TAC: The Sideshow 6: Megan Loves Kitty

TAC The Sideshow 6

AP’s short Rap Career

Amy: Hi, everyone.

Megan: Hello!

AP: What's up?

Amy: Whas up?

AP: Whas up? Whas up?  That's my rap career. Everyone.

Amy: You cannot pull that off. I'm sorry.

Megan: Yeah, absolutely. That was the start and the end…

AP: Is that because I’m super white?

Megan: …Of AP's rap career

Amy: I don't know. Could that be it.

AP: What?

Amy: She said, “Is it because I'm super white?”.

Megan: I mean, it's probably not helping your case.

Amy: Anyway. So it's July first. I can't believe it's July.

Megan: I know.

Amy: This crazy bananas. We have a lot of things we want to talk about, don't we? We just I do. I have like 4,

Megan: I just have one I think that I know of.

Amy: I wanna make sure that I say this before at the top, in case anyone turns us off after 35 seconds.  We want to we want people to go and vote for us for the people's choice, award in the podcast awards and that is the link is in the show notes, but it's just podcastawards.com dot.

 And then you click vote. And then it makes you fill out you have to put your name and your email address, and then then it takes you to the page where you can vote, and you can vote for all the other categories, too. The only one that we are in is the people's choice.

Amy VO: Hi friends, Amy here. I was mistaken. Um, when I was announcing this, we are actually nominated in two categories and it's a little confusing. Um, the instructions for podcasters is, is, is confusing and it does not spell things out right. So as I was looking at all the different people who are nominated and all the different categories, suddenly there we are in the entertainment category.

So if you go to podcast awards.com and click nominate, You will be taken to a page where you put in your name and your email address, and I think you have to make a password too. And then it'll take you to the page where you can start voting slash nominating.  So we are in the People's Choice Award category, which I believe is the very first one you're going to see.

And then we are also in Entertainment. And then if you want to go the extra mile for us, Or for me, I should say. Uh, my other podcast, Volsteadland, is in the history category. So you can vote for us over there. Just wanted to clear that up because it's quite a confusing process on my end. Uh, you guys will have no problem just going in and, uh, voting.

Please do that. Thank you. Bye.

Amy:  and you can vote for us in there and I believe you can only vote once unless you …

AP: Multiple emails.

Amy: Yeah, unless you use a different email, like I used, I used my activity continues email and voted for VolsteadLand. And then I went into the Volsteadland, and I voted for activity continues.

AP: Smart move, smart move.

Amy: If you have multiple emails, you can vote vote multiple times.

And we are hoping that I mean, if there's a gazillion people that are in the running for that. We did have to register to be on that ballot, but we did that. We're on the ballot, so vote for us, and.

AP: whooo hoo!

Amy: I would be super happy. It would be great if we could, if we could even get in like the top 5, or something that would be awesome. So that's my 1st thing.

An Unexpected Olive and June “ad”

Oh, and I also want to say, I have to show you guys what I found at this.

Megan: I see a Rebel.

Amy: Mm-mm

AP: Is that a Cutwater?

Amy: Cutwater Espresso Martini.

Megan: Oh!

Amy: I have not opened it yet. This is my 1st one. It's already sweaty, cause it's

 humid here a little bit.

Amy: So I'm going to open it up with my new Olive and June …!

Megan: Did notice those.

Amy: Press on nails.

AP: Oh, I love Olive and June.

Amy: They're so cool this color, this is this color for those of you who can't see who are only listening. It is it's called crushed velvet, or something like that. (Velvet Obsessed)

Megan: It looks like a dark red wine.

Amy: It is, and it's real like iridescent. Oh, my God! I love them! I can't stop looking at them.

AP: I, freaking love their just their nail polishes in general. And then so sometimes I do my nails while I'm working, because then I'm not running the dogs into them but they have this like dry. So it's a it's a.

Amy: Oh, I've seen that on their site.

AP: It's a fast dry. And so it's it's like a little oil that you drop onto. Put a drop on your nails and I make sure you have paper towels underneath, because, or a paper or towel, or something.

Your hands get a little oily, but it helps them dry, and it like hardens, the nails a little bit more.

Megan: Yeah.

