#42: Inside the West Wing, Outside Our Minds

 Jay and AJ swap winter-storm war stories from DC and Texas, roast panic-buying culture, then detour into Jay’s West Wing White House tour (including the Oval Office and the Truman Bowling Alley). AJ shares what he’s been up to socially in San Antonio, gives a full New Year’s recap, and they land on their comfort-food obsession: reality TV (RHOSLC reunion timing confusion and Traitors hype). 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:06

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to Dose of Delusion. It is me, your host, yours truly Jay, and I am once again blessed with the glamorous, the happy. He seems a little stress-free today. I am here in front of AJ, the Silver Fox. AJ, how are you? Tell us everything.

DC Ice Chaos And Panic Buying

SPEAKER_01 0:27

Hi. I am doing well. I am um, you know, catching up from um housewives and and everything. Like, I just like I'm I think I'm caught up on like everything that I've been seeing. So it's been really, really good. Um work has been, you know, doing its work thing, so that's been great. Um we had this like crazy freeze that we were all scared about, like it was gonna be like another Snowvid, Snowmageddon. Um, but it really wasn't that bad uh here in Texas. Um but there there was a freeze. It kind of like like blew in like an Arctic blast in which February is now the coldest month here in Texas, apparently. Um and it kind of like like the stores were like empty because people panic by you know how they do here in San Antonio, they're idiots, and like I hope they feel stupid and ashamed of themselves for buying all the eggs, all the bread, and all the meat for nothing because it iced over. Like this happened, like let's say Thursday, Friday, and like completely empty, and then like not until Saturday night at like nine o'clock did the the sleet start, and that was the worst of it. Sleet.

SPEAKER_03 1:51

All right, I'm so glad we dove right in because boy do I have a lot to say. So, listener, if you guys caught last episode, I kind of was talking a little shit about the weather, saying that everyone got these runner storms, they completely skipped DC, so it's been fun, it's been nice, and I could not have regretted that more. I mean, we got hit with that same storm that the entire, you know, southeast part of the country got. Uh, we did AJ, not little sleet, we um at one point we got like 26 something inches of sleet and snow. Then we have yet to reach um, we had two days of sleet and snow, and then we have yet to reach above freezing temperatures. So now it's just layers and layers of ice. It has been that way. We had temperatures in the uh high teens, early, low 20s, all of like last week, and then now this week, or all of last weekend, and now this week, we are in the single digits, and it is freezing. It is just ice on ice on ice on ice on ice. It is so bad that apparently, because of, you know, typically they are used to cold weather out here on the east coast, but they're used to getting, when it does happen, a lot of snow for a couple of days and then 45 degrees and everything melts away. I think, according to the Instagrams and whatnot, they're not used to this. And the infrastructure and the lack of snow plows and breaking ice is it's been ridiculous. So we're a week into it, and places are still closed now. What you mentioned about people like at the grocery store. Let's talk about some dumb bitches. And I'm sorry, I love my little DC residence that I'm you know now accustomed to, but yeah, they went and they cleared out the grocery stores. I mean, empty shelves. It was like COVID. But get this, get this. This is how you know people are so like surface level out here. Trader Joe's empty, four blocks, Trader Joe's empty with lines around the corner. Four blocks down the street, there are other markets that aren't big, trendy brand name markets, full, fully stocked, no lines, ridiculous. But all the Trader Joe's, and by the way, by the way, I've been wanting to complain about this for a long time. Now I'm off on a rant here. So I before I moved to where I live right now, my other apartment that I lived in, I lived on top of a Trader Joe's and I loved it. I've always classified Trader Joe's as a snack store, as a candy store for adults, right? But it always baffled me, AJ, when I would be inside of a Trader Joe's, you know, picking up a couple essentials if they have it, and then, you know, some Tahitian vanilla or ceremonial grade matcha.

SPEAKER_00 4:28

Um God, not you too back. Oh my God, a mandum.

SPEAKER_03 4:33

But I would see like moms in there with like shopping carts full. And I was like, who is coming to Trader Joe's to do their their, you know, their bi-weekly like grocery haul? Like that doesn't make sense to me. You know what I mean? But apparently they do, and that's also where they go to panic buy for storms. So wild.

SPEAKER_01 4:55

I think that that also just might as well say um that I guess the people in DC that are doing the panic buying are the never mind anyone say. So me the people of um a certain um like monetary class, maybe. Yes, yes. Because, you know, I mean, but here it's all the HEBs and all the set like the central market, the HEB, the Walmart, the like all of them were empty, bone fucking dry. And it's just like, well, I guess if anything, I'll just like kind of starve, but I need to lose like five pounds, so that's fine.

SPEAKER_03 5:46

It was like, honestly, if we lose power and I can't get food, I could afford it to skip a couple meals. I'm not panic buying anything.

