WEBVTT 00:00:11.630 --> 00:00:15.029 Hey everyone, welcome back to The Main Mic. I 00:00:15.029 --> 00:00:18.210 am your host, Harper, and I think we finally 00:00:18.210 --> 00:00:23.829 found your co -host. Hi, I'm Mackenzie. Hey Mackenzie, 00:00:23.989 --> 00:00:27.890 welcome to The Main Mic. Glad to be here. We're 00:00:27.890 --> 00:00:30.870 so excited to have you on the team, and it's 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:33.590 super exciting to finally have someone other 00:00:33.590 --> 00:00:44.200 than Zach to talk to. Anyways. How are you finding 00:00:44.200 --> 00:00:48.060 the messenger so far? Like, do you enjoy us? 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.479 Like, are you having fun? It's really fun. Like, 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:54.840 I enjoy writing. Like, that's my passion in life. 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:58.700 And everybody is really nice, too. Like, it's 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:01.119 really fun. It's a great environment to be around. 00:01:01.899 --> 00:01:05.599 So listeners are finding this now, but this is 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.560 the first time we've met. But I've heard so many 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:10.900 great things about you with Zach and Audrey. 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:13.200 I think Audrey's the one who introduced. But 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:15.500 they've already spoken about how you're such 00:01:15.500 --> 00:01:17.560 a passionate person about your writing and how 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:20.719 you're super into it. And I'm so excited to have 00:01:20.719 --> 00:01:23.719 you on the podcast with us. And I'm excited for 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:26.879 you to be our co -host. But why don't we start 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:28.859 with you just telling us a bit about yourself. 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:33.000 I mean, like, have you always been at Johnson 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:37.290 County? Are you a new student, old student? I 00:01:37.290 --> 00:01:41.230 started back in 2020, and then I took a three 00:01:41.230 --> 00:01:44.349 -year -long break, and I am here to finish this 00:01:44.349 --> 00:01:48.310 year, thankfully. Yeah, what's your major? What's 00:01:48.310 --> 00:01:51.370 your major in? Liberal arts, but I'm focusing 00:01:51.370 --> 00:01:54.569 on journalism. Are you going to go to a four 00:01:54.569 --> 00:01:57.109 -year after Johnson County? Yeah, I plan to go 00:01:57.109 --> 00:02:00.980 to the University of Texas at Arlington. Ooh, 00:02:00.980 --> 00:02:04.239 okay, okay. So like eight hours away by car. 00:02:04.739 --> 00:02:06.780 I mean, that's not the worst thing possible. 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:09.699 You can always, what, Florida's a 12 -hour drive, 00:02:09.780 --> 00:02:14.659 right? Florida? Yeah. Florida University? Is 00:02:14.659 --> 00:02:19.460 it? It's a 12 to 16. Hmm. I thought, wait, is 00:02:19.460 --> 00:02:22.340 it in Florida? Yeah. I thought Florida was like 00:02:22.340 --> 00:02:27.759 a day drive. Maybe it's just depending on where 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:31.189 we come from. I mean, it always takes me, like, 00:02:31.270 --> 00:02:34.009 16 hours to drive to my cousin's, and they live, 00:02:34.110 --> 00:02:39.270 like... It depends on what part of Florida. How 00:02:39.270 --> 00:02:41.590 do you want to get to Florida? Right. How bad 00:02:41.590 --> 00:02:45.050 do you want to get there? Oops. Because I feel 00:02:45.050 --> 00:02:48.590 like from Kansas to Florida is, like, at least 00:02:48.590 --> 00:02:53.229 20 hours. I don't know. They're Pensacola, so 00:02:53.229 --> 00:02:56.069 they're, like, not far down. They're not on the 00:02:56.069 --> 00:02:58.729 tongue, whatever you want to call it. Right. 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.840 So, I mean, we can just cut this part. I'm kidding, 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:09.360 I'm kidding, I'm kidding. But, yeah, so you enjoy 00:03:09.360 --> 00:03:12.659 journalism, of course. Anything else? Like, are 00:03:12.659 --> 00:03:15.259 you, I mean, we've talked about you like creative 00:03:15.259 --> 00:03:17.539 writing. Do you have any, like, little notes 00:03:17.539 --> 00:03:19.860 or, I guess, stories that you've written so far? 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.900 I've written about, like, ten stories so far. 00:03:24.060 --> 00:03:27.860 Now, they're not finished, so, but. I've been 00:03:27.860 --> 00:03:31.780 writing those stories since like 2014. I mean, 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:35.819 that's one way to create your novel, right? Yeah. 00:03:36.699 --> 00:03:39.180 Most of them, a good portion of them were like... 00:03:39.340 --> 00:03:42.159 fan fiction and then the rest of it is like original 00:03:42.159 --> 00:03:45.360 stories from me hey we've all we've all started 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:48.680 with fan fiction and anyone who denies saying 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:50.740 that they haven't read fan fiction or written 00:03:50.740 --> 00:03:52.719 fan fiction it's always one of their two you 00:03:52.719 --> 00:03:54.719 always read it write it or at least know about 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:58.219 it to like be a part of the wattpad community 00:03:58.219 --> 00:04:01.879 or like i swear i've not met a single person 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.060 who has not had an interaction with wattpad so 00:04:05.060 --> 00:04:08.740 you are yeah I completely understand you. You're 00:04:08.740 --> 00:04:12.780 cool. Thank you. What were your fan fictions 00:04:12.780 --> 00:04:17.339 written about? Mostly anime shows, so shows like 00:04:17.339 --> 00:04:23.800 Dragon Ball Z or Fairytale or even Oron High 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:26.839 School Host Club. That's like my favorite show, 00:04:26.939 --> 00:04:29.699 like peak romance right there. I love it. Well, 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:32.319 I'm not sure if you've listened to some of the 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:35.019 episodes of our podcast, but Zach and I do go 00:04:35.019 --> 00:04:39.500 heavy on One Piece. I'm catching up on one piece 00:04:39.500 --> 00:04:43.459 right now. I'm on, like, episode 960 -something. 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.220 You're getting there. You're getting there. It's 00:04:46.220 --> 00:04:50.079 such a long road. Yeah, I think everyone on Messenger 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.939 is just, we're all a bunch of nerds, so feel 00:04:52.939 --> 00:04:55.360 free to share your passion with anime with us. 00:04:55.459 --> 00:04:58.680 Yes. I mean, we're, I think most of us are trying 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.180 to go to Comic -Con. This coming up, what, it's... 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:05.259 It's in like two, three weeks now, right? Two 00:05:05.259 --> 00:05:09.540 weeks? I think so. March 21st to the 23rd. So 00:05:09.540 --> 00:05:12.180 that's going to be fun. Do you plan on going, 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.040 attending? No, I hadn't actually looked into 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:18.519 it at all. I know that NakaCon is coming up too. 00:05:18.860 --> 00:05:21.620 What's NakaCon? NakaCon is the anime convention 00:05:21.620 --> 00:05:24.839 in Overland Park at the Overland Park Convention 00:05:24.839 --> 00:05:28.319 Center. Oh, right, right, right. No, I've seen, 00:05:28.439 --> 00:05:30.800 I mean, I used to live like down the street from 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:35.199 OP convention. So I've seen everyone like showing 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:39.579 up, dressed up. It looks so cool. Have you attended 00:05:39.579 --> 00:05:42.279 it before? Yeah, I've been like two or three 00:05:42.279 --> 00:05:45.779 times, I think. It's pretty fun. Like it's really 00:05:45.779 --> 00:05:49.220 big too, but I really, the vendor hall is like. 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:51.980 The place I love to be, but I hate spending money. 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.639 But it's fun. And there's, like, a giant party 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:59.019 at the end of it. And, like, the last one I went 00:05:59.019 --> 00:06:02.980 to, they were doing, like, workout dances. Like 00:06:02.980 --> 00:06:06.800 Zumba? Yeah, kind of. I don't really know how 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:10.019 to explain it. I don't remember the girl's name, 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:13.360 but she was singing on stage and, like, basically, 00:06:13.420 --> 00:06:15.959 like, telling everybody what to do, what the 00:06:15.959 --> 00:06:19.540 dances were. But, yeah, it was pretty fun. Like, 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:21.600 everybody was really hype about it. It sounds 00:06:21.600 --> 00:06:24.860 hype. I mean, I would love to go. When is that 00:06:24.860 --> 00:06:28.360 coming up? Sometime this month. I don't – it 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:32.819 might be, like, this weekend. Really? I think 00:06:32.819 --> 00:06:34.779 so. I'll have to look it up. I know it's close. 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:37.839 I'll have to look it up because that sounds like 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:42.120 something I'd attend just for fun. I mean, other 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.519 than the animes that you've watched and you said 00:06:44.519 --> 00:06:48.480 it's called Akka. NakaCon? NakaCon. NakaCon. 00:06:48.560 --> 00:06:54.600 Yeah. Gotcha. Do you like reading any... Where 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:58.540 do I want to go with this? Do you... In addition 00:06:58.540 --> 00:07:00.660 to watching anime, do you read mangas? I do. 00:07:01.420 --> 00:07:11.480 I do. I just got... That sounded angry. I just 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:16.490 bought a manga. I bought one called Orange. Okay. 00:07:16.569 --> 00:07:20.990 And I bought another one, and it was Fairytale 00:07:20.990 --> 00:07:24.250 100 Year Quest. I bought the first chapter. Ooh, 00:07:24.329 --> 00:07:27.629 so you're kind of in the fantasy. Yes, fantasy, 00:07:27.970 --> 00:07:31.829 romance, adventure, all that. I need a healthy 00:07:31.829 --> 00:07:35.290 dose of romance in my life, you know? I understand, 00:07:35.449 --> 00:07:39.779 I understand. I mean, Zach and I, we've... mentioned 00:07:39.779 --> 00:07:42.740 before on the podcast how much we enjoy video 00:07:42.740 --> 00:07:49.860 games and how like I mean we we nerd out on certain 00:07:49.860 --> 00:07:56.360 games Do you also like video games? I do. I could 00:07:56.360 --> 00:08:00.279 nerd out all day on Sims 4. Oh my gosh. 100%. 00:08:00.279 --> 00:08:04.699 That's what I was talking about a week ago. I 00:08:04.699 --> 00:08:08.639 have so many different families. There's so much 00:08:08.639 --> 00:08:13.360 drama. Literally. So many mods in my game because 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:16.819 I bought a PC specifically to play Sims 4. No, 00:08:16.819 --> 00:08:19.300 yeah. That's how it starts. It is how it starts. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:23.160 Like $1 ,200 out of my pocket just to play Sims. 00:08:24.500 --> 00:08:27.589 I mean, that's like... the girl dream that's 00:08:27.589 --> 00:08:32.529 i did that too like minecraft sims roblox yes 00:08:32.529 --> 00:08:34.690 and then you get into the steam games but you're 00:08:34.690 --> 00:08:38.129 always stuck on the main core three it's so fun 00:08:38.129 --> 00:08:42.309 i'd say my core three are probably sims 4 minecraft 00:08:42.309 --> 00:08:48.909 and uh the finals which is a first uh first person 00:08:48.909 --> 00:08:50.889 shooter yeah first person shooter i was gonna 00:08:50.889 --> 00:08:55.230 say rpg i'm like no but it's fun i love that 00:08:55.230 --> 00:08:59.929 game yeah um i mean i i think i've heard zach 00:08:59.929 --> 00:09:01.769 talk about it but i don't think i've ever played 00:09:01.769 --> 00:09:06.730 it before what game is it it's um it's really 00:09:06.730 --> 00:09:09.629 it's similar to like apex legends if you've ever 00:09:09.629 --> 00:09:13.850 played that yeah okay and you just there's different 00:09:13.850 --> 00:09:18.149 different ways that you can play like you can 00:09:18.149 --> 00:09:21.690 do a group one with like three people you could 00:09:21.690 --> 00:09:26.419 do one with like five people so yeah i think 00:09:26.419 --> 00:09:28.720 the five one is like the platform run where you're 00:09:28.720 --> 00:09:30.919 just trying to hold the platform and get it to 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:35.840 your base but it's hard for me i'm not really 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.360 that great at first person shooter games but 00:09:38.360 --> 00:09:41.019 i still play the finals and apex legends too 00:09:41.019 --> 00:09:44.440 yeah i haven't played apex in years but i mean 00:09:44.440 --> 00:09:48.080 i used to play it all the time um one of the 00:09:48.080 --> 00:09:53.470 games that i have like my FPS gaming addiction 00:09:53.470 --> 00:09:57.889 on was I wasn't on the Fortnite bandwagon. I 00:09:57.889 --> 00:09:59.909 was actually, unfortunately, on the Valorant. 