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yeah, it was good. Yeah. And it Yeah, I had the fajita, nachos.
And because we went out and had dinner, we had less time to
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Hey, so you want to do where it's like, Oh, no. Like we
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couple of fun stories from the news. Well, this first one is
not really fun, or do you have one ready to go? Or do you want
Alright, let me do this. Get prepped, which we should have
done before the show but you notice there was a lady and she
kept putting new contact lenses in without removing the old
ones. She ended up with 23 contact lenses in her eye.
That's something that I would do on accident. If I work contacts,
how did she get that many contacts Good grief.
According the doctor actually posted a video and I don't know
if I'm going to even watch it. There's a link in the show notes
it's when the you'll see the link it the link is to the
article not directly to the video so you can make that
decision on your own there. The video that went viral Of course,
we wouldn't know about it if it didn't. According to the OP
ophthalmologist, a patient put a new contact lenses for 23 days
in a row without ever taking the previous one out. posting the
video on the California Eye Associates Instagram page. There
was quote a rare occasion when somebody forgot to remove
contact lenses at night and kept putting them in 23 days in a
row. I got to deliver the contact lens bunch yesterday in
my clinic. So
glitter I shot How did she What if she were her contact asleep?
I don't know. I don't her eyes in the morning.
I don't wear contacts. So there's here's some tips real
quick for pearls. proper contact lens wearing, don't get get a
proper initial fitting and contact litens handling Well
it's hard to say contact lens handling training when first
getting them. Number two, always wash your hands before taking
them out or placing them in. Number three dispose of your
daily contact lenses before you go to bed. Use Lee's
preservative free artificial tears, such as refresh when
handling contact lenses, I wonder if they're going to kick
back for doing a name brand there. We don't. Number four,
use proper contact lens storage solution for extended wear
contact lenses. And number five if you wear contact lenses and
your eyes turn red see your ophthalmologist or optometrist
for an exam to make sure that there is no infection and never
sleep in your contact lenses. Indeed, so that was all in case
that's why I gave it some emphasis. Yes. So that's a
horrible story. Oh, yeah, I can't even I can't even like
think about one contact lens in my eyeball. Much less just
stack. How did you even close your eyes? Do you think it's
like close around them? True. That's like a little telescope
built into your eyeball?
How would that like not ruin your vision? It's like having
the same glasses
probably did probably mess with her. But she was like, Oh, well.
So when I went to I went to play Magic the Gathering one time at
a tournament or not? tournament. It was like a little, you know,
quarterly contest they did with anyway, I'm focusing on the
wrong part of the story. Yes, you are how there was a
gentleman there who wore glasses. And it looked like he
had not cleaned his glasses. And like three years, he had so much
film and stuff just like they just looked. Yeah, they were
super blurry. I was like, dude, just if you just cleaned them,
you could see I can't stand doing an hour without cleaning
my glasses.
I clean mine probably two three times a day. Yeah. Just I touch
them on. Like I go and like, I don't know, I talk to them a
lot. But so yeah, don't Don't. Don't do that. 23 pairs of
contacts in your eyeballs. What you got?
Okay, so we did this thing called CNN 10. In school. And
before, okay, before I do this, I want to say what I learned
about contact lenses. If you ever, like get them back in your
eye. It doesn't go into into your skull or anything. Which I
thought it did. I thought your your eye socket was like this
hole. And your eye was just in it. But no, it stops after a
certain point. So like a contact lens won't go back into your
head. It'll stay there. Under your eyelid.
Yeah. I didn't know that. It's called an eye socket. Not an eye
hole.
True. I watched the Vsauce thing on that. But anyways.
Let's see. Oh my gosh, the political ads I'm getting more
and more of them.
Gosh, they're terrible. There's there's only the three people
that the media is going after right now. Yeah, Sherry Beasley
Wiley, Nicole and Sandy Smith. The only three of you will the
rest are fine, I guess. But
I just get so much smear campaign.
Then there's they had to spend so much money on getting these
politicians to not be in office.
Yeah, they they spend a lot of money in political seasons are
big moneymakers for print shops and the post office. So we're
learning
about governments and science class or social studies. I need
to get that in my head. Okay.
Well, that's what social studies is learn about government. Yeah.
