TS12 is here and we have some thoughts...

We debate TS12 without the pile-on and ask whether simplicity can be a deliberate artistic move, then jump to who should own the Super Bowl stage and why pop showcraft wins the moment. We share Disneyland Lightning Lane tactics and end with a love letter to Bogota’s food, spas, and design.

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Allison Florea

Alex Hinsky

Transcript

Cold Open: Fashion, Chains, Vacations

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Your shirt reminds me of the taco from Home State.

SPEAKER_00 0:04

I think it's a little vaginal.

SPEAKER_01 0:05

Tijuana Panther.

SPEAKER_00 0:08

Yeah. But doesn't it look a little vaginal?

SPEAKER_01 0:11

Um the black like dots, I guess it could be this shape right here. Yeah. Is that why you got it?

SPEAKER_00 0:18

No, I didn't really pay attention to that. It was more like because it was a sleeveless crop. So I was like, okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

Did you buy it?

SPEAKER_00 0:24

Yeah, well, I I've had it for a long time.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Oh, okay. Did you crop? I mean, sorry.

SPEAKER_00 0:28

No, it came cropped. Okay. So I was like, oh, yeah, you know, it's one of those ASOS things you throw in the cart. Yeah. It was like$4.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

Have we talked about Depop? Have you been on Depop?

SPEAKER_00 0:37

We did talk about it. You have recommended it. Have I been on it? No.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

Do we talk about it on Pun? Alright, well then I'll shut up.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Big fan.

SPEAKER_01 0:58

Welcome back to the A-less podcast with Allison and Alex. I'm Allison. He's Alex. I'm wearing glasses for the first time on the pot.

SPEAKER_00 1:06

Remember how she used to make fun of me for wearing sunglasses?

SPEAKER_01 1:08

Whoa, never made fun of you. I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 1:09

I think these sunglasses inside like that.

unknown 1:12

Like that.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

Are those new, by the way?

SPEAKER_01 1:14

No, I've had them for so long.

SPEAKER_00 1:15

They're so good. I love Key.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

They're the ones that um I never wear them because I got them with one of those chains when that was cool. Probably like four years ago.

SPEAKER_00 1:25

It was four years ago. You're absolutely right.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

Exactly. And but I never really wore it. I think I went on vacation once and took them. And then like every time I would put them on here with the chain, I because the chain comes off. It actually doesn't go with them at all. It's just like you can get a chain from there.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

And I would put put it on and I'd be like, you look like a douche. And I would then take it off.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

I have so many chains because I, when we went to Vegas during pandemic, I was like, this is the look. It was. Yeah. It really was.

SPEAKER_01 1:53

It is definitely a vacation look, unless you are someone who like wears cool stuff like that all the time, and then you can get away with it. But I don't.

SPEAKER_00 2:04

Period.

Enter TS12: First Impressions

SPEAKER_01 2:05

Period. I feel like how what can we do but talk about the Taylor Swift album?

SPEAKER_00 2:12

What can we do?

SPEAKER_01 2:13

What can we not? You know what I mean? We I feel like we bless you. Thank you. Go ahead. I feel like we have to start with it, right? Like there's nothing else. Yes. I actually do have other things that I have have like sourced, but I feel like that is the number one.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:28

So as our resident Swift T, give us the T on the Taylor.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Yes. So TS12 has been released. It came out on Friday. And I gave it a full listen to twice. Once like right at midnight.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

And then Maybe at midnight.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

I did that with you when that one came out.

SPEAKER_01 2:47

You did. It was fun.

Pop Expectations vs. Lyrical “Depth”

SPEAKER_00 2:48

And then listened again on the airplane. And there's some moments, but it's really it's not my favorite. I'm a I'm a I am personally a little bummed that we didn't get another. I thought with Max Martin involved, surely we're getting pop anthems, and I just don't think we got that.

SPEAKER_01 3:02

My question is, are you disappointed because it's not pop anthems? Are you disappointed because it's not like as deep? I'm doing that in quotations for the listeners because that's a lot of the discourse that I'm seeing is that it's like not deep and the the lyrics aren't as Shakespearean as her other stuff. And like to me, as a non-super Swifti, a non-Swifty fan. Yeah, like I'm a fan, but I'm not like a yeah, I'm not deep in the lore. I wouldn't uh call myself a Swifty out of respect for the real Swifties.

