1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,880 Speaker 1: I ran away from my boyfriend and his mouse infested apartment. 2 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,680 Speaker 1: I shouldn't have left him behind. M m. 3 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,440 Speaker 2: The rats should have left the rats behind him. 4 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 3: It's linked merle in the Walking Dead. 5 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 2: He got left on the roof. 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 3: Well, we don't really care because he's racist, but. 7 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 2: We do care a little bit because they went back 8 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 2: from what's fight. 9 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: Let's let's see our our faithful hero if he gets 10 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: left beyond everyone trigger warning, musophobia, mice, I've probably shoot. 11 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:30,639 Speaker 1: I'm a red flag. I know I can't read. So 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: twenty six female have been living with my boyfriend Steve 13 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:36,600 Speaker 1: thirty mail for ten months and we've been together for 14 00:00:36,640 --> 00:00:39,320 Speaker 1: two years. We were originally long distance. I was living 15 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:41,479 Speaker 1: in the Midwest, he was living in the Northeast. Our 16 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:44,280 Speaker 1: first year was full of adventures, traveling to different cities. 17 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: By the way, this comes from connection first on the 18 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: ur slash Okay story times subre it. So around Christmas 19 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,120 Speaker 1: time he asked me to move in with him. I 20 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,040 Speaker 1: said yes, as long as marriage in the picture. After 21 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,240 Speaker 1: two years of dating, we talk marriage, kids a lot. 22 00:00:56,360 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: His timeline is getting a house first, then proposing, then marriage, 23 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: then kids. He's got it all planned out. This is 24 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:04,600 Speaker 1: so we can come home. 25 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:05,679 Speaker 2: To a quiet house. 26 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 1: Before all that, though, we would live in the apartment 27 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: above his parents, in his childhood home. It's a one 28 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty year old duplex built strong. 29 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:15,680 Speaker 4: That is. 30 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: Oh, I mean our place is built in the nineteen twenties, 31 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 2: so like our place hundred Our place is like one 32 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 2: hundred years old. 33 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 1: That's true. And she's you know, I can tell. 34 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 2: She's solid, pretty good solid. 35 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,320 Speaker 1: But it could definitely use some remodeling. You don't say so. 36 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: Steve and I remodeled about half the rooms in the 37 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:37,520 Speaker 1: apartment so far. Sealed up the cracks. 38 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 3: John, you can't see that. 39 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, I'm so sorry. Sealed up the cracks, painting 40 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 1: walls of proving ventilation, et cetera. It feels way more 41 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: like our home now, with beautiful, bright colors and furniture 42 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: that is completely ours. My life up to this point 43 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,200 Speaker 1: was very happy and fulfilled. 44 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: That's it, yep. Wrong. We love when these stories just, 45 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 2: you know, they do a little little happiness fake out. 46 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 1: M M. Remember the title, Remember the title. Once I 47 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 1: asked Steve if he ever had a mouse, and he 48 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: hadn't seen one in ten years. This house was so 49 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: old it had to be teeming with holes, holes, holes, 50 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,080 Speaker 1: full of them everywhere you look. 51 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 2: Hole hole. But I bet no glory in any of them. 52 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: Zero gloryo zero glorious, unglorious, unglorious holes. But nope, mice 53 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:33,680 Speaker 1: just don't come here, probably because of our cat, Willy 54 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 1: seven male. 55 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 2: Thank god the cat is there keeping the mice at bed. 56 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 1: Thank god we have an aged gender, just to know 57 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: what we're dealing with here with Willy the cat. The 58 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: reason I asked this is because I have musophobia. I'm 59 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: sticking with that pronunciation. In other words, a strong fear 60 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: of mice. I don't know what it is about them. 61 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: I just hate them. They jump out at you, they scurry, 62 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 1: they carry disease, they go no no, no, no, no 63 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,280 Speaker 1: no on those why and they ruin your house? 64 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 2: Or more like you know. 65 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:09,120 Speaker 1: In September, right after Labor Day, his mom saw a 66 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: mouse in her living room. She asked Steve to bring 67 00:03:11,320 --> 00:03:14,359 Speaker 1: Willie the cat so he could hunt him down. WILLI 68 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:17,600 Speaker 1: was like, ooh, Grandma's house. As he sniffed around and 69 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: explored the place the mouse. 70 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 2: It got away. 71 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,480 Speaker 1: But then a couple of days later, Steve saw the 72 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,160 Speaker 1: mouse in our pantry. Wood seal, and it scurried into 73 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: a crack under the sink. 74 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:30,560 Speaker 2: I love how crack is is blurred out. 75 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: We don't know what we're right, This one's a crack 76 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:35,720 Speaker 1: in the wall. So it was the first time I 77 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:38,440 Speaker 1: felt unsafe, and I was cautious but not too worried. 78 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 1: I asked if we could get an exterminator. Both he 79 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: and his mom both felt that it wasn't the best idea. 80 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,880 Speaker 1: The exterminator would just set up traps. We could do 81 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: that for way cheaper, and it would probably leave on 82 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: its own anyways, or would it bring its wood it 83 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: go back to its other mouse friends and say, hey, guys, 84 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,160 Speaker 1: I got some great food or great set up here. 85 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: Let's just let's move on in. Yeah, little mouse frashed. Yeah, 86 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,400 Speaker 1: maybe maybe cook something. 