Episode 16 (00:01.646)
What's up, Loren? What's up, Priscilla? You know, just enjoying the night with you. Yeah, as am I. That protein bar that you just gave me was thebomb .com. Right. That thing was huge. It was a full meal. I could eat half of it. So I got those at Costco. Man, gotta love Costco. Costco. I mean, as you saw earlier, my whole fridge and pantry is Costco. No, you can't hate. Like...

Is it just me or like growing up, you always kind of saw it as like, oh, for people with big families and stuff, like, you know, you, you get Costco or Sam's Club or whatever. That and rich people. Yeah, that too. Then you get older and you're like, I'm sorry, $60 a year? Yeah. What? I thought that was a month. And then I find out it's a year. I'm like, take my money. Right. When everybody talked about paying to go to Costco, I was like, dang, that's dumb. Yeah.

who's going to spend money to go there? And then like my grandma would take me and be like, this place is amazing. But I never knew how much she spent. And then Jeff and I on a whim, we decided to go to Costco. Oddly enough, it was like the, the, I think it was the day after we found out we were pregnant. Yeah. So we, which this is for my son, just as a disclosure, not pregnant, but we found out and we were like,

decided to go spend the day at Costco because we were just all up in our feels and we were like, we'll go see what it's worth. Like we'll go see diapers and all that stuff. You're treating yourself kind of. Yeah. You know? So we went and checked it out and naturally spent a small fortune because that's what you do when you go to Costco. Especially the first time. Oh my, no. It's every time Priscilla. Well, okay. We've gotten better. We'll coach you. No, I'm kidding. No, we're so bad. Like if we leave there and it's anything under like $300, we're like,

We're doing good. Oh yeah. I thought that was good. Yeah. No, that's like super good. Like when we go, it's never, I shouldn't say never, it's very rarely that low. And then Jeff will be like, do we need that many? And I'll be like, yes, we need this many. What kind of stupid ass question is that? Of course we need 62 bags of veggie straws. What are you even talking about right now? I know that in your head, as you're saying this to him, you're like,

Episode 16 (02:28.814)
don't need this many, but I think I'm getting away with it. Keep going. Yep. Like a thousand percent. Now there are certain items that are like must haves when we go to Costco. I eat veggie straws. Reeves eats a stupid amount of veggie straws. That's good. Yeah. Which I'm like, okay, it's a healthier snack. I'm cool with this. You can eat veggie straws. So like those types of items. And then like my husband has Dr. Pepper running through his...

veins because he is Texan through and through. So it made of it. Yes. It only makes sense to buy our Dr. Pepper at Costco. Yeah. Oh, also have you had their chicken bake from like the upfront where you get all the food and the hot dogs and the pizza? No, no. Literally. Oh my God. So I think I saw TikTok algorithm. Help me here why.

Why are you doing this? I think, okay, actually it might have been on her very new TikTok account. I forget when I'm on mine versus ours. So I'll be like, what the hell is going on with my algorithm? Why are you showing me a young boy in Costco eating a chicken bake? It looks great. But why is he talking about his Costco haul? Like, I'm so confused. And that is...

The only thing that really stuck out to me in that very short amount of time I watched that clip was a chicken bake. I was like, that looks kind of good. It was the universe aligning us to have this conversation right now. So we had never eaten at Costco. Like, yes, every single time we go to Costco, we like we get to business. Well, also, we're usually there for several hours. So by the time it's like.

to business to get home. We're usually starving. So we always have like some roll -ups to eat in the car. We always plan to get those roll -ups because one time we were hungry and I was like, babe, these look so good. You want to try them? And he's like, yes. So that became our tradition.

Episode 16 (04:38.638)
Fruit Roll -ups? No. So back with the deli and stuff where they have the pre -packaged dinners, they have these, I think it's a turkey roll -up. Oh. Yes. And they are so stinking good. Oh, okay. I mean, yeah, I'm sure they're good. Yeah. Yeah. But it's not a sweet, sweet hot meal from that Costco counter. Which we had never, we didn't know any better because I had never gone to Costco with anybody that actually got food from the...

the deli or what is it called even? The Costco counter? The food counter? The food court? The food court? Mini food court. Oh, mini food court. Okay. That's what I'm calling it. All right. I'm down. We had never gotten food there. So Jeff went to go get my tires. That's how it all started. And he had to spend his lunch there. So he got a hot dog and a piece of pizza. And he was like, um, number one.

This **** is amazing. Number two, I don't know why I got this much food. Yeah, that pizza is huge. Yeah. And so is the hot dog. Yeah, the hot dog might as well be the real, real size, like a real scale size from the photo because that hot dog is huge. It's massive. So the last time we went after Jeff ate, like we had gotten there later in the day than what we usually get. Yeah. So I was like, I'm kind of hungry.

And he's like, yeah, I kind of am too. And I asked Reeves if he was hungry. And of course he's like, yeah, because he's always hungry. So I was like, do you want to change it up and get food? And he's like, yeah, let's fucking do it. So we did. Well, I have heard amazing things about the chicken bake. So I was like, I want to try it. I've heard people fight over these things at Costco. Yeah. So I got one. Oh my goodness. It's number one. It's huge. OK.

I mean, I saw a child's hand for scale, so I didn't really know, but to be fair, my hands are the size of a child's hands, so I probably should have taken that for what it was. It fills the hot dog bag. Dang. Yes. So I essentially ate two meals out of it because it was so big. Because Jeff got, I think Jeff got a hot dog. We bought Reeves his own hot dog. Yeah. That boy looks like he can eat his own hot dog though. He eats.

Episode 16 (06:58.606)
He's funny. He's not chunky. No. But he looks like he has a big appetite. But it's that toddler metabolism. It just goes right through him and he eats. He eats. And if I don't get him food, then I don't eat because he eats my food. Oh my God. And then of course I got all this food. I got two hot dogs and a chicken bake and I was like, I made a huge mistake. This is way too much food. Reeves ate like half of his hot dog.

And then as we were walking through Costco, he's continually asking for bites of his hot dog. Yeah. So I think after we left, we ran home quick enough to drop everything off. And then we ran to H -E -B because there's just some things you can't buy in bulk at Costco. I agree. That I do agree. There's a couple of things that I'll look around either it's because you don't have it. Yeah.

Or you realistically, you're just like, I don't need that much. Yeah. Yeah. So we ran to H -E -B afterwards. Well, I still had some of the chicken bake because I only ate half of it because it was so huge. I'm sitting in the front seat. Jeff, I was like, you need to have another bite of this. Like it is still as good as it was when we were at Costco. And he was like, okay. Well, then Reeves is like, bite. Bite.

Bite! And I was like, oh my God. So I reach around to the back seat, give him a bite. He doesn't even finish chewing the bite. And he's like, bite! Like, I was like, okay. Jeff's beside himself laughing. Can't stop laughing. So all you hear Reeves is just screaming bite in the back seat. So I had to climb in the back seat and feed this kid my chicken bake. Oh my gosh. Yeah. And like,

happier than a pig in mud. This kid was just ecstatic. That makes me laugh. You're going to turn into that mom that is the stealthiest eater there is. Oh, you mean hiding? Yes. So he doesn't see that you're eating? Yeah. Yeah, I already do it. So that you don't hear the bite? Yes, because it's immediate. I make a drink, bite, bite, and then he'll get aggressive.

