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Roasty Toasty Ghosty
#91: Are You Crying Yet?
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In which Lauren & Mattias delve into Lauren's childhood and unlock some secrets. They review their recent movie night films, and dwell on bodily flaws.
Content:
- Opening
- Taking Fridays off
- Weekly check in
- Carnival
- Kitten
- Allergy tests
- Funny leg story
- Gymnastics
- Cruise
- Movie on!
- The Sixth Sense
- Calamity Jane
- Intermission
- Therapy session: Lauren's childhood
- Wrap up
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In a world where everything is unscripted. This is Roasty Toasty Ghost. Okay, let's start this. It's your turn.
Speaker 2It is my turn, so should we get this started?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Okay, do we open these first.
Speaker 1I think so. I think that's a good idea.
Speaker 2We're going to do that. Hello and welcome to Roasty Toasty Ghosty. My name is Lauren.
Speaker 1And I am Matias.
Speaker 2That's true, and we are going to be your besties for the next hour or so, because this is an amazing podcast and we're going to have a lot of fun. Okay, okay, okay, and I'm going to try to make myself more comfortable, but it's not actually going to work?
Speaker 1No, never going to happen, no.
Speaker 2It feels like a good idea. Yeah, and then it's not anymore.
Speaker 1You're too tired.
Speaker 2Too tired. I'm a bicycle anymore. You're too tired, too tired.
Speaker 1I'm a bicycle. It's a funny joke. It is a funny joke. We're so tired, oh my goodness, so tired. I was having a hard time staying awake today, yeah, so maybe we should just apologize.
Speaker 2I apologize in advance for sounding so tired during every episode For sounding so tired during every episode.
Speaker 1Yeah, and that goes for both of us.
Speaker 2Okay, there's absolutely nothing we could do to change that?
Speaker 1No, we tried. Walks Well.
Speaker 2I mean maybe changing the schedule. How. I don't know, there's absolutely nothing we could do. We're going to start taking Fridays off.
Speaker 1You can do that.
Speaker 2Okay, but who's gonna watch movies with me?
Speaker 1Me.
Speaker 2Okay, then you also have to take Fridays off.
Speaker 1Well, let's watch them in the evening Movie night.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1If you take Fridays off, you wake up later and you're not as tired, you know.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1When we record. Maybe, so that's why you can do that.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I'm just going to be tired.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Because I'm not going to take Fridays off.
Speaker 2Okay, well, I tried.
Speaker 1Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2It could have been nice with Fridays off.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'd rather have Mondays off.
Speaker 2All right, then we should take.
Speaker 1Mondays off and do this on Mondays instead? Yeah, matias is your name, that is me.
Speaker 2We have confirmed this, that that is your name.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And how are you doing today?
Speaker 1Matias is very tired, but otherwise good.
Speaker 2Amazing, would you say amazing.
Speaker 1I would say good, okay, I don't think amazing would be the right adjective.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Fantastic, maybe, yeah, great, okay, let's use great.
Speaker 2Okay, that's a step below fantastic, I think yes.
Speaker 1So I'm going to counter with asking you how are you?
Speaker 2I am also great, but tired. Cool, yeah, so far this is going really good, it's gonna be a really good episode this is a great episode, yeah not fantastic or amazing, but great. That's the word for today. Should we talk about our weeks?
Speaker 1Okay, okay, we can do that.
Speaker 2All right. Last weekend we went to a carnival.
Speaker 1Oh, yes, yes, we did.
Speaker 2Yeah, here in our town, yeah, they held a carnival party thing. Yeah, it started on Fridayiday so we went to the beer tent, and what did we do?
Speaker 1we sat there. Yeah, we didn't do much. I, we watched the movie first and then we went and then I just wanted to go back. That was kind of of it. I'm sorry, I was a bit of a bum, bummer, bum.
Speaker 2A bummer bum.
Speaker 1Bummer, bum.
Speaker 2That's about right.
Speaker 1That night.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm. Yes, you were.
Speaker 1Yeah, but I rather wanted to watch a movie instead.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm, I just wanted to check it out, see what was going on. And of course they have a tradition of throwing candy off of the roof of a grocery store yeah so sick child had to be a part of that and it was fun. He got candy thrown at his head and he didn't like it, so he had to run off before they were actually done.
Speaker 1Those things hurt yeah, they didn't reach me I was too far back. Yeah, but I didn't want candy anyway, so no, and I ate candy later you gave me one yeah, we both had at least one or two, yeah, so yeah, that was that.
Speaker 2And then saturday was the parade which, which usually follows.
Speaker 1Yeah, pretty fun.
Speaker 2It was all right.
Speaker 1Yeah, it wasn't the best one, but it was okay.
Speaker 2Your niece was with us too. Yeah, she joined us, and all of my kids and my oldest was being a grump butt.
Speaker 1Yeah, I wasn't grumpy that day.
Speaker 2No, it was him and me. We were both grumpy.
Speaker 1Yeah, grumpy people.
Speaker 2Well, I got a chair, so you did get a chair, you were happy, good and I did magic. Yep, I got it on camera. Yeah, very cool yeah.
Speaker 1I'm never going to tell how I did it, because a great magician never tells movie magic yeah, no cgi though no, let's see.
Speaker 2So after that, after the parade, I brought you and your niece home and my life partner and I went back to the beer tent and, yeah, that happened and that was pretty much it.
Speaker 1Yeah, you drank.
Speaker 2I had one, one cider. That was it.
Speaker 1Yeah, nothing happened on Sunday.
Speaker 2Oh, Sunday? No, I guess not. I don't remember anything happening on Sunday.
Speaker 1Something happened on Sunday. My family got a new kitty.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, you got a new kitten. Yeah, tell me about him, how's it going?
