#3 - It’s Not Sexy, It’s Helpful

This is the Cheer Girls talking podcast. That's not even what you're supposed to say. Hi, Amanda. Hi, Abigail.

It's our podcast. It is our podcast. Yes, that's what it's known for. People are still listening to it.

I'm amazed. I don't know about you. I am surprised. Yes.

I thought, you know, it would burn out. She can't say that. You gotta believe. Gotta be believer.

Alright, what do you got for us this week? Uh, so, Tax Day. Oh, yeah. Tax Day is around the corner.

I think it'll already have happened when this podcast comes out. Uh, probably. Depending on how long it takes me to edit it. Yeah, I did my taxes this year.

Well, no, I haven't done my taxes for this year. I did 2014. Good. I can't talk about why I'm terrible at doing taxes, but I am.

Uh, and yeah, it took me a long time and I did such a bad job the first time I kind of gave me a warm look and said, why don't you try this again? So we made another appointment and I had to go back and have my taxes done twice for 2014 because I made such a mess of it. Wow. Twice?

Twice. Yes. What's your plan for 2015? Uh, you know, well, they do an extension.

You get that through October. So, it's not October yet. Okay. So you filed the extension?

Yes. You filed the extension for me and I'll probably do them sometime in May. I think. Okay.

Cool. I do. Oh, unfortunately. Uh, that's the worst.

Yes. And I over two years ago, which is even double worst. So do you remember? So there was one year when I did my taxes and this was long, this was probably like 10 years ago.

And I waited until the last day and I had to mail it check. I think, um, I think I filed. I don't know. I don't know how I filed because this was the olden days.

I think I did it online, but I sold a mail check. You couldn't pay online. You could just file and then I had to mail it check and I needed to mail it. But it's a team and I procrastinated so much that I had to find a post office that was open late.

And we lived in Orch County in the post office with the Pasadena and it was like 45 minute drive. And I was going to have to do it because that is, you know, you're the bed I made for myself. And I bullied you into going with me. I do sort of remember, but I was like, oh, make it worth your while.

We're going to go to a surprise place after because while I can't ever manage to do responsible things, like, you know, put a check in the mail one day earlier, I was able to find a really cool champagne bar. Oh, I do remember the champagne bar that's called pop champagne Pasadena. And so we went there after and when we went to the post office, it was really funny. They actually had like extra employees out, you know, how you drive through the post office to like put your thing in the box.

They actually just had people standing there like taking the mail because there were so many cars. And I was like, my people, my other slow folks. And then we went to pop champagne bar. So that's my far the best part of the evening.

That's my tax day story. Do you do you have any anything you'd like for table earlier? You said you might have something for the podcast and I should remind you of a keyword. Oh, yes.

I do remember it's rather sort of a boring story about civic responsibilities, which I guess is the topic of today's podcast is just reciting things that need to be done as we the government. So on Coinga Boulevard in Los Angeles, San Cenco, and walking up the sidewalk, there are holes where trees were once, but they are no longer there. And I rant and rave to John every single time we walk up to John's boyfriend. He was also featured on our episode last week.

I realized we never introduced him. Yes, he's just we just called him our special guest slash expert. But yes, that is John, I mean, this boyfriend. Yeah.

And we were walking up the street victim of the ranting and raving always always a victim. And where the holes where there used to be trees, I kept saying like even they need a plant another tree or they need to fill this in and danger for years. Yeah, because you could just trip it as a big hole. And I've been ranting about this for years.

And last week was a sidewalk. Yeah, it's an sidewalk. You know, like there's like a little area where like a tree is planted. Yeah.

Yeah. So there's nothing there. It's just dirt, but it's like slightly different height from the sidewalk. Okay.

So anyway, I just felt like they should fill it with cement and I kept brainstorming ways that we could in the night come and do that with cement. And John was like, like, yarn bombing with me. Like when they like put like a little sweater on a tree at the library. Exactly.

So this would be really useful because it would be fixing the sidewalk, which someone should do. Yes. So what were your ideas? Uh, mix some, get cement somehow.

