1 00:00:10,825 --> 00:00:12,485 - You are listening to the loving BDSM podcast, 2 00:00:12,595 --> 00:00:13,925 episode 3 92. 3 00:00:13,995 --> 00:00:17,005 Okay. The Lord's here are the one, the only, the so tired 4 00:00:17,105 --> 00:00:19,445 and so not caffeinated enough. John Brownstone. 5 00:00:19,555 --> 00:00:22,325 - Yeah. There's, there's not enough coffee today to, uh, 6 00:00:22,625 --> 00:00:23,625 - No. 7 00:00:23,625 --> 00:00:24,685 This will not be a day where I go, oh, no, 8 00:00:24,715 --> 00:00:25,965 it's too late in the day for me 9 00:00:25,965 --> 00:00:27,605 to have caffeine, , . 10 00:00:27,955 --> 00:00:30,965 It's also not a day where I'll go, why am I so jittery? 11 00:00:30,965 --> 00:00:32,325 Could it be the caffeine? I'll be like, 12 00:00:32,325 --> 00:00:33,845 give me the freaking jitters. 13 00:00:34,005 --> 00:00:36,125 I, I need to move somehow. Right? 14 00:00:36,125 --> 00:00:39,085 Even if it's uncontrollably. Now, that's probably not good. 15 00:00:39,365 --> 00:00:41,405 I shouldn't joke. Anyway, we're, we're not. 16 00:00:41,585 --> 00:00:44,365 We will, we, in this episode probably complain about 17 00:00:44,365 --> 00:00:45,685 how tired we are and talk about why. 18 00:00:46,025 --> 00:00:47,165 Yes, yes. . 19 00:00:47,825 --> 00:00:50,405 So I can't say that's not what we're here for, 20 00:00:50,435 --> 00:00:54,685 because this week we picked this before we were this tired. 21 00:00:54,825 --> 00:00:56,485 But it's just a bonus section episode. 22 00:00:56,875 --> 00:00:58,565 It's just a chitty chat kind of thing. 23 00:00:58,925 --> 00:01:03,845 I do need to talk slash rant about a book I read 24 00:01:04,115 --> 00:01:07,725 that has like, got me in a damn choke hold . 25 00:01:07,905 --> 00:01:12,125 Um, it's, it's a, it's kinky. It's meant to be kinky. 26 00:01:12,125 --> 00:01:14,245 And I have so many fucking thoughts. 27 00:01:14,745 --> 00:01:17,765 Um, I, I need, I need to share . 28 00:01:18,985 --> 00:01:21,725 Um, but for anybody who's like, no, no, I'm here when 29 00:01:21,785 --> 00:01:23,765 for topics, I'm here to learn something. 30 00:01:23,945 --> 00:01:27,445 I'm here to like, to think about a specific kink thing. 31 00:01:27,625 --> 00:01:29,405 Uh, if bonus sections aren't your 32 00:01:29,405 --> 00:01:30,605 jam, you could skip this one. 33 00:01:30,605 --> 00:01:31,765 Our feelings are not hurt. 34 00:01:32,465 --> 00:01:34,885 Um, consent is the most important thing, 35 00:01:35,265 --> 00:01:37,445 and we should be back 36 00:01:37,585 --> 00:01:40,125 to a normal topic kind of thing next week. 37 00:01:40,225 --> 00:01:42,605 Do, do we know what it is yet? No. No, no. 38 00:01:42,625 --> 00:01:45,005 We don't. But we're 39 00:01:45,005 --> 00:01:46,325 - Too damn tired right - Now. 40 00:01:46,625 --> 00:01:50,645 But this week of all weeks, today of all days, focusing 41 00:01:51,905 --> 00:01:54,485 on a topic with the intent to inform 42 00:01:54,505 --> 00:01:56,885 and educate was just not possible. 43 00:01:56,945 --> 00:01:59,285 No. So we weren't even gonna fucking try. Mm-Hmm. 44 00:01:59,785 --> 00:02:01,925 Uh, all that being said, welcome 45 00:02:01,925 --> 00:02:03,965 to the loving BDSF podcast, . 46 00:02:04,105 --> 00:02:06,085 If this is your first time listening, glad to have you. 47 00:02:06,105 --> 00:02:07,485 And yes and no. 48 00:02:07,635 --> 00:02:10,525 It's both always like this and not always like this. 49 00:02:11,285 --> 00:02:12,645 You're back for another week. Welcome back. 50 00:02:12,645 --> 00:02:14,365 Loving BDSM is produced every Monday 51 00:02:14,365 --> 00:02:16,245 and Friday for your kinky pleasure in education. 52 00:02:16,385 --> 00:02:18,685 And show notes are found@lovingbdsm.net. 53 00:02:18,835 --> 00:02:20,405 Come back often and feel free to add the podcast 54 00:02:20,505 --> 00:02:21,765 to your favorite podcast app. 55 00:02:22,145 --> 00:02:26,005 You can also follow the show on Fat Life at Loving BDSM pc. 56 00:02:26,025 --> 00:02:28,365 The PC stands podcast on Instagram 57 00:02:28,365 --> 00:02:32,725 and threads at that handle that I will forever fucking hate 58 00:02:33,065 --> 00:02:35,845 to the depths of my soul, uh, 59 00:02:36,985 --> 00:02:38,925 loving Ds and the number one. 60 00:02:38,925 --> 00:02:40,685 So that's at Loving DS one, 61 00:02:40,905 --> 00:02:44,005 or on YouTube at youtube.com/loving bdsm, 62 00:02:44,005 --> 00:02:46,285 where you can watch live stream the podcast every Wednesday. 63 00:02:46,715 --> 00:02:48,045 I'll links during the show notes. 64 00:02:48,525 --> 00:02:50,965 A big thanks as always to our kinky patrons over on Patreon, 65 00:02:50,965 --> 00:02:52,405 including our newest peeps. 66 00:02:52,865 --> 00:02:55,285 We are able to keep doing this weird thing on the internet 67 00:02:55,305 --> 00:02:57,085 in large part because of our kinky patrons, 68 00:02:57,145 --> 00:02:59,285 and we are grateful for every fucking one of you. 69 00:02:59,425 --> 00:03:02,005 Yes. Uh, if you'd like to join our kink community 70 00:03:02,005 --> 00:03:03,445 and get access to extra content 71 00:03:03,745 --> 00:03:06,005 and a Discord server with a group of super cool, 72 00:03:06,005 --> 00:03:07,405 super nice kinks, you can do that. 73 00:03:07,555 --> 00:03:10,645 Just join us at patreon.com/kayla lords. 74 00:03:10,645 --> 00:03:13,965 That's patreon.com/kayla lords. 75 00:03:13,985 --> 00:03:15,965 Or use the link in the show notes. And 76 00:03:16,105 --> 00:03:17,685 - Is that the big one or the little one? 77 00:03:17,705 --> 00:03:20,645 - The little - One. Oh, he's finally, uh, 78 00:03:21,555 --> 00:03:22,885 - Yeah, he's his. 79 00:03:22,955 --> 00:03:27,245 Yeah. His sleep is so ha Okay. Hold wonky. Sorry. 80 00:03:27,245 --> 00:03:29,685 Podcast listeners who can't see what the hell's happening. 81 00:03:31,145 --> 00:03:32,925 - You're better off. It's a hot mess today. 82 00:03:33,545 --> 00:03:35,045 It is such a hot mess today. 83 00:03:35,045 --> 00:03:39,805 - Everything. I am a literal and figurative hot mess. 84 00:03:40,155 --> 00:03:43,805 - Yeah. Okay. And I'm just a hot mess by circumstance. 85 00:03:44,235 --> 00:03:47,045 - Yeah. Okay. So let's, I did have a tech, 86 00:03:47,045 --> 00:03:48,405 technically a couple of announcements. 87 00:03:48,595 --> 00:03:50,205 Okay. Trying to pretend that we know 88 00:03:50,205 --> 00:03:51,405 what we're doing around here, . 89 00:03:51,625 --> 00:03:55,725 But because I don't trust this very tired brain of mine. Mm. 90 00:03:56,625 --> 00:03:58,965 I'm gonna look at 'em. It's, they're real simple. 91 00:03:58,975 --> 00:04:01,165 You'd think I'd remember. Don't believe that for a second. 92 00:04:01,595 --> 00:04:05,485 Okay. So the dom sub dynamics virtual summit was, 93 00:04:05,965 --> 00:04:07,565 I can't tell time, but I think that was last week. 94 00:04:07,705 --> 00:04:09,725 It was April 8th through 11th. I believe that was last week. 95 00:04:10,225 --> 00:04:12,365 - Yes, - It's over. Yes, it's done. 96 00:04:12,505 --> 00:04:13,525 But if you missed it 97 00:04:13,585 --> 00:04:15,085 and have a budget for it, 98 00:04:15,345 --> 00:04:18,405 you can purchase replays of the sessions. 99 00:04:18,405 --> 00:04:20,725 You don't get access to any of the bonuses as far as I know. 100 00:04:20,725 --> 00:04:23,965 But you can pay to actually watch all the sessions. 101 00:04:24,305 --> 00:04:25,885 Um, and then I don't think you're not on 102 00:04:25,885 --> 00:04:27,165 that 24 hour time limit 103 00:04:27,165 --> 00:04:28,805 that you would've been last week either. 104 00:04:29,225 --> 00:04:31,525 So if you have any interest, feel free. 105 00:04:31,525 --> 00:04:34,125 The link is in the places. Um, take a look at it. 106 00:04:34,845 --> 00:04:36,725 I understand. If not, hopefully it comes back next year 107 00:04:36,725 --> 00:04:37,725 and we can do this all again. 108 00:04:38,265 --> 00:04:42,005 Um, and then the other thing is, this Friday, 109 00:04:42,585 --> 00:04:45,845 if I counted correctly, 'cause I didn't look at a calendar 110 00:04:46,125 --> 00:04:48,205 'cause why would I do that is April 19th, 111 00:04:48,305 --> 00:04:51,165 and that is our Friday night live stream. 112 00:04:51,225 --> 00:04:53,245 We do it on the third Friday of the month. 113 00:04:53,545 --> 00:04:55,925 As often as like every month we do the live stream. 114 00:04:56,145 --> 00:04:58,685 We try for it to be on the third Friday every month. 115 00:04:58,925 --> 00:05:01,565 'cause we just, like, consistency starts at 9:30 PM 116 00:05:01,835 --> 00:05:04,525 Eastern often. 117 00:05:04,715 --> 00:05:06,365 Most of the time we last until midnight. 118 00:05:06,665 --> 00:05:09,245 Um, I don't see any reason why we wouldn't this 119 00:05:09,245 --> 00:05:10,325 time, but you never know. 120 00:05:10,685 --> 00:05:13,445 . Um, you're feeling a little zombie-like, 121 00:05:13,445 --> 00:05:16,285 over here today, so I don't wanna make any promises. 122 00:05:16,785 --> 00:05:20,285 Um, but I'm sure we will, we hang out and chitchat. 123 00:05:20,465 --> 00:05:23,365 And also, um, at 10 o'clock Eastern, 124 00:05:23,745 --> 00:05:25,365 we also start a q and A. 125 00:05:25,365 --> 00:05:28,645 So you can a and you know, you can queue 126 00:05:28,645 --> 00:05:31,045 and we will a, I mean, you can a and we will queue. 127 00:05:31,105 --> 00:05:34,685 That's, that's also possible. Um, so yeah. 128 00:05:34,865 --> 00:05:38,525 And I try to put that out everywhere so 129 00:05:38,525 --> 00:05:39,925 that folks actually know what's happening. 130 00:05:39,945 --> 00:05:43,045 But hopefully when YouTube is cooperating, the best way is 131 00:05:43,045 --> 00:05:44,285 to subscribe to our YouTube channel. 132 00:05:44,705 --> 00:05:47,205 And Daddy says, turn on the notifications. 133 00:05:47,205 --> 00:05:48,805 But I know the notifications don't always work, 134 00:05:48,825 --> 00:05:50,005 but you just do what Daddy says. 135 00:05:50,865 --> 00:05:52,285 That's just my philosophy in life. 136 00:05:52,445 --> 00:05:54,005 I mean, until I have questions 137 00:05:54,185 --> 00:05:55,885 and then I will do what Daddy says. 138 00:05:55,945 --> 00:05:58,725 But first , I have some questions. 139 00:06:00,765 --> 00:06:01,965 I mean, a fully informed, 140 00:06:02,125 --> 00:06:03,965 enthusiastic consent is what we'd like. 141 00:06:04,145 --> 00:06:07,125 So Sure. I have questions. Not about that though. Mm-Hmm. 142 00:06:07,305 --> 00:06:10,925 So this, uh, 143 00:06:11,865 --> 00:06:16,085 week's episode is basically, uh, 144 00:06:16,885 --> 00:06:19,445 a bonus section episode I do have. 145 00:06:19,585 --> 00:06:22,285 And you have, we have kink things to talk about. Mm-Hmm. 146 00:06:22,325 --> 00:06:24,285 one, they do not follow under a full topic. 147 00:06:24,465 --> 00:06:26,965 Two, they could not take up what I think most 148 00:06:26,965 --> 00:06:28,365 of us consider a full episode. 149 00:06:28,645 --> 00:06:30,285 I know there's somebody out there who's like, oh, wow, 150 00:06:30,285 --> 00:06:32,725 they made it to just an hour for an episode. 151 00:06:32,725 --> 00:06:35,005 That's real short for them. Hallelujah. 152 00:06:35,025 --> 00:06:39,485 But, uh, some of y'all are definitely our people in 153 00:06:39,485 --> 00:06:41,645 that you are creatures of habit and routine. 154 00:06:41,865 --> 00:06:44,325 And you're like, wait, why is this not an hour 155 00:06:44,345 --> 00:06:46,405 and 15 minutes, an hour and 20 minutes? 156 00:06:46,515 --> 00:06:48,845 What has happened? Um, so 157 00:06:50,475 --> 00:06:51,475 - Hash browns. 158 00:06:51,905 --> 00:06:54,565 - Oh God, I'm hungry. We didn't do it before. We 159 00:06:55,145 --> 00:06:56,445 - Did the live stream . 160 00:06:56,945 --> 00:07:00,165 - Um, so we're gonna chitchat. 161 00:07:01,265 --> 00:07:02,645 We got stuff. Mm-Hmm. . 162 00:07:03,025 --> 00:07:04,925 Um, I don't know how long we'll go. 163 00:07:05,385 --> 00:07:08,205 Uh, we have not made any plans for ourselves after this. 164 00:07:08,235 --> 00:07:10,445 Like, no, normally there would be editing 165 00:07:10,545 --> 00:07:11,765 and there would be planning, 166 00:07:11,825 --> 00:07:14,125 and there would be maybe doing some of the work that, that 167 00:07:14,125 --> 00:07:15,125 - Won't be happening today. 168 00:07:15,125 --> 00:07:17,445 Yeah. We might be laying down after this. 169 00:07:17,705 --> 00:07:22,205 - If I, if after this I can lay down naked on top 170 00:07:22,205 --> 00:07:23,365 of the covers of my bed 171 00:07:23,715 --> 00:07:26,685 with one ceiling fan full blast on me from the top 172 00:07:27,265 --> 00:07:32,205 and my fan off to the side of me, and I can just lay there 173 00:07:32,305 --> 00:07:36,165 and maybe stop being so damn hot. I'll be so happy. 174 00:07:36,255 --> 00:07:37,925 - You'd be happy, wouldn't you? You'd be a happy girl. 175 00:07:38,945 --> 00:07:41,965 - Uh, I'm my, I'm starting, I think I'm starting to 176 00:07:42,915 --> 00:07:43,925 cool off a little bit. 177 00:07:44,355 --> 00:07:45,805 Like, not a lot, but a little bit. 178 00:07:45,865 --> 00:07:48,365 And I'm less uncomfortable. So 179 00:07:49,125 --> 00:07:50,285 - , - So, 180 00:07:50,905 --> 00:07:52,925 - And, and I, I just have to say, 181 00:07:55,185 --> 00:08:00,165 and I, I like the song Jennifer Juniper. 182 00:08:01,435 --> 00:08:03,725 - What, what, what that was, 183 00:08:03,845 --> 00:08:04,925 I mean, I see it in the live chat. 184 00:08:04,925 --> 00:08:08,085 Yeah. What Who sang it? 185 00:08:08,465 --> 00:08:10,005 - What's Donovan? Oh 186 00:08:10,145 --> 00:08:11,145 - No. 187 00:08:11,145 --> 00:08:13,645 Okay. Am I too young? Yeah. No. 188 00:08:13,805 --> 00:08:16,685 I know the name Donovan, but I can't place any of it. 189 00:08:17,025 --> 00:08:18,885 - Um, sunshine Superman. 190 00:08:19,825 --> 00:08:21,645 - Why do you think, is that an album title? 191 00:08:21,945 --> 00:08:23,565 - No, it's a song. Oh shit. 192 00:08:23,665 --> 00:08:28,325 - No. Maybe a melody. Maybe a lyric. Oh, okay. 193 00:08:28,345 --> 00:08:30,845 But, and the name Donovan. Sounds familiar. 194 00:08:31,035 --> 00:08:32,805 What era of music are we talking about 195 00:08:32,825 --> 00:08:34,125 and what genre? Sixties 196 00:08:34,235 --> 00:08:35,235 - Folk. 197 00:08:35,235 --> 00:08:37,765 - Oh God, no. Yeah. I would've heard the name Donovan 198 00:08:38,005 --> 00:08:39,765 , but no, no. 199 00:08:39,875 --> 00:08:44,365 Sixties folk music was not, no. 200 00:08:44,765 --> 00:08:48,645 I listened like all, you know, trapped children in a car 201 00:08:48,715 --> 00:08:50,245 with their parents before me. 202 00:08:50,885 --> 00:08:52,525 I listened to my parents' music 203 00:08:53,025 --> 00:08:56,845 and my mother listened to like top 40 pop kind of situation. 204 00:08:57,305 --> 00:09:02,265 My dad listened to the music of his teenage years, 205 00:09:02,505 --> 00:09:04,785 twenties, fifties, and sixties was his preference. 206 00:09:05,665 --> 00:09:06,745 'cause he was born in 41. 207 00:09:06,845 --> 00:09:09,105 So we were not listening to music for the forties. . 208 00:09:09,365 --> 00:09:12,865 Um, and that was all like, it was the classic station. 209 00:09:12,885 --> 00:09:14,345 It was the oldie station. Mm-Hmm. . 210 00:09:14,345 --> 00:09:17,465 So it was like top 40 pop stuff too. 211 00:09:18,045 --> 00:09:20,505 Um, and every once in a while they'd slip a folk song in 212 00:09:20,505 --> 00:09:22,345 there, but it was only the one that like, 213 00:09:23,135 --> 00:09:26,105 somehow made it onto the radio Mm-Hmm. 214 00:09:26,145 --> 00:09:29,345 in that, the time it came out. So, no, no. 215 00:09:29,825 --> 00:09:33,625 I was in college when 216 00:09:34,665 --> 00:09:37,545 a transfer student who woo, 217 00:09:37,555 --> 00:09:39,305 she'd been hopping from college to college for a while. 218 00:09:39,305 --> 00:09:40,305 So she was in her mid twenties 219 00:09:40,805 --> 00:09:42,305 and she was a junior, which was fine. 220 00:09:42,305 --> 00:09:43,825 People get through it, the way they get through it. 221 00:09:44,645 --> 00:09:45,745 She ended up transferring 222 00:09:45,765 --> 00:09:47,545 and being in the dorm room, I shared 223 00:09:47,545 --> 00:09:48,385 with people I ended up 224 00:09:48,475 --> 00:09:49,745 being roommates with for a couple years. 225 00:09:50,325 --> 00:09:53,585 Um, and she's the one that introduced me to James Taylor. 226 00:09:54,005 --> 00:09:55,625 Ah. That is also when I learned. 227 00:09:55,705 --> 00:09:58,065 I, I, that's, that type of music is not my preference. 228 00:09:58,305 --> 00:10:01,265 . But yeah, I saw him in concert. Of course you did. 229 00:10:01,405 --> 00:10:04,385 Of course you did. Of course you did. 230 00:10:04,765 --> 00:10:07,345 So yeah. 231 00:10:08,115 --> 00:10:09,785 Where did, oh, it's 'cause you saw that. 232 00:10:09,865 --> 00:10:12,105 I was like, how did we get here? , . 233 00:10:12,365 --> 00:10:13,505 You know what, you know what? 234 00:10:13,805 --> 00:10:15,225 On the Friday night Live streams 235 00:10:15,285 --> 00:10:17,505 and these, I went back, I went back through our, 236 00:10:17,645 --> 00:10:18,705 our previous episodes. 237 00:10:18,705 --> 00:10:19,905 And we don't do these very often, 238 00:10:19,925 --> 00:10:22,425 but every few months we'll 239 00:10:22,425 --> 00:10:23,505 do one of these random kind of things. 240 00:10:23,825 --> 00:10:25,865 I feel less bad about being chaotic 241 00:10:25,895 --> 00:10:28,785 because the point is to be chaotic . 242 00:10:30,165 --> 00:10:32,545 And since I try to warn y'all what you're getting into 243 00:10:32,545 --> 00:10:34,625 before the episode starts, I feel like anybody 244 00:10:34,645 --> 00:10:37,785 who is still here has agreed to be here. 245 00:10:38,845 --> 00:10:41,745 And except the chaos that ensues. 246 00:10:42,365 --> 00:10:46,905 Um, so where do I wanna start? 247 00:10:46,915 --> 00:10:48,785 Let's start with why With the fuck we're so goddamn tired. 248 00:10:48,785 --> 00:10:52,865 Yeah. Other than life being life, um, stress being stress. 249 00:10:52,885 --> 00:10:54,305 Mm-Hmm. . There's never enough 250 00:10:54,305 --> 00:10:57,305 of the things you need to maybe be less stressed. 251 00:10:57,885 --> 00:11:02,385 Um, the 18-year-old had his final concert 252 00:11:02,605 --> 00:11:06,785 of his freshman year of college, uh, last night. 253 00:11:06,815 --> 00:11:09,425 That would be Tuesday, April 16th. 254 00:11:10,445 --> 00:11:12,785 And, um, normally they're on Thursdays. 255 00:11:12,785 --> 00:11:14,225 So it's, it's weird 256 00:11:14,225 --> 00:11:16,065 that we did this on a Tuesday, but whatever, whatever. 257 00:11:16,565 --> 00:11:19,345 And he was like, are you coming? I'm like, yeah. 258 00:11:20,445 --> 00:11:21,585 And then we found out. 259 00:11:21,845 --> 00:11:23,945 So the very first concert we did not know, 260 00:11:24,065 --> 00:11:25,585 'cause we didn't know how the concerts run. 261 00:11:25,805 --> 00:11:28,145 The very first concert of the school year, back in 262 00:11:28,665 --> 00:11:30,665 September, it was a dual concert 263 00:11:30,885 --> 00:11:33,505 of both the symphonic band, that's what he's in. 264 00:11:33,805 --> 00:11:37,265 And the Wind symphony, which is like the top upper tier 265 00:11:37,565 --> 00:11:38,825 of these students, whatever. 