Let’s Talk About It: Protein, Reality TV and Your Toxic Pants

This week we hit record and let the conversation go wherever it takes us… from questioning if we are literally adding protein to everything now, to our thoughts on the chaotic new “Age of Attraction” show. Nothing is off-limits, definitely nothing is researched, and those are always the best brunch convos with a bestie! 

Transcript

unknown 0:08

Hi Heather. Hi Dana. How are you?

SPEAKER_00 0:10

I'm good. How are you? I'm good. Good. I like your blazer.

SPEAKER_01 0:14

Thanks. Your pushed up. It's very awesome.

SPEAKER_00 0:18

Miami Vice. Do you even know what that is? Or am I older than you? Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:21

Do you remember do you know what I'm quoting?

SPEAKER_00 0:23

No.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

The SL skit? When they they were like, your sleeves are pretty pushed up. It looks pretty awesome. No. They were what skit is it?

SPEAKER_00 0:32

Like who is it? What's the no?

SPEAKER_01 0:34

I'm not gonna remember.

SPEAKER_00 0:35

All right.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

They were spoofing like a music, it's like a duo from like the 80s.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

Oh, I do know. It was like um an old-timey, like 80s music love song, like two dudes. Yes. Oh shoot. It'll come to me at some point. Yeah. Okay. Every time I wear the threads like pleasure, sleeves are pushed up, it looks pretty awesome. Looks pretty awesome. Yes, yes. Darn it. It's not gonna come to me. I was just joking around with my sister-in-law about Yacht Rock. I sent her like a funny meme that was like the world's on fire, but we're still here listening to Yacht Rock and pretending like it's not happening. Hollow notes. I don't think it's the right combo. No? It might be. I think it is Hollow Notes. I don't know. Could be. Maybe Hollow Notes. Anyway. It's very Hollow Notes Blazer. Um, so how's your week been? My week has been good. How about you? So yeah, we're kind of at the beginning of a week. Usually we're meeting toward the end. But good, busy, just all the things. I'm already starting to get all the like end-of-year notifications for school. And it's blowing up my calendar and my mind. And we're at the last year of elementary, so I'm trying to make sure like I'm at everything. It's so busy. And it feels like from now until like June, well, really August will just be like one crazy spiral. Yeah. It goes so fast. It does go so fast. Like the end of the school year stuff. And then summer goes faster than you wanna every year. It's worse.

SPEAKER_01 2:02

Yeah, I'm still thinking about Easter, and I wanted to tell you, I think I was telling you a little bit about it, but like I feel like let's normalize like being silly at family holidays. Like together. Like some silly little things have been happening. Depending on your family. Right? Over the past like few years. And um just like you know, people bringing little like tiny hands. I've seen some videos. Extending forks.

SPEAKER_00 2:27

Okay, explain the extending fork though. Like what uh what you did?

SPEAKER_01 2:31

So me for me for Thanksgiving, it's like a it looked like a normal fork.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

And I and it like extends like a tell, like a like super long.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Uh why can't I think?

SPEAKER_00 2:40

Like an antenna. Like it goes real long.

SPEAKER_01 2:42

And just like in the middle of dinner, I just like went and like grabbed food from like who though?

SPEAKER_00 2:46

Because I feel like that's crucial.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

Maybe my br my brother.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Okay, who's like really good at taking a joke? I feel like if you would have done it to like you know, like an older person or somebody, I should not calling anybody out.

SPEAKER_01 2:57

You might have done it to my zeal because he used to growing up, he would do that like just not even as a joke. Like he would eat off my pipe. Oh, okay. And I'd be like, I just got that. Right. So maybe I did it to him. But then, like, then my sister-in-law and my sister came to like ravioli night with like tiny hands, and they're like rolling on gnocchi with tiny hands. How funny. Then we all hid I still won't say who like initiated it. Uh-huh. It was a group effort of like hiding tiny, tiny. There was like 500 ducks. Oh, the ducks at my parents' house. Oh, yeah, when they were gone. Yeah. Well, we started it when they were gone, and then continue. They came home, they were like, huh. And then we brought more to Easter and everyone was just like hiding them. And now, fast forward to this Easter, someone I still cannot figure out who. Oh, really? Remains unsolved? I I have an idea, but someone brought tiny Jesuses and I'm Oh and left them all over the house.

SPEAKER_00 3:53

I'm still fine.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

I find those everywhere, like in public and stuff. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 3:57

And I'm like, I don't know, good, bad.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

I mean we need it's everywhere. Well, the you know what's bad is now I'm like, what do I like do with it? Do I can dispose of it?

SPEAKER_00 4:08

No, you have to keep that tiny Jesus.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

It's in it's in every cup cupboard, it's in my life.

