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3 Cocktails In
Addicting conversations between friends who have been there, done that and still want more.
We are 3 friends who got this crazy idea to start a podcast based on our friendships, family lives, professional lives and experiences! This idea kept coming up in our conversations, especially after a cocktail or two or maybe three, and we finally decided to ACT on it!
We don't claim to be experts on too many things, but friendship? Well, we've got that down. We're making our way through major life changes, searching for work that excites us, busting myths associated with 'old' people, and keeping a sense of humor about it all.
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Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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3 Cocktails In
Things We Just Don't Get
Ever found yourself staring blankly at something that absolutely refuses to make sense? You're not alone. In this hilarious and relatable episode, we dive headfirst into life's most persistent mysteries – those things we just don't get no matter how many times they're explained.
Retirement savings limitations kick off our confusion tour. Why, when you're finally making enough money to seriously save for retirement, does the government cap how much you can put away tax-free? This leads us down the rabbit hole of unnecessarily complicated tax systems. We've all seen the memes about the IRS making you guess what you owe – but the frustrating reality isn't far off!
The conversation takes a turn toward the automotive when we ponder why anyone would want their car to be louder with dual mufflers, or trucks to be higher with lift kits. Is there a practical purpose, or is it just about making a statement? Either way, we remain thoroughly perplexed.
Things get particularly entertaining when we explore modern slang terms that leave older generations completely bewildered. From "gyat" to "sigma males" to the completely nonsensical "chicken jockey" (apparently something you randomly shout to disrupt quiet moments?), we attempt to decipher the code of Gen Z communication with mixed results. Our conclusion? Maybe every generation creates linguistic barriers specifically to confuse their elders.
We also touch on the psychology behind internet trolls, the importance of establishing family "safe words" to protect against sophisticated AI scams, and why meaningful change to broken systems faces such strong resistance. Through it all, we find comfort and humor in our shared confusion.
Want to join the conversation? Share the things that leave you scratching your head with us on social media, or submit your own questions for a future episode! And remember – sometimes the best response to life's mysteries is simply "chicken jockey."
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
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Speaker 2:Hi ladies, Hello darlings, Hello, hello and hello to all our listeners and viewers.
Speaker 3:This is Three Cocktails In and we have another episode of Addicting Conversation.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Looking forward to Conversation. Yeah, looking forward to this one. Yeah, we'll see how this goes. So before we started and we have our little chat ahead of time we were talking about the weather. Why does the weather go from? You know right, this time of year we go from 50 to 80 to 60 to 85, back and forth all the time. And we were talking that Kitty and I have turned our heat and cooling on and off. Amy's stuck with one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so because I live in this giganto building and it was built in 1965, there is either the heat is on and you have individual controls in your condo, or the air is on and you know, when we had the 85 degree weather it usually we usually set switch it over like end of April, beginning of May. Yeah, usually have like 10 days of neutral where nothing is coming out either way. Well, now we're on the air and I haven't had anything turned on and I bet it's 62 degrees in here. I'm drinking tea, for God's sake. That will tell you how awful this is. I never drink tea, yeah.
Speaker 2:Mostly I'm warming my hands. Yeah, yeah, again a question that we just cannot answer, and that is the segue into today's podcast, our questions we have. Some might be answered, some may not not be answered. Yeah, these are the things we think about and yeah, we don't understand, we don't get it.
Speaker 4:No we do not get it, and even though there is an answer like like for one of mine that we're going to talk about, I know that I can Google it and find the answer for it, but that doesn't mean that I still don't get it. You can explain it to me all you want, but it still doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3:My things are very philosophical in nature. Where I'm not sure there is an acceptable answer Rhetorical.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, just question.
Speaker 4:Yeah, things to make you think, things to make you think and maybe, hopefully, things to make you maybe, maybe act differently or respond differently in those situations. Sometimes, I think awareness can be a battle.
Speaker 3:Awareness is the best place to start in all things, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm aware I don't know a lot of things. We're all aware of similar. Which I don't know no.