266 00:11:39,365 --> 00:11:41,745 And it was a combined concert and it was two hours long. 267 00:11:41,765 --> 00:11:43,665 And we did not know that because that was our first time. 268 00:11:44,015 --> 00:11:47,305 Well, this last concert was 269 00:11:47,865 --> 00:11:51,545 a high school band conducted by a UF 270 00:11:52,385 --> 00:11:54,885 graduate from the music education department. 271 00:11:55,515 --> 00:11:57,605 They did a concert first, 272 00:11:57,905 --> 00:12:00,405 and then the college students went up. 273 00:12:00,465 --> 00:12:01,805 So it was not as long. 274 00:12:02,085 --> 00:12:04,685 'cause high school student concerts are not as long 275 00:12:04,685 --> 00:12:06,085 as the college student concerts. 276 00:12:06,085 --> 00:12:07,685 No. I mean, it's like half the amount time. 277 00:12:08,225 --> 00:12:10,045 Um, but it made for a longer concert. 278 00:12:10,225 --> 00:12:11,445 And we were not prepared for that. 279 00:12:11,745 --> 00:12:12,925 We knew we weren't gonna get 280 00:12:12,925 --> 00:12:15,045 to see the 18-year-old for more than a minute. 281 00:12:15,105 --> 00:12:16,965 He told me that. He was like, I want you to come. 282 00:12:17,245 --> 00:12:19,085 I can't go do anything afterwards. I was like, good. 283 00:12:19,205 --> 00:12:20,525 'cause I ain't got the budget for us to go do anything 284 00:12:20,525 --> 00:12:21,805 afterwards, but I'll, 285 00:12:21,805 --> 00:12:23,005 you know, I'll come see you and say hi. 286 00:12:23,045 --> 00:12:24,605 I was like, you damn well, better. What the fuck? 287 00:12:25,305 --> 00:12:26,605 I'm, I'm not a chill mom. 288 00:12:26,605 --> 00:12:28,365 And you will come say hello to your mommy. 289 00:12:28,665 --> 00:12:31,405 I'm so sorry, . I'll leave you alone after that. 290 00:12:31,465 --> 00:12:33,285 But I will be acknowledged. Anyway. 291 00:12:34,025 --> 00:12:36,565 Um, so we were there longer than we intended. 292 00:12:37,105 --> 00:12:38,845 He came right out. He's gotten better about that. 293 00:12:38,925 --> 00:12:40,245 I think he's now has a life 294 00:12:40,245 --> 00:12:41,805 where he's got shit he's gotta go do. 295 00:12:41,865 --> 00:12:43,725 So he don't lolly gag as much. Right. Right. 296 00:12:44,145 --> 00:12:46,925 Um, he comes up. He was, he was a little snarky. 297 00:12:46,925 --> 00:12:49,245 He was real blunt. That's, I know. 298 00:12:49,405 --> 00:12:51,765 I know him when he's tired, stressed. Yeah. 299 00:12:51,865 --> 00:12:53,405 Or is ready to go do the thing 300 00:12:53,405 --> 00:12:55,685 that has is like got his real attention. 301 00:12:55,955 --> 00:12:59,925 He's, he gets like that and he, it's fine. He was not rude. 302 00:12:59,985 --> 00:13:03,685 He was just very blunt, . To the point, to the point. 303 00:13:03,825 --> 00:13:08,205 So we knew we were not gonna do like our Culver's run like 304 00:13:08,205 --> 00:13:09,445 we usually do, blah, blah, blah. 305 00:13:10,265 --> 00:13:12,845 Um, which was fine. We didn't need to be doing that anyway. 306 00:13:13,225 --> 00:13:15,565 Um, but we were thirsty and hungry. . 307 00:13:15,865 --> 00:13:18,525 So before we left town, after we said hi 308 00:13:18,525 --> 00:13:20,845 and bye to 'em, whatever, we went to Wawa 309 00:13:20,845 --> 00:13:22,045 because I don't know. 310 00:13:22,285 --> 00:13:25,205 I mean, we are Wawa people at this point, 311 00:13:25,345 --> 00:13:26,525 and I don't know why. 312 00:13:26,965 --> 00:13:28,925 I don't know how, but here we are, . 313 00:13:29,465 --> 00:13:32,485 Um, and it ended up being both great. 314 00:13:32,625 --> 00:13:34,565 And apparently this morning not so great. 315 00:13:34,805 --> 00:13:38,245 , we did not know Wawa was doing free fountain 316 00:13:38,245 --> 00:13:39,925 drinks when we walked in. 317 00:13:39,955 --> 00:13:41,805 Yeah. So we got one drink to share 318 00:13:42,425 --> 00:13:45,245 and then we were trying to find like, 319 00:13:45,245 --> 00:13:46,245 on their little pastries 320 00:13:46,245 --> 00:13:48,045 or cheap little pastries, they'll often do like two 321 00:13:48,045 --> 00:13:49,125 for three or two for four. 322 00:13:49,125 --> 00:13:50,285 And we were looking for those deals 323 00:13:50,385 --> 00:13:52,725 and nothing, there were no signs up. 324 00:13:52,725 --> 00:13:53,565 So we're like, oh, well 325 00:13:53,565 --> 00:13:54,765 we'll get this little thing, whatever. 326 00:13:55,265 --> 00:13:57,765 We get to the register, we find out 327 00:13:57,795 --> 00:13:59,165 that the drinks are free. 328 00:14:00,225 --> 00:14:02,845 So the person behind the register looks at JB 329 00:14:02,845 --> 00:14:06,125 and goes, do you want to go get yourself a drink? 330 00:14:06,195 --> 00:14:08,405 It's free. You know, it's, you can get what you want. 331 00:14:08,425 --> 00:14:09,645 It was clear we were sharing. Yeah. 332 00:14:09,945 --> 00:14:11,365 And, uh, he was like, I can't. 333 00:14:11,365 --> 00:14:13,045 And then I went, do we have to come back to the register? 334 00:14:13,045 --> 00:14:15,245 She's like, no, I see you and I'll know what you're doing. 335 00:14:15,325 --> 00:14:17,445 I was like, cool. And then our little pastries 336 00:14:17,895 --> 00:14:18,925 we're two for $3. 337 00:14:19,025 --> 00:14:22,325 So we walked in thinking, okay, you know, 338 00:14:22,375 --> 00:14:24,525 we'll we're gonna, we're trying to be cheap 339 00:14:24,585 --> 00:14:26,565 and we're just, it's late, so we don't need a lot. 340 00:14:26,565 --> 00:14:29,445 Anyway, we spent three fucking dollars. Right. 341 00:14:29,445 --> 00:14:30,805 I got drinks as big as our heads. 342 00:14:31,105 --> 00:14:35,645 And then , we got honey buns. I'm, I'm a honey bun. 343 00:14:35,645 --> 00:14:37,005 Girly. I should have gotten donut sticks. 344 00:14:37,005 --> 00:14:40,605 Those are my favorite. Anyway, it was, it was dessert time. 345 00:14:40,685 --> 00:14:44,045 I needed a pastry. J b's like, I dunno what I want. 346 00:14:44,055 --> 00:14:46,365 We're looking at him and we come across a Boston 347 00:14:46,655 --> 00:14:48,165 Cream honey bun. 348 00:14:48,165 --> 00:14:51,125 Mm-Hmm. Boston Cream is his jam. Yeah. 349 00:14:51,405 --> 00:14:54,525 - I love Boston. Cream. Donuts. Right. They rock. 350 00:14:55,475 --> 00:14:58,605 - However, somebody is regretting his decision Yep. 351 00:14:58,905 --> 00:15:02,605 To eat a cream filled anything from a gas station, even if 352 00:15:02,605 --> 00:15:03,885 that is the Wawa . 353 00:15:04,075 --> 00:15:05,485 Yeah. I feel like we should have 354 00:15:05,485 --> 00:15:06,565 stopped and thought about that. 355 00:15:06,565 --> 00:15:08,125 Like, do you want something 356 00:15:08,185 --> 00:15:12,205 that's a milk based product from the gas 357 00:15:12,235 --> 00:15:14,125 station that's not fresh? Right. 358 00:15:14,125 --> 00:15:15,405 - Mm-Hmm. like, yeah. I 359 00:15:15,405 --> 00:15:16,765 - Don't, I don't think we thought. Yeah. 360 00:15:17,305 --> 00:15:22,165 - No. It, uh, it, it did not, it it tasted okay eating it. 361 00:15:22,165 --> 00:15:25,525 Mm-Hmm. . Um, it was later, uh, when I went 362 00:15:25,525 --> 00:15:30,245 to bed and it just sat my stomach. 363 00:15:30,945 --> 00:15:33,525 - And I think it's - Still 364 00:15:33,795 --> 00:15:34,795 - Sitting there. 365 00:15:35,075 --> 00:15:36,685 - Yeah. Making - You miserable. 366 00:15:37,145 --> 00:15:39,765 - Not, not, not a good experience. 367 00:15:39,855 --> 00:15:42,965 Won't, won't, we'll not do that again. No. Try it once. 368 00:15:43,015 --> 00:15:44,805 We'll not do it again. . 369 00:15:45,315 --> 00:15:48,285 - Live and learn. Live and learn. Yep. 370 00:15:49,065 --> 00:15:52,205 - Yep. - I know. And my honey bun was, I mean, not great 371 00:15:52,405 --> 00:15:53,605 'cause they're not really that good. 372 00:15:54,185 --> 00:15:57,445 Uh, but now I'm wishing I'd gotten donut sticks. Yeah. 373 00:15:57,475 --> 00:15:59,045 Love donut sticks anyway. 374 00:15:59,185 --> 00:16:00,165 - Mm-Hmm. . Mm-Hmm. . 375 00:16:00,165 --> 00:16:00,805 Mm-Hmm. . Anyway. 376 00:16:00,875 --> 00:16:04,605 - Yeah. Um, so then we came home. And so, okay. 377 00:16:05,025 --> 00:16:08,405 Uh, I've said many times in bonus sections, uh, 378 00:16:08,625 --> 00:16:12,325 in past episodes about how I am, uh, obsessively reading. 379 00:16:12,645 --> 00:16:14,525 I know it is tied to my mental health. . 380 00:16:14,585 --> 00:16:15,805 I'm, I have no doubt about that. 381 00:16:16,665 --> 00:16:20,965 Um, I started a book, Oh God, y'all started a book. 382 00:16:21,025 --> 00:16:23,005 We were sitting in the concert hall 383 00:16:23,315 --> 00:16:24,765 waiting for the concert to start. 384 00:16:24,765 --> 00:16:27,205 There was like 10, 15 minutes once we got there. 385 00:16:27,585 --> 00:16:29,205 And I was like, I am bored. 386 00:16:29,605 --> 00:16:30,965 , but we don't have get a reception here, 387 00:16:30,965 --> 00:16:32,685 so I'm not gonna try and do anything on the internet. 388 00:16:33,545 --> 00:16:36,725 So I pulled up a book and started reading it. 389 00:16:37,785 --> 00:16:39,245 Of course, of course. I stopped 390 00:16:39,245 --> 00:16:40,485 when the kids started playing music. 391 00:16:41,425 --> 00:16:43,445 No problem. I did I pull it back up 392 00:16:43,445 --> 00:16:45,045 during intermission when they swapped. 393 00:16:45,065 --> 00:16:47,885 Yes, I did. And then we get in the car to go home 394 00:16:48,025 --> 00:16:49,605 and I, I was chatty with you for a while. 395 00:16:49,605 --> 00:16:50,845 Mm-Hmm. . And then I needed to like 396 00:16:50,985 --> 00:16:52,045 not look at the road anymore. 397 00:16:52,145 --> 00:16:53,165 And so I start reading my book, 398 00:16:53,185 --> 00:16:54,365 or I'm reading and I'm in it. 399 00:16:54,425 --> 00:16:56,485 I'm sniffling. It's, it was a tear jerker. I'm crying. 400 00:16:56,665 --> 00:16:57,965 I'm like, oh my God. 401 00:16:59,225 --> 00:17:00,605 And we're getting closer to home 402 00:17:00,685 --> 00:17:03,165 and Jamie goes, okay, I know it's late and we're tired 403 00:17:03,165 --> 00:17:04,445 and I know what time we normally go to bed, 404 00:17:04,445 --> 00:17:07,205 but I need to like, just sit and just veg. 405 00:17:07,225 --> 00:17:09,485 And I went, same. Mm-Hmm. . My book is good. 406 00:17:11,065 --> 00:17:13,445 So we sit on the couch, we get home, we see the 14-year-old 407 00:17:13,445 --> 00:17:14,525 who didn't go with us, which was fine. 408 00:17:14,525 --> 00:17:15,685 He was enjoying some solitude. 409 00:17:15,965 --> 00:17:18,525 I have not had that in literal years at this point. 410 00:17:19,985 --> 00:17:23,045 And, um, maybe a year. 411 00:17:23,045 --> 00:17:25,285 Anyway, I haven't done solitude in a while. It's fine. 412 00:17:25,745 --> 00:17:29,365 Um, we come home, we say hi to him. 413 00:17:29,425 --> 00:17:30,445 We say hi to Lola 414 00:17:30,445 --> 00:17:31,845 because she's like, 415 00:17:31,955 --> 00:17:33,765 I've clearly been abandoned because you left the house. 416 00:17:34,305 --> 00:17:37,045 We sit on the couch, two quote, like, decompress. 417 00:17:37,425 --> 00:17:39,565 Two hours later it's midnight. Yeah. 418 00:17:40,605 --> 00:17:43,725 I am almost done with my book at this point. . 419 00:17:44,325 --> 00:17:45,765 Debbie's like, we really need to go to bed. 420 00:17:45,825 --> 00:17:47,325 I'm like, no, I have an hour 421 00:17:47,465 --> 00:17:49,325 and some odd minutes left in my book. 422 00:17:49,865 --> 00:17:52,085 He goes, you can read in bed. I'm like, okay. 423 00:17:52,825 --> 00:17:53,965 And then it got real, real good. 424 00:17:53,965 --> 00:17:57,085 So I was like, just going through this book so fast. 425 00:17:58,325 --> 00:18:00,445 I got to where I had 20 minutes left of the book 426 00:18:00,625 --> 00:18:01,725 and we finally went to sleep. 427 00:18:02,065 --> 00:18:05,285 We woke up six hours later. I don't get out of the bed. 428 00:18:05,475 --> 00:18:07,405 Like I have to like warm my engine up 429 00:18:07,405 --> 00:18:08,845 for the day before I get outta the bed. 430 00:18:09,205 --> 00:18:10,805 I don't know if it's a mental thing or a physical thing, 431 00:18:10,805 --> 00:18:13,045 but like, I need to, like, I need to mindlessly scroll. 432 00:18:13,365 --> 00:18:15,965 - I need to, I I could, I could hear her in her head 433 00:18:16,815 --> 00:18:18,365 going, I think I can. 434 00:18:18,565 --> 00:18:20,645 I think I can. I think I can . 435 00:18:21,945 --> 00:18:26,365 - So wake up. I don't wanna be awake. I'm tired. I'm tired. 436 00:18:26,865 --> 00:18:27,925 I'm not built for going 437 00:18:27,925 --> 00:18:29,365 to sleep at one o'clock in the morning. 438 00:18:29,865 --> 00:18:32,085 And even though we like set our alarms for late, 439 00:18:32,185 --> 00:18:34,685 it was still seven o'clock in the morning to wake up. 440 00:18:35,665 --> 00:18:37,245 But I was like, oh shit. I have this book. 441 00:18:38,125 --> 00:18:39,805 I did not get outta the bed till I finished the book. 442 00:18:40,205 --> 00:18:41,725 I did finish the book this morning. It was really good. 443 00:18:41,865 --> 00:18:45,805 It was not kinky at all. It was not overly spicy. 444 00:18:46,545 --> 00:18:49,085 Uh, we did get a moment where the character, the, 445 00:18:49,145 --> 00:18:53,205 the male characters, like, not it's internal monologue. 446 00:18:53,205 --> 00:18:55,005 It wasn't like a statement he made 447 00:18:55,005 --> 00:18:57,805 to the female character about being kind of dominant in bed. 448 00:18:57,985 --> 00:18:59,805 But he was like trying to not show that too much. 449 00:18:59,965 --> 00:19:01,645 'cause she had a lot of fucking trauma, 450 00:19:01,645 --> 00:19:03,485 which is why I was crying through most of this book. 451 00:19:04,105 --> 00:19:08,445 And, um, he expressed that lightly expressed that, 452 00:19:08,785 --> 00:19:10,325 you know, little d dominance. 453 00:19:10,345 --> 00:19:11,805 And I was like, oh, that, that's kind of sexy. 454 00:19:11,825 --> 00:19:14,085 And she was into it, but like, it wasn't a focal point. 455 00:19:14,105 --> 00:19:17,445 It, we never got another line of that again. 456 00:19:17,585 --> 00:19:19,005 And it didn't matter. 'cause it was not 457 00:19:19,005 --> 00:19:20,085 meant to be a smut book. 458 00:19:20,085 --> 00:19:21,405 It was, it was romance. 459 00:19:22,305 --> 00:19:26,365 Um, but also it was, uh, watching this poor woman overcome 460 00:19:27,215 --> 00:19:29,565 awful trauma and triumph in the end. 461 00:19:29,785 --> 00:19:33,485 Mm-Hmm. . Um, so yeah. 462 00:19:33,905 --> 00:19:36,765 Uh, I don't, I don't say, I talk about 463 00:19:36,765 --> 00:19:38,605 how quickly I'm reading books to brag. 464 00:19:38,765 --> 00:19:41,365 'cause it's not, we all read at our own speeds. 465 00:19:41,545 --> 00:19:44,365 And I honestly, when I was a kid Oh yeah. 466 00:19:44,645 --> 00:19:47,325 I, that was where my ego was, my intellectual ability. 467 00:19:47,445 --> 00:19:49,445 I was like, oh, look what I can do. Now. 468 00:19:49,505 --> 00:19:52,005 I'm more like, oh my God, how bad is my mental health 469 00:19:52,525 --> 00:19:55,485 that I am zipping through these fucking books? 470 00:19:56,355 --> 00:19:58,565 What is, what is going on? Oh, that's right. 471 00:19:59,125 --> 00:20:01,725 I don't have the time or the money to go find out . 472 00:20:02,745 --> 00:20:05,925 But you look, I'm not running through the streets naked, 473 00:20:06,285 --> 00:20:07,885 threatening total strangers. 474 00:20:08,755 --> 00:20:09,805 - Okay. No, - No, you're not. 475 00:20:09,885 --> 00:20:13,005 I have not had to be, you know, taken to a hospital 476 00:20:13,005 --> 00:20:14,605 and given the, the fuzzy socks. 477 00:20:14,635 --> 00:20:17,605 Like, I, I mean, I'm just gonna say I'm coping 478 00:20:17,945 --> 00:20:20,605 and books seem to be my coping mechanism. 479 00:20:21,285 --> 00:20:25,405 . Um, also, I think it might be my current, 480 00:20:25,925 --> 00:20:29,125 I won't say hyper fo what I'm trying to learn. 481 00:20:29,345 --> 00:20:31,085 I'm trying to learn myself. I'm trying to learn terms. 482 00:20:31,145 --> 00:20:33,245 And I understand the difference between hyper focus 483 00:20:33,865 --> 00:20:36,005 and, uh, oh God, what's the term, 484 00:20:37,105 --> 00:20:39,965 um, interest? 485 00:20:40,065 --> 00:20:41,685 The one autistic people. 486 00:20:41,795 --> 00:20:42,845 It's not a hyperfocus, 487 00:20:42,875 --> 00:20:44,525 it's a, y'all know what I'm talking about. 488 00:20:44,525 --> 00:20:45,645 Some of y'all know what I'm talking about that 489 00:20:45,875 --> 00:20:47,485 because I've always been a reader. 490 00:20:47,485 --> 00:20:48,645 Mm-Hmm. . Then I had children 491 00:20:48,705 --> 00:20:51,405 and I literally did not pick up a book for like six years 492 00:20:51,405 --> 00:20:53,645 because I had no brain power for it. 493 00:20:54,345 --> 00:20:57,485 And I go through cycles of not reading a lot, um, 494 00:20:58,475 --> 00:21:00,165 reading a shit ton. 495 00:21:00,585 --> 00:21:02,165 Um, and I'm back into that cycle. 496 00:21:02,185 --> 00:21:03,645 So it's like, is it a hyper focus 497 00:21:03,665 --> 00:21:07,085 or did I like just go around the bin back 498 00:21:07,085 --> 00:21:09,005 to my special interest. 499 00:21:09,005 --> 00:21:10,765 Thank you. Mm-Hmm. . Thank you. Um, 500 00:21:11,765 --> 00:21:14,285 somebody in the live chat, poor podcast listeners were like, 501 00:21:14,445 --> 00:21:15,445 I mean, you couldn't hear me 502 00:21:15,445 --> 00:21:17,445 as I was screaming special interest 503 00:21:17,705 --> 00:21:18,725 at you, but, okay. 504 00:21:20,065 --> 00:21:22,445 So, I don't know. I don't know. 505 00:21:23,795 --> 00:21:25,125 It's, it is a hyper focus. 506 00:21:25,365 --> 00:21:27,675 'cause I'm hyperfocused, 507 00:21:27,675 --> 00:21:28,715 but I've loved reading my whole life. 508 00:21:28,715 --> 00:21:30,435 Yeah. So then it's not be, I don't know. 509 00:21:30,515 --> 00:21:33,435 I think it's complicated. I wanna let you 510 00:21:33,435 --> 00:21:34,555 get an word in edgewise. 511 00:21:34,895 --> 00:21:36,795 I'm so sorry. . Um, 512 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:39,435 because I do want to talk about a kink book I did, 513 00:21:39,535 --> 00:21:41,115 or kinky book I did read. 514 00:21:41,295 --> 00:21:43,435 But I will suck up all the oxygen with that. 515 00:21:43,575 --> 00:21:47,385 So what is on your mind, ? 516 00:21:47,975 --> 00:21:51,945 Because I'm just rambling in my spicy way right now. 517 00:21:53,925 --> 00:21:55,305 - What's on my mind? Mm-Hmm. 518 00:21:55,565 --> 00:21:57,865 The fact that the bags under my eyes have bags. 519 00:21:58,045 --> 00:21:59,065 - Oh yeah. They're, they're ready 520 00:21:59,085 --> 00:22:00,865 for a, a trip around the world. 521 00:22:01,575 --> 00:22:02,945 They're so packed. Yeah. 522 00:22:03,325 --> 00:22:05,225 No, you got to go on a kinky adventure. 