And like the three branches of government, and all that fun
stuff. So I've got another quick story. And then we're just gonna
talk about I'm gonna talk about a couple of projects I've been
working on and then you can tell the folks besides the debate
club what all you're doing, yeah, so vegan. This, this is
the headline, vegan who failed to deal with mouse infestation,
and fed them instead is fine in court. So Margaret Manzoni 73
She lives in Essex and Britain. See, quote, considered the mice
her pets and said they would not go to her neighbor's house
because she looked after them. So she had a whole bunch of mice
living in her house. And because she was vegan, you know, you
don't harm animals in any way. So she just kind of like started
feeding them and they were all like her pets but she didn't
have them in like cages of any kind. So she was fined 1500
pounds. It's a lot of money, with the court awarding Council
costs of 22,395 pounds
It's just a few rats. It's her own house. It's not like it's a
cafe
cafe. Yeah, but non like mouse's nice mice. I guess my system.
I'm so used to the computer talking about it. Yeah. The
mice, you know, they're a nuisance to other people. And if
she's not keeping them in enclosed area like a pet, then
they're obviously going to be going to the neighbor's house
and they're going to be going, you know, all over the place.
Yeah, so it's a public nuisance thing. The court actually said
that they are they were sympathetic to her. Her beliefs
as an ethical vegan, but they still had to, they had to find
her. There was a victim surcharge of 150 pounds also. So
she was she was out quite a bit. Wow. And so servo says In
England, the Queen owns the land.
Yeah, that's one thing we learned in science, social
studies today. Okay, let me explain to you because I
explained this at dinner, but I didn't explain it to y'all.
Y'all are gonna have to hear me rant about it to my history or
social studies teacher. She is exactly like a science teacher.
You will look at her. And you'd be like, Are you a history or
science teacher? And she, you would say a science teacher. She
acts like a science teacher.
I don't understand how a teacher acts like a social. You know, I
guess you're right. Because yeah, I can see that because I
had a science teacher who was totally a science teacher. Yeah.
Like you could tell.
I like her eyes. You can see the science.
I think that's probably just 23 contact lenses.
I mean, yeah, whose true? Want to not get it
one other news story. There's a haunted hotel up for sale. Oh,
can I borrow 250,000 pounds. Nevermind. I ended up on a
British site renews for some reason this week. And I'm not on
a VPN. So I'm not like I was on. I'm on mirror and Sky News. I
don't know how reliable these are. Yeah, no, I'm not on a VPN.
I just I guess I just landed on him. And I clicked the link from
one to the other. So that makes sense.
And on that note this video, I'm kidding.
But yeah, we wanted to just kind of talk about what we're doing.
I'm kind of excited. I'm doing a few things. Been working more on
audio drama. Working on my show me this pod. Not all not all the
episodes are for kids. So be sure and listen before you let
the kids listen to it. If you go and listen, I'd love it if you
did. I'm trying to get it to where I can release at least
every couple of weeks get an episode out I just recorded Jack
London's to build a fire. And that's actually the first time
I've read that story. Surprisingly enough. I think I
was supposed to read it in high school. But it's a really good
story will be coming out on me this pod soon. I've been working
with three or four other audio drama podcasts. I'm going to be
doing some narration playing some characters and you know,
I'll keep I'll keep everybody informed on what they are and
whether or not they're kid friendly. But I've been working
a lot of audio drama stuff, but I'm also getting the shed
cleaned out. We've got we think all three of us under my
direction. I've been getting the Shedd cleaned out and the reason
we're doing this is because I'm going to be putting insulation
and some soundproofing. And hopefully we'll be doing the
show from our studio in the next couple of months. It's going to
take a little while because I can only do them off time and
and all that but we've got everything out but the furniture
and most of the furniture is actually staying in there we're
going to couch in their coffee table we're going to kind of
turn it into a little hangout area and then have a soundproof
area for recording. Okay, Darth radar I understand I'm supposed
to be digging a big hole but I want to get it I want to at
least get the shed ready for when I can afford to buy all the
insulation. Before I started digging the hole
where are you digging a hole?
We talked about this when do we not talk about this? How does
Darth Raider know about it if if we didn't talk about it? Yeah,
remember about the pickaxe?
Yeah, it's for Minecraft. No.
It's not a controller for the computer. It has no Bluetooth it
has no USB it has an actual pickaxe. Oh. So what does if I'm
digging a hole where like right behind the shed where the where
the land drops off real steep. I'm gonna do a dugout I'm gonna
make a fort.