Episode 16 (09:21.646)
If you don't give it to him, all my food, he has to have a bite. No wonder you're so thin. Last night I got home, he'd already been fed dinner. I was starving, so I made us dinner. Boy had second dinner. Dang! He's just always hungry. Always hungry. Damn. Yeah. It's number one boys and number two toddler. Yeah. It just bottomless pit. I do miss that metabolism. Not the boy part, but like... Yeah.

I remember the ages of until when the metabolism was there. Come on, even like... I don't know for you, for me, it was all the way through high school too. I was just really active with sports, so that helped a lot. But yeah, I remember the days of going to lunch and being able to eat a lot. I miss them. I think it was in middle school. I could eat two Big Macs. Dang. Yeah, I would eat like a...

Pizza Hut Pizza. Like the mini ones. With like any size I could get onto that tray, like anything. And I remember looking at my best friend like, what are you not going to eat? I will eat that too. Like seriously? I'm like, I have no shame. Give it to me. And now, now like what? Yesterday, we both had a really bad day. And you were like, yeah, I just ordered myself crumble cookies. And I'm just like shedding a silent tear.

as I ordered the healthiest thing I could think of, because I'm like, not yet. Not yet. I'm holding out till weekend time. Not yet. Yeah. Needed to eat my feelings, but I had to do it in a healthy manner. No, I gave up. It was Thursday. I was like, fuck it. Cookie cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie. Is it just what year does it feel like? It's been Friday for three frickin' days.

But not in a good way, in a bad way. Like where you feel like your week is overly done. You feel like, okay, I'm ready to call it tonight. I'm ready to just wake up tomorrow with not the responsibility of coming into this job. And it's not even like the job entirely itself. It's just like some small aspect about it or whatever. And it's, yeah, like I think my stress levels were just higher than usual this week.

Episode 16 (11:44.046)
I don't know if it was like the weather flip -flopping. It was definitely a huge chunk of the weather because that I don't know about y 'all wherever you are, but if you're in Texas, you know this. Um, it was almost 90 yesterday. Hell is freezing over. Yeah. And, uh, I think the high today was like 70 and it was chilly and windy. Yeah. Chilly and windy. And then yesterday was just.

hot and sweaty. I was miserable. I took the dogs on a walk yesterday, very short walk. And I came back. I was about to like get dressed for the gym. Cole's not in town. So I'm like, I'm going to be a big girl and go by myself. And after that walk, I was like, I'm done. I'm done. My watch told me that my heart rate was elevated and it was like, you're done now. And I was like, yeah, I did a work out just in the, in the sun. Yeah. Like I, I,

I took a break from, I mean, and stress also included. I was like, you know what? Sometimes you just need a... Off day. Yeah, an off day. So I chose yesterday, but that's how hot it was. I just was wiped after that. The dogs were too. Yeah. No, I totally understand. And the heat is a whole nother beast. I couldn't figure out why I was so tired yesterday, but after having had this conversation, it's because I had to take the stairs.

now that I'm saying this all out loud, because when I got to work yesterday, the building was out of power. That's right. You did say that. Yeah. So I had to take the stairs to the fifth floor. Can we talk about why that wasn't like a sign for you to go home? No, we don't do that. But like if your building has no power, then your computers do not work. Yeah. But one of the other guys got there first and had talked to Encore and Encore said that the power was going to be on by like eight o 'clock. So I...

I walk into the building and it's like eight o 'clock and I was like, power's still off. Oh, it's a 15 minute rule that we all spread around. Oh, for school. How is it every school knew about that, but it wasn't a real thing. Yeah. It's that like, oh, your teacher didn't show up the first 15 minutes. You get to go home. Yep. Even though like being in high school or whatever, you're not going home. No. Like I had classes. Yeah, exactly. No. And I drove an hour to work. So.

Episode 16 (14:06.446)
Oh, yeah, I feel that. I you'll laugh at this. I've done a lot of silly things lately, but the silliest of all, not lately, but when I first started working, it was I was in school and I had to do an internship. And so I was interning. I want to say it was about a 45 minute to an hour drive from my house. OK.

I'm really into the city. And so I was doing this. I was doing the thing. I was interning. But when you're an intern, one, you're hourly, right? Yeah. Okay. No PTO, holidays, whatever. You're hourly. And secondly, you are never in the know of anything. Oh God. Especially when you worked in a small office like I did. Like we're talking five people.

So what happened? It was a holiday. No, I'm not going to say like major small holidays because to everyone different holidays are different sizes. But it was one that I just it was one I could not remember if it was like a government holiday or everybody holiday. Could not remember. Yeah. And nobody said anything to me. So my mom was like, you probably have the day off. I said, yes, but how bad would it look?

if I just didn't come in and everyone else did. Oh, no. And she's like, well, I mean, that's true. And I said, fuck it. I'm just going to drive and we're going to find out if anyone's there. And if they're not, I'm coming back. And she's like, seriously? And I was like, yep, seriously. And to make myself feel better, I'll probably stop for my favorite snack in that city, because I used to like live in that city until I moved back in with my parents to like do my master's and work at the same time. So I was like, yeah, I have some favorite spots over there. I'll probably stop by for a...

for a like make me feel better snack and then I'll come home. And that is what I had to do. It was a sad day. I would have done the same thing. I wouldn't have risked it. Especially if like I texted somebody and nobody answered. And that was the thing. I was so new. I didn't really know them that well. And I felt so dumb asking. So I just was like, not worth asking. I would rather embarrass myself to myself than embarrass myself to them. So I was like, no, I'll just, I will.

Episode 16 (16:33.39)
drive and I'll find out." And I found out. That's totally relatable. And it's hard because everywhere has such different schedules. So it is hard to tell. And if they just not laid out, like we didn't get our holiday schedule for my company until... Actually, we didn't get it until the beginning of this month.

Oh wow. Which usually it's approved in December, but everybody has been so crazy busy. So I've just been going off of what was approved for last year and I've just been asking like, Hey, we still get this day off this year, right? Everywhere else is closed. Yeah. So it's just, it's been one of those, but now it's like a set in stone because now we have it. So like hear me out. I wish our industry, um, being architecture, I wish we aligned.

with the government holidays more. This builds up a teeny bit on our last episode rant on wanting to retire working for the city. Because the city gets government holidays. So they get days that they are completely shut down. Sometimes we need them those days. And so that's your **** out of luck. Yep, that's it.

mean, and then of course, the argument comes, well, you can still do your job. You just do other things. Or I could also have the day off. Which sounds so much better. So much better. But like MLK day is such a hard one because like it's a 50 -50. Yeah. Because you never know. You got it right? Yeah, we did get it. But we didn't. Yeah. And my old company didn't. Yeah, no, they didn't. And so like, it's just a 50 -50 shot. And then I feel like that's how

A lot of holidays are really going into where it's just a 50 -50 shot on whether that one will do it or not. And then you have those holidays where a lot of people observe it, but some don't, so they keep the office open, but majority of people are gone. So then it's like, it kind of sucks going in because it's empty. But then at the same time, it's quiet. Sometimes it's nice, but then other times it makes the day just drag. I'm always the one who comes in,

Episode 16 (18:54.478)
the day before holidays, so like the day before Thanksgiving, whatever. How many days before Thanksgiving and Christmases did we work? And every time somebody walked down the hall, we were like, can we go? Are they gonna let us go? Are they gonna let us go? Can we go? And never. It was so depressing. So depressing. I remember there was that one year we didn't bring a lunch because all the years before that, they let us go early. So we said they're gonna do it again. Now ownership had changed at that point, but not drastically. It was still internal.

