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He Went To The Hospital!!
It's December! This week we talk about Alex's painful trip to the ER from an infection, in a precarious place. We also play a game to get a litter deeper where we reminisce on some childhood crushes and share funny stories. We end with sports trivia (because this is also a sports podcast).
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Allison Florea
Alex Hinsky
Okay, so you wait, we'll get it. Let's do our intro. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Speaker 2:It's always your name first, five, four, three, two, one. Welcome back to the a-list podcast with alex and alexan it's always your name first alexan and alex alexan and alex my bad. Um, I'm wearing the same thing that we I wore last time because we had to record too because of the holiday, so just keep that in mind this is a pre-recorded episode episode so.
Speaker 1:So my voice is still gone.
Speaker 2:And I'm still orange.
Speaker 1:It's very holiday-y, okay. So, allison, for those of you listening and watching, because that's anyone that's currently hearing my voice?
Speaker 2:You're here. That's what's happening.
Speaker 1:Allison hosted. Finally, after living in her apartment for 19 years, has finally hosted her first get-together.
Speaker 2:Honestly, kill me If I'm there for 19 years. Has finally hosted her first get together. Kill me if I'm there for 19 years, kill me no, but um, she has a great space for it.
Speaker 1:But I've always I've been like when are you hosting? When are you hosting?
Speaker 2:I know I didn't do it before because I was not proud of it, of my decorations and stuff. Because when I first moved in you guys know this macy was very expensive with her medical bills and so I moved in I spent all my money on movers for one because I could not fathom moving myself or asking people to help me. So I spent my saved money for the move really on moving. Yeah, so when I got there and I got a few things that I needed, then I was like I have no extra money now to put, you know, art on the wall.
Speaker 1:What you did, have you put into Macy?
Speaker 2:Yeah, Like the extra was to that. So for the first nine months it was nothing on the walls, nothing at all. And then I started.
Speaker 1:Well, there was a green wall.
Speaker 2:Yes, we did paint the wall green. You guys know that. So then I slowly started putting things on the walls, and I had sort of a vision that I wanted to go with.
Speaker 1:I got this one piece of art from Ikea that's like a woman's hand and it's got like jewelry and I've had that forever.
Speaker 2:I did. It's like emerald. The colors are kind of like emerald and orange and pink. There's like stuff like that in it. So that was what I was basing everything in my living room upon it was a centerpiece yeah, I wanted those colors to be present.
Speaker 2:So then I was kind of looking for things that match that vibe. It's giving cool Victorian queen, but but also modern vibe. I don't know what that's called in the you know design world, but I it took me a long time to find artwork that I felt like went with that piece. So I've just gotten to the point where I'm like okay, I like where this is, there's art in the kitchen, there's stuff on the walls, I have a cute bookshelf, all these things. So I was finally like okay, now I would like people to come see this because I feel like it is put together. So that's really what happened.
Speaker 1:And the theme was boards, so everyone brought a different board. If you follow us on Instagram or Twitter was boards, so everyone brought a different board.
Speaker 2:If you follow us on Instagram, or Twitter. Tiktok I don't think I put it on Instagram yet, but I will and that's a common sort of thing on TikTok. It's a trend where you have these board parties and everyone brings a themed board and it can be whatever, not just charcuterie, it could be literally anything. So I thought that was like an easy way to do food, because around this time everyone's doing friends givings and everyone's making the traditional foods and I know, like that group of people probably has you know subsects of friends that are doing friends givings and I was like these people do not want to be making a mac and cheese casserole.
Speaker 2:mac and cheese casserole, whatever you know, like four different times during this time. So I thought it was an easy way to just kind of have food, but it not be super involved, if you will.
Speaker 1:And it was great, I brought a cookie board.
Speaker 2:It was good I had a cookie this morning. Actually they are kind of stale now, but you left me a couple.
Speaker 1:I sure did. Josh requested it.
Speaker 2:He did and he took, he ate.
Speaker 1:Josh had the winning board, Everyone he made meatballs and he had bacon. There was actually just pieces of really good bacon which I like.
Speaker 2:Didn't even think that you were going to. I knew. I know that you like bacon, but I, in my mind, I didn't think that you love. I wasn't like oh, alex is going to die for this. Andosh was very excited that you were so excited. But the thing about it is is anytime he's hung out with our friends he's like you guys don't ever have real food that's like he went to we saw a movie, uh, the hollywood forever cemetery, with like caleb and hayley and stuff, and it was charcut.
Speaker 2:But he saw the list of what people were bringing, what Haley had said, and it was really just like crackers and cheese and he was like there's no food and this is like dinner time. So we picked up like some chicken to take some popcorn, chicken and stuff and everyone was like, wow, thank you for doing this. Yeah, there's no food, cause that um outdoor movie, the, the normal one we go to the at the Autry museum they have food trucks and stuff so you can get real food. Synespia at the Hollywood forever does not Got it. They have candy, but it's not food Got it Okay.
