Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet - 266: Reviews of Community Colleges

Episode Date: January 3, 2024

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Starting point is 00:01:32 podcast where we read the worst reviews in the most dramatic fashion. My name is Zandy. No, you did not slow your playback speed to 0.5. Zandy just talks really slow sometimes. I was trying to make it make sense for the people at 1.25. Oh, okay. I wanted to throw them for a loop. I wanted them to be like, oh, the people at 1.25. Okay. I wanted to throw them for a loop. You know, I want them to be like, oh man, I haven't said it yet. People have said that they will accidentally do that.
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Starting point is 00:02:14 Yeah, so. I assume no one's listening to it that fast, but that would be crazy. So. Have we said what this episode is of course not this is uh a reviews of community colleges episode is that why you restarted community yes that's funny that didn't hit me until today okay i was wondering if you'd notice she just sent me a great quote from community i'm glad you knew it did you know it immediately oh yeah okay because I started community over again which I haven't done in like a long time what was the quote it was like bing bong your view oh wait you're bing bong your views something about Al Gore isn't the same yeah anyway it's a
Starting point is 00:02:56 great quote if y'all have not watched community and done review if you have not searched for reviews of community colleges while watching community it really is bing bong sing along your team's al gore because your views are wrong it's such a good joke is that troy went to like a conservative school high school and that was like the cheers that they had there was another cheerleader in the episode there's three of them there are three yeah i almost sent you the other ones but that one was that's the one where he like jeff convinces him to start playing football again, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:25 Yeah. It's a great show, folks. Oh, it's one of our favorites. It is. Yeah, it is. It's really excellent stuff. Excellent writing. And so every time I saw Glendale Community College, I'd be like, Greendale Community
Starting point is 00:03:38 College? And then finally, I was like, I just have to watch the show. So that is our theme for today. We got tons of emails um and my challenge was from grace and it's to find reviews where someone mentions a dream they had uh which i think we have maybe done years ago but uh we did it again bonus points yeah bonus points if they only visited the location or use the product because of the dream so we'll see if i get bonus points i don't remember i don't even know i don't know i feel like that's not my discretion you know yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:04:10 it's up to you you go first okay this is from corinne and it is a review of southwestern community college and it is a three star but i would say negative by david scc certainly has some good things, but some problems and discrimination also. I frequently instruct specialty courses in the surrounding area. A current English instructor and past department chairman, Peter Smith, once told me that attendance at a Marilyn Manson concert or devil worship could be a student's personal spiritual health.
Starting point is 00:04:41 What does that mean? What does that? You tell me. Okay. I'm like asking myself because i'm like told me that attendance on a maryland manson i think i just saw that and said okay pick this one no clue what it means could be a student's personal spiritual health this was during a conversation when peter smith was stating his opposition to a biblical reference even though
Starting point is 00:05:03 it was in the college textbook. Peter later tried to falsify his way out of the statement and ended up apologizing to a local reporter reporting on the story and was removed from the department chair position. Whoa. What is going on? I don't know. There was never this much drama at Greendale Community College. That's a lie. Totally not.
Starting point is 00:05:22 That's a lie. What? No, I don't know this i don't know what's happening i don't know who this person i found that was pretty common with these reviews was there's like someone was mad at a professor for stating views one way or the other i will say it was not always uh and it was usually something really fucking wild. And I didn't bring one. I'll just say what it was. But it was like someone claimed that the math teacher, math professor had said to their pregnant student that they didn't have to keep their child.
Starting point is 00:05:59 And like they could get an abortion. And I'm like, what the fuck? Wait, what? Yeah. The math teacher? Yeah, it was in a math according to this review i i summarized it myself but like that's what it said okay that was just and i'm like why what is happening in these classrooms literally why yeah and what i will assume is there's some
Starting point is 00:06:20 context i would like to think i would hope i would hope at least a little bit there's some context leading up to it that leads to that but again it's presented does not sound good so i'm not like i don't know you know you don't have to have that baby yeah they do abortions you know what the fuck okay but i could also see it being like talking about abortion laws and then happening to like take it the wrong way but also you know what maybe not maybe the professor well also why in a math yeah that's a great question why are we just forget it i'm just not even gonna try to i'm just gonna say bing bong your views are wrong or whatever your uglor and your views are wrong bing bong got him that's all you need to say got him bonging two. Bonging. Two stars for St. Clair College, Windsor campus. This was sent in by Matt and Jen.
Starting point is 00:07:10 Here we go. Would have gave them one star, but they accepted me. So here's another. End of review. What? That's like a toxic relationship for sure. Okay. You accepted me.
Starting point is 00:07:24 I'll throw you a star. I'll throw you a star. I'll throw you a bone. But you shouldn't have accepted me. Jesus. But that's, well, probably not because I corrected their review for them. But it actually says, would have gave them one star, but they accepted me for here's another. Oh. They said F-O-R, like for, like for instead of so because a typo or something
Starting point is 00:07:47 i don't know because i don't know actually how that happens but okay here is a review from abby of glendale community college which i believe was quite close to where we lived i know we discussed living in glendale in the last episode we did um. And you found out about Muffin Me Crazy. What is it? You know, I already don't remember. That's about Muffin? It was something... Muffin wrong with that. Yeah, that's better. I actually don't know if that's true. Is it in California?
Starting point is 00:08:15 Where was that? Yeah, there is a... Glendale Community College. I remember because I always thought of Greendale Community College. One Star by Sam. It took me four years to get my diploma. Slow service. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:08:35 That's so funny. I love that. Also, I noticed there were these stupid theater kids here, and this was written by a science kid. Be a science girl or guy. Always ask what or why. Additionally, my food got stuck in the vending machine and we couldn't be allowed in the hallways because they had a meeting end of review this sounds like a high schooler went there for like a day yes you know what i
Starting point is 00:08:53 mean like as a high schooler who would go to the community college for events once a week yeah what events um academic team oh i'm like i like, I wasn't invited. Oh, right. Yeah. Yeah. A team. It's like buzz. It's like, it's like a quiz bowl. Yeah. How do I know what that is? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:09:15 But why are all of these, like, there's so many examples of that from high school or middle school or something where I say it a certain way and everyone's like, you mean quiz bowl? I'm like, why did we call it academic team? And our school had to come up with some ridiculous. I mean, it was, but that's the thing. It wasn't just our school. We Why did we call it academic team? And our school had to come up with some ridiculous. But that's the thing. It wasn't just our school. We competed against other schools in academic team. Maybe it's like how Ohio does BMV.
Starting point is 00:09:32 Drew. Just to fuck around. You're so right. Instead of DMV. Yeah. So. Got me. Got Ohio there.
Starting point is 00:09:38 I think that might be it. Anyway, be a science girl or kid or whatever. Be a science girl or kid. I always ask why. Unlike theater kids, you know also learn about abortion in math class because apparently that's what we do here i i saw one oh my god what was it oh no the literal opposite man i'm sorry i'm reading people's emails i'm not bringing them but i like like the reviews but i only have a certain number i want to pick and choose so there was one that was um um talking about a so i just said the one but then the other was saying that like apparently judging women who don't have children a professor was doing that oh god and
Starting point is 00:10:19 then because of that same school no i don't think it was the same i could be wrong but then said like oh like like i didn't know how woke it would be and i'm like how is that even remotely woke that's like literally the least anything it's the opposite yeah i mean opposite like why are you not a mother you are a woman of childbearing age that's not really woke and that is the opposite of woke actually now that you say it out loud i'm like wait a second i don't even know if it's the opposite of woke i don't know what the opposite of woke is. Something you would say in the Victorian era.
