OSPod Episode 141: Baby's First Oops All Q&A!

No, it would be Napoleon's I will be an Attila to the state of Venice. No

Wow, yeah. Yeah.

And then he utilla it all over the place.

Like if you're actual if Azul was real, that would be what he said on

I don't know if I'm gonna find a better one than that. That would terrify me.

Yeah, that rules. Nailed it first try.

Like I would drop her and fear, like, Ah God, what the fuck was that? And she'd say it in perfect French too. It's like, How did you learn this language?

It's Napoleon's long game to be reborn as your children. That's kind of the plot of some fucked up Isekais. Just the re just regularly, not the diet.

Hello and welcome to another thrilling installment of the overly sarcastic podcast, Oops All QA edition. Woo Uh I am Indigo and I'm only doing this because I have the list of questions, but there are much more interesting guests just over there behind mysterious door number one. Say hello guests.

We've inspired.

We've been found.

Yes.

Both hanging out on the uh the same microphone today, so uh Indigo's gonna have to do all the extra work to make this balance in post to the biggest.

Like you'll be mid-sentence and I'll loud And then all sneeze while you're in the middle of a thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Um I don't know my drink order today. What is this tea?

Uh it's just kind of like a Victorian London fog kind of thing.

Oh interesting.

Uh we do actually have Cyan right outside of the door to our office with the baby. So darling, come on in. Come come say hi. Yeah.

Disgusting.

I I we had a child.

Yeah.

Oh no, that's a blowout.

Yeah.

Oh no. Yeah. Yikes!

Wow.

You were pointing to the baby. I'm like, yeah, I know that's the baby. But like there was the door in the way. I'm like, oh, that's uh

I don't remember the onesie being that color. I dodged a bullet. I was holding that thing ten minutes ago.

Bye.

So this is your boss.

This is my fault! Oh yeah, spoiler alert Blue had a kid. If you miss if you missed our April Fools video that went up on April Fools.

And then the the Venecia d making a video that went up two days later where I'm like if you missed the April Fool's video I had a child.

I don't think we've actually lied on April fourth. You know?

No, it's been it's been startlingly sincere. It's just been a little bit more. Not since our fake apology video, I think we've actually lied on April Fool.

Yeah. Well I guess the closest was when I was like we're gonna summarize the Silmarillion and then I never did

Oh, yeah, that's fine.

I think it's just like it's more fun to take the opportunity to just be like here is Something that we wouldn't normally do,'cause here's a solid day to put up some weird

But it's been great. Uh a couple of people were like, So that's the the people who were pregnant when you guys were in Italy. It's like no, those were actually different friends of ours.

Yeah, that math doesn't math. We have other friends who were also pregnant like four months before you get

Yeah, not not you two people.

Ha ha.

Uh it was us, uh Hello Future Me and his wife and then our two other friends and it was them

Yes. Um our extremely offline friends. I w every once in a while one of them will be like, Yeah, one of your streams got recommended to me on my Google feed. I'd feel weird watching it. I was like, You don't have to watch it, but also it's totally fine if you watch it. I won't feel weird about it. Too many of the people I know in real life watch my stuff anyway for me to feel weird about that at this point.

I've got a cousin on Cyan's side who watches all of our stuff and is yeah, very very much memeing me about it. But uh a couple of people are like, Oh, is is this the secret actual reason for for Chil Year? It's like, No, no. We actually did all the things that we said we were doing Chillier for Like working on the comic and writing extra stories.

I didn't lie about my part of the April Fools video either. All that stuff was real.

Traveling and writing an entirely new draft of a book, uh, which I did the first two months of the year. Yeah. Uh I finished the draft. the day before we went into the hospital. Yeah. So truly down to the wire. Um, but it's like all of that is true. And also, Syan and I had a kid. So we'll we'll talk about that in in some of the questions we've got here today. Um

There is a there's one thing I wanted to mention though. Uh'cause you I you have so many baby anecdotes, but uh y as mentioned, we'd already planned to make twenty twenty six Chill Year, uh and we'd already been doing stuff. And you you'd already told me that like you guys were

In the horizon.

Yeah. Um Superman had just been a little bit more. And we were very excitedly talking about it on the phone. We don't normally do phone calls.

I was in uh Canada when I was in uh Quebec City with my dad. He'd gone to sleep and I was like, Well, I got three hours to kill before I'm sleepy. So I called Cyan, called Red and we were chatting about Superman.

Yeah, we hung out of the phone for an hour and then you were like, By the way, science pregnant I was like, You let me talk about Superman for an hour.

It's a good movie.

Ha ha ha.

