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Tequila, Thongs & the Gecko Challenge
They should invent a week in November that doesn’t drain the life out of you - from pink Christmas Trees to piles of laundry, are we all simultaneously drowning AND bringing heaps of holiday magic to the masses. It’s been awhile since we had a catch up session - we’ve celebrated two kids birthdays, taken a trip to Florida, a trip to NYC, hosted a color run and adopted a gecko. What. Is. Happening.
David S Pumpkins - welcome to the family. An 8 inch gecko with a tiny bit of Stockholm syndrome as he drives a Barbie car, and wears a beret in his first weeks of adoption. I mean - he’s got a treadmill in the form of a lazy susan … and 30 days ago we weren’t even he was joining us. Just when you think these kids can’t break the iPad addiction - they never like they’ve never befored. And we’re not done there. We tackle one of life’s most existential north vs south questions. Is it PEE-can or Pe-CAHN? Help.
Which one of us is headed to a costume party for everyone’s favorite holiday movie - Christmas Vacation? And which Christmas movie is your favorite? While we’re at the crossroads of wild situations we’ve gotten ourselves into, have you ever had to bear the shame of wearing the paper thong? Be. Honest. One of us is a frequent flyer and one is a newbie - but both beg the question … never have I ever? Er …
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I know you have your beautiful background with your gorgeous Christmas tree and I am legitimately. I mean I can see your garland and stuff. You can see my garland, but what you don't see is legit. I mean look at this, look at these piles of laundry.
Speaker 2:Oh, I mean, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1:What are you going to do? I feel like my dining room table is just like what was the thing?
Speaker 2:that I posted today. Jewels, wreaths ornaments, lunch boxes. What was the thing I posted? Oh, they should invent a week in November that doesn't drain the life out of you.
Speaker 2:What the hell is going on, I don't know. I will tell you this though we're going to back up to this boy, this sweet girl, whatever you want to call her. This is the one that I got at Michael's. My friend, amy the fighter, said Michael's has the best Christmas trees. I didn't have any. Yes, she was right, I wanted a pink tree, but they all look like Barbie pink, which isn't necessarily my choice. Yeah, this is a rosy pink. I love it, and when I bought it it's actually rose gold, and then it's flocked with pink snow. You know, I live for a flock, that's why it's like has this rosy hue? Then I bought white snow and then I flocked it again with white. And then Cindy came and she bought one also for her house. It's in the kitchen now Same exact one.
Speaker 1:I feel like I would pay you to come decorate my Christmas trees for me.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I would do it, absolutely yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I think, did you see that real Cause I think you liked it of that mom who like gets all the Christmas stuff out and then she just like sits down on the floor and like just gives up? Cause, that's where I'm at, yes, that's where I'm at.
Speaker 2:I will go till my back is breaking and then I'll promise myself like a little treat, like new nails or something like that, um, some kind of something, you know whatever it is. But I like Cindy definitely went and got. She like really really thought hard about it. I think she was afraid of like what my family would say. But she has it and all of her glass and silver ornaments are on it in her kitchen. She loves it.
Speaker 1:Oh, I love that. Speaking of Cindy, how is your church? So we have lived a million lives since you and I recorded last together. It was just us, because we had two guests, no, and so I want to say it was like, oh my god, it's been like mid-october.
Speaker 2:I know you've been like literally like to taylor swift. I've been living a whole life with a puppy. You, you have a new thing. We have so much to catch up on this is a catch up episode for sure.
Speaker 2:I want to tell you one thing that Cindy said and I posted about her today, and this is like a separate thing. But also two people have said this to me recently, and it is actually one of my all time favorite compliments. Both of them said that my apartment is very romantic, and I don't know why. The other person was a girl too. It was Taco Bell, but she was like it's so romantic in here and I was like I love that you said that that's so good.
Speaker 1:I don't even know if I would like know what romantic looks like, but I feel like it's just very welcoming, like I feel like it's like dark and there's overhead lighting.
Speaker 2:Then I was like I don't know. I mean, there's a pink tree, there's like birds in the bathroom.
Speaker 1:Like a loved, loved, safe space to be. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Romantic is the word, and I was like I am so into this, I love that. I love that how was your trip, because romantic myself was my goal.
Speaker 1:How was your trip with your?
Speaker 2:mama, it was good we actually got some like solo time. We went to basically like it's Amelia Island or right off of Amelia Island, and the town there looks like something out of a Hallmark movie and there's like literally a Christmas ornament store. So you know, we did that. Of course, I got Cindy into the tequila the night before birthday.
Speaker 2:I hate tequila boy? No, I don't. First of all, I love it and, of course, like, tequila is an upper. It's the only alcohol that is an upper. It's the only alcohol that's an upper. So, if I'm going to get somebody into something, yeah, fun fact it's an upper, it's the only option. So, like, it's a good choice if you don't necessarily know what you're getting yourself into. But we went to mostly we just ate seafood. We're big seafood people. That's why I love Charleston. My mom wouldn't eat raw oysters.
Speaker 1:I was like come on, sandy, you don't know what you're missing out on.
Speaker 2:then she like convinced me something bad was gonna happen. I was like fine, we're just not gonna do in this trip because I don't want to be like hugging a porcelain bowl that I don't normally hug, but like okay, um, but there was this like authentic mexican place and it was so good, so fresh, and that's where we got into she a rose petals in her margarita, it was like rose water and all kinds of like magic, what I know.
Speaker 1:It was her birthday.
Speaker 2:It was her birthday on the 7th.
Speaker 1:Oh, happy birthday, Cindy it was fun.
Speaker 2:I got her a bunch of my favorite things, including the Mary Poppins bag. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:I'm obsessed. I took it with me to, it went to Miami and it went to New York. I love it. I know we're going to have to link it again, Cause I can't. I mean, I literally call it my clown car bag.
