I have to have my cup to clink.
You do.Oopsie.It's fine.Oh, that's better this time.
This cup is a very good clinker.
Much more full, so it's fine.Do we need to, like, check us actually talking?Those are... I don't know.I can't tell if our sound waves are big or small.
I don't know.I listened earlier and I have it turned up pretty high, so hopefully... You always tend to be quieter than I am too.I do, yeah.
Your little sound waves are much louder.But that's okay. Welcome to our Teas Steeping.This week we're discussing The Gentle Way, episodes 41 through 45.Woo-hoo.I am more excited than that sounded.
What are you drinking this week, Kayla?I'm drinking my spice tea, Russian spice tea.Yay.I still don't know what to call it, but it's spice tea.Nice and cozy.Russian spice tea sounds very
I don't even know what the word is, because I don't know if there's anything about it that's actually Russian, so I don't know why it was called.
We always just called it spice tea, I think, so I don't know.
I guess it's just names that get passed down in the family recipe book.
It's definitely one of those family recipe type things.
Yeah, because that's where I found it.
Yeah, I got mine from my mom, who got it from a friend, who got it from a family member, so it's... I'm drinking the Harney & Sons Gingerbread Festival tea, which I got during, I think, my first trimester of pregnancy.
Is that in the Christmas one?
It is, but I saw a bunch of people recommending it when you're really nauseous, because I don't normally like ginger, but I like gingerbread.And it helps so much, actually.
So highly recommend that to anyone who is nauseous and you don't like normal ginger or the other stuff doesn't work.Drink some gingerbread tea. Um, but now drinking it in my third trimester, it's not as good as I remembered, honestly.
But maybe it's also because, like, it needs more sugar or, like, some milk or something to go with it.Yeah.
When in doubt, more sugar.And a splash of milk.Can't go wrong.And all I heard was, more passion, more energy.That's another, another trend.I don't know if you know that one either.
I do know that one, actually.
There we go.Caitlin also has a fall mug and it's very exciting.
It's like orange glass with little pumpkins etched on it.It's so cute.
Okay, episode 41.Yamamoto tells June he'd love to help her and then gets called over to help another girl answer a question.But he tells June that they can spar later.Am I starting with the right one? Yes.Yeah.Okay.
I was like, I feel like I'm just jumping in here, but I guess it is still like jumping in to the middle of the action.
Yeah.Cause it ended with him being like, yes, I can help you.
Yeah.Okay.It just felt weird.Anyways, uh, June is so excited that she did it, AKA asking him for help and is amazed at how easy it actually was. Randori begins and she looks for Yamamoto but finds him agreeing to spar with someone else.
She's disappointed but thinks that they can maybe spar the next round instead.But the same thing happens for the next three rounds until Jun realizes time is up and she's left wondering if she just misunderstood.
Walking back to the dorms with her new girlfriends, Jun thinks that the next time she'll just try harder to get his attention.
All of a sudden, Yamamoto pops out of nowhere and, through a very awkward conversation, apologizes to Jun for forgetting about her earlier and invites her to come to the open mat practice in the morning before varsity practice begins.
The girls kindly make fun of Jun a little after he leaves for getting private lessons from Yamamoto, but the conversation just turns into more joking around while Jun is just very confused.
The next morning, June shows up at open mat instead of the library where she normally sees Mr. Hoodie.Mr. Hoodie is left at the library checking the time when he sees that she's not there and looks a little concerned.
I actually had a comment to put before your next lesson.Put that man back where he came from or something.Help me. We don't like Yamamoto.We don't want him here.
We don't.He can continue helping literally everyone else.
Literally everyone else.Except for our precious Jun.
It is both precious and sad to see how common this experience is for Yamamoto to have people coming up to him all the time asking for help and wanting to be a part of things with him.And it's just so common for him.
But it's such a big deal to Jun to have asked him for help. trying.
So it's small victories.Yeah.
Even if it's not on the same end for Yamamoto, but like I knew a guy similar to this in high school and I was so proud of myself when I held a full conversation with him because he came in, he would sometimes do some stuff with my group of friends that we had with church.
Yeah. And so, but I was so proud of myself when I held a full conversation with him, but it wasn't actually a big deal.It was just a big deal that I held a conversation with someone that I didn't normally talk to.
Yeah.I think it's a good little victory. Yeah.Hard to be a shy kid.
And again, like, Yamamoto isn't even thinking about, like, the situation and, like, he's not thinking when he accepts invitations from other people or helps other people instead, but it's such a stab in the heart to Jun to see him, like, not even thinking about how his actions are affecting her, and that's, I feel so bad for her.
