Jamie shares some insight on some cat employment and Alyssa debuts her new segment - Alyssa Lynn’s TikTok Corner!
Jamie shares some insight on some cat employment and Alyssa debuts her new segment - Alyssa Lynn’s TikTok Corner!
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Sources:
“Cats of Disney: The Kingdom’s Kitty Keepers” - Disney Tourist Blog - https://www.disneytouristblog.com/cats-disney/
“Cat” by Muriel Beadle https://books.google.com/books?id=tnjgqpNKYksC&lpg=PA93&dq=%22post%20office%20cats%22&pg=PA93#v=onepage&q=%22post%20office%20cats%22&f=false
“Brief History of Post Office Cats” - Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-post-office-cats-180958061/
“Post Office Cats” - The Postal Museum https://www.postalmuseum.org/cats/
Pookie, you look absolutely fire: https://www.tiktok.com/@campbellhuntpuckett/video/7329200211958517022
Unknown Speaker 0:00
So Jamie this week we had a customer at the shop, and I thought he was outside talking to car boy number three. And I heard the bathroom door kind of slam. And I thought it was the wind. And I thought, Oh, what if the cat is trapped on the bathroom? So I opened the bathroom door and the guys in there pissing oh
Unknown Speaker 0:41
I assume he saw you.
Unknown Speaker 0:43
Yeah, we may direct eye contact. Oh, no. Oh, not the eye contact while He also holds his Peeny. I didn't see his peener. Teeny Weeny polka dot bikini. Yeah, I didn't see that. But I opened the door. We made eye contact and it scared the shit out of me. And he was like, what? It was like, oh, like I thought the cat was in here. I thought she got trapped in here. And then I went back in the office and the cat was like right next to me.
Unknown Speaker 1:15
And then he walked in, and I was like, she's right here. He's like, okay, just don't look at me. Anyway. Sorry. It stopped recording. And welcome to nervous laughter podcast. Welcome. I'm Jamie. I'm Alyssa and watch out for me because I'll look at your teeny weeny in the bathroom. Yeah, oops.
Unknown Speaker 1:39
I didn't see it though
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I'm sure thank God that my just like curious brain or whatever. It didn't take over because imagine if we would have made eye contact and then I would
Unknown Speaker 1:53
I feel like I would have just done that just out of sight out of habit. But there's my habit like
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walking in.
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Dick's Oh, yeah, like looked down at the ground. But then you like look in the p&l during this direction. Yeah, yeah, I didn't see it. Well, I hope you guys don't get like a Google review with
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their perverts. Yeah. Why not? Um, but speaking of cats.
Unknown Speaker 2:27
I have a little bit of cat stuff to talk about today. I just thought it would be a good idea because we've been kind of a true chromed out a little bit. both on and off the podcast. Just been a lot of you can't take that away from
Unknown Speaker 2:49
from me, if you don't know what the hell we're talking about. Gypsy Rose Blanchard that was helps kill her mother. She got out of prison and she's like, just like a celebrity to True Crime people now. And she keeps saying all the weirdest shit. And there for a while she was making really weird like Instagram videos and stuff. Yeah, like, she mail it out. But yeah, yeah, like there's
Unknown Speaker 3:19
like Alyssa said there's like some kind of weird kind of posts and stuff. One of them it's like she's trying to like get some ladies for her nephew or this like 50 Yeah, Dean or something. She's like, he's single ladies. I'm ready to mingle. And I'm just like, Do you
Unknown Speaker 3:37
know the dangers of the internet? All your problems kind of? Well, not all a lot of your problems started from getting on the internet. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 3:47
So yeah, that's all very, very interesting.
Unknown Speaker 3:51
I just like being like a fly on the wall and just watching all this unfold because like, I don't think we've ever been in like a situation before where a Munchausen by proxy person like killed their mom got really popular and then was released from jail.
Unknown Speaker 4:06
It's just what happened. It's this is what happened. Weird. Yeah. I'm in the DEA is fine.
Unknown Speaker 4:16
That's one thing she said about her husband that she met while she was in prison and they got married while she was in prison. Yeah. And he thought she was cute when he was watching the documentaries. Where she's just thought that
Unknown Speaker 4:31
God I know is this creepy ass picture of her like her mom would shave her head to make it look like she was bald. And there's a picture of her like, I guess getting a bath and the sink and she's all like, like, huddled in trying to fit in the sink and she looks like a naked mole rat. Dude, it's so scary. It's yeah, but he saw those kinds of pictures and was like, yes. My wife. Oh, yeah, my life. Um, but I mean, I do wish all the HAP like, you know
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I hope she gets her
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life kind of sorted out. I think a lot of it's gonna die down. I hope she,
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you know, figure shit out doesn't get taken advantage of. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 5:15
I'm sorry back to
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like, I feel like I have like a nine yard stare just thinking about just all the Gypsy things.
Unknown Speaker 5:23
But to kick it off with cats. Alyssa Do you know what a group of cats is cold?