Amy: I’m going to have to get that. I love their nail strength thinner. I put that on all the time, and it works really well.

AP: I'm highly considering ordering one of their just like manicure sets where you can get, you know, a couple of different colors and all of the shaping tools, and everything cause.

My nails just always feel good after that. So Olive and June, if you're listening.

Amy: Yeah.

AP: We’d love, a promo code.

Amy: Yes, that would be awesome.

AP: I have 7 colors. I think right now.

Amy: I don't have that many

Megan: You should reach out to them.

Amy: I should. I should.

Megan: Are they polish?

Amy: They have polish, they have press-ons. they have 2 different kinds of press-on these are,  you put them on with glue. And then, and they're just, you know, they don't like.

They're just whatever I don't know how to describe it. I've done a bunch of other nails that are different, and I won't go into it. I don't like them.

I mean, I used them cause I thought they were cool, but they're not as good as these. You just put on, and you can cut them. When I got these they were like long and pointy. I had to cut them, cause I don't like the pointy.

AP: Like they actually do in the salons.

Amy: Yeah and you can wear them like the long way if you want. I did that for a few hours, and then I cut them. And I was like, I don't know if this is going to work, but it did. It worked just fine to cut them and file them down.

AP: Yeah.

Amy: And this one did come off right away. The thumb came off right away like an hour later, and I just glued it back on. I don't think I used enough glue, and that's all. It's been fine now, but I do use gloves to like wash my hair and wash dishes and stuff, because I'm afraid it's gonna come off, but they have these kind, and then they have another one called tabs.

Nail press on tabs, or something like that. I got some of those 2, but I haven't used them yet, and they're for more like temporary like. They're they're not gonna stay on for 2 weeks like these are supposed to.

 And then they have polish. Yeah.

AP: And they have Polish. They have a they have a quick, fast dry, so a quick dry, and then they also have the long wear, and honestly. The long wear, even the fast dry I've had last a week. The long wear can last pretty well, and I'm pretty rough on my nails.

Amy: I am, too. I'm always washing dishes or my hands, or whatever. So yeah, I like the God, this does sound like an ad. I swear to God.

AP: It sure does!

Amy:  And that's not sponsored or not. That's not sponsored. I.

Megan: Reach out to them and play them this segment.

Amy: And he like this is just off the cuff. It's not even in our list as yet. We were. Gonna talk about.

AP: No, it's not.

Amy: And they have. Yeah, I have not done the fast dry nails. I just did the long way once, and I'm always surprised how long it lasts.

Amy: Yeah, so really, nice.

AP: Because it's based on color. I have a because that is one thing that is a grievance of mine for most nail companies is that when you find like they don't always have the fun colors that you want in the like Polish type that year. Look.

Amy: Oh!

AP: So that that is annoying.

Amy: Yeah, I have not run into that. But.

AP: Well, I tend to like the I tend to like the bright like I've started wearing yellows. I really like, yeah yellows and.

Amy: That's the ones I got for the tabs, the tab ones where I got yellow.

AP: Okay.

Amy: I thought of it because I remember seeing you with your bright yellow on. And it was so cute.

AP: Yeah, thank, you, yeah.

Amy: Anyway, moving on from a topic we weren't even going to discuss.

AP’s Sheets Beef

AP: Oh, well, if we're gonna go with annoyance or grievance.

Amy: Oh, yeah.

Amy: Yeah, I saw yours, but I don't know what that means.

AP: No. So here's my problem.

Amy: Okay.

AP: Sheets.

AP: Why is it that if you order

AP: sheets or you buy sheets that are supposed to have deep pockets? Why does the top sheet never fucking fit.

Amy: Oh!

AP: Because if you're getting deep pockets, it means the rest of the mattress is deep or bigger. So why don't you have one like it barely covers or barely tucks in, and on either side.

Megan: Oh that’s annoying

AP: And I'm like I'm 1 person sleeping in a bed. How does 2 people fight over like sheet companies? Please make the top sheets bigger like. If it's for a queen, it should to me the top sheet should be able to fit a king.

Megan: Yeah.

AP: So then you can tuck it in. And you're not like completely destroying the other side of the bed.