Speaker 4:How much you don't know, we're aware. So much better than just being a know-it-all right, so that's good.
Speaker 3:For sure, yes, yes.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, ts up, kitty, what do you got?
Speaker 4:Okay. So this is top of mind because Bill just retired and so it's kind of come up in conversations, not just recently but over the years, as we've prepared for retirement. And you know, the irony of the situation that I'm going to lay out here is that as you progress in your career and you're making more money, you are actually in a position to sock away a lot of money for retirement. Right, that's what, that's hopefully what you're doing, so that you can retire comfortably. Okay, but the government puts these restraints on it, constraints on it that says you can only deposit this much money into retirement accounts.
Speaker 2:Tax-free. You can put more in, you can save.
Speaker 4:You can save whatever you want, like for a 401k or you know, et cetera. You're right, you are correct. So why? Why, I mean, and especially for people who you're not working for a company that has a pension and you will completely be dependent on what you have saved for retirement, and if social security is still around, okay, why do they limit what you can put in?
Speaker 2:um, why do they limit what you can put in Well? I, I'm guessing that is the answer.
Speaker 4:It's the pre-tax thing. They want more taxes from you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, where's my bell?
Speaker 4:Hey, that's a good one, and I there are. There are a few topics that we purposely don't cover here. We don't talk about politics, we don't talk about religion. We're kind of on the edge of this one with this topic. But I don't know, it's just, it just seems with this topic. But I don't know, it's just, it just seems. Yeah, it just seems like there could be a better, a better way, a better way there certainly could be, yeah.
Speaker 3:So that's one, that's one that I have which is a perfect segue to number two that you have.
Speaker 4:My number two is why the hell are taxes so freaking, complicated? It's stressful for everybody. Yeah, you know, not everybody can do their own taxes. Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to pay a tax person to do your taxes? You didn't have to pay a tax person to do your taxes, but man it's complicated, yeah, why?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:Should be pretty easy. But oh no, yeah, and it's not foolproof. And you know, there's the funny memes out there that there's one woman I haven't seen any from her lately, but she's the one that always does the really she takes the everyday thing and then pretends to be the person on the other line, and she was talking about how you have to pay your taxes. And they know exactly how much they want you to pay, but they won't tell you, so they make you guess. Nope, still not right. Try it again. Still not right. Try it again.
Speaker 2:Try it again. That is not right. That is about right. That is right, yeah, yeah. So I don't know. Taxes are dumb, they're just dumb, unnecessary evil to keep society moving forth.
Speaker 3:Yes, there is a point, doesn't mean they're not. Um, the method by which we yeah, poor, poor implementation, yeah, I don't know, nobody likes change. That is another commonality. Nobody likes change. Therefore, anything that is brought to the forefront, that is a change, a new idea, a new method immediately is met with oh, no right.
Speaker 2:Right, and usually the people against it are the most vocal. That's often the problem too. You know you're going to fight like crazy against it. The people for it, you know, weren't as vocal. I've always thought with taxes it's been really funny, you know. I don't know if you've also experienced this, but when your kids get to the point where they're, you know, making money or have a job, and then they see all this, you know well, I thought I was going to get paid whatever. And then you know half of it disappears and you know all these taxes and social security and stuff that comes out of it. I just think it's funny, you know, when they see the real yeah, how it really works. Welcome to adulthood.
Speaker 3:Still one of the classic Friends episodes when Rachel gets her first check from the coffee shop and she wants to know who FICA is and why he's taking all of her money.
Speaker 2:Love that I know.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:Oh goodness.
Speaker 4:All right, who's got another, who's got one?
Speaker 3:Would you like me to throw out one of my rhetorical questions? Sure, I do not understand cars with two mufflers. Why, why, why do you need and want your car to be louder?
Speaker 2:Amy, because it's cool. It's cool Same reason why they take trucks and like, jack them up. What's the point of that?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't get it. I don't get it.
