00:00:06:00 - 00:00:30:21 Unknown Hey. Welcome back. to Toke It Out. How are you guys? How is your. Is it July 1st? Is that one? This is going to come out. It's not July yet. July 1st. Happy July. Happy birthday. Merica! Whatever. Headed to Austin, Texas? I think I said at the bottom of last episode would say at the top of this one. Bottom tops. 00:00:30:21 - 00:00:50:22 Unknown I can be both. If you have been to Austin, Texas, and you have a recommendation anywhere to eat, anything to do and there for like 36 hours. Let me know. Let me know right now. I'm going to read them. This will be up before I go. But like let me know. Hit me up. Hit me up. I've never really had a reason to go to Texas. 00:00:50:22 - 00:01:09:17 Unknown And I'm kind of making up this reason. I'm going to go see West Parker in concert. Here's my recommendation of the week. I think for two weeks probably like very beginning of this podcast. So don't talk about it. Be about it. Is it wild to do that when he was playing a lot closer. Yeah, but the timing didn't work out. 00:01:09:22 - 00:01:35:18 Unknown It's a lot more expensive to fly somewhere else. Like it would make more sense to go see him in Charlotte because my, my mother in law, I could visit. I could get a watermelon milkshake from cookout July 1st. If you are anywhere near a cookout, enjoy those watermelon milkshakes for me because they're going to be so good and I don't have the time to like, drive to Nashville or shit like that. 00:01:35:20 - 00:01:58:23 Unknown So I did a Texas y'all pupu, but very excited for that. Let me know past that. Let's just get into it. Really. Okay, listen, I know I have really been slacking with the recommendation of the weeks. That's my bad. Okay. It's my bad. I understand. So sorry, but I do have some for you. Let me go ahead and start. 00:01:58:28 - 00:02:19:26 Unknown Let me go ahead and give you two recommendations right quick. That's going to be upside down cooking. You don't follow this cute little man who bakes upside down tarts and tartlets. I think he's in like, Scotland, England, somewhere like that in the UK. Whatever. Adorable. That's one of my recommendations. We're going to we're going to bust through these because I know what you want and know you want the content. 00:02:19:26 - 00:02:41:40 Unknown So we're going to rapid fire this okay. Rapid fire this bad boy. What? My next recommendation of the week. I think this was already a recommendation that I had. But I don't care because the rules are made up and the points don't matter. Because whose line is it anyways? If you get it, you get it. Stone metal. The guy that makes the metal nails. 00:02:41:45 - 00:03:07:49 Unknown Obviously I've needed one for weeks now, but my girl can't get me in and I'm like, I'm suffering because of it. Me pet my nail. But the metal nails he makes so cool. He makes like sharp ones. He makes rounded ones. He makes them for I think men specifically that are like doing that kind of work so they don't get like, you know, you don't put like a, like a fire hole in your nail or something like for jewelry work. 00:03:07:58 - 00:03:28:52 Unknown Very, very cool. That's my recommendation. Going to save my recommendation of the week this week for at the end. So don't worry. Keep listening for that or jump to it. Who cares. My most anticipated of the month though. Guys, I'm kind of torn because I usually do like movie food. Movie food. Listen, it's it's the things that get me through in life, okay? 00:03:28:57 - 00:03:45:45 Unknown Again, don't talk about it. Be about it. So I'm being about it. I'm kind of torn because obviously the reboot I Know What you did last summer is going to be so good. I don't know, is it gonna be good? I don't know. I think it's going to be good. I anticipate it's going to be good. However, I know you guys are fucking sick of the horror movies. 00:03:45:46 - 00:04:09:58 Unknown I know you guys are sick of it. I know, I'm so sorry. So how about we anticipate Jurassic World rebirth? It's kind of horror. It's thriller. Honestly, a classic because Jurassic Park came out the year I was born. So I feel very connected to Jurassic Park. And I never saw Jurassic Park until I was an adult. Thank God, because that shit as an adult was scary as a child. 00:04:10:03 - 00:04:33:32 Unknown People who saw Jurassic Park when they were like nine, ten years old. What's wrong with your parents? Because that shit is so scary. She is so scary. And I get it, I probably do. That's why I could do. But like, so scary, man. So so scary. So that is my most anticipated it of July. Really excited. Don't worry, we are going to get into it before I'm going back to recording all July. 00:04:33:34 - 00:04:49:37 Unknown Don't worry, I'm not doing that. Okay? Listen, we just we got a lot of work to do. We've got the high IQ going on. We got a lot of stuff. Okay. I drank a ton of energy drinks. Okay? Not a ton. I drank, like, one whole one. And that's why I'm talking so fast. But we are getting through it, right? 