SPEAKER_01 5:55

I was not, no, I did not, I did not want to brave the storm, or not the storm, I didn't want to brave the H E B craziness. Um, on Friday, one of my coworkers had took an early lunch because she needed not to go panic by, but I think she was like, Oh, I'm doing a certain dish for um my family. I need to go, I need to get like some eggs or something, or something like really simple, but that's it, just one thing and in and out. She was there for an hour and a half, and she was like, People were going crazy. People were like like bumping into me, and they were all taking like like the 18 dozen of egg things. Like, it was like crazy. Three or four days, people tops. What are people doing?

SPEAKER_03 6:36

What's going on?

SPEAKER_01 6:38

If the power went down again, how the fuck are they gonna fucking cook? Majority of the stoves are electric here, they're not gas stoves, like like they are in some of the areas or like in you know, um, Alamo Heights area or something like that. Like it's gonna be like, you know, gas. But like, what what are you doing?

West Wing Tour Setup And Nerves

SPEAKER_03 7:01

I was talking to one of my coworkers and she's like, she said that she was she she she because I used to do primitive camping, which make it make sense, because she was like, I have a little jet boil, which is like a little mini-size, like gas little stove, um, that we stay camping, primitive camping. I'm like, well, you don't go primitive camping with you know modern technology, but whatever. Anyways, and I was like, I almost said her name, and I was like, girl, it's it's two or three days. Have a bowl of cereal, like you don't need to be cooking meals, you know, if we do have a citywide power outage. It's I mean, make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, like relax. Like people need to fucking chill. Clearly, nobody grew up poor, anyways. Anyways, um, oh my god, I saw a meme the other day that was like, I grew up poor and we didn't have a lot, but we had each other, and that was the worst part. Um, so no, that storm came in. Uh, you're feeling it, I'm feeling it. But you know, I um we did get a few days before the storm where we got to enjoy some things and whatnot. And instead of me preparing and maybe buying some extra storm snacks, I instead went and did a little White House tour.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

Oh, okay. How was it? No, what? Oh, go on.

SPEAKER_03 8:21

Okay, so it was good. And AJ, let me get your advice as you're gonna give me anyways, whether I ask for it or not. Um, your point of view, I should say. Not your advice because it's already happened. Right. So I've known about this White House tour for a few weeks. But given the current political climate, right, it was something that I wasn't, I didn't really want to like boast about or brag about because it also wasn't a regular East Wing tour. The East Wing tour is everybody gets no big deal. It was a West Wing tour. And I got it through work and through some connections and whatnot. And I was like, well, you know, I'm have some reservations. I mean, I'm like, first of all, let's let's be real, I'm gonna go regardless. But I did have some like little some little personal reservations, but I like to think about was, you know, regardless of who is manning that desk, it is still the office of the presidency. You know what I mean? So I was like, all right, but I still was being a little bashful or shy about like publicly saying it. But anyway, so so we go. And uh the person who was giving us a tour is a regular White House um employee, what's we'll call it. And so what happens if you're a regular employee? I guess you go through a training where you learn how to give tours, and then you can bring so many people per month to do tours. And I didn't know that. I thought the person who got us a tour was just like, congratulations, sign in and go have fun on with your tour guide. So he was our tour guide, and we got these nice, little beautiful little like embosed White House books that are signed by the president with a you know a step-by-step of the tour. So we're going on it. Now he's in there all day, every day, or whenever he's in town, and lots of security as one can imagine. Oh, first of all, I did get to wear one of my suits. Okay, one of those suits that I didn't get to pick up that time.

SPEAKER_01 10:15

I saw your snap. It looked cute. You looked very, very dapper.

SPEAKER_03 10:19

Oh gosh. Um, lots of security. Of course, we go, we it it is freezing cold. We stopped by Old Ebbett's Grill or Old Ebbett's Bar, which is a very popular and infamous bar to the area where a lot of White House staff hangs out. And because a lot of White House staff hangs there, hangs out there, so does the press. And because that happened, so do allegedly a lot of people from different foreign agencies, you know, also hang out. They're just trying to eavesdrop and get information. Um, but on top of that, they make a fantastic dirty martini. Um, and I was dumb and had three martinis before going to the White House tour. Like that could have hit me the wrong way.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

But they were fantastic. Okay.

