Where Are We Growing
Hi friends! Welcome to Where Are We Growing! We're Nicole Larson & Brandon Bennett, and our new podcast comes from our love of plants, mental health awareness, and the crazy corner of the internet called Plant Tok. Each week we discuss a planty topic that you can listen along to and join our journey of growth! FOLLOW US : https://www.WhereAreWeGrowing.com https://www.instagram.com/wherearewegrowing
Where Are We Growing
S4E5: Hot Topics
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Brandon's allergy adventures, political musings, and an unhealthy fast food dissection set the stage for an episode packed with laughter and thought-provoking conversation. We kick things off by navigating the quirks of juggling creative freedom with work commitments. Heather joins us with tales of her feline escapades, bringing a playful twist to our discussions. We also touch on the recent election, giving you our candid takes on the political landscape and influencer reactions in the social media sphere.
As we shift gears, we find ourselves in a heartfelt tribute to Cece, the cherished pet whose joyous spirit touched our lives. The bittersweet moment of saying goodbye is met with a celebration of Cece's impact, especially on Brandon, as we share community memories and support. Lightening the mood, we introduce a fun drinking game inspired by Andy Cohen and recount a spooky Halloween experience caught on camera. This rollercoaster of emotions keeps you entertained with a blend of sorrow and humor.
The nostalgia continues as we reminisce about iconic fast food memories, childhood antics, and gym etiquette with some playful jabs at Brandon's spending habits. From the challenges of gym hygiene to the peculiarities of social media promotion, our lively discussions cover it all. We wrap up with a trip down memory lane to the MySpace days, sharing how you can find us online and stay connected to our ongoing adventures. Join us for an episode that promises laughter, reflection, and a touch of nostalgia.
WAWG:
Nicole:
Brandon:
Hi, hello, hello, hello. You beat me. I can tell there was some energy there.
Speaker 2I'm just so excited to talk. I feel like we haven't recorded in a hot minute.
Speaker 1It's been a couple weeks.
Speaker 2Heather's like confused. We just did this three days ago, no we didn't do this three days ago. It's been like two weeks Go boys.
Speaker 1I mean today's episode or no. Last week's episode was how long? Yeah we, I don't know, but it huh, huh, it's been a while.
Speaker 2It's been a while.
Speaker 1It's been a long time coming.
Speaker 2Brandon, you should have done your visine, or whatever. Oh, I didn't do my Visine Well okay, Brandon's going to be looking like a crackhead with these eyes.
Speaker 1Because I was having my allergic reaction all day today and I was like I've got to do the Visine before I do the pod.
Speaker 2Brandon's allergic to the mall that he works at.
Speaker 1I'm allergic to all malls, I think.
Speaker 2And now you're being forced to work.
Speaker 1I mean, I'm not being forced to work, I just have to work and I can't make my own schedule.
Speaker 2He can't make his own schedule anymore, which gives me anxiety.
Speaker 1I like to have freedom, creative control over my life.
Speaker 2I feel like that does very much fit with your lifestyle and just the way that you like to run your life. I like to have total control, it's just showing you love to roll into the gym at 10.30 and you're, like, I'm supposed to be at work right now, but I'll make it in eventually.
Speaker 2But, I will say I can't wait to have all these days off. The tea that you gave us yesterday about this certain employee was was making the rounds at alta woodbury today. Really, yes, word travels fast in the beauty world. We probably shouldn't talk about that, but I don't know no, probably not. I feel like you could say well, you could say an employee did xyz.
Speaker 1Well, not an employee yet, oh, you could say an employee did X, y, z. Well, not an employee yet oh a freelancer. An employee for a different company.
Speaker 2Oh, because Amari was like wait, he wasn't fired, he was at Macy's today. Yeah, that's awkward.
Speaker 1My boss was like please help me, Brandon, why didn't you save me? He wouldn't stop talking to me.
Speaker 2Anyways, do we just get the hard part over with Hard part? Well, the election.
Speaker 1Oh.
Speaker 2We don't. We're not just going to glaze over that.
Speaker 1Yeah, no, we're not those people. No, we're not. We're going to talk about it because we don't want to be thought of as Trumpsters.
Speaker 2I don't think anyone. No, I'm thinking that.
Speaker 1No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2But like influencers are just pretending like nothing ever happened, are typically trumpsters yeah, if people aren't posting because, like, a lot of people are posting about like how sad they are about the results, the election, and people who are like dead silent and are like probably happy about the results silence speaks okay multiple people popped up, like plant people popped up on my tiktok.
Speaker 2So, you know, I've been seeing so many people that say like your friend and I'm like I don't know who these people are, and they're like excited about the results and I was like unfollow, like who are you Ew? Bye, yeah. So if you're watching this and you're like, oh my God, ew, they're like liberal fuck faces, like yeah, bye, you didn step, I know I mean, there are like gay guys that pander to that audience yeah, you're not one of them, though.
Speaker 1No, you pander a lot, but not to them. I saw this creator who used to be like uh, ex conservative creator, and uh, she, this is a lesbian. She was like if you want to make some money as a gay, be, pretend to be a republican.
Speaker 2They will give you so much money oh, and some do like, some do pretend, or yeah, I don't know, I whatever. Okay, james heather's here with us behind camera again.
Speaker 1Hi, heather, hi she almost went home because her cat needed her.
Speaker 2Okay, so yeah, heather has a new cat in her life that like showed up here, okay well, I'm gonna insert a picture right now, okay, so you got okay brand our whole last episode. If you guys didn't notice, every time we referenced a picture it didn't get put in well, okay, I was editing last night at like 11 pm and I thought you like watched through it.
Speaker 1You're like, oh my god, this is so funny but then, uh, the first pictures that I was supposed to put up were like individual pictures of all of the things from the little altar hall and I was like shit, nicole, I think, is asleep, I'm not going to get these pictures, I'm just not going to put any pictures. And then, like halfway through, I was like sorry for no pictures. And then I put a couple of pictures.
Speaker 2Oh, I was like I didn't get to that part Because Brandon's like talking about his car and he'm like here's me in band, yeah, so, Anyways, yeah, so now Heather has a cat in her life and she's freaking out. She's like I need to go home, she's afraid to leave it for more than four hours and I'm like people leave their cats home all day.
Speaker 1For days at a time.
Speaker 2It'll be okay.
Speaker 1No, Not me. She's a new cat owner who does not know much about cats.
Speaker 2It's honestly kind of hilarious it is hilarious what she asked me about. She's like, she's like running around, I'm like being crazy, I'm like yeah crackhead hours start at 9 39 sharp they are like nocturnal, so they. I learned that she's like oh my god, is this giving me a life? Now I'm like well, you do have a kitten, technically like a youngster a youngster like five months. They said. You saw the?
Speaker 1the tic tacs of like zero to three months they're super cute and then three to 24 months that's what I sent you the t-rex.
Speaker 2Uh, yeah, I sent. Yeah, that's in. Yep, I sent that to you today several people have sent that to me okay, yeah, at least three I haven't seen this.
Speaker 1Okay, hold on.
Speaker 2Okay, let me put it on the list. No, let me, because I sent it to heather today, just right now see it's like be aware of these developmental stages if you get a cat one to three months, super cute adorable cuddly.
Speaker 1Yeah, that was very funny yeah three to 24 months, crazy.
Speaker 2Yeah, so, okay, moving right along. Happy for you, heather. I mean. Okay, so we're glazing over the election. Um, no, no, no, no, no. Very somber day yesterday. Okay, so we're filming this on november 7th. So yesterday, like morning, we got the news um, I hate it here it was a rough how did it end? The smallest man who ever lived. So much taylor that I've been listening to.
Speaker 1Um, it's always relevant yeah, I feel like there's a lot of people who just didn't realize how much you didn't realize that 2016 to 2020 affected people because it didn't affect them yep, that part um.