523 00:22:05,465 --> 00:22:08,425 - I did last weekend. I, I got, I got to go on an adventure, 524 00:22:08,925 --> 00:22:09,985 um, over the weekend. 525 00:22:10,645 --> 00:22:14,585 Um, I, I can't go into too much detail about it 526 00:22:14,585 --> 00:22:16,625 because I don't really have consent from all 527 00:22:16,625 --> 00:22:18,185 of the above Sure. 528 00:22:18,285 --> 00:22:22,345 To talk about it. But, um, I went to 529 00:22:23,185 --> 00:22:27,265 a demonstration on fire play 530 00:22:29,045 --> 00:22:32,225 and it was absolutely amazing. 531 00:22:33,485 --> 00:22:36,345 Uh, the folks putting on, on the 532 00:22:37,305 --> 00:22:39,865 demonstration were fantastic. 533 00:22:41,245 --> 00:22:45,185 Uh, really good at did a good job of, of talking about it, 534 00:22:45,185 --> 00:22:49,065 explaining it, and then showing it. Mm-Hmm. 535 00:22:49,105 --> 00:22:49,865 - also, let me 536 00:22:49,865 --> 00:22:50,785 interject before you get too deep. 537 00:22:50,785 --> 00:22:52,625 There were two John Brownstone sidings. 538 00:22:52,685 --> 00:22:56,065 So if you know who you are, hi. We're so happy. 539 00:22:56,245 --> 00:22:58,225 - Hi. Thank you. . You, uh, you you 540 00:22:58,435 --> 00:22:59,905 - Found him. Okay, go ahead. Mm-Hmm. 541 00:23:00,145 --> 00:23:01,145 - . 542 00:23:01,145 --> 00:23:05,305 And, uh, basically what, what it, um, it encompassed 543 00:23:05,925 --> 00:23:09,865 was fire cupping, uh, fire streaking. 544 00:23:10,295 --> 00:23:11,425 - That one makes me so nervous. 545 00:23:11,745 --> 00:23:13,345 I mean, clearly it can be done without Mm-Hmm. 546 00:23:13,385 --> 00:23:14,985 . But that one makes me so nervous. 547 00:23:15,565 --> 00:23:16,905 - And fire bubbles. 548 00:23:17,815 --> 00:23:20,105 - That one my, I can't wrap my mind around what that Mm-Hmm. 549 00:23:20,145 --> 00:23:21,545 what that is. Like I've 550 00:23:21,545 --> 00:23:22,705 seen, I've seen cupping. 551 00:23:22,705 --> 00:23:25,905 Yeah. So, and I think I've seen years ago a demo fire 552 00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:27,945 cupping, and I am interested in cupping. 553 00:23:27,945 --> 00:23:29,065 Mm-Hmm. , uh, 554 00:23:29,215 --> 00:23:31,265 I've seen fire streaking once Yeah. 555 00:23:31,265 --> 00:23:33,225 Years ago. That one makes me super nervous. 556 00:23:33,375 --> 00:23:36,105 What are, what are fire bubbles? Oh. 557 00:23:36,105 --> 00:23:37,185 And Lola's now dreaming. 558 00:23:37,285 --> 00:23:41,585 - Lola's having a dream. a very active dream. You 559 00:23:41,725 --> 00:23:44,745 - Get that squirrel cat or bird in your dream man. 560 00:23:44,795 --> 00:23:45,795 Right. 561 00:23:46,175 --> 00:23:51,125 - Don't let it, um, 562 00:23:51,545 --> 00:23:55,765 so the, the fire bubbles, uh, basically what, 563 00:23:58,265 --> 00:24:00,245 and, and I will try to explain it as best I can. 564 00:24:00,305 --> 00:24:02,805 And, and please don't use this as a guide to run out 565 00:24:02,805 --> 00:24:03,885 and do it No, 566 00:24:03,985 --> 00:24:04,985 - No. 567 00:24:04,985 --> 00:24:08,445 - Um, it, it's using, uh, propane, 568 00:24:11,785 --> 00:24:16,125 uh, water and dawn dish soap. 569 00:24:16,665 --> 00:24:17,965 - Man, dawn dish soap can be used 570 00:24:17,965 --> 00:24:19,165 for literally fucking anything. 571 00:24:19,515 --> 00:24:20,725 - Dawn. Dawn is great stuff. 572 00:24:21,325 --> 00:24:22,405 Ly I, I used 573 00:24:22,405 --> 00:24:25,165 to use it years ago when I did lawn maintenance. 574 00:24:25,225 --> 00:24:27,525 And, you know, I, I've had to spray things. It 575 00:24:27,575 --> 00:24:28,605 - Saves the environment 576 00:24:28,875 --> 00:24:32,005 - With, with, with the way it rains here in Florida, you, 577 00:24:32,065 --> 00:24:34,605 you use it to keep the, uh, you know, 578 00:24:34,925 --> 00:24:38,285 whatever you're spraying on the plants without 579 00:24:38,285 --> 00:24:39,405 washing off in the rain. 580 00:24:39,665 --> 00:24:40,845 Wow. So. Wow. 581 00:24:41,185 --> 00:24:45,805 But, um, anyway, um, all that, all that being said, 582 00:24:46,305 --> 00:24:48,245 uh, basically you're trapping 583 00:24:50,745 --> 00:24:55,325 the propane in the bubbles and then you scoop up the bubbles 584 00:24:57,235 --> 00:25:00,455 and you put them on your person. 585 00:25:00,555 --> 00:25:03,535 Mm-Hmm. . And then you ignite the bubbles and 586 00:25:04,395 --> 00:25:05,395 - Wow. 587 00:25:05,405 --> 00:25:08,415 Okay. So a couple people asked about fire streaking. Mm-Hmm. 588 00:25:08,455 --> 00:25:10,495 . I've seen it. I could not describe it though. 589 00:25:10,495 --> 00:25:14,175 - Okay. Um, fire streaking - . 590 00:25:16,685 --> 00:25:20,855 - Yeah. Hank he'll just, yes, he did cure of happiness. 591 00:25:21,195 --> 00:25:23,095 Yes, he did. Yes he did. 592 00:25:23,205 --> 00:25:25,135 - Hank hill's like yes. - Mm-Hmm. 593 00:25:25,175 --> 00:25:26,495 - , I'm in propane business. 594 00:25:26,545 --> 00:25:30,855 - Right. Um, now fire streaking is where 595 00:25:32,355 --> 00:25:36,295 you take isopropyl alcohol 596 00:25:36,475 --> 00:25:39,815 and not just any, it has to be a certain percentage. 597 00:25:39,915 --> 00:25:43,135 Mm. And dip cotton ball. 598 00:25:43,315 --> 00:25:44,695 And then you take the cotton ball 599 00:25:44,795 --> 00:25:46,615 and you swab it along the skin. 600 00:25:46,715 --> 00:25:48,375 Mm-Hmm. . And then you light, 601 00:25:48,755 --> 00:25:50,575 - And then the fire runs down that Yep. 602 00:25:50,575 --> 00:25:52,695 Mm-Hmm. . Now, I, I'm assuming you 603 00:25:53,435 --> 00:25:55,615 rub the alcohol on, don't let it dry. 604 00:25:55,685 --> 00:25:57,855 Correct. Like it's a, it's an instantaneous, 605 00:25:57,965 --> 00:25:59,615 like you finish you light. 606 00:26:00,175 --> 00:26:02,495 'cause Yeah. If you, if it dries, there's no streaking, 607 00:26:02,495 --> 00:26:04,455 there's just burning at that point. Right. 608 00:26:04,605 --> 00:26:05,615 - Well, not, and, 609 00:26:05,715 --> 00:26:07,735 and this is what, this is something that, 610 00:26:07,765 --> 00:26:09,775 that was explained in all this and, 611 00:26:09,795 --> 00:26:11,535 and I kind of knew this Mm-Hmm. 612 00:26:11,575 --> 00:26:16,255 , um, liquid is not flammable. Mm. 613 00:26:16,685 --> 00:26:19,895 Okay. You take gas in a liquid form. Mm-Hmm. . 614 00:26:20,315 --> 00:26:22,135 And it is not flammable is 615 00:26:22,155 --> 00:26:23,535 - The liquid - Gas is not flammable. 616 00:26:23,535 --> 00:26:24,975 It's the gases that 617 00:26:25,195 --> 00:26:27,015 - The liquid is not flammable. It's the gas coming off 618 00:26:27,015 --> 00:26:29,535 - Of it, coming off of fumes we might say, or fumes. 619 00:26:29,835 --> 00:26:31,935 So when you take and, 620 00:26:32,315 --> 00:26:36,255 and you run that swab of alcohol on the skin Mm-Hmm. 621 00:26:36,295 --> 00:26:37,415 , you're not, you're not, 622 00:26:37,885 --> 00:26:40,975 what is on the skin is not, is not ign igniting. 623 00:26:41,085 --> 00:26:43,925 It's, it is the, the fumes coming off. Coming 624 00:26:43,945 --> 00:26:44,945 - Off. 625 00:26:44,945 --> 00:26:46,805 So if the alcohol dried, would the fumes still be there? 626 00:26:48,085 --> 00:26:52,365 - Possibly. - Hmm. Don't anybody ever try fire any fucking 627 00:26:52,365 --> 00:26:54,845 thing without a lot of fucking training from people 628 00:26:54,845 --> 00:26:56,245 who know what the hell they're doing. Yeah. 629 00:26:56,245 --> 00:26:57,605 - Okay. Just - Don't. 630 00:26:58,025 --> 00:27:02,605 - And, and, you know, um, let me say this, one of the things 631 00:27:02,605 --> 00:27:06,085 that was, that was stressed, uh, right up at the beginning, 632 00:27:07,185 --> 00:27:10,645 um, if you do this, you do not want to have any oils, 633 00:27:10,985 --> 00:27:12,885 any lotion that leaves any oils 634 00:27:13,075 --> 00:27:14,075 - Okay. 635 00:27:14,075 --> 00:27:16,445 - On your body. Um, yeah. 636 00:27:16,445 --> 00:27:18,485 You, you, you don't want to have any kind, lotions, 637 00:27:18,725 --> 00:27:20,245 perfumes, things are 638 00:27:20,245 --> 00:27:21,765 - Flammable, - Anything like that. 639 00:27:22,385 --> 00:27:26,765 Um, if, if you intend to wear, um, 640 00:27:28,385 --> 00:27:32,725 any, any clothes, they have 641 00:27:32,725 --> 00:27:34,405 to be natural fiber. Mm. 642 00:27:35,395 --> 00:27:36,965 - Okay. - Okay. Okay. 643 00:27:37,105 --> 00:27:39,725 Um, you know, anything polyester, rayon, 644 00:27:39,795 --> 00:27:41,045 spandex, anything like that? 645 00:27:41,505 --> 00:27:42,845 No, absolutely not. 646 00:27:43,065 --> 00:27:44,005 - It makes, that makes sense. 647 00:27:44,005 --> 00:27:44,925 Mm-Hmm. That makes sense. 648 00:27:45,785 --> 00:27:47,685 - And, uh, the biggest thing that, 649 00:27:47,715 --> 00:27:49,605 that was pointed out right at the beginning, 650 00:27:50,265 --> 00:27:52,245 um, fire extinguisher. Oh 651 00:27:52,245 --> 00:27:53,245 - Yeah. 652 00:27:53,245 --> 00:27:54,245 That would make total sense. Okay. That 653 00:27:54,245 --> 00:27:56,725 - Would make total fire extinguisher, you know, like, like 654 00:27:57,285 --> 00:28:01,365 anything else, um, risk involved in any, any type of play. 655 00:28:02,225 --> 00:28:06,725 And, um, you know, you, 656 00:28:06,985 --> 00:28:08,725 you need to mitigate the risks. Sure. 657 00:28:09,225 --> 00:28:14,155 - Oh, - Sure. You know, um, hair tied long, 658 00:28:14,255 --> 00:28:17,875 you know, long hair tied and, and, and off to the side. Um, 659 00:28:18,475 --> 00:28:20,075 - I imagine there, there's a lot of prep 660 00:28:20,175 --> 00:28:21,715 for play like that. Yeah. Mm-Hmm. . 661 00:28:21,735 --> 00:28:25,715 - Mm-Hmm. . Yeah. So, um, it was, it was fun. 662 00:28:26,295 --> 00:28:27,755 Um, the fire cupping. 663 00:28:28,435 --> 00:28:32,275 I, I really think you would probably like that. 664 00:28:32,575 --> 00:28:34,395 - So remind me, just 665 00:28:34,395 --> 00:28:36,355 because again, cupping and fire cupping Mm-Hmm. 666 00:28:36,395 --> 00:28:38,195 I've seen demos of, but that's not, 667 00:28:38,455 --> 00:28:40,715 was never close enough to like, or, and 668 00:28:40,715 --> 00:28:42,435 nor do I remember now the procedure. 669 00:28:42,435 --> 00:28:43,795 Mm-Hmm. . So how does cupping 670 00:28:43,885 --> 00:28:45,275 slash fire cupping? 671 00:28:45,945 --> 00:28:46,995 - Okay. Like, um, 672 00:28:47,755 --> 00:28:49,995 - 'cause cupping is a medical thing, a therapeutic thing 673 00:28:50,025 --> 00:28:51,715 that we just perverted is all we did. 674 00:28:51,715 --> 00:28:52,715 Right. Because you can Mm-Hmm. 675 00:28:52,955 --> 00:28:55,115 go to, like, you can get cupping things 676 00:28:55,115 --> 00:28:57,395 that's used in like sports therapy 677 00:28:57,615 --> 00:29:00,515 and like for people who use cupping 678 00:29:00,515 --> 00:29:02,235 for medical purposes will be able to explain better. 679 00:29:02,235 --> 00:29:03,955 Mm-Hmm. . But, so yeah. 680 00:29:04,665 --> 00:29:07,395 - Kind of, and, and just lemme backtrack. Sure. 681 00:29:07,835 --> 00:29:09,995 Rah mentioned about fire blankets. Yes. 682 00:29:10,025 --> 00:29:11,595 That, that is another option. 683 00:29:12,175 --> 00:29:14,475 Um, and that is something that he had there 684 00:29:14,475 --> 00:29:16,275 that he, he showed Gotcha. 685 00:29:16,425 --> 00:29:18,715 That, that is available as a safety for that, 686 00:29:18,855 --> 00:29:20,315 uh, fire blanket. 687 00:29:20,535 --> 00:29:25,435 So they had both fire blanket and, uh, extinguisher Gotcha. 688 00:29:25,485 --> 00:29:26,595 There for safety. And 689 00:29:26,595 --> 00:29:30,195 - This might be the one time that every, at least 690 00:29:30,795 --> 00:29:32,755 eighties kid learned probably nineties kid too. 691 00:29:32,875 --> 00:29:34,435 'cause I remember being reminded we will, 692 00:29:34,535 --> 00:29:36,395 you could finally maybe have a reason 693 00:29:36,455 --> 00:29:37,675 to use stop, drop and roll 694 00:29:38,635 --> 00:29:39,115 - . Look, 695 00:29:39,335 --> 00:29:42,005 - The eighties made me think I was going Yeah. 696 00:29:42,005 --> 00:29:43,605 And it makes sense 'cause everything was flammable then. 697 00:29:43,605 --> 00:29:45,685 Mm-Hmm. that I was going to spontaneously 698 00:29:46,005 --> 00:29:48,605 ignite and be caught on fire at any point and 699 00:29:48,865 --> 00:29:50,965 or die by quicksand. 700 00:29:51,075 --> 00:29:55,205 Like I, that, that's just what my childhood taught me. 701 00:29:55,405 --> 00:29:57,285 . Yeah. Now the fire thing makes most more sense 702 00:29:57,285 --> 00:30:00,525 because everything was fucking flammable in the eighties. 703 00:30:00,705 --> 00:30:02,805 - Mm-Hmm. . Mm-Hmm. . Yeah. 704 00:30:03,265 --> 00:30:07,645 Um, cupping actually is something 705 00:30:07,645 --> 00:30:10,005 that has been perverted. 706 00:30:10,115 --> 00:30:14,805 Yeah. Um, it is an actual, um, massage. It's 707 00:30:14,805 --> 00:30:15,805 - Massage. 708 00:30:15,805 --> 00:30:17,445 Okay. I knew, but I know it's used medicinally for it. 709 00:30:17,445 --> 00:30:19,285 - It, - It's like Olympians use it 710 00:30:19,285 --> 00:30:20,485 and sports people use it. 711 00:30:20,675 --> 00:30:22,605 - Yeah. Um, I, I'm trying to say tell muscles 712 00:30:22,625 --> 00:30:25,405 or cooper, it's like an oriental type. 713 00:30:26,025 --> 00:30:28,445 - An Asian - Asian. Yeah. Okay. Uhhuh . 714 00:30:29,345 --> 00:30:34,325 Um, that is supposed to be beneficial. 715 00:30:34,355 --> 00:30:37,565 It's supposed to, you know, relax muscles, help circulation. 716 00:30:37,565 --> 00:30:38,605 Right. Different things like that. 717 00:30:38,905 --> 00:30:41,365 And we just perverted it and, and it, and, 718 00:30:41,365 --> 00:30:42,885 and it has been perverted. 719 00:30:43,265 --> 00:30:46,685 Uh, basically what it is, it, it's like a little, a jar. 720 00:30:47,405 --> 00:30:49,645 A little jar, and you take, 721 00:30:49,645 --> 00:30:54,185 and you, with a cotton swab, you 722 00:30:55,545 --> 00:30:57,235 swab alcohol Okay. 723 00:30:57,265 --> 00:30:59,835 Into the jar. You light it, it ignites, 724 00:30:59,975 --> 00:31:01,875 you put it down on the skin immediately 725 00:31:02,295 --> 00:31:06,955 and it, the fire at that point, lack of oxygen goes out. 726 00:31:06,965 --> 00:31:09,075 Right. But it creates a suction. Mm-Hmm. . 727 00:31:09,345 --> 00:31:13,755 Okay. And it, it pulls the skin up into the cup. 728 00:31:14,225 --> 00:31:15,675 - Yeah. And that's kind 729 00:31:15,675 --> 00:31:16,955 of my understanding of cupping in general. 730 00:31:17,375 --> 00:31:20,435 How is cupping done then to get that effect without fire? 731 00:31:20,655 --> 00:31:22,755 Is it just put it over and it just kind of 732 00:31:22,755 --> 00:31:23,755 - Happens? 733 00:31:23,755 --> 00:31:25,835 No, there, the, the other way of doing it, if you, 734 00:31:25,835 --> 00:31:28,115 you don't want to do without fire, there are, uh, 735 00:31:28,385 --> 00:31:31,155 cupping sets that have like a vacuum. Ah, 736 00:31:31,155 --> 00:31:32,155 - Okay. 737 00:31:32,155 --> 00:31:32,435 That makes sense. That 738 00:31:32,435 --> 00:31:33,435 - Makes sense. 739 00:31:33,435 --> 00:31:35,155 Okay. The, they have like a one-way valve 740 00:31:35,535 --> 00:31:37,675 and you hook up a little pump and you, 741 00:31:37,975 --> 00:31:40,155 - So it's like a penis pump, but for your back. 742 00:31:40,825 --> 00:31:42,235 Yeah. I mean that a penis pump 743 00:31:42,235 --> 00:31:43,275 that is, how many of them work? 744 00:31:43,275 --> 00:31:44,435 They either have a hand pump or 745 00:31:44,435 --> 00:31:45,555 they have like a valve, but Mm-Hmm. 746 00:31:45,595 --> 00:31:46,755 just, that's from, 747 00:31:46,755 --> 00:31:49,035 that's from a sex toy writing day. So . Yeah. 748 00:31:49,775 --> 00:31:51,195 - So yeah. That, that's, 749 00:31:51,395 --> 00:31:53,315 that's the two Gotcha. Two basic ways 750 00:31:53,835 --> 00:31:57,115 - I my limited understanding of cupping in general. 751 00:31:57,115 --> 00:31:59,635 Mm-Hmm. is on the vast majority of people, 752 00:31:59,815 --> 00:32:01,395 I'm sure there's an outlier somewhere, 753 00:32:01,395 --> 00:32:03,435 but on the vast majority of people is gonna make 754 00:32:03,545 --> 00:32:04,795 serious marks too. 755 00:32:05,215 --> 00:32:06,715 How long does it Sure. 756 00:32:06,955 --> 00:32:09,155 Somebody knows how long those marks on average last. 757 00:32:09,435 --> 00:32:10,435 I mean, we're talking like, 758 00:32:10,815 --> 00:32:12,875 you can't show bare skin for like a 759 00:32:12,875 --> 00:32:14,515 - Week or a day or, yeah, no. 760 00:32:14,515 --> 00:32:16,115 The, the marks. The marks do last. 761 00:32:17,295 --> 00:32:22,115 Um, and 762 00:32:22,145 --> 00:32:25,955 depending on the size cup use, 763 00:32:25,955 --> 00:32:27,515 because there's varying sizes Sure. 764 00:32:27,585 --> 00:32:30,435 From large, medium, small, depends on 765 00:32:30,435 --> 00:32:31,675 how big the Mm-Hmm. 766 00:32:31,715 --> 00:32:33,795 , the, the mark is, I'm 767 00:32:33,795 --> 00:32:34,795 - Trying to think. 768 00:32:34,835 --> 00:32:38,595 I feel like the first time I heard of cupping, 769 00:32:38,615 --> 00:32:40,845 and it was probably around the time we saw that demo 770 00:32:41,155 --> 00:32:42,165 however long ago. 771 00:32:42,165 --> 00:32:43,085 Mm-Hmm. . We did not live 772 00:32:43,085 --> 00:32:44,165 in this part of Florida at the time. 773 00:32:44,165 --> 00:32:45,245 Mm-Hmm. This is how long ago it was. 774 00:32:46,265 --> 00:32:48,125 I'm trying to think of how the sensation was 775 00:32:48,395 --> 00:32:49,685 described to me. 776 00:32:50,155 --> 00:32:53,005 It's not the same sensation as impact, but I think, 777 00:32:53,025 --> 00:32:54,325 and somebody who's experienced it 778 00:32:54,325 --> 00:32:56,765 and would not classify this, why, please, please share. 779 00:32:57,685 --> 00:32:59,845 I wanna say the person relayed that 780 00:33:01,075 --> 00:33:04,805 it's not thud in the sense like impact has thud Mm-Hmm. 781 00:33:04,845 --> 00:33:06,405 . But like, it is deep because 782 00:33:06,435 --> 00:33:07,645 it's a massage thing. 783 00:33:07,755 --> 00:33:12,725 Yeah. Um, and the, the way I remember it, 784 00:33:12,745 --> 00:33:16,645 and I have mind like a sieve, was that there, 785 00:33:16,785 --> 00:33:19,965 the way it was explained is if you like thud sensation, 786 00:33:20,595 --> 00:33:22,485 then you might enjoy cupping 787 00:33:22,515 --> 00:33:25,965 because of the, the deepness of it. 788 00:33:25,965 --> 00:33:28,245 Mm-Hmm. like sting tends to be surface level. 789 00:33:28,275 --> 00:33:29,525 Yeah. Like that's, that's why 790 00:33:29,525 --> 00:33:30,645 it's, you know, that's how that works. 