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Twenty Episodes Later: Reflections on Friendship and Growth
The curtain falls on Season One of the Green Onions Podcast with a heartfelt, unfiltered conversation between hosts Common Sense Girl and Noah. What began as a 12-minute experiment has blossomed into a platform where authenticity reigns supreme, filled with what they lovingly call "nonsense, garbage, and a whole lot of laughter."
In this extended finale, the hosts reminisce about their podcasting journey, including the evolution of their format, behind-the-scenes dynamics, and the memorable jalapeno popper incident that nearly ended Noah's life. They candidly discuss how guest episodes changed their natural chemistry and their commitment to maintaining genuine conversations rather than performative content. This reflection offers listeners rare insight into the creative process behind building a podcast identity.
The conversation weaves through personal territory as Noah shares his thoughts on creative authenticity, expressing how he approaches creative endeavors with 100% commitment and no ego. Common Sense Girl opens up about family life, business ventures with her husband, and her new jogging routine with her five-year-old daughter. These personal moments showcase the real-life friendship that forms the backbone of the podcast.
The episode takes a deeper turn as they discuss mental health awareness, the importance of recognizing when someone is struggling, and how removing yourself from negative environments can be healing. Noah's moving reflection on fatherhood – both his relationship with his own father and his aspirations to become a parent – reveals the heart behind the humor. The finale concludes with a touching quote from "It's a Wonderful Life," bringing everything full circle.
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two oh my gosh, you guys welcome to the green onions podcast. Yep, this is a podcast where we throw out some nonsense a whole lot of garbage or sense and a whole lot of laughter. I am common sense girl and I'm noah and welcome to our season finale of our season finale of our first season.
Speaker 1:The season finale of the first season Like we made it, we made it, we did it.
Speaker 2:Yes, this is so cool.
Speaker 1:It's kind of crazy that we were talking about previously.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:That the location has changed.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:The environment has changed and yet we're still the same. Real ass motherfuckers, yes, sitting on this fucking couch and chair we started this shit yeah, we throw a little bit more things.
Speaker 2:Episodes definitely got longer from the first episode this is going to be a longer one.
Speaker 1:I went from 12 minutes to at least an hour to 45 I have a feeling that this is going to be a longer one yeah, we we've really definitely come up a ways um from our 12 minute episode, but we're excited this episode.
Speaker 2:We decided we are not going to do our little meditations and our devotion no, we're just talking yeah, we are going gonna go back old school, just because we're extra excited also people are asking about like merch, I know, and that's coming up in our season two. But soon, merchandise, we're adding video content I know we kept saying it, but we're for real. This time we were bs, and the other times that that was a season one.
Speaker 1:Gaslight, yeah, we gaslighted ourselves. We were like, yeah, this is what's going to happen.
Speaker 2:But, believe it or not, we have been designing, so we do. We just got to throw it out there to y'all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, also. I don't think it gets expressed enough, but me with my music and writing, movies and all that garbage like, and you doing family and shit like I yeah, life, I think I don't think we're gaslighting ourselves. I think we're just like living fucking life and if we could fucking do it at that moment we would do it, but also we're caught up in everything.
Speaker 2:A million others we, we, we want so much all at the same time. It's just crazy. We're like, we're like this is on our list, check, check. Maybe not check so much so check, check, check, check, check yeah, so and then, and then we add stuff, take one off, add some more.
Speaker 1:Add.
Speaker 1:But, how are you? I'm good. We were having a conversation. Yeah, I'm really good, like briefly mentioning music and briefly mentioning the I showed Anna a movie idea and briefly mentioning this stuff. For me as a person, it feels like sometimes my brain isn't working on anything Like, with everything going on and all my responsibilities and all that stuff, that what I actually care about and what I'm passionate about gets like put to the wayside. And yet, like being able to show that idea to you and being able to show that idea to the other people I showed it to and them being like yo, that's like you need to write a script, essentially, um, and it's that weird moment where it's like, oh so Alta's time wasn't wasted, like, despite me thinking that I'm wasting the time, it's being utilized in a positive way.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And that's the Like, I don't know. As a kid I used to view it as like tattoos, or I used to view it as like if I made a song that I wanted to listen to, but now it's more like the passage of time is a fickle motherfucker. I, uh I. Day to day is a lot easier than the the broad spectrum of the months. How are you?
Speaker 2:Well, I'm doing good. Um, I am just life, in a way, as you mentioned. You know, kids, hubby, extra bonus kid, Just lifing it away. You know Few business ideas on the side in the works, as always Getting them together, executing it, Making my husband my business partner. That's interesting Because he's like you're aggressive.
Speaker 1:I said I am yeah, you want me on your side of the table. Yes, I'm pretty aggressive I'm black and jewish all of the above.
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, um, but yeah, so that's been very interesting dynamic, because he's kind of like life is great, let's pray about it. I'm like no.
Speaker 1:Let's go to Burning man. I'm like nah bro, we got to get this shit done.
Speaker 2:So that's been interesting. I started jogging. Did I tell you I started jogging?
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that's been fun Well you mentioned it briefly like 20 minutes ago, before we started.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, but yeah, me and the little youngster, we started jogging and we did two miles together today um really successful. But I'm really hurting um, because you know she's five, so she's great, you know she's got a lot of energy.
Speaker 1:She's fine, yeah, yeah, I'm 105 years old.