87 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 2: Maybe cook some maybe pull some hair. 88 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,040 Speaker 1: Oh God. Then around September I picked up my backpack 89 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,040 Speaker 1: to clean the kitchen and there it was again. It 90 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,040 Speaker 1: jumped out of my backpack and scurried under the fridge. 91 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 1: I have never screamed so loud in my life, getting 92 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: into a full blown panic attack. Steve told me to 93 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,960 Speaker 1: gather all the glue traps downstairs and put them around 94 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: the fridge. After a couple of days, we thought we 95 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: had him, so Steve lifted the fridge with the freakin' hulk. 96 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:30,760 Speaker 2: He was gone. Rats. 97 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:34,359 Speaker 1: Somehow he avoided our traps and scurried away. We tried 98 00:04:34,400 --> 00:04:37,599 Speaker 1: snap traps in every corner. We tried sunflower seeds. Nothing. 99 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: We called a local exterminator and he said it's probably 100 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 1: too late to catch up, since it has now built 101 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,760 Speaker 1: complex tunnels to live in more holes. 102 00:04:45,839 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 2: See like flood the tunnels or something. 103 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 3: Flood the tunnels. 104 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:53,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, there's a whole movie about this. Probably flush 105 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,239 Speaker 4: where Yeah. 106 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,040 Speaker 1: These holes, these holes can't be flushed. These are unflushable holes. 107 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 2: Dang to getting craftier and craft here. 108 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,000 Speaker 1: So there was nothing we could do. Finally, because we 109 00:05:04,040 --> 00:05:08,280 Speaker 1: thought it was a vole at first, we tried vole poison. 110 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,760 Speaker 1: Those are like long rats a volt. 111 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 3: They're kind of like little vol I'll show you. 112 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: It's like a long rat with a pink like a pot, 113 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:18,680 Speaker 1: like a possum. 114 00:05:18,839 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: No, they're they're kind of like little I don't know 115 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 3: how to explain it. I'll show you a picture. They 116 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,000 Speaker 3: look like mice, though, show me how do I how 117 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 3: do I get this? 118 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 2: I'll just nurse Aaron says, you need a couple of cats. 119 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,480 Speaker 2: Hold on, Oh those are cute. Yeah, those are cute. 120 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:35,599 Speaker 1: We could get a bunch of pet mice and they 121 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: would build holes. Here. This is one hundred years old. 122 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: They could definitely figure it. 123 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:40,840 Speaker 2: One hundred mice. 124 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: There we go. 125 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 2: But Sophia can't do cats because she is This is true. 126 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:48,120 Speaker 1: So we tried the vole poison and it worked. We 127 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: didn't see him for a good two weeks. I was 128 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 1: finally happy again. The cautiousness to fear, the anger, the spiraling. 129 00:05:53,760 --> 00:05:56,599 Speaker 1: It was all over. And Steve was still cautious because 130 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: he thought it was back. But he didn't tell me 131 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:00,600 Speaker 1: because he loved seeing me happy. I love how much 132 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 1: he cares about me, but I wish he told me 133 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: about his fears. Both he and Willie the cat could 134 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 1: hear scurrying in the walls. Then on Halloween night, I 135 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,599 Speaker 1: happily walked to the refrigerator at dusk after work. The 136 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:14,640 Speaker 1: mouse jumped out, popped over the crack and under the dishwasher. 137 00:06:14,720 --> 00:06:17,120 Speaker 1: I was freaked out. Immediately I called Steve. He told 138 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: me to hang up with his mom downstairs until we 139 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: could find out a plan. It's been two months now 140 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: with his mouse, and Steve was like, f this, I'm 141 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 1: calling a different exterminator. Since we were renters, we had 142 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:29,760 Speaker 1: to get approval from his parents. Finally, his mom agreed 143 00:06:29,760 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: to have an inspection. So the insterminator came out on 144 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: Tuesday and we told him the details of what we found, 145 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: and he narrowed it down to us having a dear 146 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,720 Speaker 1: mouse problem. There was likely more. All we could do 147 00:06:40,880 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: is to keep our glue traps, sprinkle some seeds, and wait. 148 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:45,760 Speaker 1: He would come out a week later with traps, but 149 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 1: for now, don't seal up any cracks. They were likely 150 00:06:48,160 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: to tunnel through and damage the house further. Steve had 151 00:06:50,440 --> 00:06:52,640 Speaker 1: sealed up the cracks in the kitchen the night before, 152 00:06:52,839 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: and he left a huge gap under the dishwasher, untouched, 153 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: just surrounding, just surrounded by glue traps. The mouse at 154 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,640 Speaker 1: this point was coming out every night like that mouse. 155 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 2: I know, I know what. He's not even invited. 156 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,719 Speaker 3: You had a house once in Paris. 157 00:07:08,880 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 2: We did, We did. 158 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 1: I couldn't go into the kitchen without doing a thorough inspection, 159 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 1: and I saw him dart away. That's my mouse and 160 00:07:19,360 --> 00:07:22,320 Speaker 1: parties a few times. Well since this inspection, there have 161 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:25,680 Speaker 1: been more of them, and they're staying exclusively in our apartment. 