S2 Ep7: Fireballs, Ben Franklin & No-Guest | Marnie & Alisa | Bench to Bold

No guest. No agenda. Just Marnie and Alisa taking over the show to let listeners finally get to know them. In this Season 2 solo episode of Bench to Bold, the co-hosts go deep on the things that actually matter: favorite flowers, candy dealbreakers, the people they'd most want to have dinner with, their complicated relationships with heights and bridges, and the TV shows Alisa has somehow never seen a single episode of. There are Prince stories, a Ben Franklin monologue, a dentist-mandated crown from chewing fireballs, and a genuine debate about whether airlines are intentionally disabling seat charging ports. Consider this the episode where Bench to Bold gets personal.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
00:07 — No Guest, No Rules
04:33 — Fresh Flowers, Hotel Lobbies & Why Presentation Is Everything
06:42 — Candy Wars
10:08 — Cookies vs. Cake
13:03 — Dinner With Anyone
15:00 — Prince at Paisley Park, Purple Rain Tour & a Victoria's Secret Story
19:19 — The Jetsons Were Right
21:34 — Bridges, Heights & the Grand Canyon Glass Walk
26:49 — Top Gun

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS:
Bench to Bold is co-hosted by Marnie Schneider — author, speaker, and football legacy (granddaughter of former Philadelphia Eagles owner Leonard Tose) — and Alisa Hood, fashion and lifestyle entrepreneur and founder of Alisa Lux Beauty. Together they bring bold conversations, real stories, and a lot of laughs to a show built around the simple idea that life isn't a spectator sport.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Hi everyone. Welcome to another episode of Bench to Bold. I'm Marnie. And I'm Elisa. And uh thank you for joining us. So today we're taking control of the show. And what does that mean? That means that you're gonna get to know a little bit more about me and Elisa. And uh that's it. So just the two of us talking. All right, so Elisa, uh some questions. What is your favorite flower? Tulip.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_00 0:39

Yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:40

Is there a reason why? No, I just love tulips. I think they're beautiful, they come in many colors. Okay. Um so I'm a tulip fan. A lot I know a lot of people are rose love roses, but if you know, if someone's gonna send me flour, if my husband's gonna give me flowers, I you know, I'd love some tulips. There's some beautiful colors. My favorite color of the tulip is the peach one. Okay. I just think they're a very unique, pretty flower.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

They are. And I've heard that if you okay, well, so I heard that with a tulip that you're supposed to um put a little pinhole at the top of this of the right where the tulip neck is. Have you heard about this? No. So if you take a pin and you put a little pinhole at the top, it's supposed to let some of the air out and it keeps them fresher longer with the tulips.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

So some, you know, tulip knowledge. Tulip knowledge. Um I think that, although it's not really a flower, but I love orchids. So I think that I mean it is a flower.

SPEAKER_01 1:39

Do you have a green thumb? No, me either. No. I hate it when people I love it when people send me plants. Yeah. I just got one for my birthday in February and it's dead already. Like I literally can't, and it's not an orchid. It's a it's a it's an African violet.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 2:00

And have you ever had African violets? No. Okay. So I I don't have a green thumb. It's dead.

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Yeah. We had a babysitter, Olinda, and she was incredible. I mean, like literally, I could bring any, I could bring leaves to her and she would resuscitate them and you know, make them and re bring them back to life. She was Olinda was great. She had a real and I never paid attention to see how she was doing it, but I do think that she's talked to them. I think that there is some real um understanding of like talking to your plants and you know, making sure that they're feeling good and that people, you know, that do that, I think um, I think that's a nice thing. I I'm gonna start talking to my plants, see if that brings them back to it.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

I've tried talking to the plants. I've tried watering them. I feel I feel like I overwater them. That most of them don't get a lot of light. Yes, where they're at now. Now in the new house, I specifically wanted a sink with a beautiful window that I can look out and I can have my flowers to get the sunlight. And I feel like that might help. So I'm gonna try it. Okay. Um, but I feel like I oversaturate them.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

I think most people do. There's a company called Easy Plant that you that literally has like a reservoir. You open it up and you fill it up once a month, and then you close it back up, and then it will kind of self-water. And I've done pretty well with those.