SPEAKER_02 3:37

Sure.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

I think it's on purpose. Like I think that it's like a hundred like I think it's the same way that when the album artwork dropped and everyone was like, I could have made this in Canva. Like I think it's all by design for whatever reason.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Because she's had so many albums that are very lyrically, you know, intense or whatever the word is, and then for her to intentionally put out songs that are, I guess, the people think are too simple. Like there's no way that's not on purpose.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if if it's that deep or if if it is like because yeah, I've seen a lot of theories out there. I just think yes, to answer your question, I wouldn't I wouldn't really cared lyrically. I wanted to hear songs that make me that made me feel like when I would listen to like Welcome to New York, you know.

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Yes, which I also wanted. I I thought there would at least be a couple of those.

SPEAKER_00 4:33

Yeah. And I think there's moments, there's a couple of them that I think could become that for me. Like honey is one of them.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

But I don't remember that one. I did listen through, I did, you know, a quick listen, a quick vibe check because we were trying to see if there were any for us to do dances to. Um, not at midnight at the next day when I woke up. And yeah, I was just like, I feel like there's nothing that is like what you picture Max Martin producing.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

I know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:04

Which is interesting. Maybe he's like bored of himself.

SPEAKER_00 5:07

Yeah, I mean it does, I don't know, that also like there's some there is a couple, you know, kind of cringy moments.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Yeah. But I just like I don't I'm not saying it's deep.

Fan Backlash, Intentional Simplicity

SPEAKER_00 5:17

Right.

SPEAKER_01 5:18

Like it's deep that she has is like making this choice, but I do think it is a choice. Whether it was just like, I just wanna like do some silly shit.

SPEAKER_00 5:29

Sure, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Or whether it's like As a songwriter, I've definitely done that. There there's gonna be a part two of the album, and it's gonna be everything is gonna be super like the the opposite and super deep or whatever, and I don't know. I just feel like I I'm disappointed in the Swifties, to be honest, that everyone's that people who are I was like seeing these videos of people who were like so excited and it's midnight and they're sat with all their girls and they're going through each track and they're like, This sucks, blah blah and I'm like, wow, you have turned on her so easily.

SPEAKER_00 6:03

So easy, damn.

SPEAKER_01 6:04

I don't feel like you're a real Swifty then.

SPEAKER_00 6:06

Yeah, what that's that that is by that's yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:09

And you're like, people that are looking for all these little Easter eggs, they're just like, Wow, she made a stupid album. Like, why don't you look a little deeper?

SPEAKER_00 6:20

Period.

Themes, Lore, And “Showgirl” Questions

SPEAKER_01 6:21

I don't know. I'm not like I just I just find it interesting that it's being like torn apart.

SPEAKER_00 6:27

Yeah, it is so intensely, but but you know that the next one's gonna be insane because it's TS13.

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Oh man.

SPEAKER_00 6:35

So I think if this is the case, then I think she was like, I just I need to get 12 out, so I just need to like get it done.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Yeah, I do.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

And the deep, deep big stuff's coming next.

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Yeah. I don't really understand the correlation between life of a showgirl. That's why I'm like, Yeah. What maybe there is a part too that is like like this is all surface level stuff that's like what the it's perceived, see on the stage is deep, and then the second part might be like the behind the scenes stuff. I don't know, because to me, I can do it with a broken heart. It seems like it belonged on this album.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Oh, sure.

Alleged Diss Tracks & Lyric Sleuthing

SPEAKER_01 7:09

It seems perfect. Which I probably thinks he's like, you guys are really off. But um, yeah, I don't know. The Charlie Disc track is like what the Charlies are talking about.

SPEAKER_00 7:23

And the one that people are speculating is about Blake.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

Oh, I don't know this. Tell me. Well, well, let's explain both to the people because there's people probably like my sister, hi, Amanda listening, that literally don't know what we're talking about. So I think we should explain both the tracks.

SPEAKER_00 7:36

Okay, go ahead. Well, you can I mean you're the she has a track, and she has or she has a track where the she says the line, I it's can't the song's called canceled. And she goes, I like my friends cancelled dripped in Gucci or something.

SPEAKER_01 7:52

Mm-hmm. Is Blake a Gucci representative?

SPEAKER_00 7:55

Maybe it's not Gucci. Some designer brand. But then she goes on to Yeah, look up that those lyrics. But basically she says um something about how like it's nice because we have the same scars. And it's like, oh. It's like crucified for being a woman kind of a thing.

SPEAKER_01 8:12

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Good thing.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Good thing I like my friends cancelled or something.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Good thing I like my friends cancelled. I like them cloaked in Gucci and in scandal. Like my whiskey sour and poison thorny flowers. Welcome to my underworld where it gets quite dark. At least you knew exactly who your friends are. The ones with the matching scars.