162 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:28,760 Speaker 1: They have walked down the lease ladies and gentlemen, and 163 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,560 Speaker 1: they've been loudly squeaking walls, digging tunnels to the wood 164 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 1: in insulation, and leaving droppings behind the fridge. And it's 165 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 1: been getting darker earlier and earlier. My window to get 166 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,200 Speaker 1: things done in the house is down between nine am 167 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 1: and three pm. And that's on top of working remotely. 168 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: Our only bathroom is in the kitchen, crossing over the 169 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:48,920 Speaker 1: fridge and oven, so there's a challenge to get to 170 00:07:48,960 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: it without worrying about it. Another jump scare. Finally, after 171 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:54,000 Speaker 1: all of that, including stress from work in the election, 172 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:58,160 Speaker 1: I broke Oh no, the rats won. Last night I 173 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,920 Speaker 1: told my boyfriend that I hated my life and I 174 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:01,560 Speaker 1: wanted to leave. 175 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 2: Imagine being like, imagine rats being the reason that you 176 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:06,200 Speaker 2: end a relationship. 177 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:07,480 Speaker 1: Too many rats, Too many rats. 178 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 2: You know, I I loved him so much, But the rats, 179 00:08:10,840 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 2: the rats, the rats. 180 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? 181 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 2: Here? 182 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: We go? 183 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 2: I actually have a case for you, Safia. All right, 184 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 2: so perfect guy, right, perfect? You're seeing you know, staying 185 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,000 Speaker 2: at his place, ants everywhere. 186 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: Everything else is spotless, like literally, like everything else. 187 00:08:26,320 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 3: I would never go to his house. 188 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 2: But he's like, I can't go anywhere else my aunts. 189 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,440 Speaker 2: I need to take care of him his ants. I 190 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 2: mean they're in his house. 191 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, well. 192 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:41,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. That's crazy and they're not trained, their wild ants, 193 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 2: but they love him and he loves them. 194 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:45,440 Speaker 3: Well, that's kind of I don't know, he's kind of weird. 195 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 3: Then many ants. 196 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 2: Well, because he's an ant man man and ant man. 197 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,320 Speaker 2: He used to have those ant mazes. That was pretty fun. 198 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 2: I almost became an ant man. 199 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 1: Is that what traumatized Sophia? Probably did she? But did 200 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:02,680 Speaker 1: you just spend countless hours looking at the ants marching? 201 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,319 Speaker 4: My trauma with ants was when I was in I 202 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 4: was four years old and I was in preschool and 203 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,760 Speaker 4: I was sitting in the little sand pit and I 204 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,280 Speaker 4: was like, I was like itchy, and I was like, 205 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:11,959 Speaker 4: what's going on? 206 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:13,760 Speaker 3: And I looked down and I'm covered in ants. That's 207 00:09:13,760 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 3: where my trauma started. 208 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 2: That's where it begins. 209 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:16,560 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. 210 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 2: Yeah, Now she's been killing ants, hundreds and hundreds by the. 211 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 1: Day she became a mass murderer of ants. 212 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 2: That's really in human. Sofia, you gotta get a live 213 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:26,400 Speaker 2: trap for the ants. 214 00:09:27,000 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, do better now, pushed them with my film. 215 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 1: Do Better Well. He was the one encouraging me to 216 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 1: face my fears, but I can only do so much 217 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 1: as the problem just gets worse and worse. On top 218 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,160 Speaker 1: of that, we don't have air conditioning in the house, 219 00:09:38,240 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: so seventy seven degrees without the heat on. He encouraged 220 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,400 Speaker 1: me to go seek a counselor to deal with the phobias, 221 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,600 Speaker 1: and to get a hotel room with air conditioning. I 222 00:09:45,679 --> 00:09:48,319 Speaker 1: sadly left, wanting to bring in with me, but he 223 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:50,400 Speaker 1: couldn't leave. All I have to say is he was right. 224 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: My mind is a lot more clear. The AC and 225 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 1: the extra sleep at night really helped. Now I'm sitting 226 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 1: in a hotel room writing this. Steve sent a pick 227 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: last night of more insulation in the pantry that was 228 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:02,319 Speaker 1: chewed through, specifically around the windowsill. I love how op 229 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: he's just getting out meanwhile, like I'm just imagining, the 230 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 1: mice are just like forming into like one giant like 231 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:12,200 Speaker 1: mask man, a rat king god, a human sized like 232 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: you know, rat man, scurrying all around. The exterminator still 233 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:20,720 Speaker 1: doesn't come until Tuesday, and there's another heat wave tonight. 234 00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 1: Does that multiply them? 235 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 2: I don't know. 236 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:24,760 Speaker 1: I'm considering going to my parents' house until this is resolved, 237 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: but they live nine hours away. I know they'd be 238 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,240 Speaker 1: happy to have me, but Steve would be so sad 239 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: being alone. Still, he said, he's. 240 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 2: Not alone though. He lives the rats For God, he 241 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 2: has new friends and all the forget all the cracks. 242 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,319 Speaker 2: Come on. You have rats for company and holes for pleasure. 243 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:47,840 Speaker 1: I don't know if you need more you could ask for? 244 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 2: What more? Do you ask for it? Oh? Golly? 