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Hello, Priscilla. Hello, Loren. How are you doing? I'm doing well. How are you? just, just fine. Just actually fine. Not like I'm fine. It's fine. Everything's fine. Like actually fine. Wait, like bad fine? No. I'm confused. So like I'm fine. But I didn't want you to think bad fine. Cause you know how like I'm fine. It's fine. Everything's fine. It's bad fine. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just, I'm not.

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It's a mess of my brain just trying to come up with a word that's like, I'm fine. Good. Good. Fine. Food? Food. Fine and good. Food. F -O -O -D. I'm food. I like that. Nobody pay me to make slogans, please. Actually, please pay me. I'll give you a terrible one. What's fine and good? Food. Yeah.

That is fine and good. Yes. So I have a question for you. Okay. Okay. When you have a hard piece of candy, what, and you eat it, like how do you, what do you do? Do you chew? Do you suck? Like I, I know this is a weird question, but I mean, there's like, it can be different between sucker and like a hard piece of candy, but I need to know. Okay. So my day starts off.

My day starts off where I get a hard piece of candy and I go, ooh, a piece of candy. Yes, yes. Then once it enters my mouth, hole, mouth hole. God. That's so sorry. I guess suck on it for a while. God, this audio is going to be used against me. It does not.

I'm not going to use it against you. Somebody else might use it against you, but I'm not going to use it against you. Mouth hole and then that just, I'm not making it great right now. This is great content. I don't know what you're talking about. But yeah, I don't really chew on it until like it becomes very delicate and brittle. And then at that point it's just a choking hazard. So, okay. So in my opinion, hard candy is to be sucked on.

Hard candy is not meant to be like bit into and chewed. That's what chewy candy is for. That's what soft candy is for. Yeah. Right. Okay. So Jeff automatically, like within like five seconds, 10 tops, he is chewing on the candy. That bastard. And I, it just, I'm like, why are you not enjoying?

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The flavors. The flavors and the candy. Cause I don't like when it gets stuck in my teeth. Yeah. Like that's the worst. It is worse. It's uncomfortable. That's all you can think about. Yeah. You start doing that weird thing with your tongue where you're trying to get it out. And it's extremely painful. I was going to say it's extremely obvious to everybody around you that you're doing that. Even though you think you're being discreet, you're not. No, it's so obvious. And then like you sometimes you'll get it down smooth on your teeth, but like it's still in your teeth.

I hate it. I hate it so much. I cannot. It's literally called a sucker. It literally has what you're supposed to do to it in its name. You're supposed to suck on it. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if it's on a stick. It doesn't matter if it's just a floating piece of hard candy in a bag. He automatically bites into it. It blows my mind. So Jeff saw that there's these things called Zollies.

They are suckers. It was on Shark Tank. It was created by a 16 year old girl and they're healthy suckers that are meant for kids. They actually clean your mouth. like straight up. Like the sharks were amazed with this little girl and she is like booming. Like business is a boom for this girl. Heck yeah. I want to say she might have gotten two sharks, but don't quote me on that. Yeah.

So Jeff saw them because he is a Shark Tank fanatic. So he bought some and we decided to test them out. Cause sometimes it's difficult to brush a two year old's teeth. Sometimes he's for it and other times he's kicking and screaming, which the dentist was like, but that's the best way you can brush his teeth because now you know, at least you brushed them all. I was like, yeah, but I don't want to traumatize him.

I got to get, yes, a catch 22. I can see what I'm doing, but also, no, he's coming around where he actually enjoys to brush his teeth. good. And in the mornings, mostly in the evenings, but sometimes in the mornings, he will actually grab his toothbrush or ask for his toothbrush and then make us brush our teeth with him. So he's coming around. That's cute. Yeah. But there was a time span where it was not going well. So Jeff's like, we need to...

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I'm going to try these ollies. So he bought them. Reeves is his father's child. Bites down. Bites down after five seconds. Defeats the purpose. And I can't, I won't give him a Zollie because it freaks me out because I'm like this small pieces, your two, it's a choking hazard. It's going to cut something. So that's Jeff's wheelhouse. That's his responsibility to give him the Zollies because I can't do it. But let me tell you.

Those Zollies are so good. I will have to bring you some. Please do. And you don't feel bad about eating them because they're actually good and they clean your mouth. That's great. Yeah. I love that. That sounded like a very random question, but it's because I brought these candies for us to try and I bit into it and I hated it so much, but I was trying to eat it fast before we started the pod so that I was not crinkly and eating candy while we're out here. Yeah.

So the candy, okay. And it's funny because you brought this candy to surprise me. And I happen to, I guess, find it at the same time. Cause you said you got it from your sister -in -law. So I guess I found it at the same fricking time. Okay. I did see, sorry, backtracking just a little bit. We're going to set the scene on TikTok where people are posting about this candy expo. And they're going on and on about how all these new brands are out there and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I was like...

That's so cool, but it's funny. I'm sure there's always new brands, but we never really see them. That's true. We see like the same brands. Yeah. Well, I forget what I was. I like to buy big bags of like the Lifesaver mints. Like the OG white ones? The Winto green ones. Winto mint. I don't know. It's like a winter one and it's a green bag. Yeah. Love those. Love, love, love those.

Mostly because my work has them, but sometimes they switch off to the blue ice mint ones. I don't like those. My work has them too. That's so funny. I'm not a fan. So I was like, well, Priscilla, solve your own damn problem. Just go find your own and keep a bag of that at your desk. And I like to finish off a meal with that. Makes me feel like I've finished, finished and also less grody at the end. So I went down the aisle at Target to just go grab a bag of that.