Speaker 2:No, I don't either.
Speaker 4:So if any of our listeners or viewers know the answer to that question, so if any of our listeners or viewers know the answer, to that question, to these and other questions, please do um submit your answers. Um, we could have you know. We could have bill speak to the topic of putting a lift kit on a truck, because that's totally his whole what, what, even what's a lift kit?
Speaker 3:Yeah we don't know that, yeah.
Speaker 4:So it just lifts it a little bit more, and then you would put some bigger tires on it also. So you just make it.
Speaker 3:You can make this truck just a little bit more manly got it, and then you need to get out the stair step so that people who are kitty size can get in? Yeah, how does kitty get in one of those, that's a manly truck when it has stairs or like a you know, a fire escape ladder that you gotta drop down the side so you can get in and out.
Speaker 4:Well, you know a lot of the trucks that are $100,000 now. You know to buy a pickup truck, open the door and the little stair step thing you know. Yeah, lowers, lowers, it's like little people. Yeah, lowers, lowers, yeah.
Speaker 2:So Bill doesn't like come around and like scoop you up out of the truck to get you down.
Speaker 3:Um he will always me to get in Um.
Speaker 4:I don't wait for him to come around and lift me down from.
Speaker 3:I think he should Come around and back up and you should get on him like a piggyback ride To the house. I think that would be excellent.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 2:I just thought of one more thing I'm adding to my list. If he's going to have this big, giant truck with a lift kit yeah, I think that needs to be Then he needs to lift kit, yeah.
Speaker 3:I think that needs to be. Then he needs to lift kit out of the truck.
Speaker 2:I'm going to run that by him.
Speaker 4:I'm going to run it by him too. We'll see what he says.
Speaker 3:I think that I'm going to make another really good lifelong friend of a husband of somebody on this show. Batty me to the front, there you go. Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2:What do I have? I have the weirdest shit. Oh good, because I couldn't decide really what to do and usually I feel like a lot of our you know things we don't get, are things online or technology, or why are kids doing this weird stuff, or whatever. So I did my usual. You know, I picked my 21 year old nephew and asked him some questions. Right, I wanted five words.
Speaker 2:You know slang type stuff that they use, that he uses that. You know people, his age I'm not talking 12 year olds and we're not right. So, college age kids, what slangy weird words do you use and what do they mean? Right? Well, at first he wouldn't tell me what they meant. He says well, google it. I Googled and I used AI and they all had different, even meanings for the same thing. So if that wasn't confusing enough, right, wasn't confusing enough, right? So finally, after all that, I got him, you know, to say okay, well, what is, what do you think is the meaning? And, assuming that he's correct, right, you know we've talked, you've talked about this kitty because, um, you know you get called cringe and you know sus and all this kind of stuff which we kind of know. But he came up with some like if you've ever heard ghiat, have you heard ghiat? So I think most people know that one. He said that and that means a fat butt. Why I have never heard that?
Speaker 1:no, I've not heard it in that way I haven haven't heard it at all.
Speaker 4:Yep, okay, yep.
Speaker 2:Okay, yep, sigma. Do you know what Sigma is?
Speaker 3:It refers to men who are not alpha macho men.
Speaker 2:Supposedly better than alpha is what I was told to, but keep going. Yep, yep, not alpha.
Speaker 3:Why would sigma be better than alpha?
Speaker 2:Or above, alpha is what I don't know, but keep going. So what's your sigma? I don't know. Yeah, you're right, it's refers to a man, um, kind of the lone wolf, successful original thugs, original type guy who's so cool that he doesn't need to have a girlfriend or or a partner. Is just that cool.
Speaker 3:Again, doesn't he also not need the approval of other alpha?
Speaker 2:males.
Speaker 3:Like like what I understood it to be was you know if somebody is telling you they're an alpha male? They're probably not, you know yeah.
