From their homes, Kareem and Rachel get down to brass tacks on vanish mode, signing documents, executive dysfunction, living alone, boarding schools, Rachel’s Carrie Bradshaw era, the West Village Girl phenomenon, Kareem’s old website, “real jobs,” the dynamics of the group chat and its accompanying drama, friendship fallout, national security issues, the amazing Zach Schiffman, the names of group chats, purpose-based group chats, the dream group chat, herniated discs, aspiring to chef levels, and, as always, Takes on Takes©. Host: Kareem Rahma Creators: Kareem Rahma and Andrew Kuo Editor and Audio Producer: Dale Eisinger Artwork: Andrew Lawandus Theme Music: Tyler McCauley Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why does Rachel believe there should be no more group chats?
offensive so what's your take okay i think that there should be no more group chat 100 disagree okay because no i think what happened is that you and i are different because young people respectfully we have a different thing going on what's that they are making group chats for legit anything and i'm finding it challenging because something will start as like oh we're going to the fair but then like six months later i'm getting 125 texts a day
in the fair group chat.
Yeah, that are saying like, oh, Trump got shot, whatever. I don't want to see that in my group chats that I've never signed up for. You can't consent to being in a group chat. No one ever asks like, oh, do you want to be in here for the rest of your life?
It's true. It's like a nightmare. OK, I'm with you on this one.
And then you can't leave.
Wait, you can leave.
No, because then they'll send me a screenshot of me exiting group chat, go, hey, Rachel, what the f***? And then I'll have to express that like, oh, I actually don't want to be a part of this community anymore.
It is a community.
And then it's like not worth the drama. I don't have to explain that I don't want to be there. It's just like you get back to your phone and there's 300 new messages all from one space.
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Chapter 2: What is vanish mode and how did it originate?
Well, I don't really have that much to do right now. Like this week, well, I have a cold and so I kind of canceled everything. So this week I'm off the hook. Generally, I have a to-do list, but it's like, again, it's scattered in 17 different notes.
You need one note. You need a master note.
I just will never do that because then I'll be like, it has to be perfect. It has to have the date. Everything's assigned. It has to have the date. Everything's due. Like it has to, there's just too many rules that I make up for myself that I put myself in a prison of my own mind. And it's like, so annoying.
Is there a cure?
no it's just like shut the fuck up alert i think honestly when i'm busy by other people's like demands that is the best thing for me because i'm like i don't want people down if it's just me trying to accomplish stuff it's like no that's why i like working on projects with other people so do you have dusty surfaces right now yeah it is a mess in here in a way that i have you have a boy room
yeah oh my god i'm on the record of having a boy room like it's i have well now it's getting better because now i live alone and it's like extremely glamorous and i'm like making new moves to be chic but it is right at this minute like a horror zone there's like three boxes of cardboard that have different things in them when did you get out of the roommate situation
um a month ago congratulations that's a big is this your first time living alone yes see this is a big step this is a big step thank you i've had a roommate since i was 15. wow was that your mom and dad no i went to boarding school so i've just been in other people's zones for a while that's tight you're like the strokes yeah you you went to boarding school where and don't tell me it was like in switzerland no i wish oh my god do i see i i think i'd be way thinner if i went to switzerland i was in connecticut
Well, Connecticut is like the Switzerland of the East Coast.
Totally. And that's why I'm a little thinner than I could be.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Rachel face with executive dysfunction?
Yeah, but everyone's mean to small penises and short people.
I know, it's not right and I'm not.
You're nice to short guys?
Yeah, of course.
And you're nice to men with small weewees?
Yeah, I don't fuck them. Of course I'm nice. I'm just kidding.
Oh my goodness. It's hard to know. Your true colors have come out.
I am next to boys with small penises.
Okay, that's good. Because I feel like they deserve that respect.
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