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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It’s storytelling meets side-eye, with humor, honesty, and just enough tension to keep things spicy.
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"We the hottest in the world right now, just got back from London town!"
-Kanye West
Yeah, well I know that you ate this morning because I watched you. I also ate.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, two helping spots.
SPEAKER_01Billy's pooping out.
SPEAKER_03Love that big odds jacket.
SPEAKER_01It's not that big, top. It's literally the small dress, a medium jacket.
SPEAKER_03I'm saying in the context of us being in our living room, it's like you gotta the equivalent of a puffer on.
SPEAKER_01Well, I don't have a cool shirt like you, so. Oh, this what was that mouth?
SPEAKER_03This is um what I call that. That's like I don't know. What when I see other people like do things, they just do like worship like people go.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know why they do that. But also it only makes sense like at a game or something, you know, if you have like a jersey on.
SPEAKER_03Sure.
SPEAKER_01But when regular people just do it just because they're wearing a t-shirt, it doesn't make any sense.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. I don't know. I just try and copy the demeanor.
SPEAKER_01I like it.
SPEAKER_03Um hey.
SPEAKER_01You love when I do that, don't you?
SPEAKER_03I do love when you do that. Sweetheart.
SPEAKER_01We're back.
SPEAKER_03Jeez Louise.
SPEAKER_01Spend some time. Also, I'm congested, so I'm gonna try not to be sniffling in the microphone, so apologies, my voice sounds a bit strange, but what is it?
SPEAKER_03A byproduct of being pregnant?
SPEAKER_01Sniffling nose, yeah. Uh or congestion, yeah, but um it's because we were in England and I got sick.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01On the deathbed.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. We just got back from England.
SPEAKER_01Lord.
SPEAKER_03It's another one champion sound. Yeah, Esther, we bow to get down.
SPEAKER_01Get down.
SPEAKER_03We the houses in the world right now. Just got back from London town. Bet they give me a bound.
SPEAKER_01Honestly, that was a great song. What year did that come out?
SPEAKER_03I want to say I was in middle school.
SPEAKER_01Oh shit.
SPEAKER_03Sucker 05.
SPEAKER_01How'd I know all the words to that song then if you were in middle school?
SPEAKER_03There's a lot of songs that I say that I don't know the words to, but you put on I remac I Romaculously. I miraculously know all the words to it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03But whatever.
SPEAKER_01It's incredible.
SPEAKER_03But yeah, we got back from England.
SPEAKER_01We made it back into the country safely. Holla fucking you're because I was scared to go scared.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Did you feel scared when you were entering customs?
SPEAKER_03Um, not necessarily scared, but I was I was like, okay, there's a possibility that I could get detained. Um, but that's partly part of the reason why I just don't post anything.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. I know, even for your sake, I don't like anything either on TikTok.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Or social media.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, which is, you know, hey, you wanna protect and serve this country. I get it. Who? Hey, you know, we just want to make sure that the people entering in the US are friendly to the current administration's goals and plans.
SPEAKER_01So all right, we're gonna change the subject because I don't feel comfortable talking about this. Uh feeling very uncomfortable.
SPEAKER_03I'm uncomfy.
SPEAKER_01I'm uncomfy.
SPEAKER_03But yes, we just got back from London. Baby, how was it? Was your first time going to England?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, my first time in Europe, actually.
SPEAKER_03First time in Europe, and you chose to go to England at the worst time possible.
SPEAKER_01Force me to go to England at the worst time possible. Forced. Against my own will.
SPEAKER_03Against own will. We have echo in our room.
SPEAKER_01Definitely so. Uh yeah, you know, 10 out of 10 would not recommend going to England in winter. Just gonna say that now. And I love winter. The problem is is rain.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01When you're traveling somewhere and like being a tourist, the last thing you want to deal with is rain. And it rained, we were there for nine days. If you take away like travel time, it rained eight out of the nine days. Yep. And the one day that we that I'm saying it didn't rain, we were in Paris. So I don't know what was happening that day. Uh, but it was sunny in Paris. Um, so yeah, I mean, listen, it was interesting. I don't like the long flight thing in the food was just bizarre. Has anyone ever been on a like a flight going to a different country where they serve that country's cuisine? Like is that normal?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. I think yeah, it's just kind of like prepare you? Yeah. Well, I I maybe I could be wrong, but I think it's a byproduct of the airlines, also. It's like if you you're gonna have the cuisine of whatever the airlines is Virgin Atlantic based out of England?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I have an idea.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Well, Virgin used to be here, then it it wasn't.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but it's like it's it's is the guy who owns it British? Richard Branson, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know these people, but they're be knowing everybody's name. I don't be knowing nobody.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, Richard Branson. He's cool.
SPEAKER_01I mean, listen, I think all in all, it was it wasn't the best timing to go, and being sick once we got there because of dirty Europeans who cough in the air.
SPEAKER_03Whoa, whoa, shots fired.
SPEAKER_01Here's what's happening. I should have known from the plane ride that it was fucked. But we're on the plane, and mind you, it's just been like the busy holiday season. We have been going nonstop, and I worked on Monday. We flew Monday night, so not only am I working, but I'm trying to pack everything, get everything ready to get on a flight. We get to the airport, we get on the plane, and immediately everyone's like, I'm like, what? We don't cover our mouths anymore.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I thought we left the mouth coughing out into the ether back in COVID. I I thought I thought once we did COVID, no one's gonna be doing that anymore.
SPEAKER_01Allegedly not.
SPEAKER_03We were led astray.
SPEAKER_01You didn't prepare me.
SPEAKER_03I I wasn't prepared. I didn't know that they get down like that. But also at the same time, we okay, you gotta stop doing that because they can clip that. But I'm putting your microphone down a little bit too.