Speaker 2:And then other gatherings. It's just like we have bits and but we'd never have like food, food. So he was like I'm bringing meat to this. And it was like, yeah, it was meatballs and bacon and there was shrimp and popcorn. Shrimp or popcorn, chicken and stuff like that, or chicken, you know like glazed chicken. Yes, and that was very good. I made it Boneless wings.
Speaker 1:That's the word, jesus. Yes.
Speaker 2:I made a mini baked potato board, which I've also seen on Tik TOK, where it's, you know, a little potato that you can eat in two bites, but you also put all the toppings on it.
Speaker 1:It's so cute.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you made cookies. We had one of our friends made a board with different gummy candy on it. That was good.
Speaker 1:We had a dip board pizza board, pizza traditional, charcuterie board. Yes, we, we had, emily did a sandwich board board.
Speaker 2:Pizza board, pizza A traditional charcuterie board yes, we had it pretty much covered. Emily did a sandwich board Sandwich yes, so cute, so we had it covered.
Speaker 1:It was pretty delish. We was munching all night.
Speaker 2:I also did a fruit.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Which eh?
Speaker 1:It's fine, it's good to have. Yeah, it was nice App, good to have apples and caramel, and then we played some Jackbox TV games. It was a lovely evening. You were a great host.
Speaker 2:Wow, thank you so much. I really appreciate that. I appreciate you. Let me borrow so many things so happy to help whatever's needed whenever. I had to borrow Alex's vacuum because my I have two different vacuums. I have a robot vacuum and I have just like a cheap push one, and none neither of them have the level of suction that I want.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Cause you know, just like over time, the uh rugs you just need extra suction. So, honestly, I need to be a big girl and I need to get like a really nice vacuum, but they're so expensive.
Speaker 1:Okay, I have two things. One can we talk about nipples on this podcast?
Speaker 2:Why not?
Speaker 1:Okay, so interesting thing that. I discovered interesting thing I discovered about my nipples the other day.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm scared.
Speaker 1:Okay, so first of all, two things. You know that, like when you tan your body and nipples exposed, your nipples change colors, like they get darker.
Speaker 2:Sure, maybe you didn't. I haven't tanned since like high school when you tan your body and you shouldn't be tanning either.
Speaker 1:I have. When I was tanning I had lighter I have lighter nipples, but when you tan they get darker forever Well, no, then they go back.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Except, so I haven't been tanning since what the summer?
Speaker 2:since.
Speaker 1:June, I mean July, right before I went home for cedar point. Okay, I was like admiring my new toned physique and I was like hold the phone my left and I am not. I had no tan anymore my left nipple has gone back to normal. My right nipple is still so dark and I've never noticed that before no here's the question. Here's the question, though. Here's the question though Is it because of tanning and it's just held, or is it because it's the nipple that got the that got majorly infected?
Speaker 2:But why would that affect the color?
Speaker 1:The pigment? Yeah, I don't know. So anyway, nipples are weird. No, nipples are weird. I have two different colored nipples. Do they know about your?
Speaker 2:serious infection. Who the listener? Oh, I don't know, guys.
Speaker 1:So I have pierced nipples and he's crazy, I'm crazy and my uh play along with me. Everyone is going to make the the same noise, I'm sure when I tell this part I was pulling a like milk crate style storage box off of a shelf to put it down on the ground. On its route from above my head down to the ground, it grabbed onto my nipple ring as I was dropping it.
Speaker 2:Did you have a shirt on?
Speaker 1:I had a very thin tank top. Okay, let's just say I was a hundred percent sure my nipple was gone. I was like this pain, I was like you know, when you've been like, are so hurt that you start gagging, like you're going to throw up.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was that. It's like getting kicked in nuts. Oh, I wouldn't know, or maybe the vag? I'm sure that hurts too.
Speaker 2:I'm sure it does, but I don't think it's the same because you have external but I looked nothing, nothing, it wasn't even bleeding.
Speaker 1:It was just like really red. No, it wasn't bleeding. That's pretty crazy Two days later my nipple expands to the size of unbelievably like three times its size.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, maybe because it expanded. So much it could have it changed the pigment?
Speaker 1:Long story short. Y'all, I like, tried everything. I didn't want to go to the hospital. I I tried and for a week it just kept getting bigger. And then I went to a party with a couple friends and it was the most unbearable pain. By the end of the night I was like I don't want you guys to freak out, I need to go to the emergency room because now then I was feeling feverish, so I thought, maybe I had like an infection, yeah get to the er.
Speaker 1:They're like, yeah, they're like, um, we actually don't release like nipples because there's so many nerves in them. Like even in men we don't do that. So they gave me an antibiotic and we're basically like put a hot compress on it, started the antibiotic that night. The next day I was like barely sleeping, couldn't handle it. Put the hot compress on it was like I was starting to feel better and then, guys, like like an ever-flowing waterfall, my nipple just was releasing so much disgusting pus and blood. It felt so good. I was like, finally, relief. Here's what I will say about the whole experience. I had to take this antibiotic for like seven days and what it did is it healed both of my nipples from the actual piercing yeah.
