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Vol 1 Ch 11: The Tofu of the Episode
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We're back, babes! Enjoy a quick recap of our lives, the break, some ancient memes, and what we've been doing since! There's a special patron-only look at us planning our first meet up in real time in this ep, so enjoy!
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Return from Break & Humorous Beginnings
00:00:11
Speaker
Welcome back to the Sleepover podcast. This is Fandames with Parks and Nebula. We have rejoined the Sleepover after a quick break, not so quick break. We slept for like a month because I was sick as fuck, Parks was doing a bunch of stuff, and now we're back.
00:00:30
Speaker
And I also started this whole intro when Parks has Baja Blast in her mouth. I just wanted to laugh. I wanted to interrupt you so badly. Thank you for not. I noticed you started to take a sip, so I'm like, that was my chance. I had to do this. I swallow it. I don't want to clean cut of that. I don't want clean cut of that. I'm gonna stop it right there. Say it. Say it. Say it, you fucking coward. Say it. I was gonna say I swallow fast.
00:01:02
Speaker
Amazing. There you go. What the fuck was that? I was like huffed, but I got stuck right here and just like, okay, whatever. What are you drinking? Coke. Just a basic Coke? Yeah. That's gross. What? We had cherry Coke household. I prefer vanilla Coke to cherry Coke. Cherry vanilla is better.
00:01:27
Speaker
Correct. It is. I also prefer Pepsi over Coke, but I got two of the bottled Cokes because I was going to give one to Woop and then he already had one. So. What? You prefer Pepsi? Yeah. You look so scandalous. I want to gag so badly, but I know Levi listens and it will make them sick.
00:01:57
Speaker
But I want to gag so badly. You like syrup? You like syrup? You like syrup and nothing else?
00:02:06
Speaker
Uh, I would actually argue that Coke has a stronger flavor to me than Pepsi. But there's no bubble in Pepsi. It's just like, one. What though? Yeah. Pepsi's like flat syrup. Coke goes just as flat as Pepsi does. Um, after like two days of being open, Pepsi's flat the minute you open it. I'm drinking codeine, bitch. That's codeine. Well, I like Pepsi. You're so disgusting.
00:02:36
Speaker
I also like Dr. Pepper more than Coke. I like Dr. Pepper more than Coke, but that's not Serp. It's, I mean, it's... Not his Serp-y. I love saying Serp. It's really funny. It really rolls off the tongue. That's just how people say shit here. So I'm like, yeah, and?
00:02:55
Speaker
The things I say for fun are the things you guys say legitimately. How's that feel? Yeah, yes.
Feral Hogs & Meme Origins
00:03:00
Speaker
OK, so the other day, not the other day, literally yesterday, we were talking with Ryan with Templar about because he's planning to visit the States and he had mentioned that he wants to at some point in his life.
00:03:14
Speaker
go shooting for feral hogs, like hunting feral hogs, because they have a whole tour where you get in a helicopter and you chase the hogs that way, yeah. So Whoop's dad wanted to do it for the longest time, and one of his buddies did it. I thought he had done it, but I guess it was just one of his friends. You lied. I had incorrect memory, and anyways.
00:03:35
Speaker
Whatever Ryan said that cuz he's he's going through it and he's talking about it like it's kind of like a pipe dream Like wouldn't it be so cool? No, you just do it. You can just do it if you come visit me in Oklahoma I'll take you to my family's land will sit in the back of my uncle's like 1985 pickup truck and we'll shoot off the tailgate for feral hogs on our land No, but do you remember on Twitter when the 30 to 50 feral hogs me was like Oh, you mean the the white pride fucking dog whistle that no, no, no, there's a white pride thing. Oh
00:04:06
Speaker
Okay, do you not know that because that's it was legitimate
00:04:10
Speaker
No, I just knew the memes of me protecting my family from 30 to 50 feral hogs. And it's just like a new city in the dark. It's literally a white supremacist, white pride dog whistle. Why you gotta ruin this? Because the full meme is when you have to shoot 30 to 50 feral hogs to protect your three to five white children is the full thing, which if you add them together is eight eight, which is the
00:04:37
Speaker
the dog whistle for it if you didn't know that. And the whole thing is that the feral hogs are non-white people. That's the whole thing behind it. I didn't want it explained. That's why it pisses me off that so many people are like, oh, funny meme. And I'm like, no, you're normalizing it. People are going to think that you know what it means, that you're agreeing with it. I don't. I just like hogs. Do you know that one of the metal statue of the pig?
00:05:07
Speaker
I don't know what you're talking about. There's a metal statue of like a pig and it's like a really famous piece. And there was someone who's just like, if I had him, everything would be good. And so people kept making like memes of like all hierarchical positions, but it's this pig.
00:05:22
Speaker
Oh my god, I love that. I don't remember what it's called. I love that. I also learned recently, and this is going to ruin literally everything for everyone listening, so strap the fuck in. Even me? Yeah, especially you. Oh, I found it. You know the memes? What is this?
00:05:40
Speaker
Whoa, look at him. He's just a friend. I love him. Will you send it to me and I'll put it on our Instagram for this episode? Yeah, gotcha. Perfect. Make sure you read the song of the caption when it arrives in your DM safely. I will.
00:05:54
Speaker
But the meme thing, I learned that the meme where it has the blonde guy and girl, where it's like 23, yeah, the Wojciechs, where it's like, let's buy a house, and it's like me at 23, whatever. Those were also created to be fucking- Yeah, they're racist. Wojciechs are racist. I had no idea. Millennials, or not Millennials, zoomers started making them because it was funny to make fun of them.
00:06:15
Speaker
Okay. So, Will Jacks themselves aren't, like, they started badly, but everyone's like, fuck you. All right, now I have to look at Boarvessel. Oh, look at him. I love him. I only date Boarvessel, 600-500 BC Etruscan ceramic. You seriously never see these? Uh-uh. Oh, I love them. Hold on, I'm sending you a whole bunch more. Oh, gee, I can't believe they turned Boarvessel, 600-500 BC Etruscan ceramic into a real thing.
00:06:46
Speaker
I love him. I told you. I love him. Hieracle of needs, but it's just him. Yeah, but that was near the
Vacation Mishaps & Aftermath
00:07:00
Speaker
same time period as 30 to 50 feral hogs. I thought we were just on a pig thing, but now I'm really upset. No, it was all right. I apologize.
00:07:11
Speaker
It's like the assholes that tried to get the gotcha symbol, like the okay symbol, as a white pride thing. That's some cracker shit. It is, you're correct. Why do white people be like, people doing this? Let's take it. Okay, I realize that this is an audio medium. We're doing the hand symbol where- The okay, where it's down, the mean.
00:07:36
Speaker
Yeah, the where you form a circle with your forefinger and thumb and then your other three fingers are sticking upwards. Look down at it. Oh, gotcha. How did you play it? Did you play it like if you see it, you hit someone?
00:07:50
Speaker
I literally didn't play it. I didn't know it was a thing until someone walked up to me in high school and they were like, hey, what's up? And they had their hand doing the thing. And I was like, what are you doing with your hand? They're like, ha ha, got you and ran away. I would do it with my coworkers, specifically like my people I play magic with, but we do it like on our dicks. So it'd be like, hold on. It's more of like, okay. It's like a, I just took a sip of my drink. It was funny. It was funnier that way. Cause it was like, ha ha.
00:08:20
Speaker
When I was 16, I worked at a grocery store with crackheads. Except I love those crackheads. When I was 16, I worked at a very fancy restaurant that only had potheads that worked there. So it was very funny.
00:08:35
Speaker
Any other fun things we want to talk about before we actually get into the meat of the show? Do we have meat in the show? I just said tofu. There's some meat here. This is not a meat episode. This is not a meat episode. This is a we're here again, we're catching back up. Has anything else happened eventful in my life?
00:08:58
Speaker
You went to Phanex. I was gonna talk about that as the meat of the episode, not like the shooting the shit, catching up hour. Oh, okay. You got COVID. I was gonna tell no one. I got COVID. I didn't lose my sense of smell. I didn't lose my sense of taste. I was just sad in my room for two weeks. But you're better now. Don't look at me like that.
00:09:27
Speaker
Nothing. I have to play Metal Gear Rising. Do you know how much not better life is? Okay, you know anything about money? No, I do. Ryan bought it for me, watched me install it, and if I do not play Metal Gear Rising, he's going to block me and never talk to me again.
00:09:43
Speaker
Woop owns a collector's edition in like a fancy tin case. Of Metal Gear's rising? Of Metal Gear Rising? Has he beaten it? Or did he just like, this sucks, and put it down? I don't know. He got it from work because he works at a game store. I know that. And he's like, well, for everybody who doesn't know, that listens. No, I don't know. It's actually like on the floor right outside the door. I can go get it and show you. Do you know? So how many Metal Gear games have you played?