Speaker 1He's very playful and he doesn't really like the bigger cats he's kind of afraid of, or you know, he's trying to make himself big and that's very cute, but it's so funny and cozy too. He likes to cuddle.
Speaker 2No, yeah, are you sticking with the name?
Speaker 1I think so.
Speaker 2Okay, All right. So on Monday I had a doctor's appointment. Yeah. I had a checkup after my super fun hospital visit and it somehow ended with me getting my blood taken for an allergy test.
Speaker 1They just took your blood.
Speaker 2They took my blood. Yeah, that was it. I don't even know how that happened. He asked me if I had allergies and was like, well, yeah, I mean I get allergies during season changes. He's like, oh, so like pollen. I was like maybe I don't know, like maybe we should get you an allergy test, like okay, I'm not sure how this is relevant, but okay, so we did them, and then I just left.
Speaker 1Yeah, like I think I'm done here. Yeah, I had a boring day at work. That's all that happened for me Tuesday. Mm-hmm. I mean, we were working Mm-hmm, and then we went to the gym.
Speaker 2We did, and we did pretty good I think, yeah, we did Nothing.
Speaker 1Much more happened that day, or did it?
Speaker 2No no.
Speaker 1Wednesday.
Speaker 2Wednesday I had a hair appointment. I treated myself to a super fancy hair treatment.
Speaker 1Fancy, very fancy.
Speaker 2It was very fun, very exciting. I got my hair colored, I got highlights.
Speaker 1Yeah, I got the whole. Thing.
Speaker 2Everything. Yes, they washed my hair and it was really nice, so my hair is different now.
Speaker 1Yeah, looks good.
Speaker 2Thank you.
Speaker 1You are welcome.
Speaker 2Which leads me to a funny story.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Are you ready for a funny story?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2That you've already heard three times.
Speaker 1Oh, yeah, yeah, I have.
Speaker 2Okay, is it annoying now, or can I tell it again?
Speaker 1Uh, you can tell it again.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I don't have anything better.
Speaker 2You don't have anything to say.
Speaker 1No, I had a boring day at work. Okay, the end.
Speaker 2And I'm gonna tell my funny story. So after my hair appointment I was walking back to my car in the parking lot and some random old guy was running up behind me. He was like excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. He must have said it like 10 times. I don't know, but it was really annoying. So I turned around and I'm like what, what do you want?
Speaker 1You're excused.
Speaker 2He's like you're excused, you may leave now, no. And he says your legs, they're so big and for the listeners out there, I do have rather large legs, it doesn't really bother me, I'm okay with it. I've had these legs as long as I can remember.
Speaker 1Very cool, very fancy.
Speaker 2I know, I know and yeah, my name is Lauren.
Speaker 1Yeah, which means the thighs In Swedish.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, and so everything about me is just my legs. I'm just a blob on top of legs, really.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's what I'm calling you blob legs.
Speaker 2Blob legs. Blob legs, I'm cool with that. So he's like random guy. He says your legs, they're so big. I'm like yep. He's like is that like a sickness? No, no, it's not a sickness. He's like my family back home. They have the sickness and their legs get really big and we're all scared. Aren't you scared? Like, I'm not scared, they're just my legs. He's like you don't have the sickness. I'm like no, they've always been like this. Yeah.
Speaker 2He's like so your legs are just big. They're just big Like yes, yes, they are. Thank you for pointing this out.
Speaker 1I just got my hair done.
Speaker 2Scream a little bit louder, please. Yeah, no really. And he's like oh, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. And I turn around and walk away and he says Sorry, like 10 more times, Like I just, I just want to go now. So weird, so random. I was so confused the entire time Like what are you? What are you? What is going on?
Speaker 1Yeah, look at my hair instead. Yeah.
Speaker 2My hair looks amazing and you're focused on my legs, Rude.
Speaker 1Yeah, so yeah, that's kind of weird.
Speaker 2Why are people so weird?
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2The nerve really.
Speaker 1Yeah, weird. Why are people so weird? I don't know. And the nerve really. Yeah, that's not nothing you would expect someone to?
Speaker 2no, I mean he was saying excuse me and I turned around. I thought that I had dropped something I was like I don't think I'm really holding anything I was holding a bag, but I don't think I was. I dropped it. Yeah, I don't know very weird, very, I dropped it. No, yeah, I don't know. Very weird, very random. That was my story for today.
Speaker 1Thank you.
Speaker 2Yesterday was Thursday and I had my first day back at gymnastics, where I do the gymnastics.
Speaker 1Yeah, and how was that?
Speaker 2It went well, of course, first day. They're like we're going to do parkour and I'm like no.
Speaker 1But I always.
Speaker 2You can walk, I can walk, and parkour is usually when I injure myself. Yeah.
Speaker 2And like, even just during the warm up, I felt like I was so untrained, it was so weird. It's like I felt like I was so untrained. It was so weird, like I can't keep up with everyone else. And they're in a new building now. They renovated a building and they put in a foam pit and part of the warm-up was to like swim through the foam pit and I got a panic attack and I was like nope, I jumped in and then I tried to go forward and I wasn't going anywhere, so I just climbed out.
Speaker 2That sounds awful Like no, thank you.
Speaker 1It feels like something I would have, like a nightmare about you know, not being able to move through the foam.
Speaker 2And you can't. It's like nearly impossible to get through. I mean people do it, not me, I can't. It's like nearly impossible to get through. I mean, people do it, not me, I can't do it?
Speaker 1No, I haven't tried, but you don't want to no. I kind of feel panicky just thinking about it.
