Episode 7

Hey friends!

Welcome to another episode of Let's Get Sidetracked.

I am Stephanie.

And I'm Sophia.

Let's get sidetracked!

Well, I actually have something to talk about right now.

It actually happened, well, it happens every day for

me, but then there's one special thing that happened.

But to start out with, thanks for listening.

If you have listened before, welcome back.

Glad to have you.

Thanks for hanging out with us.

This might be new information for some people, but they're actually recommended.

It's whatever you get in.

So for a newborn...

Well, going based off of my knowledge of how

long newborn babies live, isn't it like 13?

Close!

And while they're doing that, they could have gotten a job.

They could have been paying time.

For infants, that is 4 to 12 hours.

That makes sense for development.

They don't use... Usually...

Uh, toddlers into 14 hours.

I thought you were saying that the toddlers had to sleep for 1 to 2 years.

And I was like, I don't think that's... Wouldn't that be handy?

I think they're dead at that point.

Just like hook them up and...

Hook them up to the... or put them in that cryogenic shit.

Yeah.

Preschoolers are 3 to 5.

I'm saying toddler naps during the day.

Okay.

I knew that, but how?

Because they have to... I remember when teachers would say, just do your homework.

It's only like one hour.

Or 1 to 2 hours.

And I'm like, yeah, but I'm in this many classes.

Yeah.

So each class has 1 to 2 hours of...

So if I've to get up at... when I went to

school, it was... I would get up at about 7.30.

Oh, no.

You got... you had to get up earlier because you had to catch the bus.

No.

7.30, because I would go to a bus stop about 8.

Oh, okay.

I thought it was a lot early... Oh, no.

It's the high school.

High school has to catch it really early.

Okay.

You're right.

But when I would get up... I would go to school.

...sleep at, like, 10 p.m.

Yeah.

Or, if I was feeling a little feisty, I'd go to sleep at about 12.

Mm-hmm.

And even if I went to sleep at 7 p.m., I ain't finishing shit.

Yep.

I get no time for myself.

Nope.

And I barely get time to do the homework.

No time for eating.

No time for anything.

Mm-mm.

So, what the fuck do they want from me?

All right.

So, teenagers, 13 to 18 years, they require 8 to 10 hours, which they do not get.

That's funny.

Young adults, 18 to 64 years.

Wow.

So, you're a young adult.

I am a young adult.

Holy cow.

I want to be a young adult for a while.

Honestly, that is very flattering.

That is a really wide span of years.

I don't think that is quite right, Google.

What was the first year?

18.

So, that's like a 50-year gap?

That's a... Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a very long gap.

A lot of span.

40-some... Yeah.

God damn.

So, they require 7 to 9 hours, and older adults, 65 plus, require 7 to 8 hours.

It's kind of bullshit, though.

Which is not a big difference, and it all depends

on your activity level and your health level.

That is true.

But...

Go ahead.

Sorry.

You have some adults that are...

Older people that are not doing well, so they sleep a lot longer.

Yeah.

But, like, grandma... Oh, yeah.

She goes to sleep at, like, 10 p.m.

and wakes up at, like, 6.

Yeah.

And, like...

And then she just runs her ass off all day.

You've been doing that for 40 years.

Yeah.

How do you do that?

I think she just enjoys it.

She likes to have her day in.

Oh, yeah.

She likes to have her breakfast, watch some morning TV, watch some... Yep.

Watch the news.

I actually missed that when I was younger.

Watch some Price is Right.

Well...

Well, no, it's just watching the... Yeah.

Like, before I went to school, I'd wake up at...

Because my grandma lives still in Oswego.

Mm-hmm.

And where I went to school at the time was over

at her house for, you know, the weekend or...

Because you had to do something.

Yeah.

But it took, actually, quite a bit of time to get over to my school.

Yeah.

Over in Tualatin.

So, what would happen is I'd wake up at about 6.30, 7 with her.

She'd make me breakfast.

Mm-hmm.

Like, waffles, cereal.

Yep.

My favorite cereal, Raisin Bran.

Raisin Bran.

I love Raisin Bran.

I told you you've been an old person in your brain your whole life.

Yeah.

I think it's because I just... Mm-hmm.

I'm a big Raisin fan.

I don't have it as much as I used to when I was younger.

Well, sure.

We don't eat a whole lot of cereal.

Yeah.

Well, no, just Raisins in general.

Oh, oh, okay.

I know we have some, but, like, I don't just fucking snack on them anymore.

Yeah.

Maybe because my stomach has changed in its way, and it makes me quite not feel good.

You know, it's because we don't have the tiny boxes of them anymore.

And I remember Grandma would have the things that

were, like, this long with a bunch of boxes in them.

Yeah.

And this long being, like... A foot.

Like, a foot.

Like, when you go to the store to buy Raisins... Like, 17.

Like, individual boxes of Raisins.

They come in a little brick-looking thing.

Mm-hmm.

I still remember she'd get those during the summer, and I'd just, like,

take a few to the office, which is where I slept.

Mm-hmm.

Because she had... Back in this... During this time, she had...

She had the cots.

Mm-hmm.

Little, like, just collapsible cots.

Just a fold-out bed.

Yeah.

But then we stopped sleeping over so often.

Like, I mean, like, all of us sleeping over.

Yeah.

So she still has one.

Nice.

But that's not for us.

It's just, like, if she has company over.

Sure.

I'm sure if you asked, she would let you sleep on the cot.

Yeah, absolutely.

I haven't slept over in about four years.

Four, five years.

That's sad.

