00:00:00.400 Recording OK. Every episode starts the same way. OK. We should maybe make it like an. Effort to start this one in another life. Hey there. Say hi. Hi. This is Darcy. Hello. Welcome to the new concept.

00:00:30.630 I'd guess maybe we'll put a theme song in here. Let's see all my afternoon goes. OK have you gotten more while RAF sir. No I didn't give him any notes either. Ah dear dear friend Drew Connelly sent us a beautiful theme song which we then didn't mess with yet. So sorry Drew you do good work. You're an incredible composer and you're a nice general human being. And I really like your parents composers.

00:00:58.200 When I do my short films he confesses the music for it and his mother came up to me after one and it's just like the best proudest mom in the whole world hydro Connelly's mom. That's nice. So she'll listen just to hear the theme song. I hope so. Yeah I put it if I ever put it in there. Maybe today's the day drew won't have lyrics. Might just have a tune just a diddy. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo. That was taken. Yeah I don't know. OK.

00:01:27.750 OK. Anyway welcome to the neo cons podcast. I'm your host Darcy and Katie and we have a very special episode for you today. If this is your first time listening to what we're gonna do is a little bit of a recap of the previous seven episodes and a little bit of an update. Some things have changed regarding learned some new things and we're just gonna talk about each episode in turn a little bit.

00:01:57.190 So if you've never listened one of our episodes before this might be kind of a good overview and you can see if something seems appealing to you. Then you you know what you're like. I want to go listen to one or all of them because they're all just. Gold. Oh God no not a single moment we could have cut from any of them. No. No. Yeah. Yeah. I guess what we do for a normal episode is this is the No Gonzo podcast so we bring in a topic that we typically have no concept about and then go to is like electricity.

00:02:31.510 How does electricity work. I still have no idea. My dad tried to explain it to us at the brewery. Yeah. Not at a lot. Very very boring. I. Shaking my head. My take away was like so it is water. That depended on the apples if you like. Cool. Yeah. And I was sure it was not cool.

00:02:59.230 But I think all's involved it can be coal or water or steam the same as water anyways or whatever. So anyway we come up with a topic we don't know anything about as we just did. And then ideally we would bring on a guest who knows a lot about this topic to teach us a little something right. So in the end hopefully we'd have some concept of what we were talking about when talking about a lecture or a new perspective even if we don't cover the whole thing. And that's been a couple of episodes too it's just a different perspective and we're not doing any of that today.

00:03:29.290 Today we're just recapping because I got too busy. Well I think it's good to kind of do a little bit of this. You know there are things. That have come up that I thought oh we need to get that you know I. Mentioned this in the next podcast and then we don't or you know a feedback that we've gotten so it'll be good to kind of. Touch on that stuff again. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Did you learn anything this week.

00:03:56.250 Oh we always start we always and we always start with something we learned this week and it's usually pretty bad because we can never think of anything. And I'm going to go straight from here and e-mail Darcy my clip that I'm going to insist that she put in Jan from the office singing. What did you learn. The best part I had forgotten.

00:04:18.730 So has like Jan's singing with her daughter then Michael's sitting there watching the whole thing because this is the episode where he thinks he has herpes and he gets tired of it and he just goes I have herpes so don't worry I have that clip. Hopefully you guys can hear it. What did I learn this week. Oh I'll go. Great. I have one.

00:04:48.340 You have like a two minute buffer here. Perfect. On the drive over here my mom and my mom's car. Mine is in the shop blah blah blah. She had the radio on Catholic spirit radio and my phone was dead so I couldn't get up to my phone. And so I just found myself listening to talk radio which growing up was like. The worst. I hated talk radio well just random cars.

00:05:15.820 Yeah but. The show I heard today was a priest. I don't know who it was. I heard the name but I don't remember it anymore. I've always heard the theory. I'm I don't know if you get as you have much background in this about Jesus having brothers and sisters and just like DaVinci Code the whole thing. I think there's some there's some belief that they're just brothers and sisters but then I don't know if it's specific to the Catholic religion or if it's Christianity in general.

00:05:46.600 Tries to find ways to explain that and how to make it so that like. I think maybe a little bit specific to the Catholic faith that that creates issues as far as Mary goes because Mary is you know she's a thinker. Yeah. Oil is like that. Ever heard it like so if she had kids after Jesus. Obviously she is not a virgin anymore. Which I'm not even sure how much weight I place on any of this.

00:06:15.740 You know like it doesn't have anything to do with my personal relationship with Jesus. I get that like as an institution and generally you try to figure stuff out you know. But I've always heard this theory passed around that it did have brothers and sisters or that there was at that time you would be close enough to your cousins that they would call them brothers and sisters in the Bible I know it's listed as whoever. Brother right. Yeah. I mean they're listed as brothers.

00:06:44.910 What I heard this morning I thought was interesting though because it almost makes more sense to me like it makes me almost want to research it. Is that Joseph was a widower when he married Mary. Really. And that front he would have already had children. Huh. Yeah. I don't know but that's what this priest was talking about there's two schools of thought and I think his main takeaway was that we don't know what it was and that you know at least that's what I took away from me.

00:07:19.560 I don't know. I'm just hoping a whole new can of worms to me of things that are. It was I it was an interesting theory. Well I learned that Catholics believe Mary was still a virgin. I didn't even know that well. And I was like yeah she's got kids who cares. Nobody would. But you know Mary is not the same figure in Protestant religion. You know I mean not right. Never occurred to us that what. Mary did after the virgin birth were like whatever ram it would be interesting to bring someone more knowledgeable Catholic and to talk about stuff like that that people don't understand.

00:07:52.160 Because I think there are just a few. Mary is probably the biggest one. But even I think all the relationship with the saints you know people don't really get that that in confession. I think those three. OK. And. Also. The Saints I don't get a confession I get a confession I indigestion Mary which Mary is just a saint essentially. I mean she's just like the star saint. I don't know that it's probably a butcher soup oversimplified way but.

00:08:20.830 And then also the Eucharist I think Oh yeah. Yeah. That's that's the real I don't know. I when I went through confirmation that's one of the real differences between Catholics but anyways we get Martin Luther we get Martin Luther in here and have him break it down and that's what you get. He's very well versed in the different family threes in like a Lutheran minister to discuss the differences except for you and I would just be like Oh yeah.