Speaker 1:So like as soon as I got through that round of antibiotics, like I have had perfect nipples.
Speaker 2:I wonder so if anyone is a mother out there that has breastfed, I want to know if your nipple changed. Your nipples changed from breastfeeding Cause I do feel like they get bigger. I don't know. That's my guess I haven't done it, but that's my guess.
Speaker 1:So breastfeeding mamas who have their nipples pierced does the milk come out in like three places.
Speaker 2:I wonder if you have to take it out.
Speaker 1:Probably right Cause then the baby could like swallow it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think that you can probably have it in Wow the baby could like swallow it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't think that you can probably have it in Wow Anyway, so I just wanted to bring that up.
Speaker 2:I can't believe that I have two different colored nipples. Thanks for coming to nipple corner.
Speaker 1:And if anyone knows what that means. If it means something like I need to go to the get it checked out. Drop a line.
Speaker 2:I would be interested. Maybe you should go to the dermatologist because you have fake and baked. Maybe you should just get checked.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, it's not on the agenda right now.
Speaker 2:I understand that, but I care about your wellbeing and your health and I would like you to be around for many decades, so you should get checked. I am also saying that because I got checked and it was a relief to know that I don't have any skin.
Speaker 1:You worry about your skin more than anyone else, I know, but you don't care about your eyes as much as you should.
Speaker 2:That's true. I don't not care, I just don't think to care.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I care too much probably about my eyes.
Speaker 2:But now, since knowing you, I do wear sunglasses more than I did.
Speaker 1:Good.
Speaker 2:So thank you for that.
Speaker 1:You're welcome. The other thing I want to say. So I was at boxing today as I do. And the manager of the studio pulls me aside and goes what do you do for a living? And I was like we live in LA.
Speaker 2:What do you mean?
Speaker 1:I was like a little of this, a little of that, to be honest.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And she was like, okay, I have like this, I have a delusion, and I was like, oh, do share. She was like, oh, do share. And she was like I want you to audition to be a coach here, and I was like Whoa? She was like would you consider it? And I was like you know, you're not the first person to say that to me, but like I don't know what all it entails.
Speaker 1:She's like we don't have to get into the details right now, I just want you to think about it and then you let me know, and then we can talk about it okay, and I was like damn maybe yeah I mean, the reason I had, like always, stopped the fantasy in my head is because they're currently hiring coaches, but they require so much of you, like so many certifications oh yeah and I have none of those. So my I'm wondering if that's like to get hired in you. You need to have those, or?
Speaker 2:you know, I get hired and then they make you do that or CPR, like that type of thing.
Speaker 1:Well, that is no, like I R S S whatever certified, like personal trainer certified, okay, um, there's like four different certifications. You have to have at least one of the four CPR training as part of being high, just being there and like learning how to use the idea, idea, which that's fine. I I'm saying that I think I wonder if you get to bypass that stuff, if you've been taking there long enough that they, because, like they, approached me because of my skill, because they're like you, I'm on beat yeah, it's really the only requirement yeah, I can keep up with the entire class yeah I know what I'm doing, and selena was like, and uh, you could be on a mic.
Speaker 1:And I was like, oh, I can be on a mic. She's like that is the part that usually like gets people oh my gosh. You could like sing and do runs oh my god, yeah, and I could make my own mixes that'd be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's like the most fun part that I think you would have.
Speaker 1:Selena was yeah, that's the part that people get tripped up on. Is they like get on the mic and then they're like?
Speaker 2:and that's where they like mess up on the audition. That is like the least.
Speaker 1:So I was like, okay, I'm going to think about it and talk to Namco on Friday and then just be like what does this entail? Like what would I need to do? Creative mix and then like, teach a few of you, fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a combination. A combination, yeah Fun.
Speaker 1:So that could be, I can come take your class. For free.
Speaker 2:Wow, that'd be so fun.
Speaker 1:Got to get my friends in there to spread the word and get footage.
Speaker 2:Yeah. Anyway, just thought that was interesting and it was kind of like oh well, everyone in the comments, tell Alex, give him encouragement to do it, because I think he should.
Speaker 1:I would love it. I think I would enjoy it. Yeah, I would have to really stick to being a morning person cause I would have to do some like five 30 in the morning classes Five 30.
Speaker 2:Oh, you would have to.
Speaker 1:You couldn't be like yeah, that's like that's a seniority situation over there, so like I would get whatever.
Speaker 2:True.
Speaker 1:The only thing is like if I had a 530 class in Santa Monica.
Speaker 2:Actually, that's not that bad. You would get there so fast.
Speaker 1:And also as the coach, you don't necessarily have to take the full class.
