That's cool. It's a big family, I mean it's not too typical anymore, no not anymore, especially with those big age gaps, like my mom's generation was that she's like one of six, she was the youngest and she had a brother that was roughly around that age gap, You know, I feel like that was the time before us.


Oh, Oh, ah. Oh, ah, Oh, what?


So interesting. Uh, where was this? Where what part of the US?


Oh, where am I?


Oh yeah, yeah. Like where was this?


Oh, I, I am in Idaho right now.


Yeah.


Um, I've lived in a lot of different places.


Oh yeah.


But uh, I am an Idaho right now. My dad was in the military so we moved around a lot what?


Gotcha.


But uh, Idaho is where I call home now. It's kind of funny because nobody knows Idaho like nobody.


Okay. I couldn't tell you where it is.


So yeah, it's uh, it's northwest is next to Oregon and Washington.


I couldn't tell you what differentiates it, I guess. No, I couldn't even tell you charger. Are those the sports teams up there then like if you're rooting for a team or am I on the time off?


Go ahead. Well, to be honest with you, before I came, this is so funny because there's nothing in idle, nothing except except people and potatoes and let's about it.


Yeah. I'm trying to think like what? I just didn't realize. I was like, what?


But um there's no sports team. So like if you are an NFL pen, you cheer for Seattle.


Mhm Uh huh.


If you are um if you are an NHL fan, you cheer for colorado.


Mhm Right.


If you're a basketball fan, you cheer for the Denver Nuggets or something like that. But you, yeah, but there are no teams here which is kind of sucky.


Yeah. Mhm Right.


Uh uh I am not a Seattle Seahawks then I am an Arizona Cardinals thin because before I came to Idaho, I lived in Arizona and Arizona felt like home to me.


Mhm Yeah. Mhm Nice.


I came Idaho because of family reasons but Arizona felt like home to me.


Mhm Carlton.


So I became Cardinals fan in the NFL and every time they played the Seahawk, I love it. In fact they played the Seahawks tonight on monday night football.


I have. Kyler Murray has my fantasy football quarterback.


Oh nice.


So yeah, I'll be uh, hoping they do well. I'll be open.


Oh well I hope we can hand the Seahawks the first wash a season so.


Well. Mm hmm. Yeah. I always think they're overrated then they proved me wrong. The Seahawks. So I would like it to just aside from Kyler, but just for my own pride in my analysis.


Mhm. Okay. Yeah you know right, so I'm gonna be watching that gave you tonight and hopefully these go well for us.


Yeah, yeah.


Um But where do you call home?


Oh, so I'm from new york. I live here still born in Staten Island. I don't know how familiar you are with any of the boroughs, like in Manhattan or, you know, surrounding.


Oh.


And now I live in Brooklyn primarily.


Oh okay. Cool. So you were born in spat and you live in Brooklyn now?


Mhm. Lot of far, like, you know, it didn't go too far, but definitely a different culture.


Cool. Yeah.


I'll say that much, definitely some of them like Staten Island is very different from the rest of the city, at least from like Manhattan and all the other boroughs.


Yeah. Oh yeah. As big movements in the boroughs? Okay.


It's very like where it's more like liberal and blue.


Oh what?


I could just say there's a baseline Staten Island's a lot more conservative.


Okay.


Like a red, it's like a red outlier compared to the rest of the boroughs. Um I would say a lot more working class. A lot of like, you know, your firefighters cops, former stuff like that all seem to like live in Staten Island.


Oh yeah. Yeah.


Um and you know, just based on that, it was like a different upbringing I think then I would have had if I lived somewhere else and the borrows. Um So yeah, now where I am now and it's Williamsburg Brooklyn, it's just very it's a different style, it's a different vibe which is, I like it better here personally.


Oh well.


But mm you know?


Cool. Well that sounds almost like uh phoenix and north phoenix technically they are not different towns, they are not different cities but there is a total difference between phoenix city and north phoenix uh North phoenix is a lot calmer.


Yeah. Right, yep. But Well yeah. Mhm mm Staten Island.


It's more uh residential feeling and phoenix city feels more like uh industrial and just it's a whole different feeling altogether.


Mhm mm.


It's kind of hard to describe unless you've been there but Uh huh.


Large one.


It's a total different feelings. So what number of what?


Right. Yeah, I said I was gonna say yeah, Staten Island is definitely, it's like the suburbs and then, you know, it's like definitely suburbs and then around two years.


Go ahead all. Oh. Uh huh.


Super. I don't know, it's like you go down from and there's like apartments, everywhere, apartment buildings and he would go down and then it'll be like a bar supermarket.


Yeah. Oh yeah. But yeah.


Like it's nice in a way, like everything is like just right under you. But yeah, there's not a lot of room for say. That's I guess what I miss about Staten Island, if I were not there, you know, we've got more space.


Yeah. Ok. Yeah. What?


So yeah, just to what you were saying about, you know, phoenix city at north Korea.


Oh okay.


Yeah, so that's another consideration, but.


Yeah, I think that's exactly it. Um if I were to put it in a no child that's about it.


Mhm.


So um are you religious at all?


Right. Right. No.


Were?


Um I'm not really my eight in my old age, I went to catholic school my old life practically up until college.


Uh huh.


Um From first grade on I went to a catholic school, I was born catholic.


Yeah. What?


Um So I mean, I wouldn't say I'm super religious now, I would say more agnostic than anything um but I definitely you know have like that religious upbringing so that sticks with me, you know?


Oh. Oh yeah. Oh so something definitely fixed with you if you were raised with that your whole entire life?


How about you? Yeah.


Um interestingly enough I was raised a mormon.


Uh huh. Oh Uh huh.


Uh I was ready to the mormon. I am no longer a mormon, I am the only one in my family who is not mormon and I am actually Lutheran which is as you probably know another denomination of christian faith.


It yeah, yeah. Uh huh Mhm Mhm. Yeah, I'm yeah.


And um to me Christianity is very important because of the fact that I have personal experiences in my life, that wouldn't make any sense at all.


Right, thank right, all right, yeah good.


If you had no belief in God, you know what I mean?


Mhm mm.


Like um I believe that there are things in my life that have pointed to the existence of God more than once and so in fact, probably the reason why I'm still here has to do with my belief in God because I've been through some really rough times and wanted to throw in the devil a couple of times, but I'm still here.


No, I guess mhm. Yeah.


So um, yeah, I definitely, I do, I do, I do, I definitely believe in God, I'm um, what you would call her gun enthusiasts and uh, I I think that a lot of people in our generation have kind of like, they have no need for God.


Right, right, you attribute that to God? Yeah, mm. Yeah. Mhm. Uh huh Yeah, mm.


We're just kind of like sad in my view because I know that he's helped me out more than once and and people call it fate or whatever, but I definitely have a firm belief in God and I like to tell people about it because it's part of who I am and it's part of what I am.


Mhm. Yeah. Right. Yeah, because I got that, I'll just say maybe it's a controversial thing, I just think religion in general or the church really thought kind of makes people hesitant to like get further in religion sometimes, you know what I mean?


So. Oh yeah, Yeah. I think that there are definitely a lot of truth to what you're saying. Um, because it becomes more about the organization then about God, you know?


Right, right, right, exactly, Mhm, mm.


And so I understand people who say, well I don't go to church, but I have a personal relationship with God and christ and I think I live in a small town, I live in town. I say small because it's small compared to where you are. But I live in a town of about 90,000 people.


Yeah, that's one, it's pretty small, yeah.


And um the transportation, the public transportation in this room for people with disabilities who are in wheelchairs really kind of sucks because there isn't, there is no transportation on sunday.


Mhm, mhm, mm.


So I have no in the church.


Oh right, mm, Mhm, mm.


Hello? Mm. The, the uh, I used to be like, oh well you have to go to church like a lot because it's important. But more I have felt the relationship with God is most important. You know what I mean?


Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Yes. What? Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Right.


Uh, so I kind of agree with you in the fact that a lot of churches don't do a lot for promoting belief in God because they are, hey donate to the church, you know? And yeah.


Yeah exactly exactly, stuff like that donate to the church don't uh you know make sure you come and and they try to tell you there's some churches I guess, but you know, I guess more evangelicals and anything, but it seems to take over like aspects of your life at least end up like you know now I'm talking about like those Grand Stadium churches and it was like I forget the guy's name, but Joel Olstein, seven people like that.


Uh huh. Yeah. So, Oh, live there that they have on tv and they, oh no.


Yeah right, you know, I mean that's the extreme and I think it's like the you know, norm, but still stuff like that, jeez how are you like a god fearing man and why?


Yeah. Mm hmm.


Yeah.


Oh my god.


In fact they did a survey I kid, you know, they did a survey of pastors a few years back.


Mhm. Mhm.


Pastor is not normal running the mail people.


Yeah, mm.


These are people who teach religion as their job. Like 70% of pastors didn't even believe in God.


Yeah, come on.


Oh, and it's like, why are you?


Mhm.


It's like being a doctor and saying you don't believe in pills.


Yeah, I don't believe in science, You don't believe in the right stuff, you're doing, works.


Like, yeah, Yeah, but there are a few out there who still, you know, they're definitely God fearing people and you don't see them in the big tell of ice, uh, cathedrals, but they're out there.


Yeah, I got that, it's weird, they make money doing it, so I guess that's why they do it and you don't.


And uh, so yeah, that's kind of an interesting topic to uh, talk about for me because people have told me before that I have an excuse not to believe in God because of my disability and the difficulty of my life.


Okay. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm.


But I think the very fact that I'm still here is an argument for God.


My but yeah.


Mm And um, well, I mean look at, I didn't mean to turn this whole conversation into a 25 minute sermon, but look at it.


What? Right. Oh good.


I I can't play sports, right?


Yeah, I'm, wow.


I love sports, I can't play sports. But God has given me an ability to place towards through video games. And I live in such a time that is good. A lot of people focus on the bag that happening in the world, but technology has increased so much that I have abilities and and chances now that I wouldn't have if I were born in the sixties.


Yeah. Okay. Mhm. No. Mhm. Then. Mhm.


You know what I mean?


Oh yeah, for sure if you were born a different time, who knows?


Follow. Yeah. And I'm not prepared to say that my the time I was born was left up to chance. You know, I don't I don't think so. So burn, believe it.


