EP 34 - Is Adulting Really A Scam ?!?

In this episode of Unapologetically Us The Podcast, David and Jenn cover a little bit of everything, starting with David’s Amazon shopping habits and his tendency to let things sit in his cart for months, or even years, before finally buying them long after the trend has passed. That leads into a hilarious Waterpik update that quickly turns into a full disaster story involving tonsil stone curiosity, choking, coughing, and nearly drowning in the bathroom. From there, the conversation bounces into online trends, save for later lists, and the random things people convince themselves to buy after too much time on the internet. They also get into whether either of them could ever survive karaoke night, what songs they would pick if forced onto a stage, why some public singing situations are just too uncomfortable to watch, and how movies like Pitch Perfect somehow make acapella look a lot easier than it actually is. The episode also dives into the rude reality of adulthood, from being excited to grow up only to realize bills, groceries, rent, insurance, and responsibility are a never-ending scam, to looking back on teenage expectations versus real adult life. Along the way, David and Jenn talk about old apartment rent prices, couponing, school clothes, first bills, how expensive everything feels now, and how younger generations sometimes seem to be missing that same financial wake-up call. They also swap frustrations over nonstop spam calls, call screening, scam loan offers, junk reporting, and why blocking numbers never seems to fix anything. To top it all off, Jenn gives an update on her sleep mask struggle, neck-to-pillow ratio issues, light sensitivity, time change fatigue, naps, and the general realization that getting older is a very weird experience. If you love funny podcast conversations about Amazon shopping habits, Waterpik fails, karaoke anxiety, spam calls, sleep struggles, and the ongoing disappointment of adult life, this episode is for you.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Okay, ready? Is that camera okay? It looks like it's like tilted. Come no, it looks it looks like it's like facing me only. It's not, but it's fine. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 0:16

Everything's fine. No It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 0:19

It's fine. Okay, it's 449.

SPEAKER_00 0:23

What the fuck does that have to do with anything?

SPEAKER_01 0:25

We told the clown to come back in 45 minutes no less. Okay. Or no more. Alright, ready? Hey everybody, and welcome back to another episode of Unemployed. It was quiet. Why did we need to?

SPEAKER_00 0:40

But now I'll start again. But now you wait because that's I think that might be what the problem is if you fucking shit up. Just go right in. And I'll just look shocked.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Okay, so now we'll start again.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

And I'm Jen.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

I'm going to a funeral today.

SPEAKER_00 1:16

Well, you know, David has to have the house at 70 something degrees.

SPEAKER_01 1:20

I don't have to. I prefer it, but it's not my house.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

After I got out of the shower earlier, you know, I was like, man, it's like it I could feel like the humidity.

SPEAKER_01 1:29

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Like, I was like, ooh.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

So okay, so you did that because of that, but you blamed it on me.

SPEAKER_00 1:34

But you like it. It's usually warm in this room.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Well, it yeah, it typically is.

SPEAKER_00 1:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

I mean, I don't know why. It's open, you can see the vent.

SPEAKER_00 1:41

Oh, it's blasting.

SPEAKER_01 1:43

Yeah. But anyways, today it's frigid in here.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

Well, it just rained too, so you might have got a little damp on the way in.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

Maybe. Anyway. Jesus Christ. So. You know how I told you? Like I like to put things in my Amazon cart and let it sit there for a while. Okay. And I I do some research and you know, like I like I told you, it took me like three years to finally pull the trigger on my dining room table.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

Because it sat in the cart, right? Well, I do that quite a bit. I have some bras in there. Are you ever gonna buy them?

SPEAKER_00 2:19

Maybe when I lose some weight. So that'll be never. Actually, no, I'm actually down two pounds this week. So good job. Yeah. Yeah. And that was just from um eating right. Eating right.

SPEAKER_01 2:30

And um food prepping, meal prepping. Yeah. I don't know what I was saying. Um, so I also see things that are trendy, you know, online.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Yeah, like you fucking bought some shit that we probably don't even need, and you bought three of them.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

Well, it it came that way.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:49

So um it was probably yeah. That was very impulse, but normally I am not an impulse person. So I have an itch. Oh, Jesus, itch it. So I saw this water pick long time ago, put it in my Amazon cart, so you know, then I'll forget about it, then I'll revisit it, and then it goes back and forth for a while. Point is the trend is no longer a thing. Nobody cares about this freaking water pick anymore, but I bought it. Now you bought it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Well, I bought it When is it coming?