Speaker 2:I just have to make them do it yeah.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it's something to think about. Something to think about.
Speaker 2:Wow, I support.
Speaker 1:Anyway, I'll let you go. I'll keep you guys posted, okay.
Speaker 2:I see that you have a game in front of me.
Speaker 1:Oh yes. So normally we play the five second rule, but I thought, in honor of the holidays, why don't we play this? This is a connection game where we ask each other questions to get a little deeper. Let's see if.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, what? I don't know.
Speaker 1:So there's three levels. There's like green, which is what does it say? Close? Which is what does it say close, closer and closest yes so like they get progressively, like deeper, they're not necessarily dirty, I don't know you don't think they're dirty at all but I thought let's ask each other like one of each level and see if it sparks any conversation okay, you want.
Speaker 2:First you're asking me, I ask you, and then you ask me.
Speaker 1:So I'm gonna ask you not that one, because you'll get really stuck. Oh God, what is your favorite?
Speaker 2:animal, and why Okay. So growing up I really loved beluga whales.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:And I think they're so cute. I really loved going to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. That's like in Indiana you kind of go to Chicago for things because it's so close, yeah, and they have the Shedd Aquarium and they have the other.
Speaker 1:Lincoln Park Zoo.
Speaker 2:Museum of Science and Industry. Those are like the two like museums that you go to, and I loved going to the Shedd Aquarium and I just think they're so cute and they're like smaller aquatic animals like it's. You know, whales are huge, dolphins are kind of big. I feel like beluga whales are like kind of in that realm of dolphin size and so I thought that they were so cute. I think that at some aquariums you can pet them am crazy.
Speaker 2:I don't know about that. I don't know, but I just thought they were so cute, so I've always loved beluga whales.
Speaker 1:So you still feel that way?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I don't think of them every day but like I, they're one of my favorites Dogs.
Speaker 1:Obviously love but do you know why you liked beluga whales?
Speaker 2:I was always just drawn to them. I don't have a real reason, they're cute, but I just was drawn to them.
Speaker 1:They are cute.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Okay, I also side note you guys know that I had my dolphin.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I finally got.
Speaker 1:Did you get assigned one?
Speaker 2:I got assigned a new dolphin Finally, so my original dolphin.
Speaker 1:Wow, this is such a topical question.
Speaker 2:It really is I, the original dolphin. It was around the time of the hurricane, you guys know this. His name was Jay and when he came to me his tracker was already off of him, so I never got to track him at all. I just got to see his previous. Then I emailed them a bunch of times. It took like three times of me emailing them for them to give me a new dolphin.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so now I have a new dolphin. His name is Sam and he's in the exact same area, uh, west of florida, like around the saint petersburg. Okay, he started it around sarasota and now he's up more north got it by saint petersburg. He's been tracked for 46 days, so hopefully it stays on him yeah uh, let's see he has total. His total distance traveled since he started begin being tracked was 230 is 235 miles.
Speaker 1:Oh, my God Wow.
Speaker 2:And he is a male, obviously. Well, not male. Sam could be girl. He's a male and he. Let's see what else about him.
Speaker 1:Is he old yeah?
Speaker 2:I don't know his age. Actually, no one, they're not telling me his age here is he liver spotted like amy's? I don't think so. He's rough toothed, oh, and a slender okay dolphin. I don't know what that means, and that's about it his greatest or his greatest threat is being caught. I don't do people catch dolphins like I didn't know. That was a thing I don't know. So then I got another animal and I got a wolf you got a wolf, not a sloth no, because I feel like sloths don't move that often, but maybe they do.
Speaker 2:I'm you know what? I'm gonna build an army here, so how much are these? 16 to 18 cute, so it's not that much and it brings me joy, so whatever, yeah I got a wolf.
Speaker 2:he is located in north carolina, in the Dare County. Oh no, the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is where he lives. It's kind of like on the very tip of North Carolina, where Kitty Hawk, north Carolina, is a island, I guess, or kind of like an island, it doesn't matter, but he's kind of in this big nature reserve that's west of that. He is a what's his name? So they don't have.
Speaker 2:Weirdly, they don't assign these wolves actual names because they're trying to preserve their identity, because people try to kill them so much Okay. So he's a red wolf and it says, yeah, it's an intentional choice to not name them regular names because the foundation that they work with there's only. There's fewer than 20 known wild red wolves, like in.
Speaker 1:I guess in America yeah.
Speaker 2:So his tracking is 1743 F 1730.
Speaker 1:No, not even close yeah.
Speaker 2:And he is moving and grooving. He's everywhere in this wildlife reserve?
Speaker 1:Is he a pack leader?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:But they go in close knit packs of five to eight. So, cuties, and he is moving and grooving, so he's back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
Speaker 1:Love that.
Speaker 2:But I'm excited to be following another animal, so keep uh we'll keep on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'll let you know what happens Great.
