(upbeat music) - Welcome to BS Reactor, where the crew gets their friends to talk about stuff they couldn't get other people in their lives to chat with them about. Usually they talk about media most people haven't experienced. That way they can share the fun or trauma. However, this time they're doing a warm-up episode or two to get ready for a deeply metaphorical Korean film, Jasmine wanted to share. There's a bunch of profanity and adult discussions in this episode. So if you're not into that sort of thing, tap stop before the music ends. And thanks for listening. We appreciate you. (upbeat music) - You guys ready for this? - Sure, fuck it. - All right, well, I guess I'll count us in and you wanna do the official since this is your movie. - Yeah, that is it. - I was trying to make sure it didn't. - Are we all, uh-oh. - Sound okay. - I mean, yeah, I was trying to make any sounds. It's the same settings as last time. - The way it's like sitting distance in microphone placement all it should be. - Oh, yeah, I think we're good. - Yeah, I think we're good. - Yeah. - In mind, everything's fine. - We're good. - Macophony and Echo. - Macophony and Echo. - I still sound like a robot, but if I change that now, it's gonna ruin my brand on the show. - I got the mids dipped a little bit so the nasal is in its harsh as hell. - Thank you. - No problem. (laughing) - Yeah, yeah. - Since I got these two mics, they're like, so whatever, like the price has gone way up. You can't realize that you could do this with them. - Oh, I guess we can talk about this while we're talking. What are our numbers now? - Same. - We get about a week. - Jesus. - Give or take, episode listens. - That's way more than I expected. - Yeah, I mean, you know, it ebbs and flows around. - I was around 200 total by now. (laughing) - No, we've wasted tens of thousands of hours. - And those are all packed. - I mean, some weeks I think of a chunk of it's bad, but. - Yeah. - I've listened to about a third of the episodes, I think. - Our production values keep going up, so you're welcome. - Yeah, I just, I have to put a time barrier in there, so I don't remember the whole conversation anymore. - I forget by a time Isaac posted. - I'll go listen to it and half the time just be like, "Shut up, Pat." (laughing) No, I'm just talking about it. - Like, I'll be cooking and listening to it. I'm like, "Oh yeah, we did talk about that." I just said it. - More like, more often than that, I'll be like, "Mike, you don't know anything." "Your child, what are you saying?" - What was the last time he was on on though? - Oh, I don't know, he's off on that. - I don't know. - He's too busy traveling the world, you know what I mean? - It was the last one he was on. - It's better than that, yeah. - Do you guys listen to the episode where I replaced with all the animals? - No, no! - Yeah, I heard that. I was gonna say about the, I was gonna say about the... - Wait, is that the newest one? - The Pepsi one. - 'Cause I haven't gotten that one yet. Second to newest. - It's the first one for perfume. - Okay. - I was like, I like the one that was the Pepsi. - I was having fun with it. - I have like one. - The Pepsi wrap you put in there? - Oh, that. - I have one coworker that I can talk to like a person. I was talking to her the day after I watched this movie. She was like, why the fuck are you watching something so weird? I'm like, no, this is tame for his movie. - Yeah, oh no, it is. - The one we watched before this. - Well, I'll admit it. - I went through and like mimed out a movie. I was like, ooh. I went and mimed out the scent scooping. It'd be like, that shit, like the whole, like... - Yeah, mm-hmm. - Dying of thirst, it's the last water you'll ever see. - Just like, the fuck makes a movie like that. - I mean, for this director, it's also very tame, so you're like, real tame. - I realize. - I'm aware. - Shit is gruesome. - I realize the perfume thing. We didn't talk enough about the word you seen. We didn't talk enough about... - You didn't think so. - We were tired by the time we got there. - Yeah. - 'Cause we didn't talk enough about how like... - Jesus Christ. - Like, just like the Pope or the Cardinal was just like... - The shirt, like, yeah. - The levels of cinematography to capture all of the fucking. - Yes. - Oh no, I think the thing I hate the most about that movie is how fucking amazing all the work on it was. - Yeah. - Oh my God, yeah. - That's probably the best made movie I've ever seen, and I hate it. - It's like Goksar, the whaling. It's like, yeah, this is objectively a good movie. - No, it's not. - He's never gonna let that go. - Never, yeah. - I can tell you when something I hated was a good movie. The whaling wouldn't it? - Fair enough. - But it didn't make me seasick like hardcore. (laughing) - All right, y'all ready for this? - Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. - So, (beep) was playing in jock jams. - Here we go. - Nice. - His pump of music, and then that song came on. I was like, all right, I am ready for this. And he turned it off. I was like, oh, (beep) I was ready for this. (laughing) - I know this. (laughing) - Did you do the tootsie roll? - No, you didn't have that on there. - Damn it. - It was just a... - Oh, it's just his playlist? - Yeah, that's a good chance. - Yeah, no, it's not. - I told him I told him to play jock jams. - My son has entered the point in life. - Oh, the jam. - Yeah, my son has entered the point in life where he thinks that I'm the most ancient being that's ever existed. - Oh, yeah. - He asked me what music was like when I was young. I made him listen to "Pump Up the Jam." I went from straight from there to the digital underground. - Was he asking if that's what you played? You came across in the wagon trains. (laughing) - So... - No, he has trouble understanding that I lived in a time before YouTube. He's like, "What do you mean, there wasn't YouTube?" I'm like, "That shit's only from 2005." - Yeah. - And nobody used it then. - No. - My son thought I was 100 years old because I was really nice, bro. - Imagine loading a YouTube video in the '90s. They would have taken days. - You would never watch it. 