Black Lights and Dishwasher Fish (Below Deck Recap)

Joanna is flying solo this week with a quick recap of the most recent Below Deck episode, if that's ok?

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Joan Okay.

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Uh Joanie, come here. I like this one thing, so I made it my whole thing. Now no one wants to talk to me at parties. Please listen to my spiel, because I made it my whole deal. I made it my whole personality. Yeah.

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Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of My Whole Personality. This episode's um a little different. I'm actually recording this um on the living room floor as the dishwasher is running. It literally could have done this at any other time. But um it's late and I just wanted to get an episode out this week because I wasn't gonna do one, but um I wasn't gonna do an episode this week because I don't have a guest. I I'm really blowing through friends. Um so I actually but I did earlier tonight record an episode with my friends Katie and Maddie that I'm gonna release next week. We're talking about Lord of the Rings. Okay. And then I have some friends coming over on Saturday to record another episode. And then beyond that, I don't know. I I don't know if I need to maybe switch this to every other week or once a month. Um or maybe I'll do more of these alone ones. We'll see how this goes. But uh, if you have any opinions, let me know. I can't imagine anybody has any strong opinions. Um but please do let me know if you're like, no, I want to hear from you once a month. Um, that's fine. Send that in an email. Maybe don't comment that on the podcast reviews. But so this week I am just gonna recap an episode of Below Deck. It's actually this week's episode of Belowdeck because I love Bravo shows, and some of my favorite podcasts are actually just like recap podcasts. I'll listen to recaps, recap podcasts of shows and movies I've never seen. I listened to heated rivalry recaps um way before I saw it. I listened to dateline recaps that I've never seen. I don't know, I like information, I guess. Uh speaking of that, I do because I was thinking about like the recap episodes I listened to. Unfortunately for everyone in my life, House of the Dragon is coming back in June. We got that trailer, so I am about to be even more insufferable to hang around. When House of the Dragon was out the last time, I just like could not stop talking about it. It was it was such a problem, and so I'm really worried for it to come back. I I I think I'm gonna lose a lot of friends. Definitely, definitely not gonna find a lover at this time. But um, so that's exciting. But yeah, I would listen to like how I don't know how long are those episodes. That's like an hour-long episode. I would listen to recap episodes that would do just like an overview of that particular episode of House of the Dragon. I don't know, say it's like then like an hour-long recap, and then I would listen to a deep dive of the House of the Dragon episode. And so that would be like a three and a half hour podcast. So, like in total, I would listen to about four to five hours of material on for every one episode of House of the Dragon. So here I am already just saying way too much about it. But yeah, I'm gonna recap this episode's um or this week's episode of Below Deck. I don't I forget what franchise it is. I can't ever remember if it's like down. I think I guess it's down under because Captain Jason, I don't know, but whatever, nobody cares. Um so um we open with them setting up a beach picnic for the guests, and beach picnics sound like such a nightmare. I don't if anybody's been watching Bravo or watching Below Deck for a while, you know that beach picnics are like the last thing that anybody wants to set up and take down. And I completely agree. I hate well, I hate I don't like going to the beach in general. I feel um I don't like I was about to say I don't like sand, which is exactly what me and Meredith talked about on our episode, and then I cut to the Anakin Skywalker bit about him not liking sand. Um, but yeah, I think the beach is hot. Um, I think there's broken glass everywhere that you could step on. So I don't want to eat lunch. I don't I don't like eating on the beach. I feel like your hands are always really sandy and you can't really like wash them all that well. People think you can just rinse them off in the ocean because it's salty, and like maybe you can, but I don't know. Yeah, so I never really get the beach setups. Uh-oh, Joan's doing her big yell. Hold on.

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Thank you! Oh my gosh, a golf club! Thank you.