Speaker 2:So, you know, I've got to kind of like, keep up because you don't want your kid to get snatched up. So I'm like, yeah, he got this, are you okay? Like I seen jesus twice so. But, um, it's actually good, because I wanted to be a runner and she's pushing me because she really wants to do it. So I'm like, uh, this is better than her sitting on the couch not doing nothing, eating bonbons.
Speaker 1:No, you bring up that Running is so good. There's a thing about my life where I'll track out a mile, like the subdivision across the street. I know the mile and like when it gets late I'll just run, and it's like my favorite thing to do because it's like so mentally clearing, even after all the surgeries and you've had surgeries too- so like running's this moment where you like feel what's wrong, but yet you just it's like a different dial and um, it's funny because I always drop back to basketball, mind you.
Speaker 1:Like I was running a mile in like five minutes in high school, like for basketball, and running was the thing. I was like really good at um, and it was so funny because I was really good at running. And then the coach, like we ran around the track and then, uh, the coach comes up to me and he says, if you don't pick up your fucking feet, he said he said I was running Like there was sandpaper under me or something, some bullshit like that. Like I, I wouldn't, like, I would just like glide. And he was like, have you watched a gazelle? And I was like, no, I have you watched a gazelle? And I was like, no, I have not watched a gazelle run. He's like pick up your fucking knees, dude. And I was like, and then that's when I started actually learning I don't know how to run like a gazelle. Who fucking knows what a gazelle is?
Speaker 1:um, I don't know, just animal planet yeah, okay, earth disney plus you're gonna need to work on people in africa like they're pretty.
Speaker 2:You see how they be running that's awesome though but yeah, so that's been pretty fine. We'll see how it goes and come. Come to me in a month from now maybe, like anna, how's that running?
Speaker 1:nah, I'm doing actually I gotta run right now. Actually I gotta fuck this podcast. I gotta go run a mile and a half to clear my mind. That's what. Like the sauna, that's what the sun does for you. It's kind of crazy that, like the mention of the first episode, was me sitting in the sauna and me having great skin, which I still do, by the way, but um, I can't stand him.
Speaker 2:He's talking about his gray skin. I was born this way with greatness.
Speaker 1:So good. No, I got to work for it, but I'm exceeding, I'm pushing the boundaries of great skin.
Speaker 2:No, I just wake up this way, you know being black.
Speaker 2:We slather that shea butter oil, that olive oil you got braids, I saw it when you were walking up here oh, my braids yeah oh, I didn't tell you this, okay, so yeah, so no one knows about me and my hair, but for the first time last week I wore a wig. Let me just say, fyi, that shit is hot. I can see why girls be flipping them bad bitches off when they be in fights on videos. I see that stuff is hot like. I was one step from flipping off my wig and I had to remind myself. These caucasians have only been around a handful of black folks and, trust me, ain't none of them wearing wigs, so they probably don't want to see this happen. But yeah, so underneath, you know, I had my little braids and I was like you know what? I got some good hair, so I'm just like I'm just have to wear my little cornrows for a little minute because I'm like I can't. That week was too hot. I paid a dollar too much.
Speaker 1:You can't return it funny because you called me and I was like I'm in in the shower and you were like, okay, you take. What did you say? You said something about me taking fast showers.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was like, oh, I'll be there in a few minutes. You take fast ass showers, Because he do.
Speaker 1:And he was all like, well, I take a shower like every day and I'm like it don't matter, I'd be scrubbing as if like 15 to 30 minutes easily no well, I don't know like I scrub you scrub quick you be in certain predicaments in your life where you learn how to stroke like scrub quick oh, I must have just had all the time in the world yeah, you had all the time in the fucking world, because when you were telling me that was like she has not been in my shoes.
Speaker 2:My parents gave me too much time.
Speaker 1:They didn't train me right, Because I'm like, I'm like no, to me it was always like oh, the water heater is going to run out. Was that with you? Like, if?
Speaker 2:you stayed too long. Just let me do.
Speaker 1:And it's crazy because my mom could get dressed in 30 minutes. Even here, man, It'll be like I have probably at max 15 minutes of hot water.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:Before I'm like, oh shit.
Speaker 2:No, in both of our bathrooms everybody can take a shower at the same time, and we got five people in our house, yeah. I've been very blessed to have places that had good water heaters. I don't know what to tell you.
Speaker 2:But growing up, but I'm not going to lie, but even growing up I took really long showers and my mom never checked me. And she gets ready, get, get her hair makeup done in 30 minutes, shower and everything. My siblings same way. My niece lives with me, same, everybody can do it. I can't figure it out. I need to work on my scrubbing process. Give me some tips. I don't know, because I clearly suck at it. I haven't figured it out.
Speaker 1:I'm like why does it take me 15 minutes to wash my one leg, like I don't know no because I'm clean, no, for me the like the main shower happens after I get out of the shower, like you're doing another whole bath afterwards.
Speaker 2:What's happening, yeah?
Speaker 1:I'm putting lotion on.
Speaker 2:I'm doing hello, I don't like to be us caucasians I'm married. I'm married to someone that looks Caucasian, so it's the same thing.
Speaker 1:I hate to speak for the Caucasian population.
Speaker 2:Listen, you're repping, you're repping. You're going to have to win it now.
