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The Labubu Craze Takes Over
Allison and Alex explore the viral Labubu collectibles phenomenon, apocalyptic LA traffic conditions, and childhood collecting habits while analyzing Reddit relationship dilemmas.
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Alex Hinsky
Cold open.
Speaker 2:Yeah, what do you have to say for this cold open?
Speaker 1:Hi, I don't have anything. It's weird, we normally have something to say, but You're right, roll the intro. Yep, welcome back to the a-list podcast with allison and alex. And allison, that's alex. What are your thoughts on?
Speaker 2:the boo-boos. Yeah, so funny about that, so funny thing about that. I was at the mall yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, maybe yesterday and is popmar open who never mind who's that?
Speaker 1:who sells them the store?
Speaker 2:oh, I was at the burbank mall. Okay, and I was at the burbank mall. What was I saying? Labubu, first of all, I don't know what they are. I have seen one tiktok video with laganja estranja, like went to some like thing, a buka de beppo, where they have like a labubu, labububu, whatever they're called a buka de beppo x labubu crossover.
Speaker 1:Yes, that's it, and I was like what is?
Speaker 2:this. People are like super stoked about these things. Anyway, I met them all yesterday and on the bottom level there's a table set up selling these. What again? I don't have much context, but to me, at first glance, they look like teddy bears dressed up as dogs.
Speaker 1:Nope.
Speaker 2:They're tiny little humans dressed up as bears.
Speaker 1:They're neither. They're like little monsters.
Speaker 2:Who are they? To me, it's just silly bands all over again.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay yeah, it's, it's uh, um beanie babies, it's whatever the craze is of the time. So it's like some artist created this character oh named labu um, I think it's just labu ioo Boo. I don't know if they have names. They might, but he created this character and these little dolls and the fun of it is that it's a blind opening, so you don't know what style or what color you're going to get. I think they have different categories.
Speaker 1:There's one that's like the macaron collection I hear a lot of people talking about and there are like named to like flavors, and then their colors coordinate with that, and so you get the box and you don't know which one you're going to get. So it's like, oh, I really want the pink one, I want the vanilla whatever.
Speaker 2:So then you buy more capitalism.
Speaker 1:Yes, so this blind box opening is it's pretty big in uh like you can buy them at like the K-pop store or like that Mini Sue, is that what it's called? I?
Speaker 2:don't know.
Speaker 1:It's like in the mall with all the little trinkets and stuff yeah. Popmart is another. They're putting one at our mall.
Speaker 2:Oh, they are.
Speaker 1:And it's like um, I don't know if it's Korean or Japanese, but little trinkets and stuff like that, that type of thing.
Speaker 2:And there are many varying sizes.
Speaker 1:I don't know if there's sizes. There might be.
Speaker 2:I feel like some of them look like their key chain size. Yeah, yeah, most, I think that's what they are oh, the ones at the mall I saw yesterday were like I think those were lefufus.
Speaker 1:They're fakes because I think the only ones that sell them are pop mart and people are reselling them. So that's also the thing is you.
Speaker 2:They're really hard to get lefufu is a rip of labubu yeah, it's like the fake. Those are people call the fake ones oh god, it's not a brand called no, no. It's like that.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, it's like the fakes that's a LeFouFou, because they're so hard to get, because people are buying all of them up and then reselling them for more expensive.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:But the blind opening community is big. Yes, I know. Do you know? Have you ever heard of the Sunny Angels? No, it's like those are like the little, like naked babies that they're like a little like. They're little cherubs, like it's not like like ann getty no, I'll show you these you know I'm talking about no, they're just like little.
Speaker 1:Um, yeah, they're like little cherubs and they all they will have different like themes also. And uh, they'll have like little cherubs and they all. They will have different like themes also. And uh, they'll have like little things on their head. That is the. So there's like the fruit collection and you can get like the strawberry or the lemon.
Speaker 2:What do you do with these? They sit on your shelf.
Speaker 1:These are more yeah, they're more like you can put them like on people like put them on their phone, hang off their phone or they just sit there. Let me get you, let me show you one you're showing me a lafubu no, this is the sunny angels oh right this is the flower series, so, but it's just like the blind opening.
Speaker 2:It's like you get there and you're like I really want the pink one.
Speaker 1:And then you're like you like close your eyes and you open it and you're like oh my god, I got the one I wanted.
Speaker 2:It's not that crazy. It's not, unlike the videos I watch on tiktok of the people opening pin packs at disneyland it's the same type, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just like oh, I really hope it's jaffa the labubus got big because Lisa and Jenny from Blackpink they had them on their Birkins, or a lot of celebrities, I wonder if Labubu paid them to do that? Maybe Smart. I think it started spreading because there were celebrities that had them on their really expensive purses and it was like why is your Labubu on your? Gotta get it, yeah. So I don't know, I don't have one, you guys, but if you want to send me one, I'll take it.
Speaker 2:Do you have a favorite flavor you'd like?
