Marketing & Mayhem
Two gals talking marketing, life, and all the mayhem in between.
Marketing & Mayhem
Buckle Bunnies, Pilates & Aging Gracefully
A hospital stay wasn't on our bingo card this week, but here we are, sharing the raw, unfiltered experience of navigating the healthcare system when your child develops a rare autoimmune reaction. Between praising the incredible staff at Shawn Jenkins Children's Hospital and contemplating our outfit choices for the upcoming rodeo, we're finding moments of laughter in the midst of chaos. Life just keeping on life-ing and so … we continue to pivot the mayhem, on air. Because the one thing we aren’t - is filtered.
Our conversation takes unexpected turns as we dive deep into the strange world of health influencers and self-tanning experiments. Would you purchase from a Instagram ad - a supplement that promises to give you a sun-kissed glow from the inside out? Or is one of us catching to “look like a damn sweet potato” with the newest targeted ad? We’ve mentioned it on here before, in the early days, but we finally went for it. We're weighing the options between sketchy Chinese supplements and whatever magic ingredient those bodybuilders are using.
The most thought-provoking segment emerges when we share Peter Attia's philosophy on aging gracefully. Forget bench press numbers—can you get up off the floor without using furniture for support? Can you still do a cartwheel? These become the metrics that truly matter as we discuss maintaining flexibility, strength, and functionality throughout life's journey. After carrying a 70-pound fourth-grader through hospital corridors, we've never felt more certain of our "mom strength” - and never more committed to our fitness goals. After all, health is the only real currency. Well, health and time.
Between revealing the surprising fact that Mount Pleasant doesn't have its own ambulance service and exchanging spring break memories, we showcase our signature conversational style—one that bounces effortlessly between serious topics and lighthearted banter. From coyote population control theories to getting carded twice in one week (a definite win), we're embracing the beautiful randomness that makes life interesting.
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the sun will come out tomorrow, I know.
Speaker 1:It's cold, though. I just walked outside, it's freezing.
Speaker 2:What actually is it? Cause I did just walk the dog and I was a little bit like oh, mine says 47. Damn, I mean it is chilly.
Speaker 1:Like I walked out there to get something out of the office and I was like, wait a second, I'm in a tank top Like what gives.
Speaker 2:So are you wearing pants?
Speaker 1:Yes, Were they optional today?
Speaker 2:No, no, no To the rodeo. I mean I assumed that you'd be outside.
Speaker 1:I mean to the rodeo. I'm like I mean yeah, like I mean I thought that I needed to.
Speaker 2:I thought I had to wear pants. I guess clothes, sarah, maybe you do have your pants on.
Speaker 1:She loves a pantsless day. Listen, I'm looking for it. No, because I want to wear my cowboy boots, so I'll just go in shorts and freeze to death.
Speaker 2:I am wearing my cowboy boots, but I'm wearing leggings inside of them. Okay, that's cute. That's a cute vibe. Yeah, I think I'm going to have to rock that vibe. I really don't think I can be this cold. I'm fragile.
Speaker 1:It's really.
Speaker 2:let's see what this projected to be, Not only am I normally fragile, but I'm extra fragile today, so I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to wear leggings.
Speaker 1:It's 68, 47. So like five degrees warmer than tomorrow, I mean today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because it's at night, so it's literally going to be like 55.
Speaker 1:I was free. I told you last year we hit it by Clark a hoodie. It was really cold.
Speaker 2:It sounds so cold. So do you never acknowledge? So when we recorded last time you that sounds so cold, literally not. I don't know why I couldn't think of the name Bodysuit. It's a bodysuit with fringe down the arms and we were like you, literally were like oh, this would be so funnier.
Speaker 1:Although it's going to be cold, you might be warmer in a onesie Just saying, I know, but I won't meet any boys.
Speaker 2:No, probably not In a onesie, or maybe I'll feel, maybe I'll be like a really funny one yeah, I mean listen, you know that funny is my vote.
Speaker 1:I feel like funny is words always always way better.
Speaker 2:Um plus, I feel like there's so many like you know this term that I learned from the spicy books buckle bunny. I feel like there's so buckle bunny hey there's so many like girls going there to like fall in love with their cowboy that if I like, maybe if I wore an actual like head to toe fleece onesie you rock it, though I mean let's be real odds.
Speaker 1:I might have better odds and you'd be snug snug as a bug in a rug. Yeah, yeah, that's my vibe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then wearing leggings.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you're doing boots, leggings. Are you doing a bodysuit still, or are you going like?
Speaker 2:what else?
Speaker 1:No, I don't know, I've only.
Speaker 2:I only know what I'm wearing. You got some on your legs, okay. Or my belly button down.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm doing shorts and I ordered another. Well, I ordered this really cute belt with some turquoise on it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I'm again. I hate to keep going back to the topic, but I am so pale. Oh, it's so bad you don't have a sweet potato, though, today.
Speaker 2:No, I don't, I haven't taken a bunch of it, because then I got nervous and then I did get two people, uh, messaged me like Instagram friends, friends I've never met, but that listen to podcasts, and they were like listen, I actually really want to know if it works, because I will buy it. They were like this is how heavily influenced I am, oh for sure.
Speaker 1:For sure We'll get this. So you know, there's like this trend going around Instagram right now where it's like the doctors who were like rating all the things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I posted a few the other day.
Speaker 1:Cause they were talking about. I'm obsessed with it, cause you know I follow all these, like you know, mental or like so I know it's.