SPEAKER_01 3:25

No, I I've already had it.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

How does it work?

SPEAKER_01 3:28

Um uh I don't know how to use it, I guess. But see, okay, first of all, it comes with three different attachments.

SPEAKER_00 3:38

Right.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

One has like a bumper so it doesn't like go into your teeth or something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Um look like a little tip. Um just the tip. And then there's a longer one, and then I don't know what the third one I don't remember what it has. But anyway, I've always been fascinated with like tonsil stones, and I don't know if I have them or anything, and I wanted to see. Now, of course, these videos that they show, I'm sure are fake, but I stuck that thing down my throat and turned that bitch on. Don't do that. Oh, okay. I was soaked, I had water everywhere, I about drowned to death, and it's like drowned or choked? Both.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

All like is it worse than when you try the Navage for the first time?

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:29

That, yeah. I would much rather do a Nedie Potter novage um over that any day. Now, just on your teeth, that's fine. Don't try to go into your throat for any reason.

SPEAKER_00 4:40

Well, first of all, I thought tonsil stones were the things like when you get um like strep throat. Like you don't just have them all the time.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

Yes, people just get them all the time.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

That's disgusting.

SPEAKER_01 4:49

It's no offense. It's different, like it's hard, aren't they?

SPEAKER_00 4:53

They're like hard.

SPEAKER_01 4:54

Yeah, I think so.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

And I don't know if I ever have So Hold on, hold the phone. You thought then you let me just try this and see if I have some tonsil stone. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

So I legit about killed myself over this. I'll bring it on the cruise so you can see it. It is a travel one. Um so the thing. No, you're not trying it, but I'll show you how I about die.

SPEAKER_00 5:19

David, there's not enough room. It's this big in the bathroom for you to make a mess. Yeah, it's fine.

SPEAKER_01 5:25

It'll be fine.

SPEAKER_00 5:25

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

It's fine. Um, yeah. So I just wanted to update you on.

SPEAKER_00 5:33

How many items right now do you have in your cart?

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Um I think four.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Okay, I'm at eight.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

I don't know what they are, though.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

I c I could probably tell you. I have like a pair of jeans, two different like brasiers for like tank tops or whatever. Uh huh. I have a knife for work. I have I just put it in there the other day.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Oh, jeez.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Yeah. Anyway, so something else.

SPEAKER_01 6:03

I think I only have like four things.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

And then like two two different pairs of jeans. So Yeah. I know in a Judy Blues, and I'm like, I don't know if I want to get those.

SPEAKER_01 6:13

My Save for Later, on the other hand.

SPEAKER_00 6:15

What's Save for Later? Is that a whole nother list?

SPEAKER_01 6:18

You take it out of your cart and save it for later. And then you can always put it back in your cart when you're ready to buy. That list goes on for days.

SPEAKER_00 6:26

What's the difference?

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Well, if it's in your cart and you check out, you've just bought the whole list.

SPEAKER_00 6:33

You can uncheck the mar the boxes, and then that's your save for later list.

SPEAKER_01 6:37

Just save it for later. Just get it out of the inbox.

unknown 6:40

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:41

Into your save for later.

SPEAKER_00 6:43

You have way too much time to like peruse around on Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 6:47

What do you mean? Peruse around.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Like figure out all these lines.

SPEAKER_01 6:50

These things have been in my cart and in my save for later for more than five years. Well understand technology a little bit and get on the list.

SPEAKER_00 7:02

It's not an understand technology thing.

SPEAKER_01 7:04

You just learn. Learn how the apps work.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Whatever.

SPEAKER_01 7:07

Learn how the apps work. Um, yeah, that's been a thing for since it became an app on the phone and not just a website. Then you can create your own lists that are public and private and blah blah blah. Yeah, there's all kind of things you can do.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

Do you think you have a good singing voice?

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00 7:28

Do you try to hit high pitches and and like do you when you're alone by yourself, like do you sing along to the song with the pitches and everything? I mean Or do like do you try?

SPEAKER_01 7:41

Sometimes, not all the time, but sometimes. Or if you're singing and you plug one ear.