Speaker 1:I don't no Okay.
Speaker 2:I don't care, I don't care.
Speaker 1:But they also the Labubus look, they have like sharp teeth.
Speaker 2:I'm going to be honest, I haven't taken a close peek at a laboo Now.
Speaker 1:I'm going to show you this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, show me a laboo. I can't believe this is a thing.
Speaker 1:Like they're looking scary.
Speaker 2:Oh my, and their mouth is like big. Yeah so they're all that size. Yeah, the ones I saw were bigger.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, I'm not an expert on I don't have them, so I don't know why I'm definitively telling you like they aren't bigger. I just think that they're not.
Speaker 2:What I saw was not in a blind package, it was like out on display to buy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think that could be, but I also. I just think the thing is like they're so hard to get. People are like black market or like meeting up and like parking lots to buy them from people.
Speaker 2:You're right, it's too high. Beanie Babies all over again Typing me.
Speaker 1:It is, but I didn't. I feel like Beanie Babies were so much easier to get, like you got them in your McDonald's like Happy Meal.
Speaker 2:That was what was crazy is because, like people were going nuts, because some mcdonald's were only carrying the bowl, but you know you got to go to travel all around yeah, I didn't. We all wish we would have kept them, you know well, kind of my brother-in-law did, his mom kept, like all the special edition ones still in their packaging. He had a princess diana bear.
Speaker 1:That was the one and they weren't worth anything but like don't, but maybe they could come back around. Like all it takes is one person. Like I said, all it takes is lisa yeah to put it on her bag yeah and then it's like beanie babies yeah, it's so y2k, it's so whatever you're right, I loved my beanie babies.
Speaker 2:Loved my beanie babies I had a handful.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't say I had like a lot.
Speaker 2:I had a lot and I had puffins. Did you ever collect puffins?
Speaker 1:No, was that like a bird? Well a puffin is a bird.
Speaker 2:Puffkins.
Speaker 1:Ah no.
Speaker 2:I said puffins, but it's puffkins.
Speaker 1:Now that you say the kin, I do remember people I didn't have.
Speaker 2:They were like animals that didn't have like they were, just like they only only had feet yeah I'm describing it weird but no, I know, you mean so cute.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I collected those. I love my puffkins I collected just bear figurines for a while, like that was like my whole personality when I was younger and like I would get bears from every did someone call you honey bear and not stuck? No, I just was like I want to collect something and I didn't know what to do, so I think, on like one vacation, I was just like I'm going to make like little bear figurines, the thing.
Speaker 2:Cute.
Speaker 1:And for a while, like then, everyone was getting me bear figurines and I don't even care about bears.
Speaker 2:I really didn't stay calm, did it.
Speaker 1:Another gone over there I loved to collect. Loved.
Speaker 2:I always had a new collection. It was marbles.
Speaker 1:It loved. I always had a new collection. It was marbles it was um hot wheels, it was locks. I think hot wheels have had a resurgent.
Speaker 2:They have resurgence because you can get like cool ones just at, like 7-eleven or something I loved hot wheels maybe you should pick that back up maybe I just don't worry, keep them, but locks you can make a little display on a wall true of like rare fun ones. I have a gold hot wheel somewhere.
Speaker 1:That's probably worth something made out of real gold I think it is yeah that's pretty sick. Okay, speaking of gold, this is like kind of a good segue make new friends, but keep the old.
Speaker 2:One is silver and the other is gold For sure. Yeah.
Speaker 1:So you might have to start using gold when the power grid goes down and you know, chaos ensues. Okay, that's not really what. Well, we do need to talk about that, but today felt apocalyptic and that's how I'm tying all of that together. There was a really bad wreck on the 405 at 2 am this morning.
Speaker 2:Oh, there was a really bad wreck on the 405 at 2 am this morning.
Speaker 1:Oh, and it was basically like someone wrecked and I think it was like a single person wrecked. I don't know what the scenario was Like if they just lost control. There was something going on. A police officer showed up to check on this person but he was alone and it must have been at a point and they like going through the canyon. That was either a hill or a turn. The police officer stopped and I, based on the picture, I can see like he was like kind of in one of the lanes, kind of in the uh hov lane.
Speaker 1:he was like diagonal he parked the police officer got it okay parked car diagonal but had his lights on. Yeah, someone came, I assume, down the HOV lane and like hit him, so the police officer died.
Speaker 2:Oh my.
Speaker 1:God, I don't know. Someone else that was involved in the crash died. I don't know if it was the original person that crashed or the person that hit the officer. I don't know what happened to him. Two people died. The third is like critical or something I don't know, I haven't heard. I haven't heard past the one article that I read, but anyway, that happened at 2 AM, and so they shut down the four, oh five, from a little bit before my exit to all the way down to like Santa Monica Boulevard or something.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:A big chunk of the 405s, so this morning at rush hour no one could get around.
Speaker 2:That's insanity.