SPEAKER_00You have so many rules. Is your microphone okay? Put it up, put it down, twist it to the side. Better.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so I wasn't prepared of like how much people would just be coughing, like just sneezing and coughing the whole time. I was like, oh shoot, we should have brought them N95s. What's it KN95s? What is it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and I should have brought them. They're literally up there, but I totally forgot to bring them and I regret it because that was not only was that alarming, the amount of beers that people were consuming on a flight.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Every time we walk by to be like, oh, would you like a drink? I'll have a beer. I'm like, it's the middle of the night. We're gonna land in England at 2 p.m.
SPEAKER_03You know, alcohol is the best sleeping pill. Plus, me rides to sleep.
SPEAKER_01Beer?
SPEAKER_03Alcohol, it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Anyway, so that's my takeaway from England. I had a great time with you. I love traveling with you, it's always a fun time. Met your parents in real life, which is great. Met your sister in real life, which was great. And your granddad. And Auntie Eva and Auntie Elsa and your cousins. Uh we went to Paris, highlight of the trip. It really did make the trip from turn from a five to a nine. Um, and we came back home nine days later, never going anywhere again for nine days.
SPEAKER_03I mean, we oh yeah, that was the longest time we've been been in a place, huh?
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that was that was a struggle. That was a struggle and a half. I've come to learn there was a lot of great takeaways from this trip.
SPEAKER_01Like what?
SPEAKER_03Um where you sleep can really determine the the vibe of the rest of the trip.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, let's get into some discourse here.
SPEAKER_03Please lead the way.
SPEAKER_01Tell me about your love affair with Airbnbs.
unknownLove affair.
SPEAKER_03I I think the reason why I like Airbnbs is because most hotels wouldn't be able to provide certain amenities. The only thing that I was thinking about going to England for multiple amounts of days is to have access to a washer and dryer, at least, or some kind of kitchenette. So I thought that was like the great thing about it. However, um that doesn't matter if your sleep is gonna be ruined. I was jet I did not get more than three hours of sleep each day.
SPEAKER_01That was Except for the last two days.
SPEAKER_03That was horrible. I could not sleep through the night. I thought it was because I was jet-like, but maybe it's because the bed wasn't as the bed felt like a fortune cookie. Yeah. Is there like a different cookie that we could use in in regards to like England? The bed felt like a oh shortbread cookie.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Walker's shortbread cookie.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. But either way, um, not in a good sense. Not in a good sense that it wasn't a good bed.
SPEAKER_01And I think part of the reason why too is it's too small of space for you to feel comfortable.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, we I saw that it was a micro studio, but I thought, you know, we're gonna be out and about. But then once we landed, you being sick, uh, it being dark, rainy, and cloudy, we went inside for a majority of the time, but when we did get back, we were not having a good time inside.
SPEAKER_01That was kind of sad. Yeah, but anyway, so now we know. I mean, and I I think too, I didn't really inspect the Airbnb that you sent me because we had some we had some struggles leading up to booking this experience, and I was like, you know what? Blair deserves a win. He's gonna book this Airbnb, and we're gonna have a great time. So I didn't really provide too much insight into like what I thought we should be doing in sleep arrangements, but moving forward, we're not we're not staying in any more Airbnbs in for that long time.
SPEAKER_03What do you think we should be doing when it comes to research on Airbnb's? And maybe no Airbnbs.
SPEAKER_01It's out. We're done.
SPEAKER_03Airbnbs.
SPEAKER_01You just can't trust them. When I look at a hotel, first of all, TikTok is the number one way to be able to figure out if you want to stay somewhere or not. Because I need to see yesterday what it looked like, not five days, five days ago, ten days ago, a year ago. What I've recognized also is people are honest about hotels because the hotel doesn't rate you back. What I recognize in our conversation about the Airbnb the other night is like, you're I'm gonna rate this five stars, and I'm like, it's not five stars. The bed was uncomfortable. We didn't sleep. If you if you're in the shower and you have to get out to dry your body, your ass hits the sink. Like that is not a good experience.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I it it damn near it, it could have been considered a hostel. Could it have been technically from how small it was in bare bones, maybe?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. I've never said it at a hostel, but what I recognize is because the hosts will rate you, you can't rate them honestly. So then that's why everyone gets duped with Airbnbs. It's not a five-star Airbnb. It's that people don't want to be rated less than five stars.
SPEAKER_03I remembered when we probably got to our breaking point in being in an Airbnb, and you said, Hey, um, I think we need to book a hotel. And I said, you know, that's probably right. You're like, yeah, because how much was this place like? $400, $500? You think the Airbnb was four to five hundred dollars worth of my time to be there. It was not $400, $500. Let me just tell you that. But you know what? We learned. We live and we learn.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so anyway, we didn't sleep. We had an uncomfortable bed. Not doing any more Airbnbs. We'll do one more because we have a friend getting married and we're gonna be some I'm gonna pick it personally. Nowhere that's micro, nowhere that has one of those, what are those beds called?
SPEAKER_03Murphy beds.
SPEAKER_01None of those places that have Murphy beds where they don't talk about how the mattress feels. I'm looking for specific details about the beds. Period.
SPEAKER_03Shout out. I am so sorry I let you down with that.
SPEAKER_01It's fine. I mean, listen, I'm a sick. There they couldn't have gotten any worse, to be honest, besides uh you not being able to go get back in the country, but you're able to get back, so we're fine. You made it. What was the highlight of England, not the entire time we were gone?
SPEAKER_03Um, I think overall, what I was looking most forward to was just seeing everything through your perspective. I've I was born and raised there. I've visited once after coming back from America. I know England, you know, but I couldn't wait to see it through your eyes. Um, but I think the highlight for me was going back to my parents' house and you being able to see all of my baby pictures and all that kind of stuff. I look, look at you smiling. I knew you loved every single second of that. I might even upload a couple here. I was a very cute baby.