Speaker 1:Shit, it's like Like the bar is low. So, for us Caucasians, the bar is so fucking low to where it's like, even if you do a little bit, it's like oh shit, you're, you're there. Um, so I've been overachieving the bar. I like it, but good good, no, good skin forever yeah, um, I forgot lotioning.
Speaker 1:You're like my showering comes after showering no, in a throwback to the first episode, I was kind of am I thinking about how we were super meta in, like the first three episodes? And, um, as me saying we were super meta in the first three episodes, it's me being meta in the last episode of the first season. That's pretty cool, uh. But there's like this moment where I'm like listening to the episodes.
Speaker 2:Good for him for doing that. I don't. I'm in it to win it. I'm already here.
Speaker 1:I don't either. I like half hear him, the ones you text me and you're like this was a good one, but just based off the recording and then I listened back to it and I'm like it wasn't that good but um I love the content damn yep, exactly, and uh, I don't know. I feel like there's some fanfare we need to do. I feel like there's some Like throughout this season, anna, what, what is? Some points you think need to be addressed.
Speaker 2:Woo-wee Um. So Anybody who's listened to us knows that we've only had Fuck them.
Speaker 1:Fuck them.
Speaker 2:Fuck who the people that's listened to us, yeah.
Speaker 1:No, no, no, no, we need them. No, this is season one.
Speaker 2:But they know we've had a guest on our show, or two guests.
Speaker 1:Or multiple. Yeah, You're right. And one thing we gotta tread lightly here.
Speaker 2:But one thing Noah and I were discussing is how our dynamic changed during that. It wasn't like intentional, it wasn't like oh, but it was like I shut down. He felt like he had to carry and then we didn't coach our, our guests.
Speaker 1:Good enough, well it's not even that it's like having Anna. I've told you this since the beginning. It's having enough microphones Like this, our mic setup right now. If anybody listening to this right now was in the room, they understand that my mic is like a fidget spinner for me. Anna knows this. Hers is just set up. It's a constant and she loves that because it's just there for her. Mine is something that I can fucking move.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Everybody has their own differentiation with a microphone, has their own differentiation with the microphone, and like it's also the idea of people are just so performative and insecure. It's like why when people, if they're so insecure, do they feel like they have to be performative? And it's frustrating to me because we started this, because literally, I brought yeah, I brought this idea up to you. Like I, I literally like hey, this vibe is good, the conversation's good, I don't give a fuck about being performative, I'm just me.
Speaker 2:That's the problem with our guests and I think they needed to be coached and I'm not saying it in a horrible way, it's constructive criticism, even if they're listening.
Speaker 1:It's not even coached. We just had the wrong guests. Well we didn't know they were gonna be theatrical with us, but, um, it is what it is and we learned. You do know that, like as soon as the mic turned on, they completely change personalities yes, but, and that's a lesson learned to us- well, no, that's pick better performative and yeah, we don't need performance, we're trying to, you know, do some real talk that's performative.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't need performance, we're trying to, you know, do some real talk, it's just natural. Even if it's just dumb talk, real talk.
Speaker 1:Well with me and you. It's natural we have therapy before we express that, but also it's like I'm sure people are like what is this therapy?
Speaker 2:Let's just say we're each other's strengths.
Speaker 1:We have PhDsds yes, ma'am we have phds man, where is our credentials?
Speaker 2:howard university.
Speaker 1:You know I've been figuring out the like our honorary I kind of think I do maybe have a phd based on probably can we just take the test and be done. Let me test out and get my degree here which is crazy to me, because people go to fucking mtsu for a graphic film design or whatever the fuck, and it's the worst, like why to me? No, I'm trying to like, dial back what I'm about to say, because why this is our last episode of season one fuck okay shit.
Speaker 1:Why I'm saying I want to dial back is because I put people on game and then they figure it out and then I have to predict like two steps ahead. So give me five seconds to predict like two steps ahead. So give me five seconds to predict ahead of what I'm about to say.
Speaker 2:Let's make this great again.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, so it's Fuck, it's fuck just let it rip man.
Speaker 1:I know it's what was cool to me is cool to everybody else currently. And it's this weird thing where is cool to everybody else currently? And it's this weird thing where when I say what's cool to me in the present, people like give me a side eye and then me a side eye and then like a little passage of time goes by and then it's like, oh, he was right, I shouldn't have judged what he thought was cool. So to everybody else it's this cool like put-on-game situation, but to me it's like an isolation tactic. To where how do I say what I like when the girls I'm with or the friends I supposedly have?
Speaker 1:Right, supposedly allegedly, and then share it without having any care for what I'm showing them in their mind.
Speaker 2:Example, Because you just confused that whole audience. They were like what is going?
Speaker 1:on uh, jeff buckley more like diddy um.
Speaker 2:So yeah, yeah, jesus jesus, jesus jesus? No, does that make sense at all?
Speaker 1:there's to me, but I there's something you hold close to your heart that I wouldn't say on this microphone right now and you've told me, but I wouldn't say on this microphone right now and you've told me, but I won't say on this microphone right now because that's for us and that's not for everybody. And I have a really hard differentiation between letting everybody know everything all the time and like understanding that me and your relationship relationship are like like we're family, we're solid yeah and differentiating between family and solid.