Unknown Speaker 5:33
I don't even like cats. Apparently.
Unknown Speaker 5:38
There's one group of animals called like a business or something. Yeah, that's fair. It's Oh yeah.
Unknown Speaker 5:45
I got pretty into animal groupings for a while.
Unknown Speaker 5:49
I like it. Um, I did see at a comic con i went to there was, I don't know if this was referencing a comic or anything. But there is a group of people dressed up as ferrets in business suits. So it's like, Oh, that's cute.
Unknown Speaker 6:04
But a group of cats is called a clowder. Oh, Mmm hmm. And I was like, I looked it up because I was like, No, it's not. But if you actually just Google Cloud or like, that's the only definition for for clowder. So it's cute.
Unknown Speaker 6:20
Um, and a group of kittens is called like, you know, like a litter or Kendall. Thank you so cute.
Unknown Speaker 6:27
Um,
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and did you know actually learn this off of a tick tock real I saw him and looked it up more. But there are cat cast members at Disney.
Unknown Speaker 6:42
Like people in like furry costumes, like
Unknown Speaker 6:48
either one is equally exciting, I guess. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 6:53
But yeah, since 1955. It seems to have originated when stray cats were becoming attracted to the castle at Disneyland at night due to like food scraps and things like that.
Unknown Speaker 7:06
But at the same time, the park was having rodent issues. And of course, where there'll be cats, there'll be no rodents. So they decided to keep those cats on
Unknown Speaker 7:19
to help out with that.
Unknown Speaker 7:22
It sounds like there's cats at all the parks. So the cats are fed, you know by the park people and come and go as they please. Obviously they're most active at night, and Disney.
Unknown Speaker 7:36
Like I said they take care of them and stuff but they also will like neuter and spay the adults and the adults and stuff like that.
Unknown Speaker 7:45
More recently, Disneyland's circled D ranch yay
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these are so the circle D ranch they take care of like the other animals and stuff because I think that like horses and all that kind of shit there.
Unknown Speaker 8:05
So they take over the management of the feline population, along with local veterinary clinics. These cast members carry out the same tasks that were previously outsourced like spaying and neutering and stuff like I mentioned earlier.
Unknown Speaker 8:22
Um, and also finding homes for you know, some kittens that they may not keep keep there just to kind of control the numbers they have.
Unknown Speaker 8:33
And they also have permanent feeding stations around design, I don't know I assume are kind of hidden. But I really want to like just go find all the cats.
Unknown Speaker 8:43
Hopefully awesome. But if you do ever see a cat at one of the parks do not touch her feet. Oh, I know. It's gonna be really hard. I'm trying to think if there's a cat Disneyland character that I can make a joke about not feeding them too. But
Unknown Speaker 8:58
does Disney have any cat characters other than Arista, cats?
Unknown Speaker 9:01
Because they don't dress up or worse to cats?
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Like there are but now I can't
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remember.
Unknown Speaker 9:10
Let us know Disney people that listen that weren't offended by our Disney episode but are still listening. Yeah, we touch about Disney. But that I feel like
Unknown Speaker 9:21
it was such a specific type. Yeah, we love you Disney. We do and we like Disney stuff too. Alyssa got me a little mermaid pin for Christmas. Oh yeah. For Christ's sakes.
Unknown Speaker 9:37
Yeah, and we were talking on Discord about like how most fandoms are just fucking awful. Like, there's always people that just take it way too far and make it so uncomfortable. Yeah, I I can think of a handful of fandoms maybe we can cover cringy fandoms and to get a future episode Yeah, because there's a lot more
Unknown Speaker 10:00
unite you fucking Christians. God's
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word has the cringe use fan Yeah, the nerdiest crunchiest fandom. I know I'm like quoting a different video when I say this, but like, I've never heard a person, quote A book so much than like, Bible people.
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misquote. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 10:22
So the other cat thing I have to talk about today is post office cats.
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Oh my god,
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outfits and they will mail them. I wish they would be so.
Unknown Speaker 10:39
So just just at the top of the story, there's no more, you know, cats at the post office right now. But, um, cats have a long history of rodent control throughout the world, including post offices, cats hanging hanging around the post offices, you know, they were just kind of naturally they're kind of like Disney attracted, they're kind of naturally there and kind of got adopted into jobs. And
Unknown Speaker 11:07
these jobs were inherited, inherited from the cats. So they weren't just like, bringing tons of straights in every like five or 10 years. It was just you know, they're, they're born into the jobs whether they want it or not.
Unknown Speaker 11:23
Post Office cat nepotism.
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Some cats became pretty popular and sort of like celebrities.
Unknown Speaker 11:35
Do they have their own collector stamps? I think they did have some stamps. Like every cat but the most popular was Tibbs. He was a 23 pounder that lives in the post office headquarters. And I want to say just for reference, my cat GeoBlue fluctuates between like 18 and 20. Oh 23 pounds. So let's like does a big boy you can just pick up and hug. Um, tips even attended a cats and film stars party, where he was to quote the book cat by Muriel beetle, the dominant figure among the cream of the cat world.