245 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: Still, he said, he wants me to do what's best 246 00:10:52,800 --> 00:10:55,000 Speaker 1: for my mental health. He doesn't think running away is 247 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 1: the answer like a coward, but if it had helped 248 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,600 Speaker 1: me have not so much anxiety in my life, then 249 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:01,760 Speaker 1: he's a I don't want to leave him to fight 250 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:03,880 Speaker 1: it on his own. I know he's scared too. I 251 00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 1: don't know what to do right now. 252 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 2: Leave him. You might love him a lot, but do 253 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 2: you love him and the rats. It's kind of like 254 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:13,079 Speaker 2: the whole idea of like, you know, when you marry someone, 255 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 2: you kind of marry their family, But do you love 256 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:17,360 Speaker 2: this man? You gotta love his rats? 257 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: You marry the rats. 258 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 2: You marry the rats. 259 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:23,000 Speaker 1: You might as well put him in little TUXI noos, yep, because. 260 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:25,640 Speaker 2: You're a room down the altar all together. 261 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: I know he's scared too. I don't know what to 262 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:29,000 Speaker 1: do right now. I love him with all my heart, 263 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 1: and the last thing I want to do is hurt 264 00:11:30,640 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: him by temporarily staying with my folks. Our relationship is 265 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: wonderful and the mouse problem is the hardest thing. 266 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 2: We've had to go through together. 267 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:38,520 Speaker 1: So reddit, would I be the a hole if I 268 00:11:38,559 --> 00:11:40,720 Speaker 1: left my boysfriend's house to stay with my parents for 269 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,960 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Should I stick with him and 270 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,800 Speaker 1: fight this thing together? Or should I go stay with 271 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 1: my folks for my own sanity? We have an edit 272 00:11:48,360 --> 00:11:49,959 Speaker 1: and more to the story, but we have. 273 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 2: To want that question. Is thinking about the feelings of 274 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 2: the rats? You know, it's always like boyfriend, girlfriend, parents, 275 00:11:57,840 --> 00:11:58,839 Speaker 2: But what about the rats? 276 00:11:58,880 --> 00:11:59,920 Speaker 1: What about their trauma? 277 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:00,280 Speaker 2: Yeah? 278 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:01,600 Speaker 1: What about I mean talking about it. 279 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 2: We're talking about hundreds of living beings being thrown out 280 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,599 Speaker 2: of their heidi holes. What about on the street? Do 281 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:12,600 Speaker 2: you know what happens to a street rat? Riff raff? 282 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,080 Speaker 2: Street rat riff raff? I don't want that? How does 283 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:18,680 Speaker 2: the rest to go with you street rat. 284 00:12:18,679 --> 00:12:28,920 Speaker 5: Riffv lit close more recently, No, no, no, sorry, there 285 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 5: we go, there we go, just get it? 286 00:12:31,440 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: Are we the infestation? WHOA listen to me? I'm listening. 287 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: These rats are our self starters. They're they're digging these 288 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: holes with their freaking teeth. Squatter's rights also sclutter's rights, Like, 289 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 1: are are we not the infestation? There's imagine okay, imagine 290 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:53,319 Speaker 1: there's a being that is thirty times your size stomping around. 291 00:12:53,559 --> 00:12:58,280 Speaker 1: Are you telling me you don't have insane liked? 292 00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:04,600 Speaker 2: These rats all need therapists. Where's the rat they where's 293 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,920 Speaker 2: the rat therapist? You know? But actually maybe they just 294 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 2: need a love of like like a craft, you. 295 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,719 Speaker 3: Know, maybe they should get into like cooking or something. 296 00:13:12,800 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, pull some strings or maybe some hair. 297 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,600 Speaker 2: See the way they can they can get up to. 298 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:19,960 Speaker 1: But on a much less serious note, I'm almost like, 299 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,560 Speaker 1: why doesn't the boyfriend just go with her for now? 300 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 2: Like what? I don't buy that? Thanks ki Quat, Yeah 301 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 2: that's what's the next line is? 302 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 1: That's the answer. Well, let's get into this edit because 303 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,480 Speaker 1: I have a love edits. Thank you so much for 304 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: all the advice. On how to catch these little guys. Actually, 305 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,839 Speaker 1: I was more looking for advice if I should leave 306 00:13:37,840 --> 00:13:39,680 Speaker 1: the house or fight it. But it seems like you 307 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 1: guys are coming up with solutions. They're telling you to it, 308 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: They're telling you to fight the rats. Fight. 309 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:47,120 Speaker 2: It's us, is them. 310 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: My favorite solutions have been get a mouse, or use 311 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: steel wool corn starts to track the footprints, or use 312 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: glue or poison. This last one has been the advice 313 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: of a lot of combatures since it's cruel. It's been 314 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: the advice because because it's cruel, I. 315 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:06,600 Speaker 3: Think, if you really want to get back at. 316 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: Those mice, I mean, hey, at least it's not crushing 317 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:09,439 Speaker 1: them with your song. 318 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:11,320 Speaker 2: Is that something you do? 319 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,160 Speaker 1: Some people in this very room have been killing living 320 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: creatures with their thumb. 321 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 2: That's true. That is true. Sofia's aunt and murder. 322 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 3: With the thumb. 323 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:25,560 Speaker 1: They're right, and it hasn't worked. Anyways. I was going 324 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:28,600 Speaker 1: to talk to Steve Tonight income home. Wait, wait all right, 325 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: really quick. 