Wild NYE with Grandpa G

In the final episode of Season 1, the girls close out 2024 by manifesting their New Year’s resolutions full of big dreams, hopes, opportunities - and new underwear.  Grandpa G from Episode 3 ("She’s Got Moxie") makes a special guest appearance reflecting on stories from his trips to Monte Carlo and Thailand where he had a particularly feisty encounter with a ladyboy during his New Year’s Eve travels.

Transcript

Sage (00:00):

Happy New Year, Watch Me Do It gang! 

Emily:

Woo!

Sage:

We're on for another badass episode reflecting on the good and bad experiences of 2024. Of course, with a new year ahead of us comes a feeling of hopefulness, at least I do, and potentially new opportunities that will shape our lives in 2025. So here we go.

Emily (00:24):

Here we go!  Yeah!

Sage:

Yes! 

Emily:

And I mean, I also think it's such a moment to look back and thinking about 2024, and it has been a wild fucking ride for me. 2024.

Sage (00:36):

Yes, 100% Emily.

Emily (00:38):

I'm feeling pretty nostalgic too because this is almost a year in LA for me. Literally. I'm a couple weeks away.

Sage (00:43):

Congratulations!

Emily (00:43):

Thank you. Thank you. And it's been quite the freaking year because last New Year's, I hosted a party at my condo in Boston. I went to the Madonna concert with a bunch of my girls, and then I bought a one way ticket to Los Angeles

Sage (00:58):

And you're just like, fuck it, I'm out of here.

Emily (01:00):

Here we go. And it was like, woo, here we go. And you all have heard about a lot of it here at Watch Me Do It. And there are many, many more stories to come and especially what is to come for 2025.

Sage (01:16):

And we're happy that Emily took a chance on us because La La Land isn't an easy survival rate out here.

Emily (01:23):

It’s literally la la. 

Sage:

I know!

Emily:

Like literally. I'm going to take sage to Bingo Loco. That's an actual thing here in LA.  Bingo Crazy.

Sage (01:32):

And what about swing dancing?

Emily (01:34):

Swing dancing that's coming up. I have our social roster planned for 2025. 

Sage:

For 2025. I love it.

Emily:

I'm ready to go because I feel like I have seen it - well, I'm not going to say I've seen it at all.

Sage (01:45):

No, no.

Emily (01:45):

Because I have not. But there's been the ups, there's been the downs. It's been a year of friendship breakups and drama and new friends and the crazy dates that you all have listened to. And so yeah, we're sitting here thinking about, okay, 2025, here we come and what are going to be our New Year's resolutions? Because I'm kind of over it. I think we're too old for New Year's resolutions.

Sage (02:14):

It's a time of reflection, but I feel like I don't need a holiday specifically to get my mind in that space.

Emily (02:20):

True. You don't need to resolve. You can resolve at any time of the year.

Sage (02:24):

Exactly. So it's on a day to day. In my head I'm like, do I want a new job or what’s my new project or what other topics in school do I want to elaborate on and educate myself?

Emily (02:35):

Yeah. What's next? You don't have to wait for the turning of the year.

Sage (02:37):

Exactly.

Emily (02:38):

Well, especially because my New Year's resolutions are yawn boring. Every year it's the same bullshit. I want to pay off all my credit card debt.

Sage:

Boring. 

Emily:

Then every year it just gets bigger. Or I want so much money in my savings or I want a boyfriend, and it's just like, oops. Here we are. Another year.

Sage (02:55):

I mean, those are all the traditional, the main one is…

Emily:

I know, the traditional bullshit. 

Sage:

I'm going to work out every day or five times a week, and I promise myself I'm going to lose weight and change my body. I mean, I don't even go there anymore because I know I’m not.

Emily (03:07):

Well mine, it's like I do that. So I will, I'll lose the five to 10 pounds and then I just gain it back and then I lose it again, and then I gain it back. And it's kind of like, you know what? My clothes still fit. I still feel great. Who cares?

Sage (03:16):

Don't kill yourself over it. It's just like a continuous cycle.

Emily (03:19):

No, my standards for my resolutions this year are going really low. I just really want to find a bra that fits. That's literally all I care about because I've had years, decades of good fitting bras, and now all of a sudden, I don't know if it's because I'm older and my body's changing, or maybe I just haven't bought a bra in a really long time. So it's all stretched out.