I don't know much about cement and then mix it again. Not sure about that process. Uh, put the cement in the hole and then somehow flatten it out. So yeah, basically just as though.

But then maybe would you put your initial minute or so? No, I just want, I don't want any part of it. I just want to help. If you're doing a prank, it should at least not a prank.

It's fixing the sidewalk. I'm trying to help. I'm being responsible. Eric, I said he won't take my calls anymore.

Well, he's, you know, the mayor. So he was also featured in the OJ Simpson TV show. I just love it. Yeah, he's in it.

But he's a handsome man. Yes. Who is this? That show, which I for the record have not seen.

It's really good. I hear about it. It's really good. I know.

I've heard it's good. But what I hear about it is they like try to create characters that were actually out there. Oh, sure. Yeah.

But it might matter now. People say his name like every episode exactly. And then he's gonna blow a brag and like, and there's like a Kardashian. Oh, yeah.

They chant Kardashian and he gives a speech. Rubber Kardashian gives a speech to his children about fame and how you should see great things now. And I was like that there's no way in hell. Everyone was at Chow Chow, like listening to Robert Kardashian gives a speech to a bunch of five-year-olds about fame.

And like, here's the thing. Like he was a big part of the trial. Like, I'm not saying that's not true. But yeah, the stuff with the kids and everything like in the fame speeches.

That's just, oh no, it's very silly. There's a part where people at the reporters are like, what's your name? How do you spell it? Comachian?

And you know, and it's supposed to be like, well, now everyone knows how to spell for a dash. Please explain that to me. Oh, well, I thought it was, you know, a pretty highbrow. Sure.

Anyway, so last week when I was walking down the sidewalk, I saw that they had planted a tree in that area. So I didn't need to either plant a tree myself or complain anymore or do your night cement night cement plans. It's not a prank. It's helpful.

I just want to come up with something better than your stupid ideas. It's a good idea. It would fix the problem with the sidewalk to do some. It's just a boring to put some in there.

It should us with us the solution though. I'm sorry. It's not always sexy, but it's helpful. What if you got it?

It's not always sexy, but helpful. It's John like that. No, it's just what happens. It's not sexy.

It's helpful. What if you got potted plans or like, no, it's a trashy corner a little bit. So I feel like it could need something hardy to stand up to the DIY cement. Okay, calm down.

But no, that would all be trash within moments, I promise you. But so what they have now is a palm tree. We're all about that now. Yeah, we are.

But now it's a palm tree and it's very nice, but I made everyone stop and I gave a whole speech about how they used to be a hole in the ground and everyone was frantically trying to drift away from me to get to their movie. And I was like, and you're like, look at this. You were like, never mind. I have a podcast.

People don't have a choice. They can't drift away. Well, they sadly, they could listen to it on double speed though. I would do this for the same text.

Maybe to Jackson. I'd walk cement. Perfect. Let's move on.

When I was when I was in J school, we had to do our college was in a suburb. It wasn't like small town, but it was a suburb. So it wasn't necessarily newsworthy. Right.

And we had to do a story. We were basically given the city newsletter. We were all supposed to take something from the newsletter and make fun of it. No, it make it real news.

Oh, no. And one of them was how the sidewalks had been redone to be wheelchair accessible. And the story was already basically like, we got money and then we changed the sidewalks. Cool.

And I remember I didn't have that assignment, but someone else did. And they had to go find people to be like, yes, I have a wheelchair. I hated the sidewalks. This is really changed my life.

I know. I know. The adrenaline was way too hard. Yeah, that's why I was like, okay, four years of school of being a journalist.

That's enough. That's fun. That's a bad. I got this piece of paper.

Yeah. Yeah. So journalism, we talked, we covered all we're not scared to cover. We covered all.

There's another segment where I just I don't know if we have time for it. Okay. We have a video that we love. And I was thinking, I actually have two videos in mind.

So we do one now, one later, we do both later. I was thinking, and maybe you could press to describe the video and then play the audio on our podcast just to share. I know that we've been sharing some of our, you know, culture, such as weasel brain, right? We got some feedback from reviewer.

