You're listening to Loving BDSM podcast, episode four
thirty six. Kayla Lortz here with the one,
the only, the guy who knows how to
get me to calm the hell down and
relax with a few good smacks. John Brownstone.
Figured that's what you needed. I mean, ass
and face. I was just I'm Right. I'm
a little melty in my own brain even
right now. Good. You need to be. I
did need to be. After the start you
had to today? I did need to be.
So, we had a topic planned for today.
We were gonna start a whole series that
we're gonna do. It was a whole thing.
Yeah. I spent
two hours, yes, day before recording,
down a rabbit hole trying to find the
proper wording for the thing that I'm trying
to convey.
That's how prepared. She even talked to me
about it. Right.
And then we woke up this morning and
The world went shit.
And so no. So we didn't wanna cancel
the episode.
So we're just we're just making this a
big old bonus section episode. It's just chatty.
It's just chaotic. If that is not your
thing,
it's cool. Skip it if you need to.
It's fine.
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Okay. Did I decide that the moment you
push the button and the podcast listeners came
into
us all here together that that's when I
needed to take a sip of my coffee?
Yes. I am using a straw today, so
hopefully there will be no slurpy gross sippy
noises.
Not too many mouth noises. I'm double fisting,
and I still got coffee, and I'm bringing
water together. You know? Well, I was gonna
skip
the no. Not the water. I always have
water. I was gonna skip the coffee because
I have a Diet Coke, the inferior form
of Diet Coke, but Diet Coke waiting for
me. And I was like, no. No. No.
This day this day calls for coffee. We
will have the coffee.
So I actually have
an a small little bibbit announcement. I was
like, we'll we'll put it in here. Sure.
So it can seem a little official.
So,
the twenty twenty five
Dom Sub Dynamics virtual summit
finished up oh gosh. What is what are
dates and time last week? I think that's
I think that's correct.
And from all accounts, from everybody I've talked
to and heard from, it went really well.
If you are able to attend, wonderful. Amazing.
If you were not able to attend at
all,
and have a budget for it, you can
purchase the replays of all of the sessions.
Totally understand if you're like, nope. Not in
this fucking economy.
Same. But I wanted to let you know
that that is an option.
So that is the one little
sad,
announcement
because it's not exciting or sexy.
And here we are. No topic. Just vibes.
It's a bonus section episode.
Would let's start with why we're
we were happy to be tired this morning,
but we're tired now. Why are we tired?
Because we're parents. Yeah.
That's the worry of my life. And and
and we
support him.
The oldest had a concert.
Yep.
He is in multiple different performance
groups, so that means there's multiple different concerts
to go to each semester now.
This one's our favorite. It's brass band, so
it's mostly fun music. It's a smaller group
that's, like, just focused on a specific kind
of sound. The music was is always really
good. What what I like part of it
too is,
because it's just a bass brand
Right.
Brass band. Move. Nope. It's the bass band
now. I'm gonna let the kid know. I
think I need to go back to bed.
They the songs that they did
were shorter than normal concert band. Yes. Yes.
And So there are sometimes those children will
play a twenty minute song, and I'm like,
I that how long is too long? Twenty
minutes is too long. But the thing was,
the songs are shorter. They played more. They
did. They did. It was still an over
an hour concert with a fifteen minute intermission
in the middle. Even so, it was it
was really good. The the the music the
the the picks that they did for the
music was was really, really good. Yeah. Some
of it a little newer. Some of it,
you know, was a mix of I know.
And it's weird. The so the last song
in the program was titled
Dark Side of the Moon. Yeah. Guess who
in the audience got all excited. I I
saw that title. We were wrong. Damn. We
were wrong. So I was prepared to be
disappointed. And then they played the damn thing.
And I was like, oh, this is so
good. Yeah. Then once once I read the
composer's note and I saw a name that
wasn't, you know, Gilmore Waters, and I was
like, oh, okay. Okay. But yeah. No. The
the
the professor who conducts that group is very
good. It's fun to watch. I mean Mhmm.
So the whole thing like, we're happy to
be there.
This is the tail end of the semester
for the 19 year old.
He is grumpy. He is tired. He is
cranky. Yep. We didn't wanna stay too late.
So normally after performance, I offer to buy
the college student who doesn't have a lot
of money food because that's what you do.
Right? And so but that adds an extra
thirty, forty five minutes, sometimes an hour depending
on what it is. And where we go.
Yeah. Right. So I'm
texting,
the kid before the concert. I'm like, hey.
Do you want food?
If so, do you want us to
get it for you? Do you wanna go
somewhere? Or would you just like the cash
and you can DoorDash yourself something?
He's like, cash, please. Just Mhmm. Just let
me DoorDash it. And I was like, okay.
Good. And somehow, we still didn't make it
home till almost 11:00, and I still don't
know how that worked, but there we were.
Now in in my personal situation Part of
it was we had to do the speed
limit because there were so many cops along
the road last night. Am Have you ever
seen that many cops? Too, which makes it
harder to, like, walk them. Yeah. I've never
seen that many on that stretch of road.
Not at this point in the month No.
Either. I don't know. But I I will
say I have a I get to have
a little bit of extra tired because two
days prior on Sunday,
I spent nine hours with the 19 year
old,
running errands, feeding him, and then going to
a performance. Yeah.
I don't know how much any of y'all
might know about instruments,
called tubas and euphoniums.
They're they're brass instruments. They're beautiful
sounds. Blah blah blah. It's delightful. I'm happy
to support everybody's children. That's great. I did
learn
how if the question is how
much tuba in euphonium
is too much,
I found it. I found the limit.
Ten ten ten pieces being performed
by by somebody's children.
I only cared about my child, and he
went number three.
And then there were seven more after him
and I was like, okay. Okay. I'm gonna
keep clapping and smiling because it was a
very small venue. So conceivably they could look
up in the audience and actually see people.
And I was like, don't don't look tired.
Don't look tired. Don't look look over this.
Don't don't look like you're done.
Yeah. So I've gotten to spend a lot
of time with a 19 year old, which
is
which is
delightful.
We'll go back. We were supposed to go
back next week for another performance, but
the cranky at the time, 19 year old,
went don't even bother. Don't bother. Think it's
a real performance. I was like, but this
was our opportunity to go to Cheesecake Factory.
He was like, I don't care. Don't don't
show up. I don't give a fuck. Okay?
Woah. Can I I don't I don't know
how unique this is? Maybe it's not that
unique at all. I did not know The
Cheesecake Factory existed until TV taught me that.
And then I didn't know it was real,
until several years after whatever TV show,
taught me about The Cheesecake Factory. And I
still have never gone. Yeah. Yeah. I think
that's probably what I learned about too. Mhmm.