You should go have a sleepover.

I should.

I just... I just haven't.

You got Perla.

Yeah.

Yeah.

She could come over.

That's true.

That's true.

But I've always worried about...

She has come over to stay the night once.

But Grandma has a cat that doesn't like anything.

And I have a feeling the cat would beat the shit out of Perla.

Perla is actually scared of the cat.

Yeah.

The cat's mean.

Yeah.

He's pretty.

His name's Buddy.

He's super cute.

Like, we've come to know each other.

Yeah.

Like, I'm able to pet him.

Yeah.

But he has his limits.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

He loves her.

And I play with him with, like, the little stringy toys.

Oh, yeah.

Laser pointer as well.

That's less for him and more for me.

Oh, absolutely.

Because it's so fun.

Yep.

But, yeah, like I was saying, the cots is...

Eventually, she got a couch in her office.

Oh, nice.

Yeah.

The couch that has the pullout.

Oh, love that.

So, it's a pullout couch.

It's actually reasonably comfortable.

Nice.

It has, like, a mesh spring on the bottom.

Mm-hmm.

And then you put a flat foam topper on top of it.

Mm-hmm.

And the pillows on the back are just the cushions.

Oh, that's cool.

But they're quite hard because it's a couch.

It's a couch.

Yeah.

So, I use pillows.

Even though Grandma June, my great-grandmother, passed away in 2015,

her room has been empty.

And it's furnished.

It has a bed and everything.

It's a comfortable bed.

But I choose to sleep in the office because it gives me some...

Some sort of nostalgia.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I have slept in the big bed, especially when I have had back

pain because I don't want to sleep on a full-on bed cot.

Yeah.

It's a comfortable bed.

It's a new bed, actually.

Yeah.

I don't necessarily know why she got a new one.

Oh, because it's her old bed.

Oh, okay.

There you go.

So, I brought up this sleep recommendation thing because, according to this,

I'm a toddler.

Yeah.

I'm a toddler.

I love my sleep.

And I figure anywhere from 11 to 14 hours.

A Jim Beam toddler.

Jack Daniels.

I love my sleep so much.

11 to 14 hours.

I did not get that today.

I got... What did I get?

I went to sleep about 1.

And Rhonda woke me up about 12.

So... Oh, I did get it.

I got 11.

So, the reason that we woke up a little early

today is that we had gone to the store last night.

To get some snacks.

Oh, she's on the phone, too.

Okay.

The reason we wanted to get up a little early today.

Early.

12 o'clock in the afternoon.

Was because of a purchase.

No.

Remember, you were up at like 12.

Yeah, I said 12 o'clock in the afternoon.

Oh, I thought you said 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

Oh, no, no, no.

No, no, no.

At the store last night.

At the store last night.

Rhonda was looking for a little sweet treat.

She dropped it.

She dropped me off at the... She dropped me off at the front door.

And I ran in to look for some...

Actually... At Freddy's.

You said at the front door.

Just any front door.

Oh, at any store.

At Fred Meyer.

You broke into someone's house for all their treats.

They had snacks at Fred Meyer.

And so, I went back to look for the discounted sweet treats that we really like.

We like not to pay that much money for.

Yeah, you can get some sweet treats there for like two bucks.

Yeah.

If you're lucky.

And I went to look at the cake cooler first because

all of us like to have a little sweet treat.

And they sometimes will have like half of an 8-inch round cake.

And that lasts us for a few days.

And so, I was going to... Right.

If we're not too snacky.

Oh, I know.

So, as I was walking past, I see this display of beautiful purple, green, and yellow.

And if anybody knows those colors, they are the colors of Marty.

And I am a huge fan of New Orleans itself and also the celebration of Mardi Gras

So, it's on.

Man, it started on the 6th of this month.

Yeah.

So, it's carnival time.

What did you say?

It's carnival time.

It's carnival time.

So, I purchased our first, probably not our last this season, but our first king cake.

We got a Gambino's.

Gambino's.

In, I actually did not look them up, but I know that name very well.

Yeah, the Gambino crime family.

Yeah, they're into extortion and cake.

Cake cakes with little babies.

With little babies.

And so, this morning, I got us up and cut us

little slices of cake, made some nice coffee up.

Sophia came in to have a seat with us while she ate her cake.

And who do you think found the baby?

Me.

Me.

I actually bit the baby.

And it actually hurt.

Yeah, because I made sure that it wasn't there because

I cut and I'm like, okay, I cut it and it's not there.

Yeah.

And then I put it in my mouth and I'm like, okay, not there.

Crunch.

Right there.

And then I had to, you know, pick it out of

my mouth because I was just enjoying the cake.

I should have taken that other slice and then you would have gotten it.

I know.

I actually cut that slice for me, but I didn't

want to be like that way and be like, this is mine.

So I let you pick yours.

I thought it was smaller than the one you took.

It was.

It had more icing on it.

Oh, I didn't.

I just looked at the size because I was like, I

don't know if I'm going to want a really big piece.

Sure.

Because I just woke up.

Yep.

So like, you know, I didn't want to upset my stomach right away.

Yep.

And then I proceeded to upset my stomach right away.

So essentially, if you haven't seen one or had one before,

King Cake is a yeast based dough that is shaped into a circle.

And it has a...

It's an oval.

Well, they're...

Oval or circle.

Yeah.

Usually ovals because they fit in bakery boxes better.

But... Or a football field.

Yeah.

That Gambino's one's huge.

Yeah.

But you know what?

It was $27.

And it's going to feed us for a few days because the key is

to get, to get the cake and then you leave the knife in it.