He said, I can't say I support weasel brain because, you know, who does, right? But weasel brain is responsible for at least 50% of decisions I've made in my life. Direct quote, direct quote. I was like, thank you.

Thank you. This person also said, I have some feedback. I'll be emailing you. But that email never came to two typical, right?

So which video are you thinking I'm doing? So there's two videos I have in mind. One of them is about, they're both food related. One is shorter than the other.

I would say we should do the short one and maybe do the other one later. I think one is shorter than the other. I'm already laughing. One of them is a reviewer recipe and the other is an advertisement for candy.

Okay. Would you like to choose? I'll do which one? We'll do candy.

All right. All right. So we're going to table the recipe for next episode. Next episode is the funniest thing that's ever happened.

So so so candy. I mean, yes. What video am I talking about? I don't remember.

Okay. There's a commercial. Oh, God. I remember.

Tell us. Okay. So there's a commercial that comes out. It's for Snickers.

I don't know if that's ruining it by saying that. No, I don't. I mean, you could say everything about it. Nothing can ruin it.

Right. So there's a commercial of a yeah, it's for stickers where the plays around Halloween and I think it's supposed to be Halloween themed hard to say. It's definitely Halloween themed. Right.

But it's so terrifying. I think it transcends the script. The script is the norm. The script is okay.

So it starts out with a woman in what appears to be perhaps an abandoned. I think it's not supposed to be but it's a very empty grocery store. She's shopping somewhat late, I would say. It looks abandoned, but that's not on purpose.

I think it should look scary for some reason. Yeah. So she's, you know, perusing down the candy aisle and just a regular mom just a regular mom and she runs into the candy aisle of course is like wildly. It's like the first day when Halloween candy comes out and there's everything that's not picked over yet.

It's just perfection. But there's also like mostly Snickers because it's a Snickers commercial. So it's an entire wall of Snickers and you're like, I don't think so. I wish.

Right. So she runs into what I can only describe. Yeah, the neighborhood kids love Snickers Abigail. So she runs into what can only be described as like a tall grotesque figure that is supposed to look like another cool mom.

I think you're not another regular person. It's a trench coloring figure. Yes. And the face is like a rubbery mask of a person.

Be for vendetta. Sort of. It's like a weird like grandma looking mask or something with like a wig. It's very strange.

But it's supposed to be like, I'm just a regular thing but it's clearly not. It's just scary. It's monster adjacent. Sure.

But I mean, this lady doesn't seem that confused to run into it also. I don't know. So she's like, what is she saying? I mean, I just creeps me out but filled a back shot style.

Like it's like, I don't know what that is. But I think it's you're supposed to be like, oh, it's somebody. So she's got a cart. So the regular mom has a cart and the scary trench coat figure says it's just lounging by the Snickers says, Mrs.

Jensen, you don't have enough Snickers in your shopping cart. Neighborhood kids love Snickers. And then it takes its arm and slides. It's like a stick or something, right?

And like slides an entire shelf of the candy off. It's like slides all the candy into her shopping cart and she like freaks out and tries to pull away. And it goes, I'm only helping. Right?

And then it like keeps the creepy stick arm pulls the cart back towards it and puts more Snickers. It's like filling the cart up with Snickers. She finally like wrestles the cart away and turns it goes the other direction. And then a little face appears.

You're supposed to think it's like two kids standing on top of each other, I think. But the little face appears out of the middle of the thing and it says like, we're definitely going to her house. That's the first time it's clear to be what the figure's supposed to be. Right?

Like, and then you're like, oh, it's two kids. Oh, it's two kids. Before that, you had no idea what it was or what it was supposed to be. It was so strange looking there.

Like, I don't know what that is. Like, it's 18 foot tall person. Like, it's just really strange. Yeah.

And so, yes. And so they're like, we're definitely going to her house. And then the two arms, hush, it goes hush. And it like hides the kid.

It pushes the kid's face back in like by drawing its bench trench coat closer. So it's like, and like, hide the kid again. Anyway, it's so scary. It's really terrifying.

Should we play it? Yeah, probably. I'm going to search it on YouTube here. And what's great about this commercial is that there are other people.