SPEAKER_00 7:47

Well, I already have that going on, so I think I'm perfect.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Okay, well, you're not. So if if you p plug an ear and then you can hear yourself, it's almost like wearing monitors.

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Yeah. Not a chance that I was ever going to sing. How for a living.

SPEAKER_00 8:08

Okay, so we're we're trying to plan a trip now with with all the friends. And let's say we go to one of the karaoke bars.

SPEAKER_01 8:15

I will never in my life.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Hold on!

SPEAKER_01 8:17

Let me finish the question. There's nothing to finish.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

No, we're finished.

SPEAKER_01 8:20

I will never, ever stand on a stage in a karaoke anything. Never. I won't be a backup dancer. I won't be a backup singer. I will be in front of you watching your dumbass do it. You can't feed me enough alcohol liquor or drugs. None of it will ever happen. Ever. Never. Ever.

SPEAKER_00 8:45

What if it's a song you really, really?

SPEAKER_01 8:47

I don't give a shit what it is. It will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever happen. That or die, goodbye.

SPEAKER_00 8:56

But why?

SPEAKER_01 8:58

Because I know I sing that badly.

SPEAKER_00 9:01

What if there was eight of us up there?

SPEAKER_01 9:04

It doesn't matter. No.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Okay, so you just ruined my whole fucking bit. Never mind. What? If you had to sing a karaoke song.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

What would it be? What would it be? Okay. Never gonna happen, but I'll tell you what it would be.

SPEAKER_00 9:21

Tell me one more time, it's never gonna happen.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

Now I don't even know what song it would be.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

Um Like one that you can really one, you know all the words to. Right. That and that you can inflect. Is it inf inflect? Were you your vo your voice? Inflection, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, you inflect your voice and and you think you're hitting the notes and everything. Like what song do you think you are per like perfection at?

SPEAKER_01 9:52

I mean, I have karaoke in my car by myself a lot.

SPEAKER_00 9:55

That's not karaoke, that's just singing in your car. Karaoke is beer in hand amongst your friends.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

No, I could probably get down with some like of the uppity Thomas Rhett stuff.

SPEAKER_00 10:11

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Yeah. I there's some some of them that I literally know.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

I would have never pegged Thomas Rhett for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I figured you would have tried.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

These party songs are fun.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Yeah. I figured you would have tried some uh some rebas.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

No. No. Those are kind of boring. I mean they're good songs, don't get me wrong, but they're kind of boring. Okay. Um fancy? Yeah, I I just yeah. It would probably be something that would be fun. Like a fun song.

SPEAKER_00 10:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:44

Fancy's not a fun song.

SPEAKER_00 10:46

Oh, I think it's a fantastic song.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

It's a fantastic song, but that's not fun.

unknown 10:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:51

It doesn't want to make you dance.

SPEAKER_00 10:52

Oh, you want a dancing song.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

I mean, an upbeat song.

SPEAKER_00 10:57

The reason okay, well, what if you had to be in an a cappella group? The reason I asked is because I just got done watching um Pitch Perfect. Pitch Perfect. Like, that's a movie I could watch over and over and over.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

Do you watch all of them or just one?

SPEAKER_00 11:10

Well, right now it is on all of them. So I've just finished the first one. The second one is on right now.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

I don't know. But like. I don't know if I've seen all of them. Anyway.

SPEAKER_00 11:19

I haven't seen all. I've just watched I think so. I didn't watch the last one. Um, but like a cappella, like an a cappella group. Like, do you think you could be a part of an a cappella group because you could hide in the back and be like No, there's nothing to hide in the a cappella group. Technically, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:41

No, everybody is singing a different part.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

Can you a cappella and dance like they do in the movie?

SPEAKER_01 11:48

No, because they're not doing both. But I mean, there is there was an a cappella show um where they had to do all of that, so I know it's possible. Um no, I I couldn't do that. There is um the country a cappella group home free, I think, is coming to like the Florida theaters.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

Pentatonics or something.

SPEAKER_01 12:09

Pentatonics, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Yeah. And they have like their whole own like Apple and Spotify channel.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Yeah, yeah. Which is actually pretty good. They're really big. Yeah. They're really big. Um but the home free people, though, that's they're good. Home free people? Home free is the name of their a cappella group. It's um that's what they they they're an a cappella group and they do country. So I would like to go see them one day. I mean, they are coming soon.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

Here?

