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So Uh, I live in the country and there are bugs sometimes, like in the Massachusetts at our place, I saw a bunch of little mini ants together that they just then you then you walk in. There's such pussies too, like they know they're just you walk in and they all scurry. They're all over, like they're crawling over and they all leave and then you can't really even get to them. And they're small. But uh in my house, Uh, in Connecticut they're larger ants, so like substantial ants. And I don't know why we get larger ants here in in this part of New England than Massachusetts. But anytime I kill a bug, I do think of it? Do you think about it when you kill a bug? Like do you feel ethically wrong? Like you're murdering? I mean, it's another it's a it's a it doesn't matter if it's a road shook caterpillar. Uh, you know, I'm not I think. Is it an entomologist or an etymologist? One is words, one is bugs. But whatever it is, I don't know the difference. And they all have do they have hearts? That the bugs have hearts? Do they feel because I feel guilty? And sometimes you want to take them and put them outside, but there's a little ant crawling. You know, they're multiple ants, which I now had the exterminator come. But he's a murderer too. So not only am I not like just killing a couple that I see, now, I'm calling someone over to assassinate all the ones that aren't even bothering me. It's just feels like, you know, it's like a genocide. It's not I feel guilty about because we're into bug season now, and I feel guilty about, uh, just deciding that I decided. But then where we draw on the line, what about mice and rats? Like I definitely have murdered some some mice in my life. I absolutely have murdered mice. I'm a mice murder And I've also contracted other people to come and like murder more mice, like mice where I might never see them, just to make sure they're not near. And you know, it's just not fair. They don't know. How do they not know? Don't their friends tell them, like get the you know, just be in a place where it's not they want to be warm. I don't know they've got a fine place. I mean, do they need to be in you know, a really nice house. Can't they go find like some warehouse. But I guess they they're gonna get exterminators too. I just feel I just feel a sense of of I feel a sense of remorse and guilt about Yeah. So now I guess I don't feel so guilty killing an animal myself, because I mean killing them above myself, because when you call the exterminator, they're murdering many at least I'm talking people go hunt. They say, if you're gonna eat meat, you should kill it yourself because it was to see what it's like. So it's sort of like, if I'm gonna go higher an exterminator, I should kill a bug on my own to see how bad I feel, which is bad. I got it. I've done this before, so if you've been listening since the beginning, you've heard this. It's going to be different. But I've got to discuss it again because it keeps getting more insane. The unsubscribe fucking mafia that you need to go through and the people you need to kill to unsubscribe is insane. Okay, So I've been doing these beauty videos on TikTok where I'll just you know, review products, and you know the idiot guide to what I think. And I've been ordering a lot, so I've never once checked a box that says, if I fucking buy a lip gloss from you in you know, fucking Malaysia, that now for the rest of my life, I'm in your mafia. And fine, like so so then and you just get lazy like they started to win. I bought so many beauty products. I probably spent like ten tho dollars on beauty products. It's a separate day from my anxiety about all this stuff. But I have so many beauty products. But I've been giving them away and I sent some to my us in the Hampton's, and I gave them to my housekeeper, and I give to my assistant, and then I give some put some in a gift closet if I don't open them, and it's a whole thing Mother's Day and you know here you get it. You get a mascara and you get am ascara. So whatever, I can handle the amount of stuff I have with the glam and it's hard. I'm not having an easy time with it because I don't like stuff. I get rid of everything. What I can handle is now every day I'm missing major emails, like something might happen about my book, businesses, personal, irrelevant, you know TV show. I just signed on to do the contract. Can't see it. But fucking beauty Lish and beauty Pie and Flip and Charlotte Tillbury and Patrick ta and but then you order it. Okay, we ordered it. You get an order, You got an order confirmation with a hashtag thank you. I need that in case I want to track it. I want to return it. Did I order it? I want to go back? Great? Do you get the order? The email comes in with the order. Here's your order, This is what you ordered, thank you. Here's your order confirmation, thank you. Here's the shipping confirmation. Thank you. Now we want how's it going? Guess what else we have? Thank you? Oh, let's review the problem you wanted to review the fuck you you're stalker. I don't need five fucking emails by nine am from one beauty place about all my hopes and dreams, my feelings, Jesus fucking Christ. And then then I try to unsubscribe. Okay, I didn't subscribe. This is some scam. Okay, Charlotte Tillbury, Patrick tas So for so far is not as horrifying, and they are ALTI ALTA CBS isn't up my ass as