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We're Some Strange People

Yappers Unite Episode 10

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We’re about to say the quiet part out loud: everyone is weird, and the proof is in the tiny habits we defend with our whole chest. We spiral into the kind of strange addictions and comfort routines that feel too specific to admit anywhere except with friends.

From bubble bath scent obsession to emergency grenadine for Shirley Temples, we unpack how sensory comfort, nostalgia, and stress relief show up in everyday life. Things get even more chaotic when we confess our most questionable fixations. Then we shift into pure brand loyalty psychology: Aquaphor vs Vaseline, toilet paper standards, Bounty paper towels, Dove soap, Old Spice deodorant, and all the random preferences that become identity markers over time. We also get into tech and culture loyalties, like refusing to give up the iPhone home button, the chaos of Emoji Kitchen, and the never-ending Dunkin vs Starbucks argument.

To wrap it up, we talk about using free will on purpose: taking a watercolor class, catching sunrise at the beach, grabbing a sweet treat just because you can, and yes, screaming in the car for catharsis. If you love funny storytelling, relatable “wait I do that too” moments, and the comfort of a friend-group conversation, hit play, subscribe, and share this one with the weirdest person you know. What’s your most irrational habit or loyalty?

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Cold Open Fridges And Tax Talk

SPEAKER_04

Guys, this episode we're gonna guess each other's sopheeconomic status. We're gonna go to the room and everyone say the number of fridges you had in your house. In honor of taxis, and we're gonna guess your tax back. Oh my god. Okay, go ahead. I'll do an intro. Okay. Everyone, but don't even look at me. No, don't not look at me. You guys are welcome. I'm the reason you get to have to leap to for intro.

Why We Are So Strange

SPEAKER_04

Hey guys, welcome back to Just Us Talking. This week we're gonna talk about why we are so strange. Start thinking stranger things. Think of my strange addictions. Guess which one of us here ate couch cushions before the case? That takes ball knowledge. Who here had a relationship with their car?

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Probably David.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Morgan, you always have nice cars. Look, look, she got that Bronco. That Bronco.

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Don't talk about Marco.

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It was not a brand new. Why are we having discussion? Yeah, anyway. Go ahead.

Hear Me Out Animated Crushes

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Hey, this is Gracie, and my hear me out, my strange hear me out is the cheetah from the Cheeto commercial.

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Chester.

SPEAKER_03

Chester the Cheetah. Cheetah, yes.

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Chester the Cheetah. Chester the Cheetah that likes Cheetah.

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One of mine would be Bugs Bunny.

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Okay. My name is Tyree, and one of my hear me outs is Mordecai from the regular show. Speaker Truth. Speaker Truth. I'm Mary Grace, and one of my hear me outs is the fox from the Robin Hood movie. Absolutely.

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She defaulted to Nick Wilde.

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She said the fox from the Robin Hood movie. Everyone said Nick Wilde! No. Did you say Zoopia, Nick Wilde?

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Also the fox from Zootopia. Both. Both hands. She likes foxes from.

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I mean. Probably I don't know, Daisy from Super Mario.

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Not Rosalina?

SPEAKER_01

No, I always a Daisy guy.

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My hear me out is like the sound that? That like a car makes when your windows are like partially cracked open.

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Like the one that makes your head hurt?

SPEAKER_04

No, no, no, no, no, no. When a car passes you. Okay. And the windows are cracked open. That sound, hear me out.

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That's your hear me up.

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That's a hear me up.

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And this is just a stopping.

Strange Addictions And Comfort Fixes

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What are some things that you guys are strangely addicted to, or even some things that you just simply cannot live without? I'll say. Sorry. Quiet on set. And let's try that again.

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Sorry, I had to cover my mouth. I covered my mouth. You covered your mouth. I did.

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It's like trying to cover Chernobyl with your hand. We're leaving that in.

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We're leaving it in. The whole thing is staying. It's like somebody just hit the button to drop an A-bomb and then hit it again to try to stop it.

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Can we use that belch? Can we use that belch as the like sensor noises episode?

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Oh no, I think that's disgusting.

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Sorry, hilarious.

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Oh my gosh. One of my strange addictions actually is still true to this day. When I was a kid, I would my mom had this Bath and Body Works bubble bath. And it was lavender vanilla. I still love that scent. But when I was a kid, I would always like go into her bathroom and just smell the bubble bath. That's good. Like just randomly throughout the day, I'm just go up there and smell the bubble bath. And that was my that was my drug, I guess, as a kid.

SPEAKER_06

You're snorting bubble bath.

SPEAKER_05

Hey mom, can I go into your room and smell your bubble bath? Please. Please uh just want. The other one I was gonna say is um I don't know if you I don't do this anymore, but like when you're a kid and like you are working with glue and you put like extra glue on your hands, like and you peel it off. Yeah. Yeah. I was one of those kids. I did that, and I'd put some glue on my hand, and then I'd use my mechanical pencil to give myself a shot. Oh, yeah, I'm practicing for nursing school guys.

SPEAKER_04

What is your first strange addiction?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. So or something you just can't live without.

SPEAKER_01

Can't live without. Recently, my mom has been buying these uh the propel like Gatorade drinks.

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Gatorade.

SPEAKER_01

Dude, I drink like three of those a day.

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That's a lot of sodium.

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It kinda is. It kinda is.

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On top of it, gonna work out.

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On top of it? David, you might you might die tomorrow. How much water are you having to balance that out?

SPEAKER_01

A lot. Dude, I literally went to I went to the store yesterday and grabbed a jug of water and drank it in 25 minutes.