Sage (03:38):

I was going to say, is it just old?

Emily (03:39):

It might just be old, but they're so uncomfortable and that really fucks with your confidence. And when you just got the gaps and it's like, ugh, and it's just gross. So that's my New Year's resolution. I want to find a bra that fits.

Sage (03:50):

I would love to honestly go lingerie shopping with you. I want to up on your panties of lace and thong and sexy, and I'll help you with the bra thing, even though I don't even wear a fucking bra, but I am…

Emily (04:03):

Well, I have to. My boobs are just too big.

Sage (04:07):

But you don’t, mine are only like a B. What are you?

Emily (04:08):

I don't know.

Sage (04:09):

Like a B / C?

Emily (04:10):

But you know what I realized?  When I was here in LA, I was losing all this weight and like my boobs went down.

Sage (04:14):

Yes, mine too.

Emily (04:14):

Which sucks

Sage (04:15):

My butt and my boobs are gone. Yes.

Emily (04:17):

It’s like, what the fuck, you can't win. It's like you're skinnier, but then your boobs are smaller and your bras don't fit. It's like, oh my God.

Sage (04:22):

And plus at this age, gravity is just taken advantage of.

Emily (04:26):

I think I’m still perky.

Sage (04:27):

Yeah, I'm not because I never wear a bra.

Emily (04:30):

Well there you go.

Sage (04:31):

I’m like Amazon woman over here.

Emily (04:32):

Maybe that's your resolution is you should just wear a fucking bra and get your perk back.

Sage (04:36):

I mean, I don't wear deodorant. I don't wear a bra. I don't wear underwear. I'm commando a hundred percent.

Emily (04:40):

Yeah. Well, I think what is make or break for us this year is that we are going into season two of our podcast. Woo-hoo. Because a year ago, LA was like this pipe dream and I didn't know you existed, and I didn't know what was in store for me. And then these little, oh, we should do a podcast and we should do a podcast and we should do a podcast. And then pieces started to fall together and then all of a sudden, bam. We have a podcast.

Sage (05:12):

We made it happen.

Emily (05:13):

We have a whole season and we have all of you guys who we are so happy you are here following along and sharing and writing those reviews. It's just so encouraging. And I think for me, what it really is encouraging me is to just go big in 2025. I want to dream big because for years I didn't let myself dream at all. And then I started to dream and I dreamed about coming to LA and it has been wilder than I dreamed of. And I just want to keep going. I want to visualize where I want to be, what I want to do. I want to believe it. I want to be specific about what I want. And I think especially as women, we're really bad at asking for what we want and being true to what we actually want. Because forever I was like, I want to be a CEO. And then we learned that that sucked.

Sage (06:02):

Yeah, that’s no fun.

Emily (06:02):

And I was like, that's actually not what I want. Fuck that. And so I'm going to just really manifest the shit out of this and I'm going to have the best 2025 possible. So I'm declaring it now.

Sage (06:14):

I love that outlook. I mean, the other day I was unpacking from Venice back to Santa Monica and carrying all the shit on my own. My only tribe member here is Emily, but she was unavailable because she was at work. Anyways, I had a moment where I'm juggling all the shit and I was like, you know what? I can actually have it all. I can.

Emily (06:34):

Yes you can.

Sage (06:35):

I haven't thought that way in decades. I can have it all.

Emily (06:40):

And you can define what it all is. We talked about this, that for women it's somewhat prescribed of what it all is. But I think you and I have very different definitions now, especially after the year we just had.

Sage (06:53):

Absolutely.

Emily (06:54):

What is it all?

Sage (06:54):

I don't need anything by social means to push me of “have it all”. For me, having it all is this podcast, our friendship, my jobs.

Emily (07:06):

Fulfillment,

Sage (07:07):

My schooling, my children and my dogs. Just simple things too. But that is like I can have it all.  And one day you and I actually doing our Golden Girl era and keeping it going. 

Emily:

Golden Girls, here we come! 

Sage:

And we move in permanently together. That's another I have it all. So those are some of my New Year's resolutions, but I really look at this on a day-to-day, not just oh, because it's a holiday and so I need to make one up.

Emily (07:37):

Right. No, we got to keep true to the whole year. 

