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Who's Most Likely To...
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Alex and Allison catch up on a week of unexpected health issues, competitive dodgeball trauma, and pop culture discoveries while playing a revealing game of "Who's Most Likely To."
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Alex Hinsky
Tap Dancing Dreams and Podcast Intro
Speaker 1what do you tap dancing on the computer?
Speaker 2she's a dancer, I want new tap shoes oh, where is this coming from? You just reminded me when you said tapping on the computer.
Speaker 1But this wasn't like. You didn't just think of that. So what have you watched recently or what have you experienced that's made you want to get back in those tap shoes?
Speaker 2ever since I moved here. One time I went to one tap class that my friend Kylie taught.
Speaker 1And.
Speaker 2I dug my tap shoes out of retirement and they were just a little too tight. I don't know what. I guess my foot grew.
Speaker 1Oh well.
Speaker 2But I haven't taken another tap class so it hasn't been an issue again. But I've in my mind since then been been like I should get new tap shoes.
Speaker 1Okay well, but like I'm not, like trying to take tap classes it's not like my favorite sorry mom, shuffle step, shuffle step I do like it, like every once in a while.
Speaker 2But I don't know, did you ever take a tap class? Just a couple did you like it?
Speaker 1yeah, my mom wanted to keep me in tap and my dad did not want me doing tap dance. So what the hell, dad, you met mom in theater.
Speaker 2Um, can I get you to fix your left side of your hair on the microphone? It's? She's sticking out a little.
Speaker 1No, well, this is my left side.
Speaker 2Yeah, here give a look.
Speaker 1She's sticking out on the microphone.
Speaker 2On the.
Speaker 1Headphone.
Speaker 2Oh, that's what I meant.
Speaker 1Look at that how long has that been going on?
Speaker 2What if I just let you stay like that the whole time? That would have been so mean of me.
Speaker 1Wow, thank you. You're welcome I was like microphone Hi of me.
Speaker 2Wow, thank you, you're welcome I was like microphone hi, welcome back to the alice podcast with allison and alex. I'm Alex, I'm Allison, she's Allison, he's Alex.
Speaker 1I don't know why I short. I don't know why I short echo that time.
Speaker 2I know, I short circuited a little bit.
Speaker 1It's all right.
Speaker 2How's it going?
Speaker 1Well, it's been a week. Let me tell you.
Speaker 2Is this a new sweatshirt?
Speaker 1Cedar Point, but you got, and guess what? I?
Speaker 2like the champion.
Speaker 1It's champion.
Speaker 2It is champion yeah.
Alex's Vegas Aftermath Stomach Bug
Speaker 1It's champion. I like it. It's for Cedar Point, thank you. Let me tell you what happened to me.
Speaker 2Please.
Speaker 1Do you have something you need to get into right away?
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1Then I would be in. Last Sunday, Allison leaves my house at approximately 8.15 PM. I share a lovely pasta dinner with my boyfriend Everything is great oh yeah, we go upstairs, we're getting ready for bed. I'm like I feel a little off, but I don't know what that whatever. Maybe it's just like a really long ass week in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I lay down 2am barfing and never stopping.
Speaker 2I know how that goes.
Speaker 1Barf bed, barf bed, barf bed you with me. I was going to ask something really gross, but Okay, well, I have to tell you something really gross, okay, but before I get to it. So that was an exhausting Sunday night.
Speaker 2Monday.
Speaker 1I wake up just tired. Boyfriend stays with me all day to take care of me.
Speaker 2Very nice.
Speaker 1I am not throwing up anymore just like so tired and really no appetite. But I'm eating crackers and I'm eating soup and I don't throw up anymore just like so tired and really no appetite. But I'm eating crackers and I'm eating soup and I don't throw up anymore I go to bed. I have a great night's sleep I wake up tuesday, feeling like a new man, I decide back to the schedule, back to regularly scheduled program yeah I get all my laundry done, I wash my sheets, I put away all my luggage, I'm cleaning the house.
Speaker 1Everything is going fine. I eat anything I to, which is back to my meal plan. That night I go get ready for bed feeling that same feeling again. This is weird. What is this? It's probably nothing. 2 am Barfzilla, all night. Barf bed. Barf bed.
Speaker 2This is weird.
Speaker 1Barf bed. Are you with me?
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1That is now.
Speaker 2I didn't know that this happened twice.
Speaker 1Yeah, I. So now I wake up Wednesday and I'm like, okay, I have to be on set tomorrow, so like I got to get this in check.
Speaker 2And.
Speaker 1Wednesday I was just exhausted. I could not like, I was just so tired. But had to work, need the money. So I work and I barely eat anything Cause I was like I don't want to risk this again.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Thursday night or Wednesday I go to sleep, wake up Thursday feeling just like I did Tuesday morning I was like he's back.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1But I was like but I'm not going to make him this mistake again Boyfriend had brought me chicken noodle soup and I had a lot extra, so I took that to work to eat and I had crackers and I had like a pressed juice, but I kept it really basic and I've been good ever since. So did you eat things that were similar, or this is two isolated events, two isolated events that, I believe, have led me to believe it was not food poisoning.
Speaker 2I think that I got a bug in Vegas. One of them had to be food poisoning.
Speaker 1Why, though, how?
Speaker 2How would you be sick and then feel great and then be sick again?
Speaker 1Because I think I didn't. My body was still sick with the flu and I just overdid it on Tuesday by going full force back into my schedule, like I was not resting and I didn't ease back into regular food, I just went right into ground beef. You know like.
Speaker 2But you said you felt amazing.
Speaker 1Yeah, I was like I'm back.
Speaker 2Weird.
Speaker 1And then, like the way that this, this like stomach pain would come on, I would get so bloated out of nowhere. I was like this is odd, which is how I think it's just a GI bug, but only barfing, I know. But should you test it one more time and eat something that you ate that day to make sure it's not like an allergy? Chad and I ate the same foods, which is why no. So that day I had Mike's jersey.
Speaker 2Mike's comma jersey. Mike's comma Jersey. Mike's from Jersey.