SPEAKER_01You're so you're so cute now. That's why you're cute as a kid. But seeing we have hard copies. You'll never get them back from me. I'm gonna keep them. Uh but yeah, it was so fun seeing you as like a little baby, and there's pictures I've never seen of you before, or that you've never seen of yourself either.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I was like, damn. Who got these pictures? That's very nice. I we need to see the videos. I gotta hear my mom about the videos. We did not get the videos.
SPEAKER_01They can't find them or something.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, they're in a box somewhere, but overall, I think that was the highlight. What was the highlight for you?
SPEAKER_01Highlight for me in England Fish and chips.
SPEAKER_03Are you for real?
SPEAKER_01No. You're falling asleep at dinner, so three hours of sleep.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't know actually. There's just like too many things to like call out. And I think when I was sick, it was really hard for me to be like, oh, this is a great time because I just like felt so bad. Um But I think maybe the highlight for me was going to like doing really British shit, like having that scary breakfast. On the first where Blair tried to make me eat blood patties.
SPEAKER_03Okay, hey, hey, hey, hey. Okay, look.
SPEAKER_01Then had the audacity to ask me why I didn't why what I didn't like about it. I'm like, I don't know, because it's blood.
SPEAKER_03Okay, fuzzle, you didn't know it was blood.
SPEAKER_01Correct, but my body did.
SPEAKER_03Okay. Hey, for those that don't know, when you go to England, it's not mandatory, but if you want to get into the British culture, you have to get a full English breakfast.
SPEAKER_01You do not have to get it. First of all, it's so much food. We're gonna put a picture up here because it's so much. Literally, the everything was falling off of the plate. The guy when we ordered it was like, Are you sure you want two of them? And I'm like, that should have been a sign that we should only have gotten one and shared it. And it's not good.
SPEAKER_03I feel like Keith Lee said the same thing.
SPEAKER_01He did, yeah.
SPEAKER_03When uh Keith Lee went on a tour in Europe, I think he went to England, and I think not every restaurant is like the equivalent of the same, but that's pretty much the gist of he's like, yo, he's like me and my family went to a restaurant and we got a full English breakfast. I got it. Let's try it. Rate for 1210. We we spent 87 pounds and 35 cents. But um food was trash.
SPEAKER_01That shit was disgusting, yeah, and it has no flavor. I'm like, I feel like I was eating in the 16th century BC. Doesn't even make sense. It's not even right. But I was I feel like I was eating in the 16th century when like King Louis was alive.
SPEAKER_03Like, hold on a second. Now that's culture, that's tradition. You gotta have your full English. What's on a what's on the plate of a full English? Can you name all the things?
SPEAKER_01Oh god, so much pork. I was sick. Pork all different kinds of ways. One pork slab, one pork sausage, beans, which beans on toast. Actually, gonna slabs, not mad about it. That was the best part of the breakfast. Um, you know, if you go to the store and you are in like the pasta aisle in the tomato aisle, and you see those large cans of just whole peeled tomatoes in juice, they took that, dumped it out, drained it, stuck it on the stove, and then popped it on your plate. Three of them. Uh blood patties, two of them.
SPEAKER_03They were called blood. Fear factor.
SPEAKER_01What's that your parents called them?
SPEAKER_03I think they're called like black pies or something. Some shit. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01But first of all, I I just want to know like what kind of I actually don't want to know, but the questions that come to my mind are whose blood? And who the fuck tried this and thought, let's put it in a fucking patty and feed it to people? And people being like, hmm, this is nice. Anyway, those patty things, some random, multiple different kinds of um potatoes. What were those different one triangle ones looked like Arby's? You know about Arby's hash browns?
SPEAKER_03Uh I'm kind of seeing it in my head.
SPEAKER_01They always come like in a triangle, they're lit, they taste delicious. These had no flavor. I douse salt and pepper on it just to get a little something something. What else was on there? Did it say anything?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think there was like some hash browns, there was some like different potatoes. Um we gotta look at the video.
SPEAKER_01And then and then some Russian woman was serving me two pieces of white bread, straight up like wonder bread with butter on it. And and everywhere you go in England, they just give you those gold packets of butter. I'm like, is there is there a monopoly here of this sort of gold butter stick company, or what's happening? Then the tea, which is actually really delicious. I fuck with the tea.
SPEAKER_04I'm glad that you love it.
SPEAKER_01But anyway, the tea and the beans on toast are the only things I would ever eat again, and not because I wanted to, because it would be the thing that I would eat to uh soak up the culture, everything bin everything else.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I remembered after we finished that. You're like, yeah, so we're never eating this again. So fair, fair enough. Fair enough.
SPEAKER_01I do appreciate that you took me to that really old diner though.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I what was it? Um it wasn't Regent Street. It was it was something I think it was.
SPEAKER_01By the palace. That was before I got sick though. So I was still that's probably why I got sick. That English breakfast. The slavery ancestors were like, you shouldn't be eating this oppressive breakfast.
SPEAKER_03What you but you should be eating, okay. Let me not get back. Yeah, go ahead. No, no. I didn't get cancelled. No, no, no.
SPEAKER_01Brother.
SPEAKER_03Nah, I'm not gonna do that.
SPEAKER_01Um, okay, but real talk. Were you happy that you got to go back to England?
SPEAKER_03Um what I was I was happy that I got to go back to England. As far as like the first place to travel, it felt appropriate to let that be the first place with you that I could travel to in some kind of starting a new chapter. We have to go to the beginning before we can go to the future. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I guess. Here's the thing. Um, we'll be going back to England only in summer, and hopefully the Europeans pack the deodorant, because I'll be spraying it if they don't.
unknownWallahi.