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Mm-hmm. Oh well, maybe past already, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 12:42

Um, I heard something on the so no karaoke for you.

unknown 12:47

No.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

I mean, I'll be honest with you, I don't even like going to watch karaoke.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Really?

SPEAKER_01 12:53

No, because I'll be judging those people hardcore.

SPEAKER_00 12:58

Like That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

No. Like, I mean you should leave the establishment and never show your face again.

SPEAKER_00 13:08

I have just been on.

SPEAKER_01 13:09

Like, I Simon Cowl them badly.

SPEAKER_00 13:12

And that's okay. That's also a part of going to a karaoke bar.

SPEAKER_01 13:16

No.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

I mean, you're not doing it to their face because you're not gonna do that.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

I d I don't I wouldn't care.

SPEAKER_00 13:22

Oh. So um but yeah, that's all a part of it. And then when you have like your friends up there, you know.

SPEAKER_01 13:33

No, it's not even fun. It's it's like it's cringy to me.

SPEAKER_00 13:38

Some people are cringy. I I will agree to that.

SPEAKER_01 13:41

Like I would just rather leave.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

No amount of alcohol or drugs.

SPEAKER_01 13:48

No.

SPEAKER_00 13:48

To even sit there and watch.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

No. I it it gets un very uncomfortable for me to watch. It I mean, I get uncomfortable watching like American Idol when they used to show all the bad stuff.

SPEAKER_00 14:02

Yeah. But you used to watch it for that though.

SPEAKER_01 14:06

Yeah, in the beginning, and then I was like, oh, I can't even do that. Hi. I couldn't even do that. Sit. Sit down. Look at the camera. It's your turn.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

Come on. Sit down.

SPEAKER_01 14:18

Your breath still stinks. Not as bad.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

I need to brush her teeth.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Um, the after effect was not good.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

She might have farted.

SPEAKER_01 14:28

She could have. Um yeah, no. Never gonna happen with the karaoke. It's just uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_00 14:37

Oh, there goes that idea.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

I I mean I would rather I would rather go watch a stand-up comedian and truly get like tomatoes thrown at them than to go watch somebody try to sing that's horrible.

SPEAKER_00 14:52

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 14:54

Yeah. That's my thought on that.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Just saying. And I know I'm a bad singer, so it's not like I'm like, oh, I'm good. You're s you suck. No, I'm bad to the point that I know I'm never gonna try. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:14

Okay. Leave her be.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

She was just sniffing the chord and it scared her.

SPEAKER_00 15:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

Um. So when we were, I don't know, 16, 17, you know, we're like, oh, we're about to be adults. And then you turn 18 and you become an adult, and then you finally move out, and you're like, what the fuck? I did not sign up for this.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

I'm still seeing that at 43.

SPEAKER_01 15:46

Being an adult is so overrated. Oh, for sure. But what were you so excited about?

SPEAKER_00 15:52

21.

SPEAKER_01 15:53

No, not the age. No. What were you excited about? And then you realized it wasn't as good as you thought.

SPEAKER_00 16:01

I mean, I was still excited about like being on my own. Right, and then you're like, But I still had to ask my parents for money to pay for I mean I think that I think everybody does that. We okay, so at that time. I was engaged at that time, and we had just moved to the same apartments that you were in.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

Oh, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

And God, rent was we had a two-bedroom and rent was$7.65 a month.

SPEAKER_01 16:33

Oh really?

SPEAKER_00 16:34

$7.65 a month for a two-bedroom. And that was, let's see, 2002, three, somewhere around there. 2002 or 3. So just less 20 something years ago, it was a third of what people are paying right now. And I had struggled we struggled then. Um, so my parents I had I had to promise mom that I would cut coupons for groceries for myself, and they would give us like$50 a week for us to go get groceries to make lunch.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Did you have to show the coupons?

SPEAKER_00 17:13

Pretty much. I mean, come on. Like, she would give me the coupons, and like, you know, I would cut the ones out that I wanted. Um, but like, mom, as you know, mom's been a couponer since I think she was 18. And okay, I didn't know how long, but um, long time, like even before I was born. So um, you know, because she came from a a family that, you know, everything money was tight everywhere. They they were in Maryland and blue collar and all that shit. So anyway, so yeah, so they gave us, I think it was like$50 a week to help with groceries or whatever, just so that because I was still in school and working 35 hours a week, uh uh considered part-time, but I just couldn't swing the extra five um to be a full-time. So anyway, um, so yeah, so getting out and and making it on your own was one of the big things in my and I was out at 18.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Right. Like, yeah, I'd I moved out and then moved back for a couple of years and then moved back and then never went back.