Speaker 1And then we had the pasta. Now we had different sandwiches from Mike's, but he had a bite of mine. That could have been it, but I ate the whole thing and Stanley ate the paper.
Speaker 2But what I'm saying is, what if it's an allergy? Does that happen like that?
Speaker 1Yeah, I guess it can, but that's the same Jersey Mike's sandwich I always have. And then we shared a bolognese and a fettuccine Alfredo Half and half.
Speaker 2Like we both ate that. Did you have a breadstick? I'm not asking about the sickness, I just wanted to know if you had a breadstick.
Speaker 1This was one week ago. This was last Sunday night. Can you believe that?
Speaker 2about that, I'm just. I'm just tired. Gi stuff is annoying, but you know.
Speaker 1I was in Vegas all week. I slept maybe an average of like three hours a night. My immune system depleted.
Speaker 2I can't do that.
Speaker 1Susceptibility high.
Allison's Dodgeball Trauma
Speaker 2You take me to Vegas. We need to build in sleep, of course, of course no-transcript. How was your back-to-back dodgeball games? Oh my gosh, you guys. Let's hear it. Tuesday night dodgeball was actually the worst time I've ever had in dodgeball.
Speaker 1Yeah, Wait why?
Speaker 2Well, I think a couple things were happening. Okay, one, we played a team that everyone was incredible and they threw so hard Like it actually hurt really bad. And, um, I was like I am now currently on my period and I was about to start at that time and I feel like maybe I was just an easy target, but I felt targeted. Now here's the thing. I know it's dodgeball, everyone's a target.
Speaker 1Sure, that's the nature of the game. That is literally the point.
Speaker 2But for some reason I just felt like the same people were throwing it at me and hitting me really hard, Felt personal. It felt personal and I had welts everywhere.
Speaker 1Oh, my God.
Speaker 2Arms, legs, and even another person was like it feels like they're really coming after you and I was like yeah, I didn't want to say that because I didn't want to sound stupid, but like yeah, I feel targeted.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And I was having such a bad time and there was a couple of times where I ended up like one of the last people, my specialty, and one time this guy like literally pulled his hand back to throw it at me and I was like please don't hurt me. I said it out loud and he stopped throwing it. Like he didn't throw it that time because I think he was caught off guard, that I spoke directly to him because I had had enough and, I think, because I was about to caught off guard that I spoke directly to him.
Speaker 2Please don't hurt me, because I had had enough.
Speaker 1Yeah, of course, and.
Speaker 2I think because I was about to start my period, I like literally almost started crying, oh my God. And I was like what? You're an athlete, you've played sports your whole life. Suck it up Like this is the game. People throw balls at you. But, for some reason, because it felt like they were really coming after me.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And I had such a bad attitude.
Speaker 1Oh, Alison.
Speaker 2I had such a bad attitude. Every time I got hit I was like all right.
Speaker 1Oh, come on athlete.
Speaker 2I know I just like had a bad night for you, I know I had such a bad time and I told my team I was like you guys, I've had a really. I had a really bad time tonight and it's not about you guys, did you guys win? No, oh got it we lost so bad.
Speaker 1Oh, fuck, okay, Sorry. I was still holding out.
Speaker 2We lost so badly Damn, I'm sorry. So I think we might've won one game. It was really bad. But then I was like no, suck it up, whatever, suck it up. I went. It was fine. We played the same team. We played the league before, so we knew what we were getting into. We beat them a lot too little again, and that's that. I had better time. I actually did go out for like a half hour, oh my God, did you guys get nachos or beer? Nachos yeah, it's always better yeah.
Speaker 1Less drinkers.
Speaker 2And that was really it.
Speaker 1Did Sid go out? Yeah, I love her commitment. We both had a corn dog.
Speaker 2It was pretty delicious.
Speaker 1Okay great, they are good. It was pretty delicious. Okay great, they are good. That's Emma's favorite thing there.
Speaker 2Yeah, I had never had it before but I like needed something. But I didn't want like a full, like burger or something you know.
Speaker 1Trixie Mattel says that the best salads in West Hollywood are at high tops.
Speaker 2I walked past someone and it did smell good, whatever salad they had.
Speaker 1I'm not even lying, they are the best salads in West Hollywood I'm just afraid of, like the lettuce, the lettuce not being washed for some reason there. Yeah, you know, or like what if they just Ew?
Speaker 2Sorry, I have to mute that I feel like that's worse than a cuss word. Yeah, it is, but the corndog was pretty good. I was parked illegally, so I also.
Speaker 1You who just got a parking ticket?
Speaker 2I know it was a it was a it a risk.
Speaker 1I checked I parked in the pavilions lot and you know that they check they. Well, they do.
Speaker 2But no one's gotten in trouble. Angela and sass, they're got. They got their car towed. No, they also parked illegally, not in pavilions, but somewhere else, and I was they got towed I know we were in there and we were in the bar and I was like I'm parked illegally, like I'm stressed about it. I kept checking my cameras on my car to make sure that no one smart, that's smart.
Speaker 2Make sure no one was like you know, check walking, like looking at my license plate or whatever. And they were like, oh, we parked over there, we were taking a chance.
Speaker 1And then did they ever?
Speaker 2get a text in the group chat Like a couple hours later and it's like In the impound Getting it out right now, god West Hollywood Does not play. No, it's also like so annoying.
Speaker 1Relax, I know Truly.
Speaker 2Just.
Speaker 1Calm the fuck down.
Speaker 2This isn't like You're acting, like You're like this, like.
Speaker 1I know.
Speaker 2Whatever, but I didn't get it, and then that was that.
Speaker 1Blessed yeah.
Speaker 2Josh and I hadn't really seen each other, and then it doesn't matter. We hung out Saturday night and then he promised to take me out on the town last night because he's he said he had been keeping me inside for so many days because he's just been so tired that he hasn't, like, had the capacity to do anything other? Than I watched another star Wars this week.
Speaker 1Oh, good job.
Speaker 2I watched the empire strikes back. Okay, good job, I watched.
Speaker 1The Empire Strikes Back. Okay, here you are.
Speaker 2And it's regarded as the best one right.
Speaker 1Oh, not according to me.