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And I see this new brand on my way out and I was like, what? What did that say? Because anything that looks even a little bit like Mexican candy, I'm just like, come here. Let me check you out. Let me see how much you cost, how much you're giving me for. Because there was another new brand that called to me a little bit. Like I was a little skeptical, didn't end up buying them. It was a lot of money for like the size of packaging they were giving you. And there were

trying to be like, we de -stress you and we do this and we do that. I'm like, yeah, yeah, everything says it does that, but it doesn't. So, yeah, so I was like, whatever, I'm just gonna move on and leave this aisle. And so when I turned, this freaking thing, this brand, Tamalitos by Sugar Rocks. my damn gosh. Yeah. So good. So good. It is legit. Like it tastes like just...

legit Mexican candy with the amount of chili and lime that they put in the candies. And they're hard candies. So you brought over a little hard candy that's watermelon flavored. And then I had bought myself a pineapple one, both with chili and lime inside, like chili powder, but like a candy chili powder, not like straight up.

And I had also bought a little bag of chili pops. And they're so good. Like one little lollipop is like 45 calories. Not that bad. Like eight grams of sugar. I mean, it could be worse. Could be worse. Could be so much worse. It could always be worse. Not great, but not bad. Yeah. It's a nice little treat. Yeah. And it's a surprise. It's because I mean... Well, it's a surprise to your husband and my boyfriend who decided to chomp on

freaking hard candy that you're not supposed to chomp down on because yes, then you get a flavorful surprise of chili line. So Jeff doesn't really like these kinds of candies. He's, he's a, I'll wait till you're done drinking before I say what I'm about to say. He is a, Mexi -cant. He's a terrible Mexican. it's okay. So am I.

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No, you speak Spanish and you like Mexican candy. I like Mexican candy, but I don't like avocados. I don't like, my gosh, there's other things. I'm not big into spicy food. There's a list of things that the rest of my family is like, you're not one of us. I'm sorry I'm white. I mean, they're all white too, but I'm white white. White bread white. White bread white. I'm sourdough, okay? Let's be.

Let's be real. I'm sourdough. man. He won't eat these types of candies and Loki, you don't taste it right away. So I thought for like a split second about being evil and being like, Hey baby, you want a piece of candy? And giving him one because that's where we're at. Like we've been together long enough that we can do little tricks and vindictive things like that to one another and nobody's going to die.

We're not in honeymoon stage where like anybody's feelings are going to get hurt. But we are on the pick on each other stage. And I thought about doing it, but then I couldn't do it. I love him too much. And I was like, that's too evil. I can't do it. All right, give it 10 more years. So I didn't do it. And then his sister was like, that was your opportunity. It really was. What are you doing? Yeah, it was a great opportunity.

He could just spit it out. But honestly, it could have been his new... Okay, because you know how they say that your taste buds regenerate or whatever. Yeah, they change over time. Yeah. This could have been his revelation that he likes that stuff now. He won't. I guarantee it. I like your positivity, but he would have been like, what the fuck did you give me, woman? And then I would have been hysterically laughing. But then like, depending on his reaction, I would have been like, God, are you mad? Because...

I'm also in that super like, God, I pissed him off. I went too far. I went too far. We overly worry if someone's upset with us, if someone's annoyed with us, if we slightly inconvenienced somebody. Yep.

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to not be a nuisance to anybody else because I would hate to ruin someone else's day for no stupid reason. And I think I equated that to like driving or something. And I was like, listen, for the most part, I'd rather just like let people do them and not be in the way of anybody else. Maybe it wasn't driving, I don't know. But essentially, like I just I don't want to be in anybody's way because I don't want to be the reason someone's day gets like...

thrown off or whatever. And he was like, do you really think people think about it that much? And I was like, I think about it that much. Do others not? And I was like, I don't know. Well, clearly if I think about it like that, there's somebody out there that also thinks about it like that. And he goes, okay, okay. Yeah, that's true. But not everybody thinks about it like that. I'm like,

And alone again, I am. Definition of overthinking. Literally. And I'm like, I'm just trying to be a good person, damn. And he goes, OK, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're being a good person. I was like, thank you. I just minding my own business. I do. I do, to a degree. But you definitely took that to another level. But there's other things that I'd be overthinking, too. Like I was marking up some drawings today and I just I even was talking.

to a coworker like, I feel so bad. Like, there's just so many comments and I'm not done yet. Like, I feel bad. And they were like, they're used to it. Why do you feel bad? I was like, it's like, it's like a shark attack. It gets red. Like, no, they're used to it. It's fine. I was just like, Well, I probably would have, if I was there, would have been like...

This is literally part of the job. I mean, none of us would get paid if there were no comments. It's like, this is all part of the process. This is what we do. Yeah. And that's, but that's how my brain thinks. When I'm like rationalizing, like feeling bad about that. It's like, no, we're, we're doing this for a reason. This is why we get paid. That's okay. Yeah. I think it's cause it's someone that I've never worked with before. and so you don't know their levels of like patience and all that and where their thought level is at with like,

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productivity and yeah, so I don't want them to be like this little girl just came in and ripped everything that I did apart like she knows but at the same time you just fucked up man. Like I know it needed to be done and I know it needed to be fixed but there was a split second that I was like these are bad, I feel bad but then also these are really bad they need to be redone. Right down the corner, sorry.

