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73: Blake Lively Drama (yes, again), Taylor Swift Drama, Aura Rings, Local Small Town News, and High School Jobs!

• Kalissa Georgia Kramer

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Kalissa:

Wink. Hello? Hi. Hello, this is Hannah and Issa. And Sarah. Sorry, I forgot to be looking. I kind of said Issa. That was weird. Calissa is my name. I called you Alyssa earlier today. Yeah. So yeah, that was goofy.

Hannah:

Ugh. Anyway, so, um, we're recording on video and we're just trying to learn the placement of everything. So it'll get, you know, give us a minute and if you're on video and saw our last video. Our background's different. Yay. So, um, it's a beautiful

Kalissa:

gray.

Hannah:

Yeah, it is

Sarah:

pretty. Yeah. I love this gray. Mm-hmm.

Hannah:

I know millennials get a lot of flack for the millennial grape.

Sarah:

This is like charcoal though. This isn't like millennial gray. Yeah.

Kalissa:

This is not like I tried gray in my living room and it always came out blue. Mm-hmm. Yeah. This is like a true gray. Mm-hmm. I

Hannah:

wonder, yeah, I'll, I'll have the paint color too, if anyone's interested in looking that

Sarah:

It's Sherwin Williams, 7 0 7 5, I believe.

Hannah:

Mm-hmm. Wow. It took her maybe like two days to do this. So Speedy. Yeah. Yeah. She did a great job. Yeah. I kind of want her to

Kalissa:

do the same. The lines are crisp.

Hannah:

Oh, you don't like a white simple?

Sarah:

I

Hannah:

kind of like a dark se. A dark ceiling. No, it'll make it too small. Yeah. I love that though. I like to be a cave. Okay. Like Fraggle Rock. Yes. You're like a character from there.

Sarah:

I dunno what that is, but yes,

Hannah:

it's from like the eighties I think. Oh,

Sarah:

I don't know

Hannah:

that Fraggle Rock. Okay. I'll show you the puppets. Google it later. Yeah. I'll show you the puppet later.

Kalissa:

Oh gosh. Okay. Well, I have some news that I'm just like dying to share. Let's hear it because I'm all up to date on the Blake Lively saga. So first of all, Travis Kelsey has unfollowed Ryan Reynolds. Oh, really? Yes. Wow. Wow. Okay. That says something. Okay. Mm. TMZ is reporting that this morning, and I would. Trust TMZ for the most part. Do you? Okay. The reputable, they

Hannah:

are very annoying and always in the face, but like they do get stuff. The rumors

Kalissa:

are terrible and cruel, but honey, most of them are true. Taylor Swift. Is that Holly? Rick? Yes. What song? Uh, new Romantics. Okay. 1989, deluxe Edition. Okay. Wow. So it's one of those extra songs, Swifty over here. She's got the whole discography memorized. Yes. So, um, yeah. Uh, so let's go back on why we're talking about Blake Lively to begin with. Okay.'cause she was just, she made head waves again, recently listed as time one hundred's most influential people.

Sarah:

Mm-hmm. Like maybe for the wrong. Reasons, which is very interesting because do you know the reason why she was listed? Why she was nominated? Yes. No. So years ago, her and her husband made a donation to the naacp, which is an organization for black people, like for the,

Kalissa:

you know, in 2019.

Sarah:

Yes. And they only made that donation because they got married on a plantation

Hannah:

and they got called out for it the

Sarah:

year or two or three or whatever before, and they got called out. Yes. So the whole thing was just a media.

Hannah:

Pr. A

Sarah:

pr. A PR thing. Yes. And so now, and I was just like, hmm hmm. Interesting choice. Yes. Someone you're gonna nominate just for doing something. Because they got years ago. Yeah, years ago. Yeah. It's 2025 people. That's like six years ago. Damn. And the wedding, they got married like 10 years ago. Mm-hmm. So like dude.

Mm-hmm.

Kalissa:

Most influential because they made a big donation. Shocker. That money is the root of all evil. You

Sarah:

know what though? If I'm remembering correctly, the donation was only like 200,000 or something. Yeah, 250,000. That's like, so for that, not that much.

Kalissa:

Some forwarders,

Sarah:

yeah. That's like I had to make a donation. Mm-hmm. They had like even just monetarily. Yeah. That's like, ooh. Bottom of the barrel.

Hannah:

You think they spend so much for their lawyer? For the Baldon case?

Sarah:

Oh, I don't know.

Hannah:

Because that's gonna cost them a, yeah. Who knows. Lots. Yeah. Yes.

Sarah:

And then also another controversial thing, sorry to take over, but I heard that her speech, she made her speech about. Her mom, like her, who apparently experienced abuse. It's like sexual abuse,

Hannah:

domestic. Yeah. Yes. And so

Sarah:

I'm like, where was this when you

Hannah:

were promoting it ends with us. Mm-hmm.

Sarah:

And also like, can we stay on track? Like what, what are you being nominated for your donation to the black community? And now what are you talking about in your acceptance speech? Domestic abuse? Like, are, are you on the same wavelength in any area of your life? No. And the speech, I'm said she

Hannah:

was, before she said the speech, he's like, I'm gonna. She didn't even word it correctly. If you feel uncomfortable, please walk out now. Yeah. Like

Kalissa:

it was So if

Hannah:

you

Kalissa:

feel uncomfortable. Yeah. That, well, the way that she worded that was just like very odd. She's very odd.

Hannah:

And then someone caught a clip. It's a trigger warning of her mother looking at Ryan Reynolds. And some people are like, the mom supposedly said, should I cry now? Supposedly like the reader. Oh, liberal reader. Yeah. Oh my

God. Oh gosh. But

Hannah:

then it was like. Yeah. So right now that's what everyone's kind of reading. Oh my should I cry right now is what supposedly was allegedly. Okay. Don't come after me. It's alleged. Oh, Blake, CIA agent. Yeah. So, yeah. Um, what were, what was your take on the Times 100?

