435: Horror Movies and Heatwaves

Horror Movies and Heatwaves

Welcome to Overtired

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Christina: Hello again. You are listening to Overtired. I’m Christina Warren. I’m joined as always by Brett Terpstra. This week we are without our third, uh, Jeff SREs Gonzo, who is uh, uh, having home of jet skis. But, uh, but Brett and I are back doing an old school Overtired. How are you, Brett?

Brett: I don’t know. I don’t know, man. Like he’s like, I got a family thing, and then he sends us pictures of him on a jet ski and I’m like, where are your priorities, man? What about Overtired? Come on,

Christina: exactly, exactly. It’s like we, we, we, we are definitely more fun than,

Brett: then a jet ski. I find that hard to believe.

Jet Ski Adventures and Dubai Memories

Brett: I’ve never been on a jet ski, but

Christina: Oh, they’re great. They’re

Brett: just see them as like an expression of pure joy on water.

Christina: Yeah. I, I went in Dubai of all places, actually, uh, in a manmade lake. And, um, and, and, and at we, we’d called in advance, like before we got there, we were like. Can I [00:01:00] wear like a two piece bathing suit? Right. Because I, I was concerned about that. And, and yes. And they were like, she can wear whatever she wants.

And I was like, okay, well I’ll still keep it like conservative, like more conservative than like my normal bathing suit would be, even though I had like a life vest on or whatever. And then we get there and they only had four jet skis and there were five of us. And, uh, one of my, my colleagues was like, my, one of my best friends actually, he was like, no, she gets her own.

So they had to go back and like, get one for me, but, but they just assumed that I was gonna ride like bitch on someone’s, um, a jet ski. And I was like, no, I, I would like to do this. And, and I did pretty good. Um, one of our colleagues, like he, he’d never been on one before and, and he had the time of his life.

I think he went buying one himself after, after, after it. But yeah, no, it was really fun. So Jeff’s photos, the video rather, that he sent to us, like, um, pure joy and, uh, so we missed you Jeff, but also completely understand.

Comedy Shows and TV Nostalgia

Brett: Before Daniel Tosh got really annoying and awful. Um, [00:02:00] he had a special where he talked about how no one can frown on a jet ski, like you would always smile on a jet ski. It went into like some dark version of a kid’s funeral. But, um, but back then it was funny back then, like Daniel Tosh was like, you know, hitting

Christina: No, totally.

Brett: still, like I was cracking up

Christina: No. I mean,

Brett: bit about the, the midgets in the parade that killed me.

I was dying.

Christina: no, we can’t say that word anymore,

Brett: I know the little people in the parade. Um, but I believe the word he used

Christina: right? No, I I I’m just, I’m just fucking with you. I don’t, I don’t, I mean, like, yeah. Um, but no, I mean that, that, that God Damnit Hass, that’s the name I haven’t thought about in forever. Toss 2.0. Like, that was like, that was like a big show That was, you know.

Brett: It started off pretty good too.

Christina: did. It did. I mean, I did too. ’cause it was, it was this weird thing where you’re like, okay, we can bring the internet to tv and then it just kind of [00:03:00] turns out like, we don’t really need to bring the internet to tv.

Brett: Well, and now what’s her name? Um, the bipolar comedian, um, I forget her name. And she, I forget the name of the show, but she does a show that’s basically all like memes

Christina: It was like after midnight it just got

Brett: Yeah, yeah. It was, it’s after midnight, but it’s at, after like with the, at symbol. They like re re rebranded it. You’re right.

It is the new, it is the new AF at midnight. After midnight.

Christina: At midnight. After midnight, whatever. Yeah. It just, I, I, I think it just got canceled. ’cause I saw it like once or twice. It was not a thing I was ever gonna seek out, to be honest with you. Um, but, um, I mean, I, I like parts of it, but like, I don’t watch terrestrial TV most of the time. And certainly not like late nights.

I might watch clips. I, I caught it a couple times. Um.