I guess I sent a really nice email. God. That's good. Yeah. So there's that. But yeah, no, I totally understand overthinking to the nth degree for sure. OK, well, on the level of overthinking. Yes. Would we like to move on to my overthought products? I'm ready. I'm ready. I'm ready. yeah. OK. I bring to you. OK, OK.

my gosh. Do you know what you're looking at? my goodness. Is this OK? Is this literally OK? I can't even get the words out right now. I'm so excited. This is like the OG. It looks like the OG Apple. The color iBooks for those of you who don't know and those of you who maybe just forgot one stage of Apple's laptops were colorful.

If you've ever seen Legally Blonde, she has an orange one. I believe it's orange. She goes, she buys a colorful laptop. It's legit freaking orange and white and it is so cool. And it was like a little bit translucent. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. So those were like an old version of OG, like, you know, Macbook where they called it the iBook. And... my God, this is amazing. Yeah, right. So...

This guy out here, I'm forgetting his name, Billy Skipper. So I'm on TikTok and he was showing how he is recreating these iBooks, but to convert them so that you can put your iPad in them. Okay. I thought that's exactly what was going on, but like I got also so excited because all I could think of was like the big huge box when they first come out. Yeah.

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I forgot about the legally blonde thing. I appreciate your explanation because I totally forgot about that. But this is so freaking exciting, dude. Yeah, this is amazing. So like someone somewhere just decided like, hey, it'd be so cool if we brought these back, but how do we use them in today's time? Because you know, you're not just going to stick a laptop in a laptop. So genius. Let's put an iPad in there.

I believe if I'm correct, and I'll show you some videos in a minute because I pulled up his TikTok, he is 3D printing the casing.

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So he is 3D printing them and putting a keyboard inside, like a Bluetooth keyboard, and then puts magnets on the upper half so that you can just slide in an iPad. And you can pop it back out when you need it. Question. Yeah. Can you put a magnet on an iPad? Yeah. So the iPad itself is magnetic, at least the newer ones for sure. And I believe the older ones.

But the newer ones, the pros, they're magnetic because they use the magic keyboard. Okay. That might've been a dumb question, but I feel like it's always no magnets near electronics. I feel like we've been away from that for a while now though, because if you think about it, like your cell phone has an entire magnetic circle on the back. MagSafe charger. But I feel like that's different. So here, I'll show you. Give me one second. And I think it's just because...

that looks different on my phone than what looks what he has shown there. And I think that's literally the association that my brain is like that looks like, yeah, magnet. You know what I'm saying? Yeah.

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So, the Magic Keyboard that's used for the Pro is literally just like all magnetic on the back. I know it has some magnetic spots more than anything, but it's just like really strong magnetizes to it and then it can just detach. I believed you. Don't get me wrong. I believed you. His magnets looked a little different.

Yeah, his are definitely different. Like they're big circular magnets and I'm guessing it's working. He... Well, obviously it's working. Yeah. Maybe that was just a dumb question I asked. He makes a lot of them and sells a lot of them. So it seems to be, I don't know, something that's working for him. But here I'll pop up a video. So hold on one second. Okay.

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What do you mean one of these in an iPad mini size? No way, that's not possible. Psych, I did it. I had made this prototype a couple months ago and I put out a video about it, but I really haven't touched the design since. So I wanted to make a few tweaks based on using it over these last couple months. And I also wanted to print in this green filament that almost exactly matched the key line color of the actual eyebrow. So after printing for about two days straight,

I was able to take these pieces off and there was a lot of post -processing involved. I had to take off all these supports. There was a little bit of stringing involved, so I sanded those down and then I glued it all together. Everything fits so perfectly, a little too perfectly. These hinges were kind of tough to put on, but enough muscle and enough grip strength, I was able to make it work.

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What do you mean one of these? Dang, now I just want to like dance. Yeah, he has a dance party. Yeah, he has great music for his videos. So this is so cool. Yeah, it's really cool. And at first I thought like he was he took the concept one sort of 3D printing them and they just were going to look like, you know, 3D printed rough versions of the iBook. Yeah.

But he goes as far as sanding them, glossing them, making them look real, real good. Which he should for as much as he's selling them for. So that's the thing. Yeah. The one that I pulled up on his website is what you you supply the iBook. OK, so this one's a little different. He retrofitted this actual iBook from the past. If you send him one, he can turn it.

like into a case for your iPad Pro 11 for $650. Dang. Now let me pull up, give me a second, and I'll pull up the version where he 3D prints it.

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Okay, so like here you can see where he'll also like customize them from what they used to be. So like someone turned this one over and he glitterized it.

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I think this is also one that he turned over.

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He even did like a special edition. It sold out, but for like $350, he did a special Pride edition. So he made, he called it the Apple Pie case. That one's actually 3D printed. This one's not a turnover one. Correct. This one's not a turnover one. He 3D printed this one for a mini because it fits an iPad Air 10 .9 inch.

I guess not many, but you know. So like he's he's definitely getting acquainted with like 3D printing them more. Hold on.

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$900 I can just buy a new MacBook at that price. I feel like I've gotten a lot of new followers lately so I want to keep reiterating this and I know people are gonna say you don't need to keep justifying your price you don't need to keep explaining to people if they don't want to buy it they don't want to buy it that's fine but I just want the understanding out there just so people don't think I'm like inflating a price for no reason I'm working for you guys I'm doing this for you okay so why does this cost $900 well

It starts with a $300 ish dollar laptop that I buy on eBay. I spent a lot of time just buying iBooks on eBay. Like that's that's just money. I'm not getting back like the actual time. But then I break it down to the studs and then start rebuilding it into an iPad driven laptop. But $900 just for an iPad case. Well, that's a mentality difference that we have. And let me explain it. If you just want an iPad case, you could jump on Amazon and you get them. They're like $30. Super cheap.