But it changed. So we assumed, okay, we're still going to get to go early. Joke's on you, motherfucker. 30 minutes early. 30 minutes early. So it was 30 minutes early because Loren and I, we were the early birds. The start and leave times all kind of ranged. It depended when you were willing to come in and then leave. Like you were given a range. Yeah. But...

we chose as earliest as possible so we could leave as earliest as possible. And so... Still have daylight to do ****. Yeah. So they were like, okay, well, y 'all can all leave at four o 'clock. Here you go. Well, Loren and I already left at 430. So for us it was like, cool. Thanks. But everyone else was like, nice. We got like two hours off. And it's like, we did not. If we had known...

we would have come in later. Yeah. So it was kind of like a kick in the teeth. Yeah. But you know, we learned our lesson. Live and learn. Seriously. Live and learn. Oh, what a fun rant. Should we start with? We should probably get onto our products now that we've gone off on this tangent. You know, tangents are the best, though. They are. Hmm. OK, Loren, I brought something that I think I can really sell you on today. I almost.

bought this the other day. I fucking knew it. I haven't bought it yet. Oh, this is funny. Okay, so I brought to Loren a Stanley Cup accessories large capacity ice mold. And I don't know why I bothered reading the item title because it's always very confusing the way they list things. Essentially, it's an ice mold for the Stanley Cup and it's got like three

Episode 16 (21:15.95)
Cylinder molds. Yep, and they're different sizes and they're numbered. Yes So essentially number one is the smallest and it's supposed to go and the really thin part of the giant Stanley Cup the butt Yeah, the butt goes into the butt of the cup and the number two stacks on top of that where it gets a little wider and number three is the widest part and stacks on top of

number two. So it actually it kind of looks yeah yeah yeah that's what's going on. So it does this to keep the inside hollow but the outer core is completely ice. Yeah and I like this because then my straw can fit in because I don't know about you but a lot of times I'll put ice from just the refrigerator in there and then I'll try to like put my straw.

in the cup. But all of the ice is frozen together. Yeah. And then you're jabbing at it. Yeah. And I've pinched my finger. And I'm like, one of these days I'm just going to shatter this poor straw. So I thought this was perfect because you brought your new Stanley to today's recording. Yes, I did. And I was mesmerized by it. And I was like, those are my colors. Yeah. I love those colors. It is a overall white Stanley with neon yellow accents, which neon yellow is my color.

Why did I think it was light blue? I have no idea why you thought that was light blue. That is definitely neon yellow. No, the white. Oh my God. Because the blue light in your room. Yeah, that's fair. But either way, I still. Oh no, I sound like an idiot. We both do. Yay. That's the goal. Yeah, no, but I saw you standing. I was like, perfect timing, lady. Perfect timing.

So yeah, I love this. I have not bought it yet, but I should because I have a couple of Stanleys here. Did you ever watch that SNL skit about the Stanley Cup? No. What's her name from 50 Shades of Grey? I never saw the movie. Judge all you want. I don't do chick flicks. I would call that less of a chick flick. All right.

Episode 16 (23:38.574)
That was something else. Oh, I didn't read the book. I didn't watch the movie. I didn't read the book when I watched the movie. Like, I think I was in college by this point and I went with my best friend. And yeah, that was a girl's day. Anyways. Yeah, but what's I don't know. I can't remember her name off the top of my head right now. Oh, wait, Dakota.

Dakota something, not fanning. Dakota something else. I literally can't help you at all. I'm so sorry. Whatever. Anyways, she, oh, she was in Madame Web too. No idea what you're talking about. You didn't see anything about Madame Web? I have no idea what that is. None of the bad reviews? What? I literally, I really don't know. We're going to pause later so I can show you the ridiculousness this is. Anyways, I'll show you all the TikToks. It's great. So Dakota Johnson.

I want to say that's it. Anyways, sure. Slowly getting there. So she was the host on SNL a couple of weeks ago and they did a whole thing on the Stanley Cup. OK. And they called it the big dumb cup. And like every time they shot back, it just kind of kept getting bigger, I think. Oh, they're just making fun of it the whole time. And I loved it. I was like, yes, it is a big dumb cup. And I love it.

it. Yeah, I'm here for making fun of it, but I also love my Stanley. And I like this one better than like the OG because it does have like a little bit of spill proof thing on it. Yeah, I knocked mine over in the gym and it actually did a really good job. It was mostly just coming out of the straw and I was like, yeah, that's on me. Yeah. So yeah, I think they've definitely made some good fixes. But yeah, so like this, this ice mold, I thought looked pretty solid. I liked the idea. Am I?

Okay, the only thing that would suck is yeah, you have to refill it daily. Make sure you got that fresh ice for the next day. Yeah. Well, if it lasts all day, worth it. Yeah, because I mean, it pretty much lasts at least half the day, depending on how often you're like opening and closing it and actually drinking your water. And like my office building is pretty hot. So I will say, do we think that Stanley could pick like slightly more insulating?

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Oh yeah. Cause like as much as I love seeing like a clear view in, I'm just drinking water. I don't really care to see the water. And then I kind of look at him like, Oh, there's plastic on top. And so if it was an insulated top. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That'd be nice. Yeah. One day, um, not like they haven't made those kinds, but not this tumbler style. Yeah. No, not that I've seen. No.

I mean, if anyone else has seen it, email us. We want it or DM us, whatever. Probably DM us. That's probably easier. But just in case, just take my money podcast at gmail .com. Okay. Yeah, I like it. It's cool. It's like what for 16, $17 you can, uh, Ooh, there's a yellow one. There's like a teal one, but also a yellow.

I love Yaloom. It seems like a lot of different companies are doing this right now. Yeah, it's trending big time. But I mean, anybody that has half a brain is going to do anything Stanley related. Oh, yeah. Just because of the boom right now. Have you seen the TikToks with Doodad? Probably not so much. There's it's oh my God, they're fucking hilarious. It's basically.

the dude dad and his friend and they dress up as like the owner of Stanley and his friend. But then they also dress up as their wives. So then they're like, Stanley, you're not doing anything with the company. We're not going anywhere. Everybody just has the basic, you know, like the, the OG Stanley thermos. Okay. That's where Stanley got its start. So they're like,

Nothing's being sold. We're not making any money. It's just this one. And everybody has one and they don't have to buy another. It's literally these men dressed up as women making fun of. So then they come through like the whole evolution of how they got the Stanley Cup. It's hilarious. I will send you the video. I was like crying of laughter. Yeah. Amazing. I saw that Target was.