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She's pretty vocal. I don't know if it's her hyperthyroidism um or if it's just the way she is, but she loves putting a toy in her mouth and making a really, really yellow like a loud scream. She actually she has this little toy mouse that oh, we call fancy mouse, and it's like her baby, she loves it. And I started to have I have to like kick it out of my bedroom at night because Joan loves to put it in her mouth and run around all the furniture in my room. Like she'll run around my she'll like do loops, like she's doing a parade, and we call it the fancy mouse parade because she screams with fancy mouse in her mouth, and it keeps me up. Um, yeah, so they set up the beach picnic and then the primary charter guest has a conversation with Daisy about dinner that night, and Mecca, the primary guest, is you know, keeps saying like it needs to be the best setup. I want, you know, they're like really worried about the tablescape. They said they wanted it, they wanted it to be sexy and elegant. I don't know that I've I don't know that I've ever been moved by like a tablescape and thought that it was sexy and elegant. They love tablescapes on these shows. I think it would be so distracting to eat with a bunch of things on the table. Like they'll go all out for these themes. They did, I think on one of them it was like a horse race theme, and they had like inflatable horses, I don't know, on the table, but I don't know, it's too much. I the only tablescape that I really can remember making an impact on me is um I I when we used to go to Buka de Bepo with my family, it was like for special occasions we would call ahead and try to get the Pope's head table. And I just remember that on the table there was like the Pope's head on a platter, I think. And he would like rotate around and look at you. And I don't think that that is probably, I don't think that's what the Pope would have wanted for himself. I don't know which Pope it was. Seems like people might have had some problems with it, but um, that was like a big thing to sit at the Pope table, at the Pope's head table. Um and that's really the only tablescape I've ever seen, except for then at Macaroni Girl when you would draw on the tablecloth and like make your own uh tablescape. My sister and I, I would draw, I was like, I could draw one thing really well, and it was a dragon. Uh which I guess makes sense. Oh my god, it's happening already. I'm having to talk quietly because I am in the living room and it's like 10:30 at night. Um, and I don't want my neighbors to know that I'm a podcaster. So yeah, so they're freaking out about the tablescape. Um Ben is trying to cook and he's like freaking out because the oven's broken, and these, you know, he's doing a six-course meal for these guests, and he doesn't have an oven. I didn't realize you could cook without an oven. I don't so he's like saying he's gonna like sous vide things, like boil things, and then I remembered um because he's also doing a lot of fish. Did you know that you can cook um a fish in the dishwasher? I think it's called dishwasher fish. Um people will put a fish on the top rack of their dishwasher and it steams it. Is this more common than I knew? I don't know. I really struggle to cook fish. I like don't like cooking fish because I don't like eating fish. Um, but sometimes I will go on a kick where I'm like, oh, I need to have more protein, so I'll cook salmon and I'll hate it, and then I'll feel so bad because I'll be like, oh, this fish laid down its life, and I'm like, ew, gross. But I always burn it or don't cook it right. So like maybe I should maybe I should be steaming fish in the dishwasher. I feel like it would taste like cascade pods. I guess you don't put the I mean you don't you definitely don't put the cascade pod in um when you're cooking the fish in there, but I don't know. So if anybody's heard about it, please do leave a comment about that or like a review about that on the podcast uh page, because I don't know. Could be cool. Um oh Ben, the way he walks, Chef Ben, he like he enters the room um knees first. He walks knees first. I've never seen anything like that. He has this walk where he he looks like somebody has tied a rope around his waist and is dragging him um from the back of a truck. So see if you see that. Um Alyssa keeps or Alysia Alysia? I forget. I love her lipstick though, but she keeps telling us in her confessionables, confessional confessionables, in her confessionals, she keeps telling us like how much she loves her boyfriend. She keeps saying how much she loves her boyfriend. She loves her boyfriend and she doesn't want to be with anybody else. So obviously she doesn't love her boyfriend and she wants to be with somebody else. Um but he does text her like multiple times. I think she says, like, oh, I love my boyfriend. I really love my boyfriend, even though she's like not um responding to her boyfriend. But he does send her quite a few texts in a row, being like, Hey girl, where you been? Like, how are you? Um, kind of like how I think Aiden, this is I feel like on another episode I talked about this, but this is how I feel like Aiden from Sex in the City communicates, and it really bothers me. Just like a stream of checking in texts, and I could not be with somebody like that. Um, I don't even like getting texted in the first place, I think. I have been with somebody who sent a lot of texts and um and boy did it end badly. Um oh gosh.

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Okay.