Inside The White House And Oval Office

SPEAKER_03 11:06

Um, so I was just warming up is all I was doing. But we go to this tour, and I'll tell you, it was it was beautiful. We go with lots of security, we lock our phones up, we get into the actual White House, into one of the side entrances, and we see, you know, hey, this is where the situation room is behind these walls. Here's the formal Navy mess hall, there's the menu. I mean, and it's beautifully decorated. Of course, it's hella trimmed in gold, as one could imagine, in the year 2026. Um, but as we're going back and forth and looking at these halls and these chandeliers, and our tour guide's like, oh, down this hall is a really famous conference room, and to your right is a really, you know, it is the cabinet room where they do for the meetings, and to your left is a Thomas Jefferson room, and over here to your right, that's the oval office, and over here to your left, and we're going through the motions, and I didn't quite click that that was like the oval office. And so as we're just turning our heads and walking into these rooms, I I I I I approached the oval, and it was beyond breathtaking. Like, I don't know, I don't know how to, I don't even know how to put that into words. I mean, I'm I could start mumbling for the next 30 seconds, but it really was just it was I was overwhelmed, overwhelmed with, you know, first of all, we've all seen it, it looks just like it does on TV. So but so but to to see it in person, brightly lit, to see the resolute desk, like the desk, the two sofas that face each other, all the art on the walls, the doors that are hidden, it was it was breathtaking. Uh any little reservation I had about potentially not going, which I was gonna go no matter what, but completely gone. I mean, it was absolutely breathtaking. Um from there, we ended up seeing the presidential wall of fame or hall of fame where all the presidents were you know the famous Joe Biden autopen picture is up. I shouldn't be putting quotations because it's actually there. Um and then they let us get our phones out because we're gonna go to the press room. Obviously, any anyone can have their phones in the press room. So we went and got our phones from the lockbox. We go to the press room, which was really, really neat to see. Obviously, that's where I took a lot of videos and pictures and I sent a lot of people Snapchats. Uh, so that was cool. I know we always promise to like add supporting photos to our social media, but maybe this time we actually will. Um and um that was a lot of fun. Then we locked our phones back up, and then we went to my favorite building right next door, which is the EEOB, the Eisenhower Executive Office building, and it is where all the White House staff, I mean you can't fit the entire White House staff in the White House. So it's right next door, and we saw that beautiful building, and it was just a really, really neat experience, and I felt so silly for even having any reservations prior to going. So West Wing tour. I mean, vote me for president next.

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Oh God. Um, I mean, oh, I was gonna say, well, anyone's better than that. Would have been an insult to you, but that's not what I meant.

SPEAKER_04 14:16

That's not what I meant. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 14:18

I think I don't know that came out so wrong. It's not what he meant. Um but like, no, I mean, it's just all the history that has happened there, you know what I mean? It's just where you stood and where you got to go through. I mean, very few people have, a lot of people have, but like a lot of people, like like regular Joe Me would never be able to, like, I would never go, you know what I mean? So that's that's really amazing. And I'm so happy that you got to do that.

Press Room, EEOB, And Bowling Alley

SPEAKER_03 14:47

Oh, I did okay, listen, I'm over here in DC, but I'm sorry, I forgot. Thank you, AJ, but I forgot a little Texas thing. So we've all heard of the bowling alley in the White House, right?

SPEAKER_01 14:57

Right.

SPEAKER_03 14:57

Okay. So the bowling alley, and oh God, someone's gonna hear this and they're gonna correct me, which they should. I believe the bowling alley was built where the situation room is, and they had to move it to build the situation room because I think Kennedy realized, hey, something crazy is happening, and we don't have a place to actually meet. So they moved the bowling alley and they actually moved it to the executive, the EEOB, and it's in the basement of the EEOB. So we were there, our tour guide was like, Hey, let's go. He goes, Well, look, we'll go check it out. 99% of the time, it's closed, we can't see it, but we'll go. So we go downstairs into the basement, we're walking through, we approach the Truman bowling alley, he shakes the handle on a door, it's locked. He goes, Oh, sorry guys, just like I thought it was locked. We turn around, door opens, and they're like, He's like, Oh, yeah, we got a group in here right now if you guys want to come and see it. And a group, we were like, No, we don't want to impose. The group was like, No, come in, come in. So we go in. Um, first of all, I saw the hottest guy. He was so hot. I inadvertently got him on video because I did take a video of the um of the bowling alley. Uh, but he was so handsome. First thing I noticed. But anyway, so we go in, it's a two-lane bowling alley, people are bowling, guys are people are super friendly, and we start chatting a little bit. But he's so friendly because it was um a Texas representative. So he this he's currently a Texas congressman or representative. I'm really bad at politics, but he at one point in time in the past was the uh the physician to the to the president, and I think he crossed over from Obama into Trump. So he's worked in the White House, he's a doctor, and he's now a Texas representative. So I got a little picture with him. So there's DC and Texas colliding again. So I thought that was really neat. So that was my little person that I met that day.

SPEAKER_01 16:45

Um, I have something. Um, the White House has two bowling alleys, a two-lane Truman bowling alley in the Eisenhower Executive Office building for staff, and a private single-lane alley directly under the White House's north portico, installed by the President Nixon for the first family and guest featuring historic photos and memorabilia from presidents who've bowled there. The original Truman alley built in the West Link West Wing in 1947 was relocated to the EEOB in 1955.

SPEAKER_03 17:17

Oh, see, I didn't even hear about the single-lane one. Look at that.

SPEAKER_01 17:21

Because that's a secret private one that's only for president and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

SPEAKER_03 17:28

Fancy. Yeah. Well, the more you know. Well, it was a really fun, really neat tour. Um, I I'm pretty excited. There's now that's three major things that I've seen. I have been able to visit Air Force One. Obviously, I'm in a Pentagon regularly for work, and then now I got to the White House. So that was pretty fantastic. Anyways, AJ.