As a shy person, I would have shriveled up into a ball and never shown my face again.Yeah.Well, guess I've got to, uh, uh, what is it?Unenroll?Whatever that term is.Yeah.Uh, unenroll from this school and go, go find another one.A new college.
Um, Yamamoto is just such a legit jump scare.
He just jumps out of everywhere and he just pops out and you're like, ah, please go away.Then he gets your name wrong.Yeah.Are you even talking to me? Also, the fourth wall break with the roses, but she was like, is this blood?Oh wait, it's roses.
I love those.True is so good with them.Um, and I don't think I noticed the first time I read through this that when Yamamoto kind of pops out of nowhere, he puts his hand on June's shoulder and he's apologizing to her.
And June actually like steps to the side and steps out of him, like putting his hand on her shoulder.And I missed that.I didn't notice that either.
And you know, if it had been Mr. Hoodie, she wouldn't have moved.
I loved it.And then whenever her girlfriends are joking about BMs instead of DMs, it's real because the amount of bowel movement jokes I heard over the dinner table with nurses in my family, it's hilarious.
The amount of bowel movement jokes I had with having a brother at the dinner table.Yeah, that's fair. It's... I still find them funny.You grow up with it enough that it's just still funny.
Well, that's like, um... My parents would always check the plugged-in reviews of a movie before we could watch it as a kid.Yeah.And they're ridiculous about stuff because they, like, downright shrek because there's a lot of bathroom humor.Really?
Like... It's a poop joke.It's Shrek.Why would you not recommend this when it's, it's, it's a poop joke.
Kids are going to make poop jokes no matter, like starting at age like two.
My daughter already does.
You don't even have to teach them.They just do it.
She just is like, she was in the tub the other night.Actually, maybe it was last night.Time blurs together, but she, She let one go and tooted in the tub.Oh my goodness, she pooped in the tub.No, no.She's thankfully past that.Oh good.
Because she will get out of the tub if she has to go to the bathroom, thank goodness.Yeah.My son is not there yet, but he also is one, so.Understandable.But she tooted in the tub and looked at me and said, and just laughed.
I thought that the way true did June checking her phone For the time and having that kind of transition to being mr Hoodie checking his phone for the time and then like going into his scenes That was really well done.I enjoyed that.
I also like that it showed him waiting for her.Mm-hmm like that like It was a cool transition, but also it's like, he's actively like, huh, where is she?Yeah.She's not where she normally is.Episode 42.
We start off with a flashback where June's sister's... June's sister's friend tells her that she's spineless.Maya?Yeah, it says it later, but I was like, I'm not going back and adding it.And that she's always hated people like her.
She calls June annoying and asks why she even bothers showing up at practice. In the present time, June enters the gym to find it completely empty.She wonders if she's too early, at 8.53, but decides to get changed anyways.
She thinks that she's so lucky to be able to train with a varsity member and that it's a big day.She wonders if she'll ever catch up to Maya. Mia?Maya?I don't know.I've mentally been pronouncing it Maya.I have too.
Her sister's friend and thinks that even though this dojo is different from the one she grew up in, it still feels like home.She begins warming up and realizes that Yamamoto must be running late.
She thinks that she's usually in the library with Mr. Hoodie right now and wonders what he's up to and wishes that he could teach her instead.
She instantly feels ungrateful to be wishing for Mr. Hoodie instead of Yamamoto and he finally shows up and calls her by the wrong name again.He then asks what she needs help with but isn't quite sure how to teach her.
I just want to punch Maya so stinking bad.Like, how can you talk to someone like that, let alone your best friend's sister?
I mean, admittedly, I thought my best friend's younger sister in elementary school was annoying, but that's mostly because my friend thought she was annoying.100% just because it was her little sister.
And then Uno reversed to high school, where I actually became friends with the younger sister instead of my old friend, because she was actually awesome.
What cracked me up about her worrying that she's early is that she's seven minutes early It's like like I feel like that's an average time to be early mm-hmm.
I am rarely early to anything because Anxiety which is why I purposely show up at exactly on time or a little bit late mm-hmm Because it's been established what needs to be happening.
Oh, yeah, my parents were like oh always early to everything growing up, and no one was ever there when we got places, so I would just be standing there waiting.And it's the most awkward thing!And then I overcorrected as an adult.
I can't break out of the habit.But also, most of the stuff we went to when I was a kid was church stuff because my dad was a preacher.So not only were we there ridiculously early, we just never left.That's true.
Because Sundays, we were the first ones there, the last ones to leave.Wednesdays night, well, my dad was the music guy, not the main preacher.