Yeah. Right. Right, right. So I can see that. Yeah, I think, you know, it's go ahead.


What do you do for work?


Um So I work as uh work for a public defender's office, like in legal aid.


Okay.


Um Not as a lawyer though, I'm an investigator, it's called.


Oh uh paul.


So I worked primarily with criminal events. So a lot of it is like going to getting like evidence, video or trying to talk to witnesses. Um You know, then bringing it to the attorney on the case and try and figure out like if it goes to trial, well we testify about this or that we're just sometimes getting information to see how bad the cases in terms of like hey what are we going to do or like sometimes just to try to get the prosecutor like you know to take a plea deal depending on the circumstance.


Yeah. Well, Oh, Oh, Oh yeah. Well yeah.


You know it's it's to me it's really important work and you know um work working.


Oh. Oh, that is really cool. That is very cool.


Yeah.


In fact, um you're gonna laugh.


Mhm.


But one of the people I talked to in this study was a prosecuting attorney in New Jersey.


Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah wow.


It's like yeah.


Well, so I've talked to a prosecuting attorney and I've done to a public what?


Right. But are you practicing in Manhattan? Were they in new york?


Well they were in New Jersey.


Were they practicing in new york? Yeah. Oh wow.


Oh.


All right.


But yeah.


But I don't see it on the but still.


Uh our like ridiculous.


Yeah. Yeah. I feel like I don't know what they were saying. I feel like it defends like my people that I'm sure they were fine, sure they were in a you know.


Well yeah, that's when the uh yeah, it's been a real pleasure talking on this study because admit people literally from around the country and everybody has been really different.


Okay. Yeah.


I only had one experience that was less than pleasant.


Yeah.


It um on this chat, so it's been fun.


Oh yeah really good.


Well yeah.


Um Yeah I can't imagine what less than pleasant will be just like, like a bad conversation, I guess.


Oh. Oh. Oh. Mhm. Mhm. Oh well he didn't he didn't ask any questions, like he didn't really say anything unless you were asking questions and he wasn't involved in the conversation directly and all that stuff.


That's the only thing I can think of. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah.


It was just I found myself looking at the clock a lot during it.


Right. Yeah. Just trying to get through it.


Well all yeah.


Yeah, it could be like that.


So Oh, oh, oh, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.


I mean the first person I matched what they were fine. Maybe because it was my first time as well. I felt like just, I don't know what we're supposed to be doing, but I don't know. That was definitely like the hardest conversation. The first one, just like, you know, I was like, there's no script, there's no like questions like what are you talking? Uh Now this is the third ones with the little like, you know, just doing it a couple of times.


Well you said third for you.


Like All right, little easier. Like, yep.


Yeah, good look.


My third actual by four.


And your other three.


Sorry.


Cool. I said, well good luck in your other three. And uh oh definitely, you know, take advantage of it and enjoy it because you can meet some very interesting people I know I have and I would count you as a very interesting person and I, I enjoyed talking to you.


Oh, thank you. For what? Right. Oh, thanks you as well.


Um, my last name is smith. If you want to look me up on facebook, you'll see a picture of me if you want to stay in contact.


Oh, cool. All right.


Yeah.


Let me know what you think of the, let me know what you think of the simulator, the flight simulator and all that jazz.


Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I will check it out and interesting.


So yeah.


I didn't know so advanced to that point. Even the mad and stuff too like for MLB at all at school.


Yeah. Oh yeah.


It's interesting stuff.


Well, I think we did it, my friend.


Yeah. Yeah.


What?


That is right.


Oh, uh huh.


Well you did it, you're finished now so with the Euro six. Right, So I hope it was cool.


Yeah, yeah.


I know you enjoyed it you said so. That's cool.


You made good for a last one, so thank you.


I appreciate that. Thank you would be good for a middle point I guess. That's the one.


Thank you.


Yeah.


Well, hey dan, I'll talk to you later.


Right. All right. Take care the medium.


You goodbye.


Yeah. Mhm. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Oh mm. Okay. All right. Yeah.


Hello.


Hello how are you?


I'm doing all right thank you how are you?


Thank you. I'm fine I'm fine.


Anything new and exciting today for you?


Uh Not too much.


Not too much thank you.


This has been a big highlighter thing. I've been working for it in my day.


Yeah nothing just dreary and rainy.


How about you?


So this is actually my seventh time doing this so wow.


Yeah. Okay. Mhm wow I've lost count of how many I did them a while back but then I started having some technical issues and then kind of reset with this one.


Oh process and this this is going to say this group that they do.


This is my first one of this uh session. Mhm.


How long have you been doing things prolific?


Yeah I think about two years now.


Really wow.


Mhm.


It's a long time. I've only been doing it for. Probably about seven months.


Yeah it's good. Especially with the little plug and they've now made.


Okay.


That's really helpful.


Yes.


Yeah.


Yeah I I'm not usually I'm more on my phone than my laptop but when I'm doing work and I have that up there and it's created like you know it's impossible to miss a study.


Oh. Mhm. Yeah but. Mhm.


Uh Have you used any website?


Oh wow.


Use the website user testing?


No no I haven't heard of it.


Okay. That one is pretty good.


Uh huh.


It's basically a site where you get little notifications it just goes ding and it has little screener and they're never more than like 15 questions and they're really quick.


Right. Mhm. Yeah.


It's I really hate the surveys where you know you spend 20 minutes answering questions.


No that's not bad. Okay.


It's like sorry you didn't qualify the wait you know?


Yeah that's what I'm just gonna say it was because I do um survey john key on occasion and literally you're getting like literally to the end after like 1920 minutes for a dollar and they're like, oh sorry, answer the last question wrong.


Here's your three cents a later by and you're like, come on.


Yeah. Thank thankfully this one doesn't do that.


Yeah.


If the screen of questions are super quick and if you qualify and accept that you then usually do like a little 15 minute thing where if you if you enjoy your good at talking out loud, it's really good because you're showing a website or some software and you basically follow steps and they ask you okay, you're going to look at this website, please speak out loud and find a basketball and put it in your cart and then you go, okay, I'm on the website, I'm going to click this little icon that is the magnifying glass and type in the word basketball.


All right. Yeah. Uh huh. Bird. Mhm Oh yeah. Oh Oh, correct, That's right.


Oh, I expected it to get rid of the words search but I had to delete it myself. That's counterintuitive and you just do that and, and at the end of the video you get paid $10 it's always a $10.


Mm. Really awesome. It's now do they come up frequently or is it last?


Um It it kind of ranges.


Mhm. My God.


I'll sometimes get like eight or nine little dings a day but I may not qualify for them, but it only takes like a total of doing the screeners for all of those maybe five minutes because it gives immediate feedback whether or not you qualify.


Uh huh Yeah. Right. Well Oh, uh huh, wow.


And some weeks all have, I'll get like four or five in a week and then I'll have a dry spell for a few weeks and then but it's always a bare minimum of $10.


Mhm, mm hmm. Right. Yeah.


And then you can also take little screeners for um live interviews, kind of like what we're doing now but with some sort of representative of your company and those are 30 minutes and 60 minutes apiece and those pay $30.60 dollars respectively.


Uh huh Mhm mhm mhm. Really? No, what do they do?


Uh It really all depends.


Oh yeah.


As long as you like tell the truth on the screener questions, it can be something like what banking companies have you worked?


Oh yeah, but right.


Do you have an account with? And so for example, Wells Fargo. And then that was when I did and I basically spent 30 minutes talking with a representative about my experience using Wells Fargo and then saying, okay, have you had any customer support issues that were resolved?


Yeah. Yeah. Oh.


Really well? Did you have any customer support issues that you found frustrating?


Mhm.


And so basically the 30 minutes, 60 minute ones are just going back and forth talking with an individual.


Mhm Right.


Sometimes it's just questions.


Yeah, I'm not.


Uh sometimes it's like okay we want you to try this app and in real time describe how you think it's gonna work, described if it will make sense uh user testing and make sure you click the part where it's the be a shoot, what's the word?


Mhm No. Okay, but what's the name? What's the name is uh site? So users don't say, just let me book market book properties.


It's not participant. But when you go on their website, they're the main thing of their website is, you know, you can get feedback but then you need to find the needle, tiny cabin one of the corners that has become a tester and you click on that to create an account and they do the first, the very first one is, let me see uh user testing uh checking right now florida.


Okay. The workers. Mhm. Thank you. Request trial that one. Uh huh. Uh huh. Oh. Oh.


Here we go.


Oh, all right.


Uh no, it's sorry, not in the corner. Get paid to test.


What?


It's right next to resources on the top of the, so it goes platform solutions, customers, partner resources get paid to test and that's the one where you will uh, yeah, I found it really good.


Thanks. What? Mhm, allowing rescuers get paid to test they said. Yeah, looks like Oh, all right. I'll book, yeah.


I've made a lot of extra spending money that way. So, so what do you do for fun when you're not, you know, prolific ng well, yeah, what, come on.


The book. What? When? I'm not prolific ng uh Well, I've got five kids, so I'm pretty busy with them. They range in age from 16 to 1, so right now my oldest just got his permit to drive, so that's horrifying.


Oh cool.


That's terrifying to me.


I but well thank you for your service but Oh, okay.


Um But other I retired from the military in 2016. Well, I'm thank you. So, I've just been hanging out. I mean, obviously I've become a teacher now because of Covid, so that's wonderful. Uh Thanks to all the homeschooling we have to do, wow. It's really I mean, I like I got two dogs, a cat like soccer.


Well okay.


Big family used to play hockey. Uh actually just had surgery on my ankle not that long ago, so hoping to get back into that.


Um It's really yeah, I like playing video games waiting to get the new Xbox.


No, no, Oh cool.


Oh uh for first person shooters and like um real time strategy.


What video games do you play as the, that's the tank one, right.


They also do a game called War Thunder. She's really a vehicle, World War two multi player thing. Yeah, there's there's three different, there's tanks, planes and then their ships, but nobody really plays ships because it takes forever to to destroy or some close to each other to shoot at anyone, everybody else in the meaning of being inside.


Yeah, yeah, I like to talk uh let's see. I, I also do video games, I'm more of the single player person since I have absolutely no skill at anything competitive, so Oh cool.


But first yeah, I enjoy like I enjoy like for example like the Elder scrolls series, huge fan of them actually I just started playing Kingdom Come deliverance which is um all like basic basically it's like the elder scrolls only, you're like a peasant in the 14 hundreds and like Romania.