00:08:50.690 And not the number that the department Leviticus I think your reference that I was reading Leviticus 6 13. Oh there aren't 13 verses in each chapter. Does your Leviticus say that it's good My living is actually like I knew. New get out of the situation. Well what I was reading Leviticus like random or random my sister in law gave Georgie a gift for her baptism and it was a little like sheep piggy bank.

00:09:22.220 It had some bible verse on it you know. But she'd got it from in Lincoln there was like a Catholic gift shop. It was like you know whatever Christians are but I have to be a Catholic or I know which one. Yeah. And it was wrapped and had a little sticker on it. Is that where it came from. And I every time every day. Yeah. Yeah. And every time I look at that sheep I think Oh that's our catalog a little Catholic sheep. And I don't read it that. Why does it have a Catholic verse like is the verse just a Catholic. I'm like No.

00:09:49.520 Look I think the verses are the say the picture of Mary the Virgin Jew. I don't know her federal version of Virgin sheep. Yeah. No it's it's the same. It's just from the start. That's a nice star they have. They have some good stuff. They're lovely baptismal gifts. That's hard to find. I know. Or that isn't like the same thing you're going to get from some people. And is a niche market.

00:10:20.810 Yeah. They also have a lot of it. I been wearing it lately but I have two necklaces that have. I have lots of different St medals across. So I'm going to charge him or something and most of them they all have come from different experiences that I've gone to like the first one I got was just a little pendant pendant that says loved that my I bought from my mom and sister and I. Women of Faith conference. And then.

00:10:47.840 But then I've slowly added and accumulate all these little st medals and they have like the best selection. And they have that like solid rocket. Carney has some even get some online but there's like. There's a big difference in the quality and you can't tell from the price because even the good quality ones will be like six bucks sometime. Yeah but then sometimes you'll get the six dollar one online and it's like you can bend it. I think if you try to so they have they have a good array of better ones there.

00:11:21.080 If you ever need to get me a st medal you can go to I'll know where to go. OK. Let me look and see if I've learned anything I have to look at my phone to know if I learned anything. I know something you learned upstairs. Oh is that your dishwasher has a disposal. Yes. I learned that I could put spaghetti in my dishwasher and it would go away. No one told me that moment after Russ told you that he was like Just kidding it doesn't.

00:11:53.270 He didn't like them I had that no. It's not in there. I did. I don't know any dishwashers had disposals built into them. I guess I didn't know where the food was or how I do it all because we didn't have a disposal growing up on the farm because we had a septic system and we couldn't have it we couldn't have one. We have a septic system. I had enough for whatever reason we couldn't get one. Maybe they could now but at the time they couldn't anyway. So we never have one. So I wasn't used to that being an option. So yeah I did learn that I've had a busy week.

00:12:23.390 I don't know I've normally my regular job what I do is I write commercial treatments. So if Coco this is my standard go to example Coca-Cola wants a TV commercial they hire an ad agency ad agency REITs commercial and then it's time to make the commercial they hire a company to actually make it called a production company and that company has a bunch of directors that they work with so they bid for a job.

00:12:50.690 And what I do is I work with a director to come up with a plan for how we would direct the commercial sell. Here's what it would look like here's who he'd cast in it. Here's you know some punch up to the script here's how would make the script funnier. And I write a document basically trying to get my company. The job is what I do every day. I've done it for two and a half years. I've written somewhere in the neighborhood of like 400 of these things.

00:13:16.460 About two thousand words a piece which puts us at 80000 words. Do you like math. I can do it anyway. Two thousand two thousand time times four hundred yeah eight hundred thousand eight hundred thousand. So that's. She. Is us. Eight hundred thousand words Hey this is gonna be worth it.

00:13:51.280 So war and peace is five hundred and eighty seven thousand words so you've written war and peace and a half hour and a half of war and visas in two and a half years. So that's what I do and typically but what I did this week was I was actually writing the script. They had they had an idea but I was actually writing the script for a commercial which was really fun. And for a big fine actor who has a really distinctive voice who I definitely won't say here.

00:14:27.130 But there's animation elements and there's multiple products and it's it was just like writing and within very specific parameters. But it was a lot of fun I had actually writing a script for it instead of just a directing plan. So yeah. And took a lot more thought and effort and time than my normal. Tick tick tick tick tick. It was a little more effort. So.

00:14:49.150 Anyway that's why we're doing a recap episode. But I learned a lot of specific things about how animation works this week. So yeah I want to hear more about the commercial and I want to know when it's. Yeah well we'll share with our listener. All right. Well so that's sort of something. Yeah it's something. Let's dive into our recap I guess. OK. So episode one. Is called and he feels like a million years ago.

00:15:19.860 I think about Episode 1 My mind goes straight to the porn line now. It's such a good line. He's such a good guy. So we had Colleen kind of talk to us about what it's like to be in Nebraska famous to be recognizable in these yes small town communities in this very specific little region because we don't see a lot of celebrities here. So it's kind of a it's a weird offshoot of celebrity that she lives with because it's such a specific lake.

00:15:49.930 If she goes to Iowa. Oh I wonder. Now she is. There isn't like she's not going to go on a vacation half you will be like. Well unless they're from Nebraska which I'm sure happens but you know like yeah if you're not from Nebraska you don't know who she is. No no. Yeah. And with the cord cutters I mean I don't know if you know. Right. A lot of people from Nebraska are they. She looks familiar but they don't know why. Yeah but so we kind of talk to Colin about that and. Follow up from that episode.

00:16:19.450 One thing I cut from the episode was she said one of things she really likes the most about her job is when it's like. A high pressure situation and the news the information the news can provide is really really important. So like with this flooding and stuff she gave us example with the flooding this spring you know they felt really really valuable with like relief sides and here's who you need to call here's where you need to go and here's what needs to happen and you know talking to FEMA and all that stuff. And she said that part of her job is really really rewarding.

00:16:50.350 And I kind of. Got it. Yeah. And then we had more flooding and I was like oh I wish I had left that in because it was like so pertinent you know this area is now being laid down I just decided that this was going to be this is how I've had. This child's map that I haven't made because this is so much more comfortable right. Perfect.

00:17:18.750 That chair's sock and I keeps sitting up like a goddamn professional. Back to the flooding though. Yeah which just keeps hitting us. Well you can't just get killed. Oh yeah. I mean yeah just like the interstate area. Well Josie was just telling me in California I don't remember if she she's watching Hulu maybe there was a relief organization specifically for benefiting the Nebraska flooding law showing it on a commercial.