791 00:33:31,345 --> 00:33:33,765 And I don't, I don't know if that's, if I'm re remembering 792 00:33:33,765 --> 00:33:35,805 that correctly or not, 793 00:33:35,985 --> 00:33:37,725 but I think that's why I was drawn 794 00:33:37,725 --> 00:33:39,805 to it other than the marks I'm, I'm a sucker 795 00:33:39,805 --> 00:33:41,805 for fucking marks, but Okay. 796 00:33:41,805 --> 00:33:45,645 - Yeah. So J Jay just said still has the marks 797 00:33:46,595 --> 00:33:49,085 that, and that's and that was Saturday night. Yeah. 798 00:33:49,115 --> 00:33:50,125 - Four days ago. Yeah. 799 00:33:50,125 --> 00:33:51,765 That was the time we're recording. Mm-Hmm. . Cool. 800 00:33:51,765 --> 00:33:55,445 - Cool. Yep. But like Rah said, um, you know, 801 00:33:55,445 --> 00:33:58,525 because cupping is something that is a 802 00:34:00,225 --> 00:34:01,325 actual Sure. 803 00:34:01,785 --> 00:34:04,925 Spa treatment type of thing, you can kind of get away with. 804 00:34:05,645 --> 00:34:09,085 - I remember learning that cupping was a thing in kink 805 00:34:09,745 --> 00:34:13,285 and then seeing, was it, 806 00:34:13,425 --> 00:34:15,765 was it Michael Phelps right before he retired? 807 00:34:15,965 --> 00:34:16,965 I don't remember when he retired, 808 00:34:17,505 --> 00:34:19,045 but seeing, I think it was Michael Phelps, 809 00:34:19,145 --> 00:34:20,365 or maybe it was just another swimmer. 810 00:34:20,685 --> 00:34:22,165 I don't know how I was even watching swimming. 811 00:34:22,165 --> 00:34:24,565 That's not a sport I gravitate to watching, but whatever. 812 00:34:24,565 --> 00:34:26,205 Mm-Hmm. and had the cupping marks. 813 00:34:26,205 --> 00:34:28,325 And I remember in privately getting 814 00:34:28,445 --> 00:34:29,525 a little giggle about that. 815 00:34:29,755 --> 00:34:32,805 Yeah. Because I was like, oh, I know you did it for like, 816 00:34:33,025 --> 00:34:35,165 its intended purposes, but Yeah. 817 00:34:35,555 --> 00:34:39,485 - Okay. . Now, I, I also will add with the cupping, 818 00:34:40,025 --> 00:34:42,965 um, they, they made a point numerous times. 819 00:34:43,865 --> 00:34:46,645 Um, the cups 820 00:34:47,265 --> 00:34:49,885 should stay on no longer than 10 minutes. 821 00:34:50,625 --> 00:34:52,365 - Mm. That makes sense. You'd be cutting off, 822 00:34:52,425 --> 00:34:53,645 uh, blood circulation. 823 00:34:53,645 --> 00:34:54,685 Yeah. Blood flow. Yeah. Mm-Hmm. . 824 00:34:54,685 --> 00:34:56,085 That makes sense. Mm-Hmm. . Okay. Thank you. 825 00:34:56,285 --> 00:34:58,245 Rah. Rock rah says, yes, it was Michael Phelps. 826 00:34:58,545 --> 00:35:00,445 And see, I felt like it had to be 827 00:35:00,445 --> 00:35:03,645 because, uh, other than Greg Ganis, ganni, 828 00:35:03,645 --> 00:35:06,245 however, from like, when I was a kid Mm-Hmm. 829 00:35:06,285 --> 00:35:08,405 , Michael Phelps is the only male swimmer 830 00:35:08,515 --> 00:35:09,805 that I could even fucking name. 831 00:35:09,955 --> 00:35:13,245 Yeah. Um, Katie Ledecky, I think is her last name. 832 00:35:13,485 --> 00:35:15,205 I remember her 'cause she breaks all these fucking records 833 00:35:16,025 --> 00:35:17,205 as a female swimmer. 834 00:35:17,265 --> 00:35:20,205 But Yeah. Um, Michael Phelps was Michael Fucking Phelps. 835 00:35:20,205 --> 00:35:21,965 Mm-Hmm. and I, yeah. I remember seeing the, 836 00:35:21,965 --> 00:35:25,885 the cupping and I think the announcer, whatever was like, 837 00:35:25,945 --> 00:35:27,085 oh, do you see those marks? 838 00:35:27,085 --> 00:35:28,085 This is cupping. And I'm like, 839 00:35:29,605 --> 00:35:30,605 - . 840 00:35:30,605 --> 00:35:33,005 Yeah. So, so basically what, um, 841 00:35:34,195 --> 00:35:36,805 what it is when you put the first cup on 842 00:35:37,345 --> 00:35:38,685 the timer starts Mm. 843 00:35:39,545 --> 00:35:42,365 - Gotcha. - And then, you know, once you get close to 844 00:35:42,365 --> 00:35:43,925 that mark, depending, you need to start, 845 00:35:44,015 --> 00:35:45,445 - Start - Taking 'em off. Taking 'em off. 846 00:35:45,905 --> 00:35:48,085 - So the act of from, I mean, 847 00:35:48,085 --> 00:35:50,925 clearly this'll vary based on experience level, 848 00:35:50,945 --> 00:35:52,325 but since you watch the demo of somebody 849 00:35:52,325 --> 00:35:53,445 who knows what the fuck they're doing Yeah. 850 00:35:54,065 --> 00:35:57,885 The, from grabbing the cup thing, doing the swab, 851 00:35:58,085 --> 00:35:59,365 lighting on fire, popping it down. 852 00:35:59,425 --> 00:36:01,805 Is it a pretty, once you have a flow to it, 853 00:36:01,805 --> 00:36:03,525 is it a pretty quick thing or is it like a 854 00:36:03,925 --> 00:36:05,325 - A Oh, oh, you have to finagle. 855 00:36:05,395 --> 00:36:08,125 It's, it's, it's a pretty quick thing. Okay. Okay. 856 00:36:08,745 --> 00:36:10,845 Um, I did get to try it. That's 857 00:36:10,845 --> 00:36:11,845 - Right. 858 00:36:11,845 --> 00:36:12,005 You told me that. You told me that. Yeah. Yeah. 859 00:36:12,105 --> 00:36:15,485 - Did, did get to try it. Um, yeah. 860 00:36:15,675 --> 00:36:19,125 It's, it's, um, it was cool. I, I enjoyed it. Mm-Hmm. 861 00:36:19,165 --> 00:36:20,165 , 862 00:36:20,285 --> 00:36:22,405 - I could not start with fire cupping . 863 00:36:22,405 --> 00:36:24,405 Mm-Hmm. . I am, I am not 864 00:36:24,405 --> 00:36:26,005 that fucking relaxed at all. 865 00:36:26,005 --> 00:36:27,045 Yeah. In any part of my life. 866 00:36:27,305 --> 00:36:29,325 But I, yeah, I would definitely try cupping. Mm-Hmm. 867 00:36:29,365 --> 00:36:31,325 . And you know what I think other than any 868 00:36:31,325 --> 00:36:35,005 noises I might make for people who, um, are looking 869 00:36:35,185 --> 00:36:37,485 for things you can do quietly Mm-Hmm. 870 00:36:37,525 --> 00:36:38,685 because you've got too many damn 871 00:36:38,685 --> 00:36:39,765 people in your fucking house. 872 00:36:39,765 --> 00:36:43,565 Right. Uh, children or adults, but you just, I, you know. 873 00:36:43,635 --> 00:36:45,485 Yeah. As long as the, the bottom, 874 00:36:45,705 --> 00:36:48,325 the submissive is not screaming from 875 00:36:48,765 --> 00:36:50,045 a sensation . 876 00:36:50,405 --> 00:36:52,605 I would imagine that would be a very quiet one. 877 00:36:53,355 --> 00:36:54,525 That is, is that 878 00:36:54,595 --> 00:36:55,595 - Yeah, it is. 879 00:36:55,595 --> 00:36:56,845 It is. It is very quiet. 880 00:36:57,505 --> 00:37:00,605 Um, there, there really is no, um, 881 00:37:03,035 --> 00:37:07,725 with, with the cupping itself, from what I have heard, 882 00:37:08,305 --> 00:37:12,765 all the people who tried it, uh, bottom wise, um, 883 00:37:12,945 --> 00:37:14,005 it feels warm, 884 00:37:15,225 --> 00:37:19,525 but there's no, you know, like overly hot. 885 00:37:19,525 --> 00:37:20,725 Mm-Hmm. . Mm-Hmm. , you know, 886 00:37:20,795 --> 00:37:24,845 heat burning sensation, um, the 887 00:37:25,395 --> 00:37:28,805 streaking a little bit more. 888 00:37:29,195 --> 00:37:30,325 - Sure. That makes sense. Mm-Hmm. 889 00:37:30,365 --> 00:37:31,885 it's much closer contact with your 890 00:37:31,885 --> 00:37:32,885 - Skin. 891 00:37:32,885 --> 00:37:35,045 Yeah. And, um, and and the same with, or 892 00:37:35,045 --> 00:37:36,365 - Is it, - I dunno, the bubbles, 893 00:37:36,915 --> 00:37:38,885 - That makes more sense to me because Mm-Hmm. 894 00:37:38,925 --> 00:37:41,125 the way a lack of oxygen will 895 00:37:41,795 --> 00:37:43,765 suck out a fire Yeah. 896 00:37:43,765 --> 00:37:46,405 Versus a fire burn even quickly burning itself out. 897 00:37:46,565 --> 00:37:48,725 That, that makes sense to me now. Rah. 898 00:37:48,805 --> 00:37:50,485 Rahs being super helpful or not 899 00:37:50,485 --> 00:37:52,685 so helpful depending on your perspective in the live chat. 900 00:37:52,985 --> 00:37:55,125 And I will relay because I too am super 901 00:37:55,125 --> 00:37:56,605 helpful slash not very. 902 00:37:56,635 --> 00:37:59,725 Yeah. Uh, rah rah says you can make cupping sadistic 903 00:37:59,745 --> 00:38:01,845 by moving the cups and or twisting them. 904 00:38:01,845 --> 00:38:03,405 Twisting. Yep. I don't even know 905 00:38:03,405 --> 00:38:04,925 what the sensation actually is, 906 00:38:05,265 --> 00:38:08,005 but did my, everything clinch at the thought of that 907 00:38:08,005 --> 00:38:11,885 because I, I have a sadistic daddy 908 00:38:12,025 --> 00:38:13,245 who is also a bratty daddy, 909 00:38:13,425 --> 00:38:15,685 and I could see a bratty, sadistic daddy going Ha. 910 00:38:16,175 --> 00:38:21,125 Right. Like, they're like dials. Oh my God. Oh my God. 911 00:38:22,075 --> 00:38:25,605 - Yeah. Yeah. And, and Jay brought up a good point too. 912 00:38:25,865 --> 00:38:28,485 Um, one of the things, when you have the jar 913 00:38:28,485 --> 00:38:29,725 and you swab it Mm-Hmm. 914 00:38:29,765 --> 00:38:30,765 , before you light it, 915 00:38:30,825 --> 00:38:32,165 you want to give it a couple shakes. 916 00:38:32,185 --> 00:38:35,405 - Gotcha. Okay. - 'cause you don't want any liquid to 917 00:38:35,405 --> 00:38:36,605 - Still be in there, - To still be in there 918 00:38:36,605 --> 00:38:39,005 because when you turn it over, then it ooh, you, 919 00:38:39,005 --> 00:38:41,005 you don't want the liquid to run down. Who, 920 00:38:41,265 --> 00:38:43,925 - Let me just say again, if any of this is intriguing 921 00:38:43,945 --> 00:38:45,325 to you, don't do a fucking thing 922 00:38:45,325 --> 00:38:46,485 based on what we're talking about. 923 00:38:46,825 --> 00:38:49,165 Go fucking learn from people who know what they've like, 924 00:38:49,165 --> 00:38:50,205 who have the experience. 925 00:38:50,225 --> 00:38:52,885 Mm-Hmm. . Okay. Oh, 926 00:38:55,705 --> 00:38:58,125 so, oh my God. 927 00:38:59,065 --> 00:39:02,805 - So yeah, it, um, it was fun. Mm-Hmm. 928 00:39:02,845 --> 00:39:06,765 - . - It was, um, it was interesting. 929 00:39:07,505 --> 00:39:10,805 Um, yeah. Mm-Hmm. . Yeah. 930 00:39:10,885 --> 00:39:12,765 A lot of fun, you know? 931 00:39:12,945 --> 00:39:17,245 And, um, you know, don't just run out and try it. 932 00:39:17,745 --> 00:39:21,925 Um, you know, a lot of things to consider with this be, 933 00:39:21,925 --> 00:39:24,965 you know, to be be you want to be safe, um, 934 00:39:27,305 --> 00:39:31,605 you know, and, um, yeah. Mm-Hmm? 935 00:39:31,645 --> 00:39:32,645 - . Mm-Hmm. . 936 00:39:32,645 --> 00:39:36,085 - Yeah. Yeah. No. You know, um, one of the, one 937 00:39:36,085 --> 00:39:37,245 of the things, um, 938 00:39:40,155 --> 00:39:41,965 they talked about was drips. 939 00:39:42,305 --> 00:39:44,725 - Mm-Hmm. . - Um, especially 940 00:39:44,725 --> 00:39:47,765 with anything like when you're doing the, the streaking, um, 941 00:39:48,065 --> 00:39:50,885 it is up to the bottom if they feel anything 942 00:39:51,685 --> 00:39:53,005 dripping running Yeah. 943 00:39:53,025 --> 00:39:54,325 Or dripping down. Mm-Hmm. 944 00:39:54,365 --> 00:39:55,965 need to say something immediately. 945 00:39:55,965 --> 00:39:57,525 - Gotcha. So then that would tell me 946 00:39:57,525 --> 00:40:00,325 that if you are a person who, for any medically or 947 00:40:00,325 --> 00:40:03,725 otherwise, does not always feel sensations easily on your 948 00:40:03,795 --> 00:40:08,325 skin, you're gonna wanna find a workaround or rethink. 949 00:40:08,325 --> 00:40:09,245 Mm-Hmm. . Because that Yeah, 950 00:40:09,245 --> 00:40:10,365 that sounds very important. 951 00:40:10,365 --> 00:40:11,765 That's how the fire would just spread, right? 952 00:40:11,845 --> 00:40:13,605 'cause as long as the liquid's there, then the fumes 953 00:40:13,905 --> 00:40:15,405 of the liquid are still still 954 00:40:15,405 --> 00:40:16,445 coming off of it, right? Yeah. 955 00:40:16,445 --> 00:40:18,845 - Yeah, yeah. Yeah. So yeah, you want to, you want 956 00:40:18,845 --> 00:40:20,125 to be very careful with that. 957 00:40:20,665 --> 00:40:23,405 Um, you can do 958 00:40:25,035 --> 00:40:26,925 both either side of the body. 959 00:40:27,545 --> 00:40:30,925 Oh. Um, you want best case scenario, 960 00:40:31,105 --> 00:40:32,685 you want the person laying flat. 961 00:40:32,905 --> 00:40:34,085 Gotcha. Okay. 962 00:40:34,705 --> 00:40:37,165 Um, if they're standing up, you know, 963 00:40:37,165 --> 00:40:38,165 and you do a swab, 964 00:40:38,405 --> 00:40:40,325 everything's gonna tend to wanna run down. 965 00:40:40,385 --> 00:40:42,605 You want to keep everything as flat. 966 00:40:43,675 --> 00:40:44,675 - What - If 967 00:40:44,675 --> 00:40:47,525 - As possible, you, yourself, your body is not flat. 968 00:40:47,635 --> 00:40:50,125 Well, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, okay. 969 00:40:50,385 --> 00:40:51,925 It could never be on my ass 970 00:40:51,925 --> 00:40:53,525 because there's nothing flat about that. 971 00:40:53,525 --> 00:40:56,085 Thankfully, thankfully, knock on one, uh, 972 00:40:56,175 --> 00:40:57,445 could not be on my front 973 00:40:57,445 --> 00:41:00,285 because nothing there is flat either . 974 00:41:01,505 --> 00:41:04,445 So, okay. I would be a shoulders and back girly. 975 00:41:04,475 --> 00:41:07,445 Good to know. Good to know. , good to know. 976 00:41:08,485 --> 00:41:09,725 I know the valleys 977 00:41:09,945 --> 00:41:12,045 - Of this body well. Yes. Yes. There'd 978 00:41:12,045 --> 00:41:12,925 - Be, there'd be runoff. 979 00:41:12,925 --> 00:41:13,685 Mm-Hmm. . There'd just, 980 00:41:14,035 --> 00:41:15,035 - Yeah. 981 00:41:15,035 --> 00:41:17,165 And, and for that reason, you know, there, there're 982 00:41:18,155 --> 00:41:19,325 someone laying on the back. 983 00:41:19,325 --> 00:41:22,245 You wanna stay away from the, the butt crack, you know? 984 00:41:22,785 --> 00:41:25,605 Ooh, ooh. You don't, you don't, you don't want get, 985 00:41:25,665 --> 00:41:27,605 you know, even if they're laying down, you, you, 986 00:41:27,625 --> 00:41:28,725 you don't want to get anywhere. 987 00:41:28,725 --> 00:41:30,925 It's gonna be near that. It could run into the arm 988 00:41:31,105 --> 00:41:32,105 - Pit. 989 00:41:32,105 --> 00:41:32,325 Yeah. Cracks and crevices. Yeah. You 990 00:41:32,325 --> 00:41:33,885 wanna, anything like that. That makes sense. That 991 00:41:33,885 --> 00:41:34,885 - Makes sense. 992 00:41:34,885 --> 00:41:37,445 So, you know, those, those are all caveats 993 00:41:37,445 --> 00:41:40,605 and those are things you need to know and understand 994 00:41:40,985 --> 00:41:42,565 before embarking upon this. 995 00:41:43,105 --> 00:41:45,525 - But also just go to some demos and workshops and Yes. 996 00:41:45,695 --> 00:41:47,605 Learn from experienced folk. Mm-Hmm. . Yeah. 997 00:41:47,605 --> 00:41:49,805 Yeah. Yeah. Just whew. 998 00:41:50,585 --> 00:41:52,085 - But it was, it was good. Mm-Hmm. 999 00:41:52,125 --> 00:41:53,725 - , you were gone, you went on your adventure. 1000 00:41:53,725 --> 00:41:55,565 You were gone for 24 hours. Yep. 1001 00:41:55,925 --> 00:41:57,965 I handled that better than I thought I would. Okay. 1002 00:41:58,025 --> 00:42:00,765 But you know what I learned? Okay, so we had this, 1003 00:42:01,145 --> 00:42:02,365 it wasn't a full conversation. 1004 00:42:02,565 --> 00:42:05,885 I was just throwing out rando shit for my brain yesterday. 1005 00:42:06,625 --> 00:42:07,885 And I think, oh, it was 1006 00:42:07,885 --> 00:42:11,565 because in our discord server, um, 1007 00:42:11,745 --> 00:42:14,365 we have an episode discussion thread. 1008 00:42:14,825 --> 00:42:16,885 Um, and folks have started using it 1009 00:42:16,885 --> 00:42:18,685 and go in there, talk about whether it's the short 1010 00:42:18,685 --> 00:42:20,005 episodes or the long episodes. 1011 00:42:20,005 --> 00:42:21,285 If they have thoughts, they'll go talk about it. 1012 00:42:21,285 --> 00:42:23,565 And we, the group got into a conversation about mm-Hmm. 1013 00:42:23,605 --> 00:42:25,605 , um, being non-monogamous 1014 00:42:25,785 --> 00:42:27,525 and, um, some different views on it. 1015 00:42:28,225 --> 00:42:30,085 And so it got us talking about that. 1016 00:42:31,265 --> 00:42:35,085 And, um, I said, I said that ev first of all, 1017 00:42:35,155 --> 00:42:37,045 I've said it many years, I'm non monogamy 1018 00:42:37,045 --> 00:42:38,085 in theory, not in practice. 1019 00:42:39,105 --> 00:42:41,365 Um, , look, 1020 00:42:41,805 --> 00:42:43,645 I am never gonna seek out another human being. 1021 00:42:43,945 --> 00:42:47,365 Me sending an email to JB, um, 1022 00:42:48,545 --> 00:42:50,645 was a once in a lifetime thing. Okay. 1023 00:42:50,945 --> 00:42:53,245 - The, the planets were aligned at that moment. 1024 00:42:53,435 --> 00:42:54,765 Just Yeah, yeah, 1025 00:42:55,675 --> 00:42:56,675 - Yeah. 1026 00:42:56,675 --> 00:42:58,925 Mercury was in the microwave. It, it just all worked out. 1027 00:42:59,195 --> 00:43:02,645 Mercury, , I can, I mean, 1028 00:43:03,005 --> 00:43:04,445 I couldn't have in Sure, sure. 1029 00:43:04,465 --> 00:43:05,525 But man, those stars will 1030 00:43:05,525 --> 00:43:06,685 really have to fucking align again. 1031 00:43:06,685 --> 00:43:07,965 Yeah. So, um, 1032 00:43:09,425 --> 00:43:11,885 but every time 1033 00:43:13,595 --> 00:43:17,925 something in our life centers around your non-monogamy, 1034 00:43:18,725 --> 00:43:20,245 I have to confront something about myself. 1035 00:43:20,245 --> 00:43:22,525 Like, I just, I go through it. Okay. 1036 00:43:23,145 --> 00:43:27,485 And I always realize once I hurt my own feelings, um, 1037 00:43:27,925 --> 00:43:30,565 , once I stop hurting my own feelings, I should say 1038 00:43:30,715 --> 00:43:32,565 that it is always a thing within me. 1039 00:43:32,715 --> 00:43:36,165 It's like stuff from my childhood, it's stuff from other, 1040 00:43:36,315 --> 00:43:38,805 like, it's all that it's not about, you know, 1041 00:43:40,665 --> 00:43:42,605 not wanting to do this 1042 00:43:42,825 --> 00:43:44,005 or not being comfortable 1043 00:43:44,005 --> 00:43:46,005 with it is always stuff, internal stuff to me. 1044 00:43:46,005 --> 00:43:48,765 But I figured out a thing that, how did it get us 1045 00:43:48,765 --> 00:43:50,525 to 10 years before I figured this out? 1046 00:43:51,485 --> 00:43:52,845 I was fine 1047 00:43:53,315 --> 00:43:57,285 because as you did major transitions, not, oh, we're going 1048 00:43:57,285 --> 00:43:58,645 to a meal now and then we're going to this. 1049 00:43:58,825 --> 00:44:02,805 But like, um, I'm on the road headed 1050 00:44:02,905 --> 00:44:04,045 to blah blah place. 1051 00:44:04,285 --> 00:44:05,845 I have arrived at blah blah place, 1052 00:44:06,025 --> 00:44:07,085 I'm leaving, blah, blah place. 1053 00:44:07,085 --> 00:44:08,725 Mm-Hmm. , you would just send me a real quick 1054 00:44:08,725 --> 00:44:12,765 text and go, Hey, leaving location arrived at location. 1055 00:44:12,785 --> 00:44:14,605 Yep. And so, in my mind, I kind of knew where you were. 1056 00:44:14,805 --> 00:44:16,165 I didn't have to know what was going on. 1057 00:44:16,205 --> 00:44:17,325 I understood we had a conversation, 1058 00:44:17,625 --> 00:44:19,285 but like, I didn't like my brain. 1059 00:44:19,385 --> 00:44:21,365 I'm, I was not filling in blanks. 1060 00:44:21,525 --> 00:44:24,725 I just, I just had a sense of where you were in the journey. 1061 00:44:24,785 --> 00:44:25,885 Mm-Hmm. . . 