SPEAKER_00 8:33

The ones with the matching scars.

SPEAKER_01 8:34

But it seems like from the outside world, like they're not she's not really writing for Blake right now.

SPEAKER_00 8:42

That's yeah, I don't get it either. And like the BuzzFeed put out a thing about this song already, and it was basically like the comments are things like, so she supports women's rights and wrongs, hell yeah. Like she is kind of because we're all flawed, you know? Yeah. So interesting.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

So that that's that one. The second one is the diss track to Charlie XCX, which is called Actually Romantic.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

I think it's just called Romantic. Or actually romantic.

Video, Premiere, And Moving On

SPEAKER_01 9:09

I think it was actually romantic. And that is because Charlie XCX is married to the drummer.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

Where famously Matt Healy is the lead singer. Correct.

Bad Bunny, Super Bowl, And Pop vs. Rock

SPEAKER_01 9:25

And she dated him for however long or a couple times back and forth. Yeah. And then post breakup, Charlie talked a lot of crap. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:39

And then her song, Sympathy is a knife, apparently, is about Well, then why I wish if that's true, I wish Ariana hadn't gotten involved.

SPEAKER_01 9:49

She probably didn't know.

SPEAKER_00 9:50

They probably just were like, Can we do a remix with a child?

SPEAKER_01 9:55

And she wasn't like, well, we wrote this about Taylor. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 9:57

Yes, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

But um the chorus of this is it's at but it's actually sweet, all the time you've spent on me. It's honestly wild, all the effort you've put in. It's actually romantic. I really gotta hand it to you, and no man has ever loved me like you do. And then there's a line that's like, How many times has your boyfriend said, Why are we always talking about her? And when I first listened to that, when I I didn't know it was about Charlie, I thought it was about a boy, like a guy. And I was like, What does this mean?

SPEAKER_00 10:36

Interesting. I didn't know they were beefing at all. That's how out of the realm I was on that.

SPEAKER_01 10:40

I mean, I didn't really either. I didn't know Sympathy as a knife was about her. I but I did I did hear like in the world, like that she didn't really like her because of the Mattahealy of it all.

SPEAKER_02 10:54

Got it. You know what I mean? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

I don't know. But that seems to be why let me look at let me tell you what in my quick listen.

SPEAKER_00 11:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:06

I gotta go both the tracks.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Pull them up.

SPEAKER_01 11:11

I honestly like the sound of cancelled. Like it's like fun.

SPEAKER_00 11:16

Yeah, it is fun.

SPEAKER_01 11:19

Um Wood is also about Travis's private part. Lord. Um Father figure's cool.

SPEAKER_00 11:31

She sings the word dickmatized.

SPEAKER_01 11:33

She kind of like the like dick of it is kind of like there's like an effect on it, so you can't really hear it. But it is like that's like the one where the lyrics are people are like, what is what is she doing? Like she's never like written lyrics like this. Um, but like, whatever, girl. Travis is putting it down. Yeah. I guess. Um, but yeah, so that's really been That's been it. It I guess it's only been two days.

SPEAKER_00 12:03

Right.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

But it's been a divisive two days.

SPEAKER_00 12:06

It has.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

I haven't seen the music video. You didn't go to the movie, I'm I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_00 12:10

Huh?

SPEAKER_01 12:11

There was m there's like an event at the movie theater.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

No, I haven't seen the video.

SPEAKER_01 12:16

Well, I guess we'll do it after.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:18

My nose itches one second.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

It's weird I wasn't invited to the premiere since I'm in the Eras tour movie, you know?

SPEAKER_01 12:23

It is weird. We have to ask about that.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Speaking of music, are we ready to move on?

SPEAKER_00 12:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

Okay. We haven't talked about Bad Bunny.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

That's so funny. Did you see the like video clip I put on my story where Tommy Lauren or whatever her name is?

SPEAKER_01 12:38

Oh, with Crystal Ball.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Yeah, with Crystal Ball, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

Um, I know her just because it's one of the it doesn't matter. I know who she is. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Her name is Crystal Ball.

SPEAKER_00 12:47

Yeah, it is crazy.

SPEAKER_01 12:48

Yeah. Where she's like Puerto Rico's part of America, dear.

SPEAKER_00 12:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:53

Duh.

SPEAKER_00 12:54

What's the woman's name again?

SPEAKER_01 12:55

Tommy Lauren.

SPEAKER_00 12:56

No.