Speaker 1:And like the girl with the ankle bracelet that's probably listening to this fucking podcast, like no, but that's what I'm saying. Like family, solid. And then the antithesis is your mom had an affair. You have an ankle bracelet on your family's also. Like your family's probably polluting the gene pool. Ingram bitch, no, but what I'm saying is like you are polluting the gene pool, whatever.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, um I'm back no, but yeah, y'all are both ugly as fuck and uh, I it's. It's just the moment where, like how that was hard uh welcome to a therapy session yeah, the the season finale is the therapy session. Okay, what's the other? Yeah, what what? Okay, wait, I asked you the question about a question I have about the first season. I think you should reiterate the same.
Speaker 2:What is the one moment that stood out to you? Whether it was in an episode, whether it was in an episode, it was an episode. What is the one moment?
Speaker 1:Either something you said, something said no, okay. So when we were cooking, it was the jalapeno poppers. Oh, I'm not gonna lie. That shit smacked me on my fucking ass I had ptsd that shit put me down I was crying I was a dog at the pound I hated you for life.
Speaker 2:That was your job, though, when we were cooking. What the fuck are you talking about? Like that? One seed almost ended my whole life that was an existential experience.
Speaker 1:That was I like I was looking at my instagram and like I have all those like in the in the bookmark profile and I like looked down and I was like looking at it like awk, sweet like, and I was like, oh, when that hits my mouth let me tell the bites were good but, it was just that one seed Boom, your life is over.
Speaker 2:Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom boom. But it also we also learned. First of all, take all the damn seeds out.
Speaker 1:Yeah. And we didn't think about that.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean, who would have thought all that scooping that was happening, that that one seed was still left? The scooping, all that scooping. I do love us cooking. Yes, we're gonna get back to that. We're gonna do some summer cooking.
Speaker 1:Um well, even with like all the people we've had in the kitchen at the time, I don't think you okay.
Speaker 2:Point two oh, and then.
Speaker 1:Then I'll ask you in our in our initial first season, but, like whenever, this is a fault of mine, but whenever we're making food, poor baby, I don't know what like people are coming over so I'm not like 100% focused. And people how do I say this politely?
Speaker 2:Distract you a little bit. Yes.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's a good way to say that.
Speaker 2:And I'm all about it. I'm all about that life.
Speaker 1:I'm like yeah, you immediately go somewhere else you like, immediately just appease whoever's there, which is really sweet and like you're like and I really appreciate it. But also then like how I grew up and how my brain starts to think, I start to be like oh, she likes them more than me, why?
Speaker 2:and he becomes needy in the kitchen all of a sudden, you can't chop nothing. He's like oh, he's like, oh shit. What do I need to do, boy? Everything's on the counter, just throw that in the skillet. What are you doing?
Speaker 1:exactly me.
Speaker 2:I'm all about. I'm like let's toggle this, let's do this, we're gonna have a good time and now figuring shit out.
Speaker 1:It's like that's, that's, uh, that's not a meat problem, that's like a they shouldn't have came over problem. Yes, I should not have been like anna's here and we're cooking food, and every time I say that people are like our females were like, hey, I want to meet anna. I'm like, okay, oh, god damn it. I just fucked up my whole night and now I'm overthinking shit that shouldn't be overthought. It's like god damn. And. But the telltale sign is the people I invite over the hoes.
Speaker 2:Can we say all of them except for one?
Speaker 1:Which one?
Speaker 2:The last one.
Speaker 1:Yeah, she's perfect.
Speaker 2:Yes, I'm like can we distinguish which one's hoes?
Speaker 1:I just got kind of lost. But also it's like the last one was more appealing to you because she knows how much I value our relationship.
Speaker 2:I mean, they all knew that well, the ones, but they're just kind of little. They're out there.
Speaker 1:The other ones are more.
Speaker 2:Anchor bracelet. We're done. Well, I'm so happy you didn't meet anchor bracelet I really am too, because I was so happy when it ended.
Speaker 1:I know you had a moment. I brought her damn dog over to my house.
Speaker 2:With permission.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, at least she asked.
Speaker 1:But does this look like the doggy house? No, also that dog's hair.
Speaker 2:That dog isn't gonna die in here, I promise I.
Speaker 1:I wish it for that dog because with how that bitch cares about people, that dog should die don't you have an ankle bracelet?
Speaker 2:That's a tall tale sign right there.
Speaker 1:I probably got taken off. Maybe, the ankle bracelet was able to predict her sweat it would beep after an hour.
Speaker 2:So weird as hell.
Speaker 1:To detect alcohol in her sweat. Oh God, I was like God damn, you're just messy.
Speaker 2:Right In her sweat. Oh God, I was like God damn, you're just messy, like like Right.
Speaker 1:Like I've driven drunk. But I haven't had the point of like, oh, if I consume alcohol, there's a bracelet on my ankle to detect if I'm fucking ripped or not. And then like also if I am ripped like, how long does it take for the fucking cops to show up? Exactly like I'm just fucked at that point.
Speaker 2:I am like, wow, yeah, I'm glad I didn't meet her, I was she was beautiful and also that's nice. I just wasn't excited about her.
Speaker 1:No, but also now her boyfriend looks like the thumb off Spy Kids.
Speaker 2:No, not Spy Kids.
Speaker 1:We dug real deep there, specifically the thumb. Like he's going to lose his hair in three years.
Speaker 2:Damn you coming in hot.
