Milk & Honeys
Milk & Honeys" is the perfect blend of raw industry insights and unfiltered realness. Like the ingredients that sweeten and smooth out a cup of tea, hosts Kayla Becker (TV host of 10 years) and Vanessa Curry (model and actress of 10 years) bring their own flavors to the conversation— Together, they spill the tea on what it really takes to live and thrive in LA’s entertainment scene.
So, grab a mug and sip on some Milk & Honeys—because we’re serving the tea with all the right ingredients.
Milk & Honeys
Episode 32: Honeys, We're Home!!
After a little time away, Milk & Honeys is back in the studio.
In our first episode of the new year, we’re catching up on everything that happened while we were gone — from hosting our Raise the Bar event and realizing we might accidentally be good at event planning, to spending the holidays with family and ringing in the new year very differently (one of us out, one of us happily horizontal).
We talk about rest, reflection, and what we’re taking with us into 2026 — both personally and as a podcast. What stays the same, what gets better, and how we’re raising the bar this year without losing the fun.
Same Honeys. Fresh energy. We’re home.
Oh my God. Welcome back. We're back. We're back, bitches. And it is 2026, new year, but same honeys. Yes. For those who don't remember, or just now tuning in this year, because we really appreciate all of our new listeners and viewers. I'm Kayla Becker. And I am Vanessa Curry. And this is episode 32 of Milk of Milk. Yes, of Milk and Honey. So you have plenty of time to go back and catch up on all the other episodes. We had some really good stuff in L there, but it's gonna get a lot better moving forward. I think so too. I feel good. I feel really good. We had we had like a week or two break. Yeah, which feels like way longer for some reason. And maybe it's because it's been a little bit longer since we had our last studio episode. It's been like a month since we've been in the studio. Right. Then we did phrase the war, which we'll talk about a little bit later.
SPEAKER_01:But yeah, it's been like a month since we've been sitting here. Yeah, it feels weird. Even driving here and and like parking, and I was like, oh, I I caught a little like nervous or something. I told Kayla, I said, Why am I shaking? Like, I'm am I nervous? I don't know. But excitement. I think it's yeah, it's an excitement of my nerves. And I'm ready to like embark and see what this year has to offer milk and honeys.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, because if you think about it, like our first episode was on May the 5th, which is gonna be here before we know it. We'll be celebrating one year of Milk and Honeys. We're gonna have to throw a crazy, we just threw a crazy party, but we're gonna have to throw another crazy party for that one.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, for sure. We said that we we love throwing parties, clearly, as you'll get to know us and you'll see that we do because we just threw like an amazing event, which again we'll talk, we'll get into. Obviously, we're excited to talk about it. So, um, but yeah, how was your holiday season?
SPEAKER_00:Uh, you know, it was good. It was low-key. I went back to Bama, which I haven't done in a while. I just felt like I really needed to get home. It's really LA to Wadley, Alabama, town of 500, is a little bit different from each other. And I think it's just really good to go back because I feel I come back so grounded. Like, okay, this is LA is not real life, let's be honest. Yeah, like West Hollywood, it's a great place, but it's not real life. So I was able to go back, see family, all my siblings, nieces and nephews, and uh just come back feeling really refreshed. I love that. What about you? How was your Christmas?
SPEAKER_01:It was so good. It felt like I was there for a month, even though I was there for I don't know 10 days or two weeks. How long was I there? I don't even know. A week and a half or so. But it was so fun. It went by so fast because we just have so many functions going on. You do. Your family like gets down.
SPEAKER_00:Like I guess laying on my couch, just like scrolling through your Instagram feed and your mom's and your sisters and your boyfriends. Like, y'all know how to party. We do.
SPEAKER_01:And we had uh a full house. It was me, my boyfriend, our friend Patty came for like a few days for Christmas. And so she got to see like how our family gets down, how the Bay Area gets down to party. Um, it was so fun. My mom loved it. I could just tell it it suits her soul to have a full house, so it's it's nice.
SPEAKER_00:She's so I got to spend time with Vanessa's mom um over the during like before the holidays. But she came to the raise the bar event. Let me just tell you how old is your mom? She just turned 75. She just turned 75. She hangs with us. She could hang. We were she hung until the wee hours of the morning. She hung with us till about 4:30 a.m. And I was still giving her. I mean, she even she's she was drinking water, but she was still having a good time. Like that, I see where she gets it now. Yes. Like she's people's high on life. Like it literally is just she's just happy to be around people. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And she, and it's funny because uh, you know, obviously, like when the event was over, I was like, hey, like if you want me to call you an Uber, we're gonna go back to our friend's house and just hang out and kind of like vibe out for you know a few hours. And she was like, Are you trying to get rid of me? And I said, No, I said, No, if you're tired though, like I get it, you know, and she's like, No, I'm coming. She was like, I have a change of clothes. So she like she changed out of her dress from the event and put on some comfy clothes, and she was like, I'm ready. And I said, Okay, let's go. And she went. She was there, she was taking shots. We were like tequila shots together. Yeah, she's the best. She really is. I forget sometimes that she's 75 because she has such a young soul, but it's like, you know, I try not to push her too much.
SPEAKER_00:Well, that's 40 years older than you are, right? So that's us in 40 years. That's just something to like look forward to. I'll take that. I will take that. Thank you, mom. Thank you for both of us. Yes, honestly. Um, so much fun. Well, we are walking into we're we're now in 2026. Yes. Uh, what's like one word you could use to describe like walking into this new year?