00:10:07
Speaker
Okay. Do you know the plot of the beginning ones? I've started three. Okay. I've started the third one. But you know the plot, right? It's pretty anti-capitalism like spy work, right? Yeah, I know. That's a pretty basic. So here's what I know about Metal Gear Rising. It's nothing like any Metal Gear game.
00:10:33
Speaker
Damn, there's no gay sex. I didn't say that part. I mean, gameplay. This is not a stealth game. This is not a stealth game. This is a hack and slash about the media and how memes are evil. And the bad guy just wants to make memes and live his true life freeing people from the media.
00:10:57
Speaker
like this this sounds hilarious it's not a Metal Gear game brother that's just there they're just making shit up Raiden literally is disguised to like you know disguise himself cuz it's a Metal Gear game is to put on a sombrero why he's a robot wearing a sombrero as a disguise I don't the main bad guy is a juiced up president with a metal arm who just
00:11:27
Speaker
Screams. That's just Edward Elric. No, he's bigger. He's a big guy. I want to play this so bad. I'm gonna stream it, so don't worry. Maybe I'll make it like a Patreon cut of like me streaming it for you and Ryan and no one else and we sit in hell together.
Life Updates & Gaming Tangents
00:11:47
Speaker
That sounds so fun. We should do that. We'll do that when you and me or Ryan have time to sit alone and cry.
00:11:54
Speaker
true that's that's the the weekend plan baby except i'm busy the next two weekends well you got sick and i got sick at like the same time because the shrimp didn't fry your rice properly because the shrimp did not fry the rice i'm so sad okay did i actually tell you like the full full story of what happened okay you tell me you can tell on the podcast though if you want
00:12:23
Speaker
Cool. So basically my dad's a dill hole and he was like, Oh, want to go to this specific restaurant? Except, okay. Let me backtrack even more. Cause I know I mentioned it on a previous episode, but we went on vacation with my family. Woop has never been on a vacation with my family before this. And we also hadn't been on a vacation for like 10 years until then. As a family or you as like, as a family. Okay. Okay. I was about to say you were just in DR like,
00:12:51
Speaker
No, as a family. So within the decade, my brother has had two and a half children because his wife is pregnant with their third. My sister has a son, and what is the face you just made? I already know you love your family to death, but you're so brave going on vacation with children.
00:13:13
Speaker
Okay, so this is the problem. This is the problem. Because I did not want to go with the little ones. Like, I figured they would stay with someone or something. Oh, you were not told they were coming.
00:13:25
Speaker
No, I was told, but I figured whenever my family first started talking about the vacation that they'd be like, well, we'll leave them with, I don't know, my brother-in-law's family or something. I figured that it would not be what it was. It would be like an adult vacation.
00:13:45
Speaker
Well, because the problem is that my dad planned almost all of it. And they, like, my mom and my dad really just planned an adult vacation and were like, well, there will be kids, I guess. Like, there wasn't anything that was worked into the schedule that was to do as a family family. It was just, we're gonna go ziplining, so someone has to stay at the cabin with the kids.
00:14:10
Speaker
or we're going to go shopping. So someone has to take care of all three of the little ones and like corral them for 20 minutes while my sister and I go look in a gift shop or something like that. So that alone was hell. And that plays into this because he wanted to go to this specific restaurant because in his words, it was the hoppin place to be on a Friday night in this bullshit town that we went to. And
00:14:38
Speaker
There was a live band that was extremely loud and we could only eat outside because my sister has Lyme disease and is unvaccinated. So we weren't going to eat anywhere inside for her comfort. And which also she has to be unvaccinated. Like her doctor said, don't get the vaccine because the side effects could make her bedridden for a couple of weeks. Like it's a.
00:14:59
Speaker
It's a thing. Yeah. So we do that, except my dad doesn't want to go get dinner until like seven o'clock at night. So there's no options. But the kids go to sleep. The kids go to sleep at like eight. So he kept them out past their bedtime. They're freaking out. And my dad just wants to sit out and listen to this guy sing country music and drink to his heart's content. This is my every nightmare. You're quoting nightmares word for word.
00:15:22
Speaker
My dad is drunk at one end of the table. I'm in the middle. I've had one and a half drinks and I have had like five bites of my shrimp alfredo and I'm already like, my whole world is turning upside down. What the fuck is happening? I do not understand. I'm not drunk. I know that for sure. I don't know what this weird feeling in my stomach is. I don't know if I'm anxious, if I'm about to have a panic attack because it's so fucking loud and no one will shut up. If these kids won't stop screaming, like I don't know what's happening. There's a million things going on.
00:15:53
Speaker
So, we go there, we eat, we go home, at some point, eventually, the children go to sleep, everybody goes to bed. I wake up in the dead of night at like 3.30 in the morning, and I feel like I'm gonna hurl so bad. But I am a lazy bitch, and I'm like, I don't wanna deal with that, I just wanna go back to sleep.
00:16:10
Speaker
So I laid perfectly still for like 10 minutes and willed it away like body We're not gonna deal with this right now Just go back to bed, and that is the dumbest shit I did because if I had just gone with the gone gone with it and just gotten sick and gotten out of your system like before that got digested right cuz I didn't know that was the problem, but had I just
00:16:36
Speaker
Gotten out while it was still right on top. Yeah, then things would have been fine and I wouldn't have been sick for literally 10 days. Don't you feel stupid? I do. Don't you feel ashamed?
00:16:50
Speaker
Yes, immensely. But that is how sick I got. And then we had to leave. That was Friday night. We left Sunday morning. Way to go, clown. And Woop drove the entire way back. He drove my car while I laid in the back seat and tried to sleep for the four and a half hour drive. In the back seat? Even though that car...
00:17:12
Speaker
Oh, I was laid across all three seats. I didn't bring any pillows, so I just had a bunch of jackets bundled under my head, and I was just in and out of consciousness for the whole four and a half hour ride home. You made him drive your Kia? He offered. Did he have a choice? No. Yeah, you were sick. He offered, but it's not like you could drive.
00:17:35
Speaker
No, I could not. So you made him drive your key. I didn't make him do anything. I asked him nicely and he said, yeah, of course, honey. But that's why I was sick and why we couldn't do things for like two and a half weeks. I got COVID because I'm stupid.
00:17:54
Speaker
I ate bad shrimp and almost died. At least you didn't, because that would be really awkward. They got back to me with my lab results though, and they were like, hey, you don't have a parasite at least. So that was good. Mmm, tapeworm. I got a little buddy. Like a little friend. Just a little guy. Me and the boys may have a sexy tapeworm. When I go to hell, I better bring my tapeworm with me.
00:18:24
Speaker
What if the tapeworm went to heaven but you went to hell? That would be so fucked up. That would be beyond fucked up. Like I get there and I look down and say, where'd you go? No. Damn. That was my reenactment of what would happen if I went to heaven or went to hell. It turns out my tapeworm didn't come. Imagine how fucked up that really would be though. You like look in your asshole and it's not there and you're like, hey buddy, can you help you get a friend?
00:18:55
Speaker
Hey, can you do me a solid? I think my tapeworm's gone. Can you look? It's gone, buddy. No. We really should record so you can get the play-by-play of what I just acted out for you. And to see me literally falling all over my recording studio, crying, anyways. So, you know Spritzy on Pokemon Go?
00:19:21
Speaker
I almost have that stupid little fruity slut leveled up. Eight candies away. Stupid little fuck. I have the evolution. I know you do. I send you gifts every day. I'm like you. I send you gifts every day that I can. You broke? You got no gifts? No. Because I'll send you something and then you won't open it for like three days and it'll say you can't send another gift. You're a liar.
00:19:46
Speaker
I am not lying. That is how the Pokemon Go app treats me. It says, fuck you, Nebula. You can't send your beautiful wife another gift. It literally says I got one yesterday from you. I opened it up already and that's it. I'm opening it now so I can make sure. All right, let's see here. Bet. Look, I bet you can send me one right now. I bet. Now I can. Ooh, because you didn't check. I haven't checked today. No, I've been really busy. Bitch.
00:20:16
Speaker
I said every day that I can, asshole. It's today, I can't. Do you have hands? Do you have a phone? I love you. I'm gonna fight you. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna kiss your sweet lips with my lips. Do you wanna see my knife?
00:20:33
Speaker
This is a really good show. We're playing Pokemon Go now. I pulled out a knife. No one can see it. They just know I have it. It comes with a stick. Well, it comes with like a belt loop. So I just kind of... Oops. Please don't do that. Why? I'm very nervous. It's very dull. It is very dull. It is the dullest thing in the world. It can't even cut paper. Hold on. Okay. Okay. I feel better about it now.
00:20:59
Speaker
Um, so is the knife. It sure is. We were in a show. You wanna talk about fandom? Um, yeah. So let's do a quick recap of everything that was up. Um, I was at Phoenix on September 16th. Ooh, that was a long time ago now. That was a month. That was a full month.