Speaker 1:Well no, I'm not even like being an asshole or anything, I'm just like I see how he looks.
Speaker 2:Dear sir, please go get some hair plugs.
Speaker 1:Let's start now brother rogaine hey brother, you wasted. You wasted your life on that whore rogaine to regain.
Speaker 2:Hey, someone's trash is somebody else's treasure.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and a lot of them are my trash. So whenever you see that girl at the convenience store that you've been thinking about. Understand that she's my trash.
Speaker 2:Only if she's in this town.
Speaker 1:Wherever we are, wherever we are, season finale, season finale, shit. Wherever we are, wherever we are, season finale, season finale, shit okay now. Now I get to ask you over the past season what's a question that you've wanted to ask that you've never been able to ask?
Speaker 2:also, hand me the bottle behind you both actually like, only hang you one at a time, because, although you're like, oh, her mic just stands up there, no, it hasn't yet. I've dropped it like 500 times. Y'all like it is out of source. Season finale, um, I don't know. Because I don't, you know? No, I don't, because we literally, even if we go like the whole week without talking, like we reconvene when we do see each other and it's like we hit our bullet point.
Speaker 1:This is what happened in life um, okay then, and if let me rephrase, rephrase the question, then what I mean. Still same question what is something as a friend and as a sister? You want to ask me that you want clarity on in my life well, that's see, that's one of those things I'm like I wouldn't I wouldn't say it on this damn show.
Speaker 2:I mean, I love y'all, but no, y'all don't y'all, don't get the the uh cherry on the top now, damn it no, what's suitable?
Speaker 1:what? What's that question like, framed that way in a way that other people can hear and I can answer for you, because this is the fucking season finale, this is the fucking cherry, this is the cherry on top if we sit here and think about it um, okay, so maybe damn, I don't know.
Speaker 2:No, you have it you got it because I mean, I I we've talked about this. I know your overall goals. Definitely something creative that you want to be in. Have your career? Yeah, make your moolah, sit your ass at home and just be a bruno mars and wake up in your jammies, um, but what is something like you're working on, like right now that's you know you're going to be like I'm going full throttle, get my foot in the door. I'm going to try it with this, because I mean you do music, you write scripts, I mean you take weird pictures. We're going to say that pictures we're gonna say that we're gonna say those are pretty.
Speaker 2:He always listen. Noah, and I only done one photo shoot and like the poses I'm just like as overall those are anna poses, like I'm gonna let him do his creative photo shoot, but then mine is like gonna look completely different i'm'm a slender man-ass motherfucker. I don't know how to, and he's got my short ass in the back.
Speaker 1:Shit, wait. It is a good question, though it's. I think this may potentially be like the downfall of how I think or how I move and this is a season one special that people are hearing this but it's like I, I do a hundred percent move authentically and I move in a way where it's like I really have no anna. Jesus christ, do you need your sleep apnea machine? You're breathing so hard into the fucking microphone. I know I'm like jesus christ um, um, no, but like authenticity wise, I'm trying to bring it back I know I was trying to see if I annoy you and throw you off and I you never annoy me Authenticity-wise, whether it be music, and I think that's why I'm drawn to creative stuff so much is.
Speaker 1:I have this weird inept ability. Inept, no, that's the wrong word.
Speaker 2:Who's got the speech?
Speaker 1:issues today you.
Speaker 2:That's true, I miss it.
Speaker 1:Season one done, season one done, we're going to end this. It is just like this authenticity and this like pure. I think there's this weird thing about me like being where we are Anybody creatively I approach. There's always like a ton of stuff holding them down, mm-hmm To where, as with me, I'll fucking scissor, cut the shit like dead booties when they scissor. But yeah.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, no, like I'll cut all the ties that like hold up a situation from being the best it can be, but like possibly be creatively. And the authenticity and it resembles Shia LaBeouf and Fury that like like method, acting like that Like and I hate that, I even mentioned that, but like that that's how I view creative things, because it's so easy to like be in a creative situation with somebody that's 110% bought in and like I remember being 16 recording fucking music with somebody that wasn't bought in and I had to be the guy that was 120 bought in and like I had to make up and that song didn't still turn out the way I wanted to because he, the producer, wasn't 110% bought in. So it's like authenticity and just like cut the ego for me and I say this with a lack of ego but like authenticity and I'm 100 him and I've been him, and like people they're just now starting to realize that need to catch up.
Speaker 2:So good answer, love it. But I'm still trying to figure out where the downfall was in that. There was no downfall in that. What was the question about the downfall? Well, you said. You said this may be my downfall and I was just like, okay, I'm waiting for this because I'm about to, you know, chop and screw your answer and I didn't hear the downfall, so I can't chop and screw your answer because it was a great answer the downfall is authenticity, and that's not downfall.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of creative people out there making it that have authenticity.
Speaker 1:But if the people I'm thinking about right now tapped into their own like authenticity. It was funny because, um, uh, someone was talking to me about their relationship that ended and now he's married congratulations. But like he was talking to me about the relationship that got away and like the one he wished he could have done better, and how it ended was, he looked at her and he said you don't even know who you fucking are. And I kind of sit there and think about it because I'm really close with this person and it's kind of crazy to me that, like I said something to somebody one time that was a travis gottler and I literally said um, I'm the one, uh, I'm the one that introduced you to the you right now and I don't think people feel that enough To the you right now. And I don't think people feel that enough Like whoever we run across.