Kalissa:

I think that it's all PR stunt. It is? Mm-hmm. Totally. They're doing a

Hannah:

terrible pr. Yes. Do you think they paid, but they think they're

Kalissa:

doing a really good job.

Sarah:

Do you think they paid this lady to nominate her?

Hannah:

Yeah. Award shows are a joke. Yeah. So they're being paid.

Sarah:

It's so odd. The whole thing is just so odd.

Kalissa:

Yeah.

Sarah:

I'm just like a little flabbergasted.

Kalissa:

Yeah. No, and I think that the whole thing with her mom that like was bottom of the barrel, can we please tell your story? Mm-hmm. So that we have some kind of sympathy, empathy. Where was this when they were doing the, it ends with us. Oh, for sure. PR tour. That would be so relatable of her to say. Um, she didn't even have to name her mom. Experienced domestic abuse. Like someone close to me has experienced domestic abuse and I wanted to represent them in this film. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. I felt deeply connected to the role because of it. Not grab your florals. And grab your friends, wear your

Hannah:

florals and head out to see. Yeah.

Sarah:

Yeah. On the, on the topic of unfollowing people, I also heard that, um, Colleen Hoover unfollowed them. Yep. Yes. So, and it's really getting like deep, messy, the girl that played

Hannah:

young, Blake Lively and it ends with us. She unfollowed them. I think she's just like, I don't wanna be associated because like she, she's trying to be out there. She's trying to be a new actress. Yes. And she's like, I don't want you guys to tie me down.

Sarah:

Like it makes sense that she just wouldn't wanna be involved. Yeah.

Kalissa:

Yeah.

Sarah:

So

Kalissa:

I feel really bad for Colleen Hoover because. It's like her personal work, like her. Mm-hmm. Like put, you put your heart and soul into a book. Mm-hmm. Do you know what I mean? Mm-hmm. Like you really pour into it and then it's just completely tarnished now. Mm-hmm. Forever. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Sarah:

That

Kalissa:

even the name will

Sarah:

forever be associated with this whole drama. Mm-hmm.

Kalissa:

Even the new books, like You Can't Buy It Ends with us without a Blake Lively on the cover of it now. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. It's just interesting. Tainted. Mm-hmm. So interesting. Anyway, I guess Taylor Swift is being subpoenaed. Um, so yeah. Love that. I can't wait. I just wonder, I hope she references the dragon line. Yes, I hope so too. I just wonder if she knew about that and I too, and it's okay with being used that way. I think that she would've come out in some way to support Blake by now if she was going to, I mean,

Sarah:

considering how supposedly close they were, I feel like. Yeah. Taylor

Kalissa:

Swift is the godmother to three out of four of her children. Yeah. And wasn't her

Hannah:

daughter Anna Taylor Song? Song? Yes.

Kalissa:

Mm-hmm. Gorgeous Reputation. Ooh, yikes. Yes. Aw, not good. Do you have any more Taylor Swift quizzes? I mean, oh, okay. I thought you were gonna say, do I have anything else to say and I, I do. Okay. Go.

Sarah:

Okay. Well, okay. So I was listening to a playlist the other day, and actually it was really interesting because it was like a two thousands country playlist and her song, um, white Whitehorse, I forget what song it was, where she's like talking about people on the internet. Oh, yeah. I don't know what it's called. I'm sorry.

Kalissa:

The haters on the internet. Yes,

Sarah:

yes, yes, yes. Well,

Kalissa:

comparing all the girls who are killing it. Yes.

Sarah:

And so you need to

Kalissa:

calm down. Didn't that

Sarah:

song come about? Uh, from like tweet, the tweet war between her? Was it Nicki Minaj?

Hannah:

No,

Sarah:

somebody, oh, Katie Perry. Maybe. There was like a tweet war where she like

Kalissa:

commented about

Sarah:

something. Kim Kardashian? Um, no, I don't think so. Well,

Kalissa:

there was a tweet war. I mean, there's been several tweet wars Yes. To begin with. But she like

Sarah:

commented about Yes. Some on a tweet. Yes. Because she thought the tweet was about her, and then it ended up being the tweet wasn't about her or something like that. Yeah. And so then she looked like a fool. Because she ki like inserted herself in this thing that had nothing to do with her. Maybe Nicki Minaj. I think that's why that's, I'm saying I think it was Nicki Minaj. I think so. Do you have an aura ramp? And so then she, when did you get

Kalissa:

it?

Hannah:

Oh, when Nick and I went to Nashville.

Kalissa:

Ooh, I haven't seen it. I love the thick gold van. That's exactly the kind I would get.

Hannah:

Yeah, it's kind of getting banged up.'cause I take it to the gym, but it should, you know. This should be sturdy for the price you pay for it. My God.

Kalissa:

Sorry to

Hannah:

interrupt.

Kalissa:

All right. Squirrel. Squirrel. No, not a real squirrel. What? It's just, that's what I'm thinking.

Hannah:

She had a dog memory brain or a doglike brain dog. Steven. Doug. Kevin.

Sarah:

His name's Kevin. Doug. Doug. Doug. His name's Doug. I forgot. That's like Hannah's favorite movie.

Hannah:

We just watched it the other day.

Sarah:

That's so funny. What movie? Up,

Kalissa:

up. Up. Mm-hmm. Gosh, what were you talking about?

Sarah:

Um, Taylor

Kalissa:

Swift. Taylor Swift.