00:17:47.650 So there's a commercial circulating nationwide only about relief efforts for Midwest flooding. I think there's a few other states involved but specifically showed a lot of Nebraska flooded she said which made me really happy because I feel like it just hasn't gotten very much national attention at all. And we really did just get hammered. I mean honestly and I feel like it just didn't get very much coverage but. You know. It reminds me a little off topic that I have things to donate in my car for the Bahamas.

00:18:18.720 Oh yeah. I need to find a place to donate them. Actually one of our probably one of our most loyal listeners her some of her husband's family is there her nieces families. Are from there. And so she's been really good about posting. Like the lists of what they need places to donate it. Shout out to Amber has. I think you probably are still listening hopefully but you need to look it up because eventually.

00:18:49.800 It's a little too late to send those diapers in that I forgot you don't need to keep those you know. Yeah there is. There's no benefit to those spellings either so it's really good if you just want to hear some funny news anecdotes and learn a bit a little bit about what it's like to be recognizable. I did write what I thought of with that episode too. I think that it clicked a little bit for me because even though it was the first one we released it was actually our second one.

00:19:20.010 And I think I finally kind of read the sigh of relief that like this might work when she said the thing about her agent being named more and like like I could picture like the guy smoking a cigar in his our eyes and we're joking around about it. And I thought like OK this feels natural like it finally felt like OK I can do this and I'm not like going to be anal and like picky the whole time about how does my voice sound and you know like awkward or whatever.

00:19:49.510 So now I just am laying on this couch for all that and I'm just like whatever and it's just like anything. But I do feel like that it just like slowly became easier. Yeah yeah I think so too. So Episode Two was about Reiki. The biggest thing I really wanted to make sure we talked about on this one was that. In the beginning I remember I talked about how Olivia's had a Reiki practitioner that was Karen one of our guests after Amy listen and she messaged us on Facebook you like yeah that's Karen right.

00:20:26.360 Yeah. So we were we're super on it. Yeah we're just advertising for even though. Yeah we did. It's our most wildly popular episode today. Yeah. I think the topic I think was a great one. It was a great way to introduce art. I kind of our format too but yeah because no one knows what Reiki is. It's one of the truest to format episodes we've done.

00:20:49.710 You know it is something a lot of people don't understand and don't know much about the other thing that I think worked really well with that one was the panel discussion I think because there were multiple people to talk to and bounce ideas back and forth off of. I think it flowed really really well. Yeah and I liked having multiple guests. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. I think that was good. I think it's a good idea when we can maybe do a little bit more of that sometimes. My biggest takeaway from that was maybe like when I listened to it back because you edited that episode so I went straight from.

00:21:24.150 Recording it to not hearing anything until you know two weeks later plus probably and then I listened to it just like our listeners and I was more convinced in person sitting down here talking about it than listening to episode. So I don't know if that was a.. Like maybe just because of the you know visual eye contact seeing people face to face they were really passionate about it and you could tell they were passionate about it talking about it.

00:21:57.970 Yeah. It was an energy. There was an energy. Yes. That maybe it. Doesn't translate as well. Maybe. So yeah because I was 100 percent after being here I thought like I need to try Reiki I want to go do you know when I speak I think I still would in the right circumstance but just listening to it it didn't sell me as much. So I guess if you're on the fence about it and you think like our episode didn't convince you don't let that be the reason that you don't pursue it.

00:22:30.900 Yeah we like that. Yes. And then that one. So after the Reiki episode we actually did have a couple emails and I guess this is a good time to talk about we love your feedback. We love our ideas. We love your suggestions. If you want to be a guest if you know someone who should be a guest just shoot us an e-mail. We like to interact with you or direct message on Instagram or Facebook. And we're at no concept pod at gmail dot com.

00:23:00.210 And no concept pod basically everywhere. Right. Yeah. And I mean we love to interact with all of you. So yeah we're definitely open to suggestion for topics for guests for anything haircuts. Or if they're just like why are you doing this. This is dumb. I could do some landscaping. Yeah you know whatever.

00:23:28.390 It was a three whale of a time. Oh we should is what episode two was I guess it was about Ricky. I think I did. Did you set it up. I think so. Great. If not it's about Ricky which is energy healing which is. Interesting. And we kind of talked about what we think it is is it a God thing is not a good idea right. Right. Monarch thing is that if you're a Christian you should avoid.

00:23:58.850 Or is it does it go hand in hand or what does it do. Right. Yeah. Who could use it. Is it just cleansing your aura. Yeah. That's what it was. Yes it was a three is about whales specifically about the Blackfish documentary and then SeaWorld. And. What was true wasn't true. And a lot of it ended up in editing because of the time constraints.

00:24:24.830 But one of the best parts of it that I would still like to revisit was just the idea of documentaries and if they were skewed or if they are you know a little bit I think you may pose the question if they're irresponsible because it does have a motive. Yeah. Well and I think it's something people in Nebraska relate to a lot. Even though you know. Maybe marine biology in general doesn't apply to a lot of people in our area.

00:24:55.040 Something Nebraskans relate to a lot because we've been on the other side of a lot of these documentaries about you know different farming practices or animal practices or you know I mean. Mm hmm. And you know all these you know studies and antibiotics and Monsanto and well I mean beef in the environment and you know I mean it's we've been the bad guy in a lot of these sort of conversations before and I think that's kind of a way in that a lot of Nebraskans can relate to.

00:25:24.250 Right. I agree. And it's just more it's more interesting than whales themselves. It's more about the ethics of it and the nuances of it and the sort of people behind these organizations and the people who. Really Care About their animals and love their jobs and have a passion and you know I mean it was just an interesting more human story than you might think. All right.

00:25:49.980 This may be the first time that clueless as a movie came up in the podcast which sends them running and made me read in those steps. Is that somehow. Some line from clueless relates to everything in life. Yeah but that's one of our lower listen to episodes which we think is a terrible injustice because it's a really good one. We had talked about maybe we need to maybe think about that a little bit more renaming it and Subway or something like maybe it draws more appeal or being posted in a different way.

00:26:22.470 I don't know. But yeah I honestly thought that one and the Reiki I think are very interesting topics that anyone could listen to without. I think maybe some of the benefit that ties. To me it's not something that you're going to become like emotional about you know like that because like I definitely think some of the other episodes like you're going to walk away from it feeling like some sort of a lasting effect maybe you know like if we're talking about you know Joe's story or racism or something you know like it could stir something up and you were like I feel like Reiki or.