Speaker 1I think it's uh if the universe will continue to give you lessons until you learn them, and if you didn't learn it the first time around, it will present it again and then to see if you learned it and then, if you didn't, then you have to repeat the lesson until it's learned. So I think that's what's going on with america, like we all forgot. Yeah, we forgot. I didn't forget. No, I didn't forget either, like so many people forgot yeah, are just like, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 2Like all of the like, hey, get out there and vote. Those are four people that need to vote democrat, because republicans will always show up and vote, no matter what. They will show up and vote. You need to vote. I don't care if you don't like either of them. That is so privileged to be. Like, oh, my god, it's like it's it doesn't affect you. Then, clearly, like even andy cohen was, like I voted for kamala, knowing that I'll get richer if trump is in office, and he said I will, I will get richer, but I didn't vote for that because that's not the future I want for my kids. Like that's not the future I want for. Like all the women in my life. Like, yeah, not good, I'm scared for my brother's trans. Um, my good friends are transgender and he wants to make them detransition and he wants to get rid of the department of education.
Speaker 1Like that's just nuts to me like project 2025.
Speaker 2Have you guys read any of that? He wants to bring it back to like one vote per household and the husband gets to vote. The women need permission to leave the state, All this shit Like. What are you talking about?
Speaker 1So lots of pictures that I'm making notes of as you guys are talking, I'm going to put down picture of Gilead a handmaid's tale.
Speaker 2Because that's what we're entering into. That is a possibility.
Speaker 1I was like wow, there's a lot of furious scribbling, I feel like.
Speaker 2The other day you sent me a picture, something that you wrote down, and I was like god, my handwriting is awful. I was like you were. Like, I think it looks pretty good. Today, though, I was like I can't read any of that.
Speaker 1I have awful handwriting.
Speaker 2Should we get rid of one more sad thing before we move on?
Speaker 1Sure.
Speaker 2You want to talk about Cease.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, when we recorded the last podcast, it was two days before our former legendary producer executive, legendary producer Cease Picture, cease, cease, montage Passed away Our former legendary producer, executive legendary producer CC, mm-hmm, cc. Montage Passed away, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2She went over the rainbow, whatever the fuck they call it, cross the rainbow bridge, they say.
Speaker 1She was playing Mario Kart. She was on Rainbow Road, but yeah, it was her time.
Speaker 2She's very old. Nothing in particular was going on besides the fact that she was just an old girl and she was ready and she was letting everyone know she was ready.
Speaker 2So, yeah, we all came over here and said our goodbyes. It was very sad, lots of tears, like. I've actually never seen Brandon so upset in my entire life and I was like here insert the picture of Brandon crying that I took. And I took it because I was like, oh my god, look at us, we're both crying. I didn't realize it was going to be us crying for two hours and I'd never seen like. I've seen you cry like sometimes, and I think you're about to cry now. Um, I see it in your eyes, unless it's just the red.
Speaker 2It's welling up it's welling up, I think, because cc really like changed your life and made you like I'm a cat person. Yeah well, I don't know if I'm actually a cat person, but I am definitely a cc person so it was very sad and uh, yeah, and that's kind of that on that, so long by cc by producer cc merch.
Speaker 2There is new um, queen cc, merch out on the merch thing. Um, you can throw in a little tip for Brenna if you want lots of, uh, medical expenses leading up to all that. So, yeah, it was. It was a sad day. It was like, um, just sad to watch her in that condition too. So but I it gave me some peace too to know like she was ready, because I know it's a really, really hard decision to make and it feels like you like fucking killed your cat, but like you need to like let them go, because it is kind of inhumane to just let them like wait till they actually die, like that's like even one more day.
Speaker 2Yeah, even one more day she yeah, it's, it's painful, it's sad, it's, and they don't want that. So, yeah, that's that rpcs. She'll live on forever through this podcast cheech, an international celebrity oh yeah, because, oh my god, when we posted that, I mean I had so many people responding and you said you had so many dms I was like okay, gotta get through these.
Speaker 1I'm just gonna hard. Everything I was, I had to take it like chunks. I'm like okay, started sobbing again, let's do the rest tomorrow we have boy girl cup today.
Speaker 2If you guys are watching on the youtube, go watch on the youtube. All of you guys are listening on podcasts which maybe they're watching oh my god, what should we do? Like an andy going drinking game for the pod if you like, if every time you hear this word heather can pick out the word or I can make the saying I mean last episode would have been. Every time they say bumping that take a fucking shot that ass, perfect baby. Or like take a shot every time heather interjects.
Speaker 2We'd all be wasted in 20 minutes we love watch what happens live with andy cohen. If you guys don't know, he like puts up. He's like um. When you hear this word, take a shot, like my guests don't know what it is um, and sometimes it's a word like she, yeah and I'm like okay what? And a lot of times it's like a name of someone. They're most likely going to be talking about the whole episode. So, yeah, maybe we'll start doing that. It was just Halloween. What did you do for Halloween?
Speaker 1Well, the first weekend of Halloween we cried about Cece yes.
Speaker 2And then last weekend, I we watched the trick-or-treaters on the camera.
Speaker 1Oh my God, what Coming to the door with the lightstreaters on the camera.
Speaker 2Oh my God, what? Coming to the door with the lights off, like calling the house.
Speaker 1Did I not show you this video?
Speaker 2Yes, you did Wait, put it in. Put it in Because it is actually so scary. I was like so fucking frightened Like what is that mask?
Speaker 1I don't know, it looked like, looked like it was like made of human skin sewn with like needles made of bone like some kids were coming to trick-or-treat at brain.
Speaker 2And of course the ring doorbell has a camera.
Speaker 1I just keep getting notifications. Someone is calling you, someone's calling you. I'm out of town, so I'm like, I'm just looking. I'm like, are these like door dashers? What's going on? I was looking and, mind you, it was like after. So, trick-or-treating ended at seven and all the people who did it were, it was like 720, I think it's when the first group of teens came. Mind you, half the teens weren't wearing costumes and they would get all offended that we didn't answer the door. I'm like. So the first one, brenna, was upstairs, lights were on, but the outside light was not on, and so after that she went downstairs, turned off all the lights except the plant lights and then I texted her and then the second ones came.
Spooky Halloween Party Talk
Speaker 1I was like, oh my god, turn off the lights, like what's going on? Because apparently trick-or-treaters don't know that when the lights are off you don't that means don't ring the doorbell so if you're a parent, teach your kids this um, and so then she's like.
Speaker 1I went downstairs, all the lights are off except the plant lights, and so then I turned the plant lights off, so our house is completely dark, zero, dark, 30. From the road you cannot see any lights. Like two or three more groups of kids came up and it's pitch black out there. It's scary.
Speaker 2Very frightening.
Speaker 1But then I think it was the second to last. I couldn't watch it anymore. I'm like just sitting with my mom and my brother and I'm like, oh my God, and they're like what? And I was like look at this.
Speaker 2Did they get any trick-or-treaters, or do you live too much in the middle of nowhere out there?
Speaker 1My parents' house, no, my brother's house.
Speaker 2They got some, I guess. Yeah, Brandon went home for some Harry for children some harry potter thing okay that? Okay, that was cool okay, we don't support harry potter though, because, like jk, rowling is a turf.
Speaker 1But yeah she is. I might have made me a trumper, like that's how good it was.
Speaker 2I was like what the well, I really, because I thought you were going to like a harry potter musical, but it was like based on harry potter, but it was like after like yeah, so it was it was a broadway show.
Speaker 1well, technically, I think it was in after, like yeah, so it was. It was a Broadway show. Well, technically, I think it was in the West end first. It was based 20 years after Harry Potter, so it was like they're Harry Potter's kids.
Speaker 2And Hermione's like a lesbian or something.
Speaker 1No, oh, hermione was black.
Speaker 2Oh, okay.
Speaker 1But not a lesbian Um but the whole thing was a gay love story okay, that's what I'm thinking of a gay love story between who um harry potter's child and draco malfoy's child oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, I remember this and apparently the original one was five and a half hours long. You had to see it over two nights two nights and honestly I would have been.
Speaker 2The intermission was like overnight.
Speaker 1Yeah, is that what inspired your new hair, brandon? No, oh, you want to look like.
Speaker 2Jacob Malloy.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Oh no, brandon always does this to his hair every once in a while.
Speaker 1Yeah, but no, it's very shaved on the sides.
Speaker 2They went down really close to your skull. I like when they do that, because then I don't have to get a haircut as often 60 bucks a piece, I mean okay.
Speaker 1I would love to get a haircut every week. How do people afford that?