Speaker 2:Okay, shall I ask you a green? Yes, if you had to wear the same outfit for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Speaker 1:For the rest of my life. It would be some sort of matching sweat set.
Speaker 2:Yeah, easy, cute. You look put together.
Speaker 1:Comfy and probably my converse.
Speaker 2:As I mean yes, of course.
Speaker 1:Easy.
Speaker 2:I was going to say you were. You could wear your cargo pants and a crop top.
Speaker 1:Cargo pants and a crop top. You're right, cargo pants and a crop top. We never did that. Oh top, you're right Cargo pants and a crop top. We never did that.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, we could still do it, don't worry we could.
Speaker 1:When was the last time you tried something new?
Speaker 2:Oh God, when was the last time I tried something new? Great question.
Speaker 1:Well, last week you parked in a different parking lot at Disneyland and you learned that it is a better situation for us.
Speaker 2:It was amazing. So, yeah, everyone, the Toy Story lot kind of slays after 6 30 PM. So if you're going to Disneyland you should go there.
Speaker 1:I fantasized about going for a Christmas evening totally blocked out.
Speaker 2:I know. So I thought that we did pick a day and that we booked it.
Speaker 1:We didn't book it.
Speaker 2:I went to go look, cause I was like when are we going to Disneyland? And I, it says zero reservations and I was like that's weird. And so then I went and looked. It's totally booked. Do you think if we look at midnight, is there a chance that it's open?
Speaker 1:It's possible yeah.
Speaker 2:We should do that. We should be like like these are the days we can go at midnight, look and just snatch up whatever we can, if it's possible because I do think they opened more I checked yesterday.
Speaker 1:It was act. They were axed I also.
Speaker 2:It must have been yesterday that I looked too, but maybe we'll see if not january, but but other than that parking lot.
Speaker 1:Have you done anything else new?
Speaker 2:I have such a bad memory. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1:You hosted in your apartment.
Speaker 2:Yeah, which truly I never host things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:When I was younger, I barely had anyone sleep over there.
Speaker 1:They weren't coming over there.
Speaker 2:And then in college I was not hosting anything because I didn't want to clean up and I didn't want strangers in my home.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Cause when I I only lived in the dorms for my first year, and then after that I always lived in a house.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so I was like I don't want strangers here, no.
Speaker 1:So my friend yeah.
Speaker 2:Shay lived with me, and then Reagan lived with me, and then we lived with another friend, rosie, for a couple of years. So yeah, a couple years. So yeah, I didn't want strangers, I didn't want to have to clean up, I wanted to go, and then I wanted to know that I was coming home to my bed and my clean place fair so I never hosted things in college, and then I mean I would have friends, a couple friends over in indianapolis, but it was really I don't know, I really wasn't hosting things.
Speaker 2:So I guess that is something new. Okay, there's probably something else, but I have a bad memory, as as you know. Okay, what is on your wish list? Interesting like for gifts it doesn't specify, but that scene or just like things you want for yourself, a vacuum for me would be a thing, a good one, one.
Speaker 1:So I think on a grander scale, grander scale on my wishlist, pretty high up, and something that I'd like to put intention to in the next like two years, is getting an investment property in big bear.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That is a big thing on my wishlist, for sure.
Speaker 2:I want that for you also.
Speaker 1:I want it for us.
Speaker 2:I want to go there. Yeah, a home, just a home in general. Yeah, period.
Speaker 1:Um, we can go to a different, different one.
Speaker 2:Is this bad?
Speaker 1:What's one insecurity you had to overcome?
Speaker 2:Oh my God. Well, it's an ongoing process, because being online is yeah people will point out things you didn't even know you were insecure about for sure there's like some. Someone was one time asked me if I had a disease in my knees because of the way oh, my god and honestly, like I looked up this disease and it so many symptoms of life were could be like caused by this knee thing and I I was like maybe I do have it, but like I would like to not know because no one.
Speaker 2:No doctor has ever diagnosed me, so like, maybe I do have it, but anyway, I think that overcoming it's ongoing, because being online and having people talk about bringing up your body in general, like you kind of have to get over it in order to continue doing the job. But it is an ongoing thing because I'll be so fine for months and then I'll see one comment that will send me into a spiral and ruin my week. So obviously I have you have to overcome that constantly. So that's a thing.
Speaker 2:What, oh sorry. Who are you most grateful for in your life, Besides me?
Speaker 1:Right, well, I was going to say it's like there isn't a singular person.
Speaker 2:I was going to say. It's like there isn't a singular person.
Speaker 1:I was kidding, but I guess no, I think like I'm most grateful for and that's pretty broad, I would say like the, the people that have the like, my core group of people that have like stuck, stuck by me, especially during these last like five months you are included in that Um, I'm also really grateful for your grandpa. Yeah, but he's dead.
Speaker 2:You can still be grateful for him, it's true I am grateful for him.