00:21:16
Speaker
September 16th through the 18th. While I was there, I ran a table selling fan names merch, personal prints of myself, which I have extras of. I went to one panel and it was the Waifu Wars and people tried to vote the children. If you put Nezuko up on a Waifu Wars panel, I'm going to come to your house and beat the shit out of you. She's 12. 14 actually.
00:21:41
Speaker
No, no, she's working in the main cannon right now where it's at in the anime. Okay, she's 14 in the manga They were using manga pictures. That's why I was like, okay, but Someone put up like a cat
00:21:54
Speaker
I guess the cat's a girl, so this is a waifu. And someone put up Nezuko, we're going to jail. I think who won? You know the hot queen from Sword Hero? Which one is it? Rise of the Shield Hero. Yeah, you know the hot queen from that with purple hair? Sure. She won it.
00:22:13
Speaker
All right, is she an adult? Yes, yes. She's literally like, she killed her husband, good for her like, boss babe, queen with big tits. I don't actually know what she looks like. Let me look it up. Oh, look at her up. I think it's Madam Marco. I think that's her name. That sounds right to me. Queen Shield Hero. Oh, that's really cool because I tried to type in Queen Shield Hero and then the next word that came after that was a giant spoiler. Awesome. Are you even watching it?
00:22:41
Speaker
I've never seen it. Well, she's really hot. Here you go, I got a picture for you. Oh, she is really hot. Yeah, like she killed her husband. She's doing great. I love this woman. She's a MILF, so the MILF carried the whole thing.
00:22:56
Speaker
That was great. I watched two performances from my friends. One of them was on Friday when they did their K-pop medley. I was crying like a bitch because I was so proud of them. Saturday, they did KDA, and I was also very proud of them. I got signed prints from them. Then on Saturday, I had a Sparo pizza. That was unfortunate for me. Sparo, like with a B? Yes, Sparo.
00:23:25
Speaker
I just slur over it because I'm... I love Sabara pizza. With the gray sausage? That fat layer of cheese you can't bite through and that gray sausage? I love it.
00:23:41
Speaker
I love it. We're taking you to the pie. You need to fucking fly to Utah right now. How much are tickets to OKC to fuck from... Oh my God. We're not doing this. Okay, hold on. Let me explain the Sbarro thing.
FanX Experience & Korean Media
00:23:52
Speaker
You're on thin ice. In like the entire Oklahoma City fucking metro, you could only get it at one place and it was a shitty little kiosk in the mall and it was in one specific mall.
00:24:05
Speaker
And a slice was like four bucks, because they were fucking huge. And any time that I would go to the mall with my mom, because they shut down whenever I was in high school. Not the mall, but that one's tomorrow. Anytime I'd go with my mom, I'd be like, Mom, please, we have to get a saguaro slice. And that was the only time I could eat it. So that's why I love saguaro. Because it was like a delicacy.
00:24:33
Speaker
While we were away, I was at FanX. I met a bunch of cosplayers. I did a bunch of networking. I've grown 30, 40 followers since on my cosplay Instagram. Not to say that numbers matter, but a lot of them were real connections that I made with people. That was really, really cool for me personally. I started writing some panel ideas that I want to build full, more like
00:24:56
Speaker
substance powerpoints to before I submit them. But I'm really hoping that if I can get these picked up by next year that I can get you as a guest while I moderate and we'll figure it out from there. That'd be so exciting. So that's what I want to do. I'm kind of focusing more on my attention. I'm already on their special guest list for next year now, hopefully. All that sort of stuff. While we were gone, Squid Game took over a lot of the internet.
00:25:22
Speaker
Which is very, very impressive, especially for Korean media, considering that most of the time anything with subtitles is severely overlooked. Even if the dubs are bad, it was still pretty...
00:25:37
Speaker
The plot was enticing enough that even people watching it via dubs were still able to be into it, even if the dubs were annoying as fuck. Which is kind of crazy. Compared to other dubbed media that's live action and dubbed, this is a good dub compared to a bunch of other live action dubs that I've watched.
00:25:58
Speaker
I've watched Swedish live-action dubs that sucked fucking shit. I've watched Japanese live-action dubs that were just god-awful. This one was not as bad as people are making it out to be if you compare it to other English dubs that are also popular and all on popular streaming services and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I loved it. You and I watched it together. It was really good. We cried a lot.
00:26:24
Speaker
I didn't cry that much, it was just for like one part.
Critique of My Hero Academia & Reading Updates
00:26:28
Speaker
I'm not gonna spoil it outright, but like, we also watched season five of MHA and it fucking sucked. Yeah, my hero season five, heavily disappointed. I know, I didn't, I haven't listened to your episode yet. But it sucked, it sucked, I will not defend it, it sucked. It was poorly written, it was a boring arc. It sucked.
00:26:53
Speaker
It sucked really bad. And the manga had so many more interesting parts to it for this part of the story, and they just, like, did not include it, which is very upsetting. They could have done more. They could have focused on more, but they're like, we gotta do this training arc. Nothing else. Like, this could have been three episodes. They could have showed us more of Todoroki's sexy older brother, Natsuo, but they said, no. Choo! Choo! None for you. Where is he?
00:27:20
Speaker
Okay. That's all your updates. Well, no, hold on. What else did I do? I read a bunch of books. The Gray Series is a terrible book.
00:27:30
Speaker
I'm still upset. The grace year. This is the book that upset me to death. It made me want to die. I was so upset. I felt gaslight, but gaslit by the terrible ending. Everything up until a midpoint was very well written. It was very interesting in a concept. And then it's just like, character dead. Now we feel no emotions. Everything we were working towards were done, but I'm still going to slog you through for four more hours of this. Here you go.
00:27:58
Speaker
Deadass. She's like, this is my first love. I finally feel like I'm outside of what my bonds were supposed to be and I'm not held to this hour anymore. And then she's like, well, that sucks. And she fucks off and then comes back and he immediately dies. And you're like, wow. She feels nothing, by the way. She's like, damn, that sucked. And she just goes back. You're like, damn, this is a terrible book.
00:28:23
Speaker
Like, you know, you got me live tweeting everything that happened in this book to you. Oh, yeah, you were like, I'm gonna be sick after listening to all this. I literally felt nauseous. I felt nauseous. It was a terrible book. I'm trying to think of what else I've done. The new season of Lu- they're fine, fine, fine. Also, season of Lucifer is really good. There's not really much comment on, aside from that, I cried.
00:28:52
Speaker
I picked up more comics. I'm reading my webtoons. I cleaned my room. Metal Gear Rising. Good. I started playing more Apex, and I got to see a lot of my artist friends, and they've been coming out to cosplay karaoke, so I've been seeing more people I like. That's
Cosplay Projects & Personal Interests
00:29:10
Speaker
it. That's all that's happened to me. I'm sorry. I don't know who I am anymore. It's been a long time. Well, you also finished your Dorothea constantly. Oh, I finished Dorothea out of Eve.
00:29:21
Speaker
cosplayed Heather Mason all in the span of a month very impressive very stoked on that same note I've been editing some of your photos I'm trying to pick up photo editing so I did one of your Heather masons and one of your me says that you'll be releasing soon and I
00:29:43
Speaker
Then you convince this dumbass to go buy her own fucking sewing machine. So I've also been sewing and I'm making a cross-blade at the moment. I'm trying to make Raven from Teen Titans. How far are you on yours? Sorry, totally, totally about to tell me before I was like, where? Specifically from the 2003 TV show, but I have finished her belt.
00:30:06
Speaker
completely and it fits. I had to cut out a bunch of links and had to do that. I got her tights in the mail the other day. I finished the mock-up for her cape, so now I just have to actually cut it out on the real fabric and sew it together, but I have all the pieces figured out. I finished one of her cuffs, so I just have to make her other cuff, make her cape,
00:30:31
Speaker
her bodysuit leotard thing. Do the extra thing I'm gonna do for the cape, which is make a yoke, which is too complicated to explain. You're making like a turtleneck cut. You're making a turtleneck. With a plastic on it so it doesn't fall. It's like an illusion. It's far too complicated for the first thing I'm saying. It's like the reverse Playboy outfit. It's basically that, but without sleeves. Basically.
00:31:01
Speaker
It'll be fine. It'll be fine. It'll be great. I'm excited. I mean, I'm sure it'll, it'll be fine. I'm not trying to, I thought about trying to finish it for Halloween, but now I'm like, especially if you think next week. True. But that's what I've mostly been occupied with. Um, I did a little bit of art, not much, but a smidgen. You finished stickers. So whatever. I finished stickers. That was exciting. We're not rushing you for more yet.
00:31:31
Speaker
Not until fucking Christmas! What have you been watching? What have I been watching? I finished Fruits Basket Season 3, finally. Oh, so did I. Ooh! Yeah, I... I'm not gonna lie, I'm sorry, trigger word for suicide, but like watching it made me want to kill myself, like for real. I was not, I was not well. And this is not that it was a bad ending, but it was more than I could emotionally handle.