What? What, how you're gonna live in a hole No, it's
just for fun.
I thought you're gonna build a build a deck. No, I'm gonna
build opposite of a lean to deck. Oh, shed. No. Think about
past the fence. Okay, past the fence you like where we were out
in the woods the other night. Okay, okay, that's a whole is
gonna be I'm gonna dig, it's not going to be a full on a whole
it's going to be like I'm just making a dugout. I don't know
what that is, like I'm making I'm cutting. Imagine we're
playing Minecraft. Okay, there's a hill, right? Okay, and I want
to build a house that's halfway in the hill. And halfway out of
the hill, I've got to clear out, I've got to clear out like a
cube of dirt.
digging out so you're gonna, you're gonna even it out. Yeah,
I'm gonna, I'm gonna make it out, and you're gonna support
the land so it doesn't fall over?
Well, I'm digging out all the dirt. And then I'm gonna go get
some beams. Or maybe just cut down a couple of trees. And I'm
going to make a roof for it. So we can go out there and hang out
by the stream, but still have a roof over our heads and have
maybe a little bonfire there or whatever and hang out. So we're
like in the woods, but we're still close enough to the house
where we can run it and use the bathroom for one. So, so yes,
the dugout is in the plans, the converting the shed into a
studio is in the plans. And I'm getting to work on it is what
I'm doing. Okay. I like having a chat and call you out for stuff.
Yeah, stars radar, I'm digging a hole.
I thought you're okay, I thought you were thinking about like a
hole hole. A hole that goes like, like 10 feet down on the
ground. It's just like this big, you're just gonna stand in it.
This is my hole.
I did the math. And I've got eight, eight to 11 tons of dirt
to move
up the ladder. Yeah, but
might have your uncle will come over because he's got that
auger. And that thing can move some dirt. I think he's got like
a foot and a half wide blade for it now. And that thing will dig
a foot and a half wide hole just merge. And we can just boom,
yeah, get it out of there. Get a couple of wheelbarrows back
there. But I think it'd be a good workout, too. So that's
what I've been working on is audio drama stuff and getting
the getting the shed prepped, I gotta get either a solar
solution, or we got to run power and internet out to it. That's
That's what have you been up to you joining? Why are you joining
the debate club?
Because I'm bored. Because you're bored. And I want to
argue with people.
Yes. There you go. It's fun. I like the fact that you're going
to have to take the side of an argument that you don't
necessarily agree with.
I don't know about that. It's a social club.
They're calling it a social club. But it sounds a lot more
like a debate club. The way that the lady was talking to us,
miss. Yeah, let's not say people's names.
Miss Miss potato,
remind me to to edit that. 23 minutes. Give her 20 minutes.
Miss potato told me that it was like just talking about stuff
with other students. So oh,
so might not be Debate Club. It might just be all proud.
She brought up the word Debate Club. Okay, but
maybe she doesn't want to over promise with her ability to
teach debate. Yeah, or doesn't want to getting too deep too
deep into the debating part of it because then that might cause
arguments and that sort of thing.
haven't really met Miss potato much. Right. And her name is not
actually miss potato. Well, yeah, obviously.
You just picked a random word. So yeah, I'm interested to see
what it is and that starts what next week we kind of cut or
something like that. already. You don't know. But yeah, that
seems fun. You've been doing you're the student body
president or
I'm part of the Student Government Student Government.
So um, something like that. Yeah. I like failures all why
about digging a hole age kids random ideas.
Read servo says, I like that Lila's all why about digging the
hole? Usually it's the kid with the random ideas and the parent
asking I think that we established in like Episode
Three that the roles are kinda reversed with us
you likes digging holes. Oh my god. Why I love
I love it. I love digging a hole.
What are you gonna put in the hole
you don't have to put anything in the hole. The whole purpose
is to know the hole is purpose is to be a hole. The digging of
the hole is the is the fun like the process First you got to
break up the dirt and we've got some pretty solid dirt back
there, so I gotta get the pickaxe on it. Then a hole. Once
you break it all up, you gotta get the shovel. You gotta start
shoveling now, since I'm doing a dugout, instead of a hole down,
I can actually use the pickaxe a lot more, because I can break it
up and it's kind of rake it with the wider end of the pickaxe,
okay, and then just kind of rake it all off to the sides, instead
of having to actually use the shovel a whole lot. So I'm just
going to be just just driving that spike into the pickaxe into
the ground over and over and over and over, tear it all up,
and then just kind of rake it all off to the sides. Okay, over
and over and over again. Yep, moving. Yep. 15 20,000 pounds of
dirt. Yep. Indeed, it'll be neat. And I'll probably get
halfway through it and then just be done with it. Because I'll
probably drive the pickaxe under my foot externally. And that'll
be the end of that project. Oops. So we were cleaning out
the shed. Do you want to tell him what you did to me?