Speaker 1:I think anybody that has to tell you what they not?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think anybody that has to tell you what they are probably isn't.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 3:I thought that Sigma was somebody who's like I'm good as I am, I'm all cool, I don't care. So I think in many ways, sigma males are very attractive, except they don't really want to be women in their life.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly Something along those lines. Or other people think they're Sigma. Yeah, again, weird, it doesn't make any sense. Okay, how about PacWatch? Never heard of that? I know I hadn't either, but supposedly they say this all the time it refers to. You know, it's something you say when something unfortunate happens. You know, but you're making fun of it, kind of so, like, for instance, if somebody drops their ice cream on the floor, you say pack watch. Or pack watch bozo. You know, kind of like you're not feeling sorry for the bad situation.
Speaker 3:Those words don't even make sense together.
Speaker 2:It's not exactly, does not make sense, exactly, and yeah, and I think my kind of my point is why, right, why do we make up these words? You know are they are, you know? Do you do? Do you make up slang so an older generation doesn't understand what the heck you're saying? And it's code, or yeah, exactly that's my question why?
Speaker 4:hmm, now I'm trying to think about 80s things that we said well I I remember I remember the term sick that's's really sick Back in the 70s it would have been before high school, because I remember my sister saying it and that has kind of come back a little bit. I've heard millennials say that and I remember the older generation being like sick, why? Why are you? You know? What a weird word to use for well. Actually, now I'm trying to remember what, how, how it was used back then. Was it as in?
Speaker 3:that's gross or that's not good, or that's good yeah, because that's the recent term, so I don't know I remember when the girls were younger um the word ratchet was used. Oh, as in like gross and horrible, like.
Speaker 4:Nurse.
Speaker 3:Ratched. Oh Okay, I'm not sure how many of them ever watched the movie.
Speaker 4:Mm-hmm. Yeah, like they even know the reference, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:So again things.
Speaker 4:We don't know why it. It's odd, because a lot of times aren't slang terms usually shorter phrases for something or shorter words for something like sus, yeah, um, but what was the riz or riz? What was? So? What was the one that you were just saying?
Speaker 3:Hackwatch, hackwatch. That's not even a word.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, right, yeah.
Speaker 3:I think, Brody has set you up to sound foolish.
Speaker 4:He's going to listen to this episode and he is going to laugh.
Speaker 2:Yeah, my aunt's an idiot. She doesn't know what she's talking about.
Speaker 3:Okay, I think the funny part of this story was how you asked him first and then you lost his answers. Which ties into the other part.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I sent him a new list. He had to send it to me. He goes. Well, you look it up first. And he said I had two right, two out of the five, and I think I had three out of the five right, and again, I'm Googling and whatever. So that's the whole thing too. If you wanted to know some things, you may not get the right one either, but here's the one. I really do not understand. If you thought Pack pack watch was weird, how about?
Speaker 3:chicken jockey. Isn't that from the? Isn't that from a?
Speaker 2:movie? Yeah, it's, it can't. It comes from minecraft. You know, of course, something that we wouldn't watch and they're all crazy about, right, um, and it literally is something about a baby zombie that rides a chicken, so that's the jockey on the chicken, and it's a weird, very, you know, barely ever seen in minecraft or even I don't know. Is Minecraft a game? I assume it's a game too. Yeah, hard to ever find or see or whatever Like the unicorn.
Speaker 2:Unicorn of the game? Sure, something like that. But what's happening is they will just yell out chicken jockey and Brody says it doesn't mean anything, you know. And so I kept asking him all these questions, well then why? And he goes I don't know, people just yell it out.
Speaker 3:so I'll use that at my next sales meeting when we discuss some of these things that we just talked about earlier. I'm gonna yell from the back chicken jockey.
Speaker 2:Chicken jockey and see what happens, because that's, I think, what they're doing so it's like disruptive and oh, that's good for me yeah, yeah. So you know sadly as much as I can understand about the whole stupid thing.