00:04:49:42 - 00:05:16:13 Unknown Right. Team. Correct. So listen. Last time, I think I asked who. Who came up with new car smell. I am very curious to know who came up with new car smell. But what I was going to talk about and I was so psyched to talk about. This was Neopets. Do you guys know about Neopets? And like the cultural impact that Neopets had on, like, a generation of millennials? 00:05:16:13 - 00:05:53:46 Unknown Like learning to code, being involved in like, guilds and community things online? Like it was so trendsetting for the time Neopets was lit, but Neopets there was like, I guess there was this rumor that Neopets was like run by Scientology. Not true. Looked into it. The owner, the original OG, owner of Neopets, was a Scientologist and implemented some kind of like Scientology esque business practices into the business of Neopets and like the running of the company that was that. 00:05:53:51 - 00:06:21:23 Unknown But there was no, like, religious like influence on Neopets as a whole, you know what I mean? So I think it's I'm kind of bummed. I'm not bummed. I'm not bummed, but I, I'm bummed because there's no like, t like that's the T. And then they sold the company, and that thus ended, you know, that influence. But wild to think about me playing Neopets with like who? 00:06:21:23 - 00:06:41:07 Unknown Who else had a cougar who's had a cougar in there? What else is another name of them? I don't know, I literally the only one I can remember is that the one called a Kiki? I don't know, but just thinking about that shit is that that shit ran away from me. Oh! It's gone. My cougar. My cougar. Okay, XYZ. 00:06:41:18 - 00:07:04:53 Unknown How do you even pronounce as a cougar? I don't know, or is it just cougar? Whatever. Anyways, Neopets was dope tab. And if you played Neopets because you were my kind of people, who else? Just like, really was holding out hard for a fairy paint paintbrush? I just never got that bit. Never. It was like a bajillion Neopets coins or whatever. 00:07:05:02 - 00:07:32:39 Unknown Man, I did everything in my power hours, hours of it, I loved it. Okay, we'll get into, like, the history of it, that there was tea on that there's not. But I, I know you guys are curious about the new car smell. So a new car smell, isn't it? And isn't in the invention of a single person, but rather the byproduct of automotive manufacturing and materials science that eventually became a marketed experience. 00:07:32:43 - 00:08:03:33 Unknown Here's how it began. The new car smell is actually a mix of hello, volatile, volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, released from materials used inside a car. Are you kidding? Including plastics, leather, faux leather, carpet, adhesives, paints, sealants, and foam. These compounds off gas evaporate at room temperature after the vehicles assembled, creating that distinctive smell. What the fuck? Who branded it? 00:08:03:34 - 00:08:34:00 Unknown While no one is credited with inventing this smell on automakers and fragrance companies, realize over time that people liked this smell and it became associated with stairs, luxury and freshness. It's poisoned. It's fucking poison. They said luxury. Here's your luxury. Poisoned. Here's your luxury. Poison. What the fuck? New car smell. That's insane. No no no no no no. 00:08:34:04 - 00:09:04:07 Unknown This is insane. By the 1990s, air freshener companies like Yankee Candle and Little Trees began selling new car scent, and automakers leaned into preserving it longer by tweaking interior material. Interior material formulations. What the fuck? What am I learning right now? It's all fucking poison. We're just. What? I'm so shook right now. What the fuck, you guys? They said, here's your burning plastic. 00:09:04:12 - 00:09:33:17 Unknown Yum, yum. What? Let's go ahead. And bottle was burning. Plastic smell. Let's let's go ahead and bottle up this leather. Plastic runoff and go ahead and sell it to you as luxury. Look, capitalism is a curse. Ironically, today, many carmakers, especially the makers in China, are working to reduce or eliminate the scent due to the consumer complaints about health or discomfort. 00:09:33:18 - 00:10:06:07 Unknown So the iconic new car smell is partly disappearing and sometimes synthetically recreated just to keep the nostalgia alive. So to sum it up, no single inventor, but a perfect storm of chemistry, manufacturing and marketing. Nostalgia made New car smell a thing. I'm like, okay guys, I really I thought this was going to be a cute story about GM and Chevy or GM and Ford going after, like, you know, the how to make the cars most appealing. 00:10:06:07 - 00:10:33:04 Unknown Not well, people just like the poison. And so we bottled it and called it new car smell. What? Okay, okay okay. Well that's really sad. Cool. That's really sad. Cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool cool. No problems here. I'm totally fine. No worries. Oh, good. Sorry. This has gone on way too long. Whenever I'm drinking, energy drinks like that doesn't have poison in it. 00:10:33:09 - 00:10:58:26 Unknown Like, that's not going to come out one day, that there's actually battery acid in all the energy drinks I drink. Wow. Right. So let's go on to something not better, but certainly cuter. How about that? Is that a transition? Is that, is that a transition in talking? Not really. So I believe it's Cincinnati, Ohio or Columbus, maybe Cincinnati. 