WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:02.120 Hey, guys, before we get started, I just want to 2 00:00:02.120 --> 00:00:05.480 warn you. This episode's gonna gettain some talk of sexual 3 00:00:05.519 --> 00:00:09.160 assault and child death, and if any of this would 4 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:11.759 make this heart listen for you, I'll suggest you don't 5 00:00:11.759 --> 00:00:21.760 listen to it. I'll see you on the next one later. Hey, guys, 6 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:25.480 Princess here, Welcome to another episode by Pumpkin. I don't 7 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:27.719 know this is the main feed, but we're out of 8 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:30.920 our season, so I guess this is a palette cleanser. Hey, 9 00:00:31.399 --> 00:00:35.119 let's talk about the vampire less stat I have been 10 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:38.799 you know, I got a question like in AMA, which 11 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:40.920 I'm gonna do another AMA soon. I got a question 12 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:42.640 at AMA and that said, do you watch interview at 13 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:46.399 the Vampire? And I remember answering being like, this feels 14 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:48.320 like a troll because I feel like it's most of 15 00:00:48.359 --> 00:00:51.159 what I talk about. This is my whole personality. And 16 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:57.039 on threads, you know, I was posting about the vampireless 17 00:00:57.039 --> 00:01:01.359 stat which is I'll get into it, but someone said, oh, 18 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:03.079 I can't believe I didn't know you watched this show, 19 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:07.920 and it was like, how it's my entire personality, Like 20 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:09.719 if you talk to me even a little bit, like 21 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:12.439 a friend who I never thought I was watching this 22 00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:16.040 sent me a text that said, justice for Antoinette. And 23 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:17.519 I mean, if you watch the show, it's one of 24 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:22.439 the funniest lines. I don't think wants it's it's mostly 25 00:01:22.480 --> 00:01:27.400 his accent. I'm talking about like a really old fucking vampire. 26 00:01:27.959 --> 00:01:31.640 Justice for Antoinette. Anyway, she she just text me that 27 00:01:31.719 --> 00:01:33.560 because she knows. She knows i'd be watching this shit. 28 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:41.200 If you're unfamiliar, an Rice prolific writer wrote a series 29 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:43.239 of books in the Vampire Chronicles. I think it's like 30 00:01:43.359 --> 00:01:45.799 twelve or seven. It's a lot of books. It's a 31 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:48.079 lot of books in the Vampire Chronicles. I have not 32 00:01:48.120 --> 00:01:49.840 read all of them. These books came out in like 33 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:52.400 the eighties, right. I remember reading them when I was 34 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:54.719 a kid. It starts with the interview with the vampire, 35 00:01:54.959 --> 00:02:01.359 the vampire Lesstette, and then it's the Vampire and then 36 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:03.359 Queen of the Night. Hold on one second, I'll just 37 00:02:03.359 --> 00:02:06.640 double check that it's been such a long time since 38 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:14.919 I've read these books. Actually, somebody on Threats was asking me, 39 00:02:15.479 --> 00:02:21.520 not asking me. She was She wasn't asking me, uh specifically, 40 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:23.599 she was asking should she read the books that she 41 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:27.439 really likes the adaptations, and there have been several adaptations, 42 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:35.280 by the way, And I said no. I said no, 43 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:39.159 because if if like, unless you were like literally twelve 44 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:41.680 years old right now, these books have been famous for 45 00:02:41.680 --> 00:02:43.680 really these are very popular books, and they were written 46 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:46.240 in the eighties, guys, so like, if you haven't found 47 00:02:46.319 --> 00:02:48.199 these books by now, these aren't your type of books. 48 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:55.400 They're flowery, sometimes ornate kind of writing. Ann Rice does 49 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:59.719 go on, she does go on, And they're nothing like 50 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:05.560 the series adaptation. Here I found it. It is okay, 51 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:09.479 so oh okay. They're even older than I thought. It 52 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:17.400 looks like there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. 