SPEAKER_03Okay, yeah, so that was uh the first place um took you to get breakfast. I think that, yeah, it was like the first day that we landed. Um, what else did you think about like England? You saw Big Ben, you saw Buckingham Palace.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm really sad that we didn't get to go in the palace. And also, I don't know what it is. If it's just me or I think all Americans kind of have a fascination with like the um like royal family. Royalty day England! Who is that?
SPEAKER_03I'll show you the black knight later.
SPEAKER_01Okay. Uh but we go to Buckingham Palace and Blair is like, why do you know all this stuff about the palace? I'm like, do you not see Spare up there? Prince Harry.
SPEAKER_03Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_01Never read it, but it's cute.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but I it's funny, walking around, I thought people were gonna either look at you like either like Georgia Smith or like Meghan Markle.
SPEAKER_01Well, my hair wasn't straight, so I couldn't be Meghan Markle. I'll never I'll never tell anyone what you said about Meghan Markle, by the way.
SPEAKER_03What did I say about Meghan Markle?
SPEAKER_01Okay, you wanna go there?
SPEAKER_03Do you wanna cancel me? You wanna throw me underneath the box? You wanna do that to your husband? To the father of your child?
SPEAKER_01All I'm gonna say is two words. White stylings.
SPEAKER_03Do you know what? Okay. In my defense, I don't know what to call it. I okay, alright. Just so we can put this to bed real quick. You need to know what looks good on you. You know what I mean? And Meghan Markle has the way that she looks. I think she looks fantastic. She looks great. I loved watching her in suits. It's also kind of trippy to see someone go from like a TV show to like being like royalty.
SPEAKER_01It's a real like Princess Diaries moment. The Duchess of Sussex.
SPEAKER_03I mean, she's a real Anne Hathaway. Um But yeah, she looks she she looks great, but you looked amazing in England. You see how you've put up these pictures.
SPEAKER_01You see this politician uh answer that he gives. Anyway.
SPEAKER_03Look, my name is Blair for reasons, Tony Blair, Prime Minister.
SPEAKER_01Anyway, yeah, we it was so fun to see the palace. Only in summer, though, can you go and tour the palace. So we'll need to go back to do that. But I think it would be fun to my parents, because my mom and I are the ones who've like watched any my parents like your parents, we were alive, but they were adults when Princess Diana died or was murdered. Uh and so my mom and I always had like lots of Did you make a face?
SPEAKER_02Murdered.
SPEAKER_01You didn't know she was murdered?
SPEAKER_02Also she got into a car accident.
SPEAKER_01Disc tisk now, bleh. Yeah, she did get into a car accident, but it was all part of this like scheme.
SPEAKER_02I didn't know that, damn.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Anyway, uh my mom and I have watched some things about her. Uh, and then we watched obviously the the wedding of Kate Middleton married to Prince Who? Who's Harry's brother? Yes, very good. William. So Kate and Harry and uh William got married, and then Harry and um Meghan Markle got married. So we watched both of those. So it'd be fun to bring my mom to England so we could go tour the palace, and then you and my dad can go drink a beer and take the kid somewhere.
SPEAKER_03Have a pint. Go to the pub and have a pint, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, get some fish and chips actually. I'm really kind of upset that we didn't have more of that.
SPEAKER_03More fish and chips? Yes. How much fish can you?
SPEAKER_01We only had one time one time.
SPEAKER_03We didn't eat a lot of time.
SPEAKER_01And then you shamed me for having more tartar sauce. I'm like, this, how else are you gonna eat this? Plain?
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah. Well, I was falling asleep at dinner, so I was probably delirious. Yeah. I was uh three hours of sleep.
SPEAKER_01Twice, there and in Paris.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay, so that's the first place that you're taking your mom to to Buckingham Palace.
SPEAKER_01The palace, mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_03To drink from a glass and a chalice.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Nice.
SPEAKER_01Where's the first place you're taking my dad?
SPEAKER_03Um, I'll probably bring him to where like they have the changing of the guards.
SPEAKER_01Really?
SPEAKER_03Uh um we we didn't get to go, and I'm surprised that we didn't go, but um it's where like you have the horses. We see um people always trying to take pictures and they always hold on the reins, and they're like, get off the raids.
SPEAKER_01And like bite them on the side.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, your dad would be like, Bro.
SPEAKER_01Thank you, it's not cute.
SPEAKER_03He's like, yo, they got horses out here. Horrible.
SPEAKER_01My dad's imprisoned. Yeah, you are just frightening with my dad's impressionation.
SPEAKER_03Anywho, um, I'm pretty sure that he would appreciate that. You see the cool stuff, you know, the touristy things.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03We had you do uh public transportation. How was that?
SPEAKER_01It was great. I had a great time. It's very dirty. Um, thinking about all the germs that are in there 24-7, and I'm sure it's never cleaned. But, you know, when you're already sick, it's fine. The more germs, the merrier. But I had a great time. Blair has this misconception that I can't go on public transportation, and that's not true. Just because I didn't do it when I was growing up doesn't mean I don't can't do it now. What's that for?
SPEAKER_03You move like the princess of England. So when it comes to public transport, like you're like taking a bus?
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm never gonna do that. I'm never gonna take a bus in America. Why would I do that?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but it was great to see you being so um adept with being able to use public transportation, getting on the trains, and then after a while, you start to actually know you're like, okay, so we're gonna take the Piccadilly line and we're gonna go to this area and then hop off and go to the Circle Line and go to like I'm like, yes.
SPEAKER_01I wish I was that good. I wasn't that good. You basically I just knew when we were gonna get off. That's still get on.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, that's still great. That's way better than I would have known.