Speaker 2Yeah, so we did that and I survived and we did some strength training at the end, which was nice. Well, maybe not at the moment, but afterwards I'm like I did that. I did the whole thing. I'm proud of myself, I survived and now I can walk away. So that was that.
Speaker 1I had a boring day at work and that's it. Well. I have been video editing, been video editing after work this week because I have two videos I need to be done with for this Sunday. Hopefully it's already done by when this is released or published.
Speaker 2That would be cool.
Speaker 1I'm finished-ish with one Ish. You know it's not perfect, but it's almost finished and I'm gonna try to fix the other one. So if you want to check my videos, search the Action Master on YouTube.
Speaker 2That's the channel name.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2What about today? Today's Friday.
Speaker 1Today's Friday and we had a boring day at work.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1And uh, I made dinner, you did, we had soup.
Speaker 2Yeah, now I'm considering starting up a cooking show based on new recipes that I try and fail miserably at.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Um, I'm not releasing my title yet.
Speaker 1No, so it's a good one.
Speaker 2It is, and maybe we should make it a thing though.
Cooking Show and Movie Reviews
Speaker 1I mean that would be fun. The cooking show.
Speaker 2The cooking show.
Speaker 1So I'm filming.
Speaker 2You're going to film and I'm going to cook.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2And I guess the cameraman can make funny comments in the background.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Okay, okay. Yeah, so if you have any fun recipes, send them to me and maybe we'll make it a thing.
Speaker 1Yeah, and we release them on like YouTube or yeah.
Speaker 2We'll put it on our Roasty Toasty Ghosty Pod YouTube channel. Very exciting. Yeah. So, yeah, I made tomato soup and garlic bread. Yeah.
Speaker 1Cheese.
Speaker 2Cheesy bread, because I don't eat bread anymore.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2And grilled cheeses yes. Sandwiches yeah. For the people who do eat bread, yummy.
Speaker 1It was good Okay. It was good Okay, but.
Speaker 2The cheesy bread was good.
Speaker 1I just wanted to say that you burned it, but it didn't really have that burnt taste.
Speaker 2Yeah, it didn't affect the flavor, which was good. It was good. It's just burnt cheese. Yeah, everyone loves burnt cheese. Yeah, should we talk about how we're doing? Should we talk about Howard?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Which one?
Speaker 2I don't know. I was going to say how we are doing with our weight journey.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm not doing great. All right, I haven't lost any weight this week. I just got back to where I was. All right, how about you?
Speaker 2I think I'm pretty much on the same boat as you, because I also gained weight after Saturday and it's been bumpy, but I'm back to where I was last Saturday too, yeah, cool. But I've been trying to do this keto thing, so it's been an adventure. Yeah, I'm still figuring things out, but I think my body is kind of regulating to it. Okay. There's been some side effects, but I think I'm getting over them, just in time to go on a cruise and destroy everything to go on a cruise and destroy everything.
Speaker 1Yeah, fun. More about the cruise next week.
Speaker 2Right, because it hasn't happened yet.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Or it has, but Well yeah.
Speaker 1Not right now, but when this is published.
Speaker 2Right, right, this second when we're recording, it hasn't happened.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2But by the time it comes out yeah, like you said then it will have already happened.
Speaker 1Thank you for clarifying my words.
Speaker 2Yeah, with the exact words. Yeah, and then next time we record, I will tell you more about what actually happened. Thank you for clarifying, because right now I can't tell you because it hasn't happened yet. But next time, next time there will be things to be said.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Should we movie on?
Speaker 2Was I done.
Speaker 1I don't know. I hope so, because I really want us to movie on. I don't want three hours to edit.
Speaker 2Oh fine, we'll movie on Yeah't want three hours to edit, oh fine, well, moving on.
Speaker 1Yeah, today we watched.
Speaker 2The Sixth Sense.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2And Calamity, jane. Yeah, so the first movie we watched was the Sixth Sense Sense, sense, the Sixth Sense.
Speaker 1The Sixth Sense, the.
Speaker 2Sixth Sense, six pennies. This is a movie with Bruce Willis. I almost said James Bond, for some reason that was a long time ago. We are way past James Bond. We watched Bruce Willis, who has never been James Bond. No, he could have been. Yeah, no, okay, fine, fine, no, he couldn't have been. No, he could have never been. James Bond no, he could have been. Yeah, no, okay, fine, fine, no, he couldn't have been.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2He could have never been James Bond.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Because he's dead. What Right? Okay, so this is. This movie happened. We watched it. There was Bruce Willis. I've covered this so far. And just a recap on what I've already said directly after I said it Okay, do you want to talk?
Speaker 1I mean, I thought you were gonna. Okay, so this is a movie about a boy who has a special ability. Right, are you sleeping or what? No, and Bruce Willis is a child psychologist and is helping the boy with his issues. And I don't think it's a spoiler to say that he can see dead people, because most people know that. Yeah, what did you think about the movie?
Speaker 2It was a good movie. Mm-hmm, it's a little on the scary side.
Speaker 1yeah, you know when you see the dead people or what the boy sees yeah, you already said that you can see dead people. Yeah, yeah, and the ending was sad yeah, it had a little bit of a surprise, this movie, but you'd never heard about that. No, no, and you didn't suspect anything like that.
Speaker 2No, it was a surprise for me.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was good because I really didn't want to spoil anything about this movie. So I'm glad and I was so nervous when your life partner came in, because I know he can spoil things sometimes he doesn't really care.
Speaker 1No. So yeah, I also like this movie. I've seen it not very many times, but I and it was a long time ago I saw it for the first time. For the first time I was a teenager, I think, but I like it. It's a pretty cool twist and a little bit sad. And then let's go over to Calamity Jane.