I'd like to say that I just hold up YouTube and the recommended videos are best video for cats ever, funny cat compilation, videos for cats to watch, funny cat videos 2016, mom cat talking to her cute meowing kitten 20 minutes. Oh boy. Yeah. So I guess that tells the story of, oh, go tell us how many this week I'm going to watch it again.

At least those music videos. Yes. And half people going up the hat on cables. I don't really use YouTube, YouTube only to watch my only to watch my snickers commercials and my cat vids.

Like you're saying, the amazing thing about it is that, um, oh wait, it's already going kind of scary. It's so scary to the volume of the amazing thing is that other people are terrified also. Yeah. So it's got 2 million views on YouTube.

And the comments are all just saying that this is hilarious and creepy. I'll be honest, knowing that it's kids in a scary costume, caressing an adult space. Oh, they touch your face with the weird stick and that's right. It's kind of disturbing in my opinion.

I think the person who came up with the script for this might have a thing. I'm not going to keep reading that because it's creepy. Um, favorite line. I'm only helping.

Yep. All right. All right. Here we go.

Hello, Mrs. Jensen. You don't have any stickers in your shopping cart. The neighborhood kids, no, the snickers on Halloween.

Let me help you. Oh my god. That's so good. It's like a click on your house.

This Halloween, nothing satisfies like Snickers. Oh my god. That's so terrifying. Like just as terrifying as the first time I saw it.

Oh, it's so funny. All right. Enough of that. Um, let's, uh, let's just segue right into our history of mystery.

Yes. More sobering topic. Yes. I think we had some giggles and that was good for them, but this is now.

This is now. Um, so we are going to bring in a special guest for history of mystery. Yay. Here we are.

Um, with our special guest for history of mystery, we've got Catherine with us. Hi there. Welcome, Catherine. Thank you.

You want to tell us a little bit about yourself? Um, sure. I've known Abigail for quite some time. Or about me that works.

I'm just saying how I came to be here. Yes. I've known Abigail for quite some time. Long family friend and I'm an Amanda through Abigail.

Um, but I am a pastry chef. I work for a French pastry shop. So I get up really early and I make, make desserts. It's a fun life.

It's just an early one. Hashtag pastry life. There you go. Hashtag that you can, uh, you can tag your feedback with.

Amanda, Amanda especially likes pastry life. I do. I haven't had any pastries in a long time because, you know, I'm trying to be responsible, but uh, I should have brought some. Oh no.

I can't eat it anyway. Oh, yeah. That's true. But yes, Amanda, Amanda could talk about croissants.

Yeah, I just, yeah, we can have a croissant cast. Yeah, we could. So many layers. Oh, I like it.

All right. Yeah. What do you got for us today? Oh, I, my history topic for history of mystery.

Yes. Is the underground railroad. Oh, yeah. We get dicey.

Let's see. Dicey. Well, I don't remember very well. No, it was just a, just a phrase about how little I remember.

All right. Um, let me see. Civil war. Civil war.

I want to say, free civil war, maybe. No, I, oh, maybe. I mean, I remember Harriet Tubman is involved somehow. Yes.

The civil, and it's in the 1800s. Okay. Uh, after 1850. Nice.

Got a lot of information here. Um, Harriet Tubman helped escaping slaves go from like a series of houses for the south to the north. Yeah. So there was, yeah.

So it was called the underground railroad, which when I was a kid, I really believed there was an actual railroad underground and I was one book about it. And I was like, nevermind. I was disappointed. That's terrible.

Well, because I, because I mean, that sounds cool. I mean, I was like, cooler express levels of like magic. Yeah. There's an underground railroad to save people.

I mean, no, I, uh, touching. Yeah, that is. But what it actually was, was, um, sympathizers. Yeah.

Um, in, so in the States, in the slave states, in the south, there were families that, um, you know, were anti-sla, pro-human, right? You might say, for life. Um, and they would hide us, get slaves. Um, and it became more and more aggressive because it was against the law to run away as a slave.