53 00:03:17.400 --> 00:03:20.639 Looks like there's twelve of them thirteen maybe so. Interview 54 00:03:20.719 --> 00:03:23.639 with the Vampires in nineteen seventy six, The Vampire List 55 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:25.400 that nineteen eighty five. God, that was a long time 56 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:28.800 between those, The Queen of the damn nineteen eighty eight, 57 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:34.360 The Tail of the Body Thief that's ninety two. Midnock, Mimnock, Midnock, 58 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:38.919 the Devil, the Vampire armand so Midnock the Devil ninety five, 59 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.599 The Vampire armand in ninety eight American two thousand, I 60 00:03:42.599 --> 00:03:45.280 don't believe I've read Merrick. I A lot of people 61 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:46.919 have really loved that book. I think I'm gonna move 62 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:49.680 to it because I really did like there's a sister series, 63 00:03:49.759 --> 00:03:53.039 kind of like in the same world, The Mayfair Witches. 64 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:55.840 I really liked those books. I didn't get too far 65 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:59.280 into them. Blooding Gold In two thousand and one, Blackwood 66 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:02.639 Farm to Blood Canticle two thousand and three, prince Less 67 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:06.439 Stat twenty fourteen, Princeless Stat in the Reams of In 68 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.280 the Rooms of Atlantis twenty sixteen, Blood Communion of Tail 69 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:15.520 of Princeless Stat twenty eighteen. I believe I got through 70 00:04:15.520 --> 00:04:17.040 The Queen of the Damned. There was just a couple 71 00:04:17.079 --> 00:04:18.439 of things that I were like a little too silly 72 00:04:18.439 --> 00:04:20.439 for me, and I just had so many books I 73 00:04:20.519 --> 00:04:23.519 under eh, guys, guys. So I had to go to 74 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:28.480 the Apple Store in Virginia Beach and for me to 75 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:30.839 get into the I brought my phone. Okay, on my 76 00:04:30.879 --> 00:04:33.759 trip to Texas, I dropped my phone getting out of 77 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:38.759 an uber. I dropped my phone and my Lenovo think Pad, 78 00:04:38.759 --> 00:04:42.519 which is my workshit. It was raining, it was on concrete. 79 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:46.600 I was getting into Uber not getting out and baby 80 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:51.639 my phone cracked and my think pad did nothing, not 81 00:04:51.680 --> 00:04:54.000 a scratch on the bitch in the rain in the water. 82 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:57.920 What did they say, You got a think pad, You 83 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.680 got you jo, you got job security. And also your 84 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:02.959 phone will be on ninety eight percent when you leave work. 85 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:05.839 And that's kind of true. Both things are kind of 86 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:10.959 true about my job. But I cracked my phone. I 87 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:13.360 paid for Apple Care, so I just went I was 88 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:15.720 gonna go to the store. So here's the thing, goods, 89 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.199 I don't really I usually don't have the newest phone, right. 90 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:21.879 I tried to keep a phone in the back pocket. 91 00:05:22.120 --> 00:05:24.600 I had an iPad, I had an iPhone thirteen. The 92 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:27.279 seventeen came out this year. I was not getting a 93 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:29.399 new phone. I was not getting a new phone. And 94 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:34.839 then I noticed that my phone would start was starting 95 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.399 to like heat up, like I was a suicide bomber. Okay, 96 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:40.399 that bitch was heating the fuck up, starting to scare, 97 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:44.319 used to burn my hand. And it's because I updated, right, 98 00:05:44.399 --> 00:05:46.160 updated to the new operating system. Like if you gotta 99 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.199 keep an old phone, you don't update, okay, And I 100 00:05:49.519 --> 00:05:52.439 made a mistake and I fucking updated, and my phone 101 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:57.879 was like, you're in danger. Girl. So I got a 102 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.000 new phone, and I intended to get a fourteen, right, 103 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:02.160 I'm not I'm obviously not gonna get the newest phone. 