Sage:

Exactly. 

Emily:

Exactly. And we need to keep each other accountable. And so gang listening, you got to keep us accountable too, because I know for me it was a year of discovery and spontaneity and adventure and everything's new and I can already feel myself settling a little bit when it becomes home and when you don't need the GPS anymore, then you start to lose some of that kind of energy. And I want to keep that energy. I want to keep that vibe, that excitement of doing all these new things. And that's probably why I am jam packing our calendar. And I want to keep meeting new people because I've met so many new people this year and this colorful cast of characters that you all are meeting, like Big K and obviously Sage and all the friends that we've been telling you guys about, and Grandpa G, who actually we promised our listeners that we would bring Grandpa G on. 

Sage:

Yes. 

Emily:

So if everyone remembers from She's Got Moxie, the story from episode three of Sage going wild on my birthday so many months ago now, Grandpa G left her this very cryptic voicemail about murder trials.

Sage (08:48):

Yes. His cameo was the murder trials.

Emily (08:50):

It was his cameo. And I think New Year's Eve is the best time to say hello to Grandpa G.

Sage (08:56):

Agreed. Agreed. And he's got even more wild stories than what we can share.

Emily (09:00):

Let's listen to one. Should we call him up?

Sage (09:02):

I would love to call Grandpa G.

Emily (09:04):

All right, let's do it.

Sage (09:04):

We promised our audience that we would introduce him and New Year's Eve is the time to do it. 

Emily:

Here it is. Here we go.

Grandpa G (09:16):

Hello, Sage. Darling, is that you?

Sage (09:18):

It is. How are you Grandpa G?

Grandpa G (09:21):

Oh my heavens. I'm doing great. It's so nice to hear from you. Are you enjoying the bubbly, tickling your nose?

Sage (09:29):

Exactly. And I'm here with my counterpart Emily. 

Emily:

Hi Grandpa G

Grandpa G (09:34):

Emily, are you on the line? Hi Emily!

Emily (09:36):

I am. It's so nice to hear your voice. Have you been traveling all over the globe lately?

Grandpa G (09:46):

Not just too recently, but this year I've had, we're closing out the year. I usually do between 12 and 20 trips a year. I was just counting this year. I did 18 so far. 18.

Sage (09:58):

You get around. Yes. Grandpa G. 

Emily:

What was your favorite trip?

Grandpa G (10:02):

My favorite trip this year was actually I went to the Mediterranean and cruise around the Mediterranean. I went to Monte Carlo.

Sage (10:12):

Nice. You forgot to invite Sage. Hello.

Grandpa G (10:16):

Well, you know though Sage, I said I'll take you to Italy.

Sage(10:21):

You did!

Emily:

He did.

Grandpa G (10:22):

I’ll take you to Italy. We said the Dolomites, right? Got to go up in the mountains. I'll take you to Monte Carlo too. The place is awesome. I'm sitting there. I'm just sitting in the park right in front of the casino. James Bond, right? James Bond.

Sage (10:35):

Love it.

Grandpa G (10:35):

The guy pulls up, huge Bentley.

Sage:

Fancy.

Grandpa G:

Silver blue, and I'm thinking, who is this rich old guy gets out? Like a 24-year-old guy gets out.

Emily (10:46):

of course

Grandpa G (10:48):

Dressed to the nines, tosses - James Bond - tosses the keys to the doorman and goes inside the casino.

Sage (10:58):

Oh, that's hot.  That’s hot.

Grandpa G (10:59):

That's way hot. 

Emily:

Was he royalty? 

Grandpa G:

Around this little…

Emily (11:04):

He must have been like a prince or something.

Grandpa G (11:05):

I assume. I assume. I did not recognize the guy.

Sage (11:10):

Is he part of the Bohemian Grove group?

Grandpa G (11:14):

No. He's way too young for that. He's not doing that. He's not doing that yet. 

Emily:

What’s the Bohemian Grove group?

Sage (11:19):

We’ll get into that another time.

Emily:

Ok

Grandpa G (11:21):

He's not doing that yet. And Bohemian Grove, they might hire guys

Sage (11:25):

Like him

Grandpa G (11:25):

That look like that, but they're not going to hire that guy. And so then I'm sitting, you know what a Bugatti is? The Bugatti is the highest of the high end racing car. And a Bugatti Chiron drives right past me. And I'm like, I wanted to chase it down because, you know, a glimpse. And I'm like, well, I got my view of a Chiron. Right? The guy drives around like six more times.