Speaker 3:So I would have to write a note on my planner for when I'm sitting in the meeting, so I remember remember to yell chicken jockey.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly. So. So that was part of it. I said you mean it's like an exclamation, he goes. No, not really it goes, it's like bazinga. And it's like well, wait a minute, bazinga means like gotcha you know, like they had it on big bang theory Bazinga.
Speaker 2:It's like gotcha, you know. Like when they had it on Big Bang Theory Bazinga, he would say that it's kind of like a you know a gotcha. No, not like that. It's like you got me then, because I'm not following Chicken Jockey. But I think that's the test. Go into you know, I don't know a restaurant, just yell Chicken Jockey and see what happens. I don't know, it's a test.
Speaker 3:Next time you get a bill and you don't like it, it doesn't matter, chicken jockey, give it back to them.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, I don't know. So again, things that we just don't understand and can't understand, right.
Speaker 4:I'm going to say it to Bo and see what he says.
Speaker 2:See if he yes, See if he knows yeah.
Speaker 3:I do think that some of it's got to be regional, Like everybody's got different dialects Southern twang, I think. Pack watch is a an Iowa.
Speaker 2:It could be yeah, see, see what Bo knows, or see what his friends know, and see what the difference is. Which is true like oofta.
Speaker 3:nobody in iowa has ever in their lifetime said oofta and I'd I've never said oofta either, because I I grew up in iowa and moved to Minnesota, but people actually say it as a real phrase. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:As a response, it's not really a phrase, isn't it?
Speaker 2:more of a North Dakota thing. Oh, I was even thinking it's Scandinavian.
Speaker 3:Yeah, scandinavian is what it is.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3:So yes, north Dakotans are Norwegian. You know, you've got the Norwegian Swedish people in Minnesota and I don't know about Wisconsin.
Speaker 4:Just for clarity, stacy, could you please use pack watch in a statement in a sentence.
Speaker 2:Well, that's all you say is pack watch. Or, like, like brody said, they say pack watch bozo, so you do something unfortunate. Or, you know, say you trip and fall down. Right, yeah, and so they're not getting any sympathy for what happens. It's like you know, oh, pack watch, pack watch, because you're a ding-a-ling, or you know. Does that make sense? Like I said, I know right.
Speaker 3:No, I hear what you're saying, but no, it doesn't make sense. No, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay, but no, it doesn't make sense. Yeah, okay. So I would say yeah, we would say something silly like oh way to go ding-a-ling or say you know it's.
Speaker 2:I think that move smooth, yeah, way to go you know that was, yeah, that kind of thing but then chicken jockey is just something that you blurt out as if you have to I guess, just to disrupt the thing I'm I one thing that I googled talked about how you know, like in a movie theater, you know it's real quiet and everybody's watching and some, you know, yell out chicken jockey and then everybody goes, everybody goes crazy or something silly. Okay, yeah, no, it doesn't have to make sense. Like I said, don't know, that's the question I I got a funny comment from him, though, on another question. He, um, you know, it's kind of like well, like well, what do you want? What do you want old people to know?
Speaker 2:And I said what do you want old people like your mom to know, who's I don't know 10 years younger than me, right, and he says, well, I wish old people would understand technology. And I kind of chuckled, yeah, yeah. And I said, well, what about it? You know, like AI, he goes, I wish they would understand what's fake. You know things are fake Right.
Speaker 2:And you know he said AI is a part of it. Um, but also like the dumb thing when people. Um, but also like the dumb thing when people.
Speaker 1:Oh, you know that message on facebook that people copy and paste.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, now, now you, you won't see any more ads, or? You'll see all your friends, or I?
Speaker 3:I no longer give facebook permission to use my photos.
Speaker 2:Yes, that one. He says that's, that's so dumb, like, why would you, you know? Why are you falling for that? That's not a thing. Yeah, yeah, not a thing. So I thought that was kind of funny. Just don't pass it. He thinks old people need to be better at better at figuring that out. So yeah, he's got a point. He's not wrong. No, he's not, he is not wrong. So, whatever, yeah, so we'll see if he laughs and gets a chuckle out of this, because we still aren't coming to any real you know answers on all their silly words. So there you go.