SPEAKER_01 3:23

Okay. Yeah. So I'm not a plant person, but yes, tulips. Tulips are my flower. What about you? What you mean?

SPEAKER_00 3:28

I I like orchids. I like peonies as a flow you know, as a flower. I love peonies, Casablanca lilies because they smell so good.

SPEAKER_01 3:35

I was gonna say, I like things that smell good too.

SPEAKER_00 3:36

Yeah, lilies in the vague. Paper white.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

Have you ever smelled paper white?

SPEAKER_00 3:39

Yeah, those are delicious too.

SPEAKER_01 3:40

Oh my gosh. And Pottery Barn makes a paper white candle. I bet it's great. It is.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

It's great.

SPEAKER_00 3:47

Uh so I like things that have like a nice smell. I mean, roses are good, but not, but usually roses from a florist are not roses like English garden roses. Like if I was gonna, you know, choose a ro, I'd be like, I want an English garden rose because they and I think silver roses are the ones that are the most fragrant.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Yes, out of all the roses, the silver roses.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Yeah, I don't know enough. I don't know a lot about flowers or plants. I just tulips my favorite flower. Yeah. I don't know a lot of because I can't do it. Um I don't have green thumb. I mean, lilies die in my house. The nice thing about lilies is you can water them and they come back to life almost immediately.

SPEAKER_00 4:23

Yeah, and I think hydrangeas too. I think that like that's how it is. These lilies, yes. Yes. I think with hydrangeas, but uh, but I do love fresh flowers. My mom was really into fresh flowers, and so So there's a company that I met.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

Um I did a Pilates event uh a couple weeks ago. I've done two so far um at Rolls-Royce of Charlotte, um, Rolls-Royce and McLaren of Charlotte, and they invited me for this fabulous event. And the last one was last month, and they had a flower bar. And so these these wonderful ladies, and I I literally can't think of the name of them, but they actually I asked them, do you br do this? Do you have a like a monthly service that you bring these beautiful flowers to people's homes? And they were like, Yes, we can do it weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. And I said, sign me up. Yeah, when when the new house is done, I want fresh flowers in my house. Um, you know, at least every other week. Oh, yeah. Because they're they make you feel good.

SPEAKER_00 5:18

I know, and they are good and they smell good. They look good, they look good and they smell good. And uh yeah, I I agree. That's um it's nice. It's a nice thing to and and when they're well done, they last a long time.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

Yeah, it's kind of um one of those things, and and there's a guy, his name is Jeff, and uh you probably know his last name because he's renowned. Um, he does the flowers in hotels.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

Yeah, the four seasons in Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_01 5:42

And the breakers, yeah, in Florida, in Palm Beach. Um, and I can't think of his last name, but oh my gosh. It's so nice to walk into a hotel and see that beautiful and they change them out, you know, while you're most of the time while you're there. Um, so yeah, flowers are a nice touch.

SPEAKER_00 5:59

Yeah, and some hotels they really they they know that that's really an important part of their uh of their hotel budget, their lobby. Yes, it's just the presentation. You know, my grandfather would say presentation is everything. And uh he's right. I mean, not every I mean, I would say almost everything. If you have no substance, then the presentation is gonna be kind of thin and flimsy. But if you um it certainly helps having good presentation for sure. Yes, yes. All right, so um uh chocolate over like gummy or uh like would you prefer like a chocolate candy over a gummy type of candy?

SPEAKER_01 6:42

Okay, if someone knows me, they know me that I'm a fireball, laughy taffy, and tootsu roll girl.