Sage (11:50):

Oh, he’s showing off. 

Grandpa G:

He was awesome. 

Sage:

He's showing off.

Grandpa G (11:51):

Yeah, he was showing off. He had something to show, well, he had something to show off. And then I walked down and actually set foot on… They were getting ready for the Formula One race at the time. They were setting it all up. It was a week before. And I actually stepped on the track. I stood on the Formula One track. 

Emily:

The famous one.

Grandpa G:

So I got to go back there when they're running the race. It's awesome. It's such a fantastic place.

Emily (12:14):

Ok, so I have a New Year's resolution now. We just shared our New Year’s resolutions with our fans.

Grandpa G:

What, what. Do tell.

Emily:

And now my new one is going to be to go to Monte Carlo with you. 

Sage:

There you go.

Emily:

2025

Grandpa G (12:24):

Monte Carlo together.

Sage (12:27):

Yes!  You know, just take Emily and Sage. 

Emily:

Yes! 

Sage:

We'll be arm and arm.

Grandpa G (12:29):

I just need… I need you girls

Emily (12:30):

We can record from Monte Carlo!

Grandpa G (12:30):

I need you girls to take me out and dress me before we step out on the street in my car. You got to dress me.

Sage (12:40):

I got you on that.

Emily:

That’s Sage’s department.

Grandpa G (12:42):

You've got to set me up because I'm always being told I can't do that myself. Nobody trusts me, not my family, my friends, they're like, Grandpa, what are you doing?

Sage (12:52):

I'll be your stylist.  I got your back.

Grandpa G:

Please do.

Emily (12:53):

Sage is very critical about the outfits. I bet you look sharp.  I bet you’re being a little hard.

Grandpa G (12:59):

All the way down to the skin and nails.

Emily (13:01):

Yeah, exactly. We'll do it up.

Sage (13:03):

So Happy New Year, Grandpa G. We're recording our New Year's Eve episode

Grandpa G (13:08):

Now you got me going. I'm reminiscing about New Year's. I'm sitting here. I'm actually writing a letter to my daughter that I should have written like eight years ago. So I'm finally doing that. 

Emily:

Oh, that's good. 

Grandpa G:

And then I get this call from you guys. So now I'm thinking, Sage.

Sage (13:24):

Yes.

Grandpa G (13:25):

I can't finish the letter.

Sage:

Please

Grandpa G:

Because I'm going to think about wanting to see you wearing lingerie for the rest of my night.

Sage (13:33):

2025 is ahead of us. 

Emily:

So another eight years are going to go by and the letter is still unwritten.

Grandpa G (13:37):

Is that acurse or is that a blessing? I mean, the definition is not there yet for me. Curse or blessing.

Sage (13:44):

I mean, you're asking for it. So I think it's a blessing in disguise.

Emily:

Blessing!  Blessing!

Grandpa G (13:48):

I hope this. I hope that's in my brain on my dying day. There you go.

Sage (13:55):

Oh, you're sweet.

Emily:

Very sweet.

Grandpa G (13:56):

Which is not going to be soon.

Sage (13:59):

I hope not because I'm waiting for this Italy trip. So don't go dying on me yet. 

Emily:

And now we go to Monte Carlo too. We're going to be busy

Grandpa G (14:05):

Ok, within a year.

Sage (14:05):

Yes,

Grandpa G (14:06):

Within a year. Okay. Okay. So now it's got to last more than a year.

Sage (14:09):

You have wonderful crazy stories, but in particular today, I want to know about your best New Year's Eve rendezvous, where you were, what happened, and give us a great bedtime story, Grandpa G.

Emily:

Tell us, tell us! 

Grandpa G (14:25):

Oh my God. Okay. Thailand. Thailand, Bangkok. Thailand, Bangkok.

Emily (14:32):

You can just stop there. That's wild right there. 

Grandpa G:

You can Google this. 

Sage:

Yeah, exactly.

Emily:

Never been.

Grandpa G (14:35):

Oh, you have no idea. You can Google this. You have to look up a restaurant called Cabbages and Condoms. Cabbages and condoms. 