00:31:59
Speaker
It is extremely tough to get through. Why did you just DM me? I was doing a makeup brush on my side. Yeah, it was a lot. Some things were very good. I liked the ending. I'm glad it was true to the manga, but damn. It made me sad. It was very tender.
00:32:28
Speaker
Oh yeah. What else did we watch? The very ending, the very last scene of Fruits Basket, I screamed. I sobbed. You better go back and watch it again. Are you okay? What else did we watch that had like really, really intense parent death that we were not doing well with? Do you remember what I'm talking about though? There was something about parent death that really, really fucked us up.
00:32:57
Speaker
What else did we watch? What else have we been doing? It wasn't another anime, was it? Maybe, I'm gonna look at my Funimation account real quick. We watched Squid Game, we watched Fear Street. Fear Street was good, I like Fear Street. I thought the first one was kind of hard to pick up on for a minute, so it's like, I don't know what's happening here. But then it was like, oh, now I know what's happening here. Yeah, Fear Street was really great.
00:33:22
Speaker
I started literally this week. I started watching Made Samba for the first time. I've never seen it before. Because it's being taken off Netflix on Halloween. So I'm like, I got to power through this shit. Yeah. I'm very excited about it, though. It's really cute. Ew. Sorry, I opened up Funimation again and it showed the thumbnail to the last My Hero episode we looked at where Deku's hair is attached to his fucking head. Oh, what if? We watched What If and it fucking sucked.
00:33:53
Speaker
There were so many potholes, there was no point in connecting any of it. They could have left it as is. I didn't watch all of What If, I just watched some of the episodes and I did not care for them. You didn't miss shit. My Little Pony. The only one that I liked. Girl. What? I was about to tell you about lesbian My Little Pony. Oh yeah. So have you seen everyone mad about, sorry I'm talking about what's coming out like right now. Everyone was really mad that the ponies had girlfriends.
00:34:21
Speaker
No, I did not see that. Yeah, but in the new My Little Pony Netflix movie, they're lesbians and people were mad that the colorful ponies who talk about like friendship, scissor, like I'm sorry, what did you expect? I'm trying to think about what we watched. Did we talk about Death Note last time we were out here? I don't know actually, I think so. I liked Death Note and I liked it.
00:34:49
Speaker
Yeah, you watched it for the first time, and you're obsessed with me, so. Yes, my beloved. Don't talk about the wrist, just leave it like that. We're obsessed with the Monster House gif. Oh, yeah. I don't know what we're into right now. We're going through a lot. Okay, we also watched, oh, I just had it on the tip of my tongue, and then totally forgot, because I suck. I watched
00:35:17
Speaker
Dragon Ball Super Broly. Finally. Yeah. Do you love it? Yeah. I loved it. I absolutely loved it. Broly was hot. The fuck? Oh, this is not a competition. Wait, hold on. Hold on. I don't know if you know this. I have to pick my computer up so there might be noise. I know about the Broly there. Boys. I've always known about them, but I just like to think about them. Have you had a moment to watch Midnight Mass yet? No. Have you seen people raving about it, though?
00:35:48
Speaker
Yeah, my friend actually DM'd me specifically and was like, please fucking watch this. And it's a Mike Flanagan production, and he's one of my favorite horror directors, so. It's only seven episodes, so maybe we can watch it together soon. Oh, it's a, what the fuck does limited series mean? It just means that there's not like- It's not gonna get like an extra season or anything, it's just how it is? Right. Okay. Yeah, it's just like an extended movie, basically. Okay, I'm still trying to, sorry, I'm picking up like a bunch of million shows at once, because I'm still trying to figure out what made us cry.
00:36:18
Speaker
Hold on. Ryan. We watched Venom 2. I liked Venom 2. I'm sorry everyone else hated it. I liked it too. I thought it was a lot of fun. I don't give a shit about its comic accuracy. I just thought it was fun. Well, it was pretty comic accurate because, like, there are a married couple in the comics, like, fully.
00:36:40
Speaker
I think that like the way that Woop explained it to me was that a lot of people were upset that Cletus and Carnage were not truly as united as they are in the comics because the whole thing is like we are Venom versus I am Carnage in the comics. Yeah. And that wasn't present in the movie.
00:36:59
Speaker
Which I can understand that frustration because that's like a core part of Carnage's personality, I guess. Yeah, I can expect that, like, Carnage wasn't played fully accurate, but Venom and Eddie were, like, pretty... That's how they are in the comics. They're, like, in love.
00:37:15
Speaker
Yeah, they have a little baby together. But I also, I guess- Mpreg is canon in the Marvel universe and Eddie fucking Brett Veno. I know. And it is real. But just like, I don't know. They've always been that way. I stopped like caring about the severity of how movies are written a long time ago.
00:37:37
Speaker
It's just like, I don't care anymore. So everything I watch, I watch for fun, strictly. That's why The Fast and The Furious 9 is the best movie of all time. Because it's like, I don't know. Movies that take themselves too seriously have no effect for me anymore. Like, Marvel Endgame, I did not give a fuck for. Like, I did not care about the last few Avengers movies. Thank you! Thank you! And that's not to say they're terrible movies, but it's just like, this is a one-watch thing and I don't care.
00:38:04
Speaker
But if you asked me to watch like Black Panther again, I would. If you asked me to watch like Thor Ragnarok, I'd watch it a million times over. I like the series. I like WandaVision. I thought, I mean, I thought the ending was a little rushed, but I like the series, but like the full large scale, like
00:38:21
Speaker
When the goal is to be larger than before and that's it, it doesn't land for me. Like the scene where it's like, everybody's here. Like, uh, I cried when Tony died, but like, I didn't care otherwise. I didn't give a shit. It was a long movie that was being dragged through for nothing.
00:38:36
Speaker
I have said it before and I will say it again, my relationship with the MCU is that of a shitty ex that you go back to and you think everything's going to be fine, we're going to hook up and we're going to fall in love again, and you leave their apartment and you're like, why the fuck did I do that? Why did I do that? That's exactly it. That's how I feel about every big Marvel film, but movies that were not super anticipated to do great.
00:39:03
Speaker
with when I say that meaning like Captain Marvel and Black Panther and more of like the the lesser known heroes before before they hit the big screen. I liked those. I like those side stories and I always love Spider-Man basically any iteration of Spider-Man I like so I also enjoyed those but that's because they're like
00:39:24
Speaker
they're more focused on their own shit and not caring about how many people can we shove on screen at once. Yeah, that's why I don't like it because it's just like, why do we have to make this so much bigger than anything? Why can't we just walk? You know what I mean? It's hard to explain, but it's just like, I prefer when it's like a contained story. Yeah, for sure. I think it's much nicer that way.
00:39:53
Speaker
I don't know. It's really frustrating. You know what I mean? I think that the parent death thing that you're thinking about was the new... It's free to ask it. I looked it up. Okay, I was...
00:40:06
Speaker
Well, I was going to say it might have been the new League of Legends lore story, short story, that was written for so much backstory. About Sona's adopted father, right? Yeah, about Barret something. Barret Buvel, Buvel. Yeah, that's her adopted dad. It was very sad. Yeah, especially because knowing it was like dedicated to a real person may be very emotional. Oh, yeah, I bald like a baby.
00:40:32
Speaker
Yeah, made me fucking sad. That was also something that made me cry. I do not do well with parent death. My parents are both alive, but Jesus Christ, if I have nightmares about it constantly and I don't know how to deal with grief because I am severely autistic.
00:40:48
Speaker
So I don't want that, don't want that at all actually. So yeah, that made me cry, but it was fruits basket specifically because it deals with like, you know, when they go to- A million different- Yeah, you know exactly what scene I'm talking about where I was crying like a bitch. So that was really something that fucked me up terribly bad. Sorry, I'm typing something at the same time. So I want to make sure I have this note, but
00:41:14
Speaker
That was really everything that happened to us throughout this month. We weren't really doing much except cramming. Wait. Wait. Sora for Smash.
Smash Bros. Excitement & Roster Critique
00:41:26
Speaker
Sora is in Smash. Sora got in Smash. Sora got in Smash. Sora got in Smash. Sephiroth is gonna be beaten up by a 14 year old again. I don't give a shit about Smash. I don't give a single shit about Smash. I don't care about recreationally playing it, competitively playing it. I don't care. What I care about
00:41:44
Speaker
is that the amount, the sheer fucking amount of people on Twitter that anytime Smash would trend, and someone would be like, how funny would it be if this character got in Smash? The amount of people that responded saying, fuck you, you're an idiot, there's no way that this character is gonna make it in, particularly with Sora. And a lot of it was just people joking, a lot of people that were just like, yeah, this is a pipe dream, if anything. And they weren't taking it super seriously,
00:42:13
Speaker
And for the most part, of course, there's a couple people there that are going to be very aggressively for it. But for the most part, it was just like, wouldn't it be cool if my boy was in Smash? And people were so fucking mean for no reason. And I hope all of you realize that you are probably the reason that Sora got put in. And it's funny, we are living for your fucking failures.