much. But like that I didn't subscribe. This isn't a way to get someone to want to do business, you know, it's not a way to what get someone to want to do business with you put them in a noose, like and pull them over to you, okay, like put a nice heart on the bottom and say, if you'd like to hear anything that's going on, we send the ice cream cone, you know, coupon to people who are supposed to give me some nothing. I hate you now, I just we had a good relationship. I ordered something. I'm scared to have ordered something again because now I'm in your mafia. But okay, I have not subscribed, to my knowledge is fine prints somewhere. If I order, I'm now in the mafia. Okay, fine, And I've never seen do you want to be assaulted with emails by this brand? No? Thank you? Unsubscribed. So it's not just like you gotta go to the bottom that little tiny teeny like a little like a little gnat, like not even a gnat, like the tiniest, tiniest like a one individual chea side one individual chia seeds size font at the fucking bottom, But sometimes it's not. You look for the word unsubscribed, just that word, and is it highlight at the bottom, but it's tiniest font ever. But then sometimes you gotta like look through and squinted, like to change your email preferences. Fun, GoF you know what I want to do? Okay, I'm not telling you. You want to see other people, and I'm not telling you it's you, it's me. I want to break up. I want to unsubscribe. It's only one fucking word for it, and it's not clearly on the bottom. So okay, small little cheese cheese seed print And okay, now we get into the next gauntlet, and there's another whole fucking thing. Do you want to receive these Do you want to receive these emails on Tuesday's or just Thursdays? Do you want to ever see them after you've had uh pesto pizza or before eating a bagel? Or are you on a car free diet? Check one, check all like what the fuck I want to So then there's I get confused. I like, wait a second, I don't want any toy. I check there. What's what if? What if something happens? What if they have the answer to my mamogram? And then I get all confused, I don't know where I am. And then I see it underneath all that rigor morale, none of which any of us want, the word unsubscribe. So the other page had weird words to update your email prefaces? What do you think I want? You want you to give me a nicer greeting. It's our pleasure to serve you up to the email print. I my preferences that you never bother me again. I'm gonna tell you if I want anything from you besides a goddamn lip gloss. But this whole thing has to stop. It is outrageous. I as convenient as ordering online has been, this unsubscribed thousands I have in my inbox, and I mean thousands. Do you relate? It's a scam? Okay, So my daughter just turned twelve. Her birthday is May eight, and when she was born, it was a Saturday, and it was great because Sunday was the day after it was Mother's Day. And I've never had a Mother's Day at the same I've never had Mother's Day on her birthday because you know it only comes every so many years. Have I definitely had it. I had to have had it because she's eleven and she's twelve. I'm okay. Well, this past Sunday, Brind's birthday was on Mother's Day, which is like the greatest thing because it's sort of like a golden birthday. You know, they're on the same day. It's so special and um, and it is special and it's so loving. And her birthday party was Saturday. We had a roller skating party, um, roller skating zip lining at this arcade. It was really cool. And she said, let's make today my birthday and tomorrow will be Mother's Day. It's a scam, so don't get excited. Um. Great, she said. But I said, no to mar's your birthday. And Paul, It's funny because the week before I said, Saturday's her birthday. Paulsic, Well, she's eleven, so I think someday can be her birthday too, because she's eleven turning on twelve. And I said okay, and I thought it a couple of times, and then Saturday she said, let's I want today to be my birthday and tomorrow to be your your your day. Great because Mother's Day supposed to be around pamper yourself, get a massage. Great, So Saturday we did the party and then we came home. And kids don't to play dates the same as they used to anymore. It's like they did the party that I said you want, you could bring anybody home, and you know, she likes to be alone, and let's to do art. And we come home and then we do more presents from just us for her. I'm having the best day and then she's playing with her presents and everything's good. And then the next day comes when we go to this brunch that's sort of like at a semi fancy do, she plays. I'll never go there again. But we went to this place that I didn't love that much because they just I'll tell you why. You know what, while we're gonna, let's do a side rant. Let's have another rant. Do a cameo in this rant while my bets a rant about Mother's Day and a birthday being a scam. And now I understand why those birthday Christmas people are very depressed, because it's not fair. It's just not you have to assign another day. But anyway, let's do a side ramp. So we go to a restaurant that is having a Mother's Day brunch. Can someone tell me the definition of brunch? Is it breakfast and lunches that a brunch like is if you look it up? Or is it just a meal that like flows all day. I'd like to look up the definition of brunch. Hold on, please, This