Yeah, same. I always buy like my my blankets or comforters. I buy King size for my queen, my queen bed. Yep.

Amy: I do too well. Now I have a king bed, so I can't really go anywhere from there.

AP: Yeah..

Megan: California King.

Amy: That's just longer, though, isn't it just for tall people?

Megan: I think they're wider, too.

Amy: Oh are they wider. Oh, okay.

Megan: I sleep on a California king, and it's.

Amy: Oh!

Megan: It's pretty wide I can lay across it, and I'm not.

AP: Nice.

Megan: Feet aren't hanging off the end.

AP: Well, you are 5’2”.

Megan: 5’3”!

Amy: Come on, Amy give her that extra inch.

Megan: Give me that inch…of height.

AP: That’s what she said.

Megan: No.

Amy: I knew you were gonna do that. I knew someone was gonna do that.

Megan: Dirty. This is a family podcast.

AP: Well, then, I shouldn't have said “fucking”.

Caffeine Drinks

Amy: I'll have to beep it. The espresso Martini from Cutlet is delicious.

Megan: Nice.

Amy: it?

Amy: Yeah, you know. But.

Megan: Will it keep you up.

Amy: I hope not.

AP: I don't think it has caffeine in it, though.

Amy: I don't know. I have to look

Megan: Well it IS an Espresso Martini.

AP: Yeah. But they, yeah, can you use Decaf espresso.

Amy: Cold brew, coffee, flavor.

Amy: I don't know. I can't…

Megan: Okay.

Amy: …read it with my not-up-close-glasses on.

AP: I mean, like Kalua is coffee flavor, but it's not going to have caffeine in it right.

Amy: When I make espresso Martinis at home, I make them with espresso. However, now I've been making decaf cold brew and so now I make my drinks with that, and it doesn't keep me up at night. So.

AP: Yeah. Remember, you wired Megan for a while.

Amy: I know. Next time I make you one, Megan, I'll make it with the cold brew, and it you won't and won't keep you up. It's decaf. but these are good, and I'm glad I found them.

AP: Is that where your your incident last November started with drinking too much caffeine  or your that cold brew you had had.

Amy: Oh!

AP: Caffeine amounts.

Amy: Yes, I was drinking that BIZZY caffeine. I don't know if that's what sent me to the hospital or not, but.

Megan: Probably didn't help.

Amy: It probably didn't help it, certainly didn't help, certainly didn't help.

AP: Yes.

Amy: And then one of the nurses was she was like, “Oh, if you're ever. If your heart's ever feeling like fluttery…” or whatever cause I get like a I get that thing where like it beats normal, and then it stops and then goes blah blah blah blah like has to catch up.

AP: An arrhythmia.

Amy: Yeah.

Amy: I've had it all my life. But she's like, if that ever happens, you can just like drink a shot of of like coffee espresso, or something, and that'll just get it bumping right up. And I'm like, I think that's what got me here. I don’t think that's a good idea. And she's like Oh, well, then, don't! Well, I mean.

AP: And my mom does work in a on a heart you know. Short stay for outpatient surgeries, and she has seen an increase, and she's been working there God almost 20 years, probably 15 to 17 years. Now. but, she said, there's been such an increase of younger people coming in needing heart

related surgeries. So they do a lot of stents and things like that. And she's just because a lot of people rely on a lot of caffeine.

Amy: Yeah.

AP: Energy drinks, especially those of you.

Amy: Oh, my God! Like those 5 Hour Energys

AP: Well, Mountain Dews, multiple Mountain Dews in a day, or the 0 sugars, Monsters, and other things.

Amy: Red Bull.

AP: The people that will just like down one and open the next.

Megan: Yeah.

Amy: Instead of actually sleeping.

AP: Yeah.

Amy: I can't do that. It makes. If I drink too much caffeine I can drink cold caffeine, usually without it bothering me too much but if I drink like a cup of coffee like with caffeine, if I I can only have one, if I have more than one, my eyes literally buzz, and I can't see straight.

 So I can't do it.

AP: No thank you. Yeah.

Amy: Anyway. Careful with Caffiene kids.

Megan Prepping for losing a hand

Megan

AP: Megan is taking down notes of how to take care of us or take us out later.