SPEAKER_01 12:56

Crystal ball?

SPEAKER_00 12:57

It's funny because my aunt, her maiden name was Lear.

SPEAKER_01 13:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

And her first name is Shandy.

SPEAKER_01 13:04

Funny. Did they do that on purpose?

SPEAKER_00 13:06

I imagine her mom did. She was a quirky woman.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

I like Shandy. That's a fun name.

SPEAKER_00 13:10

Shandy.

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Yeah. Even Sans Lear.

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Huh? Oh, even without the Lear. Yeah, Shandy's cute.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:18

Okay, anyway.

SPEAKER_01 13:18

But yes, Bad Bunny was named the Super Bowl performer of 2026.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

Good American artist.

SPEAKER_01 13:26

And everyone thought, yes, because in case anyone doesn't know, Puerto Rico is part of America.

SPEAKER_02 13:33

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 13:35

Everyone thought it was going to be Taylor. So that's disappointing, only just because, like, if Travis is retiring, it's like it would have been if they make it to the Super Bowl, we're assuming the Kansas City Chiefs were making it there, but we don't know. We don't know. Actually, I think that they lost like a bunch of their first games. So it's not looking great, but you know, it can be turned around.

SPEAKER_00 13:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

But apparently, when it first was announced, and I was like going through, it looked like the other side of the world that isn't a pop, you know, want the pop stars, really wanted Metallica because I think Metallica might be like from the area.

SPEAKER_02 14:12

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

Metallica, wow.

SPEAKER_01 14:15

So everyone thought it's gotta be Metallica.

SPEAKER_00 14:18

Do we know where the Super Bowl is being held?

SPEAKER_01 14:20

I think it's San Francisco, right? I think it's 49ers stadium. Remember? The 49ers and the sourdough and the whatever. Yeah. I think. But here's my thing, you guys. Bad Bunny, I think he puts on a good show.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

He does.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

I really, I don't know many songs, but that's just because I'm really out of the loop on a lot of music.

SPEAKER_00 14:40

But you know the beats.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

I know the beats and the song Titi Me Pergunto.

SPEAKER_00 14:44

Yes.

Celebrity News: Nicole & Keith Split

SPEAKER_01 14:45

Great song. Everyone should listen to it. Sorry about my pronunciation. That's a fire song. Really like to work out when that song's playing. But I don't know. I think he's cute. I think I'm sure he'll bring people out. Like I feel like he has songs with other people in it. I watched a little bit of his Coachella a couple years ago.

SPEAKER_02 15:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:05

And I it it was fun.

SPEAKER_02 15:07

His Coachella.

SPEAKER_01 15:08

His Coachella. Yeah. His Coachella said. Yeah. But like, I'm sorry. I think the days of like Metallica are over at the Super Bowl. I hope so. I think we're far too stimulation and like a band just playing, unless it's something like, which I'm in favor of, of like the the Aerosmith and saying, whatever. Like that amount of Aerosmith playing and then adding in like all those other types of music was obviously my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

What I would love to see is a Janet Jackson comeback.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 15:45

No JT, just Janet. And having just seen her at the AMA's, she can still fucking perform.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

That would be that would be a good one.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Oh my god, it'd be so good.

SPEAKER_01 15:52

Maybe if the Super Bowl's ever back in Indiana soon, before she's Yeah, get an Indiana performer. Before she's too old. Not that she not that anyone's ever too old, but I'm just saying Tina Turner was doing that well into her 70s. That's true. I will take that back. But I'm just saying, like, if it in the like, you know, next 10 years, if it's there, like that would be fun. That would be fun. Because I think it was there in like 2016 though. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 16:16

The Super Bowl?

NSYNC Without Justin? Come On

SPEAKER_01 16:17

Yeah, because I went to the taping of Jimmy Fallon.

SPEAKER_02 16:20

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

Because they were doing uh Jimmy Fallon and Indie, and my friend and I got tickets to go, and it was actually really fun. And Taylor Lautner was there.

SPEAKER_00 16:30

Same birthday.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

Oh my gosh. Well, I don't know. I'm excited about it. I don't I think that I don't really ever care.

SPEAKER_00 16:39

I don't really ever care either.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

If it was like Metallica or something, sorry, to the Metallica fans, I would be like, meh, I'm bored because I want to see people like running around and dancing and like dancers and whatever. Yep. But yeah. I don't know. And again, Puerto Rico is a part of America.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

Write it down.

SPEAKER_01 16:59

The other big news is that Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have split.