Speaker 2:Oh, one of our, angela, the one of our listeners that I just like love, got it in black. She was like it's so good.
Speaker 1:I want the, the bright, like the brown one, like the camel looking one. Yeah, it's so good. So you had fun on your trip.
Speaker 2:So yes, since I've seen you I wore my thong bikini shut up every day. I didn't wear. I brought like 17 swimsuits and I only I was like you know what, if I'm gonna, I knew you would laugh at this. I should link this like if I'm gonna lay out and I'm not gonna know anyone and it's going to be all old people, I'm getting naked yeah, I mean, they rock a speedo, why not do it? And my poor mom what did she say?
Speaker 2:First of all she um, she really didn't say anything and I was like messing with her. Like the first day I was like I just can never figure out which one is the back or the front because, like the, it really is like that in this one it's the same loud, lay them flat. I sent the picture to my sister and I was like which do you think she goes? I think you just go for it, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, listen, I would not have any issue going to a topless beach, my same, I feel like they need some.
Speaker 2:We're going to end up having to scratch this right from the rip, but I also feel like I don't need the wettest butt cheeks ever.
Speaker 1:No, I hate it. Listen, you know my motto you tan it. Everything looks better tan, I know, and I can't take that glowing orb anywhere. So what? Listen, I can't even lay naked in my house because my dad loves a pop in and I would sooner die than my father seeing my naked butt laying up on my floor.
Speaker 2:Let's do it like next summer, like early in the spring, and you can just text him and be like, hey, rebecca is coming over and she only wears inappropriate swimsuits. I need you to stay away.
Speaker 1:And then he will for sure come then.
Speaker 2:No, yes, he would away, and then you will for sure come then. No, no, I wouldn't know. I want him to not come, and then we can just lay out and get extra tan before the real season starts. We gotta tan them tushies. Baby jenny, we're gonna send him on vacation just so we can use your dang pool seriously I mean I have never.
Speaker 1:We've had the pool now four years and I I've never been able to be topless or naked out by the pool.
Speaker 2:There is no way I would not be texting that man to tell him I need you to just— I'm going to need you to stay away.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I need you to put a sock on the mailbox or something Like don't come down. I mean seriously.
Speaker 2:Sun's out guns out.
Speaker 1:Sun's out guns out. So you did that. I Sun's out guns out, sun's out guns out. So you did that. I went to Taylor, which was amazing. But Miami was amazing. I know I'm a fan, I'm a big fan. We should go and lay out topless. I mean, I'm telling you, and it is so bougie down there, all these sports cars and everybody, everybody's like rushing. We're in these like fancy clothes, everybody's got like facelifts and like lips done and hair and jewels, and I'm like.
Speaker 2:I loved it that is so fun. It was so fun we didn't have like a hotel stay where we don't leave, we don't drive anywhere, we just like drink at the hotel bar and at the pool and we just like park a car and just let me walk.
Speaker 1:That is my favorite kind of thing, I just want to park.
Speaker 2:I don't want to like, I just want to walk around I'm a walker.
Speaker 1:That was us in new york, so we went to new york last weekend a lot. I can't even remember we flew up for a show because tickets are not expensive. To fly up to new york was it last weekend well, weekend before this weekend it was yesterday. Yeah, I know We've done a lot of living since we've seen each other, literally.
Speaker 2:I was thinking about it yesterday and I was like I've had someone's birthday Halloween. The last three weeks has been a blur. Okay, so you went to New York.
Speaker 1:Yeah, new York was amazing. We went and saw Death Becomes Her. I don't know if you've seen that movie. No, I'm not even surprised. Boozy is really upset that you haven't seen it.
Speaker 2:Boozy needs to worry about where he's eating peanut butter. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Boozy, come on. So it's Death Becomes Her. It's this movie from like the 90s. It's with Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn and Bruce Willis. It is a comedy, oh wait.
Speaker 2:And Bruce Willis? It is a comedy. Oh wait, I didn't think it was a comedy.
Speaker 1:It was a comedy. We saw it on Broadway. It just opened in October. It is, hands down, I have seen a lot of theater in my day the best show I have ever seen. Really, who was it? Just people like Michelle, people that you probably wouldn't know by name. It was phenomenal. Hilary and I like our face hurt. We were like laughing. It was just so freaking good. I love, I love theater and yeah, we were, you know, walked everywhere and ate all the things and did all the things and I'm tired.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go back Really bad sentence before Halloween, Like I'm thinking about, like all of the things that have gone on and I'm like, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:That's why we need a ketchup sesh. I know, Tani's back in his crate. What do you have?
Speaker 2:He is back in his crate. I would have his butt in the crate so fast I would do twice.
Speaker 1:Tani has eaten so many things.
Speaker 2:He literally is begging.
Speaker 1:He's saying to you that he's overstimulated and needs his butt back in his crate. And you know what he's thriving. He's thriving.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you you don't need to feel bad about it. He, that child, is losing his mind.
Speaker 1:Losing his marbles. We have I mean I'm talking shoes vents. He jumped up on the counter, got the tub of peanut. Did you see that one? I saw him at just at lowes.
Speaker 2:I was getting Christmas lights when he was replacing the vent. The tiny eight I like oh my god, yeah, how's brett doing.
Speaker 2:She's doing so good. She's such a good girl, she like literally I'm like amazed by her. She we're still working on potty training, but it's getting so much better. But she, like, she knows like even in the middle of the night like she'll wake up around like one and have to go back out, but then she can get in my bed and she will like this morning she didn't, she was making a big fuss about having to get up, she did not. She knows that if you just hold it and if you just stay there, you can stay there for like a really long time. And all yesterday she slept almost the entire day on the couch. I was like this girl fits right in, she gets right in oh.