00:10:00.070 --> 00:10:03.750 I got addicted to that game heavily in high school. 00:10:04.710 --> 00:10:07.509 But other than that, like, you know, branching 00:10:07.509 --> 00:10:12.250 out to Overwatch or Apex Legends. Yeah, and then 00:10:12.250 --> 00:10:15.789 League of Legends. But I barely played that. 00:10:15.889 --> 00:10:19.190 Don't worry, don't worry. It was just like... 00:10:19.789 --> 00:10:22.149 One of those games that everyone would just play 00:10:22.149 --> 00:10:23.889 once it hit midnight because everyone was too 00:10:23.889 --> 00:10:27.110 tired to actually put in effort. They say not 00:10:27.110 --> 00:10:31.929 to play that game if you watch the show. League 00:10:31.929 --> 00:10:37.750 of Legends? Does it have a show show? It's Arcane, 00:10:37.789 --> 00:10:43.289 right? Oh, right. Yeah, no. I was thinking if 00:10:43.289 --> 00:10:46.429 there was an actual... I've watched the entirety 00:10:46.429 --> 00:10:48.629 of Arcane, but I thought you were talking about... 00:10:49.669 --> 00:10:51.289 I thought you were saying that there was, like, 00:10:51.389 --> 00:10:54.370 a League of Legends show about, like, everything. 00:10:54.509 --> 00:10:57.649 Oh, yeah. Obviously, Arcane's an animated show, 00:10:57.769 --> 00:11:00.850 but, like, something that wasn't Arcane. Because 00:11:00.850 --> 00:11:04.110 that's not, it has characters based off gameplay, 00:11:04.309 --> 00:11:10.610 but it's not game itself, is it? No, it's kind 00:11:10.610 --> 00:11:15.509 of based on the lore. Yeah. Of the characters, 00:11:15.690 --> 00:11:18.350 but they're making new spinoff shows for different 00:11:18.350 --> 00:11:23.769 characters. Yeah, I remember that crow at the 00:11:23.769 --> 00:11:27.730 end of Arcane, and that's leading into, I forget 00:11:27.730 --> 00:11:32.710 his name. But, geez, this would be so much more 00:11:32.710 --> 00:11:36.230 interesting if I knew everyone's name in the 00:11:36.230 --> 00:11:38.590 League of Legends. But, I mean, do you know why 00:11:38.590 --> 00:11:41.730 they say not to play League? You watch the show? 00:11:41.870 --> 00:11:43.509 They say that you're not going to like it. They're 00:11:43.509 --> 00:11:46.429 saying, like, the show is, like, it's showing 00:11:46.429 --> 00:11:49.009 you something different, I guess. I don't know. 00:11:49.129 --> 00:11:50.889 The show is way better. It's, like, way better. 00:11:51.070 --> 00:11:54.289 Because I thought about playing it, and then 00:11:54.289 --> 00:11:58.070 my sister's boyfriend was like, don't do that. 00:11:58.190 --> 00:12:00.470 It's not the same. It's not as good as the show. 00:12:00.509 --> 00:12:03.110 I'm like, oh, okay. You know what? I'll just 00:12:03.110 --> 00:12:08.169 listen to you. I mean, it's true. The League 00:12:08.169 --> 00:12:11.899 of Legends is. to me, feels like a game 12 -year 00:12:11.899 --> 00:12:16.000 -olds could play. All the characters are basically 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:22.059 based on this map. Have you ever played Skylanders? 00:12:22.379 --> 00:12:27.320 Yes, I used to love Skylanders. I can't remember 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:31.220 the name of the one I used to use, but I loved 00:12:31.220 --> 00:12:36.720 it. The swaps? Well, I mean... I mean, I used 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:38.860 to use the dragon. I think his name was like 00:12:38.860 --> 00:12:42.580 Spyro. Okay. Yeah. And then. I was the octopus. 00:12:43.039 --> 00:12:46.200 There's like. I think I remember the octopus, 00:12:46.299 --> 00:12:50.379 but there's also like the evil guy. Well, you 00:12:50.379 --> 00:12:53.480 said an evil guy? He looked evil. Or was he like 00:12:53.480 --> 00:12:55.740 the villain? The tiny. Is it a tiny purple guy? 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.620 Yeah. I think he was like purple or like gray 00:12:58.620 --> 00:13:01.899 or something. From the first game? Is it? And 00:13:01.899 --> 00:13:04.139 he had like a little. I think like a little black 00:13:04.139 --> 00:13:06.159 mask on, like just on his, I don't know. Is that 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:11.399 a ball? So she's talking about, oh geez, I know 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:13.240 exactly what you're talking about. Purple character, 00:13:13.419 --> 00:13:15.379 black mask, I don't think that's Skylanders. 00:13:16.179 --> 00:13:25.220 If not, I think that is, I used to play with 00:13:25.220 --> 00:13:28.500 this one. I remember this one. Oh, Stealth Elf? 00:13:28.580 --> 00:13:34.429 Yeah, Stealth Elf is like awesome. Trigger Happy 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:40.389 was my guy. Oh, I remember that one. I'm trying 00:13:40.389 --> 00:13:42.090 to find that little purple thing that you're 00:13:42.090 --> 00:13:44.070 talking about. I don't know if it's a thing. 00:13:46.470 --> 00:13:48.090 Is it from a different game? Is that what you're 00:13:48.090 --> 00:13:51.870 looking up? Yes. This. This guy. Chaos. That's 00:13:51.870 --> 00:13:55.190 his name? The villain? Yeah, I was like the villain. 00:13:55.269 --> 00:13:56.429 I couldn't remember what his name was. Oh, I 00:13:56.429 --> 00:13:59.629 didn't hear you say the villain. I was like, 00:13:59.649 --> 00:14:01.700 I don't know if he was actually. Playable because 00:14:01.700 --> 00:14:04.519 he's like the villain. He was playable in Trap 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:06.679 Force. You were able to capture him with a crystal. 00:14:07.019 --> 00:14:10.519 Okay. But then in the next game in Imagination, 00:14:10.659 --> 00:14:15.179 Imaginators? I think it's Imaginators. He was 00:14:15.179 --> 00:14:17.720 an actual figure you could buy. Okay. He was 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:20.700 a sensei or whatever it was in that game. I don't 00:14:20.700 --> 00:14:24.100 know. That game was not that good. Fell off after 00:14:24.100 --> 00:14:28.169 Trap Force. I remember Trap Force. I didn't play 00:14:28.169 --> 00:14:31.169 it. My brothers did, but I played the Skylanders 00:14:31.169 --> 00:14:34.009 and the Skylanders Swap. Yeah, Swap was also 00:14:34.009 --> 00:14:37.809 awesome. Swap was probably the best one. Honestly, 00:14:38.509 --> 00:14:41.629 I did talk to my mom about retrieving all of 00:14:41.629 --> 00:14:43.990 the Skylanders that we have back, and she said 00:14:43.990 --> 00:14:45.929 that she had to sell them because our Wii stopped 00:14:45.929 --> 00:14:48.730 working. I have all of them under my bed. Every 00:14:48.730 --> 00:14:51.990 single one. I'm sure our Wii stopped working. 00:14:51.990 --> 00:14:54.110 I even have the Bowser and the Donkey Kong one. 00:14:54.539 --> 00:14:56.639 Really? That's cool. Because it came with the 00:14:56.639 --> 00:14:59.539 Wii U. Oh, that makes sense. I played Super Chargers 00:14:59.539 --> 00:15:01.799 on the Wii U and they had custom vehicles and 00:15:01.799 --> 00:15:03.899 custom figures that worked as both a Skylander 00:15:03.899 --> 00:15:08.179 and an Amiibo. Nice. I remember, well, I mentioned 00:15:08.179 --> 00:15:11.080 Skylanders because to me, League of Legends reminds 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:14.840 me a lot like the Skylanders games. I know they're 00:15:14.840 --> 00:15:19.419 very, very different, but just think about like 00:15:19.419 --> 00:15:23.220 a 2D map of Skylanders is basically in my mind 00:15:23.220 --> 00:15:25.879 how... I mean, they both have a lot of characters, 00:15:25.940 --> 00:15:30.799 so I guess. Yeah. No, that's not why. The way 00:15:30.799 --> 00:15:34.620 they fight is, in my brain, how it is. I mean, 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:37.200 I know Skylanders is more of an adventure map 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:39.940 where you can break things and get coins. But, 00:15:39.940 --> 00:15:43.419 I mean, if you're playing League of Legends, 00:15:43.779 --> 00:15:47.019 it's like... Okay, in League of Legends, you're 00:15:47.019 --> 00:15:50.639 allowed to explore this 2D map with your character 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.299 on it. Your character's like a... two 3D map 00:15:53.299 --> 00:15:56.159 character, and then it's basically shadowed, 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:59.480 so you can only see what's around your peripheral 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:03.100 vision or what your character can see. Is that 00:16:03.100 --> 00:16:05.320 right? I haven't played it in so long. Zach, 00:16:05.419 --> 00:16:09.879 correct me. For what? League of Legends. I mean, 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:11.759 okay, hold on. First of all, are you assuming 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.460 that I play League of Legends? I am assuming 00:16:14.460 --> 00:16:20.549 that you know what it is. Okay, so... I don't 00:16:20.549 --> 00:16:22.429 know how you, like the only similarity between 00:16:22.429 --> 00:16:24.250 the games to me is that they both have a lot 00:16:24.250 --> 00:16:27.090 of characters. But you saying that makes me think 00:16:27.090 --> 00:16:28.970 that you've played it before. I have played League. 00:16:29.210 --> 00:16:32.509 Duh. Okay. So don't make me sound stupid for 00:16:32.509 --> 00:16:35.250 that. But I don't play it on a regular basis. 00:16:36.350 --> 00:16:40.649 Well, no, but like anyone who, anyone who has 00:16:40.649 --> 00:16:43.070 played a game can like vividly remember like 00:16:43.070 --> 00:16:45.710 a board or like. I don't know, maybe I have a 00:16:45.710 --> 00:16:49.269 visionary memory where I remember what League 00:16:49.269 --> 00:16:53.710 of Legends looks like. I guess they have similar 00:16:53.710 --> 00:16:57.870 graphics, in a sense. I just always remembered 00:16:57.870 --> 00:17:02.370 Skylanders was also that, at most of the time, 00:17:02.370 --> 00:17:05.369 it was a 2D map, and then your character was 00:17:05.369 --> 00:17:09.869 3D. Am I wrong about that? Yes. Oh. The entire 00:17:09.869 --> 00:17:14.200 map was 3D. Everything was 3D. That is my fault. 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.140 And that's still kind of true for League, too. 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:22.160 I mean, they're 3D maps, but you can't... I guess 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:24.380 it's just your viewpoint of it. Yeah, it's a 00:17:24.380 --> 00:17:28.500 top -down viewpoint on League, whereas Skylanders, 00:17:28.500 --> 00:17:31.920 it's third -person. Yeah. Skylanders was a lot 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:35.519 like... What was it called? Infinity? Disney 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:37.779 Infinity? Disney Infinity. Okay, first of all, 00:17:37.799 --> 00:17:40.259 Disney Infinity came out way after Skylanders 00:17:40.259 --> 00:17:43.140 did. I know, but I'm saying that I remember those 00:17:43.140 --> 00:17:45.119 being similar. Well, yeah, they're similar because 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.500 Disney copied it. I've never played that before. 00:17:48.579 --> 00:17:52.619 It was kind of mid. Honestly, think of it like 00:17:52.619 --> 00:17:57.079 a baby version of Fortnite. No? No, it was Skylanders. 00:17:57.140 --> 00:18:00.700 It was Skylanders, but with Disney characters. 00:18:01.099 --> 00:18:03.339 I remember building in it too, though, no? I 00:18:03.339 --> 00:18:05.920 think you could. That's why. The Lego one, Lego 00:18:05.920 --> 00:18:09.359 Dimensions. Ooh. You play Lego Dimensions? No. 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.039 That's crazy. That's the Lego version of Skylanders. 00:18:12.039 --> 00:18:15.220 That one was goaded. You would buy like figure 00:18:15.220 --> 00:18:17.240 packs and then you could play as the figures. 00:18:17.460 --> 00:18:20.000 Okay. But it also came with like a vehicle and 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:23.220 like an entire new map. It was really cool. That's 00:18:23.220 --> 00:18:25.509 cool. I mean, I've played. The Lego Fortnite, 00:18:25.650 --> 00:18:29.109 at least. Yeah, because that's exactly what I'm 00:18:29.109 --> 00:18:30.250 talking about. I know it's not the same, but, 00:18:30.289 --> 00:18:33.809 you know, it's Lego, you know. Yeah, I guess. 