1062 00:44:25,985 --> 00:44:29,645 And so I was just so much fucking calmer 1063 00:44:29,665 --> 00:44:32,445 and I don't know, I mean, could I psychoanalyze it? 1064 00:44:32,445 --> 00:44:34,005 Yeah. Gimme a, a few minutes, 1065 00:44:34,145 --> 00:44:35,285 but I don't really feel like it Mm-Hmm. 1066 00:44:35,325 --> 00:44:37,285 . And so I don't exactly know what 1067 00:44:37,285 --> 00:44:40,605 that is about, but it just made for a much easier time. 1068 00:44:41,755 --> 00:44:45,565 Yeah. I mean, did you fuck my 1069 00:44:45,565 --> 00:44:46,845 brains out before you left? 1070 00:44:46,845 --> 00:44:49,125 That helped . That also helped . 1071 00:44:49,755 --> 00:44:53,165 That also helped. Um, so yeah. 1072 00:44:53,405 --> 00:44:55,685 I mean, it was, I was, I was happy for you 1073 00:44:55,835 --> 00:44:57,845 because, you know, you wanted to go do the thing. 1074 00:44:57,845 --> 00:44:58,845 You got to go do the thing. 1075 00:44:59,425 --> 00:45:00,845 Um, I was proud of me 1076 00:45:01,065 --> 00:45:02,965 for not hurting my own goddamn feelings. 1077 00:45:02,965 --> 00:45:07,285 That's, that is the problem. Every time. Time, every time. 1078 00:45:07,605 --> 00:45:09,645 . And I think part of it is, is 1079 00:45:09,645 --> 00:45:13,005 because you, you have not had, since we've been together, 1080 00:45:13,385 --> 00:45:16,685 the opportunity to go have your adventures 1081 00:45:17,405 --> 00:45:19,085 consistently correct. 1082 00:45:19,315 --> 00:45:20,885 Like, you might have had a partner 1083 00:45:20,985 --> 00:45:23,325 and you might see them once every six months, once a year. 1084 00:45:23,385 --> 00:45:24,565 It was mostly online. It was 1085 00:45:24,565 --> 00:45:25,725 mostly by phone, stuff like that. 1086 00:45:26,665 --> 00:45:31,525 And so me navigating it from my little side, which is 1087 00:45:32,305 --> 00:45:35,005 all my internal stuff, just isn't consistent enough. 1088 00:45:35,005 --> 00:45:37,685 Right. And I'm so 10 years into our relationship, 1089 00:45:37,885 --> 00:45:40,685 I am still learning shit about myself every time. 1090 00:45:40,685 --> 00:45:43,725 Like I, I'm still getting to new comfort levels, 1091 00:45:43,815 --> 00:45:45,525 which is fascinating to me. 1092 00:45:45,545 --> 00:45:49,045 And I'm annoyed 'cause I'm like, I, I am fine with this. 1093 00:45:49,145 --> 00:45:50,805 I'm legitimately okay with this. 1094 00:45:51,725 --> 00:45:54,245 I would like to be mentally healthier. 1095 00:45:54,525 --> 00:45:56,045 though that wouldn't we all 1096 00:45:56,045 --> 00:45:57,725 that wouldn't we all know? 1097 00:45:58,265 --> 00:46:01,565 Um, yeah. So yeah. So yeah. But that's the thing I learned. 1098 00:46:01,915 --> 00:46:04,165 Okay. I learned like just, I don't need 1099 00:46:04,165 --> 00:46:05,925 to know all the details, what you 1100 00:46:06,625 --> 00:46:08,565 are comfortable telling me when you get back. 1101 00:46:08,565 --> 00:46:10,485 Mm-Hmm. based on my comfort level as well. 1102 00:46:10,485 --> 00:46:12,525 Right. I actually don't wanna know a lot of details. 1103 00:46:12,525 --> 00:46:14,125 That feels too much like voyeurism to me. 1104 00:46:14,145 --> 00:46:17,325 And I'm just like, Nope, nope. No, thank you. 1105 00:46:17,985 --> 00:46:21,965 Um, but like the stuff that I think what it is, is the stuff 1106 00:46:22,045 --> 00:46:24,965 that is about your health. 1107 00:46:25,025 --> 00:46:26,765 Mm-Hmm. like your wellbeing 1108 00:46:27,355 --> 00:46:28,485 that I want to fucking know. 1109 00:46:28,755 --> 00:46:31,325 Well, sorry. Sorry. 1110 00:46:31,905 --> 00:46:33,685 Um, a bitch will lose her fucking mind 1111 00:46:33,865 --> 00:46:35,045 if something happens to jb. 1112 00:46:35,155 --> 00:46:37,485 Okay. . Oh, he didn't know. 1113 00:46:37,705 --> 00:46:41,245 He has to be immortal now, but here we are. Okay. 1114 00:46:42,105 --> 00:46:44,605 Um, but yeah, so that Yeah. Yeah. 1115 00:46:44,745 --> 00:46:47,045 The thing I learned, okay. On your kinky adventure 1116 00:46:47,945 --> 00:46:51,765 - And, uh, folks are wondering about the, uh, 1117 00:46:51,905 --> 00:46:53,285 - My finger caught - The, the finger. 1118 00:46:53,945 --> 00:46:54,965 Um, you know, yeah. 1119 00:46:55,105 --> 00:46:58,485 You, you, you, you, you totally ruined, uh, 1120 00:46:58,505 --> 00:47:00,285 the company's safety record here. 1121 00:47:00,355 --> 00:47:03,845 - Yeah. OSHA's gonna hate us. Yeah. . 1122 00:47:04,105 --> 00:47:06,605 So podcast listeners, you cannot see. No. 1123 00:47:06,945 --> 00:47:11,765 And you might have seen if you, it's very niche. 1124 00:47:11,985 --> 00:47:14,285 You have to follow the kry on Instagram 1125 00:47:15,025 --> 00:47:16,725 and look at our stories 1126 00:47:18,205 --> 00:47:20,485 consistently enough not to ever miss a story. 1127 00:47:20,625 --> 00:47:23,405 So that was like, what, four of you. That's fine. . 1128 00:47:25,115 --> 00:47:28,125 Okay. Um, I hurt my thumb. 1129 00:47:28,685 --> 00:47:30,645 I actually hurt my pointer finger. 1130 00:47:30,745 --> 00:47:32,645 Or actually the very bottom like joint 1131 00:47:32,835 --> 00:47:34,085 just below my pointer finger. 1132 00:47:35,065 --> 00:47:38,405 Two separate accidents, 10 minutes apart , 1133 00:47:38,515 --> 00:47:42,285 because I'm, sometimes I'm slow 1134 00:47:42,585 --> 00:47:43,725 to learn from a mistake. 1135 00:47:43,955 --> 00:47:48,005 Okay. So, um, I'm not gonna show 1136 00:47:48,365 --> 00:47:49,485 'cause I don't wanna gross anybody out 1137 00:47:49,585 --> 00:47:51,365 and I'm gonna try not to describe it too 1138 00:47:51,365 --> 00:47:52,605 much 'cause I don't wanna gross anybody out. 1139 00:47:52,605 --> 00:47:53,885 So I'm gonna gloss over some 1140 00:47:53,885 --> 00:47:54,885 - Of that. 1141 00:47:54,885 --> 00:47:55,405 Basically she's got a boo booo, 1142 00:47:56,025 --> 00:47:57,765 - Hey, this is a little bit more than a, 1143 00:47:57,765 --> 00:47:58,925 it did not require stitches, 1144 00:47:59,025 --> 00:48:01,565 but it is a little bit more than a random boo boo 1145 00:48:01,565 --> 00:48:03,445 because this is gonna suck for a few weeks. 1146 00:48:03,625 --> 00:48:07,805 Anyway, I was out in the garage, 1147 00:48:08,235 --> 00:48:10,165 that shop while JB was out in the 1148 00:48:10,165 --> 00:48:11,245 tiny shop behind the house. 1149 00:48:11,325 --> 00:48:13,285 I was in the garage and I was working on our 1150 00:48:13,485 --> 00:48:14,565 resin inlay paddles. 1151 00:48:15,305 --> 00:48:18,805 And the process that we have come to for pouring resin 1152 00:48:19,145 --> 00:48:20,965 and getting it to do right and blah, blah blah. 1153 00:48:21,265 --> 00:48:25,005 It involves, um, there being a point in time 1154 00:48:25,135 --> 00:48:27,445 where something, things that are stuck to the wood 1155 00:48:27,445 --> 00:48:28,645 that are not supposed to be there. 1156 00:48:29,075 --> 00:48:32,005 Some of it comes off with me using a putty knife. 1157 00:48:32,425 --> 00:48:36,965 Now have I had close calls since we started this method? 1158 00:48:37,345 --> 00:48:39,325 And have I questioned, should I be allowed 1159 00:48:39,325 --> 00:48:40,325 to use the putty knife? 1160 00:48:40,895 --> 00:48:42,365 Knife implies blade. 1161 00:48:42,465 --> 00:48:45,365 The rule is Kayla don't have to be around blades 1162 00:48:45,925 --> 00:48:46,965 'cause it ain't safe for anybody. 1163 00:48:47,505 --> 00:48:50,085 But I've mostly been fine, had close calls. I've been fine. 1164 00:48:50,985 --> 00:48:53,885 Two Tuesday morning I go out into the garage 1165 00:48:53,905 --> 00:48:55,325 and I'm starting to try 1166 00:48:55,325 --> 00:48:58,005 and get this thing off the paddle to prep it 1167 00:48:58,005 --> 00:49:00,525 for sanding tomorrow with the putty knife. 1168 00:49:00,865 --> 00:49:04,125 And I'm not paying enough attention to placement of 1169 00:49:04,755 --> 00:49:07,605 hand holding the wood and placement 1170 00:49:07,605 --> 00:49:09,685 and angle of putty knife in my right hand. 1171 00:49:09,745 --> 00:49:11,285 And I go and I just swoop 1172 00:49:11,545 --> 00:49:14,005 and the corner of this dirty ass fucking 1173 00:49:14,135 --> 00:49:15,485 putty knife Oh my god. 1174 00:49:16,115 --> 00:49:20,685 Goes right into the bottom joint under, 1175 00:49:20,895 --> 00:49:22,045 below my pointer finger. 1176 00:49:22,305 --> 00:49:23,645 And it's just like a cut, quick cut. 1177 00:49:23,685 --> 00:49:25,685 I mean, I watched it just slide right 1178 00:49:25,685 --> 00:49:26,685 - In. 1179 00:49:26,685 --> 00:49:27,725 Yeah. Now under understand something 1180 00:49:27,795 --> 00:49:31,125 because of what this, 1181 00:49:31,235 --> 00:49:33,485 this particular putty knife is used 1182 00:49:33,665 --> 00:49:35,325 for several different things. . It's 1183 00:49:35,585 --> 00:49:36,585 - So dirty. 1184 00:49:36,585 --> 00:49:39,685 - Okay. Yes it is. It is. It's dirty. 1185 00:49:40,905 --> 00:49:43,885 Um, but, um, 1186 00:49:44,325 --> 00:49:48,285 I have a old wheel from a grind grind wheel. 1187 00:49:48,285 --> 00:49:50,245 Mm-Hmm. . And I actually take, 1188 00:49:50,345 --> 00:49:54,085 and I run the edges that sense to keep it sharp 1189 00:49:54,395 --> 00:49:56,285 because of what I do it. 1190 00:49:56,545 --> 00:49:58,645 - So that's why it just glided into my hand. 1191 00:49:58,645 --> 00:50:00,405 Like cutting through butter. Yeah. Okay. Good to know. 1192 00:50:00,435 --> 00:50:02,285 - It's, it's like a, it's sharpened like a 1193 00:50:02,285 --> 00:50:03,285 - Knife. 1194 00:50:03,285 --> 00:50:04,285 It's always effective. Okay. . 1195 00:50:04,385 --> 00:50:07,365 So I go, I'm like pissed at myself. 'cause that was stupid. 1196 00:50:07,485 --> 00:50:09,325 I just wasn't paying attention. I go into the bathroom, 1197 00:50:09,445 --> 00:50:13,205 I clean it off, put a waterproof, um, bandaid on it. 1198 00:50:13,325 --> 00:50:14,325 'cause I'm gonna be wearing gloves 1199 00:50:14,345 --> 00:50:15,605 and my hands get sweat, blah. 1200 00:50:15,865 --> 00:50:16,925 I'm like, okay, okay. 1201 00:50:16,945 --> 00:50:19,245 And I walk out of the bathroom going, you know what? 1202 00:50:19,245 --> 00:50:21,205 Today might not be the day to be doing anything 1203 00:50:21,205 --> 00:50:22,885 with a fucking putty knife, . 1204 00:50:23,785 --> 00:50:26,725 And I, I have that thought. 1205 00:50:27,745 --> 00:50:29,285 And then apparently when I got back 1206 00:50:29,285 --> 00:50:30,565 to the garage, I forgot that thought. 1207 00:50:30,585 --> 00:50:34,285 And I went, no, no. As long as I'm careful, I, 1208 00:50:34,445 --> 00:50:35,645 I know what I did wrong here. 1209 00:50:35,995 --> 00:50:39,085 I'll just be careful. It'll be fine. 1210 00:50:41,285 --> 00:50:44,445 I had, but I, I had been, 1211 00:50:44,805 --> 00:50:47,525 I had barely used the putty knife this second time 1212 00:50:47,525 --> 00:50:49,645 after I'd had the thought of maybe I should not. 1213 00:50:49,665 --> 00:50:52,165 And oh, we fine. I had barely done anything. 1214 00:50:52,345 --> 00:50:55,285 And not only, and I really did think I had placed everything 1215 00:50:55,645 --> 00:50:57,685 properly, but I just, I lost control of it. 1216 00:50:58,025 --> 00:50:59,805 That's why I'm not allowed to run blades, y'all. 1217 00:51:00,345 --> 00:51:04,005 And it went into the tip of my thumb 1218 00:51:04,305 --> 00:51:06,725 and threw into my fingernail. 1219 00:51:07,865 --> 00:51:10,525 So it, the cut starts at the tip of my thumb 1220 00:51:10,545 --> 00:51:14,365 and goes right into my fingernail, almost to the side 1221 00:51:14,365 --> 00:51:15,605 of my thumb. 1222 00:51:16,155 --> 00:51:17,645 Like, not quite, but almost 1223 00:51:17,785 --> 00:51:21,885 - Now, I will say, um, - Silent. 1224 00:51:22,065 --> 00:51:23,765 We are not up to date our tetanus 1225 00:51:23,765 --> 00:51:24,765 - Shots. 1226 00:51:24,765 --> 00:51:27,245 That's the problem. . She's not. No. 1227 00:51:27,645 --> 00:51:30,125 - I think my last one was when I was like 18 1228 00:51:30,365 --> 00:51:31,365 - . 1229 00:51:31,365 --> 00:51:33,525 Oh yeah. We, we need, we need to, uh, yeah. 1230 00:51:33,525 --> 00:51:35,725 We, we need to, uh, yeah. I 1231 00:51:35,885 --> 00:51:36,885 - Probably need a - Tetanus shot. 1232 00:51:36,885 --> 00:51:38,245 Yeah. Next time we go to the need 1233 00:51:38,245 --> 00:51:39,565 to mention something about that. 1234 00:51:39,715 --> 00:51:41,405 Yeah. Yeah. So, 1235 00:51:42,225 --> 00:51:46,805 but, um, anyway, um, you know, some 1236 00:51:46,805 --> 00:51:51,285 of y'all may kind of like cringe a little bit about this, 1237 00:51:51,705 --> 00:51:55,405 but, um, it was probably a good thing 1238 00:51:55,915 --> 00:51:58,565 that the putty knife was sharp. 1239 00:51:58,865 --> 00:52:00,685 Mm. Because it is a clean 1240 00:52:01,035 --> 00:52:02,035 - True. 1241 00:52:02,035 --> 00:52:02,765 True, true, true. And I have heard that before. 1242 00:52:02,935 --> 00:52:03,965 - Clean, clean cut. 1243 00:52:04,185 --> 00:52:07,365 - And it, and the pain from it actually came once my brain 1244 00:52:07,365 --> 00:52:08,885 processed what the fuck I had just done. 1245 00:52:08,885 --> 00:52:12,565 Yeah. So now I am pissed at myself 1246 00:52:12,675 --> 00:52:16,725 because I I just, are you fucking kidding me? 1247 00:52:16,725 --> 00:52:17,765 10 minutes ago. Yeah. 1248 00:52:18,185 --> 00:52:20,565 But I'm also scared 'cause this is a way bigger cut. 1249 00:52:20,595 --> 00:52:22,685 Like I didn't pull back in time. Yeah. 1250 00:52:23,305 --> 00:52:26,805 And I know fingernail stuff, man, that shit fucking hurts. 1251 00:52:26,805 --> 00:52:29,325 And it hurts for a long time because it's gotta grow out. 1252 00:52:29,325 --> 00:52:31,365 And I'm like, fuck. So, and I, 1253 00:52:31,385 --> 00:52:33,365 and it's too big of a cut for me to like, 1254 00:52:33,365 --> 00:52:34,925 it wasn't like putting a bandaid on this other one. 1255 00:52:35,145 --> 00:52:36,805 So I go into the bathroom 1256 00:52:37,325 --> 00:52:38,645 'cause I want to immediately get it under water. 1257 00:52:38,765 --> 00:52:39,965 I don't know if that's what I'm supposed to do, 1258 00:52:39,985 --> 00:52:41,605 but there was just enough blood that I went, 1259 00:52:41,635 --> 00:52:45,205 this should not be allowed to just freely whatever, blow. 1260 00:52:45,945 --> 00:52:47,765 Not not through the house anyway, . Yeah. 1261 00:52:48,585 --> 00:52:50,405 And I actually picked up my phone 1262 00:52:50,745 --> 00:52:53,685 and I called JB from the bathroom and 1263 00:52:53,685 --> 00:52:55,605 - Went, yeah, I - Need your help. 1264 00:52:55,885 --> 00:52:59,845 I the putting, and I can't do this by myself. . 1265 00:52:59,845 --> 00:53:03,565 - So yeah. She, she was working, doing this in the garage. 1266 00:53:04,195 --> 00:53:08,445 Yeah. And I was working in, in the backyard, 1267 00:53:08,465 --> 00:53:10,445 in the tiny shop and, 1268 00:53:10,585 --> 00:53:14,485 and I was, um, sharpening a basket of knives. , 1269 00:53:14,495 --> 00:53:15,605 - Ironically. Yeah. 1270 00:53:15,925 --> 00:53:20,485 - . And, and my phone rings 1271 00:53:21,345 --> 00:53:22,365 and, and when I'm working, 1272 00:53:22,965 --> 00:53:25,165 I pretty much ignore my phone. I know. 1273 00:53:25,485 --> 00:53:27,525 - I would've was gonna have to keep calling and keep calling 1274 00:53:27,715 --> 00:53:28,715 - Yeah. 1275 00:53:28,715 --> 00:53:32,525 - If you didn't answer. - And, um, luckily, I, 1276 00:53:32,725 --> 00:53:35,565 I have her on a special, um, ringtone 1277 00:53:36,265 --> 00:53:38,605 so I know it's you. Mm-Hmm. . 1278 00:53:38,625 --> 00:53:39,845 - Mm-Hmm. . - And, 1279 00:53:39,985 --> 00:53:42,565 and I heard, heard the ringtone 1280 00:53:42,625 --> 00:53:44,245 and I immediately shut everything down 1281 00:53:45,345 --> 00:53:47,085 and answered and yeah. 1282 00:53:47,095 --> 00:53:49,845 She's like, I need you to come in and help me. 1283 00:53:49,865 --> 00:53:51,205 And I'm trying, I start, I'm injured. 1284 00:53:51,645 --> 00:53:53,005 - I start trying to tell the story 1285 00:53:53,065 --> 00:53:54,605 and he just goes, I'll be right there. 1286 00:53:55,085 --> 00:53:57,885 . . I was like, yeah, I, I guess I don't have 1287 00:53:57,885 --> 00:53:59,365 to, it's not like I'm waiting for him 1288 00:53:59,365 --> 00:54:00,805 to get home 20 minutes from now. 1289 00:54:00,955 --> 00:54:04,005 - Yeah. Yeah. - So he, uh, it didn't, 1290 00:54:04,005 --> 00:54:05,085 it wasn't hurting that bad. 1291 00:54:05,105 --> 00:54:07,485 Mm-Hmm. . Um, I was, the pain part was, 1292 00:54:07,585 --> 00:54:09,165 was really not, it was just more 1293 00:54:09,165 --> 00:54:10,365 of a, oh God, I can't believe I did that. 1294 00:54:10,445 --> 00:54:12,125 I was, I was crying, but I was crying. 1295 00:54:12,225 --> 00:54:14,005 Not because it was in pain or scared, but 1296 00:54:14,005 --> 00:54:15,565 because I was so pissed off at myself. 1297 00:54:15,715 --> 00:54:19,605 Yeah. And we have had, we do not have the luxury 1298 00:54:20,225 --> 00:54:22,165 of an injury, first of all, 1299 00:54:22,485 --> 00:54:23,485 - - Or for me 1300 00:54:23,485 --> 00:54:25,125 to be outta commission and not be able to work. 1301 00:54:25,155 --> 00:54:27,485 That is, yeah. Like it's just 1302 00:54:27,545 --> 00:54:29,045 not a fucking option right now. 1303 00:54:29,045 --> 00:54:33,845 Mm-Hmm. Um, so I was stress crying and he comes in 1304 00:54:33,865 --> 00:54:36,605 and he, um, I told him, I was like, 1305 00:54:36,745 --> 00:54:38,365 the one thing you will not do is put fucking 1306 00:54:38,365 --> 00:54:39,725 liquid bandage on this one. 1307 00:54:39,865 --> 00:54:42,325 You're not coming at me with that fire 1308 00:54:42,455 --> 00:54:43,455 - Shake. 1309 00:54:43,455 --> 00:54:46,525 When, when I, when I hurt my finger with the, uh, 1310 00:54:46,925 --> 00:54:50,605 pressure washer and I put the liquid bandage on it, um, 1311 00:54:52,465 --> 00:54:55,165 not much ever really makes me react. 1312 00:54:55,345 --> 00:54:57,125 - You tend to be pretty stoic about, you 1313 00:54:57,125 --> 00:54:58,685 - Know, that kind of stuff. Yeah. Um, 1314 00:54:59,185 --> 00:55:01,045 - He screamed - Young. I, I yelled. Yeah. 1315 00:55:01,745 --> 00:55:04,045 - And I was like, oh, I'll never use liquid bandage. 1316 00:55:04,355 --> 00:55:06,965 Ever, ever, ever. 1317 00:55:08,225 --> 00:55:10,365 Now at that point, he did have a literal hole in his palm, 1318 00:55:10,365 --> 00:55:11,485 even though he wants to call it a cut. 1319 00:55:11,485 --> 00:55:12,565 It was gouge. Whatever, whatever. 1320 00:55:12,565 --> 00:55:14,885 We, we talked about that last week, I think. Anyway, it 1321 00:55:14,885 --> 00:55:15,885 - Was a scratch. 1322 00:55:16,875 --> 00:55:17,965 - Yeah. . 1323 00:55:18,785 --> 00:55:21,885 Anyway, so he gets a bandaid 1324 00:55:22,065 --> 00:55:23,245 and it's, of course the top 1325 00:55:23,245 --> 00:55:25,005 of your fucking finger is the worst place to get something. 1326 00:55:25,245 --> 00:55:27,965 'cause you can't easily like just wrap it up without like, 1327 00:55:28,495 --> 00:55:30,005 saran wrapping up actually . 1328 00:55:30,065 --> 00:55:32,125 So he gets a bandaid on, it's still, it's still bleeding. 1329 00:55:33,065 --> 00:55:36,245 He puts this, um, thumb, I guess finger. 