that. And I hear you, I hear you saying, Jackie, you don't have to do all that. You don't have to do all that. No one's making you. And it's true. But okay, what I have wanted to do recently, there's no hanger for these jeans. Just fold them up, put them down. Let's heat it. Well, all I want to do recently is dance. I wanted to go out and just dance. You know, book done, book out. Let's just kick up our heels, kick off our heels, let down our hair. Got so much of it, and just have a good time and dance, you know? And I don't mean like go out like for hours and like raise and blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. I just mean go somewhere for a couple hours, maybe with some friends, dance to some music that I like, music that I love. Doesn't have to be ground changing, avant-garde, whatever. It can just be fun music. Dance to fun music, as people have done since time immemorial. You know, just a classic, easy, fun thing. Play some music, shake your booty, and that's it. That shouldn't be so hard. Should that be so hard? I don't think so. And yet, and yet, and yet, and yet, we live in New York City. We live in New York City where I don't even know. It's been so long. I've been out of the game. You know, writing the book, writing Dream Facades. Oh no. Well, you know, it took, yeah, sure, it only took 14 months, but there was the whole pitch process where you have to put together a proposal. That took several months. That took the better part of a year, honestly, between like starting that and um actually getting the book deal. And then after writing it, there's the editing process and the pre-publication process, which was also the better part of a year, honestly. Um actually it was a year, more than a year, maybe, between when I finished the manuscript and it actually coming out. Um so you know, it was like three years, give or take, where I was cloistered away, cloistered away and exhausted. A mixture of the two. A mixture of the two. And you know, it took me out of the game. Even before that. Before that was kind of COVID year, so I wasn't really obviously going out then. And so it really was since like 2019, since I was last in the game, and I was never heavy in the game of nightlife in New York City, at least. You know, I moved to New York in my late 20s after grad school. So by that point, I and my biggest partying years were behind me. Um so yeah, I mean, in my late 20s, uh and to his extent during my early 30s, I did do the going out to the war warehouse parties and listened to the clinkity-clankity music, and you know, paid all that money, and I did dabble in some light drugs. I'm not gonna lie to you, though Red Bull vodka was always my true passion. Um my gosh, I have no hangers left. Um, and you know, I I did that. I did that, but but it had been so long, uh, those parties were gone, the the vibe had changed, blah blah blah. I just didn't know where people go, what to do. And now as I'm investigating, I'm like, it is bleak out there. Everybody talks about how bleak it is about in New York right now, about finding an apartment. Don't move, stay in your apartment, it's terrible out there. Or or dating, people talk about dating, how bad dating is in New York right now. I think what's really bad in New York right now is nightlife. I think nightlife is in crisis. There's nowhere to go just to kick off your heels, cha, let down that hair, sha-sha, and just have a good time. You know, just dance. Just dance and have fun. Just dance and have fun. Hey, gay, gay. Let's not go crazy. It's gotta be gay. I'm not dancing with a bunch of straight people. Sounds disgusting. Um, no offense. But you know what one of my friends did suggest, if a thought had crossed my mind, um Hell's Kitchen. Is is are we due for a return to Hell's Kitchen? You know, for basically the whole time I've been in New York, Hell's Kitchen has been like, oh we need to go there. Sort of the Hell's Kitchen gay, quote unquote, has become a sort of bette noir, I think is the term. Um for many of us, at least. Though we love and light again, two actual Hell's Kitchen gays. I think I I know one, I'm not gonna say who. And he's a delight, at least in capacity that I know him. So we love. We love, but you know, it is kind of a a a a negative negative trope, I guess, to mention the Hell's Kitchen gay. Because, you know, it's been a sign. Excuse me, I burnt, I'm farting. You know why? It's because I'm I'm really into like dairy right now, like cheese and whole milk. Like this very organic. I do a whole I the organic is coming up. We're gonna have to do organic. We're gonna have to talk about organic at some point. Um it's the dairy and the beans. Let's just let's just get that out there. It's dairy and beans. That's I'm gassy, okay? Deal with it, okay? Check please. Um my body rolls. I was trying to do a body roll. It's not working. Um now I'm just hamming