Unknown Speaker 12:17
I love people who get cats like
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I love it.
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In 1868, a British Post Office asked for a two shillings a week salary to feed the three cats that were staffing.
Unknown Speaker 12:32
The secretary of the post office authorized post offices to actually start to actually hire the cats for only one shilling saying cheap.
Unknown Speaker 12:45
Oh, okay, I want to do a British accent. Oh, yes, please do. They must depend
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they they must depend on the mice for the remainder of the moments. If the mice be not reduced in number in six months of further portion of allowance must be stopped. That was not a good accent. I'm so sorry.
Unknown Speaker 13:11
It was depression like totally normal.
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portion should accent
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we always love a good accent. I mean, yeah, good and bad. Yeah.
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We love a sick accent.
Unknown Speaker 13:35
It sounds like there were quite a few attempts to get the cat salary raised. But mostly it was kind of like a branch by branch basis. One of the successful attempts was from a postmaster in 1873 who was responsible for the cats at his area saying it wasn't enough compensation to feed the cats replaced the extra wear on his shoes. And the loss of dignity when carrying the food.
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Philosophy data ie when
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the loss of dignity I guess I don't know how to say that with
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carrying buckets food through the streets in her majesty's uniform. Sorry to find the sound like you know like
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what's that one place like a Liverpool?
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Sure.
Unknown Speaker 14:33
Thanks for making me feel better. No, really, though. Sounds like a bitch like, I don't want to carry a bowl. I don't want to carry bow. Carrying this cat food and people gonna think I'm gay.
Unknown Speaker 14:48
Oh is the main thing. Feel like the
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guy caring for cats.
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I feel like British people probably have a funny
Unknown Speaker 15:00
Word for gay but I don't know what it is what the F word? That's the cigarette. Yeah, but I know.
Unknown Speaker 15:08
Yeah. Oh, I didn't know they used it like that too.
Unknown Speaker 15:12
I don't I know for sure in America they do. But I don't know about in England I want to say I think I have. Maybe not as probably some British listeners. It's probably something weird as fuck yeah, I feel like British words. I'm like,
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oh no
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I'm paying a lava.
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Queen Queen love the pain.
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There was another case where an accountant said that they couldn't justify a raise and asked about watering the cat's milk down instead.
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I know I'm gonna cheat but branch manager responded.
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Having been used in milk alone will not drink milk and wall.
Unknown Speaker 16:02
The cat
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the cat got a raise in that situation.
Unknown Speaker 16:07
Good. Finally, in the 1930s there was an across the board raised for post office cats, shillings a week.
Unknown Speaker 16:17
Cats have not been employed by the post office headquarters since June 1984 level which is quite a lot longer than I would have expected expected that.
Unknown Speaker 16:30
Um, and then I just have one more little chunk.
Unknown Speaker 16:33
There was only one person to have the most perfect job in the world. He was quote the superintendent of feral cat
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and that was George W cook in New York. He was a mail sorter there but also
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kids you want to watch
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if they did just have like a little hot dog vendor like for the hats next? So the bigger
Unknown Speaker 17:10
Hey, yeah, since you're a male Thorton
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dogs
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Oh, that was really
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good. I'm sorry, I thought you're gonna say
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so he was a mail sorter and had the additional responsibility to feed the nearly 100 cats at the New York Post Office.
Unknown Speaker 17:40
Like you're feeding pigeons
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Why have you kept smoking hot?
Unknown Speaker 17:56
Didn't you want care?
Unknown Speaker 18:03
And the best part about this is he even had a party for 60 postoffice cats in honor of his 81st birthday party, complete with calf liver and lamb kidney, which I'm sure the liver king would be jealous of. Maybe the liver king should reinstate the post office cats and care for them to redeem himself. So this could be a liver King redemption arc, but it could but I feel like he would think cats are too sissy. He has Doberman Oh, they're posers.
Unknown Speaker 18:37
Then why go on? The mug and hot dogs for Christ's sake. That's not the pure liver meat. Exactly. Um,
Unknown Speaker 18:47
yeah, so that was my just full rundown. Just some cats in history that I thought would be fun. I really liked it. I like the New York hot dog man. And the fact that he's old. Yeah. I'm old.
Unknown Speaker 19:01
Like, I can't
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imagine him like, just going across the street with all the cats just like
Unknown Speaker 19:08
I mean, no, that never happened because they're at the post office and live there. But you know, I like to imagine that he takes on a little field trips.
Unknown Speaker 19:15
That sounds like a great blocking here.
Unknown Speaker 19:20
Well,
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I have a new segment I would like to introduce if you don't have any more cat related items. I don't. This is Alyssa lens Tiktok corner.
Unknown Speaker 19:36
Hey, I got a new segment here.
Unknown Speaker 19:41
Just imagine you just like shrugging your shoulders with like that look on your face.