SPEAKER_01 17:52

I'm sorry, I was looking down again. No, but like there's actually, I just saw like a Reddit photo of the single-lane um White House. Okay. So I don't know. It's cute, it's interesting. Like, it looks very different than the double lane one. So it's interesting.

SPEAKER_03 18:09

Fancy one. Now I want to ask him. I'm gonna ask my tour guide about it. Um, why don't you show us the other one?

SPEAKER_01 18:15

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 18:16

I know. Rude.

SPEAKER_01 18:17

Um the audacity. Um what what exactly um so so okay, so that was your your White House press tour, whatever you want to call it. Um that was that was just last week, wasn't it? I think I remember your snap.

Suit, Shoes, And Last-Minute Drama

SPEAKER_03 18:35

That was, that was last Tuesday. Um everything in true fashion. When will I learn, AJ? When will I learn to order things and buy things in time, right? So I ended up wearing a charcoal gray suit, and then I realized I didn't have like Oxford-style black dress shoes or black dress shoes of any style, to be honest. Lots of Chelsea boots, but I'm like, I'm not wearing Chelsea boots to the White House with a suit, right? So I was like, all right, cool. I ordered my shoes the night before for overnight delivery. So here I am in my apartment, all dressed, and I was like, okay, waiting for my delivery, and it is like minutes to go. It's not coming, it's not coming. I know, I'm like, well, fuck it. Chelsea boots go on, Amazon's still not there. Order my lift, right? My Uber, I don't do lift anymore. Order my Uber, and I'm like, okay, cool. So then Uber arrives. I go downstairs and I see a big pile of packages with a concierge. And I was like, Miss Concierge. I was like, I need I was like, I'm waiting for my shoes. And she's like, for what? I'm like, for right now. She's like, we're gonna find your shoes. And she starts going through these packages, she finds it. I rip them open, I kick off my shoes, put those ones on, I'm about to run. There, she's like, Give me your boots. I toss them to her and I run out the door. Were those shoes a half size too small and killed my toes the whole night? Absolutely. They were so rock fucking hard. My toes were it was ridiculous. My ankles felt like fucking Lisa Marlowe's. It was the worst. But I got my fucking shoes, and all I gotta say is I hope I've learned my lesson to stop last minute doing shit for important events.

SPEAKER_02 20:32

No, you didn't. No, I read.

SPEAKER_03 20:35

I know damn well you didn't.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Of course not. No way. Of course you did not learn that.

SPEAKER_03 20:41

Oh, goodness. Okay, AJ. Crazy. Yeah. Tell me everything. Now that I've barely let you speak for all of eight seconds, what is going on? What's new with you? Talk to me.

San Antonio Socials And The Cold Snap

SPEAKER_01 20:53

Um, let me think. Okay, so I think I like, I don't know, I'm I've been kind of like boring lately. Like I'm still um doing my um sundown social things, but like it everything got delayed this past week because of like the weather shift. You know what I mean? So, oh, actually, what we did, um my friend um Roger, who does a sundown social, um he he put out like a little press statement or whatever, say on social media. I'm just saying that um that he did. Exactly. No, um you know that that thing due to inclement weather, like he had to like the events outdoors. So we canceled it even though the sun was shining on Sunday and it was gorgeous. Um the the temperature was just very cold. So he's like, What are we gonna do? Where fur? And I was like, Well, I have like 12, so yes. Um, but that didn't happen. Um, so what he did actually on Saturday, he's like, before before the storm comes, like um come come out or come come over. So he had a couple of DJs go. Um, and in his clubhouse of uh his apartment building, um, we had like it was a lot of the residents that that he knows from going to the pool and stuff. And and a couple like like I showed up and then a couple of DJs showed up. Um and then we just had like a great like little outing and they set up like their speakers and like it was like like it was a fucking club in there. It was so cool. Um, so we did that Saturday because I went out Thursday, um, recovered Friday while I was at work, and that's a terrible thing to do. Um but I still do it. And then like um Friday stayed in, um, even though I should have gone out because the weather wasn't that bad, but I was like again recovering. So by Saturday, I'm like itching to get out, right? Like I was dying to get out. So when he texted me that, I was like, oh well, fuck yeah, I'm going. So go do that. It was really, really great. Like I said, um, when I left, it was around like midnight or 11. My car, since I didn't park in the garage, was like a block of ice.

SPEAKER_03 23:19

And you have a kernel too.

