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#12 Top 3 Archrivals In My Life
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Whether it's the toaster that burns every slice no matter the setting, the spider that resides in the corner of our living room, or that one traffic light that always seems to change red when we're running late, we all engage in daily battles with various nemeses. In the podcast, you'll learn ours so that if you ever see us IRL, you can annoy us endlessly. Broached topics: selling our souls through ASMR, starting a pod sans Cara, the difficulty of the word archrival, tarps, Grayson the listmaker, ocean water siphoning, rivers leading to oceans??, long lawn = no bueno for weed basements, retired boners, sanding your facial hair, indistinguishable twins Jen Aniston and Michelle Obama, "appy hour" origins, revenge calculus, Cara's REAL archenemies, podcast betting, and the ever elusive "famous" rival sports teams.
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Podcast Opener and Host Introductions
00:00:00
Speaker
Thank God. Maybe we should all just breathe into the record. That should be our opener. Yeah, is that what you want? Some f*** up ASMR. It's an ASMR. F***ing ASMR. You would never believe. No. No. No.
00:00:31
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We're gonna lose listeners. We might gain listeners. I'm sorry to say ladies, this is how you gain listeners.
00:00:42
Speaker
For the amount of ASMR, I'm sorry, ASMR? Lives that happen on TikTok. I think we could gain a couple followers by doing like random 30 second sound bits of that. Yeah, we should we should think about that.
00:01:01
Speaker
I think you two should make your own podcast that does that. That's a great idea. Oh yeah. You're really going to be okay with us making our own podcasts together. You're not going to have fun about that. When it comes to ASMR, yes. That's the one thing I have no fun about. I don't believe it for a second. Not a second.
00:01:25
Speaker
Welcome to my top everything. I'm Marion. I'm Kara. And I'm Mara. And we certainly did not just rehash a conversation for 10 minutes about potatoes, roots, eyes, stems, and leaves. That did not happen for 10 minutes.
Pronunciation Challenges and Pet Peeves
00:01:45
Speaker
Absolutely not. And if it did, count your lucky stars that we decided to edit it out. All right, today's topic is
00:01:53
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my top three arch rivals in my life. My top three arch rivals. How do we want to choose who goes first? I think it's my turn. Okay. Great deal. Let's start it off strong. My number three
00:02:17
Speaker
Must I say before I begin? I must. The... I'm gonna struggle saying the word archrival because I was practicing before this and there's something about like words with Vs in it that give my mouth a hard time. Do you want to make them Vs?
00:02:45
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I'm sure it'll slip up. Is it the R's that are, the R's and the V's combined? Combined, yeah, I think so. Because I also really struggle, yeah, it's the R's. It's the R's with a bunch of vowels. What else do you struggle with?
00:03:04
Speaker
What were you going to say? Well, I can't I couldn't remember off the top of my head. I was going to list a struggle word because there are a couple are words that I like avoid in conversation because I cannot pronounce them. But I know what they mean. OK, well, that's a future update. Words that you know what they mean, but you don't want to use them in conversation. I'll start writing them down when I have conversations in the real world. Thank you. We appreciate it.
00:03:31
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So, so now that you've practiced the word wrench and recited it, it's a really great segue to my number three top top. You're so worried. You just decided below the top. Just get it out of the way. Number three. Correct. We'll do our number three tarps on a different episode.
00:03:54
Speaker
I don't know if it's a great segue into my number three arch rival anymore, but it's when people interrupt, people who interrupt me and the flow of the thought that I'm sharing or whatever sentence happens to be coming out of my mouth at the time to point out that I didn't pronounce something right.
00:04:14
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or when I flip to the first letters. Because that happens, like sometimes it is funny. Like see exhibit, Polly Darden. And like there is a time and a place where like I do find it funny. I just I like on this podcast. Yeah.
00:04:38
Speaker
When don't you find it funny? When it interrupts my entire train of thought, and I can't get back to it, and I'm like, did you really need to point that out? We're talking about something, and it wasn't really like, they didn't feel the room for the moment of, hey, this isn't, it's not time to joke. Say it afterwards, or at least let me finish my thought. Yeah, that's fair.
Environmental Concerns and Lawns Discussion
00:05:05
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That's a good one. But I do recognize,
00:05:08
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that I say a lot of things incorrectly. You say many, many funny things because of these slip ups. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And so I find them funny. What do you think is the brain chemical stuff behind that? Dyslexia. No, that's reading. Dyslexia, but that's reading, right? Can you have it? Yeah.
00:05:31
Speaker
I don't know, because a lot of people always make the joke, are you having a mini stroke right now? And I'm like, that's not funny. And that seems a little harsh. I agree. Also, it causes slurring, not like mixing up letters. So that's a really dumb way to make fun of you. It is you tell them that you say I'm not slurring.
00:05:55
Speaker
Well, okay, okay. Not that, not that I endorse this comment or this insult, but I will say I'm pretty sure that one of the side effects of stroke is just difficulty speaking. It's not slurring, Kara. So you can, you can like stutter. Okay. Okay. Wow. There's a lot of interrupting going on and I am trying to defeat Mara's arch rival and that includes for when it interrupts me too.
00:06:18
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So, f*** yeah. Well, see, look at that. I lost my train of thought. And that's why I interrupt because I can't remember what I was going to say either. There's like several tactics like cross your fingers so you remember you have a thought or there's like
00:06:41
Speaker
That's the only one I thought you're talking about for strokes. What is that? Fast break? Uh, no, it's fast, right? For stroke response, face, arm. Yeah. Uh, speech speech. You're talking about the symptoms. Yeah. You had the fact that things that recognize the symptoms. What's T?
00:07:09
Speaker
Talking? Speech and talking. What's your idea, genius? Time. Did you Google it? Yeah, you Googled it. Time. I can't see you on this podcast. The reason that I think that slurring is part of it is because usually, or not usually, I should say, but
00:07:33
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your half your tongue sometimes doesn't work, right? So that like causes the slurred speech. But what it does is sometimes mix up letters. It's not that you don't have a thought. It's that it comes out very hilariously a lot of the time. Yes. And I think that I like if this is similar to how I type, sometimes I'll get really excited. And a lot of times all the letters will be there when I'm typing, but they will be out of order because I like to say that my fingers get too excited.
00:07:58
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And so, but also I think because of that, I've memorized how to type words incorrectly. I type the word that, T-A-H-T, a lot on the cat. Yeah. Does your phone correct it automatically? Not on teams at work, no. I mean, I think everyone has this. You just have it more like everyone has where they get really excited.
00:08:23
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Or they're thinking ahead. When I flub my words, it's usually because I'm thinking ahead in my sentence about what I want to say next. Or when I'm writing a card and I'm thinking what I want to say next, and I start writing the wrong letters for the next word because of it. Yes. Yeah, I'll start writing, and it'll be the first letter of the next word I'm going to write, but the word is spelled completely correct other than that. Yeah. Yeah.