SPEAKER_04

One of mine is, I don't know why I wrote it down this way, but emergency access to grenadine is word for word. Emergency. Emergency access. To grenadine? No, it was we talked about this before. The absolute deep-seated love I have for Shirley Temples. Of course. I do love it for Shirley. But I used to keep it in my car in college as Gracie can attest. And we would get McDonald's sprites and make sure the biggest one. You need to bring it back. I will, yeah. I need to.

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Gracie. My weird, strange addiction is okay, peeling a sunburn. Or like peeling like when your skin's peeling. I hate that.

SPEAKER_02

I actually hate that.

SPEAKER_03

Okay, well, that's why it's my addiction.

SPEAKER_06

My addiction is seltzer water. Water is just too flat for me. Like I don't have to have like the flavor in it. That's fine. Like I'll purposely just have like full-bodied water.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

It's gotta have a little bit of fizz to it. But it's become a problem. Like I have to force myself to drink flat water. Yeah. As like a punishment to myself. But also, I'll add to that, my if I add plain water, it has to have ice in it. I'm not someone who wants warm or room temperature water. But people say that I don't know. I've heard mixed reviews on that, but ice reviews. Ice all the way. That's right. Amen. Amen.

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Speak up about it.

SPEAKER_01

So we have water as a strange addiction, and then fizzy water as a strange addiction.

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There we go. Look, that is my anti like seltzer water. I know. And I can't. It's just tastes so I no. One of my strange addictions is this is probably when I was like a pre-teen, like maybe going on like 13, kind of. I used to eat baby food.

SPEAKER_06

Oh. Okay, do you want that one to internet?

SPEAKER_01

What?

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Tyree.

SPEAKER_01

Tyree, you know our friends. Hold on, no no no, it's fine.

SPEAKER_04

Let's talk this out of context. Tyree, who's in the scene, is in her neighborhood. She's 13 years old. She sees this cute boy, she has a crush on. She takes out her baby food. And then goes and wrestles him.

SPEAKER_06

Wait, but how do you attain this? Like, is it baby food in the house as a teenager? Your mom would keep buying it?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, like when we go to the grocery store because there's the specific one was like the strawberry bananas kind. So it wasn't like carrots. Carrots, you know, whatever. Strawberry banana. That's all. But I loved it. Yeah.

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Okay. That is the level we're at. Next person.

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We have elevated estates.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I'm really glad you put that in perspective. Hey, I have an Andy for everybody.

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You guys are all like mine. Next one. Next one, next one.

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Okay.

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Um, one of my I've always loved like little things. It doesn't really matter what it is. Like as a kid, if it was like a little toy that fit in the palm of your hand, and I still am kind of like that. There was these little like turtles that Tyree had at her work that she was hiding all over her office. And I was like, can you bring one? Because I want it. But still like the like tiny little things. Just a little mini something. Yeah. Something to happen to hold. To happen to hold.

SPEAKER_04

Until Death Keeper.

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David. And it better be a good one. Like, I bared my soul. Y'all. Come on to y'all catch up.

SPEAKER_01

For my strange I guess one strange addiction. I don't think it's some I could live without it. You guys are probably gonna get so mad. I I just know. I like using my sister's grilly products and then denying it. I think it's the funniest thing ever.

SPEAKER_03

What, like tampons? David? No, no, I can't no!

SPEAKER_02

Oh my god! Oh my god, no! No! Oh my god! They're shampoos! They're shampoos and body wash! The shampoos and body wash, I swear! Oh my god!

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David is shaking. Oh my god. David, you're gonna be caressed. Are you kidding me?

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Oh my god.

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Oh my god. Shut up! Oh my god. Shut up! It's for nosebleeds!

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Oh my god.

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It's for nosebleeds, I swear.

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Oh my god. You know, I I know what that is.

SPEAKER_06

Okay, no. Keep going, keep going.

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Oh my god, no.

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I can't. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06

So what kind of shampoo and conditioner though? So wait, wait, you use it because you like it or you just like the rage bait of it?

SPEAKER_01

A little both. Okay.

SPEAKER_04

David! I can't believe you said that. You would be my absolute awful if you were my brother. Yeah, I hope you know it would be on site. Because we literally never talk about it.

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Listen. I can't remember from this.

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There was a

Shampoo Theft And Scent Fixations

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period. Great! It's saying it. It's actually the clip for this episode. It has to be.

SPEAKER_01

No, part of it is for the rage bait. It's for the love of the game. But like sometimes I remember it was last Christmas. She had like some peppermint body wash, and I was like, uh that's a strange addiction of mine, is I like using my sister's shampoo and body wash.

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Do they know that? Maxie?

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Oh yeah, Max. Protect your stuff, girl. Maxie, listen to one of the episodes.

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Maxie, we stand with you, and we will help you get him back. Listen.

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Don't worry.

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Girl, sorry, Maxie and Malene if you listen to this. What'd you say?

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I said, keep that stuff in a lock and key. Because I know it's expensive. Yes.

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And time where all my siblings were all gonna be back at the house, and I literally pulled all of my products out of the shower and would take it with me to the shower when I shower. And that was this past Christmas. And that was this year. Shower caddy for your own house. I had it in like on my dresser, but I had it like a strategic place to where if you look in my room, you couldn't see it.

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Your brother's gonna come in there and he won't enter the room, but he would like, you know, if there's not an immediate site.

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Yeah. So I was like, I gotta crazy.

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I did the same thing. I said, yeah. Shower caddy in your own house.

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Morgan.

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One of my strange addictions, and I don't know how to explain this at all, but is you know the little detergent, like the dishwasher detergent pods that you can put in? I love the smell of them.