I still have never gone to one, but
we have a gift card to it, and
they're in Gainesville.
And it's like, we only go to Gainesville
for a couple of reasons.
Maybe we have to go for a a
different reason. I don't know. I don't know.
I think if the kids,
found out we went to Cheesecake Factory without
them, that might be the one time
they would be a little annoyed by us.
Hey. You know what? They mostly don't care
if we go out to eat without them,
but that's the one time I think we
would be hearing about it. Yeah.
So I was like, at The Cheesecake Factory?
No. So
the,
the next performance is actually on the last
day of that they have of classes before
finals or whatever.
So
but Bunny says the portions are huge. I
had heard that. I had heard that.
And they they better be because I was
looking at a a recent menu, and it
was, like, $13
for one slice of cheesecake. I'm like, no.
No.
One slice, I better be a big slice.
Better be some special darn cheesecake. Mhmm. Mhmm.
Mhmm. Yep. Yeah. So
yeah. So that's why we're tired. We're happy.
We got to see the kid. We got
to hear good music. That that the Brass
Band concert is always lightly attended because it's
a smaller group, so Yeah. Less friends of,
family of, whatever whatever. Yep. Yep.
So there I think there might have been
30 people in the room, and it's their
big auditorium.
The next one, the final one we'll go
to will be
packed to the rafters
because any of the students who so music
student thing they have to do, they get
a credit every semester for going to watch
other people's performances.
And you have to go to a certain
amount. I've never asked how many that is.
And so typically,
most students go at the very beginning of
the semester to get it out of the
way,
but you can always tell who's trying to,
like, get that last credit earned towards the
end of a semester
Yeah. Because it's a whole different group of
kids. It it it was funny
because at first, I didn't really understand what
was happening
when we first started going to some of
these concerts. Mhmm. But, you know, you sit
down and then you see these kids walking
in, they've got programs, and they're taking selfies
holding the program. The proof they were there.
And and they and they turn around so
the stage is visible behind them. Yep. Yep.
What what are they what's going on? Yeah.
They're not just doing it for the gram.
Yeah. They are doing it for proof that
they were there so they could get their
credit. Yep. Yeah. It's funny. I know. Can
I tell you, I can't my brain is
not yet
wrapped itself around the fact that we are
about to have a junior in college? Yeah.
That child will be a junior in college
in a couple months. In a couple yeah.
What the hell? What is time I can't
believe it. Y'all.
I don't know. It's
That's so weird. Scary. That's so weird, which
means we're that much closer to having a
college graduation.
What the what the hell?
Anyway I know.
So
so I will I I would like to
publicly complain about this one of the things
that stressed me out today.
Got an email in the middle of the
night. I tried to make a purchase on
the kinkery, thekinkery.com.
I've tried multiple times. It will not go
through. I'm like, goddamn. Damn. Typically, that's really
a pain that's really like your card is
not working properly, but I don't ever say
that. I go check and I have ways
to check.
Nope. Nope. It was an Us problem. It
was an Us problem.
So I had to
so you have to then date this back
a little bit.
About a week ago, I started getting random
emails from the payment processor and that's how,
like, you put in your credit card information
and it goes through and we get money
and you get product. That that that's the
payment processor.
We've been with the same payment processor since,
was it, 2022, '20 '20 '3? Yeah. The
last time the site stopped working because I
couldn't take payments that time.
It's been the it's been the same one.
Yeah. So when they when that same one
sent emails going, congratulations.
Your,
account has now been activated. I'm like, spammer
who?
Like, what? Are you legit? They don't send
any information that says, hey. This thing has
changed on our back end, which means you
get a new merchant ID number. Here are
the steps that you have to take. They
don't tell me that at all. The people
that we deal with, they are not the
bank
themselves. They're like a a go between. Right.
They're yes. They're the ones that allow you
to be able to take everybody's credit card.
Right. We they they are like a buffer
between the the bank and us Right. So
to speak. They are the ones that make
the mechanism. So what what happened was
the
people that they use as a bank
to run all these transactions,
they changed.
They didn't tell anybody. They didn't tell anybody,
and they didn't tell you
in the the multiple emails that came through.
There was no information. It was just you
need to activate. And I'm like, I know
I don't need to activate. I'm active.
Then they leave. Okay. I know. I understand
that
the responsible adult thing to do would have
been to either just go ahead and call
or after I got the second email to
call them back. But they were giving me
no good information
in the voicemails either and I'm like, okay,
when I get some time I will focus
on this but
but everything's still working. I even got an
email that said, everything is still working. We
updated things in the background for you. You
just need to call this one number and
do this thing. Mhmm. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.
Cool. Except now my payments aren't working. So
I had to call. I had to call
two people. I had to change two passwords.
They had to walk me one one change
passwords because I didn't know how to use
a computer, y'all. That one was my that
one was my fault.
But then now I'm like, how long has
the problem been going on?
I don't know. How many sales do we
miss? I don't know. I don't know. How
do I get those people back? I don't
know. Right. It's fixed. It was an easy
fix. It was just an annoying fix. And
sure, sure, sure, I know. Just answer the
phone
or respond to the first email. I know
what the answer is. I'm not stupid. I'm
just unwilling. Okay?
If you can't give me context for what
the hell is happening,
it can't possibly be my problem yet. Yeah.
But it was definitely my problem. Oh, god.
It's definitely my problem.
Kim says in the live chat, having a
graduate does not
equate to empty nest. Just saying. That's true.
Here's the thing. I I agree, and I
know that's true, and we will let the
kid know, hey. If you need to come
home, you can come home. This child has
been trying to be free from the womb
and will probably go, can I sell a
kidney to not have to live with my
parents anymore? I'm not saying that
if he'll, you know, have that kind of
luck and it'll work out for him.
I'm saying he's gonna do almost anything short
of committing a felony to not have to
move.
Yeah.
Whereas the the youngest will be prying out
of here with a crowbar. Right. Who look.
The youngest has said, I don't wanna go
anywhere. I'm like, eventually, you you'll wanna have
sex and not, you know, have to worry
that your parents can hear you. You might
try to go somewhere.
But yeah. No. The 18 year old will
do almost anything to not apply for him.
And I hope, you know, that that
does happen for him.
I do too. You know? So
Yeah.
Exes, let's be real, felonies may not be
off the table either. Well, in this,
crumbling economy, who the hell knows? Right.
It's a little ironic that the,
set list from last night's
concert included a piece from Hunger Games. Hunger
Games. Yeah. I was like, oh, okay, professor
over there. I I see what you're saying
to the rest of them. Right?