Speaker 1This movie is about a small town and they wanted a well-known actress to come and perform at one of the places in this town. And there was first one problem that the actress wasn't an actress, it was an actor, so he had to dress as a woman. Okay, so this is set in the Wild West. The men in the town didn't really like that. The guy was dressed as a woman. So Calamity Jane she lives there and she gets the assignment to go get the real actress, I think, and Calamity Jane is played by Doris Day. Okay. So she goes to Chicago and get this actress. She thinks, and when they get back, it's not the real actress, it's the maid.
Speaker 1And then it has some love story-ish things as well. It really is about Calamity Jane, though she has like the biggest part. Is that good enough about what the movie is about? Yeah, I don't know it was an okay movie. I didn't love it and I thought that Doris Day was overacting. I don't know if you thought about that, but I just thought she was so over the top with her acting and that kind of bugged me. I guess it was kind of funny, but I mean I think it reminded me of annie get your gun, and I would prefer that movie over this one.
Speaker 2Absolutely okay, so tell me what you thought about this movie I did enjoy the movie okay but yeah, that was my first thought too was that it was similar to Annie Get your Gun, mm-hmm. And I enjoyed the songs as well.
Speaker 1Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, would you say it's better or worse or equal to Annie Get your Gun.
Speaker 2The storyline I think I liked. Annie, Get your Gun better. Mm-hmm. But the songs will probably have to go towards Calamity Jane, although I did enjoy the songs in Annie Get your Gun as well. But I just I feel like I enjoyed the ones in Calamity Jane better, just a little bit.
Speaker 1And the two movies. As an actor was in both of them. It's kind of funny, but, yes, okay. So what song did you like from this one?
Speaker 2I don't know titles.
Speaker 1No, but if you can explain it or Nope, okay.
Speaker 2I don't know. I like the ones in the beginning, at least.
Speaker 1Okay, I don't know the titles either, but when Calamity Jane and the guy were singing you know, yeah, I don't remember what they were singing about, but it was more.
Speaker 2They were like I could do without you.
Speaker 1Yeah, or whatever, something like that.
Speaker 2Which reminded me a lot of the.
Speaker 1Anything you can, yeah.
Speaker 2Anything you can do, I can do better.
Speaker 1Yeah, and that's from.
Speaker 2Annie, get your Gun, annie.
Speaker 1Get your Gun. Okay, so I like that. The songs from that movie are better as well, I guess. But yes, that was probably my favorite. But I also like the Windy City song. I really like how she performed it. It was like a very long take. Yeah. And she was like doing all this stuff and in just the one take, so it was impressive.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I really liked that, maybe more than the song, but the execution of that was cool. Yeah, I really liked that, maybe more than the song, but the execution of that was cool, yeah, so I didn't hate this movie, but it's not on my top ten or anything. Okay, it was okay.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And that was that.
Speaker 1That was that. Do you want to take a break now?
Speaker 2We can take a break. Yeah, let's do that We'll be right back.
Speaker 1Okay, bye.
Speaker 2Hello and welcome back.
Speaker 1Thank you.
Memories of Childhood Trauma
Speaker 2You're welcome. We're back to the most amazing podcast ever with another super exciting segment.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, what are we doing today?
Speaker 1It's going to be very reminiscent from last week's. It's going to be about you this time.
Speaker 2Oh, boy, is this a good idea.
Speaker 1Uh, probably not, Is this?
Speaker 2gonna be like that time when you thought it would be fun to write up a list of things that you don't like about me and then it just it didn't end very well.
Speaker 1It was okay For you?
Speaker 2Yeah, you didn't mind it.
Speaker 1No, I wrote a list about myself as well, so you also lied about a couple about me. I did.
Speaker 2I don't think I've ever sworn at a cow. First of all, my kung fu doesn't actually suck, thank you.
Speaker 1I don't think it's great.
Speaker 2I've seen Chicken Dan, all of the Jackie Chan movies. I've seen them. So I am like almost a master at watching.
Speaker 1You haven't watched them as many times as I have.
Speaker 2No, you haven't seen some of the movies as many times as I have. What. Some of the movies as many times as I have.
Speaker 1Some of the Jackie Chan movies.
Speaker 2Yeah, spy Next Door. I've seen that like a million times now.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, also City.
Speaker 2Hunter I've seen many, like a million times now.
Speaker 1okay, yeah, also city hunter I've seen many times okay, I mean, I like uh the spy next door, but maybe it's not his peak city hunter is more peak ish, but uh still not. Maybe his peep Peep.
Speaker 2Okay, let's talk about Jackie Chan instead of me.
Speaker 1Okay, so was his hometown.
Speaker 2China.
Speaker 1Okay, no, let's talk about you. We did this for me last week, so yeah, do we have like an emergency protocol?
Speaker 2if I start to cry?
Speaker 1I will try to cheer you up.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1There, there.
Speaker 2Thank you, I feel better now.
Speaker 1Okay, let's just go straight into the questions.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1What was your hometown like when you were growing up?
Speaker 2I grew up in a little town in the corner of New Hampshire in the United States and it's old. It's an old town, it has some history and maybe not the finest people.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2I mean we've got like rednecks really in that town. So that's where I grew up. I don't represent the people. I never really did. I never really fit in with the people of my town.
Speaker 1Okay, have you seen people with like the couch outside?
Speaker 2Yes, okay, yes, okay, yes.
Speaker 1Because that's one of the things I think about when I hear rednecks.
Speaker 2Couches and garbage and trucks and trailers and tires and appliances.
Speaker 1I'm thinking couch outside and drunk-ish man with a beer, you know yes.
Speaker 2Yes, that's like every other house.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2The majority of the people are alcoholics, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1Okay, of some form Cool, cool, cool Sounds good. Are you crying yet? Almost oh.