Speaker 2:I'm so surprised. I'm so surprised she's like not naughtier. I'm like she definitely gets into mischief. But I try to like treat her like I treat the girls Like I don't yell unless I'm being real serious. Like parking lots. So like for her it's the trees and the furniture, the rest. Like parking lots, so like for her it's the trees and the furniture, the rest of this. But if you touch that couch or you touch that treadmill, I will scare the shit out of you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I don't want to do it again well, and I same kind of with tony, like I'll catch him mid something and I'll fuss at him. But then he's so sensitive, you know, because he's God, he just I feel terrible, I know.
Speaker 2:I think that's what they need. They're workers. Dogs are meant to work. They need direction, they need all the things.
Speaker 1:I know I feel bad, but yeah, so he's back in the crate and we have a new pet. Did I talk about this? You did not think she could do it. Huh, I did not think she could do it. You did not think she could do it. So, clark, did I mean? It started out innocently enough. It really did. It was like we were sitting here having a glass of wine like night and night.
Speaker 2:I'm like she was just Was it a Friday, because I feel like I overcommit a lot on Fridays. I feel good it weeks done. I come from a paid by somebody. I'm coming from a deeper place of yes, there's a movie on. We've had a takeout dinner. I didn't make it, I love.
Speaker 1:Friday Jenny she's my fave, but she comes from a deep place of yes. Yes, so, and I think it was one of those things, just like it's the addiction to the iPad and it just, I don't know, it just hit me, it made you angry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I didn't love it, and so I was like all right, I'm going to make you a deal, because they would not stop talking about the lizards and the geckos they saw at Repticon, which you know. I don't do that because I don't do snakes. You already. No, I don't do snakes. You've already lost me repticon, john right. And so I was like all right, I'll make you a deal 31 days, no ipad, you can get a gecko easy enough, right, but he's like big.
Speaker 1:He's like what she measured him last night. He's like eight inches. So she whooped my ass, did this challenge, tossed the ipad like it was a hot potato and she freaking did it. And I'll be damned if I don't have an eight inch gecko living upstairs in my home now. I have eaten so much crow. He's driving the Barbie car. He's got hats on oh, I have one with the beret. We put a beret on him last night. So at first I was like I don't want this damn thing Because they jump and like do all this stuff? Do they jump?
Speaker 2:No, he doesn't Just send it to me. It's like it's glaring backwards.
Speaker 1:We pose him in all these things. Clark asked me to send him up in Instagram. He doesn't care if you pose him. No, that's what I'm saying. He's the most mellow gecko ever. So now I'm like holding him, letting him cuddle with me on the couch. Yeah, I was like, oh, whoa, we have. I mean, I am like so, yes, his name is David S Pumpkins, and if you don't know what that is from, there's this skit on Saturday Night Live. It's a Halloween skit with Tom Hanks. Is he at?
Speaker 2:his little house.
Speaker 1:That's a.
Speaker 2:Lazy Susan that Clark wanted for him like a treadmill Since his house now. That's normal, right, his house now.
Speaker 1:And so, yeah, david S Pumpkins is his name, and we set him up in all kinds of different poses, and here I'll send you a picture of him doing his laps on the lazy system he did some days.
Speaker 1:Yes, I'm so surprised, I know, and like you should bring. Actually, clark was pissed that you weren't coming over. She was like, oh, y'all are recording Rebecca's coming over with the girls. She's like, oh, I can't wait to show him David Pumpkins. I'm like not today. She's like, oh man, I want y'all to come over. But I mean, he's so cute and chill and he just like hangs out and so surprised. I know me too. So now I have a gecko and I have learned that my daughter is a lot more stubborn than I am. So yeah, that'll be fun in the teenage years.
Speaker 2:Oh, I listen, we have that big time, but only with one of mine, Summit. No, what Really? If Summit actually puts her foot down, she really means it. Pilot will choose just about anything. Okay, it's just different. Like I mean Summit, like it will literally be rare and she really is not going to budge when Pilot and I like get after each other at least once a week. We have like a moment where I'm like I know you didn't just talk to me like that, oh yeah, and I'm like it's just whatever. Like I never get that from Summit.
Speaker 2:She's way more empathetic and way more, I mean Pilot's very empathetic. It's just like somebody comes from like a really deep, sensitive like place. Yeah, so pilot's sensitive, but she's like I told I have a quote. I'm like I have two daughters. They're both fragile. One is fragile like a flower and one is fragile like a bomb and pi pi is fragile like a flower. It could be anything. She's like these are my nuggets. This isn't the way we do them. Is this cheese different? Oh god, like I only buy one kind of cheese, she goes. I don't. Something about this is different. Yesterday the milk was different.
Speaker 1:I'm like my daughter lived off of pizza rolls last summer until one day she had one that she thought tasted different.
Speaker 2:She said it was cursed and she's never eaten them again this is how I understand this, though, like I, if I this is me with chicken or anything. Like if I, if, if something touches my tongue or tooth and I think for a second they could be beans and like one isn't cooked randomly or just like status stone, I'm out, done. I'm never like you have lost me.
Speaker 1:I cannot you let me order octopus, the last meal we had together.
Speaker 2:I told that story actually in the last 48 hours, did you? Yes, I was. Where was I? Oh, I was at friend's giving and's. Okay, I'm not going to name the restaurant Well, we could talk about yours. But the Friends went to another restaurant owned by that group. It didn't go. Bueno, oh my gosh, you should have gone to this one. And I was like man last time, like I got a little like flipped out, like Jenny ordered the octopus and it just came out as one giant tentacle and I was like my fucking teeth are sweating, like I don't think I can eat that but you did you were like it's not gonna be chewy, and I was like it's your birthday.