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Let's see. Alysia asks Jenna for help with the tablescapes, even though uh the night before she basically tried to steal the man that Jenna was interested in. That was fucked up. Alyssia was like uh flirting with Eddie, who is a deck hand, and um, I think Jenna was also interested in him. But Alysia was like, no, I can't be with you. I have a boyfriend who I don't know if you've heard, but I really like love him. And so then Eddie got with Jenna, and then Alysia got jealous, and so she sent Eddie a text that was like, Why do I like you so much? You know, trying to get between him and Jenna, saying, like, it's hard to see you as somebody else. And then he writes back, I would drop her in a heartbeat to be with you. And I can't imagine reading something so hurtful about myself. Like, she sees she's watching this episode, and actually, in this episode, Alyssia does show Jenna those texts and like, my god, don't show her. It's so mean. Um, but after all of that, Alyssia did ask for her help with the tablescapes. So everybody's mad at Mike because he doesn't work, he gossips and he runs away from people when they're trying to talk to him, apparently. And he's a boat stew, which I don't know why they keep doing this. Like, this never works. It never works when somebody is like half on half, you know, on interior, half on exterior. They seem miser, but I also can't tell if it's just the people that they're hiring to do that job. Um, but yeah, I don't they it it never works out. Oh yeah, this is when I write that Ben um looks like he's being dragged by a rope by his waist. Um Daisy and Ben fight in the most classic Chief Stew, chef fight, where the chef for some reason thinks that the chief stew can tell the guests when to eat, where to eat, what to eat, whatever. Basically, the sh the chefs never think that the the guests who pay thousands of probably hundreds of thousands of dollars, I don't know, to rent these boats. They're like, they shouldn't be able to pick when they eat. And so it's always the fight where the chef is like, well, I would like to do dinner at this time and I would like to serve this thing, and the stew, you know, basically gets thrown under the bus because she has to be like, Well, this is what the guests want, and they're I'm we're here to literally serve them, so we gotta do what they want. Um, and that would be hard. It reminds me of when I was a hostess. Um, I've been a host a couple at a couple restaurants, uh, not not for too long. Very short stints. Uh, I don't know why, but um, I was not very good at my job and I hated it. It was such a horrible position to be in because like the servers were mad at you because you could never like put people in at in the right section at the right time, and the customers, the you know, the restaurant cut eaters, oh my god, what do you call somebody who goes a din the the diners? They were mad at me because they were like, Well, I didn't want to sit at this table, I would rather sit over here, and so like everybody hated me, and so that's why um I quit. And I actually I quit so um politely at the last place I worked that the guy that I quit from um didn't realize I quit. And so that led to a pretty awkward uh follow-up conversation about whether or not I worked there when um he thought I did and I thought I didn't. So I don't think I'll get a r recommendation for or referral from him. Let's see. Oh, uh Ben also calls Daisy a Martian when he's mad at her. He says that she's a Martian, and I don't there are meaner things to say about somebody. I don't think that's actually I think that's quite a kind um comment. But um Captain Jason joins the guests for dinner, which um the guests always love and the captains always hate. And he really likes the octopus that Ben makes. Some of the guests don't like the octopus. I would not like the octopus. Um I don't eat octopus anymore. I read that book that they're turning into a Netflix show, I think, or movie. Um Remarkably Bright Creatures, and it's so good, so sad. I kind of thought it was a true story for a while. Uh there's no way it could be. Um I thought The Life of Pi was a true story when I was reading that book. And I remember and this was not that long ago, because I was living in Chicago and I remember talking to my mom about it, and yeah, you can't get in a boat with a tiger, I guess, is the uh is the moral of the story. But um, yeah, so I wouldn't have eaten that octopus. Mike, who has been accused of gossiping, then instead of making the beds with Jenna, he asks her if she would potentially give Eddie a second chance after he said he would drop, you know, that Eddie is the one who was texting about Jenna and said that he would drop her in a heartbeat. So also Ben, when he's working in the kitchen, he calls Ellie, who is like technically his subordinate. He calls her I hate how he calls her like sweetheart, um, sweetie pie, babe, baby, honey. He like calls her all these like sick pet names, and it drives me nuts. It's so inappropriate. I was trying to think if I've ever had a boss do that, and I haven't had a boss like hit on me, but I did have a boss call me the wrong name for a couple