Speaker 2I know a lot of guys. When I worked at a hair salon a lot of guys would come in like every like week or two weeks and I'm just like I'm sick of seeing you here.
Speaker 1And the sad thing is 60 bucks is pretty good, including tip.
Speaker 2For like a good lineup, yeah, tip for like a good lineup yeah, like normally it's 60 bucks not including tip. Okay, heather's getting her red wine out well, brandy, you were talking about moving to houston.
Speaker 1You can't do that in trump's america well, I know I am a little nervy about that now I mean, but like your man's, lived there during that era, right well, I think he's a little nervy now too. Yeah, yeah maybe you guys should just come up here, maybe he should just move up here, move out of the house, move up here. Is there any topic we're not getting?
Speaker 2into tonight. I feel like we have like tiptoed on like every deep topic in life right now. We got family trauma. We got election trauma we have pet death, we have gay fear.
Speaker 1We have Trump's text. What's next?
Speaker 2We're talking about Halloween. Sorry, we were talking about Halloween.
Speaker 1And creepy kids in big masks.
Speaker 2Okay, so for Halloween I actually went to a little Halloween party.
Speaker 1You actually had a Halloween.
Speaker 2Okay, add in there pictures from oh look a strawberry. Yeah, pictures from Halloween. Nicole's Halloweenlloween actually was invited to a little. I mean, invited is really loose. But I just I'm on this shop's close friend story because I used to water the plants there back when I was working at planting queens and my friend bell works there, shout out bell um, and they were having this little halloween party and I was even telling y'all. I was like I don't know if I want to go to this, like I'm not feeling it and I was because you were like you're planning on coming here?
Speaker 2you're like I'm just gonna go to this party I was like I'm just gonna make an appearance and then I'm gonna come over. Oh, but y'all I was. I was hitting back the drinks because it was all. It was all free drinks and I was like, okay, jello shot, jello shot, tequila shot, white claw, white White Claw. I was very much drunk when I left.
Speaker 1It was like 11.45, and me and Heather were just sitting on the couch and I'm like I think Nicole's- having a lot of fun I don't think she's coming over, it's just us. Tonight it was fun. We were playing beer pong in the basement.
Speaker 2This basement was the very first embalming room in the Twin Cities or in Minneapolis. Very creepy, creepy, uh creepy basement pictures cue. Um, they had it lit up like red. Very, very weird, but very cute. Um, was this at the soapbox factory? No, I'm not going there ever, no well, it's spooky it's called moth oddities. They are a vintage shop where's?
Speaker 1where's the soapbox factory? What is that?
Speaker 2you don't know about that haunted house, it's legit haunted. Oh, my god, the soapbox okay when people go there because they set it up as like a spooky thing every year. It's legit. Oh my god, the soapbox. Okay. When people go there because they set it up as like a spooky thing every year, it's like that's like the scary thing to go to. And there's some people who are like I will not go. I heard because, yeah, they can touch you, they can fuck you up, they separate you, yeah, and give you a safe word.
Speaker 2Yeah, they give you a safe word, it is so fucking scary apparently, but then some people go in there.
Speaker 1It's not that scary so it's like actually haunted. And then they're like we're going to dramatically haunt this on top of the ghost creepy.
Speaker 2It's creepy. I don't know much about it, but I've like, like I haven't even heard that word since like pre-pandemic. But I've known about this place and have never wanted to get, never, no desire, none at all. So, um, actual halloween, I had some co-workers come over because they wanted to hang out with my cats, and chris didn't feel like hosting, like he usually does. So I was like you know what? Why don't we? I have a big couch, why don't we all come over and hang out at my place? Um, so they did, and we watched midsummer, and then we watched, um, what is it called? The substance?
Speaker 2oh, I heard, that's good oh my god, you guys gotta watch it. It's actually okay. There's a lot of boobs, so kind of a plus, if you like that I mean insert picture of boobs. Demi more is in it. And then, okay, I didn't really understand the hype of this girl, margaret coiley. Um, she's jack antonoff's wife. Oh, oh, oh, brandon, she is hot, hot, hot, hot. Her whole cause like they're showing her, them like naked a lot, and I was like, oh my God, she is magnificent, jack.
Speaker 1Okay, jack, I see a pick Insert pick here, no.
Speaker 2Jack Antonoff Like okay, dude, good job, because, wow, but he makes a lot of money, so it makes sense. I mean I don't know, he works with taylor swift. I mean, yeah, he makes a lot of money, but I'm just saying like he pulled a good one because, damn, um, taylor, if I were to have just seen her face, which she's a beautiful face, I probably wouldn't be like, oh my god, she's so hot. But then, like I mean, not to objectify, but to objectify, wow, body's, body's, body's. Yeah, we were talking about that in the last episode and I guess they watched it without me.
Speaker 2I've never seen it. And Brandon's like it's okay. I'm like I'm not wanting to watch it because it reason why people watch twilight. Like it's, like it's supposed to be iconic twilight. What do you mean? Twilight's not good. Shut up people. Okay, I love twilight. I have twilight nails on. I have twilight nails on. It is like the cheesiest, weirdest shit. The people who were in it like hate it. Like it's it is not. You need to re-watch it. Maybe because it is it's good. I love it because it's camp, but it's not like objectively a good movie. Okay, fair enough.
Speaker 1Like, yeah, people who love it, I love it I watched most of them in theaters with my mother oh yeah, I watched breaking dawn in theaters when it came out midnight premiere is breaking down there. No, what's the original one? Twilight, twilight, yeah I didn't watch that one.
Speaker 2I hope brenna can't hear us right now. No, she'll come Night premiere Is Breaking Dawn.
Speaker 1No, what's the original On Twilight, twilight, new Moon, eclipse, breaking Dawn.
Speaker 2I hope Brenna can't hear us Right now. No, she'll come in, she'll freak out she would be deeply offended by us talking shit about Twilight.
Speaker 1I'm not talking shit. I love Twilight. No, she says it wasn't good.
Speaker 2I'm sure she's also like, yeah, it's cheesy, it's weird, but we watch it Because the exact same thing yeah, okay, okay, but yeah, the substance recommend.
Speaker 2Um, it's about demi more who is feeling bad about her, like wrinkliness and oldness, and takes the substance to get young, but she has to switch bodies every week. So she's in her old body for seven days and then she switches to the young body for seven days and the other one. It's two separate bodies but they are one together and uh, it's, it gets crazy. It gets very, very crazy. At the very end dennis quaid is in it. Crazy, dennis quaid. Um, yeah, very interesting, very highly recommend. Oh, I'm like getting close to like running out of things on my list.
Speaker 2I mean, we can just start blabbing yeah, but we need to like, we need like structure on blabbing because, like, what do you what? What topic do you want to talk about right now? This is not being edited in.
Speaker 1This is being edited out, right this no, this is no, this is part of it. We don't cut unless it's like something like we don't want the public to know.
Speaker 2Oh my.
Speaker 1God, oh my.
Speaker 2God, zoom in. Bye Jesus. Also. We have this window open again. Do you think the bugs are going to come?
Speaker 1in again. I already looked, they haven't shown up. It's 36 degrees outside. It's too cold, too cold.
Speaker 2Okay, okay, all right, it's spooky season.
Speaker 1I'm not, it snowed.
Speaker 2It snowed on halloween yeah, I'm so glad I was not here during halloween. I was moving shit out of the my work's basement because we're we closed one location, we're combining into the other location and on halloween was the very last day of when we could be there technically and oh my goodness was. There's so much stuff to get rid of that seemed like a nightmare. I don't even know what I would do I didn't know how I got roped into moving. Love y'all. At least you got paid for it.
Speaker 1I do, yes, I, because I get roped into moving and I don't get paid.
Speaker 2I am oh yeah, you said that like zach, or a friend zach, which, oh my god, did you see that picture that zach posted on his instagram story? I was like okay, zach dead ass perfect. Baby zach is hot but he wouldn't even know that he's so short.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2He does not look short in pictures.
Speaker 1Unless he's in a picture with someone else With people, yes.
Speaker 2Oh God, that puppy mill I was looking up was just, in my recents, added to the list of sad shit. We're talking about the puppy mill, yes, no, I don't want to go there anymore. I can't, yeah. I don't want to go there anymore. I can't, yeah. I was like damn Zach with those veiny arms that you love.
