57: Just Curious

January 6th was a horrible day, we process the many feelings. Listener voice memos about your 15min of fame! www.joyandclaire.com email: [email protected] instagram: joyandclaire_ Joy: Hey guys. This is Joy. Claire: And this is Claire. Joy: This is Joy and Claire. How’re we doing? Everybody? Everybody out there. Hello. Claire: It’s been a big week. Joy: It’s Thursday, it’s been a big week.  Claire: Again, always. So many big weeks. Joy and Claire: You know – Claire: Both of us.  Joy: I mean, it’s not funny. But people, after our episode last Thursday aired – we recorded it on the 4th of course. January 6th happened. And when we recorded it, I was like, “So far nothing’s happened in 2021” and everyone was like, yeah, that made me laugh. In an ironic, sad way, not laughing because of what happened. Claire: I know. I think that, even now, what’s going to happen between now and when this episode comes out? Joy: Yeah, I’m never going to jinx myself like that again. Claire: No. Sorry guys, that was on us.  Joy: Yep. Totally our fault. But you know, the other thing I think about is, what do people – and this is maybe opening a can of worms right off the bat – but what do people from other countries think of? What are they thinking of when they’re looking at everything that’s going on? Claire: It’s not good, I’ll tell you that much. We’ve actually had some people send us some stuff about Canada and like… yeah, Jessie Govens who we also talk about, who is our token listener from Dubai who we love. She was posting some stuff about how listening to the news felt like being in the opening scene of a post-apocalyptic teen movie. Yeah, it’s bizarre. I saw this tweet that was like, “Really tired of living through another historical event every six minutes.” Joy: Yeah.  Claire: Tired of it. And this is one of those things, and again something that everyone has now seen, where it’s like this was only a surprise if you haven’t been paying attention. But at the same time, that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t jarring.  Joy: Yeah, you’re allowed to be jarred. It’s a very jarring thing to see. Claire: Yes. Not just because, I mean, I definitely wasn’t, “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe this is happening.” I was like, “Yeah, I can believe this is happening.” Joy: Absolutely believe it’s happening. Claire: I feel horrified by what I’m watching, but not shocked. And I think we typically tend to associate those two. “I was shocked and aghast.” I was not shocked, but I was aghast. So it will be interesting to see. You guys are listening to this like in a time machine from Monday, January 11th. What’s going to happen? Will Trump be impeached between now and then, who knows? Joy: Right, right. Who knows? But I have learned almost every time something like this happens how toxic I see social media being. And you and I kind of texted a little bit about this. I was thinking a lot this weekend. I was just like, where does this come from, kind of going the route of where did this wheel spin out of control. There’s many answers to that, I’m sure.