Unknown Speaker 19:46
Well,
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eventually I want to make a little song but yeah, um, as everyone knows, I love Tik Tok.
Unknown Speaker 19:56
Most of my information from there. I live vicariously
Unknown Speaker 20:00
lead through you for my tic toc things. I'm one of those boomers that just will never use it.
Unknown Speaker 20:07
I use it way too much. But if you just think it's like
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young girls dancing, it's because you're a creep
Unknown Speaker 20:19
it's not just stuff like that, like when all those senators were lobbying to outlawed or whatever. And they're like, it's just teenagers in bikinis like, no.
Unknown Speaker 20:33
Their feet got constructed. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 20:37
Oh, yeah, I told Jamie this, but my tic tock algorithm is so good that it diagnosed me with something. I'm getting a procedure for tomorrow. Which is fucking surgery.
Unknown Speaker 20:52
Yeah, fucking scary. Tic tock was like, hey, maybe you have a tongue tie. And I do. That's usually something babies get fixed. But, you know, my parents, they're like, it'll be fine. It's fine. It's like a spicy meatball.
Unknown Speaker 21:09
Like a hot dog in New York. Your baby have a hot dog.
Unknown Speaker 21:15
So I found a thing that came across that we talked about last week. We talked about briefly about phenol. About your because of your throat spray story.
Unknown Speaker 21:29
So phenol, it's in more things than I knew about. It's the active ingredient in Carmex. It's banned in Canada in the European Union. Oh, but I do not want to use it.
Unknown Speaker 21:46
But I did find out that there is a phenol peel for your face, and it's one of the strongest peels available. Hmm, that sounds kind of scary. Oh, wait till I show you the pictures. It's fucking terrifying. I will say though excellent results like people are like 2030 years younger. It's fucking nuts. Like
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we would look like six year olds. That's what guys old creepy men like nowadays.
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Young people on Tik Tok.
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So,
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dermatologists was quoted as saying that it is so strong. In fact, it's sometimes administered under IV sedation. Without it the pain would be pretty terrible evil, even with a topical numbing cream. Oh, and due to the corrosive strength of the phenol, a full recovery can take months. And it says the early phases can be a little gruesome. Oh, so I'm gonna show you some pictures on first Oh, it's so nasty. So I'm kind of guessing what happens is that they put it on and it kind of like hardens and does some really nasty shit. And then you go to the dermatologist after however long and they basically like take your layer of skin or however many layers all because the videos I saw it's like they're taking off a mask. Oh, underneath it. Oh, I don't know. I would like to keep mine when I'm done.
Unknown Speaker 23:22
Probably could Alyssa shows Jamie some of the pictures. What it looks like is like your face gets swollen and like very purple and red and oh, it is just like a mask just slipping right off. Oh
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that's
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weird, huh? Yeah, I just seeing the skin come off just was a little different. A little different.
Unknown Speaker 23:52
So thank you tick tock gods for most stowing that upon us. I don't want to put anything on my face that is described with like corrosion power.
Unknown Speaker 24:02
Yeah, it's very corrosive, but watch me get it in like 20 years.
Unknown Speaker 24:08
I guess it's getting harder to find people to do it. So you may have to do some looking.
Unknown Speaker 24:13
So I have another thing here. This is related to work.
Unknown Speaker 24:21
So apparently Sephora hit a $10 billion year. So all those kids, probably all the kids. They had like a really good Black Friday. I guess even their online stuff was really popular and the shipping warehouses were like doing really good or whatever. So they gave their employees a cookie as they thank you. So here is the we did it. $10 billion. And that's a sticker that's on a cookie, a plain ash sugar cookie with sprinkles. I'm sorry, I'm just like four
Unknown Speaker 25:00
cuz I am angry right now.
Unknown Speaker 25:02
Like pizza party it's like fucking cookie
Unknown Speaker 25:07
like oh my god it apparently the cookie was dry according to some people of course it was. So this was what the little card inside the box of cookies that was like laid out in their break room or whatever said I wish that they as far as anything I mean nothing i mean i don't know maybe if they like gave him like a camera like a $20 gift card or something like that maybe that'd be a little better but like ya know, it's like a product or you could do something cool like a customized whatever you could partner with the spider crane people and give them like a costume with their name spider or Sephora? Like I don't know like X Box and shit does that when you with people they're like he this was like at the developer award that you get for helping you get out like a little pin for their name tag. Like, I don't know, I don't want to flex for my name. out there. I set it up like pretty much like the cookie but like, yeah, at least like maybe a crumble cookie or just some big acid brand name cookie would be. I don't know. Yeah, continue.
Unknown Speaker 26:15
So it says inside this box, you will find a sweet treat to enjoy with your team. They got a box you told me they got a box. That was like a box for the whole store. Like everybody got one. Oh, yeah. I mean, I was just trying to make a joke.
Unknown Speaker 26:29
Oh, my gosh, I had to share one cookie. But they all had to share one box say yeah, the share one box.
