Open Marriage Podcast
Our marriage isn’t open—but our conversations are.
We’re Blair and Khalia, a creative Brit and a corporate, Cali girly navigating life, love, and everything in between without kids, filters, or apologies.
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Open Marriage Podcast
Thanksgiving 2025 Recap
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“Green Beans, Red Flags”
Maybe. Look at how great we look. Like a star. Hop out the boulevard. Why are you looking at that? You know, it actually hurts me inside.
SPEAKER_00To see how beautiful you look on camera. In life. Just everywhere. Like when I edit this. I can't even concentrate on editing because I'm just looking at you and thinking, how the fuck are you so gorgeous?
SPEAKER_03That's really sweet of you. But you found me and you married me. So congratulations, Mr. Edwards. You've won.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I got you. But the secret is keeping you. That's one of my vows to you. Even though you don't remember it.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I knew you were gonna go there.
SPEAKER_00And even though you blacked out and didn't remember a single thing that I said to you. You didn't rem you blacked out when I proposed to you and you blacked out when I said my vows to you.
SPEAKER_03This isn't okay. What we found out is that this is a very normal experience. You didn't black out? What did I say to you on our on our wedding day? I don't remember. Correct. But it's not because I don't because Blair Edwards blacked out.
SPEAKER_00It's not because I blacked out.
SPEAKER_03You were listening.
SPEAKER_00It's not that I wasn't listening.
SPEAKER_03When you hear me talk, you hear this. Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah wah.
SPEAKER_00That's not true.
SPEAKER_03You said it.
SPEAKER_00I just heard you just speak just now.
SPEAKER_03Because I'm speaking in your language.
SPEAKER_00What's my language?
SPEAKER_03Wah wah wah wah.
SPEAKER_00Fair. I just have my memory's just not the greatest. Do you remember what you said to me?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, short and sweet and to the point.
SPEAKER_00Like what?
SPEAKER_03It's a personal thing. I can't share on camera.
SPEAKER_00Do you know what that means?
SPEAKER_03I'll tell you after.
SPEAKER_00Liar.
SPEAKER_03Even if I said the vow, you wouldn't know if it was what I said or I didn't say because you blacked out. Test me. No. I'd be like, the thing about it is you have the speech that you said to me when you proposed to me on your phone.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I put two and two together later because when we were on the flight and I was trying to fall asleep and you're clacking on your phone, I'm like, what is this dude doing? It's the crack of dawn.
SPEAKER_00Ryan my proposal speech at the last minute.
SPEAKER_03Very on brand.
SPEAKER_00When I script things, it's not necessarily to remember these words like specifically. It's just to get a gist of the main points or why wanna why wanna convey.
SPEAKER_03Are you getting your are you getting transported back there right now?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. Can you tell? Yeah. How how do you know that?
SPEAKER_03Because your hand's sweating.
SPEAKER_00I knew you were looking at my hands.
SPEAKER_03It's wet.
SPEAKER_00PSA. When I get nervous or I'm in intense situations, I have hyperhydrosis. It's like my own superpower.
SPEAKER_03Why do you even call it that?
SPEAKER_00That's what it's called, hyperhydrosis.
SPEAKER_03Who coined it that? Who diagnosed you?
SPEAKER_00Your mother.
SPEAKER_03She did not diagnose you.
SPEAKER_00We have the same condition.
SPEAKER_03But she isn't never called that growing up.
SPEAKER_00It's because she had no one to talk about it with.
SPEAKER_03She talked to me about it. I still held her hand even though it was sweating.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, well.
SPEAKER_03I still hold your hand even though it sweats. You're gonna leave me hanging on the camera in front of all these people? Hold my hand. Sweat. Yes.
SPEAKER_00You're something else, you know that?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I know. Uh hey, what's up? You like that, huh?
SPEAKER_00Sweetheart. I do like that.
SPEAKER_03Because that's how I start every podcast. Hey.
SPEAKER_00Hey, what's up? How do I start off?
SPEAKER_03Welcome back. Just start yelling at the camera. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Go ahead, take it away.
SPEAKER_00No, we're switching positions, we switch dialogue. I don't I'm gonna sit and be cute.
SPEAKER_03Okay. I don't do that whole like welcome back to the open marriage podcast. This is my beautiful wife.
SPEAKER_00You didn't prepare me. Okay. You like that. There.
SPEAKER_03Anyway, we're back. And that's what I'll say is that we're back.
SPEAKER_00We are back. Thanks for tuning in once again. Appreciate y'all. We um I figured something out. First and foremost, I just want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. For even inquiring, giving three seconds of your attention to listen to this podcast. You're unfazed. It's because I'm trying to talk to other people. I appreciate you. We um we really don't know what this podcast can be, these ventures, what they could turn out to be, but we just want to say thanks for even just taking a moment just to be like, hey, what are they doing over there? It really is appreciated. We hear a lot of good feedback, and um we just want to keep this thing going.
SPEAKER_03We're grateful.
SPEAKER_00Grand scheme of things, what do you think this podcast could be?
SPEAKER_03A relic.
SPEAKER_00Okay. In in what way?
SPEAKER_03I'm thinking about that show, uh Silo. Remember, they just kept finding all those relics.
SPEAKER_00So something that is but the thing about it though, those relics were just old things. Like someone saw a Pez pen and they were like, What is this? What does it mean? It's candy.
SPEAKER_03They don't know.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, but what I'm saying is our thing, I want it to have some kind of importance.
SPEAKER_03I know, just trying to be playful, but I guess you're not trying to play today. Well, I don't know what it this can turn into, but I just hope that it's fun, you know?
SPEAKER_00Just as long as it's fun.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like we have fun, people that listen have fun, we sh get to hang out and chat together. Yeah, you know, spend some protected time, no phones. Just you and I in this house. No one else here, quiet.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna leave that in for the editing. Did you just let me just a fart thought I was gonna make it?