00:27:01.560 Whales documentaries like it's going to. It's getting hold your interest for an hour hour and a half of your life but then you're gonna move walk away from it and you're not going to be like. Oh yeah absolutely. So moving right on to episode four which is Joe Marvin's stoy which is great so good. It's this one's really really good. It's basically a personal narrative of a.

00:27:30.720 Kid in a older age and in the headline of the story is when he was a baby just a few hours old was left on the steps of a church in Ravenna Nebraska Riverdale river to Riverdale that's another baby here a lot of key plot black boy in the river and was found by some schoolchildren the next morning waiting for the bus.

00:27:59.190 So it's a story of his adoption. And then he's had some tough sort of medical diagnoses that you know because he's adopted doesn't have any medical history for him and then all his mom's. Yeah. His mom's sort of cancer diagnosis and struggles and then ultimately it's a story of wild powerful faith based occurrences and coincidences like miracles and things just like it.

00:28:33.000 To me it was like just a concrete example of how God is at work in our lives. Oh man he's one of those people where just crazy coincidences like light connections that Katie and I both had with him follow him just absolutely everywhere and it's yeah it's a very real sort of presence with him anyway. But a really really compelling interesting personal narrative. Yeah yeah. I actually bought the book it's not supposed to be this way but he talked about oddness. Oh yeah.

00:29:03.780 And it's actually somehow become the book my mom and I are now reading together which has been nice. Good. Yeah. We just don't know how we just slip away from you. Yeah. So we've actually only talked about two chapters so far but it's nice because the way it's written. Have you read it or do you have it or. I haven't ever. I've only read pieces of it. OK.

00:29:27.380 So we've I'm working on chapter three reading it now but it's nice because it's pretty easy to read but then at the end of every chapter there's kind of a recap and then there's some Bible verses that relate to it that maybe were already mentioned but you actually go or at least I do I go and actually read them again and then some questions that they want you to hide so. That they you better get down. I think you're going to bump the microphone. Yeah like that.

00:29:58.010 This is the disadvantage of laying on the couch. You can also go yeah think your father. There is no disadvantage to Lane. Judge OK. OK. OK. So there's questions so there's questions at the end of the chapter that. Then it makes you actually think about how it relates to your life again because you know as you read it you think about it and like I'll make little notes in the margins or underline things or whatever but actually then I've been having to write down the questions which is what my mom and I then do together is that.

00:30:32.180 We read the kind of recap again. Answer the questions and then we talk about it. And then there is a prayer at the end and actually the prayer at the end of Chapter 2 is so nice. Yeah like I want to I think like copy it out of there. I don't know. Yeah I really liked it. So it's been really good. And when I first started I kind of thought maybe I'm reading it too early. Like maybe it's the book I need to read.

00:30:58.370 After my mom passes which is terrible to think about but the more I've gotten into it the more I think you know I get the time and what I need to read now and it's great to read it with her. And so it's been really good. It's been great. Yeah I love it. I love it. It's been a good good resource for us. I think that was called it's not supposed to be supposed to be this way this way.

00:31:27.460 Lisa lies first. Yeah. Yeah. I got mine at Target. Yeah I believe we can get it on Amazon. I try to remember to link to it. Remember to link to any of this. Yeah but just Joe's a really really good one. If you. Want a really sort of powerful faith story personal narrative just great. Yeah. And I was the one I did get some feedback on that one my same cousin Amber.

00:31:58.390 She was like wow chills or goose bumps or something like that. She I think as far as from her feedback I think that's her favorite episode. Yeah. And I'm I think she's listened to all of it. You know I think she's a big podcast listener so it's funny the different ones that speak to different people. And he also runs the social media for kids and calico company. I see him all the time you know highly entertaining. There are kickin bags the coffee the other day I don't know why they were doing that.

00:32:25.570 It was like you something like running into twenty two or twenty three. Oh yeah yeah. That one cracks are you crazy yeah. And I know. Yeah. So hi Joe. We like your episode. Yeah. So episode 1 0 5. OK. Well that was an interesting.

00:32:48.210 So it was about high school and like what it's like to be in high school now because I think if you don't think that you're older that you get things skew like you think you have a good grasp on stuff but you don't. That's the takeaway. Yeah we're all old. I think you step away from it and it changes. And so without realizing it like in my mind everything was so much harder and different.

00:33:16.470 And like you can walk from one class to the other without someone being like Hey I got these drugs you know. Then we talked to Kelsey who was great and she's like No I've never seen drugs. Like what. Yeah I should apologize. I said something to the effect of I thought I sort of expected all high school kids to be wimps. And I didn't really pick up on that.

00:33:44.030 And we were talking when I was editing and I was like oh this sounds harsh. Yeah it sounded a little harsh. Here's where that came from. I'm listening. This book called How to Raise adults. And they really drilled into you this idea that there's this over parent thing sort of epidemic in America. And these kids who can't take care of themselves when they go to college and things and and I in Los Angeles worked with a lot of people like that like I know a lot of people our age who can't do can't think their way out of a wet paper bag like it's crazy.

00:34:19.350 So my perception of course of younger people was that they you know their parents were doing their homework and they were you know kind of clutching at the apron strings and that sort of stuff. Based on this book that I read. But you know that I mean this is a whole discussion and self book Parenting styles in Nebraska are not the same as parenting styles in the coast which is weirdly where most of this book is aimed that is sort of upper and middle class.

00:34:50.050 His mom has an elitist. Yeah. And probably probably finds that their moms might have been that way. Yes. And then I had friends that are my mom that I mean she was involved in my life. But she wouldn't necessarily have known if I had homework every which I didn't. I mean you know like you know I definitely was going to do it for me. I in general find Nebraska kids to be pretty gritty and and self-sufficient Who are we just saying. They made their own food you were.

00:35:22.060 Oh you are just saying you never met previously. Wow. But you know I mean I don't know. I've found Nebraska kids to be very resourceful and self-reliant as a whole. And you know a lot of them grew up in small towns where they do ride their bikes places and they do take themselves places and they have a little more freedom. You know I mean I don't know. Anyway I didn't mean they were all wimps obviously. She did.