Brett: it’s one of those shows where it’s mostly inside jokes between comedians. So if you’re really into the comedy scene and you wanna see like, how comedians relate to each other, that’s, it’s, [00:04:00] it’s a good, like, just kind of, obviously they pre-write their bits, like even on the original at midnight, they, they all, they all got the questions in advance and they rewrote their bits.

Christina: course,

Brett: you gotta, you got a kind of a glimpse into, uh, a rapid fire comedy writing session, if you will.

Christina: Yeah. No, totally. I mean, and, and, um, and I, the reason I think it was just because I saw something on Instagram or whatever, like, oh, this is my final thing, or whatever, so I’m assuming it was canceled, which frankly makes sense. Um, ’cause again, like it’s one of those things like, that would’ve worked. Like, and I would’ve watched it like in the early two thousands, like if it was on tv or if they did like it on like Comedy Central, which I think it originally, you know, Tash 2.0 was on, like, that would’ve been a thing that I would’ve been like up at.

One o’clock in the morning or whatever, um, or at midnight. And I would’ve had on in the background, right? And I would’ve been like, oh, this is really funny. And I’m, I’m really into this. But like, the way that we watch TV like that now just doesn’t exist in that, in that [00:05:00] sphere.

The Paradox of Choice in Entertainment

Christina: Like, like, um, we were talking about this right before we started the show.

Like you, you think, you claim you’ve run out of good movies to watch. You obviously haven’t because there are, you have not watched all the good movies, I promise you. But, but we have like, it’s almost this weird thing like this, this, we’ve talked about this before, but like, you know, the paradox of choice where you have so much that we have access to that there aren’t like these pre curated pockets where you can just turn something on and like, just have that be kind of your.

Your stuff for the day or, or, or, or, or for the week or like for, for whatever, you know, timeframe you’re in. Like when I was, you know, in, in high school and college, it would be like, adult swim would be like the thing that I would always have on like from 10:00 PM Well, it start at 11 I think, and then it moved.

You know, earlier as time went on, but like, that was always a thing. It was like, okay, I know that this block from like this time to this time is gonna be stuff that I, I watch and I would, you know, have like certain shows that I would always like watch on like [00:06:00] MTV or like, you know, again, like Comedy Central or whatever.

Like you just knew you could just have MTV on like in the background all day long and, and do whatever you needed to do. Or if you just wanted to veg in front of the tv, you could do that. And like, they have those, you know, fast channels now that’ll just play marathons of shows, but it’s not programming blocks in the same way.

It’s like, you know, and then, and, and, and then those are annoying to me because the, the ad breaks. I don’t even mind the ads so much. It’s just I don’t like the way they insert them. Like if they inserted them at the normal break points. In those shows, then, like, I wouldn’t be mad, but it’ll happen like mid-sentence and then like, it’ll cut into an ad and then it’ll like go back again.

I’m like, okay, no, no, no, no, no. Like, fuck you. If you’re too incompetent to do ad stuff, then all you’ve reminded me of is the fact that I probably own this show on demand, or I can find this on demand, or I can find like a, a non-ad copy to watch and like now I’m just [00:07:00] thinking about that and so I’m completely like tuned out of watching the Reno 9 1 1, you know, channel or whatever.

It’s

Brett: Yeah. Yep. I, uh, I’m, I’m planning to do some video work for a, a local store. The one L works at actually, and, and the person coordinating the video told me they were thinking of a. Pop-up video, uh, aesthetic for it, and they’re like, did you ever watch VH one? I’m like, yeah, yeah. We’re we’re of the same age.

Christina: Yeah, yeah, yeah. You, you, you, you, you, yeah. You, well see this is, this is what’s so fucking scary, is that I don’t even know, like how many, like, like people like below 30 know VH one,

Brett: Sure.

Christina: which

Brett: it exist anymore? I don’t even

Christina: I, I don’t even think it does. I mean, if it does, it certainly, I mean, it had stopped like, like other than

Brett: playing like nonstop video. It was like a [00:08:00] radio station. After a while,

Christina: Yeah.

Brett: MTV turned into reality shows and VH one just turned into like an auto dj.