Speaker 3:I still cannot come up with some that we used in high school that didn't at least sort of related to the situation whereby we were using the word to the situation whereby we were using the word yeah, yeah, and a lot of theirs do too.
Speaker 2:Like that. It's half a word, or you know. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Sounds like it.
Speaker 2:Okay, anybody have anything else. I have one more weird thing as well. Go ahead, kitty, what do you got?
Speaker 4:so um so my business is 90 online and I do most of my sales through Facebook and now TikTok. You guys, I am so happy to report that, as of today, I have earned 23 new customers on TikTok since May 1st. Oh, that's awesome. 23 people have claimed jewelry and paid invoices. So they're real. They're real customers.
Speaker 2:I bet you're going to talk about the fake customer. Yes, you can comment about it.
Speaker 4:What I don't understand is the people who have so freaking much time on their hands that all they want to do is go on to live videos and be ugly trolls. Yeah, I don't understand. What are you doing? What are you? What are you doing with your life? And do you really think that you're hurting me by coming on and acting like a normal person and claiming pieces and then poof going away Like, do you? Do you think that I'm going and I'm pulling all these pieces and I'm putting, getting them into a package and I'm getting it ready to send out, but I'm waiting for you to pay your? No, no, not none of that. So you, you, you, sitting on my show for an hour and a half and acting normal and commenting, you just wasted 90 minutes of your life boosting my algorithm. Thank you, Thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you, but it can be irritating. It's not always like that.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, it be irritating. It's not always like that. Yeah, yeah, it's. Yeah, it is irritating, especially when they are vulgar and mean they go after other people on the show, right, they'll comment on their comments and say really horrible, ugly things. It's been a long time now since I've had those.
Speaker 4:But, it's just yeah. It's one of those things that I'm just like I don't get. I do not understand what would motivate you to do that, why you have nothing better to do. Yeah, and how do you put your head on your pillow at night and go to sleep and feel good about yourself? Well, I think that's it.
Speaker 3:First of of all, they never feel good about themselves, ever, yeah, um. But also, are we sure they're real people?
Speaker 2:can a bot do that kind of thing?
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm sure yes, but that begs the question why would you set up a bot to do that, to do?
Speaker 2:it. Well, it begs the question why are there hackers? Why do you have nothing better to do than make somebody's life miserable because you mess around with their whole? You know businesses, you know computer and whatever. Why do people steal your identity? I think they're trying to make money at it, I'm sure, but yeah.
Speaker 4:Well, and there are. There are enough people who fall for it that they are able to. That's, that's, that is how they make money. This is just a random thing that I just thought of and I need to. I need to bring this up next time I'm with my mom and my sister. We should all have safe words. Have you guys thought about this before?
Speaker 2:For what?
Speaker 4:So let's. So, let's say, because with AI generating voices and things like that, some of the scams that are going on is that you'll get a phone call and Stacey will get a phone call and it'll be Madison and she's saying Mom, I'm in trouble and I need you know, whatever, but it's not Madison. And so Stacey's question is Madison, what's the word? And so Stacy's question Madison, what's the word? And then if this person, this AI or a person on the other, end of the phone doesn't have the word. It's not Madison.
Speaker 2:And I think that would be a good use for chicken jockey. Yes, it would.
Speaker 1:Well, not now, it's not.
Speaker 2:No, but that would make sense yeah.
Speaker 4:But I think that's really really smart.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is a good idea.
Speaker 3:So that's another password I have to remember. Yeah, am I going to have to change it every time, whatever it is? Yep.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, another password I have to remember. Am I gonna have to change it? Yep, yeah, oh yeah. I've often thought that with my mom, and I'm sure that's what you're thinking with your mom too. Oh, my mom would fall for whatever. She's always answering the phone and it's like why are you answering that number that you have? It's not anybody you need to talk to. At a 923 area code. You have no idea who that would possibly be.