SPEAKER_01:Um, my word for the new year is preparation. Okay, I like that. That is, I just I want to go into everything prepared, intentional, and I don't want to rush anymore. I am, we know I'm not good with time. I'm always running late. Um, but even this episode, yesterday I did the cards, I I did RQ cards. Like that's like my job, it's kind of my zen moment to do a little arts and crafts. And so uh yeah, it was it's it's that's my goal is preparation meets purpose. And I really want to just hone in on that.
SPEAKER_00:That's good. Because yeah, if you prepare, you can take your time. Like I think that's for me, like I'm a very early riser. Like I'm sending voice notes to Vanessa at like 6 a.m. And I always like, I know you're not awake yet, because 6 a.m. is crazy for anyone to wake up unprompted. But I do that, I think, on purpose. I think my body's used to it because I know if I wake up early, I can just take my time throughout the day, like make some breakfast, watch a couple episodes of Real Housewives, do some work on my computer, and then go to the gym. It's just like I have more time. Same.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, get stuff done. I I like to wake up and do, you know, a 10-minute meditation, just like ground that and journal and like read a little bit of like a book or something in the morning. If I can start just doing that every day for myself, I think that's so important. Because I remember like 2020, which feels like a hundred years ago. Uh, you know, I started doing that because obviously we had more time, forced time. So yeah, yeah. I'm just preparation is is my my word, I think, for the year. What about you?
SPEAKER_00:Um, oh my gosh, I put this question in here. I didn't even think of mine. Maybe maybe preparation. No, you're you're pretty prepared. Um always. I think there's more like optimism. Like, I think this last year, the last year or so, has like really gotten me down in a lot of ways. And I think I let like the negativity and the pessimistic pessimism kind of take me over and kind of prevent me from moving forward in life, career relationships. So I think I've been trying to like wake up and just be like optimistic that like things are gonna work out and things are gonna be okay and life is great, and just like look at look at what's around me and who I'm around and what I'm doing and how freaking cool that is. So I think just looking at the cup, way more half full than half empty.
SPEAKER_01:I love that for you. I think that's a good word for you too, because we've talked about it where a lot of times I'll be talking to Kayla, I'm like, no, no, no, it's fine. Like we're we're good, you know, if if we're late or you know, trying to plan a huge charity event in six weeks, and Kayla, I had to talk her maybe a few times and saying we can do this.
SPEAKER_00:There are a lot of wheels, but I try to dress up. And she like grabbed me by like the nape of my collar, the nape of my neck.
SPEAKER_01:Whatever.
SPEAKER_00:I was gonna say hair, but I don't even know. But okay, I think I think uh would you what was your preparation?
SPEAKER_01:Mine was preparation and optimism. Is there another word for preparation? Every time I say preparation, preparation age.
SPEAKER_00:Yes, I was like, I want to say we know about that in those heroes. I think both those words went go hand in hand with the event we threw. So we're gonna get into that a little bit more. Again, raise the bar, an event for foster youth. We were talking about that a month, two months ago when we sat down and talked about doing this together. And I don't think either one of us knew what would go into something like this, how to prepare for it. Um, but I gotta say, I mean, you hopefully you've seen the clips, the full event is posted on our YouTube channel now. I don't think I could have asked for a better turnout for what we put into it with the people that helped us, a lot of people who did all of this for free. There weren't people, you know, we weren't paying people out or, you know. Um, and it was just an amazing way to end the year because I think that's what gave us our optimism and our newfound sense of preparedness because now we know how to handle something as giant as that was. Yes, absolutely.
SPEAKER_01:And and also just learning so much about us as a duo, as a as a partnership, as a work relationship, friendship, trust. Uh, I remember the day after I went to dinner with my boyfriend, and I just told him how grateful I was to know that I now have this found newfound trust. We already trust each other because we've been doing this for six months, but this was a whole different entity that we were taking on. And uh to find that trust with somebody like you, I was like, I know that we can we can do business together. Like we can do business now. Now that we've done this and this was successful, and you know, sure, like we had, like we said, disagreements or we had to have conversations about certain things. But the fact that we're able to like have those harder conversations with each other and still remain respectful is oh my god, it is and I think it's crazy.
SPEAKER_00:I think it's a rare thing to find. Like, I think I was really nervous, like going into this with you and our friend Patty, because I'm like, God, this can make or break us. Yes, because it could go one way or the other. Yes. And all of us have massively different personalities when it comes to this. I'm very much like, I'm gonna do this by myself because I know how to do it right, and like I don't trust anybody else to do it right, which is something I had to let go of. I had to trust my partners that they were going to come through and exceed in the things that they were good at, which is obviously what happened. Yeah, but I really had to let go of that control. And I think there was a conversation we had where like y'all are both just like, chill the fuck out, Kayla. Yeah, like chill out. We've got this, it's fine. What do you say? Ask for help, ask for help. I'm like, okay, because I've just never done anything like this with somebody. And even the day of the event, which is funny, I know Vanessa was like getting in her anxious state. She's got like two rollers on one side of her head, isn't fully dressed, and we're all just like and she's like, I need everybody to stop talking to me right now. And I was like, Oh, yeah, okay, girl, go off. Total respect. But like, I think getting used to being able to have those conversations and talk to each other that way instead of being scared.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, is it made it so like because I knew too that Kayla understood when I said, I just need people to stop talking to me for two seconds. I I and then, and then when we got downstairs, and before her and I went back into the party to start the charity event, she knows me so well and she looks at me and goes, Do you want to do three cleansing breaths before we go in there?
SPEAKER_00:Kayla said that to me. You don't know. I I've I've been very against that. That's her thing. I've been against it since day one. So yes.