Speaker 1I mean it must be nice being short Because you can just put on so much muscle. Us tall people have so much work to do. We can't buy clothes, brandon. We can't buy clothes.
Speaker 2Nothing fits, it's not fun.
Speaker 1I can't buy clothes either, man, maybe I should watch these little little nubbers that we like put our mouths on and like pass around.
Speaker 2We should probably watch these.
Speaker 1I am horrified. I am basically like, just like giving this mic we've had these for years. If you put these in your washer, they will not come out.
Speaker 2No, I think they would need to be put in a bag together these need to be hand washed.
Speaker 1Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 2Now I'm like yeah, I felt my like lip on this and there's like so much CC hair on them. It smells like wet dog a little bit.
Speaker 1This one doesn't seem to have much of an odor.
Speaker 2This smells like basement, like must. Now you're putting your whole nose on it.
Speaker 1When people put their mouths on that, okay, so, when we're done with this, everyone take off your little mic cap and I will go watch them in the sink with some Dawn. Just so, dawn, ultra, ultra clean, ultra sprayald. Power wash, power wash dawn power wash brandon.
Speaker 2Um, I also am traumatized by the smell of it now, because it just smells to me like dirty dishes, like it's just the smell reminds me of cleaning dirty dishes now, so it grosses me out every time. Did you ever have one of those musical toothbrushes? No, but my brother's dead oh, do your parents hate you? Or were they out of style or what?
Speaker 1I was a little. I was an eight-year-old adult and I was too. I was too too cool too mature for that. Oh wow, I did almost get a musical snorkel. Huh, same concept, but it was a almost get a musical snorkel.
Speaker 2Huh.
Speaker 1Same concept, but it was a snorkel.
Speaker 2Musical snorkel, like you go snorkeling and you hear music in it. Yeah, when you bite it Huh.
Speaker 1The music goes in your ears.
Speaker 2All right, I'm adding that to the list of Google-ables. She's on her second page, almost at the end of it.
Speaker 1This is a nightmare. I'm going to have to put in so many pictures.
Speaker 2So many videos I mean some of them you might not have to. These are just ideas where I think it would be helpful, because who the fuck knows what a musical snorkel is?
Speaker 1Well, it just looks like a snorkel, but you bite it, kind of like the teeth brushing thing, but it is still you do a snorkeling.
Speaker 2I used to snorkel a lot where, in lakes and oceans and rivers and ponds and, okay, brandon, snorkel.
Speaker 1Snorkeling kind of scares me though, because it's definitely the one that you have to be on the surface with right yeah, well, you could, you can go under, and then you can come up and you go like blow out all the water from the snorkel.
Speaker 2I would definitely accidentally breathe in some water and die Because I have asthma.
Speaker 1I didn't do that Because I didn't have a strong enough lung capacity to get all that water out.
Speaker 2When's the last time you've had to use an inhaler?
Speaker 1My asthma is viral rather than activity, so there's virally induced asthma, activity induced asthma. So I only get asthma when I'm really sick. Okay so that's why I use a nebulizer.
Speaker 2Oh, that's what you talk about, Because Brandon and Sam are always talking about their nebulizer and I'm like I don't even really know what that is. Is that the next step on my ADHD journey is getting a nebulizer.
Speaker 1No, I don't know if it has anything to do with adhd, but explain. The heather writes nebulizer. How did you spell nebulizer?
Speaker 2I can't spell I'm a good speller it's like nebula, but then with eyes so is this something you put up your nose?
Speaker 1no, no, it's like a mask, it's like a hospital mask. We're going to insert a photo.
Speaker 2Okay, okay, dance, wait. Insert a photo of Brandon using it, because I know he has some pictures of him with it on.
Speaker 1Nebulizer dash Brandon using. In college I did put vodka in my nebulizer to see if I could inhale vodka. It did not work. Yeah, I don. Yeah, I don't think you can vaporize it like you can with marijuana people said you could, but that was like 2011.
Speaker 2I think it's just this placebo, probably probably like oh, I'm so fucked up as most college experiences oh yeah I I look back at my one year at eau claire fondly a little bit insert picture of brand Brandon pissing on floor of the pickle. I still never been to the pickle. We need to take an Eau Claire trip. We could, so we can go to my pickle.
Speaker 1Oh, we could go to the greenhouse. Why am I blanking?
Speaker 2Down to earth, down to earth. I know they've been begging me to come. I love y'all, and then we can stay there.
Speaker 1Yes, let's go go to the bars, all the townie bars, heather you would love it.
Speaker 2Oh my god, let's take a little clear trip, why not?
Speaker 1film it in the pickle or like in college town.
Speaker 2I'm sad I wasn't there for my 21st birthday where you spin the wheel. Multiple birthdays do I need to bring wear shoes that I'm okay ruining? Yes, because people will pee on that. It's so disgusting, though I got a tattoo two tattoos on the tattoo place that's on that same street, on water street which one I don't know what's called, like west tattoo or something I don't know. It's called, like West Tattoo or something I don't know, water Street Tattoo.
Speaker 1I'm sure there were, I don't know.
Speaker 2What's the other one? It's called like Dooley's or something.
Speaker 1Oh, my roommate, my old roommate used to work at Dooley's.
Speaker 2That's what it's called. There was one in Rochester. What's the restaurant? That starts with an M. I was obsessed with that place.
Speaker 1Mona Lisa's.
Speaker 2No, you just made that up.
Speaker 1No, Mona Lisa's is on Water Street.
Speaker 2Yes, well, I don't know what you're talking about, the Pickle Eau Claire, because that'll take me straight to that street. It's Water Street.
Speaker 1Mona Lisa's.
Speaker 2It's called like God it's going to piss me off. Is it still there? I don't know. I hope it is there's an antique store. Is it still there? I don't know, I hope it is there's an antique store.
Speaker 1There was actually a really nice boutique down there, like with like expensive designer clothes which was a while ago.
Speaker 2Oh, everyone liked going to, I got my bedroom lamp there, I believe.
Speaker 1What is California?
Speaker 2Tacos Did they replace?
Speaker 1El Burrito.
Speaker 2Yes, not El Burrito, it's the other, the chain place.
Speaker 1Taco.
Speaker 2John's Pancheros no.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, Pancheros, there was a Pancheros there.
Speaker 2I thought it started with a, b, I don't know. There's a place called She-Nanigans.
Speaker 1She-Nans yeah.
Speaker 2The Nucleus is still there. God, I miss when there was a doghouse there.
Speaker 1I love the doghouse In the doghouse in eau claire and my mom, when we were in milwaukee this weekend, was like isn't the dog house right up here? And I was like, how do you remember that?
Speaker 2I don't know the dog house. Oh my god, it was so good what it says pick up the dog house um well, because that is also a chain and they had one just for a little bit in the harmar mall little strip mall area. Oh my god, are you for real where uh, smash burger is now? No wait, now it's a. What is it? It's like a combo like frozen yogurt and something place. Now, what is it now?
Speaker 2we are very invested in our uh regional chain fast food restaurants oh yeah, it's just a smash burger and uh yeah, it was, I think. I don't know if it was where smash burger is now, but it was. It was on that side where it faces. Um, what the hell is that smelling nightmare? It's like nightmare to get into can you imagine if you had to go to harmar as one of your stops? No, I would die. I mean, they're not selling dior there.
Speaker 1Let's just say that you're definitely not running into tanya haddix in there.
Speaker 2I was trying to segue to chimp crazy oh, we love tanya, like she just popped up on her lot on on live talking about her podcast she is on live 18 hours a day.
Speaker 1I swear to god she's like jason nash now just peddling for gifts.
Speaker 2Well, probably for her legal fees.
Speaker 1Well, no, she won't stop. She's not doing like the you know the lives trying to get money.
Speaker 2She's just talking about tonka 24 7 oh, I popped in there I don't know if it was the day after the election or the day of like the last minute voting, um, but she was like would tonka vote? She's no, they were like who would talk about, for she said, um, he was a human, I think he would vote for trump, but I'm not sure. And I was like, damn, are you?
Speaker 1kidding me.