So as you pass the cake, you can slice off a little

section for yourself and get a little yum, yum, yum.

But I was explaining what kind of cakes they are.

And then... This is the traditional style.

You can get them with anything in them.

Last year, we celebrated my birthday.

I don't know if we talked about it before, but

we celebrated my 50th birthday in New Orleans.

You were talking about the strip...

You were talking about New Orleans, I think in

episode three, we talked about that a Could be.

Could be.

I'm still talking about it because it was fucking amazing.

We haven't even talked about it.

This is episode seven.

Whoa.

Lucky seven.

Episode 7.

Yeah, we're on Episode 7 and the music in between our breaks has changed.

It is now Walk Through the Park by Track Tribe.

Fantastic song.

Jazz again, of course.

That's a theme.

We both love jazz.

And I love Smoke Filled Rooms by Track Tribe.

Fantastic album.

Free to use anywhere.

Yeah, I'd recommend if you don't know where to find it, you can...

I'll put it in the description.

I'll put it in the description where you can go find it.

Listen to it because it's great music.

Sounds good.

Makes you feel good.

And I love it.

It's great.

That's why I always use it because it's free to use.

Yeah.

And it's not Kevin MacLeod.

We like free stuff.

Who is another creator who makes free music.

But he makes more like...

Like uppity music.

Oh, okay.

And less like...

Yeah, he makes more like... I'd say house style.

Oh, okay.

I don't know how to explain it.

I got to finish explaining the cake.

I was talking about music.

I know, but you're... We got sidetracked.

We got sidetracked again.

Let's get sidetracked.

I'm so glad we're away from that.

I'm so glad.

I mean, it was funny the first few times, but then... It was funny.

It was funny, huh?

But as I listened to it, I was like, oh, my God.

Oh, that's so... Especially because it peaked in the mic.

Oh, yeah.

And even me trying to fix it, it still didn't sound very good.

Yeah.

So, it's great.

It's a yeast-based bread with some sort of sweet filling.

There are ones with savory fillings.

The one I like has just regular old cream cheese filling.

And then after it's baked, they put a generous slathering of icing on top,

and then it's sprinkled with yellow, green, and gold icing sugar.

Icing sugar?

No.

No icing sugar.

My favorite icing sugar.

Sparkle sugars.

That's what I... For some reason, I can't think of the right name.

And somewhere in it is jammed a tiny plastic baby.

For the commercial purposes, they use little plastic

babies, and they have to get a warning on there.

And warning, there's a baby in here.

Don't die.

And that's a tradition from long, long ago, where

they used to put a bean or a small stone in it.

And whoever got it, they had the good luck.

They got the good luck for the rest of the year.

And so now we do plastic babies because dentistry is very expensive.

And rocks.

And no rocks please.

So now we got Sophia got the baby again.

I got it last year and this year.

Yep, last year, I brought home a cake from Sucre New Orleans.

We put that in the description.

My very favorite.

We had eaten King Cake the whole week that we

were there, and so we were like no more King Cake.

No more King Cake.

And then I tried this one at the airport.

And I was like, God damn it, I got to take this cake home.

And we enjoyed it greatly because it was fucking fantastic.

This Gambino's cake, it's like prime traditional cake for me.

Like it's, I love it.

It kind of tastes like the one that I used to make.

It kind of tastes like the one that I used to make.

Sorry for that.

If there are any Italian people that... It's okay to make fun of you, right?

It was really terrible, though.

Had I done it well, they probably would have been like, hey!

It's okay.

Oh no, I did it again.

It's more of a Brooklyn, like, hey, get the fuck out of here.

Hey, what are you doing?

There are some king cakes where you put the little baby in it.

Yeah, yeah.

I think some places do that because it's safer.

Yeah.

Because you know where it is.

Yeah.

But if you just...

You stick it in there and then you twirl the

cake around and you can forget where it is.

You can landmark it like with this pink blob.

Or not pink, purple, I meant.

Yeah, but there's always purple blobs on it.

And you could probably do it safely where you just stick

it in the top of the cake so you can see where it is.

I still think they should do some gummy ones so that like if you do bite into it,

it doesn't hurt you.

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Like a gelatin-based baby...

Gummy worm.

Yeah, or a gummy bear.

Or a gummy bear.

Like a Haribo... A tiny, tiny gummy baby.

Yeah.

Those do exist, by the way.

Gummy babies?

Yeah.

I'm sure they do.

You can probably find them on like Amazon or...

There's that one candy website where you can buy all sorts

of candy in different shapes, including wiener candy.

Oh, those are pretty typical.

Yeah, but those are...

Most of them are hard candies and there's a site that makes gummy ones.

They make sour ones.

They make basically everything.

Every shape.

Every shape.

Within reason.

And apparently wieners are within reason.

I'm no...

I'm no professional here.

I'm a professional.

So, AI says that... Oh, hey, I did forget about this part.

Forget about... I'm having a hard time because it's still morning for me.

Traditional Mardi Gras king cakes feature a small plastic baby to signify luck and

the responsibility of hosting the next party.

Edible alternatives like gummy babies are also

considered to avoid the choking hazard or inconvenience.

Honestly, I want to be able to save the baby.

I love when I get the baby and then I can save it because it's so cool.

Yeah.

Also, when she means AI, she means the Google AI overview.

Not that she's using like ChatGPT.

Oh, no.

Yeah, I'm just... I Google it and then if it does...

If it makes enough sense in the first one, I'll read that one off.

Yeah, I...