Mhm yeah, like the super grounded.


And like yeah it's super cool because like like you know like an older scrolls, like, okay, you can pick up a sword, you can really start running around killing people and stuff like that.


Right.


This like he doesn't know anything because he's a blacksmith's son, so he's clueless.


Mhm Oh no.


You can't, you pick up books, you can't read them, they're all in gibberish because he doesn't have to read. So you have to find some guy like a priest, him to teach you how to read. Then you can read um like riding a horse, you have to have somebody to teach at sword fighting, you have to learn all those things. Eventually then you become like a bad, you can actually take care of yourself, but otherwise you're walking down the street, like you're going to get the crap kicked out of you by mercenaries in the woods.


Yeah, sounds fun. I learned about that game with a Youtube channel that I watched called Outside Extra.


I learned the best. Uh Yeah. Yeah.


They're just kind of a british game review company and they were doing a little bit on Kingdom Come deliverance and every week they would have some sort of quiz where one person would quiz the other and for Kingdom Come deliverance, they did to choose your own adventure, where one of the hosts wrote a choose your own adventure stories set in Kingdom Come deliverance and read it to the other one.


The press. Oh Mhm.


And she had to choose like do you want to do this or do you want to do this? And like every third choice that she made? Uh Yeah, it was like you have died of dysentery.


You're dead. Yeah. That's the thing is like you pick up, you know, you used to picking up food and just having it in your inventory for the entire length of the game literally if you pick up bread, it's good for like four days and if you eat it then you guys going to get sick then you have to see a doctor big money and it's like impossible to get money it because it's the 14th century and nobody has money.


Mhm Right, yeah, simulated lightning is going to come down and just I've I also for fun run a dungeons and dragons game and a lot of my players are like grew up on things like Skyrim elder scrolls and so that whole loot everything mentality is something that they're trying to unlearn because the whole thing with D and D.


So I run around and I steal a lot from the church. I literally love everything I possibly can while people are sleeping. And then I go to uh yeah, that's where all the money is though. It's realistic. The church has all the money and many old I go in there said like same weapons to I go up in the towers. I steal all the like armor from the nights and I'm going to a different town and sell it. Mhm. The biggest right yeah everybody comes back to life in three days.


Is all your actions have consequences. Wait. So they burned down the town and like you can't do that and they were like you know what the elder scrolls, it's fine, we pay off the garden or kill them and they forget. No it's going to work like that in dND yeah.


That's funny. I actually have a comic book shop that there's uh like dungeons and Dragon um tournament and uh there's something else they have in the name of it. They have magic obviously but then there's like another card type game.


Yeah. Yeah.


I forget the name that they advertise fairly heavily so that stuff mm you know there's there's another it's similar in in the dungeons and dragons vein.


Uh Pokemon magic. You yoed those are the three ones I know of. Yeah. Oh boulder skate.


No no and it's not the it's not Warhammer or the other one in space.


Yeah. Well. Uh huh. All right.


I forgot the name of that one.


Oh yeah.


Bye.


Warhammer 40 K. That's a big one. Um hearthstone I think is digital only. I'm not sure. I I my my nerdiness extends to dungeons and dragons.


Yeah that's a good one.


What? Okay.


I mean I read all the books when I was college so I hit him pronounce his name.


Right. What? Yeah. Thank you.


The Dark elf for its P.


Mhm. Okay.


R. I. T. T.


Yeah I regret something like that.


I don't know how you pronounce it. Yeah I used to read all of I forget Rh salvatore I think what's the name anymore or obligations?


Okay. I'm not sure. I haven't actually read any of the like books, the narrative stories.


Mhm.


I have the actually right here I have the handbook that I read through all the time but I haven't read any of the actual stories set in the universe.


But go oh 47 Universal you know do you have like the like dungeons master like comb?


Uh huh. Yeah. Yes. The guide.


Yeah that's cool.


Yeah. Yeah.


It's actually it's my uh I mean I remember I'm older than you but grow in the 19 eighties.


Yeah. I think. Oh yeah.


They had a dungeons and dragons comic.


Yeah.


They're not like like a like a cartoon and had the dungeon master in it and it was like a beholder and all this stuff and everything like that.


Oh.


And so I was able to find the DVD set.


Oh cool.


Let my kids watch it now. Like my my younger ones my nine year old boy seven year old they're like oh this isn't a dragon snow there's the orcs and the beholders and the gelatinous cube so oh it's horrible, it's absolutely horrible, it's the worst, yeah, mm mhm, yep, that's literally the first episode there it is t event coming, they've got their magic shield, I think there was there was a shield um some sort of stick, I don't even know what you would use like like the thing you used to jump with, I don't even know what the purpose of it is.


What? Really? Right. Tms. But I had I haven't seen the cartoon, it's on my to watch list but actually which is why it looks, I've seen memes of it in the internet sphere of like hey episode one. They're beginning adventurers who do you think they're going to fight Colborne Goblins? No team at god of death and destruction? I Yeah. And this Yeah. Yeah. Okay.


You got a source er that can't do anything right? Oh and then you've got a barbarian who's like some six year old child so it yeah yeah but there's a lot of girls in it Mhm.


Mhm. That sounds like the average dND party, so kudos for the accuracy. Okay. Actually the D. And D game I run is three girls.


Oh really bad right now.


Two I think two boys uh I got my friend playing and then she invited her sister and then one of her other sisters heard and also wanted to join. So it's three sisters co worker and two co workers.


Yeah, I mean women were never interested in legends of dragons when I was growing up, like Unheard of, I mean it was the same thing with video games, oh there was you know you're talking, I mean but the first video games I had was the Atari 2600.


Yeah. Mhm. And cool.


Then I had the second master system. Then I had the NEs I had jaguar. Um Never had the Neo Geo. I avoided genesis that have super Nintendo. Playstation, Playstation two. Then I got an Xbox 3 61 waiting for the new one to come out. Um And there's another one. I feel like floating around in there. The virtual boy. That's stupid.


Oh yeah.


Yeah. I wear contacts because I'm just kidding but I do wear contact.


Um So no, I really am talking about like the jaguar.


Yeah.


Like that system sucks like for as much as like people like God like yeah alien versus predator. And so I know that was horrible cartographic 16 was pretty cool.


What?


Uh awesome.


I think my parents were pretty staunchly against video games for a while so so my first console console I think was the we Okay.


Okay so I did have the way. Yeah.


Which?


So you didn't have any games that weren't Nintendo. They were all first party. So it was like collecting more.


Right. No I did that though, I did get a game boy because that was great for car rides, but actually when I was at home it was outside or reading or something, I wish I had discovered dungeons and dragons sooner because that's I do that more than video games now.


Yeah. Believe. Uh huh. Yeah, I mean really? I mean really every single video games originated out of dungeons and dragons and elder scrolls universe came from, I mean boulders gate.


Mhm.


Like I remember playing that front Playstation.


It's funny actually uh with the dungeons and dragons cartoon like I said I haven't seen it but it's become such a meme and the dND spheres that I ran a Halloween one shot for all my players and we all dressed up and I actually bought the dungeon master costume from the dungeons and dragons cartoons, like the bald cap at the hair look like a complete idiot.


Oh, I am saying that the ball cap of the right here in the robes.


And it went from uh it was a dark gothic horror inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.


What Bella Who?


So every, every room is like a reference to a different post story and it's dark and creepy and it's about how the necromancers wife died and he's now trying to summon her back by using the body parts of the servants he killed.


Right.


It's supposed to be this dark creepy thing and and in about 10 minutes it stopped being dark and creepy.


And here you are dressed up like a balding dwarf. Oh.


It was it started off horror and ended Scooby doo.


Uh huh.


It was there was the hull.


That's funny. That's awesome. Uh huh.


They were in one room with a bust of the raving queen and they kept hearing a tapping noise which was supposed to be referenced to the raven.


Yeah. All right.


You know, tap tap tap, they were convinced it was a clue that they just couldn't figure out.


So they ultimately resorted to flirting with the statue of the raving queen to see if they could reduce the information and I'm just going, I'm supposed to be staring at mysterious and they were painting on the long, it's like, oh I love it, it's absolute chaos.


Yeah. Mhm. Like, so how are you doing? That's funny.


But the rogue who is you have this dark edgy, you know in the game he we've been having private conversations, he's planning on trying to kill the entire party at some point, which I'm really excited for.


Right. All right. Mhm.


Uh but in the one shot there were all these paintings along the wall with like horrific imagery. Each one of them also references to post stories like Hop Frog with people being burned alive or looking at the judges from the pendulum and he walked over to the painting and when I describe, because I have on my note, he starts going full art critic on, oh, I see what this represents.


What? Yeah, but that's awesome.


The gesture is the lowly individual and the king he represents the 1% and how the burning flames of capitalism. And it did that for every painting.


Too deep. Too deep.


He did that.


That's funny. I give it to him. Maybe I responsible what?


Oh, I loved it. It was absolutely hilarious. And the barbarian came and she was like, what R.


Right.


And I had to make a saving throw and she didn't really lined up.


Thanks. Probably.


So I was like, no, you take one point of psychic damage because you don't understand the art well enough.


Yeah.


Lots of angry messages after I'm going to kill you for that one. Though, it's not funny.


Good.


It was so curious normally weekly and when things are going well.


Really? So now how often you guys meet like what's the get also Really beauty.


I'm also in school as a screenwriter and recently class has been really hectic. I just wrote a 44 page spec script that I have to trim down another 10 pages. And so it's been kind of, we've only met two weeks because a spec script is basically where?


Why now, why would they want it to be shorter? Not that I need nothing about screenwriting off.


Oh, don't worry, I don't know all that much either.


Um basically a spec script isn't an original, it's based on a pre existing source material, so take like parts and recreation or Duck Tales or it's basically what you write to kind of pick yourself to companies and say, ok, here's proof that I could be a writer for this show.


All right. All right.


I can write in the style and the voice. And so part of the aspect of writing a spec script is researching actual official script and seeing how many pages they are. And so No, yes, you basically write an episode for a show that's currently airing and then that's a way for people to go, oh, okay.


So what do you do like basically? Right. Like your own original episode in that vein? Yeah. All mm Right much duck tales.


