Speaker 1: Weird.
Speaker 2: We welcome back to Father Malone's weekly round up. I'm
Speaker 2: Father Malone and with me as always is my co
Speaker 2: Miss Ripley Jeans say had to rip, all right, this
Speaker 2: episode is kind of is gonna kind of be a
Speaker 2: weird one. I apologize in advance if you want to
Speaker 2: skip it and wait for Friday or even next Mondays,
Speaker 2: I will totally understand.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: The weekend was very tumultuous, very kind of got away
Speaker 2: from me, and I will explain it. But like I said,
Speaker 2: if you're not interested in, I don't blame you for
Speaker 2: dipping out. Honestly, I didn't have a ton of time
Speaker 2: to devote myself to actually sitting down and writing out
Speaker 2: full reviews of anything this weekend. As I said, we
Speaker 2: got Ripley Geen, here's my constant co host. And I've
Speaker 2: made reference to our producer, Miss Foxy Brown Foxy as
Speaker 2: my cat. She is a Manx cat. You don't know them.
Speaker 2: They look like tabby cats with stubby tails. And a
Speaker 2: fun fact about Manx is they don't meow. They trill.
Speaker 2: It's just like a very light trilling sound where they
Speaker 2: click when they're unimpressed, So they don't really have a voice.
Speaker 2: This past Friday, I woke up around two am, and
Speaker 2: that's not unusual for me. I've never really gotten much
Speaker 2: sleep four hours. It's about my normal five hours as Oh,
Speaker 2: what a luxury. But anyway, so I'm usually up around two,
Speaker 2: which means around two thirty or so, it's time to
Speaker 2: feed everybody in the house. That's Foxy and Ripley. This
Speaker 2: past winter, Ripley has decided that sleeping in is actually
Speaker 2: more important than food, which is rare in a dog,
Speaker 2: but not so for Foxy. Foxy will insist on me
Speaker 2: getting up and feeding her, even if Ripley stays in bed.
Speaker 2: So anyway, it was a little bit unusual that she
Speaker 2: didn't show up on Friday morning, a Friday which had
Speaker 2: all the potential of being a great day. I actually
Speaker 2: got some really good news about the show that you're
Speaker 2: currently listening to, such good news that I can't even
Speaker 2: speak about it yet. That's pretty cool. And it was Friday,
Speaker 2: so the whole weekend was laid out in front of me,
Speaker 2: and my Friday evening was going to consist of watching
Speaker 2: the two movies that I intended to review for the
Speaker 2: show here. But when I got home from work on Friday,
Speaker 2: still no sign of miss Foxy Brown. I scoured the house,
Speaker 2: not here, scoured the garage, not there, scoured in the backyard,
Speaker 2: not there. Now. Foxy is an indoor cat, always has been.
Speaker 2: She was found on the street. She is an adoption,
Speaker 2: but has mainly lived her entire life indoors because she's
Speaker 2: a real scaredy cat. She very infrequently ventures outdoors. This
Speaker 2: is what a scaredy cat she is. She's terrified of
Speaker 2: ceiling fans, anything hanging from the ceiling, but ceiling fans
Speaker 2: in particular. I don't know why she thinks they're coming
Speaker 2: to get her, but she's convinced that they are. So
Speaker 2: anytime she's gone outside, it's not been more than a
Speaker 2: few feet from the house, and she's always right back
Speaker 2: in immediately. So the thought of her being outside and
Speaker 2: her und was kind of terrifying. I did all the
Speaker 2: usual things. I put out the water and the food,
Speaker 2: and litter box and clothing for her to smell to
Speaker 2: find her way back. And I scoured the neighborhood, and
Speaker 2: I knocked on doors and looked in backyards, all to
Speaker 2: no avail. Now there is a shed in the backyard
Speaker 2: which she may have been in Foxy is after only
Speaker 2: a master at hiding in plain sights sometimes, so I
Speaker 2: figured she was either there or she was out of
Speaker 2: the yard, and if she was out of the yard,
Speaker 2: she was lost forever. So solding out hopes that he
Speaker 2: was in that shed. But try as I might, I
Speaker 2: could not find her in the goddamn shed. So Friday
Speaker 2: became Saturday, and still no sign of her. Canvas to
Speaker 2: the neighborhood again, signed up for all the online neighborhood
Speaker 2: Lost Pet things you can possibly imagine, talked to all
Speaker 2: these different people who, well, we're all very very helpful,
Speaker 2: but no cat, including outside, including in the backyard, including
Speaker 2: in the shed. And as you can imagine, I haven't
Speaker 2: really been focused on watching the new things or giving
Speaker 2: it my proper attention. I did want to apologize for that,
Speaker 2: and so last night, around three in the morning, I
Speaker 2: figured I would in fact go ahead and record the show.
Speaker 2: So I did put on one of the one of
Speaker 2: the movies I had intended to watch, and somewhere around
Speaker 2: the ten minute mark, heard a weird clicking sound and
Speaker 2: I rewound the film to see if it was on
Speaker 2: the soundtrack, and it was not, And then I looked
Speaker 2: at the foot of the bed and Fox he was
Speaker 2: just fucking standing there, just like nothing fucking happened. So
Speaker 2: near as I can tell, Ripley chased her out. I
Speaker 2: didn't notice when I closed up shop because she never
Speaker 2: stays out, and anyway, I'm happy to have her home,
Speaker 2: and I'm pretty much going to spend the rest of
Speaker 2: the day just holding her even though she fucking hates it,
Speaker 2: and taking a nap. I guess, as you can imagine,
Speaker 2: I've had about no sleep for you know, forty eight hours,
Speaker 2: so you'll forgive me this week, gang, oh boy. I
Speaker 2: was gonna try and power through some one off recommendations,
Speaker 2: but I just don't even have that in me. I
Speaker 2: am so sorry. Everybody. Please check in again on Friday
Speaker 2: or next Monday. Like I said, I'm not gonna give
Speaker 2: you the Patreon thing. Nobody needs to pay for a
Speaker 2: show like this. But I guess we'll leave you with
Speaker 2: a little quote from something or other. I don't even
Speaker 2: know what it is yet. I'm just gonna drop it
Speaker 2: in here and then drop this episode out and then
Speaker 2: go to bed. So, actually, you know what, and Dora
Speaker 2: in season two is premiering on my birthday this year.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna leave you with a speech from the
Speaker 2: first season of And and Door. It's oh so current. And
Speaker 2: what do you sacrifice?
Speaker 1: Calm, kindness, kinship, love. I've given up wall chance at
Speaker 1: inner peace. I made my mind a sunless space. I
Speaker 1: share my dreems with ghosts. I wake up every day
Speaker 1: to an equation I wrote fifteen years ago, from which
Speaker 1: there's only one conclusion. I'm damned for what I do.
Speaker 1: My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness
Speaker 1: to fight. They set me on a path from which
Speaker 1: there's no escape. I yearned to be a savior against
Speaker 1: injustice without contemplating the cost, And by the time I
Speaker 1: look down, there's no longer any ground beneath my feet.
Speaker 1: What is my sacrifice? I'm condemned to use the tools
Speaker 1: of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency
Speaker 1: for someone else's future. I burn my life to make
Speaker 1: a sunrise that I know I'll never see the eagle
Speaker 1: that's started this fight. We'll never have a mirror, or
Speaker 1: an audience, or the light of gratitude. So what do
Speaker 1: I sacrifice? Everything