Sarah:

Oh, the Nicki Mosh tweets. Yes. But anyways, yeah, you need to calm down. I was just, yeah, love it. And I, that just kind of makes me, it makes me think like her being involved in this situation just makes me think of like potentially all the shady things that she. Like, not necessarily as involved in, but like has her little hands in behind the scenes and that just is gross to me. Yeah. Taylor, she's got a strong PR team. Mm-hmm. Taylor? Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. And it's gross and I don't like it. Yeah. I just have like, you know when you kind of just have that discernment about someone and you're like, hmm. You just get a feeling little vibe. That's what I get.

Kalissa:

I don't disagree. I don't think you can get to a place where she's gotten without stepping on people. Yeah. Um, especially, I was just listening to Olivia Rodrigo's Guts album on the way here, and she has a song called The Grudge and it's allegedly about Taylor Swift. Um, how she was inspired by the, the chanting in cruel summer, where she goes, okay. Um. I love you. Ain't that the worst thing you've ever heard? And she kind of yells that. And she said, Olivia, Rodrigo, this new young talent comes by and she's doing PR for her album. And she says, I was so inspired by Taylor Swift's Cruel Summer song. Um, when she says, I love you. Ain't that the worst thing you've ever heard? She kind of yells that. And I was inspired when I was writing Deja vu. I know you get deja vu, right? I kind of yell that in the song as well. So Taylor Swift turned around and. Made her pay royalties for being inspired by that particular part of the song. What, and Olivia was such a Swifty fan and was going around on her PR tour for the album, talking about how much of a Taylor Swift fan, like tout how awesome she was. Yeah, yeah. And allegedly, Taylor Swift gave her a ring. This is before this all went down. Gave her a ring that she wore when she was writing the Red album, and it was kind of like a token of like passing the torch kind of a thing. Yeah. Yeah. And then Taylor Swift turns around and does this. So the song, the Grudge, is about what Taylor Swift did to her. Mm. It's a really great song. This don't think

Sarah:

Taylor would be like that. I do. Because she comes off as this girl's girl. Oh yeah. And then she's like, actually a means girl. Yes. Mm-hmm.

Hannah:

I think it's just all out for her. People from her high school said that she wasn't very nice. She was very, you know. I thought she was better than everyone,

Kalissa:

I'm sure. Mm-hmm. Oh, God. Don't ask people from my high school what they thought of me though. Oh, people. People from my high school, they're probably like, who is that? Who are you talking

Sarah:

about?

Kalissa:

That weird girl who wrote songs.

Sarah:

Yeah, but they wouldn't say like, Callis is a huge B word. I, there's probably two or three people who would say that. Really?

Kalissa:

Yeah, I think so.

Sarah:

Oh, that's a shame. Yeah. Yeah. That's a shame. I could see that You would be like intimidating.

Kalissa:

I've,

Sarah:

yeah, I've said that. I've heard that before. I think also, just'cause you're so tall, that intimidates me

Kalissa:

so tall

Sarah:

because I have to look

Hannah:

up at you. You think Time. I saw Calissa, I was, um, interviewing at a nursing home and you just, you know, just walking like you were like on a power, not a power trip, but like, she was on a mission. She was so confident. Yeah. On a mission. Mm-hmm. And you, you were, you were wearing the strap, the CNA straps. Yeah, the gate belt, yep. Yes. And then the walkie talkies. And you were, and. Clipboard and you were just like, hustling. And I'm like, oh my God, she knows what she's doing. That's the thing.

Sarah:

Like I feel like your intelligence is like, um, projected off of you. Oh. Course. Like that you're very intelligent and like you know what you're doing and you're confident and stuff, stuff. Ignore you guys. And so I feel like that that like part of you is intimidating, I think. Yeah. Yeah, I could So confidence for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Wow. I'm blushing. Oh my gosh. Okay. Now let's say something nice about Hannah or a

Hannah:

ring. Um, no, uh, or a ring. I didn't, you know, I always made fun of Nick for having it, but it would tell him so much information that it just can know, it knows when he's like. Stressed and stuff. And stressed eating. Yeah. He'll like have cereal late at night and it orally, it'll strike his

Sarah:

blood sugar or what? Yeah, I

Hannah:

think

Sarah:

so. Okay. Interesting.

Hannah:

Wow. I mean the graph is really cool and then like it, the period cereal late at night. Yeah. Yeah. It's either cereal or, um. That's funny. Pizza rolls. Um, and then periods like it, you know, tracks your cycle and stuff. Your cycle. Oh,

Sarah:

is that a temperature one? Like it takes your temperature?

Hannah:

I don't think so. Oh, okay. Maybe

Sarah:

I don't know how, I don't know anything about it much. There's, so there's my Apple

Hannah:

watch can take my temperature. Really? Yeah.

Sarah:

I didn't know that.

Hannah:

Yeah. Um, it's pretty cool. So I like it for from my sleep to Yes. Like tracking my sleep and see. Yeah. What does it say about your snoring? The only reason I dug out my track that,

Sarah:

but it like it You can Apple watch, say it'll tell you, sorry. It'll say my, it'll strong

Hannah:

REM.

Sarah:

Right? Exactly. And so then you'll know like if you didn't sleep well that night, like do you attribute that to snoring or like what do you I dunno. Okay. Sorry to bring it back this morning again, but like,

Hannah:

uh, 76 to 82 is my, um. I dunno what that means. Sleep score. Yeah. Sleep score. Thank you.

Sarah:

Is that really good? Is it out of a hundred?

Hannah:

I don't know. Oh. But it's always in that range.

Sarah:

Okay.

Hannah:

It takes a while to update, but it, um, it stays charged for like days. See,

Sarah:

that would bother me. What? That you have to like take it off and charge it?

Hannah:

No, it stays charged for days. I know. But then

Sarah:

I would forget and then it would die and I'd be like, well, what's the fricking point?

Hannah:

Well, its, you

Sarah:

know what I mean? And then like, I don't know. That really just bugs me. I, that's why I don't wear my watch at night. Even if it stays charged, I take it off because I'm like, really? What's the point?

