Pat Rieken
Appearances
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Have you ever said that to anyone before? Any podcasters that came in?
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I can't stop talking about it, but I just did a rewatch of Laguna Beach. And then I remembered as I was doing it that Kristen and Steven did a rewatch podcast two years ago. And I listened to them and it was like unbelievably rewarding. Yeah.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I am unfortunately a hater. And I don't want to be. I don't think it's good. And I don't support it. But it's like you can't change how you are.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I know. But I try to like mitigate it. Like I'm like just because I hate doesn't mean I have to act on it. You know what I mean?
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
You can only control how you respond to the hatred deep inside you.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Even though I am a Swifty. You know, I briefly downloaded, this just reminded me of it. I briefly downloaded the app threads, like the Twitter. And I, as a joke threaded, I'm seriously sick of everyone cursing. People need to stop cursing. people lost it on me. I was like crazy. I was like, I was literally like counseled for saying, jokingly being like, people need to seriously stop cursing.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
But then I, of course, doubled down to everyone who was like, who are you to tell me how to speak on that? And then I responded to every single comment saying, it's seriously not okay to curse. And then it was getting too much and I deleted threads. I was like, I have to get out of here.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
But it's more. There's haters everywhere. It's more them showing you. It's more strangers being showed to you. Like, who you follow doesn't really matter. Threads is like, we'll keep in mind who you follow, but we're going to show you kind of whoever we feel.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I would say until, you know, I live in LA, until the recent events, like, I was enjoying it.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I was, like, aspirational. I was optimistic. But now it seems quite bad.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
So if you see someone from Oklahoma and may tell them happy new year.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I'm always like, this is what I'm going to stretch because I'm so not flexible. I could barely hook up.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It's crazy. Even before we were talking about what we ate for breakfast and Catherine asked if I ate my – because I'm in a hotel and I got an omelet. And Catherine asked if I had it in bed. And I was like, I don't like eating in bed. And then I realized it's because I'm not flexible enough to eat in bed. I can't sit up in a bed.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Tell me what is going on. And like, yeah, I can't eat in bed. I can't hook up. But this year I've really been stretching.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It's also mainly motivated by my desire to do squats. Which is motivated by desire to – To have about the size of a two-bedroom home. Oh.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It's garish. So basically, I'm mainly limited by – this is so boring. I'm mainly limited by ankle flexibility, which – and I remember when I one time had a physical therapist named Corinne whose boyfriend worked in nightlife and owned a gay club, but all of her friends said that wasn't weird. Yeah. And she told me I have really tight ankles. And so I've always done this.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
So I'll Google, like, whatever I know is tight, I'll Google, like, what is the best way to stretch this thing.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
might come up no no there's no way to know there's no way to know um but i as you found out earnest journaling like i like i live to journal i wake up i'm a lesbian but when you do these lesbian journalings do you are you writing like i'll do like morning pages where just like whatever whatever but there's no like whenever i read if i read like david's address he's like i've written everything i did and it feels like he's journaling in this productive or more thoughtful way where you're actually synthesizing thought and putting it down to page are you doing that
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Well, you're always journaling for the eyes of some future person who finds it.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I'm not. But it's just whatever. It's chicken scratch.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It's artist's way. Yeah, it's artist's way. I just really, really hate it. Said with derision.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I quite like it, but when I'm so habitual about it, it's almost like a compulsion where it takes up too much time, right? I'm like, I can't do this until I journal, and then it's like, well, is this helpful? The million-dollar question.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Do you talk about your personal life on this podcast?
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Because I was going to say, of course, you're having a good year.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It's where ghoulies come around and try to haunt you. And if you act scared, they even target you more.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
We were right on the tail end. It was like four cities.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Of course there is, but I did leave LA in such a, like, commotion of, like, I couldn't get into my garage because all the power was out. Oh, my God. And I had, like, no gas. I had to, like, get it to my friend's house because he doesn't have signs on his street and just, like, park it there. And then, like, I don't do well when it's, like, a different hotel every day.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
And then every day it's, like, well, where's my, like, when's the plane, when's the train? And I'm, like, well.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
But you know what was fun is I did see someone that I love in each city.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It's fun to go to cities you don't normally go to and be like, oh, my God, that person. And then, like, get dinner with them or something.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
And me and Betsy went over to your place for dinner. You did. And then we ran. He was already on a crosswalk near Eden Square.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Against all odds. How did y'all meet? College.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Okay, we're going to have fun, you and I. You know, it was a huge part of growing up, finding out that if you drop a penny off the Empire State Building, you could kill someone.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It just, like, was such a fact you were told. Like, did you know if you even dropped just a penny off the Empire State Building, it could kill someone?
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I love standing near a building and feeling weird looking down. And feeling weird.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
You know what I mean? Like, looking at a really tall building and feeling, like, weird. Yeah. I love that.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I'm sure. It's, like, I feel like it's... Never seen either, but I almost think that's how I want to go.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
No, via a penny falling from a- I'll drop it on you if you want.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It would be so hard to plan because it would be so hard to aim.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I am actually usually prompt. People think I'm not because of how I am in other ways, but I am usually prompt.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I was like more Grindr-y than I thought I would be. Is that okay to say? Yeah, let's say space for Grindr. I think it'd be that amount of Grindr-y. You never know when I might go Grindr with it.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It's a huge part of... Just chatting? Chatting with intent to meet and it's like it doesn't happen and hours are gone. You don't get it back, by the way. Grindr has a policy where the time you spend, you don't get back.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
It's just true frustration. You're finding when you think you have someone, they flake and then you find someone and then you're like, wait, actually not you at all. You flake and then like flaking is a huge part of the culture. And then like no flakes is a big part of the culture. And like, I'm not really part of it. Like flaking, like not coming.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
So then people put in there and because it happens so frequently, people put in their bios, like seriously, do not flake. Like no flakes. I don't want to lose it if you flake. And then when you know you're going to flake and they have that, it's like, they're going to be so mad. But I ain't going.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I went to the Miami for New Year's one time. It was fun.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Okay, yeah. Okay, okay. I forgot that aspect of it.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
We're so bad at that. I don't know what's going on now.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
I can predict what has happened already in 2003. Let me say this.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
Yeah, I'm always, like, shocked. Like, I'm shocked. Like, I never knew wide pants were going to happen again.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
You know when someone's, like, I did After Midnight. And do you know that Nikki Campbell, the TikToker? No.
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
And so, like, knows what he's talking about. And I do not. Oh, I know who that is. And I obviously, like, haven't built...
Lemme Say This
Seek Treatment (with Cat and Pat) | 35
my empire based on fashion knowledge so I don't feel weird about it they had him go down like the panel of comedians and like say like oh my god he was on the show he came out for like a segment I'm so scared and so he was so nice and so great and he was like um nay but he was so nice about it I could tell just by like you know when you see someone scan your outfit and you just you're like I know that everything's wrong you