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Speaker 2You know she voted for trump. Oh, trump, president trump. Do you remember that video, president trump, save us, president chump. Uh, insert pic of that. It's such a low quality video I feel like. Anyways, talk more about your fun time with lisa oh, we went to a vampire fashion show.
Speaker 1Okay, so I also, brandon, had vampire fashion.
Speaker 2Oh wait that long coat? Tell me that was dragging on the concrete outside. No, I picked, I was holding, you were holding it yeah, that was who is this diva? I had a 10 foot train yeah, brand Brandon was wearing a, a like coat, like a I don't know what is it called.
Speaker 1Uh, it was a suit coat, suit coat that had a train on it.
Speaker 2That's crazy. Okay, so when you were at this fashion show, I was like, oh, he's at a Harry Potter fashion show. I wasn't sure what the Harry Potter thing was.
Speaker 1So we've been to the fashion show many times. It's like this designer from Milwaukee, silver Sark, and she makes like really incredible designs, like it's she's incredibly talented. But normally it's kind of like a like a more formal fashion show, like you sit down, you have seats, you're like looking at the show. It's well lit. This one was like kind of dark and creepy, very themed, but it was meant to be more of like a party with a fashion show.
Speaker 2that's just happening I pulled up the video. Wait, because I think she's shit, she's shitting, she's on the toilet. This girl, this lady, let me see.
Speaker 1Okay, hold on let me tell you, you've never seen this video if you see this, please save us.
Speaker 2I think I went to high school. Wait, wait, did you hear? She's just shit in the background. If you see this, please save us.
Speaker 1This is America, this is our land.
Speaker 2Y'all don't have a panic attack, oh my god.
Speaker 1Also I've always wanted. Is that satire or is that for real?
Speaker 2I've always taken it for truth.
Speaker 1I mean same, but I've always been like is this?
Speaker 2I love how the first hashtag is scooby-dee toilet. Oh my god. Someone said, when I'm feeling, feeling down, I watch this and smile. And then someone says alcohol does strange things.
Speaker 1Oh my goodness. I mean, I think it's a little harder than alcohol, but she has the party butt, that's what bell calls it party.
Speaker 2But when you're pooping the day after that, you drink oh, I like that better than dads's. Yeah, because you told me dad's the day after drinking shits.
Speaker 1I like party butt, party butt, I always have party butt.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, I'm like Brandon's, always like why am I shitting so much? I'm like, well, you drink so much wine.
Speaker 1And I eat so much McDonald's, so much Taco Bell. It's kind of scary. Do you want to talk about your new favorite menu item at Taco Bell? Oh, my God, I could go on for hours. Okay, so I am an avid, regional, seasonal Taco Bell menu item connoisseur.
Speaker 2And whenever there's a new menu item, you're like all right time to try on it. He said you guys, here's my review. He sits in the parking lot and eats it.
Speaker 1We don't even I go 20 feet from the drive through Park. My car parking lot and eats it. We don't even I go 20 feet from the drive through park.
Speaker 2My car Brother just commented from the outside world.
Speaker 1Um, but anyway, so my I will. There are three Taco Bell menu items that have changed my life. We're going to talk about the first one, the mega nachos.
Speaker 2It was. We're going down the line.
Speaker 1This was in 2009 or 2008. Um, I think it was 2009. It was a notch fully loaded nachos, every kind of ingredient they had, but it was in a taco bowl so you could, and they had so much toppings that you would run out of chips and then you would just break off pieces of the bowl and use that to eat it. And it was nine, 99 and it was huge. It was like massive. It was like really could feed like four people Nine, 99. So good. That one changed my life. They never brought that one back. The second was a Crispinada. Oh my God, they brought Crispinadas back and they usually bring them back in like February, so I'm hoping Explain what that is.
Speaker 1So a Crispinada.
Speaker 2Okay, picture. We're getting pictures of all these.
Speaker 1I got it Crispinada. It's like an empanada, but crispier. Okay, like an empanada dough kind of has like a little bit of give. It's like crispy but like gooey. Nicole, you never tried these.
Speaker 2No, I've never even had a crunch wrap supreme.
Speaker 1I order my Doritos locos tacos and call it a day corn trap supremes used to be good.
Speaker 2They're not good anymore. The crispinatas were something special, but only with the sauce you had maybe I need to try this new one that you're loving so much, yes, that we haven't gotten so the crispinata chef's kiss.
Speaker 1Also, the chicken nuggets not good, because they don't have sauces to accompany them. They're like do you want to put this hot sauce on your? No, I don't want taco sauce on my chicken nugget anyway, what they currently have is the uh el pastor street chalupas. Oh my god, they are so good. $4.99 for two, which I don't think is that bad for how big and heavy they were. In today's economy, that is a steal. They're gonna be five dollars in a couple months a piece so 10 for two?
Speaker 2what? Because it seemed like it was a few layers of taco.
Speaker 1So it's like a. It's like a mini chalupa shell with cheese, and then they put it on another chalupa shell and somehow they crisp the cheese in between the two chalupa shells to like keep it together. No idea how they did that feat of astrophysics. And then there's like the little pork, the little onions, the little cilantro, and then I add creamy jalapeno sauce to it and this is a Taco Bell hack. It's 19 cents to add it to anything. Add creamy jalapeno sauce to literally anything on the menu. It will elevate it to a level you've never had before.
Speaker 2I have a feeling this clip is going on TikTok.
Speaker 1You heard it here first y'all.
Speaker 2Oh my God, You're not going to be there. They're going to run out of it because it's going to go viral. Oh my, oh, my god, you're not gonna be they're gonna run out of it because it's going gonna go viral. Oh my god, I love creamy jalapeno sauce, creamy jalapeno.
Speaker 1How hot is creamy jalapeno? It's the sauce on the quesadillas. Well, I don't need them. I've never had quesadilla. It's not, it's not spicy at all.
Speaker 2Well, I've had a cheese. I have a quesadilla, like everywhere else, but taco bell. Why would I order a quesadilla from Taco Bell?
Speaker 1They're actually pretty good If they make them right.
Speaker 2I like to dip my dip quesadillas in sour cream.
Speaker 1Creamy jalapeno sauce will change your life.
Speaker 2I love sour cream, anyways. So that was Brandon's new Taco Bell. You, I definitely was like skipping through a little bit. So I was like, okay, brandon's gonna give me the lowdown on this. And I tapped twice on Snapchat and you haven't even taken a bite of it yet.
Speaker 1And I was like oh, my goodness come on, and I mean his reaction was just like oh my God, I could have a whole podcast just by myself talking about fast food. That's how much fast food I eat.
Speaker 2I love fast food. I'm on. I'm keeping Arby's in business.
Speaker 1Literally. I love Arby's the app does not have good deals anymore.
Speaker 2Piss me off.
Speaker 1Every time I see anybody talking about Arby's I'm like who's buying this?
Speaker 2Who is keeping Arby's in business? Dude their mozzarella sticks.
Speaker 1Their mozzarella sticks are elite.
Speaker 2And my uncle. I also love their. I just love their chicken tenders too.
Speaker 1The chicken tenders, chicken nuggets, chicken wings, chicken, anything chicken. There is fire.
Speaker 2I mean the curly fries, like come on, they literally sell them frozen by the bag now Unpopular opinion.
Speaker 1I don't like Arby's curly fries, but I do like the frozen ones. I mean I'll eat them but I'm not like. Here's the thing. They're not as crispy.
Speaker 2When I make them myself at home I make them a little more like yeah, but when you get them from them it's a little bit soggy. It's a little bit soggy, but now they have crinkle cut fries, now they have burgers rb says rb says burgers.
Speaker 1I haven't tried the burger.
Speaker 2But we should try, we should do a little taste test. Maybe, oh my god, maybe every, every single podcast episode, we're gonna eat fast food and have a segment where we eat and chew into the microphone. How?
Speaker 1would you guys like that? I know brenna wouldn't like that.
Speaker 2We're just in here eating, getting fucking food all over the rug, oh my god. Okay. So you know, I don't know if anyone else notices this, but you know what? Fuck? This is the first thing I wrote down to talk about on this podcast this is, that's a paragraph.
Speaker 1I can't see what it says, but it's a paragraph when?