Speaker 2:they're basically like. They're like a combo of like board certified plastic surgeons, like health and wellness doctors, and they're literally going through. It could be like collagen eight. I am here for it. I know Beef tallow got like a 10.
Speaker 1:I know, I saw, I saw that I was like this one doctor and I'm trying to find the screenshot, but he was going through a list of supplements and he was like it starts with an A. I'm trying to find it because I have screenshots. No, he was like it makes your skin have like a sun-kissed glow and it's a supplement. So you, let me, I'll find the screenshot and send it to you, you're right.
Speaker 1:Because that's like one of the that I did see something that was like there is something that starts with an, a that's like that's what they're using.
Speaker 2:Yes, so I am going to find it. We will do that. Instead of taking sketchy bodybuilders, take it too. See, I don't get like tan inside out like I. I don't think it's actually that scary, I think it's just chemistry, but I'm into it.
Speaker 1:The main ingredient in the one I have on the inside.
Speaker 2:Well, you know how like body, but like, like a real tan, like. So bodybuilders do that thing in the morning. You know where they do that thing in the morning, where it's like they like slather on all that other stuff too. I mean like they don't. They still aren't showing up our, our color. Right now they're. Before they even do the whole slather and lather, they are already fairly tan.
Speaker 1:I know I'm telling you so I'll find that because I think we need that. Might be a better option than your Sketchy Chinese Well my Sketchy Chinese.
Speaker 2:the main ingredient is beta carotene, so the worst that happens is there's no way for me to reign it in before Saturday. We've had the world's longest week.
Speaker 1:But yet it's March 21st and we're like it's almost April.
Speaker 2:I know you have had a long week. We have. We hung out in the hospital Shout out to Sean Jenkins Children's Hospital. I cannot even tell you. You know what I was thinking about today, because marketing and life Well, we didn't get a lot of sleep last night either. We were sick all night but not one of the doctors introduced themselves as a doctor, and I actually think that might be by design. So we knew everybody's first name and I don't know why. I got to thinking about it when I was walking the dog, but I was like what an interesting decision, like cause it is a children's hospital, that's like the point. But our care caretakers were, um, claire Emily. Um, were Claire Emily. What was the boy? I don't know the boy's name, we had a Jasmine, but like everybody who had their first name was like how they introduced themselves.
Speaker 1:You should, we should, totally get. We should ask somebody at Sean Jenkins if that's like part of their model. A lot of you know, I used to do like healthcare staffing A lot of them, because I used to meet with, like you know, heads of hospitals. A lot of them would do things like that.
Speaker 2:Just to take the I think it's on purpose.
Speaker 1:I think it's like take the, not the stigma, but like the ego, away from the, the whole process.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh there, the girl that checked us in was literally so beautiful and her name was Jasmine. And we walked away and I looked right up. I was like I mean, at the point that she said my name is Jasmine, how not shocked were you? I mean, let's be honest here.
Speaker 2:Was she like a Disney princess. She did she looked like a Disney princess. She was like just stunning like dark eyes, dark hair, like big, long eyelashes, this teeny, tiny, slender thing. And I was like, of course your name is Jasmine. It should be Jasmine. You're incredible and you should be the person that greets everybody that walks in here.
Speaker 1:You're destined for greatness, if your name is Jasmine or other things.
Speaker 2:Like. She was like the perfect person for that job. But yes, we had. You know what happened this is. I think we should talk about this because it's a weird thing I didn't even know existed, that we had an autoimmune reaction to the presence of strep. So I'm not even sure if she ever even had strep because she had no symptoms. I have gotten so many messages on Instagram about like because scarlet fever is happening now more with strep. So everyone I know, so everyone thinks that what she had is scarlet fever. I haven't shown any of the actual photos because what she really has is wild looking, but I'm just like this, isn't that? And I'm just trying to be really casual about it. No, this is not that.
Speaker 2:So it is a vascular response. So all petechiae, all your veins, to the presence or the threat of strep. So great news, her immune system is just rocking and rolling. It does affect your gut because your gut is so vascular, but it basically it's all those blood vessels specifically in your legs broken open. Gosh, I literally can't even sorry, laurel Hill's trying to find one of my kids. My kids are not at school today. Sorry, laurel Hill, we couldn't do it, no.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm glad that one, that you got answers, because I feel like that is hard enough these days in hospitals.
Speaker 2:For a minute because it looks wild. We were there like well, we need to rule out infectious disease and I was like saw that coming a mile away, but I know. But I mean the doctor that came right away was like this isn't the urgent care, told us it was Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
Speaker 1:I know I was like, oh my God, how in the hell did that even happen?
Speaker 2:We get to Sean Jenkins and the doctor who has the mask on, in case it is an infectious disease. It's like I mean, have you been traveling? I was like no. He's like it would be extremely rare for you to have Rocky Mountain spotted fever from West Virginia in Mount Pleasant.
Speaker 1:That's what I thought. But when you texted that, I was like oh, I'm like, listen, I'm not a doctor. I'm like nothing surprises me anymore. I mean nothing.
Speaker 2:He's like we love a good urgent care, but anything dermatology related can be really tricky. This I'm not imagining that this is going to come back as Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I was like, okay, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Well, I am glad that she's okay, truly, because I know that that had to be so scary for both of you.
Speaker 2:Same and it's so like I feel so bad for her so you can't treat it.
Speaker 1:You just got to let it run its course.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh, can't even do Motrin, because Motrin compromises your kidneys and those are already semi-compromised with this immune response.