Christina: yeah, no, yeah. MTV is just, is just like, they, they just play like, um, one of those Yeah. Just so one of those game shows, they just like, play like over and over again. Like, that’s all it is. And, and I think that it might have, um, turned into, yeah, I, I guess it still technically exists, but, but they, um, yeah.

’cause I’m, I’m looking this up now. Um. But yeah, like all the MTV channels basically, like, it’s just like ridiculousness now, I think is, is the show that like MTV plays like, like 24 7, um, and then they have like MTV hits and MTV two and whatnot. But like, those are just, you know, kind of like, we’ll, we’ll also go through cycles of things, but like, ’cause VH one went through that weird block where, um, well, I mean Drag Race, um, uh, was, was there, um, and then, and then it moved someplace else.

Um, it, it, drag Race has [00:09:00] started on logo and then moved to VH one ’cause it did really well. Um, and, and like, uh, love, love and Hip hop was, was VH one, but like in the two thousands there was popup video and there was behind the music, and then there were like all the, I love the eighties, I love the nineties, I love the whatever, like all the nostalgia.

Shows, if you remember those. Like where they would basically just like get the comedians, like they basically click kind of like figured out how to do cheap YouTube content before YouTube where they would just get a bunch of people in a room for a day and then just have them riff and then turn like 15 specials out of it, you know?

Um, although that had to have been, I mean, I’m sure they were paid nothing for it, but like I bet that that was really good for people like Michael Lee and Black and, and folks like that because you would get to know them ’cause they would play those things all the time. So you knew those things and you knew those jokes.

And then like, oh, you see these comedians, you’re like, oh, okay. I remember them from, you know, from, from from that show. You know,

Brett: I do.

Christina: I might, I might watch that. I might watch their comedy special. So[00:10:00]

Brett: Yep. All right.

Mental Health Corner

Brett: Should we do a mental health corner?

Christina: we should, we should you wanna go first?

Brett: Sure.

Unemployment and Coding Bliss

Brett: I am still unemployed and I have not been this happy in a long time. Um, I am coding every day and like, really, I’m super excited about the software I have coming out, and it makes me happy. It’s fulfilling, but it’s also at the same time, not draining.

So like, uh, evening will roll around and Elle will be like, Hey, there’s a burlesque show tonight. Or, Hey, a friend of ours band is playing downtown. And I’ll be like, yeah, let’s go. And like historically, by evening, I’m, I’m shot. I don’t, I don’t seek out. Activities. And now I’m like, yeah, let’s do it. Let’s go, let’s socialize, let’s, let’s spend our energy on other people.

And, [00:11:00] um, it’s been, it’s been really good. Uh, here during Pride Month, we’ve been to a couple of, uh, big pride events at, uh, no Name bar, which has become, it’s, it’s Winona’s only gay bar, and it’s not a gay bar. Um, it is just a very like queer friendly bar. That regularly holds like queer dances and, and, and queer burlesque shows.

And, um, it’s been, it’s been really fun. Like, I love that community. I love, um, feeling a part of, even though I’m 46, I can show up and all the kids are like, happy to see me and everyone’s just having a good time and I don’t feel old. Um, I do because I go home at like 10 and I know that they’re all there to shut the bar down.

Um, but uh, but it’s been, [00:12:00] it’s been actually like this whole, being unemployed and working on my own stuff has been super fulfilling and I wanna make it work. That said, I am trying to get unemployment right now and Oracle missed their deadline for responding to my unemployment claim and I’m. Totally. I’m prepared for disappointment on that front.

Um, I don’t know what they’re gonna do. I don’t know if they’re gonna block me from getting unemployment.

Christina: Well, what, what, what do you mean they missed their deadline? Like they, they missed their deadline to, um,

Brett: Minnesota’s unemployment insurance website says that they sent a request to Oracle for confirmation on such and such a date, and they had a due date. It just says due date. And I don’t know if this is legally binding or what, but it said due date was the 20th and today’s the 22nd, and I haven’t heard anything yet.[00:13:00]

Um, so they missed the deadline that that Min Minnesota’s unemployment insurance sent them.

Christina: Okay. So, but so what, but I’m trying to understand though, by them missing the deadline, like, does that mean that that is their deadline to like confirm or deny, or, or what? Because like, because if they don’t respond, I mean, it seems weird that the default response would be that, that you just wouldn’t get unemployment.