Speaker 2:If it is, you will lose all of my trust. Actually, it was wonderful, but it I think about how hard that was for me all the time.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean clearly, I remember.
Speaker 2:It was. I was smiling, but I was giving you the I like. If you fuck this up, you are never going to impress again.
Speaker 1:So you really trust me because you eat my pocketbook gum and you eat squid when I take it.
Speaker 2:The octopus was way like. I eat calamari. I eat raw oysters. I want the people to know I'm very like I eat the freaking seaweed snacks from Costco. I'm pretty open-minded for food. The freaking seaweed snacks from Costco. I'm pretty open-minded for food. But that tentacle across the plate with the suction cups facing us got in my mind. I like really almost lost it. It was delicious. You know I have a mouth thing. My teeth were sweating. I was really panicking. I was like I don't know.
Speaker 1:What else have you done? I feel like you've done something. Oh, you had color on.
Speaker 2:God bless America.
Speaker 1:How many more?
Speaker 2:I feel like you've been green for like four years. Since day one we started this, I have been go, go green, and so now it's just like and when green gets here, like this time, I just got added to the group and I was like hi guys, you look cute. Thanks. I added um more things, although this year the morning was really cold so I couldn't take my sweatshirt off, so you couldn't see my fringe, but I did buy a brand new fringe body suits. It was out there in my body for the pep rally, which has a whole skit, and then actually everything got moved around because of the rain. The dance party is this Friday, so I'll be there for two hours for the dance party. But, um, let's just talk about it's like getting hit by a bus. I love it. There are listeners who go to our school. It is so much exhausting, so much work. My forearms are burning. My hands still hurt from shooting color for six toes, like it's like a pedicure won't fix it, it's like stained. Yes, I know, off the kids.
Speaker 1:But you looked adorable and you looked like you had fun.
Speaker 2:I know the other thing too. Here's the thing You're not just shooting color. This is what Summer and I were talking about, because Summer had Friendsgiving the next day. You are bringing magic and joy six hours or five hours with the kids, and so you're like smiling and your face hurts and you're yelling and they're yelling and they're.
Speaker 1:You know, the kindergartners are out there being a cheerleader, because that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2:Well, and they're, the kindergartners are out there and they're it's their first year in school. They've been here for two months. They're just tripping balls. They're just like wow, like they're my favorite thing. I mean, they got their gator up over their eyes. Or just walking around, I was like sir, we got to go see your eyes or you're going to hurt your friends. And they're like tripping over each other and they're like holding it in their hands and, like you know, they're like put it on my head and then they tilt their head backwards and you accidentally pour it directly in their mouth. You know, like what you just said, put it in my hair and then they literally go like this. I did that to at least two. I was like you got to keep your head forward.
Speaker 2:You want it in your hair so fun, I can't.
Speaker 1:We are in this season of magic and joy. I know we really are, so then we had to go through it too.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's why we're so tired. What? Maybe that's why we're so tired, I know Well, we are brining. This is why I swear to God, though I at least I'm going to say no less than 10 people, fools, fools have come into my DMs over the early setup. They Fools, fools, have come into my DMs over the early setup. They're just making fun, but they're definitely going to wait until Thanksgiving, and at least three of them are men, and I'm sure I can tell you, first of all must be nice that you're holding the fam back, because I'm telling you right now your wife's already exhausted to do all this and then walk through the threshold of Thanksgiving and then Christmas and have to do it at that same time.
Speaker 2:Putting the tree up breaks my back. It hurts so bad. Oh my gosh, it's tiring, it's so tiring. And then one of our it was one of the twins messaged me. I can't remember which one it was at this point, so don't kill me which twin ever it is, but they were like. I used to be a firm believer in. The tree does not go up until Thanksgiving dinner is done. And now I put it up the first week of November and you are exactly right, it is almost impossible to enjoy it. Oh for sure. Slamming all of that into four weeks.
Speaker 1:It is for sure. Slamming all of that into four weeks, it is well. And then you've got like and it for. I think for us it's like we know we have like all the school stuff, so it's like I need to get this done so I can enjoy it. And then two drinks.
Speaker 2:We do the festival of lights. Like how are you planning on doing?
Speaker 1:all this, that's what I'm saying. Like nate's dad comes in town next week and like that's the kickoff.
Speaker 2:Like a turkey tastes the same with the lights on. The turkey is the same, absolutely.
Speaker 1:And, by the way, oh, I skipped all fall, like there's no fall placemats for thanksgiving, there's no fall nut. We are full-blown christmas in this house. Did you no reason for it? We what? The videos from last night from nate. He worked from 7 30. It's beautiful, thank you. He worked from 7 30 in the morning yesterday to like almost dark last night.
Speaker 2:He worked really off. It's so much work yeah he.
Speaker 1:So he does all of that. Then I was like, well, that's good, we can do the inside next weekend. He's like, oh my God, enough, enough, but I'm getting my real tree. I just passed Oakland.
Speaker 2:They're here. They're putting it up. This morning I went after yoga to get a Starbucks and I was going to text you. The tent is up. It's empty, but they are getting ready for you.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited. I'm so excited. I love a tree. But I'm back to your November, where we started with this whole conversation. Back to your November quote.
Speaker 2:I mean we have one week. That's literally not like we had Summit's birthday in October. Halloween in and of itself is a whole thing. Did I tell you I won an award at the costume party I went to? I saw it on your.
Speaker 1:Instagram.