SPEAKER_00 18:20

We ended up moving back in with my parents before to save money for a down payment for a house.

SPEAKER_01 18:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

And thankful for them for allowing that, you know. But uh I don't know. Like now I'm just like, I pay a mortgage, I don't want to go out. Well, no, we've talked about this before, too. And it's just like the adult, I adults should be at 40. Like you live in at home with your parents until you're 40, okay? Do it.

SPEAKER_01 18:50

Yeah, no, but I'm talking like, you know, all the bills that you have to pay, like all the you know, all the stuff that we knew was coming along with it.

SPEAKER_00 19:02

But think about all the kids now that don't pay for they don't pay for their car, they don't pay for their insurance, so they don't have that that responsibility instilled in them. Like when I turned 16, I had a car note, mind you, with the bank, with my parents as a cosigner, yeah, which they were like, you you miss a payment, and I'm swear to god I'm gonna take the car myself. Um, you know, and I paid for my insurance every six months.

SPEAKER_01 19:28

I had to pay my own insurance.

SPEAKER_00 19:29

I paid for my own cell phone bill.

SPEAKER_01 19:31

Um I had to pay for my own cell phone bill and my own car insurance, but they bought my car. Yeah, I mean They bought my first car and then No, I've always purchased my but everything else. But yeah, no, it was not what I thought it was gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 19:49

I mean, either way I want to refund. I want to refund. Cancel subscription. Um, yeah, like I I paid for all of that stuff to be able to go off and do things, eating out, you know, with my my job paycheck or whatnot. All my clothes, any clothes that like okay, so whenever it was school time and mom's like, all right, you got$300 for school clothes,$300 for me,$300 for Shannon. We were in high school. Ariposle was like the thing at$75 a pair of freaking jeans. I'm like, oh, I can get two pairs of jeans and two shirts. Yay, clothes, you know. But she wouldn't do like she wouldn't do that. We would have to find other things. Or, you know, you ha here's 300, spend it wisely.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

We were given nothing. We were taken.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

Oh, okay. Well, dude, we were taken up until the time we were never able to do it all together because of my work schedule.

SPEAKER_01 20:47

Oh, no.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

So 1617, we were taken junior senior year, and here's your money.

SPEAKER_01 20:53

You can buy from these stores that we took you to. So yeah, that's how it was. Um but I was never told, like, I mean, when we were in middle school and maybe high school, I don't remember when I really started venturing out to different brands, but like jeans, I would only wear Levi's.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

Right.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Only. And but my dad was perfectly okay buying them for me. You know what I mean? It's I don't think that they had that, so he made sure that we did, kind of thing. But uh yeah, we were Do you see the price of Levi's now? No, what are they?

SPEAKER_00 21:31

Like$75.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

Oh, that's not too bad. I mean, I paid like$90 for my jeans.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

Yeah, well, that's because you were on a whole buckle situation where you were. Yeah, like you could probably posh mark all of the clothes that we need to go through in your closet and make some money off of that.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

Probably, but that's not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

So why?

SPEAKER_01 21:52

That takes too much time. I'm too lazy for that.

SPEAKER_00 21:56

All right, you bring it over here. I get 25% of whatever. I think that's a reasonable deal. And yes, I get 25% of every sale.

SPEAKER_01 22:07

25 cents.

SPEAKER_00 22:09

Percent.

SPEAKER_01 22:11

Because I'm doing all the work. You're gonna get a quarter. No, that's it. It's literally nothing. Nobody wants that shit. It's all old. Have you? Do you realize the shit that's coming back out now? Oh my god. I haven't paid attention. Is a lot of it like coming back out.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

Have you not seen the 80s hair is coming back out? Big hair is coming back.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

No.

SPEAKER_00 22:31

Oh yeah. Like like the big hair. Oh. Like big rollers.

SPEAKER_01 22:36

I've not seen any of this.

SPEAKER_00 22:38

Mm-hmm. Just wait. It's coming.