00:10:58:35 - 00:11:26:06 Unknown Did you know that it's infested with lizards? And I know you're thinking southern Ohio is not infested with lizards, babe. Like, that's that's not where lizards live. And I know that. But I think a little boy at some point did not know that and really wanted a pet lizard. So he snuck ten one, I think is ten to a dozen lizards in a snake home from China. 00:11:26:06 - 00:11:52:39 Unknown And they got out and now they infest Cincinnati, Ohio. So let me go ahead and read you this story about this little boy. It is Cincinnati, the Mediterranean. Excuse me. That's crazy. Italy, not China. Sorry. In 1951, a ten year old boy named Rod Row Junior brought ten Mediterranean wall lizards from Italy back to his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, in a sock. 00:11:52:44 - 00:12:15:34 Unknown These lizards, known as Lazarus lizards, thrived in Cincinnati, and their descendants are now in the tens of thousands, making them a significant part of the city's ecosystem. So what? That's crazy. You're smuggling. You're smuggling lizards, and now they're just like. But now they're part of it. And they thrived. Is that okay? How big do these get? What's the lizards? 00:12:15:39 - 00:12:40:36 Unknown What's the Lazarus lizard? I need to know, okay. They are so little. They are itty bitty. There's so tiny. They're actually so cute. Images. Please still be cute. Yeah, they probably bugs and shit. They are. They have this, like, little red stripe on them. There's spots on. They so cute. I really like them. Oh my God. But they couldn't be any smaller. 00:12:40:40 - 00:13:10:01 Unknown Right. What's I need to know? Size. Yes. Size comparison to that I can't do that. 20cm, which they're five and a half to eight inches in length, so eight inches. Trust me, I know eight inches. It's it's great. It's fine. It's it's the length of a Lazarus lizard. So for sure Lazarus lizards are small than lizards with very variable colors and patterns on their scales. 00:13:10:01 - 00:13:31:46 Unknown And they often have dark markings on their throats. They're native to southern Europe and have been introduced in North America, including areas like Cincinnati where they have established a large population. Can these I mean, does it snow? Like, can they survive snow? Whatever. What do they eat? Yeah. What do they eat? Insects. Yes. Or that those eating bugs out here eating bugs. 00:13:31:51 - 00:13:51:32 Unknown I personally rather have a lizard than a bug. I rather get rid of a lizard than a bug. I know what you're thinking. That's crazy. But a bug is creepy ish. Creepy crawly? No, I don't like that a lizard is creepy crawly in a way that like this is going to eat the bugs. I don't know, it's like, I don't know. 00:13:51:32 - 00:14:12:55 Unknown I'm thinking about bugs now, so if you don't know now you know about the Lazarus lizard in Cincinnati, Ohio. How wonderful. Don't ever say that this podcast is useless. Let me tell you, don't ever say that because I can teach you so many things that the internet already has on there that you could access yourself, but rather listen to me talk about and react to. 00:14:12:55 - 00:14:43:48 Unknown Hey hey hey, yeah, yeah. Okay, cool. You know, you're like 20 minutes in there. This is too much. Okay, so we talked about the recommendations we have about Jurassic World Rebirth. We talked about Neopets being owned by Scientology. That's nuts. Again, this is batch recorded. So like July 1st, if something crazy has happened, which. Listen, I know I said that in the last episode, but Ambien. 00:14:43:48 - 00:15:06:14 Unknown So for real, like the girls, the horoscope girls that I follow on TikTok, not TikTok, Instagram, it's all kind of crazy for July. It's all kind of nutty, so be careful with whatever you're doing. Same here to me. Hello. Same here to me. It's not like a scary omen. I'm going to be very careful and I'm going to be very safe. 00:15:06:14 - 00:15:31:48 Unknown I'm going to come back to you all kinds of worry. But okay, now, I don't think we have enough time to go through and react to some of these videos. I wanted to, but what was okay? How many of you guys stay for the like after credit scenes in a movie? Are you somebody that's like, no, no, no, no, I'm outie 5000. 00:15:31:48 - 00:15:55:55 Unknown I'm Gonzo, or are you somebody that's like, no, you sit my butt down. I'm going to watch this for sure. I'm going to know all of the details about everything. So I personally it just depends, you know, like, my husband will of course make a stay for the after credits scene for a marvel movie or something. But do I, like, anticipate that all the time? 00:15:56:04 - 00:16:24:34 Unknown No, not really, but who did that first? No way. Was it really okay. Technically it was the Silencers in 1966, a spy spoof starring Dean Martin as Matt Helm. At the end of the credits, a message appeared saying, coming up next, Matt Helm meets Lovey Kravitz. But that's not really a scene. It's like a statement or like a teaser, a teaser sentence, not even teaser. 