Unknown Speaker 26:37
We thank you for making it our greatest year ever. Cheers. And then at the bottom of the card was a warning because I guess even they knew that people were going to talk shit about this. The content of this card is confidential and should not be shared externally as that it is it is a violation of our company policies. And it is unclear if employees got anything else other than the cookie. Man, they put out a warning like that on there. They've definitely did not.
Unknown Speaker 27:09
Just don't do anything. Yeah, it's yeah, my last couple jobs that were very like, pizza party like and
Unknown Speaker 27:20
when I worked at the blood bank, this was I guess it was in 2021 when we got the really bad freeze here. And they did close us down for a couple days. But there were a couple of days where it was like kind of sketchy to go to work. And the fucking director brought us homemade banana bread. Gotta hate that. Yeah, I'm like, get the fuck out of here. Here. Banana Bread. Do you know how long it took me to make this banana bread for you guys? Oh, what? Like it's leftover banana bread from when you were making it at home.
Unknown Speaker 27:49
After the storm kind of cleared up, there was a guy that worked there, which Chris and Tina will know who I'm talking about. But he had a jeep. And it was like, You have no excuse not to come to work like he can come pick you up in his jeep. Oh, and I was like, Okay, I need to get the fuck out of this job. Yeah, if I'm not comfortable on the road, why would I trust some random ass man that I've met like a handful of times? Yeah. And I I don't really want certain people I work with knowing where I live.
Unknown Speaker 28:23
Now like I feel like endangered by them or anything but like, I don't
Unknown Speaker 28:27
I don't want to fucking
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know.
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I tried to keep my
Unknown Speaker 28:35
I used to work at places that like crossed lines. Like, we're a family here. Oh, oh. And now I'm just like, Fuck no, like, Nope, you're not my family or my co workers. And I don't want to see you after work. There is exception samples cool people I work with. So
Unknown Speaker 28:52
you know, it's cool. Yeah. But you know, yeah, but just general management people absolutely. Fucking Yeah. I'm okay. I kind of have some things that are gonna accomplish kind of the opposite of what you wanted with the cats. There's fine. It's the
Unknown Speaker 29:10
if you guys can't handle any rage today, to tune out now or just turn it down and keep keep it going. So we get the Yeah, so full download as to how it works. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 29:22
So Jamie, when it comes to ministration products,
Unknown Speaker 29:27
and testing them, at which point do you think like which year? Do you think that they started testing menstrual products with actual blood?
Unknown Speaker 29:40
Um, like the 90s.
Unknown Speaker 29:44
The first study ever was published by the BMJ sexual and reproductive health
Unknown Speaker 29:53
group using real blood to test menstrual products. On August 7, it's 2023.
Unknown Speaker 30:00
II whites. last fucking year this summer was the first time ever, like clenching my fucking like together just like ah, yeah. What they used prior was saltwater or just fucking water which has been blood is totally fucking different viewed. So okay, this is gonna be the only like descriptive thing that I really say so skip ahead if you don't want to hear about blood stuff but you know how like sometimes when you take a tampon out and it's like the blood is kind of like a round it but like not soaked into it yeah it's like it's slotted wrapped around whatever that so
Unknown Speaker 30:49
yes.
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Like slick
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flappy hands.
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Another tech talk I saw recently.
Unknown Speaker 31:00
Some of these white dog was like in the way when they take a
Unknown Speaker 31:06
blood stain on it for baby. Yeah, it's because it was fucking tested with saltwater. That does not make sense. Yeah. And even this group. Basically what they did they got some expired blood from a blood bank because it only lasts so long. And they use that to test the menstrual products but yeah, it's just been fucking saltwater. So that fucking blows my mind this summer insane. Isn't that awful? So they found that basically, I feel gypped I'm sorry. lied to and gypped and it's just flaking insane. I'm glad I haven't like used tampons a
Unknown Speaker 31:46
long time. Yeah, I mean, they're kind of been ripping people off in a way because the study found that basically everything is less absorbent than they were saying it is because you know, they're not using fucking blood because, you know, it's thicker. There's sometimes a little bit of tissue.
Unknown Speaker 32:05
So basically, they were making something for an entirely different liquid. But that's what we were given. Ah, damn, is that fucking insane? Yeah, it.
Unknown Speaker 32:16
It just sounds weird. But I want to say like, it almost make sense in hindsight, but they didn't test it with blood because like,
Unknown Speaker 32:25
you know how sometimes you where you use a larger tampon, and it's just like, so fucking dry. We try to pull it out. It's like, dude, like the bloods there. But it's just like, it's not gonna just like dry. Yeah. Damn, man. Yeah, man. Um, I feel a little angry. No, that's really bad. I'm just thinking. I mean, I know that when a lot of girls get their period, it's hard to adjust to it. So you know, you leak through and stuff. But I'm just like, how many times? My phone? Yeah, exactly. Like it wasn't poor planning on my fault. It was a faulty product. I don't know. It just makes me mad that
Unknown Speaker 33:06
that thing that I was told that was supporting me and didn't actually support me.