That's if that's all you need. That's all you need. That's all you should spend your money on. That's totally fine. But for me and a lot of people, it's not about the iPad. It's about this. So I will say, OK, I think I was I overly focused on his 3D printed parts. I didn't realize he was also buying like mass amounts of the book itself. Yeah, the book itself. I was OK. So I was wondering.

I saw this at a glance, kept in the back of my head, pulled it up for today's episode, and just started trying to pull together references to show you, to explain better. But I was wondering why some of his, the more obviously 3D printed ones, he would put an orange instead of an apple, because you can't do the apple or apple will come for you. So he's putting an orange, but then some of the ones he was selling had an apple, so I was like, well that's...

on what made the difference there. So clearly, he's doing both. I think he's really getting comfortable with 3D printing them, and that's what I was seeing. But it is really cool that he's taking old actual iBooks and converting those as well. He's repurposing stuff that is old technology, and that's really cool because a lot of people, it's old, let's throw it in the trash. Yes. Or like, well, maybe we can sell it for parts.

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So in this case, I mean, he bought it for parts. He gutted it out, which yeah, it sucks. I was seeing some comments where people were a little upset about that and they're like, no, don't do that. And it's like, well, what else is it going to be used for though? Yeah. Are you going to buy it? Are you legitimately going to buy it and try to get it running just like your actual MacBook? Or is it at least nice that the shell itself can be repurposed? That's being used in some sort.

in manner. Yeah. It's something which is better than nothing. It's a good carrying case too, by the way. I mean, if you think about it. So I like it. I think it's fun. I know. I mean, it's definitely, yeah. $900 is a lot for like a repurposed one. And then I think it's like in the 300s, if you like 3D print you on, which still is not cheap, but it's something fun. It's something unique. It's not something that everybody has. It's

bringing something back that a lot of people grew up on and use, which is also fun because right now our generation is all about nostalgia. I don't know if any generation has been this much into the nostalgia as our generation, but boy are we hook, line and sinker. And I mean, I'm here for it. I always liked the stuff that I grew up on. I liked the older stuff than that too, but you're never...

You're never not going to have people to buy this, but you're also never not going to have people that are going to complain because you're always going to have people that are going to be like, my God, I can use something that I grew up on. It's a little different, but I can still use it. But then you're also going to have the other people that are going to complain because you're ruining something. Yeah. It's not being used anyways. It's being repurposed. What's the problem? Yeah. I mean, it's better than like someone buying mass amounts and just like, I don't know, making some kind of a trash video where they're just

trying to smash them all and see what happens. Yeah. Like at least these are getting used. So it's way different. I'm for it. I think this is really cool. Thanks. If I had $900 to drop, I would totally get one or like a custom one. I think that's super cool. I mean, and I love 3D printing. I love 3D printing regardless of what's being printed too, because man, we 3D printed in school and then I'm seeing all of these new stuff that 3D printed.

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I don't know if you saw the Lego Skylines that I have hung on the wall. Those have little shelves that are 3D printed. that's so cool. Yeah. So I mean, I love that kind of stuff. And man, I've been watching. So I did like a study while I was in school and there's 3D printing houses. Yep. And I think that's so f***g cool. I did that study too.

Jeff and I talk about 3D printing a house all the time and he's like, it's like, we'll have a tornado shelter. So I think it's cool. I think it's fascinating. And you're pretty much going to get me hook, line and sinker on anything 3D printed. Well, good. I'm glad that's an automatic win. Pretty much. All right. Are you ready to share your next wonderful pick with me? Yes, I am. Here we go. I bring to you.

the Hyland Cow Nike embroidered shirt. That is so cute. I am obsessed. I want this immediately. I almost impulse bought it literally the moment I saw it. So much. I want it so much. I love cows and I cannot describe to the listeners to the degree that I love cows.

But I think these freaking Highland cows are just fluffy and adorable as all hell. Man, I love cows so much. So, you know what makes me laugh? What? This is, I swear, since we record our episodes in bulk. Yeah. We just recorded the last one also. Yeah. And everything you brought, I was like, I've seen that and I have something for that. Shut up.

Give me one minute. Okay.

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I am telling you right now, these Nike embroidered things with the swoosh are trending like crazy right now. So what I brought up for Loren, you showed me yours. Yes. And I was like, girl, I got one for you. I had very recently saw this online. Someone embroidered.

SpongeBob and Patrick on Nike sweatshirts also. Yes. But they're like little baby SpongeBob and Patrick. And they're chubby. And they're little chubby babies. And they're so stupidly cute. They are. And they're on like color coordinated sweatshirts. So SpongeBob's like on a kind of beigey sweatshirt and Patrick's on a pink one. Yeah. And I saw this and I was like, my God, Cole, stop me now because I'm going to buy it. Yes. It's happening.

I, it's the, it's inevitable. I'm, I'm, I know that I'm going to buy it. I've seen so many different versions. I've seen so many different cartoons. I've seen so many things that are embroidered on the Nike Swoosh. And let me tell you, I'm, I am so here for it. There's a bluey one. It's vampire bluey. it's bandit. Okay. Bandit's the dad.

That makes more sense. Yeah. But like a little bloody swoosh at the bottom because it's Halloween themed. Yes, it's adorable. Like, I love that we're in our embroidered era right now because... I love it. Again, it's the 90s coming back, dude. Yeah. You know what? Yep, you're right. Like, full force, you just proved it.

It's absolutely, I just, man, I want this Highland cow. So stinking bad. So stinking bad. It's very cute. It's so cute. It's got the little cow pattern and everything. I'm pretty sure I have it saved on all of the every things that I found. And you can get it in a t -shirt, a sweatshirt, a hoodie. There's different options. Can you click on the t -shirt for me for a second?