Emily:

Restaurant? 

Grandpa G:

Google it, Cabbages and Condoms. Bangkok, Thailand.

Sage (14:49):

So everybody's just eating dick there or pussy? Like no one's having a meal.

Grandpa G (14:52):

Bangkok, Thailand.

Emily (14:53):

Or do you just get it as part of your napkin?

Grandpa G (14:54):

Fantastic meal. Fantastic meal. At the end of the meal, you don't get a mint. You don't get a mint on your plate at the end of the meal. 

Sage:

What do you get? 

Grandpa G:

You get a condom.

Emily (15:04):

Wait, wait, wait. Do they serve it on a little side dish? Do they literally bring it out?

Grandpa G (15:07):

Yes! Just like the mint. Just like the mint comes. You get the condom - I'm there. I'm there. And I'm like, okay, I want my after dinner mint. I like the little bit of sweet. Here comes a condom. Trouble was - trouble was this. 

Sage:

What?

Grandpa G:

They brought the small. They brought the small. 

Emily:

They should have known. 

Grandpa G:

They had assessed me improperly. And how do you treat that situation? You're sitting in a nice sit down restaurant. Families, everybody's there.

Emily (15:35):

Families?

Grandpa G (15:35):

Don't want to make a scene Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve, all kinds of good stuff going on. Yes. Family restaurant. 

Emily:

Ok

Grandpa G:

And they bring the wrong size. What am I going to do about this?

Emily (15:45):

Wait, it should have been like a hotel where you get to pick your pillow where there's multiple options. They should have done something like that.

Grandpa G (15:51):

Yes. Yes. They didn't offer that. They didn't offer that.

Sage (15:55):

Wait, people take their kids to a place of a restaurant that's called condom whatever?

Emily:

Cabbages and condoms.

Grandpa G (15:59):

Cabbages and Condoms. Google it. Cabbages and Condoms. 

Sage:

And it's kid friendly? 

Grandpa G:

It is. 

Sage:

That's fucking weird. 

Grandpa G:

It is kid friendly. It's huge. It is upscale. 

Sage:

I like that.

Emily:

When in Thailand! 

Grandpa G:

And we walked in, we walked in. Here it is the little Santa four feet tall, red, clothes, white beard, all that stuff. Little Santa. Close look at little Santa. Little Santa is made up of about a thousand colored condoms.

Emily (16:29):

Like Legos?  Like they kind of stacked them together?

Grandpa G (16:31):

I don't know. They glued them together, taped them together, hung them on each other. I don't know. Some were lubricated, so they must have had to use something that would overcome the lubricant. 

Sage:

This is wild.

Grandpa G:

But yes, little Santa, little Santa.

Emily:

Little Santa made of condoms!

Grandpa G:

Little Santa made of condoms. So I'm there because I had met, of course, this girl. Beautiful girl. Now I'll tell you more about this later - in Thailand. You've been to Thailand? No. You haven't. 

Emily:

No.

Sage (16:56):

Neither of us. No.

Grandpa G (16:57):

So in Thailand, okay, little different than here. This is not political. It is nothing to do with social mores or anything like that in Thailand. Three genders. Three genders. Not two.

Sage (17:11):

What do you mean by that?

Grandpa G (17:12):

Three genders. Accept three genders. Accepted in Thailand. And so you have to keep your eyes open.

Sage (17:18):

So it's status quo?

Grandpa G (17:21):

Status quo. Accepted for thousands of years. Nobody thinks anything of it. Three genders.

Emily (17:26):

Interesting.

Grandpa G (17:28):

Three genders. True statement. So all of your listeners that have been there, will know what I'm talking about.

Sage (17:32):

Yeah. Explain to our listeners what that third gender would be.

Grandpa G (17:36):

So the third gender is called by us Americans, we call them ladyboys. They are transvestites, they are trans some way, one way or the other. They have what I think your friend Special K calls the micro penis generally. 

Emily:

Special K!

Sage:

Yes!  I love that. 

Grandpa G:

And they fold it back. They fold back. 

Emily:

He is special.

Grandpa G:

They fold it back underneath between their buns so that it doesn't make a bulge in the front.

Sage (18:07):

Like permanently, they peel it back there?