Wednesday nights there was choir practice and so my brother and I are riding wrecking havoc around the church and like And then She, she's thinking about, well, I need to soak up as much knowledge as I can.
You're not gonna get anything from Yamamoto.It's just, and then the little narrator talking about the ukemi, ukemi, the practicing falling that June is doing at this point.It's, this is not a mating ritual.Cracked me up.I love her little asides.
Um, if Jun is just disappointed, I just want to punch someone because seeing how much this means to Jun, um, and I know that, like, Yamamoto doesn't even consider that with everything he does, so, like, seeing her disappointed, it's just so sad.
And then the fact that he's so disrespectful of her time.So it's like he shows up late after he invited her to a place she's already uncomfortable. And then he still gets her name wrong!
I think he just can't conceive that someone could struggle at it.Because he's naturally good with people.Mostly.Naturally good at judo. just naturally good at multiple things.He's one of those people that stuff just seems to come to easily.
And it's like, what?People have a hard time getting to do the things that I just find normal.Yeah.There's a better way to handle that.Like, yeah.Yeah.
It's Also, I see you, girl, picturing Mr. Hoodie's dimples.You cannot deny it!The dimples are so adorable.
And it's not ungrateful for her to wish for Mr. Hoodie's help instead, because he would have been a much better teacher than, like, dum-dum purple eyes over there.
It also shows who she really trusts and respects in judo, too.So true.Clankage!I almost forgot.
I was just ramping up for like, okay, I am reading the next summary, prepare myself.Okay, episode 43.
Jun throws Yamamoto and as he's laying there on the mat, he thinks that they're staring into each other's eyes and that it's like a K-drama, so she must like him and just be freaking out inside right now.
And we get a little flash of what Jun is actually thinking and she's just analyzing her throw and has no interest in Yamamoto whatsoever. He tells her that it was a good throw and to just keep throwing him.So she does.
But she's not sure how this is actually helping her with Randory.Because even though she wants to trust... that he knows what he's doing because he's on the varsity team.
June apologizes for all the hits he's been taking and Yamamoto calls her cute and says that he's never seen such a softie like her in judo before.June is confused on whether that's supposed to be a compliment or if he's just being condescending.
I love June.He asks why she needs his help if she's a brown belt and thinks to himself that it's probably just to get close to him.
But she tells him that she really does need help with Randori as she gets anxious with how fast things start moving and asks how he got better at it.
But he just has a natural talent for it and tells her that he doesn't know and to just keep practicing.He keeps chatting and wasting their time in the dojo until the varsity team shows up and June leaves.
Later, Mr. Hoodie sees June looking in the bushes outside.My summaries are very biased against him.
It's not hard.I know.Um, I cracked up because there was a comment from, I was going to tell the username and cause I always forget to do that.
And then I looked at the username and it was a bunch of symbols and I was like, well, the one time I remember, uh, but it said I disapprove of this event, meaning the K drama incident.
Like, yes, this can go away.That boy is DeLulu. Even though, admittedly, if it was a K-drama, he'd be right, but he's just full of it on this one, honestly.
It cracks me up because he's all, I'm so cool, when really she is truly only concerned about Judo and improving her Judo, specifically the randori.And I mean, who would be interested in him when Mr. Hoodie's an option?
We also just seem to have a thing for darker-haired men.We do.
Who aren't conceited idiots. Because it's like, Yamamoto's not even paying attention to what she really needs help in.
Like, she's obviously fine doing these throws without any resistance, and he's not paying enough attention to adjust and help her how she actually needs.He's just like, ah, I'm so pretty, and she just wants to look into my eyes.
And so her face is blushed, but it's from the exertion of throwing him over and over again.She's not actually blushing, that's just what happens.
Yeah, physical exertion.Yeah, which is valid.And I think that, um... Oh, sorry, I cut you off before your last little part of that.
Not from the butterflies that she only gets from Mr. Hoodie.Yes.
And I think that Yamamoto was being condescending with how he phrased that.I don't think he intended for it to be condescending, but it was.And he's just an idiot.I can't say it enough.Just such an idiot.
My next comment was, I don't know, just keep practicing.Like in the alternate caps.Yeah.But then also, imagine his reaction when it finally comes out.Because he still doesn't know.But when it finally comes out that, that guy?Mr. Hoodie.
Mr. Hoodie, however we pronounce his name.That he's the one helping her.He's going to be like, what?All the like evil chuckles in the corner.Oh wait, 44, that's me. It made me think.Here's a commercial.Whoa, 44, that's me.The brain rot.