Uh well we've got I think many questions relating to uh the child and otherwise to get to in this podcast. Um so before we jump into the QA episode, uh do we have any announcements to get out of the way?

Uh, nothing new really except for baby. Uh but um the Aurora Volume two pre orders are still open if you are interested in acquiring that. I have been told by my publisher that getting it through Barnes and Noble is the most helpful for us at this stage, but totally up to you. Interested or not, and if you don't know whether or not you're interested, ComicAurora.com has the entire comic to date for free, so consider reading it there.

Watch the Elemental Magic Systems trope talk and the Fantasy Gods trope talk. Yes. And then read through the comic in a night, like our agent did. And she was like, What? And the next morning she's like, Let me represent this please.

There's a little more comic now.

Yeah. But uh yeah, comic pre order. Uh is there a bonus

Things are cooking. I don't know exactly when they'll be available. All I know is I drew a sticker sheet for volume two, and uh as I understand it, they're they're making that half

There's Cleo. I was like, Oh, when you Red, when you close the doors to my office, don't close them all the way because if Cleo wants to come in, she's gonna make a fuss and then she just like stood up on her little hind legs with her front legs, pushed the door open and walked on.

She's done that when the double doors are fully clicked shut,'cause they can push in just enough to accommodate.

She'll like a credit card and and flicks.

Yeah. She she contacts a hacker through her earpiece and then they they just hack her the way in. Anyway.

Yeah. We'll definitely check out the links in the description to uh the Aurora Volume Two pre orders and the website uh for the comic at large. Um, but why don't we dive into some questions? The first of which comes from one of our lovely patrons. If you'd like to support the podcast, support the channel, consider becoming a patron for a chance to have your question read first in a future episode.

This is a This was a a while back. Uh my family hasn't done like a traditional Passover Seder for uh for several years. But we used to hold passaders at her. The thing would uh the the tradition for the kids is that uh one of our older relatives would uh hide the Yafakoiman, which was a piece of matza wrapped in the and it would be hidden somewhere in the house and we would all have to split up and find it. And if I recall correctly, there was like a monetary reward.

Yeah, you really socialized.

Yeah, yeah. Uh uh we we unionized against the elderly. Uh so that was fully. But yeah.

I'm just imagining like

Like a you know, an Egyptian Jewish community where every Passover they're like, I gotta get out of here. Ah, no, I'm kidding. No, no, we're we we have fun, we have fun.

Let me call my cousin to part the red seas for me on my way out.

Like that. Um I Easter traditions, uh celebrating Greek Easter on a different day, uh usually. Uh did the whole like light the candle, go to a little nighttime vigil, uh sing Christos Anesti and then try to take the candle painstakingly back home in the like slapstick uh comedy routine that ensues in trying to do that.

I am such a slut for the exalted. If you're Catholic, you know what's up. It's the the like ten-minute long, like chanted Easter proclamation they sing at the beginning of the Vigil Mass. That shit fucking

Rule.

The poetry is really good. The music is incredible. And like the church is all dark and stuff when you go in. It is such a vibe. Like I am not, like I I I'm agnostic, but like, oh man, I'm so there for the vibe. That's why I like being culturally orthodox because the vibes are so good and like the exultate, Easter Vigil Mass, man, that is the stuff. That's the one where I'm closest to like, yeah, no, they kinda got something here. This this cooks, this is great.

I so I I've very rarely been in the middle of the year. But uh there was a the one time where I felt like, oh wow. I was in Mexico and I could not tell you the name of the church. And uh there was a perfect sunbeam just casting in through a high window and I was like, Oh my god. Is transcendent. I took a picture and then I grabbed my friend and I pulled him in and put him in the sunbeam so I could take a picture of him in it. And he was like, What was that? And I was like, Look, I lost.

Architects knew what they were doing.

Yeah. It's almost like it was designed for such things.

Yeah, something something the genius production design of Wake Up Dead Man. But uh

Sous-titrage ST' 501

But uh no, similar to blue I get two Easters, which is always kind of fun, uh Greek Easter. We're a lot uh less uh strict on the traditions in my family. We mostly just are like, well we're gonna eat lamb, we're gonna have some baklava, some kulurachia, and we'll do the egg game. I don't know what the c it's called, but you get all the red eggs, you smash. Yeah.

Yes, I don't know what it's called.

I yeah, I'm on a twenty eight year losing streak so

For Greek Easter, uh this might be in all the Orthodox, you basically play a game where you dye a bunch of eggs, usually red. and then you like hold them and hit them against each other and if yours cracks you lose and you're an idiot. But if you like it's a rock, paper, scissors tournament essentially, but like with cracking eggs and then whoever has the last egg is the champion.

