Jeff and Christina are out of pocket this week, so Erin Dawson heroically steps in to keep the show afloat during trying times. Life, religion, dating, blogging… an everything bagel of a show.

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00:00 Erin
00:04 Introduction and Guest Introduction
00:44 Siri Mishap and Water Troubles
05:20 Mental Health and Daily Struggles
11:00 Physical Health and Exercise Challenges
18:45 Productivity Tools and Sponsor Message
21:57 Sponsor Break: Copilot Money
23:59 On Aging
24:53 Vision and Aging
26:55 Intelligent Design and Evolution Debate
28:58 Blogging and Social Media Verification
29:13 The Cost of Verification
30:18 Embracing the Content Game
33:12 Exploring Blogging Platforms
48:10 The Decline of Blogging
50:54 Navigating Employment and Content Creation
55:54 The Art of Dating and Bits
58:30 Wrapping Up and Final Thoughts

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Erin

[00:00:00]

Introduction and Guest Introduction

Brett: Hey, welcome to Overtired. It’s me, Brett Terpstra. Um, Christina and Jeff are both out this week, but I have Erin Dawson here to fill the void. Hi, Erin. How you doing?

Erin: Hi Brett. I’m well. How are you?

Brett: I’m, I’m, I’m okay. So before, like, for people that haven’t tuned in with an episode with you before, give your, give yourself a brief introduction.

Erin: Hey folks, my name is Erin. I, uh, make art under the name Genital Shame. I’m based in Los Angeles, California, and I used to work with Brett Terpstra.

Siri Mishap and Water Troubles

Erin: I’m doing, I’m doing, uh, you know, that broadcast voice, but I’ve started to. When I’m using CarPlay, I’ve started to speak to Siri in my own Siri kind of as a bit, but I really enjoy doing it.[00:01:00]

Hey Siri, play REM. Oh shit. It just, I shouldn’t have done that. I’m so sorry. That activated mine. Um, oh no. And now my home pods are doing it. Can you hear that?

Brett: I can

Erin: I literally have to turn that off now. I really apologize. Ready?

Brett: we’ll wait.

Erin: Anyways, that’s, this is a shit show. Okay. I’m turning it off. Uh, that’s who I am. I’m someone who activates, um, the, the dingus.

Brett: activates digital assistance. That’s amazing. Um, so update on me. I got water back after four and a half days with no running water. Um, but now I’m showering and washing dishes like a pro.

Erin: Oh my God, I’m so that, that truly sounds horrific.

Brett: It was, you don’t realize exactly how much of your life [00:02:00] revolves around just running water. Um, it’s true of like anything, when your power goes out, when your internet goes out, when your water goes out. We’ve had all of those things happen frequently over the last year. Um, and you, you realize exactly like how handicapped you are without these kind of.

The modern conveniences we take for granted?

Erin: Did your pipes break?

Brett: No, uh, they did freeze. Uh, the solution to the water problem was heat lamps on the well pump. On the on the pipe, the underground pipe that goes from the well pump into the house is about a foot underground, and that’s where the freeze happened. So we had heat lamps on the ground for two days while we were waiting for a plumber to show up.

We just decided to try heating things up and after two days it finally creaked [00:03:00] into life, and then we ran a bunch of water and got it all cleared out. And then you

Erin: have a TLC show. Now you’re

Brett: you know,

Erin: solving Pioneer Living. Uh,

Brett: You know what happened because of that, to flush the toilet while that was happening, we were melting snow on the stove and on the fireplace and dumping it into the toilet.

But when I first started, I didn’t know you could just dump like a gallon and a half of water into the bowl and it would flush. So I was filling the tank up, which takes about twice as much water. And because I was doing that, I was putting a bunch of silt from the snow. Into the tank. So the little, the rim holes around the inside of the rim of the toilet where the water swirls in those filled up with silt.

So once we got running water again, the toilet wouldn’t flush all the way. And I had to go in with a coat hanger and try to clean out all of those holes in the toilet. And I got it [00:04:00] clean and it flushed all the way twice and now it’s. Stuck again because I’m just pushing shit in with the coat hanger. And the silt

Erin: by shit you mean you mean silt.

Brett: silt?

Yes. The, the, the silt is still there and as the water runs it just fills the holes again. And I don’t yet know how to fix that, so that’s gonna be a thing. That’s what I’m doing after this. ’cause, uh, the toilet. It sounds like it flushes all the way, but then you leave and the next person comes in and says, oh my God, why didn’t you flush?

Because you know there’s floaters in the toilet.

Erin: I. Just watched a Todd Salons movie and, and there is a scene in which, um, a character is, is being sort of abused by her family and the abusive family says, we’re laughing with you, not at you. And she [00:05:00] says, but I’m not laughing. You know, and I apologize. I don’t mean to laugh, but that, that sounds truly horrific.

Brett: Yeah, that,

Erin: I mean, the shower alone, I, I don’t know about you. I use showers to process,

Brett: sure.

Erin: you know, showers and walks. That’s where I do it most.

Mental Health and Daily Struggles

Erin: And like I, yeah, I need it to, this is a very 2019 way to frame mental health, which we can pivot to. Um, but I use it to regulate. Do you remember when we used to say, I feel unregulated?

We don’t say that anymore.

Brett: I do remember. That was a while ago.

Erin: Yeah, it’s 2019 to me, but it maybe had a shelf life beyond that. I don’t know.

Brett: Yeah.

Erin: but yeah, I use showers to regulate. So even if you’re kind of like me, I, my heart goes out to you that that is really not just inconvenient, but like bad for your mental health.

Brett: Your quote reminded me [00:06:00] of an and or quote that’s been going around where it, it’s so, uh, I can’t remember who, but someone says, uh, if you’re doing nothing wrong, what do you have to fear? And the response is, I fear your definition of wrong.

Erin: Mm.

Brett: I’m like, yeah, nope, that, uh, that’s v...

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