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I thought she was about to admit to eating them.

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Every time, literally to this day that I start a load of dis like of dishes at my house.

SPEAKER_05

What do you do? Like put it in and smell your powder lapper?

SPEAKER_04

No, I hold it to my nose and I'm not in it anymore.

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It's still pretty bad.

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Alright, we can't watch off this before the podcast anymore.

SPEAKER_04

It's it's it's the level went too far. It's gonna be it's gonna be a perfect wreck or something. It might be like swirled your hand around in the thing. No, it's like the pod, like not the not the liquid, like of the what?

SPEAKER_05

Like the box of pods. I didn't know like put your hand in there.

SPEAKER_04

I pick up the pod and I pick out you and I hail it. And then I put it in the I smell it, I sniff it, I love it.

SPEAKER_05

You know, just like the buffle bath.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, no, a little bit. It's like I mean that was like I feel kind of seen. But buffle bath makes way more sense.

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It would not kill you if you actually my strange addiction, my second one is okay, when you put on like fake press-on nails, like with the glue, and then you peel them off. Like the next day. Like, I cannot have them on for days. Like, I think the maximum time I've had it on is like three days. I just love to pop the feeling of them coming off when like, yeah. Release them. Yeah, release. It feels like a release.

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Release like an addiction. Um, I was trying to think of one more hinge. When I was like a kid, I used to love to like chew on paper. Like just rip off a piece of it and chew on it. Definitely not eat it. But just chew it out. Yeah. Strange. Isn't that weird?

SPEAKER_05

Where would you spit it out at? Like, would you just spend it? Like eat the trash. Okay.

SPEAKER_06

But like you just chew on it for a while while you're doing school.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, well, my kids do that.

SPEAKER_06

It's weird, right? I don't like I don't know. Like now thinking as an adult, I don't understand why I would do that, but I liked the taste of it on my tongue.

SPEAKER_07

Like, that's weird, right?

SPEAKER_06

Okay, and for the record, I was at my house doing this. I probably would if I was in public school, I probably never would have done that. But in the comfort of my own bedroom, yeah, I would be chewing on papers. Yeah, that's real. Chewing on paper.

SPEAKER_03

Everything in public school is so dirty, so I would judge you. But you're at your own home.

SPEAKER_05

You do feel like so who like what kind of people in society are the people that used to put gum under school desks?

SPEAKER_06

Oh, actually did that. Yeah. They're in jail. They're in jail. They're on death row. Oh my god. Imagine they think it's gum, but it's paperwats.

SPEAKER_04

It was me. What about I don't know how to explain it. I feel like they're working at a grocery store.

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Yeah. I don't know why. I hope not. That's true. My groceries?

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Job rub job.

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You know what I mean? Gross, gross, gross.

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One of my this one is a little bit calmer than the first one I said, but I cannot live without.

Ice Chips Warm Laundry And Baby Food

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It's this strawberry milkshake from this locally owned ice cream shop where my grandparents live called Tony's. A few years ago, it closed down. The loaner opp the owner lost the deed gambling, but somebody in the neighborhood actually bought it back and reopened it. So guys, give it up. Let's go. Give it up for Tony's.

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Let's give it up for Tony's. Give it up for community.

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I kind of gave my first two at the beginning because I said the bubble bath, but then I also said like the when you had extra like glue on your like peel it off. And then the little things. Are you an ice chewer? With certain ice I am. What kind? Break down your favorite ice. Chick-fil-A ice. Number one. Oh, ice at hospitals. I don't know.

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Cut that out.

SPEAKER_04

Harry Grace isn't a hot isn't a patient. She's like, I'm sorry, can I get some ice or something?

SPEAKER_02

I was gonna say, how often you at the hospital to where you're eating the hospital ice.

SPEAKER_06

Hey, what kind of shape is hospital ice? Sorry, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05

Like what so actually I work so I work at the hospital twice a week.

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That's where the connection is.

SPEAKER_05

But it's very similar to the trick filet ice. You're not sneaking in. At least, can I say what hospital it is or no?

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No.

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I wouldn't.

SPEAKER_06

I don't know. Okay. Well, at the hospital, you're mine. Yeah, it doesn't really matter.

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At that hospital that I work at, it is very similar to the Mary Grace gatekeeping, the good eyes. The good eyes for the hospitals. I will tell you where it is. You're like in the right area. Excuse me, I just need the birthday and they need some ice chips. You're like, oh sorry, actually, I just are you pregnant? No, just want some ice. David.

SPEAKER_01

Another one? Yes. For me. Oh man. Whenever I'm doing laundry and I'm doing like a bunch of blankets and sheets, and it comes out of the dryer, I gotta wrap myself around it.

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I I can't not do it. Like I gotta like bundle myself up like a breather.

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I used to wrap myself around it, not wrap it around myself. He's just like holding it in your arms and legs.

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You know, either or, honestly, sometimes I do both.

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Sometimes it gets around you, sometimes you get around it.

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Y'all hold each other.

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You need to me!

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Okay, okay, Morgan.

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What is your crazy?

SPEAKER_04

Okay, my my third transitation. It's something that Tyree and I have talked about on this podcast before. I can't drink anything when we were kids. But like sucking water out of the washcloth? Out of a washcloth? When I was a kid, I would have practiced that. I have not done this in years. I do not do this now. You just get the washcloth and you get it wet, and then you drink the water out of the washcloth.

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That's so nasty.

SPEAKER_04

All the time. Oh, no, clean. Oh, dirty. It's not, I'm not drinking out of it. That's right.