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

That's my thing. Now I'll take chocolate all day long. But tutsi rolls make me so happy. In fact, we order fireballs monthly to our house. I think Randy and I both I've broken two teeth on fireballs once when I was in Spain. Um, luckily it was on the tail end of my trip to come home because it was a bad break to one of my back teeth because I don't suck on them, I chew them, I chomp on them. But they're I mean, but wouldn't that's hard to do. Yeah. It's very hard to do. That's why my tooth broke twice. The dentist is like, okay, we gotta have an intervention here. Right. Right. Because you have a tooth now that I you have to have put a crown on because you've broken it twice and we can't fix it without a crown.

SPEAKER_00 7:37

So what about this? I used to like big red chewing gum. Oh, I love it. Do you remember that? Yes, okay. Speaking of that, did you ever make cinnamon cinnamon toothpicks? No, but I've had I mean, I know they used to sell them at like gas stations.

SPEAKER_01 7:50

Well, I used to sell them at school. Okay. Like in intermediate school in fifth and sixth grade, we would make toothpicks, package them up, and sell them to people at school. Because yeah, cinnamon, big red gum was right. I loved big red gum.

SPEAKER_00 8:05

It was good.

SPEAKER_01 8:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:06

It didn't hold its flavor very long. It does not.

SPEAKER_01 8:08

You have to put multiples in and then sit it out and put some more.

SPEAKER_00 8:11

Start over, but it was good. I also liked freshen up. Remember freshen up? Yeah, the juicy. Yes, and then they had a cinnamon. Do they still make that? I don't know. Probably not. But I mean, my mom was not like a huge gum chewer, but I just I have visuals of her like chewing the mint freshen up, having it in the car. So good. And yeah, here and it's crazy like toxic now.

SPEAKER_01 8:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:32

You know, that's probably why they don't make it anymore. I know. Bubblish and bubble yum. Those are my favorites. So you are you a chocolate? I'm a chocolate person. I mean, I I I would go like with a I don't like, I don't like gummy worms. I like a Swedish fish. Like, I just like that texture more than the gummy worm. Um, but I so I I would have it like I like a Swedish fish, that texture, but I'm team chocolate all day.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

So Well, I'm not gonna turn it down.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

Yeah. I would prefer chocolate to this gummy things. Do you prefer dark chocolate or milk chocolate? Well, now dark, but when I was younger, it was like milk chocolate, like a Cadbury Easter egg was I mean of. I mean, yeah. That was, but I did like peeps too. I mean, I guess I liked all sugar, but um, I still do. But I liked, I loved the peeps and I loved the Cadbury cream eggs like around Easter time. Those were are you a candy corn girl? Yeah, I love candy corn. Oh, good. Yeah. Me too. I like the Indian corn or whatever with the chocolate caramel and the chocolate. Well, because the Indian corn has like the extra layer on it with the chocolate part of it.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Well, they got smart, they started making different flavors like that.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

So I just a bag of the Indian mix. Yeah, I like that. And I like the pumpkins also. I love the pumpkins. The pumpkins. I don't know what what like it's just just what sugar and water. Corn syrup.

SPEAKER_01 9:57

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

It's good.

SPEAKER_01 9:58

Oh, it's not good for you, but it's good.

SPEAKER_00 10:00

No.

SPEAKER_01 10:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:01

Um, okay, so flowers and candy. I feel like those are like two really important things to know. Um let's see here. What about cookies or cake? Oh, well, I like it all. I never met a cookie I didn't like, Alisa. Come on.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

Come on. If it has coconut in it, I can't do it.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

No, I do like coconut. I like coconut. Yeah. I know you like coconut. I like coconut. I like coconut. I like chocolate. I I like things out of a box. I'm fine with it.

SPEAKER_01 10:27

Never been a coconut. Now, it's the texture for me.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

Okay. Coconut.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

So if it's like coconut flavor, I can do it. Okay. But if it's coconut cake or coconut cream pie, I'm not the texture of this, it's stringy and it's just, I don't know. It's like watercress. I don't like watercress.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Okay. Now, what about um so you would not have a watercress tea sandwich? No. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 10:49

Mm-mm.