Right.

Brett: seem weird. Yes.

Christina: like, like it would seem to me like they would need to, they would basically need to respond if they were to be like, no, we’re, we’re going to, you know, um, like make some sort of claim about why this shouldn’t be paid out.

Brett: Yeah, I should, I should call somebody. Um, yeah, as part of the unemployment application process, you have to sign up to take like, um, these, it’s like a meeting with a, a counselor that teaches you how to get a job [00:14:00] and it’s, I, I know how to get a job. I,

Christina: Yeah. And they make you like, do like, like weekly biweekly calls with them or whatever. But I mean, you know, I

Brett: No, that won’t be a thing I just have to fill out.

It’s mostly

Christina: oh, that’s how it is in, that’s how it is in Washington. Like they would make

Brett: Um, yeah, you, you have to check in, but it’s not, you don’t have to make calls every week. Um, at least that’s my understanding thus far. You do have to continually show evidence that you are actively applying for work. Um, which I can do. I am, I am applying, I’m just not excited about getting a job, and I haven’t found anything since Shopify that actually seemed like a good fit that I would actually enjoy doing.

Um, we’ll see. Anyway. Yeah. Right now my mental health good.

Heatwave Struggles and Power Outages

Brett: Um, I, I had to cancel recording yesterday because we’re in the middle of, uh, severe heat advisory [00:15:00] here in Minnesota. Heat Index is around 115 and. Our power went out for eight hours and, um, I, we were without air conditioning, without fans, without lights.

And this was, it started at like, uh, four, like five five in the evening. Uh, which is four, 4:00 PM is like the hottest part of the day right now. Um, so the house had had the AC running all day up until that point, so it wasn’t unbearable in the house, but power went out because a tree went down on our road and knocked down a power line ’cause it’s all above ground power lines and.

That meant we couldn’t get out of the neighborhood too. We had to drive around through this like 10 mile back road, gravel road way to get back into town. So [00:16:00] we, we ended up like making sure the animals had plenty of water and going to, uh, like a, a neighborhood ice cream social in, uh, in one of the West end neighborhoods.

And, uh, a, a fun band was playing covers in the garage, uh, doing a bunch of like. Just really slow summertime, like classic rock stuff that just, like, it felt really good. Um, and then ice cream kids running everywhere. A bunch of adults from all over town that, like, a lot of people I knew were there. And it was, yeah, it was a pretty magical, pretty magical evening.

And then we got home expecting that, you know, three hours later they would’ve restored the power,

Christina: Right?

Brett: but they hadn’t. And so we went to bed, we stayed up for a while watching TV on an iPad plugged into a power, [00:17:00] like a portable power supply. Um, using my phone to Tether to the ’cause wifi was out too. Um. Like, uh, like the whole, the internet service was down even if my router had been working.

Um, but anyway, we watched TV till like midnight and I went to bed and I ended up trying to sleep in the basement because it was, I don’t do well with hot.

Christina: Yeah. No, I, I, I would,

Brett: rather be cold

Christina: no, I, I, I would’ve, I would’ve absolutely gone to a hotel like that would’ve been like my, like, I’m not even

Brett: If it hadn’t been for the animals, I would’ve found another solution. But I didn’t feel like packing up the animals. And I also didn’t wanna leave them alone with like, uncertain circumstances. Uh, so I slept in the basement and then at 1:00 AM the power came back on, which means that all of my hue bulbs.

Went full on. And, uh, and the stove, which I had been cooking pasta on when the power [00:18:00] went out, the stove was still on and I didn’t realize it at first. So the stove is like on, on 10 heating up and the house is all lit up and I’m stumbling around at one in the morning trying to shut off all the lights, realizing the stove is on, uh, trying to get the AC set up to cool the house back down.

And yeah, so the next day when we were supposed to record, I was pretty, I was pretty wrecked from, uh, trying night in the heat. But yeah, so anyway, that’s me.