Yeah, I helped him help him clean our shed.
You're not gonna you're not going to mention the other part.
No. So we had the tailgate down on the truck, because we drove
the backed up the truck to the shed so we can move things
easier. And I was holding up an item because it was longer than
the bed of the truck. So it could rest on the back. I was
like, okay, Lila, I'm holding it up slam the tailgate. Mm hmm.
And she got me
but his hand it was his fault. So he, he was trying to lift up
the ladder in the back. But he wasn't all the way up yet. Yeah,
so it was it was totally his fault because his arm his arm is
still still there. Because he was trying to lift a lot if his
arm was there, she I would have just jammed it into the ladder
instead of him slammed my elbow in the tailgate. What does my
voice doing nice and hard. You're you're at a distance from
the mic where the gate doesn't know whether to cut you off or
not. Oh, oops, the gate is not super aggressive. But you're
just right at that point. So He's unique. Lila, are you
talking smack about your injury folks that are listening later?
This is why you're going to be here on on Lifetime. Because?
Because I'm funny. We're in the chat. We're having a good time.
And yeah. So so what else you got for the for the episode?
That's just that's good.
We're good. Yeah, you don't have any other any other fun stories.
And movies come Oh, one more thing I wanted to talk about.
Lila has to read books from a certain list. Do you want me to
post this list and people can give suggestions. Now?
No, because that's my school's name tied to it. No,
it doesn't. Because I copy and pasted into that Excel
spreadsheet. It's just a list of books. Look, there's nothing
having to do with your school is literally just a list of books.
And their their Dewey Decimal Number What do you say? You
already posted up and give let people get recommendations off
the list. Man, okay.
We won't do it then Lord of the Flies is okay. It's not my
favorite book review. Book Review. I give it a let's see.
What was my reading skill gonna be?
Number of flies around the pig's head.
Okay, spoiler alert.
What else? Okay,
okay. I'm reviewing a book. So I'm getting review out of fires
out of little fire fire bolts, you know? So I give it a six
6.6 6.7 fireballs out of 10 variables out of 10 fireball
that set the island on fire
No, that's a spoiler.
It was an okay. Oh, no. You read the Lord of the Flies. Exactly.
Now the the pig the pig is is on the cover of half of the
versions of this book. Yeah, they're out there. So that's not
a spoiler, but what you just said is a very, it's a major
plot point. It's like the culmination of everything.
They're not gonna know they're not gonna know they'll forget
once they're halfway through the book. Don't forget all about
that part. Yeah. Oh, well. Bye Yes DARS radar it does it's it's
not one of my my top 10 But it does cover some pretty pretty
interesting topics that you can talk about. There's quite a few
of the books on the list are a now I will say some of these are
like not not things I would think that they would like
recommend. Like there's a book on Chris Daughtry.
There's a book on Eminem singer, there's
Eminem, but there's a Chris Brown book that might might be
interesting.
My grade Lexile in reading is 12.6 so there's no books in the
library. There are my level
the grade what?
The grade point?
You said Lexile. Oh, is that just what the scale they use or
something?
What is it called? Let me see.
Okay, so yeah, this doesn't have
accelerated reader level.
Yeah, that's right. Because you're your school. You're in
middle school, but you're reading much higher than middle
school. So you need to we need to start looking at those notes.
You have to read off this look this list right?
Yeah. So Miss Miss Mustard. said that. If I'm a high level I can
just get like seven or eight level and above. I couldn't get
anything below my grade level.
There's plenty of entertaining books on here. Yeah, so Alright,
folks. Well, I think that's going to do it unless you had
anything else you wanted to cover. Oh, I wanted to do we
talked about the monsters already. Yeah, I think so. Okay,
we enjoyed the monsters it was good. Maybe we'll have some more
spooky stuff next week, obviously, because it'll be
spooky time. Right before Halloween. And yeah, if you do
have any good book recommendations for Lila drop us
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