Kalissa:

Sleep tracks your sleep.

Sarah:

Yeah, but that, I don't need that. Okay. So yeah, it does. I can wake up and be like, wow, I slept really good last night. Or wake up and be like, wow, I slept like dog de last night.

Kalissa:

My app has a snoring

Hannah:

monitor. That's cool. I remember when I was wearing my watch, it would like my snore. I'm like, good God, I sound like that.

Sarah:

I just have Calvin who takes Snapchat, videos of me snoring and then sends it to me.

Hannah:

So yeah, total of sleep. Today, I got seven hours. Um, sleep efficiency, 92 Worsting, heart rate, sleep score was 84. Sleep

Sarah:

efficiency, 94. That's pretty good. Really good.

Hannah:

R-E-M-E-M. Sleep about 57 minutes. My cat came and woke me up in the night last night. My sleep score would've been better. They step on your face or something? No, she just wanted a snuggle. Ew. Little mittens. Cats are so

Sarah:

dirty though. Yucky.

Hannah:

She keeps herself clean.

Sarah:

Ick.

Hannah:

Sarah's got some thoughts. So dogs are icky. Cats are icky. Dear. Do you let your dogs sleep with you?

Sarah:

No. We used to, but no. Yeah, they're yucky. Yeah. They walk in poop. Mm-hmm. Baxter will eat a dead animal. Like he's gross. That's nasty. No. Mm-hmm. Does Mohu

Kalissa:

sleep with

Hannah:

you? No. Um, because he like, um, he would hold on the blankets ball. Yes. And my foot would cramp up. Mm-hmm. So I would always just kick him off. Yeah. So he just, he just sleeps on the ground. Yeah.

Sarah:

Oh, poor thing.

Hannah:

Well, we have, you know, my throw pillows, he has to throw it on, so he's always sleeping on all my throw pillows.

Sarah:

Aw, I'll make sure never to sit on your bed area. So I don't hot you.

Hannah:

There you go.

Sarah:

Yeah.

Hannah:

Um, Sarah, what's been new with you? Nothing.

Sarah:

You got a hot chocolate this morning? Literally, literally nothing. Yeah, I did. Nice. First one for a while. It's, it was really good today. Mm mm Extra chocolate. I love it. Do you drink caffeine? No, not really. Just the pop. What Sodas come with caffeine. All sodas. I think Sprites doesn't have any, right? It depends if you get the caffeine or not. What does that mean? Caffeine free. Aren't they all caffeine free? No. Sprite? No. No. Oh, I do drink soda sometimes, but not like super regularly or anything. Yeah, so like you wouldn't get a headache if you went a couple days without, yeah, I get sugar cravings, but no, I don't get headaches from'em. Caffeine

Hannah:

at Fairway, I found a really good protein like cookie, like it actually tastes decent. Ooh. Is it Quest? No. No, but I looked at the ingredients and it has palm oil and vegetable oil and I'm like, dang it. That's what, what makes it

Kalissa:

taste good? Yeah. Speaking of Fairway, um, I went to get Pop as we were discussing, uh, the other day, and it is$10 for a 12 pack of pop.

Mm-hmm.

Kalissa:

What did it used to be? Like five. Five, gosh, you could get, oh my gosh. Three for 10. Yeah. Like

Sarah:

dang. Yeah. There used to be some good deals. Way

Kalissa:

crazy. So you have to wait or you have to, I just go to Walmart, actually. Fairy's kind of pricey. Mm-hmm. Sorry, fairway. I also think we're getting a bad rap. Lower. Your prices used to be like

Sarah:

that. The gas station had cheaper soda than getting it from like a restaurant. Mm-hmm. And it's totally not. No, no. It's like, I feel like gas stations just rob you. Yeah. But restaurants too. They're like two 50 for a glass of soda That's half ice. That's a fountain pop. Yeah. They probably pay maybe 10 cents for one class soda. Have you,

Hannah:

um, waitressed before? Have you ever waitressed any of you guys? No.

Sarah:

Um, I worked like in food, but not waitressing.

Kalissa:

I did dishes at a country club every Sunday for brunch. I did dishes at the nursing home. I love brunch. I also catered weddings. Ooh. Well, I only asked

Hannah:

because my sister-in-law, she used to waitress at Applebee's back in the day. She would hate when people would request no ice. Why? Because on the platter, like you're just like, you have to walk very carefully. Where the ice, it stabilizes your tray. Oh, I suppose so. That's why they like filling it up with ice. Oh, so you're not like,

Sarah:

that's me though. I always say no ice if I can. What chops?

Hannah:

That's

Sarah:

a, not usually at a restaurant for a, a whatever thing, but general, if, if it's cold out of the fridge, like if I go to Golder's, I'm like, no ice. In the drive through no ice. Well, that, that wouldn't be so bad because they're just handing it to And it's a lid. Yeah. Yeah. But I do feel bad. I feel bad at restaurants to say like, no ice, please.

Hannah:

And she's always just like, err. So she's like holding the tray and hoping it'll, it won't like tip over.

Kalissa:

Yeah.

Hannah:

And I'm like, I never thought about that.

Kalissa:

Mm-hmm. That's a good question. What other jobs have you guys had like in high school?

Hannah:

I wish I did more. I wish I was like a register. I wish I worked at a register. What did you do? Lifeguard? Oh yeah, I knew that. Mm-hmm. So when I wanted to get a real job, quote unquote, they were like, do you have any register experience? No. Do you have any stocking experience? No. Do you have any like customer service experience? No. Yeah, and I'm just like, no, but like I'm a fast learner and I can do CPR. I can pick up. Yeah. Uh, yeah, but they just, but you grew

Sarah:

up on a farm. You should have said like, I'm a hard worker. I grew up on a farm, like I know how to. Like use my brain.

Hannah:

I don't wanna lie that much. Oh, okay.