It's kind of everyone.

survive getting hit by every egg.

Is everyone be everyone and you have the top of your egg and the bottom of your egg? So you basically have like two lives, I guess, to put it in video game terms. So you you can hit you know, you can get the bottom of your egg and the top of your egg hit, and as long as you have one uncracked side and everyone Are fully cracked, you are you emerge victorious. Um and I'm again twenty-eight year losing streak. The ten year old in my family just have a Iron grip on victory.

Yes.

It's it's it's a party. Orthodox Easter is a party.

Truly.

Um but yeah, uh happy Easter andor Passover uh to all who celebrate. Um the podcast.

And we'll move on.

Another question.

Uh, yeah. Oh no, he has his earpods in

He doesn't hear us.

Uh this next question comes from Real C Two Blue. When did you decide you wanted to have a child?

Um, Syan and I always like loosely thought that it would be something that we wanted. And then it was kind of a case of like we're chillin', we're chillin', we're chillin' Okay, I think this is this this is a good time. Um I mean even since like early in in us dating it was like, Oh, you know, we're both the kind of people who like think this would be neat, like way, way, way far into the future. Yes.

How many kids do you want, if the number is any.

I joked way too early in us dating that because Cyan was like you know a scientist. cool jobs and I was uh you know early YouTube before we like super sue I mean we Where we super took off. We had kinda like been established, but we weren't like, you know, OSP, like, you know, conquers the world kind of thing. Um so I was like, yeah, and like if we have a kid, like I'll I don't have like a a real job, so I'll stay at home and I'll be the house spouse. And she thought that was extremely charming.

That's that's very cute and very very establishing of a tone.

Yeah. But we like a couple Years ago, Red and I were like, Okay, chill your plans. Let's let's figure this out.

Because I was losing my mind a little bit. Uh I uh not to distract from this.

I'll move it back, don't worry.

Yeah, yeah. I have uh the strongest wander list of anybody. And I know it's getting bad when I start feeling confined by very free things. It's like when I st when city limits start feeling too constraining for me, I'm like, something's wrong. I need to.

We should take a year to just be chill. My God.

Genius. Um and uh so so basically I was the one who pitched I think it wasn't like two things.

Two thousand.

It's like that was far enough out of like peak pandemic years that I was like, it's starting to feel responsible and viable again to go places. Yeah. But like I was starting to feel the the constru the schedule we had set for the the uploads of the channel itself. Uh so I pitched it and you were like, Yeah, I think that's a good idea. It'll also give me more time to like do book stuff. And by the end of last year we were really like, Oh yeah, yeah we're gonna

Yeah, by the start of twenty twenty five we're like, Oh thank god.

Yeah, yeah,'cause like Chil Year is I mean it it's really working out for us. Obviously, you know, the free time that we have is being For the most part.

Yeah, we're still working just as much.

Yeah, pretty much. But it was like we'd reached the point where it's like we had so many things on our plate that we could just handle that. One additional little wave of thin mint got stacked on top, suddenly it's like oh no. Yeah. Uh so we wanted to be out of that zone. You know like when you have a glass of water and it's filled so far up that only the

We didn't know if they would overlap, but then we figured out like, ah, it will overlap. Okay, cool. And I was like I had contingencies for like what if baby shows up like before chill year? What if baby shows up after chill year? Um Yeah. So it was kind of like a okay, so this is always something that we we wanted. And it's like, okay, yeah, now's a good time.

Yeah, we're we're very excited to welcome. Uh I'm not gonna make this his own question necessarily. The baby is aquamarine. Aquamarine is the name.

I did.

It was a bit of a process and I'll let I'll let each person jump in where they feel like they need to. But it was like, oh, we want to have like a cute name for the baby. We can't just do like like teal or something that's just kinda like eh.

Well it's like you abundantly could do that.

I could and it was like, oh baby blue. It's like, well, if we have a second baby, like fuck the second kid then. Um and like, oh okay, well we should find like something something fun. And of course I'm playing a lot of space. So it's like, oh, we can call them ultramarine, because that's a cool color of blue, and it's also really funny. And Cyan's like, Okay, well what what about the second kid? Lesser marine? Like if we have another one, they're screwed. And it's like, okay, fine.