Yeah.
So
yeah.
But
yeah. So it it really did all get
sorted. I just
I was discombobulated.
I I'm already
now I don't wanna say struggle like I'm
like, oh, no. Falling apart. But, like, it
kinda is a struggle sometimes when you realize
that you cannot think clearly, you cannot think
of the words you need. Mhmm. The the
ability to just do tasks
that that you could do prior with no
real thought, you just did them, take a
whole hell of a lot of thought, and
then throw in the middle an confusing process
that nobody's explained. And I'm like, I
would rather give myself a root canal, so
I will avoid that until I literally cannot.
And, of course, by the time you you
face something head on that you can no
longer avoid, it's worse than if you just
handled it in the first place.
So
but
Pepperidge Farm cookies.
I
I remember being a kid and those being
an absolute
luxury Yeah. In my family. Oh, yeah. We
did not have Pepperidge Farm cookies money, y'all.
No. Not really. Or Intamins. Let's go ahead.
No. We didn't we didn't get them on
a regular, but when we did I remember
them being delicious. But everything I not everything
maybe, but a lot of the things that
one, I thought of as luxuries,
and two, that I thought were delicious as
a kid Mhmm. I'm sure it's formula changes,
recipe changes,
material changes. I'm sure there's changes for it.
They are never delicious. When I try them
again as an adult, it is
disappointing.
Yeah.
So
Yeah. But also now I want cookies, but
I still I keep saying it and doing
nothing about it. Maybe that's because I keep
going to the college town to help the
college child, to support the college child and
having no time for anything. I have a
mix in our pantry
of snickerdoodle
blondies
from Aldi. I don't I know every Aldi
is set up just a little bit different
because I've now,
attended one, two,
three or four different Aldis around here.
But you know that section there's there's an
aisle where there'll be, like,
home stuff and bathroom stuff and
garden stuff, but there'll be this little section
of, like, oh, look at our name brand
shit that we don't normally carry, but we
got it for five minutes. That's where I
found it for anybody who might be looking.
So
And, Junie, yeah. The mint Milanos, those were
my those those were my favorites. Can I
tell you I never liked the Milanos
Really? As much. Like, I would eat them.
I'm not gonna say no to a fucking
cookie. Oh, no. It The Milanos are my
dad's favorite,
but they they were like
No. The the regular Milanos or the mint?
Oh, yeah. Well, you Bring them. Bring them.
Look. You're a slut for anything mint. Okay?
And that's not slut shaming. I'm celebrating his
slutty Okay. Thank you. Just for mint. But
you are a mint slut. I am.
I mean,
Aldi also started for a while or still
is, I don't know, had Blue Bell ice
cream, including the full one gallon,
like, massive thing of Blue Bell.
Did we go digging through the cooler when
we realized they had mint chocolate, chip or
mint chocolate or whatever it is? Mhmm.
Also,
I know for You'll see. Several years during
shrinkflation and everything,
Blue Bell one of Blue Bell's selling points
is they're like, no. No. Our ice cream
is still a gallon. We are not making
it smaller. Right. I did not realize how
much smaller everybody been making their ice cream.
I was like, a gallon is huge. It's
huge compared to what the others are now.
Yeah.
Yep.
So
You know, Steam Fire and Ice, I have
never had the raspberry
Milanos.
Never tried those. Once I realized I didn't
really care for Milanos in general and mint
Milanos, I wasn't giving raspberry a chance.
I just wasn't. Raspberry, I I'm a little
about raspberry.
Like, it's a little too tart for me.
And I don't know if it's just I've
never had genuinely
perfectly ripe, like, should be eaten right now
they're so ripe raspberries or what, but
they're a little too tart
for me. So
so, yeah, we have come to the let's
talk about food portion.
Is there anything going on in our lives?
That's usually what a bonus section is. You
know, I have to say for all that
I still continue to be a little like,
who the hell gives a fuck about the
bonus section? Clearly, some of y'all do, and
I appreciate you. I have had a couple
of people who said that they have
learned how to navigate bits and pieces of
their own power exchange exchange relationships based on
the conversations we've had in the bonus sections.
I find that fascinating. I'm glad we could
be helpful. I mean,
I do I have that that weird thing
in my head that says if I'm not
actually, like, helping anybody, what is even the
point? Sure. Sure. Sure. Sure.
Do I need therapy for that? Probably.
So,
we did not have water, and we're under
a boil notice, and that was annoying. Again?
Well, it's because we didn't get notice of
the not having the water because
we were doing things where we needed water
and then I needed to, like, wash my
hands or something and I go to turn
the tap on. And it's not that we
don't have any water, it's that we have
no water pressure. No pressure. It's just And
I'm like, is
is it us?
Not like a bill thing. That's on autopay.
It's paid. I'm not worried about that part,
but, like, is this a problem at our
house we need to call a plumber? Or
is this So I I I texted the
neighbor,
and they were like, hang on, let me
check.
And they're like, yeah, no. No water pressure.
And, what, about half hour later? Yeah. We
got a we got the call.
Yeah.
And was it that point where I was
like, I have to take a shower. I
have to go out in public, and I
cannot this is a this is a no,
no, no. You cannot just put this up
in a ponytail and slap some deodorant on
it and call it good. You have got
to get get some water on you. So
I'm I don't understand anything about how many
things work. I'm like, look,
can I take a shower? This was before
they had put the announcement out. Like, we
were going, well, there's water. There's just no
pressure. I was like, is it safe? Should
I Jamie goes, go. I I said, look,
I'm willing to run through the drops. I
I'm like, I'm not I don't care that
there's no water pressure. I just is it
safe for me to get in there and
use it and clean my body?
Jamie goes, yeah. Yeah. Sure. You're fine. And
it was make it quick? Right. It's basically
right as I'm stepping out of the shower
and have run through the drops to try
to get wet.
And he's like, oh, yeah. Water's out.
Okay. Good timing. Good timing.
Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah. They this this seems
to happen a lot
here with us with the water.
It got to the point we,
Yeah. We we, you know, it it used
to be here in Florida, you stockpile water
for the storm season.
We stockpile water for the unexpected boil water
notice. And considering
I don't think it was last week. I
think it was the week before. We were
without water for
a full day,
and I realized because I don't have
babies to need baby wipes, I was like,
I need to clean something off of, like,
a body part. Mhmm. And I don't have
access to water, so we now,
have some baby wipes too. Yeah. For if
you really do need an emergency
cleanup
and you don't have water.
But yeah. We do. We prepare more for
our water going out or being on boil
notice than we do for storms anymore.