00:42:36
Speaker
It is so fucking funny and I hope you have trouble sleeping at night because I swear to god, Sakura I saw that shit and was like, fuck these guys, let's put them in. Exactly. That's what I like to think about. That's what we love to think about. That's how you know we're winning. And because Sora is the final Smash character ever for Smash Ultimate, the last goddamn one.
00:43:00
Speaker
You're not getting anything else, fuck you. I'm so mad at the people that were needlessly piss babies to everyone online having fun. And then guess what? All the nice people that were like, ha ha, sore for smash, how cool would that be? You didn't get rewarded.
00:43:17
Speaker
the majority of people like me they're just like you don't even play this game you just think it's funny that everyone's mad that's what it really is like you wouldn't if it was like not such a big trivial thing you would have been indifferent to it you're like that's cool like great but because people are angry you are living in the fucking salt you are
00:43:39
Speaker
sipping their tears. They are so angry. They cannot. I love it. I love it so much. The only smash that I've played and actually genuinely enjoyed was Melee. And a lot of people don't like that I say that. Melee is one of the most popular ones.
00:43:58
Speaker
Right? So many people that I'm like I prefer melee or I prefer like brawl to ultimate and stuff like those two specifically and they're like They probably think you're trying to be pretentious No, I just had more fun. I just liked playing Marth Marth is still in the game. I know but I liked playing him specifically on melee That's so fucked up you can be duck
00:44:26
Speaker
I could be Steve Minecraft, like... People modded it so you can get your custom skins in on Steve. Choice. You could be Sans Undertale if you wanted to. Dante Devil May Cry. Doomguy. Me and Wu watching our favorite characters get bastardized by Mii costumes while Sora gets in the fucking game. I don't care that Sora gets in the game. I'm over here cheering.
00:44:56
Speaker
You could have just left him out. You could have just not put him in. Yeah. But you did. But you made a Mii Fighter. I love it. I'm so happy. Anyways, Sora's in Smash. Life would have been so good if they just left Mii Fighters out of the game. Yes, I do agree with that statement.
00:45:19
Speaker
Okay, this is a stupid question. Are ice climbers still in Ultimate? Okay, so what they did is they took out ice climbers and put in me fighters. Basically... Hold on, I might be wrong, actually. I don't recall... Let me just pull up the Smash Bros. Ultimate Case List. Roster. Roster.
00:45:47
Speaker
Okay, here's all the DLC fighters. It's Sora, Piranha Plant, Joker from Persona, the hero from Dragon Quest, Banjo and Kazooie, Terry, Byleth, Min Min, Steve, Sephiroth, Pyra, Mithra, Kazuya, Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, Samus, Dark Samus. I don't know, she's a skin, but she also has her own moveset within the skin, I don't know.
00:46:17
Speaker
Yoshi, Kirby, Fox, Pikachu, Luigi, Ness, Captain Falcon, Jigglypuff, Peach, Daisy. Daisy is an offshoot of Peach, but has a different move set when you play her. Oh no, it's Climbers Heart Bear. I just don't see anyone play that.
00:46:32
Speaker
They're right there. Yeah, because they suck. Yeah. Also the having a different move set, but as like a skin thing has been around for a while. Yes. Yes. I just forgot they did it. Yeah. Because they're an official art. So it's just like, I just forget sometimes. Right. The only good thing about ice climbers was their map in Brawl. I don't remember what it looked like. It was the one where it was like moving all the time. You were like on an ice mountain, like an iceberg floating. So you would have to move to different icebergs while fighting.
00:47:00
Speaker
That was the best one. Sheik is still there. Zelda is still there. They're independent of each other. We got Dr. Mario. Why the fuck do we have to have Dr. Mario? And he's not an all-skin. You got Mario? He's not an all-skin. Already. He's just Dr. Mario as his own. I hate it. Fuck Smash. We got Pichu. We got Falco. We got Marth. We got Lucina, who is off of Marth. Or an extra for Marth. Skin. Young Link.
00:47:29
Speaker
Did I say normal Link already? I don't know. No, I said Zelda. Is it there? No, yeah, Link. So we have Breath of the Wild Link. And then Young Link from Ocarina.
00:47:44
Speaker
Is Toon Link still there? No, I think they replaced it with Young Link. Let me get down the list. Ganondorf is here. We have Mewtwo. We have Roy. Chrom is just an off-color of Roy. A skin. Mr. Game & Watch is still fucking trucking it, bro. He is still in. No one knows what that he is anymore. People only know him from Smash. Okay. Meta Knight. Pit. Dark Pit isn't off. Zero Suit Samus is her own thing. So technically, we have three Samus in here.
00:48:14
Speaker
Zero suit, dark. But people wanna get mad about Sora. No, okay. This is not opportunity to bash Samus. We are not doing that. No, I am not bashing Samus. I'm not bashing Samus. I'm bashing people's priorities. Link is here three times and you didn't mention that like... Yeah, because I'm a Link main. Fuck off. You didn't have any commentary on Game & Watch being here.
00:48:43
Speaker
I actually played Game and Watch as a kid, so I'm glad he's still around. Snake is still here. Oh, I skipped Wario. Wario is still here. Snake is still here. Ike is still here. Pokemon Trainer is still in, but they nerfed him because everyone he has sucks now. No more Blastoise. Well, not that you had Blastoise, he was an assist for it and Blastoise would come out. Anyways, Diddy Kong.
00:49:09
Speaker
Lucas Sonic King Dedede Olimar Lucario just get rid of Lucario, bro He is too hyper rendered. Yeah, I whatever no Lucario looks really bad and ultimate Lucario looks insane. He doesn't look like all of his like his skin is like puppy dog and they made they also made his like No shorter
00:49:34
Speaker
than it actually is in canon, so she's like, what is happening here? Rob is still in it. I do not know how Rob is still in it. Yes, Toon Link is here. Toon Link is here. Rob was like a toy they made, I think, if I remember. Wolf is here. You don't need Falco, Fox, and Wolf. Just make Wolf a skin for once. That's what I'm saying. Villager, I wish Villager was not here.
00:50:04
Speaker
Mega Man. Wii Fit Trainer. Rosalina. Little Mac is the GOAT. Greninja. I'm skipping over Mii Fighter. Palutena. Pac-Man is pretty fun. I forgot he was in there. Robin is here. Shulk is here. Bowser Jr. Duck Hunt. Ryu. Ken. Ken is the skin of Ryu. Cloud. Corin from Fire Emblem. Bayonetta.
00:50:33
Speaker
Inkling, Ridley, Simon, Richter, Richter is the skin of Simon, Belmont, King K. Rool, Isabelle, and Incineroar. Incineroar is number 69 on the roster, by the way. Nice.
00:50:50
Speaker
Damn. That's a lot of characters. In total, Sora is the 82nd character. And that counts. Technically, they count the Mii Fighters separately, because they're all different types. So that counts every variation of off characters, but that's 82 characters total for Smash. That's a lot. Yeah. Damn. And Rob still made it through. Man.
00:51:20
Speaker
I don't even think Rob's played in the competitive scene anymore. Who's he here for? Yeah, I don't think he is either. Who's he here for? I don't know. He's just gonna get fucking swooped by Steve from Minecraft, because Steve has better animation and better, like, combo. Well, I would not know to agree or disagree with that statement. Disagree. Um, Rob's kit hasn't been changed since he came out. In the initial games. Not this one. The beginning of time.
00:51:50
Speaker
Yikes. Damn. Don't say me better. What's up? I just like thought I needed to take a giant breath and my body was like, nope, we're not going to do that.
COVID Recovery & Niche Hobbies
00:52:08
Speaker
I've been breathing wrong since getting COVID. No, I'm okay. I just like it hurts a little bit.
00:52:16
Speaker
No, not like, okay, shut up for a second. It's not because of that. Because I was bound to my room, I could only like lay in bed or sit in my chair and it caused my spine to curve a little bit more. So it's been making my lungs struggle because my ribcage has shifted. It's unshifting as I get up and move around more again. But because I was in a bed for two weeks, it did not do well for me.
00:52:41
Speaker
So I keep getting like muscle spasms as my body shifts back, which sucks. And it makes it hard to breathe sometimes, but I'm doing fine. It's not like COVID long call or anything like that. I feel completely fine. I can walk without dying. It just hurts when I'm sitting for too long. I'll bleh. Yeah. I'm sorry. That sucks. Um, so I'm thinking of investing in rock tumbling. Seriously? No.