104 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:05.360 I don'tant to buy shit from Apple. And also like 105 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:07.519 I don't want to be on that marrig around where 106 00:06:07.560 --> 00:06:10.120 you gotta get a new phone because I don't. Uh. 107 00:06:10.560 --> 00:06:13.319 My Apple Watch for a long time was like a 108 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.360 series I want to say it was like a series five, 109 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.079 and like people were like, well, I'd be in the store, 110 00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:21.759 not buying anything obviously, and I'd be in the store 111 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:23.800 and people be like, oh, maybe you know, do you 112 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:26.959 are you gonna move for are you in the are 113 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:30.600 you looking for a new Apple? Actually? Like you know, 114 00:06:30.680 --> 00:06:32.519 I got this series five. And they'd be like, I 115 00:06:32.560 --> 00:06:35.040 don't even know which fucking series they're on. But I'm like, yeah, 116 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.360 this shit works, so leave me alone. I'm not getting 117 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:39.839 new anything. I'm not getting a new anything. So I 118 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:41.680 ended up with to seventeen. So here's the issue. I 119 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:45.600 always pay for Apple Care because I want my shit fixed, 120 00:06:46.040 --> 00:06:49.319 and normally I get an old phone. Right, So what 121 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:52.199 happens normally is I walk into Apple and they just 122 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:54.560 give me a new phone because it's not fucking worth 123 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:56.800 it because I got an old phone. And the main 124 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:58.800 reason I didn't take my thirteen because I had a 125 00:06:58.879 --> 00:07:01.279 thirteen in the like the I don't forget the name 126 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:03.879 of color where hunter green is my favorite color, and 127 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:06.240 like just most people didn't have that color and they 128 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:08.639 wouldn't have had it to give it to me, So 129 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:13.600 I forgot bitch, I got a new phone. So they 130 00:07:13.600 --> 00:07:15.079 were like, uh huh, so we'll hold it here and 131 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:16.360 we'll give you a new screen. I was like, what 132 00:07:16.439 --> 00:07:17.879 happened to y'all? Just give me a new phone. They 133 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:20.720 was like, not only seventeens, bitch. She didn't he didn't 134 00:07:20.720 --> 00:07:22.160 say it like that, but that's what he meant, not 135 00:07:22.279 --> 00:07:26.199 only seventeen's bitch. So I had to leave it there anyway. 136 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:27.920 So that means I had to go to the mall 137 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:31.079 twice that day, wants to go and then once to 138 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:34.199 go back and get the phone. By the way, not 139 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:38.160 having a phone for four hours, it's crazy. It's crazy. 140 00:07:38.160 --> 00:07:41.199 I don't know how to get nowhere. My kids couldn't 141 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:43.600 contact me. I'm texting them from dad's phone. They're like, 142 00:07:43.639 --> 00:07:45.800 fuck it, we don't listen to Dad whatever, And I 143 00:07:45.800 --> 00:07:47.639 have to be like, it's mom be like, oh, okay, okay, 144 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:52.040 never mind. I well could I couldn't read because I 145 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:55.120 cause I didn't have my my my kindle with me, 146 00:07:55.160 --> 00:07:57.160 so I couldn't just open my kindle app there were 147 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:59.160 some things I wanted to look up. Couldn't look that up. 148 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.680 It was just a lie stuff. I was like, yo, 149 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:04.439 I can't be phoneless. I got home and I just 150 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:06.839 poured it my number to my old phone, the thirteen 151 00:08:06.920 --> 00:08:10.439 I was talking about in that pitch. It was hot, 152 00:08:11.079 --> 00:08:12.360 so as I turned it out, I was like, ah, 153 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:16.639 you're back. It's like that, damn it. It was just 154 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:21.000 basically like a little fire emoji. I was like, okay, anyway, 155 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:22.720 So the whole I'm talking about this because I went 156 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:24.839 to Barnes and Noble, another place I don't normally go. 157 00:08:25.680 --> 00:08:27.439 I've been a few times. I took my kids once 158 00:08:27.480 --> 00:08:29.360 because we were looking for some books or whatever, and 159 00:08:29.439 --> 00:08:31.079 they thought it was a fucking library. Every now and 160 00:08:31.079 --> 00:08:32.279 then they're like, you're you gonna take this back to 161 00:08:32.279 --> 00:08:35.879 the big library. I'm like, would you be Central Library? 162 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:37.759 And they're like, no, you know the one with all 163 00:08:37.759 --> 00:08:40.679 the Barnes and Noble. That's the fucking library. Guys. That 164 00:08:40.720 --> 00:08:44.039 shit wasn't free. So so I never go to Barnes 165 00:08:44.080 --> 00:08:45.759 and Noble. I used to love to be in there. 