A Connecticut Muffin in Honeybrains Court

I was leaving my boxing class, which we can do a whole other episode about boxing class, which is my new favorite thing. Um and as I usually do in New York, walking around and googling salad on Google Maps, which is my lifestyle, and then turned around, Um, I didn't have anything near me. And then I was like, turned around and right I had been standing right in front of this bright yellow storefront for something called Honey Brains.

And I think I had not registered it as being a place to eat because the logo looks like the UM the Freelancers Union logo of um be High. But there are so many things going on in this restaurant, and so it's and it's old news. I was excited that it was like a new um concept that I could talk about because I love talking about fast fast casual concepts. I thought this was something you me too. You texted us. I thought you said it's my idea for and I was like, well, that's a great Halloween

fast casual restaurant. Honey Brains. Look, if I was starting a restaurant called Honey Brains, I feel like it would be it would be like, let's get ready to just eat bugs type type restaurant. Like what is that I'm thinking about? Honey Me, which is the soft serve place, and Korea two Honey Brains. Well, Honeybrains is like they've got salads, They've got sandwiches, they've got bowls. They also have juices, and I also sell an array of um

rare and artisanal honeys and brains look rain sourced honeys. Um. There is a long spiel and the menu that I was reading about how it was founded by some kind of neuroscientists and maybe a dietician or something, and about how they were they were creating their own five food groups that were what you needed to have. Um, it's like neurofood. Yeah, it's like neuro food and they have a lot of it at the powders and a lot of supplements there too. But it feels like a green

It does kind of feel like a cult. I was explaining to someone yesterday with the sources the source family, because my friend Mukta went on a tour of different cult locations in Los Angeles. The sources right above the strip. Right it is Cabocantina. Now nice cult. Yeah, I spent a lot of time in this past trip in l A going to various places for salads, and uh, I

feel like I feel like I learned a lot. I feel like I learned a lot by only It's like it's like I have a blogging project of doing only one thing over and over again, except I'm not even blocking about It's just my life. But you're you're on a salad kick. Now now that I know that this is a real restaurant, I'm so much more confused. I thought this was going to be like your hall, Like my mind went to like it's a bowl and it comes in a container shaped like a skull. So it's

like a bowl, but it looked like brains. It's like a grain bowl, but it's like a brain bowl. This is what I thought this was going to be. I first read it as honey braised, and I was like, that sounds disgusting. Honey, I mean it's less disgusting than honey brains. Because then he thought about honey braise. Do you think about braising a brain? And honey? How did somebody get to the how did this concept? This is what I'm saying. I don't understand how anybody like market

tested any name that has the word brains in it. Brains. Maybe they were like, well, there's a very good restaurant called soup Plantation. Yes, that has a horrible name. I think sup Plantation has a great name. I think it's a better name than zup because I no, there's a place called zoop and there's none in l A. I was complaining onto what it does. Yes, I feel co I was trying for it, but yeah, I was complaining because I think if there were a restaurant that just

sold soup and bread. No, the Plantation is a great restaurant. It just has a horrible names. No, I like the names to plantation and I know, I know, but it's memorable. It's defensive. But maybe that's what Honey Brains is going forward to. I'm saying, maybe they're like, you'll never forget I just I just loove. I went in there and it was it was like, you know, laptop seeing like everybody was just working on their laptops in there, and I was like, I was thinking it was a new place,

and I was just like, it's so ridiculous. How you just have to have a few signifiers, like some fancy honey on the wall and some some cold press juice and like a selection of bowls and avocado toasts, and everyone'd be like, yes, this is my office. Now I'm at home here and while you're at a place called I just I'm sorry. I'm sure that they're very very well intentioned people, Honey Brains. If you work for Honey Brains, please shut us out and let us know what kind

of company they are to work for. But it's not It could also be Sit the Star. Maybe, I mean, didn't Cafe Gratitude turn out to be part of like a multi level marketing scheme? Oh I don't have the last time I went there, either side of me, people were talking about Landmark. They were talking about Oh, that's what it is, that's Sam Landmark. Yeah, what is it? Well, first we should explain what Cafe Gratitude Uni Gratitude is my favorite, favorite favorite restaurant. Everything is called like I