Firefox has been pissing me off lately because

on mobile, they implemented the AI feature.

Sanding sugar.

Sugar.

Sanding sugar is the name of it, not icing sugar.

So sometimes I'll go to show you something

and I'll like shake it and then it does this.

It drops down an AI overview of the site.

Oh, it can't handle it that moment.

Yeah, nine times out of ten, it can't do shit.

So it's just really...

I know you can disable it, but I don't want to have to disable it.

It should be a...

You can enable this if you want it.

It's just really annoying and I'm a little bitch when it comes to this thing.

Because like some AI is good.

I've always said that most AI is not.

If anyone reads my blog, I recently wrote a

post on the unfiltered AI that can do anything.

And they also have an AI image generator that I

have not tested because I couldn't figure it out.

But I'm pretty sure it can also generate anything.

Oh, anything you don't want to see.

Yeah, and yeah, I did talk about it and I haven't

looked into it to see if anything happened.

Mm-hmm.

Because... Because the last time I mentioned something, it disappeared.

Ooh.

I mentioned a website during one of my anonymous projects.

It's not anonymous now.

Where I did a short investigate.

Not an investigation, but that's kind of what it was.

This was four years, three, four years ago into the deep web.

And I found a bunch of file hosting sites.

I found a bunch of file hosting sites that

served files of non-consenting underage people.

Ew.

And I called them out.

Yeah, good for you.

Two of them disappeared.

Wow.

Within the week.

Damn.

Sydney wants us to take her outside again.

Before we started, Sophia took her outside.

I did.

She's a little shit.

She is a little shit.

So I think we're going to take a quick break

and let her run around the outside garage.

And hopefully she will shut up for a minute.

Yep.

And we'll be right back with you.

Welcome back, friends.

That was a quick little visit with Sydney where she got some scratchies.

And then we started talking about seven other things.

And pretty soon we got 10 minutes.

Yep.

So I, before we left, I was going to look up the

gummy babies that we were talking about for the cakes.

And I find it disturbing that I look up what it was a gummy Mardi Gras baby.

There are pictures of actually.

There are pictures of actual infants included in here.

They might be gummy, but.

What is that baby?

It's awfully cute, isn't it?

No, that baby.

This baby here?

Why does it look like it's screaming in pain?

Because babies just look crappy sometimes.

But here we go.

We got, we got the Gustav's gummy jelly babies from All City Candy.

I did not look up the price.

But right next to it is this beautiful little baby all wrapped up, all swaddled.

And then it's got beads and stuff all over it.

Like, not in a trashy sort of way, but I would be

a little upset that I looked up gummy candy, baby.

And my baby showed up.

Oh, look, your baby is delicious.

Someone wants to eat your baby.

No, thank you.

You can get a one kilo bag.

I think this is the site I was talking about.

Is this the one you were talking about?

Yeah, I think it is.

Oh, they're out of stock, of course.

Yeah, I think so.

Dang.

Who wouldn't want gummy babies?

Well, they're black, let's see, blackcurrant,

green apple, lemon, raspberry, and banana.

What was the first?

Blackcurrant.

What is that?

A currant is a little berry.

Oh.

Not typically an American flavor.

I don't know.

Dang.

Candy by type.

Oh, this might be it.

Okay.

Yeah, it is.

All right.

That's pretty cool.

It looks pretty cool.

So then we got to talking about, oh, what are we going to talk about next?

And I asked Sophia if she had been watching a show.

And that took us down a rabbit hole, a very quick rabbit hole of songs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I had mentioned... Yeah.

Fuck, what did I mention?

The Gentleman, the first song.

Oh, yeah.

Last night, I was just sitting at my desk and I was humming a song from The

Gentleman, 2019, by Guy Ritchie, directed by Guy Ritchie.

The start of The Gentleman has Cumberland Gap by David Rawling.

Mm-hmm.

And I was like, I should look up that song and add it to my library.

And I assumed the song would have come out in, like, maybe the 70s.

It full-on sounds like a mid-70s song.

Yeah.

It came out in 2017.

Yeah.

If they wanted nostalgia, a nostalgic sound, they nailed it.

Yeah.

It is on the Poor David's album.

So look that up.

It's actually pretty good.

I want to listen to some more of that later.

Yeah.

And the music video was actually made by the director, or was directed by the

songwriter, the same director that directed...

The director directed?

The director directed.

The director made One Republic's Counting Stars music video, which is one of my

favorite music video.

I really like that song, too.

Because it's in a flickery, like, lighting warehouse.

And there's, like, crocodiles and stuff coming in and all that stuff.

Fantastic music video.

He's critically acclaimed for making, like,

cinematic music videos that look like short films.

Nice.

I like that.

Because that's what he does.

That's fun.

Yeah, but I was really surprised to see that.

The music video for Cumberland Gap, which is the song that is at the start of

The Gentleman, is set, like, in, I'd say, the 1800s.

And it was filmed in Tennessee.

Oh, very cool.

Which I thought was really interesting.

Right on.

It's filmed in, like, fields and they have, like,

their guitars and they're just strumming it.

Neat.

Yeah.

I...

So you've been watching The Gentleman lately, is that it?

Or you just thought about that song?

Well, I thought about that song and I've been meaning to rewatch it, but when I go

to start watching it, something else, I'm like, I want to watch this.

But I started rewatching Roadkill for anyone who's interested

in junky cars being upgraded and driven cross-country.

Is it a little bit of a comedic show as well?

Or is it all building stuff?

They're quite funny, yes.

They are quite funny.

The first episode, I think, they have, like, a pity with them.