Yep. Yep. Yeah. I mean, do I feel
like the way things are going,
in our own state government, let alone federal,
that hurricane season's gonna be a Mad Max
situation? Yeah. I do. I do. Yeah. But,
we're prepared because we don't trust our own
local utility to keep our water on consistently.
Of all the things we have, we have
water. Mhmm.
So
yeah. Anyway,
what else? Lola is snoring like she just
got off a double shift at Denny's. Mhmm.
And I think she's genuinely asleep because her
ears are down and relaxed. I think so.
Yes. They are. She she truly is asleep.
She
will snore, and her eyes will be closed,
and you're like, she's asleep, but there will
be one ear up, like a sonar Yeah.
Thing. And I'm like, oh, no. You're not
asleep. Mhmm. You are just pretending.
Yeah.
You're just resting your eyes.
Yep.
So
What else?
Mhmm.
I'm,
still slowly building
the CNC machine. Oh my god. Yeah. Yesterday
was the first time you were really, like,
maybe I should've just paid the extra money
for them to put it
because this is the thing I the only
way I can help you is you tell
me what button to push. I know. And
we learned that even after all these years,
sometimes we don't communicate the same way. JB's
like, press it. Okay. I did press it.
But to me, press it means press. And
I'm like, oh, he's like, no. No. Keep
pressing it. I'm like, oh, so you mean
tap it? He goes, no. And finally, he
goes, press and hold. I was like, oh,
that I get.
But I've learned with the mechanical stuff, if
I'm trying to be, you know,
the the assistant or whatever,
I wanna be very clear on the instructions
because I can see how it can be
easy if if I don't feel like I
fully understand.
And truly,
I don't know if it's just because we're
we're tired or my my brain is Swiss
cheese or what, but there have been a
lot of weird misunderstandings
between us because of communication. So I have
learned if I do not feel a %
confident, I'm gonna keep asking questions, but poor
JB just wanted to get the damn job
done. And I'm like, no. No. No. Let
me everybody stop saying words.
Here's what I'm interpreting. And that's when I
did the tap thing. I'm like, is this
what you mean?
He goes, no. Nope. Nope. I was like,
aren't you glad we sorted this out before
we started? Yeah.
So I'm I'm I'm at the point where
now,
basically, it's all built.
Right. It it's all put together.
And,
I got
the
software
loaded
and and now trying to figure all that
out. Right.
So
Right. Exactly.
And again, thank you know, thankfully, they have
been the the company has been very, very
knowledgeable. Did you ever get into the super
secret Facebook group? No.
So I wonder if it's even an active
group or not. I know. I'm I'm beginning
to wonder about that too, but
hey.
Well, that's like I I haven't heard back
yet. I'm I'm waiting to find out. I
found,
a section where they have, like, all these
video tutorials
on on the software and other things, and
I'm like,
cool. So I go to the link and
I
and and everything's labeled. This this is these
are all free. Just, you know, you can
watch. And I clicked, and it went to
the page, and the video came up. You
do not have permission.
Damn it. Yep.
So I emailed them and was like, I
want permission. How do I get permission? Please
teach me. Yeah. Please let me see how
this works. Mhmm.
That's okay. I
have been,
watching tutorials
about using
just a little bit of a spoiler here.
Pouring resin in
cap molds.
So it's like for three d things, not
things that are initially flat, and they have
a cap on them. What do we have
a cap mold of? Oh, that might be
some d 20 dice
to because somebody suggested making those into diabolical
sticks, and we went, yeah. That sounds good.
And we literally had a custom mold made,
y'all. Mhmm. Like,
spent the money,
waited the four weeks for them to make
it and ship it Yeah. And then realized,
oh, yeah. I I knew before we did
this that this would be a different way
to pour resin, but I did not I
didn't know what that meant. I now have
to go find out what that means.
Yeah. Yeah.
We got them to do a custom size
that's big enough
for
the carbon fiber rod that gets
epoxied into it.
So,
yeah. Mhmm. Yeah.
Thank you to Junie for that amazing idea.
Mhmm. Mhmm. And then for the folks who
backed up that idea in the Discord server,
a lot of weird shit happens in our
Discord server,
by either being terrified
or or excited. Well, that's a winning that's
a winning product idea right there. And we're
both terrified and excited. Which is how I
am about things like that, quite frankly.
But we have we've been moving slower
with the shop than we typically do, but
that's because you've kinda been going through it
health wise. Yeah. He's fine, but he's still
been going through it. Yeah.
And but we're also trying to revamp lips
and
I know. Yeah. We're also trying to revamp
some products, and we're trying to do it
right the first
revamp. So we're taking our time. Lola woke
up. She is ready to go outside.
She clearly has us well trained because she
just walks the door and does her, like,
beautiful Staffordshire Terrier stance,
and stands there
and just waits because she's like, I I
can't make it any clearer than this. You
shouldn't open the door for me. Somebody will
come along and open the door, surely. Mhmm.
And she only starts,
howling slash crying when you make her wait
too long. Right. So good on you for
not making her wait too long. I try.
Mhmm. I try. Is do you think she
does that outside that she goes and
stands there and waits and that she only
starts crying when she realizes nobody was aware
of her presence on the other side of
the door? Oh, yeah. Okay. That makes
sense. Yeah.
Now it was funny,
earlier when she was out there howling,
I went up to the door. I didn't
open the door.
I responded to her in kind.
I howled back at her. I because you're
a menace. Okay? That's that's what that is
about.
That's
what that is about. And she,
she stopped howling.
Silent asked if the d twenties are sharp
edged d twenties. Do you know after all
this time, because it's now been six weeks
since I started the research order,
custom order request order process. I literally don't
even know anymore. I'm a have to pour
a batch, and we'll see what these d
twenties look like.
Mhmm. So
but I did think, like, one how
how is it not diabolical
to put,
a a is it die or dice? Y'all
know what I mean. At the end of
a carbon fiber rod and go, yeah. You
should hit somebody with that. That just feels
diabolical to me.
I don't wanna be hit with it.
I mean okay. So For science? For no.
For marketing.
Oh, well Let's be clear.
The
reels on Instagram where we get the most
views, the most interaction, and the most bullshit
fucking comments that make me wanna run screaming
from the Internet forever
are on the diabolical stick demo videos.
I have plenty of people who are like,
oh, it because I always let my natural,
like, reaction sounds, screams
into the videos to give people who actually
give a fuck an idea of what they're
getting into. Well, the people who don't know
anything about anything are probably not kinky at
all, just the algorithm somehow fed them this,
or like, it can't hurt that bad.
Only once have I seen somebody reply to
a comment like that going, well, come here.
Let us hit you with it. And then
on the other side, which is the thought
that I have Yeah. Every time I see
that. Mhmm.