SPEAKER_00 10:50

So maybe they could put coconut on a lot of things and watercress and that would maybe it would decrease my caloric intake. Right. Well, watercress is pretty. Uh, I feel like you don't hear people having watercress lately.

SPEAKER_01 11:03

They put it in salads a lot, I feel like. Yeah. Um, but no, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:08

Uh, they make um at this horse show that we used to go to growing up, the big Devin Horse Show. It's huge, you know, Devin Horse Show on Country Fair. It's like 10 days long. And they're famous for their tea sandwiches. And so they've got different tea sandwich flavors. One of them, which is when I was first introduced, I guess, to watercress as a young girl, was a watercre, but it's water, I think they make it, it's either cream cheese with watercress, you know, it's similar to a cucumber tea sandwich, but they put similar to that. So, um, but they do have watercress um sandwiches. So not a fan. All right, we won't get you those or the coconut cake.

SPEAKER_01 11:42

No coconut.

SPEAKER_00 11:43

No, but they do have good fudge.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

Like almond joys. Yeah. Uh no. I feel like that's the only candy bar they should make, so I would not be enticed to get a candy bar.

SPEAKER_00 11:52

Well, sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't, right? Exactly. Oh my gosh. I mean, yeah, they don't have that slogan anymore, I don't think. But um, yeah, no, I liked an almond joy. It wasn't necessarily my first choose like choosing, but I didn't turn it away. I liked um a Heath bar and a score bar. Those two.

SPEAKER_01 12:14

Anything toffee or caramel were uh I feel like my go-to candy bar is Zero Bar. Have you ever had a Zero Bar with the nugget? Yeah, caramel, and they even make a white chocolate one. Oh my gosh, so good. It's like in the silver, blue, silver with blue writing. Um, I feel like you could only find them um at they're so old school. I feel like you can only find them at like the masked general store where they have all the old candy.

SPEAKER_00 12:39

Oh, the old candy. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah, where they have that. No. I mean, I feel like I've seen it, but I don't think I've ever had one. Yeah, it's good. But it'll be on the okay, so um, like who out of anybody, let's just say, I mean, of course, living or not living, and we're gonna take family out of it because you know, who would you want to have a meal with? Anyone in the world? Who would you be interested in? Madonna. Okay, Madonna. And why Madonna?

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Stands down. Well, I mean, she was I grew up in the Madonna era, the borderline, uh, I wanted to be Madonna. Okay. Yeah, and I still love Madonna. Yeah, I know. Yeah, she's just iconic, right? Yeah, she she is she was my Taylor Swift growing up. Yeah, that's um that was Madonna. I mean, you and I are very similar in age, and you know, so Madonna, the Cindy Lauper day. I wasn't really a huge I like Cindy Lauper's music, but I was a Madonna fan.

SPEAKER_00 13:34

Yeah, I prefer, I mean, I I mean I I think that I mean Cindy Lauper was really an a different kind of artist than Madonna. So it they much more eclectic. Yeah, more eclectic. And and I think that we all um and I think Madonna just presented herself, you know, differently. Obviously, she, you know, did get a little um a a little bit too much some in certain categories at you know, for young kids to really understand vulgarity. Yeah, I didn't really understand, even even though I was a teenager, some of the stuff that was going on. But now I look on it, I'm like, okay, you know, I she had a real strong opinion and point of view. And she did.

SPEAKER_01 14:14

And she I felt like she still does.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:17

And uh so she's beautiful still.

SPEAKER_00 14:20

Oh yeah. I mean, she's and she knows how to per um persuade and be persuasive of the media and also of you know the music business, which is you know, Hollywood, but I mean people, but the entertainment business in general, you know, you really have to be a strong animal to survive that that world.

SPEAKER_01 14:42

I mean, I feel like that's why we probably lost some of the great artists like Prince and Michael Jackson and maybe Houston. You know.