Speaker 1:I would say like, here's one. Aside from like that, I'm really grateful that I spent last saturday with my cousin, because that is someone that I haven't been been very close to because of our age difference and just the distance between that side of my family, and it really like shed light on a lot of stuff from our growing up that I didn't know about and I'm really grateful to have been enlightened to a lot of things and to know my grandpa a little better.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I already know that answer. Oh, this one's kind of fun, oh this one's funny for you, okay, what is the most unusual food that you've eaten.
Speaker 2:Unusual food. Unusual food I, oh, I went on a cruise yeah in early 2019. Okay, and I tried ox tongue oh and it was gross was it gross.
Speaker 1:What's the texture? Do you remember?
Speaker 2:it was very thin, so I think maybe just because I knew what it was, that made it worse you went on a cruise in early 2019 yes but so did I what cruise did you go?
Speaker 1:msc I went on a carnival that's right, this is the one with daphne.
Speaker 2:And yeah, yeah, okay, okay continue yes, I can't remember the texture to what I could compare it to, but I don't know kind I'm kind of chewy, it wasn't good.
Speaker 1:Do you eat it with sauce or anything?
Speaker 2:I think it just was on the plate. It was cooked in some way, it wasn't raw but um, it wasn't for me. I also tried escargot on that trip and that was good. It tasted like a mushroom to be really honest. I think it does taste, I think it does have ever told the story of when we try to get escargot in paris?
Speaker 1:yes, oh, I don't know, I don't think, so go for it, okay.
Speaker 2:Well, all you do that I'm just gonna look up disney for this okay, a little anecdote is uh, we went on a trip to paris, a group of girls, in 2021 2021 and we, one of the days we were walking down I think it's called the latin quarter and it's got all these cute little like restaurants and bars and stuff.
Speaker 2:It's right it's near notre dame, notre dame, notre dame, if you're an indiana person, yeah, and we sat down at this restaurant and we went. We were in our minds, we were like we want to try escargot.
Speaker 1:Like we as collectively, as a group, it is so weird You're telling me this story Cause Karina just mentioned this the other day. Oh, really yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, we sit down and we order a glass of wine, as you do, and then on we're looking at the menu. The guy pulls us over there aggressively.
Speaker 2:And we're like okay, fine, We'll sit down at your place and then we look at the menu and we're like, okay, this is our time to try escargot. It's, it's on the menu. And we are like we look at the menu forever because we were like, are we gonna get actual dinner here, or should we just have a glass of wine, try the escargot and move on to another place for actual dinner? And the guy is annoyed by us, I think, because we took long. And then he comes and we're just like we would like a plate of escargot please.
Speaker 1:And he what do you mean? Plate of escargot?
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was like what? Because in the thing it was like a, I think it was a plate of six of them and there was five of us, so we were going to get a meal.
Speaker 1:Got it.
Speaker 2:And he leaves. He's like disgruntled and he's mad and he leaves. And then he comes back and he's like no, we are not doing this. You're either all going to order a plate or nothing. And we're like well, we don't want five plates of escargot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you remember roughly like how much it was?
Speaker 2:I don't, it wasn't, it wasn't. It wasn't that expensive, because I think it's common there. He was just like. He said that it was hard, it's too much work to do one plate, which is crazy, because what if we were ordering a whole meal and then we just got a plate of escargot, like in our appetizers? Like he would still just be getting the one plate. But I think that they were just mad that that's all we wanted. And we he's like mad and we can tell and it's getting really awkward and we're like hey, like we'll pay for the wine. We just we just want to try it. And he's like no, and then he leaves again and he's really mad and we're all just like let's just leave, like we don't have to sit here.
Speaker 2:We're not going to fight with this man.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And, um, so we, we get up and we get our things and we leave, and then he calls us bitches as we leave Bitches, and it was a whole thing. And we were like well, this is crazy Like we were going to pay for. We would have paid for the wine and.
Speaker 1:And the cargo.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so it was a crazy experience, but that man was mean. That's very annoying and then we went to like an American style, American themed restaurant after, because we were so mad and we were like we saw that it was like a New York.
Speaker 2:No, it was a restaurant and it was New York, themed Like New York Subway. They had like hot dogs and burgers and pizza and it was Hilarious it was. It wasn't. I don't know if it was owned by an American or if it was just a French person owned it and it was a themed American restaurant, I'm not sure. But we were like we just need to feel like peace right now. So we got American food.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's a happy ending. Weird, I'm so mean. I mean it's mean. Did you ever get to try it?
Speaker 2:Well, I had tried it already.
Speaker 1:I think at another place yeah.
Speaker 2:But I like it. It's just like too little. Like what am I?
Speaker 1:It is little. What am I getting this for? You're just happy we still crack girls.
Speaker 2:I guess, Whatever we Okay For you. Who was your first crush? And I know you know details because Bethany Norman.
Speaker 1:Okay, so Picture this, picture this we're living in the country, in Decatur, and I had just broken up with my first girlfriend, crystal, because we got in trouble for kissing on the bus.