Megan: No, I'm just trying to write with my left hand.

Amy: Why?

AP: Are you planning on breaking your right?

Megan: In case I ever lose my right hand. I've already got a head start writing with my left.

Megan: It actually. Look.

Megan: I don't know if you can see it out of their left handwriting.

AP: Okay.

Amy: Megan loves Kitty.

Megan: Yeah,

Amy: I can read it.

Megan: You should see when I started 2 years ago.

AP: So if anybody wants a prepper Megan is available.

Megan: I don't know why, but one day I'm like, you know, what if I lose my right hand and then I'm gonna have to start writing left handed.

 So I started practicing my left-handed writing.

Amy: Just now.

AP: No she's done it for 2 years.

Amy: I know. I'm just wondering why you're doing it right now.

Megan: I don't know cause I had a pen in my hand.

Amy: Okay.

Megan: I had to do something.

Amy: Anyway. So oh, oh, and when this comes out it'll be my mom's birthday. So happy birthday barb. She's not listening, but that's okay.

AP: Happy birthday, Barb.

Megan: Happy Birthday! Barb.

Megan’s Book Club

Amy: Oh, let's go, Megan. You're you have a book you want to talk about.

Megan: Yeah. So my cousin and I are doing a book club and honestly, the books we've had this year have been pretty duds.

And like, we're reading the books that are supposed to be really good. So either we're bad or they're bad. But.

AP: Kind of like movies that get nominated for Best PIcture.

Megan: Yeah, sure.

AP: Nobody sees them, and then everybody's like, why did I sit through this 3 h piece of crap.

Megan: The 1st 2 books were were okay. They weren't like, Wow, this is great and then we we started to read another one that was supposed to be like amazing. And it was I didn't even finish it, it was so bad. But we started reading Never Whistle At Night, which is a collection of dark fiction by indigenous authors.

Amy: Nice.

Megan: And it's it's good.

Megan: but I can't read it at night.

Megan: And I, all my cousin, didn't know about mimics, and never whistling at night like in the Appalachians.

Amy: -Oh.

AP: Appalachia

Megan: And I'm… Appalachia. Sorry, everybody, and from Midwest we say everything wrong.

And so I was telling her about it, and I told her about my experience with a mimic, and she's like, that's terrifying. I'm like, yes, yes, it is but the stories are so good like oh, they're good.

So if anybody is looking for something to read, I highly recommend it's called, never, Never Whistle At Night.

Amy: Okay, I'll put the link in the show notes to Amazon. And if you guys buy it through my link, we might get like 3 cents.

AP: Woo.

Amy: So I encourage you to support us in that manner.

AP: You get a penny and you get a penny.

Amy: You get a penny.

AP: Everyone gets a penny.

Megan: We won't spend it all in one place, and we won't forget about the people who brought us to the top.

Amy: That's right. That's right.

Olympic Trials and People’s wives

Amy: Okay, so I think we're back on Amy. You have. Ap, you have a more thing.

AP: Oh, yeah, I just the last couple of weeks has been the Olympic trials. So swimming track and gymnastics. And so it's just been a blast to kind of watch. But one thing we we notice, and this goes on a lot in track and field is, we get to see all the track events, including watching people, run 5,000 or 10,000 meters around the track. Just remember that a track is 400 meters.

Megan: Oh, my God! How boring.

AP: But we don't. We don't get to see and have commentary for things like long jump shot put discus, and any of the field events, they're like, Oh, here's the top throw from this person, and that's all we see.

Megan: That sucks.

AP: Yeah, and there's actually been a lot of athletes, field athletes kind of calling it out this year, because they put in just as much effort.

Amy: Of course!

AP: And you know, and we did. We were able to watch the we watched 2 Minnesota girls compete, or women compete for shot, put.

Megan: Nice.

AP: I actually coached against one of them back when I coach throws Maggie Ewan. She is just she. She was phenomenal in high school, and she's just a beast to see now, and the other one Lesnar. I can't think of her 1st name, Maya Maya Lesnar if you remember who Brock Lesnar was who was a U. Of M. Wrestler, and he went to the W. Yeah, he went. He tried to play. He tried to play football a little bit, but I think he went to the WWE.

And yeah it. His daughter made it to trials as well.