Glorious Golden Child, Ultramarine, and Phalo Blue.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I was like, Okay, well what else am I obsessed with right now? This is when I was kinda getting back. Yu-Gi-Oh! for a little bit at the start of the year so I'm like, Oh, I can call them Blue Eyes White Dragon and Indigo uh and uh Red and Cyan were like no uh and I'm like, Okay, fine and then we workshopped it a little bit and I was like, What if we call them Sonic? and Cyan's like

Well important context is that I heard you're going to name the baby Sonic um through the grapevine of other you know YouTuber sphere people I'd been hanging out with at Pax East who were like, yeah, they think they're thinking of Sonic, and I was like that can't I don't know how this has become my job suddenly, but I'm seeing blue tomorrow for breakfast. I will stop this somehow. I don't know why this has become my job. I don't know why anyone else has said no, you can't call your baby Sonic.

I'll channel. Just to make myself sound less complicit in this, um, what I heard from you was Cyan and I have decided that instead of calling the baby a na a blue color, we're gonna call the baby Sonic. And I shut down the first five responses that came to mind and said, Oh, interesting.

Turquoise or something like that? I was like, okay, so like but if you have a second kid, like if that's on the table, like what what are they gonna be? Tails or something that you're like, no, no, more blue characters. Like Leo from the Ninja Turtles or something.

I said Squirtle.

Oh yeah, sorry, you said Squirtle. I think I went to Leo and the Ninja Turtles'cause like, Okay, if we're yes handing this bit, we can do that. Um

'Cause here's the thing. We put a lot of work into the baby's real life name and we think it's a beautiful name. So like all the gas having gone into that, like making it work in English and Greek, and like yada yada yada, I won't explain it, but like it's a beautiful name. Um I was ready to do bullshit on the channel and I should have been stopped and I was, so it's fine.

Yeah.

Um this is why you hire a producer, I guess, is to say, Hey, maybe don't call your baby Sonic. Someday they're going to be a tween whose friends will be like, Why are you called Sonic on the internet? Okay. There's gotta be limitations. If I have to be a color, so does the baby.

If we do our work right, nobody would ever know, but you know

'Cause also I realize I'm attaching the baby to like the extended lore of Sonic and like the movies are good right now, but the rest of Sonic is not.

You were playing a dangerous game. I just I didn't want to take the wind out of your sails, but Aquamarine is great. Aquamarine shortens uh baby aqua. Um

I don't know if if I if I mention the gender if I've been going they, but she is a beautiful baby.

Yeah.

Little baby girl. Uh little Miss Menace we've been calling her.

I've been calling her little baby boob which is a little bit.

Yes.

Ha ha.

So like Kim Jong un I'm a girl dad.

What?

Remember this? Like, oh, Kim Jong un has a daughter who is like making the next ruler of North Korea and everyone's like oh millennials suddenly huge fans of Kim Jong un once they find out he's a girl dad.

I'm not sure I ever heard any of this.

Was it it was on like memes like in the last couple months, right?

Okay, so this is very recent I haven't thought about Kim Jong un since like

No, it's been.

It's great.

It's been a while. It's been a while since you've been in the news, thank God.

Yeah.

Which is all to say we're very excited about baby Aquamarine and the fact that her name is Aquamarine.

As we can tell, I've lost my fucking mind.

There's no signs. You're kind of in very well. What with I think I shall name my daughter Sonic the Hedgehog?

Sonic the hedgehog, just

Sonic could be anybody.

Like a copyright issue at a certain point. Like, I don't know. Anyway.

Mr. Needlemouse.

Yeah. Uh as the source of reason I'm going to pull us into another qu I'm gonna wrestle this while we train of a thought process factor to the questions for the podcast.

20 minutes.

Oh my god.

This question comes from Dracorex oh five. To all in honor of opening day recently, what baseball team do you root for or idly support when you notice they are doing well? Personally I'm a Yankees fan of three generations, and I'd wager a guess that Indigo is a Phillies fan You would wager correctly and if I play my cards right, a scheme that I've already set in motion, Aquamarine will soon join me in the uh the Philly's pit.

Yes, uh Indigo got some fun uh Philly stuff, a little Philly swaddle and a Philly fanatic plug.

I met.

I do firmly believe that the Philly Fanatic is the best mascot design because he is very round and he has one salient feature which is big snooze. It's peak design.

He's perfect. He's been holding it down for years. There is no one who does not love the Philly Fanatic. I had a Philly fanatic like Pillow Pet when I was a kid because I was um going to various Philly sports stores being like I know I want to get like a plush of a mascot for the baby because you know, Blue and Cyan not huge sports people, but Cyan's got family in Jersey, so like

No it would terrify yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

So, you know.

Like light and darkness and gritty being spawned from hell.

Her eyes focus for the first time and just meet his walleye stare.