it up for the cam. It's your boy, your person. Um yeah, Hell's Kitchen was like what? Like superficial, bratty, kind of generic, kind of basic, basic. Hell's Kitchen was but not just basic, but like toxic, toxic, basic, I guess, if you were to summarize. The Hell's Kitchen gay trope. Toxic, basic, not terribly bright or curious about the world. Um, you know, not they're not artsy like a Brooklyn, like a Brooklyn gay who's, you know, pushing boundaries. I have no idea. Pushing buttons, that's for sure. Alright. Um, and you know, there's plenty of Hell's Kitchen bars and clubs, and I think they all sort of were associated with that trope of the Hell's Kitchen Gay that they're all kind of like basic, toxic, or for like young, basic, toxic, kind of generic people. Um and you know what? I'm wondering if that's kind of what I'm looking for is just like not toxic, but it's sort of a just a basic bar that's gonna play sorry, kind of basic music, or if it's basic, I don't care. I have basic taste. I you know I have Taylor Swift on the list of things that I like to talk about. Um sorry. Cancel me. Um, but I do. And maybe that's what we need. Maybe that's the vibe. Maybe that's the move. As they used to say, in toxic Brooklyn circles, gay circles. What's the move? Maybe Hell's Kitchen is the move. Just for fun. Just for fun. I'm throwing it out there, guys. People. Throwing it out there, people, folks, FOLX. That maybe that's what we should be doing. Am I gonna go? Probably not in the near term. But we're throwing it out there. We're, I guess, you know, it could happen. Look at these things. Look at these orange shades, papaya, papaya's the color. Um yeah. I I want to go at some point, maybe before I go upstate, because you know I'm going upstate in May. Lord's willing. We're going upstate in May, which is like three weeks away at this point. Yeah. You know, you'll be informed. You'll be with me. Will I be doing video upstate? Do they do video upstate? Is that allowed? I don't know, fam. I don't know, fam. We're already at 30. I feel like we should be talking about things that I like. Are we in a hurry? Are we in a hurry? Okay. Okay. We're in a hurry. Are we in a hurry? I can't tell. I don't know. This whole video thing, maybe it's throwing me off, but but people being in a hurry is one of the things that I don't like. Was that an effective transition? I don't know. I don't know. I tried to pull a fast one on there about a transition. Because, okay. People being in a hurry is kind of my favorite thing, and I have noticed it. I think maybe it's the spring, the warmer weather has got people up in a huff. And let me tell you, fam, folks, ex, I love it when someone is in a hurry and has places to be. And you know, I love how it manifests in particular my neighborhood, or actually, really in Soho. So I live in Little Italy. Soho is right next door, and I go to my gym and Soho, my fancy gym and soho, and there's narrow sidewalks, and I love seeing people, especially like fancy people, rich people, uptight people, in a hurry, in Soho on like a narrow sidewalk, and someone's just, you know, they're they're gonna try to shimmy all around, and it just gives me a thrill. It gives me a thrill because it's always like, where are you going, friend? Where are we going in such a hurry? In such a hurry that you need to physically get to fart again. You have to get in other people's space. I'm I'm so excited about this that it's making me gassy. Um you need to get in other people's space, you need to physically touch somebody. Did we hear that? I hope not. You need to physically touch somebody. You're you're you're wending, you're winding. It's a full-body operation of being in a hurry. And I love it when someone gets mad too. Both the person hurrying. No, usually it's the person hurrying who's not mad, it's usually somebody who's being brushed past, whose little like, uh, uh, uh, uh. And you just get to witness, like, why? Where are you going? It's so good, also at the gym, because my gym has a little like staircase up to the locker room that's just like just it's too narrow for two people comfortably to pass by each other, like one person up, one person down. And yet, and yet, you know there's people at that gym who are in a hurry who are going to try to squeeze by, who are just gonna try to squeeze by. Come heck or high water, they're gonna get up that flight of stairs before you, and it's like, go off. It did cross my mind, it did cross my mind today that maybe they're in they're in search of a bathroom. You know, there's like a bowel situation because I think the gym, you know, people are having their creatine and their protein powders and their pre-workouts and their caffeine and their bibbidi babida, and that I think, at least in my experience, can you know make the waters run as it were, the waters being doo-doo caca, and and I'm trying to approach them