am grateful, I am whole. It's like you have to order things by saying I am energetic. There's nothing better than like some fake hippie bullshit covering up something incredibly sinister. I hear they have really good key Line pie. All their desserts are amazing. Everyone likes the food there. And then they are part of Landmark, which is like a team building Ponzi scheme. Oh this is the one where you go to the retreat and you can't talk about it. Okay,

now I remember, um no it was. It was for real and also just to defend the honor of Los Angeles. It was a San Francisco based company. The first time I ever went, I ever went to Gratuated in San Francisco, and it was so much less like what it is now, Like it's so sleek now. Emily and I were in New York together once and we went to a place called Connecticut Muffin. I don't know if we've talked about

this before, but we were like Connecticut Muffin. There's like this part of Manhattan where there's all these muffin places, and we were like, oh, the nineties muffin boom. Yeah, there's a block and there's like a Muffin block in the Upper west Side and it's so appropriate. Um yeah, I think we pitched we pitched a show in our minds about like the Muffin Wars, the New York like Upper west Side Muffin Wars, the of the early to

mid nineties and catch Fire of Muffins. Yeah, just like remember when people were like a healthy breakfast, a big muffin, a big muffin, and then it became Muffin Tops, which was also a confused Well, that episode takes place during the muffin The show is called Muffins if you would like to buy it, What about Muffin Tops? Though the show is called Muffin Top because it's about getting to that to the top of the Boston. Test and I both watched a show on Netflix. We did that. We

said we were going to watch last week. I don't think Emily had time to watch it. But don't worry. You missed not a lot. A lot of people have been telling us about the Haunting of hill House and saying it was really good, and I don't know that. No, I didn't say it was good about it? Yeah, we were steered wrong. However, I heard that it gets better until the final episode, which I have heard also is underwhelming. I've only made it through two episodes, Molly, is that

far or a little bit ahead? You guys, what are you talking about? This is not a very good show. Did not really like this show? Tell me all of your problems with it. Okay, So first of all, I was like, I must be like a hard horror friction nerd because all the liberties. I was like, why even

call it the Haunting of hill House? This has nothing to do with the book The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson, which is the Jackson book, of which there are two movie adaptations, both of which are good in their own ways. Um, but again I was like, yeah, like a much more faithful adaptation of the book than this is. This is just something called the Haunting of

hill House. But it's like Bloodline with ghosts. Oh see, I thought I described it as being like, this is us with ghosts, and I was like, this is ghosts. It's too many Okay, so too many characters. There's it's a family. They all look exactly exactly like except the druggy brother, Carla Cook you know, and Elizabeth rees Are are indistinguishable from one another, as is the one who plays Theodora. Yeah, is that Elizabeth Reeser? That's that's the question.

The mom, one of the moms and the daughter are like facially so similar that it becomes incredibly confusing, but like not in a way that's interesting. The reason the original is scary is because it's about a random group of people who come to a haunted house to look for ghosts, and then a bunch of funked up things happened, and you like sort of find out the backstory of the house eventually, but a lot of it is just

like random and for no reason. And this is like somebody was like, let's motivate everything very specifically to this one family. The main guy who is like from Tremay King character, Yeah, I was like I hate this guy and then I was like, oh, it's because he's Sunny from Tremay. Yeah. I was just like I don't know. I wasn't a six ft under person either, and that's also kind of what I felt like this was going for.