Just like a haze of orange fuzz. I mean, like, oh gosh. And then you had to get into hockey too, which like come on, what are we doing? But uh I uh you I've called it correctly. Um I'm not interested in being disowned, so I'm a pretty philosophy. But do you guys support any baseball team?

No.

Uh baseball no. Um Yeah.

I was uh uh I grew up in Chicago and uh and gifted me a Boston Red Sox cap and my parents were like, you can't wear this in Chicago. You you're not allowed to wear this outside. And I was like, Okay. That's as far as I've gone in my uh uh relationship with the

baseball. Also having grown up in Chicago, the first time I was really conscious of baseball is when the White Sox won the World Series. So I'm like, Oh, I guess they're the best team. So like I I guess I I like them'cause they're the best.'Cause like they they won the thing, right?

Maybe I should have gone gritty after all then. Uh but no.

No. My first Blackhawk Stanley Cup was when they beat the the Flyers. This was actually in the years pre gritty.

Mm. Like Gritty is a fairly recent development, like when the last time we've got to do that. We're doing construction on the walk and from

What is it?

I knew he'd recently recent.

Oh god, I I pulled up the Wikipedia page and I wanted to do the thing where it's like when it shows a list of monarchs like preceded by succeeded by

I don't think the Flyers had a particularly memorable mascot, if any, before Gritty. Uh and you know, uh Gritty emerged from the construction beneath. arena um is kind of his lore. In a contrast to the Fnatic who in an eternally charming um series of mascot lore, cementing him as the the ultimate mascot in existence, um he's part of the Galapagos gang, so he's

Nebros will tell you everything except directions on how to make coffee.

I mean I'll I'll do my best, but here's the thing. Uh process, great. When it comes to selecting the actual coffee, I will basically pick Uh and it's usually not the same one. Um basic I got one of those uh cold brew uh pots. Uh so it has a lid and then it basically has a large filter cup that screws into the lid. You fill that with grass

Moca Pod's supremacy all the way.

I hate it.

My coffee with the

Objection, irrelevant.

Blue and indigo mocha pot supremacy mo. Um I have a pro tip for getting good grounds because I also have no like taste uh if I go to the grocery store I'm just buying whatever the cheapest bag of of coffee is. Um but if there's a coffee shop near you you like that either uh uses a brand that you like the taste of, uh they'll usually tell you what brand that is and you can go buy a bag for yourself. Or if they roast their own beans, they often sell those bags uh of beans over grounds.

Oh, and fair warning, uh there are a lot of coffees that are like made with seasonal flavorings that basically include like a flavor oil. Don't cold brew these. Mm. All of the flavor oil will come out and it'll be ten times stronger than it was ever intended to be. The only batch of cold brew I basically had to throw out was the pumpkin spice stuff I made last October.

But uh we're all well caffeinated here on the podcast, one way or another. Um this next question comes from Stars and Gears to Blue. What historical figures, famous lines like Aliyah Lacta Esth would you be most excited and or terrified to hear as awkward?

Yeah.

No, it would be Napoleon's I will be an Attila to the state of Venice. No

Wow, yeah. Yeah.

And then he'd till it all over the place.

That's like the spawn phrase for your personal Like if your actual if Azul was real, that would be what he said on spawn.

I don't know if I'm gonna find a better one than that. That would terrify me.

Yeah, that rules. Nailed it first try.

Like I would drop her and fear like, Ah God, what the fuck was that? And she'd say it in perfect French too. It's like How did you learn this language?

It's Napoleon's long game to be reborn as your daughter. That's gotta be the plot of some fucked up Isekais.

That that's an anime. Hell, my daughter is Napoleon.

Just the re just regular holy, not the dynamite.

Oh I started to say dynamite.

Slightly different uh kind of.

Nobody can tell. You're you're hiding it so well.

Uhhuh. Uhhuh. Uh well this next question comes from Marky Mark uh five six three seven. Can we get a new Haiti stream goal of indigo ranks the fish in the fishing minigame?

Hey, that's fair, yeah.

Yeah yeah.

Yeah, I don't think uh I think twelve K have to do the random run, right? But last I checked we were we were still like a couple of. So I'm I'm a hook I might actually be able to get uh If I can get to credit space

What the hell?

But that's it. If you're wa if you're listening to this podcast and I haven't streamed Hades again yet, uh if you donate to it, the the the VODs have the UNICEF uh fundraiser attached to them. Uh if it's still open uh and you get us past twelve K, I will have to start my next stream. game. So you know, anything's uh permitted, but uh we're so close to credit roll. I've never gotten through Hades this fast before.