1330 00:55:36,525 --> 00:55:37,645 I don't know if it's made specifically 1331 00:55:37,645 --> 00:55:38,685 for thumbs or it's for any 1332 00:55:38,685 --> 00:55:39,685 - Finger. 1333 00:55:39,685 --> 00:55:39,885 It's fanny finger. Yeah. 1334 00:55:40,025 --> 00:55:42,885 - Um, puts this gauze finger thing over it. 1335 00:55:43,185 --> 00:55:45,165 So it's like a sock instead of a condom. 1336 00:55:45,385 --> 00:55:48,245 And then he takes this plastic little thing 1337 00:55:48,245 --> 00:55:50,525 that is literally rolled up like a fucking condom y'all. 1338 00:55:50,865 --> 00:55:53,085 And rolls it over and it protects it. 1339 00:55:53,365 --> 00:55:54,805 'cause I was gonna go back out and work. Mm-Hmm. 1340 00:55:54,845 --> 00:55:58,245 . I was not that injured. And so I walked 1341 00:55:58,245 --> 00:56:01,285 around and it, man, it, it was tight around this finger. 1342 00:56:01,285 --> 00:56:02,645 Yeah. And I wore it like that all day. 1343 00:56:02,765 --> 00:56:04,645 'cause I was just constantly going and doing and whatever. 1344 00:56:05,345 --> 00:56:06,965 And last night we just kind 1345 00:56:06,965 --> 00:56:09,085 of put a bandaid over 'cause it wasn't bleeding anymore. 1346 00:56:09,465 --> 00:56:12,085 But this morning I needed to take that off. 1347 00:56:12,205 --> 00:56:13,925 I needed to wash the finger. I needed to. Yeah. 1348 00:56:14,105 --> 00:56:18,605 But then something got close to the fingernail . 1349 00:56:18,605 --> 00:56:21,005 Mm-Hmm. . And I went, oh, oh no. 1350 00:56:21,435 --> 00:56:24,765 This can't be left out for my clumsy ass to 1351 00:56:24,835 --> 00:56:25,835 - Hang in . 1352 00:56:25,835 --> 00:56:28,125 That's, that, that's gonna be very, very, it's gonna suck. 1353 00:56:28,155 --> 00:56:30,165 Yeah. It's gonna be tender for a while. This 1354 00:56:30,165 --> 00:56:31,165 - Is gonna suck. 1355 00:56:31,165 --> 00:56:33,765 Because what I was noticing that I didn't see yesterday, 1356 00:56:33,765 --> 00:56:35,125 it couldn't 'cause it was bleeding. 1357 00:56:35,505 --> 00:56:38,085 Um, the nail is already where that slice is, 1358 00:56:38,085 --> 00:56:40,365 is already widening. 1359 00:56:40,435 --> 00:56:42,405 It's not lifting off the nail bed yet. 1360 00:56:42,525 --> 00:56:45,085 I don't know if it will, but it's widening where 1361 00:56:45,085 --> 00:56:46,845 between the, the two sides. 1362 00:56:47,945 --> 00:56:49,845 And I know if I try to clip that nail 1363 00:56:49,865 --> 00:56:52,445 or whatever as it goes up until it like heals 1364 00:56:52,445 --> 00:56:54,845 underneath the cut itself, I guess heals, 1365 00:56:54,915 --> 00:56:56,045 it's gonna fucking hurt. 1366 00:56:56,745 --> 00:56:58,965 And so we have today, we, 1367 00:56:58,965 --> 00:57:02,405 we wanna protect the finger condoms, like hold onto them 1368 00:57:02,405 --> 00:57:04,245 because those are for when you're working out in the shop 1369 00:57:04,245 --> 00:57:06,205 or you know you're gonna get your hands wet or dirty. 1370 00:57:06,225 --> 00:57:07,525 Mm-Hmm. . And I'll have 1371 00:57:07,525 --> 00:57:09,285 to wear one tomorrow if I go work out in the shop. 1372 00:57:09,465 --> 00:57:12,525 So today it's a piece of gauze with medical tape. 1373 00:57:12,805 --> 00:57:14,085 - . Yeah. . 1374 00:57:14,465 --> 00:57:16,525 And it's my whole, and, 1375 00:57:16,525 --> 00:57:18,605 and you know, silent made a good point. 1376 00:57:18,845 --> 00:57:21,045 I have plenty of super glue in the shop. 1377 00:57:21,185 --> 00:57:25,045 - You're not coming at me with none of that bullshit. Okay. 1378 00:57:25,245 --> 00:57:27,605 I understand. Super glue is used to heal up once. Yeah. 1379 00:57:27,605 --> 00:57:29,685 That's lovely. Stay away from me. Okay. 1380 00:57:29,925 --> 00:57:33,005 , stay away from me. Stay away from me. 1381 00:57:33,685 --> 00:57:35,805 - I mean, I've done it before. I mean, you, you, you go 1382 00:57:35,805 --> 00:57:38,165 to a, you go to an er with, and that's what they do. 1383 00:57:38,265 --> 00:57:40,165 And they put, they put super glue on it. 1384 00:57:40,185 --> 00:57:41,725 So, you know. I know, I know. But 1385 00:57:41,725 --> 00:57:42,725 - No, no, thank you. 1386 00:57:42,945 --> 00:57:44,365 Now what? I don't know 'cause I don't wanna 1387 00:57:44,365 --> 00:57:45,525 make assumptions 'cause God knows. 1388 00:57:45,525 --> 00:57:46,645 Mm-Hmm. . I love y'all, but every one 1389 00:57:46,645 --> 00:57:47,645 of y'all will fucking correct me. 1390 00:57:47,925 --> 00:57:52,605 . Comparing the sensation of liquid bandage. 1391 00:57:53,515 --> 00:57:57,045 What does super glue feel like when you put it in? 1392 00:57:57,045 --> 00:58:00,365 A wound doesn't burn. Mm-Hmm. Not even, not even a 1393 00:58:00,705 --> 00:58:01,705 - No. 1394 00:58:01,705 --> 00:58:03,125 - Do you feel it? - A little bit? 1395 00:58:04,795 --> 00:58:06,725 - What do you feel? Describe that 1396 00:58:06,745 --> 00:58:07,645 - Please. Little tingle. 1397 00:58:07,915 --> 00:58:10,125 - Nope. Nope. I don't even want to tingle . Nope, 1398 00:58:10,755 --> 00:58:14,205 - Nope, - Nope, 1399 00:58:16,275 --> 00:58:18,485 nope, nope, 1400 00:58:19,075 --> 00:58:20,085 - Nope, nope, nope. 1401 00:58:20,375 --> 00:58:21,965 - Thank you. Silent. She called it. 1402 00:58:22,105 --> 00:58:24,885 She said for anybody who can't see live chat, she goes, liar 1403 00:58:25,465 --> 00:58:26,465 - Things. 1404 00:58:28,145 --> 00:58:30,005 - No. Like, look. Yes. 1405 00:58:30,065 --> 00:58:31,725 The er and hospitals use it, 1406 00:58:31,725 --> 00:58:34,325 but they, you know what, they also use numbing agents, 1407 00:58:34,505 --> 00:58:35,845 so you don't have to feel shit. 1408 00:58:38,935 --> 00:58:41,955 Do you have a numbing agent? So I don't have to feel shit. 1409 00:58:41,955 --> 00:58:42,995 Look, get me drunk 1410 00:58:43,535 --> 00:58:45,115 and I'll let you do whatever the fuck you want 1411 00:58:45,335 --> 00:58:48,435 to my thumb except liquid bandage. That will always be a 1412 00:58:48,435 --> 00:58:49,435 - Red. 1413 00:58:49,435 --> 00:58:51,755 The numbing agent is when I, when I step on your toe 1414 00:58:52,615 --> 00:58:54,435 and then your toe hurts, you forget about 1415 00:58:54,435 --> 00:58:56,075 what I'm super gluing . 1416 00:59:04,735 --> 00:59:07,155 - No, no, no. 1417 00:59:08,655 --> 00:59:09,835 So yeah. That's why my 1418 00:59:09,995 --> 00:59:10,995 - Thumbs rush. 1419 00:59:10,995 --> 00:59:13,795 And, and Felix said it's the same stuff. Yeah. 1420 00:59:13,975 --> 00:59:17,995 And, and I believe the liquid bandage, it's just kind of, 1421 00:59:18,415 --> 00:59:21,605 um, thinned down. It's not as, 1422 00:59:21,905 --> 00:59:22,905 - As astringent maybe. 1423 00:59:22,905 --> 00:59:24,405 Mm-Hmm. . Yeah. Gotcha. Yep. 1424 00:59:24,865 --> 00:59:26,405 So we're after one o'clock 1425 00:59:26,425 --> 00:59:27,485 and under normal circumstances 1426 00:59:27,485 --> 00:59:28,605 we go, we go into the bonus section. 1427 00:59:28,805 --> 00:59:30,045 I actually have not told one 1428 00:59:30,045 --> 00:59:31,125 of the things that's on my mind. 1429 00:59:31,225 --> 00:59:33,605 And I, this is just a long rambly thing. Okay. 1430 00:59:33,785 --> 00:59:36,525 And I would like to get off the top of my thumb if I can. 1431 00:59:36,755 --> 00:59:40,485 Okay. Before I go into what you know is a rant slash ramble, 1432 00:59:40,645 --> 00:59:42,725 'cause I made you go through the first iteration of it. 1433 00:59:43,225 --> 00:59:45,765 Uh, is there anything else on your mind? , 1434 00:59:48,665 --> 00:59:50,925 - Excuse me. No, go for 1435 00:59:50,925 --> 00:59:51,925 - It. 1436 00:59:51,925 --> 00:59:54,405 Okay. First though, uh, love not hate says that's hilarious. 1437 00:59:54,405 --> 00:59:56,885 Hearing from acus. What if j JB put it on you? 1438 00:59:56,885 --> 00:59:59,205 First of all, there's good pain and there's bad pain. 1439 00:59:59,605 --> 01:00:02,645 the liquid bandage, super glue. 1440 01:00:03,395 --> 01:00:06,365 Just putting the fucking bandaid on is all bad pain. Okay. 1441 01:00:06,645 --> 01:00:10,525 , do not consent to it. . Um, okay. Okay. 1442 01:00:10,795 --> 01:00:15,105 Okay. Okay. This week, right 1443 01:00:15,105 --> 01:00:16,465 before I finished my tear druker 1444 01:00:16,465 --> 01:00:19,385 that I was rambling about earlier I read, I read a book 1445 01:00:19,385 --> 01:00:23,705 that I'd actually been not nervous to read, 1446 01:00:23,705 --> 01:00:26,625 but I worried it would not live up to my expectations. 1447 01:00:26,975 --> 01:00:31,145 Okay. The book is called To Collar A Queen by Zara 1448 01:00:31,145 --> 01:00:34,545 or Zara, Blake or Black. 1449 01:00:35,345 --> 01:00:36,665 Hmm. I don't remember anymore. 1450 01:00:37,405 --> 01:00:39,865 Um, but the title is to call her a Queen. Okay. 1451 01:00:40,005 --> 01:00:44,705 And it is kinky. It's definitely kinky. It is well written. 1452 01:00:44,805 --> 01:00:46,745 Mm-Hmm. . It was like, this was not one 1453 01:00:46,745 --> 01:00:48,145 of those where I was like, good Lord, dad. 1454 01:00:48,205 --> 01:00:49,425 Why did you describe it like that? 1455 01:00:49,425 --> 01:00:51,905 There you could have said the same thing, like with 1456 01:00:52,565 --> 01:00:53,665 80 less words. 1457 01:00:53,665 --> 01:00:55,265 Like, like none of that. None of that. 1458 01:00:55,405 --> 01:00:58,585 It was well written, well crafted. Okay. 1459 01:00:59,325 --> 01:01:01,945 And the premise was interesting. 1460 01:01:02,045 --> 01:01:03,505 And there's Jamie's phone ringing. 1461 01:01:04,205 --> 01:01:05,665 The premise was really interesting. 1462 01:01:05,805 --> 01:01:10,545 So this is a world where there are different kingdoms. 1463 01:01:10,925 --> 01:01:14,505 And the humans, um, several hundred years 1464 01:01:14,525 --> 01:01:19,345 before had fought off, um, the Fay, right, um, 1465 01:01:20,235 --> 01:01:23,905 fairy kind of thing, but not fairy like Tinkerbell the Fay. 1466 01:01:24,485 --> 01:01:25,625 But prior to fighting them off, 1467 01:01:25,625 --> 01:01:26,705 they'd been enslaved by them. 1468 01:01:27,625 --> 01:01:29,195 They fought like a war 1469 01:01:29,195 --> 01:01:32,235 or whatever, pushed them back to like their side 1470 01:01:32,235 --> 01:01:33,275 of like the veil. 1471 01:01:33,275 --> 01:01:34,595 They didn't use the term the veil, 1472 01:01:34,595 --> 01:01:37,435 but if you read like fairy stuff, you, 1473 01:01:37,535 --> 01:01:38,755 you would think of it that way. 1474 01:01:39,455 --> 01:01:44,115 Um, and they had been fee free in their world on their side 1475 01:01:44,115 --> 01:01:45,315 of this barrier thing. 1476 01:01:45,835 --> 01:01:48,275 Actually, it's like a portal, um, for a few hundred years. 1477 01:01:48,495 --> 01:01:49,955 But what had started happening 1478 01:01:49,965 --> 01:01:51,755 after they pushed the Faye out, 1479 01:01:51,775 --> 01:01:56,355 and it was just humans again, is periodically women, 1480 01:01:56,565 --> 01:02:00,435 adult women only adult women, not children, not men, would 1481 01:02:01,225 --> 01:02:02,755 kind of air quote become Fay. 1482 01:02:02,755 --> 01:02:04,515 They called them changelings. Like one day. 1483 01:02:04,515 --> 01:02:05,875 They're, they're normal humans. South. 1484 01:02:05,875 --> 01:02:10,155 The next day they have these bright burning blue eyes. 1485 01:02:10,265 --> 01:02:11,915 They have enhanced abilities. 1486 01:02:12,615 --> 01:02:16,355 Um, they have, um, like stronger senses, better sense 1487 01:02:16,355 --> 01:02:19,365 of smell, whatever they can shoot fire from their hands. 1488 01:02:19,585 --> 01:02:21,805 Um, when they change, when these women change, 1489 01:02:21,875 --> 01:02:23,325 it's usually uncontrollable. 1490 01:02:23,325 --> 01:02:25,005 They don't even know what's happening to them. 1491 01:02:25,345 --> 01:02:26,685 But, so they accidentally kill 1492 01:02:26,685 --> 01:02:28,325 people when they first change. 1493 01:02:29,425 --> 01:02:32,645 Um, and over these hundreds of years, 1494 01:02:33,625 --> 01:02:37,805 what's developed is that once you are a changeling, 1495 01:02:38,105 --> 01:02:40,165 you are no longer hu considered human. 1496 01:02:40,825 --> 01:02:42,205 And you are treated 1497 01:02:42,265 --> 01:02:45,045 as if you were almost like a dangerous animal. 1498 01:02:46,905 --> 01:02:47,965 Um, because there's 1499 01:02:47,965 --> 01:02:51,965 so much hatred in this world for the Faye. 1500 01:02:52,025 --> 01:02:55,365 So anybody who becomes Faye is immediately a threat, 1501 01:02:55,635 --> 01:02:59,765 immediately, like not seen as human, um, othered. 1502 01:02:59,825 --> 01:03:03,125 And then because as they're freak figuring out something's 1503 01:03:03,125 --> 01:03:05,725 different with them, they, this power busts out their hands. 1504 01:03:05,785 --> 01:03:07,685 And pe innocent people often die. 1505 01:03:07,875 --> 01:03:09,405 They're considered completely dangerous. 1506 01:03:09,545 --> 01:03:13,925 So originally in the lore of this world, they were enslaved. 1507 01:03:13,995 --> 01:03:15,205 They were imprisoned. 1508 01:03:15,865 --> 01:03:20,085 But the thinking goes is that Faye, if you don't find a way 1509 01:03:20,085 --> 01:03:22,045 to like deal with 'em, they become feral 1510 01:03:22,045 --> 01:03:23,885 because they're closer to animal than human 1511 01:03:23,915 --> 01:03:26,685 because of the prejudices of the Faye world. 1512 01:03:27,145 --> 01:03:29,405 So you get that as backstory pretty quickly. 1513 01:03:29,515 --> 01:03:30,565 None of that's a spoiler. 1514 01:03:31,395 --> 01:03:34,245 Very early in the book, this queen who's only been a queen 1515 01:03:34,245 --> 01:03:37,805 for six months, who wants to change how the Faye, 1516 01:03:37,825 --> 01:03:40,605 the Changelings, are treated in her, at least her kingdom, 1517 01:03:41,305 --> 01:03:43,605 but hasn't been able to get through the power structures 1518 01:03:43,605 --> 01:03:48,125 of it on her 20th birthday party changes. 1519 01:03:49,065 --> 01:03:51,085 And she is then immediately subjected to 1520 01:03:51,585 --> 01:03:54,565 how changelings are treated in this world now. 1521 01:03:55,425 --> 01:03:58,045 So they found out that imprisoning them, enslaving them 1522 01:03:58,045 --> 01:04:00,365 to do manual labor, even letting them go back home 1523 01:04:00,365 --> 01:04:02,645 to their families ended up being dangerous. 1524 01:04:02,645 --> 01:04:05,285 People tended to die, um, either 1525 01:04:05,465 --> 01:04:08,645 as they claimed the changelings went feral. 1526 01:04:09,345 --> 01:04:11,485 Um, they were just dangerous. 1527 01:04:11,745 --> 01:04:15,365 So the main character, the male main character, 1528 01:04:15,875 --> 01:04:16,965 made his fortune. 1529 01:04:17,705 --> 01:04:20,725 So he's got incentive here by figuring out 1530 01:04:20,725 --> 01:04:24,205 that if you could turn these changeling women into pleasure 1531 01:04:24,385 --> 01:04:26,965 slaves, they became a lot more docile. 1532 01:04:27,665 --> 01:04:30,605 You could, they were less dangerous , 1533 01:04:30,605 --> 01:04:34,045 but they were still seen as subhuman, non-human animalistic. 1534 01:04:34,625 --> 01:04:37,965 So you get this sort of bit of backstory 1535 01:04:38,985 --> 01:04:40,285 as the queen changes. 1536 01:04:40,545 --> 01:04:43,005 And I am immediately, this is like chapter one, chapter two, 1537 01:04:43,025 --> 01:04:44,885 I'm like, this is so fucking unfair. 1538 01:04:45,355 --> 01:04:48,285 What the hell? And the trigger warnings 1539 01:04:48,285 --> 01:04:51,005 for this book are non-consent, dubious consent, 1540 01:04:51,025 --> 01:04:52,885 and then other like sexual kinky things. 1541 01:04:53,505 --> 01:04:55,445 The non-consent and the dubious consent 1542 01:04:55,505 --> 01:04:56,645 are very fucking real. 1543 01:04:57,705 --> 01:05:00,125 So she has the same, and, 1544 01:05:00,125 --> 01:05:02,205 and the way changelings are described 1545 01:05:02,345 --> 01:05:04,685 before the queen changes is that they 1546 01:05:05,335 --> 01:05:06,765 can't even think like humans, 1547 01:05:06,835 --> 01:05:08,965 they lose their sense of selves, blah, blah, blah. 1548 01:05:09,705 --> 01:05:12,685 We watch the Queen change and she's got all her faculties. 1549 01:05:12,775 --> 01:05:14,765 She's got extra ability. She doesn't how to control. 1550 01:05:15,425 --> 01:05:18,445 Um, apparently changeling women are sort 1551 01:05:18,445 --> 01:05:19,565 of much more sexual. 1552 01:05:19,875 --> 01:05:24,405 They, they respond to sexual stuff, uh, more strongly. 1553 01:05:25,985 --> 01:05:27,845 But her thoughts are still her own, 1554 01:05:27,865 --> 01:05:29,805 her personality is essentially still the same. 1555 01:05:30,545 --> 01:05:31,965 She is captured 1556 01:05:32,465 --> 01:05:35,085 and goes off to trained to be a pleasure slave. 1557 01:05:35,185 --> 01:05:36,965 Now, plot twist that you find out very 1558 01:05:36,965 --> 01:05:38,085 early, it's not a spoiler. 1559 01:05:38,385 --> 01:05:40,245 The guy who trains pleasure slaves 1560 01:05:40,245 --> 01:05:42,565 and figured out this method for making them more docile, 1561 01:05:43,075 --> 01:05:45,445 when she found out what he did to make his money, 1562 01:05:45,845 --> 01:05:46,845 'cause she was supposed to marry him, 1563 01:05:46,865 --> 01:05:48,005 she broke off the engagement 1564 01:05:48,005 --> 01:05:50,565 and went, oh fuck no, I, I'm not okay with this. 1565 01:05:51,125 --> 01:05:53,485 Hmm. Now we never get a sense of she's not okay with it 1566 01:05:53,645 --> 01:05:56,605 because it's completely non-consensual or if it's 1567 01:05:56,765 --> 01:05:59,445 'cause it's like all sex was like too much for her. 1568 01:05:59,565 --> 01:06:02,445 I never, never did figure that out. Okay. 1569 01:06:02,445 --> 01:06:03,845 So that's, that's all the backstory. 1570 01:06:03,845 --> 01:06:05,365 That's like, that's the setup 1571 01:06:05,665 --> 01:06:07,205 for why this very well-written, 1572 01:06:07,205 --> 01:06:10,565 well-crafted book has given me some thoughts and feelings. 1573 01:06:11,825 --> 01:06:13,965 The system they live in is built on 1574 01:06:13,965 --> 01:06:15,445 prejudice and oppression. 1575 01:06:15,445 --> 01:06:18,645 Right? Which gee have, where have we heard of that before? 1576 01:06:19,545 --> 01:06:22,565 So it's a romance and it's considered a dark romance. 1577 01:06:22,945 --> 01:06:24,605 And the two main characters, 1578 01:06:24,755 --> 01:06:28,405 they f they do find their version of a happily ever after. 1579 01:06:29,345 --> 01:06:33,925 But because there was no consent up 1580 01:06:33,925 --> 01:06:37,325 until a certain point, I couldn't even enjoy these fairly 1581 01:06:37,325 --> 01:06:38,485 well written kink scenes. 1582 01:06:38,485 --> 01:06:40,045 Like, I was like, oh, look, I don't see, 1583 01:06:40,045 --> 01:06:41,445 you seen some paddles and some canes 1584 01:06:41,445 --> 01:06:43,125 and some crops and oh, okay. 1585 01:06:43,185 --> 01:06:44,645 And oh, collars 1586 01:06:44,645 --> 01:06:49,485 and the sort of inspired by gorian slave positions 1587 01:06:49,665 --> 01:06:51,125 and using one's body. 1588 01:06:51,225 --> 01:06:54,725 I'm like, this, this should be so sexy to me. 1589 01:06:55,185 --> 01:06:58,125 But all I could think was, this is so unfair. 