Starting point is 00:10:48 Yeah. Which tends to be the opposite of woke. Okay, fair. Here's the, I feel like I should never use the word woke again. It's just terrible. It's too much. I can't. It's too much.
Starting point is 00:10:59 Okay. Here's a one-star review sent in by Elta of Anoka Ramsey Community College. Here we go. Worst place ever for instructors. My wife and I were both accused of cheating from each other in different classes. On each other? No, in each other. Oh.
Starting point is 00:11:18 Oh! Wait, they were both accused of... Hold on. This is actually very funny. I know. A married couple taking separate courses, both accused of cheating. Okay. Worst place ever for instructors.
Starting point is 00:11:34 My wife and I were both accused of cheating from each other in different classes. The supporting evidence? The same IP address took tests at the same time. Hello? McFly? end of review man so now they have a thing against married people that is woke oh so true i gotta say so true um that is hysterical um yeah they're like you are cheating using the same ip address okay those stupid things like stupid mistakes like that. Granted, I'm not in that kind of a position, but I could absolutely see myself making a mistake like that.
Starting point is 00:12:13 Being like, thinking I can't, like thinking I got it. Like, oh my God, I found something. Found a cheater. And then it's like, oh, nope. There's a perfectly logical explanation. This makes no sense. Like. I hope they got that rectified i assume
Starting point is 00:12:25 i would hope so yeah i don't know they did leave one star and didn't it didn't seem like it wasn't a positive experience but yeah if it's a misunderstanding could have just been like really funny honestly me too okay this is also from abby and this is of santa monica college also i feel like what like what if there's any of, I don't know how this place works, if there's any sort of local student housing or whatever, if they have any sort of local Wi-Fi spots, I don't know, like a cafe? I think it's all these newfangled woke... I'm trying to take a sip of my coffee as you go into something i thought would be like logical well that was your mistake um no it's like all these new online i don't know how any of this works i feel like we got out of school like right when yeah and then during covid
Starting point is 00:13:16 everything picked up with online but i feel like there's so many things now that they have to put in place and i don't know how half of them work i mean yeah i imagine there's some rule where you have to hearing them from francisca and even mom teaching like when renee took um i think it was the bar or i don't know when she took some test they would lsats i've been watching suits you have yeah it's really it's really fun they like track your eyes to see if you're looking above your computer yeah yeah like i mean it's crazy they're like they're really on top of it well it's funny that kind of technology i've only seen like in the context of video games and streamers and it's really fun to see like where like you can i they imap uh professional like video game to see where their eyes go boobs and how that was also a
Starting point is 00:14:03 thing people know i remember streamers would do and like i would be so mortified and be like no i was looking at her beautiful decolletage but yeah no and then yeah they have it like the eye tracking software to make sure when you're taking a test you're not like looking off screen yeah it's crazy it's nuts so you know get a divorce first otherwise you're a cheater wow move out that's my rule good blaze you hear that no because he already left oh this is from abby as well it's of santa monica college it's a one star view by owen took a stand-up comedy class at this local community college, and they set us up with a booker, but the booker yelled at me a bunch on the phone and then said he wouldn't book me or another student I was with again
Starting point is 00:14:52 because we didn't sell any tickets. This booker's convinced a lot of us students to quit comedy. When I emailed the teacher about it, he just said, That show business. Sorry. Also, look how it's... That show business i'm sorry also look how it's that show business it's one word capital s capital b when i emailed the teacher about it he just said that show business and did not seem to care in any way i'll always remember that booker screaming at me on the phone wish i had my money back from that class lame the school is a total ripoff and waste of money. Never ever take a comedy class here.
Starting point is 00:15:26 Biggest mistake of my life. End of review. Hey, that show business. That show business. That's what I always say. I wonder how many times a semester that teacher says that. The professor says that. Maybe it's just his email signature.
Starting point is 00:15:37 He's like, I didn't say that. That's just part of my email. Like, don't get it twisted. It's like my pronouns and then that show business. It's like the username. Like, that's when they play video games.'s her name show business that's why it's capital s capital b one word like mine in some games it's lighthouse lover capital l capital l you know what happens lighthouse lover that's my name on like valorant for example
Starting point is 00:16:00 it's almost like every other game someone will comment on it and say why do you love lighthouses and it's like or not even like that they'll be negative they'll come in they'll come in firing they're like why would you love like like what why there's nothing they'll be like negative towards lighthouses meanwhile their username is like boobs yeah you get the most ridiculous sometimes really gross, like, names. And the couple names. The couple names. What's a couple name?
Starting point is 00:16:30 People have, like, I don't have. There's some funny examples. But, like, there are different characters in the name, in the game, like, Sage. And it'll be, like, his, capital H, like, his Sage. Oh, no. And the person playing, and they play Sage. And then, like, the person playing and they play sage and then like the person playing jet will be like her jet no and they'll be like a couple and it's obvious that
Starting point is 00:16:51 they're a couple playing it's it's it's it's it's a lot hashtag cringe you're not wrong but there's some funny ones but anyway people get really aggressive towards lighthouse lover and it's like what's so weird to believe that someone would love lighthouse is it that shocking it's not it's different on a game like that i imagine as you've already said but like i don't understand why it would draw ire it does though it's so weird but like when i play yahtzee which is the same kind of thing um but the apple or I don't know if it's the Apple Games, whatever, people get assigned a name. And it's like, if you don't like put your own in, you get like randomized and it's like an adjective and an animal. So it'll be like sleepy panda or like energized giraffe, like random shit.
Starting point is 00:17:39 And I just, I'd be, when I first started playing, I was like, man, these Yahtzee people are like really into exuberant animals. Like, why is everybody like an excited giraffe? I don't know. So I feel like if I were on like some, I feel like, what is your, why are you so obsessed with? I don't know. I see what you mean. Yeah, those are weird. It's like, huh.
Starting point is 00:17:59 Yeah. It stands out in a way. What a very unique name. But then I realized it was all just randomized. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of a sad realization where you're like. But then I realized it was all just randomized. Yeah. Yeah. That's kind of a sad realization where you're like, oh my God, look at all these enthusiastic animal fans.
Starting point is 00:18:09 I thought it's like all these boomers playing Yahtzee with me, like just loved. Loved animals. Loved animals and like fun vocabulary. Yeah. But no. I found a thread of best Valorant couple names. No, Alex and her. His bathtub and her toaster. That's pretty good. I don't his bathtub and her toaster that's pretty good
Starting point is 00:18:27 i don't know what that means but it's pretty good means it's not good oh i don't want to have in a toaster like that's bad yeah you're like i thought it was like a valorant reference oh no no why is this specifically valor couple names? Just because that's where people found these. What about Yahtzee couple? Oh, these are real people's names. This is, yes. These are real ones that they've seen. I thought this was like a listicle, like here's some suggestions.
Starting point is 00:18:52 No. Yeah. There's some really rough ones like his towers and her plane. What the fuck? Come in peace and peace. No, I knew that was coming. I knew that was next. I knew that was next. I knew that was coming.
Starting point is 00:19:06 Okay. Yeah, anyway, I'm done with those. I'm moving on. I'm his exuberant giraffe, so. His exuberant giraffe is so good. This episode is brought to you by Secret. Secret deodorant gives you 72 hours of clinically proven odor protection free of aluminum, parabens, dyes, talc, and baking soda.