with grace and humility. An unction? I don't know what unction means, but um but I just oh I love it. I love it. We just gotta laugh. We gotta laugh at someone in a hurry. Um, if you see anybody out there in a hurry this week, just embrace them. Don't physically embrace them because that would slow them down, but mentally, emotionally, embrace people in a hurry. I do not love a driver in a hurry, so don't get me twisted. Do not love a driver in a hurry because they're putting people at risk, they're putting people at physical danger. So don't do that. Stop that, everybody. Stop that. But if you're a pedestrian and you're in a hurry, go off, mama. Go off. You get there, you get to that toilet or whatever, because I've been there, I've blown up some situations. You know, you sometimes you gotta go, you gotta go. And that's where I think we just have to assume that anybody in a hurry. This is it. We just all have to assume that anybody in a hurry has gotta toilet, they gotta go blow up. And it's not cool, and perhaps it's already begun, you know, in in the pants, and that's where they're moving and grooving, because you know, they're they're spickle speckling out of there. We just have to assume that. Again, not a driver, because you're driving, you're in your car, it's fine. Do your business in the car. No one's really gonna know but you. You know, like that's okay. You're in you're in a private space. So you I you're not you're not getting a pass there. You don't get my glee. You don't get my glee and affection. For being in a hurry in a car. You just don't. I think it's dangerous. I think it's dangerous. Put pedestrians in a hurry, you do. Oh, is this good? What did we even start talking about? What don't I like? What did I say I don't like? I have absolutely no idea. I have absolutely no idea what I've just talked about for the past 35 minutes. Um, a lot about writing a book? Yeah, yeah. I don't know, fam. I I I want to get some writing done this weekend. Maybe I'll even get some writing done today. I don't know. We're all in it together. I think that's the thing. Well, we're not all in it together because there are some members of humanity who are, you know, indiscriminately bombing Lebanon, and that's that. So we're not really all in it together, unfortunately. So those platitudes I don't think are really I don't think we have currency, shall we say. But the those of us who aren't doing that are doing good. Those of us though who are who are supporting it implicitly or explicitly in the in the big ol' US of A are not doing good, and I think we need to hold our feet to the fire. I mean many people are. Let's be honest, many of you probably are doing so much more than I am. So who am I preaching to? Who am I preaching to? Me, honestly. I think I'm the only one watching this. Look, I'm not even in camera frame. I think it's part of the charm of this, though, is I'm like, I don't know. You know, it's it's it's rough. It's rough here. Um yeah, so I don't know. I don't know. I'm trying to find a concluding no, or like an arc. An arc or something to land on. Maybe because it's Friday and I just feel like reflective. The sun's going down. What are we doing? What are we doing for this world? How can we do better? Definitely by finding little joys and bigger causes. Excuse me, I burped. Little joys and bigger causes. Where we can. Because you know, sometimes it's not that hard. We act like it's that hard, but sometimes just getting on a video and testing it out. It's not that hard. Sorry, it's really not. It's really not, and it's easier sometimes than we think it's gonna be. And sometimes we can just do it. And I think where we can, we should. I think where we can, we should, and maybe we have an obligation too. Not it's not obligation. Let's not even make it about obligation. Let's just surprise ourselves. Let's just surprise ourselves about how much we can do to do better. To not bomb Lebanon, or Palestine, or Iran! Alright, no, no, no, no. Just cause just because we haven't specifically mentioned that doesn't mean we're for that, obviously. It's just that we're being specific about what's in the news right now. The events of this week. But we're not taking away from any of those other places and things. Well, we are. Unfortunately, we're taking a lot away from them, but but you get what I'm saying! It's so hard to be a writer, it's so hard to use words. I don't know, guys. I'm just rambling, I'm hamming. I think this video is bringing up the hammy aspects of me, and we're gonna try to be careful about that in the future, because I'm not really into the hammy. Not really into what I ham it up. But I guess as you all go out, ham it up all you want, dance all you want, wherever you want. Like everybody's watching, because they are. And hurry your little tush to the toilet. I don't like this, I don't like this, I don't like this podcast.