Speaker 1:When I tell you that I left this morning because, okay, I'm getting ahead of myself I left this morning. I went to a CVS to the right of me.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:They didn't have what I needed, and so then I had to go the other direction on Ventura Forget about it To the other CVS. You know I'm talking about the one by party city. Well, how long, would you say, with no traffic, it would take me to get from the cvs and encino by amazon press, you know I'm talking about to the cvs by party city, which is like riverside it is um 10 minutes oh, I think less yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but most 10.
Speaker 1:I think five. I think somewhere around five If I don't get stopped at the couple lights, if it's just a straight shot down, I think five minutes. It took me 30 minutes because it was standstill traffic going down Because how do you get around to? If you really need to go south, you have. I don't even know how people were doing it, like were they going to laurel to go through the canyon that way, or cold water, yeah, or were they trying to get to the 101, like I don't know, but it was, it was insane, like that is why even side streets like I tried to go.
Speaker 1:I was just running errands, which was the worst thing to do, but like I had to do them, I also needed to go to Best Buy and I was on a random side street by that Best Buy. That's like this is no one cares where the landmarks I'm pointing out by that in and out, that's also right there. I went like side streets around and even those were congested.
Speaker 1:I couldn't believe it so they, they shut down the 405 yeah, from like 2, 30 in the morning until uh, when I was out, it was like 11, 30, 12 because they were investigating I don't know. Like yeah, I guess, because two people that is crazy died, but like I don't think that's a normal thing. That happens like if a wreck happens, even if there's a casualty. It's like they get the, they get taken away. Yeah, someone comes in to clean up the car, like the glass and everything and that never really takes that long right, correct?
Speaker 1:and also they could have moved the cars over, because from the picture I saw it like I said, like they were kind of against the guardrail and the hov lane. The 405 is humongous, there's like six lanes of traffic like why couldn't? Yeah, that's the other lanes be being used even if they, even if they close three, three lanes, oh my God.
Speaker 1:Anyway, it was a nightmare but that made me it felt apocalyptic and it felt like it was lawless. People were just like driving wherever they wanted to drive, my God, turning around, like squeezing their way into, in front of people that they didn't belong in, and I was like mixed with everyone, being like the power grid is going to go down and we're all going to be in a blackout, and like are you going to survive Basically? I'm stressed because you live further away now and our plan can't happen now.
Speaker 2:Well, no, because I can't get anywhere. Someone has to get to me.
Speaker 1:I know, but you're now. You're so far away, it's going to take us so long to get to you.
Speaker 2:Whatever?
Speaker 1:I'll wait yeah.
Speaker 2:Someone has to come get me. I'll drive, but someone's got to get here.
Speaker 1:Yeah, my, my car won't work so sure Well but what I'm saying is people are like, if the chaos we like, we'll have to walk to you because, like the, every single road will be like that, and I'm stressed about it. I'm not gonna lie. I think that I had this happens to me once a year yeah, and right now it's very fitting because it does feel yeah I'm like crazy right now do I have do? How do we survive?
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's bad enough, I'll just throw myself to it, just throw myself off the nearest building whatever the like chaos is, I'll just throw my body into it anyway, not to bring it down, but I was.
Speaker 1:I could not believe how bad the traffic was this morning all to just go get some fucking liquid ivs. And I like a liquid IV. I just had a really good flavor. Actually I bought it was like a sherbert or a sorbet flavor.
Speaker 2:Yum, because my favorite is rocket pop.
Speaker 1:Yeah, rocket pop is great. I like the original lime.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that one's good Lemon lime.
Speaker 1:Lemon lime and I liked this sherbert.
Speaker 2:Yum.
Speaker 1:You know how people say sherbet Sherbet, yum what. You know how people say sherbet Sherbet, sherbet, sherbert, sorbet. What's the difference? Sherbert and sherbet are the same thing. It's just like a regional.
Speaker 2:Midwest way of pronouncing it.
Speaker 1:Why.
Speaker 2:I like that sherbet ice cream.
Speaker 1:Is sorbet, just like fruit and water.
Speaker 2:One is with egg and one is without Egg. I'm pretty sure it's crazy.
Speaker 1:I'm not looking that up.
Speaker 2:Also go ahead. Let us know in the comments. Am I wrong? Well, do you want to bring that over here?
Speaker 1:So my sister's coming to visit this week? Yes, that'll be fun.
Speaker 2:I'm going to meet her in person.
Speaker 1:finally, and also it's so, crazy yeah that you actually I mean you've faced, like you've talked to them on facetime and stuff I do facetime them on your own, um my mom's on an alaskan cruise. It's just like everyone's vacationing right good for her.
Speaker 2:Treat yourself, mama her did you know? Yeah, she's on like a girl's trip.
Speaker 1:I didn't even know who was going on this. There's like three other ladies and they're just like on a girlish girls trip.
Speaker 2:The ladies went to Alaska. Wow, yeah, that's cute.