New Year Parties And Late-Night Dancing

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Exactly. So I sat in my car with the fucking defroster thing on and my seat warmers in my fur, just like trying to like like heat up my fucking car so that way I could leave. It didn't it took like forever for because it was like a thick block of like on the windshield, and like like I don't know, but I ended up making it out um of there in one piece or made it home in one piece. So the the storm wasn't that fucking bad. And then come Sunday, um, you know, the the drag brunches were still going, and um our our our good friend um Christy Waters was like, bitch, you better come to drag brunch. And I'm like, girl, I'm slip and slide. I don't have ice skates to go over there. How do you want me to go? She's like, the ice is melted. Stop, calm down, we're indoors. And I said, okay, maybe. But I just like stayed in, I think I ordered um like um uh DoorDash like three times that day. I just like, and at one point I had like ice cream delivered because I got whenever it's cold, I get ice cream, I get cravings for ice cream for some reason. So I got like four pints of different ice creams. Um you got a little ice cream flight. Ice cream flight. I didn't tasting menu. Yes, it was like one was like a gelato, another one was like Ben and Jerry's, so like you know, I just like I had a little variety um going. And of course I had to do bluebell because I'm in Texas. So I got quarrel, you know, a different flights of everything. So, so you know, it was it was kind of like a low-key weekslash weekend because of the weather. Um, but you know, things are are happening this weekend. Um, I have um um, what are we in? What is it gonna be? Oh, it's the first, I think, or second. I don't know. But I think there's like um a coffee social going on downtown that I'm gonna be going to. Like my plans, like next week when we talk, I'll have more stories. But like the winter storm kept me indoors. Um, but like playing catch up over, like, did we talk about New Year's yet? Did we?

SPEAKER_03 25:35

Actually, we haven't because we had so much to talk about last week. So tell me about your New Year's.

A Surprise Visitor From Malta

SPEAKER_01 25:41

So New Year's was, I mean, a month ago or whatever, but um, it was it was really, really cool. So I got to, I did like four different events. So um the first one, it was like intimate um family time. It was like wine charcuterie. Um so I met up with with some some very good friends and their family and started my night there. I had a gorgeous outfit, um, like fur and um like a see-through, like thing, and like I don't know, it was super adorable. And then I went to Sundown Social had like a New Year's party at River North, so saw some DJs there. Um, and then I was like, you know, take photos of me in this outfit. Um, and I think I only got one. I'm like, what the fuck is this shit? Um so then I went to the party where I rang in the new year. Um, a good friend of mine, uh Julian Tovart, had his annual event. So he lives on the east side, so you could see perfect view, the tower and fireworks. So fantastic party. He had it catered as always, bartender, the works, people dressed to the nines because that's what he expects. Um, so so really, really fun. I and then I think I rang in the new year there, and then um my good friend Um DJ Tyler Moore was at Heat. So he came down from um I don't know. I keep on saying he's from like Kentucky, and he's like, You're always wrong. Why do you say that? And I'm like, I don't know. Um so he's from like he's from Kentucky or like Dallas, I don't know, somewhere north from here. Or Dallas. Like, wait, what? Um Kentucky, Dallas, same thing. It's a it's it's north of here, that's all I know. And um I'm having a J moment with my geography. Um how dare you! I know. Um, so you know, so so I I got there and it's the heat. So he I got there like around one and danced all night until four. So it was an amazing, fun time. I had like a bajillion steps from like the night and then the morning of and everything. It was just it was really, really fun. I had a really good ring-in to the new year and 2026 has been fantastic. Um, oh, did you? I think I may have mentioned, but um, I I if you remember, friend of the show, uh Macy Wacy, our astrology expert.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Um, I think we need to have him on again and have like a new update for 2026 on what's going on, not necessarily for us, but what's going on? No, I guess for us.

SPEAKER_03 28:34

I want a new reading.

Astrology Shift And Big Changes

SPEAKER_01 28:36

Right. No, we need it. So Macy Wacy, we're coming, okay? Um, expect an invite soon. So so I think Neptune, which is from what I recall the planet of like dreams and discovery and fantastical something or others. Well, for the past 14 years, it's been in Pisces, and Pisces an emotional wreck, right? Um, you're just like, yeah. And then so after Pisces, after Pisces comes Aries season. So it's going from like boohoo whammy to I'm a warrior, I'm fire, like explosion, Mars. That is coming, and now Neptune is in that season, and it's gonna be in Aries for 14 years. Now, in doing some research, and I only know this because Instagram, thank you, um, and TikTok, um, but it's the world's best research, exactly. So scientifics, but no, it was TikTok. Um but so the experts are saying that the last time Neptune was in Aries, because it has to cycle through all the other um signs, and it goes 14 years through each sign, right? Was back in the Civil War when that started. So they're basically saying change is happening, we're getting fed up, the planet is in the right season for us to act, and basically change needs to happen. And I think with everything, the way it's been in a certain climate, as we mentioned, it's gearing up for that. So when people say they don't believe astrology bullshit, I'm like, it's not bullshit. And look at the history of it. Like, you know, if you look where things were and how things are, like it's kind of like a cycle.