00:53:11
Speaker
Okay, I- I do like watch something though. I like to watch their TikToks of them doing it. Yeah, that's what exactly I was gonna say. I was like, I've been watching a lot of them. Right? It's so fun, especially with their little pebbles, you know, like their polishing pebbles. You kind of want to eat one. Yeah. Kind of want to eat one. A little bit. I like them. I think they're neat. I just like am amazed by how yes, I'm amazed by how niche certain things have become.
00:53:43
Speaker
something that was niche has now become like widely acknowledged and enjoyed like rock tumbling. I love rock tumbling. I love it. It's not like ASMR. I've already talked about this. Sorry, I'm like totally picking my ear in front of you. I hate when people rebrand like things that were meant for neurotypical people, like specifically things that were for stimming. Like ASMR was originally like a huge thing for autism stimming, but then it became mainstream and people took off the whole like
00:54:10
Speaker
on TikTok and then how the opposite is true.
00:54:14
Speaker
disability part of it because that part is shameful or something. But I'm glad it's not becoming one of those things. I don't want to see other people like Temple Rocks. I want one lady on TikTok to update me on how her Michigan rocks are doing. I want her to tell me how good the color of the foam looks when she pops that bad boy open. And then I want her to dump out all of the little pebbles. That's it.
00:54:38
Speaker
I don't want anyone to whisper at me. I don't want to hear the sounds of the rocks. I just want to hear her telling me how good that foam looks. True. So true. So true, Bestie. It's a simple ask. I think I'm being reasonable, you know? No, you are. I feel like the whole ASMR thing has become its own fandom, which I think is really weird. I do not like that.
00:55:05
Speaker
I think people really do have sensation from it and really do need it and benefit from it. I know a lot of people in the autism groups I'm in really do need it because their heads can be so loud or they're like me and they're very sensitive to other sounds. So to have a controlled sound source from someone like
00:55:22
Speaker
Crushing sand or doing something like that. That was really helpful for them So it does have a genuine part in like therapy and especially an audio therapy. That's a lot of why it was done But like it's become like a weird occult thing and people are starting to gatekeep it now Like yeah
00:55:40
Speaker
See, I obviously want it to be accessible to people who it helps and who they have a genuine trigger to it, and that's a positive trigger that something happens and you get the sensation from it. That's, yeah, I can't gatekeep you having a sensation that's not a normal thing to do. And I don't want to gatekeep you, but it's just like shut up sometimes. No, but my issue is more of with the people that are like, I'm gonna cut this soap and not have any sound to it and then claim that it is the more. Or play shitty music over it.
00:56:08
Speaker
Yeah, that's what I have a problem with. That's where it's becoming like almost a fandom because I see people reshare that shit all the time on Facebook and Snapchat and TikTok and it's like, bro, this is not, if you think it's pretty, then just say you think it's pretty. Yeah, mark that shit is like so satisfying or something. I don't care.
00:56:28
Speaker
Yeah, it's very weird. It's weird. People try to make fandoms out of the weirdest shit, and I know that's what our show's about, but damn. Speaking of what our show's about and to tie back, Nazi Hosts Club?
Controversial Themes & Gender Identity
00:56:43
Speaker
Oh god, this thing. Thoughts? Oh my god. You wanna go? Thoughts?
00:56:50
Speaker
Okay so give some context because I could not read what you sent me because I was at work. Oh you couldn't? Here I'll pull up the exact post. Did you see the pictures at least? I saw the pictures. And some of the comments? I read through like two of the major comments and I was like I can't do this. So in Japan, let me pull up the actual post so I can get um
00:57:11
Speaker
There's no real like article to it, but Basically a host club opened up. It's pretty common in Japan You know in Tokyo for like host clubs or like temporary pop-up maid cafes to open all the time, right? Very common. Usually they're themed. There is a devil may cry one for the Capcom. There was a bunch. There's a there's bunch Recently a group did a Nazi themed
00:57:34
Speaker
host cafe where they're in actually nazi uniforms the bottles the food they all have swastikas on them in some way like powdered sugar or pancakes with swastikas on them and the hosts are in genuine fucking uniforms with real symbols on them and it's advertised as a nazi host club
00:57:59
Speaker
I want to unalive. I wish to die. What a Hetalia moment. I want to eliven. What a Hetalia moment. What in the Hetalia is this? I hate this. That's literally all I can think of. It's literally all I can think of. We're back to fetishizing Nazis. And they just learned how to use a better camera and correct colored lighting. Basically.
00:58:23
Speaker
It's like the worst Italia fans and the worst Auron fans met up. Like the ones who thought the jokes of them saying Tranny were okay. Oh, yeah. You know? Wait. Oh, okay. Sidebar. I saw someone on TikTok that made this very sweeping, like, here are all the anime opinions. You don't want to hear a video. And you are absolutely entitled to your own opinion. Were they ignoring all the nuance of how language has grown?
00:58:51
Speaker
What they were saying is Auron was never and has never been any level of woke or whatever when it comes to gender. He literally was the fucking standpoint, the number one factor in most people identifying themselves. In our age group, I can go out to a bar of 22-year-olds and every single non-binary trans motherfucker
00:59:21
Speaker
they will be Haruhi in there. I kinda wanna run a poll on my fucking Instagram like, hey, gay people, who made you realize you're not a sis? Every single one of you will say Link, Haruhi, and then who's one more? There was one more I can't think of.
00:59:42
Speaker
oh um utana from revolutionary girl they will tell you they made that was not straight that was no hetero explanation for that um uh envy from fucking full middle alchemist and we're gonna remember his name um but the the evil like elf dude from tokyo miumu he's also very very
01:00:04
Speaker
Yeah. The androgyny of Sailor Uranus. Ishii. I think his name is Ishii. Yeah, I think you're right. I'm not gonna be wrong. Probably. I don't know. I don't want to talk to you anymore. But I just want to say fuck you maybe about that one thing in particular. You don't want your claims. Okay.
01:00:21
Speaker
Being woke I hate as a term. Obviously I believe always that you should be looking for nuance in things. There is important things that you need to look past and it's a big, I say this every fucking episode, media literacy is very very very important. I can watch Auron now and I can understand that some of the trans slurs that are used, they weren't slurs back then.
01:00:44
Speaker
It wasn't a, I'm not gonna say that it wasn't a thing to be trans back then, because it was, but it was less known as how to address that sort of thing. And especially when it came to dubs and subs, the humor has changed. And that's not to say that like everyone's soft, but it's been like a growth as like a internet culture for people to realize how things affect other people. And as we pushed into that,
01:01:13
Speaker
It's kind of hard to say because back when Auron was popular, the internet was still pretty fresh. At least within online communities, there wasn't much outreach between them. A lot of people didn't have experience in the matter. And so obviously, these jokes, you can watch them now. And obviously, they'll still make you cringe because they're not good jokes. They didn't hold up. But that doesn't mean that any of the important notes did. There's so much more to that than
01:01:42
Speaker
Haha, it's funny to fetishize gay men even though it's not the plot or like any of the trans things that are like offensive. All the things that are offensive of Auron were just because it was not of its time. That's to say the least and that's not to defend it or to say anything but it's important as we watch it now or as we show it to younger people to understand the nuance of what is said and that is you can't repeat it like it's not
01:02:10
Speaker
It's not what we do now. We know a lot more about trans identities now than we did before back when the manga was even published, especially.
Media Literacy & Fetishization Discussions
01:02:19
Speaker
So it's like we can address it and we can have media literacy and understand that although these things are being said, it's not a great way. There is a good message behind it. It doesn't need to be woke. I fucking hate when people who are like, it's not as woke as you think, or it's like, why the fuck does it need to be?
01:02:38
Speaker
Also, nothing is. Nothing is. There is a motive behind everything. Even the things that are progressive in any sort of way have a backdrop that is not good. There's no perfect medium in this world and that's why it matters that each person focuses on their own thing with individual drive and knows how to understand what's in front of them and how it can affect other people, how it can affect you personally moving forward. It's about literacy.
01:03:07
Speaker
You can watch something that's like extremely satirical. It can be offensive still, but just because you've watched it once doesn't exactly make you a bad person. If you say like, it's a really bad example, but like because I watched the Cinderella movie on Amazon, I'm not a bad person with bad taste for watching it, you know?
01:03:27
Speaker
Right. That was just me trying to drag that movie again. Yes. I was having a conversation with our friend Levi from the Late Night Discord, and they were trying to get me to listen to more Oinko Boinko previously. And so while I was at work this week, I listened to like four or five of Oinko Boinko's albums. And I pinged Levi and was like, hey, I really like this album. I didn't so much like this one.
01:03:53
Speaker
And it was really similar to what they had decided was like their favorite and what they didn't like and whatnot. And what I had not pieced together is that on the album Only a Lad, which has little girls, their like most famous song, and capitalism, which is literally one of the main lines is you don't know like, you don't know anything about struggling because you're a middle class socialist kid or some bullshit. It's extremely satirical. Things like that. Oingo Blanco is extremely like,
01:04:23
Speaker
Actually, when it was written, it wasn't. It was all pretty genuine. And Little Girls was written in a way to essentially oust creeps because it was about the disgusting predatory tendencies of the music industry and the film industry on girls and young women and people who were like, oh, I love that song. Good job. You just told everybody her pedophile. It was the people who liked it too much.