SPEAKER_05

No.

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No.

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I don't listen. You guys just have to do it.

SPEAKER_04

Have you also ever done oh, this is so bad. Have you ever done that to like a seatbelt?

SPEAKER_03

No! A seatbelt absorbancy. A wash belt is meant to hold water. Like a seatbelt is pain.

SPEAKER_04

I'm not gonna lie, it might have been a dry seatbelt when I was kidding. I heard flying.

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A white seatbelt would be horrible. I think either way it's mad. I think that's like on the whole mother later.

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Six years old in the backseat of my parents' car.

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This is why we are the way we are.

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No.

SPEAKER_02

I think that's where we cut it, guys.

SPEAKER_03

This is why Morgan has an overbike.

SPEAKER_07

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04

I don't. It was corrected. No. And guys, guess what? I was never tested. I couldn't fail because I never took it.

SPEAKER_05

The washcloth thing is just such a nostalgic memory. Like when you're playing like in the bathtub and you're like, right? Like our games that we play, like Lost at Sea, like in the bathtub, and sometimes she says.

SPEAKER_04

A really simple game. Such chat. Get the washcloth wet and drink on it.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_03

My next strange addiction to move on is scrolling, scrolling through Morgan's hinge.

SPEAKER_06

I can't believe you said that on the pod. Yes.

SPEAKER_03

I eat it up. I love to try to like couple of funny things to say, because I have no say in the game. I'm just trying to give her a thing doorknob. I'm trying to give her a date. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01

I know you're not talking, Mr. I wrestled my guy. Morgan.

SPEAKER_04

You pre-game. Your pre-workout was menus. That's gonna be the new joke.

SPEAKER_08

Chris, that was pretty good.

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Mine, because I didn't think of any more, is kind of like a strange, like anti-addiction, so bear with me. I absolutely despise the feeling of having pruny fingers, and then like the thought of them touching each other, like my hands touching while they're pruny, like kill me now. I can't. Anytime I'm like in like the like hot tub, like I'm like have my hands out like this. And Vil, and Vil, my whole family knows that I don't like this. So they'll like come up and they'll be like, come here, I want to give you a hug. And I just like I can't. Like it's like she just relaxes in the hot tub. I can't do it. I'm just in the pool like this the whole time. I just hate the feeling. This is so relaxing. No, literally, it's stuck.

SPEAKER_04

She's just like, yeah. So yeah. Do you hold them to like the like the start of the water? Like our way like that.

SPEAKER_06

If it's like cold out, like it's like just to where like my thumb can't quite get it. Them getting pruny, like I can kind of accept.

SPEAKER_01

Like freezing, you won't do that.

SPEAKER_06

I won't. I can't. At the very end, I kind of will dip them down because then they won't get pruned by the time I dry them off. Right.

SPEAKER_01

That's pretty much.

SPEAKER_06

But it's just I cannot have them touch, and no one can touch me. Like the feeling, I don't know, pruning. Something is wrong with me. Like I anyway. Anti-air.

SPEAKER_05

Anti-addiction. And I instead of being obsessed with that. Anti-addiction.

Unexplained Loyalty To Brands And Routines

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We're transition, but what are some like things that you guys are like, I guess, loyal to, but there's like zero like reason. Like zero context behind it at all. For me, I am loyal. Sorry. Sorry. I am loyal to Aquafour. Aquifor is just better than Vaseline. David?

SPEAKER_01

For me, I don't know why. I I have when I'm asleep, I have to be on the right side of the bed. But if I'm just chilling, not asleep, like just bedrotting, I have to be on the left side.

SPEAKER_05

That's complicated.

SPEAKER_01

I know. It's weird. I if I'm sleeping, I gotta be on the right side. But if I'm just like sitting there, just sitting on my phone, brain running.

SPEAKER_05

We're not the same. We're not. We're not the same.

SPEAKER_04

One of mine is like a brand loyalty. Like I want to find good deals on things. There's just some things you don't compromise on. Yeah. And I am loyal to Charmin Ultra Strong for toilet paper. Girl.

SPEAKER_05

Look. You don't cheap out.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe some Angel Soft. I'll let Angelsoft side. But I'm not, I cannot do like the store brand toilet paper. That's the like booty parsley.

SPEAKER_05

It'll straight up straight up leave like little sparkles of like it's straight up, it does nothing.

SPEAKER_04

It's like it's like when Spider-Man withers away in Infinity War.

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Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03

That's crazy because in college I bought the cheapest stuff I could find.

SPEAKER_02

And Morgan could tell.

SPEAKER_03

It is Morgan Morgan.

SPEAKER_05

I'm gonna do this thing. That one ply will have you.

SPEAKER_04

You got a claw of toilet paper on your hand.

SPEAKER_02

Looks like a boxing glove.

SPEAKER_04

And it's still not enough.

SPEAKER_02

Again. Again.

SPEAKER_05

That is so funny.

SPEAKER_04

Crazy.

SPEAKER_03

Mine, so going off of Mary Grace's Aqui Four, mine is Aquafour at night before I go to bed. I have to put it like all on my face. Like I put it like on my face, especially okay, in my nose, a little bit in my nose. When I was on Acutane, like my nose would get so dry and like it still hasn't come back to get nose moisture. I don't know. So it's so dry in there. So I was like moisture at night. I have to like put aquapore like in my nose. It's pretty crazy. Anyway, but you always use aquafore and never vasculate. Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_06

Mine would be like I'm oddly loyal to like the same thing on the menu, like at a specific restaurant. Like I scroll and I pretend like I'm gonna pick something else, but I'm getting the same freaking thing I always get for years. Like and there's not really a reason. I like other stuff on the menu that I tried, but once you find that thing, like you're just loyal to it. I can't change my mind.