1590 01:06:59,065 --> 01:07:01,845 You've got the, the monarch of your fucking country 1591 01:07:01,845 --> 01:07:03,965 that they then, the way their, their system is, 1592 01:07:03,965 --> 01:07:05,565 they basically treat them like they're dead 1593 01:07:05,565 --> 01:07:06,725 because they're no longer human. 1594 01:07:06,725 --> 01:07:08,765 Mm-Hmm. . So they even have a, 1595 01:07:08,765 --> 01:07:10,805 like a fake funeral for people who change 1596 01:07:10,805 --> 01:07:12,645 because their spirit has died. 1597 01:07:12,665 --> 01:07:14,205 And yet we're in the queen's head. 1598 01:07:14,205 --> 01:07:15,485 And I'm like, no, the fuck it hasn't. 1599 01:07:15,745 --> 01:07:18,325 She just has abilities that she doesn't know how to control. 1600 01:07:18,945 --> 01:07:21,565 And she's kind of pissed because she's in prison 1601 01:07:21,745 --> 01:07:23,565 and being made to do things she doesn't want to do. 1602 01:07:23,565 --> 01:07:27,485 Guess what? Uh, I, I probably lash out too 1603 01:07:27,705 --> 01:07:30,725 and probably seem to go a little feral too, right? 1604 01:07:31,045 --> 01:07:33,645 . So this whole time I'm thinking, okay, 1605 01:07:33,735 --> 01:07:34,805 we're getting through and yeah, 1606 01:07:34,805 --> 01:07:36,045 we're going through the non-consent. 1607 01:07:36,045 --> 01:07:38,085 And that's, that's, you get 1608 01:07:38,085 --> 01:07:39,405 to have your feelings about that, right? 1609 01:07:39,405 --> 01:07:41,085 Whether in fantasy or not. Mm-Hmm. 1610 01:07:41,125 --> 01:07:42,605 dubious consent. Okay? 1611 01:07:43,825 --> 01:07:47,525 But I keep waiting for the, but this is unfair 1612 01:07:47,525 --> 01:07:52,125 because at no point in the story do we get proof in the real 1613 01:07:52,125 --> 01:07:54,325 time of the story that, oh, 1614 01:07:54,325 --> 01:07:56,845 look at this feral changeling who's no longer human. 1615 01:07:57,255 --> 01:07:58,485 We're told about it. 1616 01:07:59,345 --> 01:08:01,885 But since we're never given context about, well, 1617 01:08:01,885 --> 01:08:04,005 what was this person's circumstances, right? 1618 01:08:05,105 --> 01:08:07,565 Did they go feral because they never had an outlet 1619 01:08:07,625 --> 01:08:10,445 for dealing with oppression and their anger and whatever? 1620 01:08:11,065 --> 01:08:12,485 Or were they mistreated? 1621 01:08:12,485 --> 01:08:14,285 Because one, you're trained to be a pleasure slave. 1622 01:08:14,385 --> 01:08:17,125 And then the thing that's supposed to be the guiding light 1623 01:08:17,125 --> 01:08:18,165 and that makes it all better, 1624 01:08:18,225 --> 01:08:22,205 is this guy who's developed this system, he handpicks 1625 01:08:22,425 --> 01:08:24,645 who these pleasure slaves are sold off to. 1626 01:08:24,985 --> 01:08:26,285 And if they are mistreated 1627 01:08:26,505 --> 01:08:29,125 and he finds out about it, he takes 'em back. 1628 01:08:29,215 --> 01:08:30,805 Right? And he doesn't let you keep them. 1629 01:08:30,805 --> 01:08:33,045 And he's blacklisted folks from being able 1630 01:08:33,045 --> 01:08:34,725 to own one of his pleasure slaves. 1631 01:08:34,785 --> 01:08:36,885 But as with all systems, 1632 01:08:37,345 --> 01:08:40,605 people found a workaround in very illegal, inhumane, 1633 01:08:40,895 --> 01:08:42,005 awful, awful ways. 1634 01:08:42,465 --> 01:08:46,725 And he was so like, oblivious to it. 1635 01:08:46,745 --> 01:08:49,205 It wasn't until the queen who's now 1636 01:08:49,915 --> 01:08:53,765 this pleasure slave is entrapped in, in that, that he goes, 1637 01:08:53,905 --> 01:08:56,245 oh, I should have known, but I didn't. 1638 01:08:56,245 --> 01:08:59,565 And I'm like, right, . 1639 01:08:59,665 --> 01:09:03,085 And so then at the end, I won't, I don't wanna split. 1640 01:09:03,325 --> 01:09:06,365 'cause if you, if this intrigues you, feel free to read it. 1641 01:09:06,385 --> 01:09:08,725 If, if you're like, okay, okay, I'm not doing non-consent, 1642 01:09:08,965 --> 01:09:09,965 I totally understand that. 1643 01:09:10,065 --> 01:09:12,245 But I, I need other people to read this. 1644 01:09:12,405 --> 01:09:14,845 'cause I need to know if I'm completely seeing this wrong. 1645 01:09:15,385 --> 01:09:18,245 No. Are we on audio? 1646 01:09:18,465 --> 01:09:19,965 I'm gonna keep going 'cause podcast listeners. 1647 01:09:19,965 --> 01:09:24,045 But for a, uh, for video folks, um, if you, 1648 01:09:24,045 --> 01:09:25,165 hopefully you can still hear my voice 1649 01:09:26,225 --> 01:09:27,765 so you can keep talking. 1650 01:09:28,175 --> 01:09:31,325 Sorry for the interruption. So I kind of need somebody 1651 01:09:31,325 --> 01:09:35,325 to read this book with me to see if this is, if like, 1652 01:09:35,325 --> 01:09:36,325 if I'm just misreading it. 1653 01:09:36,325 --> 01:09:40,765 Because by the end, this one guy who controls this 1654 01:09:41,545 --> 01:09:45,565 one, um, part of this pleasure slave 1655 01:09:47,185 --> 01:09:52,005 is decided he will make changes from what he can control. 1656 01:09:53,465 --> 01:09:57,005 Um, but it doesn't, it doesn't change the system. 1657 01:09:57,305 --> 01:09:59,045 It doesn't change what the monarchy does. 1658 01:09:59,045 --> 01:10:00,045 It doesn't change the government. 1659 01:10:00,045 --> 01:10:01,485 It doesn't change how everybody's treated. 1660 01:10:01,715 --> 01:10:04,685 It's just the few people he can control how they're treated. 1661 01:10:05,345 --> 01:10:09,155 Um, and I just like 1662 01:10:11,905 --> 01:10:14,075 what I wanted, I wanted them to have their happy ending, 1663 01:10:14,145 --> 01:10:16,555 even though I could certainly make the argument of it. 1664 01:10:16,555 --> 01:10:17,915 Because what happens is 1665 01:10:17,915 --> 01:10:19,075 because she's still a pleasure slave. 1666 01:10:19,075 --> 01:10:20,515 They, the collars help. We'll, back, by the way. 1667 01:10:20,515 --> 01:10:22,675 Yeah, I see that the collars help minimize their power. 1668 01:10:22,735 --> 01:10:24,155 So they can't be lashing out everywhere. 1669 01:10:24,215 --> 01:10:27,595 And I actually don't un blame that part at all, 1670 01:10:27,595 --> 01:10:29,435 because there was nobody there to teach them 1671 01:10:29,435 --> 01:10:30,715 what the fuck to do with their powers. 1672 01:10:30,735 --> 01:10:34,715 And they in high emotion, um, when they're scared, 1673 01:10:34,715 --> 01:10:36,995 when they're angry, they could hurt people 1674 01:10:36,995 --> 01:10:38,555 because they had these powers they didn't understand. 1675 01:10:38,555 --> 01:10:39,795 Mm-Hmm. . So like the 1676 01:10:39,795 --> 01:10:40,995 collar part didn't even bother me. 1677 01:10:41,265 --> 01:10:44,915 That was fine. I could like, I could see an argument for 1678 01:10:44,915 --> 01:10:47,555 that at least at the beginning stages of all this. 1679 01:10:48,735 --> 01:10:50,595 But the queen never had to be a queen again, 1680 01:10:50,955 --> 01:10:54,715 , she air quote, chose her partner. 1681 01:10:55,095 --> 01:10:56,235 But did she, 1682 01:10:56,235 --> 01:10:57,835 because she never got 1683 01:10:59,295 --> 01:11:03,155 to fully decide her own life in full agency ever again. 1684 01:11:03,895 --> 01:11:05,595 Um, there was never any point 1685 01:11:05,595 --> 01:11:08,275 where you could see if there was a societal change, 1686 01:11:08,655 --> 01:11:11,275 the things she was allowed to do, no spoilers at the end 1687 01:11:11,465 --> 01:11:13,525 because she's having her happy ever after. 1688 01:11:14,055 --> 01:11:17,045 We're still couldn't be known by everybody. 1689 01:11:18,385 --> 01:11:23,325 And so I'm like, like, am I just too idealistic to think 1690 01:11:23,325 --> 01:11:26,445 that the happy ending shouldn't just be for the character. 1691 01:11:26,465 --> 01:11:30,325 It should be that, hey, maybe we can find a way 1692 01:11:30,325 --> 01:11:33,885 to undo this system of oppression and change it. 1693 01:11:34,425 --> 01:11:36,925 And you know, maybe it was the author meant to imply that 1694 01:11:36,925 --> 01:11:38,885 by saying, this one person will make a change. 1695 01:11:38,885 --> 01:11:40,685 And so that's how change is made slowly. 1696 01:11:41,365 --> 01:11:45,645 I could even see how the way it ends 1697 01:11:45,645 --> 01:11:49,005 and who the new monarch becomes, like, 1698 01:11:49,175 --> 01:11:50,445 maybe, but there's nothing. 1699 01:11:50,495 --> 01:11:52,445 Maybe I need it more spelled out for me. 1700 01:11:52,905 --> 01:11:54,285 It was too open-ended 1701 01:11:54,285 --> 01:11:56,205 and there was nothing that gave a clear direction 1702 01:11:56,205 --> 01:11:59,565 that this system will not always be here. 1703 01:11:59,625 --> 01:12:02,325 It will change. You're not getting to see it in this book, 1704 01:12:02,865 --> 01:12:04,365 but it, the possibility is there. 1705 01:12:04,365 --> 01:12:08,125 And I'm like, I, this is such a well written book. 1706 01:12:08,345 --> 01:12:10,365 The kink was fairly well written. 1707 01:12:10,725 --> 01:12:12,765 I got into the kink once she was 1708 01:12:13,315 --> 01:12:16,605 more enthusiastically involved in what was happening. 1709 01:12:16,605 --> 01:12:18,565 And it wasn't happening to her. 1710 01:12:19,955 --> 01:12:23,805 Like, I can suspend disbelief 1711 01:12:24,145 --> 01:12:28,285 and kind of like in my dark fantasy kind of thing, go along 1712 01:12:28,285 --> 01:12:29,805 with stuff that I would never be okay 1713 01:12:29,805 --> 01:12:32,325 with in real life if it makes sense. 1714 01:12:33,145 --> 01:12:35,325 But there were all these suppositions about 1715 01:12:35,345 --> 01:12:36,405 who changelings were 1716 01:12:36,675 --> 01:12:39,565 that we never actually saw in the text for real. 1717 01:12:39,825 --> 01:12:42,885 So that told me that they were just using their hatred of 1718 01:12:42,885 --> 01:12:45,165 what had happened to their ancestors few hundred years 1719 01:12:45,445 --> 01:12:47,445 before as the basis for their hate. 1720 01:12:47,445 --> 01:12:48,765 And it wasn't based in reality. 1721 01:12:48,765 --> 01:12:50,445 Like if the story had been, oh no, 1722 01:12:50,445 --> 01:12:51,925 they really do go fucking feral. 1723 01:12:51,925 --> 01:12:53,205 Let me show you how this works 1724 01:12:53,585 --> 01:12:56,445 and this is the best way to keep everybody safe. 1725 01:12:56,995 --> 01:12:59,765 Then I could've gone, okay, okay, 1726 01:12:59,875 --> 01:13:01,925 this I'll suspend disbelieve this kind of makes sense. 1727 01:13:01,925 --> 01:13:03,085 But it was not like that. 1728 01:13:03,425 --> 01:13:05,205 The, the prejudice 1729 01:13:05,345 --> 01:13:08,525 and the bigotry was like just right there in your face. 1730 01:13:08,745 --> 01:13:12,125 And it, it like never really got addressed. 1731 01:13:12,915 --> 01:13:16,725 Like, I dunno, it made what was 1732 01:13:16,725 --> 01:13:18,245 otherwise a really good book. 1733 01:13:18,785 --> 01:13:20,445 So fucking disappointing to me. 1734 01:13:31,765 --> 01:13:33,085 I just 1735 01:13:33,425 --> 01:13:37,085 and I knew, I I came across the book, um, 1736 01:13:37,545 --> 01:13:39,565 in sponsored posts on Instagram. 1737 01:13:40,445 --> 01:13:43,405 I read a sample of it to see, that's my new trick 1738 01:13:43,405 --> 01:13:45,325 for making sure I don't DNF do not 1739 01:13:45,325 --> 01:13:46,405 finish all kinds of books. 1740 01:13:46,725 --> 01:13:48,205 . I read a sample if it's available, 1741 01:13:48,705 --> 01:13:50,565 if the sample pulls me in, I'll read the book. 1742 01:13:50,595 --> 01:13:52,005 Even if it's not what I would normally read. 1743 01:13:52,825 --> 01:13:54,045 Sample pulled me in. 1744 01:13:54,585 --> 01:13:57,765 But the sample shows you shows the Queen changing. 1745 01:13:58,825 --> 01:14:01,565 And me realizing within like two, three chapters 1746 01:14:01,625 --> 01:14:04,885 how unfair what's about to happen to her is like, 1747 01:14:04,885 --> 01:14:06,085 it was unfair anyway, 1748 01:14:06,185 --> 01:14:07,685 but getting to see it through her eyes. 1749 01:14:07,785 --> 01:14:10,165 It just, for a reader, it made it that much more real 1750 01:14:10,165 --> 01:14:12,085 because you were going, like, 1751 01:14:12,085 --> 01:14:14,045 before you were being told this is what they're like 1752 01:14:14,065 --> 01:14:15,165 and you're like, are they? 1753 01:14:15,945 --> 01:14:17,805 And then you're learning in real time with the character 1754 01:14:17,805 --> 01:14:19,325 that this is, this is awful. 1755 01:14:19,465 --> 01:14:21,525 And so I was actually dreading reading the book 1756 01:14:21,725 --> 01:14:24,085 'cause I was thinking it, 1757 01:14:24,145 --> 01:14:26,885 is it gonna be unfair the whole fucking way through? 1758 01:14:26,905 --> 01:14:28,685 Now look, I know life is unfair. I get that. 1759 01:14:28,685 --> 01:14:31,685 But come on, it's fantasy and romance. 1760 01:14:32,205 --> 01:14:34,725 I, I, yes, things can be unfair, 1761 01:14:34,825 --> 01:14:39,605 but give me, give me the unrealistic 1762 01:14:40,165 --> 01:14:41,485 , uh, ability to go, oh, 1763 01:14:41,485 --> 01:14:42,525 how life really can be 1764 01:14:42,525 --> 01:14:43,685 fixed if people will just work together. 1765 01:14:43,685 --> 01:14:44,965 Which we all know is true, but we 1766 01:14:44,965 --> 01:14:46,045 all know people don't always work together. 1767 01:14:46,045 --> 01:14:47,045 Like, you know what I mean? Right. 1768 01:14:48,385 --> 01:14:49,565 And I dreaded reading it 1769 01:14:49,685 --> 01:14:51,365 'cause I was very worried it was gonna be 1770 01:14:51,545 --> 01:14:53,085 unfair the whole way through. 1771 01:14:53,265 --> 01:14:57,525 And I am so sorry to my logical thinking analytical brain. 1772 01:14:57,585 --> 01:14:59,085 It was unfair the whole way through. 1773 01:14:59,085 --> 01:15:00,645 Even with her finding her happy ending 1774 01:15:00,955 --> 01:15:03,045 because the way life is structured, 1775 01:15:03,235 --> 01:15:04,645 what if she changed her mind tomorrow? 1776 01:15:04,825 --> 01:15:08,085 It was no longer happy. Sucks to suck. I guess. 1777 01:15:08,275 --> 01:15:13,165 Like I just, And I 1778 01:15:13,165 --> 01:15:15,485 kind of wish I had read the, the Gore books 1779 01:15:15,485 --> 01:15:18,765 because there was kind of this whole, oh, these women have 1780 01:15:18,765 --> 01:15:19,765 to be enslaved 1781 01:15:19,785 --> 01:15:21,405 for their own good and they're pleasure slaves. 1782 01:15:21,405 --> 01:15:25,165 And there's like all that like, it, it made me think of 1783 01:15:25,165 --> 01:15:28,405 what I think the Gore books are probably kind of like, 1784 01:15:28,705 --> 01:15:31,285 but since I didn't read them, what I don't know is, 1785 01:15:31,285 --> 01:15:34,885 does the gorian world, even by suspending disbelief, 1786 01:15:34,885 --> 01:15:36,645 y'all make sense, right? 1787 01:15:36,755 --> 01:15:39,205 Like this, in this world that's been crafted, 1788 01:15:39,205 --> 01:15:43,525 it air quote has to be this way because of the system 1789 01:15:43,545 --> 01:15:44,765 and the world and 1790 01:15:44,765 --> 01:15:47,245 what in the world air quote actually happens. 1791 01:15:47,505 --> 01:15:49,805 Mm-Hmm . And, and I don't know 1792 01:15:49,925 --> 01:15:51,805 'cause I've never read those books, so I can't answer that. 1793 01:15:51,985 --> 01:15:55,005 But if that's the case, then that to me is 1794 01:15:55,005 --> 01:15:56,005 where this book falls down 1795 01:15:56,005 --> 01:15:57,485 because we are seeing all the evidence of 1796 01:15:57,485 --> 01:15:58,845 where it doesn't have to be this way. 1797 01:15:58,845 --> 01:15:59,885 Mm-Hmm. , they are 1798 01:16:00,285 --> 01:16:01,445 choosing for it to be this way. 1799 01:16:01,865 --> 01:16:05,725 And it is actively harming people because of that. 1800 01:16:06,035 --> 01:16:08,965 Like, the whole third act conflict was 1801 01:16:08,965 --> 01:16:13,485 because the system, even while trying to be fair 1802 01:16:13,505 --> 01:16:17,485 and kind to these women still created space 1803 01:16:17,745 --> 01:16:19,445 for people to abuse it. 1804 01:16:19,465 --> 01:16:22,245 And for people to you, I just, oh, 1805 01:16:28,005 --> 01:16:28,925 - I don't know. 1806 01:16:29,605 --> 01:16:31,165 - Ophelia said maybe she'll write a second book. 1807 01:16:31,185 --> 01:16:34,605 And this is a prequel. I went to look at her, uh, 1808 01:16:34,605 --> 01:16:36,845 author website and there's no indication 1809 01:16:36,845 --> 01:16:38,325 that doesn't mean something won't change. 1810 01:16:38,325 --> 01:16:39,645 Mm-Hmm. , this is considered a 1811 01:16:39,645 --> 01:16:41,445 standalone as far as I could tell. 1812 01:16:41,445 --> 01:16:42,925 It didn't look like there were any other books 1813 01:16:42,925 --> 01:16:44,165 even of that universe. 1814 01:16:44,185 --> 01:16:47,205 And I could not see if there was any plan for there 1815 01:16:47,265 --> 01:16:48,565 to be more. 1816 01:16:49,025 --> 01:16:51,005 If there are, if there if that happened, 1817 01:16:51,085 --> 01:16:52,365 I would read them just so I could kind 1818 01:16:52,365 --> 01:16:53,845 of get the satisfaction of going, okay, do we, 1819 01:16:53,905 --> 01:16:55,245 do we move this forward a little bit? 1820 01:16:55,745 --> 01:16:58,245 Do we actively change these things? 1821 01:16:59,665 --> 01:17:02,165 But it is, the way it was advertised 1822 01:17:02,165 --> 01:17:03,805 to me is yes, it's dark. 1823 01:17:04,025 --> 01:17:06,525 And yes, there's, you definitely read the trigger warnings. 1824 01:17:06,525 --> 01:17:09,685 Like, for real, for real. But like, it's, it's a fun, 1825 01:17:09,985 --> 01:17:11,005 you know, dark romance. 1826 01:17:11,145 --> 01:17:14,525 And I'm like, this is not fun, , I'm not having fun. 1827 01:17:15,185 --> 01:17:17,405 I'm ready to ride a dawn for these women. 1828 01:17:18,315 --> 01:17:19,605 This is some bullshit. Like, 1829 01:17:20,505 --> 01:17:24,485 and just as does happen in, in systemic crap, 1830 01:17:24,815 --> 01:17:26,325 there were people who did benefit. 1831 01:17:26,585 --> 01:17:29,485 One of the, the women that rose up to as much 1832 01:17:29,485 --> 01:17:30,805 of a leadership position 1833 01:17:30,865 --> 01:17:34,445 as a woman can attain in this system within the training, 1834 01:17:34,625 --> 01:17:37,605 the guys training place, she, um, 1835 01:17:37,905 --> 01:17:39,245 had been in an abusive marriage. 1836 01:17:39,265 --> 01:17:42,005 And when she got her powers, she went, oh shoot, fire 1837 01:17:42,665 --> 01:17:43,805 boo burned his ass. 1838 01:17:43,805 --> 01:17:45,965 And I went, good for you sister. Good for you. 1839 01:17:46,585 --> 01:17:51,245 And then her skills were fully utilized in this space, 1840 01:17:51,625 --> 01:17:52,725 um, as a trainer. 1841 01:17:52,755 --> 01:17:55,125 Like he, he made her kind of in charge of stuff. 