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So the T -shirt starts at 45 and then the prices just climb. And I believe the hoodie was like 68, 63, something like that. 63. Yeah. It has all kinds of different color options, which, man, I don't want any other color. I want literally the option that they provided me because I think it's adorable. Yeah. It definitely goes best with like the color combo, a little beige background and then like a little beige and brown.

cow spots. It's so cute. I'm a fan. I like it. I'm honestly really surprised you don't have it yet. I know me too. Probably also that's what's stopping me is it's over 100 degrees outside. yeah. So I can't 100 % commit to buying another sweatshirt. Wait so like is your office not just always freezing cold like mine? No my office stays at 80.

Yeah, I and we're not allowed to wear shorts. Why keep it at 80 then? So it's not by choice. So the building owner is kind of a jerk and he's really, really cheap. So he turns everything off on the weekends and everything turns off at five o 'clock and nothing turns back on until I think it's eight a

So from eight to five, that's the only time anything is on. Really? Yeah, but a lot of times on Mondays, it doesn't get anything turned on until...

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A lot of time on Mondays, nothing gets turned on soon enough. There's been times that I've come into the office and it's like 86 degrees and I like cannot breathe. And I've like had to message like, hey, somebody needs to get a hold of the manager because I don't think anything's turned on. And usually one of the maintenance guys has to come in and has to turn everything on. And it's a whole huge ordeal. And I mean, nothing starts to even cool down until about one o 'clock.

Now we are looking to like my office, we are, I mean, I should say my company. My company is in a bigger office building and we are one of very few tenants in the building, but the building management is garbage. So they're having a lot of issues with literally everything. Like there's times that the water gets turned off.

Yeah. Stuff just doesn't get turned on. He's really, really cheap. One time the building flooded and all he did was pump the water out. That's it? Yes. He didn't rip up any of it. I'm shit you not, Priscilla. I walked into the office and you know how you can tell something has just been flooded and it has that distinct smell? yeah.

It's like a musty like yes, like cigarette smoke. Like it's just it's a also damp. It smells damp. And you know, so you I walked to the vestibule and I was like, something's not right. And then I walked into the lobby and I was like, something's really not right. And I'm sitting at the elevator and I heard dripping water. I looked over and literally that whole wing was underwater. my God. And there's no number for a building manager anywhere.

And I'm the first one in the office. So like I emailed and texted and called everybody and was like, hey, so the building is flooded on the first floor and I don't know really who to contact. Yeah. So they were like, I'll contact so and so. So I was like, OK. And.

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So then, man, what a night. They contacted whoever it was and yeah, sure is heck a pipe burst over the weekend and just was dripping all weekend long and nobody's there on the weekends so nobody had an idea. And all he did was he hired like a serve pro or whatever. They pumped all the water out of the building.

It was leaking from the ceiling, obviously, because it's a multiple story building. So all the plumbing is in the ceiling. Yeah. And he didn't replace any of the ceiling tiles. Shut up. He didn't replace any of the lights. There's the lights are rusted. He didn't rip up the carpet. I don't know how the building didn't catch on fire and burn down. It's still good. Because it's underwater. I'm just kidding.

He didn't replace the wallpaper. They literally pinned the wallpaper back with a bush pin. Are you? my God. Yeah. And then they didn't do anything about the smell. So like the whole building smelled like that for a really long time. And it happened during the winter too. So it took a really, really long time for anything to actually like truly dry out.

So sometimes when you walk on the first floor, like you can still smell it. So do y 'all ever have any clients like come to your office? Very, very, very rarely. Like we used to have a lot, but if we do, it's more of like, we'll just go out and take the client out instead of having them come into the office, which our office suite itself is great, but it's that first floor. Yeah, that's ruining it. Yeah, that's ruining it big time. And then at that point, it's like why...

All right, like a lot of different things here. Like, why am I paying to have this like office or suite or whatever if I can't even have my freaking clients come to me? Also like, wow, back to the whole 2020 debate on like, do we just work from freaking home if like this is what paying for a suite does like dealing with this kind of management because like it's literally basic standards. Yeah. And one time, my goodness. So

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There is a very distinct smell for electrical. If there is something electrical fire, there is a very, very distinct smell. And I smelled it. It smells like welding. no. And I went down there and I told them and somebody else had smelled it too. I work in an office full of men. They're pretty much like their noses just don't work.

But not until I said something they were like, is that what that smell is? And I was like that is burning electrical wires guys. Come on Yeah, get your shit together So they went and got the building manager and he literally came into our suite and was like I don't smell anything and I looked at him and was like that was a very distinct smell and he was questioning if I knew what it smelled like To that point I wanted to get up and punch him in the face and be like, okay, I understand that I'm a girl

And you'd think that I don't know what this is, but I promise you I grew up and I know exactly what welding smells like. And I know exactly what burning wires smell like. Yeah. That was a very distinct smell. Also, why would I just pull that out of thin air that that's what it smelled like? Could have just stood up, punched him in the face and said,

Do you know what a punch in the face feels like? It wasn't that. No, no. Just gaslight. Yes. Gaslight. That's crazy though. Like honestly, I feel like it could have been anybody else in your office saying that. And he still would have been like, I don't smell anything. he would have been because he's cheap and he won't do anything to get it fixed. Yeah. So it's just easier to deny and be like, no, it's fine. I know he's super cheap because he crashed his freaking Porsche and it's been

parked in the parking lot at the office for a month now. That's the Porsche that crashed? Yeah. No. Yep. Wow. Well, now we know where all the money's going into. Yep. Fixing the Porsche. No, it's not because it's been sitting there for a month. Well, that's my point. You can't spend it on anywhere else because you're saving up to fix the Porsche. that's true. That's true. But yeah, no, it's a disaster. my gosh. That's awful. Yeah.