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Starting point is 00:20:11 tickets at cirque du soleil.com the world is yours to create echo thanks it's presenting partners on life and its official partners air canada and mastercard Air Canada and MasterCard. Okay, here we go. This next one, which one should I do? I'll do this one from Denise Sheher who says, I'm sending in a review of the community college I attended for my nursing school pre-reqs. This is Pima Community College. And then she says, and I don't really understand what's happening oh in the review welcome to the club here is a one-star review i am taxpayer who unwilling is
Starting point is 00:20:55 forced to pay taxes for college this who accepts accepted people with a seventh grade education for classes when i told them please do not send me anything in the mail. What do I get in the mail? At a cost of $1.70 in postage, plus colorful brochures and leaflets and an application to attend PCC? How ignorant are they? I would naturally have to assume they are so ignorant
Starting point is 00:21:21 they would be considered imbeciles. Parentheses IQ of 25 to 50 if you want to attend this school and get your degree to become an imbecile sign right up my unwanted application is now in the recycling bin waiting to be shipped to china really that's what the city of tucson does with it and do try to figure out how you are going to pay for the lousy education you will get. End of review. Whoa. Chill out. Jesus Christ.
Starting point is 00:21:48 There's a lot. They're like checking the postage price on all their junk mail. Can you imagine? Dad would have like millions of dollars in like tallies of just adding. Like his Excel sheet would be hundreds of pages long. Hundreds. Imagine the ire of like this person just getting one brochure in the mail yeah man yeah i feel like what a hateful person jesus calm down but you heard about that you
Starting point is 00:22:14 did you the thing about sending the recycling to china yeah is that i've never heard that is that a thing according to npr because this person is not an imbecile as i've learned really aggressively so this it it was it is no longer as much of a thing but it was a lot more common uh before 2019 what uh because in 2019 um china like had uh changed their import laws regarding uh importing other countries waste junk mail and brochures from community colleges in tucson and so yeah the u.s sold their a lot of places in the u.s sold their recycling to china why because i assume it was for for product yeah they would then process it recycle it and then use it i assume and they'd sell it to the yeah they would sell it to recycling plants in china who would then i assume sell it to companies to create goods beautiful relationship
Starting point is 00:23:10 we have there yeah but apparently it's no longer as much of a thing so this was in 2019 so i don't have an update but basically was like what now and one funny line uh there's a john catarano of nestle waters north america nestle one of the worst companies to ever exist that's what it says no i'm saying this right now it's like this is my view uh nestle is one of the worst companies to ever exist period um and it says so john of nestle waters north america which makes bottled water said plastic is getting a bad reputation. Here's a quote. The water bottle has in some ways become the mink coat or the pack of cigarettes. It's socially not very acceptable to the young folks.
Starting point is 00:23:54 And that scares me. Imagine. That scares me. Fucking loser. Imagine, like, I don't know who. I'm trying to think of an old-timey actress wearing a mink coat and, like, one of those long cigarettes and then, like, holding a't know who, I'm trying to think of an old timey actress wearing a mink coat and like one of those long cigarettes and then like holding a fucking Nestle water bottle.
Starting point is 00:24:10 Like, okay. But like when you're comparing yourself to, you're to be like, oh, like, oh no, we're going the way of these two. It's like, you're, you're kind of telling on yourself here. We can't even slaughter foxes anymore. No, it's literally, it's like, well, yeah, minks, that, yeah, there's a reason. And big tobacco is hurting. Yeah, cigarettes are the reason. Your argument is like outrageous. Yeah, it's like, well, yeah, minks, that, yeah, there's a reason. And big tobacco is hurting. Yeah, cigarettes are the reason.
Starting point is 00:24:27 What is your argument is like outrageous. Yeah, it's so fucking wild. But yeah. Do you think someday people are going to be like, you just threw water bottles in the trash can? No, probably not. It'll probably still be happening. Probably. But yeah, apparently the U.S. at this point was only recycling 10%.
Starting point is 00:24:45 According to Sunil Bagaria, who runs a recycling company, was saying that the U.S. only recycles 10% of their own waste. Well, I recycle every millimeter because I was raised in such a scary recycling household that I just can't undo the habit. Like I live with such deep guilt if i throw away anything that's not that is recyclable yeah and then mom goes through and is like this isn't recyclable i'm like well i thought i'd give it a chance but okay you better save than sorry right apparently not i don't know well no apparently then they throw it all out they were talking also about how the um the number of contaminants while recycling is going up the number of contaminants is also going up i'm sure i mean you don't rinse out a hummus container imagine what
Starting point is 00:25:31 grows in there i've seen it with my own two eyes i've seen what grows in a hummus container when it's not rinse i have not eaten it so you got me beat there well I don't want it to go to waste. Reuse, reduce, recycle. Okay. This is, is it my turn? Yes. From Brad. And this is Great Falls College, Montana State University. And it's a one-star review by Chris.
Starting point is 00:25:58 Your location map needs help. I almost need a course on how to follow your directions. And finding a classroom well forget it i guess the old-fashioned way of asking someone once i find the building will work as it always has it's nice to see all that education go to work i think you have taken common sense right off the page and came up with college sense by the way common sense is misspelled okay no just it's actually it's all misspelled and which is only relevant because they're trying to insult the schools. You know, anyway.
Starting point is 00:26:31 It's nice to see all that education go to work. I think you have taken common sense right off the page and came up with college sense. Some things just do not have to be so overthought. thought when someone needs a glass of water they could die of thrust by the time you explain how the glass was made where the sand came from and how the water was filtered cleaned and transported to the faucet you got it from or bottle really they are just thirsty get my point so weirdly look how they spelled theirs while i don't think i agree it's with a u okay but while i don't think i agree i think i understand their point i don't so please well i think they're just it seems like they're anti-education and like i don't know maybe i'm but then why are they looking for the classroom
Starting point is 00:27:16 like anti like what the education system is which i'm like i don't really understand what they think it is but by saying like they're saying someone would die of thirst because they're like explaining too much they're saying it's not like vocational like it's not helpful yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah which i guess is their point i suppose well maybe i'm giving them too much credit really they are just thirsty get my point because hey we while they misspelled everything you understand the words what you know what you able to figure out the words well i did think when they wrote they could die of thrust i thought they meant thrush which is like a yeast infection i was like oh okay we got a little bit of a confusion
Starting point is 00:27:56 i was like oh no confusion there um but otherwise yes i. Well, I don't understand, but I do acknowledge that these are words. Yeah. Ish. I just can't stop thinking about that Nestle guy after reading about this water bottle, like how this water bottle. I'm like, I can't stop thinking about it. I feel like I need to take a class on how this is made. Yeah, I know. It actually would be pretty, pretty, pretty good info.
Starting point is 00:28:21 Really? They are just thirsty. Get my point? I guess not. So just ask someone. I did ask you. It didn't really help. True.
Starting point is 00:28:27 Education should not start prior to getting to school. Good grief. End of review. Education should not start prior to getting to school. What does that mean? Oh, man. In relation to the above. I assume they're saying, like, it was such a strain trying to find the classroom.
Starting point is 00:28:46 Oh, we're back to that. I assume. Okay. I don't know. Is that not the only complaint they actually, like the only clear complaint that they had. That seems like the only clear complaint is that they had to ask for directions. So I feel like it all is about that. Oh, I see.
Starting point is 00:29:00 So like they should have an easier time getting to the classroom. They had to educate themselves on the layout of the campus. Yeah. Okay. I assume. I guess. I don't know, man. You brought it to the table.