He can write, he can understand that, he may have an original voice, but he can also emulate a pre existing series of characters because you don't want, even if someone's a great writer, if they only can write in their own style then they're not going to work on in the writer's room. So a spec script is basically a script of a show that you didn't create and so I've been writing for Duck Tales, but the problem is the average duck Tales script is about 33 pages and minus yeah, your dad tells yes, and the problem is an average Duck Tales is like 30 somewhat pages, but a my script is 44 so I need to get it down to the right size just to actually meet the criteria.


New duck tales are old duck tales. Okay, so you've got the cool lily we should do is research the guy that voices scrooge Mcduck. You actually yeah actually portray he's actually he's got it and he actually portrays a really good detective in the BBC drama or Broadchurch.


Okay. Oh cool, I I haven't seen Broadchurch, I'm a big fan of Doctor Who, so and yeah uh that they're the best, how come they do tone that down in later seasons, so Yeah.


Haven't seen Yeah so you know them from Yeah but I was watching Broadchurch and I'm like she was like scrooge Mcduck and so I'm like I go on Wikipedia and I'm like fuck he is doc that's something that's all that's all that mystery and I love how how they've done everything with you. You dewey and Louie Mhm. Uh Not that cool, I'm not that happy with Abigail. Uh They made her too. I I don't mind that she's a badass. I just don't like the overly like obsessive compulsive stalker aspect they gave her because because well that's just because she is living with them now, but like there in that first like two and until their mom came back from the moon, it was like, it was like everything was a go claim, the fact that I'm like, your grandmother has been working with Scrooge for like ever.


mhm mhm mhm I didn't actually see the original, which I realize is like a huge deficit since the new one.


It shouldn't be that big mystery. So I'm like, I I I thought that took away from her being like the little miniature, like bad ass, you know, Mrs B Klay, super ninja granddaughter. So for me it looks like uh Oh yeah, no, completely different because I mean whether he's just, she's like a five year old girl, like she likes her dolly and she more fixes things in the show by falling into it accidentally by picking up a massive diamond that they need to give to a Yeti later on because she thinks it's a shiny rock, not because she's aware that oh this is magical powers and I had to go through 15 million tracks to get it.


Yeah Oh uh huh Right Yeah, mm Launchpads.


You know this is how we're going to defeat Magica dispel now, so launchpads amazing.


Amazing. Love orange pad.


Uh Let's see, they made launchpad too stupid.


That was stupid in the original Yeah, last Yeah.


He he was more um he he was more just mhm prone, he was just more accident prone. What this guy like this is like this guy's brain damaged almost, like there's no reason for him to be operating a plane.


But Yeah, Yeah Yeah Yeah Oh uh huh Yeah, the Bill, Nye, they did uh they did flesh out Gyro a little bit in one of the episodes that was like an entire homage to Astro Boy, which was kind of hilarious.


And the original, he comes from a family of pilots and his little probably he just can't land. That's the only thing you can never figure out, he could fly anything that's and that's why scrooge hired him. It's just he just can't land and that's it's saying we're in this one, it's it's like you had a lobotomy and you're like oh come on, there's no. And then with Gyro they made him like the mad scientists and he's completely not in the original, the original, he's more the like backyard kooky inventor who Right Exactly, instead of this one, they have them like being like an evil Bill Gates almost. Mhm. Yeah. Sure. Oh. Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. What's his name is pretty much the same. Um jesus, what's his name is Murdoch I guess my Doctor tells me that he's still that um Let's see what else.


Okay Yeah.


There was uh magic and spells pretty much the same. Actually. Magica Dispel is really more faithful in this series to the old Banks complex then the one in the eighties.


What? Oh yeah Oh, that's awesome.


So that's because I actually own all the there isn't the scrooge comics from like so you can see I'm like I guess you could say I'm a duck tales like nerd. But um like the comics back in the thirties and forties like they were like hyper realistic.


Yeah Okay, quick Mhm Oh, just Yeah, Yeah mhm They all that's cool.


There wasn't any like like the eighties version where it was all cartoon and everything like that. It was much more like you know scrooges in the Klondike and like he tries to kill people that are trying to get onto his claim and stuff like that. He has he has no problem like the way he like treats Goldie in the new Con and the new series is exactly the way he treated her in the original comic and the same thing. All the gland mcduck stuff like with the castle his parents like basically being like you're annoying go you don't work hard. That's all that. It's on the original Economics.


I learned during my research for the episode because I actually, I did more than just like watched the whole series, but I learned that in one of the scrooge Mcduck comics, I can't remember which one I think was scrooge Mcduck in the seven Cities of Cibola.


Yeah.


Or that was at least the adventure, the Beagle Boys set off a booby trap that causes a giant rolling boulder to trace after them and break through a wall.


Mhm.


And steven. Spielberg cited that Duck tales comic as the inspiration for the scene in indiana jones with the giant rolling boulder.


Yeah. Well you can see a lot I mean almost all not obviously there are other adventure thing is going on four years and everything like that but a lot of like what he put in indiana jones and then that thing was really written you know she slept that was early eight.


Oh okay.


So you're talking really 40 years before that?


Yeah, there's the whole serialized adventure genre which I think researchers.


That's great. Yeah and it was like for a Disney for it being like a comic.


It was talking ducks and everything like that. Like they put a lot of thought into it. Like scrooges sister is Donald's mom and you see her in flashbacks growing up and then you see like you know there is that whole lineage where you can see the hole where the whole family works out. It's not just like we need a we need a long lost cousin. So we're gonna throw somebody out here like no gander duck.


You figure out how he's related to everybody else. This is Mhm.


I go ahead.


Right. I just say it's just insane how they so many must have sat there with this huge wall and like had threads interconnecting every single but to make them all the kind of combination of grounding reality with the show with back.


Okay. I love the kind of combination of grounded reality with like the show with you know this person is related to this person, this person is related to this person and it's all hyper realistic. It has to all make sense in track. And then they'll have something where they're like uh you know use a snake as a grappling hook or something. Uh Have you?


Right. Well that's how they break it. They're like they're like well why don't we just have like Huey do something really stupid right now and have like a pep conversation about the drink and then we'll get out of us or it'll be like oh look who, who left the you know magical ambulance out now. So it got stolen. So now we have to go into that realm like all right. That adventure like it just becomes like that how they have that normalization of the supernatural and just the absurdity that they get into.


Yeah that was the thing when I was pitching basically the show for my class where we had to find a comedy to write for and I said I want to do duck tales.


That's really like it it's it's just hysterical. I mean especially if it meant for Children but like the sophistication they write it, it makes it so much better.


And my teacher kind of gave me this look because everyone is like, oh I want to write for Shits Creek, I want to write what we do in the shadows, I want to write for Dave, just all these more adults, not refined, but and I go dick tail, I'll be like, okay, I'll watch a couple episodes and he writes when I was like that, it was way more complex and you know, not mature, but that the jokes are more highbrow than just cartoony, cartoony, which is why I love it so much.


Right. Mhm. Right. Yeah. I mean another one that would be good if you ever watched jerry watch Venture Brothers.


I have not, I never actually watched johnny quest either.


Oh you got to watch Friend Her brother's because all that basically is is a darker version of johnny quest. Johnny quest is basically like there's the inventor father with his bodyguard and his kid who gets into various misadventures across the world.


That's good.


But in Venture Brothers that's a failure. His father who died was the one who, he's just been basically living off his patents and his name saying nothing. He does work that well. He's a single father. His kids suck. They actually died so many times and adventures where he has like stacks of them cloned. So when they die, like they explain it later on, he, he's like, you're just going to die anyway and then I'm going to have to use another color. You guys don't even know what's going on at the point. They're like, what do you mean dad were dead? And then like something like caves in on them and they died. He's like, say now I need more clones off I go, come on. It's just no different show.


Is that the one that has the line, because I, a significant portion of my pop culture understanding relates to memes I say on the internet now, but is that the one that has the line? You know, you should be digging through the dumpster for bacon scraps, you two piece chicken mcnugget buddy, or is that a different show?


I mean a good, I don't know, I've never heard of that before though.


Uh All right.


But there's brock who's like this like, like just a former like CIA as fast and and he just, he just like goes crazy and kills people like throat out and stuff like that. It was an adult swim thing. It was, I mean that was when adult swim was like first starting was Venture Brothers. Um What aqua teen hunger force, which was awesome because that was based in New Jersey where I lived.


Mhm.


So it's literally a milkshake french fries and a meatball that live in Southern Jersey and talk to their neighbor who's in the hookers and trippers and stuff like that.


Of course. Yeah.


Random things happen to them like moon nights, these things from the moon come down and try to take over the world even though they look like the little uh space invader, like big characters.


What? Uh huh. That's awesome. Have you seen Phineas and Ferb to me?


Oh yeah venison for but have milo.


Like the three animated were Phineas and Ferb Duck tales and the it only lasts like two seasons, but the spiritual successor to Phineas and Ferb, which was Milo Murphy's Law, because all of those basically of the monopoly for kids shows that have really clever writing and I would love that.


I vaguely heard of it. Um I probably saw advertisements for it, you know, following it.


I never watched it.


Second season is uh first season is fantastic, it's made by the creators of Phineas and Ferb and the main character is voiced by Weird Al Yankovic.


Mm.


So that alone had me sold episodes and it's all about this kid who is the great great great great great great grandson of the Murphy, from Murphy's Law, anything that can go wrong, will and all Murphy's Children are cursed so that any time they try to partake in any activity, something goes wrong.


Really? That's funny. Um let's win it.


And so it's him trying to just navigate a daily basis with everything going horrible. But he has the most upbeat chipper attitude is like a backpack. That's basically the Tartus that has all sorts of random things. So no matter what goes wrong, he will always just like reach into his backpack, pull out a bicycle helmet, put that on. It is ridiculous.


It's it's the uh what the woodchuck guidebook essentially Yeah.


But also really funny basically the woodchuck guidebook where he just knows like they're on the subway and the subway suddenly breaks off and his two friends are going, oh my gosh, we're all going to tell you, He just calmly reaches into his backpack, calls out a seatbelt and seatbelts himself to the metal poets.


Uh huh Yeah that's a that's been, we'll just say it hasn't, that was like a ductile signal like well this hasn't come up in a while, we were what we would do so I figured why not?