Christina: Yeah. No, I mean I, uh, I, I I’m glad that that, um, it came back. Um, and yeah, I totally understand. Yeah. With the animals, that, that would complicate things for sure. When we have heat waves here in Seattle, I. Because we don’t have Central Air, even though our rent is insane, even though this is a, a building that should have had it built into it.

Like it, the building was built in 2016. Um, it was, it, it wasn’t mandated then, but it [00:19:00] should have been like, I think it was only mandated in like 2019 or, or, or 2020. So it was a fairly new period of time where like now they have to actually build AC into the buildings, but they didn’t until then because the city fucking sucks and the state fucking sucks.

Um, and, uh, and everybody’s like, oh, it’s fine. It only gets hot here a couple days out the year. No, no. I’m like, go fuck yourself. Like people, like, like elderly people, like I’ve talked about, I’ve complained about this on the pop before. Like, it, it becomes like a real health hazard. And, um, and so yeah, I, I get a hotel room and it has, it’s been like every other year that I’ve had to do it.

And so we’re coming up on like a summer where it’ll probably have to be one of those things where I have to, you know, get a, a hotel room for a couple of days. Um.

Brett: not gonna get any better, I’ll tell you

Christina: No, it’s certainly not. And like, um, but, but no, I mean, I’m glad that you at least had like a fun thing to do, like for the evening that there was like the block party and you know, all that stuff.

So that was nice. And, and the, the AC had been running all day, so like the house didn’t become like a oven immediately. Um, [00:20:00] and you know, obviously like it happened at the peak time, but, but you know, by the time, like it really would kind of sink in. It’s like, okay, well the sun is set, so, you know, it’s not gonna be as bad, but how annoying to then like, be woken up at like 1:00 AM with all the lights coming on, and then you’re like, oh shit.

There’s, there’s food, like the, the, the, you know, um, the stove was on. Um, but yeah. Um, I’m glad that you figured that out and, and didn’t like, weren’t like asleep and then waking up to, I mean, I guess the smoke alarm would’ve gone off, but,

Brett: I’m glad I have invested so heavily in backup solutions. Um, like I have a, a portable power supply that will last about 16 hours, um, with like a phone, an iPad, and even a laptop plugged into it.

Christina: Oh yeah. Is,

Brett: with a laptop plugged in.

Christina: is, is this one of those, like those giant like anchor things that Yeah, yeah, yeah,

Brett: light built into it

Christina: yeah. The light built into it. It has like the, the, the, the, the, the [00:21:00] plugs that you can just go into. It’s, it’s like, they’re like, they’re like however many thousands of million NPI or whatever. Yeah.

Brett: Yeah. Um, and then I have a bunch of battery packs and all of my electronics are on uninterruptible power supplies, so my, like my Synology shuts itself down. As soon as the power goes out, it does like a nice graceful shutdown. And yeah, I’m, I am prepared for power outages and we have a bunch of like LED lanterns around the house, so no matter what room you’re in, you can light it up and we, we survive.

I don’t like it, but we survive.

Christina: Yeah. No, I mean, which is, which is, which is like good, like, uh, you know, if you, if you, if you’ve got to like, like, again, like if you’ve gotta deal with that stuff at, at least you have options. Um, but yeah, but nobody wants that. But anyway, I’m, I’m glad. I have power back. I’m glad that you have AC back and, uh, uh, sorry for the heat wave.

Um, but also that [00:22:00] makes complete sense why like Jeff, like wanted do the family thing and the family thing happens to include going to the lake and getting them, and, and I mean, that would be a great way to, to, to, you know, miss the heat. So, um, I don’t have any, uh, any qualms against that at all. Um,

Brett: how’s your mental health?

Christina: um, pretty good.

Pretty good. I don’t really have anything massively to, to update on, um, you know, just kind of same old, same old. Um, so, um,

Brett: We’re all kind of, we seem to be in like a, a stasis of sorts. Like all three of us are kind of going through some kind of period of stability where they’re little things like, but they’re normal things that normal people all deal with. None of us have like, we’re not like bipolar manic, we’re not like

Christina: Yeah, I was gonna say.

Brett: We’re.