So
oh my god. Silent. That's perfect perfect. Perfical.
Perfical is what nearly came out of my
fucking mouth.
Die, d I e, diabolical. I I saw
that. Yeah. Yeah. That that will should I
put you on payroll silent?
You are our historian. And and and role
for role for pain? Yeah. You oh, that
will be used as tagline in the copy
something. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You know, it's funny because once the idea
for the d 20 was put in my
brain hole, that's the only one that I
focused on, like, looking at the shapes. But
I have because I've been watching all these
tutorials now, I'm like, oh, here are some
other evil shapes.
Look. Look.
Maybe I'll make a side hustle off of
the backs of these and just make dye
to sell
or make dice to sell on an Etsy
shop or something. I don't know.
X says payroll would be welcomed. God, I
wish we had enough for payroll. Alright.
So
but yeah.
So, yeah, that's that's happening. I gotta start
I gotta pour my first first test batch
with the things that I'm learning,
to see if I know what the hell
I'm doing.
But
Yeah. Yeah.
We have probably because we've gotten busy. Probably
because there's just been a lot of other
stuff going on. Mhmm.
We have not,
we need to plan for
more of the, hey. Here are some things
we're gonna try
for our,
power exchange. Mhmm. We do have a plan.
I'll give you another spoiler. I think I
mentioned this a hot minute ago.
There are I'm now aware of three. There
may be more, but I'm aware of three
apps that are designed for power exchange kinky
couples Mhmm. Kinky relationships, I should say. Mhmm.
Two are made by the same
company. One is not,
and they have reached out going, hey. We'd
love we'd love it if you used our
app. Well, I'm gonna use it the way
I wanna use it and not because you
paid me to so I can say whatever
mean thing I need to say about it.
But, we intend for that to be an
episode after having tried multiples
just talking about our experience.
So
oh, yeah.
And then I lost my train of thought
right in the middle of it. Sorry. I
did. It was gone. It was gone. The
worst part is look. Look. On the podcast,
y'all are anybody listening, y'all can tell when
I've, like, just wandered off and the thought's
gone, but it can sound like just a
silence while I'm trying
to find the thought or get back on
track. With the camera, y'all can literally watch
my face go blank.
Just
yeah.
Okay. Okay. So I need
if you are a listener who does not
normally get to watch live or never watch
live, I I highly recommend just coming for
the live chat. Jesus god.
So both Junie
and Silent and was it Junie and Silent?
And,
Steam, Fire, and Ice. Thank you.
Remember that that I am the proud owner
of penis glitter, penis shaped glitter. You are.
And yesterday, day before, I can't remember. I
was I think it was while I was
watching the videos. I was like, oh, should
I learn how to do resin inclusions
and use
the penis shaped glitter
in some of these
d
20 dice? It it it it might you
know? Yeah.
I
It's gonna be interesting. It's gonna be interesting.
Yeah. We try when we make certain things
that we want to be repeatable,
whether it's with resin or anything else, we
try and stick to with resin, we try
to stick to, like, the same colors over
and over again. Mhmm.
Especially for anything we're gonna keep, like, on
a rotating regular basis. That just makes it
you don't have to, like, use a a
lot of creative brain space to come up
with a new idea every time.
We're gonna revamp our technically, it's a air
quote building brick, diabolical. Y'all, it's a fucking
Lego. We're gonna revamp the colors we use,
but we're still gonna, like, have those be
systematized
so we can be as efficient as possible.
But with the d twenties, I kinda don't
wanna do that. I just wanna do different,
like, random crazy pours Mhmm. And be, like,
here. You know?
So
but
oh, silence says, that was two years ago.
I can't believe you still haven't used it,
meaning the peanut shaped glitter for anything. There
are so many things on my,
heavy duty,
I hope we never have to lift them
ourselves, shelving
units that I've had for in little jars
and little bags. The amount of mica,
glitter,
markers,
alcohol inks.
I have so many things I've never used.
So
yeah. I'm just
Yeah.
Mhmm.
Mhmm. I just, you know, I just wish
there was time and money
in the day to do all the crazy
fun things. Yeah.
I
we're gonna have to restock some supplies soon,
and I am terrified of what that's gonna
mean cost wise. Yeah. Because we buy for
the most part, we buy from American
companies because the shipping is gonna be cheaper.
Right? Right.
But I don't necessarily know where they source
the stuff they're selling us. I do assume
it some of it is probably most of
it is probably
not from The US, and so
they were already expensive
before.
Yeah. We need to buy more resin.
I am fucking terrified. That's gonna be expensive.
Mhmm. And my candle making supplies.
That's gonna be expensive.
Yep. It's gonna be expensive. Well, that's like,
you know, do
some of the
sand
most of the sandpaper
Mhmm. I use,
comes from Germany.
Oh, okay. Yeah. And and I love it.
Yeah. It's it's a good such a good
paper. It holds up so well and does
such an excellent job. So,
yeah. I don't know what's future is gonna
bring with that. No.
No. I'm a
look. I like to learn new things, and
I, you know, I like to tell myself
for myself. I do not apply this to
other people. That the things I go through
help me learn things and make me the
person I am, and that's how I know
how to, like, blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah, all that bullshit.
This was not the life lesson I wanted
to learn, being a business owner who makes
a product at a time when
consumers
are terrified to spend their own money and
makers
are a little terrified to make anything Yeah.
Because how expensive is this is not the
life lesson I really wanted to learn. This
I've learned so many life lessons in forty
five years. This one didn't have to go
on the list.
I don't I don't wanna learn what it
means to be a a product based business
owner in a recession. I really do. Yeah.
Nope. Nope. We could've kept that one off
the list. We really could've.
Well, that's like all the, all the pen
components
that I get. Mhmm. Any of those components,
they either come the bulk of them come
from Taiwan.
Mhmm. Okay. Okay? And some come from China.
Sure. There there is not anybody. There is
no one in The US. Because they couldn't
make them at the prices they're able to
sell them at if they had to make
them here. It's it's too Yeah. You know,
and that is the
from a personal ethics, like, what feels right
to me kind of thing. That is always
the hard part of to
make a product that people can afford to
buy in our own country,
the components cannot be too damn expensive. So,
yay, I'm grateful for these cheap products from
other countries, but also I know that they
can do cheap products typically because they do
not pay their people enough, and that's not
right. Yeah.
I just
which is why,
there's many reasons we have not ever hired,
like, a virtual assistant or, you know, whatever
whatever. It's because
and this is advice I have seen in
different, like, how to own your own business
and be an entrepreneur advice.