Sarah:

Hannah's not a hard worker. I was not a very, don't hire Hannah on the

Hannah:

farm. No. I was like, forget it. Okay.

Kalissa:

Well

Sarah:

that's one of those times where lying,

Kalissa:

there's something about like just being a farm kid though. Yeah. That gives you life. Well, just living on the in general, because my mom's

Hannah:

like, I think it just makes you tough. Yeah. Because she'd get like run over by a pig or get stepped down by a pig or a tractor would back into her and she'd have to bounce back.

Yeah. Yeah.

Hannah:

Um, my mother-in-law falls on her butt one time, is on bedrest for like four weeks. Like she milks it and it's, I would too, to be honest, but like, I'm just like, wow. Just seeing the difference between like, you know, a city mom and a country mom. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And my mom is like, well, don't give her too much heck, because. You know, I have to do this. Mm-hmm. Like your body's just used to it. Yeah. So,

Sarah:

yeah, when I was growing up, my mom was the one who was like fixing things and carrying things, and like my dad had no knowledge of anything. Like my mom was the one that was always doing stuff. Oh. Oh man. So,

Hannah:

so she's just like naturally pretty tough. Yeah. Or like just, yeah. Shout out to mom.

Kalissa:

Shout

Hannah:

out.

Kalissa:

She listens. She does. She does. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. My mom does never listen to a podcast episode. That's okay. What's her name? Joe. I knew that. Joe.

Sarah:

Joe. Joe. She'll never know if we're talking about her. No. We could

Hannah:

be talking mad shit. Same. We won't though. Well, my mother-in-law, she'll like, I listen. I'm like, no, you'd be mad if you listen. My mom listens though. Yeah. And she's always like, well what was that childhood trauma you were talking about? And I'm like, you have to gimme some context. What was I talking about? Like

Kalissa:

which one? My let page through my diary since I

Sarah:

was born my whole life. Mm-hmm. Every single thing you said. Did anything, any interaction we ever had my whole life. Yeah. What about you? What'd you do growing up when you're like for your jobs?

Kalissa:

Um, I, like I said, I started wedding catering. Oh yeah. That's fun. And I did dishes and I picked up plates and I served cake. That'd be fun. And I did that for cash. That's not so bad under the table. I love that. As a 12-year-old. Oh my gosh. And child labor laws not here. Yes. Yeah. And I started bartending at the same venue when I was 16. Oh, so yeah. Also not appropriate. I would not naming would tall feel like, you know, you could pass. Yeah. Yeah. And they knew me. Mm-hmm. I remember making like little flashcards of like, what drinks and I was like, studying in study hall how to make a drink is so

Sarah:

cute. It was. I

Kalissa:

so, but like I always

Hannah:

wondered when you'd go to like a bartender and be like, yeah, I wanna seven and seven.

Sarah:

What's

Hannah:

that? Oh yeah. Say some, like some drink names.

Kalissa:

Yeah. Seven and seven. A screwdriver, a cherry bomb. You know. No idea. Like you didn't

Sarah:

know a Chuck Norris. No. Come on.

Kalissa:

You could never

Sarah:

bartend for me though.

Kalissa:

Yeah, probably not. Well, honestly, people are pretty, if you're like, what is in that? Yep. And yeah, I was also the bartender. Like I

Hannah:

just don't do like dark or yeasty drink. Yeah, I do. Fruity, sugary, sugary, sugary, fruity drinks. Yep. So I'm always like. Give me a sugary, fruity drink. And they always, they have like the best like, oh, try this. And I actually end up liking it.

Sarah:

Yeah, yeah,

Hannah:

yeah. And Nick will do the same thing. My wife wants something sugary and fruity. Make something up. They're like, got it. And I'm like, this is delicious. And I get hammered. Oh gosh. After like the first couple sips. Oh gosh. Yeah.

Kalissa:

Um, I did a lot of babysitting. Oh yeah. Lots of babysitting. Did you babysit? I I dabbled a little bit into it. Yeah. Dabbled. I was like full-time summer nanny. First a couple families, but until I turned 16 and then I was in the nursing home. Did you

Hannah:

get a lot of confidence doing that because your mom did daycare?

Kalissa:

Yes, and most of, when my mom quit doing daycare, it like her friends, most of the families Yeah. Hired me on then. Yeah. Oh, nice. So,

Hannah:

okay.

Kalissa:

Yeah. And then, um, like I said, I washed dishes at the country club. I did that like probably a total of 20 times, like not. It wasn't very consistent, it was just during the summer. Um, and then like CNA in high school was, uh, I really liked doing that. It was a good job. It paid 10 25 an hour. That was a lot. That was good. At the time, that was super good for high school money. I was like money bags. I was

Sarah:

an assistant manager and I didn't even make that. Yeah, yeah. In high school, uh, I wasn't even high. Well, let's see. No, I was in college assistant manager at Famous Footwear. I made like 9 25. You as an assistant manager, assistant manager. When did you start? Um,

Hannah:

so high, you said in college, so 2013? I was, yeah,

Sarah:

maybe. Maybe, yeah. 2013, probably. Mm-hmm. 20. Yeah, probably. Yep. Mm-hmm. Nope, no one hired me. You could have worked for anywhere that I worked. Pita Pit, they would've hired you. You worked at Pit. They math addict. Yeah.

Kalissa:

Nice.

Sarah:

Yeah, they, where else? Hired druggies. Ooh. Um, so before I worked at Pita Pitt, when I was just a child, like in the summer, me and my friend,'cause her mom worked for the school district, we would go in and like cut papers and do like random odd jobs for cash. That was fun.'cause I get to stay over at her house for like a week. Then she would just like drive us to and from the school and like hang out. It was fun. Um, and then I worked at Pita Pit for like four years probably Pita Pit's. So good. It is so good. I've never been to a pita pit. It's delicious.