Starting point is 00:29:12 I'm an imbecile, okay? I'm not gonna. Like, I don't claim to know anything above a level. Let me explain what the IQ level is. Like, that crazy person from earlier. Oh, yes. All that time earlier. here is a review this was sent in by uh lauren and it's of community college of denver and this is a redemption oh four stars
Starting point is 00:29:36 delightful if any type of advice for students i can express is... You know what? What? No, I don't. I meant to tell you that this was written by Jesse James. Okay, this is good. And this is all... Well, I'll be. That was just the first line of this journey. Here we go. If any type of advice for students I can express is,
Starting point is 00:30:02 you are young, uncertain, and a star. Yes, you already are. It doesn't matter where from you have come afar. Just know you are. Explore the experience that is the journey as a student. Hashtag Jesse James original. C minus.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Is this a poetry class? C minus. I don't know about this. This is a little, okay. Trial and error. You should anticipate it somewhere along the means to your life. Do not let it justify you. Do not compare yourself to others. Your success story is not whether one is successful or not.
Starting point is 00:30:39 It definitely is not going to be about the degree at the end. Your degree will be the prize your journey is about your experience end of review why do they put the hashtag in the middle i don't know i i feel like they could have stopped at you're a star and i would have been like that's so nice and then it just got weird it got kind of weird um i was kind of into it though i because it rhymed the energy a second yeah i don't know if that was intentional i liked it um i just thought it was very you know it wasn't the clearest message but i think it was clearly positive it's clearer than dying of thrush or whatever that is true and it seemed to be clearly positive yeah i
Starting point is 00:31:24 mean you know at least it's trying to be clearly positive yeah i mean you know at least it's trying to spread some morale yeah it's morale it did feel a little ai generated i kind of doubt it is uh from six years ago i could never come up with hashtag jesse james original or whatever oh yeah truly did say it wasn't an original my bad my bad my bad do you know why they have to put that on everyone because of people like me because people keep saying this is so well written it must be ai i will say i haven't i've been scrolling through other reviews and i have not seen hashtag jesse james original since then maybe they were taking like a creative writing class true that's kind of fun that is fun do you have any more? I've got one more. I do have more. Let's see. This is from Ashley.
Starting point is 00:32:05 She, they, who sent a review of Lake Superior College where they attended. And then I put this in here because I was laughing. You know how Google or Gmail gives you like prompts of what you can click to like a fast response? Yeah. Like it'll say like, sounds great, comma, thanks. And you can just click it and it'll autofill. response yeah like it'll say like sounds great comma thanks and you can just click it and it'll autofill so it wanted me to basically ashley said like oh i went here got this certification whatever and google was like here's what you should say i'm so proud of you that sounds so
Starting point is 00:32:36 rude because they weren't saying it like to be like i got my degree go me it was like oh i went here and google was like tell them how proud you are and i'm like okay no i'm not gonna do that but ashy you're a star and i'm proud of you and that is a jesse james original i haven't read the email so i'm not sure if i'm proud of you okay this is a one star review of lake superior college by jimmy discriminated against and stalked by staff students here don't take their careers or education seriously. The only good classes were sociology, art, business, and tiny house. Huh?
Starting point is 00:33:14 That sounds fun. I know. I want to take that. Basically, whatever isn't a degree requirement. My complaints were responded with getting told to go to Fond du Lac. Despite years after any enrollment, I received mail saying they received over $100 in expenses from the government for 2022, proving a criminal administration from the top down. They received $100 proving that there was a criminal administration? That sounds like a scam. You can have part of that 100 if you send me
Starting point is 00:33:46 200 first yeah yeah yeah yeah you just have to get me pay my bail and send money to a nigerian prince and then you can get a few cents of this hundred dollars yeah it's like one of those um class action lawsuits where they're like just enter your information your social security number and we'll mail you a couple cents yeah despite years any enrollment, I received mail saying they received over $100 in expenses from the government for 2022. Proving a criminal administration from the top down. The cops didn't care years ago. You think they'd care now? The county laughs.
Starting point is 00:34:20 They're predators. Okay. Now I'm wondering if this person's taking a creative writing class. Because I feel like none of these are making any sense. They're predators. Okay. Now I'm wondering if this person's taking a creative writing class. Because I feel like none of these are making any sense. The county laughs. They're predators. Just go somewhere else if your money is real and not from a board game.
Starting point is 00:34:37 Contacted five government agencies without response. I wonder why. We're really busy. You got yourself on a list, though. Congrats. Yeah, congratulations. I hope it's worth it. You know there are a lot of FBI offices around.
Starting point is 00:34:49 We just Googled that. That was with me. Or we just talked about this two days ago. Because I said there's a... I said there's an elevator. That was with you. A Twisted Club elevator. And you said, well, there's an FBI office in Cincinnati. And there are like three in Massachusetts at least. I said I've never seen them in the same room together so i think we've all come to the conclusion
Starting point is 00:35:09 that we're gonna arrive to together and this is what i have to say about i completely forgot that was a podcast i love when zinni tries to tell me fun facts no i was just like i learned that recently i actually tell him lots of fun facts and And then he's like, I told you that. So it's usually the other way around. It happens to me and Dee where I'm like, oh, blah, blah, blah. She's like, you never told me that. I'm like, you're right. I told my therapist.
Starting point is 00:35:35 Oh, I'm always like, I told my brother. Never mind. Okay. The county laughs. They're predators. Just go somewhere else if your money is real and not from a board game. Contacted five government agencies without response. Surely this country is doomed.
Starting point is 00:35:51 And their aspirations to take me with them to the grave. Jesus! That got me. Now it's getting serious. I gotta start paying attention. It's really scary. Surely this country is doomed. And their aspirations to take me with them to the grave. I'll repeat here for you. Surely this country is doomed and their aspirations to take me with them to the grave.
Starting point is 00:36:06 I'll repeat here for you. I did not work nor pay taxes for their schemes. End of review. So you're admitting you didn't pay tax. Okay, hold on. I contacted the IRS. Is that one of the agencies you contacted? It sounds like they contacted you. I was going to say, I feel like that went the other way around.
Starting point is 00:36:22 I don't know what the hell is going on. feel like that went the other way around um i don't know what the hell is going on i feel like it started as like oh the only great classes were sociology and art and business and then it's like anyway i'm now on a watch list now it became like like your challenge from two weeks ago or whenever that was oh yeah of accusing people yes yes yes. I don't know what the fuck is going on, but I also love when, and hate, when people say, I'll repeat, and then they say something they've never said before. Like, I'll repeat.
Starting point is 00:36:54 I was like, I was expecting it to just be the same thing. And then I'm like, that's not, that's new information. Yeah, yeah. Also, can you imagine they received $100 in expenses from the government which what does that even mean i don't know but i don't know it sounds like a conspiracy something's afoot something is afoot indeed yeah oh so that was your last one right no i have one more oh okay go ahead uh my last one now don't worry it comes with an educational bit after. Thank God. Just like that recycling one.
Starting point is 00:37:25 This is from Carrie who sent a review of Sneed State and Community College. This is in Arab, Alabama. No. No. That's where the education comes in. Don't worry. I'm getting to that. I'm getting to that.
Starting point is 00:37:41 There's a lot of sound bites we're getting from you recently that could be very harmful to your political career. Okay, here we go. This is a five-star review. So it's a redemption. Here we go. I do the lawn care. End of review. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:00 Wow. Five stars all around. Yeah. It has three reviews total. One of them is from the person who does the lawn care. I wonder if it's because Google's like, how was your experience every time they go to work? And they're like, I'm so tired of this.