00:35:51.460 She actually did mean it. No I really don't think it came out as much. And I also went to southern valleys. We think everyone who goes to hold urges a wimp. So the rally is a little rougher. You know it's it's just a little rough for her out of a rough. Yeah. Cross word is a rough town. Yeah. There's good things about Oxford. But it's a rough place. Yeah. Yeah. So we like it. We were we were a badge of honor.

00:36:21.290 I guess it's more fun that way. Yeah I'm sure. Even just like my high school experience like what your town is nice. Get out of here. You talk about like how young you are when someone brought drugs to your party. Oh yeah. Eighth grade. I definitely didn't see that. That didn't happen at my house like well did we talk about the dogs too. They used to bring drug dogs to the school. But they did that at your school. No. They would sniff lockers and cars. They didn't even my senior prom was the first one they had any sort of Breathalyzer really.

00:36:50.090 And it was only when you got there. So that's why I didn't because I was I am like way too serious to. Be the person that drinks at a prom or something. But I still know there was there was kids that yeah they did drink before they came but then they like had it in their bag in the locker. So it doesn't matter like they showed up sober and then they got drunk. So yeah it seems. And also if you're in high school you're listening to this. That's a terrible idea. And don't do it. They're gonna breathalyzer you later.

00:37:19.600 I saw on Facebook you know how though those quizzes on Facebook and they're like one of them was we should have brought it for this discussion but who were you know answer these questions based on who you are as a senior in high school you know. And it was like What was your car and what is this what was that. And it was like. And one of them was like Do you still talk to your senior prom date. I was like Chase Quinn like you have a problem with Chase Quinn my senior year I did yeah. Mm hmm. I do. I mean not it was not a romantic from a family more than him.

00:37:47.870 I don't have it I would definitely when I saw my job. Yeah I just. I mean. You know. I'm not going to like I don't talk to any of my other prom dates. I don't talk to my junior prom date. I don't even know where he is. Anything about it. No I know. But that's funny. Yeah. You know also I think was interesting. I think it was that one that we talked about how the difference because I think you and I are very similar in so many ways.

00:38:13.280 But the difference where I feel like who I am now is like 12 year old me with some like wrinkles and you know I mean like yeah well I'm a wildly different person same person. I'm not even close. I am still the same person and that you have changed so much. Yeah I just had no idea who I was. I at that age whatsoever at all. Like I was just a shell of a person you know I had no idea what I wanted to do or who I wanted to be and I was in everything and involved in everything.

00:38:43.140 But I was essentially directionless and hadn't made any. I had one very very good friend throughout high school. You know I was so I'm coming clean but I had one friend that I count you know. So you know it's. And then college and and film is really where I found out who I was and then it wasn't funny in high school had no personality with whatever at all. And I honestly think that probably people would back me up on this and let me know no concept popped at G.M.

00:39:15.150 got you into high school with me and you're like No this is not what you were like. But I honestly I feel like I'm the same person. I think if I saw someone from high school that I haven't seen forever. They still they would agree with that but I think high school was just such a different time for everybody. Yeah it really was. I always wonder you just gotta survive it and somehow enjoy it because your life really is never gonna get a lot easier. And here's something we struggle with Georgie too.

00:39:42.290 I wonder if I had been in a bigger school with more opportunity to explore earlier things I was interested in. Yeah I just there wasn't really much for me I don't think you got there. I mean yeah I got there and I got there. But it was a lot of rebuilding my entire persona I think about the things like the parts of your personality the parts of your character that came because you were there.

00:40:11.660 Yeah I mean so yeah maybe you found this niche before. Yeah but what. What parts of you would have been missing if you would have been in a bigger community where you only did video you know. Yeah of course of course. So you got to assume it worked out for the best you know happens for a reason. It's. It's just interesting to look back on. OK so many things. Kelsey your great Kelsey was incredible. She is an incredible example of a young person.

00:40:41.370 And she was so easy for us to work with because we were scrambling with traveling the entire day and trying to fit in. And I'm like this is the two hours we have it has to work and she's like sure I'll be there. Yeah she's great so thank you. Really. Ideal again. Hopefully she's loving college now. Yeah. I would be I would talk to more high schoolers again. I think you would be fun to do a group like. Yeah like it like the more of the panel situation. Maybe that's what we do in Excel that's going to do well. We're gonna be working with Excel High School and a project coming up.

00:41:12.430 Yeah. We're getting our social media intern. We hope so. I couldn't be more thrilled if you put it out there. This is really this. It's the secret. You know if you put it out there they manifest. Yeah. Yeah. I said we needed social media interns and here they are. Friend of mine is a teacher and I was like hey you know what do you think about doing this. So we're at some point going to do probably a. Record one there and then have them kind of involved and more of the behind the scenes parts of it.

00:41:44.750 I think it's gonna be great. I think it'll be fun and will benefit from it. Hopefully they will do. But the primary things we do now. Yeah. Yeah. So episode six is great. It's with the knees for isn't so fun. This was so fun just funny because I went into it thinking like OK this is a heavy one. Yeah I know.

00:42:12.770 And all that is just incredible conversationalist. Yeah she. So this is we believe literally the only black woman in Aurora Nebraska. And so we went in kind of wanting to know what that was like and what her experience was in that regard. And my friend Josie actually said something really really interesting. She was like that's the best episode she's like well.

00:42:37.730 The thing with the niece is that she fits into that community so well and so many other ways not either you can't just transplant any person in America into central Nebraska and they fit in right. Like she is in Nebraska and at her core the only thing that makes her different is that she looks different. You know she's like she's a she's a core Nebraska. You know she wasn't raised here but yeah yeah yeah. She's like so that's why she's the perfect like test subject for like you know. Is it racism or is it if you don't fit in.

00:43:07.040 You know what I like. Well yeah. I mean she she is there. She's right. Right. You know she makes so much sense in that community. You know that's a great point. Yeah I thought so too. No. And this was great though it was so fun to be there and I loved that. So we got to hear about her love story. We got to hear about her transition moving to Nebraska. And then we also talked about the heavy stuff but you could tell she just had like a patients. And just to her presence was just great.

00:43:37.640 But her now she just has a good grasp on it. You can tell she's not going to be overly angry. She's not going to react. She kind of sees both sides of it a little bit. Not that there are two sides. Yeah. I'm not saying there's bad and you know outside and a good side there's the bad side and the bad side. Yeah. She recognizes the intention behind it. Yeah. Which is is great. Yeah yeah. Not and not necessary.