Speaker 2okay. So you know, tiktok shop is fucking annoying people talking about tiktok shop all the time. But the people and businesses who are like oh my god, like they messed up my product and now I have 4 000 of these that I need to sell so they're at a discount for you guys, please go buy them. Or like oh my god, I accidentally ordered the wrong thing. Please go buy these. Like I have so many to get rid of.
Speaker 2You're a dirty, fucking liar. You're a dirty, fucking liar. This is going on my tiktok right now. You're a dirty fucking liar because I know damn well you ordered exactly what you wanted and you are trying to. You are trying to lie to people and be like oh my god, you guys feel bad for me. They messed up all of these journals and now I have 6 000 journals to sell. Please go buy them. They're two dollars off, shut up. Oh my god, like it makes me fucking. Like the second, I realized like you're actually scamming. You're actually lying about this. Like do you know what I like? So anytime you see that you guys swipe right past or leave them a hateful comment, I don't know. Like they are lying to you. They're trying to scam you. They're like oh my God, they messed up my order and now I have so many mouse pads I need to get rid of, like girl be for real, I don't get any business owners, except for like the tank tops, like the Echo beaters.
Speaker 2It is always these business owners who are like I put them in my TikTok shop because I just have so many to get rid of. Please help me get rid of these. And everyone's like OK, I'll buy one, since you ordered so many and they messed them up. No, that's how they get you, because they they that product is exactly what it's supposed to be. That product is exactly what it's supposed to be. So after the like 10,000th video of this that I saw, I was like you know, I kind of think you guys are lying.
Speaker 1I don't think you're being truthful about this. You're like I believed you the first 9,999 times.
Speaker 2Yeah, and now I'm kind of like something doesn't add up, because why is every other sales pitch them being like oh my God, like I can't believe that I ordered these wrong. I can't believe they messed these up, and now I have so many I need to sell it, but they're not what they're supposed to be like.
Speaker 1Oh god, please help me get rid of these see, I always get the ones that are like, oh my god, I bought this and now it is the percent off on the TikTok shop. I wish I would have waited and I was like bullshit, that was a free sample A, b, how do they know? Because then I always go and I click the product and I'm like that was not on sale, it's full price. You said it was 15 and it is here for 120. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2So my manager, aaron, at work work, shout out erin hi, um was watching our podcast on my phone because I was just showing her the setup and what it looks like and it was me talking about my tiktok shop cardigan and my tiktok shop eyeshadow that I was wearing. And then, as she's watching my phone, tell me why I get a notification that says your tiktok shop order shipped. Because I was super high, mari, if you're watching this, my roommate don't like pause, because I'm about to say one of the things I got you for christmas. Um, because mari was like, oh my god, I got you something so great for christmas and I was like, fuck, I thought we were both broken not gonna do that. So now I gotta get her an amazing christmas gift. Because she got me an amazing christmas gift apparently.
Speaker 2Um, and I was super high scrolling tiktok um election night and I was like, oh my god, this diet coke candle mari would love. So it's literally a diet coke can that is a candle on the inside, so I think she'll love, it'll be great. It already shipped. And I was like why don't I do another tiktok shop order?
Speaker 1like, let's go, let's go for it I wish I wish I was better at like accumulating things, because they do give good discounts on smile to be like 50% off your entire order and I'm like, well, I, the only thing I want right now is like a 12 thing, so great and then it's like free shipping.
Speaker 1I'm like okay, so if I don't have to pay shipping on like a 7.99 thing, I'm like okay, send it to me you know what I bought on, bought on the TikTok shop that I thought was going to change my life as a content creator this little screen that you put on the back of your phone so you can use this camera and it shows you the screen here.
Speaker 2Does it work?
Speaker 1Well, it delays, it lags, but now there's a new one that you can plug directly into your phone and it's immediate. And I was like God damn it.
Speaker 2Well, so then you got to have your phone on a tripod, Because, Brady, you know me when it's time for me to film. It looks just like this, Like I literally just prop it up against something.
Speaker 1Well, yeah, so you just do it this way. But there's the little camera thing on the back.
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Speaker 2Heather, it's in the top drawer, grab it. No, but you said, james, when you have to plug into your phone well, no, oh, you're right, yeah, yeah so I wouldn't be able to do that because apparently the bluetooth is less laggy.
Speaker 1I think that's it.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's it, that's it's always in a brown little, gray little discreet it's this. Well, now it's on the floor, so I paid like 70 for this what? Yeah huh, brandon, you like, you're always like I need to be better with money and I'm like, yeah, maybe you should stop buying random shit, buying like drinks for people everywhere.
Speaker 1You don't buy drinks anymore because I don't go anywhere, but I do when I go.
Speaker 2You know, like if you've ever been out with brain, he's like, oh, I'll go grab a round, like what do you guys want?
Speaker 1well, it's because I feel so bad because I'm gonna go get a drink and then people are like, can you get me a drink? And I'm like, well, just because I drink faster than you. Anyway, yeah, it's a little screen. You're like boop, like on the back of your phone, boop.
Speaker 2Okay, interesting. Wait, why do you need a screen on the back here?
Speaker 1Exactly it's. So you can use the back camera because it's higher quality do just fine in natural lighting.
Speaker 2See, I don't have good lighting in this. Okay, yeah, brandon's. I was like you need a good ring light. Amy, you need to get a tripod. Insert pic of amy. No, we're not, we're gonna air it out. Brandon's friend, amy brandon's like, oh, she's like, is posting these videos which are like good content, but the it looks like shit. It's so dark, honestly so dark we're leaving this in.
Speaker 1I don't think Amy listens to the podcast, but if she does, amy, I've told you this a thousand times. So now we're just gonna roast you publicly. I feel like her name is actually spelled a-i-m-e. No, no, no, no, that's just Taylor Swift.
Speaker 2No, okay okay, a-m why no? She talks about like spooky stuff that I think people would like, but brandon thinks that her video quality is not good enough to be going well on tiktok, whereas I mean video of girl saying prison chump on the toilet, yeah, viral, that's it pretty well. I mean yes, so let's say the lighting doesn't have to be good if the content's good, like you can't.
Speaker 1That did pretty well.
Speaker 2I mean, that's what.
Speaker 1I'm saying the lighting doesn't have to be good. If the content's good, you need a hook. Well, if you're trying to make consistent content, the lighting has to be good. If you have a one-off video on bad lighting, that's super funny. Yeah sure, but you can't make all these videos in bad lighting. That's why we have one, two, three giant fucking lights right here. We only had two lights, the first couple episodes look like shit brandon's, like we look like little garbage gremlins.
Speaker 2Oh okay, just kidding yeah, I was being aggressive. I was like damn brandon's now on his soapbox heather's like all right, insert screen, of screen, pick up garbage, grimley.
Speaker 1A picture of Danny DeVito.
Speaker 2Insert screenshot from three episodes ago.
Speaker 1But like when I've sent you guys a sample last night, I was like, wow, our quality has really gone up video-wise. It's because of the lights.
Speaker 2Wait, it's TikTok the little pieces of orange chicken versus like when you have to eat the big ones.
Speaker 1I hate the big ones.
Speaker 2I just, I don't know why, I was like looking for things that I forgot to write down to talk about, and it's all election stuff, with a couple of those little fun guys sprinkled in.
Speaker 1Oh, I actually have a plant question for you. What did you do with all the plants that were on your patio?
Speaker 2I mean some of them. I brought in some of them. Maybe they're still there, mari. My roommate was like are your plants okay out there? No, I said no, they're not. Oh my god, the fucking vein in your forehead brandon jesus, harry potter literally it's.
Speaker 1I don't have a lightning bolt, I got a v. We're gonna put in a pic of that. Oh my god. No, my mom sent me a birthday card or something I don't know, but it was like about forehead veins and I was like this hits a little too close to home I think it's because you're what is that?
Speaker 2what was that you're taking a breath?
Speaker 1yeah, I no, I breathe really heavy. You can see them when I'm editing the videos. I'm like the way your breaths have a sound note. That's like this Mine are like I don't, I can't, I hate breathing.
Speaker 2It's like me. Wait, why did Heather kicked something and I'm out of frame?
Speaker 1now Heather.