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I mean, because yeah, like you and I, we worked in an office that management wasn't terrible, but like they had a flood too. Loren, I'm starting to see a pattern. Just kidding. You weren't even working there when the pipe burst at the last one. Anyways, no, but pipe burst at the last one before I even started there. So when I started, they were in a temp office somewhere else. And by the time

we were let back into the building, they had replaced all the flooring. They replaced a lot of the walls and the finishes because it just is that bad. They went ahead and redid the freaking bathrooms. They did a lot on the first floor. Then mind you, we would get up to our third floor and our restrooms look like they were stuck in the 80s. With the green countertops.

green countertops with the green gross wanting to peel off plastic laminate from the restroom partitions because they matched. There was a weird old lady kind of wicker bench. I forgot about that. That's a weird ass bench in that restroom. I really think that they saw too many movies in the 80s where women's restrooms had couches and they're like, gotta put a couch in here. I forgot about that. But let's put an outdoor one.

And in general, every woman would walk by and just kind of look at it like, why is that there? I sat in it one time and it felt really weird. I bet. Because it's in a restroom all day. Exactly. Ugh. Yep. Gross. So yeah, like I don't know, that restroom was weird. And that's just kind of how our floor was, how all the other floors were. All of them.

None of them were jazzed up. It was just the first floor. And I think it was just because of the flood. It was. Yeah, exactly. And then I remember thinking like, what would it take to get a flood on this level? But yeah.

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Man, that elevator didn't work. That elevator, yeah. So because of the flood, the elevator went down, then they kept trying to fix it. It was on and off. And then, like, there were real sketchy days in that elevator. I'm pretty positive for the first six months of me working. It was either the first six to eight months of me working there. There was no working elevator.

I think you're right because I remember when they let us back into the building finally, we had to move back in through the stairwell. Yeah. And like they had taken all their computers to the temp office. So we had to carry all the freaking computers back. man, that sucks. And then guess what? We got back in the building and like two weeks later COVID hit. And so then we had to carry all the computers back down to our cars. man. Yeah.

Yep. It sucked. And I think that's part of why the elevator didn't get fixed for as long as it did. Yeah. I mean, luckily for the COVID part, they figured out how to let us work off of our laptops through a server. So that was okay -ish. But yeah, I never want to move computers.

back and forth ever again through a stairwell. No, man. They're talking about having us move, which they've been talking about for a long time, but it's just getting so bad with this building manager. They're just looking to find a new place for us to move to that is acceptable. But I know that my boss is going to hire movers. I know that we're not going to have to move anything. Because he doesn't want to do it.

Well, he's just, he's considerate and he's not going to expect that of us. That's nice. So I know how he is and he's not going to do that. He'll just be like, take your laptop. Everything will be at this location on this date. Yeah. Show up for work that day. That's nice. And I'm sure he would do it over the weekend too, to not interrupt or disrupt anything.

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which is all fun and dandy, but also cool if you wanted to do it on a weekday and we had to work from home or something like that, that's okay. I'm also the kind of person that would be super chill with moving the company on a weekday, helping out just so I didn't have to do any work that day. That's fine, I'll do physical activity today, that's fine. I worked at one firm that like...

one day was fully set aside for spring cleaning. Because we had a giant content library in the back, finished library. So we were told like, yeah, it's just, it's out of hand. We need to clean this whole place up from all the samples. We need to toss stuff. We need to donate stuff. We can do everything. Whole day was dedicated to that. And that was a great day because I liked moving around and not staring at my computer all day.

Speaking of moving around, one of my coworkers, she was like, we've been talking about getting up and walking because there's a couple of the boys in the office that are constantly getting up and walking. And they're really good about it. Well, I get so caught up and so busy. The only time I leave is to get up to go to the bathroom and to get my lunch. That's it. And then I'm sitting back down and I'm staring at the computer all day. She's worse than I am.

So she's been saying like, we need to get better like these boys. We need to get better like these boys. We need to just get up and walk around. She was literally sitting at her desk, falling asleep. And she came down to get me and she was not even like, I was like, are you, are you okay? She's like, I'm so tired. Do you want to walk with me? And I was like, yeah, walk. Okay. I forget how fast I walk. Unless I'm walking with somebody that doesn't walk fast.

And I literally got to the point that I was stopping because she was not walking fast or even moving. I was like, are we are we walking or are we just standing and talking? I thought I thought we were walking, but you stopped and we're not moving. And now what what is happening here? Yeah. Like, I don't know if you thought that I walked fast when we used to go on our little walks. I mean,

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Everyone walks fast to me though because I've got short, stumpy legs. I just knew that you were always slowing your pace down for me. I was always trying to quicken my pace up a little bit for you, but then also trying to keep a good, slow pace so we spent more time outside and less time inside. I didn't feel ever awkward with you at all. Her? I felt awkward as all hell. She's also taller than me, so she's got a longer stride. I was like, okay, cool.

It didn't work. It didn't work at all. And I didn't. I just like, my God. OK. And then her walking like these boys will go for 15 minutes and stretch your legs. 10 minutes to stretch your legs. It was like five minutes. And then she's like, well, I guess we should go back to the office now. OK. And I was like, we didn't really do anything because you stopped and talked about that plant for. Half of our five minutes. Remember you and I would like put a whole timer. Yeah.