I have to say the pilot of The Haunting of Hill House was so much less good than the second episode that I am probably going to keep watching it. The pilot had some really strange uh gears churned in a way that there was a monologue, um lot of monologues, the device of using a cell phone with the character's names so that they can all call each other, and eventually you are drilled on who's who. It just is like drawing more attention to the fact that they are

all identical and have nothing really like. They're just these little cutouts of people, so there's nothing like to grab onto except for the matriarch, Carla is it Gugino or I don't know. I love frst grade and everything she in Wayward Pines. I was like, I would watch fifty hours of this just for Carla. She's amazing, you know what. I also was like, this got made because of Hereditary. Oh see, I was like, this is exactly like season

one of American Horror Story. Oh yeah, but it's been good turned around for Hereditary would be a little too tight for responsive content to that. So I am a person who's never read the Shirley Jackson book. I've never

seen either of the Hunting of Hella House movies. I know I've gathered on Twitter that a lot of people are specifically upset that in some way this new show goes against like some kind of principle of the original paterial, Like I'm so familiar with it, what I would have no idea to know how or or what that is. But do you guys have a sense of like that. I don't know. It seemed like it was like a Shirley Jackson would be really no no grave type thing. But I don't know. I mean, my guests, I don't

think we're far enough along. But so far the Shirley Jackson book, it's like it's all about, you know, eerie things and there's not that much happening, but it's like a psychological kind of terror situation. Yeah, it's like people going crazy in a house together and none of the things are confirmed ever to have happened, And you kind of wonder if it's like one person who's so disturbed that their energy is just like disturbing everyone who's coming

into the house into their field kind of thing. Right. In the book, it's like four people. I think it's like a ghost hunter, a sexy lesbian, and a woman who's like very disturbed because she had to raise her ailing mother for many years. Oh yeah, she was like taking she was like her parents. And they all agree to be part of a study that the ghost hunter is running where they're going to like go to this legendarily haunted house that like a millionaire built for his

wife and like. And then there are the caretakers who are kind of like the creepy the creepy people who come by and just act strange and then won't stay overnight, which are also in the um TV show. Yeah, but it's about like being in this isolated house and like weird things are happening, and maybe some kind of cool gay stuff happens, and it's all very ambiguous though it's like you don't fully know. And then at the end spoiler alert, Uh, the kind of more disturbed woman gets

like taken over by the house. The house like starts to possess her, uh, and the spirits of the dead children. I think it's what you find out that live in the house they're like buried inside the house. Yeah, there's like a child in the walls and stuff. There's like

genuinely terrifying. This show is just like all exposition. Like the mean where they introduced the hot lesbian who's now one of the sisters, is just like she picks up a girl and then she's like, hey, I can't stay, gotta go that I wear gloves and that's my deal, and then she dies, no wrong, no wrong. Sisters. See they look exactly alike. Yeah. See, this is the thing is there's three sisters, two brothers. The brothers you can

tell apart. Because someone was like, the men should look different, but the women can just all look exactly the same. And I think the acting like everyone's doing their best. I think, but there's just not that much to do yet and maybe there will be by the way. Um. Someone on the night called Facebook said that Molly looks exactly like the child actor who plays Shirley in the flashbacks. Wait, really, is that Lulu or whatever? So I thought she looked

just like your daughter. Oh no, now now the very distanct just like my daughter. And I was like, I wonder what this is gonna be like for tests when she watches the show, I wasn't loving her arc and I'll tell you that much. So I was like, Okay, these people are roughly like between you know, late twenties

and forty the characters in present day. Then they do the flashbacks to their childhood too, which would presumably be the mid to early nineties, I guess, or early nineties, and they make the nineties look like it's ninety six, where it's like I'm using a polaroid camera because that's all that exists here in the nineties. It's not I don't know. It's shot in Atlanta. The real failure of it is that the house isn't scary. The house doesn't

feel very scary. It doesn't feel scary. Also, I just think it's it totally lacks like any specificity, and that's the thing. It lacks like a sense of place because it's supposed to be New England, but it's Atlanta. No. I thought it was well in the book, it was never clarified where it was, but in my mind New England. See in my mind there in Boston a bunch. So I was like, they must be near the house. I thought it was in northern California when at that on

the of she's from New Hampshire. That's maybe where my mind is going. Do you guys have any uh like idea of how a horror TV show could work? Because I feel like maybe there's been one and a half successes so far, But like I'm a person who starts watching every single episode of American horror story and then just can't follow you on it. It just like I loses my interest. Um, I like anthology. Yeah, Twilight Zone entails from the crypt to me hold up incredibly well

to this day. And I think it's because also, if you are going to draw a character that's a little bit thin for the purposes of like a story arc, it's like fine, if they only have to exist for one episode, you don't need to know every single thing about them. Ever, what I thought was super weird about this series is that there's it does not seem like a fit for Netflix. It seems like Network, you know.