326 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,760 Speaker 2: So people are like, no, you can't kill these these 327 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 2: mice because it's unethical, Like what do you know? 328 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,800 Speaker 1: They're like, you need to use more unethical means to 329 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: destroy them. 330 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 4: No, I think I think that was a type of 331 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 4: I think they were saying, don't use these unethical. 332 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,800 Speaker 2: I think they're saying, I know, I agree with John. 333 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 2: I think they're saying, use more unethical means because you 334 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,640 Speaker 2: didn't inspire fear right like I think, you know, crucify them. 335 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 2: Put them on a little mouse crosses. So whenever a mice, 336 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,440 Speaker 2: a mouse comes through the hole, like they see what 337 00:14:58,520 --> 00:14:59,000 Speaker 2: will happen. 338 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 4: It's one thing to break theirs, to get them to surrender, 339 00:15:03,760 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 4: but their spirit, they'll never rise up. 340 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 2: They'll never rise up. You got to break the spirit, 341 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 2: got to keep them in a cycle of of cowering 342 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 2: and fear. Cut the snake off of the head, cut 343 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 2: the snake off the right ca and yeah, and then 344 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,600 Speaker 2: it's tail will just be dragging along. Well, this is 345 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 2: getting this is I don't know how I got here, 346 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 2: but you know what, I'm glad we're here. 347 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: It's it's it's beautiful. One commenter recommended sleeping in the 348 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 1: living room where the mice don't go. A couple of 349 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:32,760 Speaker 1: people recommended getting a mouser, which is a hilarious name, 350 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:35,280 Speaker 1: whether it's a Yorkie or a cat. Oh, I guess 351 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: that's like, yeah, okay, cat, I thought it was like 352 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: a person. 353 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 5: A little guy who catches those little mouse little man 354 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:44,720 Speaker 5: catches the mice. 355 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 1: By the way, if you want to watch an insane video, 356 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,480 Speaker 1: search terrier rat farming. 357 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 2: What the heck? All right, we're searching that right after. 358 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:56,120 Speaker 1: This great solutions. So right now I'm leaning towards staying 359 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:58,200 Speaker 1: in the house and helping Steve fight this thing. You 360 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:00,360 Speaker 1: guys are giving me so much more confidence. And because 361 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,720 Speaker 1: I love updates, all post one soon so I'll let 362 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,640 Speaker 1: y'all know what we're going to do. And we have 363 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,200 Speaker 1: that update, let's go. I'm not sure how to share 364 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: my original posts, so just click on profile and it'll 365 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:13,400 Speaker 1: be there. Hello everyone, thank you for reading my post, 366 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:16,200 Speaker 1: and thanks for all the advice getting given. Ironically, I 367 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: was more asking for a relationship vibes, but you guys 368 00:16:18,880 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: actually gave me some great advice on how to get 369 00:16:21,520 --> 00:16:26,240 Speaker 1: rid of the problem breaking their spirits. The verse, yes, 370 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,960 Speaker 1: kill them, kill them, all of them all. The verdict 371 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 1: was not the ahle. 372 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:33,560 Speaker 2: Not just see men, the women and children too. 373 00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: Oh God. Now, when it comes to relationships, I always 374 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:40,280 Speaker 1: say it's gotta be us versus the problem, and that's 375 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,840 Speaker 1: exactly what happened. If anything, our relationship has become stronger 376 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: after we tackled the issue trigger warning death and mice. 377 00:16:47,520 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: On Thursday, I came home and I talked to Steve 378 00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: again thirty mail. I realized that I couldn't go home 379 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 1: to my folks. After all, I moved out because of 380 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 1: how controlling they were. I know they loved me, but 381 00:16:56,320 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: they are a lot to live with. We have different 382 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: lifestyles and going back home over a mint why else, 383 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 1: wouldn't be the best idea because I'd be dealing with 384 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:04,840 Speaker 1: a whole new set of issues that I couldn't get 385 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: away from, and that is not something you could set 386 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,440 Speaker 1: a trap for. Ladies and gentlemen got him, especially after 387 00:17:09,440 --> 00:17:11,960 Speaker 1: the election, and I talked to Steve more about how 388 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: he's feeling, because it's not just about me. He felt 389 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:17,439 Speaker 1: creeped out and anxious, but mostly angry. This tiny mouse 390 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: has been running around, changing our routine, making everyone nervous, 391 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: running their lives in. 392 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 2: Little scampers, scurrying like. 393 00:17:25,800 --> 00:17:28,560 Speaker 1: Rats because he is a rat. And on top of that, 394 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 1: she had a family in the walls. She had a family, 395 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: She's a mama, So my mental health was down. His 396 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:36,560 Speaker 1: mom's mental health was down and his dad refuses to 397 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:38,280 Speaker 1: do anything about it, and he had to bear the 398 00:17:38,280 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: weight of it all. They hugged him and promised him 399 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: we would face it together. I did take the advice 400 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:44,040 Speaker 1: of some redditors on here and tried to come up 401 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 1: with some solutions. Adopting a mouseer was shot down because 402 00:17:46,920 --> 00:17:49,040 Speaker 1: we wouldn't be adopting a cat or dog for the 403 00:17:49,080 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: right reasons. One commentary recommended to Yorky, well, I can 404 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,679 Speaker 1: get the Yorkie someday. By that day is not today. 