Speaker 1:So you can do some Tylenol, I'm like okay, but isn't it incredible that her little strong body is like fighting it on its own?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's. That's exactly what it looks like is happening. I mean, it's literally like going to town. I just so, as of right now, we are planning on being at that rodeo. We've been all over, we've been at school and everywhere else, so we're going to take a few rest days. We don't have to be ready until what Like six o'clock, yeah yeah, the freaking thing, I so did.
Speaker 1:You see, they like posted eight o'clock. It doesn't start till eight o'clock. I'm like dude, you've been before, I don't. That's what. I was literally having this conversation with nate last night. I'm like dude, it started way earlier. Last year it was at least seven o'clock, was it? I'm pretty sure, because I'm telling you like we get there, we park, I eat at the food trucks, grab a couple of beers. Like there is no way it was 8 o'clock. So I am very confused about the 8 o'clock.
Speaker 2:You told me the lines for the food truck a lot of people did were really long, but the food was epic.
Speaker 1:Banging, banging. Why?
Speaker 2:is it?
Speaker 1:so good.
Speaker 2:God, listen, I love a food truck, is it? I don't know, like it's, just like they just roll out the red carpet of like yeah, um, what did I have last year?
Speaker 1:I had like a crispy chicken on top of like and it had like some kind of Asian sauce over it with like rice Dude it was. It was so good, it was really good. Clark had a huge piece of cake.
Speaker 2:Oh, ooh, all right, cake is good. Yeah, she had that for dinner. I wanted to get a hat and then I ran out of time because we've had a busy week. They're having a dinner. Oh no, I wanted to get one that said this actually is my first rodeo, but it's my fifth hot dog.
Speaker 1:I thought you meant like a cowboy hat.
Speaker 2:No, I saw one that had like a cowboy on, like a Bronco in the middle. That was like this actually is my first rodeo, but it's my fifth hot dog. And I was like, wait, that's actually so, me, it is you. And I was like, wait, that's actually so me, it is you. And then I was like, oh, just make Phil, make me one at the shop, you know. And then we spent beautiful time at Sean Jenkins.
Speaker 2:I will say like back to that, they were doing the fundraiser yesterday, so like Rob Fowler was there and they had all the people downstairs raising money and we could hear them cheering. We had to wait like an hour and a half to even, you know, like in the waiting room. So of course, we went to the gift shop and found a little Circe and I just, I mean, I feel like we're so, so, so lucky to have that hospital like in our backyard. I mean I, it's almost almost like it seems like every year that we go to ji to see the lights, it's always on like a. You know how they do, like the what is it called? At night. It's like, yeah, it's like the thing that they do with all the fire trucks and the policemen, the ambulances come to the hospital. I can't, and they do it all December so it's like nights out with, like all of the first responders and I mean those boys come from everywhere.
Speaker 1:I know, yeah, we're very fortunate that we have such an incredible place here.
Speaker 2:We really are the amount of people that have messaged me and been like you were at the right place, like I, wish I had just gone there first.
Speaker 1:I know I'm really getting to where I don't love an urgent care.
Speaker 2:I'm the same. I really was just actually hoping for a steroid cream and just to move on. But I know for this stuff, for the kid stuff, and I would say, if anything like dermatology, forget it, Just go't. There's no reason not to.
Speaker 1:Unless you have an allergic reaction to your eyelashes, which has happened to me right before my 23 union and I had to go and get a shot in the ass. True story.
Speaker 2:I was kind of hoping for a shot of steroid just to like fix it. You know like I am like, listen like.
Speaker 1:I had worked my butt off. I lost like 15 pounds to look like felt and looking good for my 20th high school reunion. I hadn't seen these people in years. I go and get my lashes done like any other day. Y'all. I woke up looking like Quasimodo. It was so bad. I have a picture on my phone, I'll send it to you. I called my dermatologist and I was like I need to be seen, stat. I went in there and I was like I need to be seen, stat. I went in there and I was like praying that they were not going to make me take my eyelashes off, Cause I'm like listen, I know now that we have them glued to our face.
Speaker 1:Sorry they're not coming off. So, sure enough, I had to get topical cream, I had to get an oral antibiotic, I had to get an oral antibiotic and I had to get a shot in the ass of steroids. Totally worth it.
Speaker 2:I looked amazing in my reunion the stuff that we do. I can't. Have you done a high school reunion? Have you been to one? I saw mine. Does your done a high school reunion? Have you been to one? I haven't.
Speaker 1:It's all mine. Does your school have them?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no desire. You know, I am an elusive creature. I did not show up to my college graduation, even though I graduated with high honors. I did not show up to any of my high school reunions. I probably would. Now I don't have a particular reason why I didn't.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, that's the only person I've been to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, I probably would now, but now I'm past year, 20, right? So like, what do you do?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh God, then we're all going to be like shrunken. We'll still be looking. Get out, listen to the best part of my week this week. Ooh, I got ID'd twice.
Speaker 2:Twice Star tight Must be working. Where were you?
Speaker 1:Well, Sunday night night I was at a bar in park circle with some friends called paddock and whiskey the cutest. They had a dj. It was so much fun. And then yesterday I was at costco costco man freaking, you know, Costco. I'm like what? And he looked like deep in my eyes when he ID'd me.
Speaker 2:I was like I love when a man looks deep in my eyes. Listen, I live for it. I don't care if he's a gas station clerk and I'm like sir.