I mean, it reminded me so much of Wayward Pines, which I actually enjoyed because Wayward Pines leaned so far into the campiness. But this is it seems like it wants to get prestigious trying to be prestige and it's very like serious. I watch all horror on television, I'm like a dent down for because I'm excited that it's here now. You know, it's like a little bit of

a freer landscape than it used to be. And it totally started with like Walking Dead, and I'm so glad that there are things that are not Walking Dead that are popular now that can be called horror television. I feel like I was really into like, and I surprisedly stuck with for a while. Is um Penny Dreadful? I really because it was just like it was just like goofy Victorian ship and it's so over the top and

so melodramatic and so like kind of hot too. And then the movie version of from Hell Are We Steampunk? Is that where this is? I don't think that Penny Dreadful counts as steampunk. There's not enough I think on any Victorian that No, then there's no reason to use the steampunk able. If all Victoriana is steampunk, I'm sorry, let's ask our listeners. Is Victoriana steampunk? Is Dracula steampunk? Frankenstein steampunk? Because he's got bolts in his house. When

you say things like is Dracula steampunk? It makes it you know what I mean, You're leading the listener speaking of Victorian horror and like old timey creepy thing. Yes speak punk. Also, to be more exactly, doesn't producer Rachel have something to contribute to our podcast related to last week's episode? H Rachel? Hi? Rachel Rachel is on our on the on the Knobs. Uh and and Rachel like piped up after last week's episode to say, like, oh, yeah,

I've been watching the SMR plague doctor for years. What's his official name? Okay? So the guy his his YouTube channel is called ephemeral Rift. So like in the world of like crazy weird h a s MR YouTube rabbit holes. Uh, you know, there's the usual like people who do like I'm cutting your hair, I'm just going to be a librarian kind of role plays, and then there's people like ephemeral Rift who decided to do entirely HP Lovecraft themed role placed. Um do you know anything about him and

his origins or like what made him get into it. Um, he's just like a fortysomething year old dude who is like I just kind of want to do this um, and he started out with like a couple of characters.

He had, like a doctor and all of almost all of his stuff takes place in Arkham Sanitarium, like as in not the Batman one, as in the HP Lovecraft one and so went up here, and so there's this, there's the doctor, there's a doctor Clemens, and then there's the doctor the wife Margaret, and then there's also he got a plague doctor mask and he's like, guys, help me name this plague doctor. And they named him Corbus Clements and decided that he is the brother of the

other Dr Clements. Is there any other SMR that's this like plotted not? I don't think quite so much. There was a lot of like steam punk a SMR role plays like that are one offs. There's also a couple of people who do like a couple of episodes of

like one character. There's like a storyline that I found across a whole bunch of artists who I'm not even sure know each other about like hunting a vampire and they're all just whispering talking about looking for this vampire and all, and there's like one person who is the vampire, and I'm like, I don't even off these people know each other if they just were like, I'm going to join in on this, dude, how do you follow this plot? I can't hear anything that anyone's saying in a s

m R. I thought that was the point. Are you just like you're just learning it way up and here? And they're like, I guess, so you fall asleep about halfway through, but like the plots are not hard to follow. It's just like, oh, I am a doctor, I am going to talk to you. It does legitimately help you fall asleep. For me, it doesn't. Well, I was he's not meant to be He's definitely not meant to be terrifying. He's meant to be very silly, like he's like doing

it over the top, like what is the beaking? Who knows? I could toute? So he has like masks are just so scary and the lighting is scary, like they're meant to be creepy and evocative, but like not really scary. There's like a couple of ones where he's just like I'm just I'm just gonna hang out here at a party and do a SMR. There's something also, I think I guess because I, in my limited awareness of SMAR, I feel like most of the people who do it