00:18:33.869 --> 00:18:36.069 It was fun. Lego Fortnite's not bad, actually. 00:18:36.250 --> 00:18:39.769 It's pretty fun. I liked the whole building and, 00:18:39.809 --> 00:18:41.410 like, you can make cars and things like that. 00:18:41.490 --> 00:18:44.710 I saw somebody make, like, this giant car to 00:18:44.710 --> 00:18:47.509 carry around, like, supplies. And I'm like, how 00:18:47.509 --> 00:18:48.829 did you do that? I think Harper's about to, like. 00:18:49.150 --> 00:18:51.750 diss the crap out of lego fortnite so i'm gonna 00:18:51.750 --> 00:18:56.529 see my way out no my thing is i don't i've still 00:18:56.529 --> 00:19:01.690 not played fortnite and i am not saying that 00:19:01.690 --> 00:19:04.289 to like not relate to it but i'm saying the one 00:19:04.289 --> 00:19:07.410 like lego thing that i can remember playing was 00:19:07.410 --> 00:19:12.529 lego star wars so I'm just sitting back trying 00:19:12.529 --> 00:19:16.809 to relate to you guys, but I've maybe touched 00:19:16.809 --> 00:19:21.150 Fortnite once and put it right back down. I've 00:19:21.150 --> 00:19:25.809 not touched it. We did get a bit off topic. I 00:19:25.809 --> 00:19:28.430 want to know more about you. Obviously, gaming 00:19:28.430 --> 00:19:34.390 is a big part of the Messenger's people. I guess 00:19:34.390 --> 00:19:37.450 is what... That's an appropriate word for us. 00:19:37.630 --> 00:19:42.930 Like, we're all nerds, like I said. But I want 00:19:42.930 --> 00:19:46.289 to hear more about you. So I guess just tell 00:19:46.289 --> 00:19:49.750 me about you, like where you grew up, high school, 00:19:49.910 --> 00:19:53.920 college, whatever you're comfortable. I did not 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:57.279 prepare questions. I'm fully prepared to listen. 00:19:57.700 --> 00:20:00.660 Okay. Well, I mean, I grew up here in Kansas, 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:04.500 born and raised. I was born at KU Medical, so, 00:20:04.619 --> 00:20:12.440 yeah. Kansas flowing through my veins. But I 00:20:12.440 --> 00:20:17.579 grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, actually. And 00:20:17.579 --> 00:20:20.450 I was going to school over there at... Piper 00:20:20.450 --> 00:20:23.670 and then I moved over here in middle school and 00:20:23.670 --> 00:20:27.190 I went to Pioneer Trail and I went to Olathe 00:20:27.190 --> 00:20:31.930 East where I graduated from. So after that I 00:20:31.930 --> 00:20:35.950 came here and I did all my gen eds and then I 00:20:35.950 --> 00:20:39.990 went to university. So I went all the way to 00:20:39.990 --> 00:20:43.690 Langston, Oklahoma to attend Langston University 00:20:43.690 --> 00:20:47.250 for journalism and I was only there for one semester. 00:20:48.460 --> 00:20:54.319 Do you not – I'm trying to figure out. It's, 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:58.000 like, 30 minutes from OKC, so it's, like, four 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.859 hours from here. Oh, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:04.359 So, yeah. It's, like, just pretty close to OKC, 00:21:04.380 --> 00:21:09.799 but still 30 minutes out. But it was fun. I had 00:21:09.799 --> 00:21:13.680 a lot of fun there, like, socially, but education 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:18.220 -wise. There were just a lot of issues with like 00:21:18.220 --> 00:21:21.519 staff and like financial aid coming through. 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:23.599 Like it took a while for them to get my financial 00:21:23.599 --> 00:21:26.180 aid and they were like trying to get me to pay. 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:29.180 And I'm like, well, you haven't gotten my financial 00:21:29.180 --> 00:21:34.140 aid yet. So I only stayed for a semester. I made 00:21:34.140 --> 00:21:37.220 some lifelong friends. I'm happy to say that. 00:21:37.799 --> 00:21:40.259 And then I came back here so I can finish and 00:21:40.259 --> 00:21:44.619 get my associates. I'm glad that you decided 00:21:44.619 --> 00:21:50.160 to continue at Johnson County. Are you, you said 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:52.119 you're going back out to, you're going to Texas? 00:21:52.160 --> 00:21:55.880 Yes. Right after? Yeah. So what year technically 00:21:55.880 --> 00:22:00.299 will you be graduating? I will be completely 00:22:00.299 --> 00:22:05.880 done with school in like 2027, I think. Ooh, 00:22:05.980 --> 00:22:10.569 okay. That's in like including your Texas journalism 00:22:10.569 --> 00:22:14.490 degree? Mm -hmm. Good for you. Yeah. So this 00:22:14.490 --> 00:22:17.589 is my last year here. I'm finishing in the fall. 00:22:18.150 --> 00:22:24.450 So 2025, yay. But then I'm going to run down 00:22:24.450 --> 00:22:27.130 to Dallas and finish that and hopefully be done 00:22:27.130 --> 00:22:31.930 in 27, if not then 28. But progress is not linear 00:22:31.930 --> 00:22:34.859 is what I keep telling myself. That, I mean, 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:37.619 it's great advice. It's like my third year trying 00:22:37.619 --> 00:22:42.720 to get my associates right now. Yeah. Just can't 00:22:42.720 --> 00:22:45.779 get my head around math. I mean, this is five 00:22:45.779 --> 00:22:50.319 years in the making for me, so. Yeah. Honestly, 00:22:50.420 --> 00:22:54.799 that's like the best thing you can do at the 00:22:54.799 --> 00:22:58.799 age we're at right now is just education. To 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:01.460 me, it doesn't really matter how long it takes. 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:07.319 for, like, education to end, per se, like, graduate 00:23:07.319 --> 00:23:10.619 from. I just, I don't know. Or maybe that's, 00:23:10.619 --> 00:23:15.759 like, just something that I tell myself to, like, 00:23:15.759 --> 00:23:20.160 make myself feel better about not really enjoying, 00:23:20.259 --> 00:23:25.160 you know, math or, you know. Honestly, that's 00:23:25.160 --> 00:23:28.319 really the only one I have beef with. Math. I 00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:32.819 hate math. I do, too. I had to take the placement 00:23:32.819 --> 00:23:35.940 test when I got here because I guess I had totally 00:23:35.940 --> 00:23:40.000 bombed on the math section on the ACT. So I've 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:44.099 taken like three math classes here. And I'm like, 00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:46.680 okay, that's a lot. I don't want to take any 00:23:46.680 --> 00:23:49.519 more. No, I've taken two and I need to take two 00:23:49.519 --> 00:23:53.700 more to be finally finished with math. So I just 00:23:53.700 --> 00:23:58.420 like, it's very, I'm trying to find. proper word 00:23:58.420 --> 00:24:07.720 for it it's very it gets underwhelming and boring 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:12.079 yeah trying to because I don't want to say it's 00:24:12.079 --> 00:24:19.779 it's on the tip of my tongue anyways but I'm 00:24:19.779 --> 00:24:22.380 still very into school it's not math that's holding 00:24:22.380 --> 00:24:24.619 me back it's just the fact that I have to take 00:24:24.619 --> 00:24:29.029 so much math And that's what I'm least passionate 00:24:29.029 --> 00:24:36.349 about. So it's really just like I'm staying here 00:24:36.349 --> 00:24:40.670 as long as I can. I'm happy to be done with math. 00:24:40.829 --> 00:24:44.130 Oh, my gosh. And I was honestly upset I had to 00:24:44.130 --> 00:24:47.569 take the placement test because senior year I 00:24:47.569 --> 00:24:50.660 made it all the way to trig. And I was good at 00:24:50.660 --> 00:24:53.420 trig. And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm good at 00:24:53.420 --> 00:24:55.880 this. But I bombed the ACT because it was a bunch 00:24:55.880 --> 00:24:59.519 of geometry. I was like, I sucked at geometry. 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:07.839 How much I wish. I suck at algebra. So I'm not 00:25:07.839 --> 00:25:10.700 going to brag and say I'm great at something 00:25:10.700 --> 00:25:15.849 and that something be math. Geometry wasn't what 00:25:15.849 --> 00:25:18.130 I ever struggled with. It was algebra. And to 00:25:18.130 --> 00:25:21.509 me, algebra is supposed to be so easy. So I just 00:25:21.509 --> 00:25:23.829 doubt myself every time I step into another math 00:25:23.829 --> 00:25:27.109 classroom. I'm just like, ah, shoot, algebra. 00:25:27.470 --> 00:25:30.630 I suck at this. I've taken algebra at least three 00:25:30.630 --> 00:25:35.609 or four times. So you're not alone. Thank goodness. 00:25:36.349 --> 00:25:38.509 That's like such a relief hearing that other 00:25:38.509 --> 00:25:42.009 people also hate math. I mean, I know it's... 00:25:43.279 --> 00:25:48.640 pretty universal not to favor math but um it's 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:53.700 relieving to hear that math is just universally 00:25:53.700 --> 00:25:58.579 hated i really feel like you can be good at math 00:25:58.579 --> 00:26:01.839 if you have a good teacher i believe so because 00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:05.599 like i was definitely intimidated by trig but 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:08.339 i had a great teacher and she like explained 00:26:08.339 --> 00:26:12.029 it perfectly and like i got it immediately whereas 00:26:12.029 --> 00:26:14.950 algebra i had to take it that many times because 00:26:14.950 --> 00:26:18.890 i took it once in like eighth grade didn't understand 00:26:18.890 --> 00:26:21.670 anything our teacher was not like actually teaching 00:26:21.670 --> 00:26:24.950 us which really sucked i don't know why she was 00:26:24.950 --> 00:26:27.910 doing it like that she would like make us watch 00:26:27.910 --> 00:26:32.390 videos about algebra that she recorded no i was 00:26:32.390 --> 00:26:35.619 like Eh, this isn't really working for me. So 00:26:35.619 --> 00:26:38.960 I took it again in ninth grade and I passed. 00:26:39.660 --> 00:26:42.480 And then I took it again when I got here. And 00:26:42.480 --> 00:26:45.099 then I had to take it one more time when I went 00:26:45.099 --> 00:26:51.279 to university. So a lot of algebra. Yeah, let's 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:52.619 hope that you don't have to take any when you 00:26:52.619 --> 00:26:56.259 get to Texas. Yes, I hope so. I hope all the 00:26:56.259 --> 00:26:58.500 credit chance are over and I don't have to do 00:26:58.500 --> 00:27:01.849 much work. I just want to finish. Smooth sailing. 00:27:02.049 --> 00:27:06.809 Yes. But anyways, so you go to Johnson County. 00:27:06.930 --> 00:27:09.630 Do you have any younger siblings, older siblings 00:27:09.630 --> 00:27:14.569 that? Yeah. I love this question. Oh, my gosh. 00:27:14.930 --> 00:27:16.789 Everyone is always surprised when I say it. I 00:27:16.789 --> 00:27:22.289 have six siblings. Wow. Yes. I have one younger 00:27:22.289 --> 00:27:26.269 brother, and I have five older sisters. Dang. 00:27:26.289 --> 00:27:30.779 I am the youngest girl. So I am the princess, 00:27:30.900 --> 00:27:34.099 the baby girl. I'm a little bit spoiled, I guess. 00:27:34.859 --> 00:27:39.059 But I get all the hand -me -down clothes. But 00:27:39.059 --> 00:27:44.920 my three of my siblings went here. Yeah, and 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:47.079 two of them are still attending right now with 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:49.779 me. And, like, we always meet up, like, in the 00:27:49.779 --> 00:27:53.180 cafeteria. Just chill, walk to class together, 00:27:53.420 --> 00:27:55.900 just things like that. It's fun to have them 00:27:55.900 --> 00:27:59.720 around. I mean, yeah, I think next year is when 00:27:59.720 --> 00:28:04.059 my middle child, I'm the oldest of three, my 00:28:04.059 --> 00:28:06.720 middle child brother, he's the one who's going 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:11.140 to hopefully attend Johnson County next. He's 00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:15.160 really into music. That's good. I don't know. 00:28:15.259 --> 00:28:17.279 Maybe he'll do the whole little brother thing 00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:19.579 where he'll act like he hates me. And, like, 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:21.880 I don't know this girl. I don't even know her. 00:28:22.039 --> 00:28:24.640 I did that to my brother on, like, the first 00:28:24.640 --> 00:28:27.980 day. I saw him walking in the hallway, and I 00:28:27.980 --> 00:28:32.000 looked at him. I said, I don't know you. And 00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:34.180 he started laughing. I'm like, yeah, I don't 00:28:34.180 --> 00:28:37.539 know you at all. Well, I'm glad it's, like, an 00:28:37.539 --> 00:28:41.559 older sister thing, you know? Like, I mean. Who 00:28:41.559 --> 00:28:44.720 knows? Maybe it'll be me ignoring him, or maybe... 