Speaker 1:He looked through my soul. I was like am I 21? You're making me rethink this Like I don't know, Just trying one. You're making me rethink this like I don't know, just trying to buy my savvy b we'll solve b for the weekend.
Speaker 2:Listen, I get it. I was there the other day. They have a new peanut ore that I really like, um it has like a fun.
Speaker 1:Your wine, by the way, I'm a dasky oh, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I think something happened to the vineyard that's a show. All right, sorry, I didn't mean it would be a wildfire thing could be anything. I haven't looked into it. It's like I'm letting the mysterious be like the mysterious your wine's being elusive, like you are I mean, I know this. Are you not surprised, though? I don't know why I don't show up to that stuff, but I'm just like oh yeah, that sounds fun you know, I'm kind of like that.
Speaker 1:I mean, I would venture to say that I'm, but honestly I planned the thing so I kind of had to be.
Speaker 2:Of course, this is actually the difference between you and I. If I could more clearly state the difference between the two of us, I don't know if I have a better example. You planned your high school reunion yes, and I said that sounds fun, and failed to go at all. I didn't even. I'm not even. I didn't go online and even peruse for an outfit. Not even a blink, not a glimmer of a shadow of hope for me going.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, like I had like five or six people reach out to me and they wanted to have one and, being the two that I am, I was like, oh, okay.
Speaker 2:Sure, it is so fucking funny to me, because it's so like, it's so good, I would go now.
Speaker 1:I'd be curious to see it, it was a beautiful event. I have some lovely pictures, I believe it.
Speaker 2:You planned it? I have no doubt. Probably, if you planned it, I might even go. There's like a couple of girls I don't like. Love from my high school, oh sweet. So it all depends on who yeah.
Speaker 1:Actually that's not even really true, because I mean I did like, I mean I didn't like them.
Speaker 2:I was nice to everyone and I was friends to everyone. I just like there are some people that I like I didn't even like to talk to me too much because I wasn't very proud to associate with them and they were like the cool girls, but I was like that whatever that vibe is is not for me, um, and I think one of those girls. By the way, I saw this reel the other day and I sent it to one of my other good high school friends, but it was like why was the meanest girl in your school? Why is she now like somebody's special ed teacher? This is exactly what happened to like the meanest girl in our school is like a special ed teacher in one of the other schools locally.
Speaker 1:I'm trying to think, if there are you guys. I don't really remember like a really mean girl.
Speaker 2:We had one. She's nasty, but I tried to be like friends with everybody. Same. I always was friends with everyone.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't really remember like a man, but I will tell you that what was really shocking to me is that the people who were like really, really smart and made really good grades, like valedictorian status, did not grow up to be successful adults.
Speaker 2:I wonder what my valedictorian is successful. I'll have to look, but she was like I'll have to look now.
Speaker 1:But what's funny is so I was literally having this conversation with Clark yesterday. They get report cards. Today she's like stressing about it, Is she? Yeah, Like, and which is so crazy because I literally could care less. Like you know this.
Speaker 2:I'm just not.
Speaker 1:It's just like do your best, whatever. It's just school, like who cares?
Speaker 2:This is one of our things that we very much like. This is also why we do sports and just like. What I refuse to do is have you believe that this one thing is like cause. We both grew up with a fair amount of pressure and I don't even think it was from my parents. I think part of it's just innately my personality and then the way the world was about women and whatever we both very much grew up in. This good girl, just like you, have to have these very black and white achievements to be good, check the boxes.
Speaker 2:Absolutely my parents. My mom did not put pressure on me to do well in school, but for sure I felt very serious about some of this in like I don't want my kids to have that Like if they came home with mild.
Speaker 1:My mom did put pressure on me because I think from the moment I could like walk, she was, like you're going to college, so you just have that in the back of your mind, like, oh my gosh, like I need to make good grades so I can go to college because, like, if not, I'm going to be a huge disappointment yeah, I mean, I knew I was going to college.
Speaker 2:That was never. I actually already knew where I was going. I went to a college.
Speaker 1:I did, I not. I didn't ever went there.
Speaker 2:So it was like one of those things that was kind of like just you know, there was one other one that I looked at, but I pretty much knew where I was going.
Speaker 1:I think my friends went, I mean truthfully, like I could have probably cared less, and my mom made me um, yeah, Cause I was just some people just are not academic Like I know you talk about how good like grades you made.
Speaker 2:I definitely that was not the case for me Well that wasn't always like super good. It was like there were things like math that I was like ooh.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:Best guess I got is like S-B.
Speaker 1:Dude, I told you we tried to do some fractions the other day when they had that e-learning day, and I was like you know what? I just can't, I just can't.
Speaker 2:I'm sorry. I definitely operate on girl math. There are times where I look at my debit card. I'm like let's chat.
Speaker 1:GPT, just do it there. Just do your homework there.
Speaker 2:Like I can't help you the last time. Just looked at the girls. I'm like never do this. I don't know what we're doing here. Some of this like hop, skip and jump math that they're doing now I'm like I don't. Where's the long division?
Speaker 1:Well, so Clarkson her school teaches that way. She had to unlearn everything. What baby? What'd you say?
Speaker 2:Yeah, she had to unlearn math for her former school.
Speaker 1:She's doing long division now.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, and I think somehow now in fourth grade they're switching to how I learned stuff again and I'm like why are we bouncing around like this? This is really crazy yeah.
Speaker 1:I don't know not an educator.