Starting point is 00:38:12 Probably, probably. Okay, what's the education? Okay, so I saw that it was in Arab, Alabama, and I thought I should Google how to say that first. And then I stumbled upon- You learned it was in arab alabama and i thought i should google how to say that first um and then i've stumbled upon it was alabama yeah alabama then i stumbled upon this youtube video by al.com alabama site um and it was um about the creation of the town or what why they got their name arab and their first thing that they showed was a news article and it says wreck claims life of arab man and so like you read it and you're like arab you think like oh wreck claims life of arab man that looks so fucking weird
Starting point is 00:39:00 and but that's just what people in that town are so i thought that was like a funny little start why are you looking so concerned you're scaring me i'm confused what arab alabama i'm telling a story it's not very well told okay wait okay i think i got confused by the headline part oh yeah yeah they were just like i'm watching i told i said that's not how they named the town no no oh it's just a a fun little tidbit where people are like huh that's weird that they have oh because he was from the town. Yeah, he's from. Oh, I didn't really understand what the intended meaning of the actual headline was. Oh, yeah, Arab.
Starting point is 00:39:32 That's why I said it that way, because that's how you pronounce a town. So that's a thing that people see, and they're like, what the fuck is, why are they providing the fact that this Arab. Yeah, right, his ethnicity. It's not his ethnicity. It's literally the town that he's from, a small town in Alabama. And so then that was the premise of the video, and it goes into how it got its name. Apparently, it was actually a typo. No.
Starting point is 00:39:54 Kind of. Okay, before typing, I guess, existed. But it was originally called Thompson's Village after the founder, Stephen Tuttle Thompson. Why wasn't it called Tuttle? I know, right? Way better. They actually do take a middle name later. I'll get there.
Starting point is 00:40:08 A-Rap? Yeah. Well, not quite. But what happened was the post office had so many different names with different people's names. And they're like, we're going to not accept it. So it would be like Thompson's Village, Thompson's Town, Thompson's whatever. And they had that for a ton of different names. So the post office in the 1800s was like,
Starting point is 00:40:27 look, we got to like figure this shit out. I love when they could just do that. Yeah. They were like, we're actually just going to change this. And I'm sure it like probably took a lot of effort at the time, but they're probably glad they did. So they had to approve your town's name. So if you wanted to become, if you wanted a post office,
Starting point is 00:40:42 so that's the thing. If you wanted a post office, you needed to get a name approved. By the government. By the post office. Oh, by the post office. Okay. Yes.
Starting point is 00:40:50 So this was before they were like an incorporated town. I don't know what that even means compared to like a village or whatever it was, but it was before they were actually like. There, thank you. So they gave, the town came up with three different options for names for the town ink i-n-k like like ink bird what the fuck and arad with a d after thompson uh thompson's son ranson arad thompson who the fuck named that guy? Ranson? Who?
Starting point is 00:41:31 Stephen Tuttle Thompson named him Ranson A-Rad, A-Rad, A-R-A-D Thompson. And it's pronounced A-Rad. A-Rad, yes. That's a wild name to pronounce that way, but okay. So A-Rad, and I think it was a biblical, it's a biblical name, which was news to me. Nope. A-Rad was approved by the post office. But not Bird. But not Bird. But not Bird.
Starting point is 00:41:48 And somewhere along the line, it didn't even have like a specific thing, but eventually like the D was accidentally changed to a B and they were like, given their post office and the post office was like, congratulations, the town of A-Rad. And they were like, well, I guess we're sticking with this. I feel like they did that on purpose. They were like, you know what? You guys are giving us a really hard time. Well, the thing is, they're not the only ones.
Starting point is 00:42:12 Who's not the only ones? A-Rab, Alabama is not the only town that this happened to. To get typos? Oh, no. The other town that they gave an example for was Snowball, Arkansas. Snowball, Arkansas was originally meant to be Snow Hall, which is so much lamer. Snow Space Hall, Arkansas. But now it's Snowball, Arkansas. That's great.
Starting point is 00:42:33 Yeah. They're like, oh, I know that word, snowball. Yeah. Yeah. I know that word, A-Rub. Yeah. Jesus. That is a wild story, Alexander.
Starting point is 00:42:41 It's not fun. Yeah. That actually was a very fun fact. Thank you for educating me. And thank you for explaining why you kept saying the word like that. Because I was really concerned for a moment. Yes, no. Can you imagine if it was like, fatal wreck claims life of bird man?
Starting point is 00:42:56 I mean, yeah. What's the other one? Bird and? What was it? I just read it. Also, rip to that guy. Ink. Like, what? Are they just like, playing Scrabble? I just read it Also rip to that guy Ink Are they just like I have no idea
Starting point is 00:43:09 They're really bad at it If A-Rad is their third word A-Rad is An outrageous middle name Or name at all but good for you guys And his first name Ransom A-Rad Is the wildest.
Starting point is 00:43:25 It's pretty rough. It's not even like John something weird last name. Yeah, like at least Stephen Tuttle Thompson had Stephen Thompson to fall back on. Yeah. And then Ransom A-Rad. That is a wild name. Also, Ransom. I mean, it sounds like ransom or rancid, which are both kind of
Starting point is 00:43:46 negative words. I mean, listen. I have never heard of Ransom as a name. That was news to me. Me too. So, I don't know if we have any listeners, but... If you have that name, please tell me more about it, because I'm, like, weirdly fascinated by this whole topic.
Starting point is 00:44:01 Apparently, it's a fairly common last name. Yes. That wouldn't surprise me as much. R's a fairly common last name yes that wouldn't surprise me as much ransom as a last name um anyway i'm done was that the full name of your imaginary friend ran ran was short for actually finally there's a name that actually makes sense okay this is a redemption from a uh who attended this school which is college of lake county i'm so proud of you says google i just like wanted me to say i'm proud of you to everyone who said they went to the school they were sending okay uh this is a redemption and it's by tom and it is a recommendation of college of Lake County on Facebook. I left Vietnam in June of 1971 and started the fall term at CLC. I remember my first day.
Starting point is 00:44:51 I was petrified. You see, I was a horrible high school student. But four years in the service, including a year in Vietnam, changed that. A fact I did not know at the time. I remember a development lab, DSR. The people there encouraged me, particularly one lady who died that year of cancer. I graduated two years later, cum laude, on to a University of Illinois, Chicago for another two years, graduating cum laude with an accounting degree. I actually returned to CLC several years later as a part-time accounting instructor. It all started at CLc grand beginning tom thalman class of 1973 oh i know that was nice he's like it all started i'm like in viet ah maybe i feel
Starting point is 00:45:33 like that's i guess yeah maybe let's skip yeah you're right tom let's skip past it and start at new beginnings yeah clc it's how that teacher died yeah what the fuck that was a this was a roller coaster there was a lot i'm in there wow it wasn't really much of a like up roller coaster plummeting roller yeah i mean it was a overall overall positive experience i left vietnam in 71 i was petrified vietnam changed me which i love that he's like it changed me i didn't know that at the time i'm like oh i mean good i guess yeah not i don't know you know i don't know how to feel about that if i served in vietnam i'm just kidding i'm not finishing that cinder you go you continue okay this is another redemption of my last one of the theme and this is from corinne it's a wilkes community college four-star review and
Starting point is 00:46:25 it just says i'm 88 and a review and i think he and tom might be friends i don't know i feel like they kind of have the same vibe about them i don't think that's true at all no actually i don't either well but maybe the 88 year old just would be a good audience for Tom to tell his stories, you know? Yeah. But I bet the 88 year old has a lot of stories. Well, but I mean, they don't seem keen on sharing them.
Starting point is 00:46:51 Yeah. I'm like, they don't really want to say much. So maybe they, that's, that's true. Maybe there'll be like, um, the odd couple.