So it was illegal to harbor slaves. Um, and you would know about which houses were safe. I mean, you'd hide and there was also some spirit coverings and how long did it take us to get from one part of it to another? So, well, so you, so you were trying to get to a free state, right?

And you were trying to get a lot of the, um, the promised land. Really? Yeah. Um, and, uh, so yeah, they were trying to get to areas where they couldn't be convicted.

So some States, I think had agreements that even though they didn't allow slaves, they would turn you back to your state. So it was Trixie. How many people were saved in the underground railroad do you think? I don't know.

I read books about it, but I don't remember. A lot. I was it? I don't know.

Like thousands? A lot, you guys. Like a hundred thousand. Wow.

I know. Like 30,000 for sure, but most, but people say a hundred thousand. Wow. Uh, so Uncle Tom's cabin.

Yes. And, uh, wasn't that the play that Lincoln was seeing when he got shot? Was it? I don't know.

No, I don't think it was that clear. Yeah. That ironic. Well, well, well, well threaded.

Yeah, cool. Words are good. Words are good. We're doing anything else about it?

Um, well, one girl, again, when I was a kid, told me her house was one of the stops in Chicago, right. And I believed her. Uh huh. And then when I got older, I was like, Oh, no, not in Chicago.

We don't need to hide anyone because Toronto was one place where you actually ended up. Yeah. Not covered life. Um, and uh, it could be very harrowing.

So you could, I was very dangerous. You could starve and die. There was, I mean, there was, like, the railroad itself wasn't just the houses, it was the traveling between the two, right? in the backpacking and hiding in the woods.

And I mean, not unlike what refugees are having to do. I did just remember that we did a version of The Underground Railroad that someone's house that had a big property. And there was all these different, there were all these different like stops and all the brothers of the girls. It was like American Girl Club.

And so we were reading the Addie books. And so we recreated this, you know, as some sort of like real life adventure. And all of the brothers and dads played like civil war soldiers and tried to capture us. And we would go from station to station hiding and had like little packs and stuff.

And I remember being quite scary. So. All right, anything else you remember? No, and I barely remember that.

Well, it's called The Underground Railroad, because underground because it was an underground resistance. And railroad because they used railroad terminology for like codes and stuff. Oh, whatever stop would be like a stop. And everyone at the stop would be like conductors.

So they all have like a name that had a tooth trains. What are some of those names? Conductors most of the time only knew part of the safety reasons. Oh, so they only knew part of the, so they didn't know the full.

Yeah, otherwise. You would only know like the next stop, basically. Otherwise, yeah, because if you got caught. Then you'd be, yeah.

But people who helped slaves find the railroad were agents or shepherds, guides who were, guides were known as conductors, hiding places where stations or way stations. Station masters hid slaves in their homes. Escaped slaves were referred to as passengers or cargo. Slaves would obtain a ticket.

I know. And similar to Common Gospel lore, the wheels would keep on turning. How did slaves get to the, or how did they find out about it or how did they get into the underground railroad? Some of the people who had some of the first stops.

A lot of these people were former slaves. They were freed slaves. They would disguise themselves and go into plantations and try to get people, yeah. Like let them know about it and stuff.

So, and then, you know, when people heard about it, they just, everybody wanted to escape. So, yeah. Are there any other interesting? Wait, year.

Oh, Abigail was fought on 1850 to 1860 was like the most women, most women. When it was like 10 a day would show up in Canada. Wow, that's unbelievable. Mm-hmm.

That's fun. Yeah. Well, do you know what life was like in Canada? It was hard because even though slavery was not legal, but people still discriminated.

So, they formed communities, but life was still hard but they were freest. Were they able to do good jobs? Mm-hmm, yeah. Well, we're some of the most popular states people ended up in.

Well, most of it was Canada. And, yeah. I wrote that down too. They're on Terrio.

Oh, yeah. Fort Mouldin in Ontario. That was the chief place of entry when most of them went to. And then a lot went to Nova Scotia.

Interesting. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Why did it stop or fade out or?

No, that one, I don't know. What caused the security that went in? Well, then the plantation heads of whoever's in charge, they got more security. Got some more security.