405 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 1: We cannot have any more pets as renters. This is 406 00:17:57,080 --> 00:17:59,879 Speaker 1: his parents just be like, I'm getting a dog. I 407 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 1: think you can put your sorry, have your boyfriend. Be like, Mom, 408 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:05,600 Speaker 1: I want to get rid of the rats. Let me 409 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: get a dog. 410 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,440 Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I think keep the rats se your mom, 411 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:10,960 Speaker 2: sue your mom for them. 412 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 3: Actually they can't as renters. They can't have any more 413 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:15,680 Speaker 3: pets because all of the mice cat. 414 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:17,080 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they take their pet quota. 415 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:20,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, they've reached their one hundred limit. As far as 416 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,879 Speaker 1: glue traps, we remove them because of how cruel they were. Okay, 417 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: so that was the what they were saying earlier, and 418 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:28,280 Speaker 1: as I said, it didn't even work anyways. Steve loved 419 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,679 Speaker 1: the suggestion if using corn starts to follow the tracks 420 00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:31,680 Speaker 1: of where she was going. 421 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 2: But then what do you do when you hunt them? 422 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 2: You're hunting the mice and you find them. 423 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:37,960 Speaker 1: Well, then we caught her, so we're out to find 424 00:18:37,960 --> 00:18:41,120 Speaker 1: out there is only one mouse running around the mama. 425 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:43,240 Speaker 1: She was confirmed to be a deer mouse. She was 426 00:18:43,240 --> 00:18:46,280 Speaker 1: preparing food piles under our fridge and around the house. Well, 427 00:18:46,359 --> 00:18:48,159 Speaker 1: she got caught in one of our snaptraps. But she's 428 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: still alive. Steve and I felt awful, and I knew 429 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,400 Speaker 1: the right thing to do was to take her out. 430 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,600 Speaker 2: Oh my god, cople. 431 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 1: I won't go into details, but I was the one 432 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:59,080 Speaker 1: to do it. This is really hard on me and Steve, 433 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 1: and we have to live with that memory. I never 434 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:04,000 Speaker 1: want to use a snaptrap again. And at that moment, 435 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:04,880 Speaker 1: my phobia was gone. 436 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 2: Oh mosophobia, it's over, like a part in the wind. 437 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:10,359 Speaker 1: I have no idea what the psychology was behind it, 438 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: but I'm no longer afraid of mice. Big Mama got 439 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:13,119 Speaker 1: over her. 440 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 2: So maybe you just have to kill whatever you're afraid of. 441 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:17,959 Speaker 1: That's it. That's a new lill philosophy. Maybe it's conquering 442 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: my fear. We used an exterminator to remove the rest 443 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: of them, and we sealed up the cracks and holes 444 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:25,080 Speaker 1: inside and outside of the house. Day by day, I 445 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:25,800 Speaker 1: felt more at ease. 446 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:29,440 Speaker 3: Wait, why couldn't they have used an exterminator from the start. 447 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: Because there's render parents wouldn't let them. 448 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 3: Oh, but then they would now. 449 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 1: Tell your mom to let you do it. Yeah, yeah, great, 450 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,600 Speaker 1: great point, Sophia, What changed. 451 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,040 Speaker 2: Says exposure therapy? Ah. 452 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:45,920 Speaker 1: True, Day by day I felt more at ease. I 453 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:47,679 Speaker 1: can cook and clean at night again. I don't have 454 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:50,240 Speaker 1: to do an inspection of the kitchen before doing anything 455 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:52,040 Speaker 1: in it. I also got a therapist who helps me 456 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,720 Speaker 1: control my anxiety, so I can be more at ease 457 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,560 Speaker 1: when we face that ex challenge together. She was quite 458 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:57,359 Speaker 1: happy to learn that I got over my phobia and 459 00:19:57,359 --> 00:19:59,639 Speaker 1: we'll be working on not running away from problems. As 460 00:19:59,680 --> 00:20:01,760 Speaker 1: far as what other good news, we found a great realtor, 461 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: Steve and I began the home buying process and we're 462 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: looking at some nice houses in our area, hopefully without 463 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,439 Speaker 1: any rats. When this experience really made a stronger at 464 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:12,399 Speaker 1: a couple facing issues, in our home together. It also 465 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,760 Speaker 1: made me realize that he's going to be a great homeowner. 466 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,840 Speaker 1: But that was gonna say, great, dad. He's been saving 467 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,080 Speaker 1: for fifteen years to buy a house, thanks, since he 468 00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 1: was fifteen years old, and now we can afford it. 469 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:24,119 Speaker 3: Oh are they thirty? 470 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:25,119 Speaker 1: He's thirty? 471 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 2: Oh? I mean yeah, my god. 472 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 1: His mom is thrilled for us and wants to help 473 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:32,000 Speaker 1: us find a good home. His dad, he's not pleased. 474 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 1: I hate these parents. We haven't told him yet because 475 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 1: the last time Steve mentioned moving out, his dad blew 476 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:42,160 Speaker 1: up and accused him of abandoning the family physically and financially. Good. Good. 477 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: We already have a plan for how we will tell him, 478 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 1: and I have a plan to let you know that. 479 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 6: You can join us live on YouTube every weekday at 480 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,080 Speaker 6: three pm PST. Just wrap the profile. We're probably live 481 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:53,639 Speaker 6: right now. Please join us on Facebook, pa TikTok? Please 482 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 6: what are you waiting for? Before we get into this 483 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 6: final part of the story. Are we happy with how this? 484 00:20:57,760 --> 00:20:59,240 Speaker 2: I'm very happy. I'm happy. 