Speaker 2Bad memories.
Speaker 1So what are some of your earliest memories? Oh, here we go.
Family Dynamics and Childhood Memories
Speaker 2Well, let's see, I had a fairly traumatic childhood, like when I was small small, not like- Big, small, Big small Right, but my earliest memory. The funny thing about memories is that I don't even remember what I did yesterday let alone this morning. How am I supposed to remember what happened like 20 years ago?
Speaker 1What's the first thing that comes to mind?
Speaker 2Okay, so I do have one fun memory, and it is my memory, so I'm not sure what's real and what's not real, but I do remember my parents would sit on the couch right in the living room. Yeah, not outside In the living room.
Speaker 1Okay, you were a weird family. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2We left the couch inside. It was an inside couch.
Speaker 1What's that about?
Speaker 2Okay, and let's see, my mom would play music nice, loud music, it was nice and um, she would be singing along and somehow we would end up on the floor and we'd make like a family sandwich. So there would be like a parent on bottom and then my sister and I on top like a pig pile. And then another parent on top squishing everyone, so I'm not sure if that actually happened or not. I also remember we used to have bonfires out in the driveway and it was really fun.
Speaker 1Not like the ones we have here in sweden. Yeah, it was big fires big yeah cool, uh, was it about the same time?
Speaker 2you know, I don't know, no, okay no, we wouldn't celebrate that no yeah my dad also used used to uh, leave his beer cans in the driveway and my sister and I would ride our bikes and ride over the beer cans, so it sounded like we were riding motorcycles. Oh okay, it was fun. Anyway, that's enough of that.
Speaker 1Okay, Good answer though.
Speaker 2Thank you, it took a lot.
Speaker 1Yeah, and now family life. How would you describe your family dynamics when you were a child?
Speaker 2Okay, so my dad died when I was six.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2So how our family got along back then, when he was still alive, I don't remember.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2I don't remember my parents really talking ever really Like. My memories are separated between the two. They were never combined.
Speaker 1Do you know what I mean by that? Yeah, okay, I have like my mom memories and my dad memories, but not like both of them. No, so in your mind they never met.
Speaker 2It was two different, yeah, yeah, I mean we might as well have, like, had separate housing.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2But afterwards, after my dad died, I remember that.
Speaker 1Yeah, please tell me about that.
Speaker 2As a child, I had a good relationship with my mom. We were very close because we were very alike. My sister and I, on the other hand, we were not that close. She was an angry, misunderstood child. Yeah, and I get that. I would also be angry if I was misunderstood.
Speaker 1But that has changed.
Speaker 2That has changed a lot.
Speaker 1Yes stood.
Speaker 2But that has changed. That has changed a lot. Yes, there's been big improvements in our relationship, which turns out was very necessary. Yeah, because if we still had that relationship today, everything would be a mess yeah, now it's me fighting your sister right and me you're just fighting everyone. Yeah, yes, all right, next wait. Did I answer the question? Uh, family dynamic dynamics, yes, okay, um my sister and my mom didn't exactly get along that well either, because my sister was misunderstood and angry.
Speaker 1I feel like I've heard this. Yes, but that yeah, I understand.
Speaker 2She didn't get along with either of us that well.
Speaker 1How was the relationship to your father? Do you remember that?
Speaker 2No, I don't remember having a relationship with my father.
Speaker 1I don't remember, okay since you say you have memories, dad memories, but that's nothing like.
Speaker 2I'm not sure we had the best relationship. I don't know. I was well liked by certain people in my family and then fairly disliked by others, because I was a very energetic child, okay, and that made me very annoying for adults. So I'm not sure if my dad actually liked me or not. A lot of my memories with him aren't very nice memories. I mean sure I named the one nice memory, but the rest aren't.
Speaker 1That's the only one, only memory you have of them together.
Speaker 2Yeah, and the only nice memory of my dad.
Speaker 1Okay, yeah, so what did a typical day look like for you when you were young?
Speaker 2Let's see, I would get up pretty early and go to a babysitter's because my mom worked. She was a single mom.
Speaker 2Yes, like forever after my dad died and I would get up early and I would go to my babysitter's and my babysitter would eventually bring me to the bus and I would take the bus to school and I would be at school until I had to leave and sometimes I had like an after school activity. I think I think my mom forgot to pick me up once. Okay, I think my mom forgot to pick me up once, anyway, when I didn't have that, I was doing gymnastics.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2And cheerleading.
Speaker 1So those were your hobbies.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1You really liked that. Yeah, you didn't have any other kind of hobbies or anything.
Speaker 2Did I do anything else? It was mainly gymnastics. Yeah. Which turned into cheerleading eventually.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2There was a point when I tried taking violin lessons. Oh that sounds difficult. Yeah, it was difficult. It didn't last very long. No, it was difficult. It didn't last very long. There was a point in time when I tried to volunteer at a farm because I love animals and I wanted to do that. Yeah, I always liked the idea of working on a farm. I don't know, just me being weird, okay.
Speaker 1So after working on a farm, do you still have the same feelings?
Speaker 2Well, I didn't get to do like all the tasks that you do on a farm. Do you still have the same feelings? Well, I didn't get to do like all the tasks that you do on a farm? No, I did the cleaning. Oh, okay, and sometimes I brushed a horse. Okay, very cool. Okay, they didn't really take me in.
Speaker 2No I just kind of walked in and was like, can I help out? They were like, yeah, pick up poop. Yeah, okay, I was kind of ignored, otherwise, okay, and then I'd go home and mom would make dinner, and I don't know, I guess I went to bed at some point and then when my mom would leave me home alone, I would be the one making dinner.
Speaker 1What about school? What was school like for you and did you enjoy it?