SPEAKER_01:And I was like, and and there, I think my mom was with us, Mariah was with us, maybe two other people were with us, and it was just all of us, and we just all stopped and I said, Yes, yeah, I do actually, you know, and I was able to do those three cleansing breaths with Kayla, but and I know that she probably didn't need it, but she knew that I didn't that what's like a partnership is. And so if you can find somebody that or or a group of people who you can be friends with, you can play with, you can work with, you can be serious when times need to be serious, you need to be responsible when you guys need to be responsible. I say freaking go for it because my goal in life is to like build empires with friends. Because what's the fucking point of working so hard for people that maybe you don't really like or want to be working with? It's like the goal is to work with your friends, and then bring your friends up with you if you have yeah, that's literally it. I mean, even you know, Petty Cash Studios, like they were out the charity.
SPEAKER_00:All the beautiful footage that we got was all with our friends, Mark and Alex. Yes, put again a beautiful display of what the event actually was, completely captured it. And great, trusting people. I mean, obviously, we've been uh uh working thorn in Mark's side probably for the last six months, but he showed up and I didn't have to even worry about it. He just knew what he was doing and yeah, again, gave us some of the best, the best footage. Exactly. I think it was emotional, like like you said, like the close friends that we had that put on the event to our our our friends and colleagues who helped film the event, to all of our friends that showed up to be an attendance to this event and be in support and and donate and make this event like so much fun and such a party. I don't know. I think I still get kind of overwhelmed sometime thinking about what the people around us did to show up for us.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, you know, I it's it is still hard to wrap my head around 200 plus people there, guys. Yes on a Thursday night, yes, before right before like you know, the holidays, literally. So it is just at such a beautiful event space at the Sofatel. If you've never gone, they remodeled it recently in the last few years. It's gorgeous. They have jazz night every Monday night, and so that's where we first went and fell in love with the space. And um, you know, Aiden was just uh an angel and helped us in so many ways that we couldn't have even asked for. Um, well, we did ask. We asked for a long, we did ask for a lot, and he did fulfill, I'd say almost like a hundred percent of everything.
SPEAKER_00:And I think once he saw what we pulled off, he was like, Oh, okay. Because it didn't even tell you, like, this isn't gonna be the last time I'll do something like this. Like, this is something that we have in our arsenal. Yeah. And then, yeah, James Ishu of Ishu Law, who sponsored the event, all of our amazing performers, yeah. Um, and then of course, our recipient, our um non-uh profit recipient, Peace for Kids, who uh Ziad came up and shared his beautiful story of his connection to foster youth. So, I mean, overall, I just again I just don't I can't list anything wrong. The only, the only, you know, little bit of a issue was if you go to a sell and auction and you have to write your name on the little clipboards, please write it legibly where we can read it. Not even, not even the name, but like also the phone number. Kelly, how many different phone numbers we sit down and try to figure out what the phone number was? We won't go into detail on who it was or what it was. I mean, I guess we could, it doesn't matter.
SPEAKER_01:It doesn't matter, but like we could not figure out who this person was. And I think I sent, I'm not joking. I sent about 12 different text messages to different phone numbers. I put it in, I put it in Chat GPT. I was like, can you tell what this is? Or this is like that. That's how frustrated I was. I was like, Can you tell what number this is? It gave me a few different options. She gave me a few different options. We asked friends. Uh, one phone number text me back with like crying. Like, well, like because they probably thought it was a scam. So I was like, well, that's probably not the phone number.
SPEAKER_00:Could we sit like a donate donate here for your basketball? If that wasn't to you, could you imagine? Be like, okay. Yeah, I would have said the same thing. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Actually, I would have never answered it. I would because like scammers, hello.
SPEAKER_00:I want to know who answered it because I feel like that might be someone we'd be friends with. Right, right.
SPEAKER_01:But they're trolling the troll. But but finally, finally, after Christmas, I get a text message from the person saying, Oh my gosh, yay, thank you so much. I'm out of the country. But when I get back, like we'll set up a time so that I can get the auction piece.
SPEAKER_00:And I'm just like the thing is I knew night of who it was because it was a autographed basketball by LA Lakers player Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves. And I knew who got it, but I I talked to so many people that night. Same. I just I couldn't remember. It's like one of it was one of those situations. So again, just write your name where people can read it, and your at least your number where people can read it. I get liquor is flowing, and maybe you're handwriting it to a little chicken scratchy or you know, doctor. Sure. But anyway, yeah. That was but that was literally again our only that was the only hiccup.
SPEAKER_01:Where I was like, oh my gosh, these auction pieces are gonna be the death of me. It's like I know that was hard. But again, we had so many beautiful, we had Jessica Simpson collection donate stuff. We had the Jerky Society, we had Lakers, we had the Magic Castle, the Comedy Store, we had Botox, Skin Spirit, we had so many beautiful people. Uh, we had a huge makeup basket by my friend Kimberly. And uh it was just, we had so many beautiful things that were donated, and um celebrity hairstylists, celebrity photographers, you know, it was just everyone came together and really wanted to um show their support. And so again, we were so grateful for everyone who had a hand in making this night so special. Yeah. So thank you.