00:44:06.830 She doesn't have to you know you ever make an excuse for anything by saying like they don't know you know I shouldn't be expected ever. You know so. Yeah. No go ahead. All right. I love stuff. I mean anytime you put something about racism out there it's tough and you get you get feedback. It comes back after he says you know I mean you then you just start being like Well I don't think their intention with that one was to be anything. Yeah well it was I mean you know I.

00:44:38.120 So the feedback on that ones is tough. But it started a lot of good conversations. I mean for me in particular. Yeah. You know I mean you then you just gotta continue explaining you know my best to keep explaining. Which is really I think they bought the thing with that is just to have the conversation maybe broaden people's horizons a little bit to see that. What you're you know the standard operating procedure maybe doesn't work anymore.

00:45:07.160 And you need to adjust it and it doesn't matter if you think that like well this is what we've done for 50 years and this is what I'm going to do we'll keep it. You're racist you're always going to be. I mean I'm racist you're racist. We are. All right. There are some. Parts of us that are going to be. However that doesn't mean we don't try to change them work on it. You know are we going to eradicate it from our lives 100 percent. No.

00:45:34.290 I mean not in our lifetime but two things to minimize it. It. Just that I think it was that week if it wasn't that week it was the week the episode dropped. Mm hmm. Another example in Nebraska came out of Islamophobia. They had a. Speaker come into Muslim public schools talking about kindness. Traffic was literally and she was Muslim.

00:46:05.540 And the. Some. Woman bless her heart. Got on Facebook talking about. How. She was there to brainwash their kids and. Basically convert them over and wasn't there some nice little old lady. I mean in parentheses it might as well have said white yeah that could teach him about kindness instead. Well OK.

00:46:32.990 Is there someone that you know of that's a speaker on kindness that could do that now. Mm hmm. And who cares. It was terrible. And. So this woman. Is sitting in our hotel. Oh excuse me. Motel in the speaker. The speaker was there in Nebraska now and hearing from her friends worried about her safety about this. Social media post that is blowing up and I like within hours.

00:47:02.010 Ninety five people have liked and commented and shared it. And. So. The one positive thing about this article I think which to really get a good understanding of it. I think you should read it. We could probably put the link out there but it's still hard to even want to do that because I feel like it's such a bad. Part of me like wants to be like protective of Nebraska and I want to baby it and pretend like this stuff doesn't happen here. But anyways and obviously that's not the answer.

00:47:31.770 The one good part about this article is how the administration responded. So this principal emailed her at 430 in the morning. Basically falling over himself apologizing for the actions of his community and everything he did from then on out was 100 percent what you should do. So I think no one like great white. Because that could have gone worse. That guy could have. Been a chicken and just said we're not going to do this because it's causing a stir in my community.

00:48:00.330 And then that just spreads the message that this woman is going to win. Then this one that is is posting about. Brainwashing and. It was just. The ugliest situation that you could think of and I think it probably ended up being a great lesson for these kids because the kids really responded to her lesson. She even I think she said something in the article about how there was some students that specifically approached church to ask how she was doing.

00:48:33.600 And that's really nice. And yeah like. You know the. Idea that a 16 year old girl would feel comfortable and have the confidence to do that and also just have the empathy to think like this poor woman is coming here and doesn't even feel safe and then has to try to come and talk to us about kindness when we are obviously not being kind. Yeah. I mean honestly.

00:48:59.880 So anyways that was the same week when I was the county supervisor in Custer County and there was the guy and or with the Make America white again. And then there was this. And so if there was ever a time for an episode on racism all and we had in Harlan County you know and going into this we had a woman there's a woman that I think she lives in a holder edge but. Occasionally she goes on a walk about something.

00:49:29.150 Yeah. She's an African-American woman and she walks the highways. I don't know where she goes what she does. I think she I think she has some mental illness but the way people post about her is a very much like Hide your children and run for your life. She's got a knife she's involved in sex trafficking she's dangerous sex traffic I'm like How is this woman walking down the highway by herself. She doesn't have a vehicle. I mean she said Why are you not a help.

00:49:56.100 You know I mean did anybody call the cops because a black woman's walking through your town. Like what the what are you calling the cops about. How many times the cops are called about a time. Oh and that was some of the comments too were like oh we have there's nothing we can do about it at this point. And I'm like. No I think you should do it. She's walking by the highway I am deeply upsetting to me. Like just don't let your children play in the yard because they might see a black person. I really like to think that some of the calls coming to the cops are like this person might need help.

00:50:28.170 Yeah I'm walking by the highway force. Lord knows I need help. I'm walking for three days because my car ran out of gas and I'm walking the wrong way. So like in some cases I think I would like to believe that people have good intentions but not. The Facebook post that I write about it. Yes and no saying no. I was the same one they probably did. But racism alive and well folks definitely definitely thriving in Nebraska.

00:50:58.140 You know on that Mullen thing too I guess I got to say I have a friend that shared the article. Yeah. And people. Jumped on it to defend her for posting of racist people. Yeah right. Saying that like because of 9/11 we should always act this way. And today is September 11th. Great. Perfect.

00:51:24.290 I mean I don't want it to look like I'm taking light of that but that doesn't mean I mean you know how many terroristic activities are actually just white men that grew up here. About a thousand here. Like 90. I'm crazy percentage you know. So yeah frustrating. And we have to figure out something. Yeah. If the conversation helps hopefully my friend Lindsey my friend Lindsey has a new motto in which she does live every day like next year Elizabeth Warren will be president.

00:51:58.780 I live every day like it's a year until Elizabeth Warren. You know it's it's a good way to live for a year. It's not a bad year. I'm just just lightens everything up just a touch that's just too much. And I guess the other end is update is I got invited to game night. Oh yeah. In October. Do they forget my you'll be there. I don't need a date yet. Just a hypothetical October game night.

00:52:27.130 I will just keep October open. Yeah and this is the month of October. Jessica I need the month off because there's a chance it might. Yeah that's gonna be great. Yeah. So and I really do think it would be fun to have an E on again. She maybe is like third host component. Yeah fine have her bring somebody. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah but that's just a fun listen.

00:52:53.970 It's a you know it's it's a tough listen and there we do talk about racism and about there's some ugliness maybe it's worth talking about racism again but maybe more like outside of her personal experience and just more about just racism in general. Actually I think my college classes about racism. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Teacher. So. I'm not getting a lot from it yet but it's only I've only done two chapters so I mean literally like one of the terms in chapter one was racism.