Hannah:

We'll take you.

Sarah:

Yeah, it's good. It's expensive though. Mm.

Hannah:

On Wednesdays it's like double meats for half the price.

Sarah:

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You get the day wood. It's really good falafel. They have good falafel. Wow. Turkey club don't like falafel. That's good. Really. Too dry. You gotta sauce it up. Oh, cook it in oil and then sauce it up. That's delicious. Falafel some pepper jack cheese. Describe

Kalissa:

what a falafel is.

Sarah:

It's um, like a chickpea meatball. Like a tofu. Like it's not tofu. Well, no, but like, it's

Hannah:

like in a cube. Like a tofu? Yeah.

Sarah:

Sort of. Yeah. It's like

Hannah:

a little

Sarah:

meatball kind of seasoning. It's, uh, Greek, I think.

Kalissa:

Oh, I'm making that face again.

Sarah:

Oh yeah. After we started filming last time or whatever, everyone was like, Ooh, I do these weird things all the time.

Kalissa:

This is my face

Sarah:

frowning. Yeah, I was just biting my nails. That's like your contemplative face, like you're contemplating what I'm saying. I look like a fish while you're looking. Nah, you look fine.

Hannah:

The pow, pow fish. Yeah.

Sarah:

Cute you guys. That's it. That and, um, famous footwear. That's it. Nice. And then I worked at a, after that I worked at school, but I was an adult, so doesn't count. Yeah.

Hannah:

So you said, uh, they hired, supposed, allegedly methods at Pita Pit. Oh, yeah. Um, it like

Sarah:

wasn't a secret.

Hannah:

What the hell is going on with Mason City right now?

Sarah:

Dude, whoa. There's been so much stuff. I just

Kalissa:

joined the Ran and Rave group and I'm just like, thank goodness. Whoa.

Sarah:

A lot of shootings lately.

Hannah:

Yeah. The, and it sucks because, well, the shootings, they said it was, it's been a feud. So it's not like it was a random shooting. It was like, no, it was premeditated, two groups that just were always feuding. Mm-hmm. And they did it at like 9:30 PM at, I mean, think goodness at a public park. Yeah. So it wasn't like in the daylight, but still, I'm like, children play there. Like, why don't you guys do this in your backyard? Why don't you just. Roll your sleeves down and just go each other's

Sarah:

houses and beat each other up. Just do a touch. You don't need, you know, knives and guns and bows and arrows and whatever else kind of stuff. Mm-hmm. People are, it's crazy. So

Hannah:

that happened and then just the other day, my tattoo artist who works downtown, she's parked there for years. Mm-hmm. Her car was just, um, someone just grabbed a baseball bat and just started smashing people's vehicles. Oh my gosh. That's actually

Sarah:

been kind of an issue. I think downtown. There was some kids that was doing weird stuff. Nope. Like a couple months ago

Hannah:

I saw this person's mugshot and they were grown. That

Sarah:

girl.

Hannah:

Yeah.

Sarah:

Oh, I was just gonna say, there was some girl on a rampage with a baseball bat.

Hannah:

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Sarah:

And they, oh gosh. They got

Hannah:

my, they got my tattoo artist's, you know, her three windows. Dang. And I'm like, Nicholas, I go there for a tattoos, like hopefully she

Sarah:

has good insurance.

Hannah:

I would be so mad. Yeah. You gotta be careful

Sarah:

downtown though, because people will be walking downtown and it's nuts sometimes. It's, it's insane.

Mm-hmm.

Hannah:

So that happened. Um, a poor, innocent little boy that's been missing. They just found his body like right near the park. In the river. Yeah. He had to pull his body out of the river. Yeah. How old?

Sarah:

I think he was 16. Yeah. Oh,

Hannah:

he was missing in the beginning of, was it April? I think at the beginning of April. I didn't hear anything about it. I think they're trying to maybe keep it on the low. There was,

Sarah:

yeah. There was not much information released and it was multiple days before they were like confirmed that it was this kid. Oh. So there's just been a lot. Yeah. Going on recently. And this all just happened in the, the month of April. Yes. And then I sent you guys that there were supposedly some updates about the Jody Entru thing. Yeah. That's really coming. Like allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah. Allegedly. Yeah.

Hannah:

So you could probably follow this guy because his, um, profiles public. Mm-hmm. Um, so, but he is digging up Jody Hu's case. Mm-hmm. And he's really just spewing, trying to get in there. Yeah. Spewing information of. This is a total inside job. Mm-hmm. Of cops. Wasn't she trying to like report

Kalissa:

on Yeah. There's been like some scandal within the farming community

Hannah:

that, that she was getting close to like cracking this case. Yeah. They knew she was getting close and they just, yeah. Really sad. Mm-hmm. So it wasn't, his

Sarah:

name's Phil Biman, by the way. If you wanna look, if you wanna follow

Hannah:

him on,'cause I think he has a TikTok now too. Mm-hmm. Where he's like, that's what I heard going in depth, um, videos of mm-hmm. What he's finding. Yeah. Yeah. Philip Biman. Mm-hmm. It's pretty sad. It is. But it, it just gets, I don't know, you just get like the spooks. Yeah.

Sarah:

Okay. Question. This is maybe the, um. I dunno, the word that I'm trying to think of, like kind of taboo, but like, if they solve her case, like what's gonna happen to the community in terms of like what we're known for, you know what I mean? Hmm. Like, we're gonna kind of be like nothing Does that make, does that mean, does that make sense? Like you feel like Mason City is known for that kind of, yeah. And then all of a sudden we won't have that anymore and like. What will people like grasp onto? It's definitely not music, man. They're really trying to push the music, man. Yeah. But that's like,

Hannah:

exactly. People don't care about

Sarah:

musicals.