Yeah, because this was happening to so many plantations. They made it less easy to run away. Mm-hmm. What was the best?

What were the people called who would chase them? Bounty hunters. Bounty hunters. Yeah, I don't know that one for sure, but that sounds good at McGill.

Was there any particularly famous escapees? No, there was none. In the research, I did it. There were some names of the people who were the stops along the way, but no.

Who were those people? Have you ever read Uncle Tom's Cabin? I think I may have. I don't remember.

I don't think I've read it. So I think it was a book designed to make people want to escape, but it wasn't actually about slaves. Right? I don't remember.

Do you know about Uncle Tom's Cabin? I don't know about Uncle Tom's Cabin though. You're right. Amanda Harriet Tubman.

She's a noted person in here. She helped many slaves escape. Charles Turner Tory. He actually arranged transportation wagons to transport more slaves at a time.

Usually the groups were small, like one to three slaves. He lied. Did they travel with family or was it just people who would get out on their own? It was mostly men because it was a lot harder for women to leave the plantation for them to escape.

There were a few women. Oh yeah, there was one famous woman who escaped. It was very hard for children to keep up. It was mostly young men who went.

It wasn't easy. How long did it take to get to Canada? That's a good question too. I don't know.

I feel like it was fast for some reason, but maybe not. We have to keep moving. Yeah. I would say probably a few weeks, like six weeks because they wouldn't stay too long, but almost they were enough to refuel, you know, sleep, eat, and then get their code for the next one and then go.

That sounds so scary. Wow. Any other questions about that? No, I think I am sobered up.

Do you have any other facts to share with us, Catherine? It looks like you did a lot of research about this. I did some. I think I probably could have done more, but no, I think I don't think there's any more.

Was there anything you learned when you were doing a research that you didn't previously know? I didn't know they were recruited out. I didn't know that. I actually first heard of the Underground Railroad from Adventures in Odyssey episode.

Oh, what happens in the episode? Oh, it's about this family. This family of slaves and just about their escape. The parents escape and then they want their son to escape, so the parents escape and they're free and they keep trying to get their son to escape, like get him help and everything.

If you're familiar with Adventures in Odyssey at all, Wits End was a stop. Oh, of course, of course. Yes. So they found it in the Underground Tunnel.

It's end really does in the job getting itself into everything that's ever happened. I know. So suspiciously so. Maybe it caused a lot of the problems that says it's predissolved.

Yes. But the whole point was that it's a historical event happened. No, just not even joking. So that's where I first heard of it and that sparked my interest about it.

Was Adventures in Odyssey? Well, thank you for joining us today. Oh, no sharing your knowledge of the Underground Railroad and also pastry life. Oh, pastry life.

Yeah, I can come back and talk about that in the end. We're going to do a crescent cast. Oh, yeah, that sounds fun. We can eat RTC croissants again.

Oh. All right, well, it's coming to the end. It is yet another episode of Two Girls Talking. And it's been a ride.

It has been a ride. We're excited with all the new listeners that are joining us this week. We love hearing from you. We love reading the glowing reviews we've been getting about when Pompe is or is not.

Yes, we got one review that I loved because the subject of the review was Pompe is in for everyone. Accurate, very accurate. And I was like, sure, I mean, I like Pompe. I just didn't know about it.

I'll be able to have a joke life moment. I do have a joke life moment. So I moved about six months ago. And I got like one house key from any place and I was like, I need to get more keys.

So I have a spare key and I can give a key to my friend on the list on the street so she can come check on my cats or whatever. Turn below on my candle because I forget to do that sometimes. And so I went to Lowe's. It took me two months together.

And I got a bunch of keys made and I didn't get a receipt. And no keys worked. And I was like, sad. So then I recently lost my keys.

My car keys, which was the first time I'd ever done that because I actually don't really lose things. And so I couldn't believe it happened. Did you ever find them? No, I never found them.

They're gone forever. It was when I was sick. And it's like, whenever bad stuff happens, it's time I'm sick because I'm not on my game. And thankfully there wasn't actually, there was only one key on there that I used, which is my car key and the rest of the keys.