1842 01:17:55,625 --> 01:17:57,285 He was not, he was one of those people 1843 01:17:57,285 --> 01:18:00,285 that he was not genuinely a bad human being, 1844 01:18:00,585 --> 01:18:03,045 but he benefited from the system, 1845 01:18:03,045 --> 01:18:05,285 which I know I see the symbolism there, I get it. 1846 01:18:05,625 --> 01:18:10,125 But to me, if that's the point is to, to, to call this out, 1847 01:18:10,185 --> 01:18:13,245 but we're talking about romance and happy endings 1848 01:18:13,245 --> 01:18:15,485 and fantasy, then there should be room to show, Hey, 1849 01:18:15,485 --> 01:18:16,885 we can move away from this. 1850 01:18:17,025 --> 01:18:18,685 And I just didn't, I didn't get that. 1851 01:18:19,285 --> 01:18:21,685 I didn't get that sense at all. . 1852 01:18:22,425 --> 01:18:25,805 And maybe, maybe I'm not meant to, maybe I'm meant 1853 01:18:25,805 --> 01:18:26,885 to be pissed off about it. 1854 01:18:27,105 --> 01:18:28,285 I'm sure shit I've spent 1855 01:18:28,385 --> 01:18:30,925 how long talking about this fucking book. 1856 01:18:31,235 --> 01:18:33,205 I've been thinking about it nonstop since I, 1857 01:18:33,255 --> 01:18:34,485 since I finished it. 1858 01:18:34,735 --> 01:18:36,485 Uhhuh . And maybe that's the point. 1859 01:18:36,505 --> 01:18:38,205 And I admire that if that's the point. 1860 01:18:38,395 --> 01:18:42,965 Like I, but fuck it sold. 1861 01:18:43,485 --> 01:18:46,805 I don't, and I dunno, maybe, maybe, maybe that's the point. 1862 01:18:46,985 --> 01:18:49,165 And I would like to believe that that's the point 1863 01:18:49,165 --> 01:18:51,125 because I am so pissed off , 1864 01:18:51,425 --> 01:18:55,085 but I couldn't, like, I, in, in fantasy when I'm reading, 1865 01:18:55,405 --> 01:18:58,445 I can kind of get off on some, you know, non-consent, 1866 01:18:58,475 --> 01:18:59,605 even dubious consent. 1867 01:18:59,605 --> 01:19:04,325 Like, but this time I was so in it with that the, the queen. 1868 01:19:04,525 --> 01:19:06,445 I was like, this is, this is so wrong. 1869 01:19:06,635 --> 01:19:10,005 They even say there's even a whole part of the, part of the, 1870 01:19:10,145 --> 01:19:12,525 the explanation of this world, these pleasure slaves 1871 01:19:12,755 --> 01:19:15,405 that women who change and they were servants 1872 01:19:15,465 --> 01:19:16,805 or they were poor. 1873 01:19:17,665 --> 01:19:19,565 Um, they adjust better 1874 01:19:19,565 --> 01:19:23,485 because under his system, their lives air quote, this, 1875 01:19:23,485 --> 01:19:24,645 this is from them improved. 1876 01:19:25,105 --> 01:19:28,445 And the high born women and the nobility struggled the most 1877 01:19:28,475 --> 01:19:30,245 because they had all 1878 01:19:30,245 --> 01:19:32,365 of the limited freedom they would've had anyway 1879 01:19:32,365 --> 01:19:34,005 as women in this patriarchal society 1880 01:19:34,525 --> 01:19:35,965 actually was a matriarchal society. 1881 01:19:35,965 --> 01:19:37,765 That's another part that kind of pissed me off. 1882 01:19:37,765 --> 01:19:39,645 Where were the women standing up for other women? 1883 01:19:39,675 --> 01:19:42,205 Like, what the fuck? Anyway, like they, 1884 01:19:42,205 --> 01:19:43,805 that was a whole point they made of, oh, 1885 01:19:43,805 --> 01:19:46,165 they always suffer the most because they had the most pride 1886 01:19:46,185 --> 01:19:47,445 and it had to be crushed out of them. 1887 01:19:48,985 --> 01:19:52,485 And if the premise was true that they turned feral 1888 01:19:52,485 --> 01:19:54,165 and they will hurt people even that they love. 1889 01:19:54,265 --> 01:19:56,765 And they, that was shown I'd have gone, okay, 1890 01:19:56,795 --> 01:19:58,285 this world, this is how this world works. 1891 01:19:58,355 --> 01:20:01,325 This was an imperfect fix, 1892 01:20:01,325 --> 01:20:03,045 but it's the best one they've come up with so far. 1893 01:20:03,075 --> 01:20:04,605 Blah, blah, blah. No, 1894 01:20:06,745 --> 01:20:07,745 - No. 1895 01:20:12,425 --> 01:20:17,365 - So, yeah. Hmm. I did not go looking deep enough into 1896 01:20:17,365 --> 01:20:18,485 the author's background 1897 01:20:18,505 --> 01:20:20,405 or what the author has said about the book. 1898 01:20:21,065 --> 01:20:24,605 Um, so I don't know if I'm definitely getting the fucking 1899 01:20:24,605 --> 01:20:27,645 point what the author was trying to convey. 1900 01:20:28,045 --> 01:20:31,725 - , - I I part of me kind of hopes. 1901 01:20:31,725 --> 01:20:34,165 So, because what I don't want is for it to be 1902 01:20:34,185 --> 01:20:35,805 so well written and the author 1903 01:20:35,825 --> 01:20:37,565 to be oblivious to what they've done. 1904 01:20:37,625 --> 01:20:39,565 Mm. That would bother me. Mm-Hmm. . 1905 01:20:39,565 --> 01:20:40,805 Mm-Hmm . That really would bother me. 1906 01:20:40,865 --> 01:20:44,525 If there's a purpose for this, for the reader, then 1907 01:20:46,125 --> 01:20:47,525 I definitely respect that. 1908 01:20:48,265 --> 01:20:52,445 Um, but if there was no thought put into that mm-Hmm, 1909 01:20:52,485 --> 01:20:53,805 and that was accidental 1910 01:20:53,985 --> 01:20:57,205 or the, the author didn't see what they were doing 1911 01:20:57,835 --> 01:20:59,405 then I'm actually more pissed off . 1912 01:21:02,105 --> 01:21:04,685 - Ah. - So 1913 01:21:07,785 --> 01:21:10,245 anyway, it was very well written and well crafted though. 1914 01:21:10,425 --> 01:21:12,405 And if you are okay with non-consent 1915 01:21:12,425 --> 01:21:15,285 and that kind of thing, I, I would recommend it mostly. 1916 01:21:15,525 --> 01:21:16,565 'cause I need to know if anybody else 1917 01:21:16,745 --> 01:21:18,005 has a similar reaction. 1918 01:21:18,445 --> 01:21:21,445 I don't, I don't, I can admit I could be overreacting. 1919 01:21:21,525 --> 01:21:22,885 I don't think I am. I just, 1920 01:21:23,445 --> 01:21:26,205 I feel like I could have written, uh, a college 1921 01:21:27,145 --> 01:21:29,445 lit essay on this fucking shit . 1922 01:21:30,715 --> 01:21:34,815 And now I kind of wish I like, I wish I did that because I, 1923 01:21:35,535 --> 01:21:36,695 - I have so many fucking thoughts, 1924 01:21:36,995 --> 01:21:39,495 - You know, listening to you here, I'm, you need 1925 01:21:39,495 --> 01:21:42,335 to start a a, a book review tube. 1926 01:21:42,795 --> 01:21:45,135 - Here's the thing. I tried this when I was writing book 1927 01:21:45,135 --> 01:21:46,455 reviews and just trying to do it on Instagram. 1928 01:21:47,995 --> 01:21:49,615 The moment it becomes an obligation, 1929 01:21:50,225 --> 01:21:51,335 don't wanna do it. Don't wanna do 1930 01:21:51,335 --> 01:21:51,815 - It. Mm-Hmm. 1931 01:21:52,125 --> 01:21:53,615 - Okay. To the point that I like freeze up 1932 01:21:53,615 --> 01:21:57,095 and can't, like, I'll just like whatever my brand 1933 01:21:57,095 --> 01:22:00,295 of divergence neurodivergency is, it just 1934 01:22:01,505 --> 01:22:02,655 stops in its tracks. 1935 01:22:02,655 --> 01:22:04,735 Like, nope. I think it's 1936 01:22:04,735 --> 01:22:06,615 because my perfectionism, even though I am working 1937 01:22:06,635 --> 01:22:09,495 to overcome that kicks in and I'm like, am I doing it right? 1938 01:22:09,915 --> 01:22:11,095 Am I doing it well? Mm. 1939 01:22:11,605 --> 01:22:13,775 What if I'm not, oh, let's go be 1940 01:22:14,355 --> 01:22:17,095 bad about bad at something else in front of other people. 1941 01:22:19,125 --> 01:22:22,575 Look, I have gotten used to since 20 fucking 15 1942 01:22:23,475 --> 01:22:25,415 not being very good at this in front of y'all. 1943 01:22:25,615 --> 01:22:26,935 'cause I got all these years of experience, 1944 01:22:26,935 --> 01:22:28,535 but that doesn't make it easy 1945 01:22:28,715 --> 01:22:30,695 to just do it again with something else. 1946 01:22:31,055 --> 01:22:34,535 . Yeah. 1947 01:22:35,435 --> 01:22:38,095 So there you go. That's the rant. That's been, 1948 01:22:38,755 --> 01:22:39,815 - That's been, yeah. 1949 01:22:40,295 --> 01:22:41,335 Building. Yeah. Yeah. 1950 01:22:43,365 --> 01:22:48,005 - I I I also think I would've felt better about the book 1951 01:22:48,705 --> 01:22:50,245 if the point is to be mad. 1952 01:22:50,245 --> 01:22:53,405 Because if somebody else in the universe 1953 01:22:54,625 --> 01:22:56,725 was mad about it, by the end, 1954 01:22:56,745 --> 01:22:58,925 the queen is happy with her life. 1955 01:22:59,145 --> 01:23:03,125 And there, I don't recall reading any internal monologue 1956 01:23:03,125 --> 01:23:06,445 or whatever internal thoughts of, yeah, 1957 01:23:06,455 --> 01:23:07,525 maybe we should fix this. 1958 01:23:07,755 --> 01:23:10,165 Like maybe, I think there was a little bit, 1959 01:23:10,225 --> 01:23:15,045 but not in the like, this is wrong and we need to fix this. 1960 01:23:15,045 --> 01:23:17,645 Like, there was, I can understand if the book didn't end on 1961 01:23:17,645 --> 01:23:19,685 it being fixed because that's not how systems work. 1962 01:23:19,965 --> 01:23:23,325 I understand that. But like there was no call like, 1963 01:23:24,205 --> 01:23:27,765 I don't know, I don't know, I don't know 1964 01:23:28,125 --> 01:23:29,125 - . 1965 01:23:30,825 --> 01:23:35,125 - Anyway, this, this one will is I, this rant is not done. 1966 01:23:35,125 --> 01:23:37,045 Gotten it outta my system. I will not keep ranting. 1967 01:23:37,045 --> 01:23:38,245 Don't worry . Um, 1968 01:23:38,505 --> 01:23:40,005 but for anybody who's interested, it's called 1969 01:23:40,105 --> 01:23:41,165 to call a queen. 1970 01:23:43,825 --> 01:23:46,045 - It - Yeah. It's, anyway, 1971 01:23:46,425 --> 01:23:47,425 - Anyway. 1972 01:23:47,425 --> 01:23:47,985 Who 1973 01:23:49,545 --> 01:23:51,485 - All the thoughts and feels y'all all 1974 01:23:51,545 --> 01:23:52,545 - The thoughts and feels? 1975 01:23:53,265 --> 01:23:57,815 - Um, I have not read a lot of kink stuff lately. 1976 01:23:58,045 --> 01:24:00,495 Like I've read a lot of faded mates stuff. 1977 01:24:00,685 --> 01:24:02,455 I've read a lot of shifter stuff. 1978 01:24:03,155 --> 01:24:06,815 Um, I keep accidentally slipping into the Omega verse world 1979 01:24:06,835 --> 01:24:09,255 and it's okay, but it doesn't draw me in. 1980 01:24:09,255 --> 01:24:10,855 Like, if you love it, I'm happy for you. 1981 01:24:10,875 --> 01:24:12,735 But it's, and I don't know if it's 1982 01:24:12,735 --> 01:24:13,815 that I just haven't read enough. 1983 01:24:13,815 --> 01:24:15,695 Well-written stuff like, I don't know. 1984 01:24:16,175 --> 01:24:19,935 I, But not a lot of like 1985 01:24:21,085 --> 01:24:22,615 genuinely kink stuff. 1986 01:24:22,775 --> 01:24:24,055 I have Absolutely. 1987 01:24:24,895 --> 01:24:26,615 I think I'm about to read something kinky 1988 01:24:26,615 --> 01:24:29,775 because Katie Roberts just released a book, 1989 01:24:30,055 --> 01:24:34,535 I think it's the Succubus something Dream something from a 1990 01:24:34,535 --> 01:24:36,375 series that she had started years ago. 1991 01:24:36,915 --> 01:24:40,175 Um, and it's the only series that I know of by Katie. 1992 01:24:40,175 --> 01:24:43,255 Robert that's on, um, Kindle Unlimited. 1993 01:24:43,835 --> 01:24:45,295 And that book just came out in her books. 1994 01:24:45,295 --> 01:24:46,335 Even when they're not trying to 1995 01:24:46,335 --> 01:24:47,375 be kinky, there's a kink element. 1996 01:24:47,375 --> 01:24:48,255 Like there's just something, 1997 01:24:48,255 --> 01:24:49,375 something's a little kinky there. 1998 01:24:49,675 --> 01:24:51,455 And she writes kink very fucking well. 1999 01:24:51,875 --> 01:24:53,135 Um, and so I'm, 2000 01:24:53,135 --> 01:24:54,495 that's the next one I'm definitely gonna read. 2001 01:24:54,555 --> 01:24:57,655 But everything else is like, it hasn't really been, 2002 01:24:58,515 --> 01:25:01,295 and it's not, I don't know. 2003 01:25:01,375 --> 01:25:03,815 I get, I think it's a little bit like this book. 2004 01:25:04,055 --> 01:25:06,375 I don't want something about it to disappoint me. 2005 01:25:07,435 --> 01:25:10,535 And so, but 2006 01:25:11,885 --> 01:25:12,885 - Yeah. 2007 01:25:12,965 --> 01:25:17,735 - Yeah. - Deep breath. Mm-Hmm. . 2008 01:25:18,235 --> 01:25:19,575 Mm-Hmm. . 2009 01:25:20,255 --> 01:25:21,815 - I, I think I've run outta steam, but, 2010 01:25:21,875 --> 01:25:24,695 and I know we should probably let these lovely people go on 2011 01:25:24,695 --> 01:25:27,135 about their day, but like, I also like being here. I know 2012 01:25:27,325 --> 01:25:28,325 - It's one 30. 2013 01:25:28,335 --> 01:25:30,175 - I know also the 14-year-old is probably like, 2014 01:25:30,995 --> 01:25:32,855 are my parental figures around, right? 2015 01:25:33,055 --> 01:25:35,295 I I I could use some, I don't know. 2016 01:25:35,485 --> 01:25:36,615 - Yeah. Uh, 2017 01:25:36,755 --> 01:25:38,095 - He, he's not hungry enough. 2018 01:25:38,215 --> 01:25:39,535 'cause I haven't heard him in the kitchen also, 2019 01:25:39,535 --> 01:25:40,735 but I've been ranting so I 2020 01:25:40,735 --> 01:25:42,095 would've missed all kinds of things. I, 2021 01:25:42,175 --> 01:25:43,175 - I haven't heard - Any. 2022 01:25:43,175 --> 01:25:44,175 Okay, good. Good to know. Good to know. 2023 01:25:45,245 --> 01:25:47,095 - Yeah. It's right behind me, but 2024 01:25:48,475 --> 01:25:51,095 - I'm not as hot as I was. 2025 01:25:51,115 --> 01:25:53,375 My toes are actually chilly. You're welcome. 2026 01:25:53,395 --> 01:25:55,295 My face is hot, but I've been ranting Welcome. 2027 01:25:55,295 --> 01:25:57,735 Did you bump the air again for me? Yes. Wow. 2028 01:25:57,735 --> 01:26:00,815 You let it be at what most, most people would consider a a, 2029 01:26:01,255 --> 01:26:02,855 a temp moderate climate in their house. 2030 01:26:02,875 --> 01:26:05,325 We keep it warm. 'cause we do are not paying a three, four, 2031 01:26:05,325 --> 01:26:06,685 $500 electric bill. 2032 01:26:06,685 --> 01:26:09,605 Y'all, we are just not just keep taking clothes off until 2033 01:26:10,745 --> 01:26:11,805 you to the point 2034 01:26:11,805 --> 01:26:14,245 where other people are not uncomfortable with looking at you. 2035 01:26:14,265 --> 01:26:17,165 But no. So I understand why we keep it warmer than 2036 01:26:17,785 --> 01:26:19,125 the average household. 2037 01:26:20,185 --> 01:26:22,605 Man, it sucks when your internal combustion 2038 01:26:22,605 --> 01:26:24,045 engine is overheating, 2039 01:26:24,245 --> 01:26:25,965 - - And there's 2040 01:26:25,965 --> 01:26:27,085 kids in, there's a kid in this house. 2041 01:26:27,165 --> 01:26:30,405 I can't walk around naked. You know, if we get get 2042 01:26:30,425 --> 01:26:31,605 to a point in life when there's 2043 01:26:31,605 --> 01:26:32,805 no children in this house, I, 2044 01:26:32,905 --> 01:26:34,405 - That's a whole different story. Best believe 2045 01:26:34,475 --> 01:26:36,565 - I'll walk around naked when I'm hot, but 2046 01:26:41,375 --> 01:26:42,375 - No. 2047 01:26:43,305 --> 01:26:44,305 Okay. 2048 01:26:44,785 --> 01:26:45,995 - Okay. I guess we should go. 2049 01:26:46,175 --> 01:26:48,195 We didn't eat lunch and I am hungry. Same. 2050 01:26:48,655 --> 01:26:51,155 I'm not, I'm not gonna do any meaningful work after 2051 01:26:51,155 --> 01:26:51,835 - This. Me 2052 01:26:51,835 --> 01:26:52,835 - Either. 2053 01:26:52,835 --> 01:26:53,675 I have to prep some orders that are going 2054 01:26:53,675 --> 01:26:54,915 out tomorrow. Yeah. I've 2055 01:26:54,915 --> 01:26:57,755 - Got one more left that I have Yeah. 2056 01:26:57,815 --> 01:26:59,115 To touch. But yeah, 2057 01:26:59,265 --> 01:27:00,835 I'll take care of that. But yeah, other than 2058 01:27:00,835 --> 01:27:02,075 - That, I'm gonna take advantage of the fact 2059 01:27:02,075 --> 01:27:03,715 that when you're self-employed, as long 2060 01:27:03,715 --> 01:27:05,155 as there's no deadlines looming. 2061 01:27:05,205 --> 01:27:06,875 - Right. You just - Sit down sometimes. 2062 01:27:06,985 --> 01:27:08,155 Yeah. We don't do that very often. 2063 01:27:08,335 --> 01:27:10,555 - It doesn't happen very often. No, it does not. Fuck yeah. 2064 01:27:10,555 --> 01:27:12,195 Today it is, today is that day, 2065 01:27:13,215 --> 01:27:14,215 - So yeah. 2066 01:27:14,335 --> 01:27:18,075 - Yep. - If you do read to call her a queen, first of all, 2067 01:27:18,135 --> 01:27:19,515 if you are part of our Patreon 2068 01:27:19,615 --> 01:27:20,955 and have access to the Discord server, 2069 01:27:21,215 --> 01:27:22,635 please go and talk to me. 2070 01:27:22,635 --> 01:27:25,075 There. We have a whole thread on Kinky Books 2071 01:27:25,455 --> 01:27:27,275 and if you are not part of that and read it 2072 01:27:27,275 --> 01:27:28,515 and want to like email 2073 01:27:28,615 --> 01:27:30,595 or whatever, whatever, like contact in whatever way. 2074 01:27:31,055 --> 01:27:35,155 Uh, I just, I'm not thinking that necessarily 2075 01:27:35,155 --> 01:27:36,275 that other people's opinions will 2076 01:27:36,275 --> 01:27:37,555 necessarily change my mind. 2077 01:27:37,555 --> 01:27:39,555 Mm-Hmm. . But like, maybe there's a perspective 2078 01:27:39,735 --> 01:27:41,395 I'm not getting and I've missed 2079 01:27:41,575 --> 01:27:44,755 and God, god knows that's not impossible. 2080 01:27:44,755 --> 01:27:48,155 Right. But I just, anyway. Okay. . 2081 01:27:48,255 --> 01:27:51,355 - So yeah. My, my my, what I told Kayla this morning was 2082 01:27:51,355 --> 01:27:52,915 that, um, you know, when these, 2083 01:27:53,305 --> 01:27:56,115 when these concerts start back up again 2084 01:27:57,025 --> 01:27:58,755 next going into fall. Fall, 2085 01:27:58,755 --> 01:27:59,755 - Yeah. 2086 01:27:59,755 --> 01:28:03,435 - Um, you know, we need to put into work 2087 01:28:03,655 --> 01:28:04,795 to take the next day off. 2088 01:28:05,025 --> 01:28:06,315 - Yeah. We, we need to talk 2089 01:28:06,315 --> 01:28:08,475 to HR about using our PTO . 2090 01:28:09,825 --> 01:28:12,315 It's not PTO and you work for yourself. 2091 01:28:12,375 --> 01:28:13,795 If you don't work, you don't get paid, 2092 01:28:14,055 --> 01:28:15,435 but whatever, whatever. 2093 01:28:16,015 --> 01:28:18,995 And you know what, normally the concerts are on Thursdays. 2094 01:28:19,025 --> 01:28:20,475 Yeah. And that would've been way easy. 2095 01:28:20,475 --> 01:28:22,155 We're just taking Friday off. Mm-Hmm. . 2096 01:28:22,175 --> 01:28:23,515 Um, but yeah, we'll 2097 01:28:23,515 --> 01:28:24,515 - See. 2098 01:28:24,515 --> 01:28:25,955 - we'll see. Anyway. Yeah. We should go. Mm-Hmm. 2099 01:28:25,995 --> 01:28:27,075 , thanks for being 2100 01:28:27,145 --> 01:28:28,145 - Here. 2101 01:28:28,145 --> 01:28:28,635 Thanks for hanging with us to the bitter, 2102 01:28:28,635 --> 01:28:29,635 - Bitter fucking end. 2103 01:28:29,635 --> 01:28:32,515 Yeah. Thanks for, um, going along on 2104 01:28:32,515 --> 01:28:33,835 that rant journey with me. 2105 01:28:33,835 --> 01:28:36,535 Mm-Hmm. . Mm-Hmm. . Um, yeah. 2106 01:28:36,535 --> 01:28:37,535 Hopeful. We'll see Friday 2107 01:28:37,555 --> 01:28:39,135 if I'm still wearing the finger condom. Yeah. 2108 01:28:39,135 --> 01:28:41,335 - Right. Or - A version of the finger condom. Mm-Hmm, 2109 01:28:41,375 --> 01:28:42,375 - . 2110 01:28:42,375 --> 01:28:44,495 - Okay. I guess we should go. Okay. Bye. 2111 01:28:44,715 --> 01:28:44,935 - Bye.