00:28:44.720 --> 00:28:48.539 Maybe. If he does something embarrassing, I'm 00:28:48.539 --> 00:28:52.940 not going to associate myself with him. Yeah, 00:28:53.099 --> 00:28:55.619 I believe my youngest brother, I don't think 00:28:55.619 --> 00:28:58.380 he'll attend Johnson County. I think he'll maybe 00:28:58.380 --> 00:29:02.839 attend KU, or I think at one point he wanted 00:29:02.839 --> 00:29:06.369 to go to... iowa state so that's a good school 00:29:06.369 --> 00:29:09.210 though he'll i'm sure he'll figure out what he 00:29:09.210 --> 00:29:11.549 wants to do and find a good college for it but 00:29:11.549 --> 00:29:13.410 i don't think he'll be attending johnson county 00:29:13.410 --> 00:29:19.490 unfortunately um but yeah so dang seven yeah 00:29:19.490 --> 00:29:24.730 there's seven of us well big happy family very 00:29:24.730 --> 00:29:28.930 big and like you said the hammy downs yeah i 00:29:28.930 --> 00:29:31.069 was the oldest i never got the hammy downs and 00:29:31.069 --> 00:29:36.500 then a I mean, I got, like, my mom's once I was 00:29:36.500 --> 00:29:45.740 at, like, 16. Yeah. But I got, like, three new 00:29:45.740 --> 00:29:49.640 outfits for school, and then I'd have to re -wear 00:29:49.640 --> 00:29:53.099 those clothes until middle school and when I 00:29:53.099 --> 00:29:56.500 discovered thrifting. Yes, I love thrifting. 00:29:56.819 --> 00:29:59.500 Hand -me -down clothes aren't always, like, the 00:29:59.500 --> 00:30:03.440 best. I still get clothes from my older sister, 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:06.819 but she's smaller than me. She just gave me this 00:30:06.819 --> 00:30:09.640 dress. I cannot fit it. So I told her, I'm like, 00:30:09.660 --> 00:30:12.160 I'm about to cut it into a skirt. So I'm going 00:30:12.160 --> 00:30:14.259 to cut it into a skirt and pair it with a nice 00:30:14.259 --> 00:30:17.359 cute top. And like, hopefully it works out. Are 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:19.440 you good at sewing and hemming and stuff? I can 00:30:19.440 --> 00:30:22.180 sew. That's cool. I'm not going to say I'm great 00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:25.319 at it, but I'm decent. You know how to adjust 00:30:25.319 --> 00:30:28.359 things to your size and stuff. Yeah, I can do 00:30:28.359 --> 00:30:31.660 that. That's a life skill I need to learn. Yeah, 00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:35.579 I mean, fun fact about me, I make my own cosplays. 00:30:35.680 --> 00:30:38.140 Really? Yes. Do you have like a cosplay Instagram 00:30:38.140 --> 00:30:42.900 account? I don't. I need to make one, but I don't. 00:30:43.140 --> 00:30:47.579 Who do you like cosplaying? The first one I made 00:30:47.579 --> 00:30:52.519 was a character from this show called Seraph 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.180 of the End. I don't remember his name right now, 00:30:56.299 --> 00:31:00.240 but he was literally a sword, but he was the 00:31:00.240 --> 00:31:03.359 spirit inside of the sword. So you cosplayed 00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:06.099 the spirit or the sword? The spirit. And I have 00:31:06.099 --> 00:31:10.279 the sword, so that too. You held yourself up? 00:31:10.380 --> 00:31:14.519 Yeah. Because there's pictures of him standing 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:17.420 on the sword. I'm like, I could probably edit 00:31:17.420 --> 00:31:20.160 that and make it look nice. But I haven't done 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:23.450 it. I usually make my own and then I'll go to 00:31:23.450 --> 00:31:26.089 the conventions dressed as whoever I choose. 00:31:26.930 --> 00:31:33.990 So, yeah. What else did I do? I did. I was actually 00:31:33.990 --> 00:31:37.750 making a Frankie cosplay from One Piece. Yeah. 00:31:37.990 --> 00:31:39.990 Because I wanted. Yes, I wanted to do. I just 00:31:39.990 --> 00:31:41.589 wanted to be at the convention and just go like 00:31:41.589 --> 00:31:46.269 super like and have like cola with me. Like it 00:31:46.269 --> 00:31:48.509 would have been so cool. But I haven't finished 00:31:48.509 --> 00:31:52.200 it yet. I don't know. I need to make the arm 00:31:52.200 --> 00:31:56.440 pieces. So it's just weird because it's, like, 00:31:56.519 --> 00:32:02.140 the one I'm cosplaying is Frankie from, I think 00:32:02.140 --> 00:32:05.740 it's Water 7. And he's literally just in, like, 00:32:05.740 --> 00:32:10.380 a bikini. So I don't know if I'm still going 00:32:10.380 --> 00:32:13.799 to do it because, like, that's just a lot. I 00:32:13.799 --> 00:32:17.119 mean, you might as well just have the Frankie 00:32:17.119 --> 00:32:20.950 outline and then that way you can. put Frankie's 00:32:20.950 --> 00:32:30.430 other costumes or outfits, cosplays, onto just 00:32:30.430 --> 00:32:34.529 a Frankie base. Yeah. I don't know. I think I'll 00:32:34.529 --> 00:32:38.369 still do it because it's specifically for a convention 00:32:38.369 --> 00:32:42.490 I'm going to at the end of May, which is all 00:32:42.490 --> 00:32:46.670 the way in Houston, Texas. What's the convention? 00:32:47.069 --> 00:32:51.609 It's called DreamCon. It's like a convention 00:32:51.609 --> 00:32:58.849 for black YouTubers and just content creators 00:32:58.849 --> 00:33:02.269 in general. Anybody who likes anime, music, and 00:33:02.269 --> 00:33:06.369 gaming. So, like, it's a big nerdy community. 00:33:06.950 --> 00:33:11.589 Cool, cool, cool. Well, obviously, everyone's 00:33:11.589 --> 00:33:15.150 a nerd here. And I love hearing about the cosplays 00:33:15.150 --> 00:33:18.470 that you are going to be creating. But I want 00:33:18.470 --> 00:33:23.420 to know, like, You're also a part of our life 00:33:23.420 --> 00:33:27.240 desk. Like, you're going to start writing for 00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:30.039 us as well. Yeah. So I kind of just wanted to 00:33:30.039 --> 00:33:32.299 ask you, like, what got you into journaling? 00:33:34.119 --> 00:33:38.180 I've been, okay, well, I've been doing creative 00:33:38.180 --> 00:33:40.599 writing since I was a kid. And then when I got 00:33:40.599 --> 00:33:44.079 to high school. There was like a random assignment 00:33:44.079 --> 00:33:46.859 that I had in like ninth grade that was like 00:33:46.859 --> 00:33:49.720 writing about current events. And I was kind 00:33:49.720 --> 00:33:52.079 of like, oh, I actually enjoy like finding the 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:55.099 information and writing it, writing an article 00:33:55.099 --> 00:34:00.460 about it. And so I started like trying to be 00:34:00.460 --> 00:34:07.359 more of like a reporter. So I took like a photojournalism 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:09.840 class, but I'm not very good at photography. 00:34:12.119 --> 00:34:16.599 That one wasn't as great, but I've always been 00:34:16.599 --> 00:34:20.440 interested in writing in general. And then high 00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.380 school just kind of transformed that for me, 00:34:22.460 --> 00:34:25.760 which makes me happy to be happy. Well, I'm glad 00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:28.019 you found your passion. Is there, obviously, 00:34:28.199 --> 00:34:30.019 I mean, we've already mentioned that you've written 00:34:30.019 --> 00:34:35.599 Wattpads or Quotas? Quotas. Quotas? Yeah, it's 00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:37.860 like another site, just like Wattpad. Gotcha. 00:34:38.710 --> 00:34:41.670 I mean, what kind of creative writing other than 00:34:41.670 --> 00:34:44.969 fan fictions did you get on there? I usually 00:34:44.969 --> 00:34:50.650 focus on romance 100%, but I'm doing more of 00:34:50.650 --> 00:34:55.269 action nowadays. I've been writing this book 00:34:55.269 --> 00:35:00.530 like. since my senior year i think and i've changed 00:35:00.530 --> 00:35:03.590 it like a thousand times yeah but it's it doesn't 00:35:03.590 --> 00:35:06.610 have a heavy focus on romance which is new for 00:35:06.610 --> 00:35:09.650 me because i'm usually writing romance and it's 00:35:09.650 --> 00:35:13.750 more focused on the adventure and the action 00:35:13.750 --> 00:35:22.050 of the whole story so like um go ahead give us 00:35:22.050 --> 00:35:27.960 a snippet i know Basically, since I'm still writing 00:35:27.960 --> 00:35:30.239 it, I've been changing a lot of the plot of the 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:34.539 story. But it's basically about these twin sisters 00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:37.820 who are the princesses of this kingdom. And the 00:35:37.820 --> 00:35:40.239 kingdom gets attacked. And so they have to flee 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:45.000 to another kingdom. And their mother was also 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.619 kidnapped. So they have to save their mother 00:35:47.619 --> 00:35:52.369 and save their kingdom. Gotcha. Yeah. So it's 00:35:52.369 --> 00:35:55.590 just a adventure story about how these two twin 00:35:55.590 --> 00:36:01.210 sisters thrive to save their mother and their... 00:36:01.210 --> 00:36:07.769 Kingdom? Yep. Yeah, pretty much with a little 00:36:07.769 --> 00:36:10.769 romance sprinkled in there because I cannot go 00:36:10.769 --> 00:36:13.750 without it. Of course not. What's a book without 00:36:13.750 --> 00:36:17.550 at least one love interest? Yes, and I have like... 00:36:17.739 --> 00:36:20.739 two love interests in there right now one for 00:36:20.739 --> 00:36:23.519 each twin yes i think i'm gonna add one more 00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:28.639 just like to spice it up yeah so don't spoil 00:36:28.639 --> 00:36:31.780 too much about it but if there's gonna be a third 00:36:31.780 --> 00:36:33.940 love interest and there's only two characters 00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:37.440 that have main love interest does this mean either 00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:39.980 one of them is going to be stuck in a love triangle 00:36:39.980 --> 00:36:43.239 or are they twins going to be fighting after 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:45.920 this one character They're not going to fight 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:49.880 after one person. Like one of the twins, her 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.300 love interest is like solidified in my mind. 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:55.219 Like they're perfect for each other. That's how 00:36:55.219 --> 00:36:57.920 I want it. But the other one, the other twin, 00:36:58.039 --> 00:37:00.440 she's going to be the one stuck in the love triangle. 00:37:00.860 --> 00:37:04.500 Gotcha. I don't know if that'll spoil it if I 00:37:04.500 --> 00:37:11.019 say that. Well, I don't think it's a spoiler. 00:37:11.179 --> 00:37:14.780 I want the villain to be. A love interest? The 00:37:14.780 --> 00:37:18.539 love interest. Oh, my God. How spicy. Oh, my 00:37:18.539 --> 00:37:21.559 goodness. It's like a forbidden love. I love 00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:26.159 those. Oh, my gosh. Please tell me, do you write 00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:31.780 them in the visual, based off of twin A and twin 00:37:31.780 --> 00:37:35.380 B? Do you have two stories going at once, or 00:37:35.380 --> 00:37:40.139 is it just throughout an outer perspective of 00:37:40.139 --> 00:37:42.820 the entire situation going on? It's like an... 00:37:43.340 --> 00:37:45.719 outer perspective like the way that i'm writing 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:48.780 the story it's like a huge focus on the main 00:37:48.780 --> 00:37:52.460 plot with little side stories about each character 00:37:52.460 --> 00:37:56.940 with their may or may not who they may or may 00:37:56.940 --> 00:38:00.139 not end up with so they just have like little 00:38:00.139 --> 00:38:04.519 moments in the story right or like with the other 00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.019 twin whose love interest will be the villain 00:38:07.019 --> 00:38:10.420 like little fight scenes where they're like there's 00:38:10.420 --> 00:38:14.800 so much tension in the air like oh my goodness 00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:19.099 you're evil for that i know i i don't know i've 00:38:19.099 --> 00:38:22.500 always read these books that are like messing 00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:25.539 with the readers like pulling the heart strings 00:38:25.539 --> 00:38:28.159 like that's what i want to do i want to pull 00:38:28.159 --> 00:38:32.440 the heart strings of my readers well i mean Geez, 00:38:32.519 --> 00:38:35.280 I'm already interested in it. Do you have a title 00:38:35.280 --> 00:38:38.500 for it so far? No, I don't. Since I've changed 00:38:38.500 --> 00:38:43.219 it so much, it's completely different than what 00:38:43.219 --> 00:38:46.639 it was five years ago. So at first it was called 00:38:46.639 --> 00:38:49.659 Angels Below. Now it's not even called that anymore 00:38:49.659 --> 00:38:52.960 because it's not even about angels anymore. Oh, 00:38:53.079 --> 00:38:55.059 was that like the original scheme where it was 00:38:55.059 --> 00:38:57.119 going to be like an Angels vs. Devils? Mm -hmm. 00:38:57.400 --> 00:39:01.309 Ooh. Yeah, but then I changed it, so now they're 00:39:01.309 --> 00:39:06.130 just princesses. And it's still fantasy, so they're 00:39:06.130 --> 00:39:09.769 not human. They're a different race. I'm still 00:39:09.769 --> 00:39:12.510 figuring out what I want them to be, but I know 00:39:12.510 --> 00:39:16.750 that they're going to be half dragon. Okay. So 00:39:16.750 --> 00:39:20.449 kind of giving Game of Thrones vibe? Yeah, kind 00:39:20.449 --> 00:39:24.349 of. They'll have a dragon form, and then they'll 00:39:24.349 --> 00:39:26.530 have, like, a human form, I guess. Okay, cool. 00:39:26.670 --> 00:39:30.469 So they are able to transform in and out, or 00:39:30.469 --> 00:39:35.190 is it, like, difficult for them to conquer that 00:39:35.190 --> 00:39:39.670 power? I'm not sure yet. Ooh. I'm asking too 00:39:39.670 --> 00:39:41.090 many questions. I'm getting ahead of myself. 