Megan: Nice.

AP: Neither one made it to the Olympics, but.

Megan: Simone Biles is here. It was in Minneapolis. The gymnastics ones were.

AP: Gymnastics, yep.

Megan: And I saw there was a lot of shade. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but when she was doing her routine, her fur routine they cut to her husband, and it said, Simone Biles, husband, yeah.

AP: As he should be known. His last he should change his last name to Bios, because everybody would know who he is.

Megan: Yeah.

Amy: Yeah, right.

Megan: But he's the one that was throwing shit a couple of months ago, when he was.

AP: Oh, yeah, last year he was. He's the catch In the relationship and.

Megan: Yes, and the only reason people knew about Simone was because she was married to him.

AP: He claims he was joking about all of that.

Megan: He was not joking.

But yeah, but yeah, they definitely put Simone Biles' Husband like, you know what.

Amy: Funny.

AP: What's his last name like Owens, or something.

Megan: I have no idea.

AP: Change your name to Biles, and people will know who you are. Oh, you're Mister Biles. You're Simone's husband.

Amy: Yeah.

Megan: She's the star in that relationship, and I will not. I will die on that hill.

AP: He was on the packers team, and now he is a he's a safety and so he's with the Bears. Now.

Amy: I don't know. You know. It's been centuries that we've been hearing Instead of a female given her name, it's she is so and so's wife. So you know, it's about time.

Megan: Even on

Amy: Turn about is fair play.

Megan: Even on Old Timey podcast, which is Kristen from Let's Go To Court her new podcast, that she does with her husband. She was known as Norm Caruso's wife. She was referred to as Norm Caruso's wife and cause He's got his own podcast and he was really pissed off about that. And I'm like, Yeah, she's her own person, too.

AP: I love. Like JJ Watts his wife, who, I can't think. Of course I can't think of her name right now, but she's a soccer player, and

AP: down in Texas somebody did an article and was like Jj. Watt's wife, and he's like she has a name.

Amy: Oh, good for him!

AP: Oh, yeah, he!

Amy: He's a keeper. Then.

AP: He's huge into that Jalen Hurts quarterback for the eagles, his entire like pr agency, and everything is all women.

He's the only player that has had all women sports agents, and you know, all of his admin stuff is all women.

Megan: Awesome.

AP: Yeah. But anyways, the trials were really fun.

 It was kind of funny last night they were talking about. You know, Simone Biles is 27. She is officially the oldest woman from the Us. Competing in the in gymnastics since the 19 fifties.

Amy: Oh, my god!

Megan: Wow.

AP: And.

Amy: Isn’t that crazy. They start so young.

Megan: They start so young.

AP: Well, there, there's a 16 year old on the team, so they're 16 to 27 is the age range. And you know they kind of relate. So, Simone, do you feel like kind of a sense of responsibility for all these young women that you're going? Yes, yes, she does. She goes.

Amy: I’m sure she does, but I hope she doesn't have it weigh on her too much.

AP: Yeah.

So more so because she used to call Ali Raisman “Grandma”, and she brought that up. She goes. Well, I used to call Allie grandma, and I've surpassed that. So yeah, I guess I'm kind of the the grandma of the team.

Amy: Yeah.As long as she embraces it. And she's okay.

AP: Oh, yeah, it's fine.

Megan: Her floor, routine.

Amy: She is amazing.

AP: To Taylor Swift

 Megan: She was doing like foot jumps, with no exaggeration.

Amy: Yeah, she's amazing. I saw it on the news tonight.

Megan: She’s a beast.

AP: Oh, it was so fun to watch that, and it's fun to hear their music, and know, like Suni Lee did

 Lindsay, sterling new music from Lindsay Sterling, the violinist jade Carey, did 7 Nations army by

Amy: White Stripes.

AP: Yup, thank you. I was. My brain went to White Snake and I was like that’s not the right White.

Amy: That's not the right white one.

AP: But it was so fun to like, and it's so like the powerful beats that they hit, and some of their like.

AP: It was just fun to watch. I love watching. I can't wait for the Olympics, and yes, you will get more Olympics information from me In a couple of weeks.

Amy: That's okay.