Speaker 1:Looking for, you know, whales and bears, and whatever Bears and Eagles. Yes.
Speaker 2:She should watch Dr Oakley Yukon vet, since she's in Alaska.
Speaker 1:She would actually like it, like that's definitely a show that my mom would watch. She also there was a time um where she was watching, just like davy crockett. So much just like a tv show that is davy crockett, you know, I've seen it.
Speaker 2:I know you're talking he just like walks from like ohio to new york I don't know about that, but he did because, like he couldn't, there was no driving and so the whole show is following his walks, because he had business to do and he was like a he's a businessman.
Speaker 1:He was a businessman, davy.
Speaker 2:Crockett had business to do.
Speaker 1:And he was just like walking like multiple states. He'd be gone for weeks at a time and would just like walk across states.
Speaker 2:And every episode was a different walk to a different state.
Speaker 1:No, I don't know what every episode was, but that was just something that I learned and I was like that's insane.
Speaker 2:Did you ever watch the Beverly Hillbillies? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Full stop. That was the question.
Speaker 2:Feels like that era.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gilligan's Island.
Speaker 2:What are you going to do with the fam when they're here?
Speaker 1:Oh well, we are. They're going to come with me to work.
Speaker 2:Have the children ever been to Hawaii?
Speaker 1:We live in Hawaii.
Speaker 2:Have the children ever been to Hollywood?
Speaker 1:They have not been here at all.
Speaker 2:no, Okay, so you're going to do the touristy things.
Speaker 1:Yes, they're going to get here. I'm going to take them to work and then another day I'm going to do the touristy. Yeah, hollywood sign, hollywood boulevard, that vibe. Yes, we're going to disneyland one day. Uh, we're gonna do like a santa monica pier beach, even though you're doing that thing that us that you do right, like once a year.
Speaker 2:You strap on your shoes and you play tourist.
Speaker 1:You have to do it. Yeah, I don't think that there's going to be like swimming, because I think the water's still not. It's too cold, yeah, it's too cold, and the oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:What about your pool?
Speaker 1:I'm sorry, Is there a? My hair is falling out. That's what's happening. I have a pool. Joshua's pool is actually better. It's not caged in with one inch of its life, it is caged in, but it's like a bigger area, so it's like it feels like a normal way to be caged in Um, but I think that the water is still not safe to swim in.
Speaker 2:The ocean or the pool.
Speaker 1:The ocean.
Speaker 2:Okay, right, okay.
Speaker 1:So I think we're going to go and like we might, like you know, walk along the boardwalk.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Uh, from Josh was like we should walk from Venice to Santa Monica. Is that a thing that people do?
Speaker 2:Yes On the on the sand miles on the sand.
Speaker 1:Oh, he meant on the boardwalk. Oh cause it was like you'll see, you'll, you'll see the people like working out in Venice and like skateboarding and rollerblading, and then and then you pier, and, like you know, third street ride the roller coaster. I've never done that before. Is it safe?
Speaker 2:it's safe and it's fun.
Speaker 1:You get to go twice oh, like you get on and then it goes around, and then they go around again yeah, because it's so short that would be the definition.
Speaker 2:The rides on the pier are actually really fun i've've never done any of them. They're very fun.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we'll probably do that.
Speaker 2:You buy like a wristband for a certain amount of time.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, I've literally just walked and walked back because it's also been I haven't been with kids, yeah, so that, yeah, walker on third street. It just like I feel like that'll just be a fly by the seat of our pants yeah and then they.
Speaker 2:There's a couple other days are you gonna take them to your new favorite restaurant there?
Speaker 1:well no, it's not really for kids and I think that the food they wouldn't care about. So it's like it's kind of expensive to for them not to like really eat much. You know it's because it's buffet style. It's like, yeah, whatever, no, it's an, it's an adult like you want to be drinking at least some champagne, mimosas when you're there. Yeah, at least. So, not yet, but we do have to find a reason to go there yeah and then the rest of the time we'll just figure it out cute, that'll be fun yeah, um, what, what else?
Speaker 1:what's happening with you this week? I feel like now we're talking about what's going to happen Rather than what has happened.
Speaker 2:Because we just saw each other 18 minutes ago, because we just recorded last night I'm going, so there's quite a bit of shoots this week, and then this weekend is my boyfriend.
Speaker 1:My god.
Speaker 2:My boyfriend's friend's boyfriend's? No, I guess that's his friend too. I'm going to a birthday party. Okay Of a friend, a friend of my boyfriend's friend.
Speaker 1:Just connected to him. He is very. He's got a packed social calendar, it seems, or was it. Is it just like?
Speaker 2:It's just coincidental that there have been a lot of things. We are going to have dinner with his mom on Friday. I've had dinner with her before. She is the sweetest woman ever. I'm so excited Like she is precious, so that'll be nice. He's going to take me to her part of town and then to a restaurant that he he worked at when he was younger.