00:08:52
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but feel the room. It is funny sometimes and I don't hate all interruptions, but I do hate some of them. That's fair. That's a good one. Thank you. I'll go next to get out of the way. I have a feeling this is gonna show my personality a lot. So I had a hard time coming up with these and Grayson lovingly helped me. So this is like partially the brainstorm of us two, but
00:09:22
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My number three is Scotts Lawn Company, who represents all green turf grass lawns in America.
00:09:32
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I have a sincere anger around the idea that so like lawns. First of all, the type of grass that we use in America is not even native to America. It's from Europe. It used to be this like status symbol thing. HOA still find people if their lawn is not 1.5 inches tall and Kentucky bluegrass and that kind of and it really pisses me off. And Scott's got very rich because they started doing this campaign.
00:09:57
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For all these like fertilizers and different inputs that you can do in the 1950s when we had a ton of houses being built and I made a bunch of money and they polluted all the water and I don't like them. I read recently that people this one
00:10:23
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developer, house developer, architect, who was building the first modern cookie cutter complex. Developer, yeah. Yes. He decided to give people lawns so that they would have less time to think about communism and revolt. Huh. I don't know. I don't know if... I haven't heard that, but... Grayson, and I do believe... No, I believe you. I'm not laughing at you in any way, shape, or form. I think that's totally a challenge. I mean, that kind of... I'm laughing at me.
00:10:53
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OK, that kind of goes with like, you know, the Illuminati conspiracy that we had, you know, bringing it home. Just was it a conspiracy?
00:11:10
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Fun side note, when Grayson and I met, we both had read this book called The American Lawn, which is all about the history of lawn development in America. What a fun book. Separately read it, because we're both nerds. What a fun couple. Wow. Yeah, we heard really interesting conversations.
00:11:31
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Early on in your relationship, you weren't like, hey, I really need you to read this book. And he did it because it's the early part of the relationship. You guys have both separately before you knew each other read this book. Yeah. Yeah. Second option. Wow. I know. Fascinating. The book sounds fascinating. So it is though. It's very interesting. You're telling me you're telling me there's this guy named Scott who just
00:11:58
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I don't understand Scott's lawns. Scott's is a company that sells, I mean, anything you could possibly want with lawns. A couple of negative facts about lawns is that they produce more greenhouse gases than they absorb. So you're just mad at a company for like making money off of lawns? I mean, I hate lawns and I'm targeting Scott's as my. Why wouldn't you just say that? Like lawns are your arch rival because that's like
00:12:26
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because Grayson said it. That's like it was like somebody like it hated condoms because they didn't like premarital sex like that they're like condoms are my arch rival or not condoms but Trojan. Trojan's my arch rival because they make condoms so that people can have premarital sex. Here's what happened. I was stressed earlier about this list. I said Grayson. Story of your life by the way. I know. Every single two things. I'm struggling with this.
00:12:53
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No clue. Sometimes, sometimes not. Sometimes I think about it for a whole week ahead of time. I've got it all nailed down. I'm very proud of myself. Most Tuesdays, it comes to be like my lunch hour and I'm like, ah, f***, I gotta go if I can research this. Well, it's better than me. I am after dinner solidly on Tuesdays. No, I get, no, because I get stressed. I'm like, what if I don't come up with my third one? What if I don't think it through and marry and ask who's going to pay you this million dollar question?
00:13:20
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I got to think through all the avenues. Well, sometimes that happens and you end an episode with negative points. Yeah. So that's what, so that's why Scott's is about here is because I was trying to find something to nail to the cross. I hate to, I hate to do this, but you're going to change.
00:13:39
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No, but I think I feel a negative one coming on for not just saying lawns. Guys, on my list, I can show you my list. It says, number three, lawns. Why are we picking Scott's lawns? Why not a Home Depot? Why not Menards? Why fucking Scott? Scott's was, I will say that having read that book, Scott's was one of the major offenders that sold the majority of all the fertilizers and all of these inputs and the irrigation systems and blah, blah, blah.
00:14:09
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I think we should take away a full point. I'd say a half point because she didn't really talk about Scots the whole time. She talked about lawns, maybe 0.25, honestly. Wait, can I finish my hatred of lawns real quick? Yes. Okay. So one, they produce more greenhouse gases than they absorb.
00:14:28
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They are absolutely terrible for insects and pollinators and they are killing off the bees. They cover 2% of US land and require more irrigation than any other agricultural crop in the United States and where Marion lives in California, more than half of all water.
00:14:48
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potable water is used for irrigation, half. You know how little water you guys have? You know how much water you steal from other places just to water your lawns? Oh, I mean, yeah. I mean, the ocean every day, you know, they say that the ocean is rising, but over here, it's definitely dropping from all the water. Oh, my God. I can't even validate that.
00:15:17
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I did. I did also see I think maybe I even sent that tick tock. There was a tick tock that was talking about the water consumption here and how basically like consumer water is nothing. It's all like irrigation, like from companies and things. And it was disheartening. I kept thinking, why am I taking
00:15:35
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you know, three minute showers. In theory, I don't do that. But why am I considering doing that? If, you know, it's literally like not like it doesn't even it's not drop in the bucket, literally. Yeah, literally. Yeah, I agree. Wonder 100 percent. It's just advertising by big corporations to make us feel bad and make us feel like we're the problem. I didn't put the in
00:16:05
Speaker
What is it? The little things that go around? Mara is just, just like throttling at the camera, like her hands, like she's strangling someone. I don't know what that is. It's the, it's like all my plastic trash, the like plastic things that go around pop cans and they're like, oh, you better cut that off. Otherwise it's going to end up in the ocean around some turtles. I didn't put it in the ocean. How is it getting in the ocean from the Midwest? Explain it. Rivers?
00:16:32
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Yeah. Have you heard of them? She lives like half a mile from the
High School Rivalries and Humor
00:16:40
Speaker
Mississippi River, which goes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. I have an interesting thing about lawns. So yes, we should be everyone who listens to this. If you ever have the opportunity to have a yard or a lawn, consider
00:16:53
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growing it out, less work for you, more money saved, and pollinators, and it's better for the environment. I was at my partner's brother's rehearsal dinner on Friday night, and I was talking to some people who were young people, and they were complaining about having to take care of the young. Sorry. Who are young people? Let's define that.
00:17:21
Speaker
Okay, what do you think is young? Like a young people? You just sounded so old when you said that. Young people. You're 31, so I'm going to say younger than 18.
00:17:34
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I'm going to say to me, young is anywhere from birth to like 36. Yes. Mara is correct. Yes. Why? Why would young people have a lawn? I was just saying that they weren't old. They weren't like really old people. They were like our age. Like I consider us young people. And I'm offended that you don't think that I'm young. So it's not in the planning industry. Young people kind of is a specific group.
00:18:03
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like usually 25 or younger, I would say. But you sounded really I'm sorry, I shouldn't have interrupted you. I'm picking fights again. Do it. So these young people that I was sitting next to and they were talking about, you know, like having to mow their lawn. And I said, well, you should just consider letting it grow out so that way, you know, it'd be better for everything. And they said, can't do that. And I said, why not? And I said, can't let your
00:18:31
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lawn grow long if you've got weed growing in your basement. It goes to like the saying of don't break the law while you're breaking the law.