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Promoting that they have the og stanley lunch pail No way with the holder for the og thermos shut up I would buy that I think they had it in like a plain blue or one with a white top and a light blue bottom, huh? Okay, I'll have to look

Because every man in my entire family growing up had that OG Stanley thermos. I remember it with the metal cups and it was that green with that freckled color on there that you could murder somebody with that thermos. And that's why they did that. Yeah. The hunting, camping, the real OG. Man, when you make stuff too good and you know...

No one needs a new one. Well, so like that was part of like the joke is like nobody needs a new one. It's the same exact thing. There's no different colors. But like the wives, when they came through, they're like, we need colors. All colors. Well, unlike what? That's the biggest complaint. People don't want to buy something that's going to break. Yeah. And so what do you do? You make it versatile. So that way people want the new flashy stuff because it's not going to break down. So what else?

Like I have two, but I will say in full disclosure, I have never bought myself a Stanley. Both of my Stanleys have been gifted to me. Yeah. You know what? Hold on. I'm thinking the first one I got Cole gave me. Uh huh. Second one I got was Christmas. See? And now I'm going to go get one for myself. And I do like the 40 ounce, but I have.

My sister -in -law was telling me that she loves her 30 ounce one. Because it's slightly smaller? Yeah, which I understand that because sometimes like lugging in all of my cups with all of my drinks into work in the morning with my lunchbox and my bag for my laptop, it does get a little excessive. Yeah. So, but I just, I don't know. I love the 40 ounce. Yeah, I just like having to get up less for the water. Yeah, but...

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I say that, but I get up to pee about a million and a half times. Yeah, that's fair. There is that. And then also I'm like, I got to get my steps in. Yeah. So yeah, I trade off. I trade off between the Stanley and then what's that brand? Brewmate? Yeah. And then my brewmate that like has that twist top on and has like a spout on the top that's like low key magnetic. It's really cool. I love it. And I got like,

the Hilary Duff celestial collection. Did I put you on a brumate? Um, hold on.

Yes. So you originally put me on because you got yourself a... The no leak coffee mugs. No, no, no. Before that. It was way before that. It was when we first met and you had a can insulator for your... Oh, yeah. The slim can. Yeah, for your Red Bull. And I was like, dude, I drink Celsius all the time. I need that.

Oh my God, I totally forgot about that. So you're like, dude, roommate, they have it. And so I went and got it and I was like, it's not a bad company. I didn't really go back for anything until I kept seeing ads. That's what got me to the Celestial one. I kept seeing Hillary Duff ads. I think by the time I sent you the Celestial one, you were like, yeah, I already bought it. Yeah. I was like, I hopped on that and guess what? It's not even available anymore. Yeah. Like I jumped so fast. So yeah.

Anyways, back to my product. Well, OK, so you have it, right? You said you got this. No, I almost bought it the other day. Oh, OK, OK. Well, one of us might have to test it out. Yeah. So we both have stuff to test it out. I think so. And I think that these will fit in the brewmate cups, too. You think? Yeah, I think so. I don't think all of the sizes. Yeah, I know. But definitely one and two. Yeah. So like maybe I mean, and it's not.

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Depending on what size you have, because I oh my God, I was pretty thin, actually. I got fucking crazy for brewmates. So I have so many different options of all of the different sizes. I mean, they do a lot of patterns. I like that. Yeah, that's pretty cool. That's for us. Another discussion about another day. Seriously. All right. I'll move on to you, because I think this was an easy like, yeah, we both love it. Yeah. OK.

So this, I told you it was off the wall. This is a chrome storm glass with display. So it literally is like a weather predictor. And it is so incredibly fascinating to me that this can predict the weather. And I...

I want one because I want to know if it really truly works. So it's a weather predictor that is sure to intrigue. Storm glass instruments have been in use since 1750s. Since the 1750s, a famous sailor and meteorologist mounted an instrument similar to the storm glass on the mast of, I'm assuming that's a ship.

as a storm warning instrument during his historic voyage with Darwin in the 1830s. The storm glasses changing weather affects the soul. Oh, man. So all the ability. Thank you. The stuff in the inside.

of the mixture of chemicals in the sealed glass tube. Some believe that the changes in crystal structure have to do with the electromagnetic changes caused by weather and sun storms. So it has like a little display. It's literally like a little silver wrapped glass tube. It has some liquid in it and then it has like these crystals in it. It looks like fake snow.

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It does look kind of like thick snow, or like a hail. So it has one, two, three, four, five different little displays. Or I shouldn't say displays. Little... What's the word I'm looking for? Little drawings? It's not an option. Display...

So five little diagrams and depending on how the crystals form within this tube depends on what the weather is going to do. So it's either going to be stormy or it's improving weather, frost, rain, or clear and dry. And this absolutely fascinates me. I don't know about you, but

Like with the barometric, um, Oh my goodness. Barometric pressure. I was like, you got stuck at barometric. I wouldn't have been able to say that. Um, my ears will pop and I'll have like pressure and stuff. So I can usually tell when a storm is coming in. Yeah. So like my mom has that problem as well. So she can feel when a storm is coming in.

So I'm like, okay, well, my body can tell why would this glass not be able to tell. So I'm very intrigued and I'm very interesting. And I mean, it's been around since the 1730s. Like, obviously, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. So what's interesting to me is that there's a plaque next to it because I guess it would have been too boring to just give the like little cylinders. So they're like, well, let's jazz it up.

I don't think it's so much boring as what the heck am I looking at? Well, yeah, but like you could have a manual or something and know that's boring. Well, so they could use instructions, Priscilla. Well, so they put on a plaque and the plaque title says the Weems Stormglass mysterious weather predictor. Yes. I feel like I saw a video on this not too long ago on TikTok.

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Oh, really? I feel like I did because it was somebody commenting on it and they were like, I guess it was like a just them kind of venting out their their confusion on this. OK, because they were talking about how confusing it was that they still call it mysterious. Like they still don't know how exactly it works. And I'm like, uh huh. How do how do you make it but not know how it works? That's valid.

But you know how sometimes just **** just works. I mean, yeah, that's fair. They didn't really question it. They just said it works. Yeah. Here's another thing. How close does it have to be to outside? That is a good question. Can you scroll down and see? Like, I don't know if it's something that can be inside because I'm just going to put this out there. If it's outside. And it shows star crystals all over.

Which means rain? I think I'll know it's raining. I mean, that's valid. It's a Karen moment from Mean Girls. There's a 30 % chance it's already raining. Literally, yes. Jeff and I do that every single time. He will even squeeze his own booby. It's amazing. I love it. I'm so happy. As you just squeezed yours. Yeah. You can't say the quote and not do it.

You have to go the full nine yards, Priscilla. You can't half ass it. That being valid. Never half ass two things, whole ass one thing. Notice how it says instructions and mounting hardware included, but it won't tell us. Oh, they literally gave you no instructions. Because watch it be like, it must be outside. I mean, it's just like the weather rock. Yeah, I love the weather rock. What was it about the weather rock like if it's moving?

If it's moving, it's windy. If it's wet, it's raining. If it's dry, it's sunny. Or if it's dry, it's not raining. I thought it was sunny because that way it like soaks up. Oh, maybe that is what it is. But I love that. I think it's funny. And then there was the last one. It was like, if it's not here, you need to run. Oh, yeah. Something like that. Like like earthquake or tornado or whatever. Yeah. I saw a Tiktok the other day of a freaking truck that got.