Speaker 2:I'm feel for them. I'm so like everything's so complicated lately. I'm just like thank god for teachers thank god for and our both of our principals because my kids are in two different schools were amazing even through this whole hospital visit. I can't say enough good things about what they do, because there's no way I could do that.
Speaker 1:Yes, I was going to ask you this how was your traffic yesterday getting downtown?
Speaker 2:Getting downtown at 11 am Fine. Getting back across the bridge Bananas there were like three accidents on the bridge. The Ravenna was a parking lot. I do not understand. We saw at least three different incidents of road rage, however, during the day getting there and back, I'm like why is everyone driving like a nut in Mount Pleasant lately?
Speaker 1:Did you see that thing on the Facebook group, the Mommy Exchange Like? Our EMS basically came on like Charleston County and said we cannot get to people. We're going to have to like. I mean, it's going to have to be a dire emergency. Do not get on the road unless you have to Like. That's how bad traffic in Charleston is right now because of spring break.
Speaker 2:Is that what it is? Yes, well, you know that we, and like Mount Pleasant, doesn't have its own EMS.
Speaker 1:Oh, fun fact, I did not know that.
Speaker 2:Awful fact, but like we don't have our own, I'm pretty sure this is correct. But Berkeley County has actual ambulances and, like true paramedics, charleston County has that, but Mount Pleasant the only paramedic you can get in Mount Pleasant has to be a fireman. We actually do not have our own. One of my friends made her entire family take a weekend long because they were putting a pool in, because if you have a situation like that, you're literally waiting for a fireman. We don't have our own Mount Pleasant ambulance station. How is that even possible? I don't know. But I'm actually fairly certain that it's true. Like you're, the paramedics are our paramedics, are our paramedics and firemen. So it's not that we have more, it's just that our firemen are naturally true. I think you already have that training. Um. Or it says on the side of the trucks if there's a paramedic in the truck like, um, we don't have our own. But think about it. Have you ever seen a mount pleasant ambulance? They don't exist.
Speaker 1:I feel like I have over there near um off a long point somewhere towards the front. Now I'm like maybe it's transport, is that different?
Speaker 2:well, there are companies likeTrust that are actual, just transport companies, but those companies are like third party. They would never be called out like an actual ambulance, even though they drive ambulances. It is actually a business and it transports people from like they have contracts with the hospitals and they transport people to their like net, to like the elderly, like they rehab facilities or like, um, if patients are having like a mental breakdown or something like that and the family needs them, the family pays for the transport. It's not an ambulance company huh, who knew?
Speaker 2:god, you kick ass in tribute pursuit like you have like random bits of knowledge medtress is one of my clients and so, like they are, I work with them a ton and so like we print the envelopes that they you have to drop the file in so that all of that is sealed. So that the outside of the envelope. So the outside of the envelope says things like if they're a DNR or whatever, and just gives you enough information to get them eight miles down the road and they have told us some wild stories.
Speaker 1:Yes, but speaking of spring break, I was going to ask you what did you used to do for spring break when you were younger, like high school college?
Speaker 2:Well, no, I didn't do any of the like wild, like the spring break things, like the trips with your friends. I didn't do that, did you? Yes, so we? I definitely didn't. But the girl that came is it. Is it Natalie Holloway? Who was the girl that came from upstate New York down to Myrtle beach and went missing? Oh, that was. That was Brittany Drexel. Brittany Drexel, she was at a high school that's about four miles from me, like she, like there are 10 miles. That was like in our. You know how all the high schools like compete for sports and stuff. Brittany Drexel was in one of the Greece high schools that we all competed against and it was in my years of like spring break.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:That was not going to happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah, one of my high school friends going to happen. Yeah, yeah, well, that's why I was asking, cause a lot of New York folks came to Myrtle. That's why I was wondering if that's what you did.
Speaker 2:A lot of them did, but I was also in the years of the Brittany Drexel years, so oh my gosh, that's crazy.
Speaker 1:You know we would do in high school because you know my dad was living here, so we would come and stay with my dad.
Speaker 2:He loved that.
Speaker 1:And then in college we would go to Myrtle. So I mean I never did like the crazy like Florida, Mexico, like you know, those kind of trips no me neither. I couldn't afford that. No, absolutely not. No, I just liked. You know, those kinds of trips no me either. I couldn't afford that. No, absolutely not.
Speaker 2:No, I just liked, I just didn't. I would. A lot of times I would. We did a lot of family stuff for spring break, like when I was in high school and in middle school actually even in grade school my mom's a big like got to get the hell out of here. It's New York in December, january, february, so we spend a lot of time like doing like St Croix or the Virgin Islands or the Bahamas and stuff like that, but not in college.
Speaker 1:I love that for you, Cindy. Shout out to Cindy I actually found out.
Speaker 2:I found some pictures the other day, like what I was looking through for that photo thing that you and I were talking about. I was this many years old when I looked like this or this was my favorite song, when I looked like this, and I found a picture of my dad from one of our St Croix, like vacations. This is definitely St Croix. I'm going to send it to you right now. This is like literally how I, the dad I grew up with. It's so funny.
Speaker 1:I'm really excited.
Speaker 2:So, like he's such a ham, I'll share it online too. My dad's big thing was, like you know, like bodybuilding, like muscles. Did you text it or do you? Oh, I texted too.