Speaker 2:So you broke up with her.
Speaker 1:That's mean. Well, we just it was just too complicated and we weren't actually kissing on the bus. We were pretending to tell each other secrets but then kissing each other on the cheek.
Speaker 2:That's pretty cute.
Speaker 1:It is right. And I gave her my kush ball similar to this one right here. You gave it to her as, like a here you want to be my girlfriend. I also bought her a pack of rings for Christmas.
Speaker 2:Anyway, I remember that's a little forward.
Speaker 1:It is my mom, let me buy it. I remember I bought it. I didn't buy it, I was in first grade anyway, so we broke up because things got too complicated after and Bethany Norman was my neighbor. We're friends on Facebook. She is a lovely human with a beautiful family.
Speaker 1:And Bethany Norman was cool and their whole family was really nice to us and we hung out a lot when we lived. We were neighbors at that time and I had such a crush on her. I was like, wow, Bethany Norman, I want to be with you forever. And she was my first kiss on the lips.
Speaker 1:I didn't have a first kiss for many years, and we really like we did it in a way that we thought was like so funny we were and then we acted so casual. I feel like my little brother and sister must have been around. We were like it's totally normal, see, and then we would kiss, be like see nothing to it. So you anyway, bethany norman, hey, hey girl, my first crush.
Speaker 2:Wow, I don't remember my first crush like in real life. I remember movies and stuff.
Speaker 1:We've talked about that before, but real life I don't really know I can remember the way it felt wow and then I had a crush on a girl named stacia and I wrote her name on my bunk bed cute and then it was Rebecca Charlene.
Speaker 2:There was a boy at my church. I forget his name. I remember him. My friend Ryan, I had a crush on for all through middle school Were you a bully. No.
Speaker 1:Were you like a tease the boys?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Like Ryan, you're so stupid.
Speaker 2:No, I was like, even back then I was using sports to get closer to boys, wow, and I played basketball in middle school, elementary school. I think I started fourth grade playing basketball.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And he also loved basketball, so we would shoot hoops during recess and then it was like he was like my bestie too, because he lived near me. So I had a crush on him. He's probably learning this for the first time, because I didn't know. He's listening, so, ryan.
Speaker 1:Hey, ryan, that's really cute.
Speaker 2:But I feel like I must have had a crush before that. I just don't remember. I remember all my crushes. I have no doubt, well, that was a cute game.
Speaker 1:That's a cute game, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I, that was a cute game. That's a cute game, right? Yeah, I have prepared a little game for you, excellent.
Speaker 1:Lay it on me.
Speaker 2:And since this is a sports podcast, lay it on me toots, and you've been asking me pop culture questions and origins and such. Yeah, I thought I'd ask you a couple sports questions.
Speaker 1:Amazing. So let's get right into it, let's get right into it.
Speaker 2:Number one.
Speaker 1:Like trivia.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:I'm not giving you options either, so I just need, like whatever you think.
Speaker 1:What I really think. It is Okay. Okay, bring it on.
Speaker 2:Okay, Alex. What sport is considered to be the most popular in the world?
Speaker 1:Soccer AKA football.
Speaker 2:Yeah, good job. Yeah, thank you. Wow, I'm so proud of you. Okay, next, in what month is the Superbowl played?
Speaker 1:February, cause it's always competing with my goddamn birthday.
Speaker 2:Dang it. I thought I was getting you with that. You have a little piece of glitter on your eye and you. It's a twinkle. It's so magical.
Speaker 1:There is a lot of glitter from you know, when you get Christmas decorations out, there's always glitter.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. Well, I thought I was stumping you, but so next time I'm going to have to get harder questions. Okay, next in basketball, how many points are? Awarded for a shot made from outside of the semicircle Three yeah, wow, wow, okay, this one, it's kind of a trick. You're not going to know this. I didn't know this, but it's a fun anecdote If you okay. What year do you think was the first ever major league baseball game played?
Speaker 1:Major league baseball.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:What year? Well well, 1939.
Speaker 2:No um earlier. Do you want another guess?
Speaker 1:It's like the 1800s it is damn, what is it?
Speaker 2:it's 1871 oh my god and the reason I picked this question yeah is. The game was played on may 4th 1871 and it was between the cleveland forest cities and the fort wayne, cleveland Forest.
Speaker 1:Cities and the Fort Wayne Keekinogas. I assume that's a Native American tribe name, Probably yeah, because there was a fort there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Fort Wayne. And I think it was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Don't quote me on that. And also, guys, I found this on the internet, so I could be wrong.
Speaker 1:Is Fort Wayne like one of the earliest cities in Indiana?
Speaker 2:I think it must have been the fort was you was yeah a thing um john wayne. No something, wayne, general wayne gretzky, earliest city in indiana, general wayne gretzky. The earliest city founded in Indiana is Vincennes.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:Founded in 1732.