00:39:41.329 --> 00:39:44.989 Yeah, yeah. It's okay. We won't spoil the book, 00:39:45.130 --> 00:39:49.199 but I'm so glad that you have, like, a passion 00:39:49.199 --> 00:39:51.619 level of writing and like you're continuing that 00:39:51.619 --> 00:39:55.940 book um do you feel like you'll finish it soon 00:39:55.940 --> 00:39:59.300 or is it like gonna be a year's process the goal 00:39:59.300 --> 00:40:02.880 is to finish it this year that is the goal because 00:40:02.880 --> 00:40:05.639 i mean five years I've been writing it since 00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:08.239 senior year like I'm ready for it to be done 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:11.599 I just want to finish it like this whole journal 00:40:11.599 --> 00:40:15.199 is specifically for this book like have you been 00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:17.219 typing it out or just writing it on paper I've 00:40:17.219 --> 00:40:20.820 been typing it as well like I write uh like my 00:40:20.820 --> 00:40:23.739 character sheets on paper and then I'll go in 00:40:23.739 --> 00:40:26.880 um I'm writing it on Wattpad so there's that 00:40:26.880 --> 00:40:29.699 wait give us your user let's follow along with 00:40:29.699 --> 00:40:35.360 you I'm so excited okay um My user, I don't even 00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:39.780 remember what it is. It's, oh my gosh, I remember 00:40:39.780 --> 00:40:41.480 my username, but I'm not going to say it until 00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:47.159 after we're done recording. Okay, it's Kingsalee, 00:40:47.239 --> 00:40:56.500 so it's K -I -N -G -S -A -L -E -E. Okay. Yeah, 00:40:56.519 --> 00:41:02.429 so Kingsalee. Yeah, I've got like. three stories 00:41:02.429 --> 00:41:05.840 on there. Okay, okay. So, you know, if you want 00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:08.599 to read them. They're not finished, but, you 00:41:08.599 --> 00:41:11.360 know, if you want to read them, you can. I mean, 00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:14.059 if you ever, after this, I'll give you my username 00:41:14.059 --> 00:41:18.079 and we can just boast about how, I mean, I totally 00:41:18.079 --> 00:41:21.539 have some cringy Wattpad, like, fan fictions 00:41:21.539 --> 00:41:24.780 that I unfinished or, like, aren't finished. 00:41:24.900 --> 00:41:28.639 I remember, like, high school me, I had, or it 00:41:28.639 --> 00:41:30.639 was probably even middle school. I won't even 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:33.300 say it. It just bled into high school. like the 00:41:33.300 --> 00:41:37.780 beginning of it at least um where my fan fiction 00:41:37.780 --> 00:41:41.900 I was like writing and I it got big my fan fiction 00:41:41.900 --> 00:41:44.440 was I mean I don't know if it's like big but 00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:48.400 I mean like big for me is like 63 ,000 that's 00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:52.559 like a lot like readers yeah In the pressure 00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:56.019 of a middle schooler, that was awful. I was like, 00:41:56.059 --> 00:41:59.000 oh, I have to write. I have to. That's a lot, 00:41:59.099 --> 00:42:03.099 though. I mean, good for you. I gave up on it. 00:42:03.539 --> 00:42:05.340 Do you want to know what it's about? And I hope 00:42:05.340 --> 00:42:07.940 Zach listens and then cuts this. Or at least 00:42:07.940 --> 00:42:11.739 bleeps it. Do you know? Zach, please, please, 00:42:11.820 --> 00:42:17.840 please. This is so embarrassing, I swear. I know 00:42:17.840 --> 00:42:21.519 you don't like me, but please. I'm kidding. Anyways, 00:42:21.820 --> 00:42:27.380 it was, do you know... Yes. And do you know, 00:42:27.380 --> 00:42:33.960 like, how he... Okay, it was about that. Oh, 00:42:33.960 --> 00:42:37.239 my gosh. So, I'm pretty sure it was labeled... 00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:46.079 Hey, Zach. Thanks for joining us again. Yeah. 00:42:46.900 --> 00:42:50.710 Okay, cool, cool, cool. And we're back. Okay, 00:42:50.829 --> 00:42:55.170 we had to take a short little pause. We had our 00:42:55.170 --> 00:43:02.530 student stories guest stop in and we had to get 00:43:02.530 --> 00:43:06.309 them set up in the studio next door. Anyways, 00:43:06.650 --> 00:43:12.030 we were kind of just like rambling off the mic 00:43:12.030 --> 00:43:23.869 about our past Wattpad lives. It's really a good 00:43:23.869 --> 00:43:28.210 way to, I guess, bleed into the next question 00:43:28.210 --> 00:43:31.170 I wanted to ask, which are you excited for your 00:43:31.170 --> 00:43:39.130 first writing prompt or your first news? I mean, 00:43:39.150 --> 00:43:43.250 I have no idea what your first article for the 00:43:43.250 --> 00:43:46.980 Messenger is going to be. but i i'm excited to 00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:51.760 write it it's um it's about the the um the deca 00:43:51.760 --> 00:43:56.860 team which i had never actually heard of before 00:43:56.860 --> 00:43:58.880 and then it got assigned to me and i was like 00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.019 okay this actually sounds interesting so like 00:44:01.019 --> 00:44:05.579 i'm actively writing that um so what what's our 00:44:05.579 --> 00:44:12.719 deca team or the deca team deca is this group 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:20.280 that is for it prepares leaders and entrepreneurs 00:44:20.280 --> 00:44:27.199 in marketing finance and hospitality and management 00:44:27.199 --> 00:44:33.500 and it's like a like a worldwide thing also honestly 00:44:33.500 --> 00:44:36.559 we can be a little louder again i know that we're 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:38.960 trying we might just be subconsciously being 00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:41.619 a bit more quiet next door because we can hear 00:44:41.619 --> 00:44:47.070 them yeah but um Yeah, so that's really cool. 00:44:48.750 --> 00:44:50.949 Is it interesting learning about things that 00:44:50.949 --> 00:44:54.650 you have been unaware of prior? I mean, I didn't 00:44:54.650 --> 00:44:57.030 even know what that was until you just gave us 00:44:57.030 --> 00:45:00.150 the description. Yeah, apparently they did a 00:45:00.150 --> 00:45:03.789 competition recently, so I'll be covering the 00:45:03.789 --> 00:45:07.090 results of that competition, basically, and explaining 00:45:07.090 --> 00:45:11.289 what it is so people will know what it is and 00:45:11.289 --> 00:45:18.280 how they're doing. Well, that's fun. Yeah. Besides 00:45:18.280 --> 00:45:20.400 that, are you, like, paired with any other other 00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:23.360 journalists or reporters? Have you met any? Have 00:45:23.360 --> 00:45:26.159 you met anyone else besides Zach and I? I met, 00:45:26.300 --> 00:45:30.860 well, I met Audrey. She did my interview. I haven't 00:45:30.860 --> 00:45:34.380 met the editor, the one that assigned it to me. 00:45:34.420 --> 00:45:41.449 I haven't met him yet. And then my teacher. he's 00:45:41.449 --> 00:45:45.670 i guess he's the one that runs this so oh yeah 00:45:45.670 --> 00:45:54.250 um humphrey yeah he's really cool um he's actually 00:45:54.250 --> 00:45:56.329 i mean i had a class with zach and that's how 00:45:56.329 --> 00:46:01.550 i got the host of this i guess segment position 00:46:01.550 --> 00:46:07.800 um i Zach and I, Zach, Baptiste, and I, we all 00:46:07.800 --> 00:46:10.579 were in the same podcasting class. Okay. And 00:46:10.579 --> 00:46:15.039 so we, all three of us, were on the same assignment 00:46:15.039 --> 00:46:18.719 to have like a group podcast together. And I 00:46:18.719 --> 00:46:22.420 think it's really fun that Zach wanted to include 00:46:22.420 --> 00:46:26.789 me. And I honestly think Baptiste. And he's such 00:46:26.789 --> 00:46:30.289 a great journalist, and he will be a great news 00:46:30.289 --> 00:46:33.090 reporter or whatever he ventures out to be in 00:46:33.090 --> 00:46:36.369 the future. And, I mean, you're going to love 00:46:36.369 --> 00:46:38.070 him. You're going to have so much fun. I've met 00:46:38.070 --> 00:46:41.250 Baptiste, actually. Yeah. He's in my class. Oh, 00:46:41.250 --> 00:46:43.369 right. I think you did mention that. Yeah, he's 00:46:43.369 --> 00:46:46.369 in my class. We actually worked together on one 00:46:46.369 --> 00:46:50.369 of our assignments. We were doing aggregation 00:46:50.369 --> 00:46:54.670 articles for The Messenger. Me and him were working 00:46:54.670 --> 00:46:58.969 together on every other week. So he's the one 00:46:58.969 --> 00:47:02.590 that gave me the Black -Owned Business Expo story 00:47:02.590 --> 00:47:05.929 to do. And I see that he also did it, too. So 00:47:05.929 --> 00:47:09.230 I was like, oh, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, that 00:47:09.230 --> 00:47:13.369 was last Wednesday? Yeah, I think so. Did you 00:47:13.369 --> 00:47:17.400 obviously attend? And how was it? I went. a lot 00:47:17.400 --> 00:47:20.039 of people there was a lot of people it was uh 00:47:20.039 --> 00:47:24.000 hard to walk and i was with my sister and she 00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:26.179 had her baby with her too and we had the stroller 00:47:26.179 --> 00:47:28.980 but we had to sit the stroller outside because 00:47:28.980 --> 00:47:32.280 it was packed people yeah uh where was it the 00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:37.219 mtc or it was in the co -lab in ocb oh yeah i 00:47:37.219 --> 00:47:38.659 can see how that can get really packed really 00:47:38.659 --> 00:47:41.679 quick really small i'm like okay i mean it was 00:47:41.679 --> 00:47:44.139 really cool though there was lots of uh clothes 00:47:44.139 --> 00:47:46.119 somebody was selling these really cute desserts 00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:48.059 I really wanted to buy one. I should have got 00:47:48.059 --> 00:47:49.940 one. Did you get like a business card or something? 00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:54.199 No, I didn't. I did get some for the travel agents 00:47:54.199 --> 00:47:56.679 that were there though. And then there was a 00:47:56.679 --> 00:47:59.219 lady selling popcorn too. It was really good 00:47:59.219 --> 00:48:01.380 though. Like the popcorn. Like I'm not big on 00:48:01.380 --> 00:48:03.380 popcorn. And she had a couple in there that had 00:48:03.380 --> 00:48:07.059 nuts in it. And I'm allergic to nuts. But we 00:48:07.059 --> 00:48:10.119 tried like the original one that she had. It 00:48:10.119 --> 00:48:12.760 was really good. It was like. sweet but also 00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:19.420 salty is it like a kind of kennel corn like a 00:48:19.420 --> 00:48:23.139 saltier maybe yeah maybe saltier it kind of reminded 00:48:23.139 --> 00:48:29.820 me of um topsy's popcorn yeah oh topsy's is good 00:48:29.820 --> 00:48:33.440 it is good i love topsy's well i'm glad uh did 00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:35.980 you end up writing your article about it yeah 00:48:35.980 --> 00:48:39.480 i did um the one that i wrote it's just like 00:48:40.460 --> 00:48:43.699 all the information that was online about it 00:48:43.699 --> 00:48:46.139 put together in an article so that people know 00:48:46.139 --> 00:48:50.360 where it is what time it is and where or when 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.760 it's supposed to be so baptiste's article was 00:48:53.760 --> 00:48:58.519 like way more in depth than mine was i mean that's 00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:02.500 fun uh did you go to our messenger x expo or 00:49:02.500 --> 00:49:04.920 the open house yeah did you go to our messenger 00:49:04.920 --> 00:49:07.420 open house I did that's how I got my interview 00:49:07.420 --> 00:49:12.059 um I was actually surprised because I was gonna 00:49:12.059 --> 00:49:16.039 fill out the application like after I left but 00:49:16.039 --> 00:49:20.500 uh Humphrey he was like he asked Audrey like 00:49:20.500 --> 00:49:23.659 to fast track my application and just go straight 00:49:23.659 --> 00:49:26.719 to the interview I was like okay cool I didn't 00:49:26.719 --> 00:49:29.329 expect you to do that but It was cool, and I 00:49:29.329 --> 00:49:33.070 did my interview on Monday, and I got hired yesterday. 