Speaker 2:You looked adorable. Thanks, I was so excited I didn't try anything on like literally didn't try anything on until right before I left. So I thought of you. I was like please, please, god, be good to me and my. I always wear tights with my halloween costume because I just feel like it's like a cut. I don't know. The dancer in me is like we gotta put the tights on. Yeah, for the tights, um, but my shade was like a little off this year, so my legs like don't look tan. I was like whatever taylor's so embarrassing, but I don't even care. But I was like I won best individual costume, which is funny, a because it's all couples. So I had to come up with like something hysterical, which is why I picked sex in the city, sarah jessica, because I was like I'm a new yorker who's the most single girl in new york and so like that's like how I. It was like a fun play on words, like just you know I was addicted to that show.
Speaker 1:I still am addicted to that show.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know. And so then it's at Susan Riley's house, who you probably know. She's amazing. They're big Bills fans. Brooke Nesbitt, who I just adore, is there. Her husband does the MC for all the awards and I'm just telling you this is another. Like this goes back to the romantic thing. It's like my friends were all in on it because he was like this costume, cause there was like six, five or six awards. He's like got the single most votes out of any costume in the entire thing, so that's like all the awards combined and my friends were like screaming so they like all voted for me, which was like so fun. And then Brooke was like best individual costume. It's best individual. And I was like Brooke, I just love you, like she's just like I just love her. And so like I like have the bottle of wine up in my cabinet with the award like hanging off of it, I'm like I'm never drinking that bottle, never, never.
Speaker 1:So funny. I love that. I can't believe we're just now catching up on Halloween and it's like well, this is what I was going to tell you.
Speaker 2:She is having a Christmas vacation party and we had to take part. You have to dress in costume and we had to pick parts.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, uncle Lewis, no, with the toupee and the cigar. Oh my gosh, jesus Bethany, did the room clear out.
Speaker 2:Presents. She means presents you shouldn't have brought presents.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I cannot Do. You have your outfit.
Speaker 2:I bought a suit, jacket and a tie and I need some silver rings and I don't know what I'm going to do about my hat, but I have watched it two times and I'm practicing my lines.
Speaker 1:You're going to have to get a toupee. Her aunt is Aunt Bethany. Oh my gosh, I love this for you.
Speaker 2:like you should go like, full on, like, just like the side, like and the bald cap I was thinking about just doing it up into like a curly bun and like almost making it like pushing it forward like a toupee do the curls. I wanted to get like a little crappy hat and like cut the top off and paint it like a little black. That's hilarious, I know, I'm like I there. So there are like three clarks. There's like a couple costumes wait, like there's three of them like the main characters. Uncle louis, I feel like I could be like amazing, so I took it. I love that for you, cousin eddie, in the swimsuit that was available.
Speaker 1:I actually was going to peg you for Cousin Eddie.
Speaker 2:The other ones that I was ready for, the Speedo I wasn't ready to bring back to the neighborhood because she lives in my old neighborhood, but that was the only Eddie that was left. You can wear your song. There was the mom, but only the one in the black Christmas sweater and I was like I don't really want to wear like a black sweater. I feel like you're gonna be so good, uncle Lewis, I'm so excited. Had you seen the movie before that? Like Christmas Vacation's my favorite, is it okay? Yes, I'm obsessed with it.
Speaker 1:I'm obsessed with that Jesse Reed's house we have a tradition that we watch that every Thanksgiving like that's, but that's our tradition it's like everybody's favorite.
Speaker 2:I'm telling you you it's her best movie. Yes, whitney watched it. I think her goal was like 25 times last year. She watched it like every day. The goal was something crazy. They watched it so many times last year. I'm obsessed with it. I'll watch it if I'm just having a bad day. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like that with Christmas with the Cranks.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's a good one too. I also love the santa claus.
Speaker 1:I'm not gonna lie like I love the saint nate's. Hey, nate hates tim allen but okay, I'm saying I love tim allen, I'm just saying, like that specific movie I love that movie makes me want to like go get a hot chocolate and live to be a zillion years old oh my gosh, I know I'm telling you we I've had christmas movies on, I don't know, probably three weeks I actually the weather's been kind of like shitty.
Speaker 2:I kind of well, it's been like both, because I do kind of like that it's cool, but it's been like kind of, if it's crappy, I just don't want to have to go anywhere same.
Speaker 1:Remember you texted me the other day. You were like all I want to do is watch Hallmark movies and finish decorating my tree, and I've been like that last week.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I just want to like. I need a good rot day, like in bed. But I actually have an important question for you. Speaking of hot chocolate, I normally do not go to the famous coffee shop whose name will be unnamed, because I'm not a big fan of that, the one that you talk with, the mermaid.
Speaker 1:Yes, gotcha Okay, a listener no I don't.
Speaker 2:You should do the pecan or pecan crunch latte. Okay, which is it? Pecan, it's pecan. Okay, I say pecan, of course you do. You're from New York? Okay, well, we had a glitch the other day at the place and the man goes ma'am, what are you trying to say? And like, I don't even drink the whole because I can't have a lot of sugar, so I have to get a regular latte with almond milk because their almond milk is low sugar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't drink almond milk.
Speaker 2:One pump. Normally a pumpkin spice if I'm going to get something, but she said you should try it. It is wonderful, it's my new pecan crunch latte. No, I just get the almond milk latte with one pump of pecan syrup, but he goes. He literally was like ma'am, what are you trying to say? And I was like pecan, he goes. Sumatra is also coffee. You can't get coffee in coffee. I was like I'm not trying to say Sumatra, what the hell is that Made me pull around. And then he mocked me, he handed it to me.
Speaker 1:He goes with one pump of pecan syrup and I was like he must have been from South Carolina too. Okay, we need to do a poll on this.
Speaker 2:I need to know, because I thought pecan was like sort of rednecky and I'm not saying that to be offensive, I just thought like pecan is like, that's what it sounds like.
Speaker 1:What is what you grow up with? Like it's pecan pie.