Christina: Yeah, no, I, I, I was gonna say, I was gonna like, ask you about, about this, like, have you since, since you’ve [00:23:00] left, um, uh, and, and this wouldn’t be correlation of anything to be clear, I’m just mostly curious, but like, has, since, since, um, you, you’ve left your job, have you had any manic incidents?

I.

Brett: No, no. Ever since I switched from Focalin to Vyvanse, um, I’ve had far fewer manic episodes and I’m still dealing with insomnia to some extent, although that’s getting better as well. But the insomnia clearly wasn’t manic behavior like we tested it. Like, um, when we upped my Trazodone, one of the side effects of Trazodone is if you’re already manic, it’ll make you more manic.

So it was a good way to test and see if, if my insomnia was some kind of extended manic episode, and the Trazodone did not make me any more manic, it actually worked. So. [00:24:00] Yeah, I, it’s not, it’s not mania. I haven’t, I haven’t had a bipolar swing for, I, I’ve lost track, but almost a year I think.

Christina: Nice. Nice. Well, that’s good. I, I’m glad that you’ve like, found like the right, like it seems like, like the right medicine, um, thing. So that’s

Brett: Yeah, I don’t, Vyvanse isn’t the perfect A DHD drug. Um, there are other drugs I’ve been on and some that I haven’t tried that are all more like effective for A DHD, but finding the balance when you’re also bipolar, um, that takes some, that takes some digging. And I do think that Vyvanse is the right solution.

Christina: That’s good. That’s really good.

Brett: It’s Espec, especially for I’m A DHD in attentive and. Not hyperactive. [00:25:00] And, uh, Vyvanse is far more, even though it’s the same class as, uh, Adderall,

Christina: Mm-hmm.

Brett: it’s not, it’s better for inattentive than Adderall is.

Christina: Yeah. Um, yeah, I, I, I’m also inattentive and, and I, I, I take dine, which is like Vyvanse, but. I guess it’s the more pure form or whatever. Um, like I think that molecularly, I think they’re very, they’re very, very similar, but, but Vyvanse, uh, I think they did something to, to try to make it so it’s harder to snort or whatever is I think like the primary thing.

Um, and, and also, and, and, and to be honest, I think that most of the rationale that went into a lot of these drugs was that the patents, you know, expired on like the original class of amphetamines. And they’re like, oh no, we have to continue to make money, so let’s, let’s tweak these things just a little bit.

And so, but I just happened to go on now. It just happened to be the one that I was prescribed when I was 15. And so, you know, all these years later, that’s the one that I still take. Um, but I’ve, [00:26:00] I’ve been on Vyvanse, um, a a few times and it’s, it’s, it’s fine. Um, it doesn’t work as well for me as, as you know, the other stuff.

But, but,

Brett: yeah, for sure. It doesn’t work as well as almost anything else. It’s kind of, it’s kind of only a step better than your doctor telling you you have to take Wellbutrin for your A DHD, uh, which is, I guess it works for some people. They prescribe Prozac for A DHD and people that are, um, stimulant averse, uh, which it just, it just, you’re just asking for so many problems that way, but,

Christina: Yeah, I mean I think, I guess, I guess the rationale there and I wouldn’t know, ’cause you know, obviously I’m not a clinician. Um, but I would think that might, might be like, if people are like, okay, you don’t know why people are being inattentive. If you don’t know what the the cause is, then maybe it could be a depressive thing.

Because that does make sense because certainly, like I know that when my depression is worse, like my A DHD is typically worse too, right? Like, like ’cause, ’cause you care less. And so it’s, it’s one of [00:27:00] those things. And so my, I could understand, especially since now especially, um, it, it’s harder sometimes to get people stimulant prescriptions be like, okay, we’ll try this other thing first and see if this does something.

Um, and, and trend, uh, Prozac too. Opre especially is like fast acting and most people notice a difference, like pretty quickly. Um, I was on it, it was, I remember, I mean it was, God, this was 28 years ago now, but I was, I was on it, um, when I was really young and um. I had like a really good response to it at first, and then it stopped working and, and, uh, this became like a frustration with my psychiatrist at the time because, uh, uh, I, as I got angry when she like wouldn’t listen to me, I suppose that she was getting, you know, paid by the drug company, which very much upset her.