Hannah:

I care. And you know, if they redid them, you know, they've been wanting Square. Yeah. The music man to be like redone or like, you know, isn't that downtown too? Just to get it talking again. So people were like the musical or the, the musical, the movie. Why would

Sarah:

they wanna redo it?

Hannah:

They had to redo everything Hollywood, you know, it's Hollywood. So was everything else. I know, and I didn't feel like it was necessary to redo it, but wouldn't it be cool to have Hugh Jackman? You know, like, no. Bring some wait publicity

Sarah:

a handful of years ago. Wasn't he? Wasn't it said that he was here because he was supposedly looking at the role.

Hannah:

I don't think so. I thought, yes, but maybe I think like in New York, you know Broadway. Yeah. I think that's what was going on.

Mm.

Kalissa:

Oh hmm. But I did that musical in high school.

Mm. Mm-hmm.

Kalissa:

I can't remember what love it was. I know I was the lady Maryanne, who was no.

Hannah:

Oh, it's been a long time

Kalissa:

since

Hannah:

I've seen that

Kalissa:

movie. Yeah. The music man, it's, it's, it's such a distant memory and I was so pissed at our musical director that I was just like bitter the whole time and like didn't participate any ounce more than I had to

Hannah:

because why?

Kalissa:

I was so mad at the music director. Because you didn't get the role you wanted or what? No, for reasons I will not discuss. Okay. Discuss. So we'll talk about it after we're done here. Yes. You're like

Hannah:

me. You just like, don't you just half-ass it when you're in half?

Kalissa:

Yes, yes. Oh, shoot. I was very upset. Oh shoot. I quit choir and did not go out for the musical my senior year.

Hannah:

Oh, dang. That was a

Kalissa:

big statement because I had been starring in musicals literally since I was. Weren't you in show choir too? First grade? Yeah. Oh, I was in chamber choir. I was in, my mom would've never let me quit. Choir. Swing choir. I was in all of the choirs, all of the extracurriculars that I could do.

Sarah:

Mm-hmm.

Kalissa:

Oh no.

Sarah:

Did they, like what? Did you even do your senior year? Were you just fricking bored? It was a senior

Kalissa:

semester. Because I graduated early. Oh yeah. Um, I did cheerleading, which was funny. I was a senior. I was a senior and I didn't even make varsity team. Oh shoot. So I couldn't travel with them. I just did home games'cause I was so terrible. And Oh, football cheerleader. Yeah. That's funny. So terrible and uncoordinated. But, um, I had fun doing it. Yeah, I suppose that's literally all the, and then I was in so many college classes'cause I was gearing up to start the nursing program the next August, go straight into the nursing program. I took, uh, EMT class. That took up a lot of time.

Mm-hmm.

Kalissa:

Um. That was every Tuesday and Thursday from six to 10. For at night?

Sarah:

Mm-hmm.

Kalissa:

Oh gosh. Six to 10. Yeah. Dang. For how many weeks?

Sarah:

Like six weeks. Oh, 12.

Kalissa:

Oh geez. Yeah, it was a long time. Wow. And then you had clinicals on top of that, so you had to go ride in the ambulance on your time off. That'll be fun.

Sarah:

Dang. It was fun. Also kind of scary though,

Kalissa:

riding

Hannah:

on an

Kalissa:

ambulance. Yeah.'cause he, I was certain that's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. That's the ambulance. Mm-hmm. EMT. Yep. I wanted to be a paramedic so bad. I can actually kind of see you doing it. And my mom said, no, you're going to be a nurse. It pissed me off. Oh, Joe. Joe. Wow. It pissed me off so bad. She really kept you on. Yes. With a leash. Yeah. Dang. No, she pretty much, yeah, we talk about it now. Nobody put close in a corner. We talk about it now and I'm very thankful for where I'm at. I'm very glad I went to nursing school. I'm very glad I didn't be a paramedic. Mom was correct. You were right, mom. Oh, there we go, Jill. No, she'll ever know. She'll never know. Right. Uh, but. Yeah, so that was my career path. I still have my EMT. I can still work on an ambulance if I want to. You do?

Sarah:

Mm-hmm.

Kalissa:

You've kept it up?

Hannah:

Yep. Wow, okay. You never know. Yeah. Cool. So

Sarah:

I guess that's good. If we ever need you for like trauma, quick trauma response. Yes, I'm ready. Call Scott. She's good under pressure.

Hannah:

Yeah, yeah. No,

Sarah:

me too. I freak out. I'm a freak. Yeah,

Hannah:

I'd be like, let me look at this situation. Let me evaluate it. I know I need like

Sarah:

five minutes to be like, okay, we're gonna do this. We're gonna do it.

Hannah:

Yeah. Yeah. I'm just not good at that stuff, so Not problem solvers.

Sarah:

Cliff is a problem solver. Yeah.

Hannah:

There we go. I, and I always, like when Nick and I were watching loss when we had binge uh, series together. Um, you know, we watched Lost and everybody's looking at Jack, I think that's the main character's name.'cause he was a doctor and he knew, knew what he was doing. Everybody paid attention to him. They would take his word, they would, you know, listen to him. He was the leader. And I'm like, how do they just know? And it's like, you just gotta have that confidence. Mm-hmm. And I, he's like, I'd be the leader. And I'm like, I'd be a leader too. And he's like, Hannah wouldn't be a leader. He'd be like, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Sarah:

Speaking of doctors, do we wanna talk about the pit? Oh, did you guys finish finally?

Kalissa:

Oh yes, we better before it leads our mind. Okay,

Sarah:

because I have my notes written. Let me get'em out.

Kalissa:

Do we wanna save this for a whole episode or maybe should we record it? I mean, what, we're already at 36 minutes. This could be a episode. Okay, good. Because I got a, I got and then stuff written down.