Oh, just use x y z company who
employs people in this country. They're only gonna
get paid $2 an hour. It'll be cheap
for you. And I'm like, no. Mhmm. No.
If I can't afford to pay somebody to
work in my business
at a wage, even if it's like air
quote minimum wage that somebody could maybe do
something with that money off of, I'm not
fucking hiring them. Damn. You know, I just
and not $7.25
an hour minimum wage. Florida minimum wage is
supposed to be, what, 15?
We're doing it in stair steps, but eventually,
we're supposed to get to $15 an hour,
I think.
That. That's what I would pay somebody.
Yep. And if you can't afford to pay
somebody, like, a a wage that is not
embarrassing to admit that you paid another human
being,
I'm not gonna hire them. I'm not gonna
hire them. This is how it works. Mhmm.
So but we we know that and we
agree to that and
we know that that means there will be
a ceiling on our own business abilities because
there's only so much two human beings who
are rapidly aging
can physically do.
Mhmm. And we're comfortable with that. I never
never thought I wanna work for myself myself
so
I can make a million fucking dollars. I
wanna live and pay my bills. That's what
I wanna do, have an environment. And for
me, that is in part why I was
insistent
on on the CNC machine. Yeah.
You know, I I love what I do.
I I I do. I enjoy going out
and and and working in my shop, whether
I'm making something for the kinkery, whether I'm
making something, you know, for the wood dom.
I I like it. I enjoy it. Mhmm.
But, yeah, I am
I ain't gonna lie. I'm I'm getting older,
and I don't
take as good care of myself as I
probably should. I'm trying to get you to
change that. I know. The tough love clause
only goes so far. Yeah. Just saying. I
know. I know. I know. But also, we're
under the American health care system, so
that's some of that's out of our hands.
I know. But,
you know, yeah. With with,
my intention is to, you know, once I
get it up and running and learn,
you know, more about it, that,
it can take a little bit of off
of me. Pressure off of me. Yeah. Yep.
Yeah. Which here's the irony, and I'm gonna
tell you this because,
y'all, we do the kind of honesty that
hurts around here,
because I agree with them, but also I'm
like, then you're not gonna like this next
thing. So I popped up a video on
Instagram
of you just cutting out part of a
a resin inlay Yes. Paddle. And those have
to be hand cut the way they're shaped,
the way that both those are hand cut.
Somebody actually commented, I really appreciate that you're
hand cutting those. And Really? I was like,
oh, thanks. And in my head, I was
like, well, you're not gonna like some of
the new shit.
Yeah. I know. Because sometimes you just need
the help of a machine. Right. Yep. Not
enough hours in a day.
No. God. No. Never enough hours in a
day. But And, you know, part of part
of what I've been trying to do, along
with everything, is is to make time to
to sit down and and relax and unwind.
We have to, or we won't be able
to keep going, for sure. You know, and
that's,
but, you know, that that's why I've been
making a point to,
sit outside in the evening right now. You
are so adorable
when you're out there
because,
he's
taking care of some personal business out there.
I don't know how much I'm allowed to
say, so I'm trying to keep it whatever.
And then he he took with the okay.
So one of the electives that the 15
year old took for homeschool this year was
a music elective to learn to play the
banjo.
And
somehow, someway, we are in possession of two
banjos, so JB said, oh, I'll take this
class with you. Ukulele. You did I say
banjo? Goddamn.
Why did I say banjo?
Sweet girl.
Ukulele?
Holy
shit.
Yep. Holy shit. Wrong with my whole chest.
God
damn.
Mhmm. Ukulele. Somehow, we're in the possession of
two ukuleles.
And so Jamie says to the 15 year
old, do you mind if I sit in
on these with you? And that was great
because that got the 15 year old to
actually sit down and do the lessons or
whatever whatever. So now we're post like, the
lessons have been done. There's no more lessons
to do. And I'll just go outside, and
JB's having a moment to himself,
in the backyard and just strumming on his
little ukulele. And it's been
adorable.
So, yeah. In in the evening after dinner,
if I'm, you know, if I do the
dishes, I I
do all the dishes, do all that stuff.
And,
I go sit outside
and,
have my flower. Elevate, as we like to
call it. And,
I I practice
the ukulele
It's adorable. For, like, half an hour. And
and, you know,
I do I printed out some of the
stuff from
the,
The lessons already. The lessons that we took.
And,
I've I've been organizing it in a notebook
for me. You're so cute.
And,
yeah. Thus far, I have
learned four chords
and
I can recognizably
play happy birthday.
Good for you. I can row, row, row
your boat. Good for
you.
Did I have to,
gently bully him with love the other day
when he was like, maybe I'm too old
to learn how to do this, and I
don't really have
determination
and the willingness to put in the hard
work to practice. Mhmm. And if you don't
have the natural aptitude, maybe it takes you
a little bit longer, but who the fuck
cares? This isn't a race.
So just as long as you love it
or you like it or it feels, like,
worth the effort you have to put in,
keep fucking doing it,
she said with love and submissively.
So
so, you know, I I am, you know,
it's a little
difficult, but I'm finding
work around. My
left hand has a little bit of arthritis.
Mhmm.
So, you know, sometimes some of these cords
take me a while to
Yeah.
Work on.
Hey. You have a really, like, a really
interesting goal for your ukulele playing.
Yes. Yes.
The the goal I set for myself with
this,
was,
I will have reached a
milestone when I can play the, opening part
to Stairway to Heaven.
Okay.
Stairway to Heaven is what this is the
connecting point of this thought. Mhmm.
I was reading
a book
that was about angels and demons, but it
was not religious, but they that was just
the characters they chose to use for this
romancy or whatever.
And Stairway to Heaven
in in this universe of this book, y'all,
was used
for the people who were basically on the
escalator down to hell when they thought There
we go. It was considered a hellish song
and was one of the most
reasons, not because, you know, we
we're all kinky here or something, but, like,
like, going to hell. Hell. Right? Mhmm. They
had that that was the song that was
their, like, theme song background music as they
went
to hell. It was just it was two
throwaway lines in the the whole ass story.
We get no more content. Said, I just
start
howling. I was like, oh my god.
Yeah.
Let's see. For for me,
this was,
doing this is,
how do I explain it without going into
you know, I I grew up in an
era when,
garage bands
were huge. Every every kid wanted to be
in a garage band and and and play
an instrument. Mhmm. You know?
And,
I wanted to
learn to play guitar.
I was infatuated with with the guitar, with
the sound,
and I I wanted to learn to play
guitar.
And I couldn't.
And,
it was when I was today years old
that I realized there's nothing stopping me, and
if I want to, I can. I can
try to learn. You sure as shit can.