I don't use anymore. But I was kind of sad because there was three key chains on there that were sentimental, but I don't have anymore. But I have them for a good long run. It's a nice fresh start.

Sure. All new keys. And I had one spare car key, but I was like, one spare key isn't enough because I just validated the fact that I can lose my keys. So I went to Lowe's again or Home Depot or wherever to, it might have been different.

I'm out of home people one time and Lowe's another time to get a new car key, which by the way costs $75. And I was like, oh, while I'm here, I will try again with my house keys and I will save the receipt this time. And I'm like, I tell the guy, like I had trouble last time, but do you know why that might be? And he was like, no, this should work fine.

These are perfect copies. No, no, no, no, no. He gives me five keys. And I had reasons why I got so many.

I don't remember what they all are now, but I was like, this key for this purpose key for this purpose. So what this key is cute. They have many cute designs. And that was a month ago.

And then I never even tried the keys. Why? Because I forgot. And then I went to get my friend key that I got her and again didn't really, didn't think I should try this.

And then sure enough, those keys do not work. That's so weird. So my life is a joke. Yes.

I bought keys twice now. Yeah, but do not work. That's very sad. Yep.

My joke life moment is also a pitiful moment of sadness in an otherwise shining star of life. I was very distracted the other day trying to like do a bunch of work and maybe ship out some Etsy orders and this and that. And I packed the wrong Etsy order in a box and didn't lay. It's not like it wasn't complete.

It was half done. And I was, I remember the craft was happening. Yeah, the object was half finished. And I was like, oh, I'm going to make sure it fits in this new box that I got because I started shipping new boxes.

And so I was like, I wrapped it up to see if it would fit. And immediately it was just like, let's seal this box and put the note in. So I, you know, sealed the box up and didn't think about it again about the fact that it was not finished and went to the post office, dropped it off. And as soon as I dropped it off, as I thought, you know, I don't think I put the right ribbons on or something like that.

And went all the way home, which is five minutes away. And then I was like, I got to go back. So I went back and I asked for the box and they were like, oh, it's already been shipped. There's no way to get it.

Like you can't, there's no way to find it even. And so in case you were wondering about what the people at the USP. They are very efficient. They are very efficient.

And then they will sugar pack it. That is surprising. So yeah, I had to ship out another or the same. I just shipped a nice lady, another order of the same thing.

And it was very sad. What did you say to her to see why I said it was very busy week. I was so sorry. I sent her an item and I might just let her keep the other one.

But yeah, you have to let her keep it. Yeah, can't be like, I was like, send a back on cover. You're shipping costs, but whatever. We'll see.

Anyway, joke. Yeah. So I think that about something up. We've had some questions about what exactly is your life moment.

And I realized that I don't describe that very well because I just live in this world where all of my moments. Yeah. But basically a joke like moment is where something happens that really makes you feel like your life is a joke. Like everything's being orchestrated for the sake of humor.

Yes. So like something catastrophically wrong that shouldn't really have happened and kind of as a result of your own stupidity. Yes. Well, yeah, usually it's your own fault.

Always user error. So I mean, maybe you guys just don't have the same struggles we do. But if you do, please let us know. But if you do, please let us know about it.

And we have a new website to make it easier for you guys. Let us know. So you can go to two girls talking.club. We're pretty pleased with the URL.

We were able to snag. So please don't put any other two girls talking sites. No, we do not approve of them. They're unaffiliated.

They're unlicensed. They may be other girls named Amanda and Abigail doing the podcast, but we don't know what they're about or anything about them. Also, they're probably doing the podcast about close on and inappropriate. And it's not a podcast.

This is, yeah. It's something horrible. So two girls talking about club there, you can, of course, subscribe, but you can fill out a little form to send us your joke life moment. Or any other feedback you might have, like you guys are annoying or I pay my taxes.

I don't know what's wrong with you guys. Yeah. Yeah. Someone told me, I love the way you're just not ashamed.

And then it really gave me pause and I started to think a little harder about. And I was like, oh, yes. Is that like a backhanded compliment? That's not even that.