Unknown Speaker 33:10
Yeah, and if you've never bought those products before, they're not cheap. I mean, especially if you're going through that many a day. Yeah, this article that I read. I think it was on pink news.com said that like one in five people struggle to afford menstrual products. Wow. So yeah, people can't afford them. And when they can, they're shitty. So I kind of hope that this will lead to some kind of like, consumer lawsuit type of thing because it really is ridiculous. I mean, I know that in commercials, they would use like that blue liquid to show it. But I didn't think that's what they were actually using the test. Basically, it was. I guess they're like it'll work with like, diapers, right? Same thing. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 34:03
Oh, man. Oh, no, it's just
Unknown Speaker 34:07
it's depressing. And to, I don't want to just be like, Oh my God, it was a man that made all this stuff. But like, kind of feel like it was. Yeah. And especially because there's like,
Unknown Speaker 34:22
do you ever use like centered tampons?
Unknown Speaker 34:25
I bought him a couple times, I guess. Yeah, I use them sometimes. And like those will make me sick. So like, I don't think she's probably full carcinogen. Yeah. And I don't think the scent like helps anything. It doesn't like cover up the pier.
Unknown Speaker 34:41
There Yeah. So it's just, I don't know, the center tampon thing just almost felt like dudes being like in
Unknown Speaker 34:48
rows. Yeah. Yeah, I felt like what it boils down to is period stuff is Yeah, yeah. People like talking gross. I mean, to be fair, I don't like seeing like most
Unknown Speaker 35:00
bodily fluids from anybody. But, um, yeah, to go that far.
Unknown Speaker 35:07
If you're manufacturing a product, you would test it like as it was intended for us. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. It's just, it's a woman show or we can figure that out. Yeah. So I have two more things. Yeah. That are kind of related to this.
Unknown Speaker 35:22
So if you didn't know, basically, most things are tested on men.
Unknown Speaker 35:30
So men probably, yeah. So it's not accounted for how
Unknown Speaker 35:38
women's bodies are different. So one of those things is medication. So medication is typically tested on men. So
Unknown Speaker 35:49
oftentimes, women are over prescribed due to biological differences. Oh my god. So you could like overdose. A woman if you're not being careful and shit? Yeah. But there's one place where we actually get under dosed, which is with ADHD medication. Oh, so symptoms can get more pronounced whenever you're around your period. And there's a scientific connection but you know, I'm I'm not going to try to explain it because I don't want to get well actually by someone. That's, let's face it. It'll be a dude little well, actually, man, please shut up. We need a hot dog.
Unknown Speaker 36:37
Hot dog. But it's something with like estrogen and dopamine, how they work together, basically. So the Tick Tock I saw since this is tick tock corner.
Unknown Speaker 36:51
Corner. It was like, oh, when you take your add medication, do you feel like it just doesn't work sometimes. And they're like, there's a reason for this. When you have the fluctuation with your period is just not as effective. Oh,
Unknown Speaker 37:08
yeah. People were saying, like, I don't feel like I've taken my medication and all during that time. Oh, shit. So there's been some studies around it, but of course, not enough. But the studies that they have done have pointed to
Unknown Speaker 37:24
that maybe women should have an increased dose for half of the month make vacation actually effective. Yeah, that that's, I feel like that's also gonna like, Fuck your brain up a little like a little bit not like in a permanent way. But just like, eat how you're not supposed to, to like just cold turkey stop the antidepressants and stuff like that. Like.
Unknown Speaker 37:48
I don't know if that's exactly the same thing, because you are still taking the medicine, but it's like you said, utilize. Yeah. And it's just like, good point. It's almost like you're just stopping. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 38:01
Yeah, pretty fucking crazy.
Unknown Speaker 38:05
And this can also affect women that are on birth control. Because dopamine and estrogen kind of work together. You know, there's more estrogen dominant birth controls, or progesterone dominant. So depending even which birth control you're on, it could affect which add medication they take or the dose, damn, yeah, this segments a little more depressing than I thought it would be sorry, one others. Because I know that there is also the thing was like, women experience strokes and stuff to him differently, right. And they didn't figure that out until like, however long ago, and I think there was that one
Unknown Speaker 38:46
teenage kid that was like, hey, there's like a lot of information missing from like black health care, because, like, it's different. Yep. And some things and so he made that little book or whatever. That's just
Unknown Speaker 39:01
as a developer, I, you always want to consider like everybody in your use case, like, everybody. So it's just crazy to me.