SPEAKER_03I'm not gonna fart on camera. I'm a lady.
SPEAKER_00What's the most unladylike thing you're willing to do on camera?
SPEAKER_03A small burp. I can't burp right now.
SPEAKER_00It's easy to burp on command.
SPEAKER_03I'm not a boy. I don't I didn't learn that skill. I didn't have brothers, so I feel like if I would have learned that I would have been from brothers. My dad, my dad taught me how to like fart and run around the house and then like you know, have like fart wars, but we didn't didn't burp.
SPEAKER_00Well, definitely after Thanksgiving, I was having fart wars. Speaking of, how was your Thanksgiving? Was it good? You liked it?
SPEAKER_03It was so fun, it was a great time. It was a long process because we had I had work until 2 a.m. Then I was just like on a bender for many, many hours, which is why I think I keep falling asleep every night at 8 p.m. But it was so great to have my family here. And then for us to have a great meal. I haven't had a turkey in a long time. Have you?
SPEAKER_00Um, I mean, I love getting turkey burgers.
SPEAKER_03No, Blair. A turkey, like a bird that you cook in the oven.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's been a while. I mean, typically on Thanksgiving, I I know turkey is like the staple.
SPEAKER_03What do you eat?
SPEAKER_00Whatever's put in front of me, I ain't cooking.
SPEAKER_03Right, but if you don't eat turkey, then what do you have?
SPEAKER_00Might be chicken. Might be salmon.
SPEAKER_03Who eats chicken on Thanksgiving?
SPEAKER_00A lot of people.
SPEAKER_03I've never seen you eat chicken on Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_00That's because ever since you came into my life, you My whole life has changed.
SPEAKER_03My whole life has changed! I knew if I started singing it, you would do that. That was great.
SPEAKER_00Thank you, baby.
SPEAKER_03Riffing, how was your Thanksgiving?
SPEAKER_00I think my thank my thanks.
SPEAKER_03My Thanksgiving? It was gorgeous and lovely and great, because I'm British. Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_00Are you done? You're cute. Um I loved it. I I think that well, first and foremost, us Brits don't particularly celebrate Thanksgiving. It's not, you know, it's not like tied to the United Kingdom in any which way. So coming to America and hearing how people get around the table, share meal, break bread with their closest friends and family. I thought, oh, that's a very nice, it's a nice uh gesture. It's a it's a great get-together thing. Um but I won't say I've adopted it as something that I hold near and dear to my heart. I try to be grateful every day, but to have a particular day where everyone comes to, um, to just spend time with each other, eat um a really nice smell that I think that's a great time. So I think this Thanksgiving having your family come down, mom and dad, aunt, auntie, I think that was a really beautiful thing. Of course, I would have loved to have my family have my friends around. We ain't really got a big enough place, but um I I enjoyed it. I I did like it. I did take a nap. I said, wake me up right before the food was ready.
SPEAKER_03For hours. I was like, is this guy okay?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I I was tired because I was editing the last episode, also.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you're busy. I don't know how to do any of those, so don't talk to me about it.
SPEAKER_00I'm gonna teach you. I'm a teacher. Um, but yeah, I woke up. You baked some delicio, delicious cinnamon buns, scratch, rolls, rolls, cinnamon rolls. If there is a difference, yeah. You baked some delicious cinnamon rolls. We ate that, chopped up some good game. Then I said, Let me take a nap. Took a two-hour nap, came, woke up, ate the meal. It was beautifully done.
SPEAKER_03Didn't have to clean, none of that.
SPEAKER_00And then I was like, Alright, I'm gonna see you later.
SPEAKER_03So banana bread to go in a napkin, multiple slices, shoved them down in the car.
SPEAKER_00Yep, went to work, performed two shows, came back, ate another plate, ate another plate. I had three plates, three turkey plates.
SPEAKER_03Turkey.
SPEAKER_00It was good, it was fun, it was a great time.
SPEAKER_03It was quick. What what overall?
SPEAKER_00How was your um Thanksgiving experience?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I said it was great. I went first. You forgot?
SPEAKER_00We didn't really okay.
SPEAKER_03You went to go into detail? Yeah, it was it was really fun. It was great. We have some guest suites that are in our same complex. My parents got to say it. So that's like super convenient because it's it takes away like the walking or the driving or the whatever. So we just got to pop over there and I could hang out while you took a nap. Everyone was in our house. It's not really that big, so we were watching Stranger Things on the couch all squished up, four of us all the way across here. But my parents brought their dog, Juni. That was so fun. Yeah, it was a great time. I had a really great time.
SPEAKER_00I always feel um, I always feel happy when you get to be around your family for like the special holidays.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I mean, Thanksgiving, the reason I was looking at you like this when you're talking about Thanksgiving is because you know how I feel about the holiday. There was no friendships between the pilgrims and the indigenous people. It's not a good holiday. The premise of the holiday is so just like bad. So it's hard for me to like if it was up to me, we would do nothing in opposition of the holiday, because that's just who I am. But to be off all together on the same day is a great time to be together to your point. But I'm not gonna be putting turkeys in my house is and dressed up in outfits, and I'm not gonna have a baby that's wearing like a turkey thing, you know, like no offense, but like it just it just is not a holiday that I want to celebrate. Um it was a bad day in history, so you know, much like American history, we kind of like rewrite it and we're like, yeah, it was awesome, we're grateful, and it's like okay.
SPEAKER_00It's kind of woke of you, baby.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I don't celebrate 4th of July either. Call me unpatriotic, but I'm like people, my family was enslaved in 1776. So what am I celebrating exactly? Yeah, you married a radical.
SPEAKER_00Hey, do you know what? Hey, if you're like, I want to celebrate this holiday because it's really special to me, sure, let's do it. If you're like, I don't want to celebrate this holiday because it's not special to me, I'm like, we ain't gotta do it.