Speaker 2That's what he said, because he was like what are your thoughts? This is regarded as the best one and I did think that story-wise it was the most cohesive. I guess this is episode five.
Speaker 1Everyone guess Like start to finish, this is episode five. Everyone Episode five.
Speaker 2Episode five, but I said that I did like the one where, spoiler alert Anakin turns into Darth. I liked is that three.
Speaker 1That's three.
Speaker 2Yes, it is, I think, three is good, and he was like whoa, don't say that to people.
Speaker 1And I was like huh, don't say that to people and I was like, huh, because people really hate on Hayden Christensen.
Speaker 2He was annoying, but I thought that it was an exciting story.
Speaker 1Yeah, exactly, I agree.
Speaker 2You know the origin of Darth Vader is yeah, like that is exciting and but I think it's and it's all because I'm watching it in the wrong order, but I guess I maybe wouldn't think that if I watched it in original order. Yeah, I don't know, regardless.
Speaker 1Still again, I stand by my decision okay and so now you watch the star war this week yes, so where? Did you go out of the?
Speaker 2town. We tried to go to this place called the oaks tavern. Have you been? The wine bar nope nope, never mind every night karaoke there? Oh, definitely not the wine bar I thought like oh every night karaoke every night karaoke and I had wanted to go there and I just like it looked bigger than it is and so I was like, oh you know, it'd be fun to watch some people sing karaoke. Maybe it's not like you know, maybe it's a a certain time they stop and then it just is a normal bar.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, no, it does not stop, oh fuck.
Speaker 2Some of the people were actually pretty fun.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2But we had a drink there. There was nowhere to sit and I was like, can we go and we finish our drink?
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2We watched like four people saying and I was like this is enough for me and I wouldn't go, saying, and so he was like, well, if you're not gonna sing, then let's go. I was like I didn't come here because I wanted to sing. I just passed this bar all the time and it looks fun, and so I was like we should go. So then we were driving and we tried to go somewhere and literally not a single soul was in this bar. We were like parked outside and we were like I forget what it was called catcher in the rye, have you ever been there?
Speaker 2no, he was like I haven't. Like anytime I've been here, it's been like popping weird I know, and then we ended up at where I am always ending up foreman's not a bad option, but no it's like just different. It's not like uh, it's this bar, you guys, is like um, it's like a, it is a tavern.
Speaker 1It is a tavern.
Speaker 2It's decorated like a. What word am I trying to think of? Like?
Speaker 1a beer garden.
Speaker 2Yes, but also like a cabin in the woods with like skull like not skulls, like bare skin stuff.
Speaker 1Like that vibe yeah yeah, like that vibe.
Speaker 2There was a dj who every third song.
Speaker 1It was kind of good okay but, it's nice because it's like you order you. You don't have a server, so like you, just get what you want.
Speaker 2You order it, you sit yes, but they do because they make like craft cocktails.
Speaker 1It takes way longer to get a drink, yeah but they are good.
Speaker 2Yeah, and it's just like not, it's, it's kind of bright in there. It's just like it wasn't the vibe we went in. They have changed that back, by the way since, but there wasn't any music. It was silent back there, so I was like weird, I don't want to sit in silence out here, right? So I don't know it. Just, we had a fun time with each other, but we we didn't. Since we didn't have a plan, we just kind of ended up at a random place.
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Speaker 1That so you didn't go to foreman's yeah, we stayed at foreman's until did. You say this is where the infamous jenga incident happened. I did he couldn't.
Speaker 2Actually, I don't think I finished telling that story.
Speaker 1I think I got distracted so funny because I took him there and I did the same thing.
Speaker 2And then this man. He was very fun and very drunk and he would not stop talking to Josh.
Speaker 1Oh really.
Speaker 2Yes.
Speaker 1What a night.
Speaker 2And he we were, he had was talking to him at the bar and I was just watching this interaction, cause he was getting our last drink and closing out and I was just watching from afar this interaction and he just wouldn't stop talking. And then, um, as we were leaving, he stopped us again and he showed me his friend, that's an influencer, and he, um wanted to talk about our like astrology sign. He just it was like an extra 10 minutes to leave, okay, and it was.
Speaker 1He was a character wow but, where did you go next?
Speaker 2that was it because oh, that was it we didn't even go out till 10, so oh, okay it was weird that catcher and rye was dead at 10.
Speaker 2Like not a single person. And we saw one person walk in and we were like, well, we don't want it to just be us two in this other single person in here. What a weird group. So I don't know, Maybe, maybe it had been like maybe their waves are different. Maybe, but it was saturday night. If your bar isn't having people in it on a saturday night, I think that like it's something's going on, something's going on, but that was it.
Speaker 1Here we are here we are, another week another day, another dollar true what did I want to say what happened in pop culture this week.
Speaker 2You did something last night. I did something last night you went somewhere, cute right.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, my boyfriend and I went to Manhattan Beach and stayed with his best friend for her birthday. So we went to a really nice dinner and then we hung out at the house. We tried to play exploding kittens, but it didn't go well, we were too stoned.
Speaker 2And then it was cute. And then we woke up, we tried to play exploding kittens.
Speaker 1But it didn't go well. Why? We were too stoned. Oh, and then it was cute. And then we woke up and we all ate breakfast together and then she did a patch party. So everyone brought denim, and then she bought hundreds and hundreds of patches. She curated specific ones that she thought resonated with each of us. It was so cute.
Speaker 2Oh, that's cute.
Speaker 1And then we got to design our own jackets. I think you'll be impressed with mine.
Speaker 2Okay, should I show you? Yeah, do you want to show the viewers?
Speaker 1Allison keep an eye on everyone while I go grab it.
Speaker 2I will. What else can I talk to you about? I am getting back on my cooking grind. I haven't been cooking as much as I was before and I'm vowing to do that. I was kind of just doing, you know, easy meals and now I'm like I want to like get back to recipes, if you will Cute.
Speaker 1Full butterfly sleeve.
Speaker 2I love it.
Speaker 1This she designed this. She designed this patch for her birthday.
Speaker 2So everyone has it. Yeah, a little diamond up here Love that and one little, oh, I love it. Yeah, it's so cute, spaced very well.