SPEAKER_00:But I do want to ask you, and we've talked about this now, because it was so successful. Now we've got this nice Rolodex of people and friends, you know, who want to help us out. I mean, I think maybe a goal that Milk and Honeys has moving into this new year is yes, we love our podcasting, but just like your friends over at Boys Lie who started their clothing brand that launched this successful podcast. I feel like we could branch out into maybe like throw really cool events around Los Angeles for people. Like again, we we're good at it, clearly. We have a huge like group of people that we know would want to be a part of it. Milk and Honey's presents events around Hollywood and LA area, like what? How cool would that be? Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:No, I mean I think, and also this the most stressful part was getting people to like come, you know, for me, I guess, and Kayla. It was it was like, uh, okay, well, I'm inviting people, but like, will they come? So I think that if we're throwing events for people who are, you know, wanting to have a huge party or a corporate event where that's not our responsibility, I think that takes a level of pressure off of us. Don't get me wrong, we know how to throw a party. We definitely know that now for our own friends. But I think that, yeah, I think milk and honey's is a a huge umbrella that we're just gonna start seeing other avenues come from. And I think milk and honey's events is is something that we're also gonna branch out to and it's gonna be so fun. And the coolest event. Yeah, that's the whole point, right? Like we said, like we're blossoming together, we're creating new uh ventures for ourselves that will make income so that we can be successful and have financial freedom, but also um, you know, help people along the way.
SPEAKER_00:No, for sure. And like give our friends jobs, you know, like help our, you know, that's what she was saying, as friends, just like elevating each other and taking each other with you. Because, like, yeah, like you said, there's no much, there's nothing more fun than building an empire with your friends. Yes, absolutely. Someone I told you last year that when we like sat down and talked about doing this podcast, and someone was like, Oh, y'all might end up being event planners. Like, what is that like laughable? Do you think that that's kind of where we are now?
SPEAKER_01:Like, is that yeah, it I mean, I think it's just manifestation coming to fruition. Yeah, I think that's just what it is. It's like we manifested, we're we talked about doing a podcast, but we're like, it could it could go like so many different ways, you know. Even even us not necessarily producing an event, but be doing hosting, hosting an event, you know. We've talked about that too.
SPEAKER_00:Event near you.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And we're just so funny. We are really funny. And we're like, if you have to tell people you're funny, like you're not. Like, we're like we are like we are like really exception today. Um, so delegating uh is very important when it comes to event planning. Like, I do watch her a lot of real housewives. And they always throw all these charity events for no reason other than they just want to be seen. Um, but they have like boards, you know, you have your person who is in charge of the direct decorations, another person in charge of the food, the auction. So I think like those are things that we'll learn moving forward. Yes. So we're not chickens with our head cut off running around. But what part of the event planning process do you think you enjoy the most that you'd want to like, besides the hosting, that you think that you would like want to continue doing?
SPEAKER_01:Um I genuinely think it's it's the planning part of the theme and making sure everything is aesthetically pleasing and you know, the tables having black cloths on them and gold accents because the venue is like pink and gold and neutrals and things like that. Like I really enjoyed, you know, even though Kayla did design a lot of the things, but you understood that part of me too. So I didn't have to say anything about that. But I think that's what I loved, is like if there's a theme, like if there's a jungle theme, yeah, that at a party, okay, what can we do to incorporate jungle into this where it's not cheesy and it's still elevated and looks beautiful.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, what about you? Well, that's one thing we'll have to like explore more because we were so fortunate to be in a sofa tele during the holidays. Right. So basically, we didn't have to do too much decorating because that place is just so gorgeous. Um, but yeah, that could be maybe your strong suit because I don't know if I'd be that good at that part of things. I think I kind of like the more of the logistical side of things. I think I'm just good at like figuring out like the planning and this run of like playing the run of show and like booking the talent and like kind of like that kind of thing.
SPEAKER_01:I think run of show is was definitely your strong suit for sure.
SPEAKER_00:For sure. Yeah, and I worked in like live events for 10 years. So I think all of that kind of came into play when I was doing this. That's my background.
SPEAKER_01:And you're good at, you know, it's keeping on time. I mean, even we we started the event obviously 30 minutes late. I think an hour. Really? No. Was it? I think we started at eight. I remember running down at eight. Well, what did what we start? We're supposed to start at seven. 7:30 show. Show time. Show time. Yes. We started the event at seven. We were supposed to show, shit, run of show, was supposed to start. But we knew it'd start late. That was like that's built in. And like I said, she's you're good at that because she gave us uh a buffer towards the end as well, just to run over a little bit. And so just those smart logistics, I think, yeah, it is your strong suit. So great. We have the logistics and we have the aesthetics for putting them together.
SPEAKER_00:We're gonna have our friend Patty who just does all the stuff in between. Yeah, all the people. She's the people person who just runs around and makes things all happen. And she did. She ran around with her sparkly suit jacket.
SPEAKER_01:I wish like we had someone just on patty. Like the whole patty cam.
SPEAKER_00:Yes. And maybe we put patty. I was like saying, like, we're we had talked about this, how we should have had someone always at the auction tables, or like a hit few hits through the night who ran over the mic, like, hey guys, yeah, you saw this. Like, I feel like a patty, yes, or even like our friend Michael Vale. Exactly.
SPEAKER_01:Just somebody that's like not us doing it. Although, yeah, my boyfriend was saying, which we never did that night. So sorry. But it was a good, he told me. He was like, Oh, you guys should take the mic and go to the table and say what you guys did. We have a million other things to do, we would have. But this is what we're learning. Again, yeah, we were we were wearing a thousand different hats that night. Yes. I barely I I I blacked out, not from alcohol. We were so we were pretty until the event started. Yeah. A million a tequila. I think like in the middle, towards middle end of the event, I was like, then started taking shots. I'm like, okay, we're we're I can I can relax a little bit now. Even my boy from Akunny is like, you could relax your shoulders. I was like, oh, are they up? I think that's just my like, my like like a tense, my presence shoulder. You know what I mean? Like maybe he's just not used to seeing me in like that light.