SPEAKER_03I think what's special to me is family above all else. So if anything, the days that we get off in this country are days that we can spend with each other because we're all off of work at the same time. So I'll take that at face value. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm not going to be the one that has a happy Thanksgiving poster in my house. Or is saying on the street, happy Thanksgiving, happy Thanksgiving. I'm like, happy holidays, have a blessed one. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00I feel like because we're already like tip-toeing that line of saying something that might be controversial or might be a hot topic, I kind of want to do like a tier list. You know, like um start bench cut.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_00So for those who don't know the game, start bench cut, you're the person, you're the person that put me onto this game.
SPEAKER_03You, you, you, you, you.
SPEAKER_00It's kind of like kill fuck marry.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but more appropriate.
SPEAKER_00More appropriate. Let's think of it as like a team. You're either gonna start a player, you're gonna bench a player, or you're gonna cut a player from your team.
SPEAKER_02Very good.
SPEAKER_00So the category is most controversial or egregious holiday to celebrate in America.
SPEAKER_03Are you gonna give me three options? I'm gonna give you three options.
SPEAKER_00Okay, good. All right, so we have. I'm so scared. Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, or this is bad.
SPEAKER_03This is all around bad. You wanna start the 4th of July. Here's the reason why Thanksgiving and Columbus Day celebrate two days in history where we've not only lied, the whole thing is a lie, but generations of people were completely obliterated. Now, Fourth of July is awful because it's celebrating the independence of this country for a select group of people. But we don't talk a lot about that in the history classes. We talk a lot about Columbus Day as if he discovered America, as if no one else lived in this fucking place, which is crazy work. And then we talk about the pilgrims and the indigenous people having a fun dinner while they're raping, pillaging, and killing people and giving them smallpox on blankets. So it's gotta go start 4th of July, Bench, Columbus Day. And cut Thanksgiving.
SPEAKER_00Damn like that. Yeah. Alright, I respect it. I think I would I would agree with you. You would? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's do you think I have a different opinion?
SPEAKER_03No, I don't, I don't think so. But I think it's I don't is there any holidays that you I mean I don't know if you remember this, but are there holidays in England that are celebrated that are along the same lines as like Columbus Day? Obviously, they don't celebrate Columbus Day in England.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't know nothing. I think there's this one holiday. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure most holidays that are celebrated by the majority or the powers that be are typically not gonna be in favor of me. So I'm like, you can do away with all of them. Go ahead and celebrate if you want.
SPEAKER_03You didn't add it there on President's Day.
unknownPresident's Day?
SPEAKER_00I forgot that's a holiday, huh?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, in February. These are like school holidays, you know, and like bank holidays.
SPEAKER_00I was like sleeping during school pretty much.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, because apparently needed personal time at night to do god knows what.
SPEAKER_00I was a child. Anywho, um that's a great question, actually. So it comes back to the like, is it is it kind of like a can you separate the art from the artist? Can you separate the holiday from no the one and the same? Do away with the whole thing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Or acknowledge the past. I'm pretty sure, I don't know, I don't have a child, but I'm pretty sure kids still learn in school that at Plymouth Rock they had a feast party together. And that's not what happened. But in this current administration, I think they're getting rid of all that. We won't know what happened in the past because there'll be relics of books that are left, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, either way. Well, I say any opportunity to get to take time, spend time with you, kiss up on you, be around family, eat good food, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I'll take that. I can appreciate that. But also, like, don't get me started, but having the uh Thanksgiving, the next day be Black Friday, it's so capitalistic, like it's sick. And I obviously work in retail, so it just makes me feel even more polarized. You know what I mean? I'm like, we just had a day where we were grateful for the people in our lives and these like non-material things, and we're gonna go spend our life savings on material things.
SPEAKER_00Balance, baby.
SPEAKER_03It's so capitalistic in American, but whatever. Here we are.
SPEAKER_00I think it's a I think it's a good time. This is what it needs to be. Do you know what's funny bringing this up? I feel like this segues perfectly into what I've been seeing online as far as social media topics. Hashtag fall brawl. Great conversations. Was there any conversations that what's a fall brawl? Okay, so what I've been seeing online is people have just been throwing out topics for Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah, for people to like argue or possibly get into a fight.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Which is like I think it's a it's it just kind of makes me feel like in American society, I think it's a staple to have some kind of dysfunction around the table, maybe in a way to like accept one another or to hash it out, like we need like a cleanse, you know. I mean, let's set fire to this environment so that we can rebuild and be better as a family, maybe.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Um, is there any topics that you would have liked to bring up during this Thanksgiving, or you were like, nah, let's keep the peace.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so I think those people that have those fall brawl topics are they are going to dinners or houses where there's polarizing beliefs that coexist under one roof.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03So when you bring up certain topics, it's gonna create a brawl because you have people on opposite ends fighting for their own belief.
SPEAKER_00Okay, so it has to be more centered around not necessarily politics, but it has to be a difference of like opinion that people Yeah, I think a lot of them I saw were political, but I don't know if that's my algorithm or if that's just kind of like how it goes.
SPEAKER_03Uh, but my family is very much aligned um to a certain ideology. So it's not like if I brought something to dinner, it would be like this like crazy brawl.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Uh however, I've seen those people who are like there's this one guy on TikTok, I don't know what his name is. He's like this famous guy, but he is black and queer.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03And his parents are black and MAGA supporters. And he like he just constantly is just like, I just can't believe that I came from these people that like truly believe in this stuff.
SPEAKER_00Well, I mean, you can't okay, so he's not MAGA.
SPEAKER_03He isn't.
SPEAKER_00Okay, well, I'm sorry, when you said okay.
SPEAKER_03He's just black and queer, and his parents are MAGA supporters and they're also black.