SPEAKER_00 17:03

Yeah, I saw that Keith is the one that filed.

SPEAKER_01 17:05

Yes. 19 years. Now, there was some talk about maybe he's cheating with his guitar player, and apparently it has come out that that person has a boyfriend. So I think that that was a weird thing.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

His guitar player is a woman?

Legal Shock: Diddy Sentenced

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Yep. I think it came out that he changed the lyrics of a song that maybe previously was about Nicole and like put the guitar player's name in it. But I think that was just him like being weird or being funny or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 17:39

Because there is like a lot of speculation that he's G-A-Y.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

Right. So I don't know, but I think what I saw uh today was it's gone now, but the guitar pla the guitar player has a a partner.

TikTok FYP: Dogs And Names

SPEAKER_00 17:55

Oh so it's like either they're both cheating or it's just like she's gotten caught up in this and he just like the one that has been afflicted.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

True.

SPEAKER_00 18:10

You know? Not always, I'm sure, but typically.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Yeah, I don't know. I like don't know what they taught what they possibly could have talked about.

SPEAKER_00 18:18

I don't even that's wild.

SPEAKER_01 18:20

And the joke of her taking every role ever just to not be home.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

I mean, Joyce asked her on the red carpet, because it got edited out of our interview, but she asks her, What's your best dating advice? And she literally goes, Well, I I don't date and I won't date, so be in your power. That part made it into the interview. But I was like, Oh, so she doesn't date.

SPEAKER_01 18:45

Well, she doesn't have to. She can just be like, Hey, do you want to date me?

SPEAKER_00 18:49

Do you want to help me brush my wigs?

Disneyland Day: Lightning Lane Tactics

SPEAKER_01 18:52

Honestly, I like can picture like sitting in a dark, cold room just brushing the cool's wigs. Watching her own movies, brushing her wigs. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

Stoked for practical magic too, though.

SPEAKER_01 19:03

Oh, hell yeah. But yeah, I don't know what they were talking about.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

And um I'm sad though.

SPEAKER_01 19:08

A 19 years is a long time.

SPEAKER_00 19:10

It is a long time. Did you see another pop the pop news that InSync is now finally discussing a stadium tour ahead of their 30-year anniversary?

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Without Justin.

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Well, uh he's not in the picture that I saw.

SPEAKER_01 19:23

I did see a headline, I didn't read into it.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

If if Justin wasn't an idiot, he would do it. I it would only do insane things for all of them.

SPEAKER_01 19:32

He it is actually wild. If he doesn't, it's so wild because he's so down in popularity right now. No one is really on his side.

SPEAKER_00 19:42

And look at the Backstreet Boys. It like they were never not popular, but this totally like gave them a huge Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

And they've been doing it for a long time. Like they've still been touring because I've seen them through three freaking times.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

They toured with um New Kids on the Block. And then they did the residency in Vegas like four years ago. Yeah. But then something about this one and the resurgence of Millennium, I think that like kicked them into like a new.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

Yeah, they definitely need to do it, and he would actually be so stupid not to do it. Like, get over yourself. Because if he doesn't, people are going to be even more annoyed at him.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

And someone has to tell him that.

SPEAKER_00 20:20

Please.

SPEAKER_01 20:21

How do we how do we get this information?

SPEAKER_00 20:23

How do we get this information to Justin?

SPEAKER_01 20:24

It's gonna ruin the tour.

SPEAKER_00 20:26

It's gonna ruin the tour.

SPEAKER_01 20:28

Oh my gosh. Um, Diddy was sentenced to four years in prison.

SPEAKER_00 20:32

I didn't see the sentencing. Is this the conclusion?

SPEAKER_01 20:35

Four years. And he'll get out, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:38

He'll get out on good behavior or something. Lord. That is fucking crazy.

SPEAKER_01 20:44

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 20:44

Frickin' wild.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

What's your let's play a game called what's your TikTok for you page right now?

SPEAKER_00 20:50

Okay, I actually I already know this.

SPEAKER_01 20:52

Okay, tell me.

SPEAKER_00 20:53

It's a lot of shihtzus right now because I interacted with one that was so cute, named like Mr. Fluff and Tail.

SPEAKER_01 20:58

Love that name.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

And then just like was obsessed, and also because boyfriend is talking about wanting to get his own dog. And I want him to get he wants to get a little black something, and we've agreed it won't shed. And I think he should get a little black shih tzu.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:13

And he wants to name it Romeo. How cute.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

Aww, I had hamsters. Oh, I told you that before. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:18

I would love Stanley to have a little brother.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Oh my gosh, you should get a Pomeranian, a blonde Pomeranian.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

I was just showing him Macy today.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Oh. That's her. Oh my gosh, we haven't talked about your trip. What the heck? We just started.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Or yours.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

What was mine? Oh.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

Was it a successful day?