166 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:52.399 I used to haunt a fucking Barnes and Noble and like, 167 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:57.320 so I went in. It's it's the interest where I 168 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:58.919 go in to go to Zapple store. It's the quickest 169 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:01.320 way in there. So I went in there, and mister 170 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:03.200 Curtis was looking in stuff. He was looking at D 171 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:06.000 and D stuff. So I'm just usually just walk straight through, 172 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:09.360 but I'm just looking around and obviously what happens. Book? 173 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:10.879 I need that book. I need that book. I need 174 00:09:10.919 --> 00:09:12.440 that book. That's a book I need to read. I 175 00:09:12.480 --> 00:09:14.080 haven't thought about reading that book, but I should think 176 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:16.600 about reading that book. Oh what's this? What's that? What's this? 177 00:09:16.799 --> 00:09:20.639 What's that? What's this? So many fucking books in there. 178 00:09:21.039 --> 00:09:23.000 I just took a bunch of pictures. I did not 179 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:25.759 spend three hundred dollars on books. I took a bunch 180 00:09:25.799 --> 00:09:28.399 of pictures of the books I borrowed a bunch of 181 00:09:28.440 --> 00:09:31.279 from the library. Any others I bought on Apple books, 182 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.279 which I know people like, why would you buy a 183 00:09:33.320 --> 00:09:39.159 book on Apple books? Because if I buy a book 184 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.360 on Apple books, I can share it with my entire family, no, 185 00:09:42.360 --> 00:09:44.720 no question about anything. I can share it with my 186 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:48.960 entire fucking family. If I buy a book on and 187 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:50.840 I can read it on an iPad. If I buy 188 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:53.360 a book on Amazon, any book on Amazon, I can 189 00:09:53.440 --> 00:09:55.320 only read it with my Kindle. And people are like, 190 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:57.559 you have to diverse from Amazon. I agree, but I 191 00:09:57.600 --> 00:09:59.000 can't do it with the books. I owned too many 192 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:01.200 books from there. I'm sorry. I do? I do? I do? 193 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:02.519 I do? They're like, you should get a Cobo. I 194 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:04.320 don't want to fucking kobol. If I wanted a Cobo, 195 00:10:04.360 --> 00:10:07.000 I would have had one by now. Do you understand that? 196 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.000 Like when people say, well, how come you don't have 197 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.600 a Cobo, booknook, or whatever the fuck they call it? 198 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:17.679 They I am a self identified reader. I haven't reading 199 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:20.200 since I was three fucking years old. I books are 200 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:23.480 my friends. It's how I disassociated from life for much 201 00:10:23.480 --> 00:10:26.399 of my adolescence and some of my adulthood. That's why 202 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:28.200 I read so many fucking books last year. I was 203 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:30.600 trying to pretend like I wasn't in this fucking simulation. Okay, 204 00:10:31.200 --> 00:10:37.200 and I if you think there is a book thing 205 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.519 that I don't fucking know about you're crazy. If I 206 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:43.320 wanted it, I would have it. But I don't. I 207 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:46.399 don't want to be tied to Cobo either, obviously, if 208 00:10:46.480 --> 00:10:51.440 I obviously, I I think that the fact that these 209 00:10:51.440 --> 00:10:54.279 e books are tied to a system are bad. Right, 210 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:58.200 So drm free books are the way to go, But 211 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:02.080 that's just not as easy to access as you would 212 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:04.039 think it would be. And so if I'm gonna be 213 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:05.919 tied to a system, it's gonna be Amazon. It's not 214 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:09.240 gonna be Barnes and Noble, because I have loved many 215 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.120 a bookstore, yeah, and a Bunchhels but just went out 216 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:18.120 of business. So I can't imagine owning hundreds of Cobo 217 00:11:18.200 --> 00:11:22.000 e books and then not being able to read them. Obviously, 218 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:26.320 the real solutions to buy physical books, sure, right, Physical 219 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:31.159 books are expensive, they are they you have to find 220 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:33.919 the space for them. I had owned so many books, 221 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:36.159 and when I was younger, I used to work with 222 00:11:36.200 --> 00:11:39.360 this librarian I used to do. I used to do 223 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:41.519 library in turn work. This is back when I thought 224 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:43.799 librarians just sat around reading books, which is the stupidest 225 00:11:43.799 --> 00:11:46.840 thing I've ever Okay, so I was the one who 226 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:48.080 said