It started out like as like 10 minutes. I think we increased it. Yeah, we got up to 15 because we found out that we were allowed 15 minutes. It was partially that and partially like, I do so much, what are you going to do about it? I literally complete so much in my day that I know I need this and I know you're not going to tell me I don't need this. Yeah, exactly. The amount of overtime that we did. 15 minutes.

I'm allowed this time anyways. It's my time. Yeah, exactly. So that, I do miss those days. I considered it the other day of like going out and walking and I was like, Texas heat. No. I did have one moment. I had one moment where I asked one of my coworkers to like step outside with me to that event about something because somebody made me uncomfortable in the office. And we're sitting out there and we're both like kind of like...

I feel like we looked crazy. We were both moving our arms a lot just to get air under our armpits because it was hot but cloudy, but also hot. It was just a lot of mixed feelings. I was also venting a lot and he was just like, are you okay? I'm like, I'm fine. Just keep moving the arms. I need air. He's like, should we go inside? I'm like, there's nowhere to talk inside. We have to talk out here. That's funny. We've all been there.

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Yeah. Man, I miss our walks. I do too. OK. I'm going to cheer us up. Yes. By bringing you my next frickin object. Are you ready? Yes. Object. Welcome. my God, Priscilla. Yes. This is amazing. Don't I f***g know it? my gosh. Would you like to describe what you're seeing? It is a Homer.

Simpson rug. And y 'all know, I know y 'all know, it's the gif the meme, the whatever you've seen. It's on the show. It's when Homer is hiding in the bushes and he just goes from like being out of the bushes to just slowly backs into the bushes. And it is Homer partially in the bushes. Literally is a rug of Homer. Partially in the bushes, Priscilla. He's like actively backing up into them.

The bushes are somehow wrapped around his head. They're just slowly encompassing him. Yes! It's like a bigger, tuft carpet. Yeah. So it's following that trend of carpets that are custom made. And I forget what they call it. Tufted. That's it. That's it. It's a tufted rug. And this one's custom. But of course,

They probably did this design once. I was like, that's a hit. This is on Etsy and it's from a seller who named their account Rare Rug. And I love this. I love that it's on sale. There's a stupidly hot chance I might buy it for this house. my God, please do. It went from 95 to 76 until July 14th and it was like...

Okay, shut up. So I don't know if you've noticed, but I have been looking a lot on Etsy lately and everything on Etsy has been on sale. I don't know. Are they trying to do like a prime day on Etsy? They might be. So I used to be big with like selling stickers and vinyls on Etsy and I would get emails that would be like, hey, consider doing this sale or whatever. So I think that's kind of part of it. Like I think

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Maybe they remind people like, hey, kind of like a yard sale. that's a good way of putting it. You know, like where you let the whole neighborhood know like, hey, maybe if we all do this, people come by. Yeah. So it's a really good idea. But yeah, I feel like Etsy is on a roll because I've been looking at a lot of stuff and I would say that the range of the things that I have been looking at as of late have been between 40 and 60 percent off.

Dang, that's really good. Yeah. And I mean, I'm not going to lie to you. I bought some stuff. Yeah, same. You saw my disco ball for my car. that's where you got it? Yeah. OK. What's up? That's awesome. So yeah, I saw this, fell in love with it. And then I started looking a little more. my goodness. Y 'all, it is. my goodness. It is Homer and Marge's hair.

doing the same thing, disappearing. Just in the bush, but it's in her hair. Yep. And now this one is currently 312 and originally like 390. I think it's twice the size of the last one. I think so too. The last one is like a cute little square. And this one is long. It's massive. And there's more detail in this one. Yeah, no, I would agree. Yeah. So I totally get it. Like, I'm in a way of like, wow, what the hell, it's a...

300 and something dollars. yeah, no, no. Like I'm over here like you get your coin. Yes. That's a tiny artwork. I love it. So, yeah, I thought that was really cool. There's other really cool ones out there, of course. They, you know, literally, if you like something, you can probably go find someone who like tufted a rug of that. Like, look at this retro phones. I love it. I love it so much. a dinosaur.

Yeah, this is a dinosaur. one of my faves. It's Bart Simpson. These are trending. Just like on a little pink cell phone. These rugs are trending really, really hard. My niece started making some of these. Really? Yeah. I don't know. She was going to start selling them on Etsy. I think she was doing a couple of giveaways on TikTok and stuff. I don't know how...

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Well, it took off and she got into it. She did some Hello Kitty ones and I want to say Barbie. Nice. Yeah. She still owes me one for the baby. Like I want his face on it now. I told her I would think about it because I didn't know what design, but I think I'm leaning dinosaur. But right now I don't really have anywhere for, I guess I could put it in the playroom.

Yeah, I mean, it's definitely it's an accent piece. I'm a big fan of the idea of putting them on walls because that would be amazing. Just go up and touch it. Yeah. OK, so I'm curious, like this was really, really thick to me. Does it give you like how thicker a thickness or anything of the sort or like could you look at other pictures? So here's the thing. They sell like a couple different versions of sizes. OK.

but it looks pretty dang thick because he's supposed to be going into a bush. totally. So it makes sense. Go back. Go back. This person used it as a rest for their arms on their keyboard. I love that. Yeah, because they have a really narrow version. That's awesome. It literally says keyboard rug. I love that. That's so smart. That's really smart. This one just says

rug, Homer, 3D tufted custom carpet. Like that's it. It's not telling you like, hey, it's for this or whatever. You go up to the top, the second one from your side is the literally the keyboard one. Look at that. I did not even know that was a thing. It makes total sense because I definitely have rests for my elbow. Yeah, it's soft. It's comfy. I would get worried I would get hot. Yeah, depending where you work. But I mean, look at these. Those are cute.