Yeah. And I am.
And we are,
getting way better at buying second hand used
pawn shop thrift store, and we'll find you
a guitar.
I have access to one.
I thought that one got taken. No. Oh.
Still there. Still there. That's cool. Even better.
Don't have to spend no damn money. Right.
Oh. And the platform
ukulele
lessons has guitar lessons. I know.
I know. Yep. So yay. Mhmm.
But
folks in the live chat are talking about
weather. And I Canada, I'm so sorry that
y'all go from snow to not snow like
that. We are getting probably our last little
week of oh, this is pleasant a pleasant
temperature, and I like being outside now. Well,
last week, we were hotter than normal. Jesus
God. It was so fucking hot. Yeah. And
this week it's just pleasant. It's spring like.
Last week we had July,
August weather.
Yep. Excuse me.
And,
but, yeah. Now this week we got a
little reprieve, and it's been
absolutely beautiful.
Yeah. I actually,
on top of doing the work I had
to do yesterday, I I jumped out there
and did a bunch of yard work. Yeah.
You did.
Yeah. You did.
So much yard work. Yeah.
Yep. And,
because I hadn't been feeling well, it kinda
but it's under control now. That's all that
matters. That's all that matters. Yep. Yep. Yep.
So that's where I'm
at.
Excuse me. So
yeah.
And,
yeah. With
with the weather changing
here, we have,
officially entered
the
animal shedding season. Oh, god.
At last,
Including the human animals with longer hair. It's
delightful.
You
know, I
had
not sure how this I was able to
do this by quite accident,
but,
I got Onyx used to being brushed. She
likes being brushed. She looks forward to it.
She demands it. Yes. She's pushing it.
Mhmm.
And and last night,
even though it was late as hell when
we go home, she wanted her
brushing.
And I had just cleaned
the brush.
At one time last night,
brushing her for five, ten minutes Full. It
was full. Mhmm. Mhmm.
With Lola, I every morning
when when I wake her up,
I I brush her. Mhmm.
And
earlier this morning, I was petting her before
I let her outside, and the fur was
just,
like,
poofing off of her in
in waves.
So
why is Ella our red headed stepchild? Will
anybody brush Ella?
Look. Somebody just don't have to put a
timer on, come put the brush in my
hand, walk me to where I could brush
her. That's the only way I'm gonna remember.
Mhmm.
Mhmm. No. Was it last night? I think
think it was last night. Youngest should do
it.
Don't even get me started.
I don't disagree with you, but do not
get me started.
I think it was last night,
Ella decided
if you're new here, Ella is a cat.
Onyx is a cat. Lola is a dog.
Mhmm. Ella decided she had not gotten enough
love and affection,
and
she's developed a habit. I'll be sitting on
the couch at night when I finally go,
I am done with this. I'm gonna go
sit on the couch and just associate.
And I always put a pillow, like, kind
of
mostly over my boobs to, like, have this,
like, platform because then I look at my
phone there because I learned from my physical
therapist a million years ago to keep my
neck from hurting, keep the phone at eye
level. Right?
Well,
Ella, over time, has taken that to mean,
oh, I'm gonna go spend about ten minutes
on that pillow on your lap, and we
will be together.
And I, you know, I pet her. I
love her. Eventually, I'm just like, I wanna
do my own thing, and I ignore her,
but she's there and it's fine.
Last night the last time she did it,
I don't even remember what night,
she was
aggressive
in you will pet me, you will love
me,
I am here,
that's the top of my head,
get busy, bitch, I need affection. I was
like, okay. Okay. Here's here's what
I think preceded that.
You know, when we got home last night,
and after everything got settled,
Lola decided
she wanted to demand my attention because I
was gone all evening. You're not allowed to
go. Nope. Nope. Nope. No.
And,
so we're we're back here in the in
the office room, and and she plopped down
on the ground, and she, you know, rolled
up on her back, which, you know, you
gotta give belly rubs. You I mean, you
just really do. You know, you you it
it's not an option to say no to
giving belly rubs.
So I, you know, bent, and I'm I'm
giving her belly rubs.
Well, Ella shows up while I'm doing this,
and she's actually circling
us. And, a few times she tried to,
push in,
you know, and I think she,
was jealous of all the attention
Lola was getting and that's how she came
to you.
That's okay. Mhmm. Mhmm.
I do I do think
look, Ella is kind of a bitch. Okay.
She's not kind of a bitch. She's definitely
a fucking bitch. Yeah. But we love her.
Mhmm.
But she thinks she's pretty. It's Good thing
she's pretty. She does not get to hold
the brain cell. That I'm sure of. Onyx
has commandeered her brain cell and has her
own and is like, nope.
But
she's
she's pissed off the wrong people. And now
Lola doesn't wanna give her much attention.
JB's, like, begrudging.
She does love.
And yet and yet oh, let me tell
JB's secrets for I didn't really like l
that much. I was just
so
Onyx,
every so often will just kinda go off
her feet. She just won't eat
like she should. Often it's because she's been
eating plastic and then her tummy feels yucky.
And once she vomits up the plastic, she
eats again. Again. But sometimes it's she's tired
of wet food. She wants dry food, but
she doesn't. We don't know how to, like,
figure that out. She doesn't say, like a
menu change? Right. Exactly. I'm a little tired
of this. Right? So we figured that out
through trial and error.
What I learned
is that while Onyx
is in her I only want dry food
dehydrate me daddy mode, right, in that era,
so that Ella, who is still eating wet
food, because that's our preference anyway, does not
feel left out.
JB puts the equivalent of croutons
on Ella's food so she can think she's
having dry food too.
And if he feeds
Onyx late at night because she didn't eat
a meal and we know she's gonna be
hungry and blah blah blah, he makes sure
to and it's usually dry food if we
do that. He makes sure to give Ella
just a few little dry pieces of food
so she doesn't feel left out.
Because Ella is a fucking bitch, and if
I don't do something to distract her, she
will go after and push back away from
her food. But that does not
explain the croutons on top of her wet
food.
Does not explain it.
Nope.
And, yeah, I did I did give JB
a whole hell of a lot of shit
when I realized he was topping off Ella's
food. The one he's like, goddamn cat away.
God. I was like, god, you're pretty.
He complains about Ella
all the time,
but she still gets the princess treatment.
So
Maybe that's it, silent. She's jealous because I
don't get first princess treatment. I'm not begrudging
you don't, by the way. I'm not begrudging
Ella her croutons.
I am saying stop pretending that you don't
love this cat
if you're going to literally sprinkle extra food
on top of her food so she does
not feel left out. I'm just saying be
honest with both me and yourself. That is
what I'm saying.