Speaker 1:it's their regular spot cute so I'm like I wish I was a regular and I've never been there to this place before.
Speaker 2:I don't know if it's a chain.
Speaker 1:It is a chain because there's one in burbank wood ranch okay wood ranch grill I don't know me never been, so anyway it's you'll have to tell me is it the when you go it? Maybe is it like an applebee's type, is it like uh?
Speaker 2:to me because you know in burbank, where islands is across from, it is wood ranch okay.
Speaker 1:Is it giving bjs?
Speaker 2:yes, okay to me, but I've never been on the inside, so please don't be offended everyone. I will take a look at the inside of wood ranch and let you know.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm excited for you.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what kind of food it is when you hear Wood Ranch. What do you think?
Speaker 1:It just feels like a steakhouse. It feels like a Chili's and Applebee's. They're going to have steaks.
Speaker 2:I feel like it's more like a cheesecake factory.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, so many options.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but maybe not. I don't know A steakhouse, you're right.
Speaker 1:Like a nice, like a Texas roadhouse. You can get a steak, you could get.
Speaker 2:A blooming onion Yum Maybe.
Speaker 1:They'll probably have their own signature appetizer. Did I tell you I went to BJ's for the first time? No, what did you get? Did you get a bouzouki? We did. We went. It was like probably a month ago now, randomly. Yeah, because we kept getting ads on, like Hulu or something.
Speaker 1:So you were like fine, they have a lot of ads that they're running and we were like you know what we both haven't been Like. Let's go. I, it was the regular food was fine. I got like a pasta, okay, like a. I think it had like shrimp or something in it, like very safe choice, I feel. And then we shared a pizookie. It was sort of a dressed up one. I think it was like one of their, just for a limited time.
Speaker 2:It was like snickers inspired you should have done the triple.
Speaker 1:What does that mean?
Speaker 2:You get like three mini ones, so you can try three different ones. Oh next time.
Speaker 1:We couldn't decide because naturally there was one that was like strawberry, like fruit inspired, that I was like that one looks good. And it was like he. He thought the Snickers one looked good. And there was like another one and I was like I'm just gonna like blind there's like six.
Speaker 2:What were you no?
Speaker 1:the ones that we sounded looked, sounded good to us got, it got it okay, and I, just, like blind, picked one of the three that looked good to us or whatever, and we ended up on the snickers one. You wouldn't have liked it.
Speaker 2:There was nuts yeah, that's not for me but the rest was good yeah, bj's is good, and I do imagine Woodrange is like that.
Speaker 1:What's Sharky's?
Speaker 2:Mexican Fast food. So that's Friday, and then Saturday Is the party, and then Something else Is happening Saturday, oh no, there's a thing in the morning that we might be going to, and then Saturday afternoon is is is the friend's birthday. Sunday is Susanna's going away.
Speaker 1:Lots of parties.
Speaker 2:It's a weekend of parties. Um, yes, susanna, I wish Susanna. Susanna, if you're listening, I know you're not, i's fine, but I wish it wasn't on a Sunday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Weird Well school's out.
Speaker 2:For the summer.
Speaker 1:For the summer yeah, because normally if she was still working, yeah, for her it is. Every day is a weekend, yeah, which is nice it is.
Speaker 2:Yes, that's pretty much what I have coming up, and then, of course, the week after is just so busy.
Speaker 1:Fourth of July.
Speaker 2:Oh, the week after it's just so busy.
Speaker 1:Fourth of july, oh yeah so much going on, do you get the fourth off?
Speaker 2:I sure do. That's nice, probably going to the beach. His best friend lives on the beach, so they always do a thing, so I think it's just gonna be like that reminds me I don't know why, but remember in the hills.
Speaker 1:No wait, you didn't watch the hills no, of course I didn't watch those.
Speaker 2:What?
Speaker 1:there's okay. Well, adrena is dating justin bobby at this time sorry what you didn't even know the characters they were in the zeitgeist. I feel like you were living here when they were like I'm sorry, famous here, justice bobby justin bobby. Stop, it's not.
Speaker 2:That wasn't his name, but they started calling him that and then it's, that's funny it's stuck for the whole series I want someone to call me something like that, and he's got long, luscious hair and he has a motorcycle justin bobby justin bobby. Yeah, okay, so who was dating him?
Speaker 1:audrina okay audrina patridge yeah okay, so I know the name okay, so they were dating but he was a douche and, um, she invites him to this beach party that lauren conrad is like. I think brody jenner was hosting it, okay, and lauren, because it was like that time where they were trying to make everyone believe that her and brody were like kind of dating. I don't know whatever. It wasn't real oh it was not real.
Speaker 1:Adrena invites justin bobby and the whole time she's waiting for him to show up and then he does, but he's like has like friends with him. There's like kind of another girl I think he's flirting with and he is like very like leather boots because what leather head to toe he's very leather boots leather, the house, not boots.