00:18:47
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That is my favorite answer I could have ever hooked here. I know. Oh my god. Really well, Landon, thank you. Can I do my number three? Yes. I thought you'd never say it. My number three arch rival is Alex. I'll say a name. Whoa. I'll say it. My full name. Old, well, young, young person, old name.
00:19:16
Speaker
This is a throwback. Yes. Alex went to our high school with us and he was very capable and smart. And he also went to Central along with
00:19:35
Speaker
me and Cara and Central was like this magnet school that they had people go to half the day. And Alex was like the bane of my academic existence because he was always just like a tenth of a percentage better than me or something. Like I remember we got our national honor society, like there were some tests you had to take and it came back and I had like
00:20:00
Speaker
a really good, really great score. I was in like the top percent of like whatever in the country and then freaking Alex had like, was the only person to have scored higher than me and was like an even smaller percentage in the country. So it was like a whole thing where like, I think Alex was like honored for that. And then when validatorian came around, um, maybe I'm not remembering this correctly. I just remembered that.
00:20:28
Speaker
Alex was higher than me in valedictorian. Like, I mean, our school was super weird and did this thing where the top 10% of the class all got named valedictorian. No, it was anybody who had a GPA above 4.0, 4.0 and above, which ended up being like 22 people, which was honestly wild because the only way you could have
00:20:53
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We had some classes that were, quote, weighted and were on a five point scale. And so you could get above a 4.0.
00:21:02
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Oh, that seems like your chip in the system because no, I agree. I just didn't take the 5.0 class. I think people like Marion and Alex probably got like 110 percent on all their freaking exams. You know, I just I just 5.0. I was valedictorian as well. I very distinctly remember that it was the top 10 percent of the class and it was like 50 people because we had over 500 people in our graduating class.
00:21:27
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There was I think Kara was also a valedictorian. Yeah, I think basically everyone everyone we knew was about I missed it by a point zero five percent. Yeah. Wow. That's. Yeah. And I went to a teacher and I said, can I like take a quiz? Do you God? I don't even remember. I was like begging this person and they were like, no.
00:21:46
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0.35. That's not even pace rounding rules. You know, like that person is an arch rival in your life. Also this. Yeah, because. Anyway, did Alex speak at graduation? Yes, he didn't speak at graduation. He him and I both spoke at the like dinner that happened before graduation. I also spoke at that dinner. And then there's all. Oh, that's. Do you know.
00:22:16
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Yeah, I remember the revolving ones. Yeah. Yeah. And then maybe you're thinking of the top 10 percent because you got chords if you were in the top like one, three and maybe 10 percent. But also we went to public school. So maybe they were like wanting to honor more students. So they opened up the percentage range. Maybe. Anyway, Alex was always ahead of me and he was
00:22:43
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in my way of really succeeding and becoming number one. And that was very difficult for me, you know, a lot of adversity there between me and Alex. And he went on to become a doctor who like helps
00:23:00
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save children's feet or something now. He's like a children's podiatrist. And he like graduated early and became a doctor super young and all this stuff. So he's still mocking me with his success. I just like am still not over the fact that I get to tell people I was valedictorian and I don't have to tell them that I was like one of 30. Like they don't, they don't have to know that. Yeah, they don't need to know that part. How are they going to know?
00:23:27
Speaker
Who's gonna tell him? I mean, if they listen to the podcast, we'll know. I'm pretty sure that I was like number two and Alex like beat me out. Like Alex was like number one. And I think I've been tied for some with some people at two, but it was just very annoying that he beat me out again.
00:23:46
Speaker
I also remember that he got like a 35 on his ACT and he took it again to try to see if he could get a 36 and he got a 35 twice. He got a higher score on the ACT. Yeah, son of a.
00:24:02
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I think he also, if I'm remembering the right person, I think he also sang soprano in JB at Brody and outshined all of the sopranos. He also, I know, his family and my family went to the same church and he's got a great singing voice. I'm not even gonna lie. I think it is him then. Yeah. And he plays trombone, which Mary and you also played. Oh my God.
00:24:26
Speaker
He is like, I think my mommy, when you say he's like the male, better version of me, he's the son she always wanted. Oh my God. Yikes to your brothers. You were also a boner. What? You were also a boner. I did. I did dabble. I'm retired.
00:24:57
Speaker
Yeah, he was good at everything and it was very annoying and I hate him and it's fine. Speaking of things that I hate, my number two top arch rival happens to be these two chin hairs that come in that are really, really hard to pluck.
00:25:18
Speaker
This is this is good.
Work Culture Critique and Social Gatherings
00:25:20
Speaker
Yeah, and I like I can see them and they're like but they're always under like five layers of skin and it to get them out I have like one of four options number one I leave it and wait for it to grow a little bit more. No not fucking ever happening number two I
00:25:39
Speaker
slowly over the course of days, pick away layers of skin, unconsciously for the most part, because I can feel something and it itches. I don't know if you've ever had to all our male listeners. Some might be able to relate to this. Yeah. Growing a beard itches. Thank you.
00:26:01
Speaker
Or I can dig it out with the tweezers, but then that creates something. But then also if I do it wrong, I end up creating like a pimple and then there's this red spot on my chin. You're doing an ingrown hair. It's not ingrown. It doesn't grow. I think if you mess with it enough though, I think that's what you're doing. Have you tried the fourth option, which is sandpapering it? I've thought about doing like that UV laser hair removal.
00:26:30
Speaker
I just say get like a grade four piece of sandpaper and go at it and see what happens. I know how that works.
00:26:38
Speaker
I will. I have a very so I have hair all over my face. It's very, very light. And so like you can't really see it. But like when I put powder and stuff on, it's very visible. And I have I have a little a little blonde clear mustache and I think it's getting darker and I'm very concerned about it. And I don't know what to do. So if you could figure that out for me, I think they have like little like trimmers. I want to trim it, though.
00:27:07
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I don't know. I have never personally shaved my face. I have thought about it many, many, many times. Have you? Yeah, because all of the women I talk to that have shaved their face say that it is so nice and it's so fresh. Just think of the feeling that you get when you shave your legs, but it's on your face. What? Maybe bleach your mustache to keep it blonde. I think people do that. Yeah, I would consider that over
00:27:36
Speaker
I have two. So I have this mold on my face that a lady lopped off, but I guess she didn't do well enough because not just a lady. Sorry.