Seasonal Treats And Park Hopping

SPEAKER_01 21:39

Yes. Um, I just went to Disneyland.

SPEAKER_00 21:42

Were you on the same page as far as like Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Oh my gosh, yes.

SPEAKER_00 21:46

Good, good, good.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

Although I forgot my I forgot to take my purse there.

SPEAKER_00 21:50

What?

SPEAKER_01 21:50

I like because I drove.

SPEAKER_02 21:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:53

And like halfway in the drive, I was like trying to find my purse because I wanted to put chapstick on. And I was like, can you look behind my like chair see and see if my bag's back there? And he was like, no. And I was like, I left my purse at home. Like I've never done that before. That was so weird.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

That is wild. Did you need anything in it?

SPEAKER_01 22:12

No, because I could do everything on my phone.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

Thank God you don't have a nasal spray addiction.

SPEAKER_01 22:16

Thank God.

SPEAKER_00 22:17

It would have ruined it.

SPEAKER_01 22:18

I and I had grabbed my external charger. So I and I had a fanny pack in my trunk for when I go hiking.

SPEAKER_00 22:24

Okay, so you had backups, but just no chapstick.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

No chapstick, no gum, no tampons. And I needed them, which is crazy. I had to get a free one from the bathroom.

SPEAKER_00 22:35

They do that?

SPEAKER_01 22:36

They do. That's nice. That is nice. Yeah. Um, but I lived. So anyway, that was a side note. Um we got there probably at like 12 30.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_01 22:50

And then left at 6.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Did you hop?

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

Oh, nice.

Bogota Highlights: Food, Costs, Safety

SPEAKER_01 22:56

And it was a little tough, honestly, with the Lightning Lane. Was it? I had to go, I had to modify for like a long time.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

It's funny because I have a theory about this.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

I think what they've started doing is like, say we went to the park when they opened and got Lightning Lane. I think they prioritize those people. Oh, it's that get Lightning Lane at the beginning of the day or have pre-ordered it with their tickets. And then the later you come, the less you are in the queue for when you refresh.

SPEAKER_01 23:26

Okay, that makes sense. It it still worked, but it um took way longer. It was like there was one, I was like doing it for like a half hour, 40 minutes.

SPEAKER_00 23:35

If someone went through this podcast just to pull out the clips where we talked about Lightning Lane specifically, I think it would be its own episode.

SPEAKER_01 23:42

I have seen it's funny. I have seen people make TikToks about a different hack, which is the stacking hack.

SPEAKER_00 23:49

Stack hack?

SPEAKER_01 23:50

Stacking.

SPEAKER_00 23:50

I've never heard of a stack hack.

SPEAKER_01 23:52

Well, I think that it's not as it's not as fast as ours, because ours you can get to stuff so much faster.

SPEAKER_00 23:59

Stacking is when you wait the hour.

SPEAKER_01 24:02

It's like where you wait until you can do your next one. So you do one for like super late.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:09

And then you go, I don't know. I actually don't understand.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

I'm curious, so I need next time you see a TikTok, send it my way.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

I will. I actually don't understand it, so I can't presume to tell. I don't know. Whatever. But yeah, we were like, we're not gonna stay late.

SPEAKER_00 24:23

You were on the same page.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Yeah. Uh we got to do most things except Thunder Mountain is closed for refurbishment.

SPEAKER_00 24:33

Well, you wouldn't have done that anyway, right?

unknown 24:35

Thunder Mountain.

SPEAKER_00 24:35

Um Thunder Mountain, sorry, not Splash. And Splash is gone, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

Tiana's, we would not. Yeah, we weren't gonna do that. No. We did Incredit Coaster first, got it out of the way. We did um Soarin, which I didn't get to do last time because it broke down.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

Is it California right now or is it World? It's World. It's World.

SPEAKER_01 24:54

And then we ate lunch and then we went and did two started in Cali. Yes, because it was an oogie boogie night.

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Right.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

So yeah, it was like very chill. I tried a pumpkin cheesecake cold brew. It was pretty good. It wasn't my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 25:12

Where's it from?

SPEAKER_01 25:13

The Red Rose Tavern.

SPEAKER_00 25:14

Oh, I did see this. I think you might have sent this to me.