Speaker 3:I have a business line and I have to and of course they record and listen to my phone calls. So I have to answer pretty much all of them, because there are some that come up as scam likely but they are real people that actually are trying to call um. But I have found the best way to shut down a lot of scammers is to say you know it's a great day at tires plus store and click. That's not what I say, but you know, um yeah, so I hate that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I know, I don't get it. Don't get why there's that either. Makes no sense, no.
Speaker 4:It's like why can't people just be good people and why can't everybody just get along, and why do we have to have wars? Why are there evil people in the world that just want to kill people? Just why don't?
Speaker 3:why don't thin mints make?
Speaker 2:us thin.
Speaker 3:To circle back to that one, why don't thin mints make us thin? Sure, certainly should yeah advertising yeah, um, so stacy, what was the other thing you wanted to bring up?
Speaker 2:I, you know, as we're getting close on time, I'm going to give you the thing and, if interested, you Google it and go down the weird Google path. I did, but supposedly, like a junior high age, kids are going crazy over Italian brain rot. Kids are going crazy over italian brain rot and since we're going to italy, I it caught my you know attention so I looked at it. A weird, weird, weird ai generated italian speaking sounding characters in this weird again yeah, I'm out I don't need to know it's, but it's like I said, we just don't happen to have junior high age kids, but some do.
Speaker 2:I'm sure they're here in the same weird kind of stuff like pack watch and chicken jockey. So just weird stuff, a lot of stuff on the internet. You know, I don't know how you manage that with young children. We didn't necessarily have that issue, but people today do. Yeah, huh, I know.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I can't wait to start using the phrase back in my day.
Speaker 2:I know right Yep when life was simple.
Speaker 3:Life wasn't simpler. There just was no video documentation.
Speaker 2:Yes, no social media to watch your every move. Yep, that's right. Okay, does anybody happen to have a shot this evening?
Speaker 4:I don't have a shot.
Speaker 3:I started shrinking. The second season of Shrinking. Oh, I didn't know it was out. I love it. Yes, I think it's been. Yes.
Speaker 2:Did it all come out together or is it doing episode by episode? Do you know? Far, okay, it was just a question. Yeah, I know, I can't wait. How many episodes have you watched?
Speaker 3:I just got through the first one and I laughed hysterically. Yeah, it really is funny. So shrinking is on Apple TV and I laughed hysterically.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it really is funny. So shrinking is on Apple TV, I believe. Yes, yes, yep. So good, a good recommendation. It's excellent yeah.
Speaker 4:I did start watching today.
Speaker 3:The original four seasons oh okay, okay.
Speaker 2:Did you watch the?
Speaker 4:new.
Speaker 2:Four Seasons?
Speaker 4:Not yet, so I wanted to watch the original first.
Speaker 2:Okay. And then the new one, and then the new one. Yeah, yes, very good.
Speaker 4:Excellent.
Speaker 2:How about our new segment, weird Stuff on the Web? Anybody have a weird thing they saw lately. I I've got it.
Speaker 3:Actually this falls under both the cop, the topic of conversation. I don't. I mean, I do get why, but I find it highly annoying. So this also could go into another segment that we're having coming up. But people who stitch somebody else is real and all they do is show themselves laughing about the original one. They don't say anything yeah, they're literally just.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's side by side. It would be like you, kitty, you're doing something funny and I'm just sitting here laughing hysterically and that's it.
Speaker 3:And then it ends like you posted a reel that's hysterical, and so I'm gonna just post myself laughing about your reel while you're doing it. So I would like to ride your coattails.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Without coming up with my own content. Yeah, Yep. And that's why.
Speaker 2:That exactly is why yeah.
Speaker 4:It's hard to create original content.