SPEAKER_00Okay. And so I was gonna make a distinction, like, just because they that person's queer doesn't necessarily mean that they support.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's not a Thomas supporter. But he, if he was to go to dinner and bring certain topics that are very much on opposite ends of the spectrum for uh either of those two different ideologies, I think it would create a brawl. I for example, like release the Ebscene files or like the Epcine file conversation. It's a very polarizing topic, depending upon what side you sit on.
SPEAKER_00Because I don't typically chat or break bread with Um Magus supports.
SPEAKER_03Remember when we were in Minnesota and you got so scared because every time you were talking to everyone, everyone just kept talking about politics, and you're like, why is everyone talking about politics? Why is everyone so comfortable talking about politics?
SPEAKER_00I I think it's because I was just like around new people. So for me, I don't know like where people align politically. Sure. So typically, as I go throughout life, it's not that I know where I align. And there is no unless you're walking around with a Make America Great Again hat, everyone can be on either side. Correct. And it's not like I gotta be careful or watch my back. But typically I'm just like, if I'm around someone new, chances are, or at least this is probably the wrong way to look at it. Because Trump is a president, I'm thinking everyone voted for Trump to be president. No, that's not true. I know that's not true.
SPEAKER_03We also live in a purple state, so you can assume that if you meet two people, one another two will be a Trump supporter because of purple state.
SPEAKER_00So and I'm not trying to get into no back and forth. There is nothing that I don't need to validate someone else's opinion. I don't need to validate that for them, and I don't need to validate my opinion. So I'm not gonna get into no back and forth with anybody about politics in that kind of way. However, when we went to Minnesota and we're around new people and they're like, Yeah, you know, because Trump is just crazy. I'm thinking I'm like, oh, oh, they okay, that's that's how they feel. Okay, all right, cool, cool, cool.
SPEAKER_03And it just speaks to like when you live in a blue city or county, that's the experience that you have, you know. And you haven't really been tapped in the politics. You really I mean, maybe you were before you met me, but I don't really think that was like a driving um force behind your algorithm or who you're around. Like you don't really necessarily engage in those kinds of conversations. So then to all of a sudden be put into a position where people are just like saying stuff, it's just like a little bit e, you know.
SPEAKER_00Do you know a friend of ours? Uh I ran into them and they said they're like, yo, happy holidays. I was like, appreciate you. They said, um, you know, I actually was thinking about like inviting you over to our family's dinner. Um, my family was actually asking, hey, like, why aren't your your friends here? And they were just like, nah, it's not a good time. I would have gone. Really? Just because I'm all I'm down for a full bra. Mink, mink, mink. Mink, mink, mink.
SPEAKER_03I mean, I would say some really I'd bring up some interesting topics if we were there. Would you care to definitely not gonna say it here? I know better than that. But yeah. Whatever's happening in the news though, I would bring it up. I'm pretty tapped in. Um, I did just see. Do you know who Beto A'Rourke is?
SPEAKER_02No.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so anyway, I just saw so Beto Orok Beto A'Rourke is running, he he ran for president uh back when Biden ran for president the first time in one.
SPEAKER_02Okay.
SPEAKER_03And he's from Texas, and the current governor of Texas is do you know who?
SPEAKER_00Greg Abbott.
SPEAKER_03Very good job, babe. Yes, Greg Abbott. And we all know how interesting of a man Greg Abbott is. So Beto is running, and Beto's on in the opposite party, then. Obviously, Greg Abbott is. Uh, and I just saw this random TikTok, and I haven't seen Beto in years. I don't even know what he's been up to. That was a long time ago that he ran, obviously. Uh, but I just saw this TikTok, and I know people were upset about it.
SPEAKER_00Why? What was he then?
SPEAKER_03So it's two, it was like two white ranch or like farmers, uh-huh, and they were talking to Beto, and they're like, All our lives, we voted for Republican, and we were married, and we both had four kids, and we are now married together. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, left turn, left turn. Uh, and they're voting for this is the first time that they're gonna vote for a Democrat. They just can't vote for Grup for Greg Abbott anymore. And I was just like, if anyone saw this, they would say this is like left, radical left propaganda on the other side.
SPEAKER_02AI.
SPEAKER_03It's not AI, it's not AI. It was beta or org, I know it was, it was not AI, it was real, but it was like a very interesting, it was just very interesting. I was shook to my core. I mean, Texas is like very conservative, you know what I mean? So in some parts, Austin obviously is like known for being like a more liberal area, it's a college city, so that's kind of how it goes. But yeah, I was just like, okay, Beto, really gut punching them with this ad you've got. But I definitely would bring things like that up at a dinner with a friend's family who has opposite beliefs in me. And here's the thing, I am open to having conversations around differences in political beliefs, so long as it's it's not tied to hatred of any other sort of group. And I think that's where we are right now currently in America, is like based on who you're voting for also means you can't sever the tie between voting for somebody and what your beliefs around certain people are. So that's where I like I can listen to you, but if you start doing that like somebody's less than me or they deserve less, or the and I'm like, nah, then we can't have a civil conversation.
SPEAKER_00You know, I will say, I think this year, because of my use of social media, it's now given us more insight to what's going on other parts of different people's algorithms. For years, being on social media, when it came to hashtag forebraw, it was more in a context of black families uh throwing jabs at one another. So, for example, it would be like there would be memes where um someone asks a kid, so you still get in D's and F's in school, and then the person with rebuttal, you still um you still hooking up with your your neighbor's husband or something like that. Something to the effect of like his personal chat attacks and jabs. But then on the lighter side of TikTok, quieter side, they talk more politics, and that's the contentious. So it's interesting how like different um conversations happen around Thanksgiving. Because I don't think I mean I could be wrong, and I probably need to sit down at other people's tables and whatnot, but that's what I notice on social media is different walks of life arguing about what could insinuate or instigate violence around a dinner table.