Speaker 1Thank you, that was really stressful Okay everyone.
Speaker 2If you're just listening, you might want to go to the video this time and check out his artwork. Are you always? No, you have short sleeves sometimes. I was going to say, do they? Have they even seen your tats on your arm? I have butterflies and stuff. Butterflies and stuff. When's your when do you want to get a new tattoo like what's the timeline of you that I have butterflies and stuff, butterflies and stuff. When's your when do you want to get a new tattoo? Like what's the timeline of you that you know, are you?
Speaker 1okay, that struggle is crazy. Um, I have no timeline. I don't think I want to go back to a via and get this one touched up, the one of the roller coaster, and then maybe see about I actually have a free tattoo credit with her that I've never cashed in on.
Speaker 2So I just want to make sure. Can you give yourself just one wipe down the back? Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 1Thank you, good looking out.
Speaker 2You're welcome.
Speaker 1Oh, I'm going blonde, I tell you.
Speaker 2No, but it's about time.
Speaker 1Thank you, thank you, it's on the revolving timeline. It's been almost two years.
Speaker 2Because you can do that, because you're a guy and you have short hair and it will grow back easily.
Speaker 1My hair is arguably as long as Allison's hair.
Speaker 2Okay, sorry, that is true actually. Yeah, but you have no problem cutting it short.
Speaker 1Oh true, If it gets damaged, I can be like yeah, you can just be like.
Speaker 2I know I'm going to look good with a shaved head. No, and because I got my, uh, I got really sunburned last weekend and also on my scalp because I guess my hair's thinning and stop this is how I found that out. I kind of already knew a little bit.
Speaker 2Well, her hair is always going to be thin but, like around the hairline, I didn't really notice that until then. I got sunburned, even though I sprayed myself. But and I didn't have a middle part like I purposely didn't have a middle part on that day but I, like, around this area, got burnt and it's been peeling now. So it's just I have just like dandruff it's really like my skin peeling so that's fun you still in the hunt for a new hair person?
Speaker 2Well, here's the thing is Angela trimmed me and then I just did a gloss like two days ago. So it is uh I got.
Speaker 1I got a fix in.
Speaker 2Yeah, I got a fix in of like it's a little darker, it's shiny, I feel like I feel a little bit better. I was feeling very ugly, you know, just like when you haven't done anything. It's like not the right length that you want it to be. It's all faded and you're just like I have never been uglier in my life. I got to that point and I drove myself to the store and I got a gloss and I did it and I was like okay, you went to Sally's beauty supply.
Speaker 2I didn't. Is that where you get yours?
Speaker 1Yep, where'd you go?
Speaker 2Target.
Speaker 1Okay, I didn't know. They sell that kind of thing. Okay so what I mean is when you're ready for a cut, cut and there's a trim.
Speaker 2A cut cut.
Speaker 1The girl that I went to, which is Chad's girl. She's dope. Okay, Look legit.
Speaker 2I'll show you her Instagram. Okay, love it. And she's in the Salon Republic yeah, because Emily gave me her person, but she was booked out a million years, yikes, and I was like no time, no time to wait. Yeah.
Speaker 1But this looks good, thanks, and a much cheaper option for the in-betweens $14.
Speaker 2Shit, I guess, like I feel like nothing really happened this week.
Speaker 1It was kind of a quiet week in pop culture.
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Speaker 2Yeah, um yeah it was although I need to say that I'm not. I haven't been really loving Justin Bieber's album but the remixes on TikTok of Yukon it's so good.
Speaker 1Really good.
Speaker 2And I know that the real song isn't like that and that makes me sad, but can't get enough of the remixes. Love that. Yeah, oh, have I talked about my school? High school reunion.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Okay, I think I meant to talk about this last time, but we didn't get to it, so my I graduated in 2008, which means our 20 year reunion will be in 2028. But that's I know I can't think too much about it. But the other day, this guy who gave us a lot of grief on our 10 year, I remember the drama of the 10.
Speaker 2Yes, well, mind you, what year is it? It's 2025. So when our 20 year will be is in three years. He posted on our group and basically it was just like well, no one's said anything yet. So it looks like it's going to be another poorly planned event. And I immediately text Emma, who's our, my friend and who's our uh vice president, because our president is a doctor and I don't think he probably has time to do anything. So Emma will be doing probably most of it and I helped her with the tenure and I text her immediately and I was like no way.
Speaker 1Also shade yeah.
Speaker 2And we worked on the other one for a year Like it's not, like we threw it together in two months, like we put on a nice event. We had a venue that the guy didn't even charge us for. It was in like this, like sports bar in town that has like our high school memorabilia up. And it's like not a super fancy place, but it's also like better than the b-dubs party room, which is where reagan's 10-year reunion was I know.
Speaker 2So we the the. It cost 20 dollars, dollars for our 10-year and that got them two drink tickets and like a buffet style thing it wasn't the best food ever, but like it was something to eat for 20 and like that was a whole issue. And it was like our back and forth about we want the kids to come, oh, and we were like we don't want the kids to come. And so then there was like, well, maybe we'll meet up in the park before and then like, oh, we don't want to come to this, so we're going to have a counter, a rival party at the bar, like later on for people to go to. It was a whole thing.
Speaker 2So then, and that person kind of led the charge on okay, the alternate yeah thing that didn't cost anything, mind you, twenty dollars yeah it's fine, some people can't. And I was saying this, I was like not a single person who was complaining about the $20. They could have messaged me and been like, hey, I really want to come, I can't really swing it, or whatever, and I would have been like don't worry about it.
Speaker 2Yeah, just come, but everyone just like complained and then didn't say anything else and it was like you didn't offer any solutions. It doesn't matter, but so this Facebook group has started again on three years early three years early and Emma was like I will be doing this. I'll let you know Like we have plenty of time, don't worry yeah. And then people were like what's what theme should, should we be? I can help look for venues and I was like we, just you can't have that many people Like it doesn't work.