Megan: I’m not for or against it, like if it's on, I watch it. But I'm not gonna like it's not like Shark Week, which is next week. I'm not gonna like mold my day around.

AP: So I'll get up in the middle of the night to watch certain things if I have to.

Amy: Flip Phone Jody does that, too. She's obsessed with the Olympics.

AP: Oh, like curling in the winter, Olympics, one of my favorite things to watch. I got up and watched the Us Team play like 2 in the morning. Yep, I got up and went back to bed afterwards. I know I'm weird. It's fine.

Megan: By the time..

AP: Stop judging me. I feel like you're judging me.

Megan: …Over.

Amy: I’m not judging you! By the time what?

Megan: By the time this episode comes out, Shark Week is over.

Amy: Oh.

Megan: That’s next week.

Amy: oh, that's nice! I thought you were sick to say the Olympics is over. I'm like it's not coming out that long from now.

Amy’s GenX Concert Adventure

Amy:  Speaking of the trials. I was downtown last night, as you guys know, and anybody who saw my post on Instagram knows I was downtown last night acting like. I'm 21 years old, I mean.

Megan: I know when you sent that in the chat. I thought you were joking, and then I'm like, Oh, shit.

Amy: Did you think I'd been abducted, or something?

Megan: She texted us at like…

AP: I was messaging her, and I was laying in bed, and she's like I wish I was gone.

Amy: I'm like I was. I was. So okay, it's we went to see a band. Greg's favorite band called The Church. We're there because I'm a good wife, not because I wanted to be. I don't even really care for the band. They're fine. I bought their album Starfish in 1987, and I loved it, and I played the shit out of it.

AP: That’s the year my sister was born.

Amy: I thought it was 1984, but Greg said it was ‘87, and he's probably right.

 But the rest of their catalog is fine. I don't know. Well, it's fine, whatever I don't love it, I don't hate it. Whatever I'm in the middle.

 and so listening to them for several hours is a bit more than I can handle especially when I have already been standing for 3 hours because there were 2 other bands before them.

Megan: That's terrible.

AP: No thanks.

Amy: And yeah, and this band has been around since 82, maybe.

Megan: So they have a couple of songs.

Amy: So they have a few albums. Yeah, and their fan base is my age or older, I swear to god. I

 kid you not. I saw at least 3 people with canes. I saw people with knee braces.

 I everybody was clamoring for the 27 seats.

.

AP: anybody have one of those like seats that they just fold out like they had a Big Bang Theory.

Amy: I wish I brought my mom has one. I should have brought hers. I would have at least had somewhere to sit. It was painful. My back hurt so bad, my legs hurt, my feet hurt. I even wear my good Scotland tennis shoes.

Thank God! Otherwise I would have been in a lot more pain than that.

But yeah, it was. It started late, of course. I mean, I swear to God a show for seniors should start at like 4.

Megan: Yeah.

Amy: None of this 7:30 shit.

AP: Nothing like partying late. Your whole body aches, but it's just because you're old and standing. I mean, we we all get there.

Megan: She sent us a text at like 9, and she's like, “I'm out” And I'm like 9 on a Sunday. Yeah.

AP: I look. I had to double. Look at my watch and my phone and be like, is she okay?

Megan: I'm like I'm on my couch, and then I'm gonna be in my bed.

Amy: Yeah. well, and we took a lift and we get downtown.

Amy: And 1st of all, the.

AP: Still sunlight, out?

Amy: Yes, oh, it was sunlight with a second band was still playing. It was still sunlight.

 But we get downtown, and not only is it the Olympic trials which we didn't know? It's also Pride.

Which we knew. But we weren't thinking about.

Megan: Yeah.

Amy: And so it was chaos. And we're like, thank God, we didn't drive.

Megan: Terrible.

Amy: It. The the Lyft was fine, and our driver was really cool. He was from Qatar, and he was like.

Megan: Oh nice!

Amy: He was like two years ago I never would have dreamed I was be here you know, in in Minneapolis, but.

AP: And he probably wants to like, get out.

Amy: Yeah, he.

AP: of the U.S.A.

Amy: Probably will pretty soon. Oh, God, let's not get started on that.

AP: Nope, Nope, Nope.