Speaker 2:okay, it should be there stop it right now and that's one of those like sugar jacked yeah, that's my dad's thing is like, and that's one of those sugar canes you guys are jacked yeah, that's my dad's thing, and the building behind it is one of those sugar cane. Obviously, they're not using it anymore, but, however, they process sugar in the islands. That's what that silo is.
Speaker 1:I love an 80s short short. Can we just talk?
Speaker 2:about it. I know I'm like Dad, you're going to be on the internet, but I got it. Oh my God, can we just talk about it?
Speaker 1:I'm like dad, you're going to be on the internet, but I got it Like it's, isn't it? Oh my God, I'm here for this. Now we're back to it.
Speaker 2:We're back to the five inch short.
Speaker 1:I know I'm trying to get Nate, cause you know legs are like Juicy Yum. I love a leg and I'm like, cause Nate likes long, like shorts, and I'm like, babe, show a little leg, like, show me that thigh.
Speaker 2:So the obviously, like the NFL, has been doing trades and stuff like this. The Bills lost Matt Collins. I love Matt Collins. Matt Collins is the one that doesn't wear shoes and he wears the crazy costumes and he drinks the M&M water. We got Joey Bosa.
Speaker 2:The only reason this matters is because Nick Bosa is the one from the 49ers. No, we didn't get Nick, we got Joey, his older brother. But Nick Bosa is the one from the 49ers that has the quads that we shared from when we were talking about the whole quad quadzilla. Like the thighs, the sweetening. His shorts literally look like they're crying for help but they don't want to be saved. They are barely like. They look like they're gonna like shred themselves. So when I heard the last name bosa, for our trade, I was like what bosa did we get? I will take any Bosa at this point. Joey Bosa, great, sure, same thing. I don't know what these two are doing, but it's unreal. These boys that are skipping leg day at the gym so they can have huge shoulders. You need to wake up. We want to see you do the hard work. Anyone can have a shoulder.
Speaker 1:But I feel like I'm like that, though, cause, like every time I'm at the gym, I'm like thinking about Carrie Underwood's legs and Jennifer Lopez, but, yes, this is what keeps me motivated. Yes, A hundred percent. Carrie Underwood's legs are like dude. Have you seen her legs?
Speaker 2:I need to you seen more research you do, they're like I don't know if I like show up to the gym with like an aesthetic I'm trying to do, but I do yoga now and so now I'm just like I want to look like a yoga girl.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, no, I'm definitely I'm not, no'm like. I want all the thick, the thick butt and the.
Speaker 2:Give me them good, no, no, I know.
Speaker 1:Carry under my legs are fire. And they look super strong. Maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 2:No, I'm into that. I like love a strong leg, like I do when I'm in the mirror and I'm like I wore a dress the other day for something and I was like damn, like, I feel like damn, like. I feel like the I might I like a good, like calf or like a shredded quad a little bit, but my, my yoga butt is a little bit sadder than my previous butt, so I was like we got it. We're gonna have to, we're gonna have to give you your own space, girl. You can't be like sliding into the quad level like we gotta, you gotta go back outwards the thut.
Speaker 1:And now, what is called the thut? Where the thigh?
Speaker 2:I don't know, but I can't tell a difference. Trying to melt into mine so get this.
Speaker 1:So last weekend my gym they had a pilates class, and so I went to it dude, I have done pilates before, but I really thought that I broke a rib because there was like a part of my core that I must not exercise enough. I literally thought I had broken a rib. I was like, why does it hurt so bad right here?
Speaker 2:it was all you know. I used to be a certified pilates instructor. What I had my certification like I could teach you on the machines the allegro. Do you know? I used to be a certified Pilates instructor. What I had my certification Like I could teach you on the machines the Allegro machines Like I could have Shut up. This is a real story. When was this? When I was the manager at Valley Total Fitness. That was like I could go and get certifications to keep group X and so we my specific location had, like actual, a Pilates room with the full-on Allegro machines and all of that.
Speaker 1:So one of the things that I did was actually go through like the full training and I got certified to be a Pilates instructor on the machines.
Speaker 2:How about that? You're not even surprised, though, cause, like sometimes, I just like amuse myself, so I'm like you know it might be fun.
Speaker 1:I feel like you're athletic, so no, that doesn't really surprise me.
Speaker 2:Well and like you, if you put me in a room like that and you like, if you need someone to push you, like I got you, and if you need someone to push you.
Speaker 1:I got you. Yeah, I know I feel you would be really good at that. I loved it, though I enjoyed it it's really fun and it was like the machines.
Speaker 2:It was like the machines so I was so into like I mean, you can get really ripped on a Pilates machine, some of this stuff just using your own body weight you can actually get pretty jacked. I did have to. I will say this back to the Sean Jenkins thing Obviously, by the end of this we were very tired and I did have to carry a 70 pound fourth grader all the way through the hospital, all the way through the parking lot, all the way to the fifth floor and all the way to the car and I was like bitch is jacked.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep. I do squat with Clark on me.
Speaker 2:Yep, I'm like you can say what you want. It may not be what you thought it was going to be in a swimsuit, but your girl's jacked.
Speaker 1:We can save you from a burning building if we need to. Moms are wild Wild.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I do a lot of pushes at the gym.
Speaker 1:I make Clark get on it and then I like push it with her on it. Yeah, she likes doing that. Yeah, I'm not the only one.
Speaker 2:My big thing too is like because the girls are in gymnastics, it's like my own flexibility.
Speaker 1:So I like let them torture me sometimes and they're the coach name and I'm. Just the other day we were doing Pilates class, we had to do some kicks and she was like look at you, jenny, over there, like a rocket.