Speaker 2Elementary school was fun. I think I enjoyed that up until fourth grade. Okay, I think that was the only grade that I didn't like, because I had a terrible, awful, mean teacher. Yeah, okay, I have a story to tell you. I don't think I've told you this one, so this will be exciting.
Speaker 2There was one time we were taking a test and I feel like towards the end of the test, we had to do some coloring. You had to color something. I don't know what it was specifically, but she was walking around taking a look at how we were doing and I want to say she didn't like the way I was coloring. Maybe I was coloring outside the lines, because I'm like that, or something. She got really upset over something and she started screaming at me. Oh, like, for so long, and then I just, obviously I started crying, crying because, like, first of all, I don't understand why you're screaming at me completely and also I'm being screamed at and I don't like it. So I like spent the rest of the day. I spent the entire recess and the rest of the day just like crying because I just I was so confused, yeah, and freaked out and she never like apologized around there.
Speaker 2My mom set up a meeting with her and I had to be there. I don't remember how it went no I remember being there and being like feeling so small, like I don't really want to be here right now.
Speaker 1So your worst bully was a teacher, my teacher.
Speaker 2Actually, you know what, maybe, wow, none of the kids treated me that way.
Speaker 1Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean sure they picked on me because I wasn't a girly girl. I played with boys. I played Pokemon Tomboy. I was a tomboy, absolutely. I didn't hang. I played Pokemon Tomboy. I was a tomboy, absolutely I didn't hang out with the girls. And when I did try, yeah, because one of my best friends hung out with you know the girly girls. Yeah, she was a girly girl herself, but we were still. We were best friends from a very young age, like I don't know know, kindergarten, first grade or whatever yeah so she would like sometimes try to get me to go hang out with them just to test it out.
Speaker 2And I just sat there awkwardly yeah, I was like I don't fit in no I don't know what you're talking about. I don't get it no and I just want to go back to my guy friends. Yeah, so school. Yeah, elementary school was fun, middle school was another story okay and high school was an experience, yeah yeah, okay do you want me to elaborate in any way?
Speaker 1That's up to you, okay. I don't know if it'll come up in another question, though. Okay, so I have this who were your close friends growing up, and what did you like to do together?
Speaker 2I had quite a few friends growing up. I had quite a few friends growing up and I guess it kind of went in phases, because I have a really good friend who I've been friends with since preschool yeah, like doggies pretty much.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2And then my other friend who tried to get me to hang out with the girls.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, yes, I've been friends with her since, like I don't know, probably first grade, but you're still friends, we are yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2I actually went and visited her. During my trip. I visited both of these girls during my trip and it was really good. It was really nice. I went to one of their, the one with the twins. Yeah. She's the one I was friends with, the one with the twins? She's the one I was friends with, or the girly one.
Speaker 2I went to her twin's birthday party. I pulled into the driveway and I opened the door. I immediately start crying and I run up to her and I give her a big hug and I was like this was not part of the plan. I'm like just crying my eyes out. I'm like I'm so sorry, I'm so happy, but I'm really sad at the same time and I missed you. It was so funny. And then she noticed I had a tick.
Speaker 2Oh okay, I was like oh no, we gotta get that fixed anyway yes I had them and another girl, the farm girl, which I also got to meet during my trip yeah, and then you didn't cry when you met her.
Speaker 1No, no it wasn't as emotional I wasn't as much of a mess no I've tried really, really hard to keep myself together yeah, I mean you had reasons to cry, yeah, but I just you know anyway yeah so it's not your fault. No, but you're not the reason why I no, but.
Speaker 2I brought it up. You're not the reason why I'm crying.
Speaker 1No, but I brought it up.
Speaker 2Yeah, and then I had my guy friends. I had three and a half. No, I have four really good guy friends.
Speaker 1And you still have them.
Speaker 2No, Well, one actually.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Kind of in the background.
Speaker 1The other three the other three, all right.
Speaker 2So best friend number one I ended up dating for almost two years and that crumbled to pieces and he decided I was psychotic and told his parents I was psychotic and his parents were friends with everyone and told everyone I was psychotic. I was like all right, I guess I am dating in middle school and in middle school I had developed a very deep depression, okay, and I didn't know how to handle it. So apparently having mental issues makes you psychotic. Well, I mean, when I put it that way, it makes sense but, in the wrong way yeah so yeah, that happened.
Speaker 2Friend number two he had a crush on me, but I was like, absolutely not okay you're gross in that way I'll play with you, but I'm not gonna no no. So then he decided you were a psychotic no, he dealt with it and then eventually he became a stoner and I straight out told him that you know I don't support your lifestyle and he unfriended me. Okay, friend number three. No, it was only three, so I don't remember another one okay that's funny.
Speaker 2Oh, no, no, no, okay, no, no, okay, no, I remember. I remember now there was four. Okay, friend number three oh boy, we had a weird relationship.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2Because I did have sleepovers with him a couple times. One of the times he got extremely cuddly and it was really weird. We were not even in middle school yet and he was like, getting all close to me, I was like I don't like this. No, jumped to high school and I did date him for a little bit. What happened there? I don't remember. I don't remember what happened. We stopped talking. He unfriended me. I don't know. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1It wasn't that bad, I mean.
Speaker 2I don't know. I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1It wasn't that bad, I mean it didn't end in like a catastrophe. I have zero memory of what happened, okay.
Speaker 2All I know is that Repressed.
Speaker 1I mean, you just push it down.
Speaker 2Oh, that's funny. I'm sorry. I was like I know this word. Yeah, what do you mean? Maybe, yeah, what do you mean Maybe? Yeah, maybe Just a weird time Weird things happened and I don't really remember what happened, but it did just kind of dissolve. I guess Friend number four I had a crush on yeah, there's a pattern here right, yeah, yeah. Because we all were just friends as kids.