SPEAKER_01 22:41

Lovely.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

Yeah. You can thank Ella Langley for that.

SPEAKER_01 22:45

Oh, yeah. I did notice that, but I just figured it was for whatever she was doing. Me too. I didn't know it was like a thing that she was always doing. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 22:57

The majority of her show, she's got some big hair.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:00

Um. Not to talk war politics or anything, but have you noticed your spam calls have uh ceased?

SPEAKER_01 23:08

They haven't.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

Mine have.

SPEAKER_01 23:11

Mine have not.

SPEAKER_00 23:12

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 23:13

Why did that happen?

SPEAKER_00 23:16

I'm thinking because of the shit going on across seas.

SPEAKER_01 23:19

Oh. I don't know. I still get them.

SPEAKER_00 23:22

But no, but do you get them? You get spam calls for r your job. They all they but then I also get spam calls for the$60,000 loan six times a day that you're approved for. And I'm like, if I took this loan from every single place.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Uh yeah. I haven't been getting those this past week.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Oh, I got, and and mind you, I have on my phone, I have a business phone line and a personal phone line. The spam calls always come on my personal phone line.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

Yes, no, Friday. I literally got 10 phone calls from Allstate Insurance asking if I submitted a request for insurance. The last person that called, I said, let me.

SPEAKER_00 24:13

Was it an actual person?

SPEAKER_01 24:14

Yep. Every time. I said, let me tell you, I have not done anything. I don't know why. I said, but if you're if I can get, if you can get in a system, and I said, and I know y'all are all different agencies and stuff, but if there is a commonality that you can put something in something, like block my commonplace, I said, I really highly suggest that you do it. I said, because I'm about to lose my mind. I said, I'm I'm gonna end up in jail if one more of y'all call. It was non-stop. And that was in a few hours of a period.

SPEAKER_00 24:46

Yeah. Like there were days where I could look at my call log.

SPEAKER_01 24:49

But this was just Friday.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

Yeah. I could look at my call log.

SPEAKER_01 24:52

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 24:53

And it was like because I expanded it. I silence all of it so that it doesn't ring my phone.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

Oh, well, and I I can't do that. I tried and I can't because then I'll miss actual calls that I need.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

Did delete a message?

SPEAKER_01 25:09

Work work-related calls. Sometimes no, sometimes they don't.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 25:12

These people that I work with, some of them are half-ass and some of them are great, and you know, so you just never know. And then I was um like the new thing with Apple that you can screen your calls.

SPEAKER_00 25:25

So Oh, where it says, this call is now being recorded.

SPEAKER_01 25:28

No, that's recording your calls. Screening is when you call somebody, it says, please record your name and the reason you're calling, and I'll see if they're available.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

I have seen that.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

And and I was using that, but agents that like I need to actually talk to. That I actually need to talk to. I forgot to change the thing. Um, like they wouldn't even say anything because I hadn't stored their number yet because I didn't know if we were gonna actually fully work together or not. So I had to turn that off. So I tried, but now I just have to answer the calls and hope somebody's on the other end. Yeah, no, I uh So my spam calls have not ceased.

SPEAKER_00 26:15

My mine were called like uh it would be black, like call received, and then red call, red call, red call, red call, red call, black, black, red call, red call, red call. And I'm like, Jesus!

SPEAKER_01 26:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:26

And so now I'm at the point of where I'm is the reporting of spam and junk and blocking even working at this point? Probably not, because all- I know that they they change one number and then they call back again. I get that point of it, but it's like, is the reporting even working?

SPEAKER_01 26:45

Probably not. It it doesn't matter because a different number is calling you, so it it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

It's enough to and I have two phone, I have two physical phones.

SPEAKER_01 26:56

Right.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

So I'm getting it from both phones.

SPEAKER_01 26:59

I get them on both phone lines. That's just no different. But yeah. No, that it doesn't work because all they do is change it to a different number. Because so, and here's the other thing the spam calls, when they come through, all they want to know is is the phone line active? So when we all answer these phones, because I don't have an option, like half of them I have to answer.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

I don't ever answer to these things.

SPEAKER_01 27:23

So I have to.

SPEAKER_00 27:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:24

So but they know I'm an active phone number.