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Starting point is 00:48:01 It was from Grace and it was to find reviews where someone mentions a dream they had. Bonus points if they only visited the location or used the product because of the dream. I think so. Okay, this is my challenge. It was from Grace, and it was to find reviews where someone mentions a dream they had. Bonus points if they only visited the location or used the product because of the dream. So the first place I found was a forum on Yelp. Good. Of course. And the question that the original poster asked is, anybody remember the quarterback restaurant? No.
Starting point is 00:48:29 And this is the first post. I had a dream about this place last night. So we're not even, like me as in like the listener, we're not even sure if this place is real. No, it is real. Okay. But that's true. It doesn't sound like it's real. It sounds like they made it up in the figment of their imagination.
Starting point is 00:48:46 They were like, is this dream? Does anyone else remember this? Or is this subconscious? Yeah, because I'm wondering if they were like, hey, I had this really vivid dream. Can someone tell me if this place is real? Can you validate or verify? Yeah. No.
Starting point is 00:48:58 Okay. It's not like that. It is real in that they have real life memories about it as well. Got it. I had a dream about this place last night. I hadn't thought about it since it closed in the early 90s. Okay, by the way, imagine not thinking about a place for like 25 years and then pop, your subconscious is like, remember this?
Starting point is 00:49:14 That would be traumatizing. I feel like that happens all the time. Yeah, I guess it does, doesn't it? I don't know. I feel like that's the premise of our podcast. Well, at least the banter bits that people don't like oh yeah when we're like remember that guy cracked his head open at the scavenger um yeah good point i hadn't thought about it since it closed in the early remember when
Starting point is 00:49:36 i'm serious remember when logan in art class was leaning on his chair and hit his head and had to get staples holy remember when nathan ottley tripped over his wheelie backpack and also had to get staples no but he had a record and he'd never missed he didn't have a record he had uh a school attendance like attendance record so he came they were very strict about not strict but like there was a big to do it's like a motivation they like wanted you yeah there was a big to-do. It's like a motivation. They like wanted you to not. Yeah, there was a big to-do at the end of the year if you were someone who had a perfect attendance. And so he came back after they stapled his head.
Starting point is 00:50:13 And we were like, go home. Jesus Christ. And he had like gauze all over his head. That's terrible. Anyway. I would like to take this moment now, speaking of bantering that has nothing to do with the podcast, to apologize to any wheelie backpack kids that i made fun of not to their face i was more of a secret we were more of an insidious bully we just
Starting point is 00:50:31 bullied behind people's backs yeah but you know i feel like i always judge people with wheelie backpacks and now i'm like that's the way to do it yeah it is and it's i mean listen my mom always told me it's better for your back it's better for your knees and i'm like who gives a shit now i'm like damn it it's not better for my social status in this high school of 90 children yeah um and guess what my social status was not not not not too good anyway although when nathan cracked his head open i was like see mom they're not all they're they're not all they're cracked up to be. So, anyway. Wow. Did it have an heirloom snow globe in it when he kicked it? That's the last episode.
Starting point is 00:51:08 I know. Trying to make people think we actually remember our episodes. We recorded it an hour ago. Don't tell them that. Okay, let me get back to the stream. I hadn't thought about it since it closed in the early 90s.
Starting point is 00:51:21 I remember going there as a kid with my parents getting the small pepperoni pizza, while my father always got the veal parm. I remember a bunch of football player pictures all over the walls, and the owners would just let me walk around and look at all of them while we were there. I can't remember the lady's name that worked there, but she always seemed to know us when we came in, which seemed like once a week at the time.
Starting point is 00:51:40 I believe they retired and it became a Mexican joint. Anyway, I was just thinking about it, and was wondering if anyone had any memories of this place too. Now Mary responded, yes, I remember the quarterback. The Greek family that owned it were the Cletos. Mrs. Cleto always had the biggest bun on her head I'd ever seen. I was nervous where that was going. Always had the biggest, uh oh, bun on her head I have ever seen. They had the best Greek salad in town. When Mr. Clito passed away, they had to close it down because he was a chef and no one could replace him. Mrs. Clito could not do it without him.
Starting point is 00:52:14 What a terrible business sense. Sorry. But I was like, wait. So after he died, they were like, oh, shit. Well, it's over. I mean, maybe. Which fair. Maybe he died suddenly. I don't know. And also, like, I, oh shit. Well, it's over. I mean, maybe. Which is fair. Maybe he died suddenly.
Starting point is 00:52:25 I don't know. And also like, I don't know. It's a family business. If there's no family, there's no business. I don't know. If you're single, if you're a widow, you don't get a business. No. Like, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:52:38 Maybe didn't want to go through with it or just herself. Childbearing age with no children? Get out of here. That's totally what I'm saying. Mrsrs clito could not do it without him i have memories as a kid always taking my friends there it was definitely one of the places to be seen after that it was a mexican restaurant which i never tried because it was only there for a year or so now it is just a rundown old building in knoxville i wonder if any of our our Knoxville listeners know of the quarterback. And then the response from the original poster is,
Starting point is 00:53:09 I totally remember the bun! Wow. Flashbacks are a trip. I've been suppressing that image for decades. That makes it sound like the bun is larger than life. Now I want to see this bun. I know. I can't even imagine.
Starting point is 00:53:24 If it's worth suppressing. Suppress it for decades. Now I'm curious about it. For decades. I mean, wowza. Now this email is from A and it cracked me up because A wrote, not to, okay, it just made me laugh. Not to yuck on anyone's yum, but some of these people need to dream better or at least different. Because they said like a bunch of reviews and some of them were so
Starting point is 00:53:45 that's actually really funny here's the first one that i will say my dreams are so fucking boring sometimes that i'm like what is why i could do anything in there and i i dream about just an ordinary day isn't that tragic maybe that's all i want in life is just an ordinary day. Your subconscious is just depressed. That was a Freudian slip. You got it. That was a Freudian slip. I think you're on to something. What I meant to say was suppressing.
Starting point is 00:54:15 Yeah. I don't know. A lot of buns. A lot of those. So many buns. Traumatic buns. Okay. Anyway, A says, not to yuck on anyone anyone's home people need to dream better or at least
Starting point is 00:54:25 different um here is the about section of an etsy store what the fuck is happening i know the title is this is the about section i get what i heard i had a dream about baghdad in 2001 that's the title that's the title of the screenshot that's the title of the about um what day oh and that makes it i didn't think about that i didn't think about the year what the fuck did you think well i just was like what the fuck and then i copy pasted it in 2001 i had a dream that i was in baghdad iraq with my future husband and three friends and their spouses okay so i don't know if like they, Iraq with my future husband and three friends and their spouses. Okay, so I don't know if like they had already known their future husband or if they're like dreaming up the husband and the friends and their spouses.
Starting point is 00:55:12 Because that is a lot of character creation for your brain. And is the husband like local? I don't know. Like, and so they were like, I must travel. This was on September 10th. You're literally not going to believe. They had this dream and they're like, well, there goes my dreams. September 10th. You're literally not going to believe. They had this dream.
Starting point is 00:55:27 And they're like, well, there goes my dreams. Well, you're not going to believe the next sentence. I'm dreading it. I mean, it's a dream. So, you know, it's not real. But I was in, okay. This is just so unhinged. Oh, fuck. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:55:37 In 2001, I had a dream that I was in Baghdad with my future husband and three friends and their spouses. We were leading a secret christian meeting in one of saddam hussein's former palaces this is an etsy store nothing you can sell can make this okay now do you understand a's comment of like, what the? I mean, no, because this is a wild, this is, I mean, like if I had this dream, I think that'd be pretty fascinating. But I'll wait to hear more. Secret Christian meeting. That's hilarious. In one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces.