Speaker 2:Well, my friend, who's also from the North the one that is the does like is sassy and is really judgmental. Two things from her. She said it's pecan, what are you doing? And I was like dang it. And she's very northern. But also she is obsessed with the massage parlors too.
Speaker 1:How have we not talked about this?
Speaker 2:I do not know, but I, they, we need to. It's next level. I have been twice. Yeah, I got spanked on the way out like I, they literally like why do they get so rough? For the last 11 seconds and like smack you somewhere and then it's like time to go when I leave there the next day I'm like sore, like I've had a really intense workout.
Speaker 1:Yes, they work that shit out.
Speaker 2:Did you only? Have you only done your back, or have you done the feet? I think they did do my feet. I'm telling you she's it's a different chair and it's a different service.
Speaker 1:No, I was laying down. I'm telling you that lady was hanging from the ceiling. Oh, do you think? Her full body.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh no, so, oh no. So I haven't been in the room. I have not gone in the room. Oh yeah, I've gone in the room. I've only been on like the. There's the four chairs that are for your back, and then there's the four chairs that are for your feet. We should go for the foot chair. It is the most comfortable chair. This is, um what is it Orchid?
Speaker 2:massage. It's by the Lowe's restoration place on like in. It's by my gym. Yeah, it's on center. Y'all have to go. You got to call ahead. He literally knows what's up. Like he that phone rings off the hook. People are going in every five seconds. She lays you down in this chair, it's like. Hugs you on the sides. It's massive.
Speaker 2:She starts massaging my forehead and so I'm like surely? And slaps my feet into this bucket of water. So I'm like what Starts massaging my forehead Comes back up my neck. It's like it feels so good. Throws a towel over my face.
Speaker 2:I was like, oh, are we getting kidnapped? Rips my hands above my head I have a sweatshirt on Starts rubbing because you know you have lymph nodes in your armpits. Rub head. Oh, a sweatshirt on starts rubbing because you know you have lymph nodes in your armpits. Yeah, rubbing past my armpits and my implants the whole time, like for like forever. I was like, okay, I guess we're doing the lymph node thing. Here we go.
Speaker 2:And then shoves my hands down and she taps me on the foot and starts my feet. So I guess I should know that. Removes the towel over my head. So Whitney and I are laying there with the towels over our head the entire time. Then we got into the chairs for back, but when she took the towels off our heads in motion for us the chairs, I had to lean forward. I was like I had the church giggles and I needed to get a grip. Whitney is like she's like we will unpack this after and I was like I gotta get a grip, like I am about to get my ass kicked in this other chair.
Speaker 2:Oh, my gosh and she's like holding my foot and just like banging on the end of it so rough I mean, when that's kind of what baby toe and isolated him aside and started doing this to him. I was like, well, my baby toe isn't a virgin anymore.
Speaker 1:You think that's weird. Wait till you get in the private room. I don't think I can.
Speaker 2:Like I don't know if I can. Both times I've been there it's only been a man that went in the private room, and this time his voice sounded so hot but I couldn't look at him because I had to.
Speaker 1:I was like dang it, I don't like a male massage. Well, I mean, I guess I kind of do, I'd prefer women.
Speaker 2:I don't care if it's like a massage, if I'm just getting down, although I also forgot to tell you this, this is not a recent event, but I'm pretty sure I didn't tell you I went. I might've told you I'm not, I can't remember, but we're just going to share it because it's hysterical. I went to see our lymphatic massage person like maybe two months ago, and you know how I don't wear undies with my leggings. Yeah, I forgot to bring undies. Oh, oh, I know. And so, like I like lean to my head out and I was like, dude, you have to.
Speaker 2:I need you. And so I'm like dying laughing Cause you and I both know her and she's hysterical and like we're friends. And and during the lymphatic massage this may not be true for everyone you typically talk, we talk the whole time. We talk this. This is not like a normal massage. This is like when I go to Wild Dunes. This is like we chat. I tell her deep, dark stuff. We've both been on Hinge at the same time. We share ridiculous stuff. I love it. So I'm like you have to come in here and I'm crying and she goes what's wrong? I was so I need to tell you something. I'm like scared to tell you, but like I think we should talk about it. And she's like okay, she's laughing. She's like oh, did you get your period? And I was like no, um, so I normally just like bring undies, but I forgot mine. And she's like well, that's okay. I was like no, actually I don't think that this is like are there not an option?
Speaker 1:she was like they usually give you those like black, god-awful ones like the, oh so this was my first experience with the paper undies what I've never.
Speaker 2:I always. Now I have a thong in my purse that I refuse to take out in case I need it those paper panties are the worst.
Speaker 1:So I had to wear the paper panties yeah, they're the worst and I have actually forgotten to take them off and I have walked out of tan places with those panties on. I'm like God, why am I so uncomfortable? I'm like I forgot. I mean I'm like walking through the grocery store with these paper panties on. I mean I'm like walking through the grocery store with these paper panties on.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, I literally so. I've never had the paper panties experience, but she, she and I were dying. She's like, you really don't have to wear them. I was like.
Speaker 2:I'm going to wear them for you because, like as much as you, that's just tiny reeking habit, excuse me they were from the tree, but I was like, as much as I love you, I just don't know if there's an option. I don't know if it's necessary for our relationship to go to this level today. Like I have a nice wax If we have to, we must, but Well, there's like a towel. No, I know, but like your lymph nodes are in like places. Yeah, yeah, they're right. So the lady that did my back also reached around my thighs and did my lymphatic.
Speaker 1:So I have not done the chair thing, so maybe I need to go with you and us do it together.
Speaker 2:The boy that did it the first time did not do my inner thigh lymphatic thing, but the girl definitely. Just put her arms around me.