SPEAKER_00 4:12

I can't just like start a little collection and then give them to some random kids.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

I'm like, I can't throw Jesus away.

SPEAKER_00 4:17

No, you can't, yeah. It doesn't feel right.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

Um, okay, so I have been watching, which I'm so sorry to say that I fell prey to it. But I've been watching that Age of Attraction show. Did you even see it advertised? Yeah, it's like the dating one with the Did you watch it?

SPEAKER_01 4:33

I've watched a few episodes.

SPEAKER_00 4:35

Oh, I didn't think you had, so I was like, I'll just tell her what I think about it. But what are your thoughts before I give you mine? Did you finish it? Did you watch a little bit of it?

SPEAKER_01 4:42

I watched up until like some of them are talking about like what their ages are.

SPEAKER_00 4:46

Oh, okay. So you're maybe a third of the way in or something. Okay, I finished it. I think I finished it. I really started tuning out. Anytime it would be on the background, and I would be like doing something else. Anytime it's a dating show anymore, I just can't.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

It all feels like an audition to be something else. I know. Do you know what I mean? So, like, I guess back when like The Bachelor was new, or there's been so many twists of like, I don't watch any of the new ones, but like, whatever. Love islands, yeah. I don't watch any of that, but like even do you remember like there was like Joe Millionaire? It was like, oh, there's a rich guy, or he's not rich, he's poor. I don't even remember what the premise was, but they're always like messing with the twist. And I was like, for some reason, was like, I'm gonna watch this one, and yeah, yeah, I mean, it's exactly what you expected it to be. It was kind of interesting because they weren't allowed to discuss their age, but also I feel like I'm pretty good at guessing people's ages. I'm like, duh. And of course, the women, you can really mess with people if you've you know, if you've just kept yourself looking really young or you've had any additional help in that area. Right. I could see how you could mess with people maybe 10 years or something, but like some of them were like, What? No way! And I was like, 100%. Look at his neck wrinkles, right?

SPEAKER_01 6:04

Okay, so wait, what's the oldest?

SPEAKER_00 6:05

They'd be like, oh my gosh, I was like 20 years off, and I was like, You're terrible at this game because he's wrinkly. Their level of shock, I was like, Yeah, but I feel like some of that also is like fake.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

But like, what's the oldest that you could go? Like starting over.

SPEAKER_00 6:21

If I was dating right now, I have no idea. I have no idea. I mean, because I've grown kids and stuff. It's like it's so interesting because that's immediately like the conversation is like, okay, this person's 60. Do they want to start a family? And not necessarily. So, like, all of those bigger conversations have to happen sooner. I don't know. I don't know. I don't think I could go above 10 years. Well, I don't know. I'm not gonna put a cap on it. I feel like maybe 12. That feels like arbitrary, 15. But it would totally depend on where I was in my life. Yeah, but that's interesting that you asked. Because like, we know people who have like pretty big age gaps with their spouses, it's fabulous, whatever. And then some people are like the exact same age, and you're like, Yeah, that's great, works for you guys too. But like it was just the premise. I was like, what do we do in here? And then it's exactly what I expected it to be.

SPEAKER_01 7:14

How far apart are you guys are?

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Me and Chris are four years apart. Okay, he is older, yeah. Just in case anybody was wondering. Yeah, I don't feel like, yeah. That's what I'm saying. Some of it was like, okay, if they get to a point where they're serious about each other, which means nothing, they go to a room and they share their ages. I know. Like I just like enjoyed guessing before they said it. But yeah, I was I was off, but not by a ton. But sometimes pretty easy to call.

SPEAKER_01 7:41

There was one that they were like, weren't they like 27 years apart or something?

SPEAKER_00 7:44

I was like, dang. It's wild. Yeah. And again, not here to judge, but like go ahead and have all those hard conversations right this second. Yeah. Because like you're not gonna mess around. They don't even live in the same states. They're like, we gotta sort this all out. What are we doing? And you're like, yeah, quick, because like this one's not getting any younger, right? And like also you can't hurry up. It just was, I don't know. I don't know why I decided I would get into that one, but I watched the whole thing. Start to finish. Um, like let me come back to me when you finish, if you have any thoughts. I don't have any profound thoughts about it. It is exactly what I thought it would be.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

I'm curious to see if people last because what's so funny is like one of the dumbest ones, Love Island, which is my favorite. Like, I'm always gonna watch it. I will it's just like trash TV for me. But like Leah and Miguel from I forget what season it was, like season three or four, I don't even know. They're like still together.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Okay, so how long has that been? Like a long time, like a couple years. Yeah, I fuck it's always gonna be so maybe it's based on their sincerity, maybe it's based on actually finding somebody who is compatible with you. There's at least one or two couples, too, from uh married at first sight that have like families been together for 10, whatever, 12 years. Yeah, I think so. So it's not that it's like this is never gonna happen. Yeah, part of me is just so jaded watching all that stuff that I felt like you're trying to get another TV show out of this. Do you know what I mean? They're all like they look like they're all acting and auditioning, and then I won't tell you which one, but one of the couples goes through some ups and downs where you're like, dude, definitely don't do it. Right. And then the way their story ends, you're just kind of like, I feel like that's a hundred percent for the camera.