SPEAKER_00 14:49

Yeah, I love Prince. Yeah, yeah. Prince was I I prefer Prince to Michael Jackson. Me too. Uh, but I like Michael. But I mean Prince I thought was, you know, was great.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

I'm so sad. I never went to a concert.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Yeah. I went to see, I mean, gosh, um, Purple Rain, the Purple Rain Tour. Yeah. Uh my friend Nessa and I went to see Prince. And um, somewhere, I think, in Nessa's one of her old, you know, boxes of junk from our old days, she's got, they were selling purple roses. And I think she's got at the at the concert, I think she's got one of those from the old days.

SPEAKER_01 15:24

So a funny story about Prince. I was in school at University of North Con at Greensboro, and um I ran over to the shopping center called Friendly Shopping Center in Greensboro. It was an outdoor shopping center, kind of like Burke Dale, um, is here in Charlotte or up at the lake. And um I wanted to go in Victoria's Secrets, and um it was shut down. There were security guards standing outside, and I thought, are those security guards because there's just been a robbery in here or what's going on? And then there was a huge white limo out in front. And I was like, that's interesting. Well, I'm very, you know, I'll I'll ask, you know, what's going on in here? And I did. And the security guard was like, uh Prince is in town, and he's in Victoria's Secrets right now. And he was performing at Greensboro call see him that night. Um did you get to see him? No, he yeah, just from a very far distance because I would not let you get near the door. But I kind of stayed back and kind of waited for him to come out, and yeah, I got to that it was far, far away.

SPEAKER_00 16:23

I think he's very he mean he was very tiny, tiny, petite, very petite.

SPEAKER_01 16:28

Now I've been to Paisley Park. Randy and I used to go to this music festival up there, and we had some free time and we went to visit Paisley Park. And if you haven't been, you should go. It is fabulous. Yeah. You got to go in one of his studios, and only one of them they would allow you to take pictures in. There were only parts of the Paisley Park that they would allow you to take pictures in. So I got some great um photos at Paisley Park. But it was nice to see how they some of that stuff like when he would perform, like on Friday nights, he would open it up and let people come in that lived there, and he would perform for them. They kind of left that untouched, and he had three of his cars in there, and all of his outfits were you know placed throughout Paisley Park. It was amazing. But I was a huge Prince fan. What about you? If you had to sit down with someone, um who would it be?

SPEAKER_00 17:19

Ben Franklin.

SPEAKER_01 17:20

Okay, yeah, Benjamin.

SPEAKER_00 17:21

I well, I mean, part of it is this, I mean, he was such an incredible renaissance man and so brilliant and an inventor and ahead of his time. And I, you know, love hundred dollar bills.

SPEAKER_01 17:33

So how's gonna say do you like hundred dollar bills?

SPEAKER_00 17:36

Of course, who doesn't? But uh, but yeah, Ben Franklin to me, and uh and just I mean, such an incredible mind, and and it would be so fascinating, and and certainly, you know, growing up in Philadelphia, obviously, you know, lots of history there, but uh, but Ben Franklin, I think, would be somebody that I would love to uh just listen to him and talk about, you know, the early days of the the country and and being and truly, and he really was or I've I've read a bunch of books about Ben Franklin, and he was the the a perfect version of Renaissance Man and was very influenced by other countries and would really understood people and compassion and empathy and also the arts and uh he was funny, so I think that um yeah, I would like to uh have dinner with or some something like that with Ben Franklin.

unknown 18:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Boy, if we could go back to those times, right?

SPEAKER_00 18:32

Yeah, but just for like a second, because I like the times that we live in now. Absolutely. I don't think I would really enjoy living in the um revolutionary war era, but I think that they were incredible patriots. So thank I you know have the patriotism. Yes, today. And uh yes, as we get closer to our two uh it's crazy, 250th birthday of our country, which is young compared to many other countries, but it's like you go and you think about what they what was going on and all the technology. We're sitting here in a podcast studio. I mean all the chat. Chat GPT. I know. I mean Ben Franklin created the newspaper. I mean, he I mean, they were writing it out long form, and then he created a c way to copy it. And so things like that is just so interesting, and now here we are using chat GPT to I know. Did you ever watch the Jetsons?