SPEAKER_01I mean, shout out to you. I here's the thing. I I've been seeing these TikToks where girls are like, what I don't do what my husband does, and they're like, My husband is in charge of booking the flights or whatever. And when we travel, you're in charge of mapping. I'm not I don't I'm not the mapping kind of gal. I don't want to be learning the map. I don't want to be turning my body around to make sure that that little blue thing is facing the right direction. I don't want to be doing any of that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, you did very well with that, and I was very proud of you.
SPEAKER_01You actually did. But yeah, wait till the last day for us to see some crazies. So I think we did, I think that was pretty good.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. See, we we've traveled to New York, we traveled to Chicago. It was something about these like big cities and whatnot. I I tried to be very cognizant of not skewing your perception based off of the locals. You know, I try not to have you around too much wild shit. Um, going to New York, we didn't take the subway at all, you know.
SPEAKER_01Scary. Um we're gonna get cancelled for that.
SPEAKER_03No, I mean we can probably go a little bit later. Mom Donnie's the mayor now, so who knows? Yeah, I mean, he's offering affordable housing and public transportation. Good time.
SPEAKER_01For free, and then people are gonna be on there doing all kind of shit.
SPEAKER_03Um we don't know that, but um stayed away from that for New York. Went to Chicago. I we didn't really need transportation like that. Um, but also we hear a lot of weird things about Chicago transportation. But we said this is what we're gonna do. We we have to take public transport.
SPEAKER_01There's like no way around it. I think in American cities you can kind of avoid it. But in the UK, you can't really avoid it to get places quickly because there's too much traffic and it takes like eight times longer to go on the car instead of going in the tube.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Okay. Um now as far as okay, so we we touched on we touched on the food, we touched on the touristy things, public transportation, um shopping. What do you think about uh your shopping experience? Because we was shopping till we was dropping for real.
SPEAKER_00Did we?
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, we fucked up some commas. Speaking of got me some got me some merch.
SPEAKER_01I feel like the only thing that was like a lot of money was my purse. But in England, I don't feel like we spent a lot of money shopping in England.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think just being being in the stores made me feel like we were spending money.
SPEAKER_01Carrying bags.
SPEAKER_03Yes, a lot of good stuff.
SPEAKER_01I mean, a lot of the things I bought were gifts for others. I think besides this sh you have basically collected two t-shirts and a jacket.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then I got a sweatshirt and a purse. Is that it?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, everything else that we brought back was for Zoe, my dad, my mom, and my boss.
SPEAKER_03Shopping till we were dropping.
SPEAKER_01And in um a bunch of oh, you know, we didn't talk about food wise, was all those um confectioneries you bought from Sainsbury's.
SPEAKER_03Sainsbury's is so loud to hear you say that. Yeah, yeah, we um we just got a whole bunch of things that we could get at the international marketplace. So sometimes we get those things at the world market.
SPEAKER_01You can get them all, yeah.
SPEAKER_03More or less except the Jaffa Cakes. I don't really find Jaffa cakes around here, but you can get pretty much get all those same things. Which that's why I did I wasn't too keen on packing them. Yeah, I mean contraband and all of that.
SPEAKER_01But I mean they did ask me in customers like, are you bringing back any food? And I was like, technically not, because it's you didn't say confectioneries.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Anywho, um, but yeah, so we we did some shopping out there, fucked up some commas. It was a good time. Let's talk about the the parents. What was what was that like, me and my parents in real life?
SPEAKER_01I mean, honestly, it was like the same experience as what I'm used to, which is like experience of my parents was pretty much the same because yeah, it was the same. It just felt like very seamless, and um like we picked off where we left off when we talked on the phone. I mean, I've been talking to your parents on the phone for what how many years now?
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Almost three. I've lived in Vegas almost three years, so basically you start talking to them on FaceTime when I moved here. Um so yeah, it was just cool to see like see all of you guys in real life together because I think there's certain features that you have that look like your parents, but to see you all having similar features and having similar idiosyncrasies is just kind of funny to be in the same room with you guys. So I enjoyed it.
SPEAKER_03I really wish we would have recorded a podcast out there, but it just you being sick and just the timing of it, it just didn't work. So maybe maybe we can have an episode in the summer when we if and when we go back. Yeah, that'd be cool.
SPEAKER_01We may go back one day, or they can come out here.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that would be cool. Okay, and then meet my sister. You actually got to meet like my cousins, met my my granny. You met my granddad.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, except her granny didn't know who you were or I was. She's like 90 something. How old is she? 91?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I think 90, 91.
SPEAKER_01She's younger than Auntie Elsa? Yeah, she is. Auntie Elsa's 94. Remember your remember granddad kept saying 94 pence.
SPEAKER_03Timeout. Okay, you were saying different people. Auntie Elsa Auntie Elsa.
SPEAKER_01Sorry, Auntie Eva. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You knew what I was talking about.
SPEAKER_03I I did, and I was like, okay, yeah. But anywho, um, yeah, you got to meet everyone. Well, not everyone, but a majority of my family. It's just really cool. You're a part of the family now. You in there. You in there like swimwit.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah. It was um it was really fun to see everyone. And it the houses in England are very weird. They're also small.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_03Small people.
SPEAKER_01Are they?
SPEAKER_03Not really.
SPEAKER_01Right. Anyway.
SPEAKER_03But it's like the city.
SPEAKER_01How is it okay? Enough about you asking me. How is this your family? How is it seeing your family and like seeing cousins you haven't seen in like 30 years?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I I mean it's interesting for them to say, like, oh yeah, you still look the same. And and I'm trying to picture them. And yeah, it's all the same. It's it's weird to see someone when you're younger, and then you grow up and you you have like damn near family and kids and looking at each other and be like, damn, we we really out here. Like doing doing the whole life thing. Um, so it was great to see them. Um, it was also great to see my mom and dad uh in in person. They were saying, Yeah, wow, it's been like six years or something like that. And when you really think about it, that's that's a really long time without being able to hug your parents. Yeah, I mean, so um, I was really happy about that. It was interesting on the last day that I started to get slightly emotional. I was like, damn, it's probably gonna be a while again before I see them again. But it was it was great to see them um and get to spend time and obviously get to spend like share like the experience of Khalia, you know what I mean? It's it's a wonderful experience.