I'm saying I'm calling you on your bullshit
out of love and submissively.
Do you know
that Ella
is so bad?
I feed the cats first. Both cats get
fed first.
And,
be because I got tired of having to
stand over the cats while they eat to
keep Ella from taking food away from Pretty
That's for sure. I started feeding
Onyx now in a separate room. Yeah. Give
me some peace of mind, and and and
the nice thing is is that since doing
that, Onyx actually eats
all of her food now. Right. She's not
fighting for her life up there.
Right. So, anyway, I I feed the cats
first,
and
I made two shelves
in the kitchen. The cats go up on
the shelves on the wall to eat. To
not worry about Lola getting a little too
curious.
So then after they're fed and settled,
I feed Lola. Now Lola,
her bowl, her food bowl and water bowl
are kind of underneath
the shelf
where Ella
Mhmm. Eats. Mhmm. Okay? But not, like, directly
at
the lower level. It it's lower and and
kind of Staggered. Out. Yeah. The the shelves
here, and, you know, she's There's a there's
a method to the madness, is what we're
trying to communicate. Right. So so anyway,
when I feed
Lola
and put her food down,
Ella stops eating,
and she leans
over the phone. She's like,
what what's she getting? That looks very interesting
over there.
Yep. Look. Look.
Both of our cat girls experienced their own
kitten level trauma being strays, and they each
responded to that trauma in different ways.
Onyx will probably never not be anxious and
skittish Yep. And terrified for anybody to even
see her eat,
let alone
take a shit.
Ella had the equal but opposite response
to practically unhinge her jaw to scoop food
in. Oh, my god. And to give zero
fucks about where she takes a shit or
a piss and will give you eye contact
while she's in that litter box. Mhmm. Zero
fucks. Yep. So
similar childhoods,
wildly different responses. Yeah.
So yeah. And one time,
I,
you know, in a lot of times in
the morning, when I measure out Lola's breakfast,
I will measure out her dinner food too.
Mhmm.
And sometimes I do that because,
in the morning what I'll do is I'll
make a Kong for her, because she she
loves that stupid Kong. She she engages with
it. It keeps her, you know, keeps her
occupied,
and,
she likes it. So I I had measured
out
Lola's food, and I set it on the
side on the counter,
so I could, fill her
make her Kong for her. Because, well, I'll
I'll I'll actually even then, sprinkle some water
on it and free freeze it. So it's
It lasts a little bit longer? Mhmm.
And,
I walked away from the kitchen,
come back a couple minutes later,
Ella is up on the counter
with her head
in the in the dog food.
Look, one thing Ella's not gonna do, she's
not gonna miss a meal, even if it's
a bonus meal that wasn't meant for her.
Did you leave it there? Was she capable
of getting to it? That seems like a
you problem.
She's just out here surviving. Doing her thing.
Yep.
Look. Ella is the one that they all
I love all of them. Truly, truly. We
go to ridiculous lengths to take care of
these girls.
Ella is the one that drives me the
most
obviously crazy,
but the other two, like,
I'm I kind of follow Onyx around this
house sometimes, not like stalking, but, like, she'll
be in a place I need to be
and it's like I'm calling her.
And I just have to look at her
and go, do you know how she wants
she wants your attention. She head butts you
until you're scratching behind her ears, but then
she lifts her ass up because she likes
the base of her tail,
you know, rubbed on and loved on. And
I'm like, same girl. And and she
cries and follows you, and I just have
to look at her like, do you know
how much easier your life would be if
you'd let me fucking pick you up? Mhmm.
She does not. No.
She won't even sit on my lap anymore.
I think it's because she's decided that's Ella's
spot, but she will go sit on your
lap. And she will. Now here's the thing
Onyx will do that is new. Like, she's
maybe
relaxing a little bit,
after five years of having her, by the
way. Well, you know, some some of us
do it mellow in old age. Well, she's
going to get older before I think she'll
she'll be mellow.
She walks up now to
Ella when she wants Ella's love and affection.
Mhmm. But she has a very low tolerance
for it, so the love and affection is
allowed to last for about three point two
seconds.
And then she walks away. Or she smacks
Ella. Yeah. And Ella It's To love cat.
Wants wants to love
everybody
Yeah. So bad
that she takes the tap,
follows Onyx,
tries to let her love on her again,
begging for I mean, it's really if there
was, like, a thing like cat therapy, like,
you know, cognitive behavioral therapy, she needs to
be in it. Like, she's clearly got some
issues, and I'm a little sad for her.
But also,
she's still an annoying shit.
Well, I I I, you know, I laughed
a couple times,
because she tried to stick her head in
Lola's food bowl
while Lola was eating.
That's called a death wish. Yeah. I know.
I know. That, you know, didn't go over
well. No. The weirdest one is when she
sticks her whole ass face in Lola's ears.
Yes.
And I I know she's sniffing. I think
she's licking. I'm not sure.
I'm not sure. I don't ask questions.
Lola has learned to allow it Mhmm.
To a certain extent. She'll she will allow
it. You know, she'll
most of the time, it occurs when she's
on the floor
laying down Mhmm. And Ella will come up.
And, you know,
Lola is a good girl. She really is.
You know, she lays there and lets
Ella do whatever it is that she's doing.
And,
you know, then there comes a point where
she's tired of it and she'll lift her
head, give Ella side eye, and Ella will
just
I mean, at least Ella has learned to
read the room that much. Yeah.
Yeah.
So
anyway,
I can't think of anything else.
Me either. But also, I think my brain,
like, tried to reboot a couple times during
this stream and recording session anyway. I get
it. I get it. And we have a
video to record. So I We get to
do that this morning with all the I
don't know what the Monday episode will be
like, but I apologize now.
Mhmm.
Yep.
I think I mean, unless there's other stuff
that you're just dying to I'm I'm good
at this point. Obviously, there's no actual bonus
section because this whole fucking thing was a
bonus section. So,
thanks for being here with us.
While we ramble and forget what words are
and
Yeah. Just
be our chaotic selves. Mhmm.
Can I tell you Lola's snoring in the
background is making me sleepier than I already
am? Yeah. I cannot sleep while somebody's snoring.
I don't really hear her snoring too much
right now, but
her laying at my feet It's because you're
at half capacity with your hearing aids. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm a guy. One of my hearing
aids,
took a dive.
Thank god for a warranty. Yep.
So anyway, we're gonna go. Thanks for being
here. Uh-huh.
We'll be back next week with, like, actual
something. Yep. Sure. Mhmm.
Bye. Bye.
We're not gonna say keep it kinky, y'all,
but just know in our hearts, we're thinking.