'Cause it would never... - Even at the time, I remember there being, I think it was "Rainbow and Row" and a thing about putting the ring on YouTube. - Oh, yeah. - Instead of copying the VHS, just uploaded. Like, you would think this is a fucked up solution that way, but the fucked up part is transcoding poor Samariddo, F-L-V. - I think I remember the funniest thing I remember is when we were watching some regular TV for the first time unless someone was trying to press the fast word. - Oh, yeah? - To get over the commercials. - No. - This is regular TV. - See, my son doesn't even think you can do that because he watches YouTube on a smart TV. - Oh, wow. - He doesn't know what ad skipping is like and then I'll show him something on the desktop and he's like, "Why aren't there any ads?" I'm like, "Because I hate them and I control every aspect "of my internet presence with my fucking brain." - Bandwidth and time on this bull. - Yeah, like, "Because I will rip every cent I can "out of every corporate maw." - Uh-huh. - Yeah, I remember watching, like, Dragon Ball Z at 240p back in the day. - Oh, God. - 'Cause that's what I could find on, like, what was it? - The place that I fucking was pirating anime moved to, "You have to make an account "or turn off your ad blocker." And I'm like, "Cool, see you, fuck off." - We're doing crime, motherfucker. You can't tell me to go straight on your website. We're here to do crimes together. - Who do you think you're talking to? - Like, you can realize what I'm here for. - 'Cause I think I'm gonna get a corporate, they got a corporate sponsor. - Bitch, you know I'm only here 'cause we both stealin'. - Yeah. - I think I'm gonna give you shit, right? - No. - But it's cool, I found a better one. - Yeah. - That's what you do. - It's like Chroma's blocking, so you can use ad blockers on YouTube for that. - No, YouTube, yeah. - Wow, Firefox had a record download week. - And people figured out ways to get around it instantly. All it did was basically give people an education on how to block ads. - Yeah. - They finally, I think YouTube finally algorithmed me at work. - Oh yeah, starting to serve you stuff you're interested in. - It's starting to give me the recommendations that I have at home and I'm like, fuck. - Yeah, that's something you know they have to-- - It's in your automata soundtrack, it betrayed me. - Okay, so I'll count you in and you got the official intro ready. - She's already be like, yo, yo, yo, what it is. - Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. - You already know who it is. - Blah, blah, blah, blah. - I have never heard a single person. Never heard a single person say that, but I actually knew who the fuck they were. - I knew that. - I watched some random YouTube reaction video and they're like, you know who it is? I'm like, I do not. - No, I don't, yeah, this is the first time. (laughing) All right, three, two, one. - That was not okay, I'll go. - Okay, route two, all right, we got this. - The countdown is so you'll be ready. - Yeah, I was already. - It's because you locked guys with a cat or something. - Yes, it's not my fault. - Henry, quit it. (laughing) Henry, you're being disrupted. - Oh, man. - Cat, keep it together. - Unruly behavior. - Okay. - Okay, for three, two, one. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - What's up, guys? We're back again with another, what is this, not a reaction? A warmup. - Oh my god. - A warmup, yeah. - Oh my god. - This is a BSR today we have. - You're making a pet, Twitch, tech team back. (laughing) - I know, I was trying to come up to say it. (laughing) - I think you do the same thing on the second layer. - That's so you move, what you said. (laughing) - I tried hard, it took everything in my mind, in my body, not to say tag team back again. (laughing) That's what I was like, that's what I was like. Like, not toon it, okay. - Okay, all right, yeah, we're gonna stop just short of you know who it is. - Yeah, no. (laughing) I'm Pat. (laughing) - Evan. - Isaac. - And I'm Jasmine, and this week we have a tamer version. (laughing) - Yeah, we will. - Oh, one of the second pick in the series to, are we supposed to be due? - Have you, Isaac, have feelings? - Yes, making, I just feel something. - Yes, indeed. - So, we're doing the warm up this time, so. - No warm up is for what movie? - Spring, summer, fall, winter, and spring. - Dot, dot, dot, and spring. - Yeah. - Which is the longest title of any movie we have posted. (laughing) - Is it? - I think it is. - Yeah. - Even longer one. - One we just did? Oh, no wait. - No. - The story of our murder. - No, that's right. - Yeah. - Okay, yeah, that's pretty short of my comparison. - Okay. - I mean, if it was just perfume, maybe. - Yeah. - But it left more scars. - I don't feel like I could abbreviate the title, or no one's gonna be able to search for it. So I'm gonna have to put a full title in the description. Anyway. - But this is a Korean film by Kim Kydook. Definitely again, one of his tamer films. (laughing) - The most tamer. - No, but one of the more tamer things he's produced. So what was