SPEAKER_01I wonder what your parents um I wonder what everyone's perception of me was. I tried to be my best behavior. Um, so hopefully it went over well.
SPEAKER_03But they probably like, yeah, she's just like Megan Markle.
SPEAKER_01Megan Markle. I will say though, we didn't talk about it. The true highlight of the trip for me was your granddad.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, my granddad's a cat, so he okay.
SPEAKER_01So, first of all, we walked so Blair's never been to a nursing home before. Uh, and I want to just go on record by saying that nursing homes in America and England are the same. They look the same, they smell the same, they're just as hot. But Blair has no idea, so he goes in there wearing all of his layers because it's cold outside, and he immediately starts sweating. But as he's sweating, his granddad is like fake crying. He's like, ah, but there's no tears coming out. But he's like wiping his eyes. My grandson, he's like holding Blair's hand, and Blair just can't stop laughing the whole time. I really wish I would have recorded this because it was so funny.
SPEAKER_03My mom has a video.
SPEAKER_01No, oh yeah, she does. She sent it to you?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, she did.
SPEAKER_01I gotta get that video. I gotta get that video.
SPEAKER_03I think I think it was just uh yeah, it what was wild. What I'm starting to realize about my family is I come from a long line of characters. They're very expressive, they're very theatrical. It makes complete sense why I got into this profession, you know, because it is literally or why you have the personality that you do, because it's not just your profession that makes you like this.
SPEAKER_01You are like this without going to a job that requires you to be a character. You just are a character.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it was very interesting, and and you know, he'll be talking to us. He's like, Yes, for the blessings of the unanimity.
SPEAKER_01And what is that word? I don't know.
SPEAKER_03It's like the cohesive, it's not a real word, it's real now, it's just like enclectic.
SPEAKER_00Okay, great.
SPEAKER_03Anywho, um, so that was interesting. That was interesting, and then you just break out into himself. He's a church man, yeah, preaching the good words.
SPEAKER_01Saying like we're going to Zion. I'm like, where am I? Am I transported back to Jamaica? Is this what they do there?
SPEAKER_03Seventh-day Adventists.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, shout out to the Seventh-day Adventists out there, the West Indians of the world.
SPEAKER_03But yeah, it it was a it was great. It was great to see Granddad. It was great to see Auntie Eva. Um, it was beautiful. It was a beautiful time.
SPEAKER_01I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I enjoyed watching you having to be the center of attention with your family. I like prevailing.
SPEAKER_03Was I the center of attention? I was just looking at you, kind of like it's all about her.
SPEAKER_01No, why they they don't know me.
SPEAKER_03No, they know you now.
SPEAKER_01Although granddad did bless me multiple times.
SPEAKER_03You said that you wanted to baptize our child too.
SPEAKER_01No, he did not. He did making up things.
SPEAKER_03Um, anywho, yeah, that was that was it was good. It was good, it's very interesting. It's really a shame that it was just uh it wasn't that ideal. It was so bad being in England and then seeing you sniffling and coughing and not being able to sleep. I said, we need redemption. So I did what any man would do to make their wife happier. Spent that money. We took a trip over to Paris, pay to the Eurostar. It was a very good time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Left at like six o'clock in the morning. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Your alarm went off at what time at four o'clock?
SPEAKER_03Jeez, Louise.
SPEAKER_01I didn't grab up about like 3:30.
SPEAKER_03I got two hours of sleep.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Got on the train. What was your experience of taking the Eurostar? Uh taking the train over to Paris.
SPEAKER_01You have to eat before you get on the plate, uh, on the train. I was feeling nauseous and sick. Yeah. It just goes way too fast. You know?
SPEAKER_02Yeah. How fast was it going?
SPEAKER_01Like 200 kilometers.
SPEAKER_03It got up there. Yeah. Um, but we did make some some friends on on uh the the train right across from us. I don't I'm forgetting their names, unfortunately. But it was uh one of them was from your your your hometown?
SPEAKER_01David and Cenay, I think.
SPEAKER_03I imagine.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, one of them was from my hometown. Grew up just a few blocks away from where I did in Irvine, which is so funny.
SPEAKER_03Isn't that so interesting? Of all the places and all the times that you can be, you literally sit right across from someone that literally grew up next to you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. It's a good time.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we uh we were there in a jiffy. It was pretty quick. It's a few hours, I think. I mean it's a couple hours, then it's like a time change. So we gained an hour because Paris is an hour behind England. Um and yeah, Paris was perfect. I wish we could have stayed there for an extra day. Yeah. I felt gypped of our time, but it was what it was. We can always go back later.
SPEAKER_03I think I think when we go to Europe in the summer, if we do that again, we're definitely hitting all the spots. We're going to Paris, we're going to Italy, going to Greece. We have to do it all.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_03There's just this just a world out there. I caught the travel bug now.
SPEAKER_01Did you?
SPEAKER_03My my passport is gonna be run ragged.
SPEAKER_01Too bad I put his passport to the washing machine.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's fine. It is what it is.
SPEAKER_01Hopefully it's well now. We'll see. Uh, okay, so where's the next place you want to travel?
SPEAKER_03Next place I want to travel is to the hospital, bringing our child into the world. I'm not leaving anymore. Do you know how much money it felt like we were spending? You gotta have money. That MX looking at me like this. I was like, damn, don't look at me. But um it's a little too early for that.