00:27:51
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It's my least favorite doctor that I've ever had. So it's hard. It's, I clearly don't have a lot of respect, but this, this doctor like lopped it off, but she didn't get all of it. So like part of it's regrowing. The other day, like I found that there's two hairs sprouting from it and
00:28:08
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I I think every night about what I should do about it. I haven't done anything yet, but I am I am devastated. So I can see the chin hairs. It is a devastating thing to have these hairs and not knowing what to do about them, because I don't really like pain and I don't want to pluck them, but I can't really shave them. And you should probably get your mole removed because you probably got it. I'm assuming removed for a reason. And if it changes shape, color, size,
00:28:37
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Well, I'm saying that we're going to eliminate the hair problem. I'm going to try to help you. Speaking as somebody who also plucks hairs from like three different moles, there's one mole on my back that gets like two hairs. That one doesn't hurt. And then there's like this mole on my arm. There's two moles on one on each arm. And one of them I like forget is there all the time. Then all of a sudden I look over and there's this like long black hair. Just checking. Just checking you really do want this on the podcast.
00:29:06
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Do you want a catalog of your sprouting random body hair? It's how you call it punk fuck ass to live on. It could be a thousand years from now the dinosaurs come back and human life is desecrated. They find one recording and it's you.
00:29:32
Speaker
Just cataloging every single stray body here? Oh, I'm not even. There's a long list if we're going to get into it. I think that as somebody that has a lot of freckles and moles, it's very common and I don't think it's that crazy. Yeah, I think it's crazy. I'm just coming out of every mole. I'm just saying, is that what we want here? We want a full catalog.
00:29:56
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I'm fine with it. I'm going to normalize it. It happens to a lot of people. There's like, that's how honestly on my body, that's how I know which ones are moles and which ones are freckles. Cause I'm like, Oh, well that one's got a hair. That's a mole. You're like Drew Barrymore. Have you seen her whole thing about menopause? No. Okay. I guess not that. I was going to say we're on Tik TOK. So yes, we've seen Drew Barrymore.
00:30:23
Speaker
Yeah, that is also where I saw it. Anyway, she discusses menopause and talks all about like how it's, you know, something that we hide underneath the rug and are put underneath the rug. What is that phrase? Shove under the rug. Sweep. It's sweep under the rug. Sweep it. Thank you.
00:30:44
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Shove it under the rug. Anyway, she had her first hot flash on air and she was so excited. She was like, yes, I wanted this to happen. I want to show women what it's like. And she had a I think a guest or something that was an older woman. I think Michelle Obama or something was guest starring or anyway. I don't think Michelle Obama is old enough to be going through menopause yet. Oh, I'll be close. I think she definitely is in the right age range.
00:31:13
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How old do you think, when do you think regular menopause starts? Late 50s. I was going to say mid 50s. I think on the low end, it's probably around 50. And how old do you think Michelle Obama is? Like 56. I think her daughters are like 20 in their early 20s. It looks like you were, it looks like she was talking to Oprah Winfrey.
00:31:38
Speaker
No, I thought that too, which is why I raised my hand. I went back. It was actually Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler. Nice. I was nowhere near correct. Michelle Obama, Jennifer Aniston, no way to discern between the two. Same person. I think that Michelle Obama was on a different episode of that show, which is where that thought came from. Both have great arms, so I will give you that. Yeah, that is accurate.
00:32:06
Speaker
OK, is Drew Barrymore how to show? Let's continue on. OK, so my number two is the 40 hour work week. I despise having to work 40 hours a week. I think it's a bunch of bullshit. The Europe has been working on less than that and they're just as productive. I think Covid taught us that we can change the way that we work.
00:32:35
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I had so many notes on the lawn and I have none on 40-hour work weeks. It's more self-explanatory.
00:32:43
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Yeah, I mean, it was started. I mean, we used to, anthropologists have found that we worked way, way, way less than that before, like mechanization and all that kind of stuff. I think they said like average of 12 hours a week, if I remember correctly. And then we went to like 80, you know, back in the day and then Henry Ford normalized 40 hours a week because partially we think because he wanted to have his factories running for 24 hours and that was equally divisible.
00:33:12
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So yeah, so he started that manufacturing continues it. Um, and they've like toyed with the idea of going down to like 32 or something, but that only works for white collar workers. So America's going to have to do a lot of like thinking and actually paying people what they're worth, uh, if they want to reduce it, but it really gets in the way of me living my life. So I would really love a 32 if not, you know, lower.
00:33:40
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It really does just don't work at all. That'd be great. We didn't have to work at all. I would be really bored. I would need. I like the structure. I just don't want 40 hours of structure. It's crazy to like four half days a week and feel fulfilled. Yeah. Yeah. I feel like six, six hours, three or four days a week would be plenty.
00:34:10
Speaker
You don't need more than that. I think they found that the six hour work day is more productive anyway for people, but people do better when it's only six hours, they get more done. But they're more energized for the next day. Well, the reason they cut it from 10 to eight was because they also did a study that found that 10 was too many people started shocker. I know. Right. Wild. 10 too many for normal person.
00:34:39
Speaker
Also, the week two day weekends suck. Yeah, you can't get done. You can't go anywhere. You can't do anything once you're there. Right. You travel Friday. You have one day Saturday and then you got to travel back to the thing, whether it be camping, whether it be anything. It's super annoying. I would like to get any rest time from your all day of fun. Exactly.
00:35:00
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Yeah, I think it's probably another Illuminati strategy to keep us down because I agree. You just keep you keep people working. Yeah, thinking they're just working. But yeah, it is bogus that we only get two out of seven. Like you can at least make it half and half. Like why is it that we are supposed to work most of our lives like a majority of our lives away to get that GDP?
00:35:26
Speaker
We're just little NPCs in the billionaires world. Non-player characters, non. Yeah. I was thinking non-person characters, but I think it's non-player characters. It is non-player characters. I was right. Great job. I'm surprised. Do I get a quarter point? No, you're at zero again. Yeah, I agree. One hundred. Thank you. Yeah. Mark can win points too. For knowing a super common term. I have never heard of it.
00:35:56
Speaker
Did you hear me? Yeah, it did. Grayson literally just shook his head when you said that statement. You've never heard of it. Does that mean that he's surprised by this or that he's embarrassed? Let him weigh in. I think it's only common knowledge to people that play video games. Thank you.
00:36:14
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or anyone that's been on the internet in the past 15 years. Thank you. That term is used all the time. Go back to the hashtag conversation on TikTok. I don't know what I'm doing. I am old lady. You argued fervently for about 20 minutes that you did know what you were doing with that hashtag conversation.
00:36:35
Speaker
When we go back to Minneapolis, you're going to get hired by some company because they're going to think, man, she's young, she's hip, she's going to know how to work Microsoft Word, and you're going to get in there and be like, oh my God, help. Cut the part where I'm moving back to Minneapolis, please. Fair. Yeah. Oh, do your work, people, listen?
00:36:55
Speaker
I've told people so just cut the whole episode. No, scrapper. Not anything else we want to say on the topic of. Work weeks. No, I've said my piece, I wanted to have a small rant and I did so mission accomplished. Thank you. Mine number two. Our tribal.
00:37:25
Speaker
This is a really hard one. I just have so many arch rivals in my life. My number two is gatherings without food or games. You know, what is that? Yeah, when people invite me to a party, quote unquote, or something and there's no food there or like they go. We go to a bar paying out and there's no food and there's no game to occupy myself with. And he's just sitting there with alcohol talking. God.