SPEAKER_01

I don't pretend. I go in there, I'm like, I know exactly what I'm just doing.

SPEAKER_05

I would like this now. To me, like what if you're not using bounty quicker picker upper, what are you doing in life? What are you using? We've tried other paper towels, and truly there's nothing better. We as a podcast have done the one paper towel test for me and my household, all of us we will get bounty. It's actually surprising how much of a difference it is. It works so good.

SPEAKER_04

And when you get like the cheap off-brand paper towels, it's like you ever gotten a paper towel and it just sits on the surface of the spill?

SPEAKER_02

You don't absorb it.

SPEAKER_04

Like, yeah, I'm gonna need about five. You gotta press it with your finger to get anything to absorb you like. So the main way. And if you swipe it in all the water just goes on the floor.

SPEAKER_05

Wow. But yeah, bounty or nothing. I'm loyal to Dove soap. Oh my gosh, I have that on mine. Dove nothing other than Dove for body wash, for hand soap, any kind of soap. Dove is the best. Dove is the best on the test.

SPEAKER_01

I would say for me, when it comes to deodorant, I have to go with old spice. I can't, I don't like anything else. I'm sorry. That's like I can't do anything else.

SPEAKER_05

No, it's good. That's good. What what um flavor of old spice? Flavor? What smell? What like scent? Yeah, yeah, scent.

SPEAKER_01

I think I usually go with like Fiji or something like that.

SPEAKER_05

Fiji. Fiji. I don't think I know what that smells like. Is that the I got it on right now? Do you do the gel?

SPEAKER_01

No. Oh no, I can't do gel. I gotta do the not gel stuff. Classic. I can't do gel.

SPEAKER_05

I gotta do the not gel stuff.

SPEAKER_04

Okay, one thing I'm loyal to for the forever in my life is the back left seat of the car. Yeah. Like that's the sign seat in the car. That was the one growing up. Every road trip.

SPEAKER_05

I feel like it's a good seat because you're behind the driver.

SPEAKER_04

It's just one of the car. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Whoever's driving is typically the one that's gonna be the yelling at people. Right. So you're you're safe. Safe for yourself. You're safe.

SPEAKER_06

And you can kind of see yourself in the mirror and yeah.

SPEAKER_05

And you can like pretend like in the window, like that's great.

SPEAKER_04

It's reach 2 a.m. on my headphones, my wired earbuds. The rain. Picking which raindrop's gonna win the race.

SPEAKER_05

You can do that without judgment.

SPEAKER_01

Imagining the guy running alongside the car with you.

SPEAKER_03

And then slowly losing pace. Um, my next one is as a teacher. Um, as a yeah, as a teacher, I'm loyal to Elmer's glue. There's no other glue that it comes off like it just does not stick, or it like it dries out way too fast. Elmer's glue is the only good glue. It tastes the best. No.

unknown

Sorry.

SPEAKER_03

Joking, I never use it. Does it peel off the mess? Well, we don't use liquid glue in my classroom because it's too much of a mess. Yeah. They can't handle it.

SPEAKER_05

See, back in my day, we used that liquid stuff. Yeah. I say I take it from that.

unknown

Here we go.

SPEAKER_05

Can I make it trust? Y'all need a little something more sturdier. Sturdier. She needs behind your glue. He needs a line of glue. Canada.

SPEAKER_06

Mine would be my uh loyalty would be to press on nails. I love them. Specifically the KISS brand, but I just can't believe how much people pay for like really fancy nails. When I mean, if you're like Gracie, you like to pop them off. That's fine. But if you can do it well, you can last for like two weeks. Yeah. And it's like five bucks for a pack, like that's just the way to go. So that's my feeling.

SPEAKER_05

Very inferior. I would say that I am pretty loyal to my routine. Like I am a very, very structured or I try to be with my schedule. And it's so funny, like when people are like, well, you can do this, like instead. I'm like, what? That wasn't in my plan. That wasn't an option. Like this is my this is my schedule. So I'd say, yeah, I'm pretty loyal to my schedule. Anything that throws me off of my schedule is not part of my schedule. I'm loyal to Wawa over Sheets. Oh Wawa is I mean, Sheets is just it's not even. Okay, but Wawa or 7-Eleven. Thanks for watching. That's hard. Montague Capulette. 7-Eleven is just cheaper, you know.

SPEAKER_04

Like, if I want a Slurpee, why would I ever go to Wawa over 7-Eleven? Right. Also, like living in Sheets country is just devastating. Like versus Wawa. Yeah. Like Gracie and I once saw a guy get arrested out of sheets. Oh. He was in ankle cuffs. Like, whoa!

SPEAKER_02

He must have really did something bad.

SPEAKER_03

No. Ankle cuffs. Got my watermelon slushy and got out quick.

SPEAKER_05

Walked right back out. Wa right back out. I don't know. I'm a little I have a little angst towards sheets because when I lived like in West Virginia, we had this cute little local gas station market called the Superette, and they tore it down and they made sheets.

SPEAKER_01

Brand loyalty. Oh. I have to wear Nike socks. Any other brand of socks throws me off. I have to wear Nike socks. I'll buy them in the highest packs that they're on the high packs.

SPEAKER_04

Highest packs? The greatest number of Nike socks. Yes. 36. Bang for your bug. 36. In the highest-six pack of socks.

SPEAKER_05

It is probably better. Have you guys ever bought like actually? What? I'm sorry. We used to live like over by Ocean View. So like, but this is back like when it was like whatever. And like my mom, we used to buy like wife beaters in packs at like the gas station. Like at the gas station?