it, but it was the stupidest thing I've ever 227 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:49.799 heard of in my life, because now that I think 228 00:11:49.840 --> 00:11:52.039 about it, I've never been in a library and just 229 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:54.519 saw a library and sitting there reading books. Why would 230 00:11:54.559 --> 00:11:57.960 I think that that's what they do. But she really 231 00:11:58.000 --> 00:12:00.600 like instilled in me that, like, to love a book 232 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:03.639 is to pass it on, right especially, I mean, you 233 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:05.799 keep a few that you really love and then are 234 00:12:05.799 --> 00:12:10.919 like really like you know, formative to you. But to 235 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:12.679 love a book is to give it to somebody else 236 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:14.000 to read it. And so for a long time I 237 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.200 didn't really keep books. I used to sell them back 238 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:19.960 to the stores. I used to give them to people. 239 00:12:20.039 --> 00:12:22.960 I used to leave them in public spaces where people 240 00:12:22.960 --> 00:12:25.519 were reading some people could have them, somebody else could 241 00:12:25.519 --> 00:12:26.879 pick it up and maybe enjoy it, like you know, 242 00:12:26.879 --> 00:12:28.480 we're like a pile of magazines would be like in 243 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:30.639 an office or something, or in a waiting room, I 244 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:34.159 leave a book there. But I guess I really stopped 245 00:12:34.159 --> 00:12:38.159 doing that a while ago. So yeah, at the moment, 246 00:12:38.200 --> 00:12:41.200 I'm doing what I can. I'm not gonna lose access 247 00:12:41.240 --> 00:12:44.440 to all the books I've bought through Amazon back. I mean, 248 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:47.080 the first time I used fucking Amazon was when I 249 00:12:47.240 --> 00:12:50.799 was in that argument with that evil librarian who was 250 00:12:50.840 --> 00:12:52.320 like trying to get me to pay for a book 251 00:12:52.399 --> 00:12:56.039 on Maltese breeding Maltese puppies that I checked out like 252 00:12:56.120 --> 00:12:58.000 as a teenager because I was on a pet. My 253 00:12:58.039 --> 00:13:00.480 parents never let me have a pet, so like check 254 00:13:00.519 --> 00:13:02.840 out books on pets like I'd be like, I check 255 00:13:02.840 --> 00:13:05.919 out a book on owning hedgehogs and like read all 256 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:08.120 about it and spout all these facts and shit, the 257 00:13:08.200 --> 00:13:09.519 absolute wrong way to go. But I didn't know. I 258 00:13:09.559 --> 00:13:13.679 was a fucking kid, like a teenager, so I checked 259 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:15.960 it out and never brought it back, and she was like, yeah, 260 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:18.440 it's gonna be eighty five dollars. I was like, eighty 261 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:20.440 five fucking It was some he can't remember the mount 262 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:22.159 but eighty five dollars shows about right to me, some 263 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:25.440 like ridiculous amount that. I was like, there's no way 264 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:28.480 that book colls eighty five fucking dollars. And she was like, well, 265 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:30.159 I guess you can find a use and it's out 266 00:13:30.159 --> 00:13:31.919 of print. I guess you can find an used copy 267 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:33.879 on Amazon. And I was like, I don't even know 268 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:35.759 what that is. And she told me that's the first 269 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:40.279 time I went to Amazon. Bolling anything, and like, obviously, 270 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.840 if I could go back, I wouldn't bought anything on Amazon. 271 00:13:43.200 --> 00:13:45.279 I would have like kept that shit on my life. 272 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:47.919 I would not have I would have not tied myself 273 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:50.360 to the Kindle system at all. Right, but you know, 274 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:53.039 hindsight's twenty twenty, and at this point, all I can 275 00:13:53.080 --> 00:13:55.639 do is try to spread my books, my ebooks out 276 00:13:55.679 --> 00:14:01.960 over various little you know, various systems, and mostly used 277 00:14:02.000 --> 00:14:04.519 the library, you know, until I figure something else out. 278 00:14:04.519 --> 00:14:07.759 Why am I talking about this? Oh? Because it like 279 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:11.679 going to the Barnes and Noble twice in one day, 280 00:14:12.000 --> 00:14:14.279 really like and then like the second time, mister Curtis 281 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:15.559 had to go to a restrooms, so he left me 282 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:18.279 around all these fucking books. Jeez, and I didn't have 283 00:14:18.279 --> 00:14:20.919 a phone. I had to use his phone and take 284 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:25.200 pictures of the books. So it added my TBR list 285 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.360 like is out of fucking control. My TVR list is 286 00:14:27.360 --> 00:14:29.279 always out of control. There's always some books that could 287 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:33.679 be reading. And so that's probably why I didn't finish 288 00:14:33.759 --> 00:14:37.639 all the books in you know, the Vampire Chronicles. That said, 289 00:14:38.919 --> 00:14:42.080 and Rice can be a little difficult, to be honest, 290 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:45.480 and the amount of years in between those books which 291 00:14:45.519 --> 00:14:47.799 is how publishing used to work. Amount of years between 292 00:14:47.840 --> 00:14:50.480 those books probably is the other thing that kept me 293 00:14:50.480 --> 00:14:52.240 from reading them all. But I am a book reader. 