the- - Writer's director, he also played a lead. - Yes, he did. - He did, yeah. - We could get a note next time. - Yeah. - Yeah, we'll get there. - I got notes. - What was the saying? - So there are some themes in this movie, but one of the big things is the main character encounters. Well, the main character, the younger lead, encounters a situation he's wholly unprepared for. So what I actually wrote down is time you encountered what you now know was a normal life situation that you were just blindsided by at the time. And stuff that may have been normal for other people, but you were unfucking prepared. - Yeah. - Who wants to take this one first? - I mean, I'll jump on it. - Yeah, go for it. - I wrote it, so I didn't think about it until today. (laughing) But I had like a, I grew up in the sticks. So I had a job when I was 12 because detastling corn has to happen. You know what I mean? So I'd been working most of my life by the time I had a supervisory role. And the first couple didn't bother me. And I thought that I understood how managing people in a like, you know, retail environment. - Yeah, like just not like a super high stress or high stakes thing, but just dealing with people's shit. And my complete blind side was I was a unloading and then inventory supervisor at Walmart. I had always worked at small places where I already knew everybody, even if it was like a, (laughing) even if it was like a big company, your franchise or whatever, it was like a small crew, right? And then just being part of a 200 plus employee store, you know, something as big as Walmart that's going to be packed on day one, you don't have to build, you know, business or whatever out of it because people here, there's a Walmart and go to the Walmart, right? My team ran a good spread of problems, not really my best worker knew he didn't need the job. (laughing) And just sometimes he'd be like, "Hey, I'm leaving after lunch today." And I have to be like, "Okay, I have a good day, I guess." - You're gonna do. - Because if I got rid of him, then I'm just losing what I have. And I don't know if y'all know about Walmart, it's not like 100% run for the benefit of the employees. - You know, I've heard that and I will admit, I stopped shopping in Walmart when I was in high school because I had friends that worked there and realized the shit show that it was. - Yeah. - I just couldn't do it anymore. There's plenty of other big box stores I can go to, so. - I think I've set foot in one twice since I stopped working there. And it just, it's designed to psychologically destroy you and it actually gets, until you get to market level where it's really corporate, it gets worse as you go up the ladder. Like all the assistant managers had a worse life than I did at the time, you know what I mean? But just, I was completely unprepared for high school, never ends, that like petty, clicky bullshit exists in professional settings and that having to manage people that do not give a shit about what they do having an impact on people around them. And just, I also at the time lived in a one bedroom apartment, with two other dudes. That was just the amount of money that we had. - Yeah. - So I was not getting enough sleep for my back on a couch. So my back sucked, wasn't getting enough sleep and then was at a brand new Walmart going into Christmas. They did this really smart thing where we were underperforming compared to projections because we were built near another Walmart. And the first step is, it's all corporate bullshit, right? It's all procedure with no regard to the situation. So they had a hiring freeze, so it couldn't lose anybody that no matter what problems they gave me, I had it like, it couldn't move my workforce, yeah. The constraints are like, I thought I understood how to manage people and how to work at a higher position in the ladder and got put in this place where all the constraints around me meant that I couldn't do anything I knew worked. I stumbled into a management position at a gas station for a while after that, but otherwise have never accepted a promotion. I've left jobs over being asked to step up the ladder because never again. Yeah, I get that. You're not doing it anymore. That paycheck bump when the management thing seems like-- Oh, it's never enough. But no, no, the second you touch salary, it's a-- I mean, so salaries were like, I know there's a friend of mine that got offered an assistant manager thing when they were changing general managers to basically transition between them and had to fight to get put back down to hourly just because she was working so many more hours that her hourly pay went down but something is sorry. Oh, for sure, I can believe it. Yeah, that's not like, had no freedom to implement any of the changes that I thought would work and then still had all their responsibilities or expectations of having that authority and just, oh boy, nothing prepared me for heavy corporate, like any kind-- this is what even like, management, I was one step from the bottom, right? Absolute mess. This is why you've worked with me in places to do whatever and you've never seen me take responsibility for one thing that wasn't my job exactly. Yeah, right. Again, I've learned from my friends that management is a trap for the most part and definitely not for me. And like, playing nice with the quasi-religious structure of most corporate offices is just not a thing that I can deal with and I realize that early. Check that out. 