Like a dog.

And they're like, one of the things that they said,

I was like, maybe don't say that about the dog.

And one of them was like, if you throw up on these seats, I'm going to kill you.

Because they had just reupholstered the seats.

Any dog owner is going to say that to their dog when they put them in the car.

And guess what happened later on the drive?

The dog puked all over one of the other guys and the upholsterer.

And then there's a scene where he's like, we're going to leave this dog here and

it's them driving off and the dog just like...

Which we know that they did not leave the dog.

And then the next scene he's like, just kidding.

Oh, good.

Excellent.

Yeah.

It's Finnegan and Freiburger

Hilarious names.

David Freiburger and... I don't know.

Yeah.

Maybe that is... Maybe?

I don't know.

No, I'm pretty...

I started about...

About a month ago, I started watching The Big Bang Theory.

I hadn't watched it before.

I didn't... I hadn't watched any of it.

I had seen some clips.

The most that I knew about The Big Bang Theory is several... Bazinga.

Several... I didn't even know that part.

But several years ago, Rhonda and I went to LA.

We have some friends that live down there and we went down for my birthday weekend

because her birthday is just a couple of days before mine.

So we went to visit and I told her on that visit, I

wanted to do all of the touristy things I wanted to take.

And I'm pretty sure that you ran into Andy Milonakis and you sent

me a picture of him because he was live streaming at the time.

And you're like, who is this?

And I'm like...

Andy Milonakis.

Oh, yeah.

I think... Yeah, that's right.

And I was so surprised you didn't know who that was because I knew who Andy Milonakis

was mainly from his like comedic show in 2005 and that he was an IRL streamer.

And I had to explain to you that he's a 40 year old man.

Right.

Because he looks like he's 12.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I love Andy Milonakis.

He was also in the Snoop Dogg stoner comedy movie.

Oh, yeah.

He was the disabled guy that dealt drugs.

Oh, Jesus.

So back to my story.

I love Andy Milonakis.

So we...

I decided I want to do like a studio tour, I

wanted to do like a walking tour of downtown.

We went to one of my favorite museums that was there, it was the Hollywood Museum.

It's in the old Max Factor building.

And it is stuffed full of Hollywood, vintage Hollywood relics and... Yeah.

And tons of cool information.

And it was just really cool.

The one studio tour that we did that was so much fun was Warner Brothers.

And they, you know, they put you on the little tram and they run you around the

place and you can see the sound stages, the sound stages, usually from the outside.

We got to see...

We got to walk on Ellen's when she had her... when she had her show.

Yeah.

And she was so... I remember everybody found out she was a really terrible person.

And so I was marveling at how tiny the stage was.

Because it looks huge.

The set was just really little.

And then we stopped by another one and went inside and I went to take a picture

and they stopped me and they're like, no, no, this is a hot stage.

You can't take a picture here.

And we were actually sitting in the audience portion, empty, no one was there,

of the Big Bang Theory.

And at the time it was still in production.

But I didn't want to do it.

I wanted to watch it.

And so getting to see it, I didn't understand any of it,

but you know, it was cool because it was tiny as well.

And like we're in, if you ever watch this show, it

looks like a big building inside and it is so tiny.

They've got the camera operators have got to have some sort of PhD in getting the

right angles and making it look like a really big area.

It was just really cool.

Most of them have a big... Big...

Anyway.

Actually it hurts.

I know.

Um.

The one thing that makes me really sad though, is that we got to get off of the

little tram and go look at a, um, uh, you're

going to have to cut out these A's and M's.

Um.

I'm not.

It was a, it was a collection of cars from, uh, from WB shows, movies and series.

And I had not yet started watching Supernatural and

Baby was there and I didn't take a picture of it.

I didn't recognize it.

I, I mean, it says from Supernatural and I

was like, okay, I haven't watched that show.

That's devastating.

I mean, I like took a picture of the Batmobile and there was like one other.

I can't even remember.

Maybe I didn't.

Um.

Um, and then when, when I started watching it and, and started seeing what a

character the, the car itself was in the show, I was like, mother fucker.

I was right there.

I could have gotten a picture with Baby.

Sort of a bitch.

And my, my Supernatural friends will understand that.

You know, for your birthday, you could go there again.

I could go there again.

Um.

I mean, not this birthday, of course.

No.

I only have one day off for my birthday this year.

Yeah.

Well, thank you.

Beep.

Beep.

I'm not going to say it because, um, yeah, I, I've always wanted to go to

LA, but from what I know, it's just a hotter Portland.

No, not, no, it's not a hotter Portland.

Um, it is hot, uh, but it's smelly and it's, no, it's really gross actually.

Um, one of my, uh, I won't say favorite memories, but

most memorable parts is the walking tour that we went on.

We had to be there really early and it was right down.

Um, like in front of the Grumman's Chinese theater.

Um, and so as we're walking down, uh, the walk of the walk of fame,

the stars on the side sidewalk, um, I see

several just piles of puke just right there.

They are.

Oh, I thought you meant like people like, oh, piles of people, pile of puke.

Oh, no, no, no.

It was actual vomit.

Yep.

Um, and there, you know, it smelled like pee, like downtown Portland does.

Um.

It smells like weed.

Um, uh, which, which like downtown Portland

does, which sometimes masks the smell of pee.

Um, so I don't mind, I don't mind at all.

But, uh, by the time all the shops and things started opening up, everything had

been hosed down and polished up and it was like, oh, look at this.

It's all these stars.

They're not horrible to our homeless population.