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caught in a damn tornado. It got flipped on its side. It spun around in a circle on its side. On the road, the tornado set it upright on its tires and the tornado took off. Tell me why this truck drove off. If that is not the most Texan thing that you have ever heard of in your entire life, I don't know what is. Damn. Yeah.

I mean, I mean, Ballad, I guess I would if I was just spinning around, I would also be like. Anybody listening, if you just let me drive away, that'd be super cool and then just gets planted down, ready to drive away like cool, cool, cool. OK, going to drive now. I want to say it was a Chevy. I feel like that in itself is a Chevy commercial. Yeah, they're going to use that later. They played that like a rock song.

Like a rock

like what is it the Ford commercials from when we were growing up? But I was like pretty sure it was a Chevy. But I get where you're going with it. But I was like it's the most epic **** ever. That is pretty epic. That's also terrifying. I think I would have just sat there with my hands on like 10 and two. Like what the... Did that just happen? Just walks out of the truck. Oh, I'm done now. Won't be driving for a very long time. Yeah. No cars. No thank you. That was wild.

I work from home now. Yeah. Well, I think it's cool. I think it's unique. Now, all that being said, it is $258 .99. That's a mystery. Yeah, I mean, they're like, try and make it yourself. You can't. Yeah. That's that's why that's my hookup on it. Now, I did see a lot of other like storm glasses that are not this expensive.

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So I don't know. So that's like the catch 22 because like I don't want to spend $30 on one if it's not going to work. But if I can spend $258 .99 and the thing is actually going to frickin work like that would be cool as all get out and I would want to do it. But the question is, do I want to spend that amount of money? That's where.

That's where it's it's questionable. Yeah. Oh, there's a store. Hmm. Oh, OK. So it's found on West Marine, which I don't. Maybe this is a boating store. I don't I don't know. That would make sense. Oh, but it's going boats. Did you not listen to the description that I read you, goofball? So you were saying a lot of words and I was looking at a lot of things. Oh, my God.

Listen, it's not the first time today that I've done something like this. I told you the story of me just trying to get a case for my phone. Yes. I attempted or I succeeded. You succeeded. I was getting a case for my phone last night and I saw PopSocket did a collab with Ketnips, which is like my favorite little like comic.

I'm going to call it a comic. They do a lot of videos. The artist does a lot of videos like on Instagram and TikTok, but I saw it. I loved it. It was all about it. Picked out like some pop sockets and a case for it. And I look at the case and it's listing out only like iPhone 15 sizes. So immediately my immediate reaction is, damn it. Why does this always?

And I just kind of like threw my phone on the couch and pouted. It was like another bad thing happened today. Like five seconds passed and I go, oh wait, I think I have an iPhone 15. And I just immediately bounced back, was like, yay, okay, I'm gonna go get that now. And then I had to reflect as to why I reacted so imp...

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impulsive to that, just let down feeling. And I realized I never have the newest iPhone ever. This is the first time. I'm usually one or two behind. It's like any normal person. Yeah. And I've never expected myself to be on the newest one. So I was very confused. Like, wait, what's happening? Hold up.

Is this a glitch in the universe? Why do I have the 15 again? I don't remember. It was a whole process. It's fine. I'm getting a new case. Yay. Moral of the story. Priscilla figured out what phone she has and she's getting in a new case. I think that's hilarious. We've all been there. Honestly, I don't even know what mine is right now. I'd have to pull it up and look to see what my phone is.

Who remembers that? I mean, I had to look at like I had to double check. I went to the about me. Yeah. About me. Just see about section on on the settings just to like double, triple check. Yeah. And then I almost had the audacity to check Google to make sure there wasn't an iPhone 16. I wasn't that much disbelief that I had the current one. I was like, I do know I have the current one. There must be a 16 by now. And I had to drop it. I was like,

Let it go. It's not that important. The fine. The world's lying. All right. So just for **** and gigs, I did look to see if there is another product similar to this. Yeah. And there is this one on Amazon. It's a completely different shape, form, whatever you want to call it, completely different than the one we were just looking at. It comes in three different sizes. It also comes in different colors.

But they're ranging from $25 to $40 and these have reviews. That **** cannot go on a boat. No, this one's for in -house. That one, what she pulled up is like a big teardrop shaped one that goes on a base. It looks like something like there's a photo of someone handing one to another person and that looks like something from some kind of skit where the first thing that happens is that person drops it.

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Yeah. Or it's like, here's your giant teardrop that you cried from your eye today. And then gone. Yeah. So completely different. It's 50 % five stars. It's not, that's not good. 3 .9 out of five is, it's funny because like visually it looks like they've got four out of five stars. So it's like, nice. Yeah. And then 3 .9, which is like, okay, rounded. And then you look at all the ratings and you're like,

54 % are five stars. The second highest is three. Third highest is one. Fourth highest is four. So it's not good. But I mean, also it's $25 to $40 versus the $258.99 .99. One makes me think that it is in the rarest forms of...

Oh, it's more expensive. It's better. I think that might be the case this time. Yeah. Wait, can you go back to the Amazon one? Yeah, of course. Because I want to read the AI generated thing. Right away. Because it looks like so far, wait, customers like the color settings and conversation piece of the sculpture. How many people wrote that? How many people wrote, it's a great conversational piece. I don't know. However, some customers have reported that the product does not reflect weather change accurately.

Well, you spent $25, Karen, what did you expect? You also it comes with a light to light it up. They they also say the crystals in the top won't move. It's always raining and they won't move. Customers also say it's not worth over the $50 they spent on it. What? They have different opinions on size and appearance, so.

A lot of people were like, yay for color settings, yay for conversation piece and boo for lighting, accuracy, value and movement. I mean, you get what you pay for. That's. But they paid $50 over $50. So that's the big one. Is that the big one? No, the big one is 40. So they must have lowered their prices. So that must mean that they're ****.

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Because if they lowered them and it doesn't show on sale, I guess they really took that it's not worth over $50 to heart.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. What ultimate family kit? What am I looking at? I don't know. Oh, God, that's lice. No. You. Sorry. I just I was wondering why there was a photo of a family in front of me. Oh, it was a lice kit. OK. That's fun. OK. But yeah, so I I'm intrigued by this item. Mm hmm. I'm curious to know if it works, which makes me want to buy it.

because I think that this is a very cool thing that would be super cool to have on my wall. And I mean, besides being able to look outside and see that it's raining. I'd laugh if you put it next to a window. Babe, babe! It's raining. Yeah, I know. I just came inside. Yeah, but it says it's raining. But it says the storm glass tells me it's raining, not the outside. Or better yet,

Look, it says a storm is coming. Yeah, my phone also just alerted me that. Right. Which that thing is wrong all the time. Well, we're in Texas, so yeah, of course it is. That's true. The other day I had, I want to say, like eight notifications that there was a flash flood warning for my location. Really? Yeah. I was like, it's not even raining. I don't even think it's supposed to rain today.