Starting point is 00:56:16 In the dream, I knew Saddam's regime had fallen and he was dead. I also knew it was a prophetic picture of a real experience I would have in the future. I also knew it was a prophetic picture of a real experience I would have in the future. Don't tell me they actually had a secret Christian meeting one day. It's not very secret anymore. And then imagine, imagine you live your life to somehow have a secret Christian meeting in one of Saddam Hussein's former palaces with your husband and a bunch of friends. And then, like, you are living your life to where that is an actual thing that happens. And then you just put it in the about me of your fucking Etsy shop. Like, why are you not, like, writing books and stuff?
Starting point is 00:57:02 Oh, she did. Oh, good. It's called my spirit my supernatural journey or something i'm not even kidding oh you're being serious that's seriously the name of it oh dear okay but there's more to the about page i only picked a few paragraphs it was really long in 2008 i met canon andrew white the vicar of Baghdad. Is this still the dream? No, this is real now. Oh, fuck, it's real. Okay.
Starting point is 00:57:27 Through a friend. He invited me to go to- What kind of friend is introducing you to the vicar of Baghdad? We need so much more information. That sounds like someone dad would know just offhand. Like, I just met with my friend, the vicar of Baghdad. I'd be like, what the hell? And then he'd get mad that you were distracting from the story. And you're like, no, no, I need to fill in the gap.
Starting point is 00:57:47 Yes. Yes. Maybe we should read the book. I mean, it might answer. In 2008, I met Canon Andrew White, the vicar of Baghdad through a friend. He invited me to go to Iraq with him and work with him there. In November, 2011, I spent three weeks in Iraq, mainly in Baghdad. I brought 11 paintings friends did for specific leaders in Iraq. Like, I don't understand. I think it's a Christian mission trip. I'm not sure. It sounds like it. Why are you bringing
Starting point is 00:58:12 paintings? Why are you bringing 11 paintings? How did they... Okay. Yeah, are these framed or in tubes? Canvas? I don't know. It was a sensational time of seeing hope arise. There's little watercolors on, like, printer paper. I'm sorry. Okay.
Starting point is 00:58:27 I brought 11 paintings friends did for specific leaders in Iraq. It was a sensational- I'm sorry. I can't stop interrupting. These people were there like, oh, I want to paint for this leader in Iraq. They said specific leaders in Iraq.
Starting point is 00:58:43 It's like they clearly hand chose and hand painted. It's bizarro. I just like, I don't understand. I'm out of sorts. And how many friends do you have that 11 painting? Like you got all these painter friends. You got the vicar of Baghdad or something. You are connected, my friend.
Starting point is 00:59:00 Oh my gosh. It was a sensational time of seeing hope arise despite the look of things in the midst of all this passion for the middle east and for iraq specifically i've begun a movement of outrageous hope for iraq i want to see that nation flourish i believe much of what we see is based on our beliefs if we stir up hope for a nation we will see hope arise and transform that nation to fulfill its destiny thus the, the I Heart Baghdad shirts. They are an easy way for people to express their hope for Iraq. I'm sorry. And to provoke others.
Starting point is 00:59:30 I'm sorry. I was on board. I mean, other than all the Christian stuff, I'm like, fuck yeah. Yeah, like support the Middle East. And let the actual local community flourish. How amazing. Show your love and passion for the Middle East. Yeah, sure.
Starting point is 00:59:42 Go for it. But like your big idea is an I Heart Baghdad shirt? Listen, there's a whole slideshow of people wearing it all over the world. That's cute. Yeah. I mean, I think that's a great, but I'm like, I expected like a big reveal. I don't know. They are an easy way for people to express their hope for Iraq and provoke others to
Starting point is 00:59:59 think more optimistically about the nation and the Middle East as a whole. So it ended really. Okay. Yeah. Like. Cool. Like, what's the word i'm trying to find it ended very just peacefully and normal but it begins so chaotically with like i mean from the dream in the saddam hussein's who was it yeah so i'm not i'm not sure if that's happened yet i don't know if that. It sounds like they made it happen somehow. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:00:26 I feel like the secret Christian thing maybe is not part of the prophecy. I think maybe the prophecy was just going. That was because they just read the Da Vinci code. Oh. That's why they walked around. All the paintings too. Like tapping on different. I don't remember that.
Starting point is 01:00:40 Clearly. What are you talking about? Didn't they have their secret like codes and shit? Yeah. So. To get into their Airbnb? They're secret like codes and shit. Yeah. So. To get into their Airbnb. I hit the code on the gate. It's just zero, zero, zero, zero.
Starting point is 01:00:52 This is also from A and it's of Mario washi tape. A review. What is a what? What is washi tape? Oh, it's like that. It's like craft tape where you've you might have seen it on like people decorate with it or it has like patterns yes it's kind of cutesy people use it for scrapbook follow a tiktoker who makes uh cards oh yeah it makes like one video is like one like
Starting point is 01:01:19 crazy custom beautiful card i think they use tape like that. Let's send it to China. Just recycle it and send it to China. Imagine. Straight in the trash. Right in the trash. This is Mario washi tape. This is a five star review. It's amazing. I love it so much. I had a dream about
Starting point is 01:01:39 Super Mario washi tape and this lives up to it. LOL. Nice. Okay. I mean, that really nails the challenge. Lives up to the dream? Yeah. Living. Talk about living the dream. Here, this is how you use it.
Starting point is 01:01:50 To frame border stuff or take pictures in a scrapbook or, you know. Yeah. So that's that. And then Julio wrote in today, so I knew it would be good. And I know you said his favorite website was. I know that. Something with chick. A bunch of chicks saying, you betcha.
Starting point is 01:02:14 Review chick. It's not review chick. Chick report. Chick report sounds actually more closer, but I still don't think that's it. It's actually chick advisor advisor trip chick advisor trip advisor oh that's actually well this is from julio and it's a um thread from his other favorite website grasscity.com which is where bongan came from and this is a forum called is it started by twee and it's in the chill out zone general like as far as the forum yeah i was trying to remember last time i was in that
Starting point is 01:02:58 section of the forums that's all in the chill out i was dropping my bong we're always in the chalaza i was dropping my bong we're always in the paranoid is that actually a thing i don't know oh that's a good one that's funny i thought soon that was a real thing i don't know it should be for everyone just needing to be calmed down yeah like someone help oh no sometimes steven and i have edibles and then like we know we're supposed to help the other person like you make it worse alexander i knew you were gonna say that well okay he's good at that just in general um you know like you push each other's buttons kind of yeah but most of the time we're like keeping each other chill trying to you sound like that insidious bully from seventh grade that you used to be you know just like yeah behind his behind his back i'm
Starting point is 01:03:43 just like texting everybody oh he's being ridiculous right now text him and say xyz that'll really that'll really scare him yeah um okay so this is a forum or a post in a forum on grass city it's called i had a dream about grass city i had a brief Here in Grass City Could you imagine if they did like a Marijuana Is that from the music That's from the music man Yeah could you imagine if they did like a weed
Starting point is 01:04:15 Music man version I actually can and I think it's our I had a prophetic dream Magnum opus I had a prophetic dream that we were in Saddam Hussein's palace after his regime had fallen, of course. Of course. Of course. Of course.