SPEAKER_01 25:16

Yeah, it was pretty good for like a seasonal thing, but it wasn't as still the black cafe the best one. Yeah. And tried an apple um apple banana pudding.

SPEAKER_00 25:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 25:33

Caramel apple banana pudding.

SPEAKER_00 25:34

Whoa, how was that?

SPEAKER_01 25:35

Delish.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

Where from?

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Highly recommend the San Francisco area.

SPEAKER_00 25:40

They have great shit over there.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Yeah. And I tried the, I think it's something you've had before, the like shrimp.

SPEAKER_00 25:47

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. The roll. Yeah. Yeah, so good. Delish. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

That was my lunch.

SPEAKER_00 25:52

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 25:54

And that's it, I think. Didn't really try that many treats, which I'm like sad about.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

Oh, I had that when we went with Angela, Sass, Megan, this earlier this summer.

SPEAKER_01 26:05

The roll?

SPEAKER_00 26:06

The roll.

SPEAKER_01 26:06

Yeah. So I don't know when we're going back, but I need to prioritize more seasonal things.

SPEAKER_00 26:12

Yeah, it's important.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

Yeah. I think that's it. How's your trip?

SPEAKER_00 26:16

My trip was good. Here are the highlights.

Cafes, Spa Days, And Tejo With Friends

SPEAKER_01 26:18

Um I can't believe you made me go first when you went to a different country.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

That's great. It's actually, I was there so short, but here's the here are the high notes. Global entry, worth it.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

So worth it. Save my ass in air. Oh my gosh. Can't recommend enough.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

Um flights there, perfect. Flights back, perfect. Everything was good there. Columbia. Guys, I went to Bogota, Columbia to visit my friend Susanna, who moved there in July. My takeaway is everyone must go to Bogota. I have had I had the best burger of my life.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 26:52

I wouldn't like I ate at, we never ate anywhere under five stars. We ate at one Michelin star restaurant.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

Work.

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Hold on. I'm getting into the but the best part of all this.

unknown 27:01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 27:02

We got so for one, and everything was so perfectly made at every restaurant we went to. Just to give you an example, we went to a five-star Italian restaurant where we got like six tray things to try, a bottle of wine, and three desserts, and the entire bill was$100.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

Wow. I'm moving there.

SPEAKER_00 27:21

It gets better. I took we took maybe 20 Ubers the whole time, and I just paid them for them all on mine, and then we were splitting at the end. So when I tallied everything up for the split, nine dollars a person. Over 20 Ubers.

SPEAKER_01 27:35

It costs at least$40 minimum wherever you're going.

SPEAKER_00 27:40

Cost me$85 to go to the airport. LAX from here.

SPEAKER_01 27:43

It's insane.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

So like what? Then it literally everything we did was like pennies. We went to a different cafe every morning because Columbia is known for like their coffee and chocolate.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:54

So and their where Susanna lives is in this area where like every third place is a cafe. And everything is so they put such care into their decor and their vibes that everything is so elevated. And like you're like sitting in this cafe that feels like it's in Beverly Hills, and then you get your check for your two croissants, your two lattes, and it's four dollars total. And I'm just like, what? Something is not adding up. We went to their like Rodeo Drive, which felt exactly like Rodeo Drive. It's like security everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 28:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:25

I mean, the one difference is their security, and then there's police on a lot of corners holding giant machine guns. Yeah. You know, we felt I felt safe the whole time, honestly, never in like you don't take the taxi cabs, you only take Ubers. That's like some rules.

SPEAKER_02 28:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:38

But anyway, we went on this Rodeo Drive. I did not buy anything, but I went into like the stores with we all went in the stores. Karina ended up buying these like handmade, hand-stitched, like 100% cotton shirts that retail in the US for$280, and she got it for$30.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

Like they're Oh my gosh, wow.

Luxury For Less & Fashion Finds

SPEAKER_00 28:56

So it's just like stupid how affordable things are there. I got a facial, an 80-minute facial, and it was so weird because they were playing like spa like covers of pop music.

SPEAKER_01 29:06

Oh, yes, I love when they do that at nail salons.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

My friend Jonah that I grew up with in the cult, his music came on.

SPEAKER_01 29:12

Was it Christian? No, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 29:13

It's he did covers of like popular songs.

SPEAKER_01 29:15

Got it.

SPEAKER_00 29:16

I was like, this is so bizarre. I'm in like Columbia and maybe you should start recording those. More of them?