It's it's it's it's zooming through. Um so yeah, definitely if you haven't been keeping up with our little stream series on uh Hades and then eventually Hades too, um go back and check out those VODs. Got a little bit of a break, and we'll be back at it soon enough. And when we do, I'll rank all those fish.

Admittedly not many of them.

Like.

Can you imagine you can get like a a whole brand?

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're in your one fishing spot above ground. Japanese garden is a full, like perfectly plated Brenzi.

Yeah, just like some anchovies in there too. Just a whole bunch of nice Mediterranean fish.

Mm-hmm.

That's the one thing that my family does for uh for Greek Easter that I really love. one uncle will roast uh he'll go go grill a whole octopus and it always just it's so it's so fucking good every time. Soon within a week. Uh Um But yeah, this next question comes from QWERTY eight eight nine nine. Before the cast, I can usually tell when spring arrives by the onset of sneezes, runny noses, and itchy eyes. For those with seasonal allergies, have you any tips and tricks to alleviate them?

No. Unfortunately I think I'm on the other end of the bell curve of no because I don't really expect Sorry.

Um I usually try to like immerse myself in spicy Thai food. Uh I think I've told the story of the the spice ranking. Uh we have five uh like spice ratings and three is the highest you can go without pain. Um that was a that was a cold season.

Uh

Discovery. So if it's if it feels a little bit sniffly out, just just douse it in a spicy musman curry and then hope for the best.

Honestly, like spicy stuff. Also pretty good if you if you just really want to like burn your throat clean.

Yeah.

Uh but also they make like

That's not just

Yeah, they do have medicine too.

Cold medicine or like, you know, Zertec for allergies does work. So if it's particularly bad, I would recommend just going to your local pharmacy and being like, What can you give me for this? Um but yeah, spicy food if you need if you need the instant clear of like I would like all of my sinuses to leave immediately. Um I I like to go for a good uh drunken noodle, but whatever your your spicy food. Um not not a bad way to handle it. Uh I'm very fortunate to be on the red end of things, right?

If anything I tend to think about I might have a an unnecessarily Similar to this one. World building your characters. Here is a pop quiz of one hundred details that will not come up in your story and it's like oh okay, cool. After a certain point, this feels completely unnecessary.

I don't know. I 'Cause like the way that I like to write characters is everyone's like transparently a metaphor for something. Um and it's like I don't I don't know how their breakfast stores Um and it's like I I I sometimes I use like eye color a lot because it's just an easy thing to to refer to. Um

Um

Uh epic style epithets and stuff like that.

That's right, you write prose. The visual design of the character is not automatically put on the page. Yeah.

You're thinking like just draw it, dumbass. What's wrong with that?

What do you mean their eye colour is a d a detail that is important? Um

That's all I got.

Yeah that's it's useful. Useful to remember.

Phobia's eye color and breakfast. The perfect if you answer those three questions you'll have a complete character.

It's all the details I need.

Yeah. Yes, our next question comes from Gary the Goblin. To all, what is your favorite game show and how well do you think you would do on it?

Game changer terribly.

I'm actually and I would lose hilariously.

They've done a mess. Uh and it's it's a very different experience than like watching it being played through by a bunch of improv comedians who know that it like the point is not to win, the point is to Uh and at conventions attended by fans, usually the point is to win. Uh so I've been having fun going there with the goal to be funny. Um but yeah, I I think uh even if I didn't

Uh, I think it would be very fun and I think I could successfully be funny in in trying my best. I've absorbed the creed of Brendan Lee Mulligan. The only way to win is by doing your best. Yeah.

I I watched the uh the YouTube episode of Jeopardy that they did like a week ago where it's Brennan Lee Mulligan, Rebecca Black, and Monet Exchange.

Exchange.

And Brennan gets a monologue in where he gets a question wrong of like the I like turtles. He says I love turtles. He's like, Commit to your answer. You don't just like turtles, you're supposed to love them, damn it. It's really funny. It's like pointed to the camera, full game changer brand monologue, and it was like, Wait, wrong show, wrong show. Pull back, pull back.

I haven't seen it.

But I've seen that one bit where like I guess the the like host is like, Oh, if I was in D D, what kind of be is like uh is currying favor a viable way to win this game? Yeah, absolutely. A noble paladin. Yeah.

A noble and sexy paladin.

No, it's it's I'm actually it would be so fun. Uh it's the the problem with I'm actually is it's so like tangibly close to something that I could get onto and I know I'd lose'cause you know I got I got a good memory, but like for hyper specific things, me and my buddies we form a great trivia team'cause each of us brings a part of it to f fulfill the whole. We're not gonna get one series and soon and just crash out but oh the crash out will be good. Um

I learned in the process of getting baby books for the baby how many baby books I did not read.