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Oh, yeah, of course.

SPEAKER_00 19:21

I loved it.

SPEAKER_01 19:21

Did you ever lay in bed and watch the Jetsons on Saturday morning and think, yeah, this is so fake? Yeah, we are actually living in Jetsons. I know.

SPEAKER_00 19:28

I mean, we have cars in Charlotte now that drive themselves. I know, right? Yeah. I mean, when we were in San Francisco, I mean that was there were a dime a dozen. Yep. I mean, I was just in DC and I saw, you know, they have them in Atlanta everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Yeah. Now I'm skeptical on on them because they've caused some crashes. But, you know, I'm a little scared to get in one. Are you?

SPEAKER_00 19:50

Uh I've been in one actually, but in Vegas. But I mean, you know, that's you know, all bets are off, literally in Vegas. And I was like, all right, whatever. Uh I didn't realize I was getting in. I didn't realize that that was what was happening at the moment because I was probably on my phone not paying attention. I was like, oh my gosh, we're in a car and there's no driver. Yeah. Uh but it was fine. It's still weird. Yeah, it was weird. I mean, it's counterintuitive because you know, you have no control sitting in the back seat of anything. Yeah. But I mean, it uh it uh, but there was something kind of nice about it because I was like, okay, you know, I this is you don't have to talk to anyone or or answer any questions that that's crazy Uber driver ask you. Yeah, although I've been I become friends. I I usually try to get um a female Uber driver. I don't know why. It just sometimes and they become my friends. So I have collected Uber drivers all over the United States that um Marnie, I feel like you can make friends with anyone. Well, probably. But I I, you know, and most of the Uber drivers that I've met, they all do it kind of as their way to support their family. Like, you know, my I met a this lovely woman and I was like, why are you driving Uber? She was like, Oh, my kid plays travel baseball, and this is just an extra way to earn income so that we can pay for that. And then another one, you know, she was like, Well, it um forces my husband to be home with the kids, and I rather be out making some money, like on my own time versus, you know, going out and you know, whatever, doing anything. So I feel like people that are doing those kind of extra jobs, the ones that I've met, they all have a really good purpose to do it. And um, but I don't I still think that the uh the self-driving ones are interesting and yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:32

I need to at least try it once.

SPEAKER_00 21:34

Yeah. But it is weird. I don't like going over bridges. And so I did not go over a bridge in a self-driving one because that probably would have freaked me out. Oh yeah. Yeah. Bridges just I'm not uh I don't I'm okay with a tunnel. Is it because you're scared of heights? Maybe I think I might be a little bit afraid of heights.

SPEAKER_01 21:49

Like the bridge in Charleston going over the state. Yeah, I've done that, but I I cover my eyes. I don't want to see it. Yeah. Like, how do you fly if you're scared of heights?

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Flying's different, bridges too. Me are um and when I lived in Philadelphia and I worked at NFL Films and I lived in Philadelphia and they're in South Jersey. I would have to take there were th one of three different bridges every day. You have to go over the water to get to Jersey, and I did not enjoy that, but I did it because we have to do hard things, but I did not, I don't like bridges.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Yeah, okay. Well, that's new to me.

SPEAKER_00 22:22

Yeah, I'm okay with a tunnel, but a bridge, I mean, I'll do it. I've I, you know, yeah, uh, it's not my thing, but you're fine with it. Fine with bridges. Totally fine.

SPEAKER_01 22:31

I'm not scared of height, so yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:33

Yeah, I don't think I'm scared of height, but I would prefer, but I don't love like um like hotel rooms that are really high up. See, I prefer that. I don't get the better view. You do get a good view, but I don't love looking down. I don't love that look um so much. But um, see, I'm starting to get sweaty.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

So you can never bungee jump.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

No, oh gosh, no, no.