Like always wear your seat belt. Like I noted your back back in case this happened. Why did you think this was going to happen for logically speaking? It was a significant choice chance. So yeah, I love the duck tales bit where launchpad has his own side story that they never show throughout the entire episode and that's happened at least I think three times where like script and the kids will go to like explore the casino or something and lunch probably like, oh I gotta go talk to a friend and then he leaves and when they get back to the plane after the entire plot has happened, they see the launch pad like drenched in sweat with arrows sticking out of his backpack and like a samurai helmet on.


From? Right, it's been Uh huh the group mm That's funny.


he's like, oh yeah, I just hang I'll always remember you Angelina, Let's go, guys, what happened? No explain that. I know we're never explaining this ever.


No it's I actually remember that when I think that was someone where uh Gander was being stuck in some casino for his luck, yep.


Yeah, that good one. There was a recent one that I have to recommend because for no other reason because it had a multiple diehard references, which is just not what you think of when you think of Disney shows, but that was season three, where um where it's when Donald meets what's her name?


Also which one is that? Mhm mhm Yes yes yes yes yes yes, yep I see that you know uh but that's exactly what I'm talking about, I'm like how they wrote that like like like why is this like a Y seven thing?


Uh daisy because Huey and Louie crash apart. Oh, it's called Louise 11 or something like that. It definitely because you have the bad guy going at the beginning when he left, Donna didn't welcome to the party pal and I was like, oh was that a diehard reference that they sneak that in and then Donald jumps out at the end of the episode and attacks the Big falcon. Like hey mr falcon, okay, now they know what they're doing?


Like they could have turned this definitely into like something much more mature.


Uh huh I kind of love the fact that it is why seven? Because then you don't expect, because with the mature show you're like, oh they reference Die Hard, but if you're watching kids show you don't think they're going to like, make a reference to indiana jones or something like that.


Yeah. Car. Right?


In one of the episodes, they find the Fountain of Youth and get stopped by john d rocker duck.


You know what? Okay yeah wow.


He's like ah scrooge Mcduck. You now see there is nothing that you possess that I cannot take away.


And they're like, oh, there it is.


Oh, I love that so much.


Right. Well this is like glum goal. I mean Global was awesome in this series where he was just a foiled scrooge and the original one, which was just like whatever, like this one, he's not even Scottish, he's south african.


Yeah. Yeah.


It goes into like the whole, you just were opened and the beard just look that way.


Yeah, it's such a great show. I hope I get like 87 more seasons.


Yeah. Like when I thought they came out with a new, because it's not like they announced it all of a sudden my, my DVR started recording them again.


Yeah.


I got new season wash, like shut the knuckles, the plant right now.


Oh I I am like two episodes behind on the season right now and every time I watch an episode I have like a mini heart attack because I'm always terrified because I finished my script and I need to cut it down.


But I completed many forces from voices.


But I'm always concerned. Like every time I watch an episode they're somehow going to like have taken what not taken, but you know, come up with the same idea and I'm gonna have to scrap everything and be like, oh no, I have to redo everything now.


Oh. Mhm Oh now what? You have to do that though? If, I mean, I assume you've sent submitted, obviously you think you have to get it down, you submitted versions of it.


Hi, I don't know.


So since you're using a current series, if that can't be like, oh, obviously I was going down the right path because they Oh yeah, No, no.


Okay. Probably, I feel kind of badly doing one of my other classmates was writing for the Tv show mom and she was writing the new season opener and then the new season opener came out and went in a completely different direction. So she rewrote her whole script and I was wildly addressed.


Why didn't you just keep it that work? They just keep it that way. Let's go This be like, yeah, this is the story.


Okay, I wasn't, I was very impressed because I don't think I could have done that.


I'm going to go, I'll go this way. You can tell the series actually what projects are against.


I would have been like data that this is an alternate universes.


Yeah, that's what I mean. I would have been like, man, I'm sticking with this. I'm like, that that's nice to show it that way, but I'm not going to redo my whole semester's worth of work.


Did you see the episode of Duck tales where it was like a simultaneous parody, in homage to the old Disney afternoons? Where they were the yes.


Yes, yes. Where they were the quack pack and they were like hyper colour. They're like, why does everybody sound weird? Like, what's going on with this? And that's the problem.


Why, where's that laughing coming from?


Right? Well, why why I'm there like the walls are falling down and everything like that.


Yeah.


Who's like that if you want if you have Disney Plus and you watch like although it's horrible because they had because they have the entire series of so that KLAc pack that you know here we're doing louis you're like 14.


When most of all, yeah.


It's the worst thing ever. Like it actually just intro makes your eyes want to bleed, it's horrible. But I think we are up my friend.


Uh that this was really fun.


No, it was awesome.


I enjoyed this way.


I I enjoyed talking about, you know, it's very rarely I read in somebody who has an offended duck culture. Mm All right, take care.


That sales, Whoa. And thank you.


Good luck with.


I don't know if you've seen it, but just since the last subject of Duck tales, I promise at best, there's actually online is there's one episode that the cast of Duck Tales of the live table read in Disney at one point, so it's just them reading the script from one of the episodes, but live in front of an audience and kind of messy each other.


Right. Yeah. Actually, yeah. Yes. Right. Yeah. Really?


So that's really fun because they got David Tennant, they got uh Huey dewey and Louie, it was the one where they were doing a birthday party for scrooge and louis had like the daft punk helmet and the little car and the act.


Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. You know, you know I really I really enjoyed was the the christmas episode where they're like don't bring it up, don't say anything there.


Oh yeah, the it's really like getting hammered with the ghosts of christmas, right?


Like he's like I love christmas, he's like I just wanna be left alone. Okay, right. He's like I got the ghost girl. He's like, they just showed up one night they got the wrong house man.


Uh Yeah, I would bet money.


I have to look up who the uh the grass hopper was. A little jiminy cricket because he sounded really familiar.


He is the guy who plays fix it Felix in the record ralph movies.


Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. But yeah, that's exactly, that's exactly who he sounds like and I can't I can't remember. I remember I know he's not red hair and he just he plays like you know the bumbling redneck like friendly farmer type character and things.


Mhm. Yeah, I usually just call whenever I hear, as long as I'm like, oh it's effective Felix, he doesn't have another name, that's the same now and then they made, they made record ralph to instead of Sugar rush mistakes were made, so oh, thank you, She's so good.


But yes, that's what I would, that's exactly who it is. You nailed it when I was your fault 60 feeling. I don't, I downloaded that stupid game on the fix It Felix and I was like, I'm like how did they not make sugar rock chat into a video game it all. Yeah. Yes. Right. I'm like with the internet and cat me, and so I'm like, what is I'm gonna have such a deep thing going here with Sugar Rush and King handy and all this stuff. I mean uh and then then with the like, there's so many card games out there, like really, you couldn't have thrown like vanilla people on sweets out there in the hard thing where I I want to play the money game where I make my own car and bake it like, come on.


I Oh man, that movie hurt to watch, I love Disney. I worked at Disney and that movie hurts me, I cannot rewatch it.


Yeah. I I love the first one. The second one, it was just like, I'm like, it's an advertisement for Ebay, right?


Basic. That was actually, that was the one funny part. They did end up paying like $15,000.


Yeah. $50,000 for the wheel. But it's just like, I'm like, it was such a thing like, because I remember going to do, because we go to Disney, like, probably like every 18 months florida.


Mhm. Yeah. Oh cool. What this name, florida or uh Oh cool.


Yeah. And uh we we've done the cruises and everything like that and like I had to hunt wreck it ralph down and they buried him in like some corner of Hollywood studios. So I was like, I'm like, I'm like, I went to like his movie just came out. How can they not like have him being around? And then I went to I wanted to buy the figures of all the races.


Mhm.


Yeah, like $150 each. It's like insanely expensive. I don't know where they released them, but like if you go on amazon to try to like buy them or anything like that, like, or Ebay, you're looking at like minimum like $90.


Mhm dang! The one thing I found cool on Ebay is because I'm a massive Utopia fan, that's my favorite Disney movie.


The court democracy. Mhm.


But now, because if I want them to make a sequel so badly, but if they make it like wreck it ralph two, I don't want them to make us equal. But yeah, you think so?


I mean, it's easy enough to do. I mean she's a bunny cop, you just have some terror come into the Oh, Christie.


But now they made record ralph to instead with ralph doing a smr and screaming goat videos.


No.


I mm midlife crisis.


Right. I I'm like, what is going on here? And then there's like this random racing thing going on where like Penelope has some sort of like exactly have some mid video game crisis of like what do I really want to do? And I'm like, oh okay, we're on right.


Your whole previous thing was how you wanted to be a racer sugar rush.


You had you had your midlife crisis that you are a princess and you wanted to be a racer, not that.


That was your heart and the Disney princesses were so over advertised for how much they were in the movie.


And so you through that side now you don't get to go through the whole thing and say you want to be like, you know, some like twisted metal black racer instead of being like a Mario kart one this much from offer. Uh Well they always do that though with the here we're gonna make a big thing out of it now, It's like a six second spot and that's it.


Yeah, I thought it was going to be like a significant portion of the movie. It was funny, I would have watched that, I would have preferred that.


Yeah. Yeah. Oh, and because I remember being like, oh, I get to see them like, you know, visually like, you know here you've got like Snow White brought up to speed with like everybody know it was just like go off someone.


Yeah, but it was disappointing.


I'm like, like, really, wow.


But on Ebay you can find for sale people who worked on the movie record ralph.


Yeah. Uh huh.


Uh Disney gave them crew member exclusive t shirts.


All right.


And so occasionally people actually sell record ralph t shirts that aren't like, you know, store ones, but there's a super limited edition that have that have unique designs on them.


Really?


And occasionally there even technically copyright infringement because Disney wouldn't sell them. They were just for Yeah, the one I've been looking for for years ever since I learned existed was for frozen and it was for the effects crew.


Right. Just manufacturing to give them away to the crew for yeah. What? No, That would be awesome.


And on the back it has Olaf in an on an iron throne made of icicles and I know and it says underneath winter is rendering can't find anywhere.


You're gonna pay out your nose for that. What? That's awesome. Uh huh That ever comes up.


But yeah, who?


It's gonna it's that'll cost I couldn't see that going for less than like the teams of thousands. Probably like you with your hand.


I've gotten one Zootopia one and then I bid on another and got outbid. But uh huh surprisingly not all the crews shirts go for that much.