00:53:25.240 Chapter 2 is about prejudice and so it's pretty basic still. I'm kind of thinking that it'll get a little bit heavier down the road but also you got to think it's it's probably made for a 19 year old. Yeah. Maybe they don't know as much about those things. So yeah. Okay well Episode 7 unless there's anything else you want to know. That's good for me okay.

00:53:51.810 It was about horse therapy we had Carter from the carnie therapeutic horseback riding program. Yeah. Now it just rolls off this. I wrote Carnie their pubic HB horseback. Great. That's how they breathe. They spell out all. They just do that too. I know they had their hearts show I've seen some pictures on Facebook.

00:54:25.100 I think Carter was great. I did get some feedback on that when I forgot about. I have a friend that. I don't know if she has listened to the back episodes. I want to say no she maybe has just listened to this one. But she texts me out of the blue and she said something about like holy deep voice and I was like Oh yeah. He really had a you know kind of. He was pretty quiet but I guess he was also deep and then she was like he sounds like such a sweetheart though I'd love to meet him.

00:54:52.920 OK. Like that. I don't think he was anyone I. I mean maybe he wants you to paint a picture. That's an artist. I think paint a picture of him on a horse. Great. You can meet. But. The they show. Yeah. I don't know. They're having their golf scramble which will be the day before we release this. I'm sure they'll still take donations. Yeah.

00:55:21.690 You don't have to be an event to donate a great organization like he said they're really relying on community donations to stay afloat. Horses take a lot of money. Maybe you're aware if its horses are one of the most expensive animals to own. For sure for sure. I just watched a clip on Facebook this morning that someone shared of like a bunch of horses being moved into. You know I don't know where they were before.

00:55:50.940 Apparently always some pasture and they are all being moved into this big. Did you see it. You I'm talking about was it in the. Was it the storm. Was it. Were they being moved because of Hurricane Dorian. Let's move. No. That was I think somewhere in Nebraska. I was just like your ranch. It was just interesting to watch all that. It was mainly like the oh my gosh I'm such a horse expert. Mares Sure. Is that Mom horses mares. Seems like it needs mom. It actually didn't say babies.

00:56:19.470 So I mean but it was just it showed all that and it was just it was night just to see them kind of run free and then run into their big corral and then run into another pasture. I don't know. Horses are just a little bit like mystical kinda you know or like. Of course they're all watching that it may be like the therapy side of it came a little bit just to think that like to maybe feel like you have almost like a personal relationship with a horse that is definitely a privilege.

00:56:52.650 Like that's something that I can see how you would benefit from that. So I did. I went and I I was looking for pictures of my cousin taking her son to horse therapy and she has a video of him just like laughing on his way because he's so excited. And he was pretty little like three or four years old. He is just like giddy with excitement to go right his horse. That's nice. So I think it's a great program.

00:57:25.410 It was nice to get to know a little bit more of the kind of this maybe not science behind it but like the idea of like how it came about and how it's beneficial. Yeah. You know I. I didn't realize there was I mean it is pretty innovative and the things he does for the patients and the games he develops and the stuff they you know yeah they work on together and I didn't realize it was much more than like chatting in a circle with somebody holding Noreen you know I mean I you know I pictured it almost like a kind of all where you march in a circle.

00:57:58.820 You know I don't know then that like you wouldn't benefit from IBS you know how to write a yes or say no. Right. I kind of like to consider the horse while it moves me too. I wouldn't say I'm excellent. I wouldn't say I've ever been taught to ride but. Back in my rodeo days. You know it's fine. I did have some of those genes though. Yeah of course. What were those dopers. No no no. These are the boots Rocky Mountain and they weren't like it turns every girls bite into an upside down heart.

00:58:32.620 I don't know why you want that. I definitely had a bear and I had several colors had teal you have your purple. You got your dark DNA. Oh well too to for the color. It's the genes. The elite mark in cowboy society in the 90s was. Your genes matched your boots Cilla. He had the coral genes he had the coral lace up Roper's like you were Callaghan does you have multiple pairs or not.

00:59:02.550 I that was like those like girls whose moms cared. You know I always have one pair. I was the sweaty tomato faced kid who isn't very tall. Are you kidding me. And somehow that girl that has the matching jeans and boots she's not sweaty even though she's wearing like insane double insane like me Ash a long sleeve buttoned up all the way shirt.

00:59:29.050 I don't trust people who don't sweat it not be more covered in heavy fabrics and somehow she's not sweaty and her hair is pristine or fake just like we're not working in the same bar and I was like I was washing animals like what were you doing. Like environment like she went straight from like a air conditioned. What's it called on a set like the dressing room. Yes. Like you know like the trailer. Yeah yeah. She came straight from that on to the show right.

00:59:58.190 Yeah. But you know that's not. I mean I I knew some of those girls and they were out there working too. It's baffling how they don't know. I don't. I was sitting there at the same shows wearing shorts and like my doc martin knockoffs scandals and a T-shirt with a tank top over it because I was cool. Yeah. That's what I was still sweating. I know. And. And I was not working and then this girl comes out I'm like. What is wrong with you. I don't I don't trust anyone who does this. I truly don't. But that is like that.

01:00:27.980 All of those girls all of those like rodeo girls the very like the Agricole or not you know like the livestock families that they win all the shows. And you know I mean we are winning we just look I just look a little sloppy doing that. I don't think it won it didn't count. My gosh if you're sweating in your photo it doesn't count. I wish I could share some of these photos are the best photos of all time with me mate bright red.

01:00:57.180 I'm covered in sweat. My name is not cute. I get it is what it is. My baby has that tomato face now and she gets so red and she plays it she's gotten very much. I've never heard that phrase before. Well if you just look at I have decided to swing by daycare and take a look at Georgia. Oh that's it. There you go. I mean I had it probably when you showed up today.

01:01:26.780 Oh hey tomato paste on your little tomato. It's almost a gift. It could be raised. You know I don't know what I like Anglo. I like it it's fine. It's no one no one is going to be D. Well people could be deeply offended by it. But I don't care what my genetics research at all this plus guest.

01:01:57.590 We did. We talked about it before the horses. I think so. Yeah. Yeah. Yes I think. Yes. Because that's when we talk about with the Germans or the English that gave me my fix. It could be both though. See I have some added like don't know though. I think it's a lot of Irish and I don't know. I'm gonna find out why I do it twenty three me.