Like where is this flash flood coming from? So my biggest laugh is Wednesdays when the test goes out for the tornado siren. Oh yeah. And you and I both know, like that's a standard. It's Wednesdays. More typically than not, the first Wednesday of each month. Cool. Okay. We're in agreeance on this. So in my neighborhood app, somebody posted once, they're like, there's a siren going on. Is there a tornado today?

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And so people are like, nah, dude, it's just the first Wednesday of every month. It happens. It's fine. Yeah. And then there is this ongoing argument on whether it was every Wednesday or the first Wednesday. And so many people were just like, how would it be every Wednesday? That would be very confusing and dangerous, very dangerous. And just in general, you.

Don't you think everyone else would have noticed that? Yeah. And this person was just like sticking to their guns like, no, it's every Wednesday. And they're like, get out of here. You might want to look into that. If every Wednesday your sirens going off, that's odd. And also, are there tornadoes near you? Like, oh, man, it was odd. I don't know. It's just kind of funny to me. Lots of random funny posts. I can't remember the most recent one, but it cracked me up. It was like,

I don't know. Somebody was just like, it's hot outside. That was it. That was a neighborhood app. Like post. I love those. Um, I wish when I had first moved out here that somebody would have told me that, um, it is the first Wednesday of each month because where I grew up in Michigan, it was the first Saturday of each month. But then that's too many people around to hear it for it being a test. Yeah. So,

Michigan doesn't really get tornadoes like Texas gets tornadoes. Uh huh. So it didn't really matter. Like everyone knows it's not happening. Yeah. I, uh, in full honesty, like full disclosure, I can remember off the top of my head, besides the sirens on test day going off twice. Dang. And I lived in Michigan for,

23 years? Do you ever consider that at some point you're going to reach, more than likely here in Texas, you're going to reach a point where you've lived here longer than Michigan? I think about that and I seriously can't wrap my head around it. Like my mom thinks about that with Mexico sometimes. She's like, yeah, I've reached the point where I've lived here longer than there now. Yeah. That's crazy.

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that at some point, you reach that. I don't think it'll hit me until it actually happens. I think once it happens, then I'll be like, wow, because - We're throwing a party for you. Okay. Yeah, we can totally do that. It doesn't even come any. Yeah. Because right now, it still amazes me that I've been here as long as I have. Sometimes I'm just like, dang, I've been here that long already. Yeah. But - Because it's been a while for you, but not as long as Michigan. No.

So I'm not even. Yeah. I'll throw you a whole party for being a native Texan at some point. OK. You can have it like tornado themed or whatever. But where I was going with this story is the first time that I heard them test the sirens. You thought it was happening? Yes. And I just so happened to just clean be finished cleaning the pool, because when we first moved into our house, there was an above ground pool.

I had just finished cleaning the pool. It was hot as balls out. It was overcast. So I was like, I am going to jump in this pool, get on a floaty and relax. It was my day off. Like I am chilling. I'm floating in the middle of this damn pool. The sirens start going off. I have never like jumped off of there, got out of the pool so quickly. Like I don't hear anything else from any of my neighbors. So I was like, oh my God, oh my God.

Jeff was away at work. So I called him and was like, the tornado sirens are going up. I don't know what to do. It's overcast. I turned, I turned everything on. I'm watching the weather. They're not saying anything. And he was like, it's Wednesday. And I was like, what does that have to do with anything? And he's like, they test on Wednesday. And I was like, no, they test on Saturdays. And he's like, you're not in Michigan anymore. It's, it's Wednesdays. And I was like, oh, okay. So like I'm fine. Like everything's good.

And he's like, yeah. OK. I so it's funny that it was Saturdays in Michigan because I just saw a tick tock of these two girls in Ohio and like they were in their car. They're chatting. They stopped talking for a second. Yeah. Open the door and they hear the sirens and they look at each other like, oh crap. And then they go, oh, it's Wednesday. Really? Yeah.

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Oh, yeah. So, I mean, there's only so many days in the week or seven. So, yeah, there's going to be repeats. But like you would think, like, I guess I just thought because everything was up that way that everywhere up there had the same day. Mm hmm. But yeah, no, Saturdays. Like one p .m. in the afternoon. That's funny. Mm hmm. That's really funny. Yeah. Yeah, I. I don't know that.

Oh, I've had some interesting times with tornadoes and sirens and all that. And literally driving home in the middle of like an actual like touchdown moment where I'm like, Oh my God, I'm just going to go home now and just driving like, Oh, I'm going to get to my dog. And then it started hailing on me. And that was great. Oh my God. Yeah, it was quite a day. What makes me laugh, though, is that whole thing you said about how you all weren't really that worried in Michigan. Yeah.

And my thinking like, yeah, the day y 'all get a real warning, it's like, nah, it's fine. That makes me think of when we worked together in the last office. Oh my God, nobody gave a ****. No, but not even the tornado siren. I'm talking about every time the fire alarm went off and we were so unfazed by that point because we had so many false alarms that people, you would look and you'd be like, y 'all, we should probably evacuate. And people were like, nah, it's fine.

Like, no, really, we probably should, though. No, this happens all the time. I'm like, yeah, but like, it will be real. Yeah, it was. It was like twice, I think. Yeah. Happened way too often. But because they were always working on it. Yeah. So, yeah. But the last tornado sirens, I think I was gone by that. You were gone by that point. Yeah, you were texting me, though. It was so freaking bad. Like there was.

There was no plan. There was like nobody in the office heard them except me because the out of towner girl, I don't play anymore. Like I now know this **** is for real. We are not in Kansas anymore. We're in Texas and **** is hitting the fan. So I heard it and I went down to the person in charge's office and was like, hey.

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tornado sirens are going off and they're like no they're not and I was like they are I can hear them what is our plan well we don't I don't know cool cool cool cool cool that makes me feel real confident I'll be in the stairwell I'm going downstairs into the stairwell so I'll meet you guys down there and then

there was nobody doing anything except everybody had their phones up watching and tracking the fucking tornado. Always. So then everybody comes over to my desk to look out the window and I'm like, fuck y 'all. I know you're not supposed to be by a window. Yeah, no, that's not what you're supposed to do. No, like... And that whole building, every wall was a window. Exactly. And like you are sitting in the worst possible place. Like, no, thank you. I'm going to go downstairs and stairwell by myself and I choose life.

Yes. I'm going to live. Even if it's by yourself. Yeah. They're safest in the restrooms and that stairwell. Yeah. And then I went by myself and everybody was not concerned. And then the front lady desk, the front desk lady, she did get really concerned and she was like, this is bad. This is really bad. Yeah. She was a sweetheart. So like she, she listened to these things. Yeah. Took it seriously. And she's like, you need to get downstairs. You have a child.

Like you need to be there if something happens. So I was like, OK, well, I'm leaving everybody. I saved all my work. Like, I'm going to go downstairs until I don't hear the sirens anymore. And then. It was taken seriously, and then they were like, oh, wow, we should probably start to like everybody save what you're working on. Everybody get to the middle of the floor and then everybody stand at the elevator. And I was like, dummies, are you idiots?

serious right now? No, it's like there's a plaque on the elevator. I think it only says for fire. I think everybody... Just in general, if there's an emergency, don't use the damn thing that uses power. Yeah, never do that unless you want to get stuck. Like, are you stupid? So yeah, especially for that building, the elevators broke all the time. I was like, why? Why are you choosing the death trap? I told you they closed on me one time, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

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Yeah. Right on my shoulders. Like they were terrible elevators. Like I told you that when we got back in that building after it flooded, like they could not get those elevators running for the longest time. They were not working when I first came back. Yeah. See? I mean, when I first started, not when I came back. But yeah. But yeah, like. Well, on the bright side, you survived. I did. Yay. Uh -huh. Yep.