Speaker 2No, you have to have a small group of people and everyone just has to be okay, and you obviously have to have time for people who live out of state to plan. So like you do need to do it at least a year out, sure, but three years wild, I couldn't believe it. No, wild, that's so funny. And then I made a tiktok that I was like is this like a universal experience? Oh, and I did get some comments back that were like, yes, but it seems to be like a small town problem. That makes sense.
Speaker 2Not necessarily a you know larger, or maybe those people just didn't reply to me. But the people that did reply were like yeah, but I also live in a small town.
Speaker 1So I could see that being the common denominator.
Speaker 2A lot of people have opinions and it seems to be the people with opinions. Are the people that still live there.
Speaker 1Oh right.
Speaker 2And I don't know what that really means.
Speaker 1I know it seems like a cop out to be like they're jealous.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I don't know that that's the case. It's just like you guys have it the easiest. You live in town. If you have kids, like you probably have already someone to watch your kids that you regularly use. So, like you are the most adaptable to whatever it is. Like the people who are coming from out of town they are traveling there, they have to stay somewhere. If they can't stay with family, they have to, like, get a hotel and they have to do. And if they have kids, who's watching the kids during?
Speaker 1like it's a whole.
Speaker 2It's a way more serious for the people who live out of town, and I feel like not a single person who lived out of town was part of the complaints of the 10 years. I don't know if any of you were listening. You're probably not talking about you, but but maybe.
Speaker 2I don't think so. It's just. It's just an interesting thing and I can't deal with it. For three years when I helped with the 10, I still lived there, so I don't know how much I can help this one other than, like, maybe, helping with some are you, what were you?
Speaker 1the class treasure nothing, oh I just.
Speaker 2Emma was my high school best friend okay so I just helped her because, uh, yeah, the other, the president, is a doctor and he was in. He was a resident at the time, so it was like he really had no time. Yeah, so that was drama in my life. Something that we didn't get to last time is, um, I had seen this article there was like the hundred greatest movies of all time or something and I thought that it was interesting.
Speaker 1I'm so curious what the top 10 are.
Speaker 2I know. That's why I wanted to bring it up, because I'm sure I haven't watched most of these, but you might, but um did you find it? Yeah, I was going to like where should I start? Maybe like the top 20 or should you throw out a movie that you think, because I don't want to just like tell you are?
Speaker 1they in alphabetical order, like how are you, are you able to find quickly, if I say, a movie title? No, but I think that oh like if I call it it's not in the top 10.
Speaker 2You can say it's not in the top 10 yeah, if you, if you call it, I'll tell you what it is like, what number it is okay, casablanca oh okay, wait, sorry, I need to tell you it's of the 21st century, is that? Yeah, in casablanca, okay, okay, maybe I can't find it that fast because this is an instagram, but maybe I can but is it?
Speaker 1in what kind of way is it showing you the order?
Speaker 2It's just like 1 to 50 is on one side and 51 to 100 is on the other side. But let me see if I can Google it and see if I can actually.
Speaker 1Wait, 21st century. Yeah, it wouldn't be Casablanca then.
Speaker 2It's the New York Times top 100. So I think New York Times probably has an article Hold please.
Speaker 1Holding.
Speaker 2Okay, whoa.
Speaker 1Stanley Oatmeal, did you stay with Max?
Speaker 2Oh my God, this is an even worse way that they've done it.
Speaker 1Can you see the top 10 at least?
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, we're not doing it that way, top 10. Do you want me to just read you?
Speaker 1No, let me guess a couple more times.
Speaker 2Okay, top, top 10. Do you?
Speaker 1want me to just read you. No, let me guess a couple more times. Okay, top 10, 21st century.
Speaker 2So Casablanca won't be on there, because that's the-.
Speaker 1No, I'll just cut out Dead Space. Okay, okay, okay, okay, fair, okay, I'm going to guess Forrest Gump. Okay.
Speaker 2Forrest Gump is not on this list.
Speaker 1Interesting.
Speaker 2I know Cause I see a comment right there that said where is.
Speaker 1Forrest Gump Um okay.
Speaker 2Maybe I'll tell you some and you kind of guess where it is on the list. Maybe that's an easier way to do this, okay.
Speaker 1Go for it Okay. I wish Titanic was on there, but I know it's not.
Speaker 2Inception.
Speaker 1Hmm, are you giving me top 10 or top 20?
Speaker 2This is in, oh, just anywhere yeah.
Speaker 1It's somewhere in the 20s 55. Okay.
Speaker 2Almost famous 17 47. Okay, the Wolf of Wall Street, 40, 17. 47. Okay, the Wolf of Wall Street, 40. 20. Okay, interstellar.
Speaker 1Oh 30.
Speaker 289.
Speaker 1Oh, okay.
Speaker 2I just like, was this a poll?
Speaker 1I don't get it. Yeah, what's the top 10?
Speaker 2Give it to me, oppenheimer is 65, only to be next to Gone Girl, that's 64. Those are not even in the same no realm how are?
Speaker 1can you view the top 10?
Speaker 2yeah, so curious okay, number 10, the Social Network, which you know me. Agree, just kidding, I would not. I definitely would not say that, but that's crazy. It is a good movie, yeah, yeah, and taking out the jesse eisenberg of it all that I love him it is like an interesting yeah way they did it. The score is so good like it is objectively, I think, a well-made I hear you allison nine spirited away. Isn't that about the horse? That's spirit oh, what's spirited away don't know number eight what I want to know, oh yeah, what's spirited away?
Speaker 1great, we're so uncultured.
Speaker 2Spirited Away is a fantasy adventure cartoon film about a young girl who moves to a new neighborhood and enters the world of Kami spirits of Japanese something.
Speaker 1Okay, I don't know.
Speaker 2I don't know either. Number eight Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Speaker 1Love that movie.
Speaker 2Number. Sorry, I lied Number eight was Get Out. Oh, okay, which also? Yes, yeah, number eight. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. Love that movie number. Sorry, I lied number eight was get out oh, okay, which also yes, yeah.
Speaker 2number seven is eternal sunshine. Number six no country for old men. Okay, number five moonlight. Four in the mood for love, I don't know what that is. Three there will be blood. Two mulholland. Number one do you have a guess based on the others of the top ten? No, this movie won Best Picture. Oh, a couple years, a handful of years ago, I guess, I don't know. Parasite Never saw it. Oh, amazing, I haven't either, and it does seem to be a favorite of people.