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But after that, it's like, well, I'm going to make money. And then the thing of trying to find a job that will make you want to blow your brains out, because of how freaking mind-numbing horrible it is. Yeah. Yeah, you decide, man, why don't I just take a bunch of rocks, put it in my pocket, and walk out into the ocean, type of thing. But yeah, that was-- Even getting a soul-crushing job now is fucking difficult. Yes, yeah. And when it actually pays you what you were getting paid, the other job, if it was a decent job. So they don't tell you how-- that's something I was grossly unaware of. Like being able to handle it, because it's like, yeah, you see people get fired all the time. I've been in that place. I've been a supervisor. I've never fired anyone, thankfully, because it's hard. But I've been to none of the people who've been on other people getting fired and I go. And it's hard, like, oh, man, that sucks. And you think about it, because after that, you're like, oh, they're gone. You don't think about it as much as, man, I hope they can find a job. But now, once you get in that situation, you're like, OK, how do I have one time in my life? Yeah. How I want to tell my kid. When my kid asks me, hey, dad, why aren't you at work right now? Or how are you going to tell my mom? I want to tell my parents. Like, where are my in-laws going to think of me when they hear that I don't have a job? Because no matter how much you're in-laws like you, just to go ahead and think of, oh, I have my daughter's husband not taking care of them and mama, so-- Yeah, you fucked up. You should have married a woman who doesn't talk to her parents. Oh. That's what I did. See, that's what everybody is. I never had to give a shit about my in-laws thought. If you don't-- yeah, that was good. She doesn't mean anything. So that's something they don't tell you about. That's something you don't think about, because that's ancillary stuff. The stuff that-- yeah, it's the stuff that you don't think about. It ripples out. Yeah, exactly. And then when you're like, oh, great, I need food. Oh, crap. All right, so I got $10. I got left over. I got dinner for four days. I need to make something that's going to be enough dinner for these three days of leftovers. All right, one, one, mate. Yeah. And the person, oh, we're tired of getting this. Yeah, but that's why I got five sheep. You can get 25 pounds of rice. No. Woven sacks of basmati, baby. See how the college kids buy their food by the pound, yeah. Yeah, that's what I did before I went to college, with the Sam's Club. Got a bunch of stuff, and then they're like, they're going to have some whole year. Whole crate of ramen. Yeah. Yeah. And then the second thing is becoming a parent. Everyone knows becoming a parent. You know, it's life-changing. Blah, blah, blah, you know, you love your kids. I think that's the most common parenting story. Nobody actually prepared me for this shit, right? Yeah, because they tell you about it, but you don't get it. OK, yeah, you understand you waking up early in the blah, blah, blah. I feel like a lot of parents, like, romanticize, especially the early parts of it. Yeah, they're baby hormones kick in, and they're like, I love this thing. Yeah, like, those cool parts you pick up your kid, and the kids look at you like, their eyes are like, oh, my god. I would do anything for this child. You've looked back. I feel like you look bad at my child. I will rip your face off this type of thing. But people talk about, oh, the first time he grabs his little hand, grabs your finger, you'll just you'll feel it in your heart. Like, I'm still like, child, if you don't get your act straight. Right? But it's just the stuff like that where you're just like, OK, well, I guess I'm not going to eat this food I wanted, because the kids are like, oh, can I have a piece? And you're like, fine, you have a piece like, you know, oh, they're eating all your food. Or, hey, I'm looking at nothing but nick tunes and stuff all the time. Or they specifically requested something for dinner and don't like it by the time it's done. Yes. All the money I waste on food. I know kids are expensive, but when you think about it, just how expensive they are when you have them. Well, like, you have somebody who lives in your house who depends on you that you legally have to care for, who has-- for several years, no regard for your feelings at all. Yes, which will probably continue. You have that kid or you have a-- you have this little kid. Actually, he does leave him in Yellowstone. You have to set up the two, kid. Just talk. I got to get some cigarettes. I have some milk. I'll be back. Or you have, like, a little purse in your house that tells the truth about every single thing and stuff that you don't know about. And it's not that you don't know. It's not even-- it's not even that it's the truth. It's just that, like, children don't have any tact or any fucking-- Yeah. They're blunt. They look-- all the things you hate about yourself, they pick up on and know about and will tell you. So from your personal experience, is being on the spectrum a genetic thing? Yes. Yeah. OK. And it gets worse. No. Because as I look at him, they're like, hey, dad, you're fat. Thank you. I worked hard for this. Like, you know how autism presents differently to different people? Oh, yeah. Did you know that it can combine when to both parents, like, that child can get both versions? I mean, I believe it. Oh, OK. Because I know that. Yeah. Or you never know. You have to keep tones the same stuff over and over again. That is like-- you do when you have like a spouse or something. You're like, all right, can you please shut that door? Can you please-- whatever, right? You're like, OK, whatever. No