SPEAKER_00 27:26

Right.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

So now because I've answered, even if they weren't there, but now they know I'm an active phone number. So now they've sold my information to somebody else. And then it just continues and continues and continues.

SPEAKER_00 27:39

Oh, you've been approved for the$49,000 loan or$61,000 loan. And it's like we, you know, we're we're finishing up your loan processing paperwork. Just go. Fantastic. And I'm like, who the fuck signed me up?

SPEAKER_01 27:52

Because I'm like When do I get my money?

SPEAKER_00 27:54

Yeah. And then can I just, you know.

SPEAKER_01 27:57

Not pay it back.

SPEAKER_00 27:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:59

That would be great. Hmm. I guess we're just stuck.

SPEAKER_00 28:06

I don't like it.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Well. I mean, maybe they will go away.

SPEAKER_00 28:11

What happened to the n no no red the register called?

SPEAKER_01 28:16

I mean, I'm on it.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:17

I'm on I'm on the national and the is it, I don't know if it's local, local and national, whichever. And I they still call. But the call thing that doesn't matter. It so the call list, like the do not call list, it matters, but it only matters if somebody starts reporting it. So if you don't go to But that's what I'm doing through Apple.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Report to junk and spam.

SPEAKER_01 28:46

Yes. No, you have to report it to not the Better Business Bureau.

SPEAKER_00 28:51

Um the SEC?

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:54

You have to you have to not SEC, though.

SPEAKER_01 28:56

Not the SEC. It's I can't think of it. But anyways, it's a website. You go to the website, you enter in the phone number, you enter in what time they call.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

That's a full-time job right now.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Exactly. But that's why it doesn't go away, because nobody's reporting them.

SPEAKER_00 29:10

Hmm.

SPEAKER_01 29:11

If you if you would do that at the end of the day, you could. I mean, it'll take you like depending on how many you get, it could take you anywhere from five minutes to an hour to do all of them, but you have to that's how you report them. It's not the button on our phone. That's just I think honestly, it's just blocking that number on your phone.

SPEAKER_00 29:32

I have so many block numbers.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

Uh yeah, I do too.

SPEAKER_00 29:35

It's insane.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

I mean, in half of them, it's not even people that I just don't like. It's it's it's a bunch of spam junk.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

It's all, yeah. I'm just good lord. Uh update on my sleep mask.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

Oh yeah, how's that?

SPEAKER_00 29:50

I like it, but I think it's inhibiting my neck to pillow ratio. I don't under.

SPEAKER_01 29:58

What do you mean? How is that even a a possibility? It doesn't touch your neck.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

I'm it touches right here.

SPEAKER_01 30:10

Okay, raise it up.

SPEAKER_00 30:11

And then it falls off the fun the top of my head.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

Uh, I don't know what to tell you.

SPEAKER_00 30:18

And then I have hair, and I don't like to sleep with it up all the time.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

Don't put it all the way. It can't you you need to put it more in the center.

SPEAKER_00 30:26

I understand that.

SPEAKER_01 30:27

I don't know, figure it out.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

But then I'm my hair has a matted thing going around it like I You put it up like that in the morning anyway.

SPEAKER_01 30:34

What it's about. Not all the time. Sometimes it's I guess just do that when it's got the line.

SPEAKER_00 30:38

Okay, anyway. Something is going on to where I am not having the correct neck to pillow or pillow to neck ratio, and it's jacking up my sleep, and I don't know what's going on. And I've tried all four of my different pillows, so I feel like I have now it's might be the sleep mask. Because when I sleep on my side, there's all this extra stuff, like right here, you know, the the thing.

SPEAKER_01 31:07

You're such a sensitive Sally. It is unreal.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

However, it is very dark. Of course. And it kind of screws with me because, like, if I go to if I wake up and I need a drink of water, I feel like I'm fucking blinded just by the two things that are lit up in my room, the air purifier and the humidifier behind me, and first of all, first of all, you wake up okay, so you're you have a sleep mask. Mm-hmm. And it stays on all night.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

You wake up to get a water. Yeah, to get a drink of water. I put it up a little bit. Right. Yeah. So why why do you think you're blind with the two things on in your because the humidifier has a little blue light.