00:37:56
Speaker
I really do. Those are the bane of my existence. I think one is just going to be done. So. Yeah, that's fair. I can see why that is on your arch rival list. Yeah. And sometimes they sneak up on you. You know, food was promised or insinuated or it's around a normal food time and then there's no food.
00:38:18
Speaker
It's no snackies, not a little something to munch on, a little slurpy slurp, crunchy crunch. Nothing. Nothing. They don't even have a party, you have a cake. Correct. I don't care what the party is, there should be cake there. Hot take, everybody. Yeah. The worst is when people invite you to a happy hour and then nobody orders food and they're all just drinking and I'm like, but it's 5.30. Yeah.
00:38:48
Speaker
And also, why do we do work happy hours when you're sending people off into their cars? No, like corporate sponsored drinking and driving. It's ridiculous. It's why you should understand it. Happy hour. And it's just appetizers now. I'm sure that I'm sure that Applebee's or Chili's or something has already used that.
00:39:09
Speaker
I can't be. It can't be the first. You should. Amazing marketing minds to come up with happy hour. Happy, happy. I mean, I bought in pretty quickly. Yeah. With that gas. Let me see. I'm looking up happy hour on Google News to see. Google. Everyone just Google News just thinks I've misspelled happy hour. Yeah, you got to do quotes. Get on Firefox news.
00:39:39
Speaker
What? I don't know. I don't think they have one. But isn't Firefox a way more neutral web browser than Google? You mean politically? Just everything-wise? Neutral. OK, I guess there's like one. We can do an episode top three web browsers, and we'll all weigh in on that. There's only three, so. Yeah, I feel like we're all just going to agree. Chrome is first. Obviously. Isn't it this great, actually?
00:40:09
Speaker
I found only one result in my very extensive search for Abby hour. It was Boston's pizza restaurant and sports bar. So I'm going to say I'm the first mind to ever think of Abby hour. I'm the first mind to think of something directly after quoting a place that has listed it. I mean, I thought that it was going to be like a big chain. You know, I'm the first person on the West Coast at least.
00:40:37
Speaker
to come up with a VR because that was Boston. So, you know, it's not fair. They had their three hours ahead of me. So they probably had the last three hours just released it three hours ago. We can't prove one way or another. We'll never know. Yeah, prove it. I can't. I can't. It's also an accounting app for small businesses. So nice. Oh, it's a thing on Meetup in Seattle, too. You are not. I'm so sorry.
00:41:07
Speaker
OK, you did a nice interesting search out there. Well, did you go to Google News? Yeah, I'm on. What what is so far? This started because I said I bet someone like Applebee's or Chili's has done it. Fair point. And they have not. Just Boston's Pizza. But the way that you said it, Tacoma Public Library says it.
00:41:33
Speaker
I don't know. Why would they say happy hour? What does that even mean? These are all very local searches. OK, it's a thing on Pinterest, 50 happy hour ideas. Pinterest beat you to it. I don't think you I don't think you can claim originality anymore. We'll do another topic that's top three happy hour ideas. Oh, I like that one. OK, let's go. Great idea. Let's go to our sponsors. Oh, my God.
00:42:03
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Let's go to our sponsors. Nice. All right. We're at our sponsors. Our number three sponsor is Grayson, our sound engineer and producer. Raise the roof. Raise the oof. Do you have a sound bite for raise the roof? Because you can put it in there. Are you making yourself laugh? Let me call it real quick. Raise the oof.
00:42:33
Speaker
That's not going in there. Are you really sure you want that on the podcast? We can't ask that every two seconds. Nothing beyond podcast. It's the theme joke this time. Did you want my suggestion? I think I took it. Unless you have a different one.
00:43:02
Speaker
Okay. Well, let's listen. Let's find out. Yeah. I'm patiently... Are you on Tenterhooks? They're L-shaped, did you know? My favorite part... I'm sorry. Were you listening to that podcast? My favorite part is when Kara's like, they're a bent metal? They're a bent metal shape?
00:43:29
Speaker
I feel like I didn't give you enough shit about the fact that you said that because all hooks are bent metal. I didn't even know that. Marta knew what I meant. She was there for me. She said, it looks like a J. And I was like, thank you. That's what hooks look like. Yeah, but this one's an L. It's an L. L and J are different shapes. Marion. This is why Alex was number one. Thank you.
00:43:56
Speaker
Wow. I don't know how I'm going to recover. I don't think I can recover. Yeah, too far. How dare you use Alex against me? I think about him occasionally. Because of the. I hope this never reached any. Who do we know who still talks to him? Hopefully no one. Anyway, I'm sure.
00:44:24
Speaker
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00:44:48
Speaker
Or number one, maybe, if I'm feeling generous. Also, you could be our sponsor by pausing the podcast right now and texting a friend to listen. I'm sure you have one friend. I believe in you. So just pause it right now. Did you do it? See, I caught you. Maybe you didn't do it. Okay, I believe you did it. And I believe you texted your friend. Thank you so much. And thank you for pulling over on the side of the road to do that. That meant a lot to me.
00:45:15
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Um, our number one sponsor for this week is sports rivals. Uh, because nobody would watch sports without them. I'm convinced we got Vikings Packers, Hawkeye Cyclones. Uh, I'm sure there are other ones. Yeah. Uh, Iowa, Iowa state. That's what I said. Hawkeye Cyclones. Probably the bears and the chiefs.
00:45:43
Speaker
Sure. Why are you guessing? Why not? The Pirates are team. We're all out there. The Pirates and the Eagles. The Yankees and every other baseball team. Oh yeah. All right. That's all of them.
00:46:07
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Welcome back.
Literary Disappointments and Plot Discussions
00:46:08
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Mara, hit us with your number one. All right. My number one top arch rival of all time in my daily life and all of my waking hours is literally any author that has ruined the ending of a book or a series straight to jail. If hell is real, you'll be there to name a couple
00:46:34
Speaker
The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansson. Yeah. Yeah. F*** off. Yes, please. The first, if you are going to read this book, please only read the first one. You could read the second one, but it's going to be hard to stop if you read the second one.
00:46:51
Speaker
You could read the second one and just like write an ending down and whatever ending you wrote will be better than the one that she wrote. Sorry. I hope Erica never listens to this either, but I kind of do. Someone needs to tell her. She knows. There needs to be some tough love here because that was truly a horrendous ending. It was so bad.
00:47:13
Speaker
Um, also make a note to Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins. I remember feeling very whelmed by the ending of that book and honestly just a little bit bored and it didn't really, I don't think it went with the other two. Is that the third or the second one? The third one. Yeah.
00:47:34
Speaker
And I didn't I didn't read that one because I thought this isn't going to. Yeah. I see here here. I did this right. I read the first one. I put it down and I said, I don't think that's going to go where I want it to go. And I stopped. Well, I could not stop myself with that. I couldn't. I can't ever stop myself to this day. I still do it. I hurt myself over and over again. It's terrible.