Speaker 1:That's before 1776.
Speaker 2:It is. And do you know that Aaron Burr had a house in Indiana?
Speaker 1:Like a sex house.
Speaker 2:What? Why did you jump straight to that?
Speaker 1:Wasn't he also? Wasn't he like doing scandals, scandalous stuff with Alexander Hamilton?
Speaker 2:No, he just killed him.
Speaker 1:Oh, he's the murderer, right well, he shot him.
Speaker 2:Did he kill him? Actually, I've seen hamilton so many times and I actually don't know, and I'm the damn fool that shot him. Yeah, he killed him he killed him sure um indiana, aaron burr indiana aaron Burr sir. Pardon me, are you? He lived in here. Hold on, you guys on the fly, looking up stuff is a little hard to do.
Speaker 1:Challenging.
Speaker 2:Alex. Oh yeah, he killed Alexander Hamilton in 18 in July of 1804. And your Internet is not working.
Speaker 1:It isn't You're right. Okay, the bastard, la cucaracha.
Speaker 2:Vice President Aaron Burr visits Indiana. He in 1805, former US President. Vice President Aaron Burr arrived in Vincennes to confer with Indiana territorial governor William Henry Harrison. At the time he was wanted for murder and the dueling death of Alexander Hamilton. He fled. That's crazy. He also got like convicted of something right.
Speaker 1:I don't know. I can't look, I can't like do this, but William Henry harrelson harrison was william woody harrelson was president for like 20 days, right like it was something so ridiculous I'm unsure well do you want me to look it up? No, no, no, we can move, we're not a history podcast no, we're sports. Get back to sports that's it.
Speaker 2:That wasn't my questions. I thought you were going to do worse.
Speaker 1:I didn't do too shabby.
Speaker 2:So next time I'll have to give you harder ones.
Speaker 1:Hey, you know what, Thanks for coming out.
Speaker 2:I do have birthdays really quickly.
Speaker 1:Let's do them.
Speaker 2:December 2nd, juice, wrld. He has passed in 2019.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's right.
Speaker 2:Britney Spears, do you know how old she is?
Speaker 1:43.
Speaker 2:42. Well no, she will be 43. Good job, sorry On famous birthdays, it tells me how old they are right now. So it is kind of I always have to add yeah, Charlie Puth.
Speaker 1:Whose name I will never pronounce correctly.
Speaker 2:What do you say? Puth, puth.
Speaker 1:Because I hate that it's Puth.
Speaker 2:Okay, sorry, charles, you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 1:Charles Puth's birthday is December 2nd and he is either our age or, like maybe born in 88, maybe 89. I'm going to guess he's 36.
Speaker 2:33.
Speaker 1:He's younger. Well, it doesn't show football player aaron rogers uh famously on the bachelor no no, no.
Speaker 2:Well, his brother was his brother, but he was married to shailene woodley. He's not anymore, I don't think. Maybe he is aaron.
Speaker 1:Rogers is 35 41, okay, 35. 41. Okay.
Speaker 2:Nelly Furtado.
Speaker 1:Love her 46.
Speaker 2:46. Lucy Liu. This picture is stunning of her.
Speaker 1:Lucy Liu, girl don't age. I'm going to say she's 48.
Speaker 2:56. Girl Work.
Speaker 1:Good for fucking her.
Speaker 2:Truly, who else do we have? Not a lot of people that we know, gg good gg.
Speaker 1:Good is 27, 27 nailed it good job.
Speaker 2:Scrolling, scrolling, that's all that I know. Everyone else is like a youtube star or a tiktoker, so happy birthday happy birthday to you and happy december. It's the month of the christmas and guess what movie I'm excited to watch?
Speaker 1:as of right now I haven't watched it santa claus always no new movie.
Speaker 2:The movie.
Speaker 1:The one that just came out in theaters with Chris Evans.
Speaker 2:No, it's like a streaming movie.
Speaker 1:Oh, is it that one where Frosty the Snowman comes to life?
Speaker 2:Lacey Chabert. It's called like hot Frosty or like sexy Frosty. And I've been seeing so many people talk about how ridiculous it is, and I can't wait to watch.
Speaker 1:I also can't wait to watch it. I also can't wait to watch it.
Speaker 2:Well, we'll let you know.
Speaker 1:Hot frosty.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, thank you everyone for coming to this here thing we call it podcast and listening, and we hope that you have a prosperous December coming forth upon you.
Speaker 1:Yes, we will be having episodes throughout the month. We are going to be pre-recording them. This is a pre-recorded episode and we will be doing some pre-recorded episodes so that we can enjoy our some time off, but we will still be releasing episodes, so yeah, sometimes it might get a little weird, and next time I will have a change of clothes so that you aren't confused.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was confused the whole time. Everyone have a wonderful week and yeah, here's to it. Here's to a great month.
Speaker 2:Thank you.
Speaker 1:Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2:Merry, christmas. Goodbye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