01:04:51
Speaker
Because it's a bop. Yeah, it's like, this is my song. But then it's it's switched complete gears. It did a complete 180 and it became oh, well, Oinko Boinko was full of creeps because they made this song. Yeah. No.
01:05:06
Speaker
The song was made for a reason, and no one has the literacy behind it or the context of the time or why it was written to understand what the fuck is the point. Literally, as we're recording this, because you haven't made a comment on it and I wore it for a reason, my t-shirt says, artist for losers. I love that you had to voice that over your big fucking titties. It was like a...
01:05:29
Speaker
It says artists for losers. There's a black t-shirt. It's handwritten on this is made by an independent artist called titty bats support them online And I wore this to an art museum like to one of the most famous art museums in Oklahoma And my mom got so mad at me like but it it's a media literacy thing It's a joke an actual artist made this like it's a commentary on The bullshit that you put into your own art and that art is fucking fake regardless because it's all about what it's
01:05:59
Speaker
It's all subjective. It's all subjective. And it just like pisses me off that these people can make these stupid TikToks and be like, I'm actually here. Haruhi's not as woke as he is. He's not meant to be. He is a flawed character who is meant to be personal to each person who watches it. There is something different about Haruhi that everybody can relate to in some way. And that's the point is the main character.
01:06:30
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I didn't even know that not strongly associating yourself with your sex, that you had assigned at birth, was an option until I watched Orin High School. Well, I was a tomboy girl, but that still kind of made me, just the label made me fit into a box I didn't like to be in. Because I wasn't really a tomboy, I just wasn't really feminine, so I didn't know where I was at. And then I was like, I don't need to really be
01:06:59
Speaker
either i can just kind of exist in this body i'm in and not have to worry about it and that's all i fucking need it from haruhi you know it's not like you know like woke boss day like no motherfucker that's just did you miss the point that's the whole thing is did you miss the point because there's a point where haruhi within the manga grows into her feminine like she didn't feel as if she needed to earlier she didn't feel any connection to her feminine like
01:07:29
Speaker
She didn't care about being feminine and passing in any way. She didn't want to be female. She didn't want to be a woman. She just wanted to be there, you know? It didn't matter to her. She just wanted to be her. But when she started her into herself within the manga, she found a role where she was able to be comfortable with her, like, identity, you know? And so that was like still being short-haired but dressing feminine, you know? It didn't matter to her, ever. And that was the point.
01:07:56
Speaker
That was the point. And you and I got the same shit out of this and had similar experiences and also growing up and even now are in similar quote unquote boxes where it's like we're not quite tomboy but we're more like boy-ish than most girls are. I'm dressed like a lesbian right now.
01:08:14
Speaker
You are. And then that translates as an adult into a very unique style and you don't really fit in with one particular gendered aesthetic. But the difference is, even though you and I are in that same box, you identify as a woman and I don't.
01:08:32
Speaker
And that's fine, and that's cool, and we can have the same views and experiences and still exist in that realm because Haruhi's literally an explanation of that experience. Yeah, it's like I was able to find comfort in being feminine without having to be feminine. And you were able to find comfort in not having to be within anything. Like...
01:08:52
Speaker
It's different for different people. I'm not, it's not woke because I'm still like identifying as a woman now. Haruki's not as woke as you are because the women that liked her are still women. What? What? Like it's not about that. It's not Haruki has to be your trans awakening. No, Haruki can just, you can be, you can learn from how she acts and how she behaves and how she fucking cares about herself because she's made it pretty clear throughout she's not insecure.
01:09:22
Speaker
You know, she stands by it like she doesn't have insecurity. She doesn't care how well she looks like. She loves herself for who she is. She wishes she was like stronger in situations. She wishes she was better to support herself, but she's not insecure of herself because she's a woman or because she doesn't, you know.
01:09:39
Speaker
Because she doesn't look fit. Yeah, she doesn't feel the need to fill that void and that's fine. And that's what people need is like that grasp of understanding of like, regardless of your situation, you don't need to force yourself within a certain role of how you feel as a person and how you wish to be. It's like the means of who you want to be are not within your current limitation.
01:10:03
Speaker
And that was the point. That's the point of the takeaway. That's the point. That's why every single host has severe trauma that they have to work through individually outside of who they are as a group because that group mentality is keeping them together. And it's a found family trope. Like, what do you not fucking get? You little bitches, you little sluts, you little fuckheads trying to make it woke. It's a found family.
01:10:27
Speaker
where everyone is slowly trying to come to terms with themselves. And that's the whole goddamn plot. So, if you watched Auron and you found something about yourself in any of the characters, regardless of gender identity, if you even found that you feel comfortable dealing with your emotions in a emotional way, or if you prefer to be stoic because it made you feel comfortable that way and you didn't even know that was an option, congratulations, you fucking got something from Auron. Woke or not, you got something from Auron.
01:10:57
Speaker
Do you know who the best motherfucker in the world is?
01:11:01
Speaker
the brother that is of the cat family that just wants to live in the dark cause his skin hurts when he's in the light, but he cares about his little sister so much and wants to make sure she's safe and that she knows she's loved, but he has a hard time being around her and she's scared of the dark. I love them so much. That's what I'm talking about. And especially like the way sibling bongs are really taken care of because your two siblings sets are like those two. And then Hikaru and Karu and the way that they interact, much different. Um,
01:11:31
Speaker
I mean, it's really separate from the anime because they're pretty fetishized, but that's the point of them is to point out how people fetishize young men. Well, and they're also only fetishized in the view of another person in the show. Yeah, they're completely separate people with completely separate behaviors. They dress the same because they like to, not because they do anything else. They don't realistically sleep together. They lie about it most of the time.
01:12:00
Speaker
And when they do, it's not like a sexual thing. It's just literally just, I'm close to my twin. And that's pretty normal. And there's nothing wrong with guys and siblings specifically being like physically close to each other and we shouldn't shame that. And that's a point. And the fact that it, that it got twisted into this whole, ooh, forbidden love, fuck off. No, that's okay. That's people not having media literacy of like, why, when that happens, you know?
01:12:25
Speaker
Right, and I know that the situation itself is a commentary on the fact that that is what will almost certainly happen to begin with, but it's just like, it's an ouroboros at that point. It's a snake eating its own tail in the never-ending cycle of fetishization.
01:12:40
Speaker
Even if you didn't put them in that position, look at fucking Devil May Cry. These twins hate each other and kill each other and people are like, make a fuck. So I don't think it matters if people see twin boys, they're going to do it no matter what. And that was the commentary. That's what it's about.
Closing Thoughts & Future Plans
01:12:53
Speaker
I feel like we've been rambling the whole time, but it's been a catch up episode. We'll have a guest next episode and we'll talk about real stuff. We also rambled for 20 minutes for secret reasons. So.
01:13:06
Speaker
I forgot we're taking 20 minutes off this recording, so technically we're not even at two hours yet. Right. We are at one hour and 25 minutes. That's pretty standard. Yeah, but for Patreon, no. So we gotta fill the void. Or just give him a short episode and tell him to fuck himself.
01:13:24
Speaker
We've been sick. Leave us alone. I know. We're little guys. I'm just kidding. No, don't. We appreciate you guys so much. Why are you kidding? Also go fuck yourselves. Keep the same attitude. If anyone has a problem with us being sick, fuck you. Where were you buying my buttons so I can afford to buy soup to feed my sick self, huh? Where were you? I'm just kidding. I thought you were going to say to feed your six children as a good joke. No, my sick, I'm my sick self.
01:13:51
Speaker
You're six selves. Yes. Why do you think I'm so tall? The five other parkers in your little trench coat. That's why you're so tall. We better make jokes that we're how many years we are old, but in bees in a coat. So next week I'll be 22 bees in a coat and he's currently 24 bees in a coat. That's amazing. Connor's two years older than me. He's 24 now. Yeah, he's 24.
01:14:20
Speaker
I'm 24. It doesn't feel like it. Yeah, you guys are the same age but different by like a week or 10 days technically, right? Yeah. 10 days, yes. Well, 11, right? No. When is this the 24th? 24th? 24th? Two weeks, exactly. Yeah, that's what it was. It was something I was just trying to remember where. I don't know where I'm at. I don't know what date it is. I don't know what time right now. Passage of time is not real. But yeah, you guys are very close in age. You're older but a little bit.
01:14:50
Speaker
Bet I'll be 22 bees next week. My brother in March will be 37 bees in a coat. That's uncomfortable. 37? My brother will be 37. Your older, older brother?