that I've seen are women. So it's it's interesting. He's so interesting in quote that to have this forty something your old man in a scary mask trying to whisper you to sleep. I was watching another clip because I was going through this account and you're telling me about him before we started recording, and there's one where he's like in some kind of like leather suit and the sound of the leather is really amped, at least I felt from my my phone speaker, and that was like

the opposite of a s MR to me. Some people like that though that some people really like listen, I mean sounds, and like some people like the blocks together. Yeah, it isn't and it is a fetish, but I'm just saying that I wouldn't put me to sleep. Yeah, that's right. So I was like, this is interesting, but it would definitely keep me awake all night, afraid of being geeked, be afraid of having dreams about the plague. Doctor. Yeah.

I guess it's just because I've seen so many of his videos where he just like talking about like raising his son and like drinking beer. Okay, okay, that's amazing. Like he has these characters and then he also has a lot of videos where he just like talks about his philosophies online and he's not in costume. Was not in costume because I saw his face in one of them. Yeah, interesting, friendly looking. He looks like a graphic designer does look like. Alright,

so I'm not super scary. I just wanted to say thank you to Rachel for contributing. Thank you so much. I'm always happy to talk about the weirdo a sm artists like Sorrness will knowledge for us when we were genuinely in the darks and for listeners. Another another one who does like more interesting role plays as Phoenician sailor who is also like a forty year old dude, and

I think he's friends with the other guy. Wait to go down this worm hole, man, Wait, Rachel, while we have you on the line, did I hear that you had something to say about escape rooms? Oh yeah, I used to work at one um. How this was kept from us for so long? I know what did you do? What was your role in the escape room? We had to solve the puzzle and find out. Yeah, well, my title was game master and I have an awesome shirt

that says game master on it. Basically, we were supposed to like put people in a room, give them the intro about like what the back story of the room was and uh, and then we would like watch them when they were in the room, make sure they didn't break anything, help them along if they were really stuck. So you wouldn't be in the room, you just be watching them through cameras and like a disembodied voice you

could be like try the third one. Pretty low text of like we had phones in every room, but like but like cooler though I like that, I would you like call us if you need some help. A couple of times we had children where I did have to stay in the room with them because they were really nervous. They get scared. How old were the kids, I mean, how old you have to be to be an escape room? I didn't know they like children in escape room. I

didn't think so. The official rule of the place that I worked was you had to be fourteen if you didn't have this like a supervision. But like sometimes parents would book it for six twelve year old and didn't tell us six twelve year olds. I'm just like, no way. Sometimes they were really like precocious children who were like really into solving the puzzles, because some children are really good at solving puzzles, really into being somewhere only fourteen

year olds can go. Wait, what were some of the escape room stories that you wove? So the place had four rooms. There was one that was basically like the cube um, which was basically just like a walls of white. There was a murder room that was like really mess messed up um. It was like like, oh, you think

your neighbor might be a serial killer? Spoiler alert. So this comes back to honey Brains one of them, because yeah, because all of us had more than one job, because you can't make a living working in an escape room. So one of my colleagues also weren't honey Brains. And it was the escape room. Was that like because I was? I was? That was like an NY neighborhood. It was just like it was the escape room also in the n YU neighborhood. No, it was in Chinatown. Oh huh.