It turns out I was right actually, so, fuck you. Um, because I was like, I was like, this was working, but it’s not working anymore. Like, I went from being, everything was great. I was feeling great. I [00:28:00] was able to, and it was helping attentiveness to some extent, right? I was like, everything was like, I was like back to my normal self and then it just stopped and then that was like, almost like worst, like that was almost like the, the worst thing in the world where it’s like you have this thing and it’s great and then it just stops working and, and you don’t know why.

Um, and, and you know, I was going through puberty at the time and so that was, I’m sure didn’t help with, with any of, you know, the, trying to figure out the medication stuff. But yeah, that wound up launching me into like the worst depression that I’ve. One of the worst impressions that I’ve ever been in.

But, um, uh, but yeah, so that’s, that’s like my only weird like wilby trend memory was that like it worked really well and then it stopped working. And obviously everybody is different and I would never tell anybody not to, not to try anything. But, but that’s, that’s the only thing I can conceive of the why people might, you know, go their Prozac first would be like, okay, maybe this is a, maybe it, maybe the anxiety or whatever is a symptom of depression and that’s what

Brett: tried Wellbutrin on [00:29:00] me. It did. It did not go well, and I cannot remember why. I just remember about two weeks later I was like, you gotta get me off

Christina: Yeah.

Brett: isn’t, this isn’t good. Oh no, you have a siren.

Christina: I do have sirens. Sorry about that. I can’t do anything about that. Um. Nope. Sure can’t. All right.

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Brett: like just bouncing

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Brett: an invisible selfie

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Summer Fun and Travel Dreams

Brett: I would love to have fun this summer. I think I’m, I think I’m relegated to going to block parties and hanging out at queer bars.

Christina: Well, I mean, I think that’s fun though, right? Like,

Brett: It is, it is. No, no, no shade on any of that. Uh, it is really enjoyable for me. Um, I do wish I could afford to travel right now. Um, our last trip [00:32:00] to, um, Asheville was so much fun and was like, it was a lot of driving, but, but yeah, like I kinda, I would like to do that again, but this summer that is not in the cards

Christina: No, but I think this summer is like, you’re getting a break. You’re getting to kind of reassess, to figure out like what kind of stuff you wanna work on, what you wanna do. You know, like obviously like the, the timing wasn’t ideal. Um, it never is. But like, you hadn’t been happy at your job anyway. Like this is a nice forced reset.

Like the fact that you said that you’re happiest, you’ve been right. Like you can, you can, you can figure out like a, a vacation once you either decide on, on if you’re gonna be going more all in on the indie stuff. And if that starts, you know, paying off, or if you’re going to be, if you find another, um, you know, uh, either corporate job or, you know, maybe like startup job that, that is more your speed.

So that’s how I would think about, it’d be like, all right, the, the, the vacation will come, like, you know, it might be a little [00:33:00] after summer. It’ll be belated, it’ll be, it’ll be summer somewhere.

Brett: It’s after whatever’s up next.

Christina: Yeah.

Brett: Um, yeah, so as part of my current liberty and freedom, I spend pretty much all my free time watching movies.

Movie Marathon and Horror Genre

Brett: I code according to timing app. I code about 50 hours a week, and like that is way more effort than I ever put into any day job.

Christina: Mm-hmm.

Brett: Not just at Oracle, like I in general with a day job, I’ll work, I’ll work four to six hours a day, like actual actually working.

And the rest of it is, is walking the dog or responding to emails, doing all the stuff that you do as part of work. But when you’re just coding, when you don’t have to communicate with anybody and you’re just, you’re just writing code, [00:34:00] um, yeah, you can get a 50 hour work weekend. That’s literally all work.

So anyway, aside from that, I’m watching movies like I’ve been through all my favorite TV series more times than I can count. Like I literally can’t count the number of times I’ve been through Bob’s burgers. Like, I’ve lost track. Uh, same with King of the Hill, um, uh, 30 Rock Parks and Rec Brooklyn Nine, nine.

