Last week, my mother and I were watching a movie when I happened to look outside. I keep seeing things hopping around on the wall as well as flying into the tree immediately outside our lanai. It was extremely distracting because whatever was moving into the tree, kept going back and forth between the branches and other places.
It wasn't until I actually turned and focused on what was going on (as if to "turn and face the strange"), when I saw a couple of birds flying between a few spots out back. They either went from tree to tree, or hopped along the wall. Unfortunately, I couldn't get quality pictures, as I was fighting the lanai screen. I was, however, using my Canon Rebel T7i with telephoto lens (as per usual).
The screen is why the photos look weird. I wasn't about to go fully outside and scare the chirpies away. I just couldn't get a good opportunity to have a photo of them in the tree closest to me, sadly enough.
Photos sharpened and cleaned up a bit in Photoshop. Yes, that's also a flowering tree. My mother doesn't know if it's a magnolia or gardenia, but it honestly doesn't smell like a typical gardenia (there's no strong fragrance), so it must be a magnolia.
I have.. what could be explained in an episode... as a "step-friend". Of sorts.
Huh?
My friend Shawn recommended his cousin Bailey's podcast to me.
Thus, upon listening to a few episodes already, there is a term Bailey uses to describe friends of friends: Step-Friends.
Without going into her wildly outrageous explanation (because you'll have to listen to it yourself), a step-friend is basically a friend of a friend that you're not completely friends with yourself. You're in the the circle of trust for your main friend, but you're not besties with your friend's besties. You are kind of in the same orbit, but you're not doing things together. Unless you make it a point to become friends yourself.
It's hard for me to fully put it all into words because Bailey tried her might to explain it to Devin. It's wild, the way she went on and he was like "Wait. What???".
Shawn has told me a lot about Bailey over the years, so I feel like I know some good about her (positive). When Shawn mentioned the new podcast, I put it in my playlist so I could get to it when I could.
Now that I'm listening to it, it's truly not disappointing and it's very generational (my and Shawn's generation, basically). I am totally finding myself nodding along with the conversations and feel that every exuberant point the two hosts have, I know both sides and can't say who said it best or who is a victor in the lightning round of question and answers. I've been in both places and can argue a third point a view, very quickly.
Okay... so what the podcast is called, and why should you care?
The name is "Overthinkers with Bailey and Devin".
They don't have an immense social network right now, so the only platforms they are on are Instagram, Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
You should care because they are a pair of people who are really fun to listen to. They just seem to get along so well as they ramble on about things, while trying hard to not have squirrel moments (there are a lot of squirrel moments sometimes). The amount of crazy they come up with is particularly awesome. It's so left field that you want to just yell at your podcatcher and tell them you hear the voices too. You know full well what those Mandela Effects are or that Walgreens stores really are on every corner. Trying to put all The Conjuring movies in order on how they should be viewed, is the equivalent to all the Marvel movies. There are too many in the MCU to keep a straight face, but at least with the Warren films, the list is significantly shorter.
Shh.. don't give the kids any ideas... they'd lose their shit if they had to move the MCU films around... make the movies make the best sense in order of how to be seen, not when they came out.
I honestly feel like this is one of those podcasts that have a very basic outline of what they want to talk about, but then dive into spider webs of other side quests. Hence the title of "Over thinkers": They start on one topic, discuss it briefly, something is triggered to get them into another topic and all of a sudden they forgot what they originally were talking about. Mainly because they wanted to discuss their side so badly, the focus was lost. But in a good way.
Bailey had said something to Devin, of which I forget right now, but I texted Shawn what I was hearing. I don't have the text in front of me, but what I had said was I'm on whatever the episode was, and Bailey was on some tangent of whatever the topic was. I said "girl, we've all been there. You're not the only one. I feel you on that. It's all of us". Shawn laughed because he understood the reference and what I was saying. Again, it's a generational thing that meets every day life now. There are things Devin says that I'm totally like "yup!!!!!!" and there are things Bailey says that I'm like "oh geez.. nope. But maybe in another life". Can be reversed too.
For as much as they're oversharing and overthinking the topic at hand, it makes the listener overthink the topic as well. We've all been in that situation and we all know what it feels like. These two humans together, having an honest conversation, feels like you're a fly on the wall of a very interesting friendship and you're really not supposed to be eavesdropping, but you are. And it's hella funny.
Go check out "Overthinkers with Bailey and Devin" on Instagram, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. . You won't be disappointed.
Cheers;
See also
- "Turn and face the strange" reference is a lyrical quote from David Bowie's 1971 song, "Changes", from the album, Hunky Dory.
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