00:49:33.789 --> 00:49:38.769 So welcome to the team. Thank you. Of course, 00:49:38.849 --> 00:49:44.090 journalism is such a fun topic, but we do have 00:49:44.090 --> 00:49:47.050 very little bits of news that we have to get 00:49:47.050 --> 00:49:57.570 to just before I forget. The Johnson County Community 00:49:57.570 --> 00:50:02.809 College Theater. We have V -Day. It's at the 00:50:02.809 --> 00:50:05.989 Bodker Black Box Theater, March 7th and 8th. 00:50:06.989 --> 00:50:10.809 It's a reader's theater. So in honor of V -Day 00:50:10.809 --> 00:50:13.250 and International Women's Day, the performances 00:50:13.250 --> 00:50:16.670 amplify voices, they share stories, and they 00:50:16.670 --> 00:50:19.510 stand against violence towards women. So this 00:50:19.510 --> 00:50:23.170 Friday and Saturday, 3 p .m. and 7 .30 both days, 00:50:23.389 --> 00:50:25.590 there's free admission. It's first come, first 00:50:25.590 --> 00:50:31.190 seated. And donations are welcome. And they're 00:50:31.190 --> 00:50:34.710 to support local organizations empowering survivors. 00:50:35.429 --> 00:50:39.210 So if you guys want to check that out. I think 00:50:39.210 --> 00:50:42.050 I have free time and I will be attending after 00:50:42.050 --> 00:50:45.630 class. So, yeah, you guys check it out. It's 00:50:45.630 --> 00:50:48.809 free admission. Right. Like mine as well. Like 00:50:48.809 --> 00:50:50.570 something fun to do on a Friday and Saturday 00:50:50.570 --> 00:50:53.369 night. Yeah. College students love free things. 00:50:54.289 --> 00:50:57.869 Literally, guys, you guys ate up, no pun intended, 00:50:57.949 --> 00:51:00.610 the free food that we ate. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. 00:51:00.610 --> 00:51:04.570 I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But yeah, no, I just 00:51:04.570 --> 00:51:07.269 wanted to mention that before we got too sidetracked. 00:51:07.369 --> 00:51:12.130 And pretty much, I'm not going to say that's 00:51:12.130 --> 00:51:14.809 all the news we have, but all events that are 00:51:14.809 --> 00:51:19.190 coming up that seem pretty cool. Of course, we 00:51:19.190 --> 00:51:23.409 have some of like the safe spring break. There's 00:51:23.409 --> 00:51:26.449 a whole, there's multiple events going on for 00:51:26.449 --> 00:51:29.250 that. So there's like a decorate your own backpack. 00:51:29.510 --> 00:51:33.699 And then there's a yoga day. It really just depends 00:51:33.699 --> 00:51:38.579 on leading up to the spring break day itself. 00:51:38.760 --> 00:51:43.639 But I mean, that's next week's episode to talk 00:51:43.639 --> 00:51:46.559 about. But if you are wanting to keep up with 00:51:46.559 --> 00:51:50.059 Johnson County Community College and just like 00:51:50.059 --> 00:51:52.940 the events that are going on, there are many 00:51:52.940 --> 00:51:57.880 websites, but johnsoncountyjccc .edu slash events 00:51:57.880 --> 00:52:02.159 is. Where we get ours, I'm honestly interested 00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:06.679 in this March 11th, there's an African and Caribbean 00:52:06.679 --> 00:52:10.039 Student Association bake sale. Oh, that sounds 00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:13.099 fun. Yeah, no, I've seen flyers everywhere, and 00:52:13.099 --> 00:52:16.659 the food posted on it looks so, so, so, so, so 00:52:16.659 --> 00:52:22.530 good. So I know they have, like... obviously 00:52:22.530 --> 00:52:24.610 it's a bake sale so it's like each individual 00:52:24.610 --> 00:52:28.150 student is going to be selling their own version 00:52:28.150 --> 00:52:30.909 of whatever they come up with. There's going 00:52:30.909 --> 00:52:33.010 to be foods and desserts and just like treats 00:52:33.010 --> 00:52:36.030 and snacks. So I think I'm going to show up to 00:52:36.030 --> 00:52:38.530 that one. Definitely. I've got a major sweet 00:52:38.530 --> 00:52:41.269 tooth. Oh my gosh, same. I mean, spring is coming 00:52:41.269 --> 00:52:43.150 up, so we do have a lot of bake sales coming 00:52:43.150 --> 00:52:47.090 up. I'm not sure if they'll be back to back to 00:52:47.090 --> 00:52:49.530 back, but I know for certain that we have at 00:52:49.530 --> 00:52:54.090 least three. I think one or two in March and 00:52:54.090 --> 00:52:57.530 then one or two in April. But it also might be 00:52:57.530 --> 00:53:00.019 spread out. one a month so it might be march 00:53:00.019 --> 00:53:05.179 april and may because i know we have the um african 00:53:05.179 --> 00:53:07.500 and caribbean student bake sale and then there's 00:53:07.500 --> 00:53:13.480 also a um developing diversity bake sale and 00:53:13.480 --> 00:53:17.460 that's march 12th so okay that's pretty close 00:53:17.460 --> 00:53:21.250 there are a couple bake sales coming up And I'm 00:53:21.250 --> 00:53:23.449 really excited for it because I always like looking 00:53:23.449 --> 00:53:26.110 at all the foods. I'm like a window shopper for 00:53:26.110 --> 00:53:27.809 food. I'm like, I wonder what that tastes like. 00:53:27.989 --> 00:53:32.329 Oh, no, I can't. I can't buy another sweet treat. 00:53:33.170 --> 00:53:35.429 I love sweets, though. Like, the bad thing for 00:53:35.429 --> 00:53:38.829 me is, like, I cannot have milk or cream cheese 00:53:38.829 --> 00:53:41.449 or any dairy like that. You're lactose intolerant? 00:53:41.489 --> 00:53:46.460 Yes. No. I know. So like cheesecake, all of it. 00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:49.960 I can't have it, but I still eat it. I mean, 00:53:50.019 --> 00:53:53.380 it makes sense. Yeah. It's so good though. I 00:53:53.380 --> 00:53:56.179 have to eat it. It's so good. Like I got to satisfy 00:53:56.179 --> 00:54:00.880 the sweet tooth. Duh. Yes. I can't imagine anyone 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:03.360 who doesn't have a, if you don't have a sweet 00:54:03.360 --> 00:54:07.260 tooth, I don't understand. But if you have a 00:54:07.260 --> 00:54:09.420 sweet tooth and you go against its wishes to 00:54:09.420 --> 00:54:13.150 have a sweet treat. I'm so concerned for you. 00:54:13.889 --> 00:54:16.750 Like, what do you mean that you're craving a 00:54:16.750 --> 00:54:19.289 sweet little chocolate truffle and then you're 00:54:19.289 --> 00:54:21.030 not going to get yourself a little chocolate 00:54:21.030 --> 00:54:24.510 truffle? Oh, now I need some desserts. Ooh, I'm 00:54:24.510 --> 00:54:28.690 so down to go get some chocolate cake or I don't 00:54:28.690 --> 00:54:31.469 even know, like a donut. Oh, my God. I live downtown 00:54:31.469 --> 00:54:33.210 Overland Park, so I'm right next to like two 00:54:33.210 --> 00:54:36.849 or three bakeries. lucky i just wake up and i 00:54:36.849 --> 00:54:41.070 go i mean i'm close to crumble cookie and nothing 00:54:41.070 --> 00:54:44.210 but cakes too nothing but decades is so good 00:54:44.210 --> 00:54:49.170 i love cake cake is probably like number one 00:54:49.170 --> 00:54:51.090 on the list and then like then you got cookies 00:54:51.090 --> 00:54:56.099 and cupcakes and Yeah. And then like I like to 00:54:56.099 --> 00:54:59.119 bake too. I really want to make an apple pie. 00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:01.860 Really? I really do. I made these like little 00:55:01.860 --> 00:55:04.599 for fall. I made these little apple pie but they're 00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:08.539 muffins kind of deal. So I mean they reminded 00:55:08.539 --> 00:55:11.739 me of an apple pie. Basically it's just the bottom 00:55:11.739 --> 00:55:16.070 half is muffin cake. mix whatever and then you 00:55:16.070 --> 00:55:18.369 cut up your own apples soak them in cinnamon 00:55:18.369 --> 00:55:21.190 brown sugar and like turn it into like the syrupy 00:55:21.190 --> 00:55:25.449 kind throw them on top and then you put the crumble 00:55:25.449 --> 00:55:29.630 on top that sounds really good have you have 00:55:29.630 --> 00:55:34.550 you ever had um perkins they have a apple cinnamon 00:55:34.550 --> 00:55:38.130 muffin yes they have an apple cinnamon muffin 00:55:38.130 --> 00:55:41.389 it's like the best thing in the world it's so 00:55:41.389 --> 00:55:44.940 good it's so big If I'm being, it's big? Yes, 00:55:44.980 --> 00:55:49.980 it's like. Size of your face? Yeah. Oh my gosh. 00:55:51.280 --> 00:55:55.639 Dude, no, I only recently saw Perkins Cafe when 00:55:55.639 --> 00:55:58.539 I was up in Lawrence. Do we have one in Overland 00:55:58.539 --> 00:56:04.579 Park? I don't think there's one anymore. The 00:56:04.579 --> 00:56:08.840 last one that I knew about was off of Santa Fe. 00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:13.639 But they closed that one down. And the closest 00:56:13.639 --> 00:56:17.559 one that I know of is in, like, Gardner. I mean, 00:56:17.659 --> 00:56:21.800 it's not too far of a drive. Yeah, Gardner's, 00:56:21.820 --> 00:56:25.949 like, what, like 20 minutes? Yeah, about like 00:56:25.949 --> 00:56:30.150 30, 20, 30 minutes. Yeah. I'm looking up Perkins 00:56:30.150 --> 00:56:33.449 Restaurant and Bakery. Yeah. The closest one 00:56:33.449 --> 00:56:35.650 is in Gardner, and then we have Lee's Summit, 00:56:35.889 --> 00:56:38.889 Gladstone, Independence, and Lawrence. I've been 00:56:38.889 --> 00:56:40.369 to the one in Lawrence, and I've been to the 00:56:40.369 --> 00:56:42.369 one in Independence, and I've been to the one 00:56:42.369 --> 00:56:45.949 in Gardner. Out of those three, which is your 00:56:45.949 --> 00:56:48.469 top favorite? Or are they all the same? Probably 00:56:48.469 --> 00:56:52.250 the one in Gardner. I like that one. I don't 00:56:52.250 --> 00:56:55.530 usually go out to Gardner a lot, but. usually 00:56:55.530 --> 00:56:58.710 when i'm eating perkins i go immediately when 00:56:58.710 --> 00:57:02.070 they open yeah what time is that i don't remember 00:57:02.070 --> 00:57:04.690 what time they open it's really early though 00:57:04.690 --> 00:57:09.170 like 5 a .m 6 a .m yeah like six early bird exactly 00:57:09.170 --> 00:57:12.969 like maybe not an early bird but just a night 00:57:12.969 --> 00:57:18.010 owl who stays up So it's like a little midnight 00:57:18.010 --> 00:57:22.210 snack. What do you mean? Might as well get some 00:57:22.210 --> 00:57:24.429 breakfast and then go back to sleep for the rest 00:57:24.429 --> 00:57:29.610 of the day. Yeah, this is my dinner. Yep. I mean, 00:57:29.630 --> 00:57:32.489 that's – I would do that too, if I'm being honest. 00:57:32.769 --> 00:57:35.710 I loved doing that. I haven't done it in so long. 00:57:36.210 --> 00:57:40.289 Yeah. Because, like, school. School, yeah. So, 00:57:40.349 --> 00:57:44.570 but breakfast, favorite meal of the day, 100%. 00:57:45.420 --> 00:57:49.579 Is the muffin? Breakfast in general. Oh. Favorite 00:57:49.579 --> 00:57:54.300 meal of the day. I mean, I feel you. Me too. 00:57:54.420 --> 00:58:00.400 I like going to this. My friend actually introduced 00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:03.559 me to this place. It's called Pegas. I think 00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:06.320 I've heard of that. It's just like a little family 00:58:06.320 --> 00:58:12.260 diner, but it's breakfast. I just get their waffles 00:58:12.260 --> 00:58:15.900 and Nutella on it. So it's like Florida waffles, 00:58:15.900 --> 00:58:20.099 like Floridian. So it has all the fruit. And 00:58:20.099 --> 00:58:23.920 then it's just so good. I'm making myself hungry. 00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.679 I was like 12 minutes away. This looks good. 00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:31.980 It is good. They have a dinner and breakfast 00:58:31.980 --> 00:58:35.679 menu all day. I mean, I think they close at, 00:58:35.699 --> 00:58:39.300 like, maybe 6 or 5, something like that. 8 p 00:58:39.300 --> 00:58:41.960 .m. Really? Yeah. Oh, my gosh. That's actually 00:58:41.960 --> 00:58:44.760 such a relief. You can go there for dinner, too. 00:58:44.900 --> 00:58:47.219 Maybe I'll go there before I go to class tomorrow. 