SPEAKER_02

The gas station.

SPEAKER_06

I'm totally missing what this is about.

unknown

It's okay.

SPEAKER_04

It's okay because I jumped a little bit. Buying a bulk. Buying a bulk. Buying a bulk. Buy the bulk.

SPEAKER_06

Buying a bulk. Buy it at a gas station. Wife beaters.

SPEAKER_05

So if you ever bought t-shirts and things at gas stations. Oh my gosh. She likes some bottom. That's so interesting. Oh listen. She buys clothing wherever she can.

SPEAKER_06

Okay.

SPEAKER_05

You know what? Yeah. Yeah. Alright. She bought us two. She bought another shirt. My mom bought two shirts for each of my siblings for Black History Month.

SPEAKER_06

That is hilarious.

SPEAKER_05

From the hospital. From the hospital.

Home Buttons Emoji Kitchen And Coffee

SPEAKER_04

I have an undying loyalty. This is insane. Inexplayable to Tiger Woods' first wife. I'm like, what? Hear me out. Yep. You're with me. Gracie's with me when you were a kid. Oh my gosh. And you heard that Tiger Woods got into a car accident, and then it turns out that his wife put a golf club through his windshield because he was out with his like his affair partner and crashed the car, and that's how she found out. And it shattered my world as a kid. I don't know. Did I know anything else about Tiger Woods other than the hippie golfers? Probably. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03

That was the world shattering. That I had no idea what cheating or an affair was until Tiger Woods. Yeah. And it like, I was like, why in the heck would anyone ever do that?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, ever since then, I I distinctly remember the experience of hearing that news story for the first time and being shocked.

SPEAKER_03

My next loyalty is, oh shoot, I just forgot it.

SPEAKER_06

What? Oh no, do you want us to circle back? Okay, okay. Um my weird loyalty that I don't understand is my loyalty to the home button on iPhones, and now I won't change my phone to upgrade to it. I just I don't know why. Bro has an S E. I have an S E and every people that I don't know will stop me and be like, every people did I say every people? Some people you didn't. Some people will sometimes stop me and be like, Do you have a home button? And like literally grab my phone like out of my hand to like look at it and like wow, I haven't seen this one of these in so long. And I'm like, is it really that crazy? I guess so.

SPEAKER_04

So Meso, can you scan my clothes?

SPEAKER_06

Yeah. So can I pay for my Chick-fil-A or Hey so are you gonna give me that extra sauce? No, I think it's funny, it shocks people.

SPEAKER_05

So I agree. I had a home button like maybe up to like I want to say three years ago.

SPEAKER_06

But listen, I've come a long way because I was originally Android user. Not by choice. Hey, that's okay. Me too.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we all have one. It all takes meanwhile, but Christ loved us while we're still sinners. That's good.

SPEAKER_04

And you know what? On that Android that had that really fun golf game.

SPEAKER_05

I was the first one to customize a lot of stuff. You can your fonts.

SPEAKER_07

No, because I was different. You can do your phone.

SPEAKER_06

Yes, yes, yes, yes. That is so funny.

SPEAKER_05

Because I it like it came to me like immediately.

SPEAKER_06

I was like, no, like you're you're obsessed with the emoji kitchen.

SPEAKER_05

I use the emoji kitchen. I use it ironically. No.

SPEAKER_04

No. You use it in the most for real life possible. Yeah, every emoji you've ever sent me, it's never been one that's automatically on the iPhone.

SPEAKER_06

It's one that you created. Never watched the emoji kitchen.

SPEAKER_04

Even the salute, I think there's something off with it. I love the puzzle. You're like, how did she change this? How did she change this?

SPEAKER_05

What is the difference between these two photos? They're the same picture. No, I love it. It's I use it ironically.

SPEAKER_03

Um, I'm loyal to Dunkin' Coffee over Starbucks coffee. Controversial. I just think Dunkin' the my Dunkin' is more consistent and just tastes better. Okay. And it's cheaper. And the Starbucks I go to, like, do I always get Starbucks gift cards? Yes. Do I always still go there? Yes. I have a gift card. Duh. But if it's like they're next to each other and like I don't have a gift card, nothing, I'm like, you're not going to be able to do it.

SPEAKER_05

That's fair. I do go to Starbucks because I have a gift card usually. But if I don't have a gift card, I'm probably gonna go to Duncan if I had the option because it's cheaper.

SPEAKER_04

I'll just say Starbucks is always gonna be a five, and you know that. Duncan could be a two or it could be an eight. Yes, it's a gamble every time. You know, you never know.

SPEAKER_05

It could be absolutely beautiful. The last time I went to Duncan, this is listen. The last time I went there, I got a large chai latte, and I was like, Can I get a large, please? Like light ice. And she was like, you know, getting light ice doesn't get you more drink.

SPEAKER_04

Ew.

SPEAKER_08

She said that?

SPEAKER_05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

I have a feeling she said that because you got a chai. Don't get sacrilegious ideas. She's never sold one before. I mean, I was like, you're the villain in this story.

SPEAKER_05

I was like, okay, it's fine. No, the last time. Give me the four moly. How was the child? That was great. I was obsessed with it. But I haven't gone since that incident. I'm gonna have a try it. The last time I went to Duncan, someone was also rude to me, and I was like, you know what? Listen, this is how I know that somehow it's gonna be good. I don't know. It's just good. All right, then it's good energy. So I don't know, in the spirit of us being weird, in the spirit of taxis, and in the spirit of the masters.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Sco Rory, listen.