SPEAKER_00:I'm like, baby, you gotta see his girl work. Yeah, and I'm like, This is my working shoulder.
SPEAKER_01:So hot.
SPEAKER_00:He's probably so turned on watching.
SPEAKER_01:Probably not. He's like, babe, can you relax your shoulders, please? Like, you look tense right now. And I remember asking him, Did I look tense on stage? He goes, No, for some reason you're fine on stage. It's when you get off the stage, you're like running around. I'm like, I'm just talking to people. And it's hard.
SPEAKER_00:There's too many people to like, hi, how are you? Pretend to be interested in what you're saying. I mean, we were interested, but like without you know, having you know, get back on stage. We have our sound guy. Yeah. Who by the way, um, Ryan, who was a sound guy, give him a little shout out. He was amazing. He was amazing. He made again things so easy, worked with our talent, got them sound checked. Um, so but anyway, um, all that raise the bar. Amazing event. So thank so thankful to everybody who was a part of it, either behind the scenes or just there um in the audience or who donated. And you guys made us want to continue doing this. So stay tuned. Milk is hunting milk and honey's events to come. Yeah. It sounds good too. It does event. Who wouldn't want to hire milk and honey? It just sounds like so like luxurious. Maybe it could be called maybe that's what we should luxurious. Milk and honey, milk and honey's luxury luxury. We'll we'll work on it.
SPEAKER_01:Milk and honey's luxury. I don't know. No, it just sounds better when you say it sounds like milk and honey's luxurious events.
SPEAKER_00:No.
SPEAKER_01:I think it just milk and honey. I think milk and honey's events just sounds luxurious. It does, it does, it does. I don't think we need luxurious.
SPEAKER_00:That's a sign. Oh god. Oh no, there's the first hiccup. No, I'm just gonna go. Um, but we're going back to holidays, um, and how we kind of brush over it in the beginning. We both spend our time with our family. Yes. Um, your favorite, what were some of your favorite moments? Like with what what happens in the bay um with the Vanessa household?
SPEAKER_01:The my favorite moments is just it's just uh it's I it's like waking up in the morning and then we have our breakfast, and then by 11:30, 12, we're like, shot, mimosa, you know? And it's funny because my boyfriend, I always say this is his vacay version of himself. Like, vacay Aussie is so different than like real life Aussie. Not in that neither one are bad, they're both great, but it's like it's so funny. I always have to tell my mom, don't worry, like we don't drink like this like every day, him and I are together. It's just it's Christmas, and my mom's usually taking a shot or having mamosas with us. So it's just like that's just so fun. And then my niece, uh both my nieces now have roller skates.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, I saw you with your roller skates. I have roller skates and I ride my book on roller skates. Did you hear listen to that? Play that song in your head when you're roller skating. I didn't. Okay. What is that song? Oh, that's my karaoke song. How about karaoke song?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, yes, I know.
SPEAKER_00:I got a brand new pair of roller skates.
SPEAKER_01:Only song I sing karaoke.
SPEAKER_00:What is the name of that song? It's called Brand New Key by Melanie. Oh, okay. So we'll play it after hear Kayla sing that. It's I've actually heard you sing that multiple times. It's the only karaoke song I'll do. Like the old my friend back in um St. Pete, he works at a bar and they do karaoke once a week. I'd always go there and only sing that one song, and he had the DJ cut my mic one week. He says, We're not doing that today. We're not doing it. They get so sick of it. Wow.
SPEAKER_01:Yes. But anyway, you have to do that. I'm not sick of it. But yes, my my six-year-old dies got her roller skates for Christmas. So now all of us have them. And so it was fun just seeing them fall, get back up. I always tell them, hey, my sister used to tell me in point class in ballet, she'd be like, look, just try the fuetes. Just try it. If you fall, the ground you oh, fuetes. It's like a, it's a, it's a term for um, it's a ballet term for some turns. So it's a pirouette? Yes, it's like a pirouette, but your your leg is is doing like a ronde jam and you're on point. So the other foot is going up and down. Sounds like a type of mustard. It's I'm I feel so French. Yeah, you know, when I like say that ronde jam. Oh. Oh. We. We wee. But my sister always used to say, Well, it's okay if you fall, the ground will catch you. And so I was like, Thanks, sis. Yeah, so it's comforting as hell. Yep. So I told my nieces that. I'm like, your mom always used to tell me, it's okay if you fall, the ground's gonna catch you. Don't worry, you'll get back up. So every time they fall, I just don't make it a big deal. I'm like, it's okay, get up, and then they're like, okay, yeah, kids. You can't let them think that. Yeah. So I think that was like a special moment and just it was just all in all fun. Yeah. Yeah. It should be. But I and I slept in like every day. Oh, good, which was great till like 10:30, 11.
SPEAKER_00:And we didn't really talk that much over the holidays. We just kind of like let each other live, so you didn't have to wake up to my 6 a.m. No, but I kind of missed it.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like sometimes we're in like a long distance relationship and she's three hours ahead. Yeah. And then she sends me her like good morning text or like voice note or something. Uh but no, she's just down the street.