Emily:

But they have one.

Grandpa G (18:10):

Yeah, they do. It softened enough, it gets bent that way. It gets bent that way. 

Sage:

Oh my gosh. 

Emily:

Huh

Grandpa G:

So there it is. But you have to watch out because if you're a guy there wanting to meet a woman, the most beautiful women in Thailand are generally not women. They dress normally. They don't dress in drag, they don't do anything like that. They dress normally. They work in offices. They come down and eat lunch at lunchtime and they're beautiful. You have to look at two things: size of their hands, Adam's apple. Size of their hands, Adam's apple. 

Sage:

Spot on.

Grandpa G:

A little bit out of proportion, something like that for a girl. Probably stay away.  Probably stay away.

Emily (18:51):

You know I feel that sometimes here too when you go to a drag brunch or a gay club and they look prettier than me, they have nicer legs than me and it really pisses me off.

Sage (19:00):

Well here's the thing. This third gender is really becoming popular here in Los Angeles. Have you been to West Hollywood? 

Grandpa G:

I don't want to know about that. 

Emily:

Yeah, go to WeHo. 

Sage:

Yeah, there you go. 

Emily:

You'll see lots of genders. 

Sage:

Continue with the story. I want to hear more.

Grandpa G (19:12):

So I ended up, so I meet this girl, beautiful girl, fantastic. Right up my alley. And I say, hey, let's go out to eat. I ask around my buddies, tell me, people say, go to Cabbages and Condoms. We end up at Cabbages and Condoms. Have a wonderful evening. More food than I could possibly eat. Go back, hey, want to come to my hotel room? Got a nice hotel, good place. Yeah, come on upstairs. Okay. So at that point we start to get into it a little bit, right? And I'm kissing her and she's kissing me and we're on each other. And so I'm undressing her a little bit and it's kind of fun and having a good time. And me too. And I get down to, down to clitoris, vaginal area, all that stuff. Hands down there doesn't feel exactly normal. 

Emily:

I know that feeling. 

Grandpa G:

Can't find the clitoris. Can't find the clitoris.

Sage (20:08):

No

Grandpa G (20:08):

Young person

Sage (20:09):

Very off

Grandpa G (20:09):

Seems a little dry for the excitement we got going. Right? Excitement going usually not too dry. I'm thinking, what's going on here? This is kind of strange. I wanted a look. I wanted a look. So I tried to get a little light on the subject and got a little resistance to that. Wanted to be hidden in all that stuff. Long story short, I finally figured out, okay, this is post op. Someone who had had the scrotum folded in and made the - they did the best they possibly could, but you can't duplicate the labia majora and the labia minora and you can't create a clitoris where there was none to begin with. So it ain't the same. Grandpa G not interested, ok?

Sage (20:57):

No.

Emily:

Well. Yeah.

Sage:

It's hard to replicate woman’s parts. 

Grandpa G:

Not interested.

Emily

So did you know about this third gender and these ladyboys before you met this person?

Grandpa G (21:06):

Oh yeah. 

Emily:

Okay, okay. So you were like, okay, there we go. 

Grandpa G:

I had seen many

Emily:

So it wasn't like too much of a shock. 

Grandpa G:

I've seen hundreds of them around town. No, no, I'd seen hundreds. The shock was that I failed to ascertain that that was the case.

Emily:

Oh yeah.

Grandpa G (21:18):

Because I'm looking at the Adam's apple, I'm looking at the size of the hands. Nails are done, everything. They're not big, all that stuff. I'm thinking this is the real deal, right? Well it wasn't.  My bad.  My bad.

Emily (21:29):

What did you do?

Sage:

Yeah, how did you walk away from the situation?

Grandpa G (21:33):

So I didn't walk away. Here's the problem. Suddenly she doesn't want to leave.

Emily (21:39):

Go get it, Grandpa.

Grandpa G (21:40):

She's like, I'm here for the night.

Sage (21:44):

So did you let her/him suck your dick or what happened?

Grandpa G (21:47):

Well then, yeah, she starts to go down on me and all this stuff. I'm going to make you happy. And this is all in my head. And I'm like, I'm not thinking about you and lingerie. I'm thinking about her with a dick before she got right. So it ain't hard. It ain't working. I'm used to a whole different situation. I'm like, we are going to chuck this night. We're going to live for another day. So I'm like, honey, it ain't working. I got up, I put my clothes on, I handed her clothes. I said, why don't you get dressed? She doesn't, doesn't get dressed. She's like, I’m staying.  So I'm like, you don’t understand.