SPEAKER_03Wild. Yeah, well, no violence is instigated at our dinner table, so we we had a great time. We watched Stranger Things. You were behind, by the way. I just when I went to go open Netflix, you were on season four, episode one. I'm like, this man is so far behind.
SPEAKER_00Okay, good. I know where to pick up off. Well, I saw all I've been seeing is that they they hold my boy, uh, what's his name? Luke? What? Lucas. There we go. They hold my boy because apparently in one season he had a fresh lineup, and now if you look at him, his lineup all like this.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so when we were started watching it, we had to pause it and talk about it because everyone just kept commenting and we couldn't hear any of the dialogue. So we paused the TV and we're like, yo, what is up? He they like gave him a receding hairline. He's in high school, then it's dry, then his makeup is bad, it's like ashy, the wrong skin color. They filled in his eyebrows like about this thick and like black. I don't know, it's crazy. I I was talking to people about it because they're like, everyone looks old. Which I understand because it has been a lot of years they've been filming this show.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But not only does Lucas look like that, you've got what's old boy's name that um he's like the little chunky dude.
SPEAKER_00Never got to know his name.
SPEAKER_03Okay, I forget his name. I gotta think about it.
SPEAKER_00Dude with the missing teeth.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, he has his teeth now, but you can tell he's got like a mustache that they're trying to like shave down and then cover with makeup, so it's just as crazy. Yeah, and then Millie's got boobs that are like she has like a sports belt that's like not tight enough. So when she's running and training, her boobs are just kind of like flopping around. I'm like, yo, she went from having no boobs to now having boobs, which I get she's a grown woman with a child. Sure. She's got lip filler and like it's just a whole different vibe. So it took a while for me to like get over those things, yeah. So I could focus on the actual storyline, but we had kept having to pause it to like make commentary.
SPEAKER_00Well, I mean, I guess one could make the case while they're in high school, you know. I mean, you you go through pubs, you might might have these changes and whatnot. It's kind of like with Wicked. Like, if you've been seeing them, like people have noted seeing people in Wicked and then seeing them outside of it. They're all like skinny and okay.
SPEAKER_03That's because there's something in the water onset. Ozempicks in the water. Michelle Yao looks emaciated, she is so skinny. That's your girl.
SPEAKER_00Madame Morible, Wicked Witch. M M W W. That's your girl. I'm ignoring you. M M W.
SPEAKER_03You love Michelle Yao. I never need a thing for Michelle Yao until you tell me, baby. I I think what about what about Michelle Yao?
SPEAKER_00I know you're trying to put me on a hot screen. No, I'm not. I'm just trying to ask questions.
SPEAKER_03I just want to know.
SPEAKER_00Uh what is it about Michelle Yao? Yeah. I think I watched um, I think it was Star Trek Discovery. She's been in the industry for a long time, and I've never really paid attention to her. But in that movie, she had a very like um very commanding presence, and not necessarily sexual, but she had a very like sexy personality. So I was kind of like, oh Asian persuasion. Stupid. But I don't, but I didn't look at it like that in the movie. I was like, I hate this bitch.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I never watched it, so I don't know what her character was.
SPEAKER_00Oh, you watched Wicked.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00She made a tornado that dropped a half- Okay.
SPEAKER_03I didn't watch, I was asleep during that part. Uh unfortunately, the singing put me to bed.
SPEAKER_00You were asleep during that part. 25 minutes.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I was like for 25 minutes. It was a great nap. It was a long day. I was at a whole event. I worked a whole shift. It's F1 weekend. I went out with some friends, and then at 11 o'clock we decided to go to a movie. Like, my body is asleep.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03But for you, I'll do anything. And that's the moral of the story.
SPEAKER_00I could just save money and just leave you home.
SPEAKER_03That's rude. That's so rude.
SPEAKER_00I'm teasing.
SPEAKER_03Leave your wife at home day?
SPEAKER_00Teaser.
SPEAKER_03You're bad.
SPEAKER_00What next is coming out in the movie theater that I could leave you behind?
SPEAKER_03Any of them.
SPEAKER_00I'm never gonna leave you behind. You're always gonna be with me. There's some I wear hoodies with extra paddings so it could be a nice little pillow for you.
SPEAKER_03Speaking of, I need to like fix my neck. Oh, I was thinking about No, I was thinking that I should get oh, do I pull this one? It's too close to me. Um I was thinking that I could get um a neck pillow for the plane. One of them has five stars.
SPEAKER_00Oh yeah?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And it wraps around you so that your chin can go down. You have like support all around.
SPEAKER_00Let's get that. Let's get it.
SPEAKER_03You wouldn't use it, huh?
SPEAKER_00Probably not.
SPEAKER_03I feel like you're when I see you sleep on the plane, you're always like I don't know.
SPEAKER_00Just I I feel like when traveling, the less things you have on you, the better.
SPEAKER_03But if it can fold into a bag this small, would you would you use it?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, maybe.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_00It depends. Anywho, so more about uh Thanksgiving. Did you hear about that woman that said she was gonna propose to her boyfriend of seven years? They have kids together, but they've never been married. No. Yeah, about this? This woman got online and basically said, Okay, so I'm gonna decide to propose to my boyfriend after seven years of being together, they have kids, but she was gonna propose to him.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_00Of course, people in the comment section were eating her up. They're like, do not do this. This is the worst thing you can do. Why do you think people so against it? Why do you think people would be against it?
SPEAKER_03Gender norms.
SPEAKER_00You don't think a woman should propose to I'm not saying I don't think that.
SPEAKER_03I think do whatever you want to do. I'm not gonna tell anybody how to live their life. Would I propose to somebody? No.