485 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 1: I initially was like, hey, I don't know that, op, 486 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: I was just gonna like move out. I don't know, 487 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:06,560 Speaker 1: like like think about it. Realistically, if you are in 488 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: a rat infested place and it's just stays that way 489 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 1: for a long time, you're probably like, all right, I'm 490 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: just right, I'm just move out if it gets to 491 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:13,800 Speaker 1: that level. 492 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,640 Speaker 2: I mean yeah, I mean that it's kind of unsightly 493 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,200 Speaker 2: and very I mean like rats aren't the most cleanly 494 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 2: of animals. 495 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I like low key, I'm like, is it 496 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,880 Speaker 1: a little bit red flaggy where it's like the boyfriend 497 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,120 Speaker 1: was just like, hey, let's just find another place to live, 498 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:31,080 Speaker 1: or just like, all right, let's face our fears together. 499 00:21:31,119 --> 00:21:31,960 Speaker 1: I'm glad it like work. 500 00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,600 Speaker 2: It worked out, but like I would, I would, I 501 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 2: would try to find a new place. Yeah seems but hey, 502 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:39,359 Speaker 2: you know, to each their own glad to work. So 503 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 2: bottom line, life is really really good again. We're both 504 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,719 Speaker 2: happy and we love our life together. There's no more stress, 505 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:45,320 Speaker 2: no more fear. 506 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: We're about to go back to my hometown for Thanksgiving, 507 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,000 Speaker 1: which I'm so excited to see my siblings and niece again. 508 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,440 Speaker 1: If there's a lesson to be learned, living together could 509 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 1: bring a whole set of challenges to a couple. If 510 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:56,639 Speaker 1: you run, your partner will know that they'll have to 511 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:59,239 Speaker 1: face challenges on their own. If you stay, it'll make 512 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,840 Speaker 1: your relationships so much stronger. I'm glad I stayed, and 513 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: that's where that story in this episode ends. Smile a 514 00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: little lesson and if you love us, make sure to 515 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,320 Speaker 1: subscribe We love you and see it tomorrow. 516 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,439 Speaker 2: This is an episode from Deep within the Archives. 517 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:20,680 Speaker 1: Time for okop relash Today, I fed up by making 518 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 1: a Will Smith joke after my kids threw up all 519 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:24,159 Speaker 1: over my wife. 520 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,040 Speaker 2: Okayop, this is Okayop. I'm Samuel Daughner and I'm John 521 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,919 Speaker 2: Fry and we tell the funniest stories on the internet. 522 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 1: You know, Sam, there there has been a huge moment 523 00:22:32,280 --> 00:22:34,520 Speaker 1: that has happened in the recent times. 524 00:22:34,640 --> 00:22:39,280 Speaker 2: Are you referring to the Oscar slap herd throughout the world. Yes, 525 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 2: I am referring to that exact slap crazy bro. 526 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:45,320 Speaker 1: That was. It was an absolute moment. 527 00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,879 Speaker 2: I mean I was shocked, I like, because I was 528 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 2: watching it live. 529 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, really that just happened? Did you see? 530 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:52,560 Speaker 1: Like was the audio cutout or like yeah. 531 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, the audio was cut out. Like I didn't hear anything. 532 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:56,960 Speaker 2: I had to go to Twitter to like see, like, 533 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 2: what the heck is just happening? Right now. 534 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, did you think it was like a or it 535 00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:00,960 Speaker 1: was skit? 536 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 2: I thought it was a joke. 537 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. But then when I saw Will smooth like. 538 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:09,960 Speaker 2: Keep my wife's name out of your No, that was okay, 539 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,119 Speaker 2: maybe there's no skit here. Yeah, yeah, this is a 540 00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 2: loud of skit. He was mad. Well initially though, like 541 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 2: initially was fine. 542 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:18,560 Speaker 1: I mean to me, it looked like he laughed at 543 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:21,040 Speaker 1: the joke. But I was like, maybe that's the the set, 544 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 1: like yeah, never delay, you know. Yeah, anyways, it was 545 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,960 Speaker 1: a whole situation. But we actually have a story today 546 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 1: that in the reverberance of that slap was created. 547 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:34,640 Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's hear it. Let's hear it. 548 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,440 Speaker 1: Today, I fed up by making a Will Smith joke 549 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,160 Speaker 1: after my kids threw up all over my wife. Oh yeah, 550 00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: so a messy situation. 551 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:44,680 Speaker 2: Hey, you know what, but you got you can't pull 552 00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,480 Speaker 2: your punches with jokes. You can't your slaps. 553 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:51,000 Speaker 1: No, you can't. That's the true comedy, true comedy. So 554 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,680 Speaker 1: this did actually happen today. It was three a m. 555 00:23:54,840 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: This morning, and my daughter, who was one, had thrown 556 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 1: up late the night before. So now we get some context. 557 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,719 Speaker 1: For additional context, my wife tends to think I am 558 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,560 Speaker 1: to blame whenever our kid feels nauseous because we rough 559 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,040 Speaker 1: house and I spind her around, flipp her upside down, 560 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:16,040 Speaker 1: et cetera. You know, maybe just to note the kid 561 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,159 Speaker 1: thinks it's fun at Heck, yeah, I would agree as 562 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,840 Speaker 1: a former As a former. 563 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:23,360 Speaker 2: One year old, I love being tossed around, So of course. 