Speaker 1I should saw it. Oh amazing, I haven't either. And it does seem to be a favorite of people. I should watch it.
Speaker 2Yeah, number 100 is super bad. Okay, it's just like I don't understand. Is this by poll or is this just like there? This is there. Whoever wrote this list is like. This is my list. I don't know. Maybe I'm going to go to the new york times page like I was on. More than 500 influential directors, actors and other notable names in hollywood and around the world voted on the best films released since january 1st 2000.
Speaker 1Here's how their ballots stacked up okay, so it was a vote yeah, by directors, actors and okay, okay don't know if I agree, but there you go I don't either.
Speaker 2I just thought it was interesting and when I saw a parasite was number one. That was what drew me. I am. I do want to double check the titanic sun on here, because how is it not?
Speaker 1that must be not in the 21st century. Would be 20 be 20th century?
Speaker 2Oh yeah the 90s Right right, right, right right. Hmm, I wonder what the 20th century would be.
Speaker 1We should look that one up sometime.
Speaker 2There are too many that are like silent films or the 20th.
Speaker 1No, that would be the 19th century Sure.
Speaker 2Well no, if it wasn't something in like the 1920s right, true, yeah, you're right. Anyway, anyway, okay Also, do you have other things you want to talk about?
Speaker 1No, I was.
Speaker 2Because last week we also didn't get to the game I wanted to play.
Speaker 1I know I was going to say did you have that game for us this week?
Speaker 2game I wanted to play.
Speaker 1I know I was gonna say did you have?
Speaker 2that game for us this week? Yes, hello stanley looks like. Basically it's not like a hard game to uh learn, it's just who's most likely to me or you yeah, I just thought um we. It would be a fun thing for us to do you have to spell alex and I'll spell ally.
Speaker 1That way we're writing the same amount of letters do you know how to spell Allie? A-l-l-i-e.
Speaker 2No, how long have you known me? Have we ever talked about this A-L-L-I? I spell it just like I am. I know that.
Speaker 1A-L-L-I-A-L-E-X.
Speaker 2Yes, you tripped me up. You tripped me up, girl. Okay, I got these At the dollar store, so they probably suck.
Speaker 1Okay, well, I'm ready. Ask me my first one. That's just the eraser, it's okay. Wow, that was tight.
Speaker 2Okay, ready Most likely To Forget their best friend's birthday? It's really neither of us, but it's one of us Most likely to forget their best friend's birthday? It's really neither of us, but it's one of us. Three, two one. I said Allie and Alex said Allie, because that's true, it wouldn't be on purpose, it would just be because I got discomfited and you know, one of the things about me that I that I hold very dear is learning people's birthdays yeah, the very first thing you do is ask people their birthday, then, like the first 25 seconds that you meet them, yep.
Speaker 2But even if I ask that, um, if I don't immediately put it in my calendar, it's fucked. I won't know, okay, who is most likely to move abroad. You guys play along, you know, put your guesses in what? Okay, three, two, one, alex, yeah, yeah, maybe I would. I would you kind of, but I would be more, okay, three two one Alex, yeah, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2I would. I would, but I would be more apprehensive. I think that if you an opportunity arose, or you were just like I got, to get out of here, you would make the decision way easier than me.
Speaker 1Okay, that's fair. Probably yes.
Speaker 2Actually, I don't have to erase the A.
Speaker 1Or the L, the first L oh my God.
Speaker 2Wow, okay. Who's most likely to intentionally give the wrong directions to tourists? You're writing so much.
Speaker 1I'm trying a new system.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Ready.
Speaker 2Three, two one.
Speaker 1Oh, I said alley.
Speaker 2Wait, why does it say x at the end?
Speaker 1no, I underlined. So for this one, it's ally.
Speaker 2I'll now just erase that little line okay I say ally why do you say that I don't know?
Who's Most Likely To Game
Speaker 1because I feel like it's something quirky and silly you do and then you giggle about it I think I'd feel really bad well, so I would. I would give the wrong directions on accident. Because you don't know where you're going, because I don't know directions.
Speaker 2I think that we again, we both probably wouldn't do this, but I feel like there's a tiny percentage more that you might be silly and do that.
Speaker 1Okay, sure, Sure, sure sure.
Speaker 2Most likely to end up in jail.
Speaker 1Well, if you know Allison's history at all, three two, one I said me why did you say that? I don't know because? Because I'd be fighting to defend people and then they throw me into see, I figured mine would be for some unfortunate event, so random, yeah, and I wouldn't.
Speaker 2I'm not saying I would do well there.
Speaker 1I think I'd do pretty poorly, yeah, but I be for some unfortunate event, so random yeah.
Speaker 2And I wouldn't. I'm not saying, I would do well there. I think I do pretty poorly, but I think for some reason I would just have bad enough luck or something weird would happen that would put me there, you know For sure who is most likely to become president.
Speaker 1One, two, three.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's not me, but I would.
Speaker 1You'd work there.
Speaker 2Yeah, I would want to be hired by you to do something, yeah, yeah, yeah, of course, but I can't handle the stress. The treasurer what?
Speaker 1Would you want to be the treasurer?
Speaker 2That'd be really bad. It'd be worse than whatever's happening now, probably Because I don't even know who's the treasurer. So that's really not shade, that's just me not knowing. But, it would be bad for me to do that. I can't really count, but no, I'm thinking like what cabinet member could I be?
Speaker 1Like in charge of the social calendar, what I could be the executive event planner? Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2Yeah, that'd be fun.
Speaker 1There you go. I'm the social media manager for the White House.
Speaker 2I think of the TikToks.
Speaker 1Oh, my God.
Speaker 2You would be a star. And they would be hilarious.
Speaker 1TikToks. Oh my god, you would be a star and you and they would be hilarious.
Speaker 2Who is most likely to flirt with their boss? Hmm.
Speaker 1Well, your boss is your.
Speaker 2I'm thinking of not real life, Like not current. Yeah, Maybe let's say we both work at the same company.
Speaker 1Okay, I have an answer don't.