And I was like, I, uh, I know what was there before I got here.

Nope.

Yeah.

And, and then you look at the really... Yeah.

...very expensive areas of LA.

Uh-huh.

And you're like, God, they're insufferable because they're so polished and they're

like, who's my Bentley?

Well, and they're, they're right on top of each other too.

So like any beautiful urban area and, and somewhat suburbs, they've want,

they want to build the biggest houses possible on the smallest lots.

Um, what I did really like was in North Hollywood, which is the gay area,

um, there are tons of, um, apartments.

Apartments and smaller houses and things like that, but

they really have tried to keep the old Hollywood look.

And they've really tried to just, uh, like maintain the beautiful little

cottages and cottages and, and smaller apartment buildings that are already there.

So they don't build a whole lot of new stuff.

And so you really get that, I don't want to say old fashioned feeling, but you see

how they appreciate what was there and they

want to try to keep, keep it looking beautiful.

Um, one of my favorite places to go, uh, just outside of WeHo was, uh,

Barney's Beanery and it's been in a ton of movies and it is a shitty little diet bar

and they have the most amazing French fries there.

They have fantastic bar food there, but we haven't been there in a long time

and it actually, you know, it would be about time to go back.

Yeah, because it's a 14 hour drive to get there.

Well, it's an hour and 45 minute flight, so let's not get crazy about driving.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I completely sidetracked.

I messaged our neighbor because I completely forgot to for the fourth time

and she actually sent a really nice message and I was like, hi, Sophia.

Yes.

I said, Hey, hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year at that.

Uh, I was going to message you the week before Christmas, but completely forgot.

Hope you're staying warm.

And, uh, she said, hi, Sophia.

Yes, I did.

I hope you had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year's as well.

Uh, party, the little emoji.

Yep.

Uh, wishing, wishing winter to be over soon.

Haven't forgotten you.

I've been recovering from nose surgery.

Stay warm.

Oh, no.

I hope she's good.

And this, for a little bit of background, we've lived in our house for 13 years now,

13 years in July.

Well, Rhonda's lived here for 13 years.

We will have lived here for 12 years.

Um, but we have a neighbor that lives next door

to us and she, I, I want to call her reclusive.

Um, she does.

I think she just holds it.

She comes out and goes to work and, and goes to the store, but she doesn't...

I don't think she works.

She might, she might be retired by now.

I think she's retired.

Um, but she doesn't, she's not outside very much and she is such a sweet person.

She is so nice.

I've only been able to talk to her just a couple

of times because she doesn't answer her door.

And there's a reason for that.

Oh, sure.

You want me to say the reason?

Yeah, I thought you were going to say something.

Uh, she never answers the door because she gets so many door-to-door people.

Oh.

And people wanting to buy her car.

Oh, okay.

Both of her cars actually.

Yeah.

I think that the house is like a ban to something.

Well, she doesn't do as much upkeep as, as she might want to.

I think she's just not physically not able to.

And there is also a thing that was her mother's house.

Oh, okay.

And she only moved in there about 20 years ago.

Oh, okay.

And all of that was like that when she moved in.

Okay.

Okay.

And I think she just like is, has been overwhelmed and she

can't do it and it's expensive to get someone to do it.

Oh yeah.

She's actually.

I talked to her about it and she was like, yeah, I, I tried to have some people come

over to give me a quote on it and they just refused to do the back.

Oh wow.

Yeah.

So maybe you and Lindsey could, could maybe talk, talk about it this spring.

Yeah.

Give me that car and I'll do your backyard.

Oh my God.

Well, I mean, it might be about.

It might work.

Might work.

Yeah.

Um, she has a, a, a big, a big plot like ours.

Uh, and she has a, a rather healthy, um, forest of blackberries over there.

Yeah.

And we get upset about it because they crawl over the, the, the fence.

But then I thought, well, wait a minute, like, she's not gonna take care of it.

We can get free blackberries.

So we, we keep it trimmed up and until it's time for them

to start blooming and blossoming and, or, uh, uh, growing.

And so then we bring, bring them in.

I, last year, Lindsey lopped all of them off,

like right before they riped and ripened up.

I was so upset.

Cause I'll bring them.

Was that you?

It might've been.

You suck.

It's okay.

I like to bring in the fruit from the, because we have

apple juice, apple juice, we have apple juice trees outside.

It wasn't.

It was Lindsey this year.

It was Lindsey because she did the trees.

Yes.

And then.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

I thought so.

I was like.

Uh, I like to bring in the fruit from our apple trees because they're, they're good

to eat, but the, their ripening time is so finicky that I bring them in and then I

chop them up and I soak them in, uh, grain alcohol.

Mm-hmm.

And then I make them into moonshine.

Yeah, currently we have a bunch of apples in our freezer too for later.

Actually, those I want to try to make cider out of.

So as they thaw, once they get thawed, then

you press them and all of the juice comes out.

And for Christmas, Rhonda bought me a miniature fermentation kit.

So it goes in a... I can't speak the languages!

Yes, it's a mason jar top with the water seal.

And so I'm super excited about trying that out.

But I think I'm going to wait until the spring

when it's a little warmer inside the house.

Because I think it won't... they won't ferment

as well in 68 degrees as opposed to 70 or 72.

Right, our house is a little chilly sometimes.

Oh, but let me finish.

Let me finish just that real quick.

I also like to go pick all the blackberries.

And then I bring them in and I soak them in grain

alcohol and I make blackberry sort of pseudo moonshine.

Yeah, I also still remember that one year that you messed up making jam and it ended

up becoming a really delicious syrup.