Yeah.

I I don't know if I just had like a a trash baby book game at home or what, but I remember books from like late lower school, like third, fourth grade. Like I I remember really liking Knuffle Bunny and like Flotsam, I think. Um,'cause we had like a little book award game that we did uh at our school where it was like best illustration. Best overall. Figure out the books. We had like five every year, but I

Uh we had an illustrated retelling of Cupid and Psyche, uh uh as uh illustr uh written by M. Charlotte M Charlotte Kraft, illustrated by K.Y. Uh and it is absolutely stunningly gorgeous. Uh reading through that. I was enamored by the art. I thought it was so, so pretty. Uh big factor in why I was interested in Greek mythology and why I retold Eros and Psyche, the video which led to the channel taking off in 2017, which was kind of bonking.

Uh board books count. Yeah.

Yeah. This will be good for a baby, but I I've I haven't reread it. It's a board book. Yeah.

Uh I got a lot of books that I'm like, Oh like It's a really pretty book. Everyone seems to have opinions on this. I've never heard of it.

Oh, and I did have uh this is actually a kind of funny story from behind the scenes on Rolling with Difficulty. Uh so we oh my god, I can't remember the exact context. Uh but I think we were maybe doing a QA and we kept saying the word ketzak. We're in the beast lands, we were dealing with the

I love those moments where you have like a a poem or like a call response thing that basically hits you like Yeah. Um I was watching uh a video with uh with Cyan of this like skit where it's like oh who's who's the fake Chicago and is in interrogation and it's the the cop is like seven seven three two oh two and the guy's like dude do

Also losing.

This it it was an official publication of the American Museum of Natural History. So we definitely picked it up when we were in New York at one point when I was an itty bitty and then

Yeah.

So much of my brain is poetry, I've absorbed it formatively.

That almost nobody else has that condition th these days.

Oh, I can talk about one of the things that I was doing uh early uh early in in baby time. Um it's not quite a book, it's it's better'cause the human power of storytelling. Um Dr. Pediatricians like, you know, even though they will be asleep for a lot of the time, you know, read to them a couple of times a day. Any amount of word acquisition is good, even if they're like literally asleep and like somehow snoring at you, like read to them still. So I'm like, okay.

It's a good thing that we've been carefully honing our summary skills for the last twelve years. Yeah. Really coming in clutch.

Um I was very traumatized by a young adult series as a as a kid. Uh it's there was th the first book was called The Name It's Book a Secret and they all had kind of tongue-in-cheek names like that, like don't open this or don't read it whatever.

What did I say earlier today, uh a baby was doing some interesting kind of like gymnastics and I was like, you know, when I was younger I thought pike position would be a lot more important in my life. Yeah but it kinda stopped happening after sixth grade.

Cheers.

It was like pike tuck and straddle every fucking day. And we never used any of them.

Well I think we have time for one last question here. Um if we if we really vamp. Uh uh this cut if I'll cut that out and change it if we we do we answer it in two seconds, but Um this now this question comes from Wise Healer to all. Now with a third OSP kitty introduced, what is Wolf's role in the company? Cleo is HR and is unbiased on account of not being a human, and Ziggy is I assume the proverbial office cryptid.

Wolf has like a different uh sorry, is it he has like a different scam running every week?

Today she got uh three breakfasts because not only did my boyfriend wake up extra early when she was screaming at him and feed him and then forget the second time she got him up, but then I woke up early as well because she was still screaming because he hadn't left for work yet.

Ziggy starts like selling courses to other cats for how to scan your humans out of more food and that's the current

Definitely running like a pyramid scheme.

Yeah.

She's not holding down a nine to five.

Ziggy is promoting a four hundred dollar a month uh uh consultation service. I here's the thing. Wolf is young and kind of raw. You know, she

So she's an intern?

Sh yeah, I was gonna say unpainted intern is my thing. Yeah, but like I I don't know exactly. She doesn't really seem like the employment type so much. Like a little bit different than Ziggy, a little bit different than Cleo. Like Cleo is a very responsible

I raised my cat right, thank you.

Yeah, yeah, she's solid. Um and like Ziggy uh most days doesn't seem aware that she's alive. Uh so you know, she's just doing her best, like Oliver and Company shenanigans or whatever's going on there. Um I don't know, Wolf has this sort of like Like she's figuring me out. Okay. I um I'm almost hesitant to like bring her into the workforce because I feel like she's she's too wild.