SPEAKER_01Really?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's too early to be thinking about traveling again.
SPEAKER_01But we're gonna travel domestically before I deliver this baby.
SPEAKER_03What do you have in mind?
SPEAKER_01California.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, California's always a good time. But yeah, let's bring it back to let's bring it back to France. Paris. What was your your Paris experience?
SPEAKER_01It was so fun. I loved Paris. Your dad was like giving it a bad rap, and I was like, okay, we'll see.
SPEAKER_03Not only my dad, a lot of people say, like, you know, oh, in Paris, it's the ghetto. It's it's le dirty. You know what I mean? Uh sometimes they say that the people are rude. Y'all are lying. You're lying. I had a great time in Paris.
SPEAKER_01At least where we went, it was like we didn't have that experience.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, maybe okay. First of all, we did get a helpful tip. When you go to Paris, don't be going up in there talking about hello, how you doing? No, no, it's bonjour or bonsoir. You have to do it. That sets the tone. You know what I mean? So we were like bonjour, they're like bonjour. Now we're best friends.
SPEAKER_01Now we're good, yeah. Yeah, so everyone was nice. The food was magnifique. The best food we had eaten on the whole trip. I was like, thank God, I can get nourishment.
SPEAKER_03Yep.
SPEAKER_01Because instead of eating blood pies, I was having a nice croissant sandwich that was very nice. Eggs made that would just came from the countryside. It was perfect.
SPEAKER_03Omlais de fromage.
SPEAKER_01Mm-mm.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01Also, we found out that Blair took French when he was like a school kid in England. I'm like, when did we he never told me this.
SPEAKER_02We oui. Je me peux Blair. Ballet Vançais.
SPEAKER_01What does that mean?
SPEAKER_02My name is Blair. I know that. You speak French.
SPEAKER_01You speak French.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Do you say anything else?
SPEAKER_02Um Voulez-vous. No.
SPEAKER_01No, I'm being for real.
SPEAKER_03Um, I can say French Fry. I can say French kiss.
SPEAKER_01Okay, dude, you're crazy. Anyway, um yeah, we went to the hotel. I will say the problem that I have with it with uh France is that because they claim that they create like made perfume or whatever. I don't even know who create what country created that shit, but the perfumes there.
SPEAKER_03A bit strong. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm like, not only am I nauseous from this train, I'm sick because of this freaking perfume. And then there's no airflow because it's Europe, it's just hot. You enjoyed that, huh?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. I didn't even notice. I was just like, everything is fine.
SPEAKER_01Until we came back home and you're like, it's freezing in here.
SPEAKER_03We stayed at a beautiful hotel. Um, view of the Eiffel Tower. It's very, very romantic.
SPEAKER_01You did a great job.
SPEAKER_03We did a great job.
SPEAKER_01Well, I didn't pick the hotel.
SPEAKER_03You let me know that my picking choices have been horrible, so I had to step my game up. Had to spend that bread.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Blair goes, so how much money had to spend that baguette? He goes, how much money are you comfortable spending on this hotel? 200? I'm like, 200? Where are we standing on the floor of a Frenchman's house?
SPEAKER_03Yeah. You were like, okay, not to pocket watch. Hey, look, I'm we don't have money like that, but Blair got money for the right things. Blair, the people be pocket watches.
SPEAKER_01The problem with Blair is that he likes to spend money. He he enjoys spending money on things that are actually not that important. And then the things that are important, he just is like trying to like secure his money and like put it away. I'm like, you have it all wrong. You spend money on vacation because you're on vacation, and then when you get home, you just cut back on some expenses here and there so you can make up for the deficit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's that's gum math.
SPEAKER_01How is it gummath?
SPEAKER_03First of all, I don't spend money on things unimportant. That's a lie. I spend things that are important to me, maybe not to you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Well, that's what I'm saying. It's like you get mad at like how much money we spend for rent or how much money it costs to stay at a hotel, and I'm like, that's for health and wellness. You'd rather be on the ground of a Frenchman's house and then have like all These like gadgets and like spend money on food.
SPEAKER_03Maybe you can chime in on the comments. How do married couples spend? How do you work that out? Finances.
SPEAKER_01You know what they say on TikTok and online? The discourse is anybody, anyone who's married who still has separate bank accounts is a severe red flag.
SPEAKER_00Why do you need that face?
SPEAKER_03Well, we share bank accounts. No? We don't? We have one. We share bank accounts and we share the credit card, which I'm like, Lord have mercy. I hate to see that. The credit cards, the credit card hate to see me comment because I'm not using it. Look at you. You mad?
SPEAKER_01No, I don't care. I use the credit card, I pay up the credit card, everything is fine.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's your money. Go ahead. Use it as you see fit.
SPEAKER_01You're bad. Bad, bad, bad. Anyway, I had a great time in Paris. I loved it. Eiffel Tower did not disappoint. The room choice was great. Um, you had like a little balloon set up for me in there with rose petals. It was very sweet. It was very cute.
SPEAKER_02I mean, you know, I gotta spawn my lady.
SPEAKER_01Ahead of my 30th birthday.
SPEAKER_03Speaking of, happy birthday, sweetheart.
SPEAKER_01Thank you.
SPEAKER_03Wow, it's tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's tomorrow.
SPEAKER_03How do you feel?
SPEAKER_01Great. Great. Uh, yeah, I mean, it's hard. Like, when you come back from vacation, when you just were sick, like, it doesn't feel like my birthday, really. Um, and I don't really have like any severe plans, so it's kind of like I'm not saying it's another day, but I'm just saying, like, it's not like, oh my god, we're gonna like we did a pre-birthday celebration, so we kind of celebrated it while we were there. But yeah, I'm like, yeah, yeah. We have a lot of other things happening. I'm pregnant, we gotta play these baby showers, we gotta pay off the Zamak so you don't murder me before I deliver this child.