564 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: We argue when she throws up the first time, resulting 565 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: in us agreeing to disagree that I caused it. Nice 566 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,639 Speaker 1: Fast forward to the start of the story. At three am, 567 00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:38,520 Speaker 1: I hear from my wife, who then asked me to 568 00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:39,399 Speaker 1: turn the lights on. 569 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 2: Oh no. 570 00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,840 Speaker 1: As I ask Alexa to turn on our lamps, I 571 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:48,240 Speaker 1: see a sizable amount of spewed chunks all over my wife. 572 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,960 Speaker 1: Oh no, it was also all over the pillows and 573 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,400 Speaker 1: the baby that was snuggled in next to her. 574 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 2: Not the baby, not the baby. 575 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 1: Feeling slightly vindicated to see that our child threw up 576 00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:05,600 Speaker 1: with no dad imposed forces upon her causing the issue, 577 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:08,600 Speaker 1: I get up and work on changing the sheets while 578 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,560 Speaker 1: my wife cleans up the baby and we get her 579 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:12,000 Speaker 1: in a. 580 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 2: New set of pajamas. Okay, rock star teamwork all around. 581 00:25:15,680 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 2: There we go there we get solid parenting right there. 582 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like let's let's divide and conquer here. Yeah, 583 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:24,560 Speaker 1: our kid is somehow in a great mood despite hurling, 584 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: and we get back to bed so I can sleep 585 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,640 Speaker 1: in before my one hour commute to work in three hours. 586 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:34,439 Speaker 1: Our kid is clearly not interested in sleeping, as she 587 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: is already awake. 588 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 2: Babies be like that. 589 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,879 Speaker 1: Sometimes babies do be like that, like why can't you 590 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 1: let me sleep? 591 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 2: Baby? 592 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: They're on their own sleep schedule, on their own schedule. 593 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:47,000 Speaker 1: They ain't got no work to go to, no podcasts 594 00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:51,560 Speaker 1: to do. I'm laying there, eyes closed while my wife 595 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:55,560 Speaker 1: is working on calming her down, and I feel a 596 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: presence looming. I open one eye to see the shadowy 597 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,520 Speaker 1: silhouette of my daughter standing above me, and then she 598 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: slaps me hard as she can in the eye. 599 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:08,280 Speaker 2: Why. 600 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,439 Speaker 1: Realizing she just went through some traumatic vomiting and the 601 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: fact that she is literally a baby, I chalked it 602 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,520 Speaker 1: up to being a funny, ridiculous slap, and I thought 603 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 1: of the Will Smith moment from the other night. So 604 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:26,679 Speaker 1: as I'm saying, oh my eye, I say, yeah, you 605 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:31,879 Speaker 1: better leave my wife's name out of your dang mouth. Dada. 606 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: My wife loses it and starts laughing, and then our 607 00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 1: daughter starts laughing too, And if you have a one 608 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,840 Speaker 1: year old, you know that laughing equals oh this is good. 609 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,640 Speaker 1: People like this again. Oh no, oh no, you see 610 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,160 Speaker 1: where this is heading. Yeah, so for the next ten 611 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:54,320 Speaker 1: to fifteen minutes, she winds up slapping me, laughing hysterically, 612 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: Rinse and repeat over and over and over. 613 00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:00,280 Speaker 2: See. That's actually like the worst thing because you ever 614 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:01,840 Speaker 2: experienced like a nut puncher kid. 615 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:04,520 Speaker 1: I had the infamous tap Wars of twenty eleven. 616 00:27:04,640 --> 00:27:08,359 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, like once like and also just like any 617 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:11,600 Speaker 2: young child that anyone laughs at a nut punch, they'll 618 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 2: just do it again. Yeah, And then you have nut 619 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 2: punchers everywhere. You're at weddings that are nut punch in 620 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,959 Speaker 2: the groom, they're nut punching the bride, they're punching everyone. 621 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,399 Speaker 1: You're at a place where you're getting like like a 622 00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,600 Speaker 1: double a double tap so so aster people laugh at it. 623 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 2: No. So there's there was this kid that one of 624 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 2: our family members and like he like will just mercilessly 625 00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,400 Speaker 2: nut punch everyone. And he's right at nut punching hype too, 626 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,719 Speaker 2: and so like a parallel punch right is right at 627 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 2: your nuts. It's perfect and everyone laughs and so he's 628 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 2: like it's funny, and so we do again. But he 629 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,959 Speaker 2: bunch is hard, like he's like a young Mike Tyson 630 00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,200 Speaker 2: of the nuts. You just can't encourage that behavior by laughing. 631 00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,760 Speaker 1: The ghost pain. Yeah, we feel it. We stand in 632 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: ellows ellas you feel me, you feel me again. My 633 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: baby had a rough night, so I wasn't about to 634 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:59,560 Speaker 1: discipline her if she could milk a few minutes of 635 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: happiness side of these things. So I mean, that's quite 636 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:07,840 Speaker 1: empathetic on the dad's side. Her unrelenting slapping eventually ended 637 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 1: up with my wonderful wife taking her to the nursery 638 00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 1: to read a book for a few minutes while she 639 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:17,040 Speaker 1: calmed down and we all got some rest. Now, I 640 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:20,119 Speaker 1: am hoping that she doesn't remember that slapping me in 641 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:25,120 Speaker 1: the face causes happiness today or I might have created 642 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:25,639 Speaker 1: a monster. 643 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 2: Oh geez, and you very well have created a monster. 644 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:32,400 Speaker 2: Oh definitely that positive reinforcement. That's like you know Pavlos 645 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:37,280 Speaker 2: law exactly, But you know what is always positively reinforcing. 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