Unknown Speaker 39:12
Yeah, and I mean, there was like, I don't want to get too far off with this. But with like Kodak, and different like camera stuff, like back in the day, they only tested with like, white dudes, because those were the people making it. So they're like, well use our soul for test subjects. So is that a thing with AI too? They like don't understand black faces. Yeah, they didn't have enough in the training data set when they did it. So there's,
Unknown Speaker 39:37
there's some people who are pushing projects forward, that have training sets that have they're very inclusive. So I'm just like, yes, yes, do that. But
Unknown Speaker 39:50
hopefully, they'll get that figured out more. I feel like there's more push for software to be more inclusive of all peoples. It's good
Unknown Speaker 40:00
Some people are doing that. Because yeah, a lot of industries aren't. And would you like to hear about my last industry? Yes, not women. Yes.
Unknown Speaker 40:11
So God, please don't be like a woman because a woman company, like, do they make products for women? No, this was a product. Okay. Okay. So I believe I didn't write it down. But I believe that this was in 2003 when the first female crash test dummy was made. They were all based on men's body size and tie. Oh, wait, you said 2003. Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 40:40
So cars have been around since what like the 20s.
Unknown Speaker 40:46
It took 80 years to get a female crash test dummy because, you know, women carry weight differently have different body to you know, there's more. You'll go through a window differently than the guy maybe. Yes, exactly.
Unknown Speaker 41:03
So this statistic says women are more likely to die or be injured in a car crash. And one reason might be that we've been using crash test dummies based on the average male. When crushed US companies wanted to represent women. They used a scaled down male dummy. So they didn't they didn't make a different one. They just like, ladies are smile. Change. Yeah, that's all we're just Smallman.
Unknown Speaker 41:31
Yeah, yep.
Unknown Speaker 41:33
So I got this information from car and driver.com. And they talked to Astrid Linder, who is the director of Traffic Safety at the Swedish National Road and transport Research Institute. And she's told the BBC, they're working on a making a female crash test dummy like more readily available, and trying to push that. So did they just like make her naked or whatever, because they're like, people won't buy it unless she's a psycho.
Unknown Speaker 42:05
They've made it like Dolly Parton, Elsa with huge tits.
Unknown Speaker 42:11
She told the BBC, we have differences in the shape of the torso and center of gravity, and the outline of our hips and pelvis. Just because we now have a better way to test the impact of crashes on both male and female bodies does not mean that vehicle safety features will change tomorrow. New laws anywhere require crash test used male or female dummies and engineers can't fix problems. They can't identify. Just kind of like what you said. Some automakers are already using gender dummies in their crash tests, but lender said she hopes their use will become much more widespread. After all, she said all parts of the population population deserve to be safer in vehicles. I feel like this is something boomers would get angry.
Unknown Speaker 43:02
Gender
Unknown Speaker 43:06
you don't need it. We've been we've been testing with all gender domains since like the 20s.
Unknown Speaker 43:13
God, that's um, that's pretty crazy, too.
Unknown Speaker 43:17
Yeah, and even.
Unknown Speaker 43:19
I don't know how thorough they are in this type of thing. But I mean, even using, like, average dummies of a man and a woman. I mean, what if you're above average or under average? Like, do they test those things too? Or is it just kind of like, yeah, the average of and just use that. Yeah, I was gonna I was also wondering that like, what about a tiny man? That's not a woman? Oh, yeah. Like he's just actually a small
Unknown Speaker 43:48
tiny man or woman.
Unknown Speaker 43:52
According to this, I assume they have child tests crash dummies? Maybe not. Maybe that's just me. I just assumed because I seem to have to test car seats and things like that. So
Unknown Speaker 44:02
a Woman
Unknown Speaker 44:08
Yeah, but yeah, that was my first Alyssa lens ticked out corner.
Unknown Speaker 44:14
Sorry, it was a little more depressing than I meant it to be. Oh, actually, it's great. I can take us out with a positive one. Yeah, let's do that. Yeah, most of the time, they'll probably be a little bit more funny, but I don't know. I guess I guess I'm in a dark moods is cool.
Unknown Speaker 44:33
The robot is giving me dark stuff.
Unknown Speaker 44:36
Okay, so there's this couple.
Unknown Speaker 44:40
The woman's name is Campbell. I can't remember the guys name. But they both went to Ole Miss. Oh, yeah. So that gives me an idea of what they're like.
Unknown Speaker 44:52
So they're Tiktok influencers and they make videos basically of themselves. It'll show
Unknown Speaker 45:00
Campbell who her husband calls her kooky
Unknown Speaker 45:06
it shows her she talks about her outfit and then her husband will talk about his outfit and then they also do some lifestyle stuff like oh, we're in Paris and we're doing this and whatever. But what they kind of became famous for is like their outfit videos are a little bit cringe
Unknown Speaker 45:27
I don't know they just on purpose or like, no an accident. I mean, they just but the internet kind of loves them I guess because the husband really does love buki. And he's always fairly, very complimentary. And he'll be like kooky that outfit is absolutely fire. And he says it like, seriously, which actually, I'm just I'm gonna play it because it's awesome. I wonder if she treats them like shit off the camera like
Unknown Speaker 46:00
I don't know.