Speaker 2This is actually hard and, like in this world, we are both single in this world. We're both single and we work at the same company yes okay, all right one two, three.
Speaker 1it's ally all way yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, but they wouldn't flirt back with me. This is what would happen. I would flirt with them, but they would flirt with you. That is what would happen, can.
Speaker 1I get my reasoning. Yeah, I didn't just blindly choose you. Right Because when you regale me with your stories of working for Verizon Tech or whatever. You were the one visiting everyone's desk saying, hey, what's up, I got in trouble for that too.
Speaker 2But mostly people would ask me to come to help them with things, and I always had to go to them because I was in charge of um helping people with their expense reports, and they had a system they had to do it on at their computer, and so they would constantly be messaging me and being like. Hey, I'm having. Can you come help me instead of, because it was all digital like they couldn't just like shoot the shit after you yeah, exactly exactly and then I would come back to my desk and my boss would be like where have you been?
Speaker 2and I'd be like I had to help someone with their expense report, and it was true, but like also, there was like 10 extra minutes of talking. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, who is most likely to and fake their own death? Three, two one. Yeah. Oh yeah, I can't lie. And imagine me laying there in my casket.
Speaker 1Oh, you're going. I mean, I guess you couldn't do that.
Speaker 2We would be breathing, but I would just start laughing probably.
Speaker 1So it's two liters of blood. If they find like two liters of blood on a scene, they assume that person is dead because you can't live without two liters of blood. If they find like two liters of blood on a scene, they assume that person is dead because you can't be live without two liters of blood.
Speaker 2Yes, that's what happened in gone, girl, isn't it? No, just kidding, correct.
Speaker 1No, so I would start gathering my blood over time.
Speaker 2Yeah. And then you got to keep it cold, though, huh.
Speaker 1Mess somewhere. That's a lot of blood. He's not.
Speaker 2There's no way he's alive yeah, you gotta get some streaks. Like there's a struggle, you gotta mess up the room unless there's just a gunshot, you know yeah, but if they moved your body there would have to be blood other places, you're right I guess, like they could, you know, not knock over a single thing.
Speaker 1My actual body, because can you imagine me pouring out two liters of blood?
Speaker 2Yeah, you would pass out, oh my God, okay, but if anyone, it would be me, because I can't. What am I going to do? And I have to go be like alone somewhere. I'd be so bored.
Speaker 1You would be so bored.
Speaker 2I would call immediately and be like I was just kidding Guys, I was kidding, Can.
Speaker 1I come back.
Speaker 2Do you go to jail if? If you fake your own death, correct, yeah, for how long?
Speaker 1I don't know for how long, and it depends, I think, on how many resources are pulled Like are people searching for you? Did they pay for a funeral? Is there a grave plot? Did they file a death certificate? You know all of those things.
Speaker 2Interesting. Maybe it's worth it for some peace and quiet.
Speaker 1Maybe, yeah, just kidding.
Speaker 2Who is most likely to forget the name of a person they hooked up with?
Speaker 1Three One, two, three.
Speaker 2Yeah, because I have a terrible memory. I feel like you remember every person you've ever spoken to.
Speaker 1Absolutely, and the amount of you've been with.
Speaker 2Oh, my God with oh my god um, who is most likely to join the mile high club? Three, two, one already have definitely, oh really, yes, I've never heard this. Do you want? To tell a member Do you want to tell the class?
Speaker 1No, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2A lady never kisses and tells my thing is, in a commercial flight, there's literally no way that bathroom is so small. I will say, on one of the international flights I was on, the handicap bathroom was humongous and I was like, wow, I can do a dance in here. That is the key. But that's the literal only. It has to be that circumstance. But where have you gone internationally?
Speaker 1Does it? I didn't say it was on an international flight.
Speaker 2Private flight? No, all right, so you're not going to give us any details?
Speaker 1I will say that it was an international plane that picked some people up on its way back to LA.
Speaker 2Oh, I didn't even know that was a thing. Well, alex is a dirty boy, yeah, and I am too scared of getting in trouble. Yeah, of course Do you get to put on the no flight list for that.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2Actually, I think you get, you think you get a gold badge what are your thoughts on that one like plane that you can charter specifically? For that, that is gross I think that's hot but think of all the people before you.
Speaker 2It's just like a hotel room that's true you know, that's true, I just like, because a hotel room typically is run by a big company and, like they, they have a stake in making sure that it's actually clean because if they, if it's not and they get someone sues them or they get just put on blast like it's really bad press for them. So they have an interest in like actually being yeah, you're right. Whatever, I don't know this company is a privately owned company, like how?
Speaker 1much do they actually care? Good point, that's where I get freaked out. I understand, I understand.
Speaker 2But great concept for money.
Speaker 1I wonder how much money they make a year.
Speaker 2Okay, a list of the week.
Speaker 1A list of the week Before we move on to a list of the week week. A list of the week before we move on to a list of the week. Okay, shout out to emily, a devoted listener and friend of the pod, who had surgery earlier this week.
Speaker 2She's healing up nicely and love you m love you, glad you're doing well um, it's time for a list of the week.
Speaker 2Oh, reverb yeah okay, this is what I was gonna week. Okay, but it's this week. Okay, I'm rewatching this show. I don't know if I've. I've probably told you about it, but it is ballet related. It's called Dance Academy. Okay, it's an Australian TV show that I discovered in college. Okay, that is about these kids that go to a dance academy. I don't know. Okay it, that is about these kids that go to a dance academy. I don't know. It's pretty easy to follow, but two of the stars have started a podcast.
Speaker 1Okay, they're like re-watching and talking about it.
Speaker 2Well, not completely. Like. Most of it is kind of mental health driven. But they know that most of their fans are dance academy fans, so they do throw in like a they'll interview one of their fans are dance academy fans, so they do throw in like a they'll interview one of their co-stars or they have been watching an episode every once in a while and talking about it and everything. But it is an amazing show for one and the podcast is really good, so I highly recommend. But in rewatching the show I'm just like dance is just so.
Speaker 1It's your thing, bitch.