months because I was like too afraid to correct her when she got it wrong the first time, so that sucked. Oh, and then so Ben is like so anxious about his food. I mean, obviously, it's his art, but he's like incredibly anxious and volatile, and the guests call him up after dinner to like congratulate him on serving them an awesome dinner. But they do this thing where they trick him, and he comes up and they're basically like, Do you think that you gave us your best? Do you think that this was your best? And I actually didn't know that they were tricking him at first, and neither did Ben, because he you see the blood leave his face. I was so my heart stopped. I legitimately thought that they brought him up there to embarrass him. And they drew it out for a while because Ben is just kind of standing there. If I were him, I would have walked and I would have walked to wherever they keep the anchor, tied myself to it, and dropped it. Like, I don't know. But then after a really long pause, they're like, cause it was, it was your best. We loved it. And again, I was still so scared for him. Oh, and then they say that he's a good they they say that he looks like he's a good time outside of work based on his haircut. When we were recording the podcast earlier tonight, Maddie said that I reminded her of Frodo because we have the same haircut. So I don't know if that makes me a good time outside of work. Um I actually have a hair appointment on Sunday, so I'll ask her to sort that out. Let's see, Ellie and Joao flirt in the kitchen. She's pissed at him because he she thought that he was asking her on a date. He just said, like, do you want to have a glass of wine on the sidewalk um after work? And I think she thought that was a date, so she gets there, and then he also invites Alyssia, who is I'm ruining relationships left to dry on this boat. Um, Alyssia, who loves her boyfriend, she goes on the date with them, and so then Ellie gets pissed and leaves. She's scary. I'm I'm she's been on previous seasons, and I can't believe she's back. She's like, she really does scare me. And she brings that Playboy Bunny outfit with her on every boat, and she's every time she like pulls it out of her bag of tricks, like she can't believe it managed to make it in her suitcase. Oh, and then um, so the guests after dinner, they want to get in the hot tub and eat caviar pizza, which is so horrible to hear. Like you could sous V food in a hot tub, um, and just caviar in a hot tub. I hate that. Then you get like, do you get like hard-boiled caviar or not? I don't know. But um, then they do that thing again where they tease Alyssia and they say, Do you think that you could go put my sheets in the dryer before I get into bed? They were kind of cold last night, and they were joking. Again, I didn't throw that they were joking, and Alyssia didn't know that they were joking for a minute, and we were both really upset. Um, but they were joking. Alysia then breaks a a glass on the teak, which if you watch below deck as much as I do, you know that you do not want to fuck up that teak. And she uses a broom to sweep it up, but I know from a lot of hours watching this show, they usually also have to use a vacuum. So I am worried that that's gonna come into play. Maybe next week somebody's gonna step on glass. And that's I mean, that's drama. I talked about it on another episode because I I did I stepped on glass one time. Um I stepped on a broken mason jar and I cut my toe off. Nearly off.

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Nearly?

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How can you be nearly toeless? Okay, so then Alyssia's boyfriend, who she loves, um, keeps texting her because she's not responding. He's just like, Hello? Are you there? Are you okay? And that would drive me nuts. I would I would fake my own death, I think, and then um block him. But um Jason White wakes up early, and um Alyssia and Mike did not clean the boat properly. There's candle wax all over the table from that tablescape. There are two bottles of open champagne on the bar, and it looks like a dump. So yikes. But um, I think Jenna, because she wakes up early, she has to like deal with the mess to clean it up. We see her, we see her confronting Mike about it, and she's already pissed at Mike because he kind of like start started that rumor um or like got the ball rolling to leak the news that the guy she was interested in said that he would drop her in a heartbeat. So she's I think kind of annoyed with him anyways. But as she's yelling at him, they keep cutting footage of Alyssia um asleep in bed, and she's sleeping on her tummy with her head turned. She's sleep it looks so uncomfortable. I don't know how her neck isn't broken. Let's see. Oh, the oven arrives. Mike and Daisy then fight about cutlery for a little bit. Um, Daisy confronts Alyssa or Alyssia then, and she uh starts to s cry. And this I think Daisy is a really good manager because she says um she like kind of notices that Alyssia is about to uh lose it, and she can't afford for that to happen because she needs her to work, and so oh god, I've never sounded more like a a capitalist. But um, is that what that's