Speaker 1:He rides his motorcycle and then he like dips out without saying goodbye to adrena and she's like crying because they're also drunk on the beach or whatever. And there's a famous line of lauren conrad that she's like consoling her and she's like telling her that she doesn't, don't worry about him, he's a douche, whatever. She's like homeboy or combat boots to the beach and it's like an iconic lauren conrad line really yeah, homeboy, or combat boots to the beach, is it?
Speaker 2:because when I said we'll be at the beach for the fourth that you were like, well, maybe I'll wear my combat boots no, I was just thinking of a party at the beach and that was like the first, like image that flashed in my mind.
Speaker 1:I can't believe you should start with the hills right now and I definitely should be serious, I think in laguna beach oh my well, you don't need to watch laguna, because now, looking back, the only reason it's I can still watch it is because I watched it then oh, okay I think now, if you try to watch laguna.
Speaker 1:They're in high school and it's just like. They're constantly underage, drinking and just like fighting about who likes which boy they like or whatever. And it's Kristen and Lauren. They're fighting over one guy, oh, and it's a whole thing. But because they're young, it just like it's not. It doesn't hit the same way, I don't think now. So you watching it for the first time, I think you'd be like what.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Like I do not care about this, but if you started the hills because they're older, they're going to places that you were going. Yeah, at the time, like I think that you would are we the same age? Yeah, you think I think that there might be a couple years older, one to two years older, but kristin might be close, like is closer to our age Cause she was.
Speaker 1:I think that I was like sophomore going into junior year when it was airing the first season, yeah, and that's when Lauren graduated. But then Kristen was season two when she was a senior. So I think that we are like closer to Kristen, but I mean still the same, Like you were out here when the Hills was going on they're going to hide they're going to. What was the? What was the name of that one? Bar Ladoo.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, chad was just talking about Ladoo.
Speaker 1:It was the hottest bar and I am so mad that it's closed Cause. Like when I moved out here I was I was like I wish that I could go to ladue so bad it's where every everything went down at ladue that's what. That's what I have been told the big fight between lauren and heidi.
Speaker 2:Yeah, where she's like screaming at her outside heidi klum nope heidi oh, heidi spencer and heidi, they're from this show as well. Yeah, oh my.
Speaker 1:God, oh my gosh. They, lauren, lived at the, the apartments that are by, um, uh, by the Grove, yeah, the Brea is something, park La Brea. Yeah, I think it might be called something different in the show.
Speaker 2:But yeah, it's just iconic and I, I think that I want just iconic and I, I think that I want, I need you to start it, maybe I will, so fun, okay, I could talk about that all day how do we go?
Speaker 1:oh, because of the beach. Fourth of july, beach for the july. Well, since we talked last night, I thought that we could do a little. Am I the asshole? Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 2:Segment it's time and we can am I the asshole?
Speaker 1:Nah, settle in. Am I the asshole for not letting my friend borrow one of my designer dresses for a wedding after she called me shallow for buying them? I'm 26, female, have a stable job, no kids, and I like to treat myself sometimes. I've saved up for a few designer dresses over the years. Nothing outrageous, just a handful of nice pieces I wear to special events. I'm careful with them and they mean a lot to me because they're things I actually worked hard for.
Speaker 1:One of my close friends, lena 27 female name drop, has always made snide comments about my clothes Stuff like I don't get how you can spend that much on fabric or I could never be that shallow. I usually laugh it off but I honest, but honestly it does get under my skin. She clearly thinks I'm materialistic, even if I've never judged her lifestyle or her spending habits. Anyway, she's going to a wedding soon and text me out of the blue asking to borrow one of my dresses. No apology, no acknowledgement of the past comments. Just you have so many I figured you wouldn't mind. I politely said no, explaining I don't lend them out, especially for trips where I won't be there. She snapped back and was being self, said I was being selfish and dramatic and now a few mutual friends are chiming in saying it's just a dress. But I can't help feeling like it's like, yeah, they're expensive and people at weddings like something always gets spilled. It's like it's not bad that you don't want other people to wear your expensive dress.
Speaker 1:I think that they're young enough that they could have like they probably weren't thinking they could have. Just she could have just like been honest about really the root of why she doesn't want her to wear it. I agree.
Speaker 2:But I don't think she's an asshole.
Speaker 1:No no Cause, I think. I think, as they would get older, like no one would even ever ask that, unless it was offered to them, like if you have a friend that you're like oh, I'm going to sweating, I don't really know what I'm wearing. And you were like oh, my God, I have the perfect outfit for you. Uh, come over and try it on, or whatever. That would be normal, but I don't think anyone our age would be like hey, can I borrow one of your dresses because you have so many of them?
Speaker 1:I think, that would be weird.
Speaker 2:It's just like get your own dress yeah I don't know, maybe I'm being silly but I agree, I don't think she's the asshole.