00:48:01
Speaker
And a shout out to every reader that has that stuck with Allegiant by Veronica Roth. I haven't read that series, but it's from what you hear. Nobody has a nice thing to say about the ending of that. Oh, man, that's got to be rough. I hope if I ever become an author, I don't disappoint people like that. That's got to be brutal. Yeah.
00:48:29
Speaker
Yeah. And, uh, no. Huh? I was gonna say, honorable mention to any of the smut books that I read where they're like, oh, we have 25 to 15% left in the book. I should probably sprinkle in some plot. You don't have to. Yeah. It's fine. I know this is smart. There's this plot sprouting up out of nowhere. Like, what is, why are you doing that? Just like, let me,
00:48:59
Speaker
We had a smooth ride before this. Are you sure you want that? Yeah. And now you're in a DNF. Did not finish pile, but thank you. Yeah. And the book wasn't the only thing not to finish.
00:49:24
Speaker
Carol, any honorable mentions? I think it was a good time. I do. We all do. Apparently. I'm going to go. Okay. I'm going. He said my name, man. That's when I was going to ask you to do your number one, and I thought, oh, honorable mentions. Oh, so you switched tact. Got it. Got it. Yeah. Anyway, for me, some honorable mentions.
00:49:51
Speaker
Fake nails, makeup, most girly things. I've had too many bad run-ins. I've had ripped nails. I've had smudged eyes. I've had money that I paid for makeup that I felt like maybe it was user error, but I was like, what's going on here? Also, the fact that makeup expires rude as somebody who doesn't use it a lot. That is honestly atrocious. Also,
00:50:16
Speaker
Time and mortality. But I felt like that wasn't a fair fight. You know, we're not equal. So I can't really say like. That's my arch rival, because, you know, like time and mortality is like so above me, but it doesn't really count. But it does plague me, both of those things. And last one, probably my chosen career, big arch rival of mine. Really like such a mistake. But what can you do?
00:50:48
Speaker
Change careers? No. Time will tell. Yeah, just another probably like 10 years to sink into this before I find out if it was worth it or not. Casual. I'm going to switch careers. Other careers, you spend 10 years, you're like guaranteed that something's going to happen. Oh yeah. You spend 10 years. Two more security.
00:51:13
Speaker
As a catch up to the ghost encounters, the automatic feeder in my house just went off. Oh. You went off? Went off like. Like little kibbles just came out. Ghost. But yeah, I'm really sorry. Those are some good arch rivals. Great honorable munch.
00:51:35
Speaker
Thank you. I don't know if we're doing mensch. My honorable mention goes to literally any motherf***er that isn't out there using their blinker. I hate you and you're the worst type of driver. Thank you.
00:51:54
Speaker
I'm done. I agree with that. I'll tack on people that zip emerge into that list. And then my actual ones are reality TV shows because I hate them. They're so mindless. They're so dumb. They're all acted. I'm aware. And yet they pull me in and they get me every time. And I hate it. It's really good TV.
00:52:22
Speaker
That's annoying. And then also, Marion's Alex Beep reminded me of a... I don't like that at all. I don't like that at all. It's ferocious. What were
Overcoming Expectations and Environmental Impacts
00:52:40
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we doing? Marion and Alex's Beep? No, you didn't make it better.
00:52:50
Speaker
That's what it's going to sound like when we beep it out though. I got too distracted by your faces. Marion talking about Alex reminded me that I had a teacher in middle school who basically told me that I was too dumb to continue in the math track that I was on. Oh yeah, I remember that guy.
00:53:09
Speaker
got so, I'm sure, upset at first and cried, and then I have never studied like I have studied for AP calc. Never in my life have I studied as hard. I went to the after school hours every day, and I'm sure that teacher hated me because he probably had shit to do, but every day. And you know what? I got a five on my fucking AP test because that guy was a dick. And then I ran into him later, and he didn't remember who I was. That's what I said.
00:53:39
Speaker
Cara, I remember us driving home from something. I think it was a Key Club event and you were just reading your calculus book in the backseat. I have a distinct memory of that. She maybe talked about this guy for like two months. I remember it wasn't middle school, though. It was high school. It was high school. You weren't even calculus in middle school. Yeah, it was eighth.
00:54:00
Speaker
No, it wasn't. It would have been freshman year. Yeah. I know we're right. Yeah. Yeah. How dare he say he thinks I can't do this. I'm going to torture myself with math to prove him wrong. Yeah. Look where that got me. I used so much calculus today. You probably do. Yeah. Write him a letter and be like, your profession's irrelevant, but something like that.
00:54:27
Speaker
Get him. Oh, no. Get him. I'm good with my five on my test. So that's enough. Maybe jokes on you. That's how he motivates people. Like he's he's like, oh, I'm not a good enough teacher to get people to do. No, no, like this guy. This was the type of teacher. This is how you know this is wrong because he was the teacher that would mark you negative points if you didn't double underline your answer. If you only single underlined, he took points off. He's that guy. He's the worst. Someone medicated.
00:54:57
Speaker
What do you think? That's some unmedicated and unchecked shit right there. Yeah. That's some power trip. That's some, you definitely are in an unhappy marriage or you had a hard childhood or something and now you're just going to take it out on all your students. And I hated it. That made me angry.
00:55:14
Speaker
Um, do we have any other honorable mentions? I think we can move on to your number one. All right. Yeah. Uh, so background for my number one is I'm a stormwater planner in Washington and we recently learned that there is a molecule that interacts with ozone that comes from tires and it creates something called six PPDQ and it instantly kills coho salmon who are very endangered.
00:55:42
Speaker
and it's the worst thing in the world. And so I'm gonna say- Sorry, I did black out a little bit. What are we talking about here? I love that this is your number one. Your personal arch rival. Here's, hey, maybe this is the problem. It's a molecule. The molecule? No, it was gonna be a big oil and that was my Lido. Okay. Here's what I'm gonna say about your list.
00:56:12
Speaker
I knew you were going to do this. I'm aware. Here's why you're not the winner of this episode. It's because these are not personal arch rivals in your life. I don't have any. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. Memory. You could have put that as your number one.
00:56:31
Speaker
Just off the bat, that one. Maybe number two, cooking. You can't do it under an hour and a half. It's impossible. You know what I'm saying? There are definitely arch rivals you have in your life that are personal. I do feel like this reflects my personality pretty well, though. Yeah. But how is this your personal arch rival? Big oil? You in big oil? You duking it out? Let me tell you why. Take a seat. Listen up. Listen.
00:57:00
Speaker
So big oil, one, it pisses me off that it is a finite resource. There's only so fucking much of it. And yet we are continuing to invest and being lobbied by these people. And we are creating wars over this. We are creating sanctions. Like we are ruining lives over a finite resource that someday we won't even be able to fucking use. Two, we, I had a list.