294 00:14:53.679 --> 00:14:57.279 The thing, oh, I was telling that person that, hey, 295 00:14:57.720 --> 00:15:00.519 if you have not run across these books, you probably 296 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:02.840 don't need to read them. They're not any anything like 297 00:15:04.120 --> 00:15:07.039 the show that we've been watching. Speaking which let me 298 00:15:07.080 --> 00:15:10.879 go back. So this is an AMC show. It's called 299 00:15:10.919 --> 00:15:14.559 Interview with the Vampire, and they are going after the book. 300 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:17.360 So the first season is called Interview with the Vampire 301 00:15:17.399 --> 00:15:20.120 Part one. The second season is called Interview with the 302 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:24.200 Vampire Part two. The third season is The Vampire Less Detta. 303 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:26.600 I think it's aid part one. I think the second 304 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:29.120 season is gonna be part two. Although I can't exactly 305 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:31.360 remember everything that happened to the Vampire less that we 306 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.240 might be going straight to the Queen of the Damn. 307 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:36.279 I want to think about it. We did meet Akasha 308 00:15:36.320 --> 00:15:41.440 in this season. It's on AMC. I started watching it 309 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:44.360 on Amazon Prime. That's where I first saw I think 310 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:47.279 I saw some some edits on TikTok and that's how 311 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:49.919 I started watching it. I started watching it when season 312 00:15:49.919 --> 00:15:52.159 two was about to come out, so I finished season one, 313 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:53.919 went straight into the season two, and then I had 314 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:57.240 to wait a year's I had to wait for the 315 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.879 fucking season three, like I was waiting for a soldier 316 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:02.440 to come home from the war. It was so fucking annoying. 317 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.960 And also, this is AMC, so the model is not 318 00:16:07.039 --> 00:16:09.960 drop at all. Is drop one a week? Super annoying? 319 00:16:10.039 --> 00:16:13.559 There are only eight episodes a season, also very annoying. 320 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.600 But it's a very good show, and when you have 321 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:19.000 a very good show, it can survive a lot of 322 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:23.720 stuff like this. Going back to the books, I want 323 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:25.639 to say something. I'm gonna talk about this show. I'm 324 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:27.159 not gonna really be talking about the books. As a 325 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:29.320 person that has read a few of these books, that 326 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:31.559 has read quite a bit of what Anaris has written. 327 00:16:32.960 --> 00:16:38.320 The The Mayfair Witches Are is a better series. My 328 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:41.080 understanding is the TV show is bullshit and I haven't 329 00:16:41.120 --> 00:16:43.120 watched it at all. It's got that girl with the 330 00:16:43.159 --> 00:16:45.480 two blue eye with the eyes that are way too blue. 331 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:49.159 I think she was on the White Lotus the first season. 332 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:51.799 Her eyes are just entirely too blue. But everyone says 333 00:16:51.799 --> 00:16:53.879 the acting is terrible. That said I might, I might 334 00:16:53.879 --> 00:16:56.519 pick it up. Uh, I'm known to love terrible things. 335 00:16:57.879 --> 00:17:00.000 When we get to let's test music, we'll talk about that. 336 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:04.160 But here's the thing. And I've had this argument with 337 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:06.799 lots of people because lots of things are being adapted, 338 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:13.359 and adaptation must stand alone. Okay, the source material, I'm 339 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:18.279 not saying it doesn't exist. It does, but it cannot 340 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.880 add context to the adaptation. If the adaptation can't stand alone, 341 00:17:21.880 --> 00:17:25.720 it's bullshit. Okay. So when people are coming into the 342 00:17:25.799 --> 00:17:28.640 comments of shows, like people are talking about pretty Little 343 00:17:28.640 --> 00:17:30.119 Liars or rewatching it, and so someone will be like, well, 344 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.200 the book's okay, but the books is not the show. 345 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:36.960 If I have to read the book to understand the show, 346 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:39.599 the show is not very good. And the same goes 347 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:43.799 with the Summer I turned Pretty It's a horrible fucking series. 