00:16:24:45 - 00:16:51:00 Unknown But this is really cool. Other early examples. Airplane in 1980. If you've not seen airplane, fuck my whatever, watch airplane. Yes, it's very dated. It's extremely, very dated. But airplane featured a joke scene after the credits. That's cool. I appreciate that airplane is such an early. It's such an early example of like, comedy and loved it at the time. 00:16:51:00 - 00:17:25:48 Unknown At least. Ferris Bueller's Day Off famous for breaking the fourth wall. You're still here sober. Go home when he says that at the end. And then, of course, Marvel Studios turn the post-credits scene into a cultural ritual. Yes. No way. Starting with Iron Man in 2008 and Nick Fury's Avengers Initiative and Nick Fury's Avengers Initiative teaser, but all traces back to the little Tiki moment in The Silencers, proof that even in 1966, Hollywood knew how to keep audiences wanting just a little bit more, so says I. 00:17:25:53 - 00:17:46:39 Unknown So that is very cool. I was I was wondering if it became such a cultural thing with Marvel, or if this was like a a thing in Hollywood and stopped and whatever. But obviously it was kind of like a people did it, but it didn't become like the moment it did until Marvel, which is cool for Marvel, like cool for military propaganda. 00:17:46:48 - 00:18:12:04 Unknown I always tell my husband that I'm like, yeah, I'll go see your military propaganda with you. Okay. What's next? We'll go ahead and get the recommendation the week out of the way. Recommendation of the week is if you have animals to make sure that they're prepped for July 4th and the fireworks, make sure that your cats have, like, a little nook in the basement that they can hide in, or their hidey spot is totally safe, or the spots you don't want them hiding in are blocked off. 00:18:12:09 - 00:18:30:25 Unknown Make sure that your dogs have their CBD treats. Hit them up. I will even link a CBD tree down below. It's probably too late for you guys to get them now, but you guys should for the future. Oh my gosh and I put lipstick on. I don't like put any lipstick on for this crazy. I'm looking real peachy, real summery this time. 00:18:30:25 - 00:18:51:23 Unknown It's fine. Just it's the middle of the summer scares, okay? And I know I was talking so fast this whole episode. That's why we blew through it, gang. So this episode's a little bit shorter. It's on me. And if you didn't follow it because I was talking so quickly, fine. Whatever. My other question is, why do I feel like one of my sides, my face looks better than the other? 00:18:51:28 - 00:19:20:30 Unknown Like I feel like, of course I feel like I knew this at some point, but then, you know, my brain is like, no, no, we actually you're going to forget all of that. So good luck to you. Okay. Facial asymmetry is normal. Okay. Selfie bias, celebrity culture. Oh. Psychological comfort. If you've ever thought the side of my face looks more confident, smiley, smooth in photos, your brain logs that info and it builds a bias over time. 00:19:20:34 - 00:19:48:45 Unknown Okay, the side you see most in photos or in a mirror becomes your preferred side while mirrors since mirrors flip your imagery. Oh my God, I'm not doing this. Yeah, I know, it's like facial asymmetries, right? Okay. So it's just my brain being like, yeah, this is probably better. It's this is probably better. Fun fact studies have shown that the left side of the face is often perceived as more attractive or expressive, possibly because it's controlled by the right brain hemisphere linked to emotion. 00:19:48:50 - 00:20:07:24 Unknown So yes, you probably do have a preferred side. And if you're not sure what it is, check out your last ten selfies and see which angle dominates. It's my left. It is my left. It's where you think I face you guys with this one. Hello. I'm always thinking, but okay, so which side is your face you prefer? Is it? 00:20:07:24 - 00:20:27:43 Unknown The left is probably the left. It's. I said it's probably the left. I'm saying doesn't matter. Okay, okay, you guys, listen, this was a short episode. I know, I know it was, I know it was. I could go on and on, but it's probably better that I don't. You guys, I want to hear you. You a little bit of a break your own with your July 4th plans. 00:20:27:43 - 00:20:43:42 Unknown You guys aren't listening this episode anyways, so. But go listen to my episode last week. You guys, what did I talk about? Oh, last week I got ordained. That was cool. That was really cool. So go see that. It's a it's a process you may not expect because I certainly didn't expect it. So anyways, have a safe July 4th. 00:20:43:42 - 00:20:54:02 Unknown You guys make sure that your pets are good. Make sure that you are good. Nobody blow our fingers. Okay, I already blew off a nail. We're not blowing our fingers. Okay? And I will see you guys next week. BYEEEEE