00:58:47.820 --> 00:58:51.059 I mean. That sounds good. They also have, like, 00:58:51.059 --> 00:58:53.440 those little pies in the, like, like a little 00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:55.320 diner window, and they have, like, pies there. 00:58:55.920 --> 00:58:58.539 Ooh. I had their, I think it was, like, a chocolate. 00:59:00.579 --> 00:59:03.179 chocolate swiss pie or something that sounds 00:59:03.179 --> 00:59:05.980 good i mean my favorite pie is apple pie 100 00:59:05.980 --> 00:59:08.639 but like i want to try other ones because like 00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:11.940 i'm like just now getting into eating pie really 00:59:11.940 --> 00:59:14.420 yes it was not like a big thing for me like i've 00:59:14.420 --> 00:59:18.159 had um i've literally only had apple pie and 00:59:18.159 --> 00:59:20.619 sweet potato pie Sweet potato pie is so good. 00:59:20.820 --> 00:59:24.059 It is. It's really good. But I want to try more. 00:59:24.579 --> 00:59:27.480 So have you never had pumpkin pie then? No. Really? 00:59:27.659 --> 00:59:31.559 Really. Oh my God, you're lying. Never had it. 00:59:31.760 --> 00:59:33.760 Gosh, I should have asked if you had cherry pie 00:59:33.760 --> 00:59:36.099 first because now it's a less dramatic question. 00:59:36.179 --> 00:59:40.099 Have you had cherry pie before? girl no i need 00:59:40.099 --> 00:59:43.880 to try them i need to try them i don't know if 00:59:43.880 --> 00:59:46.800 it's like a me family thing but because of my 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:49.699 grandpa his favorite was cherry pie so we would 00:59:49.699 --> 00:59:53.579 always have cherry pie around thanksgiving it's 00:59:53.579 --> 00:59:58.159 like it's it's like sweet and sour but not like 00:59:58.159 --> 01:00:01.480 that makes sense like yeah it's like sweet because 01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:03.760 of the sugar and sour because of the cherries 01:00:04.980 --> 01:00:09.519 I've had like a cherry tart. I think that's what 01:00:09.519 --> 01:00:11.900 it's called. Which, I mean, I feel like tarts 01:00:11.900 --> 01:00:15.280 are very similar to pie. I believe so. I think 01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:17.980 tarts are a bit more dry, or at least from my 01:00:17.980 --> 01:00:22.639 experience of eating tarts, they're just, I don't 01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:31.589 know. But in retrospect, I do prefer pies. Girl, 01:00:31.589 --> 01:00:33.449 we're going to have to have a sit down one day 01:00:33.449 --> 01:00:38.489 and I'm going to buy like four pies. So you've 01:00:38.489 --> 01:00:42.869 only had what? You said apple pie and sweet potato 01:00:42.869 --> 01:00:46.349 pie. You've not had anything else? No. Oh my 01:00:46.349 --> 01:00:49.070 gosh. I wasn't like a big pie person. You would 01:00:49.070 --> 01:00:51.690 see me eating more cake. I'm going to get you 01:00:51.690 --> 01:00:53.369 some pumpkin pie. I'm going to get you a cherry 01:00:53.369 --> 01:00:55.170 pie. Those are my top two. And then we're going 01:00:55.170 --> 01:00:57.909 to get you maybe a key lime. Oh, you know what? 01:00:58.269 --> 01:01:00.690 I've had key lime pie. Okay, cool, cool, cool. 01:01:00.969 --> 01:01:02.909 Have you had like chocolate pie where it's just 01:01:02.909 --> 01:01:06.030 like a chocolate pudding pie? No. Okay, so instead 01:01:06.030 --> 01:01:07.690 of buying you one, I'm going to get my grandma's 01:01:07.690 --> 01:01:09.150 recipe and I'm going to make it for you. Ooh, 01:01:09.150 --> 01:01:13.690 that sounds good. Homemade pie. I'm excited. 01:01:14.489 --> 01:01:17.329 And it's actually like, I'm not going to be one 01:01:17.329 --> 01:01:18.889 of those people who are like, yeah, it's my grandma's 01:01:18.889 --> 01:01:21.210 recipe. And it's like absolute, it tastes like 01:01:21.210 --> 01:01:24.590 so bad. Luckily, my great grandma was a baker. 01:01:25.340 --> 01:01:30.579 So I got some good recipes. My Nana, yeah, it's 01:01:30.579 --> 01:01:33.480 Nana Dot who's the baker, and all her recipes 01:01:33.480 --> 01:01:36.679 got passed down. So I literally last night just 01:01:36.679 --> 01:01:40.320 made her banana bread. So, I mean, I kind of, 01:01:40.320 --> 01:01:43.719 like, overcooked it. But also my power went out. 01:01:44.139 --> 01:01:47.039 Oh, I've been hearing that a lot. A lot of people's 01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:50.559 power went out. Well, yeah. Okay. So listeners 01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:53.400 know that we record on Wednesday and then post 01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:56.699 on Friday. So last night was like the Tuesday 01:01:56.699 --> 01:01:59.059 going into Wednesday and we had that blizzard, 01:01:59.219 --> 01:02:03.880 like the random blizzard. It was so wild. Like, 01:02:03.960 --> 01:02:06.699 what do you mean? It was like raining all day. 01:02:06.699 --> 01:02:09.559 And then we had like, it was actual blizzard. 01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:13.179 Like there was like wind and no. So, so many 01:02:13.179 --> 01:02:16.519 of the power lines near my apartment, like literally. 01:02:17.849 --> 01:02:21.230 lightning like it went and then went oh like 01:02:21.230 --> 01:02:23.570 three of them back no i'm not gonna say back 01:02:23.570 --> 01:02:26.070 to back but like every hour so the first one 01:02:26.070 --> 01:02:28.570 it was at like nine o 'clock or something and 01:02:28.570 --> 01:02:33.250 it like i want to say like just it buzzed and 01:02:33.250 --> 01:02:35.389 then it just like did a little bit of like a 01:02:35.389 --> 01:02:37.309 little lightning thing i thought it got struck 01:02:37.309 --> 01:02:41.110 by lightning if i'm being honest but um when 01:02:41.110 --> 01:02:43.469 that happened i'm like i'm losing power tonight 01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:46.239 I know I'm losing power tonight. So I quickly, 01:02:46.340 --> 01:02:51.119 I made banana bread. I was like, these bananas 01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:53.340 are going to go bad. And if I don't have an oven 01:02:53.340 --> 01:02:55.420 tomorrow, I need to at least have an oven tonight. 01:02:55.659 --> 01:02:59.119 Because I know myself, I will eat, I'll eat better. 01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:03.559 I just, I'll eat better. But if I can bake it, 01:03:03.599 --> 01:03:06.679 I will. So that was like around nine o 'clock. 01:03:06.739 --> 01:03:09.679 And then my lights would flicker like every 30 01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:11.460 minutes. And that's when I texted the group chat. 01:03:11.539 --> 01:03:15.079 I'm like. I'm losing power. Like I know I'm losing 01:03:15.079 --> 01:03:19.500 power. And by that time it was like 1030 or something. 01:03:19.599 --> 01:03:22.139 And then lights were flickering even more than 01:03:22.139 --> 01:03:26.480 the second power box did the whole thing. And 01:03:26.480 --> 01:03:30.900 that was scary because my apartment, there's 01:03:30.900 --> 01:03:33.300 like this little pole in the building next door. 01:03:33.380 --> 01:03:36.340 It like sticks out and there's like a wire that 01:03:36.340 --> 01:03:41.139 runs from the pole to that pole. I saw, like, 01:03:41.179 --> 01:03:45.420 it's right outside my window. So I saw that this, 01:03:45.519 --> 01:03:48.059 like, electrical pole thing that's normal for 01:03:48.059 --> 01:03:51.539 the city or whatever connected to this, like, 01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:54.739 I think it's a salon that's right next to me. 01:03:54.820 --> 01:03:57.199 And it has, like, this little pole that's stuck 01:03:57.199 --> 01:04:00.059 out. And I think it's for internet possibly. 01:04:00.800 --> 01:04:03.739 But it has, like, cords, like, next to it. So 01:04:03.739 --> 01:04:06.820 the electricity from the pole went to that little 01:04:06.820 --> 01:04:09.699 internet, like. tiny little pole and then it 01:04:09.699 --> 01:04:13.280 like I felt like electricity in my brain I swear 01:04:13.280 --> 01:04:16.340 oh my god I'm not messed up because of it if 01:04:16.340 --> 01:04:18.360 anything I got superpowers and I'm not aware 01:04:18.360 --> 01:04:22.659 of it yet but um no that like it it did scare 01:04:22.659 --> 01:04:28.610 me enough to at least uh I did call um I tried 01:04:28.610 --> 01:04:30.989 calling Evergy because I did lose power and then 01:04:30.989 --> 01:04:33.670 they didn't answer because it was too late at 01:04:33.670 --> 01:04:35.969 night. And then I called non -emergency hotline 01:04:35.969 --> 01:04:38.489 and then they didn't answer because they're closed. 01:04:38.670 --> 01:04:42.329 And then I called a firefighting house and they 01:04:42.329 --> 01:04:45.489 didn't answer. So I went to my last resort and 01:04:45.489 --> 01:04:48.269 had to dial 911 because one of the power cords 01:04:48.269 --> 01:04:51.150 was like flying in the wind. Oh, yeah. And that 01:04:51.150 --> 01:04:54.659 was super scary. well I mean I'm glad you're 01:04:54.659 --> 01:05:00.820 safe I'm not dead my apartment was freezing in 01:05:00.820 --> 01:05:03.239 the group chat I was texting I'm like guys I'm 01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:06.019 not going to school today all my professors canceled 01:05:06.019 --> 01:05:09.780 however I don't feel like getting out of my bed 01:05:09.780 --> 01:05:13.139 until my apartment is warm because I got out 01:05:13.139 --> 01:05:16.699 of my apartment freezing got back in my bed No, 01:05:16.739 --> 01:05:18.360 I didn't get out of my apartment. You know what 01:05:18.360 --> 01:05:20.539 I mean? I got out of bed. My apartment was freezing. 01:05:20.679 --> 01:05:22.980 I got back into bed. My cat was starting to snuggle 01:05:22.980 --> 01:05:26.659 me. And he never goes under blankets. I assume 01:05:26.659 --> 01:05:30.860 because he just doesn't like burrowing. But he 01:05:30.860 --> 01:05:33.780 doesn't go under blankets. And he was cuddled 01:05:33.780 --> 01:05:35.820 up next to my stomach the entire time underneath 01:05:35.820 --> 01:05:38.500 the blanket. So I knew he was cold, too. And 01:05:38.500 --> 01:05:42.199 I was like, I got to keep my baby warm. So, yeah. 01:05:43.519 --> 01:05:46.230 I don't. I don't think our power went out, but 01:05:46.230 --> 01:05:50.750 I was gone all night because I was working. So 01:05:50.750 --> 01:05:53.489 I didn't get home till, like, 11 o 'clock. Dang. 01:05:53.510 --> 01:05:56.550 So I'm driving in it. Oh, yeah? And it's, like, 01:05:56.570 --> 01:05:59.329 really windy. Like, my car is being pushed around. 01:05:59.750 --> 01:06:02.590 I'm going really slow. Like, I'm sliding on all 01:06:02.590 --> 01:06:04.469 the slush because they didn't treat the roads 01:06:04.469 --> 01:06:08.630 because of the rain. Mm -hmm. Yeah. Which I saw 01:06:08.630 --> 01:06:11.030 them treating the roads because I was still awake 01:06:11.030 --> 01:06:15.110 at, like, 2. one in the morning so i saw the 01:06:15.110 --> 01:06:17.230 trucks coming through my neighborhood i'm like 01:06:17.230 --> 01:06:19.389 okay so good they're treating the roads i'll 01:06:19.389 --> 01:06:23.929 be okay in the morning um yeah like it was just 01:06:23.929 --> 01:06:27.110 it was really bad it was really bad and like 01:06:27.110 --> 01:06:31.289 my job i have to go outside i have to um throw 01:06:31.289 --> 01:06:36.170 trash into the dumpster so I go outside and it's 01:06:36.170 --> 01:06:39.230 like this was before it was like really snowing 01:06:39.230 --> 01:06:42.070 but it was just raining really hard and it just 01:06:42.070 --> 01:06:45.110 felt like I don't know it was like hitting my 01:06:45.110 --> 01:06:48.369 face and it it hurt it hurt really bad I'm like 01:06:48.369 --> 01:06:51.849 this is just like a lot of wind and water in 01:06:51.849 --> 01:06:56.570 my face literally no it was it was awful like 01:06:56.570 --> 01:07:02.449 well like Kansas weather 100 but like the fact 01:07:02.449 --> 01:07:06.869 that we had a rainstorm the entire day a blizzard 01:07:06.869 --> 01:07:12.050 and also tornado watches yes that's that's embodiment 01:07:12.050 --> 01:07:14.849 of kansas right there exactly i was just sitting 01:07:14.849 --> 01:07:17.769 at home and i'm like this is like kind of giving 01:07:17.769 --> 01:07:24.699 tornado weather like it's kind of scary Okay, 01:07:24.739 --> 01:07:26.119 I'm going to text Zach real quick, and I'm going 01:07:26.119 --> 01:07:28.900 to see how long he wants this recording to be. 01:07:29.059 --> 01:07:32.519 Okay. But, yeah. I mean, until then, we can talk. 01:07:32.860 --> 01:07:36.980 Duh. Right? No, yeah. Oh, but I was, like, getting 01:07:36.980 --> 01:07:39.039 to my story. Yeah, I woke up, and finally my 01:07:39.039 --> 01:07:42.639 power got back on at, like, 9 .30 or 10 in the 01:07:42.639 --> 01:07:47.019 morning. So it had been out since – for at least, 01:07:47.039 --> 01:07:52.199 like, nine hours. So I woke up, and the thermostat 01:07:52.199 --> 01:07:54.510 was dead. And then – Once the power got back 01:07:54.510 --> 01:07:57.650 on, I looked and I saw it was 53 degrees inside. 