Starting point is 01:04:31 And we were having a secret meeting about our new- It was a secret music man meeting. Our music man. Our music. Our doobie man. Musical. Wow. I'll work on it. It's coming together. Okay, here okay here we go this post says i had a brief siesta there and i had a grass city related dream yeah i know i've been smoking too
Starting point is 01:04:53 much i dreamt that grass city was a prison madness it wasn't very realistic though i mean the fact that you all were speaking ir Irish wasn't even the weirdest part. Sorry, it's stupid everywhere. Anyway, if Grass City was an actual jail, could you imagine the hierarchy in this place? G. Grass would have his fair share of bitches anyway. Who? Yeah. What kind of prison would this be? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:05:21 An upsetting one. And then Spoo-get. don't say it like that spoo get responded was it a wet dream was i in it um and then sassy molassy two posts later said too bad it wasn't a sex dream i could have been in it i'm like you missed someone already made the someone just made so awkward now you've made it so awkward. And then the OP responded to the Spoogettes wet dream comment. Girls can have wet dreams. And yes, you probably were there.
Starting point is 01:05:54 Whoa. Oh. And then Sassy Malassy, who said the second comment, like delayed joke, you know, said, I am pretty sure I have reached orgasm in my sleep. Bonging, bonging. Bonging, bonging. Bonging, bonging. I don't know how Julio finds this shit. Didn't Julio say, like, I've never smoked weed before?
Starting point is 01:06:15 I'm like, how do you end up here? I think so. Like, what the fuck? I think so. I am pretty sure I have reached orgasm in my sleep. No way to be sure, but fairly certain. There's far less proof for us ladies. And then hippie,
Starting point is 01:06:27 hippie, hippie llama wrote, I've had grass city dreams before. So short and uneventful. It's just me browsing. Thank you for bringing us back on track, llama. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:06:38 yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That is, what a service to be the one to bring to like the horn, like the bonk, the horny bonk, you know, what? Get on the the one to bring to like the horn like the bonk the horny bonk you know get on the internet one one day horny bonking um and then be like come on everyone let's like
Starting point is 01:06:55 tone it down let's yeah let's let's get squash squash the squash the horniness let's get back on track and then op says a mate of mine goes to me oh i got a wet dream i was like man you're shitting me only fellas get wet dreams turns out she was so drunk she pissed the fucking bed dirty fucker holy this person's irish is that what this is i think so that's the last i heard of women and wet dreams. So that's nice. I hope this is the last I hear of it in this time. This is wild. And then basically everyone talks about all the different dreams they've had about grass city.
Starting point is 01:07:34 Oh, that's cute. A wild thought. That's kind of fun. But they're all like, no, I just dream that I'm on it. Yeah. And reading the forums. So it sounds like your dream. That's the kind of shit that I sometimes dream. Really?
Starting point is 01:07:42 My dreams are always like so fucking outrageously upsetting and scary and violent. I mean, mine are also upsetting because they're just my life. You're just like going to work. Yeah. Well, that's Sad Dog Center. Thanks. So this is the last one. It's also from Julio and it's also on Grass City Forums. Thank God. He explained, this isn't technically the challenge but it's
Starting point is 01:08:06 just an extra bit okay i don't care it's a post in the chill out zone under the section so the last one was under general this one is under real life stories okay not dream stories well so i just woke up and i had a dream and a dream in the dream i woke up after dreaming about something i can't remember. Then I went to school for some reason. I was like 14 in my dream. When I got there, everything was dark and scary. I begged to go home.
Starting point is 01:08:31 My grandma kept saying no. And then I said I had a bad dream. I don't like it here. And she immediately picked up her phone, which was ringing and talked, then hung up and said, what was the number? I said, what? She said, what was the number in your dream? I said, why?
Starting point is 01:08:43 She then said, your dad asked. I said, but he's been dead for 17 years. She said, I know. Then I said, I don She said, what was the number in your dream? I said, why? She then said, your dad asked. I said, but he's been dead for 17 years. She said, I know. Then I said, I don't know the number. And she proceeded to kill the sheriff from Walking Dead, who was sitting next to me. The rest of the dream was a zombie apocalypse. Sorry for the jumbled post. Just trying to get it down before I forget.
Starting point is 01:08:59 And now- I'm glad they had an outlet. I know. I'm like, I guess it's a dream journal too. Yeah. Sometimes I'm, I don't have a dream journal, but sometimes I text D immediately and I write this whole rambling thing of my dream and then I reread it and I'm like, that is not interesting.
Starting point is 01:09:12 And I didn't even want to remember it. Like now it's wasting space in my brain. And D's. How nice. Now, yeah. And D's. True. And our phones too.
Starting point is 01:09:23 Oh man. So there's, I'm'm only gonna read one response oh hello buzzwell 420 buzzwell 420 reefer brain level is reefer brain i think that's like your level okay i don't know uh just responded we're still dreaming fuck the end no one who's high in the chill zone needs to read that take that out take that nonsense out of the chill zone. Yeah, that's not where that belongs. Bring that to Steven's text messages where he can freak out a little bit. Okay, it's a fun prank.
Starting point is 01:09:52 So that's it. That was great. Thank you. That was actually like, I don't think you, I don't know if the technical bonus points should be awarded for those, but I think you deserve.
Starting point is 01:10:03 That one, yes. That one I did think of. Yes, nailed it. Could you imagine if someone, like in community, how they have that episode where Abed takes the who's the boss course and he like knows who the boss is?
Starting point is 01:10:18 Yeah. And I'm not spoiling who it is. But what if someone actually like listened to all of our episodes and like created a point system for our challenges and actually like came up with a winner? There would be many episodes where I would deserve zero points. And then you'd have to be like, well, is it like is a subjective point giving? It's completely. There's no way there's any logical way of doing this, but. And what's the prize?
Starting point is 01:10:52 No prize, probably just pride. I don't want anyone to do that. That's an insane thing. That's an insane thing. Please don't do that. I just thought of it. Folks, tell me if I'm in your dreams. Sometimes people will say like, hey, I had this dream and you were there. And I just, for some reason, I find it, I get such a kick out of it.
Starting point is 01:11:08 Which sounds like I'm just being narcissistic. But in reality, I'm like, I'm like silly old me. What am I doing there? It is a fun thing to hear. I don't know why. It's just like I. I enjoy that. I like when people are like, oh, you were in my dream.
Starting point is 01:11:20 Yeah. It makes me happy. I'm like, oh, that's nice. When I dream about my friends it's like it's like oh that just means i need to text them because i haven't texted them in a while and i'm like i it's an excuse to text them unless something like really weird well then tell me too because maybe i should know but yeah yeah yeah maybe it's like a some sort of if if you have a dream about us in baghdad let us know because that it sounds like it might turn out to be true
Starting point is 01:11:43 one day it's a prophecy prophecy. If it happened before. It is what it is. So yeah, I'd love to hear that as well. I had a dream about Baghdad in 2001. That's how the whole thing started. I'm sorry to make fun. I just was like, what? What is this Etsy store?
Starting point is 01:12:01 Anyway. There were a couple Etsy stores actually where they said they started because of a dream they had. Weird. I know. That's so weird. I know. I don't think I've ever done anything because of a dream. Other than texted someone to be like, hey, you were in my dream.
Starting point is 01:12:19 Other than like bother. It was really boring, but yeah. Everyone. Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, let us know. Talk to you tonight in your dreams. Sleep tight.
Starting point is 01:12:28 I can't wait to see you there. Goodbye. Bye. Beach Too Sandy, Water Too Wet is a Forever Dog production. Hosted and produced by Zandy and Christine Schieffer. It's edited by Marco Padilla. Cover art by Courtney Aventura. Theme music by Mavis White.
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