Unknown Speaker 46:03
It's date night, Saturday night go into hell of our favorite steakhouse on the planet. And I gotta say, kooky looks absolutely fire tonight. Babe. I'm just seeing your offers the first time what are you wearing? I'm wearing a house this TV top. It laces up the back. So that took some work and then girlfriend denim and family heels that are literally hanging on by surprise. I've worn them so much. And my Kelly. Awesome. I am wearing a jacket Brooks Brothers shirt. Irma's belt, Paige jeans as always, and black cherry Lucchese
Unknown Speaker 46:38
favorite shirts. I love it.
Unknown Speaker 46:41
Oh, he's just checking her out.
Unknown Speaker 46:44
Yeah, he's it's cute. I won't. Won't assault them. Yeah, they're, they're pretty smooth in their thing doesn't seem like they're, I mean, there's a little cringy but you know, yeah, it's like, everybody's cringy at times. Yeah. So people love them. They're all about it. Like he's just really happy to be there with her. Like, oh my god, I love you. Yeah, he's he's super excited. He I saw one where he got this like huge flower arrangement made that said Pooky and stuff. Oh, but other people on Tik Tok are like, obsessed with them. And they make kinda like they'll redo their videos and just like do goofy things.
Unknown Speaker 47:31
Well, Lady posted and I guess she's a fan of Pooky and jet or Jeff or whatever is I miss? Yeah, he looks like a jib. Yeah, something like that. So her boss at work, her male boss had a new suit or something. And here's like, oh, yeah, I picked up this new suit. And without thinking just said, kooky you're looking absolutely fired. Your boss.
Unknown Speaker 47:57
You're looking
Unknown Speaker 48:00
and living your best. I
Unknown Speaker 48:03
can't take that away from you.
Unknown Speaker 48:09
I'm just gonna hear that in my head forever. I just love it so much. Love the one you sent where she's like at Chili's with a margarita or whatever. Like living my best life.
Unknown Speaker 48:22
Yeah, the couple has become so popular that people are accidentally calling their bosses kinky and saying they look fire. Just like I could totally see either one of us doing that. Yeah, absolutely. I got to be careful when I go into the office.
Unknown Speaker 48:40
Yeah.
Unknown Speaker 48:43
That sounds stressful. Oh, I know. You've been doing it a little bit more. Has anything else happened since the the loud shifts and stuff? Ah, no, I don't think so. I told one coworker that I was going to take a creepy picture of her. Oh, yeah. Because I got to work. No one was there. And then I went to the other side of the building to look out the window where other people park and I saw her walking in and I was like, Oh, this is perfect for like a creepy picture. But I couldn't get my camera out in time. And then um, I told her later and she was like, Well, I'm sorry, I missed out I guess.
Unknown Speaker 49:19
Don't worry, there will be another time. Yeah, but I don't think it was like that bad because
Unknown Speaker 49:25
we're talking again, a little bit later in the conversation devolves into like, taking pictures of poop. I don't remember why. But so yeah, I don't think it was that yeah, taking a picture of your poop.
Unknown Speaker 49:39
I don't recall if I did, it was probably for medical purposes. I've definitely taken pictures of the cats like Oh, bathroom. Yeah, things before but I don't think I've only taken one of mine. Or you haven't either it
Unknown Speaker 49:57
I'm not gonna lie. I've thought about it.
Unknown Speaker 50:00
but I just have a fear of sending things to the wrong people. Yeah, like, what if I send this to my mother in law, or the boss I had five years ago that for some reason I haven't deleted their phone number or accidentally posted it in my work slot.
Unknown Speaker 50:20
I had a I had a dream I posted something in my workflow. I was just like, oh, you race the race? Yeah, I honestly don't know how people take nudes on their phone. But just the idea of that makes my heart race like yeah, like that is so scary. Yeah, I don't even take a picture of poop because I'm too scared.
Unknown Speaker 50:43
Yeah, no, I am. I don't know, either. Because, God, yeah, just cuz I mean, even sometimes, too, when you just are showing someone a picture on your phone, you know, and then they just swipe a couple times.
Unknown Speaker 50:57
Oh, yeah, just now I think I just mostly have pictures of like, my visits.
Unknown Speaker 51:05
I don't have an album, but I couldn't make an album.
Unknown Speaker 51:09
Like make one for you or something was or something like that? I think so. It sounds familiar. It was probably just like pictures of me, but it was just like all my zit pictures.
Unknown Speaker 51:22
But um,
Unknown Speaker 51:25
yeah.
Unknown Speaker 51:30
I don't know.
Unknown Speaker 51:32
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Unknown Speaker 51:48
It can be basically any topic shitting your pants? Something about a cat?
Unknown Speaker 51:57
Some of them? Maybe there's a hidden atom bomb somewhere that you know about.
Unknown Speaker 52:05
To know are talking about that, too.
Unknown Speaker 52:07
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Unknown Speaker 52:24
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Unknown Speaker 52:34
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Unknown Speaker 52:55
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Unknown Speaker 53:10
Bye.