called? Capitalism. Yeah, okay. But she said, you know, she just kind of drops it and she'll address it later. She lets Alysia go have some coffee, wake up and stuff, and then she Says that she has learned that she needs to manage people or like change her management style differently. Um, change her management style for different employees. And I thought that was so smart and absolutely needed because if she would have snapped at Alicia, it would have been really bad. And I don't know, I just I liked that. That was cool. I'll never be a manager. Okay. But if I was, I would try to remember that feedback. The guests leave and they give really good feedback. Um, these guests were really nice, they were great. Ben said that they had a tapeworm because they wanted to eat so much, but they're paying for a trip on a yacht. They go back to flip the boat, the crew goes back to flip the boat, and we keep seeing shots of the women. Um I would be so weird about weird about this. Like, because when you're on below deck, they you're basically filmed at all times, and so they have these like what do they call like night cams in the rooms, and so they capture like everything, especially it's horrifying when they capture people's eyes. It looks like they'll like cut on them, it looks like a raccoon coming out of a garbage can every single time. It's very scary. But then the girls, they always have to like be captured in their bras and underwear. And I thought, if I had to go on that show, I would have to replace everything I own. The bras and underwear that I have, I don't think our camera are are they're not public facing. They would have to, they would have to for underwear, they'd have to blur me hip to hip. Because I've my my underwear look my underwear look like dreamcatchers. So uh kind of ground them down across the collection. Oh, the guests say that Alicia needs to smile more. And then they cut to some footage of her dropping forks on the ground. Uh they get a$28,000 tip, which is an insane amount of money. And then Captain Jason gives the helmet of shame, which is like this disco ball helmet that he gives to I think it's actually like reflection, like the he wants people to like reflect on their mistakes, but he gives it to whoever, I guess, like fucked up the most on that particular charter, and he gave it to Alysia. And Ben then asks Ellie to clean the entire kitchen. Ellie, because Ellie is his, I almost said kitchen wench. Um, she's his like chef's assistant. But he makes her clean the whole kitchen, and it's like a mess, and it's gonna take hours. And then he says he wants to go have a bubble bath. But no, he he on the radio then asks Daisy if he could take a bath in one of the guest suites. And I just can you imagine getting on your work radio and like if like your boss is listening, your coworkers are listening, your co-workers who are working hard hear you ask if you can take a bath. I don't know. I found it to be very strange. And then so we get these cuts of Ellie like scrubbing the kitchen, spliced in with shots of Ben in soaking in the bath, like the Britney Spears music video. What was that song? Um god, I don't know. I this is really frustrating. I'll figure it out later. But it's Ben in the bathtub with a glass of wine and bubbles. He's basically like um, he kind of looks like he's being buried. It looks like an open casket. It's the exact same pose actually as an open casket if you were to be doing an open casket um funeral in a bubble bath. And instead of holding, I do hold flowers in an open casket. Um he's full he's holding wine. So okay. Oh, and I I'm I'm not normally on Ellie's side because again, she is scary. I am scared for what comes. But I do feel really bad for her in this case because she's exhausted. She's like obviously having to clean the whole kitchen, and then she said that she's tired of managing Ben's moods, and that is my god, I felt that because that would really suck to have to deal with such a Mercurial. Did I say that word right? Um Mercurial. Wait, Mercurial? I don't know, but um, up and down person. So so then Alysia, who she's actually rooming with Jenna, Alyssia apologized to Jenna for trying to steal her man. And Jenna's like, okay, and then she's getting ready, and she's like still in the room with her, and then Alyssa like immediately calls her boyfriend, puts it on speakerphone, and is just like, hey babe, you know I love you. Everyone knows I love you. Um, I just want you to know that like Bob been flirting and there's nothing behind it. Don't even think about it. It's very cool. This is how I am, you know that. And it's just like a really weird conversation. I think she just like wanted to give him a heads up that she'd been flirting with people, and he doesn't take it well. Yeah, that was strange. But she did it on speakerphone, so Jenna listened to it was it was really uncomfortable. Looking at their little bunk room, it reminded me of my college dorm room because it was like these two twin beds, like super close together, clothes on all the beds, and it's just crazy that we used to live like that. Like, I can't believe I sh like I didn't even know my roommate. I did random rooming, and so I basically like