Okay. It's not really what?


Like I got one for my friend who loves marijuana for like 20 bucks. And it was an original uh this crew one that you can't get anywhere else. So it all depends on, you know how many people are looking.


Mm mhm wow.


But if if you're a wreck it ralph fan prolific going Ding, Ding. If you're a big record ralph fan, that's something look at work is. It's such a cool, unique gift that I found for, you know?


Nobody do. Just type in cruz shirt. Yeah.


Uh Yeah, actually wreck it Ralph Crew uh is probably wreck it ralph cast.


Restaurant. Okay. Okay. I'll do that because that's you know that Because I love record ralph. I love I love that whole I mean the first one second.


You don't speak of the second one.


Yeah. I was just like, oh like that that you know what that was that was the direct to video record route.


Yes, there are Children.


Like why did you release that in the theater? Said you really, you didn't have something? You're gonna thrown in coffee.


Right? That was a covid movie. That was one were like, oh yeah, there have been direct to video Disney movies that were better than that one.


Right. Right. Exactly. That was a throw that I'm like give that as the bonus on Disney plus instead of charging 29 99 for it and let's make everybody happy. The second Aladdin was better than that one.


Thank you. I was literally going to say King of Thebes better and more dramatic and a better character.


Yeah. Yeah Return of Jafar much better than wreck it ralph to.


Oh then we heard the what?


It was like it doesn't even have anything to do with anything. This is like when they started their like oh look wifi it is. I'm like what the fuck his wife, I have to do with an arcade.


I hope why, I hope the arcade doesn't use Wifi because that kind of isn't how arcades work.


Don't bye. No not right. Exactly. I'm like no I'm like are they gambling now? I mean I don't get it.


Yeah.


There's no reason for you know, you you go somewhere. If they if they have eight racers, you have eight machines lined up right next to each other.


12 3 ralph and Penelope.


Go to a casino and caused tens of thousands in credit card debt.


Know what?


I would watch that.


Right.


Let me wreck it ralph.


No, No. That would be funny. But all right, I'll let you go, let's get you to buy.


Thank you. Great night. Thanks for being you. Uh


Oh, you might, yeah, Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Uh huh, mm. Uh huh. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. No. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Okay, mm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Mhm. Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. Yeah, I it is.


All right. Mhm. My audio on?


Can you hear me?


Yes, loud and clear.


Well, I I can I can't see like the bottom half of your face, They're perfect.


Yeah. Better awesome.


Yeah. Mm hmm, wow.


So I was just reading over the the instructions of what we need to do and it says we need to talk for 25 minutes. So I have a timer here, but I don't know what we're supposed to talk about.


Yeah. Okay, cool. I think that they're just trying to see what natural conversations look like. So um what's your name?


Okay, my name is Tracy. What about nerds?


I'm Rose. I'm Rose, nice to meet you.


Hi Rose awesome to meet you as well. So I guess like basic questions are, where are you located?


I meant I'm in Seattle Washington, where you at?


What state? Okay, I'm in Atlanta Georgia.


Okay. I have friends that are from Atlanta. I've never been there though.


So I actually just moved here recently um from Raleigh north Carolina.


Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.


I don't know if you've heard of it, but um I moved here maybe about nine months ago, so I kind of was able to get out a little bit before all the craziness started, but I haven't really got to explore a lot of Atlanta. So looking forward to things going back to normal, I guess you could say so I can see, you know, I want to go to the aquarium. There is a lot of things that I want to do here.


Um I've heard that's kind of a cool city. Um I've heard differently about the state in general, but I've heard the atlantic could be a cool place to visit paul.


Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. Atlanta is like a little island in its, in its own, it's not anything like the rest of Georgia.


Yeah.


Like I've seen some other places like savannah is really nice. It's just a different vibe though. Um Yeah, it's very different. I don't know how Atlanta got to be the way that it is, what it is.


Very interesting.


It is, it's fascinating when, where there's money, there tends to be more diversity and more opportunity and more liberal thinking.


Mhm. Yeah.


But cool.


It is very much so more that might be what it is. It might be a little more liberal and progressive than a lot of the rest of the state. Especially coming from Raleigh, which they're like trying to get progressive in eyes. It seems like Atlanta is like light years ahead of ahead of the game. Tell me stuff about Seattle.


That's good to hear. Yeah.


I have never been, I don't know anybody from there, California but not Seattle.


Um You said you've never been to the west Coast. Um Yeah. Um Well I mean it's hard to say because I haven't spent any time like where you're at but I'm very biased towards thinking the west coast is the best.


Yeah. Mhm. Rest is the Vatican.


Yeah, I mean it's just so beautiful here we have such a concentration of like tree canopy um and there's just so many like rivers and streams and the mountains and it's just a really beautiful place.


Yeah. Oh. Mhm.


Um.


I need to make my way out there. I see some art in the background that sounds exactly like what you're mentioning.


Oh. Oh yeah yeah no that was a that was a buy on Ebay.


Mhm. That made me think exactly like okay did you paint that or something? It looks really nice in it. Whatever you whatever you're just describing, what I'm looking at that and I'm thinking maybe this is what Seattle looks like.


Uh It's pretty gorgeous. Um There's mount right near, it's one of the tallest mountains and the lower continental 48. It's just kind of crazy like looking out of out of it this huge peak out of nowhere and then there's the olympics and then the cascades and there's lots of hikes and the air quality isn't great in Seattle because you know it's an urban but it's a lot better than it is in a lot of other cities.


Uh huh mm.


Yeah.


Uh Now that I haven't heard of it's like an echo, can you hear that?


Uh huh. Mhm. Oh um It might be it maybe it's the motor of my computer. Is that what you're hearing?


I thought I heard like myself, maybe it's just me but um well it's okay I think there's no way for me to like I can't meet myself because you have to hear me talk and now it's gone.


Okay. Yeah. Yes I'm sorry.


Okay so speaking of hiking so do you do you hike often there?


Okay good. Uh Yeah we try to um I really like backpacking. Um No but I'm getting older so it's like I'm kind of getting to that point in my life where if I don't start doing it more it's gonna be too late.


Mhm.


So we have this little bit of a sense of urgency to get back into it more but it's not easy.


Or what? Yeah no um actually the day before yesterday I went to, I don't know if you have ever heard of it, It's called Stone Mountain and it is just like a huge, it's kind of smooth too I guess they like resurfaced it, it's a huge mountain I guess some battles were fought there but I went hiking there the other day and I haven't been I haven't done any climbing or hiking in maybe two years. I did a lot more in north Carolina because we have all those great places to hike there.


So I thought I would be ready. I like stretched, I have my water, I had snacks maybe like halfway through. I was like this and he's kicking my butt. I was like I have to get out here more often I guess. Like it's different than working out because I do I feel like I work out pretty often, but it's different than working out because you're like climbing up upwards instead of just like using your body to do like lift weights.


Right.


And so I realized halfway through that I did not have on the right shoes because I don't, when I moved here I just got rid of a lot of stuff. I was like I need some like legit hiking shoes, I need some better socks. I was like this is not good. I was not, I thought I was set up, but I was not.


Uh It's hard on your name is.


We did make it to the top though and took a nice rest and eight and then on the way down and I was like okay, this should be a little bit easier and it was easier, like cardio wise, but you know coming down how your legs, you start feeling it on your knees and your quads.


So I think I'm going to try and go again next week and try and like make it a habit of going like two or three times a month.


Yeah wow, that's good.


So I think that would be interesting to check out when I do make it over there to Washington.


Yeah. Yeah you would love it, but I know what I know what you're saying though.


That sounds awesome.


It's it's when your body does anything that's a little bit different.


Different.


It's just like, oh like if I were to swim right now, it just would not be good.


Yeah. Oh yeah, mm.


Not that I've ever been a good swimmer, but just it's something that it's so hard for me to do because I didn't do it younger and so like when I get in a pool now, it's like I just struggle.


Really? Okay mm.


Um but like any kind of different activity, I just, I don't know if I'm not used to it.


Business chair. Uh huh.


It's just there's this curve to where it takes a while for me to get used to it.


Yeah. So maybe if you, did you get in a couple of times a few times a month or something, if it's something that you would be interested in doing the hiking, I'm gonna have to get back into it because I was like whoa it has been a couple of years so that maybe why it was so hard.


Yeah. Yeah. So why'd you move to Atlanta?


I actually got married, you know, thank you, it's going really good.


Congratulations, how's that going?


Really good. It was it was her idea to go. So I was like okay, I didn't want to get up that early to go that day, but I was like, okay, I need to do this, I need to do something different than just working out and it was great. But yeah, that's why I moved here, thanks.


Congratulations. That's awesome. Um Yeah, marriage, I have been married how long?


Mhm, wow.


11 years, but we've been together over 20. And let me tell you, it's a lot of work.


Mhm. We're not even a full year in.


Yeah, a lot of work.


Yeah, it is, it is a lot of work, but I mean if you if you want to do it, which is, that's where we're at, like we want to do this, so it's been good so far, but we're still compared to you also.


Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I think as well. Well yeah just as long as you never never give up and keep working really hard every single day.


Mhm. Yes, especially like if you're very different and like to do different things or, you know, maybe you're not used to living with someone all the time that's been that's been the newest adjustment is like waking up someone's there going to bed, someone's been here.


Uh huh. Right. Yes, wow, it's really fresh.


Yeah, Very But yeah.


So your wife already lived in Atlanta and so you moved from north Carolina so you must really love her to move?


Mhm, yep. Oh yeah. Yeah.


Uh huh.


And I wasn't, I wasn't really for quite some time to, I was there for like maybe eight years, about eight years. So I think it was, I had kind of outgrown it. It was, it was a good move though. It was a good decision. I do like it here. It's just like I said when I, when I got here, that's when things started like shutting down.


Yeah.


Right. Yeah.


So now you're really getting to know each other because you're both stuck in the house together.


Right. Right. And it's funny that you said that because um I'll keep getting these surveys asking about, you know what it's like being in quarantine with your partner and all this stuff and I'm like for the most part it's going really great, but they'll ask some really interesting questions like have you ever wanted to like, have you ever wanted to commit like a crime against your partner?


Oh yeah. Yeah. Right. And make you think, Whoa, I haven't seen that one.