SPEAKER_01 22:59

I mean, have you been in the stratosphere in Vegas?

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Yeah, I've been, I mean, I've been Did you do the experience where you go out? No. Okay. No, no, because I no, that would be uh, you know, I I don't I don't know Randy won't get near a glass in the like in the Empire State Building.

SPEAKER_01 23:15

He won't even get near the the glass to look down.

SPEAKER_00 23:18

What I have done is at the Grand Canyon, and I didn't know that I was doing this, you know, they have um the you can go to the top of the Grand Canyon and then you can walk. They have the glass walk where you're literally You can see. Yeah, and then you and uh so it's controlled by the Indian tribe. So um, you know, you can't really take any pictures because they don't like that. They like to take pictures and then charge you for the pictures. And I so I didn't get any pictures, but I did that. And um, you have to wear booties over your shoes because I don't want to scratch the um the glass walk. So I did that. Um, but that was I did not know that I was doing that, and uh, you know, but I did it. Okay. Yeah, but I don't choose to torture myself like that anymore. Like I everyday life is torture enough sometimes where I'm not like I'm just gonna go do something where I have to see heights. So no, I don't, I'm not a big fan of heights, but I'm fine flying. Flying's different. Yeah, I feel like I'm okay with that.

SPEAKER_01 24:16

And yeah, some of the other things about flying scare me more than heights. Well, like the other day I was enclosed in a in a plane with mentally ill people. It's kind of scary.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Well, that is definitely scary. Yesterday, or the other day when I was on the plane, the um the electrical to plug things in was not working. And so I had said to the flight attendant, I said, wait, the electric, she's like, she was like, let me just clarify. Electrical is working. You can't charge your phone like this electrical, the little plugs that they have near the seats, that's not working. But don't worry, the electrical on the plane is working. Otherwise, we're not gonna be. Well, she clarified for you. Yeah, she did. She was like, Okay, don't worry.

SPEAKER_01 24:55

I feel like that happens more often lately, that our devices are not being able to connect and also get charged. Uh I don't know if they're doing it on purpose.

SPEAKER_00 25:07

I sometimes think it is on purpose.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

I think so too.

SPEAKER_00 25:09

I feel like, and I'm not a paranoid person, but I sometimes think that it's frustrating. Yeah, that uh that you can't that that's like, you know, just um by design.

SPEAKER_01 25:20

But you know just being able to work while you're in flight and it makes the time go by. Even if you're not working and you're just able to surf the internet, it makes the time go f go by faster, especially if you have a you know, from east coast to west coast. It's terrible. It's torture to me to have to fly from here to Vegas and not have any connection for Wi-Fi.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Yeah. I mean, remember, I mean, how you we have to like read a book or something back in the old or magazine. Well, I would then just bring stacks of stacks of magazines. That's what I would, you know, would bring all the magazines. And now you don't know they don't even really, you know, no one buys magazines really. No. Do you have you read when was the last time you read? Maybe like at a uh no, like at a doctor's office, or might be like a local like Charlotte magazine.

SPEAKER_01 26:04

The last time I looked at a magazine was I loaded up on a bunch of magazines on our plane coming home from Florida, in case we did not have Wi-Fi that I could look through interior design. You know how at the FBO at the private um airport, they'll have those um all the magazines with interior design and all the things. And so that kept me occupied. However, I did learn something. All of the front of the magazines are different, but everything almost inside of each one of them is the same. Right. So I loaded up with 10 books and they were all the same inside.

SPEAKER_00 26:35

Well, because I feel like they're mostly ad books now. You know, it's all advertising it's always magazines have always been advertising, but yeah. Um, okay, so we're gonna wrap this up. How about your favorite movie? Do you have a favorite movie?