00:57:25
Speaker
I wrote it down because I am. I actually hate big oil. But this isn't things you hate. But another thing. No, but listen, but another thing was when when we started having people living in cities in the U.S., we had mass transit trains, little
00:57:41
Speaker
coaches, whatever, and we used these to move people from point A to point B. The invention of the car and big oil specifically because they lobbied and got all mass transit removed after the 1950s, they ruined America in my opinion. I think that they got all these suburbs built and they got all these people hooked on cars. They wouldn't fund mass transit and now everybody is stuck.
00:58:01
Speaker
like poor people have to use cars, had to pay extreme amounts of money for oil, a finite fucking resource. When we have other technology, other ideas that could be implemented, and they're just out there using their money and their fucking influence to get oil sold. It's stupid, and I hate it. If we were going by that logic, you could have just said Eisenhower. He's the one that approved the funding for the interstate system. I know he did. Yeah, I know he did, and he will.
00:58:30
Speaker
My dad likes to say he's like my distinct second cousin or something like that. I mean, you see, that would have been a good one. Your cousin's your eternal. Dude, did you? This is good. Juicy. Maro brought up the Eisenhower. I didn't even bring up the Eisenhower. Minus one because you didn't, you were related to him and it would have been. I didn't even think about you. Can't give me negative points.
00:58:55
Speaker
What? That's just an untrue statement. It is not. Mara brought something up and then I was like, oh, by the way. Kara, you're already in the hole. You're in the hole. I don't know what to tell you. I'm at zero. No, no, because this is not things you hate. That is not, and our tribal is like your opponent.
00:59:15
Speaker
It's like, yeah, well, I'm a personal opponent. She started this. So how is this affecting stormwater again? I've lost all focus. The short version is that tires kill fish and I am a stormwater planner. And now I have to design things to prevent that death. A little to prevent a little keystone species in the ecosystem. There we go. She brought it home. It's just it's not your fault that there was.
00:59:41
Speaker
that I'm angry about so many other things. Fluff words in there. I think people should know about 6PPDQ. It is an emerging pollutant. It's very bad. It kills everything. And it's supposedly going to, I think it should be fixed.
00:59:55
Speaker
So it's six PQ. Yeah, next time we do top three things people know about, top three things, okay, here we go. We can cut that. Next time we do top three things people should know about, you just list your three arch rivals, okay? And then we'll just, we'll direct them to this list. You make this podcast so fun for me. It's good. I love being at this podcast. Taking out face value. Nice, face value, that's good.
01:00:26
Speaker
So it's six PPQD? Six PPDQ. Okay. I don't think that should be a negative point. She said that she was a stormwater and she's out here trying to prevent the death of fish and that she's getting in the way of her work. That's right. Maybe if you had a 45 hour work week, you'd already have it solved.
01:00:48
Speaker
Even at 30, I would have it solved. Fair. I think I'm at zero. I have no positive points and I have no negative points. It would be a travesty if you won this episode. That's what I'm saying. Well, I should win one eventually.
01:01:05
Speaker
That seems fair. Well, you gotta earn it. What the hell? I'm not out here giving free episode wins. You gotta look at the prompt and you gotta fulfill it, dude. I didn't like this prompt. I do not walk around the world thinking about hate like you do. That's not what it is. Our tribals are things. They're the push, they're the pull. They love the hate relationship. There's an eternal battle between you and your arch rival. You keep going at each other.
01:01:32
Speaker
I don't feel like I have that. You know, I just listen to your memory, cooking to them. You're constantly struggling with your memory. And memory would have been a really good one. Yeah. Yeah. Next one would have been good. Maybe I should have you help me with my list.
01:01:54
Speaker
No, I like it like this. This is more entertaining when you talk about it. Yeah, of course it is. You talk about big oil. You know, some day somebody is going to be listening to this and they're going to think I'm going to go for the underdog. Kara will win one someday. There should be before people listen, there should be like betting on Twitter. Like they just see the subject. They haven't listened to the podcast and they have to say who they think wins that episode. That's a good idea.
01:02:22
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, Grayson's now trying to take the blame for your list. No, I wouldn't have had a list if it wasn't for you, Grayson. You don't get to. It's a hundred. You did your best, Grayson. You know what? Plus one to you, Grayson, for coming out with Cara's list. If Grayson wins an episode before me, I'll fucking quit. That's bullshit. I am actually OK with this point because you did start this episode by saying Grayson helped me. He did help me. So negative one to Cara.
01:02:50
Speaker
No, no, no. Yes, yes, we agreed. And negative one to count. And we're good. And I'm going to give my... Wait for what? My number one.
Navigational Struggles and Humorous Wrap-Up
01:02:58
Speaker
For what? For what? For what? For what? What's my negative point for? You tell me right now, Mara. You know. My English. Yeah, not Marion. Mara, you tell me what my negative point's for. It's for admitting to the teamwork of your list. They're not yours.
01:03:20
Speaker
You either got a... That's not at all what happened. Yeah, he did. He helped me think of it, and then I narrowed it down and researched it on my own. He just helped me think about it. I think you've said, quote, maybe we can find it. I think you said it wouldn't exist without Grayson. It just wouldn't exist without Grayson. That would be damning evidence. Yeah.
01:03:43
Speaker
Well, if we find it, we'll replay it here and everyone will know. No, we are not going to keep a 20 minute debacle. Here, I've got two sound bites. I've got two sound bites. If it plays. So I had a hard time coming up with these and Grayson lovingly helped me. So this is like partially the brainstorm of us two. Wow. Negative one to Cara. If it doesn't play.
01:04:09
Speaker
Well, I guess we were wrong, Mara. Psych. Anyway, my number one arch rival in my life is directions. I think that there was a study that came out that said that basically people can have dyslexia with images in the same way. It's not like normal dyslexia, which is obviously with letters and words, but that there can be dyslexia
01:04:37
Speaker
in your mind with images and I believe that's why I have such big trouble with directions because I can literally like be walking out of a place where I just paid attention and nine times out of ten I'm going to turn left when I supposed to turn right like I have no gauge for where anything is one time
01:04:58
Speaker
I was living in England and I had spent a whole semester there abroad in a town called Norwich and I had walked all the time. I didn't have a car or anything. I was always walking and I then went back to that same town to live with my then boyfriend at the time.
01:05:15
Speaker
And at one point we were in the city center and we were gonna walk back to like the bus stop or his apartment or something. And he was like, why don't you lead us? You know, you've been doing this for like six months now. Like you gotta know. And I was like, no, I definitely don't know. I definitely don't have it. He was like, no, no, no. I really believe that you will figure this out. Like, you know, like you've done this like so many times. Like you have to inherit.
01:05:46
Speaker
Fools. Believing in you? Yes. He naively let me lead and he let me go on and on and an hour in he said, I'm going to have to stop you. We're completely the wrong direction.