SPEAKER_03 30:45

That is okay. Well, one, we need to get Macy Wacy back on the show. Absolutely. It's been so long. Um, I think it'll be so much fun. We have a whole new platform now, so it'd be way easier, also. Um, and two, that's very interesting. I'm ready for a new reading. And three, if we end up in a civil war, I need to make sure it's like during business hours because I'm not working a nine to five and then clocking back in for a five to nine with my shield and sword. Like it's gotta be during my business hours. So um, but uh that is that is fascinating. There is big changes coming. I mean, you look at the astrological, astrological astronomy syllables. That one, yeah, that version. I feel like we've had that conversation before that exact moment we just had. We've we've had before. I just saw something earlier today about a deep sea fish that whenever they sense a big change in the water, they try to escape, they're like something as bad is happening, and they surface and they beach themselves, and it is uh like a telltale sign, or there's a there's a correlation. Doesn't necessarily mean actually correlation is a the is a bad way to use it, but people have noticed like when these deep sea fish surface and they beach themselves, um coincidentally something bad happens, whether it's massive earthquakes or or tsunamis or whatnot, because they can sense it down there, and it is a deep well, there's there's been three or four that have surfaced recently. So something is happening, something is coming.

SPEAKER_01 32:19

I think you're talking about is it the really long one? And it's like in Ohio.

SPEAKER_03 32:24

I'm like, bless you. Yes, it is a really long one.

SPEAKER_01 32:27

Okay, yes, yes. No, I've seen that, but I didn't see anything recently. I kind of saw it like a couple years ago, was the last one, maybe. And like 2024.

Reality TV Roundup: Housewives

SPEAKER_03 32:37

No, social media is probably just resurfing it. It's just spreading rhetoric and then falling for it. Right, right. Right. Oh my goodness. Um, well, that's cool. My my New Year's was Oh, yeah, sorry. How was your new year's? Wasn't gonna be eventful, right? It wasn't gonna be eventful, but then it was, you know, we I had a really good, you know, Christmas and whatnot. And then it was the day before New Year's Eve, and one of my good friends that I haven't seen in a long time, I used to live with him years ago. He's been a free spirit. He decided that he this was in March and February of 2020 or March of tw March of 2020. He's like, Hey, I've been talking to this girl in Europe or somewhere in Malta, and I'm gonna go visit her. Mind you, he never met her in person. It was like an online romance. And I was like, all right, cool, like have fun. He's like, I'm going for two weeks. I'm like, two weeks for this girl you never met. I hope it works out. And he he flies out there um on on on March 30th of 2020 to Malta, Italy. And then COVID hits and the island shut down and he was trapped, couldn't leave. And within a couple of days, this girl is like, I don't like you, or I'm that I made that up. But she's like, You need to leave. And he had nothing to do, nowhere to go, no job, no nothing. And he made it work. He made it work. He did hostles for a little bit, started doing a little bit of gig work here and there when he was able to work. Um, and that was in 2020, and here we are, six years later, and he has a whole new life out there. We have uh kept in in good contact with social media and texting, and you know, we FaceTime and text occasionally. Um, I was so considered a good friend. Well, he hits me up, he's like, What do you do for New Year's? And I'm like, nothing. He's like, Well, what if I come? And I'm like, Welcome. I didn't think he was, and this motherfucker showed up, and so I was like, Well, I gotta do something for New Year's, and we did just stay for two nights, just two nights, right? From Italy all the way here for just two nights, and we went to a couple of bars, we went out, we caught up, we had a great time. It was really nice to see him again. Derek, I know you're listening. Hello, shout out to Derek. And um I explored more of Arlington now that I'm across the river from DC into Arlington, so that was a really good time, and you know, he left two nights later, and I mean I got super excited. I bought like so much food and drinks and liquor and snacks and everything, and then we didn't even touch it. But um, it was a really good time, and now he won't let me forget it because he's like, You have to come visit me now. Like, we've been talking about this for six years, and you never come out here, and now the onus is on you since I came to visit you. So I gotta add Italy or Malta. I keep saying Malta, Italy. Malta isn't in Italy, is it? It's separate. I don't know. Let me see. Yeah, look it up while I keep talking. So he keeps talking about it. Well, Malta's its own country. Now you have to come back. Well, there, fuck me.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

It is an island country in southern Europe located in the Mediterranean Sea, um, between Sicily and North Africa.

SPEAKER_03 36:01

So I mean, by Italy, but it's no it's But I love how I keep saying Malta Italy, like it's a city and state. That's okay. My friends in Malta Italy, your friends from Kentucky, Dallas, it's it's all good. Everything's great. We're doing amazing. Oh my god, why are we like this? Oh my goodness. Um, so that was my new year. Uh and and other than that, other than Christmas and New Year's and cold weather and my little White House tour, other than that, it has been straight reality show, reality TV. I'm literally like I every reality episode I watch, my brain smooths out just a little bit more. Like it is straight trash, but I'm obsessed with it. Um are you caught up on everything?

SPEAKER_01 36:50

I think so. Okay, so I think I think so. Let's let's just go, let's start with the the normal. I'm thinking like you.

The Traitors: Strategy And Tension

SPEAKER_03 37:02

I feel like I am. So Salt Lake, we're waiting on the part three of the reunion comes out this week.

SPEAKER_01 37:08

No, it's I well. Wait, wait, I saw it.

SPEAKER_03 37:10

Wait, hold on. Pause, stop, full stop. Part three?

unknown 37:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:15

Not already.