SPEAKER_01 26:49

I mean, my all-time favorite movie was Top Gun. Okay. And then I loved the second one. Yeah, it's fabulous. Um But uh, you know what? I've never been a TV person. So to have a favorite movie, um you know, I I I get interested in movies when I see them, but uh I think back on like, oh my god, I really loved that movie. No. Um same thing with that series, honestly. I don't know if I've told you this, but I've never watched an episode of Sex in the City or Friends or Seinfeld.

SPEAKER_00 27:25

Oh, well, they're good shows. I mean, I I mean, back again, now we have many other things to kind of, you know, we don't but I remember watching those shows, you know, certainly Friends and and uh and Seinfeld on Thursday night.

SPEAKER_01 27:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:41

I I think for me. Well, for me being an only child, I definitely TV was like my best friend. I mean, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 27:49

But to like sitcoms or like Facts of Life or Alex of Life or The Jeffersons or Andy Griffith, Beverly Hillbillies, Mash, that, yes.

SPEAKER_00 28:00

I loved the Brady Bunch and of course Bewitched and I dream and genie. Those were like my three go-to's when I was growing up. And then I think as I got older, certainly the facts of life. I mean, you know, Bill Cosby show was another one. I mean, I loved the Cosby show. We all did. And then all the things, yeah. So surrounded that. Um, but definitely, you know, then then more of the one hour shows, like of course I loved Dynasty and Dallas. I mean, those were fun to watch. Absolutely. On Friday night, you know, when I was growing up, Who Shot Jr was like, you know, was the thing. And I think for movies, I think, you know, obviously I would say some of the real, I mean, of course, The Wedding Singer has to be one of my favorites. Well, you're in it. I'm in it, but uh, we're gonna remove that one from like my favorite list. I I like, and I don't really watch a lot of TV, but if it was on, like, of course, like Gone with the Wind, like some of those classic movies that I think are so entertaining and beautiful to watch and tell a great story. I really uh I think that those are um some great movies. And then there's some more of like there's a movie, movie that was out when I loved all the John Hughes movies, Pretty and Pink and Sixteen Candles. Oh yeah. Those were def um kind of age-defining pretty much pretty woman. Yeah, that was another good one. Yeah, that was uh that was a great one.

SPEAKER_01 29:20

So I think lately the series that I can say that I really that really I could binge watch was uh, you know, probably back in 2016. Um Sons of Anarchy. Oh yeah, I've never watched it.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

The Ozarks. Oh yeah, Ozarks is great, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

Um yeah, yeah, so that kind of thing. And then the hunting wives, you know, they could have left some of the parts out of the hunting wife. I would have been fine with the some of that, some of that, but yeah, I think my husband liked it.

SPEAKER_00 29:50

Yeah, yeah. What man wouldn't like that? I'm sure. I I haven't seen enough of it to know, but I started watching it. You told me to watch it, so I've been it's good, you know, and because they're filming it all over Charlotte. Yeah, that's that's kind of fun too. All right, so fine last question favorite color? Pink. Okay, yeah, I love pink. Yeah, I love pink. My mom's favorite color was pink. I would say like I go between like pink and like a a teal green blue. Well, and that looks really good on you because your eyes.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 30:20

So the same with you.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

So those are green eyes, so greens and blues. We always get compliments after that when we have those colors. Try to, you know. Oh my gosh, your eyes, they look so beautiful. I'm like, well, it's not my eyes, it's the what I'm wearing.

SPEAKER_00 30:32

It's making my eyes look beautiful. Well, it's a combination of all of it, but yes, all right. So um, all right, well, great. Well, Lisa, I learned some things today, so that was lots of fun. Yeah, I think we should do this again. I think so too. There's a lot to uncover. Oh, yeah, there's a lot more. I had a lot more questions, but we'll, you know, we'll wrap it up for another day, another time. So uh thank you everyone for tuning in and learning a little bit more about me and must and me. Yes, and uh, we'll see you next time. Thank you.