moved in to live with somebody who I'd never met, and we lived in a room like the size of a refrigerator, but she actually ended up being really cool. Um, it did suck though, because we were we were we didn't know this um until boy did we find it out, but we were crazy, both of us are crazy hypochondriacs, and my my powers is kind of manifested in college. Um, I'd always been a hypochondriac, but I think that college is when I learned I need to be medicated. And she and I hadn't had that conversation. We didn't really know what was wrong with us, but every once in a while it was like one of us would just shoot up out of bed and be like, Do you think I have cancer? And then the other of us would be like, No, do you think I have it? Um oh, and then they all go out for this white party. They all get dressed in white to go to a white party, and every single one of them like orders at dinner something with an insane amount of red sauce. And we've never really I feel like they don't ever really do that, but like everybody had like a pizza with tons of marinara, somebody got just like classic spaghetti and red sauce. I could never I can't I can't even I can't even wear white ever, period. I mean, every time I eat spaghetti, because I don't look in the mirror when I leave the house, um, which is a problem because I usually have food on my face. Um, and every time after I eat spaghetti, I'll be Heather and I will be sitting on the couch and she'll ask me a question, I'll turn to her and she'll say, Oh my god, you have red sauce all over your lips. I'll like look I'll look like I have like fruit punch mouth or I'll have like chocolate on my chin. So I can never do a white party. I'm such a messy eater. I don't know if I've told this story, definitely not on this podcast because I've only been doing it for like a um a week, but I'm I'm just like a really disgusting eater. Um food gets everywhere, it's always a mess. But when I was in elementary school, I went to go see Spice World with my sister and my friend Megan and um her sister Laura. And I don't know, I thought it was like hot stuff, whatever. I was wearing these like cute little short denim shorts, and I was eating my milk duds, and I don't know, I guess I blacked out because Spice World was that good, and then we leave and like we're all super excited, and we're like, oh my god, like who's who's who? Whatever. And um, I really wanted to be Posh, but Megan was prettier than me, and so Megan rightfully took the crown of of Posh, and um we got home and we were all like practicing dances, and I turned around and I guess during the movie all of my milk duds had a lot of my milk duds had melted into my lap, and again, because I was blackout with excitement, I didn't know. And so then when we leave the movie theater, all the milk duds had all had then like melted and congealed, and so it looked like I had diarrhea on my butt. The whole time I was like campaigning to be poshed by I literally had it looked like I had a blowout at Tinsel Town. Um, I'm trying to bring back the phrase slop, or I'm not trying to bring it back, but I am trying to get it to catch on when somebody has diarrhea to call it- Ugh I've got the sloppy blows. I've said it once and my roommate hated it. Okay, so then they go out. Alysia doesn't bring the helmet, which is a huge problem. You're always supposed to bring the helmet out. And I don't know, just like be a good sport, dude. Just bring it. Um, Jason brings it to them at dinner, which is so embarrassing for her. They go out, they party so hard. I could never. They go to they go to this club that because I guess it was the white party, so it was like everything was under a black light. And that's my nightmare. I will never go to a black light party. I mean, I can't imagine there are many more opportunities in my life where I would go some some to somebody's house and they would have a black light. I don't know. I mean, I hope I hope not because when I was growing up, I remember we would go like laser parties, laser tag parties were a big were a big thing. And I didn't like to go because one time I went and I have dry skin, and um I'll tell you what shows up under a black light is is uh dander and uh dry skin everywhere else. So I I would hate to go to a to a party with a black light, but then again you would be able to see how well things have been cleaned, and that is very important to me. So it would be a trade-off, I guess. It would have to I guess it would depend on what season it was, how much userin I'd packed in my suitcase for the trip. So then they get in the car, somebody open mouth burps, which is disgusting. Um I know I just said that. I'm like, that's so disgusting. I just said that I'm trying to get more people to call diarrhea the sloppy blows, but I do think that it's gross and rude to open mouth burp in front of um people in a small vehicle. I don't know. She's gonna hate this. I'm gonna do it anyways. Um so my roommate, um, she uh she drinks a lot of like LaCroix and fizzy water, and so she uh she burps a lot, and hers are really loud, and I'm getting kind of worried because now it is getting late and I feel like the neighbors might hear this, but hers come out with