big deal. But when you literally have to tell a person, hey, did you wash your hands after you went to the bathroom? Oh, hey, did you brush your teeth? You literally have to ask them every single thing to do. I actually do this every single day. Why am I having to have the same conversation every single day? And every single day, you don't do it. And every single day has this over and over again. And then there are things that, like, you don't have to say more than once, but you never thought you'd have to say to a human being. Yes. I mean, like, it occurs to me that I never explicitly told my child you shouldn't cram the bathroom faucet full of magnetic putty. [LAUGHTER] And I can't be super mad, because I never said that would be bad. And like, I never indicated that we shouldn't be plugging the faucets up with shit, but it took me an entire afternoon to clear that faucet. That's-- If you run hot water, sometimes it's still a string of it'll drip out. I never knew I had to tell a kid not to shove his hand into crap that's on the floor. Literally dog poop that was on the ground. Tell him to pick him up, or, hey, stop drinking out of the dog's water dish. You know, just-- Yeah, just something like that. Stuff like that, you know? Stuff you just would not have considered anyone would do. Yeah, and that's stuff that they don't tell you about when your parents, because you think of, oh, yeah, they're going to have the smites. The kids are going to get older. Like, I hate your mom, I hate your dad. Or, yeah, spend money on them, you do a school track. You know, all that stuff. But it's just like, you said like the smallest things of-- Yeah, the implications of having a human being that doesn't know anything. Yeah, and that's a problem, the sucks, because there's stuff I tell my son. I'm like, why don't you get this? I was like, oh, he's eight. Ryan, I'm 30 years old in him, he's not understanding. I have the experience. Like, my son's like, no, dad, I already know I'm going to do. I could do this as a son, you have no experience. He's like, yes, I do. I'm like, you're stupid, shut up. You don't know anything. I think we started making progress on that in my house, where he thinks that maybe I do know things he doesn't know, because he decided between three hours of practice and watching some video game streams that he could kick my old ass at Mario Kart. That was unfortunate. And I stayed in view for like a solid three cups or whatever. Then like the last race of the fourth one, I was like-- Smoked him, Daniel. I'm going to drive now, yeah. And he just-- It's like, Princess Ryan. It's like, turns out I was left handed, oh. My favorite is when he tells me stuff that I know, because I'm many years old in him, and then I've already gone through school talks, especially when it comes to space or animals or something like that, he'll go, dad, do you know that a black hole is this and this? I'm like, yes, son. And I was like, are you know this? I'm like, yes, so like, how do you know that? I went to school. I went to school. I graduated. I've gone-- I've done this before. He goes, oh, are you sure? Like, god. Say what kid? Just YouTube and tell me if I'm right. Yeah, I'm just like, OK. Like, I'm like, yeah. But, dad, this is how it's supposed to be even like, no, it's not. That's not supposed to be like, yeah, it is like, son. No, it's not. I was like, why, how do you know that? I read the directions. No, that's how it's supposed to be. I'm like, oh, god, whatever. Yeah. My son tried to tell me how wires worked with electricity. He's like, how do you know that? I'm like, I have an electrical engineering degree. And he's like, what? Like, when my son constantly plays video games, acts my help. And then when I get to control her, he's like, you do this for me. Like, fine, I'll do it for him. I start playing it. Then he comes over to give me advice how to do it. That's how that works. I'm like, if you knew how to do it the whole time, why are you giving it to me? He goes, I'm just trying to help you out. I'm like, you gave it to me because you couldn't beat this part. So if you don't know how to beat this part, I'll do it. If you know how to beat it, I'm not going to help you. He goes, but I'm like, no, you don't. Because you are over here telling me what to do. Maybe some like-- Yeah. I think that's a good thing about having nieces and nephews, because you get some of that. You can give them back because they're not your children. And like, mine, if you used to like to because he's like older now in the mustache. You'd like to like sit in my lap and play video games or whatever. And then he'll be like, you know, ah, you know, he can't do this part. And I'm like, no, you got to try again, buddy. I'm not doing it for you. We're not going down that road because then it'll never stop. Yeah, just a little things where you're just like, you want to choke the kid, but you can't because jail in prison. You don't want to shake kids. They don't like you. And you'll be busy in the air. Toed it out. Big Roger behind you. So chat with me. What do you got? I mean, well, I'll say one other thing. So like, before I started dating Anne, I dated a girl that had a kid. It wasn't anything like-- I didn't like, pre-think about it. It was just like, oh, OK, sure, whatever kind of thing. But like, I hadn't been around children, especially young children, very much at any point in my life. Like, home school, my cousins were around a little bit. I didn't see them on a particular regular basis. But like, realizing that it doesn't matter how tired you are, you can get up to take care of something. Like, that