Speaker 2And then, as you grow up, you develop feelings and stuff okay this friend did not like me back, so I just had to deal with that and I don't know what happened. We were really close and then high school happened and he I think he was homeschooled or something or moved to a different school, so we got separated.
Speaker 1So he's the one who's a friend in the background.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's the friend in the background. We actually recently or during this year we started messaging a little bit, just short conversations. But he was really important to me, mostly because during my depression and self-harming phases phases he actually cared and was looking out for me and trying to steer me in a better direction and I was a jerk and just brushed him off because I didn't want to okay so sorry about that friend, you know, you're you know who you are. You are a cool guy guy and I'm a jerk. Yeah, I'm a different person now.
Speaker 1I agree, yeah, thank you All right next, what were your favorite family traditions or holidays as a child?
Speaker 2Christmas was always a big deal. Of course, my mom always made it a big deal. She was an excessive shopper, so we got lots of presents, a lot of things that we didn't need, a lot of things we didn't ask for and a lot of things we didn't even use yeah, and that continued even when you, even when I moved out. Yeah, my kids got the same treatment yeah but yeah, she always made a big deal out of that and it was fun. I also felt like my favorite holiday was my birthday. Okay.
Speaker 2My birthday is a big deal to me, so yeah, that's a favorite. That's the answer to your question.
Speaker 1Yes, your birthday and also Christmas, right, you got a lot of stuff on both occasions.
Speaker 2I don't think it was nearly as much for birthdays.
Speaker 1Okay, it was just nice to you, know, be.
Speaker 2Celebrated. Yeah, exactly, yeah. Also cake. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1Everyone loves cake they do yeah, probably a nice dinner.
Speaker 2Everyone loves cake.
Speaker 1They do.
Speaker 2Yeah, probably a nice dinner. We would probably go out somewhere. I also got birthday outfits for my birthdays. I remember throughout the years it would get even more difficult to do my shopping because I could never find clothes that I liked, and that hasn't really changed, it just gets worse. I don't like clothes that I liked, and that hasn't really changed, it just gets worse. I don't like clothes shopping.
Speaker 1Okay, cake. To sum it up, yeah Right, were there any significant challenges or difficulties you faced as a child?
Speaker 2I think the biggest one, the root of a lot of it, was the loss of my dad. Yeah, growing up so many questions, you know, like I feel like I hardly knew the guy and that's like half of me. It was like not really understanding half of myself and, um, like just thinking about who would I be if that didn't happen and like how life would have been different. And I don't know if it's really missing a person, since you don't really know the person. It's more like missing the figure.
Speaker 1Yeah, you know what I mean. Yes, I do.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I can't really relate, since.
Speaker 2You still have both your parents. Yeah, I do Fancy.
Speaker 1Yeah, I am Sorry. Yeah. Next question is is there a moment from your childhood that you feel shaped who you are today?
Speaker 2You would think that if it was a significant part of my life, I would have remembered it. Right, yeah, but I just I'm not sure.
Speaker 1Do you want me to cut this question? This Christian question, do you? Want me to cut this Christian.
Speaker 2Yes, please, I don't know, there really should. Yes, please, I don't know there really should be something, but I don't know. You can keep it, just so I can say that I don't know.
Speaker 1Okay, yes.
Speaker 2You had an answer and I don't.
Speaker 1Well, I had Jackie Chan.
Speaker 2You have Jackie Chan, but I that's such a big part of me so yeah, I'm trying to think what's a big part of me and I just I don't know.
Speaker 1No.
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Speaker 2What's a big part of me.
Speaker 1AFI.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, I saw them, I never met them.
Speaker 1I never met Jackie Chan.
Speaker 2No, I never had like a huge moment of AFI.
Speaker 1Okay, it's just I don't know, but it must have felt like that was kind of your thing, right?
Speaker 2Yeah, I remember getting my Spotify account and that was the biggest deal of my life. Oh yeah, I mean I'll take that I'm going to use this one. Okay, spotify was not always available in the States, so I had my Swedish friend make my account for me, and that just opened doors. It was amazing. Cool. I can listen to like all the songs that I like ever, and there's a lot of them.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean. But what's sad is that they don't have all the songs.
Speaker 2No, no but.
Speaker 1But they have a lot of them.
Speaker 2And they add more.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Like Prince wasn't always on there.
Speaker 1Or.
Speaker 2Metallica even.
Speaker 1Oh Okay.
Speaker 2And now they're both there, cool Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1Okay, so what's something from your childhood that you miss? You're like, just missed it. I just missed it. I just missed it. I'm so funny sometimes.
Speaker 2You are. Yes, that's true.
Speaker 1The sad thing is that I'm the only one that thinks that.
Speaker 2I miss a lot of things about my childhood.
Speaker 1Okay, name one thing, what you miss the most, or second or third.
Speaker 2Can I just go with the obvious? Yeah uh, my mom. She was the biggest part, she was always there yeah and now she's not. Yeah, shut up, matthias, stop Stop.
Speaker 1Yeah, I understand.
Speaker 2No, you don't.
Speaker 1Okay, I don't, I guess this I mean, I can ask.
Speaker 2You can ask.
Speaker 1Yeah. Who were your role models growing up? What did you admire about them?
Speaker 2You were my role model.
Speaker 1Growing up.
Speaker 2Growing up. You didn't know about me, but you were my imaginary friend and I just made you up. Okay, you're a ghost. Okay, I think.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2All my friends are dead. Anyway, no, no, no, I'm gonna answer you. I promise Probably would have to be my mom's best friend and mom's best friend's youngest daughter. They were both also a big part of my childhood and they took care of me when mom couldn't. So, yeah, I'm going to say they are Very nice, thank you Next.