348 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:46.680 I had to watch you with Bunny. That girl should 349 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:48.880 leave that family alone. She really should. I know, I 350 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:51.240 know it's my mother's. You should leave that fucking family alone. 351 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:55.039 Stop dick hopping. Really, their lives are all fucked up, 352 00:17:55.039 --> 00:17:59.240 and you overhear stop stop Belly, just stop like there 353 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:01.799 are more than these two people in the world. You're 354 00:18:01.920 --> 00:18:05.880 ruining their families, touf. But the same thing like people 355 00:18:05.880 --> 00:18:09.039 who read the books are like, well, okay, but that's 356 00:18:09.079 --> 00:18:11.119 the book, And the same goes for the movies. The 357 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:14.039 same goes for any adaptation, and I'm a person that 358 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:16.640 loves to read the book rather than watch. Usually adaptation 359 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:18.799 isn't as good as the book. In my opinion, it's 360 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:20.960 because they don't have the space that the book has. 361 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.759 The book can take you to all kinds of sets 362 00:18:23.799 --> 00:18:28.240 and put you inside people's minds and show you this 363 00:18:28.319 --> 00:18:30.440 and show you that. But a movie or a TV show, 364 00:18:30.440 --> 00:18:32.240 and a TV show even less so, because there's usually 365 00:18:32.240 --> 00:18:36.240 a smaller budget, just can't do that. They're limited by 366 00:18:36.279 --> 00:18:39.119 the medium and they've got to show you more than 367 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.559 they tell you on like a book, which I mean, 368 00:18:41.599 --> 00:18:44.079 I know it showed don't tell what you're talking about language, 369 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:46.599 but honestly, the book is telling you everything, and in 370 00:18:46.640 --> 00:18:51.599 a movie you can't really do that. So in general, 371 00:18:51.759 --> 00:18:55.119 with the exception this is probably my exception interview with 372 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:59.799 the Vampire series, This is probably my exception when I 373 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.240 the book is almost always better than the adaptation. But 374 00:19:03.599 --> 00:19:06.960 back to the book readers, it's not the show. I know, 375 00:19:07.039 --> 00:19:09.799 I know, I know, it's not the show. Yes, I know, 376 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:11.759 I know. I know Claudia was five in the book. 377 00:19:11.799 --> 00:19:16.599 She was she's not in the show. And you know 378 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:19.799 that person that I was telling, if you did these 379 00:19:19.799 --> 00:19:24.000 books didn't already find you are not for you. I 380 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:26.200 should I should go back. I should tell her to 381 00:19:26.519 --> 00:19:31.640 watch to read the Southern Vampire series by Charlayne Harris. 382 00:19:32.079 --> 00:19:35.240 That's True Blood's written on, based on and I honestly 383 00:19:35.279 --> 00:19:37.960 think the True bloods camp be in a way that 384 00:19:37.960 --> 00:19:41.599 those books aren't. Those books are probably the right amount 385 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:46.759 of gravitas that that person's looking for. I think Anne 386 00:19:46.799 --> 00:19:49.200 Rice's writing is a little too heavy for most people. 387 00:19:49.519 --> 00:19:53.920 It's not as enjoyable. And as somebody who enjoys books. 388 00:19:53.960 --> 00:19:59.480 I enjoy reading right. I am not reading to write 389 00:19:59.480 --> 00:20:03.160 a book report or to pass a sol test. I'm 390 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:05.200 not doing any of the things I'm reading because I 391 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.799 enjoy the reading. I enjoy stories. I enjoy the journey 392 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:10.759 of the stories. It's not important for me to be 393 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:14.480 able to recall every detail afterwards, because if I enjoy 394 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:18.480 the experience, I'll read it again, will I And so 395 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:21.920 like it's when people show up and they're like, I 396 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:23.960 read the books one A lot of times they're trying 397 00:20:23.960 --> 00:20:26.599 to show off right, they're like, well, if you have 398 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:29.880 read the books, blah blah blah. And two they're doing 399 00:20:29.960 --> 00:20:32.400 this thing. Not all of them, but many of them 400 00:20:32.440 --> 00:20:34.240 are doing this thing where they're like, reading is more, 401 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:38.839