was like, how am I moving right now? I was asleep a second ago. You're not just kidding, but have to. Right, yes. Because they will annoy you until you do it. And this kid thinks feeding is like a playtime activity. And you're like, this is utility. Eat your goddamn food. No. You tell him, Henry. Yeah. Shit. But yeah. So like, I mean, we had like a half an on. Oh, damn it, Kat. We had like an off and on relationship sort of thing. So it was like, I wasn't around that much. Yeah, it would just like really change my perspective. And like, I started dating Ann. That's not me. That's you, guys. It's my mother. She wants to hurt you. She knows. She knows. But put her on the air. Let's go. He was living it. He was like, I was just talking about kids. Ask her. Ask her the warm up question and put her on. Nah, nah, I don't think you should do this. Yeah, but like, I got with Ann. And she's like, I don't really want to have kids. Like for some physical reasons, it's going to be difficult. And I was like, we don't have to try. It's fine. And like, I don't know. I was thinking about the other day when you posted this thing. And it was like, you know, that kid's probably like in college now. Like, I haven't really thought about that kid's. Like, I'm watching right. I had to-- I saw a bunch of my nieces and nephews this summer and had to confront the like, the youngest of them is like a junior in high school. And I like, I just don't hang out with family that often. So it's like, weren't you all in elementary school or some shit? Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Like, no college? No, cool. Two of my nieces are in college now. And it's just like, I don't believe that. No, there's a niece missing, because she just moved into campus in New York. OK, cool. Oh, OK, yeah. She just casually lives in a clean sense. But one of them was like, oh, yeah, I just got out of the army after being in there for four years. I'm like, what? Huh? [LAUGHING] When was this? Yeah. I've been in the whole chapter there. Yeah. It's a last resort. A music that I used to do to make a song song for the second of the intermission. All praise the robot goes along. So we all keep the toilet seat. That is the world, long for you till you are ready. All praise the robot overlords. All praise the robot overlords. All praise the robot overlords. All praise the robot overlords. Back to the intermission. Back to the intermission. Back to the intermission. Back to the intermission. Back to the intermission. Back to the intermission. All praise the robot overlords. All praise the robot overlords. All praise the robot overlords. All praise the robot overlords. My turn? Yeah, yeah, sure. I'm sorry to cut it there, but yeah, yeah, good for it. I thought I was going to talk about, you know, who's like, when I told people, like, I don't want kids. You think, OK, but what you don't know is that I tried it. [LAUGHING] I don't know if you know what that was. OK, look at you. We did that life and found out it was not-- It didn't mean to have a child, but it is a little bit nice to have people not asking when I'm going to. Yeah, I get that. It's nice, but the thing is to ask you. It's one of the next ones. Yeah, it's never enough for us now. I mean, I've had the one when I started we were dating, started bringing my girlfriend around more often, and people were like, so you all are going to get married and have kids. I'm like, well, I'm fucking as often as I can, but it hasn't happened yet. I saw this as a good Instagram for this guy. It was this guy who was talking about his wife, his wife's like, they were trying to have a kid. And he goes, I want to let everyone know, since you wanted me to tell people we're trying to have kids. I want everyone to know that I am fucking her raw dog all the time, everybody. I am letting all this time-- It's funny for a sloppy 24/7. She's like, tell people that. He's like, well, that's what we're doing. He's like, tell them what they asked. Yes, if they're trying to tell them, I'm just ramming inside on it. That's the question, whether, like, are you trying for a baby? He'll be like, it's right. Maybe I try. I mean, if it happens-- That doesn't say, and someone's not going to grab their stroller at the mall. I'll get one eventually. That happens to say that. He goes, well, I walk by the maternity room all the time. They're just free in the park. Yeah. I'm just waiting for the truck. I'm just waiting for a nurse to go on break. You'd be surprised if you'd just be like, hey, come on. Oh, I'm cutting that. Yeah. Don't understand. Don't look like this. I'll leave that on the way. I've had about a 50/50 at parks between people not giving a shit and people being like, what are you doing here? Where's the boy's mother? You would be very surprised. Because both of my best friends are white, obviously, I'm not. And so when his sister-- Just for everybody at home. Yes, had a child. We were-- she asked us to be, you know, the aunt and the uncle, OK? Right, yeah. So I kept my nephew pretty much since he was out of the hospital. And so everywhere we would go out in public, people were always wondering, especially if she wasn't with me, which was a lot sometimes. Like, had I stolen this child? Or was he adopted? And literally, so she put me on-- The number of people who like feel entitled to that information. Yes. And I mean, he's running around. I mean, obviously, I haven't stolen this child. Whatever. So the daycare, which I actually attended, it's not like they know me. My family has gone there for years, whatever. So she put me on the, like, this is a person who can-- And pick up