01:02:27.320 Well no I think my mom's going to and then I'm in a contact mate and we have had this kid that my sister bought my dad for Christmas last year. And he doesn't want to do it. So my mom has finally decided she's going to do it on a spit in a tube. No I'm really busy right now. He doesn't have time to spit you. He like you just do it like well that's not why they bought it for you. But his brother has had one done.

01:02:57.590 So I think he thinks why do it. Because my brother did it which I mean theoretically they. They do have the same parents I mean it is the same hopefully. But I think my mom is going to do it. So then I think if I reach out to my aunt and get my uncles then I can see both sides of it. So I guess all I could in the near future know mine. What's really fun is if you all use the same company. So my mom's parents have both done it. My parents haven't done it and my dad's side hasn't done it.

01:03:27.170 A lot of people on my mom's side have so I can see what segments of my DNA overlap with my grandparents which is really fun. So I can know that you know the top half of my third chromosome is from my grandma Jan you know or whatever. Well just kind of fun. That is cool. Yeah. Enough that it would be some benefit to do it. It's just kind of interesting to see how it all pieces together. But yeah.

01:03:53.720 You know but I can also see like the like I can make a project I felt like I could take my my dad's and I could take my mom's and I could have some sort of Excel spreadsheet where then I could take all of that you know divide it like give half of it to me and yeah you know I mean you could do that. Sure. That's if you need to bring Excel into it. I feel like there is a specific group of people out there that is like yes I can picture this spreadsheet.

01:04:24.050 The column would be called this and you know like there are a you just must not be an Excel lover it's just general. No no no no no. So many more people. That is my friend Nikki and I like. We like to do stuff like we travel together we do projects together. We you know we do lots of stuff together but it almost 100 percent of the time involves a spreadsheet. Even if it's like a grocery list. Yeah.

01:04:53.780 But then the word and PowerPoint those are my go to is I love a PowerPoint. I don't see how you work PowerPoint into your daily life. Oh constantly. What did I just do with it. Oh my landscaping. You see that is not it. The next. Like I use this. To. Grow of yogurt and then. I use it like Photoshop.

01:05:20.300 That is to show what it would look like what the new landscape is you can remove the background in our voice. I could just put the shrubs. I really I use it like a design software. You can use it for everything. Yeah. It's just a different kind of nerd. Someone's like wow 90 percent of the people out there are like oh my gosh these two are both terrible.

01:05:50.440 And I was like Ross OK here's what we're going to do. Oh you think there's a birthday. And then Ross is like but I prepared this Excel spreadsheet and kept looking just enables all of this. They sent it to her and she's like I love it. I everything that's so good. Tell me more about page three. You know and then I sent it to my mother in law and she's like That's really nice.

01:06:20.890 I mean I know God is going to be a big ass. Yes. But at some point could you maybe prepare a power presentation. Like. Why should you watch the no concept podcast. I'm sure I'm not related. And then you know make it so that people can all I'll make a spreadsheet. Yeah. I don't know if I can host the PowerPoint somewhere on our Web site but we'll see. Oh you can't share a PowerPoint on as a link I don't know.

01:06:50.060 I don't know. I mean I I don't know about that because I'm not a PowerPoint nerd but I feel like you should. Mm hmm. A little dis I could send it to you in an e-mail listener. Sign it. Blow it Darcy. It was a PowerPoint presentation so I hope you learned something about PowerPoint today. And the many uses.

01:07:19.300 Yeah. I wish I could remember what else I made PowerPoint for. It's a lot of things. Which I don't use power like I only use PowerPoint when required by our class. Yeah. I mean I should buy Adobe. Software for the things that use PowerPoint for the power but I have PowerPoint PowerPoint so I use it. Indeed act as you have always wanted me to do is remove a background and layer things that's great. That's the same thing.

01:07:48.880 I get it. It works. It's fine. It's fine for what I'm doing. And with that our episodes. Yes. Thank you Microsoft. That's an easy plug. But yeah. So we will be back. In two weeks. Darcy will be back from her travels abroad. I will still be here. What do I have in the next two weeks.

01:08:15.850 I have a wedding and I have all I have. I'm going to Hamilton. Me too. Elton and Saturday matinee. Yes. That's what to on the 21st are the 28. Oh no. We're going the 14th. Oh no no that's. Oh this Saturday. No I go on the twenty eight. Oh yeah. Hamilton runs that long. Yeah. That's wild wild. That's how I enjoy a Saturday matinee.

01:08:47.240 So you do you listen to the music if you listen. Yeah. Yeah. It's been around so long. Here's where I go with Hamilton's again. Music's fine music spun music fine. Can't really understand all of it but it's pretty fun. And then I'm like Yeah. But the staging seems kind of abstract and I like that and I'm like Yeah well I don't know there's really much speaking like I think it's kind of like a lame as music awards all singing. Yeah. And I love that. And then then it's like but then you'll see somebody review it they're like I just don't know how all this came together.

01:09:17.630 It's so wonderful it's a part of an all you hear is raves about it. But as a person who hasn't seen it yet I'm like I don't know I'm afraid and how it can be that good. Disappointed because I have super high expectations. Yeah I listen to the soundtracks from beginning to end so yeah I know the whole story. Yeah. I have at some point I used to like I think I had the whole thing memorized like I was obsessed. Yeah. My nieces and nephews have some of the songs memorized because I made them to it with me. Yeah and I like the music I listen to it all the way through.

01:09:48.230 You know it's good. Yeah. It's good. I love it so yeah. We'll both have seen Hamilton. Well actually we probably will meet again before I see it. This is another thing about living in central Nebraska. You don't get Hamilton until it takes a while. He has eight years later. It hasn't been eight hours but it's been. Obama was in office when it was in play here. Maybe four ish four. I'm comfortable saying four. It's been touring for now since it premiered.

01:10:17.150 I would say since it premiered let's just google it. 2015 January 2015. Four years. Nailed it. I'm so smart. Nailed it. Well I learned this week is that Cain is smart. On that note. Let's wrap it up. All right. And we have a theme song to this. Yeah. I said at the end or just in the beginning whoever wanted to buy doo doo doo doo doo doo.

01:10:53.890 Have a great two weeks. We'll be back with a guest. The end of September I guess. Yeah. All right crazy talk to you later bye.