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Speaker 2James, what I'm like not in the camera anymore, because you kicked it kick something. Yes, I think I gotta get home to my cat. Oh my god, relax, okay, taylor we have fucking like eight minutes left. Okay, I think we're good. Now we're great. All of a sudden looked up.
Speaker 1I was like I'm way over here um, it's all right. Sorry, there's a pig in the background um and it's not the one that came to the house to trick-or-treat do you ever listen?
Speaker 2you're losing me, no so so why I keep like being aware of my breathing?
Speaker 1no, my breathe. I don't know how to breathe through my nose when I'm talking. Nebby, the nebby Penetrate.
Speaker 2Penshaw, penshaw. My roommate was like why is that funny? Because I called you to tell you that. And she's like what?
Speaker 1I was going to tell you to turn TikTok off and she didn't realize that I was on the phone.
Speaker 2Um yeah, so sometimes do you ever listen to music and then you just like focus on the breaths yeah love that, love breathing with them. So last thing on my list I'm back at the gym and I hate people and I hate you all. You are all annoying. Y'all need to quit it. Y'all need to lock in and just and stop being annoying at the gym I forgot how horrible they are you guys going on what's going on? Why are they annoying? How are they annoying you?
Speaker 2well first of all, people are just way too up in my business. Well, people come up. If I ever, ever experience branded experiences where people corner him in the locker room, trying Naked, naked, corner Brandon in the locker room and then come up to him and talk to him when he's working, no, I don't think I'm giving off like the vibe in the face?
Speaker 1I'm not either. I assume I'm like in my business glare. I'm not looking at anyone, I'm glaring like well yo.
Speaker 2So this dude pissed me off the other day and I will preface this with I'm not it's not my first time at the gym. Used to go along a lot, a lot, a lot before the pandemic, lost about 80 pounds, gained most of it back. You know, it is what it is. We're gonna insert a pic of that before and after pick. I mean trigger, trigger warning also, because before and after pics used to send me into a like I don't want to eat all day spiral and I don't want to do that to y'all. But I did have some nice legs. They were. I miss being muscly so anywho, also my mobility has gone down and I will say, dude, after a week at the gym my knee is already a little bit better and I I hate to say they are.
Speaker 2They are right. Yeah, hate to inform y'all. So this dude at the gym the other day was like I wanted to go to the okay, so to get up. Do you know the machine where, hi, where you put your leg on the back and you're like pushing, it's the glute machine oh, yeah, yeah so there's.
Speaker 1There's one glute machine in this plan of fitness I got one attached and everyone at a fucking planet fitness thinks that's a one machine they need to use yep, and this dude is hopping.
Speaker 2I can tell because I'm kind of like sussing out, like okay, is he done there. He's going from this, that machine to this machine, to that machine, back Back to it. You need to be at one. You cannot take up three machines where it's the only machine of that thing.
Speaker 1I will say that's why I pay so much for my gym membership Because people don't do that at all.
Speaker 2Brandon goes to Lifetime because he's fancy and likes to waste his money.
Speaker 1Like we've said, Well, I used to not waste it because I would do like five to six classes a week.
Speaker 2No, and Brandon. Then you recently did the math and you were like, oh my God, I barely go. I mean, it was like 15 days a month, that's like every other day.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2But you're like in your head thinking you go more than that, yeah.
Speaker 1I was thinking I was going 25 days a month minimum more than that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I was thinking I was going 25 days a month minimum. Apparently not. I'm a lazy piece of shit, so that was really pissing me off and I was like, oh my god, everywhere I go, someone is in the someone.
Speaker 2As I'm approaching the machine, someone interjects yeah or intercepts, heather um, and gets in what I said some jacks and I said they intercept. Are you saying I interrupt a lot? No, it's a football reference. Wait, let me tell my fantasy. Heather is all about the football and she's like you guys, I can't produce the podcast today. I have a cat and about her football, he, he skips the snaps where she's talking about football. He's like I don't care what's going on, heather, what's the update?
Speaker 1I mean joe burrow is having too good of a game right now and that is um yeah I've heard the name joe, is this the Vikings?
Speaker 2No he plays for the Cincinnati. Bengals Okay so who are the two teams you're watching right?
Speaker 1now.
Speaker 2Well, I'm not watching any team, but like but like who's playing that you're checking on right now. Last time.
Speaker 1I checked he only had 11 points. Now he has almost 18 points, but that's fine.
Speaker 2I don't want to forever so I'm gonna shut up now. So every time I'm trying to go over to an area like I just want to stretch and the ridgedale mall plane of fitness does not really have good stretching area at all, no, some of the other ones have like a whole dedicated space for it.
Speaker 2This one, not so much the one I will say the biggest, most spacious one is the one right by my house here and by the by nortel mall, the one up there, yeah, so not the one down in like um here and by the, the by Nortel mall, the one up there, yeah, so not the one down in like Columbia Heights, the.
Speaker 1Columbia Heights one is small, but it's nice. Where this one's shitty, but it's huge.
Speaker 2Is it huger than the Roseville one? I'm trying to figure out the best one to go to. Y'all they all. I like them for different reasons. Hate them.
Speaker 1I like the rosedale, one in the day, because you can squat in the sun like in the morning, and the sun is hitting you I don't really give a fuck about that but I don't like the people at the rosedale one yeah, well, I like plaintiff fitness and I can say this there's an equal amount of fatties and buff people yeah
Speaker 2I like that because when I travel and there's not a lifetime, I gotta go to the planet other day it was all buff people, all a bunch of buff guys, about a bunch of high schoolers too, and I was like what are you doing here? And it was the day I wore my shorts, I had no other choice, and I was like god the best planet I've ever been to was that one in st louis when we were there. Oh yeah, you were like oh my god, that one was magical.
Speaker 2What are you looking at? Heather's like trying to look in the camera.
Speaker 1I edited it out of last episode, but there was a scene where Heather lifted her foot into the camera and then spread her toes.
Speaker 2I thought you kept it in. I wasn't looking for it, not intentionally. No.
Speaker 1You were obviously stretching like a cat, but there were toes for free.
Speaker 2Which, by the way, now I take pictures of people's feet at work. I work at first. Okay, for context, I work at a very nice nail salon, y'all um, and we post a lot of nail pictures on the gram, a lot of cool nail art, but we don't have any like pedicure content, like because people pay for that so I have okay. No, I'm not putting in. Stop writing that down, I'm not putting in people's feet pictures ringworm. Now, what does feet pictures have to do with ringworm?
Speaker 1I honestly with my cat having worms. It's just this needs to be edited out. I was no, it's not wait how did you?
Speaker 2how did, how did I get ringworm? Yes, from a, a client at the cause I think that, cause we did have this one client who was like hey, hey, I have a ringworm, Should I come in and we were like no, give me 14 more, Come on in no. We were like how about no? And I don't know if the chair just didn't get wiped down, cause she did end up coming in a week later.
Speaker 2Sure, if it was gone, because she said her cat had it too, she gave to her cat dude the way I could not touch my cats for like a hot minute and every time they tried to rub up on me because where I had ringworm was like around my ankles and shit and my cats. I was like I cannot afford three vet visits wait, so she just came in, sat on a chair and then all of a sudden you got ringworm.
Speaker 2So here's the thing um, we, we didn't have her come in. She came in like I think like a week or two later and I don't know if she just still had it or what. And I'm assuming this is where I got it because I didn't know anybody else was ringworm. My cats did not have ringworm, so I had to, I think, have gotten it from work, which we pride ourselves on our cleanliness. But I think that the client chair got forgotten to, didn't get wiped down or something.
Speaker 2And this is around the time where our desk chairs, like at the front desk, were getting broken so we were having to borrow a chair from one of the artist stations. So I went and grabbed that chair because it's the closest that station where she sat at, it's the closest one to the desk. So I grabbed it, sat in it, because part of where I had it was like in the crease behind my leg and I had one very high up on the back of my leg and then I had one here and one here and around my ankle and it was god, it was fucking awful and itchy, um, and I remember this is around the time I was moving.