Liz. Yeah. Right. So it was a particular day where I was doing that. And they legitimately did not let me pick him up without her calling. Jesus. And I was just like, for real? Right. It wasn't even-- I was just like, at this point, you're just being stupid. Yeah. It was an ongoing thing. And like, now that he's older and like a teenager, it doesn't happen as much. But trying to have, I guess, some sort of conversation around that, because you're older now. So people are like, she can't pick your aunt. She's black. I'm like, no. Like, bitch, I'm married now. No. Fucking-- I have never felt more isolated and judged in my entire goddamn life than taking Sterling to wick appointments when he was a baby. Because Lexi worked full time and went to school full time. When she was home, she was asleep. I'd get there, and it's just me and 15 single moms. And everybody's like, what are you doing? Like, I brought my child because he needs food. You may never talk like all the people that work there be like, and now tell his mom, no, I'm the father. Like, I work remotely, and I'm a stay-at-home dad. I am his primary caregiver. That's why I'm here. And then they're like, well, make sure she comes in. Like, she cannot do that. Yeah. It's not possible. Of like, schools or shit, or always like, they'll see her once a year, and I'll be at everything else. And they're still like-- And then they're like, address her directly every time. And she's like, I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, like my son-- Like, hi, the person you've been talking to all year? Yeah, that's right. And I'm like, yeah, I'm over here. It's me. Yeah, well, I do a lot of stuff for my son since I'm available to do so. So when I do some things, they're kind of like, OK, his dad's her dad here, right? Over the last weekend, we had our school picnic, and he's been going to school going on for years now. I'm usually the one dropping them off and picking them up. Tell me why they knew my wife's name and not mine. I was like, she's like, I always forget your name. I'm like, you see me-- I'm just a father. You see me every-- That's a weird, not damn name tag or something. I did wear a name tag that day. But it's like, you do my wife's name, and why if you barely see her, I would always say, all right, go with your dad, go with your dad. You're like, they know that this is my son, and they know that, oh, hey, you, OK, no. It's really nice that you're babysitting, right? It's just like, OK, it's like-- I would just think of myself. I was like, OK, they know a lot of people at school, obviously, because they work there. So they know a lot of parents. But like, you shouldn't know my name, though. You see me drop, OK. Yeah. Anyway, we keep blocking. Oh, yeah, sorry. Well, she is a woman, and we are men. So we do have to cut her off. This is the future. He's going to end up dickless in like two seconds. Anyway, so we can watch the underground movie. It is. It is. No, so I guess I have two things. I guess both of which sort of are related to work. So the first one, fresh out of college, had multiple jobs as many of us did at the time. And it was particularly in a nursing home, so not an environment that I'd ever been in. And just-- so I ended up in the kitchen area. And just-- I think I was most surprised by the lack of-- not communication, but the ability to work together between the nurses and the nutrition staff. Yeah, and the nutrition staff, because this particular place had most of the units that we worked on were all dementia units. So obviously, those residents had particular needs, and they needed a lot of attention. I had never worked with anyone with any sort of memory loss. So this was not only a new job environment, but just a whole new experience. The training that they had was basically like, oh, yeah. So you have to lie to all these people so that they don't relive these past traumas that sometimes they remember randomly. And the lady that's yelling racial slurs at you won't remember it two seconds from now. So just ignore it. That's happening. That's fucking wrong. I was like, again, fresh out of college brandy. And I was like, the fuck? It was like, I guess I didn't end all the thing. And I've worked just a myriad of things before then, but shit between the dishes and being flung at you like the racial slurs trying to escape. I wasn't used to all that. I guess she's not going to remember that ass woman I gave her. I was going to say, she don't remember if she tastes hand enough time. - The ridiculous part is-- - Dammit doesn't punch people more than her. (laughing) - Damn it. - Damn it. I didn't do it. Sorry, nobody said anything to that. - The ridiculous part of it all was like, we're literally all in basically the same boat. Like, no, we're not giving them medicine or anything like that. But just the lack of care that they were, I guess, expecting us to give these residents. It would be like, I'd be like, oh, so this says it's expired. And, you know, there's mold in this juice. And they're like, oh shit. Oh no, fine. That's, yeah, just-- - No. - So I'm not taking that. Can you give me a new one? - Yeah. - Well, they're all like that. Okay, so somebody go to the store or something. - Yeah. - Or we're wiping things that have visible bugs and things. That's not going to be clean for them. You know, somebody who already is possibly, you know, compromised, it was a whole experience. It did not last long for several reasons that was just a few. But I literally, again, because that was one of the first few jobs I had out of college. I was like, is this what life is like? And then I worked some more. And