so much force. Um that I've joked that every time she burps, it sounds like the beginning of that song. It gets get down with the sickness where I'm gonna have to do it really quietly because I really don't want to draw attention, but it's oh actually, maybe I'll add in the song. I'll add it in in post. Okay. The club hard. Oh yeah, I did um, I did. My dad was very kind, and when we were gonna finish the basement at our old house growing up, he was like, You girls can this can be your basement, which doesn't sound as nice actually. Why don't you guys spend more time in the basement? But he let us uh design it and we picked, I remember there was like a pole in the basement, and we spray painted it with this like purple textured paint. Um, it was like a not a pole, but like a load-bearing stick. I don't know. And then I decided that I wanted there to be black lights, so the basement was was lit with black lights, and I guess I felt comfortable doing that since it was in my own home and no one would see the results from my skin test. Joao and Daisy grind at the club, which I didn't care for. Maybe I'm just jealous. And Daisy says that she's like, I think I might be attracted to Joao now, um, because she says that she isn't attracted to people's faces, she's attracted to their personalities. And I don't know if I would have loved to hear that if I was one of if I was Joao, I'd be like, So not only am I not hot to you, but my personality also wasn't attractive at first, and it's like slowly growing on you. Um, I don't know. And then in the van, Jenna and Eddie get into a fight. I mean, not a fight, they're they're just like arguing with each other, they're yelling they're arguing with each other, but both of them are so drunk that they're slurring so bad, and they are they're fighting like ventriloquists. I'm gonna play a clip of it because it is so crazy. Neither one of them opens their mouth. Like they they are yelling at each other and having a full-on fight, and they're it's like they're both of their jaws are wired shut. Which I relate to because that does happen to me. Like I'm starting to get a little bit of a locked jaw just because I've been talking for so long. But it was pretty wild.

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I mean it's not something point. You missed it's the my roommate. I mean, I did not say that. We did. No, I haven't said that.

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I think that either one of them could probably get into ventriloquy because they were keeping their mouths pretty shut. I could never. I've actually learned recently that I am unfortunately a mouth breather. I can't really breathe through my nose. And I didn't think that that was weird until I think one day it was me, Heather, and Evan. And Heather was like, or I think Evan and I were talking and we were kind of saying something like, God, I wish we could breathe through our noses. Um, wouldn't that be cool if, like, as a people, humans had the ability to breathe through their noses, kind of thinking that everybody really couldn't breathe through their nose all that well. And then Heather was like, I breathe through my nose all the time. Do you guys breathe through your mouths? And we were both like, yeah. And I notice it more and more because as I'm podcasting, I'm getting really out of breath because I can't breathe through my nose. And then, yeah, like when I fall asleep, I kinda have to pull part of my face, like pull my cheek. I need to just get like those breathe right strips to just like rearrange my skin. I wonder if I have a deviated septum or if something's collapsed. So all that to say, it would be really hard for me to to fight with somebody with my mouth closed because I think I would lose a lot of air. But that's it. I am excited to get to editing my episode with Katie and Maddie. And you all will hear that next week. I've been watching a lot of Lord of the Rings uh to prepare for this, and I rented the extended versions, which I guess I'd never seen before. I used to watch them all the time. Like I used to watch Lord of the Rings um with my friend Megan, who was on the swim team with me when we were on like meet days. The the coach would always be like, You guys don't go to the pool, don't play, um, stay inside, conserve your energy. It's not, and then we weren't like competitive swimmers. Um and so Megan and I would be like, Okay, we're gonna stay inside and we're gonna watch all the longest movies we can think of. And so we would watch all the Lord of the Rings, and I always thought we were watching the extended version, but I think we must have just been watching like the director's commentary, because there were scenes in this extended version that I'd never seen before, and it was kind of crazy. It did make them very long. One of them was like almost four hours long, so anyways. Um, but thank you all for listening, and I'll see you all next week. Thanks for listening to my whole personality. This podcast is edited and produced by me, Joanna Clark. Theme music by Rebecca Jaffe. If you like this podcast, please like, subscribe, rate it, review it, wherever you listen to podcasts. Thanks for listening. Bye bye.