And then we had to go back to work because the sirens went off. And at that point, I had like 15 minutes left of work and was like, I'm pretty amped up from this. Like, I have never seen the sky that black before. That was wild. Yeah, it was like right there. It was crazy. So I was like, I'm going to go get my kid now. OK, bye. On the bright side, though, y 'all had a basement. So like, yeah. And that's what I asked. I was like, are we supposed to be in the stairwell?

Is there an evacuation plan? Are we supposed to go down to the basement? I asked all the correct questions and nobody knew. Sad. I know that we have a low key plan in this office, so that's not too bad. I honestly have no idea about this plan. I mean, you have a multi -story building, so same thing. You have for anyone who works in multi -stories. High rolls. Yeah.

Not even high -rise, it's just multi -story buildings. That's true. If you have a stairwell, that thing is safe. Basement. Yeah. Basements and stairwells and... Fire rated, concrete, you're good. Exactly. Now, don't go clogging it up. You got to let people get in and escape and do what they got to do, but in cases of emergencies, yeah. And then a lot of the times, I think the higher the building...

Or no, is it warehouses that have the restrooms as the tornado shelter? Yeah, the warehouses. Those are the CMU. Uh -huh. Because the CMU walls, because of those Amazon buildings. Yeah, like that one that went up. That one that went up was like nothing in a tornado plowed right through it. And then Amazon was going to put in tornado shelters and all their buildings because of that one. Like everybody, I think everybody but one guy died, I think.

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Yeah. You don't fuck with Mother Nature, man. No, you run from it. Yeah. Anyways, back onto a lighter note. OK. I really hope that. Oh, so are you for this display? Are this Storm class? Are you against the Storm class? I'm for it if you've got that extra Lego money sitting around. Oh, no, that's Lego money. That's not Storm glass. That's my point.

That's that's looking like Lego money to me. Yeah. Also, y 'all, if you happen to hear a little diddy do, I'm just going to apologize for that. Don't know why that keeps happening. I think we're the only ones who can hear that. I think so. But just in case. I hope so. We're just going to.

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Wait, did you open the same tab? Twice no, I know I did it. So I don't know what happened to my thing That's crazy. Okay, I'll just pull up. I already know We're having some technical difficulties bear with us, please Because we went off on this tangent about tornadoes the nators

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Ignore the price. It's fine. Let's just talk about what the product is. Oh dear Lord. It's fine. Ignore it. Okay. So I was perusing online and what do I see? I see that somebody built a secret door into their house and I'm like that that takes work. Yeah. That takes a lot of like just imagination. It takes a lot.

And I am craftsmanship. Craftsmanship. Thank you. And so I'm just like mentally applauding and thinking, man that'd be so cool to have one day. Just so, so cool. And it was a shelf. That's a door. Like just that's all it was. It was a hidden door. And next thing I know, it's an ad. And I'm just like, they found you. Yeah, yeah. And I'm just like, wow.

Alright, thank you actually. Thank you for leading me straight to where this is. And so apparently, Home Depot is selling InvisiDoors. That's amazing. I did not know that they did that. Just straight up bookshelves with a frame so that it can be hinged onto it and it just flawlessly hides in sight.

you okay well when I say flawlessly it just also depends on how you decide to hide it yeah because if you choose to put like a border around it like the base to your wall but all around the door shelf thing bookshelf that makes it look more like a door that's on you if people find it best but but if you can successfully hide it in plain sight

That's badass. I'm telling you now. Yeah, I love these kinds of things. I think they're so cool. Like, it's so simplistic too. Yeah. It literally is just installing a door. That's literally all it is. You have a case opening in your wall. You install this what looks like a door frame with a door, but instead of it being a door, it's literally a shelf. That's our bookcase. I'm sorry. Excuse me.

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Turnology and then you open it and you have your secret hidden room behind there and can do all your cool ass **** or watch movies or have your game room or just Eat your snacks and your food away from your kids so they don't bite bite Every 10 seconds while you're trying to eat food room. Yeah Yeah, so I I love this. It's so freaking cool. It's flush mounted. So it's supposed to be way more like

naturally hidden. And the downside is that it's one thousand four hundred and seventy eight dollars. A little bit, a little bit of a disappointment. But is that really that bad? It depends, because if you have the tools. Yeah. And the capability. This shouldn't be that hard to make.

Because in reality, you just need, I guess it's probably patented or whatever, but the hinges that they make to make this swinging door like a thing. Because the shelf itself is simplistic. It's simplistic, they just framed it a certain way so it just slides into the cased opening that you make into a wall. So it really shouldn't be that difficult.

Are you saying for this installation or to do on your own? To do on your own. Okay. So I'm saying if you have the tools and the capability to like woodwork. Yeah. Then I think you could do it for way less. I'm sure you probably could, but it's the time and the craftsmanship. I always tell myself that I can do it and then I start doing it and I'm like...

I feel like it would have been so much cooler if I had just bought the thing and would have saved me time. Oh, this one's even more realistic. Oh, wow. Because I found one. Wow, look how cheap it is. Well, oh, never mind. Yeah. So I guess we found InvisiDor also sells these what? Panels? Yeah, these panel accessory doors for the bookshelf.

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to make it look more realistic, like, oh, here's some just like panels holding whatever behind here. So it doesn't look like you can open them. It looks like it's just to like, oh, no, you can open them. Oh, yeah, it's a full on like a casework. Yeah. So, yeah, it's just making it more. Oh, so you have more options. So instead of it just being like the full on bookcase. Okay, I see you. I think that's a cool idea. Yeah, I love it.

I do too. I would totally do this. Now, other companies do this. I think Murphy Door does this as well. Oh, I think you're right. Because I was trying to look this up in general and Murphy Door kept popping up.

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Well, I don't know, it's not popping up, but it's fine. Okay, is it more right there? Murphy door? Oh yeah, look at that.

I'm not good at the internet. Oh, there's a mirror one. Murphy door went all the way out. Okay. So they, they went with a mirror one, a game room one with like pull stick and Q sticks. Yes. Thank you. I was saying it wrong. That's okay. Pull stick, Q stick, same thing. A shoe rack door. Super cognito. Oh, that one.

Pantry door. Okay. Well, but then the pantry door. That defeats the whole purpose. Yeah, because you know, it's a pantry door. But all the other ones have a lot of... Oh, that one's... That's a hidden gun cabinet door. Hidden dresser door. Spice rack door. I'm a fan of that. That would be a cool one to have like a... In front of the pantry. Yeah. Never find my food. Is it the...