Sarah:

We'll

Hannah:

do, this is kind of, um, like a fun, just kind of episode, some gossip we talked about a lot. Um, if you're here at the end, so what was your first job in high school? Mm-hmm. And did you enjoy it? Mm-hmm. Um, Blake Lively. What do we think? Yeah, I feel like

Sarah:

how much longer can this go on? I think it's, and do you think that the um, case is gonna be televised?'cause they've gotta go to court. Like actual court proceed. You're right now. Oh really?

Kalissa:

I thought so. Or are they just in discovery? Dude, I don't

Sarah:

know, but let's televise it.

Kalissa:

Yeah. Yeah. Like the Amber heard Johnny Death trial. Yeah. Come on. I

Sarah:

need some tiktoks. Yes. Filling up my feed.

Kalissa:

Yes. Um, Candace Owen. Covers it really well. Yeah, she does. Yeah. And, uh, Issa's got some thoughts. I don't like Candace Owen. I know you don't, but Candace Owen came on and just admitted that she was wrong about Donald Trump. Yeah,

Hannah:

I saw that and I was, I saw that too. Whoa. Yeah, that's while. Um, because on

Sarah:

college campuses, they're trying to like stifle free. It was about the Harvard free speech or something. Is that what it was? I forget

Hannah:

because I think Trump is like, uh, no more, um, protesting or something. No more. He

Kalissa:

wants control of the curriculum. Oh, he wants them to only learn certain things that are approved by the government. Interesting. Yeah. Hmm. So anyway, I was, I just saw that from Canne Owens. I'm like, I saw that too. It takes a lot of guts to stand up on your public platform and say you're wrong. So I, that's actually a good

Hannah:

thing, you know, instead of like just. You know, bullshitting your way out. Yeah. Yeah. Um, just to come out and admit that stuff like that just kinda shows.

Kalissa:

Uh, is she a journalist?

Hannah:

Yeah.

Kalissa:

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Journalism. She got a follow for me after that.

Sarah:

That says a lot. You know, I really think that it's okay to like agree with some parts of someone's politics. What everyone disagree with some other parts, what everyone to know. It's not so cut and dry all the time. It

Hannah:

should be okay to admit that you are wrong. Yeah. Blake Lively. If you were just to come out and be like, Hey, you know what, I fucked up. Yeah. I think everyone would be like, yeah.

Kalissa:

Okay,

Hannah:

girl.

Kalissa:

I know we're trying to end this episode, but did you also see Blake Lively's dress for the, um, most recent a simple favor premiere? I did. It has like the lace or like the lattice. Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Kalissa:

Every single, if I were to wear that dress, my fat would be sticking out. Every single one of those holes would be like sticking out of every single hole. Mm-hmm. Have you seen it? Okay. Thought it was a cute

Sarah:

dress. Anna Ken Kendrick looked, it was a super cute dress. So good.

Hannah:

Anna Kendrick dress. She's cutie.

Sarah:

Yeah, she looked very good in her clothes

Hannah:

and like the simple favorite too. You know, there was a teaser that came out. Mm-hmm. And people are already making fun of Blake Lively for her weird mouth lip thing that she does. Yes. She was trying to like, you know, come back from the day. Oh funny. That's the dress. That is not what she, that's not what I saw. Lemme see. Lemme see. Oh my God.

Sarah:

Yeah. I think it's cute. I, it's the bottom. I don't love the color color, but like I said, I

Kalissa:

could never wear that because

Sarah:

I would just be like, I would, you'd be

Hannah:

like that squi, that

Kalissa:

squishy ball that like,

Sarah:

I would be like a cannabis biscuits just popping out the size of, I'd be like sucking it in all night. So

Kalissa:

I saw that dress and I'm like,

Hannah:

well, that's

Kalissa:

not for

Hannah:

me.

Sarah:

I didn't love the color,

Hannah:

but the teaser. Yeah, so they did the. Caesar and Anna Kendrick is like, what are you doing here? And people in the comments are like, they're not acting

Sarah:

right. Like, they actually like don't like each other. There was

Kalissa:

a picture of her with her arm around Anna Kendrick, and she's like literally like hovering over. She has like her hand there and she's like hovering over. I mean, I would h her also. Yeah, yeah.

Sarah:

Drunk. It's very common though. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Kalissa:

So let us know your thoughts on, um, everything, everything, everything ever of it that's happened. Ever comment, anything? Yeah, I could tell. Uh, shout out to Danielle. Yes. I could tell she got caught up on what episode?

Sarah:

I know. She messaged me and she was like, your sister lives. Blah in decor. And I was like, yeah. She's like, oh my gosh, I'm catching up right now. And then I go to our Instagram and there's eight comments from her. I love it.

Kalissa:

It's so funny. I You shout out to Danielle. Yeah. Yeah. I love it. We love you. Biggest fan, so thank you. Yeah. Oh, my boss listens to this. Can I give Madison a shout out? Yeah, go for it. She's awesome. She's wonderful. What up Madison? She started all the way back up at zero. Wow. Oh, good for her. Very first episode. So she's making her way. It might be a while before she episode, she's like waiting for you to like drop something so

Hannah:

she can be like, fire a calissa

Kalissa:

for this. In a year she'll

Hannah:

text you and be like,

Sarah:

Hey. Oh my gosh, you just ran that episode where you shouted me out. Oh my

Hannah:

gosh. So it'll probably take her a couple months to catch up. Shout out to Madison, shout out to Danielle. Shout out to

Sarah:

everybody. Miley. Miley. Yes. I think that's how

Hannah:

you say that name. Yep. Yep.

Sarah:

Nice. Okay. And Joe,'cause she doesn't listen.

Kalissa:

And Joe and, and my mom. Yep, your

Hannah:

mom.

Kalissa:

Alright.

Sarah:

This has

Kalissa:

been Hannah and Issa.

Sarah:

And Sarah. Sorry.

Kalissa:

Sorry. Bye.