Speaker 1How do you think your childhood shaped the person you are today?
Speaker 2I was going to say that I believe I'm a fairly independent person, but I've never lived alone so I'm not really that independent am I? No I mean, I only lived alone for a couple of months. Yeah. I lived in a tiny little cabin and then I was forced to move out again. So I like to think that I'm fairly strong, in a way.
Speaker 1You are.
Speaker 2Not exactly physically.
Speaker 1You are strong physically, but also mentally. I agree with that.
Speaker 2I really do hold it together a lot of the time.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Some days are harder than others, like you've noticed. Yes, are you also getting emotional? Yeah, okay. So, I can't make you cry talking about your own childhood, but talking about mine is that sad yeah? Okay, I have a sad life. What was the question? Do I have a better answer for him?
Speaker 1How do you think your childhood shaped the person you are today?
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, my mom really was my biggest role model ever, yeah, so pretty much whoever she was while raising me, that's an important part. While raising me, I feel like I've become a reflection of that. I feel like I've become a reflection of that. You know, working hard and trying to hold everything together and making sure everyone is happy and doing the things that they want to do. I mean, I have absolutely adjusted, because I don't 100% agree with some of the things my mom did.
Speaker 1My goodness, you sound wise.
Speaker 2I really don't think so.
Speaker 1I think so.
Speaker 2I feel like an idiot.
Speaker 1No, that was a very good answer. Okay. So looking back, I haven't done that enough. Looking back, how do you feel your childhood compares to how you see the world now?
Speaker 2Oh boy, what a mess. As a child, you feel like the world is under control and everything is fine. And then you grow up and actually pay attention to the news and everything and everything is exploding all over the place.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, and that's another thing that you feel like the adults have. You know, they know everything, they have everything set.
Speaker 2And you're supposed to trust adults and assume that they know best? Yeah, exactly, and it turns out when you grow up and they're when you're an adult yourself, you realize that no one knows you look back on how your parents were and it's like why, like I, I question a lot of things now, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1So when you were a child, what did you dream of becoming when you grew up?
Speaker 2I have a list.
Speaker 1Okay, but what was the biggest? The number one, Fine.
Speaker 2Oh God, it definitely did develop. I really wanted to work with animals, but I also wanted to be in entertainment and the entertainment part went from music to videos to film, and that's kind of where I left off the last time I was at school. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, that's the short version okay, so it's film yeah, and I did get to dip my toes in filmmaking and it was really fun, even though it was as professional as it was going to be. I'll put that in nice words.
Speaker 1Did your childhood aspirations change as you got older?
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Because I really wanted to work with animals and I wanted to be a pet sitter at first. Oh, that was my first dream job. Okay. And then I wanted to be a vet, of course.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2But I don't really like the idea of doing surgery and stuff on animals. So then I was thinking vet assistant should be good, and then school, no, thank you. So then I wanted to be a singer okay, and then I wanted to be in a rock band. That didn't work out. No, I never. I kind of had a band, but we couldn't really work together okay, I was too shy to sing in front of them.
Speaker 2So it didn't work out. So then I hopped back to my animal thing and I wanted to be a zoologist, so I wanted to study bighorn sheep. I was very specific. This is what I want to do, or tigers Anyway, tiger tiger. And then, yeah, the whole video thing yeah, happened.
Speaker 1That's where you left, that's where I left.
Speaker 2Off was the film yeah, and that's, that's all that's all. That's all things have definitely changed.
Speaker 1I've always jumped back and forth between things, though but it's kind of funny how we have the same dream though yeah I mean you had a kind of longer road, yeah since you wanted to do. All well, I also wanted to do other things, but you know, filmmaking was the number one for me, and this is not about me, so no, we already covered you.
Speaker 2yeah, yeah, but that was it.
Speaker 1That was the questions I had.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1And I am very satisfied with the answers you gave.
Speaker 2What.
Speaker 1I am very satisfied.
Speaker 2Thank you.
Speaker 1With the answers you gave.
Speaker 2Good, I'm glad you almost made me cry, I didn't.
Speaker 1It wasn't me.
Speaker 2No, I don't think it was me you asked the question and then I had to answer it it was your phone.
Speaker 1Oh, I'm just gonna.
Speaker 2I can always toss the blame somewhere else. I can always blame your phone okay, I didn't cry, though, no, you didn't, I survived do you feel like this episode is about done? I believe so. Would you like to wrap this up?
Speaker 1Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 2This has been fun.
Speaker 1It has been.
Speaker 2Kind of, yeah, I guess it's been entertaining, hopefully. Yeah, let's see. What do we have? We have live Mad Libs coming up September 7th. We will be. What do we have? We have live Mad Libs coming up September 7th. We will be live on Twitch playing Mad Libs with the people. You can find more information on that in the show notes. Yeah.
Speaker 2Just open up that description box and you will find everything you need. So you should definitely be interested in joining us. Yeah, it's really fun. Maybe one day we'll start a cooking show. We'll see Also, this is 91?.
Speaker 1Yeah, 91. That's my year.
Speaker 2Yeah, I wore my City Hunter shirt. It is not a 91 movie but, I will wear it again in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2So that means that we have four episodes until we reveal what we do, what our plans are for number 100. Yeah, it's going to be fun. Very fun. You should join us for 95 when we tell you about 100.
Speaker 1You do that.
Speaker 2And that's it.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2We'll be back next Tuesday with another amazing episode, and I'll tell you about my cruise.
Speaker 1Yes, bye-bye. Oh, all right, bye-bye. I just wanted to end Then end it. Bye-bye.
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