Speaker 1:She's like I'm coming in. You got a towel over your head and them arms up. Get ready, baby.
Speaker 2:But there is a lot to be said for lymphatic massage right.
Speaker 1:Oh girl, you know, I love it, you know, I love it.
Speaker 2:I think it's supposed to be really good for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is. It is like a detox or in like an anti, anti inflammation, yeah, like all the like toxins out and to make things like flow better, especially like during like sinus season, when it's supposed to like get rid of.
Speaker 2:Isn't it like fluid retention? I'm gonna look it up in a second on chat gpt. But like we know an amazing place, we know an amazing girl.
Speaker 1:Yep, it's the best, it's not cheap yeah, I've been doing it for I don't know. I haven't done one in a while, but I've been doing it for I don't know. I haven't done one in a while, but I've been doing it for probably.
Speaker 2:I was feeling very inflamed. That's specifically why yeah? When you do it right before vacation and she recommends like five days before vacation, she's going to de-puff you.
Speaker 1:Yep, well, it's that, and then, like you know, you're going to like eat and drink and like sodium, like bull you know she's gonna get you moving.
Speaker 2:I love her carrie.
Speaker 1:She's like she is and she's like just the funniest, nicest person and they is her energy is so hard this dog?
Speaker 2:he's trying to well, and so you can also. I think this is worth telling people because I I love her and I want her to have great business. But you can also sculpt. Yes, inatic massage, and I don't think people know this.
Speaker 1:Yes, they can like find your abs.
Speaker 2:Oh, they literally like will help you get a nice little line on that side.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, same for your body, they do to your face too?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they do, and that makes a huge difference.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, it's money. I need to go do that. I need to book a. Book a spa. But see, that's the kind of spa that I like, like, give me, like I want you to get in there. Yeah, rough me up, rough me up. I don't want the frou-frou, like I feel fine.
Speaker 2:When I leave orchid, they literally just get in the last 11 seconds. They just started beating all the way down your back and then you get like your butt smacked. And then they're like your butt smacked and then they're like okay, time to pay.
Speaker 1:I'm like that lady like cause. I remember my massage, like stop for a minute, and I was like what happened? She like leave the room and next thing I know I hear like banging, like it sounded like something like you know, springy, I was like what is happening here? I think it was my first time there, actually, and I'll be damned she got on my back and you know I don't love people's feet at all.
Speaker 2:Every time I've had to go to the next place I've only been with Whitney it was her idea the first time to go and unpack this because I have to like I want to just get down on my knees when I'm done. I want to go and sit in the parking lot and just die laughing because you are hoodwinked the entire time. You do not know what is about to happen. Like the minute you get into a rhythm they're like actually, let's mess around a little.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's have some fun with this one.
Speaker 2:Have you ever watched Jack Whitehall travels with my father?
Speaker 1:I started watching at your house and I fell asleep.
Speaker 2:No, because you actually need to commit to it. I've watched a whole season of stuff for you. I know you have to watch it, you and me it is. First of all, whitney watched it like a year ago when we were like, just you know, back in the swing and she was like I don't know if you've seen this show, but it's the most you show ever. And she was like I don't know if you've seen this show, but it's the most you show ever. You've got to watch it. And that's telling what it was. I was like I fucking love that show. Yeah, it's she. There's a moment in it where they go to another massage place and they're actually in like central asia. The lady slaps the crap out of him. The dad's like I don't think so. But at one point she like puts her hand on his shoulder.
Speaker 2:She's like, and his whole shoulder like drops and he's like, oh god, I don't think I've had a stroke oh my god like so rough with him, and I think that's the exact same place that they give them this doll that they winston, that they like carry everywhere and winston, ridiculous, these dogs Come on.
Speaker 1:I can't be in my quote unquote studio because if not, Tati will eat everything.
Speaker 2:You have to create him. He's being. He's like dying for enrichment.
Speaker 1:He is oh no, I did the enrichment. Did I not tell you this that I googled it? Apples, the apples. He just would like get them up, chew them up a little bit and spit them back out on the enrichment. Did I not tell you this, that I Googled it? Apples, the apples. He just would like get them up, chew them up a little bit and spit them back out on the floor. I'm like, okay, this is not. I had like pieces of apple all over my floor.
Speaker 2:I. The last thing you want to do is clean up your enrichment activity.
Speaker 1:Listen, man. I'm like I don't need anything else.
Speaker 2:I got freeze in like a pie pan and like freeze, like little kibble and like let them go out and I don't know.
Speaker 1:Probably I need to find something that's less messy. I know why did you go for apples? I don't know, that's just like the first.
Speaker 2:Google result it seemed healthy. I was like spitting the peels out all over. Did your kids ever do that? I would find like little like spit piles of peels.
Speaker 1:I'm like, can you not do that? No, Clark is such a germaphobe Like she no.
Speaker 2:Mine are always like be like all over the side of the table, I'm like really, next week is Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1:Can you believe that? No, I actually can't A non-traditional food eating.
Speaker 2:Thanksgiving. I went to Friendsgiving last weekend. It was so much fun. Did you eat all the turkey? That was like traditional. Oh yeah, you made stuffing.
Speaker 1:I love turkey. I made the stuffing. I love turkey, but I just like.
Speaker 2:I want to eat turkey on a random Tuesday. I have not made stuffing in so long because my first husband hated good stuffing, he only liked stovetop. And I used to have my whole team over from Michael Kors Like that was a big thing, because we would go in for Black Friday that night, so we would like eat early and then go to work together so I'd have like a really full house and so I used to do like the big stuffing for them. But once I left Michael Kors he was like can we be done with that gross stuffing? And I was like what the fuck it's so good? It has like green peppers, onions, celery, fresh parsley, mushrooms it's so good.