I was like, yeah, it kind of is. But initially, I was just, I don't know, it was sort of shocking and disheartening. And also, I guess, just another life lesson that made me realize just half fucked up. It was going to be from then on, as messed up as that sound. I'm like, okay, so this is adult life. Okay, this sucks already. Cool. - Yeah, 'cause hanging there, kids, that's going to get worse. - I know, I did a little stint in social services too. And my thing was a lot different. I was educating people in math so they could pass a GED. - Okay. - And it was a program set up for fathers 'cause they could get their thing, support their family and so forth. And we got a bunch of people to come and it was good. But like, just talking to these guys that we're just really willing to accept shit from everyone at this point in their life. - Like, no question at all. - Yeah, it was just like, what the fuck, man? Like, I'm just teaching the math, right? Like, I'm not making waves, like, I'm trying to get through this. - We're just trying to get through this. - Like, everyone else on staff was just giving these people so much shit for like, no reason. And I was like, dang, yeah. But yeah, I can't be dealing with people that are beneath you. - As it comes in and someone just send their smack around one of the fathers, literally smack them around. And it gets up and leaves, it gets up and leaves. As it's like, what the hell was that? - It was just like, someone would say something kind of insulting to them and they didn't even register it. - Oh, see, that's the worst. 'Cause that's a little low, that's a little low. - They're obviously here to try and, you know, do something better for themselves and their family. - They're legit trying. - There's no need to be like, kicking them literally while they're, don't do that. - We had the proctor for the test come in. And he was a gigantic raging asshole. The entire group and like half of the crew that I had spent time with teaching them to do like basic math, they like get through this test. Turned off 'cause this guy was just such a dick to everyone that they just wanted to stick it to him. And it was just like, no. Oh God, no. - Did any of the, like, I guess as a whole in your time there where they're a great number of them that did end up eventually getting their... - Oh yeah, we got a good number through. There's always something that don't pass. They sent me, but yeah. - Well, that's a good. - Yeah, and those are ones you might have friends with 'cause they have the good stuff. (laughs) - Yeah, it's how it came in that was like, how do you write your resume? And they were like, do you speak any Spanish? They were like, no. And it was like, you know how to say hello? Yeah, I guess Ola or whatever. And they were like, you speak a little Spanish now. Putting on the resume, it was like, what the fuck are you doing? - Yeah. - Why are you doing this to them? - Please, that's worse than saying nothing. - I mean, I've seen this shit where you can spin your hobbies into corporate speak for... - Yeah. - I don't know if I put this podcast on the resume. - Right. - That's what you should. - Hey, you are a producer. - Right, yeah, I'm a producer. - You're a producer? - Why does that sound kinky? - I mean, I like that, you know. Not to reveal all the secret inner workings to everybody, but you do like 98% of the work. - Except for that sumo song I posted, which is probably the best thing to do about it. The music got this thing. - I mean, he's put down. - We like, watch stuff and then show up and talk about it. - Yeah, we definitely won't do that. - Hey, we do research. I mean, there are people that get paid to do that, so. - Yeah. - I personally, I eat Isaac's pizza. - Oh yeah. - There's also that. - It's an interesting excuse for me to buy pizza. - Isaac does catering? - Yes. - Yup, that's true. He's a caterer. - I did graph services. - There you go, there you go. - There's studio engineer and our editor and our editor. - Yeah, yeah, totally. - Editor, producer, production designer. - Yup. - I have done social media posts, so. - Oh, that's probably something. - Social media. - I have it. - Not like a media manager, I feel like. (laughing) - Hey, we're at his house, so. - Not just social media manager, but a brand. - Don't you give an out on me? - You can have him come on now. (laughing) - But no, that was. - I just bleeped part of it out, so it sounds like crazy. - Hey, he just stays there. - Oh, it'll be great. - I think the term we decided on was quasi studio. - Yeah, quasi studio, yeah. - I haven't used that in the interest room, but I'll probably go back to that. - But yeah, that was the first time. - No, we're not socially distanced anymore, yeah. - This is actually, we're pretty close to six feet, so. - Big dish. He's killed a couple people. (laughing) Nobody's killing anyone that we know of. - Anyway. (laughing) - My own CD is looking about right now, must fix. (laughing) - Yeah. - So. (upbeat music) - Let's pause here and save the other half for next week. So join us next week for that, here at BS Reactor. And now the usual outro stuff that Isaac refuses to write a script for because he thinks having a fresh dialogue at the end makes things seem more professional. Does it though? Let us know on social media or our website, bsreactor.com. All voices, music and mixing are put together by the reactor crew. All rights reserved. If you have any comments, questions, or you want to send us Impressionistic Fanart, you know how to find us. And thanks for listening. We appreciate you. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music)