I’ve seen these all so many times. And like it used to be, those were, those were my comfort shows, and that’s where I would go when I just wanted something that I knew I liked, I didn’t have to search around for, and I could just binge my way through. But I’ve done it all so many times. So I’ve started like, seeking out movies and I watched a lot of good movies and, and I’m still, I’m still finding good movies, but lately I’ve just been watching whatever Hulu tells me [00:35:00] I should, or Netflix.

And, um, like last night I watched, uh, rough Night with Scarlett Johansson and

Christina: Um, uh, uh, Alana Glazer and Paul Downs. Yeah. Yeah, I saw that in the theater and uh, yeah.

Brett: Well, and I realized I had actually seen it before and I finished it anyway. And it’s not, it’s not what I would call a great movie. Uh, what’s her name playing The Australian. She’s from Saturday Night

Christina: Yeah,

Brett: always in the, she was in Ghostbusters, I always forget her name,

Christina: Um, uh, uh, yeah. Uh, Kate McKennan.

Brett: Kate McKennan.

Yes. Um, her Australian character in that is kind of not dead on for an Australian ’cause I don’t know that many Australians, but dead on for like the new age hippie, uh, type without being like over. [00:36:00] She’s not like spacey and crazy. She just has like all these like, oh, I can communicate with animals. Let me, let me handle this violent dog.

Um, and it was okay. Like it was, that’s the thing is like even with a bad movie, I can enjoy it. I watched No Nonas on Hulu with, um, Vince Vaughn. It was about he, like, he opens an Italian restaurant and staffs it with actual Italian grandmothers, uh, AKA Nonas and, and like makes a go of the restaurant scene with no previous restaurant experience.

And it, it was heart touch. It was heartwarming and touching and I actually am gonna watch it again with El even though on, on its face, not actually what I would consider like a movie for the ages in any way.

Christina: Mm-hmm.

Brett: [00:37:00] But I, I’m stuck. I, I’ve, I’ve, I’ve gone through, like my friend Chris has a plex and, um, it has probably a thousand movies on it, and I’ve gone through and tried to find everything that I would actually wanna watch.

I think my next phase is to get back into horror, because, like horror as a genre, I always, I always look away from because I think I don’t really need to be scared. Um, that’s not my goal in life. I don’t, I don’t need additional fear. The world is bad enough, but the, a good horror movie is actually like a statement about, about the monsters within us and the monsters around us, and.

It doesn’t matter what the, the actual monster in the movie is. It’s like [00:38:00] a way of like, just like sci-fi takes like a social ill and projects it onto maybe an alien race that you don’t have any preconceived like prejudices towards. And they make it something that you can be like, oh yeah, I can see how that’s wrong.

Star Trek, for example. Um, like sci-fi is really good at that. Horror can be the same way and, and horror can make you look at actual things within yourself and within society in ways that make it easier to, to understand, to gr in, in ways that you’re like personal prejudices blind you to. So I can appreciate good horror.

I just don’t know how to tell the difference between what’s gonna be just, uh, a thriller. Like just something that makes me pee my pants and doesn’t offer anything else, and those really touching horror movies that finish. And you feel like [00:39:00] a better person for having watched it? I don’t, I don’t know how to find those.

Christina: Yeah. I mean, I think if this is, this is, yeah, this is the hard thing. I feel like think services like letterbox, I feel like are good for this and I feel like, um. Potentially to like figure out like, like reading kind of readings, reviews, but Yeah. But unfortunately sometimes, yeah, you just have to like kind of watch and then kind of figure out, okay, is this good or not?

And like, make the determination while you’re watching it, like, do I wanna continue or not?

Brett: Yeah. I do think you can tell in the first 15

Christina: Honestly, I feel like you can, I feel like, I feel like this is an area where like, and I’m usually a fan of like, trying to watch the whole movie. Um, horror is actually weirdly one of those genres where I’m not, like, I’m, I’m kind of like, I will, I will give it like a solid, like 15, 20 and then if I’m not into it, I’m piecing out.

Right? Because it, because it was one thing, like when I was younger and like you only had what was on Blockbus