SPEAKER_00Even if okay, let's take us. Sure. How long would you be with me until you were at that point where you said, hey, look, either I have to propose or I'm gonna have to leave this person.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so you're trying to get me to give you a number and I don't have one.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_03It it's more about like what the conversations have been like between the two of us.
SPEAKER_01Sure.
SPEAKER_03So if we're in constant conversation about the future, we've moved in together, our lives are intertwined, we've chatted about kids, we've talked about planning, we talked about moving, like all those things. And I'm your person, you're my person, you tell me that you're in love with me, then I'm then I'm gonna be like, okay, great. What are we waiting for? If it's like multiple years and it's like, okay, what are we really waiting for? It's more of a conversation.
SPEAKER_00Sure. Okay.
SPEAKER_03So I don't know the timeline, but uh the options aren't wait until I prop propose or until I leave. The options wait until you propose or I leave.
SPEAKER_00Valid. I think you said you were willing to wait how long before I was gonna propose to you?
SPEAKER_03Once I moved here.
SPEAKER_00In general, once you moved here, sure.
SPEAKER_03Well, so here's the thing. I I don't there are some people who truly believe that you have to like live separately to obey the Lord, you know, arguing my grandfather who thought I was a virgin when I was like 25.
SPEAKER_02That's my guy.
SPEAKER_03Right. Um, and that's all good and dandy. Me personally, we need to live together, we need to have sex, we need to do all these things before we get married because I need to know what I'm signing up for. If I have the same person and the same love and the same all the things, I need to know this is what I want. Can I deal with your Neil Clipping that's on the rug? Can I deal with these things? Or not. So once I moved to Vegas in 2023 of March, I said I thought to myself, he'll propose within the next couple of years. So when you proposed to me within six months, I was shook because I didn't think that you were gonna propose me because I'm like, this is very quick.
SPEAKER_00In the next couple years, what like two, three?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, like if I if you propose to me in like March, that's coming up, I'd be like, okay. Like I wouldn't think twice about it.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I wasn't trying to waste no time. I was trying to propose to you sooner.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. At Magic Bank.
SPEAKER_00When a man knows he's got a good one.
SPEAKER_03I thought you were gonna sing when a man loves a woman. Who sings that song?
SPEAKER_00Michael Bolton.
SPEAKER_03Can someone who can fact check this?
SPEAKER_00When a man wait, Aerosmith? Steven Tyler.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_00Oh, he did a rendition of it.
SPEAKER_03This is too many people. I don't know.
SPEAKER_00I know this.
SPEAKER_03Because you know a lot of music stuff and you tell me I know a lot of music stuff, but I don't.
SPEAKER_00Anywho, I'm glad that you took the the reins for that one because I was going to and I changed my mind last minute.
SPEAKER_03I've been really musical today.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03I'm in a playful mood. Again. What's wrong with my hands?
SPEAKER_00My hand's wet.
SPEAKER_03I like it. It gave me moisture.
SPEAKER_00Anywho. Yes. So you're you're a pretty conservative woman. You like your gender norms.
SPEAKER_03I don't know if you could say that, dude. Like that's kind of crazy. Uh, but when it comes to proposing, I've never seen myself proposing to anybody. I've just seen someone proposing to me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I feel you.
SPEAKER_03But I also didn't need some grand gesture. I didn't need some grand gesture either. Like you could have asked me to marry you in the middle of this living room and I'd have said yes.
SPEAKER_00Hey, trying to get married or what?
SPEAKER_03Okay, not that. First of all, you don't even talk like that. So you would give me some speech.
SPEAKER_00Hey, go ahead, put this ring off. We go together. We married. We married.
SPEAKER_03Remember, you kept saying that you were married when you just had proposed to me. I'm like, we're not married. We haven't signed any papers.
SPEAKER_00I emotionally was married to you the first day I met you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, except for that you had multiple women until you keep throwing that in there.
SPEAKER_00I want you to leave the past in the past.
SPEAKER_03You can't say things like, I was married to you from the first day I met you. If that was in April, and by September you still had multiple women that you were entertaining, then you well, was I a sister wife?
SPEAKER_00It's one of my biggest regrets. What is not being brave enough to jump headfirst into our relationship.
SPEAKER_03It's okay. I just like to say it because I think it's when you say you're the only, I'm like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, dog. I wasn't the only. However, I understand the energy behind it. I can understand that.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, that's that's my like PSA to fellas out there. I'm like, hey, look, I know in this world, in fact, not even it's not even exclusive to fellas, it's to the ladies too, however you identify, non-binary ladies in this world of self-preservation, it's very hard and it's very scary to give up your heart to someone and put yourself out there. I get that.
SPEAKER_03100.
SPEAKER_00I get so I'll never fool anyone for taking like the necessary steps in order to make themselves make sure that they're giving themselves to the right people. I get that. I'm just saying, looking back, I didn't have anything to worry about with you. That being said, if we were together and you proposed to me, you would have to say yes. Do you I would have to say yes? You think I would say yes?
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Really? Then I would have to take your last name?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_00Isn't that how it goes?
SPEAKER_03No.
SPEAKER_00Whoever proposes to you, they have to take that person's last name.
SPEAKER_03I don't know. I've never heard that.
SPEAKER_00But But you think I would say yes?
SPEAKER_03Yes. I don't think I know.
SPEAKER_00You know I'd say yes? Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Would I say yes? Yes. Why are you acting like you wouldn't say yes? All you gotta do is say yes. Blair.
SPEAKER_02Can I finish?
SPEAKER_03No. Why are you acting like you wouldn't say yes? You wouldn't say yes because you would say no so that you could propose to me. Ho.
SPEAKER_00Probably though. How mood. Probably.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I'd be like, first of all.
SPEAKER_03You would say my ear you'd be able to do it.
SPEAKER_00I told you. Okay, this is why I told you.