is like a hijack rant on another rant, a late morning meal eating instead of breakfast and lunch, the cobbled together a brunch of cold remains from the fridge. Okay. So we go to a place and on their kids menu is flet mignon, chicken fingers, pasta you could do in a cream sauce or a marinera. And that's what's on the kid's men. You know, my daughter never does a kid's men. You could. She likes a lot of food, you know, she likes food. So but it was it was brunch, so we thought we were doing brunch. So I said, could she get French toast waffles, pancakes. No, we don't have that. I'm like what. So there was like I don't want to give away the place, but there was growing up food like full like mesklin lobster, um filet mignon. As I previously mentioned, um filet mignon and eggs. No, no French toast, no waffles, no pancakes, okay, nothing, but I feel like those need to be part of brunch. No muffin, no pastry basket, no croissant. I want to know where the bra is bra Because then we got to they had filet and eggs. So I thought, Okay, Brend, do you want to just get scrambled eggs and bacon? She said, fine, scrambled eggs and bacon is fine. Don't do great well, have scrambled eggs bacon. Oh I'm sorry. First of all, I'm still hung up on the fact that I know they have bread and I know they have eggs. So let's go do some French toast. Okay, I mean obviously pancakes are harder waffles get. Don't get the iron. It takes ten seconds to make French toast. Okay, that really? Does you know that white bread? Eggs? Keep removing. It's fine, She'll just get scrambled eggs and bacon. We don't have bacon. What okay, we'll take sausage. We don't have sausage. Where's the brunch, bro where's the bra I don't understand. We don't have pancakes, waffles, we don't have French toast. It's a family day to Mother's Day is a family day. This isn't called like the baccanal you know, adult hooker stripper party, where we don't have pancakes. Like it's it's a family. It's mother's day, so usually mothers come with children. So children come with pancakes, fucking French toast, eggs and bacon sausage. I was not asking, but they have lobster benedict. Well, my twelve year old who does eat barata and likes the big ikura gold balls at a sushi restaurant and likes you know, prescudo and makes her own pesto and makes yogi, you know, doesn't eat lobster thermidor. So I got irritated, like I just was. It was a ready So we started off the day and I was just like, and she was being cool, but we were just I was thinking, I don't want to eat just fancy. I want to be I want to by the way, I the mother. I want some comfort breakfast food too. I don't want like who wants for let mignon and eggs, like I get it, you did it, but I don't really want that. I'll eat it because I'm here and trying to be fancy, and I don't really want lobster over like a poached egg. Lobster is left alone, like it doesn't need to have be friends with other beings, like I need to be friends with butter. That's it. It's maybe mayonnaise in a bun, but it doesn't need to be with like eggs and all these other things and greens that are on the plate and then they get all soggy and it's just like it's too much. So but that's like we're sort of like moody and that's a fancy brunch and brings a little okay, you know. And then I start to feel bad because it's her birthday. But it's not her birthday, right, it's my Her birthday was yesterday. That's a scam because today's my day. Okay, So let me get home and um, it's early in the day and I'm like, oh my god, I'm gonna be in pajamas the whole day and I'm just gonna do nothing. And I watch TV and it's gonna be grey and then Burn's like and Bryn loves meaning and I love that about her. She wants to do something together always, which is amazing. She you know, I'm her favorite person, which I mean, can you blame her and vice versa. But so I' just like, well, I don't you know, I just I want to do something today and we are. We just went to this. We just we did roller skating esterday and we had a full thing. We did presence, and I want to I know, I want to do something too, but like we're together right now where it's talking. We did the Oculus together, we open the presents. We're still playing with the But that like time moves time, like things don't take up time when you have kids. Things don't take up time, like doing something that you're like, oh Saturday, great, we'll go to lunch and then we'll do this. We'll play on the oculus. Like that's like literally a gnat flying by in the summer. It's it doesn't it doesn't take up any time. You're onto the next thing. So then I said, and I started to feel guilty because I love my kid and she wants to be with me, and I'm just like, it's not it's not like my day. So then I said, all right, well let's look through all the photo albums. So we go to look through the baby albums and it's mother's you know, birthday parties and other mother's days, and that's cute and that, you know, it sucked up the at least eighteen minutes of the entire day. And then we're sitting around. Then she's then she comes and when she's on the phone with her friends, you know, you knock on the door and it's like the monster came to her door. But then when she wants to come and watch a movie, and it's just rants into my room like a fucking reindeer and like it's time to go. I'm like, now, I always want to be like, okay, I'm gonna watch my thing too. Like I always