SPEAKER_00:But no, but I was for the holidays. I was actually three hours ahead. You were Alabama. Yes. How was that with your fam? Well, just like it is out here, it was so warm. It was warmer there than it was here. So it was 70s the entire week and sunny. And um, so I always love. I have uh a new little foster brother. I got to meet him for the first time, Malachi. How old is he? He's 11. So from the moment I walked in the door, he's like, Can you play games with me? Can we play games? We played all these different games, played basketball. He and my other little brother Bryson got little electric scooters for Christmas. So I was riding those around. Um, it was just so nice and relaxing. I just love like I it's very rare I get to see all of my siblings at once and all of my nieces and nephews who I see sometimes every few years. So like last time I saw one of them, he was this big and now he's got a deep voice. And I'm like, this is awkward. Yeah. But um, but in the best kind of way. So yeah, I saw you with those scooters. Oh, yeah. I stole it for my little brother, and he was not happy. No, and then she looked cute as well. I loved it. And I get to eat like my I love eating at my house. My dad makes we have all the southern food. He made like, I missed Thanksgiving this year, so we made Thanksgiving dinner. Oh, that's so sweet. I love it. And um, my favorite Mexican, well, it was my favorite Mexican place, but Mexican food in Alabama in the South is better to me because you get like that gross, watery white cheese, which you can't get in LA. Mark is um not okay with us right now. I like Southern Tech Mex so much. I know it's like an unpopular opinion. I do like the casso dip that you have.
SPEAKER_01:It's so good, but I I can't oh, there's a place nearby. I'd agree.
SPEAKER_00:We should go after we get done working today. We might go to this place. That's perfect. I'm down.
SPEAKER_01:I'm down. I I came back probably looking like a Nakatamale, which is a Nicarawan tamale. I bring them from here, drive them to the bay, and uh I think I I got them from it's called Sabor Nicarawense, is the restaurant. And it's so yummy, and I brought 20 nakatamale. Would you have any more? I should I know I should have kept a couple here. I don't know why I did that, but we can go to the restaurant because it's here in a restaurant. Oh, the restaurant's here. The restaurant is in there.
SPEAKER_00:You got it when you're in the bay and brought it in.
SPEAKER_01:No, the restaurant is here, and I I buy 20 to 25 of them and I bring them to the Bay Area. I got it. And then my mom, yeah, and so we have I've had like a tamale every day.
SPEAKER_00:I just discovered tamales recently, like not recently, but a few years ago. The first time I tried one, you could guess what I did. I thought you bit through the husk, but you don't do that. You have to take you have to unpeel the husk and then you eat it. You know, we don't have that's not part of the Alabama Mexican. Yeah, that's not part of the Tex Mets.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my god. Wait, like like even a Mexican tamale was you had just recently? No, I mean this is like a few years ago.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, but still a few years ago. But my first time ever. I just had my first churro a few years ago, too. I'm what? I like those. I like those a lot. Okay, well, we need to go to Disneyland. I sound so, and for those who are confused, I am not Latina at all. People think so. I am black. I get an excuse. Yeah, you do, but they're like, how dare you not know the food of your culture? And I'm like, well, you're like, well, it's a long story. When mom met dad, um, what's one thing about the holidays you appreciate more now than maybe you did before?
SPEAKER_01:Um, just being at home with my family. Yeah. You know, it's like none of us live together. Uh just having my sister and my brother-in-law and my boyfriend and friends come by and having uh a long-term relationship with, you know, some friends, dance friends. You know, we celebrated our 17th year anniversary of a holiday Christmas party that we do. Um, and so that's just really special. I think just seeing everyone grow up and now we're expanding. We some of us are married, some of us are single, some of us have boyfriends, some of us have girlfriends. It's like, you know, I've now the spouses come and so that's kind of fun. And I'm sure once people start popping out babies, though those babies are gonna come too. Cause like, don't you dare not bring your baby to the party. Um, so yeah, baby first rave. Yes. It will be at Omeda Curry's house for sure. The Curries, it will be there. Um, so yeah, so I I think it's just being in the same space with family and um and just watching my nieces open up gifts. It's just so fun watching little kids open gifts. They believe in Santa Claus, they still do. Good. Or they tell maybe they say they do. I think so. I think I I don't know. I think my older niece is kind of like, okay, guys, like Santa Claus. She has your photos with the Santa Claus. It's like the Santa Claus has the same writing as Auntie Nessa and oh uh grandma, you know what I mean? So I just I don't know. I I I'm gonna let them until they tell me otherwise, I'm going with what they believe in. Santa Claus is real kids. It is real.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, okay. It is real. So is the Easter bunny, so is the Tooth Fairy. He's real, though. So is Krampus. So is the Grinch. Who is Krampus? You don't know Krampus.
SPEAKER_01:Is this a horror thing?
SPEAKER_00:Yes, uh. You guys. He's like the evil version of the jolly old guy. You guys. Oh my god, we're gonna watch Krampus. We can watch it now. We'll watch it. I knew it was a horror thing. It's great. He'll eat ya. God. Jesus. We love us in Krampus. Um, okay, let's let's get into uh Arcals. What?
SPEAKER_01:Mm-hmm. Yes. Oh no, I just saw the next prompt and I got excited. I'm like, oh yes. Wait, which one? What number are you on?
SPEAKER_00:It's like we have like, are we playing cards? Are we gonna show each other? Um our new year's yes.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so yes, I we're on the same card. We're on the same cards. Look at this. Look at this, bro. Damn it. We don't even have to ask, even though I did.
SPEAKER_00:But we didn't have to. Yeah, we didn't have to. Um, yeah, so New Year's Eve was a few days ago, and uh, we did not spend it together, which was completely fine. Yeah, it was middle of the week, she was still at home. Vanessa was with her family still, and oh, I didn't leave my couch.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I mean, I didn't leave the couch, but just in a different city, yeah. We were doing the same exact thing in two different cities, and I think we both loved it. Loved it. So here's a couple things.