SPEAKER_03You would so then everyone would be watching, you'd be like, hey, maybe, baby, stand up right now. Stand up right now. Not right now. I'm gonna propose to you later. It can't be like this. It won't be like this. I love you.
SPEAKER_00Yes? I but we had this conversation before.
SPEAKER_03I know that's why I just did what I did.
SPEAKER_00I'm not saying, okay, so typically we see some dudes that get down on any and propose to a woman and expecting them at the most inopportune times also. Like we saw like a couple weeks back that guy who decided to propose to that woman when she graduated. I've never co-signed anybody that chooses to propose on on like a big like a birthday? Not a birthday. I see what you did there. But I'm talking about we're supposed to be for one person and then thinking, okay, let's just let's get a two-for-one special. Like I've seen now, okay. The only one that I'll be like, okay, I'll kind of see where this person is going, is for baby showers. I've seen guys get down on their knee and propose to the mother to be Okay, that's fine.
SPEAKER_03I thought you were saying that somebody else who was attending movie cards. No, no, no, no, no, no. And I'm like, that's a negative, negative, negative.
SPEAKER_00For for the baby shower they propose. I'm like, that's the only time that I'm like cool. Other things where it's like someone someone just got their certification, or um what's another someone else's like reception for their marriage. I'm just like, yo, let it be about, you know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Don't mix the days up.
SPEAKER_00That being said, if you were to propose to me, I think I would like I would get up, get up, get up, get up. Whisper your ear.
SPEAKER_03Come here, come here, come here, come here.
SPEAKER_00Get your ass.
SPEAKER_03No, you wouldn't say like that. You would say, baby, stand up. I'm gonna put the spring on my finger, and I'm gonna say yes like this, and then I'm gonna take it off, and then I'm gonna do this over again.
SPEAKER_00No, but but but what I'm saying is like it's just get up. Baby, I believe in traditional norms, also. That's just one thing that I will always stand on. In heteronormative dynamics relationships, man must propose to woman.
SPEAKER_03Man must woman.
SPEAKER_00Man marry woman, woman say.
SPEAKER_03Why are you scared? Why are you a caveman?
SPEAKER_00Because we're going back to the old school ways.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I don't know. Like I said, I don't think I'd be proposing to anybody, but I still love you.
SPEAKER_00And I you, sweetheart. And I you all right.
SPEAKER_03What else we got on this list?
SPEAKER_00Um, well, those are the only two like topics. I was thinking about and then I wanted to talk about what we're gonna be doing for next week. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I can't believe that it's today's Sunday.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03I have tomorrow, I have tonight and tomorrow, and then we leave.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, where are we leaving to?
SPEAKER_03The windy city. Yo, it's cold. I don't know if you've seen them low temperatures. Nice. Single digits.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I'm scared.
SPEAKER_03Why you need a scarf. I gotta do some light shopping.
SPEAKER_00That's fine. It's Black Friday still.
SPEAKER_03That's what I'm saying. I'm doing some light shopping. I think I actually will do a little bit of shopping today. See if I can find some stuff. People like Madewell's having 40% off their entire store.
SPEAKER_00Shut up.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00But yes, we are going to Chai Town.
SPEAKER_03Chirak. Someone asked you.
SPEAKER_00What Chirac.
SPEAKER_03Well, someone asked you, like, isn't Chicago just bad? I'm like, are is everyone in Africa that's a kid malnourished with a big belly? Like, come on. This is propaganda.
SPEAKER_00If you ask them, yes.
SPEAKER_03Dear God.
SPEAKER_00You know it's a code word. It's a code word.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I know. But anyway. I mean, there has been some a quite a couple things happening out there, a couple stuffs, as you would say, uh, on the public transit lines that we won't be going on.
SPEAKER_00Oh, I was thinking about ice.
SPEAKER_03Well, ice was there, not anymore. They're um okay, we can go there now. Where were they just at? Oh, they were actually in St. Paul recently.
SPEAKER_00I did see that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Because they even got out when we did.
SPEAKER_00That's why we were so fun fact, we were supposed to go to Chicago before we canceled those trips.
SPEAKER_03In October.
SPEAKER_00Because of my because ice was out and about. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I heard Chicago cold, but I ain't trying to run into no ice.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. But this time I'm so excited because we're going at the best time of the year.
SPEAKER_00When it's cold?
SPEAKER_03The holiday season. Yeah. Cuddle me up. Fireplace, hot drinks all day long. We're going to the Christmas market.
SPEAKER_02Oh, we are?
SPEAKER_03Yes. Gonna get the world-famous hot cocoa. We're gonna go ice skating. We're gonna go to a concert. We're gonna stay in like the most cute, cutesy hotel. Concerts?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, we're gonna see Leon Thomas.
SPEAKER_03We got dinner reservations all nights that we're there.
SPEAKER_00We're doing the whole thing.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I mean, and the good thing is, is because well for you, the good thing for you is we won't do a lot of walking because it's so cold. So we won't really be outside like that. We'll be to and from places.
SPEAKER_00I gotta go with some boots. Should I bring my Tim's?
SPEAKER_03Oh, I forgot that you have they're black, right?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, very cute. Just put your inserts in because you know them that lower back gonna be whistling.
SPEAKER_00It's gonna be an amazing time. And it's gonna be our anniversary.
SPEAKER_03Happy two-year anniversary.
SPEAKER_00Two years. Can you believe this? Can you believe it?
SPEAKER_03Two years married to me. We've actually done it big the last for our two anniversaries that we've had.
SPEAKER_00Maybe we always do it big. Everything big. Ring real big. Engagement real big. Everything real big. Oh, oh, whoa. No?
SPEAKER_03Wow. I love that. Uh yeah, I'm stoked. We're gonna see Leon Thomas perform. We're gonna hope that there's not another situation like Tether the Creator. I told Blair to stand in front of me. He's denying it. So you all here now. Blair would like me to get chosen upon at the concert. He's gonna put me in the front to be seen. Um, so we'll see how that goes.