Speaker 1:No, me, not the asshole and I think that it was voted yeah people agree with us yes very good okay, next, am I the asshole for not setting up plans for my friends that I grew up with. So quick backstory my friend group consists of eight people Three are married, two are in a relationship and three single guys. Every time I try to get my group of friends together to go golfing, get dinner or go do some sort of activity, I never get a response. But when a different person from our group wants to do something, everyone responds.
Speaker 2:Golfing Bro.
Speaker 1:Also, one person in our friend group has been in the Coast Guard stationed out of state and visits every few months and when he comes back home we all hang out, maybe twice a week, for the short time that he's back. So last year around the beginning of December I called the friend in the Coast Guard and asked when he would be back. He said I'm flying back in two days. I responded well, hit me up when you have some free time and we can go do an 18-hole course. He said yeah for sure. Not even three days later I get a FaceTime from my brother and he's on the golf course with every single person in our friend group. When I asked why I was invited, they all said we had already had six people and didn't want you to have to rent a golf cart just for yourself. So fast forward. A few weeks ago my friend in the Coast Guard told everyone he is leaving the military and moving back home closer to everyone. I told him just to hit me up whenever he's free. Again At this point I figured if he wants to actually hang out with me he'd try to reach out. Not even two days after he'd been back. He FaceTimes me with all of our buddies and tells me to drive two hours away to hang out with them. At that moment I told them I couldn't because I was working the weekend shift at work.
Speaker 1:Fast forward to last night I booked myself a trip to Europe in August for about a week so I can see a Coldplay concert. This is the straightest man we have ever read about Wow and posted it on my Instagram story. Not even 10 minutes later, I got a text from one of my friends asking if I can cancel my trip, which I have already fully paid for, just so I can spend a weekend in a beach house with them and split the amount for what it costs to rent one. I told them no, it's out of the question. I've tried making plans with you guys for years and I'm always ignored. So I won't cancel my week-long trip on the other side of the world just to stay at a beach house for two days. So am I the asshole here?
Speaker 2:Whoa, that was a lot it was a lot. No, I don't think you're the asshole. I just think that you don't have the greatest choice of friends.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just think that you have. I think that person has a different idea of what it is to be a friend yeah. And I honestly think that, although he's straight, I think that he we are kind of like this person, Like we are um, like try, we try to make plans, and if people don't respond, then like what can you do?
Speaker 1:Like he was trying to do that, but it is like annoying that they're not doing it. So if you, if there's people you actually he actually is friends with, I would just like try to meet with them one-on-one.
Speaker 2:I'm also like the golf thing would have really upset me.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's like what? No that just means they didn't want him there. Yeah correct he if, if it was one of our friends that we wanted to be with, we would be like hey. So here's the deal. Like we have this amount of people going, um, we want you to come, but just to let you know like it's going to be annoying with the golf carts, because here's the thing, he wouldn't have to be alone in a golf cart.
Speaker 1:They could split up three and three and also or uh foreign saying you would have to rent your own golf cart.
Speaker 2:If I was like oh, the group is seven, If everyone wants to come, we're just going to split everything evenly.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Right what.
Speaker 1:And it people, then we'll do uh, four people in one golf cart three in the other. I mean, like you're also gonna be in the same group, right? So that's not a good excuse. They were. They would have been better off being like oh my god, we are in. Like we totally forgot to text. You are bad. Like that would have been a better lie. He's not the asshole. Asshole, it's just like yeah your friends suck. Yeah, kind of suck, you're not the asshole he didn't say how old he was, cause it seems young.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's giving 25.
Speaker 1:Cause I think as you get again, as you get older, I think that you care less about stuff like that. You're like everyone's busy and if you have stuff planned, like whatever, and you're too tired to be like worry about being petty kind of I don't know. Okay, last one Am I the asshole for locking the bedroom door when my husband works? I have not read this one, so I don't know what's happening. I work first shift and my husband works second shift. Because of that, I spend nights, a lot of nights, alone. He gets home around 2am. I lock the door when I'm home and he is working. I would hear noises and be not sure what it was, and I got tired of checking. It was usually my cats or an appliance, but I got tired of checking, so I locked the door. If I hear a noise, I know wait, so I locked the door. So if I hear a noise, I know it's the cats or an appliance and if not, I have a locked barrier between me and whatever it could be. And when I go to sleep I unlocked the bedroom door so he can get in.
Speaker 1:Last night he came hours early. He was cut from work because it was extra slow. I didn't hear him come in through the door because I had the TV and air conditioner on. If I did hear him, if I do hear him, I always go out and say hi and unlock the door, as I do. But I didn't hear him so I couldn't. He tried to get in and found the door locked. It took me a few seconds to pause the TV and get my cat off of me and get uh up to unlock the door. He started questioning me about why the door was locked and what I was hiding. I told him I wasn't hiding anything, I just had I lock it when I'm here and he's working, just in case he doesn't believe me and thinks I was hiding something because it was locked and I wasn't there instantly to let him in. So am I the asshole? No, no.