But you said you got a lot of college kids, they're like college kids. You get a lot of drunk college kids. Drunk adults a lot of team building exercises. Yes, yeah, so I feel like if I were drunk, the last thing I would want to do is kind of figure

something out. And almost always, like the ten PM group, which is like the last group of the day, would come in like very drunk, and we would have to deal with them a not knowing what they were doing, be possibly breaking stuff, or like see a couple of times like a person has passed out in the room and their friends don't pay any attention to them. Oh my god, wow, that's in the escape room. I feel like every time we're talking about something like this and

like someone throw up. Not in ours. But we found a I found this wonderful Reddit thread that was what's the worst thing that's happened in an escape room that you used to work? And a lot of the stories are have to do with like bodily fluids and can you can you email that to me this somehow? So there's there's a whole sub credit of former or current employees of escape rooms. I love that. This is This is why I feel like sometimes I have a little bit of a space for affection for reading. Oh, I

have an update about Reddit that someone corrected us. Okay, so when I was telling you guys about the house with the bats, you know, I was like, all bats have rabies. False, and so a friend of bats has has been like no, six percent or something like that of bats have rabies, but you are most likely to get rabies from a bat bite. There we go, So it's like, not all of them have rabies, but I guess they're going to bite. Then, yeah, like a rabid bat.

You're more likely to get rabies from a rabid bat than like a rabbit dog. I don't know what you're saying, correcting. We can be friends with the bats, friends with all bats. So we're going to check the nightcall mail bag, flash voicemail. We have a really excited brief Cremin's update, which was that I read a science article that I sent to you guys about that incident that said it's okay to eat some cremines that it won't won't hurt, it's not toxic,

it's probably eating fingernails. Well, then there was a quote from one of the kids who had eaten the cookies with the cremins in them, where he was like, you could taste these little like gritty gray flex in the cookies. Well, I mean, if he after you know that you've just eaten cremins cookies, you're for sure gonna have to be like I knew it. I knew it. Otherwise, every time you eat something, it's possible that it's a cremains thing. Again, that's what I thought honey brains is going to be.

There was also a story about a guy who ate squirrel brains and died because maybe he got brain rabies. I think squirrels squirrels sometimes have like disease meat or something. I think it's okay to eat some squirrels, but not this one particular squirrel. I'll do more research about not to eat squirrel brains. Now we have an update about the murder board, and it comes into parts. Molly, would you like to read part one? I'll read part one, Hey,

and I call. Since you mentioned this week about wanting to hear updates on any weirdness going on and my dreams, I'd figure i'd get it out of the way in two parts. First, the original board was too narrow to make a proper rectangular spirit board out of, so I had to cut two equal length pieces from the sections of the board with the stains on it. As the young women requested, a third smaller portion with some staining on it was cut to make the plan shet okay,

So that's the less spooky part of this update. Um okay. So also we have pictures to post of the board ladies as MS part two of the update. The board is done with all carving, standing and contouring. Ink Work has begun for most of the letters and numbers and one of the requested art pieces. More art to be inked, and then the entire thing has to be sealed for a smooth glide finish. Planchet is cut and sanded, but not inked or sealed yet, and then there's a picture.

I've been trying to stay aware of anything odd going on besides these recurring dreams, which I'll get to in a moment. First, a skunk showed up in my backyard in the middle of the day while I was doing some standing on the board outside. I think it might have been rabbit. Second, for some reason, my phone's camera has been blurring out or going dark taking these shots. It doesn't do that normally, but the lighting in my shop isn't great so that it could account for it.

The only really weird thing that happened took place Friday night. My neighbor Mark was over and we were in the kitchen talking about the board. While we're talking, all of a sudden, we both heard this loud sound. The only way I can describe it is like the sudden burst of wings and a lot of birds. I swear it sounded like it came from downstairs in the shop. Mark said he thought the sound came from outside, but the

window was closed. Like an idiot, I grabbed a baseball that and went down the stairs, creeping and peeking around corners, like the guy in a horror movie that you just know is going to be the next one to die. I got down there and saw nothing. If both of us hadn't heard it, I might have written it off as me going Patty and hearing things. As to the dreams you mentioned, it's really only just the one dream, but I've had it at least five or six times. In the dream, I'm in a house, but it's not

my house. The murder board is there, and it's completely finished and beautiful, but it's grown gigantic, so it's the size of the entire wall of the room. I'm in I somehow know they're supposed to be a door there and you need to go through it. But the murder board has no door in it, and I'm frantically trying to find a way to get wherever it is I'm supposed to go, but I can't. And one of the dreams, the ink on the board was running down across it.