SPEAKER_00I I'm not sure if we'll make that happen because we don't have me and Grease. You know, typically people that meet and Grease, they get to get there first. So I feel like they're gonna be from Relo High.
SPEAKER_03I didn't know they had meet and great options.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, they did.
SPEAKER_03Well, I didn't pick it because I don't want you to say like you chose this lifestyle.
SPEAKER_00I always noticed that the the actions that you take is a byproduct of like what I do, and I don't think that's necessarily the case. You just said you didn't know that they had it available, and then you switched that to being like, Well, I didn't pick it because of you. I'm trying to switch it up. You just heard a line in 4K.
SPEAKER_03I don't think that we need to meet people. Like, I don't know, I just feel like it's a very scripted interaction.
SPEAKER_00Sure, but what they were doing is there's some packages that are like you can listen in on the soundcheck, like you can be there for sound check, you can meet them. No, thank you, all that good stuff.
SPEAKER_03I don't want to be there for eight hours. That's like insane.
SPEAKER_00Get your money's worth.
SPEAKER_03Oh, moon did the okay, but the thing about it is the tickets are not that expensive. So when I don't even know how much money you spend on chromocopia, tell me a couple bucks here.
SPEAKER_00It's fine.
SPEAKER_03More than 400?
SPEAKER_00Around that area.
SPEAKER_03600?
SPEAKER_00Three to four, maybe. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so when you spend $400 on tickets, then I can understand wanting to get somewhere early to get the best spot. But when I spend less than a couple bills, I'm not gonna be going there 18 hours early.
SPEAKER_00No, I hate you. I'm just thinking I want to be in the best spot, and I'm not trying to be behind some six-foot dude and not seeing Leon Thomas. And I'm not even like a stand for Leon Thomas like that, but I love music and I love it.
SPEAKER_03We do love Leon Thomas though.
SPEAKER_00Do you know what? I won't even lie, before he even dropped his like albums, I was keeping up to date with his like his trajectory. Keeping tabs. I was keeping tabs because I was I I had a feeling. I said, this dude is gonna be this dude is gonna be something. I can tell. Like something just told me, and he's just been consistent. Hopefully, we can buy some vinyl from him and he has something signed. Because when we went to the Lucky Day concert, we could buy his album and he had to sign. Yeah. Hopefully he has his folks album out there. Cause that would that out beautiful.
SPEAKER_03Great time. Yeah, I'm gonna. I mean, I we have reservations for dinner at like four o'clock, so we'll get there early. The show's not until 8 30.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, hopefully people don't want to be standing in the cold like that in the middle gate.
SPEAKER_03We're not sitting in the cold like that. I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_00Either way, I'm gonna.
SPEAKER_03Because here's the thing, babe. Remember, we're gonna be wearing if we're gonna be sitting outside, you have to have like coats and stuff. There's no coat check. So we're gonna do carry the coat? Yeah.
SPEAKER_00No. I'm pretty sure it's gonna be cold inside too. I'm gonna keep my coat.
SPEAKER_03Not all those bodies.
SPEAKER_00Look, either way.
SPEAKER_03This man don't know nothing.
SPEAKER_00Either way, Chicago is gonna be a very great time.
SPEAKER_03My love letter to Chicago. I can't wait. Last time I was there, you bought me Lou Batons. What are you gonna buy me this time?
SPEAKER_00Whatever you want, baby. I told you, we do it real big.
SPEAKER_03I don't really think I need anything.
unknownThank God.
SPEAKER_00Thank you, Jesus.
SPEAKER_03Remember when I almost bought that goyard wallet for you, and you like literally yelled at me.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, I don't know. I don't want that. Only you get designer.
SPEAKER_03I was showing my um someone on my team this botaga bag that I want, and they're like, Why are you so rich? I'm like, I don't have it yet.
SPEAKER_00Well, you expect expecting me?
SPEAKER_03No, I would never. It's like 10 grand.
SPEAKER_00Charm change.
SPEAKER_03It's not like it's not like an investment until we have like a house, you know. Yeah, I'm not gonna put my botanga bag neck in my closet that I rent. That just seems like bad.
SPEAKER_00Well, either way, um, I'm looking forward to next week. I think it's gonna be an amazing time. We'll be outside when it's appropriate, all the sights to see, a lot of great things to experience, and we can't wait to share them with you all.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I won't be shaving my legs.
SPEAKER_00Keep them hairy, baby. It's warm. It's too cold.
SPEAKER_03It's too cold that we're gonna grow right back.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, by the way, thank you so much for listening to this episode of Open Marriage Podcast. I'm not sure if you guys know this. I know we sound good, but we look even better. So go ahead and go over to the YouTube. We have a YouTube channel, and we will be including all of this footage in there. I don't know, we might even start like a little Patreon exclusive. I don't know, but I'm just saying all the things a little Chicago vlog. Come on now. I think that's I would love that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00Well, all I'm saying is tap in. I know we I know we sound good, but we look good too. So check us out.
SPEAKER_03We look great.
SPEAKER_00You look fantastic.
SPEAKER_03You look better than me.
SPEAKER_00Alright, enough. Okay, let's go ahead and uh let's do something with our day. As always, my love.
SPEAKER_03I love you. I love you very much. Happy early Annie.
SPEAKER_00Wow, two years. Why do you want to marry me? You stay married so much.
SPEAKER_03Why not?
SPEAKER_00Alright, I love you. Let's have an amazing day.
SPEAKER_03Let's have an amazing week. Oh, I almost bought my gin on this thing.
SPEAKER_00Careful.
SPEAKER_03I love you. Love you soon. See you later, babes.
SPEAKER_00Bye.