SPEAKER_04

My go for all We all follow golf closely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_05

Listen.

Using Free Will For Quirky Joy

SPEAKER_05

I'm an avid golf. Listen. I actually went to the masters.

SPEAKER_04

Um I went to it online.

SPEAKER_05

Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the spirit of us being weird, I feel like we need to share some times where we have used our free will for things that are fun and cool and a little bit quirky. Because I I really use my free will. I realize I'm not using it enough. Yeah. I'm actually gonna be taking watercolor classes next week. I that was like something that I don't know. I just looked up at the I found out that the adult learning center is like right down the street from my house. And the classes were not that expensive. It was like, I'm gonna take a watercolor class. Yeah. Because why not? And then how do you use your free will?

SPEAKER_01

I mean, I've got two instances instances. I did go to the beach like for sunrise by myself, like the other week. That was pretty cool. Main character mode. Also, when I was on the road, I did this. They weren't doing anything. They weren't like being a bad driver. I just thought it'd be so funny if I like rolled my window down on the highway and passed somebody just like what it just acted like I was so angry and then got off on the exit immediately.

SPEAKER_06

That's no thing to do.

SPEAKER_02

No. I thought it was hilarious. I was laughing, like, yeah, that's good.

SPEAKER_06

You thought about doing it or you didn't?

SPEAKER_02

I did it.

SPEAKER_06

That's a guy thing. That's crazy.

SPEAKER_01

The window is up. And like I'm just like, I'm my exit's right here. I'm about to take it off. I look at the car next to me, we're going the same speed, and I was like.

SPEAKER_02

That is not a good use to me. And I go. I just like act like I'm going psychotic, like at them. And then I get off on the exit.

SPEAKER_06

That would be so much anxiety.

SPEAKER_05

That's a great way to get shot.

SPEAKER_06

Take a picture of your license plate. Please.

SPEAKER_05

Oh my gosh. Okay. Well, Morgan.

SPEAKER_02

I thought that was hilarious. So did Greg.

SPEAKER_05

All the Shaylos in the room thought that was funny.

SPEAKER_04

Um, one of mine was just so dumb. I did this to my brother the other week or the other day. We were, Gracie and I were over at Ryan's house, and we were uh you could have used your you could have used your free will for that, okay? You know what? Yeah. She doesn't like us. And that's on me. Um no, and we were up there like I think we were what we were trying to do, we were trying to find something to watch, or something like that. And then I just started looking up furry videos on his YouTube to now so his algorithm just suggests furries. Stop. It was like I realized I was like, I could do this. I could do this. That is so cool. And now his algorithm on his YouTube is just furry content. No. Because he hadn't been using it that much either. Did you follow some? No, I should have. Yeah, he was right there. He was like, no, Morgan, don't do that. And I kept on searching it. And he was like, What are you doing? I was like, you know what I'm doing. I know what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_03

Uh me practicing free will, uh seeing SpongeBob Big Guy Can't Sokay on repeat today. In my classroom. And you should on the softball film. And here with Vale. Yeah. So that's why. That was amazing. That was amazing. That's why not.

SPEAKER_05

It's my favorite rendition.

unknown

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

I don't know a specific instant. My free will is like anytime I do something for myself. Like I'm sitting at home and I'm like, I can leave right now. I could go do something that's like spontaneous. Anything spontaneous. Not usually that type of person. Like I want to have a general idea of the plan. So if it's like, oh, you know what? I can get a sweet treat anytime I want. And it's like it's perfect.

SPEAKER_05

Anytime I want.

SPEAKER_06

No, literally, I just like, yeah, I can totally do that. I think it's the perfect use of free wills to get sweet treats or something for yourself.

SPEAKER_05

Yes. That's good. That's good. I use my free will when I'm at work. Because my job can get kind of like sometimes depressing. But when I'm at work, I'm like, I could literally just go outside and take a walk. And so I do. I did today. I don't know. I also use my free will because also I have a standing desk and I'm like, I could stand up. And so I like to stand up. I like to take off my shoes. I probably take off my shoes right when I first get to work. And I spend the whole entire day with my shoes off. Yeah, nobody sees my dogs, by the way. Dogs. They're behind the closed desk. They're kenneled. They're not muzzled, but they're kenneled. They're kenneled. They're kenneled. If I yeah, if I need to leave, like when I go on my walks, I then put on my shoes.

unknown

Right.

SPEAKER_05

One of my favorite things to do is like, I don't know, sometimes if I'm on the go, I don't have time to like cook dinner or whatever. So if I'm in between running errands, sometimes I'll like grab like fast food or something and like find a parking lot and watch one of my favorite shows, like The Office, and like eat while I'm in the car and watch my show. And it's the perfect little like moment of peace before I'm on to the next thing. That's one of my favorite things to do to use my free will. Like, you know what? I'm not gonna cook dinner tonight. I'm going to pick up something and eat it in my car. Eat in my car, watch my show, and then before I have to do my next thing. That's good. That is good. I have two that kind of are connected. I feel like yours are gonna be such a better piece of your free will than ours. And I like to eat in my car. So much more creative. It's gonna be so exciting. I like to change moments. Well, that's kind of what like she I put like I changed my brother's algorithm to furries. It's strategic.

SPEAKER_04

I also the idea that I got the chief from my mom made to my dad on his Hulu. That is hilarious.

SPEAKER_05

I let the world see my feet. That's brain. That's brain. Brainerism. That's right. Stand up. Brainer.