Speaker 1:And whatever they show us or whatever rabbit hole they drive us down, or whatever Alice in Wonderland bullshit that like they're the people that introduced us to who we are now and like I think the message for season one before I ask you, the same question you asked me is I don't even remember the question I asked you exactly.
Speaker 2:I'll ask you because I remember uh good for you, good for that young mind um, there's a lot of wrinkles uh on his part. I use olive oil, I'm good.
Speaker 1:It's just like um. I'll rephrase the question Do the people listening to this even know who they are right now?
Speaker 2:I hope so. Or they're learning or getting to know themselves.
Speaker 1:Let me ask the question one more time and then you give like three seconds where no noise is ringing out. I got the headphones on here.
Speaker 1:You know to the people that are listening to this, know who they are right now caller one damn, we're tight, we're, we're so there, we're so ready um, I I don't know about our listeners, but I'm gonna pray that they're getting to know themselves, or they do know themselves um, it is like also like the people that aren't kind of sway you a little bit, or at least with me, where it's like man, I got a fucking face tattoo, like I I'll, I'll fucking die on a hill, I'll burn, I don't give a shit. Like if it's somebody I love, I'll fucking do that shit.
Speaker 2:Like but like my love must be really weak that's like, because I'm like. That's you too, though like um exempt the face tattoo, but we got the rest of it no, but yours is more of like a realistic.
Speaker 1:Mine's a fucking lil wayne garbage ass idea. Mine's like an 18 year old's idea of understanding what humanity is.
Speaker 2:Um, okay, let's shift, like y'all don't understand, like he is going to be my brother for life. Um damn, I don't even know what question to ask. This is so exciting. We made it. Season one, we made it this is so cool. This is so exciting. We made it. Season one we made it. This is so cool. This is so cool.
Speaker 1:So cool.
Speaker 2:I can't even tell you I'm ecstatic. This is so fun.
Speaker 1:When we were downstairs and dad well, Joel, was here.
Speaker 2:AKA your dad yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:Did we think it would end up here? I, I don't, uh. No, I want to pick your brain on this, like when I know. Here here's my question. When I brought up the podcast and you came over and all that stuff, like, did you foresee it ending up where it is now?
Speaker 2:No and yes. So our first episode. Yeah, in my head it and it's still even when I listen to it. It went so well I mean yeah, I mean that's that's a little piece of it, but it went well because, although we have such great dynamic off this mic, when the mic cut on I didn't know what exactly was going to be the actual dynamic. Like, I was a little like, like okay, but at the same time I was like this is going to be successful because we're going to go back to the drawing board.
Speaker 1:Work together like I trained you yeah, I know, isn't that funny.
Speaker 2:Um, so like he trained me and then asked me how was was his training and is he doing it right? I don't know, bro, are you? I guess we'll soon find out if I can ring up this customer, right? No money lost there. But to be in this very moment like we've. We've changed our formats. We've done a few tweaks. I think we kind of have a general idea now where we want to go with our show, but we didn't know what our niche was. We really our niche was us, whatever, whatever was in our little brains.
Speaker 1:It was like I still think we don't know what our niche is yeah, we do.
Speaker 2:I think it's.
Speaker 1:Overall, it is being the best niche, niche, niche I can spell it um it's being the best version of ourselves, with a little fucking stupid apostrophe I can't even think what it's called, but it's being the best version of yourself.
Speaker 2:That is what we strive in every episode, even when we didn't physically say that. That is what we have strived. We we have not. Yeah, we said a few crazy stuff here and there, but that's part of our thing a little nonsense, yo, some man laughter. But at the same time, we want people to be the best version of themselves. You, you come to the show to relax, to listen, maybe, get a good tip here and there, maybe or not. But when you turn us off after 45 minutes an hour however long the darn show is, 12 minutes this one's gonna be fucking long you are, you are happy.
Speaker 2:You are happy. You're like damn that no way. And uh, cumm commonsense girl was funny as hell. Like that's how we want you to leave. We want you to have positive vibes. We don't. We've never ended our shows on a negative vibe no, no and we do not begin it on a negative vibe. Now, there we may say some crazy shit in between, like no, and his fuck you uh ankle bracelet ankle brace, or you know. He was talking when we were talking about the olympics you know well, that was yeah, but shit, it was all in good humor, it's not.
Speaker 1:Anything's not to be negative you know I love victor rumbiniana and I hope his blood clots heal well well damn I don't know if that was sincere or you just know it.
Speaker 2:It's very sincere okay, I just want the nba.
Speaker 1:Okay, honestly, give me two minutes um we're gonna talk about the playoffs the knicks and the indiana pacers. The game's going on currently yes, I'm not gonna check the score. Me and anna, after this episode, are going to go down and finish, but the Knicks and Indiana Pacers yeah, check.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not going to check because I'm invested. That's the first time in the Eastern Conference Finals that the Knicks and the Indiana Pacers have been there since patrick ewing and reggie miller, like that is, that's monumental, and timothy chalamet and like every, it's just cool. Um, um, yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2:Uh, for some reason, because you were very um, you talk about the actual game and right there, you did not. And I was expecting you to, just because I'm invested in the playoffs. But it's cool, I'm so the playoffs.
Speaker 1:It's been the best in like a decade but it's fun these are the best play.