Amy: Shit that went down today, or we won't even we won't even get to the recap

AP: Right, yeah.

Amy: But yeah, he probably. Oh, he's he. He did. This is one thing, he said, that I thought was really interesting.

Amy: So he moves here he gets a Hyundai, he owned also owned a Hyundai in Qatar and in Qatar His Hyundai kept getting stolen or one time it got totaled, and then a couple of times it got stolen. He moves here he gets a Hyundai, it gets stolen.

He gets another one, it gets stolen and I'm like what the fuck, and he said, so don't ever get a hyundai if you don't.

Megan: No.

Amy: Stolen, and he said, You know, it was so surprising to him when he got here, because when he was in Qatar he he thought, well, people steal because they don't have anything they have to steal. They have to steal, to get money.

They don't steal you know, because they don't have the opportunities to have jobs and all this kind of stuff. So they have to steal. They have no other option. He's like. So I'm was really surprised to come here and find out that people are still stealing from each other, and he's like.

Megan: Yeah.

Amy: I don't know why. Why are people doing that? They don't have to.

AP: We suck.

Amy: And I said, Well, because he was telling us that he works at a a college. And he's like, got some kind of like security job, like, not like cyber security like he does computer security stuff.

 And then he does this like, for extra money on the weekends.

And so I said, Well, I think the difference is that you are willing to work hard. You have 2 jobs.

And these people aren't. They'd rather just steal.

So I think that's what it is. That's not probably what it is all the time. But he was like, I just didn't think it was gonna be like that. I I understand what it was like when I was at home. But I was hoping it wasn't gonna be like that.

Megan: That's really shitty.

Amy: I knnow.

AP: Yeah.

Megan: Popped his little illusion bubble.

Amy: I know, but he's really happy to be here, and he speaks English beautifully, and I was gonna ask him if he learned English and Qatar, or if he's only learned it in the last 2 years.

But we got there, and we I didn't have time.

Megan: When I was in the Middle East. This guy that I was dating learn English by watching TV

Amy: Yup. A lot of European countries do, too.

Amy: in in Copenhagen they all speak English, and that's because they learn from watching TV. They don't even have accents. I mean, most of them younger people. Anyway, they don't. They sound just like us because they don't even maybe not like us unless they're watching Fargo. But they.

Megan: Oh, yeah.

Amy: Oh, yeah, but they don't. They don't like I was like, How come you sound like me? You don't sound, and they're like, cause we want. We watch your TV shows. That's how we learn.

AP: Makes sense.

Megan’s Meds Update

Amy: Okay, I think the only thing we have left on our list is Megan's medication update.

Megan: Yes.

Amy: Amy and I both wanted to ask you about this, but we weren’t sure how much you want to talk about.

Megan: I started my adhd medication last week and I think it's been it. I've definitely noticed. I'm not reaching for my phone as much when I'm working so I'm able to focus more.

So that's the biggest thing that I've noticed is I did today. But that's just because I was really really tired. But I've noticed that I'm able to really like do a task, whereas before I would do like type for a couple of minutes and then phone and type and.

And now it's probably like 30 to 40 min that I'm able to do that.

Amy: Oh, good!

Megan: So it's definitely helping. I've only been on it a week so it's still probably working its way into my system. I didn't do a stimulant. I did a non stimulant because I was couple reasons one.

I don't want to get addicted to like the the Adderall type stuff. Two: If this medication didn't work, I wanted to have another option available to me but so far it seems to be doing a really good job.

Amy: Good.

AP: Yeah.

Megan: No real side effects.

Amy: Oh, good!

Amy: I I would think a stimulant would also could amp up your anxiety part, too. You know you're like you're jittering, and you're picking and all that kind of stuff. I would think it would. It would contribute to that. So it's probably good that that this is working okay for you.

Megan: So so far, so good.

Amy: Yay!

AP: Congrats!

Megan: thanks. Very excited. Yeah.

Amy: Yay. okay.

 Should we jump into the recap.

Megan: Yeah.

Amy: Alright. Well, thanks everybody for hanging out with us for this bit and a

 we will see you next week when we do a recap.

Amy: Well, thanks, everybody.

AP: Thanks. Everyone.

All: Bye.