Speaker 1:He seems controlling and or he's hiding.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Because there's no my bedtime reminder I. There's no reason for him to be, yeah, wor I. There's no reason for him to be, yeah, worried he's. He's projecting for sure. She was voted not the ass, yeah, yeah and I agree, because I would do that too, like I don't want the door to be unlocked. No, I don't know where they live. They could if they live in a big city, especially like, yeah, people are crazy and wouldn't he want his wife to be safe? Like does he not have a key Right? What it's?
Speaker 1:a very weird situation and he's pretty sus and I think he's projecting yeah, something's not adding up there. Get him.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:That's all I had.
Speaker 2:Well, should we do an A-list of the week?
Speaker 1:We should.
Speaker 2:Allison I don't. Should we do an a-list of the week? We should. Allison comes out the week of the fourth oh, I have one.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's another time for a list of the week I. It's always good. It's like always going to be a show or like a food or something today. It's a show. We started watching that new john ham show your friends and neighbors or whatever, last night. It's really good. I enjoy it. Okay, we got like two episodes in.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I'm intrigued.
Speaker 2:Okay, cute.
Speaker 1:Have you heard?
Speaker 2:of this? Yes, did you watch it?
Speaker 1:No, I think you should.
Speaker 2:Okay, thank you for the recommendation. You're welcome. My list of the week is fireworks. That's it, wait.
Speaker 1:That's it, wait, you like them? Yeah, they're great, even though your dog is terrified and is trying to jump down both of our throats to get away from them.
Speaker 2:I want you guys to know Stanley did not used to be afraid of fireworks.
Speaker 1:I think Macy did it to him. She left her mark. Most dogs are afraid, I know.
Speaker 2:He never was. Never used to be, but he is afraid of fireworks. But I think they're great and I hope everyone gets to see some this weekend.
Speaker 1:Yes, I would like to go to another Dodger game when they're doing fireworks, after I enjoyed that.
Speaker 2:Me too.
Speaker 1:You don't have to touch again. I do think that a firework is gorgeous to look at.
Speaker 2:Firework can be gorgeous.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what's the music behind it? You know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like Disney.
Speaker 1:Yes, maybe. Oh my gosh, I wonder if we're gonna want to stay for the light show huh, yeah, how are you? I don't know we're going. It's an all day and I'm not excited. I mean, I'm excited but I don't.
Speaker 2:I'm not an all-day goer anymore and you've already done it. Well, no, you didn't did you, I got there got there at like 12 or something yeah. So you suck it up. You can do it. One time a year, you can do it.
Speaker 1:Like I don't even know what shoes to wear for that whole time.
Speaker 2:Converse.
Speaker 1:No, it's too flat.
Speaker 2:I wear them every theme park trip.
Speaker 1:And your feet don't hurt. Never Do you have flat feet.
Speaker 2:I have an arch.
Speaker 1:And those work for you.
Speaker 2:They sure work. Okay, maybe don't wear those.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Cowboy boots, combat boots.
Speaker 2:Combat boots, heels.
Speaker 1:Oh no.
Speaker 2:Well, whatever the case, We'll see, I'll live.
Speaker 1:Get there for a rope drop. Oh God, I can't imagine. I want you to know that they don't know how far it is going to be of a drive.
Speaker 2:You need to leave at 515 in the morning. I can't. We did, we did, I don't know that.
Speaker 1:Oh my God, I can't even think about it.
Speaker 2:Actually no, don't leave at 515 cause we had to wait.
Speaker 1:The parking structure didn't even open yet. Yeah.
Speaker 2:So I would leave 545.
Speaker 1:How long did it take you to get there?
Speaker 2:Oh my god, 38 minutes.
Speaker 1:Yep, but you are already on the five. Yeah, I wonder what the 405 would be. No one cares.
Speaker 2:Sorry, you guys, I'm sorry, we're going.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much for listening and watching.
Speaker 2:You're not going to talk about any birthdays.
Speaker 1:Oh yep.
Speaker 2:Putting in the birthdays. Happy birthday, it is July 30th, july 30.
Speaker 1:It is July 30th July 30th June 30th.
Speaker 2:Guys, it's June 30th. Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday to you. Mike Tyson is 59 years old.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:Michael Phelps is 40.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:Fantasia Barrino, she's 41.
Speaker 2:I believe, love 40.
Speaker 1:Okay, fantasia Barino, she's 41. I believe Love her Love. I'm not seeing anyone else. That is piquing my interest.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:I'm going to just yep, that's it.
Speaker 2:Fantasia, the Rock.
Speaker 1:Nope, who else? What Fantasia. Fantasia Mike Tyson. Nope, fantasia Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:Michael Phelps.
Speaker 2:To the Michaels and to Fantasia, happy birthday.
Speaker 1:Sincerest birthday wishes.
Speaker 2:And salutations.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening, thank you for watching. We love you and we will see you next week, please be safe this weekend. Bye and we will see you next week. Please be safe this weekend. Bye.