SPEAKER_03Okay, first of all, don't say that. Like, come on. Please.
SPEAKER_01I'm just kidding.
SPEAKER_03I I I I don't care. I don't like that. Look at you smiley. You watch too much murder mysteries. I love murder mysteries. Why do I know that's the number one statistic for the death of pregnant women is typically their spouses? That's so fucking horrible.
SPEAKER_01No, yeah, the number one way that uh pregnant women are killed is like but through homicide.
SPEAKER_03Murder.
SPEAKER_01They're murdered.
SPEAKER_03Okay, well, that ain't happening.
SPEAKER_01I know, babe. I was just a sick joke. I'm so sorry. I don't want to damper the mood. Anyway, so yeah, I mean, 30 is a whole new chapter. It's funny, we were just talking about when you turn 30, uh, you proposed to me.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then you told me, oh, when you turn 30, I'm gonna give you a kid. And she thought I am shoot the club up, shoot the club up, shoot the club. What is that? I said, boom, boom, boom, boom. You're hilarious.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, um, yeah, life-changing. When you're 30, you gotta have some like what we do.
SPEAKER_01Life changing events. Well, when I turned 30, I was supposed to be having a dirty martini for the first time. But this will do. A baby will do. Uh, we get to see the baby on Tuesday in our anatomy scan, which is so exciting. Bones, fingers and toes. And eyes and ears and hoes and hoes. Oh, do you know where things are?
SPEAKER_03But yeah, uh it's a beautiful time. It's an exciting time that we're living in. It's great.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, well.
SPEAKER_03So baby, this uh now that we are it's the new year, we just got back from vacation. Now we're here in the ground running. You said that we gotta get this this um we're doing an anatomy scan, we are getting the the baby shower ready. Um, we have to find another place to get for our family ready. Nursing home nursing room. What is it called?
SPEAKER_01A nursery.
SPEAKER_03Nursery. A nursing home. I'll say my auntie Eva.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna say the baby slip with Auntie Eva.
SPEAKER_03Um, what else do you what else are you looking forward to for this uh upcoming week, this next week?
SPEAKER_01This next week. I'm going back to work. I've been out of work for two weeks. Come Monday, which would be crazy.
SPEAKER_03I love that.
SPEAKER_01It's been nice. I don't know what's going on, so hopefully everyone's fine. Otherwise, if I don't want to get back. Um Yeah, I mean, my best friends are in town. Um, so I'm excited to be hanging out with them today. And uh yeah, just like slip back into normalcy, not spending money. Really?
SPEAKER_03I'm just saying, like, it's your birthday. We gotta spend a little money on you.
SPEAKER_01I did, I spent it on the my purse.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01My new baguette purse.
SPEAKER_03It's very French.
SPEAKER_01It's very nice, it's very cute. Uh, what are you looking forward to this week? You got a busy week coming up.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, we got a lot of things going on. Uh, but the only thing that I'm worried about or that I'm paying attention to is you. I really want to celebrate you, and I know that we just got back from vacation, but it's your birthday.
SPEAKER_02Birthday? It's your birthday.
SPEAKER_03Stop. They asked me what I do and who I do it for. You're supposed to say yeah.
SPEAKER_01I don't do it for ya, I do it for you. Oh, babes. Well, I'm excited to be back, truly. Be back, normal C, get on a cadence for the podcast, get this going. You know what I mean? Yeah, and yeah, I mean, we got a lot of a lot will happen to the next couple of months. We've got hospital tours, we've got childbirthing classes, we've got a lot of stuff.
SPEAKER_03We're here in the ground running. This child is coming. The countdown has started.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but how many more weeks do you have? 28 weeks.
SPEAKER_03Jeez, Louise.
SPEAKER_0118 weeks.
SPEAKER_0318?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, right? 22 plus 18 is 40. Yeah. 18 weeks.
SPEAKER_03This child is right around the corner.
SPEAKER_01You guys, every time I tell Blair how many more weeks we have until we're going to be. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_03This child is around the corner. What? Do you know what? As soon as I got back to work yesterday, you know what?
SPEAKER_01Four and a half months, by the way.
SPEAKER_03That's right around the corner. As soon as I came back into the dressing room, they were like, hey, you're gonna be a dad.
SPEAKER_01I'm like, why? Why do that? They're not wrong.
SPEAKER_03Okay, all right.
SPEAKER_01Well, um So yeah, we got a lot of things to do in the next four and a half months. You're gonna get a new car, also. It's crazy, it's crazy times.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so get used to this up as much as you can because everything around here is changing. It's gonna be a beautiful time, and I'm so excited to be doing it with you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, same. Thanks for um getting me back home to the sun.
SPEAKER_03Of course, yeah. And the dry air, nosebleeds every month.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, literally have nosebleeds, it's disgusting. Like L from Stranger Things.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Um, thank you so much for listening on this episode of this podcast. Once again, we want to appreciate you. Oh, I didn't even do the intro.
SPEAKER_01I know, I'm so happy that you didn't do it.
SPEAKER_03Okay, well, thanks again for listening. We appreciate you. And um, tune in next week. We got we we'll get let's get back into the groove of things. We're gonna be addressing all the things we're learning through marriage, through parenthood.
unknown18 weeks one, my dad.
SPEAKER_03Okay, yeah, and um yeah, we can't wait to bring you along with this journey with us. So thank you so much. Appreciate you, but I appreciate you even more.
SPEAKER_01Appreciate you the most.
SPEAKER_03I love you, sweetheart.
SPEAKER_01I love you.
SPEAKER_03Let's go get something to eat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm starving.
SPEAKER_03Alright. Bye!
SPEAKER_01Bye we get it. E.