Speaker 2:They are I'm having a good time. It reminds me of back in the day, back in my day, not yours, but back in the day you're like yeah, I wasn't even born.
Speaker 1:But no, I've watched documentaries.
Speaker 2:I'm right there but I'm having a good time, um, my household's having a good time, well, me and my husband's having a good time, um, but it's cool, we can discuss on next episode. Um, but he's, he gotta look it up. Of course he does, no, but, um, damn, what were we talking about? I don't know how we slither into that, but anyhow, I don't even know my question. What were we talking about, noah?
Speaker 1:I don't know. I'm trying to find an ending.
Speaker 2:I don't know, but you know what I will say this we have at least three people I can or four people I can think of off the top of my head that literally listen to all of our episodes Noah's parents, my husband and christy, old faithful yeah and they give us honest feedback. Sometimes they're probably like what the hell is wrong with you two?
Speaker 1:do we listen to their feedback? Do we?
Speaker 2:listen. We, we did. We did try to listen to joel, but we did try to listen to Joel's.
Speaker 1:But we still jacked up the name afterwards because one time I think one time we listened to feedback they were like you're not plugging in these fucking microphones, you're not sitting here with us as we fucking deal with our problems but thank you all, did I name my husband, I think I thank you but thank you, no, seriously thank you and thank you to everyone else that listened to us, even if you don't listen to every episode I get texts like I think he.
Speaker 1:He was one where I was like in a really bad spot and I don't even think I replied, but just like waking up from my stupor and that text being on my phone really made me like so quintessentially thank you. Like I. I don't think people understand like there is a like a celebratory, like season one's over, we're fucking doing it, which is fucking crazy to me yeah, we've had some crazy roller coaster downs yeah also like I need to remember the buffalo chicken dip night remember that night.
Speaker 2:That one was well. We had a couple of those nights, well I mean when we went to hold.
Speaker 1:on the last point I want to make oh yes, remember when you came here and we planned to do the podcast. We didn't do the podcast because you said we're going to dinner, oh that buffalo chicken dinner.
Speaker 2:I thought you were talking about yours Exactly. Oh, that buffalo chicken dip.
Speaker 1:I thought you were talking about yours Exactly. So what was your evaluation when you came in and you just were like, hey, I need to get him away from. I don't think you understand, but getting away from that space and what you influenced, it was a good thought process for me. So, like, what was your thought process? Walking in there, were you just like this is a friend.
Speaker 2:Well, definitely as a friend. But I know when something's off, like you know, it's just I don't know. I just know when something's off, I don't know. I just know when something's off. And sometimes you're not as forthcoming and so I'm like, okay, come on, let's go drink it out, let's drink it out.
Speaker 2:And unfortunately, sometimes when we're in this space, it's not the space we need to be in, because sometimes it's not a the space we need to be in, because sometimes it's the tension like you've already created, this space where it seems negative, and it's not really a negative space, but the drama, the incident, whatever happened in this space. It's almost like you got to do a um, some sage or something sometimes which we need to do, incense, but um, and and there's been a few moments, even on my, my own end we've, we've both, literally I don't even know what's. Maybe we need to stop drinking tap water, I don't know, but some we've had some things we've had to wheel it in, and the reason why it's taken us so long to get through 20 episodes in a season which is great, we're 20, right, I know we did it. Give me some. It's not because of lack of, you know, wanting to do it. But one, I have another job too.
Speaker 2:But two, it has been um moments where we've literally like, we've come together to do it, but it was like nah, actually, case in point, last week was one of those weeks and not anything was going on. It was just no, actually the week before and last week, oh darn, two weeks, yeah, two weeks in a row, we've had stuff going on. Yeah, two weeks in a row we've had stuff going on, um, with that being said, talking about, you know, not being in the greatest space, sometimes being in the greatest space, removing ourselves from areas, y'all. This is mental health month. Let's learn to love each other, be kind to each other, um, because you honestly don't know the things that people battle secretly yeah, and I'm gonna sign it off this is gonna be good, I'm excited.
Speaker 1:It's a monologue from my number one favorite movie of all time. Have you seen? It's Wonderful Life.
Speaker 2:Yes, he's obsessed with that. He's going to talk about it during Christmas too. Watch.
Speaker 1:No, that's the one it's. Wonderful Life is the one movie my dad did a lot of shit wrong, well damn, but he did 98% of shit wrong, well damn, but he did 98% of shit, right, and every Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1:We clocking that Joel we're stretching this episode out because he called me and he said I'm sorry, I didn't let you feel your feelings like growing up and you just had to feel what I like programmed you to feel and like I'm a grown ass adult now. And it's this moment where it's like maybe I didn't have the opportunity to like feel like I having an older sister, like I was kind of the one that ran to my room and just like put headphones in and just like tried to disassociate, uh, and like how, how do I now operate in a way of where, like I'm him and yet I'm I'm I am still trying to figure out feelings that like I didn't have the opportunity to process, or I kind of view it as a gate. I kind of view it as a gate, like the security guard at the gate was like hey, you're not allowed to process these feelings right now, so like wait five years.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And like how do I, how do I move? Um, and it was this really cool moment where he's like, uh, my age right now. He had me and my sister and he was raising them and like I never view, it is like a negative, I never view, it's just like to me the weight of two humans and I know.