SPEAKER_01 29:21

Yeah. Maybe yours are on there somewhere.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

Maybe. Um uh so an 80-minute facial with like a lymphatic drainage upper body massage,$30.

SPEAKER_02 29:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Then I got an actual massage. We went to like this, we went to a hotel to get like an actual body massage and like hang out in the spa facility.$60. At a US, it was like Hyatt.

SPEAKER_02 29:43

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

$60. And I got a 90 minute massage and then got to go like be in the men's area. I guess.

SPEAKER_02 29:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

But no one was there. I was the only dude. So I just had like the sauna. No, I had a robe on. The sauna to myself, the pools, whatever. Anyway, so the food was amazing. I had the best burger of my life at this restaurant we went to. To him my last night. And then um, it was just a little odd. It was the only like not odd, but like Susanna still had to work. So like it was like Corina and I just like were roaming the streets, kind of exploring on our own. And it's wild how like good Susanna speaks English now. But here's the crazy thing. She wants us Spanish? Yeah, what did I say?

SPEAKER_02 30:18

It's English Spanish.

SPEAKER_00 30:19

She wanted us to meet her work friends because they're all like we're international like Americans or Canadians that are working at this international school.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:27

So we went to play this game called Teho, which is basically cornhole with explosives. I posted a little video if you guys want to see Instagram. I saw I didn't know what the goal is to make one of those things smoke, and that gives you like three points like in cornhole.

SPEAKER_02 30:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 30:40

But if the rock just sticks in the clay, depending on where it is, kind of like a target board, points, whatever. So like I was actually pretty good at this game. Okay. As it turns out, anyway, so that's oh, that's another thing. So if we two hours of gameplay, it's like bowling. You pay pay by the hour. So two hours of gameplay and 20 a case of 24 beers for everyone there.$16. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 31:03

Um just makes you think like Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:06

So we meet her friends. I know. We meet her friends. One of them is named Fran. Fran is from Indianapolis.

SPEAKER_01 31:12

No way.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

She's 29 years old. She grew up in Indy. Like, what do you know high school? I didn't, I forgot to ask her. I need to ask her. We were we clean up connected on Instagram, but she's gay.

SPEAKER_01 31:21

Love.

SPEAKER_00 31:22

We had so much in common.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

Oh my gosh, fun.

SPEAKER_00 31:24

And she was really sweet. I was like, what? What are the odds? A Hoosier.

SPEAKER_01 31:29

Everywhere we go. What do you mean? What are the odds? You're right. The odds are high because we meet someone from Indiana everywhere we go.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

So, like, of course, working with Susanna is a fellow Hoosier. Yeah. Whose middle name is Alexandra.

SPEAKER_01 31:40

Oh my gosh. Yeah. Maybe it's you.

SPEAKER_00 31:42

Maybe it is me.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

In a different timeline.

SPEAKER_00 31:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:45

Whoa.

SPEAKER_00 31:45

Maybe.

SPEAKER_01 31:47

Well, wait, what was I gonna ask? On the Rodeo Drive, was it designed like a few years?

SPEAKER_00 31:52

Oh, so it wasn't like Gucci. It was like uh Colombian designers. Got it. They were still like it was the same vibe though. You walk in and they're like approach you and stuff, and um do like their champagne and you can get coffee, that kind of thing. And it's like very sparse, you know how those there's like a few things, yeah, but they were all affordable. We went into one that was men's stuff, and I was like, I'm on a no-buy. So I was like perusing, but they're they had these hand sewn, such hot speedoes, like designer would be hundreds of dollars here. Yeah, they're$40.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

I wish I could learn to sew and make speedoes. Right. That'd be we definitely can. For sure. All you need is a pattern, and you get that from formerly Joanne's fabric. I don't know where else you would where you would get it now.

SPEAKER_00 32:38

I would wear a speedo by Allison.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Oh my gosh, should I try?

SPEAKER_00 32:42

Active booty extension.

SPEAKER_01 32:44

I might try. I'm gonna get I'm gonna get a speedo, but I would have to hand such a lot of things. I'll be your hand model.

SPEAKER_00 32:49

I don't have a I'll be your um fit model so you can test out the sizing on me and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

I don't have a uh sewing machine, so it would have to be fully by hand. So you're just gonna fall apart when you get in the water.

SPEAKER_00 33:00

All things are possible, it dissolves. The thread disintegrates.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

Speaking of um workers approaching you. I feel like a few weeks ago, I don't know if I said this. Stop me if I did. But I went into I was in Macy's. Yeah. I was like walking. Yeah, but I was.