You don't want to like vicariously shunt your child into your own line of work to live through them.

I don't want to like like groom her to be the next CEO or anything like that. Yeah.

It's it's not a family business for you.

No. Yeah, yeah.

Wolf confirmed not a Nepo baby.

No, certainly not. She's gonna have to pull herself up by her own paw pads like I did.

Fuck your hand out.

I've never experienced a cat that does not want a handout, because usually they assume that handout is going to be a tasty little treat, although maybe again I'm somewhat biased by living with scam likely back there taking it.

Ha ha ha.

This has it's been a consistent problem over the last few weeks. It's like she's gotten two breakfasts out of us a lot of days and this is the first time I think it's upgraded to three breakfasts and I'm I'm just like

That's why she has to get craftier.

From scam parentheses twelve reports.

Like, have you heard you didn't give me breakfast? I'm like, no, I'm pretty sure I did. And she's like, no, no, no, you can't know that for certain. It wasn't you who did it. And I'm like, no, I think I'm pretty certain that it happened.

Your cat is problematic. Actual gaslighter. Ha ha ha.

I think it's well within her rights to do so. Um how has Cleo been with uh Aqua?

Uh Cleo's been pretty good. Um sh we we joke that'cause Syan and I do the uh the the shift strategy. So um she will go to bed, you know, like eight or nine, ballpark and then I'm on until like Two or three, just kind of like up with the baby, you know, feeding her the bottle or whatever. And then we shift change, Cyan's in charge. I go to sleep, and then I sleep until like eight or so, eight or

Kenobi is a very sweet boy. But when I go w when when Kenobi and Cleo are both within petting distance and I'm like, Oh Cleo, come here so I can pet you. Kenobi will immediately be like more pets for me, actually. Thank you. And it's like I thought I thought you were chill with our current arrangement, but it seems like all the attention must go to you.

Despite the fact that Canopy is a service dog with a job, he's a bit of a diva.

It does feel like we should we've got one animal in the OSP world that we've not included in this uh this office environment yet, or you know, uh office adjacent environment in the case of Ziggy. Uh but uh Kenobi feels like he should also have a a job. Although he is the only one who has a job.

And science is an affiliate of OSP Passai and has a real person job.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Private security.

Private security, mobility assistance, yeah, personal bodyguard. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Going for breakfast number three and he gets the call and the headset, like take the shot.

Yeah. Wolf is definitely also the muscle of

Like with stairs in our house, Clio is strong running up and down those stairs. The bets are like, You gotta sedate this cat before we bring her in. Like I cannot open her mouth to look at her teeth if she hasn't been like Gabapent up.

So buff. I keep forgetting that like Wolf is a little six pound baby. So I got so used to a small, lightweight cat and then I saw Cleo for the first time in a while and I was like, Did she get bigger? Is this normal sized for cats?

Cleo, ten and a half pounds of anabolic steroids. In parentheses stairs. She does like is clearly comfortable enough with Kenobi that we have like The the landing at the second floor, at the top of the stairs, is where Cleo loves to hang out, and then if we walk up she will flop over and request belly rubs, classic, cute, adorable and get a video of it one day.

Yeah. First few days that Kenobi was home, she was airplane ears and scary dragon eyes twenty four seven.

Well, it's good to know that the company culture is gradually improving, as does morale. Um but uh I think that that's about time for the podcast for today. Uh Red, would you like to take us out? I guess not would you like to, but uh you must. So please now do take us out.

Oh I see. Blue's off the hook for doing the intro, but I'm not uh off the hook for doing the outro.

I'm coming in on my paternity leave, thank you very much.

Yeah, we're all you're on your fraternity leave. We were on the same mic.

Brett has been very good on on baby uh duty. She's been holding uh the kiddo like a champ, which has been very helpful.

An A in baby.

Yes.

Uh so that's been very exciting. Uh it's normal to want and apparently pop.

We were just watching the Lindsay Ellis video just sitting on the couch during my shift for a couple hours.

It was awesome. I figured out that uh baby likes to be not fully invert mode when the baby is sat up. Baby likes to be slightly reclined. So what I learned is that I can lie back on the couch and just lie the baby down on my torso and then we just watch how he does.

Yeah.

And she was out the whole four hours.

Like a light.

It was awesome. Anyway, thank you all so much for listening to this episode of the Obi-Sarcastic Podcast. We will be back in two weeks with a more normal episode, not an oops all QA. We will have had two videos in that time to talk about. Uh your uh Howard with the Venetsia and my upcoming video that you don't know what it is yet.

I've been a new parent.

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