Oh, man, is it the waiter? Waiter pantry? Oh, no. It's called... I don't know. Oh, it's going to drive me crazy. And all those big bougie houses when they have the hidden extra pantry. I want to say it's the waiter pantry. I guess. I think that's the term for the room. I don't know. I can't afford that. So I don't know what it's called. So what? The cheapest option is the flush mount bookcase door.

for $1 ,200. How much was... What's the one on Home Depot? Home Depot, as I have already lost. It's okay. We went down a rabbit hole. Yeah, I started clicking other things. I think it's similar. Oh, that's actually cheaper than the Home Depot. Wow. Okay, y 'all. So, Home Depot has for an unfinished bookcase. Yeah. $1 ,400, almost $1 ,500. Now, Murphy Door for a stained finished bookcase at...

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looks really nice. Mm hmm. Twelve hundred. That's surprising. And then it slightly goes up from there. So like the mirror one, nineteen. When we get to like a shoe rack to go hide your closet or whatever, twenty two hundred and it gets as high for the hidden gun cabinet door. Twenty nine hundred and same thing for the hidden dresser drawer. Honestly, not that bad.

Yeah, that's really cool. Videos. These videos are cool. Lots of options. Wow. I like that the Murphy door has them finished. Considering that they're finished versus what the Home Depot option was, these aren't bad. No, they're, I mean, they're technically a deal in that sense. Yeah. We're looking at the videos like first one's like a cool, normal, like hidden.

That's the shoe rack and that one's like a cased shelf. Okay. The second one has a guy using a book as the opening lever. So he does that classic like, yeah, classic tipping the book open and it just like opens a door. The last one, this girl's going into an in -house rave. Straight up lights flashing and everything. Go her. But yeah, I'm a big fan.

This has made it onto colonize your list. Our list, our next house list. That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I like the mirror one. Yeah, I like the mirror one, but I think I like like if I had a big ass closet, I'd be so on board with a shoe rack one. Yeah. But ultimately, like I would be very happy with just a straight up bookcase one. Yeah. To go hide like an office. So like.

private time and all that in terms of like when you have family over and like that's just where that's where you work. That's where you got your stuff. Like, okay, that's fine. Like just hide it behind there and kids won't get into it. Yeah. I like the mirror one and I almost want to say that I would want to use the mirror one for the closet door. Oh, I could see that. Okay. I feel like that would be cool. And then you would multipurpose your door in your bathroom.

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Yeah. So I like that. And then I'm going to show my true colors. I like the gun case one. I feel like that will be cool as **** for like a doomsday prepper room back behind there for when the zombie apocalypse happens. You would. I would. I do. I am for it. OK, so with your true color showing, mine are going to show with the spice rack door because I'm all about having a hidden pantry. The dumb waiter?

No, that's no, I said that and that's on it because that's the little elevator that takes the trays up and down. Oh, man. What a rude name now that I think about it. But at the same time, it's kind of smart because it's a puller, a pulley in the lever system and you don't need a person. Yes. To actually do it. But it's because like the waiter is not going to bring you the food. It's a dumb waiter because it's bringing it to you. But it's a machine. Yeah. I have.

Oh no, we could have named it something else. Okay, iRobot, are you worried that the freaking Dumpmwader is going to attack you? No, because it's not... Okay. Also a good place to hide from when the zombie apocalypse happens. The Dumpmwader. That's where you hide from the dinosaurs on the island. Reeves loves that movie. Such a good one.

That movie used to scare the **** out of me. Well, yeah, especially like in the first one when they're in the kitchen and, and, uh, I never made it that far. Oh, I made it to the guy getting eaten off the toilet and I'd be like, turn off, Papa, turn off. I was done. That's as far as I made it. Reeves, meanwhile, he makes us through that whole movie and he's going,

like the whole time. Oh, he thinks he's the dinosaur. He does. Now, one scene that scarred me for the longest time until I rewatched it older and was like, oh, that's not what I thought it was, was I think it was a second movie. And it starts with this little girl feeding like this one little dinosaur and then another comes and another comes. And then you just hear her scream and the mom is running. And so I thought, well, she died. Yeah, got eaten. Yeah.

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But then like I rewatched it and it was like, no, she didn't get eaten. She got attacked. Yeah. She did not get eaten. And I was like, oh, that's better. Did you just tell yourself that or did she really get eaten? I... You just told yourself that? No, I think she really didn't get eaten. Oh, because I always thought she got eaten. I mean, I thought that too, but we were both chickens and then I finally had to brave it up and then watch it. I did not watch that movie until my son wanted to watch that movie and then everybody...

My husband told my everybody and my family, like, hey, Loren did it. She finally grew up and watched Jurassic Park like a grownup. And everybody was so proud of me. And I was like, it's a really good movie. I made it past the guy getting eaten off the toilet. As far as I ever made it. I had to close my eyes, but it's fine. No, I didn't. I didn't hide behind a pillow or anything, Priscilla. I made it. I haven't **** in five days.

I think you need to go see a doctor about that. Actually, not related, but sort of related to that. I remember, oh gosh, I remember being young and my cousin always had like the scary movies on and I liked scary movies as far as I knew. And I feel like, I love you, mom. I love you so much. But I feel like there were times where if I asked, hey, can I go watch this? You weren't hearing the movie I was saying.

Because I remember she was like, do you want to go watch this scary movie called The Grudge? And I was like, OK. And oh, sorry, not the grudge, the ring. Worse, it was the ring. It was the ring. And so I watched it with her and Loren, when I tell you one, if any static came on, I'd burst into tears to I was awaiting a phone call at any point. Why are we talking about scary movies right now at night time? We went from Jurassic Park to this ****. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. Is it?

Is it? Yes, because I've convinced myself unless I'm living the exact life of the victim in that movie, I'm fine. Yeah, it's fine. And so it works, man. So then on top of all of that, I did not want to shower for like a week because one of the scenes in that movie is in a shower. And I was like, no, I'm never just getting into a shower again, not for a week because she comes in a week. So after I finish the week, she's not coming in.

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fine. That's where I was at. I don't do scary movies. Everything you just described to me, I have no idea what you're talking about, but I am going to need you to walk me out to my car. I do that anyways. I know. But I don't like scary movies, which is it takes a lot to scare me like real life. But when it comes to scary movies, I don't. I mean, I like them. But like I said, it took a whole mental manipulation just to like...

Dang. Be okay with them because I am a bit of a scaredy cat. And it was literally just reminding myself like, okay, unless I am living a life like that victim, I'm fine. It's not going to happen to me. Hey, whatever you got to tell yourself to get through it, man. Yeah. Like that's what it took. That's all that it takes. It's all that matters. But yeah, so that was my relation to that. I have not **** in five days. Oh my God. Oh, there was also the time when I was really young and I watched...

Chuckie and then I was also scared to go to the bathroom because I'm sure there was a bathroom scene. I was really young and everywhere I went, I was like, he's just going to pop up. I know it. Like, oh my God. No wonder I'm an anxious person. Yeah, no ****, Priscilla. Good therapy chat. We just figured it out. Always on edge. Oh, man. No, thank you. Hard pass. I hope you all enjoyed my.

A trip down memory lane. Yeah, I'm sure multiples of you can relate. Let's start a therapy group. Yeah. Okay, well, thank you all for joining. Yes, it was fun, guys. So fun. Okay, bye. Bye.