SPEAKER_00:First of all, New Year's Eve fell on a what, a Tuesday or a Wednesday? On a Wednesday? Wednesday night, yeah. Wednesday night. It's been really rainy here in LA the last several days. There were a few parties that we were all invited to. I'm like, that just doesn't sound appealing to me. And to me, waking up feeling really hungover on Thursday, which I've done it before, I'll do it again. But I didn't want to start the new year that way. To me, I'm like, I didn't want to wake up on January 1st feeling now. Granted, I did not get off my couch on Thursday either. Right. But out of like, I woke up feeling good, yeah. Did a little workout. I think I don't remember. We'll say I did. And then like caught up on movies and stranger things and all the things. Yes. Oh my god, we should probably talk about that too at some point.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, actually.
SPEAKER_00:We do okay. Yes. Okay, well, let's finish our New Year's. Well, how about we wait to the end of the episode and we'll tell you what we thought about the Stranger Things for Nally? Yeah, because I have a lot of thoughts. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01:But yes, New Year's Eve was great. I even my mom was like, it was just her and I. And we were like, she goes, Do you don't want to go home and party like with your friends? And I'm like, mom, we are all professional parties.
SPEAKER_00:We on a random Tuesday at four, we're like, let's get together and have a night. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:I'm like, I don't need, you know, our our friend Jeff had the most gorgeous backdrop, as he always does, and it's so cute and so beautiful, and the photos look so lovely. I think we should just like have him make a backdrop on a random like St. Patrick's Day. That'd be a St. Paddy's Day would be fun. Let's make a St. Patty's backdrop, have it at Jeff's Jeff and Patty and Melly.
SPEAKER_00:And be a leprechaun.
SPEAKER_01:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:Because he could be a little St. Patty. Yes. St.
SPEAKER_01:Patty. We'll have St. Patty. And we'll have Jeff, we'll do it at Jeff and Melly's house. And uh, I think we should just start making that a tradition. That'd be cute. I love it. Because yeah, it was really cute. And I'm I am sad I missed it. I photoshopped myself into there. She did. She was she had her pizza and she photoshopped herself in the backdrop, which was really cute. But yeah, New Year's, we talked about like our resolution, I guess. Like uh I mean, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, resolutions are just like goals, goals for the year. Yeah, you feel like when you don't, like you obviously didn't have FOMO this year because you're with your family, but do you have like there was like I had a little this much? Like sometimes if I'm spending it by myself, because last year I didn't celebrate either. I stayed home by myself. I'm like, do I still feel FOMO? I think it's now Jomo, like the joy of missing out. I agree with that, you know? I agree with that. Yeah, Jomo.
SPEAKER_01:Jomo. I I really do. I I it's because here's the thing: I know that we're going to get together and and enjoy moments. You know what I mean? So just like last night, I watched Stranger Things. She really wants to talk about this.
SPEAKER_00:I watched we only have like 10 minutes left the episode. We have a lot more cards. We can just like skip some of these. Let's say, do we need to talk about this? Individual goals did that. Growth mindset, let's put we can skip that one.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:There's okay. We already talked about some of these. We did.
SPEAKER_01:We know what we did talk about all of this, actually.
SPEAKER_00:We can say, how about this? We'll do we'll start with these little prompts here.
SPEAKER_01:Perfect.
SPEAKER_00:And then we'll get into stranger things.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. So, like, how do we how do we want milk and honeys to feel this year?
SPEAKER_00:Like home. We want anybody who listens just to feel like they're just a part of this little family and they can relate to everything we're talking about. I never want to make anyone feel isolated or like they can't, you know, relate to what we're talking about. So I think we I want it to feel like like home.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I want our listeners to be able to end an episode and say, you know what? Oh, okay, I can do that. And feel out like feel inspired to do something either even if it's this episode where we did a charity event. Maybe it's maybe it's at a coffee shop, maybe it's not a huge thing, but you can just start planting those little seeds for yourself to blossom. And so I just want people to always walk away. And I always want people to walk away feeling light with our episodes. Even, you know, the episode we talked about my death and and your story, and it was a heavier topic, but I still feel as though at the end of it we shed light on certain things, and I hope that people can take that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and it's like, yeah, community.
SPEAKER_01:Like I just feel like this is a part of your community. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_00:Well, do we want listeners to walk away with after each episode? I feel like we just asked that question. Yes. I think I better. Oh, I just answered. Oh, you want to share that? Yeah. Because I wrote these on here. I am learning. She's learning, and I am digressing. In other words, what could we do differently or better? Um, I I mean, I don't think, I don't think I don't like the like better, but like differently is just I think maybe tap into more of what like we I would like to have more engagement. With our viewers and listeners about what they want to hear, what they want to talk about. Yes. And um be more active like on our social media pages and get um just actually get responses from our viewers and then bring that into the studio. Yep. You know, I think we should release a merch this year. That's something we've I've been talking about doing. Um, and just being we every time we do anything like uh Mickle and Honey's on the street, it does really well for back out into our community into West Hollywood and like talk to people. So I think that's something we put more of a towards.
SPEAKER_01:I think so too. I think you know, I I wanna start sharing a little bit more of what goes on into making an episode and uh be more intentional with our socials and and like you said, just to get more of that engagement and create that community family feeling. Yeah, that's important. For sure. That was mostly okay.
SPEAKER_00:Um Stranger Things.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Um on that note, that's okay. Okay, adorable. Okay, Stranger Things.
SPEAKER_00:Well, you just watched it last night. I watched it the night it came out. Well, I actually it was a two-hour episode, and I I watched the first part New Year's Eve and then finished it on New Year's Day. Um I thought the first half of the finale was great. And also please turn off the episode if you haven't seen it yet. No, we don't want to spoil. So spoil alert, spoil alert.