01:15:09
Speaker
I just have one. I thought, why do I think you have more siblings than you do? You have a sister. I have a sister. But for some reason I thought you had more brothers. Maybe it's because... There's three of us. I think I just mix up sometimes you and, like, Whoops family. Whoop has a brother. Yeah, I know. I think sometimes I just, like, intermingle them to brothers. It's fine. To brother. No more talking about brothers, not in pairs.
01:15:36
Speaker
I don't like it. What is the face you just made? I'm a very expressive person, facially. You are. Unless it comes to modeling, then it's like nothing else. No expression. I'm not expressive in my face, I'm expressive in my eyebrows.
01:15:54
Speaker
They just, like, move all on their own and I can't stop it. That's life. And I'm most impressed with my hands. I'd be moving. I'd be zooming. I'd be grooving. That's why I have to hold this makeup brush that I stole from the back of my car. I think it's my sister's. I'll give it to her when I see her on sun Saturday. I'm going to the zoo with my mom.
01:16:12
Speaker
And my sister. That's exciting. I'm hanging out with a friend who's coming back in town soon because he got promoted and now gets to go travel to a bunch of fun places. And he's getting back from his first job off-site. Wow. So we're going to go hang out. Yeah. He went to a museum of natural history in Pittsburgh, I think, and sent me a bunch of Snapchats of rocks and was like, these bitches got rocks. I love when Connor sends me pictures of rocks whenever he's doing stuff.
01:16:41
Speaker
I love rocks. He sent me one of a dinosaur skeleton that said, fucking dino sours. When Connor and I first started dating, when he came here for the first time, I took him to the big natural host museum and we have one of the biggest like,
01:16:58
Speaker
triceratops, I can't think what their family's called right now. I think it's tricephalopods, is that right? No, no, it's not. Cephalopods is a different thing. I don't know. Yes, I know. I can't remember what they're called, their family, but we have the biggest exhibit for that family in the country and so we went to do it and at the first zone by the T-Rex fossils and stuff, there's a drawing section where kids can draw dinosaurs and you put it in the box and it gets hung up on the wall.
01:17:25
Speaker
Connor drew a T-Rex, but it's got a human body and it's ripped. And he wrote Tyrannosaurus flex on it. It was in crayon. Let me see if I have the picture really quickly. I know I do. I love this. But he wrote like for age, cause if you're too old, you're not going to fucking put it up. But he wrote 13 and a bit or three and a bit. But when he did it, he was 18. So that bit was 13 years, 15 years.
01:17:55
Speaker
Three and a bit, but Tyrannosaurus Flex is the best thing of all time. Let me see if I got it. He should have put 12, because that's believable that a 12-year-old would do that. And then everyone would have been like, how cool is this fucking 12-year-old? Nope, three and a bit.
01:18:10
Speaker
Here, put this on the fucking Instagram episode too. Oh, it was five and a bit. I'm sorry, five and a bit. So 13 years. Oh my God, that's beautiful. That's so detailed. Connor draws buff things and crabs with hands and transformers. That's all he draws. He won't draw people, but he will draw crabs with hands with really detailed hands and transformers. Would he let us turn that into a sticker? I'll ask him. We have to get him one if you do.
01:18:40
Speaker
Yeah, oh absolutely. I'll fucking print it on a giant poster for him. Hanging up at my wedding. It has to be his type of drawing though, like I'll trace over it and add color and stuff, but it has to be like that. Yeah, you have to keep this entire essence. Yes, I'll ask him. That would be fucking funny. Make sure you put this on the Instagram.
01:19:01
Speaker
I'll have to give you his Instagram tags so you can tag him in it. Yeah, absolutely. Oh, he follows the... Now. He doesn't check Instagram ever. Yeah. I got that notification of him following. It was like, really? He doesn't check. Ryan has an Instagram. Ask him why he's not following. Interrogate him about it.
01:19:19
Speaker
I found out I found out publicly on the podcast for real. Fuck that. I'm calling you out right now publicly on podcast. Why are you following us on Instagram? He followed me. Bro, I thought we had. He showed up in my recommended on Instagram first. And I was like, Ryan, you have an Instagram? It's like, yeah, I was forced to make it. And you didn't follow me, bitch. Am I your best friend or not? This is fucked up beyond belief.
01:19:48
Speaker
Oh my god. That's what I'm saying. Well, should we wrap it up? Yeah, we should leave everything before like even me walking out in the Patreon cut. I think it's funny. Yeah, okay. Um, so we have patrons to thank. Yes, we do. For this week. I am pulling up the list. We're at 20 patrons. Oh my god. Thank you guys. It's fucking 20 of you assholes that like our shit. I appreciate it. Yes sir, yes sir, yes sir.
01:20:18
Speaker
First, let's hurry into our bit. I'm the one propositioning you get this time. Okay, but we have matching ones this time. I just have to find them. I'll go first. You said to me first... No, I guess I said it first. You say it first. It's right on top. It's right under I Love Piss, the Shadow the Hedgehog meme.
01:20:46
Speaker
in O.C. Seinfeld. Yes, I do see it. So you DM'd me at 9.21 at night. We're in love. I'm your mangy rodent bathroom rat GF, or BS. That's a boyfriend, bitch. To which you then responded, I'm your caffeinated dipshit goth GF. And it's true. That's us. It's true. And I love it so much. We're a pair. We're a little dirty pair. We're like machine gun Kelly. But if both of them were on crack.
01:21:16
Speaker
Why'd you react to that? I react to it every time that we do it, so I check it off the list. Have you not noticed that? We've been doing this for what, six fucking months? And every single one that I react to is one that we've already said on the podcast, so I know not to repeat myself. I never, I never, I never prepare for this bit.
01:21:38
Speaker
So the one time I am and I finally notice something, you're shaming me for it? Do you not want me to be prepared for the bit anymore? I figured you read through the channel at some point. I post my shit and I leave. You need to do the void and say, nyoom. Yeah. Amazing. This month, Super Saiyans, by the way,
01:22:02
Speaker
if you be a- if you up your tier up to anything if you'd become a pro hero if you're a super fucking sailor scout if you become a super saiyan from a pro hero i don't give a fuck if you up your patreon subscription we will get you a discount on merch so all of our merch will be at a discount to you that includes the nine individual baja blast buttons we have left and the 13 packs of buttons so if you miss pre-order we have extras very specific numbers though so
01:22:33
Speaker
Order them fucking quick our Halloween stickers will be going up on the store shortly Later this week at the end of this week actually Actually, this is coming out on Tuesday. They're up
01:22:46
Speaker
Shit. They will be available just for the holiday. They will be actually becoming first. So if you are not on sticker club, but you want one, you can get it before sticker club will actually receive it just because of the holiday. But sticker club will already be receiving their packages a week early. So please bear in mind, if you wish to join sticker club, do it soon because we are sending these earlier than usual. Hell yeah. Thank you for the long-winded message. Up your Patreon and we'll get you discount codes on shit.
01:23:14
Speaker
I'll even throw in past month's stickers as a treat. I don't care. Join our sticker club. Now. You're gonna. Yeah. I'm getting there bitch. This month's Super Saiyans are Hector, Lydia, Oakley, Ryan, Ry, and Ray. Thank you, you little, little, little guys, little dudes. Thank you. He looked fucked up against like the white reflection.
01:23:42
Speaker
Oh my god. Little honey bees that have so thoughtfully given us 15 of your little doll hairs. I appreciate it. 15 doll hairs. Just 15 doll hairs. Just 15 doll hairs. It's so sweet and so tender to have their doll hairs. Amazing. Well, should we end?
01:24:09
Speaker
the chaos yes this is episode 11 did we even say that this is we didn't even say that at the beginning damn episode 11 we hit double digits we hit double digits last episode but now we're at one one we didn't acknowledge it that either almost burped it was not a fan name this episode if we don't burp I've been burping this whole time get fucking with it that was my first baja blast burp though so whatever
01:24:38
Speaker
We're making every single noise right now. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Join our Patreon. Oh shit, we had to plug it. I was about to just... You can find the podcast at patreon.com slash fandamespod. You can find us on Twitter at fandamespod. You can find us on Instagram. Also at fandamespod. Yes. Hell yeah. Parker. That's your full name. I may not say that.
01:25:05
Speaker
Um, you can say that. I don't give a shit, but... Okay, Parks, where the fuck can I find you? You can find me on Instagram at crownguardcauseplay and you can find me on Twitter at littlelightb. Nebula, where you at? I am on Instagram and Twitter at nebula underscore inky. That's I-N-K-Y. Nebula stinky.
01:25:25
Speaker
Fuck you. I'm leaving. Thank you for listening to the podcast. I'm leaving the podcast. What? We just made it to episode 11. We just came back from a break. You called me, you called me Stingy. You called me a bitch 20 times this episode. Little, little light biatch. Oh, you said biatch to prove, oh, biatch. I get it now. Listen, I never said I was smart.
01:25:55
Speaker
True. Okay, goodbye.