01:06:08
Speaker
Like we are going like we have not stopped like we're going the wrong way. I kept thinking maybe like You turn around we got to this hill. I thought you'd look you'd see like where we were Is very bad, but I mean it was fine because we liked walking and we didn't have anything to do It's like a summer day. So it didn't matter but it was like it was very embarrassing like he I can't believe he had faith for like a whole hour that I Was gonna I don't know turn it around somehow
01:06:39
Speaker
Quite literally. That is way better than me being on a date in downtown Des Moines and telling this guy that he wanted to go the wrong direction. And he didn't believe me. And I was like, I grew up here. I know where I'm going. But I hate that. This is stupid.
01:07:01
Speaker
With a kiss. It was nice. It was a pretty good date. Oh. Yeah. No, it was that weird British guy, you guys. That was our second date. Oh, right. The hockey? Yeah, that was the hockey date. But not the burger British guy who only burgers? It was that guy. Same guy. Yeah. Who also wore cargo shorts that went down past his knee. He was in Des Moines with you?
01:07:27
Speaker
He wanted to go to a hockey game. So he drove down to Des Moines and then he drove back the same night. And then it was the same week and I bought my car. Oh, so you were down there. Okay. Wild month for me. Got a tattoo, got a car. So months are like that. Yeah. Yeah. We should do top three wildest months that we've experienced. That might be interesting.
01:07:53
Speaker
That'll happen to me with directions where I will say right, but I'm pointing left, and it's what my hand is doing that is the correct answer. It's never what's coming out of my mouth. Per Italy, where you were directing me in very stressful times, I can attest to this.
01:08:13
Speaker
I stopped listening to you and watched your hands. We're like, this is the moment where we're like driving through the city. This is the only time I've ever driven a red light. I've gone through a red light and Mara was directing me, doing a great job. Just everything was wrong. Just wrong questions. We got there. It was good.
01:08:33
Speaker
Marion did win a slap bet, though, one time against me because of directions. So I will give you that one. Yeah, there's there's been I mean, there have been victories. Yeah. There have been victories in this eternal struggle with direction. Yeah. But more more often than that, it is it is quite, yeah, terrible. Yeah. Should we? What was the slap at? We were leaving a hike after Banff and I was convinced that it was right and you were left. That's where you locked my jaw.
01:09:04
Speaker
And we made Savina very, you guys made Savina very uncomfortable every time. Which is why we created this podcast because people like Savina can't hack it. I imagine, I don't know if Savina has listened to this podcast. She has not. But I assume it's because she turned on maybe the first two minutes and was like, no, no, she refused to even turn it on.
01:09:24
Speaker
She's like, she knows she can't handle it. She knows that it will give her extreme anxiety. And she's like, I can't, I just, I don't. And I was like, it's not really that bad. And she's like, no, I can't. For the record, it is that bad and it will give her hives. Did you say hives? Yeah. She's going to break out in hives as she listens to it. Wow. A physical reaction. Yummy. All right. Our podcast will listen to such a good... Any points?
01:09:51
Speaker
I know I'm really bad at this part because I just want us all to win. I know that's not the point, but I'm just such a yes, man. And I'll give my memory. My memory makes it so I can't remember what the beginning of the podcast was like. I'll give a point to Mara for bravely bringing up chin hair and, you know, finally airing that that subject that. Everyone really need to hear about.
01:10:18
Speaker
I'm going to give a point to you for actually having a person arch rival. You were the only one of us who had an actual person willing enough to speak out. Thank you. That might have been my first point that anyone's ever given me. It's very exciting. Well, it's usually you giving yourself a lot of points. You know, we don't normally have to do this part. Let's do a tiebreaker. OK. Let's do.
01:10:49
Speaker
Let's try and guess Bandy's biggest arch rival. Bandy is Grayson and Kara's dog. Why don't you guys text each other what you think the biggest arch rival is? I'm going to type it out and I'm not going to send it. Me too. And yeah, and don't count down randomly with no context and then press send. Please.
01:11:14
Speaker
I don't know how to say this in a non, like, in the positive instead of like a double negative. I think that writer's retreat is coming out. Okay, that was really long, but it's the best I can do. Do you guys have some ideas or agree? Maybe it's good to have a couple just in case. Grease and VM at least agrees with my idea.
01:11:38
Speaker
Do you agree? We've come to some sort of conclusion. Okay. I still think mine's better. No, we have one.
01:11:47
Speaker
I wrote this thing. He goes, no, I came up with another idea. He ignores it. I brought it up again. He said no. Why would you bring it up three times? Because I think it's good. I think this solidifies why Kara is not going to win this episode. OK, let's send on three. One, two, three.
01:12:11
Speaker
I mean, my answer to Bandy's arch rival was her parents not letting her off leash to go play with anything that catches her interest. That is so close to mine, which is having to ignore strangers and sit instead of jumping on every living thing she encounters. Damn it. OK, as the only non-biased judge in this party, I will. These are the same answer. Yeah, they are. OK, we'll have to do we'll have to do the legendary double tiebreaker. Yeah, OK.
01:12:43
Speaker
Maybe give us an arch rival of a sports team that we have to say a real life, a real life example, but don't make it too easy because we might know it has to be something. Yeah. But don't make it too hard either, because this is good. I like to do you guys know, do you guys know who the Packers would consider their arch rival? And yes, because it's not the Vikings. Oh, you grew up there. Oh.
01:13:12
Speaker
Yeah. Let's see. Well, I do. Yes. Do you have a basketball one? I feel like basketball would be fair. OK, yeah. Sorry. OK, thank you. I was because you go to Kings games occasionally. So I was like, oh, you got to. But I go to Timberwolves games occasionally. That's hockey. So we are uneven. I wish I knew anything about basketball, but I don't.
01:13:44
Speaker
Oh, hold on. Who is the arch rival of the Powerpuff Girls?
01:13:50
Speaker
Oh, that's a good ready. I didn't send it. No, I'm not fucking ready. One second. Just straight up new. I never tied so fast in my life. I've never seen you move so quickly. I got this. Nobody fucking panic. No, I'm not fucking ready. I'm hyping myself up. Oh, gosh, I can feel the wind on my fingertips. I can feel the victory. It tastes so good.
01:14:21
Speaker
Okay. Ready? Yeah. Three, two, one. Mara said, the guy, W-I-H-T-T, the glasses. Oh, it's supposed to be with. The guy with the glasses. And then Marion said Mojo Jojo. Does that guy have glasses?
01:14:45
Speaker
No. No. He's a monkey. He has a glass brain. We also would have accepted him, but Marion is the winner of this. Yeah, for sure. In my defense, I didn't have cable. That's true. It wasn't very fair, but I'll take it anyway. It's been my top everything. I'm Marion. You're super fair, totally normal winner.
01:15:09
Speaker
I'm Cara. I'm Mara, coming in hot at second place. It's a good spot, lover. Cara sounded dead inside. You did this. I did this. I did this. Yeah, see, that would have been a great one. You used to accept that sometimes my brain thinks a little differently than yours. Not wrong, just different. I'm not.
01:15:35
Speaker
not denying that. Oh, a double negative. She's saying, I think most people, hey, hey, if you agree with Kara, email us at my top everything podcast at gmail.com and say that she did normal arch rivals. Do what you want. Yeah, do it. You won't.