SPEAKER_01:But if you're if you're actually a Stranger Things fan, by this point you've got to be. You should already watch it. So like that's whatever. But but um the last like hour they just had us on this ride. I couldn't, but the last hour I was so bored. Yeah, I didn't care about the end stories.
SPEAKER_00:I wonder why people do this thing, and we'll go back into that. But like, I feel like when shows are ending fuck like officially ending, they do the laziest. I mean, the the way they end it is like, why don't you just do like you should do the biggest thing or people are begging for stranger things to come back? And maybe they don't, I mean they're doing some spin-off, but maybe they don't want it to come back. I don't know, but yeah, I agree. I'm like, what is happening?
SPEAKER_01:But like even the spin-off, like give us give us a little something to hold on to besides them thinking that she's still alive.
SPEAKER_00:Well, here's what pissed me off about that shit, okay? I did get a little emotional when we thought Elle was again when we thought Elle was dying, sacrificing herself at the very end. I'm like, you know what? That scene, I actually had tears in my eyes. Then we find out that she was just not dead. Yes. And off in some land, I'm like, did you just literally make me cry for no reason?
SPEAKER_01:Is she? But they don't know that for sure. I mean, they obviously they have like an inkling that of what was going on.
SPEAKER_00:She's alive, they're not gonna kill her character because at some point, I mean in producer brain, if they need to bring her back for some future spin-off, they can't kill her. So she probably is, but we're gonna see her in this new little home in this far, far off land. But what's like emotionally manipulate me like this? It's like Dexter. We always think motherfuckers dead.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we thought he was dead, and all of a sudden he's a freaking woodsman in the snow in the middle of nowhere. You know what I mean? Which I love. I love that he didn't actually die. But it's like Dexter. But like, why? And I get it, it's it's uh studio execs also. I know that writers and producers and directors and all these things have to also abide by what the studio execs are wanting. And I understand that, but it's like, can we just I know end a sh a series, you know, like Game of Thrones? How like I I I I lasted, I I how many years did we watch that? 10 over 10 years? I watched it late. I binged it like two years ago. But like already finished. But the sh the series itself, I don't know how long, but it was definitely three seasons, I think. Okay, so like 10 years, and then that's the ending you give us. Like it's it was just I know.
SPEAKER_00:I just it's like stop by your head kind of thing, you know. Also, I don't like I don't like hearing, I don't want to feel bad for our bad guy. I hate when we take take Vecna. I didn't need Vecna. I didn't need to feel this like origin story of where his sadness comes from. Never needed, did not need that, did not need that at all. Also, as a very huge ally of the LGBTQ, LB LBGTQ community. Plus, let me say that again. LGBTQ plus community. I didn't love, I feel like they rushed that. They rushed his come out story and that little like I just think. I feel like they were just trying to rush the end of the season. They had to get in there because we've been being titillated this entire time about his sexuality, and then we're do this little kumbaya moment. Like, I feel like he deserved more to that story. Right, right. It was all done.
SPEAKER_01:We'll talk about it, flab him, and now let's go back to like and and this is the 80s, mind you. So, like that probably would have been a very different conversation. It was so rushed and awkward and weird. Yeah, it was very we yeah, I just it didn't feel like the right time and place. And then also, last thing that I will say is I understand we're watching a television show. I understand that there's gonna be moments where you're talking, even in like a pressured state, but like you gotta get those lines and like that that part of the story out. But everything seemed so much like they had so much time.
SPEAKER_00:What about yeah, with Max and what's her name? When they're when they're they can exit, they can get out of the upside down. And they're just like talking, like, bitch, run! I yeah, I'm like, Oh, yell at three, like, why aren't you running?
SPEAKER_01:Right. I and I and I know that they want us to be doing that, but like not every single time. Even even um uh eight, uh, her sister, when she goes to try and stab him on the table. Hey there, brother. Yeah, yeah, he's gone now. Why would you wait? Like, why that moment is not for that tagline. Like, just stab him. Like in real life, for you guys, is that what you're gonna do? No, we need a little bit of like, so I I just yeah, I felt like like even that the conversation of him coming out, it's like you guys don't have time to have this whole conversation. Literally. So it was it was just, yeah, there was uh well, on that note, we did it. We did it. I love I did love Stranger Things. I I did, I just I wish the ending was a little different.
SPEAKER_00:Kind of like start it from the beginning and just go back to the good old times with it. You know, um, we're gonna get into this now, and we'll talk about this later. But did you watch Heated Rivalry yet? Heated Rivalry? You know, heard of this show? The new super gay hockey show on HBO Max. The most oh my god. Okay, that's your homework. By next episode, or by I'll give you two weeks to watch, it's everyone talking about it. Everyone is talking about Vanessa. Who is everyone is talking about? Well, Marin Morrow's uh gonna be our guest next week. And I know he and I are gonna want to talk about it because we both watched the finale at the same time. Oh my god, if we should just go back to my plays and watch Heater Robinson. Okay, I'm gonna do that. It will freak you. I mean, it's like one of the best. I think I'm I think I'm officially a gay man. I think I'm a gay man. I mean solidify that I am a gay man. I just want you guys to know that on this 2026, I'm gonna live my life as a gay man. I'm gonna make a meme. If you're looking like this, and I'm gonna say, I'm a gay man. I think you'll understand. Okay, well, listen, guys, we are so thankful to all of you who were with us last year and who are still here with us this year.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. And remember, guys, new year, same blend. This is Milk and Huddings.
SPEAKER_00:Ayo, love you guys. See you next week. Bye. Bye.