Yeah, that blackberry syrup.

And I need you to make that again for me sometime.

Oh, okay.

I can fuck it up again.

Pancakes with that?

Yeah.

Fuck me up.

Delicious.

No, and I don't like seeds.

I don't like seeds in anything that I eat, so I always strain them.

Yeah, high five there.

In the Costco jam, I always grind it up with a... what's the... Stick blender.

What?

Stick blender.

Yeah, the stick blender.

I always... and it gets rid of all of like the little leftover strawberries and grain.

People don't like it.

That's their problem.

I love it.

Tastes delicious.

I love a smooth jam.

Yeah.

I guess I should say I like jelly.

Because jelly's made with the juice usually.

Mm-hmm.

Um, but jam has so much more flavor because it has the whole fruit in it.

And if people could just get rid of those fucking... fucking seeds.

Yeah.

I don't mind the skins.

I... it's just the seeds.

They gross me out.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, uh, on the apples, uh, we were saying how it... the... the ripening is so weird.

And a lot of the times during the summer, when it gets to that ripening period,

even though we could be on time, the sun gets to it.

Mm-hmm.

The heat gets to it.

And the bees get to them.

Yeah.

Yep.

Um, I still have a picture of a fucked up bee on my phone because it was...

It was drunk.

We had a, um, a thing filled with rotten

apples because I had just cleaned up a bunch.

Yeah.

And there was a bee feasting on it, and it could not take off.

Oh, yeah.

No, they did.

And it was just sitting there, and it kept eating.

Yep.

Yep.

Because it couldn't take off.

It was like... Mm-hmm.

Why not?

Might as well.

I'm gonna continue to do it.

Um, I... uh...

I feel like our apple trees are similar to... they ripen similar to an avocado,

where it's like, not ready, not ready, not ready, not ready, ready, rotten.

So, it just... it's so quickly, and if you don't get it just in time,

they'll drop off the tree, and inevitably, they

will hit a stick or another apple or a rock.

I love that photo where it got pierced by a... by

one of the things coming off the side of the tree.

Oh, yeah.

One of the limbs.

Yeah.

And it went... and it got speared into it.

I... I'll put that up on social media.

Oh, social media!

Oh, yeah.

We have our... our, uh, Instagram up and running.

We haven't posted anything yet, but... I posted a picture the other night.

You did?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Uh, it's on the website, too, but it's, uh, Let's Get Sidetracked...

Let's Get Sidetracked Pod.

Mm-hmm.

Let's Get Sidetracked Pod on Instagram.

Uh, I'll also be posting on there eventually.

Post the, uh, post the link on the show notes if you could.

I will.

Awesome.

I'll put it down in the... Awesome.

The stinky, stinky... The stinky smellies.

Yeah.

Uh, it's... it's... I haven't put it on my phone yet

because it's still attached to all of your accounts.

Oh, yeah.

In order to log in... Mm-hmm.

I need to log into all of your accounts.

Oh, wow.

Yeah.

Or into, like, your main account because of how you set it up.

Yeah.

Yep.

Um, but eventually we'll... we'll get set up.

I'm going to try to put, uh, at least one picture up a week.

Um, I'm... I try to maintain my own, uh, Instagram, but, uh, thinking about the

show, um, I actually, as soon as we finish up,

I'll go find that, uh, pierced apple picture.

And we'll put that up.

And we'll put that up.

I think from now on, we will no longer be putting images in the description.

And if you want to see the images, they will be on the Instagram.

Yeah.

Or, uh, once I get to it on Blue Sky, I'm probably not going to get to it.

But, uh, currently Instagram is really the only place where you can interact with us.

I actually... I think... I think I went ahead and

said yes to posting everything on threads as well.

So I have to go look at how the... Oh my god.

...how that goes.

Yeah, I...

So then threads.

I like threads because people are... are, for the most part, they're nice.

Yeah.

It... I think it...

I think it's because... The fascists haven't gotten over there yet.

The fascists haven't... They're still on Facebook.

There's too many words on...

Yeah.

...on threads.

There's too many things to understand.

Uh, there are still fascists on there.

Uh, ooh, that was almost bad.

Almost knocked over.

Here, dink.

Here, dink, dink, dink.

Or, dink, dink, dink, dink.

Uh, yeah.

So, it's, uh, it's, you know.

Ha, ha, ha, ha.

I was just doing that to fuck with you.

Dick.

I know, my body.

Ow, my body.

Yeah, so... La cucaracha.

My insides are all candy, la cucaracha.

Yeah, that's a thing that's not going to die at our house anytime soon.

And Keegan, this is your fault.

Yeah, thanks a lot.

Yeah, you fucker.

I love you.

Yeah, you're cool.

Come to Portland, we'll see your show.

Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah.

You can come to Portland, we can just hang out with our dogs.

Yeah.

Come to Portland, don't get stabbed.

No.

Again.

Keegan, he didn't get stabbed.

No, he crashed.

Let's not do that anymore.

No.

No, sorry to mention your trauma there.

No, he makes jokes out of it.

I think he made a post where he's like, I got

cursed by a witch and she made me like this.

And there's also one where he was talking

about how kids look at him and he would go...

I'm like, he didn't know it was that way.

Oh, it's awesome.

I think that's really funny.

That also might not have been him.

That might have been the comedian that doesn't have an arm.

Oh, okay.

Oh, no.

Oh, Jesus.

I love when people have some sort of disability and they find humor in it.

Yeah.

And when someone's being disrespectful at some sort of...

Capacity?