Speaker 2I was moving while I had ringworm and it was the heat and like dead middle of summer and the end of summer when it's really hot, and I was having to change my clothes like 10 times a day because it was hot hot. It was hot and I was like, oh my god, you know what makes a ringworm worse when you're hot and sweaty. So I was trying to stay clean, was like using my ointment, like yeah, it was a whole thing.
Speaker 1And Heather, do you know? Ringworm is not a worm.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's not a worm, it's just what do you? Mean it's called ringworm this at your big age it's technically a fungal infection.
Speaker 1It's a fungal infection.
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Speaker 2It's not. It yeah, because when I called the doctor and she was like okay, first of all, I want you to know that this has nothing to do with worms.
Speaker 1You know that right, and I was like no, I know, I didn't know that no ringworm like what your cat has, that has actual worms, roundworms, roundworm. I had ringworm that's.
Speaker 2This is a why, do they call it? I don't know. Ask them. Do you see my confusion? Yes, I see your confusion, but I thought that was common sense because I was like if you could just get it from like touching a surface, like I for sure I'm getting this from my cat- well your cat has a round worm yeah which is actual worms correct.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay I don't know all this I don't think lisa will be happy that I say this, but she told me when she was a kid she had brown worm and she said it was horrific, the most horrifying thing that's ever happened to her. Okay so I'll know.
Speaker 2Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1You're shitting worms, they are blasting out your ass. I would like you to stop it right what.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what the fucking vet said would happen to your cat. No, but I ain't looking at it. That's what the fucking vet said. What happened to your cat that was that you scoop it twice a day.
Speaker 1You're not like pushing it apart I wash my hands till they're raw like oh yeah I'm putting when I changed the litter box I was like, wow, I'm just rubbing faces with mingy, I don't care if she has worms and nothing happened, nothing happened to me okay, okay, take.
Speaker 2Maybe that needs to be our shot for the day, for this episode is every time someone says okay, james no, that that would be from wendy williams.
Speaker 1This one has been. This has lasted a while. For me they usually don't. Okay, I'll find a new one next episode. Okay, moving right along, uh we're talking about the gym.
Speaker 2How did that get to ringworm?
Speaker 1oh, well, you can get ringworm.
Speaker 2Oh, I was talking oh yeah, hell yeah, I swear it was a.
Speaker 1You can get really bad contact dermatitis from the gym, especially those. Okay, this is. I have a few gym tips for people. Whether you're a guy, girl, doesn't matter.
Speaker 2Wear shower shoes or a person? No shit, there's more than two genders. Who is walking around barefoot at a gym?
Speaker 1So many people. That is the most disgusting thing.
Speaker 2In the showers.
Speaker 1I have seen shower drains stuffed with shit. Stop it With people poop the shower, stop it. And mind you, as a gay man who is a bottom, I deal with a lot of shower shit on my own terms. But people are doing it at the gym and just like shitting and then they're waffle stomping into the drain. Wait, are they douching?
Speaker 2That's what's going on right?
Speaker 1No, I'm sure they're just having a bowel movement in the shower.
Speaker 2No one does that. They do. I've seen it three times.
Speaker 1I've seen shit on the walls because now we're gonna start getting snapchats of shit and I have seen shit on the walls three times and I have seen shit stuffed into the drain three times, to the point where I walked into a shower and I was like, wow, this does not smell good. And then I look down and I was like, because it's like a long strip drain, I was like that entire drain is filled with shit, filled with shit, brown goop to the top. And so I go to the shower across and then I see another guy get in and then he goes. You know what? I see him Barefoot and then he goes. You know what? I see him like barefoot.
Speaker 1I can't. They're frosted, so I can like barely see him. It's like frosted glass, frosted glass. But I can like see body movements and I just see him like, and I can tell he was like there's shit in this drain and he decided to keep on showering. He said I'm going to finish the shower and then I'm going to tell the people. And then, after he got out of the shower, he went because I was doing a dolphin shower, so I was shaving everything. So I was in there for a while, a dolphin shower, and so then, so you're shaving, your pores are exposed, there's poop running rampant through the water.
Speaker 2I got out of that shower. Pay attention, Heather Lock in.
Speaker 1But anyway. So guy gets out of the shower that has a poop and the guy the poor fucking employees have to go deal with the guys having sex, deal with the shit in the shower drains. They have to take off the drain and they are scooping it with, like the towels.
Speaker 2I and I'm they don't have a pooper scooper by then well, because they're like skinny little drains.
Speaker 1The only way to get in there is with, like the gym towels, and they are literally like scraping it out. There's so much shit, so much shit.
Speaker 2So you've never seen, I have never seen this.
Speaker 1I don't shower at the gym. I've showered at many a gym and never in my life Women are less disgusting than men.
Speaker 2Men are just filthy, girls are kind of gross, but I don't think girls are shit like that.
Speaker 1Wear shower shoes in the locker room. It's disgusting. Don't use those squishy things for squatting. You know, like they like pad your shoulders. You know you put them on the bars, like the little okay cushions because you can get irreversible contact dermatitis. I know someone who got a contact dermatitis. That is not treatable. You have it for the rest of your life. Gyms are disgusting.
Speaker 2So I'm wearing a thick t-shirt every day.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm never going to the gym. So, I'll use that little squishy thing when I'm wearing. I'll use it for, like, where you put the bar here and you thrust, hip thrust, hip thrust.
Speaker 2but I won't let that touch my skin you can touch my clothes, not my skin okay, yeah, I'm wearing full leggings or sweatpants and full sweatshirt to the gym now literally it's gross well, maybe that's why people wipe it down before they sit, because I why I clean it well after I'm done.
Speaker 1You should before and after.
Speaker 2Yeah, I think I need to be cleaning before and after. Because people I know some of you fuckers just like get up and you walk away and you're like you don't see a snail trail. So you're like, all right, I'm just going to move on.
Speaker 1You're just dehydrated. You're still gross. Why is everybody looking at me?
Speaker 2You're still gross. Why is everybody looking at me? Because you looked confused. Do you not know what a snail trail is? Yes, I know what a snail trail is. Okay, from like a woman's body.
Speaker 1Yes, from a crevasse.
Speaker 2Yeah, from a crevasse. Yeah, crevasse, I mean Brayden. You sit there for a while. You probably leave a little snail trail.
Speaker 1Huge, I've seen them. I leave aspirants, full aspirants, two bouncy balls sitting on the bench okay, that might be our fucking cue anyway. Oh, we have a five-star review. Where's my phone? I? I pulled it up and we're back.
Speaker 2God, this microphone stinks. We got to remember to wash these take them off immediately upon done being done filming.
Speaker 1Um, I don't know if I took a screenshot, and even if I did, I don't know if I'll be able to find it, so we're just gonna go right to the podcast, and okay. So if you uh have not written us a five-star review on apple, please go do that so we can read it on the pod, like we are right now. Um, also give us a five-star review on spotify. You can only do a little five-star, but you can go into an episode and leave a comment and I do occasionally check the comments, so we can, we, we can also read your uh spotify comments on the pod as well.
Speaker 2Uh, anyway, let me pull up, he's still trying bing bing, bing, bing bing okay okay here we go.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, okay, okay. So this is all right, shut up. Yeah, that one.
Speaker 2When I did that earlier I was like okay, this is going, this is enough.
Speaker 1Okay, so this is from uh bees botanics is that b from like houston b? Anyway, I don't think so, but maybe somebody else all right, shout out, shout out the. The title is I thought I was gonna die. Dot, dot dot oh god I seriously love the podcast so much and I love you guys so much. I was so sad my phone is doing something really weird. What is it doing?
Speaker 2how about you just read it?
Speaker 1what is that doing? Why?
Speaker 2I don't know what you're doing.
Speaker 1There's a rainbow on the outside of my phone. Anyway, okay, um, I was so sad when you took a break because I need a podcast on like 24-7 and this is one of my faves. It's a perfect amount of plantiness and banter that makes me feel like I'm hanging out with friends. Yay, thank you for the five-star review, thank you. So, yeah, leave a five-star review or a comment on Spotify and we will read it on the pod.
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Speaker 1Wait, oh, I didn't know. The buttons changed.
Speaker 2Anyway.
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Speaker 2All right, brandon, where can people find you on the?
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Speaker 2And what's Heather's? I forgot how to say your life. We don't need to go there. Okay, bye, bye, you.
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