Then I wake up. Dundun dun dun, du be night calm. He says he's gonna have it wrapped up this week. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. By the way, um, the thing about it, not him not being able to take pictures of it, is actually more alarming than maybe he thinks. It is, like that feels that feels ominous to me. The bird thing is freaky to me. It's all I mean, it's all freaks escaping. It's all freaky. And also, who said don't do it? Oh it was me. I was the only one to

say don't do it. Nothing terrible has happened yet, Well, I said, anything spooky that happens to you, you're going to start a tribute is gonna make you paranoid. I think he's fine. I think everything's going great. I think this is shaping up to be a great screenplay no matter what. He's got a friend, the friend, the accomplice who's's witnessing the things. He's got the really good dream

there happening, And I would like to know. The missing piece of the puzzle for me still is I want to know the details of the murder in the house. I want to know about the ladies who are having a commission we should go to one of our calls. They are also about maybe a coven, of which is

with better intent is Emily take it away? So this this night email comes from Jordan's and Jordan says, I go to this small Catholic university with a seminary in Maryland, and most of my fellow students and friends lean right politically, which sucks. So anyway, last night at a party, they're telling me about how the occult is putting a hex on Brett Kavanaugh. I naturally assume it's some right wing twitter crap, but the BBC reported it, so it's not

fake news. So to paint the scene last night way too many of my friends were all very concerned about whether or not Brett was going to be devoured by a demon or worse, while suggesting the church should respond with an exorcism at the very least with no sense of irony at all, while I was drinking my signature of vodka tequila Arnold Palmer, which is better than it sounds, I swear naturally, I am siding with the occult over any response by the Catholic Church. I hope my school

doesn't kick me out. Happy early Halloween. Jordan's um, Yeah, this is real. This is the thing that's happening. I can't I can't remember if it's already happened or not, though I read about it last week. There's a bookshop I think in Bushwick, of course, UM, which is a Bushwick um that is, UH is holding an event calling all witches to put a hex on UH Brett Kavanaugh.

And there's also been there have also been various prayer meeting groups organized to protect Brett Kavanaugh against said hex um. And of course I have no way of knowing, but it's possible that there are freelance witches who are just doing their own hexes on Brett Kavanaugh by themselves. I'm sure there are tons. Yeah, you don't need to be in Brooklyn Um. So it happened on Saturday. Uh. It

was at a place called Catland Books in Brooklyn. When I first heard about this, I was like, oh, no, this is gonna be a thing that's picked up and made fun of by like the right wing media, conservative conservative media or something. Um, even though I think it's kind of badass. But the fact that the response has been like, no, we must pray in defense of brick having on like dead serious, like taking it completely literally makes me feel like, Okay, Uh, this was the right move,

no damage done whatsoever. I like the idea that there could be wars that played out just like between bad vibes and good vibes, like I'm sending bad vibes over to your side. Well, I'm sending good vibes over to my side and bad vibes to your side and comes back time vibe. Well I guess what I mean. I like the idea of like doing something with the idea of how like scared these people are of women. Yeah.

There was a group during Women's Liberation called WHICH that was an acronym for Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell who were really cool. They were like socialist feminists and they did a lot of actions that were sort of like performance art where they would go like put a hex on the pentagon and stuff, but just sort of showing up places to like scared dudes. I feel like it's a good idea. I guess that's all I would

say is take your hex into the streets. Yeah. Well, there's also something about gathering in real life to focus all of your rage, to try and like make the rage do something I kind of believe in just by showing up and like being around other women who are also feeling like endangered by dangerous policies and stuff like that, to like really kind of get your blood boiling. Maybe it's not even magic that you need, but just like I mean, you know people who can like bend spoons

if that exists. If a bunch of people in a room concentrate really hard, I'm sure that we can do some damage. The Yippies did a did an action where they tried to levitate the pentagon. Yeah, well it freaked out all the squares, so maybe it did work, is what I'm saying. The thing is is that everybody knows that if you put a hex on someone, it's coming back to you times three. So it really just shows like how dedicated you are, and I think that's you