Capacity.

That's the word I was looking for.

Uh-huh.

That they'll just completely fuck with them.

I love that.

It's hilarious.

Hi, Sydney.

I love my look outside because my insides are all candy

All right.

Well, I think we're going to wrap this one up.

Oh, no.

I was having a fun time.

You know what?

We could release a bonus episode if you want to.

Yeah.

A bonus episode.

Let's wait until we're getting ready to go over to our fun little dive bar to just

have some snacks and visit with some friends.

We could come home and have the drunk edition.

Uh-huh.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We need to do a special where currently we don't

have paid specials, but we do have season zero.

Yeah.

Where we can do...

Not episodes, but just like, here we're fucking around exclusives.

We're just talking in the microphone and make noises and... Yeah.

And maybe on one of the exclusives, we can play a game of chicken.

Oh, that's a... I don't know if that would be fun.

Well, yeah, but we can...

Oh, Cards Against Humanity.

Okay.

That one would be pretty fun.

We should do that.

That would be pretty fun.

We should do a Cards Against Humanity on the podcast.

We just got to make sure to read out the cards.

And maybe eventually we do a YouTube...

We could do a YouTube exclusive where we record something, like us playing a game.

We could record chicken for a YouTube exclusive.

We could record chicken.

We need to Google and see if Cards Against

Humanity is okay with being broadcast somewhere.

So, I was going to say we'll double check, but you better double check.

No, I do know that you can play that.

Oh, you can.

Okay.

Yeah.

Kind of like BapCat.

Huh?

Kind of like BapCat.

Okay.

A lot of people play it, but I'll look it up.

I'll double check.

But I'm pretty sure that it's pretty okay to play most board games on, or card-based

board games, stuff like that.

If not, then we can play literally anything else.

Okay.

We'll figure it out.

Maybe like a game of life.

But we could still... No.

No.

Game... Life is bullshit.

It is nothing but a bunch of bullshit.

I'm already playing that, so no thank you.

But... Okay.

Damn.

What?

Fuck you, you piece of shit.

Fuck you.

No.

No, I kid.

I kid.

But no, it's bullshit.

Yeah, I do like the game of life, though, because it's better than Monopoly.

Yeah.

Oh, God, yeah.

It's better.

Yeah.

I love Monopoly.

Yeah.

But fuck you, Monopoly.

Yeah, but fuck you.

I don't even know if we have Monopoly.

We do.

We have a couple different versions, because I think we have Avengers...

Oh, no, I think we gave away Avengers and not Monopoly.

No, I think we gave... Yeah.

I can check.

I think we had two copies of Monopoly.

Anyway, let's go ahead and wrap this biz up.

And thanks again for putting up with us.

...today, or this week, or maybe next week if you're listening to it then.

And thank you for joining us on this wonderful Sunday.

Wink wink, because it's actually Monday.

It's actually Monday, and this comes out on Sunday.

Also, sorry that we're changing the schedule.

We used to come out on Fridays, and we come out on Sundays now.

Sorry, not sorry.

That's my bad.

And this is a record episode.

We had one break.

What?

We had one break during this whole episode.

Well, it's because Sid shut up.

Yeah, if Sidney didn't do anything, we probably wouldn't have taken a break.

Yep, yep.

And for this almost one-hour podcast.

There she goes.

Sidney, do you have to say something?

You guys have something you need to say, man?

Was that it?

You could hear that.

That's it?

That's all you had to say?

That's all she had to say.

She gave you some sniffs, probably because it smells like my mouth.

Oh, I want to lick your mouth.

Oh, in case you want to.

Right in your crap lousy face.

Anywho, thank you again for joining us.

It's amazing that we have so many people that are listening.

And we really appreciate you.

We definitely appreciate you.

I honestly didn't think that we would be going this far into the podcast.

I didn't think we'd have one or two, and then it'd

be like, well, nobody's listening, let's forget it.

But this is episode seven.

And...

We're already thinking of ideas for episode eight, the Ocho.

And I think for episode 10, what?

Oh.

It's going to be a big party.

I think for episode 10, we do something fun.

Yeah?

I was like, this is our 10th episode.

We do something fun every day.

Also, that is true.

Currently, we are on season one.

And we don't know if we're ever going to go into new seasons.

But I think that would be fun.

So at episode 10, we go to season two.

New Seasons is actually a wonderful store.

They have an excellent fresh food bar.

Jesus Christ.

You're welcome.

Okay.

That's fine.

All right.

Let's get out of here.

Well, thank you again for joining us.

Thank you.

And Sydney's saying bye, too.

And we will see you next week.

Okay.

Bye.

Bye.

Meow.

Meow.

Meow.

Meow.

Meow.

Meow.

Meow.

Meow.

Meow.

Okay.

I think that is...

Does it sound pretty good?

I mean, it sounds better than it.

Sweet.

Sweet.

What are we talking about?

I have a couple of things to talk about.

And it's all just from this morning.

And that will probably lead us into a...

Side track.

I know.

I agree with you, Sydney.

Stay straight this episode.

Sydney, what's the matter?

You just sadly stink.

You like that?

That was fun.

That was a good episode?

Yup.

We had subjects.

We got sidetracked.

We didn't get that sidetracked this episode.

We actually really stuck to... It was hard to do.

Stuck to the script.

There are some podcasts that have scripts.

Oh yeah, absolutely.

Well, there's also like the true crime stuff that like, it's all written out.

Yeah.

There's one that you should listen to.

It's called The Tower.

I think it's a A&E thing.

But it is really entertaining.