And I'm like, whoa, yeah, some of them get them. It's all on prolific.


So is that is um prolific has been kind of a new thing to me since the I just kind of got on since the virus started, my sister does it for passive income and I was like oh my god I have to do something.


It's all there. Oh, okay. Isil. Yeah.


Do you? So is this what you doing anything else to make money?


Mhm Yeah.


Like are you both unemployed right now? Like what's your situation? Oh yeah.


So we have two small businesses. Um one of them is based around plant based eating and smoothies and we just deliver around the local Atlanta area and the other one is plant based like body butters and we sell sage and Paula santo and incense and things like that. So that's why that's what we are working on together. But of course, like, you know, times are crazy. So I had to find something. I had actually signed up for prolific maybe two years ago. Um I was on a, yeah, I don't know if you're on reddit.


Mhm. Yeah.


Okay. So I was on reddit in a subreddit called Beer money for years, like maybe six years. It's just one beer money has nothing to do with alcohol.


It's cool. Their money Okay.


It's just away ways to make extra money.


Side hustle.


Yeah.


Cool.


And I had been on there for years and someone posted on there about prolific. Excuse me. And I didn't really understand the concept. They were like, it's a platform where people come in and have studies and you do the studies. And I'm like, that doesn't sound like surveys like what I'm used to, I used to do all the little survey sites before, but what I find that's different about prolific this time around because I signed up a few years ago and didn't do anything with it because I didn't really understand how to do it and then I got back on it maybe six months ago, right around when um actually lost my job and then things started going like a little haywire and so I was like, maybe I should really pay attention is prolific thing and see what's happening because people keep posting their earnings and beer money. So that's why I came back to it and I've had really good, really, really good experience with it so far. Um What was different from the first time is that they have a way, there was like a little orientation when you first sign up.


I don't know if you saw that. It showed you like how to fill out your about, about you section, how the studies work, all that.


Mhm.


So I thought for some reason everybody could see that, but maybe it depends on when you signed up.


Uh huh. I'll look into that maybe three months.


Yeah. So how long have you been on if you don't mind me asking?


Three or four months.


Okay.


When we make sure that you filled out the about you section, Okay.


Yes. Yeah.


And sometimes they ask you to update it because they'll have a couple of new questions and then I'll notice I'll get a bunch of influx of surveys when I do it that way.


But I have found that I've made on average 50 to 75 a month extra.


Oh nice.


Mm hmm. Yeah, it's been going pretty well.


Hello. Outside. It's something.


Mhm. And you know, check out that beer money.


Okay. I will.


I've read it.


Well yeah.


And also, I don't know if you're just looking for extra stuff, but also work work online that subreddit, sometimes they have good stuff as well.


Okay cool. So do you have other things that you do that you like to make extra income?


Yeah, Outside of like surveys and studies. Not right now, I've actually been looking to see what else I could do.


Yeah.


Um There are some things that I used to do, we're like kind of like um merchandising for stores and there's a whip.


Right.


There's an app called survey merchandiser. If you just go through like your, I don't know if you have an android or iphone, but so I think it would be in the Apple store, it's called serve a merchandiser.


Okay. Hi Tony. Yeah.


And um they have like these little jobs that you can do and they add up. So what I'll do is turn it into a route.


Mhm.


So the other day I did them for um a like a pancake, this pancake company, they needed stickers coupons put on their boxes that are on the shelf.


Oh yeah.


And I just, they mailed me the stickers for free. Just take the stickers to the store. I went as early as possible where it's going to be quiet and a lot of people.


And then they asked me to take a picture of what the shelf looks like beforehand and then put the stickers on, take a picture of after, make sure it looks nice because they're basically like a third party worker for that particular product, that company. And so um I did like maybe five of those and they paid eight each, so that was 40 books.


And then took me not even six days to get paid out for it. Now those do require you to go to the store, so I don't know how comfortable you feel with being outside of the house are going to a store, but right now I'm just like whatever little things that I can do, but I have a lot of things that I used to do in Raleigh that I'm like trying to fill them out with Covid right now um to try and make extra money outside of the house as well as inside.


Cool. Okay. Yeah.


But do you have questions like I could give you a whole list? We still have like nine minutes.


Yeah. I mean if you don't mind me taking notes while you're talking.


Not at all.


Okay.


Um Okay so make sure that you go to the beer money. So I read it like I said because they list out a whole bunch of stuff, the very first thing that you want to look at is um who paid? It's like it should be a pinned at the top of that separate. It will be like who paid me for the month.


And so that's where I really started to kinda try to get strategic with how I was making the money because if other people are getting paid out of it that you know it's legit, right?


Yeah. Right.


So I started their prolific is something I do every single day. That's one thing. Let me get my little list out. I was also thinking maybe we don't know each other. But what do you think if I like came up with a site? I've seen these all the time but like a site that has all this stuff listed out and then show people how to use these different ways to make money. Is that something that would be interesting or you would like go and check every day or something or once a week?


Yeah. I mean I think so. I'm definitely I mean my life is changing so much right now that it's like I'm trying to just really learn about passive income in general.


so yeah, I definitely think I would check out on site like that.


Yeah. Okay.


Uh huh.


So prolific. For sure. Like has been bringing me in, like I said 50 to 75. So then there are these other sites that are there not surveys, but you have to fill out qualifying surveys to get into the studies. Have you done any of the, any of those?


No, I haven't.


Okay. So one is called respondent, R E. S P O N. D E N. T.


And so on there.


Mhm.


Um you just fill out surveys about yourself if you want to do a video chat like this and they pay way better. I just got paid for one last week for 100 and $15 for two hours.


Damn, that's good.


Mm hmm. And that one, it was, if you think about the math to do it, it's like maybe I took an hour to fill out like 50 qualifiers and then I got like two studies that paid me $300 to me. That's worth it.


Yeah.


So it's, it's not a survey site, it's a site um for studies and then another one that's like that is called user interviews. That one it depends.


So how how much how much are you bringing in a month doing all all of this combined? Oh wow girl.


I'm tracking right now. So before I lost my job I was still doing little stuff on the side. I was making 300 because I have I'm a google sheets. I used to be into excel a lot and I'm a google sheets freak. So I started like 300 in december of nine last year. Now I have moved into 780 for may.


Good for you.


Thank you. Thank you. I mean anybody can do it. This is not like, you know it's like surveys and studies.


It's not how it's not testing your intelligence or anything like that.


Right. There's no right or wrong way to do it.


No it's just a matter of having the patience and the time to put into this stuff.


I'm trying to get to 1000 a month.


Almost there. Um I think I need to just be charting out more of these qualifiers. So yes the next one was user interviews.


Okay.


Oh that one is very much like respondent, you just pick which everyone you might be interested in signing up for and go from there.


Mhm valid date.


And then let me see there is another one that's really good called validate lee it's validate. L. Y.


That one they send you emails. There's no like platform to log into. Um You just well you sign up for it and then you'll get emails and they'll say you have to do the qualifier thing and then when you go from there, let me see.


Oh so how many hours do you put in a day doing this?


I actually, I've set a goal of $50 a month from them. I have not hit 50. Actually I have, I did. Um, so for three months in a row, $50 that I have not tracked that I haven't tracked.


Yeah.


I really, I would like to um right now I just like whatever I have to do, I do it by the number goal.


Right.


Like by the end of the day I need to have made a certain amount.


You know what I mean?


Yeah, user testing.


But I do need to start tracking the hours. That would probably be helpful. Also another good one. It's called user testing. Mm hmm. That one is a little different. That one is like how, how you interact with different sites. People just want people that make the sites like product managers and ux people, they want to know how you interact with the site and you have to talk and we'll do that.


It's not always on video, it's usually just like they just want to hear your voice and you'll just go through the website and they do like a little training so that you can get a feel for it because sometimes it's weird like you're just talking out loud but they want to hear how you're walking through the website.


You'll see when you go into the the subreddit people are making fairly good money with those top ones and then you know as you get more familiar on your downtime you just look and see what other people are making money on. But I've figure like that's the easy way to figure out how people are making extra money.


Yeah. So it was beer money and then there was another Reddit site that you mentioned. What was the other one?


Um That one was work online.


I'll work online. Okay.


Yeah, that one is more like consistent money or like if you want to do customer service like there's a lot of companies that will send you headset train you and then you'll have like an actual schedule.


No.


But yeah, that is what I have.


Cool.


I'm happy that I could share something with someone.


Yeah. Thank you.


You're so welcome, we do.


Um um we still have a few minutes. Uh Mhm.


That's all that I have for right now for that. Um But yeah, so are you working or you're not working right now?


No my husband and I both work in restaurants, so nobody is working in restaurants right now.


Okay. Yeah, that's rough. Yeah.


Yeah, but it's I mean we both are high risk, like I have asthma and he has lung are sorry liver disease, so we're just kind of like not feeling like we want to go back to work until there's a vaccine.


Oh yeah. Okay. Mhm.


I'm just trying to find a way to bring in some income to kind of stabilize us until we have more options.


Yeah, for sure. Well these might change the game because they're helping me out.


Yeah.


I mean I went from two I think I did like 2 98 in december and now I'm at 700 something.


Mhm.


I'm not on the computer all day. And the good thing about those ones I was telling you about with the qualifiers, you you know you sit there for maybe a couple hours during the day filling out your qualifiers and then you'll have stuff set up you know maybe for different weeks during the month and so then you can schedule your life around that stuff.


Mhm. Nice.


So there is some some way that you can schedule in free time.


Yes it's there will be like what availability do you have in the month of july or for next week?


Yes.


So it's not I mean it's up to you how you want to schedule it but that's been working out for me but it has been rough it's been a little rough but just keep pushing what kind of restaurant where you working at?


You know? Yeah.


I like to eat. We have one minute and I'm just like thinking about dinner right now.


Oh do I? I don't know seriously, that's always like, it's always like what's for lunch in, what's for dinner?


It's it's almost six here.


Um Yeah, I worked for Tom Douglas, he's an iron chef. He but he owns a lot of restaurants in the area and it was a restaurant called serious pie, but it just specialized in like really nice smaller pizzas.


Yeah. Nice. Oh that sounds so good.


Mhm. It was so good. Um If you like to cook, I know a really great pizza crust recipe, you want to write it, Not write down the recipe, but I can tell you what the website is.


Oh okay okay well it's fine yep.