SPEAKER_01 37:16

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 37:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

I saw I saw it on my lunch break. Are you sure? Yes. No, I did it come out today. I think it came. Well, it came out on Peacock today, but I think it aired on Bravo yesterday.

SPEAKER_03 37:30

Okay, okay, that makes sense. Well, now I gotta watch that. Okay, cool. So I'm behind. Um I have not caught up on Beverly Hills. I think I'm caught up. I think I've lost interest in it. I'm gonna have to force watch it.

SPEAKER_01 37:44

Yes.

unknown 37:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:47

I'm hoping I'm hoping that something comes up with it. Um, but yeah, it's just I think after the extreme of Salt Lake, it's just blend.

SPEAKER_03 38:03

It's blend. It's really lackluster. Very oh sorry, listener, he's dying.

SPEAKER_00 38:12

I'm sorry, I almost I almost died. I had to drink something. I'm so sorry. Um that was terrible. Yeah, a little lackluster. Great.

SPEAKER_03 38:25

And then traitors.

SPEAKER_01 38:30

I think I okay. So I I does it to air on Thursday? When does it air?

SPEAKER_03 38:36

It airs tomorrow. Oh, wait, yeah, it airs tomorrow. Okay. But last week's episode, who did you see get voted off last to make sure we're on the same page?

SPEAKER_01 38:44

Um, I think it was Rob Ron, the comedian.

SPEAKER_03 38:49

Yes, Ron.

SPEAKER_01 38:51

Ron. Right? Are we sure about that?

SPEAKER_03 38:54

I feel like we're both very long.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

We're so listen. Okay, full transparency to our listeners and our YouTube audience that we're now on. We we had record always recorded from season one on the same day for three seasons, and now we want to start season four on a whole different day because Jay was throwing everything off Thursday nights open because she likes to drink on Thursdays. So let's have that full transparency on why we're all fucked up with our shows like giving everything.

SPEAKER_02 39:38

Like, as we that's why we can't keep it straight. We're just like, what day is it exactly? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 39:45

I'm so confused too. I've missed so much. I've missed like, all right, us, okay, us, me changing a recording date and AJ going along with it has thrown me off so much. Like that combined with all my snaps. No days, like I have no idea what day it is anymore. And also, AJ, I don't know if you've noticed, I haven't updated our Thursday recording slot in our calendar to Tuesdays. So when Thursday does roll around, I'm like, oh my God, it's a Tuesday. Like it is utter chaos. Welcome to the inside of my brain. ADD to the Mac. Someone needs to sedate me. Um, I am trying to figure out. I believe it is Ron. Ron from Traders, the last one voted off.

SPEAKER_01 40:25

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 40:26

I have mixed feelings about that. Very mixed feelings. I do think he's been a little harsh at times. I think some some of these traders or these contestants seem to forget that at the end of the day it's a game show. And this is the issue I think with you have some celebrities who are very well off financially. So they're there, one, to enjoy the game, but like have a good time. Then you have other ones who are like B and C list celebrities, and they want the money. They want the money. So they were there for serious. And I think that gives some clash. And I I saw Ron lash out on like Dorinda, like, you know, why do you give a fuck about my family or whatever he said? I saw Ron like lash out a couple of times, and then his dramatic, heartfelt, you know, I know I'm gonna go home, guys. I just want to say, I want to address each and every one of you. And like, you're tugging at my heartstrings, but you're taking it a little too seriously, if you ask me. So he's gone.

SPEAKER_01 41:28

So, okay, so my thing is there's okay. There are reality TV stars, there are gamers, there's I and I don't know what's Ron's backstory. Is he a reality TV? Is he a gamer? What is his, or he's just like a He's a comedian. Okay, so shouldn't he have some kind of money, or he's not that good of a comedian? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

I think he's I think he's a B lister. I don't want to say D-lister that's kind of rude nowadays, but I think he he's not like an A-lister comedian. I'm looking right here. Ron Funches, he's uh an accomplished stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He's had many little roles here and there. He was on New Girl, New Girl, Transparent, Single Drunk Female, Curb Enthusiasm. I just I don't think he's as massive as he would want to. I think he just came a little too soon.

SPEAKER_01 42:17

Okay, where I'm at, I don't think he was in it for the money. I think the girl that got out before him, which was a gamer, she was on Big Brother or on Survivor on one of those, I think she's the one that like really needed it for her family. She's like, I have kids going to college and da-da-da-da. And then they ended up voting her out, right? So I think where he comes in is I don't think he's confrontation, he doesn't like confrontation. So he's getting, he's, he's introverted, so he's building up all of this. So when it explodes and comes out, he it is a little aggressive because he let it go for so long. And then you have these housewives who are used to all this drama and creating and doing all this, and they don't need the money. And I think what's also different is when usually it's like these celebrity games that they do, usually the money goes to a charity, it doesn't go to them. So I so this is a very unique and different um situation. Um I did see some memes um uh that they're kind of like, huh, how funny um it was actually all of the black people who got voted off.