Speaker 2:I'm like hey, I'm telling you though, right, like they're, we're, they were coaching me to do a handstand the other day and I was like I'm going to get my butt kicked so bad. First of all, I probably shouldn't have my feet over my head. That seems like that seems, unless it's the weekend, but like there's the idea of like being vertical on my hands. But I was like, man, if I could get this right, like if I could get a cartwheel back and like a back bend, like I'm not going, I'm not going down without a fight heck, no listen.
Speaker 1:I may not, can stay up until eight o'clock, but I'm gonna keep cartwheeling I'm gonna keep cartwheeling.
Speaker 2:I did a back bend the other day. I'm like let's get back but like a kick.
Speaker 1:Like I, I really try to keep myself limber and flexible as much as possible. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, that's half of like growing old, right? You see, like these people who have to use like the couch, the coffee table and three things just to get up off the ground, and I'm like that can't be happening. No, and I want to keep being able to crisscross applesauce.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, and I want to keep be able to crisscross applesauce.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. The first time I ever thought about like how to grow old with like grace, it was this. It was Joe Rogan. I hate, even I'm not a big Joe Rogan fan, but anyways, joe Rogan had a long time ago, the very first episode that Peter Atiyah came on.
Speaker 2:Peter Atiyah used to be an oncologist and then he got into, like the study of like living long but like living well Every once in a while. I'll just re-listen to it, because it was like he had that mental switch of like hey, maybe it's not about like long distance or like whatever. It is Like how do I get to be 70? How do I get to be 80? And then he started using these different markers, like can I get up off the floor, not using like any stability stuff? And he was like how do I change my thought about like oh, what's my bench press?
Speaker 2:Because like there's very few times in your life where you actually just need to push a very heavy weight off your chest. Like how often are you going to need to push a car off yourself? But like you're no matter what, as you age, you are going to need to be able to get up and out of a chair. And like we see these people who can't do these things and I'm like okay, that was like a mental switch for me, like I don't want it to just be how I look.
Speaker 1:No, a hundred percent.
Speaker 2:He talks about like some of the supplements he takes and I'm sure some of it's evolved and he's probably come back on. His voice is amazing. I love listening to Peter Atiyah talk. He has this theory called like acceleration versus velocity, and I'm going to mess up which is which. But he used to be like a endurance athlete and like one of his events was like swimming, but like swimming for like eight hours, like geez, like across places, like one of the places they went to that it was like basically an illegal island to go on. They get there and they hadn't. They'd done a lot of research, but not about the island, they'd done it about the swim.
Speaker 2:The whole thing's fucking covered in sea lions and he's like, dude, we can't go out there, like there's no way for me to get you know like giant the walrus-y looking sea lions that will jack you up. We're every same. They're like my favorite at the zoo. I freaking love them. That's probably why I have the dogs that I have. Now that I'm thinking about, it's probably how I ended up with a boxer and a bulldog, cause that's like the most sea lion face. That's probably exactly what happened to me. That is my favorite tank. I go to it at the beginning and at the end. I don't. I could sit there all day and look at them swim by.
Speaker 2:I just learned something about myself and how I chose my dog breeds. Well, they couldn't. They were trying to helicopter drop them on this Island. He's like, oh, I don't think this is a good idea. So, anyways, he has like a swim where, um he? It's the first time I actually learned about bioluminescence. So he's like literally in the dark, but the bioluminescence is in the water so every time you touch it it makes that electric shock and color. He's also simultaneously barfing his brains out because he's ingested seawater and he's been out there for so many hours and he keeps going.
Speaker 2:But he talks about how he gets to the end and he does regular things. So he takes a shower, puts on warm clothes, gets in his bed, right, and he's like that acceleration I'm pretty sure it's acceleration is that one From the worst possible day to like very simple luxuries. But how different they feel when you've been in that deep, dark place. First thing I thought of was having a baby. I was like that, the mom version of that, and I've done endurance stuff so like. But I was like even having done like half Ironmans and things like that, the first thing I thought was like that shower, that meal, those clothes after you give birth, they're everyday things. When you're living your everyday life, you forget how special they are. But when you're in that moment you're like this cheeseburger, like these sweat pants Not shower.
Speaker 2:Not shower. The nurse came with me. I took a shower pretty much immediately after and she was like this is not. Oh, she's like ma'am, you can't do that. I was like no, tell me what I can and can't do.
Speaker 1:I was supposed to wait. They were like don't do it yourself, like whatever Nate was asleep, like nobody was't do. I was supposed to wait. They were like don't do it yourself, like whatever Nate was asleep, like nobody was in there. I was like I can't sit here any longer. I just did it myself. They were like we told you not to do that. I'm like well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:Deal. I blew my hair out. She sat right there while I couldn't get it. You can bring everybody in, bring all your friends, pull up a chair. I do not give two shits. I am taking a shower, I'm gonna wash my hair, I'm gonna wash my face and I'm gonna blow out my hair. I gotta regroup, no, but anyways, him and joe are gonna talk about this like that, like the dark to the light thing, and so I always think about that. But I loved, loved Peter Atiyah.
Speaker 1:He was one of the people that taught me.
Speaker 2:So there's. He also talks about, I mean, it's like a four hour. It's. You know, joe Rogan, so you get what you get, it's four hours.