SPEAKER_04

Braverism. No, sometimes like when I'm in public, like if I'm like specifically at like a Barnes and Noble for some reason, it always happens. I'm walking around and I'm not like an anti-social person, but like to a stranger in public, it's never my self-deprived. Like it's almost always like just NPC responses. Because like that's that's what it is to people when I don't know them. But then sometimes I'm walking around Vars and Noble and I'm like, wait a second, I can have a functioning conversation with people. I could just go talk to that person right here, right now. And sometimes I do. And I yeah, I don't know, that sounds so stupid, but it is out of my comfort zone a lot of the time. And all of a sudden I'm just like absolutely yapping it up with a random lady and like, yes, Queen. You're doing it.

SPEAKER_05

Yes, what are you eating? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04

And on the similar vein, sometimes when in my car I'm like listening to music, I'm like, I could just really like fully commit to singing along to it right now. And I do every time. Like on the way here, I was listening to mirrors. Good. And I was like, I was performing. Like I was like, you know what? Yeah. Why am I not shallow leave my car right now? No.

SPEAKER_05

No.

SPEAKER_04

Volume at 18 or 20.

SPEAKER_05

Windows down. Windows down. Too good. Good.

SPEAKER_03

How do you use your free will? I love to just scream in the car. That's good. Literally just like scream. That's it.

SPEAKER_05

I should probably try that one. Catharity. You guys, group scream.

SPEAKER_08

It's like a release. It's healing. It is. Catharsis.

Solo Travel Volcano Pepper Story

SPEAKER_06

That's great. That's a thing. I love to use my free will, hear me out, for travel. I feel like there are people always are like, oh, let's do that thing. I hope we can do that thing. Like, actually do it. Especially solo travel, actually peek. Like, book that ticket for yourself and be like, these are the times I'm not gonna be here, and you're not like planning it with other people, and you just like go to the place and also or doing it with friends and like all getting together, but like actually doing something like crazy like that, love it. My favorite thing.

SPEAKER_05

I'm not an original person, so if I'm gonna use my free will, I have to do it with somebody else. Like, and like I'll like I'll do it if you do it, kind of thing. This one time I remember I was on a mission trip in like somewhere around Asia, and I was with one like this older lady, she was maybe in her 60s. We were just hiking up the side of a volcano, and come to find out it was actually active. We didn't know it was active when we were walking up the volcano. But, anyways, there was this like farmer that was till in the land, you know, or whatever. When we were walking up the volcano, and he was like showing us his like you know, vegetables and like he had a row of peppers and stuff like that, and he picked some peppers off the side of this road and he offered them to us. Don't know this man from Adam. First of all, I never have ventured out to this part of Asia ever before. It's my first time here. But we were like, Yeah, let's do it, let's do it. And so we ate this pepper for the next three hours. It was like that that sound, like and for the next three hours, the whole left side of my face was numb. Actually, there was there were two volcanoes that were arriving. I was like I remember three. One of the people, Melissa was like, is it hot? And I was like, What? Like, I just yeah, I just like I completely lost feeling on one side of my face. That's insane. Yeah, wow. So I need to do more stuff like that, you know?

SPEAKER_04

Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, you see those berries on the side of the road? Boom. Listen. Have you seen Hunger Games?

SPEAKER_03

Um, not all of us have, actually. Not a spoiler, yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Not to spoil it. I mean, we were kind of risking it with honeysuckle, you know? True, true, true, true, true. That that was a great use of free will when I was younger. That was one of my favorite things. You wanna go get lunch? This is awful.

SPEAKER_04

Maybe this is just like I think this is a simple thing. But sometimes, like, I and my brothers did it to me first, and then I started doing it to them back. They'd like pick up the dandelion like to make a wish on it, and then they'd blow it into your mouth when you open it.

SPEAKER_08

I hate that. I'll just do that date last time.

SPEAKER_06

I and they're just like, oh no.

SPEAKER_08

No, I hate that.

SPEAKER_06

Yeah, use your free will to pick on your siblings if you have any. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05

Get creative. That's where it starts. It starts at the home first. I starts at the home first.

Sibling Pranks And Playful Gaslighting

SPEAKER_05

Any other things? Any other thoughts that you guys want to wrap up? I have to confess.

SPEAKER_04

And I don't want you to hear it. Let's hear it. Okay. It was a story. This was not my use of free will, but it was along the same line of like the sibling thing where I saw something where somebody convinced their younger brother that they weren't the only person out of the world that had a butt crack. And then the guy was like, like, he was like, we would mess with them and be like, wait, you have you have two? Like you have a you have cracking earse? Like, like what's wrong with you? We need to go tell mom and dad. Like we need to go. What is wrong with you? Like it it's vertical. Like, oh my insane stuff. That he apparently believed for a long time. And then, like, I don't know. Sorry, I saw that the other day and it killed me.

SPEAKER_05

I love gaslighting her siblings. So funny. Free will, gaslight your siblings.

SPEAKER_04

What David does to his sister is with her with her uh shampoo.

SPEAKER_05

I do that sometimes with you guys. It's like, what do I do? Like, yeah, like what was that one time where I don't know, somebody asked a question and they're like, really? I was like, no.

SPEAKER_06

Oh my gosh, no, it was just a baby cute thing because David had it, and I was freaking out, and then you're like, I do too. I was like, no way. You're like, no. No, I know. I just like to feel included to them. What if I did, though?

SPEAKER_05

Gaslight for inclusion, guys. Yeah, that's a good way to do it. Gaslight for inclusion. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06

Somebody write that down.

SPEAKER_05

All right.

Follow Us And Final Thoughts

SPEAKER_03

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SPEAKER_05

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SPEAKER_07

Peace out.