Speaker 1:I know that hits a chord with you and it's just like what hits a chord with you and it's just like what is the idea that you have to call that person and apologize Because if I was in your situation or his situation, I'd probably be doing the same shit. I'm trying to find myself. I'm my age and I have two kids with my seed that are growing up with my fucked up genetics, that I don't I don't even fucking know how to calculate or move around right. Yet those kids are growing up and expecting me to be the like. Answer.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So that apology is more like. I appreciate and love that. The empathy that he's displaying by trying to call me and apologize for that, that's super sweet. But also, like me and her, made it like right, exactly, exactly we got we're, we're fucking good. Yeah, like, take that W, you know, like and that's the crazy thing Like you raising kids also, it's like you may see Z and like, do you ever think in 10 years they'll be fucking successful? Yeah, I know it, they'll be like in the workforce and they'll be killing shit.
Speaker 2:They're gonna be something right. I already know that we, that you can't have the background that they have and still continue to have shitty unless you stay in that place and you know I'm, I'm, I'm touched, I ain't letting it happen.
Speaker 2:You know I'll flip over some cars and stuff. So I just when I tell you and you, they're great, they're really great in comparison to everything they've been through. Yeah, we see the tweaks and Z has really like, yes, he do some ass, fuck, shit, I ain't gonna lie. But as overall, wow, the improvement, the way, even with our reteaching, like just the improvement when you come over.
Speaker 1:It's not like it used to be solely about him.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now they both do that.
Speaker 1:It's not Well no, it's not anymore.
Speaker 2:Like he probably like equilibrium doubt yeah, he's, he's getting normal, he's getting that what he should have had. And I'm not saying, like you always have to be in a two-parent home, because it's not always true, because they're single parents who raise children and they're, they're amazing. But what those kids needed was stability, love, and I don't mean let's just say, oh, I love you. No, there's actions. I can say all day I love somebody, but if there's no damn action, I don't know what the hell we call that. We just talking. It's a walk and a talk. And they are seeing that, they are getting it. They are seeing healthy relationships, and why I say healthy relations? I'm not talking about just me and Jerry's, but just the interactions. I say healthy relations, I'm not talking about just me and Jerry's, but just the interactions. They're seeing people of all different walks of life come into my life or in my life that are successful. They're not seeing as fuck people who ain't even trying. They just like it's okay if I don't pay this electricity bill.
Speaker 1:Oh well, even why, like hanging over here last week, like I'm, it's a weird moment to me where, like I as a 25 year old person, don't understand that I'm not the 14 year old kid that doesn't understand he's successful. But also I'm successful based on the love and the care and the trust and appreciation that people blessed upon me. Um and then leading with discernment, like that's always important, and's what I dude, I fucking lose all this if it helped out the people that bless me with the situation I've been in the past year or the past five years.
Speaker 1:Like I I go to home depot and buy two by fours and build a shack on the beach. Like I can sleep on the ground. I've done it. Or like, regardless of life and regardless of like status and bullshit that we like try to put on for people, but like I can do that and I think, one of the main things, like you, we, we brought up the question like where do I want to go? I want to be a dad. Season one Shout out Whoop, whoop.
Speaker 2:I don't know to who. Please don't attract no crazy hoes.
Speaker 1:No, I want to be a dad and I want to be just Like life, goal-wise. That's what I want. Like, I want to have the potential and the opportunity to be able to just do what me growing up couldn't have offered because of the lack of knowledge. And that's not throwing shade or blame at anybody, but it's just like lack of knowledge, lack of understanding, lack of just getting that like those, like the people, don't have all the tools in their tool belt yeah and like how do I give someone those tools a little bit faster?
Speaker 2:yeah yeah you'll be all right. You'll be all right yeah, I'll be all right and lord, please do not bless him with no babies until your will be done not his will and not, and not hot cock molly's will either. Anyway, he's gonna close this out like yep three hours later all right, uh, all right.
Speaker 1:Uh, bailey, I know very well what you're talking about. You're talking about something you can't get your fingers on and it's galing you. That's what you're talking about. I know Well, I've said too much. You do what you want with the thing. It's just one more thing. This town needs this measly one-horse institution, if only to have some place where people can come without crawling to Potter. Come on, uncle Billy. Come on, uncle Billy. Hold on Just a minute. Just a minute Now. No, hold on Just a minute, just a minute Now. Hold on, mr Potter, just a minute Now.
Speaker 1:You're right when you say my father was no business man. I know that. Why he started this cheap penny ante building alone, I don't know. I know that. Why he started this cheap penny ante building alone, I'll never know. But neither you nor anybody else can say anything against his character. Because his whole life. Why, in the 25 years since he and Uncle Billy started this thing, he never thought once to himself, isn't that right, uncle Billy? He didn't save enough money to send Harry to school, let alone me, but he did help a few people get out of your slums, mr Potter. And what's wrong with that? Why, here your businessmen here don't make them better. So nah, nah, nah, nah, nah Doesn't make them better customers. Wait, ah, it's such a cool, hold on. Uh, anyway, my father didn't think so. People were human beings to him, but to you a warped, frustrated old man, their cattle. Well, in my, my book, he died a much richer man than you'll ever be. Is that a?
Speaker 2:that's a good one that's a good ending that is and, like we said before, we thank you guys for this wonderful season one, and next time you hear us we'll be in season two, episode one.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much, that was cool.