Speaker 2:But he also talks about how there's coyotes in literally everywhere, like now they're even in New York city, and so there's like something that cause you know, like when wolves were taking over, we were like putting drugs inside of like dead cattle so that we could kill them off, and like that's how we basically controlled the wolf population. However, coyotes have this innate response where they like basically do roll call every night and like, if you, if a coyote like if not everyone answers, the moms will actually like duplicate on their next time that they give birth. So like they might not have four pups, they'll have like six. So they like automatically have a birth response to something happening to like some of the coyotes or dogs in the herd and they will actually like have a bigger litter to like fix that to resolve that. So, like we can't control the coyote population, like we could control the wolf population, we went after it, like in the wrong way. Where do you learn this stuff?
Speaker 1:I'm I don't know, I mean like, because it's not like I see you reading like encyclopedias or like Wikipedia or anything like that. Like, where do you learn this stuff?
Speaker 2:It is real.
Speaker 1:Because I'm sure that I am not the only person who wants to know how you know all this.
Speaker 2:I don't. I tell you what I, if I hear like a interesting conversation, I like have to be part of it. And there's a big part where I like love to like not be the talker, and so it could be like a random podcast, it could be like somebody just sharing something, and then I'll, I will actually like, look, now that I've chatted you, PT man, I will take me two seconds to like validate the information and be sure that it's actually real. Then, like damn, that was like so. I mean, I end up in some weird conversations for sure. There are times where I'm with someone else and they're like what the fuck are we doing?
Speaker 2:right now, Like we're we're learning something, but but there could be something in this that's really good. I don't know.
Speaker 1:I find it very interesting.
Speaker 2:I could be at the farm. This is how I ended up being friends with Joey from Publix over the deli meat. The one that had the accident, I don't know.
Speaker 1:You never know.
Speaker 2:Sometimes you're just getting prosciutto and then you're sideways getting prosciutto, and then you're sideways and you got a brand new friend.
Speaker 1:Oh my Lord, you never know, you never know, all right, well. So next episode we will hopefully have. Well, we've got some guests coming on, which?
Speaker 2:we're super excited about.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, and I keep finding more and more and more and I'm here for it A lot of people are ready for all this, Like we're bringing back some of our favorites.
Speaker 2:We're bringing back some newbies.
Speaker 1:Yes, and all kinds of good topics that are, and some Charleston business owners, so I'm super excited about that too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's super fun, like we're. I mean, we're definitely in our exploratory stage. We're like this seems interesting. What is it?
Speaker 1:This is how.
Speaker 2:I get this information. I'm like you know what might be fun.
Speaker 1:And then somebody would be like should we Zoom first?
Speaker 2:I'm like, absolutely, I will say this because I think it's important for our listeners. We have had a couple of people be like, hey, let's have a conversation before. And we're like, no, no, that's not how we roll. What we're not going to do is bring it to the table for you guys After we've already had a 30 to 45 minute exploratory. We want to ask the weird questions, we want to learn at the same time. You guys learn we. I mean some of this. We just really and truly, well and truly raw dog.
Speaker 2:Raw dog all the way. We want it. We want it Like I we have. Yet you know, what I'm waiting for is for somebody to have like a voice that we weren't expecting.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I look for that, just so you know.
Speaker 2:Oh, I don't know that.
Speaker 1:I have done an amazing job looking for that I go through and look at every reel just to make sure, because the only reason I'm saying that is because I actually disqualified somebody this week because their voice was like OMG, Nope that is not going to work for us.
Speaker 2:Well, it happened to me in books. I'll download a spicy book to listen to and then I'm like whoa, Whoa Hold up, can't do it.
Speaker 1:Not that our voices are beautiful and perfect.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, but there is a certain kind of voice register that is not going to work with you and I, like we have similar pace like a pace for me. Ooh is that? Was it the pace that you got?
Speaker 1:last time. No, this particular person, it's the tone.
Speaker 2:The tone is more what I was thinking. But now that you've said both, here's the thing about me. If you don't tell me, I'm not going to register either. Can we talk really quick? Oh wait, hold on. Oh shoot, it was me. I actually thought there was a spider on your wall, behind you. Oh my gosh, no, there's not. It's a piece of shit on my computer.
Speaker 1:I was gonna freak out completely. I literally, jenny, I literally you can ask.
Speaker 2:I just took my thumb. I was like wait, if I can see this fuck. There's like a pterodactyl behind you, but it's.
Speaker 1:It was actually just like a piece of like schmutz on my okay, I'd rather be on your computer than on my ceiling.
Speaker 2:Oh no, I was like uh, can we talk about how I need you to look over your shoulder? But it's, it was me guys don't worry.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, I've been through a lot. It's been a week, but next time we'll be back with the rodeo update at some point with our outfits. And yeah, if, rebecca, I found a cowboy can you imagine?
Speaker 2:one of my friends the other day was like you know who should date darius rucker, and I was like, wow, okay, okay, I have no idea, but I love that she said it. I love that you were like oh, and I love that there is a part of being a girl that's just full on to Lulu.
Speaker 1:No, I disagree, Shoot your shot, shoot your shot, I mean really If you was single, I'd slide into the DMs. I mean, why not? What's the worst that can happen?
Speaker 2:I don't know, I just I. For a moment I was like that seems like a wild one.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't. I don't know any of it, Cause I feel like you know well, maybe he'll be at the RDO. Ooh, maybe he will be All right. Darius, here we go, you will be All right.
Speaker 1:Darius, here we go, here we go. All right, guys. Thanks so much for tuning in and we will see you next week.