Speaker 2I know, but I do highly recommend. And I where am I watching it? I don't know. If you just search it on whatever, then it'll come up.
Speaker 1But Is your watch background a minion.
Speaker 2No, okay, sorry, I thought I saw a minion. I got a push notification. No, okay, sorry, I thought I saw I got a uh push notification.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, okay. Good recommendation. Mine is also TV related. It is the. It is the limited series sirens on Netflix, starring Julianne Moore and Kevin Bacon.
Speaker 2I've heard people talk about this.
Speaker 1Boyfriend and I binged it really good.
Speaker 2Okay, really good. What's the like? Elevator pitch.
Speaker 1The elevator pitch is if you watch the trailer uh, julianne Moore is just like, uh, very like, granola rich ass woman who has an assistant. The assistant's sister can't get ahold of her, so she comes to this compound where she works and is like you need to come home and help me take care of dad. She's like I'm not leaving. I'm best friends with kiki.
Speaker 2kiki is julianne moore, and something sinister is afoot okay, feels culty.
Speaker 1So you know I'm in, I'm not gonna give anything away, but kevin bagan still still hot I've never thought he was all right anyway, it's my recommendation. It's five episodes, easy watch.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Limited series Short. Love that and has a good ending.
Speaker 2Okay, I will say something. Not to watch is the um I'm. I am watching it because whatever, but the series they came out with for the Love Island cast last year.
Speaker 1Beyond the Villa.
Speaker 2It's not good. Okay, I think that they're just forcing them to hang out and they don't actually want to hang out. Oh and so the drama is just like kind of forced. It's not. They're just like not reality stars like that yeah there's like a couple of them that are pretty good. That are really who the people want to see leah and boyfriend and um, serena and Cordell.
Speaker 2I think that they're the only ones that people like really want to see and they're not the majority of the scenes, because they're actually busy and working because they're the favorites. So they are actually like booked and busy. And then the other ones that have more time on their hands, they're just like sitting in apartments talking about how sad they are and like it's just, it's not what. It's not what I wanted.
Speaker 1Okay, well, and then?
Speaker 2I meant to go back, dang it. I meant to go back and say something.
Speaker 1About sirens. No, all right, fine then.
Speaker 2Oh, with dance Academy. I dance academy, sorry, a few years ago. There's this guy on the show. His, his real name is like jordan, I think, and I was at my gym and this man walks in the door and it's so niche he's an actor. He's been in other things, but it's. I think he was on that remake of Did they make an Indiana Jones TV show, or something.
Speaker 1That sounds familiar. Yes, yes, they did. I think he was on that show.
Speaker 2But he walked in and I immediately recognized him from this dance show that I watched 15 years ago and I was like, do I say something? Because, like how niche of me to be. Like I know you from this, he is Australian, but like I know you from this dance show that like literally who else knows this? But I got too scared and then he never came back. Cause. I was like if he comes back and he's actually like in a workout class and we have, you know, we introduce ourselves or something.
Speaker 2I feel like I would say it, but I just had to work out that whole time and there he was in the room and I was actually more starstruck than I have been for other people, that's cute. And then he never came back.
Speaker 1I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 2I know. Anyway, today is what? The 28th July, 28th.
Speaker 1July 28th.
Speaker 2And here are the birthdays Glorilla, yeah, glow.
Speaker 1She's 26. Oh my God.
Speaker 2Soldier Boy. Why did I say that 44. I said it so way 35.
Speaker 1He's our age, oh my God, he was doing the Soldier Boy tellem dance when we were all 18 years old.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Wow, he popped off at a young age. He invested in cotton as well. Smart man.
Speaker 2I love that, lori Loughlin.
Speaker 1Hell yeah 61. Oh, okay.
Speaker 2How's she doing? Do you think she's out of prison? Right? Yeah, I think she's out of prison, right? Yeah, I think she's just embarrassed, yeah, yeah, why? Why did? Why did this happen?
Speaker 1she, she couldn't get her daughter into the school she wanted to, so they photoshopped her into a bunch of photos to look like she had other prestigious extracurriculars but why couldn't they've just gone to the?
Speaker 2I was not tapped into this. I'll be really honest. Couldn't they have just gone to the school and been like I will make a donation to whatever? Department that and yeah, but that's not illegal to make a donation right.
Speaker 1It's bribery, but I think it's like more accepted cause you don't talk about it.
Speaker 2Yeah, it was like they faked her being on the rowing team or something. Yeah, that, yeah, it was like they faked her being on the rowing team or something. Yeah that's what I mean. Weird, weird situation, but she's 61. Elizabeth Berkley.
Speaker 1Oh, how old is she now? She's 53. Sweet.
Speaker 2And then other things that happened. Entertainment-wise is Wildin' Out premiered on this day in 2005. Alice in Wonderland came out in 1951.
Speaker 1How old were you when you realized it wasn't allison.
Speaker 2Wonderland never thought that. Oh is it just because my name is allison, probably yeah it's all about you well, I just think people say it so fast that it sounds like that. True, but I was kind of like old yeah, yeah because it wasn't really ever a go-to movie I watched.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, I was kind of bored by it, yeah.
Birthday Shoutouts and Pop Culture History
Speaker 2When I was like, well, kind of now too. The song Bang Bang came out in 2014. Where were you when you heard it first.
Speaker 1I was in my car driving.
Speaker 2Were you like. This is great.
Speaker 1Yeah, of course.
Speaker 2And the movie Deep Blue Sea came out in 1999.
Speaker 1We love a shark movie.
Speaker 2I know I Deep Blue Sea came out in 1999.
Speaker 1We love a shark movie. I know I knew you would like that. That's why I put it down.
Speaker 2It is a good movie.
Speaker 1It is a good movie there you go, all right.
Speaker 2Well, that's all I have on my list.
Speaker 1This has been a great episode.
Speaker 2It has here's to not getting sick this week. I hope you don't get sick Me too and I hope all of your car or you're at home doing dishes or laundry or, you know, just sitting down watching. I hope that you don't get sick this week and I hope that you have a wonderful, amazing time and welcome to august this week welcome to august. Isn't that a taylor swift song just august, oh, just august. Okay, love you bye, love you, bye.