01:07:59.469 --> 01:08:04.269 I know. Freezing. Like, I mean, it would have 01:08:04.269 --> 01:08:08.369 been warm in, like, days ago, you know what I 01:08:08.369 --> 01:08:10.969 mean? But snow, it just, it felt freezing to 01:08:10.969 --> 01:08:15.210 me. Like, to me, I leave, like, I'm, like, 64 01:08:15.210 --> 01:08:19.590 degrees minimum in my apartment. Mm -hmm. Like, 01:08:19.630 --> 01:08:23.010 maybe 71 max. I like to keep it at, like, 70, 01:08:23.069 --> 01:08:27.470 73 maybe, just between there. Yeah. No, yeah, 01:08:27.529 --> 01:08:33.489 my, I, I don't run cold, but, like, I'm used 01:08:33.489 --> 01:08:36.590 to, like, the still. I honestly get colder when 01:08:36.590 --> 01:08:40.369 there's, like, air flow onto me from the AC itself, 01:08:40.590 --> 01:08:43.229 even if it's trying to warm me up. Yeah, that's 01:08:43.229 --> 01:08:45.250 how I feel, but, like, I like to, I like to be 01:08:45.250 --> 01:08:49.420 hot. I don't know why, but I like to be hot. 01:08:49.779 --> 01:08:53.000 But if I get too hot, I'll just turn on the fan, 01:08:53.180 --> 01:08:56.720 like, and that's good enough for me. I just kept 01:08:56.720 --> 01:08:58.840 piling more blankets on. That's how I was raised. 01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:01.279 It's like, if you're cold, just keep piling blankets 01:09:01.279 --> 01:09:05.119 on. We're not turning on the heat. Yeah, I have, 01:09:05.180 --> 01:09:09.489 like... I have like two comforters yeah I mean 01:09:09.489 --> 01:09:12.409 I don't use them at the same time but if I get 01:09:12.409 --> 01:09:14.810 too cold then I'll put one of those on or like 01:09:14.810 --> 01:09:17.770 I have like 20 throw blankets that I could use 01:09:17.770 --> 01:09:20.729 me too me too me too no yeah I have like this 01:09:20.729 --> 01:09:22.829 giant I think it's like an UGG blanket I got 01:09:22.829 --> 01:09:27.989 it for Christmas um and It's been like my go 01:09:27.989 --> 01:09:31.109 -to blanket for my bed. I know it's like super 01:09:31.109 --> 01:09:34.050 soft too, isn't it? Because it's, oh my gosh. 01:09:34.090 --> 01:09:40.689 No, it's so comfortable. And my voice is getting 01:09:40.689 --> 01:09:45.189 scratchy. I need some water. It's fine. But ultimately 01:09:45.189 --> 01:09:48.369 it's like, that's my go -to blanket. And then 01:09:48.369 --> 01:09:50.789 I throw a quilt on top of it to trap the heat. 01:09:51.130 --> 01:09:54.810 And then sometimes I'll have like my, like my. 01:09:56.590 --> 01:09:59.609 what's it called like you literally just said 01:09:59.609 --> 01:10:01.930 it i mean the comforter the comforter okay my 01:10:01.930 --> 01:10:04.210 comforter is really like light and fluffy so 01:10:04.210 --> 01:10:08.590 it's not like warm um like it's very much just 01:10:08.590 --> 01:10:12.369 fluffy but filled with air um so i don't use 01:10:12.369 --> 01:10:14.710 it often unless it's like summer and i'll use 01:10:14.710 --> 01:10:16.649 that instead of the quilt but even the quilt 01:10:16.649 --> 01:10:20.369 traps cold air too sometimes so yeah really just 01:10:20.369 --> 01:10:24.130 depends on that ugg blanket i like quilts i haven't 01:10:24.130 --> 01:10:27.109 had one in a long time but like The comforters 01:10:27.109 --> 01:10:30.270 are just like not that great anymore. No, I know. 01:10:30.369 --> 01:10:32.909 Like I go and I'll go get one from like Target 01:10:32.909 --> 01:10:34.789 because I bought a new comforter when I went 01:10:34.789 --> 01:10:38.430 to college. It was, like, it's not even that 01:10:38.430 --> 01:10:40.710 thick. Literally. I'm, like, how is this going 01:10:40.710 --> 01:10:44.010 to keep me warm? And, like, it was so cold when 01:10:44.010 --> 01:10:47.390 I went to university. Like, it snowed bad one 01:10:47.390 --> 01:10:50.770 time. And, like, it was raining bad, too. And 01:10:50.770 --> 01:10:53.210 I'm in Oklahoma. So, like, I don't know anything 01:10:53.210 --> 01:10:55.869 about Oklahoma weather, for real. I'm assuming 01:10:55.869 --> 01:10:59.010 that it was, like, just like Kansas, but maybe 01:10:59.010 --> 01:11:05.380 worse. The tornadoes were, like. I don't even 01:11:05.380 --> 01:11:07.800 know how to explain it. It was just weird. I 01:11:07.800 --> 01:11:10.779 mean, I'm not knowledgeable about Oklahoma weather 01:11:10.779 --> 01:11:13.180 either, but, I mean, I understand that it's, 01:11:13.260 --> 01:11:16.500 like, a different setting than Kansas, of course. 01:11:17.180 --> 01:11:20.220 Yeah, a different setting. Yeah, no, like, I 01:11:20.220 --> 01:11:23.560 have this one that's at my mom's house, my original 01:11:23.560 --> 01:11:26.460 comforter, but it's a queen. Like, my bed wasn't 01:11:26.460 --> 01:11:30.880 a queen, but the comforter was. And my bed now 01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:34.239 is even smaller, so I'm like... I'm not going 01:11:34.239 --> 01:11:38.819 to take a queen -size comforter to my apartment. 01:11:39.180 --> 01:11:44.439 Yeah. My comforter, I think it was meant for 01:11:44.439 --> 01:11:47.579 a twin -size bed. But, I mean, it's still pretty 01:11:47.579 --> 01:11:51.340 big. I feel like they focused more on the size 01:11:51.340 --> 01:11:54.060 of the comforter, more of the thickness of the 01:11:54.060 --> 01:11:56.619 comforter. Oh, for sure. So it's not even that 01:11:56.619 --> 01:11:59.300 thick. It's just like, I need a little more than 01:11:59.300 --> 01:12:02.869 this. I would love to get a quilt, though. Oh, 01:12:02.869 --> 01:12:05.189 yeah. I mean, the quilts that I have are, like, 01:12:05.210 --> 01:12:08.569 passed down from family to family. I've had one 01:12:08.569 --> 01:12:10.029 of those. I don't know what happened to them, 01:12:10.090 --> 01:12:12.270 though. They're probably, like, sitting at my 01:12:12.270 --> 01:12:14.689 grandma's house or something. Like, we had so 01:12:14.689 --> 01:12:18.130 many quilts, but, like, I have no clue what happened 01:12:18.130 --> 01:12:20.710 to them. Like, I haven't seen a quilt since I 01:12:20.710 --> 01:12:25.050 was, like, 10. Mm -hmm. My grandma has this, 01:12:25.090 --> 01:12:28.149 or I guess it's, like, my great -grandma's quilt 01:12:28.149 --> 01:12:32.239 that she handmade, and she... My grandma gave 01:12:32.239 --> 01:12:34.579 it to me, and so I had it in my room, and then 01:12:34.579 --> 01:12:38.279 my cat started, like, tearing it up kind of, 01:12:38.300 --> 01:12:40.460 so I had to put it away. I'm just sad because 01:12:40.460 --> 01:12:46.100 it's gorgeous. Cats always, like, tear up stuff. 01:12:47.399 --> 01:12:50.239 I always wanted a cat, though. You've never had 01:12:50.239 --> 01:12:54.159 a cat? No. They're so cute, though. I love them. 01:12:54.500 --> 01:12:59.550 I've had, like, five dogs. Yeah, I come from 01:12:59.550 --> 01:13:03.550 a dog family, 100%. Nobody's really like, oh, 01:13:03.550 --> 01:13:06.029 yeah, I want to get a cat. No, I want a cat. 01:13:06.109 --> 01:13:10.289 Really? I want a cat. Cats are the best, honestly. 01:13:10.449 --> 01:13:14.409 My cat, Oscar, he's my favorite thing ever. He 01:13:14.409 --> 01:13:17.409 actually was originally adopted by my mom. But 01:13:17.409 --> 01:13:21.590 funny enough, I adopted my mom's favorite cat. 01:13:21.729 --> 01:13:28.210 His name's Gilbert. I adopted Gilbert, and then 01:13:28.210 --> 01:13:31.289 he kind of clung on to the entire family. And 01:13:31.289 --> 01:13:33.350 then my mom's like, I want another cat. And so 01:13:33.350 --> 01:13:38.250 we went, and she adopted my now cat, Oscar, and 01:13:38.250 --> 01:13:42.170 he attached himself to me. So we kind of swapped 01:13:42.170 --> 01:13:46.670 cats on accident. But I'm not mad about it. Gilbert's 01:13:46.670 --> 01:13:52.050 happy. He's a big old orange cat. I like orange 01:13:52.050 --> 01:13:54.149 cats. Big old orange cat. He has a white on him 01:13:54.149 --> 01:13:58.390 too, but he begs to go outside no matter what. 01:13:58.409 --> 01:14:00.369 And it's really irritating because we live close 01:14:00.369 --> 01:14:03.470 to a big old highway. Not highway, but like College 01:14:03.470 --> 01:14:05.930 Boulevard, like what Johnson County is on. Right. 01:14:05.989 --> 01:14:11.649 So you're close to like 435. Yeah. So that whole 01:14:11.649 --> 01:14:15.079 deal is like. I worry about him wandering too 01:14:15.079 --> 01:14:18.619 far into a certain direction or wandering into 01:14:18.619 --> 01:14:21.560 College Boulevard or, like, the side of us is 01:14:21.560 --> 01:14:24.880 also, like, a forest, so he could be eaten by 01:14:24.880 --> 01:14:28.180 coyotes, too, or a hawk or something. Yeah. But, 01:14:28.239 --> 01:14:30.760 I mean, he's fat, so I don't think a hawk could 01:14:30.760 --> 01:14:37.370 pick him up, but maybe a coyote. But, yeah. We 01:14:37.370 --> 01:14:40.529 got him chipped. We got him dewormed, defleed, 01:14:40.529 --> 01:14:42.350 whatever. And then we got him, like, a little 01:14:42.350 --> 01:14:46.550 tag and whatnot. Because somehow, like, he'll 01:14:46.550 --> 01:14:51.109 just sneak out. He'll sneak out. We'll lock all 01:14:51.109 --> 01:14:54.109 the doors behind us. And then we'll look as soon 01:14:54.109 --> 01:14:56.250 as we're out and safe and sound. And he's just 01:14:56.250 --> 01:14:58.390 standing right in front of us. And he's like, 01:14:58.449 --> 01:15:00.850 where are you guys going? It's, like, irritating. 01:15:01.149 --> 01:15:05.250 But it's get used to it. There's, like. All these 01:15:05.250 --> 01:15:08.489 cats on my street. In my neighborhood. And they 01:15:08.489 --> 01:15:10.210 just come and go as they please. There's like 01:15:10.210 --> 01:15:12.789 so many of them. I don't know how many there 01:15:12.789 --> 01:15:14.930 is. But there's a lot. Probably like a big old 01:15:14.930 --> 01:15:19.350 family. Right. And they like. They jump on my 01:15:19.350 --> 01:15:21.909 neighbor's windowsills. I'd be so scared when 01:15:21.909 --> 01:15:24.510 I see them do that. Because they're like. The 01:15:24.510 --> 01:15:27.670 way that it's set up. They jump onto the railing 01:15:27.670 --> 01:15:31.829 by the front door. And then it's like. Maybe 01:15:31.829 --> 01:15:35.039 like a. two foot maybe more than that like a 01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:38.119 really big gap to the windowsill and they jump 01:15:38.119 --> 01:15:39.899 up there and it looks like they're gonna fall 01:15:39.899 --> 01:15:42.880 and I get so scared I'm like oh my gosh please 01:15:42.880 --> 01:15:45.960 don't fall but they always make it onto the windowsill 01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:48.439 and then my neighbor lets them into the house 01:15:48.439 --> 01:15:51.439 through the window that's so scary it's very 01:15:51.439 --> 01:15:54.720 scary and there's like two or three cats that 01:15:54.720 --> 01:15:58.119 do that like every night and I'm like okay you 01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:00.479 guys are scaring me so I'm gonna stop looking 01:16:00.479 --> 01:16:04.659 at you yeah no that's right my my cat Oscar he's 01:16:04.659 --> 01:16:09.140 uh thankfully a very timid cat and likes to stay 01:16:09.140 --> 01:16:11.500 indoors so I'm grateful that I don't have to 01:16:11.500 --> 01:16:13.119 be one of those people that open my apartment 01:16:13.119 --> 01:16:15.640 window to let him in because that'd be really 01:16:15.640 --> 01:16:21.939 scary But, I mean, yeah. But we are coming up 01:16:21.939 --> 01:16:27.199 on time. Okay. And I honestly, I look forward 01:16:27.199 --> 01:16:29.859 to seeing you next Wednesday. Yes, this is fun. 01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:33.060 It is so fun. And it's fun to finally have a 01:16:33.060 --> 01:16:36.819 co -host, like a second person to talk to. Trust 01:16:36.819 --> 01:16:39.920 me, I was getting tired of Zach. Yeah. I can 01:16:39.920 --> 01:16:45.789 feel the tension in the room. But, yeah. No, 01:16:45.869 --> 01:16:49.350 all jokes aside, Zach and I don't hate each other. 01:16:50.529 --> 01:16:54.189 As much as he says we're not friends, we totally 01:16:54.189 --> 01:16:59.010 are. But, no. Yeah, I loved getting to know you. 01:16:59.109 --> 01:17:01.550 You're such a cool and fun person. Thank you. 01:17:01.630 --> 01:17:04.869 And I'm excited for the future. Yes, this is 01:17:04.869 --> 01:17:06.430 going to be fun. This is going to be awesome. 01:17:06.850 --> 01:17:08.430 Yeah, I mean, do you want to help me with the 01:17:08.430 --> 01:17:15.739 outro? Sure. I mean, how should we do this? I 01:17:15.739 --> 01:17:18.800 can say that's all for today. And then you can 01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:20.300 be like, you guys have a good rest of your day. 01:17:20.340 --> 01:17:22.819 And then we both say bye. Okay. All right. I 01:17:22.819 --> 01:17:25.000 mean, that's all that we have for today. You 01:17:25.000 --> 01:17:28.039 guys have a great rest of your day. Bye. Bye.