SPEAKER_00 32:00

Okay. That I usually block with my water bottle. Okay. So then when I grab the water bottle, it's like anyway.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

Again. So any why the hell are you so sensitive? I can't answer that, David. I mean, you can't get a goddamn pedicure to save your life without basically giving somebody a black eye almost.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

That's a lie.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

You actually my toes are they're actually pretty good.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

I think Lauren won't have a problem on Friday.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

And then you're yeah. I I don't, I don't, I don't understand you all the all the way.

SPEAKER_00 32:44

This has been 30 something years in the making, David. Has it gotten progressively worse?

SPEAKER_01 32:48

I feel like it has.

SPEAKER_00 32:51

So is your crabbiness.

SPEAKER_01 32:55

Wait till we're like in 20 more years.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

No, dude. Shit. I don't know. I don't know. You might be in bed by six.

SPEAKER_01 33:06

No. In that much time, I'll probably be back to going out.

SPEAKER_00 33:12

I know. That's what everyone says. It's like the 40s is like your slowdown time. And then you And then you're in your 50s, you're just like, yeah, let's go back out for cocktails and you know, debauchery.

SPEAKER_01 33:24

I mean, I guess. I don't know. We'll see if Carrie does that.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

Oh, yes, right. She turns out. Holy shit, she turns 50 in October?

SPEAKER_01 33:31

Yeah, so we'll see if she gets her uh an energy release at 50.

SPEAKER_00 33:36

Oh man.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

Because I know I have been on a I'm on a downward. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:42

Ever since I mean the train is not stopping. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:46

Ever since I hit 40, it's been going downhill.

SPEAKER_00 33:48

Well, you turn 45 in a few weeks.

SPEAKER_01 33:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:52

You might have the upward tick now.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

I don't. Because I'm already counting the time before bed. That's what took me so long to actually leave my house.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Because you were demanding on if you wanted just to say fuck it and record tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

No. I was um, you know, I told you the rain had rolled through, and next thing I know, I was sitting on the couch waiting for it to stop because I could hear it.

SPEAKER_00 34:16

Oh my god. One of these. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 34:19

Oh my god, I gotta get up. Like and all I have done today was wake up, write an email to send to my office because I haven't I didn't. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It's my computer. I don't know what it's done.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

Yeah, okay. Yeah. Um, yeah, we had the time change. I went to the channel. So maybe that's why I'm sleeping, but I um because I Hell, I went for my mid-morning afternoon nap, and like I didn't it was one o'clock when I told you I was taking my nap, and it took me forever to get to sleep. I'm like, Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

I'm tired. 5 a.m. is gonna come freaking early tomorrow.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

Doing that.

SPEAKER_01 35:01

Um Yeah, this time change is sucking as more as the day goes on. I was fine this morning and now I'm not.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

You're such a sensitive Sally.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

No, I'm not. I'm not.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Alright, guys, so we're gonna wrap this one up. We are going to take a week off.

SPEAKER_01 35:18

I don't know. We might not. We'll see.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

We may we might we may not have a show. We might have like a little five-minute.

SPEAKER_01 35:25

I don't know. We'll figure it out. We'll figure it out. We're we're gonna do something. We're on a we're on vacation.

SPEAKER_00 35:30

Well, I'm working all next week.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 35:32

Yes, all next week and weekend. So there's no time for that.

SPEAKER_01 35:37

So I don't know. We might give you something uh a little late maybe really short. Short, late, and maybe on a beach.

SPEAKER_00 35:46

Because the oh, yeah, that'd be cool. I don't know. We'll see. Maybe from the from the adult poll.

SPEAKER_01 35:51

Yeah, we'll figure that out. But we'll we'll give you something next week, but don't plan on a full podcast because we just got too much going on right now.

SPEAKER_00 35:58

Yeah, there's a lot of things.

SPEAKER_01 35:59

And we're on vacation on the sixth the 16th through the 20th, we're gone.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

So yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:03

Yeah, so we're preparing for that and all that good stuff. So this will come out this week, which you'll know because obviously you just watched it. But um, yeah, next week, the next week might be a little bit.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

This is the 11th, the 18th, we're gone. Maybe we'll do some little fun St. Patti's Day thing.

SPEAKER_01 36:20

Okay, we might do that on St. Patrick's Day.

SPEAKER_00 36:22

No, not on. We'll we'll record it on St. Pad. Yeah. Anyway, okay. Yeah. Y'all have a good week. Bye.