Anyways, June is looking for something in the bushes when she turns around and sees Mr. Hoodie.She tries to play off the fact that she was searching for something in that cool, but fails and Mr. Hoodie calls her on it.
She starts to ask if he's finished with his glasses, but he gets flustered when he steps closer to get a twig off her jacket. Not just because he wants to get closer.
She didn't move away when he did that.
He then jokingly asks her why she was playing with a bush and then gets flustered again and has to explain that she lost her phone this morning and doesn't know where it's at.
He thinks it's probably gone by now, but June stays positive until she actually breaks down and says that her mom is going to kill her.So Mr. Hoodie offers to help her look for it.
She admits that she's been in classes all day and hasn't had a chance to look for it until now.She spirals a bit and Mr. Hoodie thinks that he hates to see her so depressed and offers to retrace her steps with her so they go to the dojo.
He hesitates before stepping inside, but he does step inside.
He does.All these men and their jump scares just like coming out of nowhere.Or June.I know. And good friends can call you on trying to act cool, and it's not mortifying, but like a random acquaintance, that would be a 3am nightmare.Uh-huh.Yeah.
Luckily, he's a good friend, and she wasn't that embarrassed.You know, and if he's there at 3am... That's fine too. And there was that personal space invasion to get the twig, and nobody was moving away from that one.Nope.
Just saying.That is a real blush, because her cheeks are colored, and I was like, hmm.So that's what a blush looks like, Yamamoto, in case you need to be informed.
He does.He needs to be informed.
Okay, the amount of times we use that find my device feature for my husband's iPhone is honestly embarrassing.
I saw that you put this and I said well here's another similarity between me and your husband because the reason my husband wants me to wear my watch all the time is so that I can find my phone because the amount of times I leave it somewhere around the house and I don't remember where I've left it and have to use the feature on my watch.
And I'm honestly like glad that the watch has it because it's an older smart watch.It's like definitely not the best option to have with my phone for things to actually sync well.
But I can get the time, I can see if I've got a text message if I'm near my phone.And I can use the find my phone feature.
The bath, so at least yours is like around the house though.This is like, my husband goes to help our elderly neighbor with yard work and loses his phone in her yard and then comes back.
See, I am paranoid slash petrified of losing my phone like that because I didn't get the insurance on it.Yeah.
Oh, we've had to replace this already once because it got run over by heavy machinery.Tracks.Yeah, yeah.
The amount of times it also just falls out of his pocket when he's operating the tractor or the heavy machinery and it's just somewhere in the heavy machinery.As dorky as they are, he needs pockets with zippers.
I have actually dreamt about getting him a fanny pack. I mean they're trendy.I know and it would actually be really helpful.
Like he could carry around some Germ-X to clean his hands off when he needs to.
He would probably keep his polarized sunglasses, his earplugs, his phone.
If he could fit a doctor, no he wouldn't even care.And then if he could fit a Dr. Pepper in there.
My husband just really doesn't like his hands to get dirty.
Oh, my husband could care less.
My mind does not like it.
I make him scrub down with dandish soap when he comes back inside.
Oh, that's, my husband's like, ugh, because lately when he gets home, if I'm not home first, he's the one that's like, he doesn't have time to shower before
His mom leaves from watching our kids So he's like not taking a shower till like closer to 10 because I get mad when he doesn't watch our shows with me I'm like can you just watch Survivor with me, please?I don't want to watch it by myself.
I want to talk about it with you, and he's like I hate showering at 10 p.m.
I just want to be clean I am your husband Anyways Okay Uh, oh yeah, okay, so these are my comments, okay.Yeah, so, yeah.Mr. Hoodie is helping a damsel in distress.But like, honestly, it is distressing to lose your phone.I stress so hard when I do.
And you can tell how much he actually cares for her that he willingly entered the dojo.
Yes, yes.He froze, and she doesn't know his reason behind his hesitation yet.But she did note the hesitation.
She is ten times more observant than Yamamoto.Yes.Ow, I hit my tooth.I heard that.It's not chipped, so we're fine.We'd have to ask Life Flight to change the chibi.I don't think you can even see my teeth in our little chibi profile.
No, I think our mouths are closed.Just smiling.Yeah.
I'm pretty sure you're reading it.Is this your...?No, it's you.No, is it me?It's an odd number.I'm glad you remember these things.Episode 45.
June worries that Mr. Hoodie is upset about being in the dojo, but he starts asking her questions about what her phone looks like.
He asks for her number so he can call it and June remembers that it's on vibrate and he tells her not to worry and they should be able to hear it anyways.