I love this. I'm just a fan. I'm such a fan. And then seeing the fact that there's a good sizeable, like Homer one, like, OK, so well, here's the thing. I think this is where they got me. And I just now seeing this. So you get shown a photo of like the full size version. And then it says the length. Select an option. So for one point four eight feet, which I think is the keyboard rug. Yes, that is seventy six dollars. Dang, they got me.

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They got you. And then for four feet, that's four hundred and seventy two. So I guess that's they're like really big one. And then if you're trying to just go like, I don't know, like a two foot one, that's one hundred and forty eight, two and a half, two hundred three point three feet, three hundred and forty four dollars. So the two foot one, I'm curious that the two foot one is the one that we originally started. wow. It's a little small, but like I think it could still make.

good artwork on the wall. absolutely. I like the design of the first one and I was curious what size it was popping up as. Do you think it's the same one? Okay. Because you see a little table next to it. Okay. wow. They have one with Homer's full body. So Homer's full body. It's got to be the forefoot. It has to be the forefoot. Makes a lot of sense.

So it's four feet long and it's his head and whole body disappearing into the bush instead of just his face. That's amazing. But I do feel like you lose a little bit of it. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. It's not as fun as the smaller one, in my opinion. It's almost too much. I could see that unless you have a really great...

Imagine the end of a corridor in your house or the top of a stair top of a stair and it's just really narrow You can't think of the right long piece of artwork to put there. Yeah, and what do you see when you look up? Frickin Homer disappearing into a bush That wait, never mind never mind never mind I was like, wait a minute that picture but the prize and I'm dumb Yeah, it won't update and that's how they get you. Yep, cuz that's what it did to me. Yep, so

I'm disappointed in the fact that, like, what I thought I might get if I bought it is actually just the keyboard rug, but I'm still here to, like, fully support them and all their hard work, because it is beautiful and amazing. Yeah, this is fun. I wish I could get into this. That would be so cool. Right? They have,

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You know how they used to have like painting with a twist? Yeah, they have these now. They have these for those classes. I don't want to do that. I think that would be a fun date night. Right? We've been talking about needing a date night that's not mini golf because we just tried another mini golf place and I was ready to whack somebody with a little putt -putt club thing. Show ready. man. The rage was hard. I haven't played putt -putt in so long. So this place was cool. Don't get me wrong. It was really cool, but

they, what are they called? I was about to come up with the name puttacular. putt shack. I think those are, they're called putt shack, but they were super cool and they, they make everything kind of like a video game, but not, it's just, it's all very, it's interactive and your ball is linked to you. so it keeps track of how many times you hit it, keeps track of your score, all that stuff. So it makes it more of a game than.

you just keeping track of yourself. And every hole is super themed in terms of like, the first one was just learning how to get into the hole and seeing that there's always bonus points everywhere. And then there was one that was kind of like pong styled. There was one that was like a skee -ball style one. There's a beer pong version. They definitely...

You know, they had a lot of fun with the design. My one problem with like that in a lot of other pop up places are or mini golf, whatever you want to call it, is that they'll have you make a reservation. You show up for that reservation and like four other freaking groups are showing up for their same reservation at that time. because they'll have like four slots for three o 'clock, let's say. And so we show up.

and three other groups show up. So everyone's starting at the same stupid time. So then it doesn't really space anybody out. No. Why would you not put them at like 15 minute increments? Exactly. And then on top of that, there was like a group that showed up early. I saw that their time on the screen said that they were supposed to start like 20 minutes after us. And the system just let them check in early instead. So. And they were a big group in front of us. And I was like, that's cool. What's the point in reserve?

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like reserving and checking in then there's not really a point, but okay. It doesn't make any, that's like you making a reservation for a restaurant. All of the parties show up. There's only four seats available. You can't sit all 16 of these four parties with only four seats.

That's so dumb. It was annoying. It sucked and it just kind of annoyed me. And I mean, on top of that, I just wasn't feeling great. I had a huge migraine. So that was, I was already battling that part of the day. But then on top of that, to just like be fighting everyone else, not fighting, sorry, to just like, you're again, the people pleaser in me was like working really hard to not be in anybody's way. But then also like just annoyed at the fact of like, why am I standing in line? I'm spending this whole date standing in line.

instead of playing. And that's why we came. So yeah, after we left, we were both just kind of like, okay, no more mini golf for a long while because that sucked and we need different date ideas. Yeah. So maybe we'll go tough to rug. Hell yeah. That'd be cool. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Well, Loren. Yes. This has been a lot of fun. This has been a ton of fun. Yeah. Very nostalgic. We have been on a nostalgia kick. Yes, we have. And I'm...

here for it. I hope the listeners are. I hope you all are enjoying all of our nostalgia with all of our products and having so much fun. Nostalgia. Cause we are having fun. All right, Priscilla, you about ready to shut her down? I am. All right. Follow, like on TikTok, Instagram. You can listen to us on all of the platforms because

Priscilla has us on everything. I really hope I do. If I don't, feel free to let us know. Yeah. Send us a message. I'll get back to you. Cause I listen. I mean, I listen. I watch for all of those. Yeah. Loren has an Instagram DMs covered and I've got the TikTok DMs covered. Yeah. So give us a shout. Let's chit chat. Chit chat. Yeah. All right. Well, y 'all have a great weekend. Well, it's Thursday if you're listening.

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But if just, you know what, have a good night. You know what? Have a good day. Do you boo boo. You do you. Have a good one. I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm delusional. Stay peachy keen y 'all. Yeah. Stay peachy keen. There you go. Okay. Bye. Bye.