Um Harold. I gotta find it really quick though. I'm so sorry. Um Let's say mm But yeah this pizza crust is incredible. It's a must must make, it's going to take me a few minutes to find it because yeah.


Uh huh It's okay. I don't mind going over a couple of minutes for a good pizza crust because I've just been you probably don't have it on the west coast but we just get our pizza crust at publix.


Oh no we don't have that.


Yeah.


It's pretty good though.


So good. And just make like a garlic butter sauce and put it on there.


Yeah. Yeah.


Mhm.


So it's um if you just type in uh it's javelina but it's G. J. E. L. I. N. A. Pizza dough. And the recipe yeah, GJ Area and then it's it's on forward dot com.


D. J. E. L. I. N. A. Okay, I'm excited.


But I'm telling you this pizza dough recipe is worth your time. I didn't think pizza dough could be this good out of the house. So yeah.


We cook all of our meals here all day, every day is tiring but it's worth it.


Wait, your business is sound really cool by the way blended soul smoothie bar dot com because I have a few friends in Atlanta.


You can check us out, we're trying to figure out how to ship stuff like we're doing everything locally right now but we love to find a way to be able to ship smoothies, but you can check this out at blended soul smoothie bar dot com. Mhm.


So cool.


Oh cool. Yeah. Plant based vegan and we will deliver delivered to some dental offices and usually office is really like to get stuff like that here.


Well I'm gonna let my friends in Atlanta know about you.


Uh huh. Thank you. And we're on instagram so just let them know.


Okay?


Thank you so much.


Yeah. So cool talking to you. I can't tell you how relieved I was to see another woman on the computer screen.


Yes.


I was like, oh my God, it's going to be some dude from like the east Coast or something.


Yeah. Being weird. No we don't have time for that.


No, I know right?


I'm so glad. It was really good talking with you too. And just some human interaction. Yeah.


What a treat. What a treat.


Well thank you so much.


Yeah, I think, I think we click over to the other tab and then push the red button.


I hope you have a good evening. And I don't I don't think there's anything else we need to do except I don't know if we're supposed to close this or.


I'm not sure what to do. Are we closing when we're done with the conversation?


Okay.


Is that what happens?


I see. Do not move on to the next page until you've opened the conversation in a new tab. You will not be able to go back to this page and you will not be able to begin your conversation. Okay. You should see a timer timer starts remember keep the conversation for at least 25 minutes. Which we have done.


Yeah.


I don't know what happens when we click the button.


Um Well, I think that if you go, if you push the bottom red but bottom red button on the right, then it will take us to a survey that we fill out.


Mhm. Right okay.


But I think we can close this now, right? Because the conversation has ended.


Yes.


All right.


It was nice talking with you virus


You to take care of I.


mm. All right. Mhm. Hello?


Hi, Yes, I'm all right, how are you doing?


How are you? Right, I'm good. Where where do you live?


Um I live in Arkansas.


Okay. I live in Connecticut. Have you done this before?


Yeah, a few times.


Yeah, me too. How's your experience been?


Um I mean the first time was like kind of slow, but the other two times were pretty good.


Yeah.


You haven't been like matched with anyone. I don't know who doesn't talk. That's like my fear.


Yeah, that would be, yeah, luckily the other people, they've been like pretty talkative, some kind of awkward, so I'm like trying to make it work, but sometimes it's like okay, yeah, this is um Well, I mean it's kind of getting better.


Yeah. That's good. Oh my it's hard with just a random person. So um how is everything going there with Covid and whatnot?


Things are opening up and like my university, like we had like 900 active cases for like like sometime in september and now it's way down so it's going good secure.


Well, that's good. Yeah, I heard that like it was kind of going back up now. I don't know if that's just like in my area. Um but I don't know.


Yes.


I thought it was getting better, but I really know anymore.


Honestly like yeah, I agree.


Mm Yeah, I don't know, it's hard to keep track. Mhm.


So you're in school?


Yeah, I'm majoring in theater performance.


What are you going to school for? Oh, that's cool. Are you almost done or do you have like a ways to go?


Yeah, I'm I'm a freshman so I'm still, Yeah, I mhm.


Okay. You're just so that must be hard to start school like this because it's it's just online. Right. Are you at campus?


Um Yeah, like most of my classes are online, but I have two classes that candy in person, but they haven't met in person for a while just because people were sick and then it just got kept on getting pushed back and we don't we're not supposed to meet every class anyway for that class.


Okay. Oh mm mm. Do you live on campus or do you like live well steal of like the parents are Oh, okay.


Uh huh. Yeah, I live at home. It's like a 30 minute drive there and it's cheaper.


Oh yeah, I bet are you going to live there like before all this happened or?


Okay coming through. Um No, I mean I wasn't really sure I was gonna go before so I didn't really like have a plan.


Mhm Uh huh I don't know.


Like I thought I was going to be in a dorm but I ended up being here. I kind of like I'm kind of glad I ended up staying at least for this year just because everything is so weird.


Yeah, and that definitely saves a lot of money.


Yeah.


I feel like remember board, it's so expensive so that's pretty hard.


All right. Yeah, switch.


Um um So I'm in school too, I'm doing it online, I'm doing my masters right now.


Why do you do? Mhm.


Um and I went to school to be a dietitian, so I've been setting for my board exam.


Yeah. Covid just kind of slowed the process down because I couldn't even sign up for the test for a really long time. And like then when I could sign up, it was really hard because you can only have so many people there at a time and but I don't know, I'm just trying to like study and keep doing my work.


Yeah. Yeah.


It's just hard. It's like hard at home because I can't really go to a coffee shop and like sit down somewhere and it's hard to do work like in my room.


I don't know if you feel the same way, but it's just hard for me to do that. I get distracted easily, so Right.


Yeah. I'm not going anywhere. You can take the car, you can take the car, they're taking the car. Uh huh.


But yeah, I don't know.


Just trying not to lose my mind being at home so much I guess.


Mhm.


All right.


Did you go out a lot before everything was?


Yeah. Like I was never a super going out person anyway, but I did like to even just go like get coffee and sit there and like just get out of my house.


Mhm. Mhm Uh huh.


But I didn't go out out a lot. Um So I mean I don't like not like being home, but I don't know, it's just weird because some people are really strict about the virus and some aren't and like I don't know where I fall into that because I don't know, I'm just trying to go by the rules but some people are I don't know crazy about it and some are into like I don't know.


Yeah. Yeah, I'm the same.


Uh huh. Uh huh. Have you gotten a test or anything for it?


I haven't I haven't had to get a test or anything, so I've been lucky.


Yeah, neither. Um Yeah it does especially for like older people.


It sounds awful.


Um I don't know it's weird, it's like hard to believe it's happening and like you don't have it so it's like I know what's happening but it's I don't know like it's just it's weird that this will happen.


Yeah.


I kind of can't believe it. This year has been horrible.


Remember like, like back in january, we were talking about it when it was like still mostly in china and we're like joking about it. Like now I look back and I'm like that aged like milk.


No.


I didn't go, I didn't go well.


Oh my god. I know I didn't think it was a big deal at all and then once started like things started closing, I was like oh shit.


Yeah. Yes.


Uh It's just weird like how it all started from one person, you know what I mean?


Yeah. Where? But Mhm.


Like it's just weird. I don't know and I I feel like it's gonna be hard to get rid of so I don't know.


Yeah. Yeah.


And then like I don't know with the whole stimulus thing like I didn't even get that.


Yes.


I don't know about you. But I don't know. The government just sucks. So yeah.


Right.


I don't know.


And I feel bad for businesses closing to, that sucks.


Yeah. Mhm.


Uh huh.


It's yeah, I just want things to go back to normal because like before this like senior year I was like super, super active. Like I went out as much as I could and like, you know, did all the things with my friends and like, you know, no, I can't do that.


Mhm. Yeah.


It's like uh Mhm.


No like sometimes I will go out to a restaurant but it's just not the same. And then I feel like I don't know sometimes I feel like should I be doing this I'm just being selfish or something but like other people are doing it. I don't know. It's like it is it is really annoying because like me and my friends like we see each other but definitely not as much and it's just like can't really do anything so um I don't know, it's weird.


Yeah.


Um So for the other people you've talked to, has it been like mainly like girls or is it kind of okay?


Oh yeah, it's all been like women, but most of them have been like like two of them were at least like their forties or fifties and one of them she was like in her thirties so Yeah. Mhm.


Might have been mostly women actually like close to like my age. Um And there was one guy Um and he was like older, I think he was like 50 or 60. Um I did like match with a girl last time who said she like got matched with a 19 year old boy who didn't talk and I'm like that is your life, like I was just like, oh my God, that must have been so annoying, but it has mostly been girls for me too.


Mhm. Yeah, I remember, I mean this isn't like on here, but like I remember once I was in like 10th grade and I went with my friend to like this like this church dance thing and you know um like he was the only person I knew there and like this guy came up to me like asked me if I want to dance is like uh like you know, I can't say no whatever like okay And he didn't talk the whole time and like I tried talking to him and he was silent and it was the most awkward like 10 minutes of my life, I was like okay just Yeah.


Yeah. Mhm. Mhm. Even my fear of life, like, like dating to not like I date anyways, but like just sitting there and having someone that doesn't talk because like I can't really keep a conversation for very long so I need help. Um That's awkward.


I'm sorry that happened especially when you're doing something like I don't know, I can I can picture that being horrible.


Uh huh. Yeah.


Mhm.


Um So what's there to do in Arkansas?


Um Mostly like outdoor things, you know, there's a lot of trails, a lot of hiking, got some nice mountains and for the natural state, so it's kind of our thing.


Mhm. All right.


Um There's also there's also crystal bridges if you like art and they have really good collections um right now it's cooling down.


Oh that's cool. Is it like warm there now? Okay.


But yeah, it's usually nice weather.


It's cool. Good. Yeah, I've never been there. I've never really been over like that way, so that's cool. It's getting cold here.


Kind of not today, but like it was like in the low 60s like last week. So yeah, I I like cold weather so.


Mhm. Yeah, I prefer it to hot weather, especially for like makeup sores.


Yeah. Yeah. Two. Uh huh. Oh my god, me and my friend talked about that like I don't know because you're like some people they don't worry about that stuff and they don't care, but like I'm like, I'm very conscious of that.


Yeah. Yeah.