While she checks the locker room he continues to search and when her voicemail picks up he thinks that it's cute.
We switch over to the library where a girl tells Yamamoto that his phone is ringing and he's confused at first until he remembers that someone gave him June's phone after morning varsity practice and he intended to give it back to her at evening practice.
June's phone rings again and he answers attempting to be suave.
Anytime there's like a, well hello or hello there, I automatically hear it in a Creeper voice.
It's never in a it's like in the bad version of Joey's voice from friends.Oh Anyways, oh you have a first comment this time.Yeah It's sweet that she realizes he's not totally comfortable in the gym Dojo, whatever.
Yeah, I remember it was called I kept accidentally calling it a gym, too But I guess it's probably fine I feel like the term probably is pretty flexible.Yeah.I also 100% of the time have my phone on vibrate.
I am so paranoid about my phone legitimately ringing when I'm out in public.That's, it's a no-go.
Because as soon as that happens, everybody swivels their head to look at you.Oh, yeah.Like, why are you getting a call?I have a couple of the co-workers that I work closer with in a couple of meetings.One of them He's middle-aged.
Always has his ringer on.It'll ring in the middle of the meeting and I'm like... Who hasn't had their phone on vibrate or silent since 2004?
I've only had it on vibrate since I got my first phone.I never turned the ringer on.
Exactly.I think I turn my ringer on when I'm on maternity leave because I'm home by myself a lot and don't have my phone right next to me so I want to be able to hear if I do get a call.
But that's because I don't have it right on me and I'm in my house.
I would also have the paranoia of it waking up the baby then too.
Yeah. So anyway, continuing.Oh, it's me!It is me.It's fine.44 to ask me.Okay.Um, smoothest way to get her phone number.I know.Even if it was unintentional, but now he has her number.She has his, they can put each other's contact information.
She can put a little heart next to his name.I mean, that's not going to happen, but she could.She could.
The opportunity is there. And then his admission that he thinks her voicemail greeting is cute.
and him wondering how he can get her to cook for him again.Yes.Because boy needs help with the food preparation department.
Okay, so it is valid for Yamamoto to have June's phone right now.He's just an idiot enough to have handled it so poorly by not answering any of the calls coming through to it or letting her know in some other type of way that he has her phone. Right.
I mean, granted, if you can't figure out how to get a hold of this person, if there's not a way to see, like, their last out contact or anything like that, like... Yeah, or like an emergency contact.Like, I get that, but at the same time...
You coulda, I mean, he's seen her in the library before, like, so he knows she goes there.Yeah, or you coulda answered the phone when it's ringing.Yeah, but it sounds like he didn't even know it was till after it was mentioned, so.You're an idiot.
He also just doesn't have two brain cells to rub together.Honestly, yeah.How do you forget to practice with someone when you told them you'd be there?And then also forget you have their phone when you're meaning to return it to them.
Like he, because it wasn't that he like just missed, like he just totally forgot he had it.
Mm-hmm.Yeah.I can't wait for him to pick up the phone and hear Mr. Hoodie's deadpan voice on the other side of the phone.
And then again with the shiver bun nickname.I hate that nickname.It just makes me want to barf. punch.Yeah, good show, good little punch.Well, it'll help your brain work a little better.
He needs all the help he can get.
Well, thank you for joining us this week for The Gentle Way.So cute, as always.We enjoyed these.And she's coming out with new episodes again.She finally came off of hiatus. So I'm excited.
I think she's got a bit of a buffer built up so she feels more comfortable that she can like keep a steady upload pace.Yeah.Which is always good especially when you do not have the backing of Webtoon and you're like a canvas author.
You're doing all this by yourself.
She's mostly relying on Patreon right now. But... And she uploads every day, too, because she uploads as, like, partial episodes.
Oh, yeah, on Webtoon, yeah.
Yeah, and then, um... The full match.Yeah, at one day a week.But yes, so next week is our fifth week episode.
And all we're doing is just talking more about A Spell for a Smith.Because it's the right time of year, it's spooky, it's cozy, it's cute, and we just really like it, so.And also... We didn't want to have to find anything else.
Yeah, that's all we got time for sorry guys.Um, it's a little little hectic and we mentioned this on last week's episode, but we will be when Jen has her baby.
We will be going on an indefinite hiatus.Yes.For the time being.Because Caitlin then will also have a baby.Yeah, about the time that we will be starting back up, my baby will be... will be happening.Happening, born, here, laboring.Yes.Crying.
Accurate.So, anyways. That's about all we got.Yeah, thanks for listening guys.Bye!
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