think that's always true. Yes, you can just heck somebody you think feel like they did get by some karmen though, because their event was like it had a cover charge and like I guess all of it went to like a women's shelter and LGBT uh fund or something. Uh So that was their protective measure. Maybe so very nice. Yeah, when when I have yet to hear if anything has come out of the hex, But well, we'll keep our We'll keep our Texes take a long time, like at

least one two moon cycles, I would estimate texas. This is a night email from Eugene, Oregon. I've been meaning to ask since the terrorice House episode. Have any of you ever fallen down the rabbit hole of international variants on American reality TV programs. I harbor a passion for Australia's Top Model, where half of the contestants actually end up having big international modeling careers, and Top Chef Canada most seasons have a contestant from Newfoundland who talks about

cooking with seal meat. I find the echo chamber of American culture refracted through other specific perspectives to be both allertingly familiar and weirdly destabilizing. My best and they prefer to remain anonymous and say, I'm a shag boy. You guys, I'm sure I've heard about the Thailand Bachelor, right No,

uh no really, this is kind of an ongoing news thing. Um. So two of the women on the current or maybe just finished season of Thailand that Thailand's the Bachelor, uh ended up falling in love with each other and it was so cool. Yeah, it's awesome. You wish something like

that would happen on ours. They they like do so much to to filter out all the non normies that I feel like, yeah, American Bachelor is like the boring ist and like even if somebody did fall in love with like fall in love on the show, like you feel like they would all be so conditioned to just stick to the script and keep like buying for this

dude's love. I haven't watched many international variants, but this email maybe want to watch all of I was gonna say, I forget if it was Top Chef Canada or Chopped Canada, but I definitely did. Also watched one of the Canadian variants and it was so funny because the ingredients were like specifically Canadian. So there was an episode where the challenge was Saskatoon berries. Everyone just kept saying like, oh, I've got to incorporate, being like everyone knows that the

Saskatoon berry makes a delicious sauce. What other international ones do you watch? I should probably dunk my bread into the survivor of different the different kind of survivors. I think there are the who else does survivor? What other countries do? That's what I'm wondering. I'll look it up. There was a really good British show called Shipwrecked Island that I think is like maybe back everyone's been saying. Love Island is also, Yeah, everyone watches Love I've got

to get into that. I would like to watch Love Island. Yeah. I watched a bunch of British reality shows. You watched All the Hills equivalents I watched I watched UM The Only Way is Essex, which is the the more shabby one, and then I watched Chelsea Yet Made in Chelsea, which is the rich person one. Both fascinating. Survivor is definitely international variations in the format. There's UM Expedition Robinson Sweden, which is what is that like Robinson Crusoe The House

but in a treehouse? Yeah, how is terrace House? Oh my god, that's all that I've done since coming back and watching terrace House. I'm not finished with the most recent batch. I think it's like the fourth series. There's some wild stuff going. It suddenly went from being it went from being one of the cutest, purest seasons of terrace House. Now it's become the full on, like messy party one just because of the people that have cycled in and out. Yeah, I saw Amanda has posted that

all the men are crying. It was like, like I'm mash up of like a lot of men just like crying and crying. Well, they're very free with their feelings on Terrorist House, and it made me really want to watch. It's really more than the other that's actually very sweet, Like even though they're like a lot of guys that can't stand on the show, Like recently there have been a lot um one of them on the episode that I'm on, has just announced he's leaving and I really

can't stand this guy. But like the amount of like emotional outpouring that came from one of the other dudes that I do like more like he was so like touched by all the stuff he was saying about, you know, like him being like an older brother too, I M and stuff. And it was like such a genuinely moving scene. And that's like one of the great things about Terrorist. Um. But yeah, I haven't finished it yet. Uh yeah, it's UM.

I kind of want to get into the first season, which is not on Netflix and takes a little more maneuvering to access, but it's supposed to be great. The seasons are like fifty episodes or something like that, Like they're really what yeah wait what why is that? Because

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