Speaker 2:It is, yeah, it's hard to create original content Now the ones, the ones I do like which I saw last night was this beautiful girl playing the weirdest guitar like instrument I've ever seen, beautifully. And then this guy you know it, like the his post is her going all the way through just by herself and then he has like an electric guitar type thing and then the second time he plays along with it and it was beautiful, that one I can get. That's his content. He's adding to what she was doing. But yeah, the one where they just sit and laugh is weird, yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm sure I've seen weird stuff, but I I didn't earmark anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that's. That's a weird thing. Well, I don't know. Are we ready to end this funny episode on things we don't understand? I don't know that we've learned a thing. Have we, have we? Did we learn anything in this episode?
Speaker 3:That begs the bigger question Do people learn things by watching and listening to us? On other episodes?
Speaker 2:I know right. Is anybody learning anything? Have we taught one single important thing ever? I now know what a lift kit is yeah, we did learn that. Thank you, Kitty, for explaining lift kit.
Speaker 4:I just find it very interesting that that is something that I taught you.
Speaker 3:I was going to say that Kitty bringing in the truck, knowledge, all of her, you know yeah, all of my years living with Bill.
Speaker 2:There you go. Well, we could make that a new segment. Yeah, kitty teaches us some manly thing. I don't know um.
Speaker 4:Okay, well, let's see if I can remember the exact words. Can I tell you a funny story that yeah?
Speaker 4:please bill helped me. So years ago, the agency that I was working for we had a client and uh, it was oshkosh truck corporation. It was a billion dollar company in wisconsin of their divisions they manufactured tanks and like war, war machinery basically, and so we were on site with them and I said to Bill, give, give me something to say to the client that they'll really feel like, wow, she knows her stuff. So you know, we're in.
Speaker 3:What I want to know what you were wearing, Just to really. I mean, I'm envisioning the stilettos. I see a print somewhere, jewels blinged out.
Speaker 4:Yeah, exactly I was. Yeah, I was in my normal attire for that time of my life. And so we're on the manufacturing floor and I'm talking that they are building these vehicles from the chassis up.
Speaker 3:Chassis. Oh, there you go, chassis, there we go.
Speaker 4:So we're standing there assembly going on and I had to wait for the right moment and I leaned over to my client. It was a dude and I said so what is this? Uh, full rocker or limited slip differential?
Speaker 2:okay, before you answer.
Speaker 4:Yeah, before you answer, you know, bill could have set you up, so that's no, he would not, he wouldn't set me up, okay, and I practiced it over, which is obviously why I can still remember it today. I practiced it over and over and over and he looked at me and he goes I have no idea.
Speaker 2:Laughter laughter, laughter you were so good. Oh my gosh, it was so good.
Speaker 4:I was so proud of myself. Yeah, impressive well done.
Speaker 2:Yes, all research is is good, doesn't matter if you're going on spent yep going to try to catch a client. Research is king, yep.
Speaker 4:All right. Well, what are we talking about next?
Speaker 2:week. Thank you for that story Next week, I don't know. Am I supposed to know? Yeah, yeah, I don't know. I'm supposed to know. Like I said, we have pet peeves coming up. What said? We have pet peeves coming up? Yeah, what else do we?
Speaker 3:have. It's like Festivus for the rest of us. We can have our airing of grievances. Is it biannual? If it's twice a year, yes, the biannual airing of grievances yeah, send yours in if you got some grievances. Yes, yeah, send yours in if you got some good ones. Right, we're happy to share, yeah.
Speaker 2:We want everyone to ask us any question, oh.
Speaker 1:Any questions so we can answer that.
Speaker 2:I think. Our next one, however, will be called the comparison prep.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm, there we go.
Speaker 2:Alrighty then that's all we're going to say, but those are some that are coming up, alright.
Speaker 3:Alright. Everybody have a good week.
Speaker 2:Yes, you too. Bye, bye.
Speaker 1:Bye, bye, here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation, knock, knock. I'm about to start a celebration, let me in. Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past ten.