trying to get my sort of power back in the relationship because like I walk in there and I'm a criminal, and she comes in and jumps in and I'm like no, no no, no, you're a criminal too. So I try to do that, but then I started, then I feel bad, and then I want to be together. So she comes, she's on her phone with her friends and then she comes down into my room and he's like, well, do you want to hang out? And it's like, because there's been four minutes of the day that we haven't been glued to each other like Siamese twins, because during the pandemic we were one human being. So then I'm like, yeah, sure. And then I'm like, oh God, here we go. It's gonna be the whole day. What are we doing? And we zip blinding a way and this where did this mother's day never happen? So? And but then we are I said, fine, I knew I needed a manicure, so let's get manicures together. She we went to get managers together with hearts on her thumb and and then I said, what do you want to do for dinner? Like pray? And I was already in pajamas. I said, do we get dressed for the manicure thing in case you're gonna want to go to dinner after? And she said no, let's just let's just like wear sweats and it's fine. So then we're in sweats at the manicure place and I said, what do you want to do? And she said, should we go out for dinner? They I don't want to go out for dinner. I wanted to say what food? You know what that? So I'm like, sure, whatever you want to do. But then we have to go back home and change because remember that time I asked you if we should get dressed because we're going to Yeah, okay, so cool. So then there before the grace of God, she says to me, I want to slurpy. I'm like, oh my god, that god. Can I try to slurp before? I'm like really? And I'm like, but there's only seven eleven, twenty minutes away. She said, well, if we found a gas station, I said, oh God, there is a god. And then I started but there isn't a god. Well, there is a god, but there isn't a slushy god. Because I started googling and I'm like, am I gonna find a gas station with a slushy machine? Because it's like they don't advertise that, and they actually should. I started google imaging pictures of gas stations, see what the modern ones are. They would have all this stuff that you go in. So I found a Sinocco station and I said to her, we'll go from one to one and then I we were seven minutes in. I'm like, ship, I hope it works out, because then what we could have gone twenty minutes to White Planes to go get that, to go to seven eleven and gotten it done. So we went to the first we passed one. It looked too old fashioned. I knew it wouldn't have it. Then we went to the second one. We walked in and lo and behold, they had a slush puppy machie, a slushy machine. And they had one of those machines that makes like your own milkshake, like it'll grind up like resist in it. You put the cup up there and it does it for you, and it's all these different flavors. I mean, it even has like as I e. It was freaking out. So we made an adventure and we decided and I was so tired. I just was drained. So we made a decision that we would each get five whatever we wanted, actually not five, we could each go through and pick all the things that we would want. So we got Ramen and Charleston Choes and Bugles. I got Bugles and that frozy drink and she got her frozy drink, and then we came home. We ate our snacks and we got into bed and we watched This Is Us and we snuggled and that was our whole birthday Mother's Day, and it was really special. And she kept saying, I love your mama. You're the best MoMA in the world, and you're the most special MoMA, and I love you, mama. And it was good. And that was on Mother's Day. I highlighted the flaws that people are experiencing in the airline industry. So we have a update that always says, like, you have this many credits on Jeff, I just canceled a flight because everything became too much in my schedule. And we now have three thousand dollars in Jet Blue, so I guess we had over a thousand dollars in American Airlines and I see it every time we look at my work update. And just realized, Okay, if we're booking a trip, we should book it on American. So it turns out we were booking a lot of trips. So I said to my assistant, I've spoken on American. So she came back and she said, they're not honoring we lost our thousand all credit and I said why, And this is remember we had credits during the pandemic and this should just all be waved and we all know that. So it was I don't remember. So they sent a letter in black and white that says your credit is valid until the end of two so that's like another six months, right or whatever it is. So they said the end of September. Okay, great, we never received what claims to be a spam email that they decided to stand out to people saying, just kidding, we invalidate that email. So we've had the email that said that. But by the way, like if I won't get the blooming Dales and the price text is forty two hours and it's really twenty eight. I think they have to honor it. There's a thing that they have to honor it. So American Airlines, I message on on Instagram. They don't even they don't even respond. They literally the customers not only wrong, the customer doesn't exist, so they don't respond on there. So I then go on to Twitter and they're responding. But they said they offered it my assistant fifty the equivalent of fifty dollars