SPEAKER_03 43:40

Um you're not wrong. I've heard that from a lot of not just traitors, Survivor, The Amazing Race. A lot of these ones, they get voted off first. And uh that's not cute. People like, you know, they're they're already saying, like, hey, we know that these shows are somewhat produced, you know, networking producers. You need to gear it so that doesn't happen because perception is reality, and that's what it's looking like, you know. And and it could just be that the people of color have the biggest personalities and big personalities on shows like this usually get eliminated faster. Hell, that's fucking life. And you need you need yeah, they need to fucking they need to nip that shit in the butt. They need to not let these people all get voted off first. It's fucked up, and it is whether if it's intended, fuck them all. But if even if it's not intended, the look that that gives that TV show, that production, that network, then they need to fucking cut it out. We all know it's we all know a lot of it's produced, they can fix it.

Weekend Plans, Faux Fur, And Sign-Offs

SPEAKER_01 44:43

I loved that Colton was like um calling out Lisa because he fucking knows and he's like there and his he's like right there to get her. And I love how he had that sit-down with her and was like basically you save me and I'll save you at the table. And she's like, what are you talking about? And it's like, mm, bitch, you're busted. Um, but I mean, he's been kind of wrong in throwing it and playing a little hard, but again, it's just a fucking game. I loved that um our little favorite snake handler was like sticking up. Like he at the end of the day knows that I need to be the last trader standing. Yeah, sure, we could all stand together, but I'm making alliances and they don't think I'm a trader at all. I need to kind of look like one, also. Oh, I can't go against right. That was ooh, I was like, oh, if she does not get out, this is gonna be so good.

SPEAKER_03 45:54

And he was like, I thought that was brilliant. Yes, and I like that he was thinking on the fly strategically, and I love a strategic thinker, and he's like, and he took a risk. He took a risk. I'm sure he obviously knows they all write the name before everybody says it out loud, so I'm sure he was not expecting as many people to vote for Lisa, so that was where the big risk came in, but he took that risk and says, I need to vote, like because Colton is trusting in me, I have to vote for, and I was thinking, that's fucking brilliant. And guess what? Even if Lisa had accidentally got voted out, oh well. I want to say the better, I'm enjoying her, but it was a risk that he took, and he took it to advance himself as a fucking trader. So good for he's playing the fucking game, good for him.

SPEAKER_01 46:49

I am kind of like I was expecting, had it okay. I forgot who it was. I think it was last season or the season before where um the traitors like the trader win against the trader, and they were basically like, fuck you, and then that's how the others kind of figured out like, oh, you must have been a trader too, the way they responded. Do you remember? Do you know what I'm talking about?

SPEAKER_03 47:18

I don't I don't remember, but I could only imagine.

SPEAKER_01 47:21

That was really, really good. But I did see um Alan Cummings on a show. Who was he talking to? Anyways, he was on like a day, a day show, right? And um, they were like, oh, da-da-da, and the traders and it's big hit, and you're doing amazing, and traitas. I like the way you say it, and all of that stuff, right? He said that something is about to happen in this episode seven that is crazy, and we did see a little clip of some kind of like fight or something crazy going down. I am itching, I cannot wait to see it.

SPEAKER_03 48:03

Well, that is tomorrow. Tomorrow or Friday? I think it's tomorrow. Tomorrow or Friday. Yeah. I think it's tomorrow. Yes, just yes, yes, yes. Okay. Well, I am super excited to obviously catch up on all our reality TV. Um AJ, do you have anything going on this week? This weekend, what's coming up? What can we be expecting here next week?

SPEAKER_01 48:27

Just the you. Just the you.

SPEAKER_03 48:29

Winter storm survival.

SPEAKER_01 48:31

Right. Well, we'll see. I'm not saying anything anymore because it's it might happen just like you, just the way you jinxed. I'm not waiting for that. Um I haven't, I did uh pull out my my wardrobe of furs. So if I do anything, I will be wearing fur. So oh, okay. Well, listener, you heard it here. Oh. I did order a new fur hat that's coming in. But this mind you, PETA to come after me. This is faux fur. This is faux. Okay, it's not like real. So Pita, don't dare. I don't want paint thrown on me.

SPEAKER_03 49:08

No. Pita throws the day Peter throws paints on me, I know that I've made it in life. So, Pita, feel free to find me and throw paints on me. Also, AJ helped me buy a fur. But um, well, AJ, this has been so much fun. AJ, we'll find you in fur all weekend long. I will be here surviving the cold for the next week or so. AJ, where can they find you?

SPEAKER_01 49:29

Uh, they can find me on Instagram at AJ the Silver Fox and on uh I'm Friends with the DJ podcast on Instagram as well.

SPEAKER_03 49:37

And you all can find me on Instagram at BJ Allday or TikTok at the MorallyCorruptJ David. We can't wait to see you guys next week, listener. Take care, stay warm, and we will see you guys soon. Bye bye now. Bye.