Sage (22:21):

Is it because she wants to be paid that she won't leave? Or is it just because she wants to prove you wrong?

Grandpa G (22:25):

Well, we never established that. I think it was that perhaps I was the first one post-op and she wanted to prove a point probably to herself.

Emily (22:38):

Like a security thing, confidence building.

Grandpa G (22:41):

God bless her. But I'm just not that guy. So I'm very tactful. You know me. You know me. 

Sage:

I do. 

Grandpa G:

I'm very tactful. I took my time. What I'm about to tell you took 30 to 40 minutes. It's not going to take me that long to tell you. But I got her purse and I set it over on the little bench by the door and I said, go ahead and put your clothes on and you can go ahead. I'll get you a taxi cab home, blah, blah, blah.

Sage (23:06):

You're very tactful.

Grandpa G (23:07):

And she's like, yeah. She's like, not going to do it. So I finally said, put your clothes on. So she does, puts her clothes on and begrudgingly goes and gets her purse. I thought she's leaving. No. Goes back over by the window and sits down. I'm staying.

Sage (23:25):

She wants money. She wants money,

Grandpa G (23:27):

She wants money. She wants more than a taxi cab home.

Emily (23:30):

Somebody's got to pay for that surgery. Right?

Grandpa G (23:34):

Okay, okay, I'll slip you a dime or two and you're going to leave, right? And she's like, no, I'm not leaving till morning. So I take all of my valuable stuff and make sure it's locked away, my phone, everything so nobody can’t get ahold of it. This is going to go the wrong direction, I'm afraid. So then I go over to the door and I prop the door open and I'm like, here's the door. You're welcome to leave. It's staying open until you do. And she wasn't going to go. So I went over, I gently… Now this girl, she weighs like 85, 90 pounds, doesn't weigh a hundred.

Emily (24:12):

Oh wow. Tiny, tiny person.

Grandpa G (24:15):

Doesn’t weigh ninety pounds. Yeah, yeah. Two thirds the size of me. So I am helping her up, lifting her up, lifting strongly, taking her over to the door and she's like fighting me. Suddenly we get within five feet of the door, she's fighting. She's out and out fighting me. So then I'm like, okay, how am I going to get her out of here? So I go for her purse and I reach for her phone, reach for her phone. Everybody loves their phone, right? So next thing you know, purse is on the floor, stuff's all strewn about. And the phone is in the middle of the struggle. I finally wrestle it from her, run over to the door and slide it down the hall about 30 feet on the carpet.

Sage (24:56):

There you go. Wow. You're like James Bond moves.

Emily (25:00):

I know, that was a James Bond move right there. Just like ricochet the phone. Get her out of there.

Grandpa G (25:04):

Yeah. And it did bump a bunk on the doors. Afraid somebody's going to come out and pick up the damn phone. I just want it out there, right?

Sage (25:10):

Yeah.

Grandpa G (25:10):

So she's got a choice to make. Now what am I going to do? So she decides to go for the phone. So she's going to make a dash for the phone and try and dash back and get her purse. Well, as she's going out. Do you know what Muay Thai is?  Muay Thai?

Sage (25:24):

No.

Grandpa G (25:25):

Muay Thai is a martial art where little people learn to beat the hell out of big people.

Emily (25:33):

Oh my god, Sage, you need to learn this move because Sage is only like five two. And she's like a little person. I can totally see you doing this, throwing your elbows around, right?

Grandpa G:

You can do it

Emily:

Don't you think Grandpa G, she needs to learn these moves.

Grandpa G (25:44):

Highly effective. 

Sage:

Yes. 

Grandpa G:

And dirty

Emily (25:47):

Dirty!

Grandpa G (25:47):

Dirty fighters. 

Emily:

Dirty fighter - that is Sage.

Grandpa G:

Right up the alley of women. That's how women fight. 

Emily:

Yes, yes! 

Grandpa G:

It’s Muay Thai

Sage (25:55):

I like it.