Speaker 1:I'm not really a stuffing fan, but it's not because I don't love regular stuffing or stovetop, it's just a texture. It's like gravy bread, huh.
Speaker 2:It's like gravy bread. I know it's a texture. It's a little mushy for me, so I will also. When I was in high school, I came up with this idea because I don't like a turkey sandwich.
Speaker 1:You don't like a turkey sandwich?
Speaker 2:Not really. This thing is overplayed. So my mom had a bread maker and I was like we should make Thanksgiving pizza for leftovers. So I did this for years because at first my brothers were like this is foul, but then I made it and we ate the shit out of it. You put gravy as the base and then you just drop like mashed potatoes and stuffing, and then turkey and then cheese. And now what do you freaking know? This year you can buy it in the freezer section and it's actually like a thing. And I'm like I the one time I don't take something too far. You should have patented that shit. The one time I don't take something too far.
Speaker 2:Thanksgiving pizza it's so good and people are getting carried away with it. They're putting the cranberries on, they're putting the squash. I freaking hate squash. I know you do. You're passionate about it. It's foul, but I get it. People love it. It's just not for me. Yeah, I'm like that was good, but this was a good. Everyone brought a side. There was so much food. I made grandma's cookies, the rolled sugar cookies with the frosting. I know you went all out. You know I always do for my friends. It's like a thing.
Speaker 1:We're doing jambalaya and I'm very excited about it. You have a full house, don't you? I really don't know, to be quite honest, like I have no idea Like Nate's dad's coming, but I have no idea if my parents are coming. I have no clue, like, I'm just like I'm gonna ask my questions off there I don't. I don't know who's coming to my home, but you know what I'm gonna do? The same thing whether they're here or not.
Speaker 2:So no, I know I love that. It's liah I feel like there's something about. I know a lot of families do oysters also early on thanksgiving because of where we live and we're in the season, so I love that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was going to do that for an app, because we like big breakfast and then I do apps around like three, but I eat a big breakfast.
Speaker 2:I think that's partially why you get sick of the cooking. Yeah, probably.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean we only do like bacon and sausage and hash brown casserole and fruit. So I mean it's not, but that's a big. I don't really eat breakfast, so like it's a lot of food. And then we do like mimosas and all. But I'll do, I'm doing. I just got wings from home team for apps and I'm gonna make like boars and stuff, cheese, mushrooms love it. Yeah, and I went to grocery shop today because I'll be damned I'm not going to grocery store next week. I, I'm very passionate about that.
Speaker 2:What are famous last words, my friend.
Speaker 1:Nope, it ain't happening. Instacart is my friend, oh yes, absolutely that I am.
Speaker 2:Whenever I would do the big Thanksgiving, like or any whatever, I will go recipe by recipe in my Instacart and add every single and then whatever gets forgotten. That's my one trip. But I'm not going and carrying all that stuff and like I can't tip those people enough, no, I'm gonna be out there with the people.
Speaker 1:Hell to the no. I went seriously this morning right when walmart opened to get like my dry stuff, you know, like baking stuff. Yeah, no, ain't, no way in hell. You will not catch me there next, next week. You know what I'm probably gonna be in crow, just like I am about this damn lizard, so you know whatever so if you guys see jenny at public side, she's fuming.
Speaker 2:She was like there's your ball soap that you love I told you it was ball soap it.
Speaker 2:It's not ball soap. I use it on myself and I don't have. Well, I do have balls, but not that kind you do. You do it must be the squash soap.
Speaker 2:By the way, we actually asked them on the podcast. I'm going to go ahead and roast them for fun, because I can, because I actually asked them two times because I thought there was some confusion. Yeah, I wanted them to come on and talk about their marketing campaign, Like because I just think it's so cool and fun. You didn't hear back from them. Oh, no, no, no, I did immediately and it was like we actually don't have any partnership spots open. Why don't you go ahead and look on our webpage and see when the next application process is?
Speaker 2:And I was like oh, cause that? I mean, I have other things that I partner with, but typically I don't usually reach out to them. Just, I don't know. So I was like I'm so sorry I maybe didn't explain very well. Um, this would be like we have this podcast and we talk about marketing and we think you guys are brilliant and we, one of our very first episodes, we actually talked about you and it would be so fun to have you guys on and talk about, like the growth of the brand, and they were like again, we're not interested and we don't have space to entertain these kinds of things.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I'll find somebody on LinkedIn F them. I mean, my white whale right now is McDonald's. I'm trying to get somebody from McDonald's marketing team on the podcast. Listen, I am.
Speaker 2:No I love it. I just was like wait, you couldn't. I think I would have felt better if they were like hey, so we don't have somebody that could really take the time to fill that space. But thank you for thinking of us. I know it was like the weirdest. I don't know why. I just handled it poorly, but it didn't feel good. It felt like I was being misunderstood twice. We're going to wash our balls with something else. I'm still watching my boss on Squash, so I'm just kind of mad about it right now.
Speaker 1:They probably have a monopoly on the ball washing market.
Speaker 2:And maybe it's my trigger right, because I don't like to feel misunderstood. So I was like if you would just address this properly, I wouldn't have such a problem. It's not about the rejection. It's like I don't think you're really hearing me. It must have been a man. Maybe it's not about the rejection.
Speaker 1:It's like I don't think you're like hearing me. It must have been a man. Maybe it's because I'm an eight. All right, guys, we love our ketchup episodes. Let's not wait until 40, some days we knew we were we.
Speaker 2:We knew, though we did really good planning. We knew that we were headed into a crazy season.
Speaker 1:Yes and we're. Yeah, it's a coming, the trains are coming. We know it every year. Oh it's true, all right guys. Well, we thank you for tuning in and we will see you next week.