in a credit. But they said on Twitter messages, we're sorry that you don't like um the ruling of the outcome. It's like, I'm sorry, you wrote something in black and white, like, I just I can't explain how aggravating it is. I just it's just I don't understand how from customer service. And I said to them on Twitter, I'm going to talk about this in my podcast, which is millions of downloads, has had millions downloads, and I'm going to talk about this on social media. What's your name? And she said, we don't give out our names. We're a small little group here, so you know they're all like Bethany Frankle's fucking going crazy over there. But I mean, it bothered me for people that can't afford to say this out loud, and if anybody listen, people must be ripping their hair. I'm frustrated. I wasn't looking to lose a thousand dollars or whatever it was. I don't waste money. I'll spend it. But I wrote a whole thing on my Instagram saying give the money to charity, don't. I'm not accepting just that you wrote an email by a mistake, and also as a pandemic and people haven't been able to leave and people right now. Everybody is cold that people don't want to fly, Like what the fuck? So all these people were chiming in on my Instagram and saying yes go and I want I want justice, I want justice, And I made just once in a while, and I'm saying this to American Airlines directly, And for a minute, I thought, should I not call them out? It's my it's me, it's what. It's the point, like I might every once in a while just bring this up again. I'll just be like it had we I haven't talked about American Airlines in a while. And the fact that they never gave the thousand dollars charity or anybody, like it's a write off. Give the credit to charity. I'm not like we do a lot of disaster relief. Fine sense, give us a plane ticket for somebody who needs to get out of someplace. Someone needs to get out of Ukraine. I don't give a good fuck. But just doing that to people pisces me off. So I felt good, and I think people felt good that I was calling them out. And you know, before you hit send, you was just like here we go, I'm starting here she goes. But it's just when I get really intensive about something. So American Airlines never responded on Instagram. They do respond to Twitter. Don't know why, and they did not that I know of, respond to my Instagram. I mean they and everybody was saying they are just the absolute worst. They just don't care they're or they're just so bombarded and overwhelmed. I don't know, but I would that wouldn't say good things to me about the American Airlines stock because they can't answer an email if they're not worried about pr like that. Like the twenty thousand people talking to each other now chiming in with their own bad American airline stories, that wasn't necessary. Do you shop at Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, your basic supermarket? Like your shop right, you're used to be path Mark, You're I don't know, you know, they're different, heab. Do you do you shop at what King Colin and Hampton's happens to be outrageous because they have a lot of the things that Whole Foods has, not that many obviously that Trader Joe's has, but everything that your basic supermarket has and more. I find that in order to get all of the things that you need, you need to have a Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and basic supermarket rotation. Let me explain. My daughter likes these little mini like round they're healthier, but it's not even a healthy aspect, to be perfectly honest. They're these round little pancake bites and they're easy just because for school that has to be believe it or not, at Whole Foods. But if you want to get like a good chocolate chip waffle, that has to be at the regular market. Um. If you want to get like cauliflowers flowers in a bag, you get it a Trader Joe's or the and the regular market doesn't have that. That's what it is, a regular market. But I have a whole head of cauliflower. But if you want to cut off you have to get that a Whole Foods or Trader Joe's. I mean like her Whole Hearts to Palm could be confusing if you're not a Trader Joe's, per se. There are just things that each place has and I find that to be and you can't get them all on instacr to fresh Direct either, so it happens online too. You gotta be on like three different rotations. So if any of you have a one stop shop that has everything I online, overpay or wherever, I would be so happy, so happy. Because also Whole Foods Trader Joe's has obscure snacks, like not everybody always wants a keen Walk curl, you know, but like let's say you wanted a pop chip that's not everywhere, and I'll tell you a very confusing snack to like popables, they don't have the many places they don't have I went for bugles instead. They don't have them any places. So that's like if you're involved in any kind of confusing snack choices, and Whole Foods is very obscure too. You know. It's keen Walk crisps and kale puffs and v and I like health, but like there's no chip to just be loyal to. I'm not that loyal to any chip, and it's I'm loyal to Skinny Girl micro Popular because it happens to be the best. But I just want to be a chip loyalist and I can't. Zach's Organic makes great tortilla chips, but you can't get loyal to a chip that you can't find everywhere. It's just hard to be loyal to one chip or one market for that matter. Please help me