Grandpa G (25:55):

They don't even have to take the classes, Muay Thai, you just go practice on each other and you'll know how to do it. 

Emily:

Nice. 

Grandpa G:

So she does this move. I'm standing in the door. One of the moves in Muay Thai is you kick someone sideways right in the knee. So you bend their knee sideways in, ok, and break it.

Emily (26:15):

Oh shit.

Grandpa G (26:15):

So she does her best as she's going by me in the doorway, she braces herself against the door and boom, gives me a Muay Thai kick to my knee, injures my knee bad. 

Emily:

Ouch. 

Grandpa G:

Could have broken it. Turns out didn't tear any ligaments or anything, but it hurt and swelled up really bad.

Sage:

She was pissed. 

Grandpa G:

So off she goes.  And I was like, holy shit.  Yes, she was pissed. She was pissed. Down the hall she goes, and at least she's out of the room. I'm writhing in pain. Close the door, lock it twice. Purse is still in the room.

Emily (26:46):

Oh no!

Sage:

Just throw that shit out the door. 

Grandpa G:

What am I going to do?

Emily (26:49):

Out the window.  Out the window.

Sage:

There you go.

Grandpa G (26:50):

Yes, yes. But I'm afraid if I open the door…

Sage:

She'll come back 

Grandpa G:

No, I’m like 12 stories up. Yes, she'll come back in. So I'm like, I'm peeking out the little peephole.  So anybody out there, anybody out there, no? So I threw a hundred bucks in there with her stuff so it was very apparent. 

Emily:

That’s nice.

Grandpa G:

And I opened the door, slid it out, close it up, bam.

Emily (27:14):

All the locks on. Happy New Year!

Grandpa G (27:17):

Situation, normal. Going to celebrate tomorrow with champagne and beer someplace else. So yeah, there you go.

Sage:

There you go. 

Grandpa G:

That was that.

Emily (27:27):

That is pretty wild. And it sounds like maybe this year none of us will have as wild of a story that’s like that. But you never know!

Grandpa G (27:34):

Not going to be like that, not going to be like that. You can look it up. Look up. Look up Ladyboy. Kathoey. K-A-T-H-O-E-Y is how they spell it in their language. But it is fully acceptable, not frowned upon, not looked down upon or anything.

Emily:

Alright.

Sage (27:51):

Thank you for educating us and our listeners!

Grandpa G:

It’s a completely different attitude.

Emily (27:53):

Yeah

Sage:

That's news to us.

Emily:

So now after Monte Carlo, we'll just swing through Thailand. 

Sage:

There you go. 

Emily:

Yeah. Alright.

Grandpa G:

That’s like night and day.

Sage:

Awesome bedtime story, Grandpa.  We love it.

Emily:

Yeah, Sage is now ready to go to bed at nine.

Grandpa G (27:57):

Girls I hope you enjoyed that. 

Sage:

We do. Thank you. 

Grandpa G:

Yeah, yeah, seriously

Sage (28:08):

Thank you for your time and the lovely, crazy, wild fucking story. I've never heard this from anyone before Grandpa G, right?

Emily (28:13):

Oh yeah.  You’ll have to, you'll have to come back. We'll see you after your next big trip hopefully, and hear many more stories like this.

Grandpa G (28:24):

Hopefully. You know how to get a hold of me.

Sage (28:25):

All right, Grandpa G.  Happy New Year!

Emily:

Happy Holidays, happy New Year!

Sage:

Thank you for your time.

Grandpa G (28:29):

Thank you ladies.  Happy New Year.  You bet.

Emily:

We’ll talk to you soon.

Sage (28:30):

Take care. So that was Grandpa G full of crazy traveling stories and an interesting person in my life to say the least. We're on to season two in 2025 and we hope our listeners continue to join us on our wild adventures.

Emily (28:49):

Thank you all so much for following along and being so dedicated and supportive of us this season. We are so excited to drop season two very early on in the new year. We will be here every Tuesday for you, so please make sure you subscribe, share with your friends, give us a review. It all helps and it really counts and it's really meaningful to us. So we are happy that you are a part of the Watch Me Do It gang. And we hope you end 2024 with the best possible way you can and we'll see you in 2025.

Sage (29:23):

Happy New Year. 

Emily:

Happy New Year.

Sage (29:24):

Cheers.