SPEAKER_01 9:26

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:26

You know what I mean? You're like, okay, this could have gone either way, but you feel like you did it that way for a lot of a tendra. Yeah, so I just I can't get into it. I can't feel like it's not like watching Cinderella for me. Like, oh, this is a beautiful love story, right? I don't feel like even Cinderella was a beautiful love story, but I mean, like, it doesn't feel fairy tale-ish to me anymore.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

No, not of it.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

I'm like, these people are you know, they're out for themselves, they want to be famous.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

We just finished uh DTF, which like uh disclaimer when we recommended it earlier. I did, but when I recommended with a grain of salt, maybe I like had just we had just started watching it and we were enjoying it. I mean, we finished it, and it was definitely like it was it was good, it kept our interest.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Okay, it got real weird.

SPEAKER_01 10:12

Oh, I mean, they all do eventually to the point where like some of the scenes I was looking at him and he's looking at me, and I'm like texting my uh my other friend that I knew was watching it, and I was like, what?

SPEAKER_00 10:22

What did we get into happening right now? Like it got weird. Okay, well, I didn't watch it, so nice. Disclaimer, I just probably won't disclaimer if you're still looking for Wild Coyote Ranch.

SPEAKER_01 10:33

I mean, yeah, like I don't I love Jason Bateman. We're always gonna watch anything he's in. It it just took a turn that I wasn't expecting. Yeah, so I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

There's so many shows that people keep recommending, and I'm just like, I can like look at it and go, like, I can't get into it right now. I'm like in a mood where I'm like, no, no, no. Chris tried to get me to watch, which again, I think it was just about my mood. But do you remember Jury Duty, the one where it was like like um all a setup? I think it was called Jury Duty, but there was the one guy he was the only one who didn't know it was a setup, and they even had um Are they advertising it now again? It's a second one. They made another one, it's not the same premise, it's like a totally different premise, and a new guy, and everybody's like a paid actor. I've just heard of it. Okay. Well, did you watch the first one, Joe? No, okay, because that was like legitimately funny because who is the actor? I'm trying to remember. There's like a famous actor who's a part of it the whole time. Well, the guy didn't know, but it was he knew he just thought he was also on the same jury. Like it happens even to celebrities, they get called in for jury duty. Why can I not think of who the actor was? But anyway, this one, Chris was like, I heard it was really funny. So we put it on, and I was just like, This feels so dumb to me right now. I couldn't, I just didn't think I need to be in a different mood. Sorry that I don't know any of the names of anything I'm saying. Jury duty is definitely the first one, I think.

SPEAKER_01 11:52

The first one, okay.

SPEAKER_00 11:53

What's the second one called? Uh, I don't know. I did not watch it for very long. I was like, it's fine, whatever. You can leave it on if you want to, I don't care. And he was like, Yeah, that's fine. It just wasn't as funny as I wanted it to be. Also, I think because I knew the premise is that this one guy does not know that he's being set up and everybody else is like acting and being over the top and ridiculous. I'm like, come on, he doesn't know. Do you know what I mean? Like, I'm already suspicious, because maybe because we have the other season to look back on, but I don't know. It's a cool idea for a show, it's weird. You should definitely do the first one though, yeah. Because that one I feel like was people were raving about it, and I do feel like it was funny.

SPEAKER_01 12:32

But don't you think in today's, like in today's world, I feel like say that were me, and I found myself in this situation.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

Well, then immediately off the top, they're like, and we're filming a documentary. So immediately I'm like, oh, you're filming a documentary. Because you have to have cameras everywhere. So then I immediately would be like, Am I on a show?

SPEAKER_01 12:50

Yeah, I would have a lot of questions, but I will say, people like being in a room full of people that were acting dramatically or whatever, like that would not phase me at this point. Like that's the characters you run into in daily life, I'd be like, not me.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

You must live a more exciting life than me. I don't know what I do wrong. Yeah, I just felt like I think somebody too put in my brain that yeah, the first one is called Dre Duty. I looked it up. That's like legit, funny. Definitely watch it. I don't know what the second season is called, but um somebody put into my brain, like, oh, it kind of reminded them of The Office, like the antics and stuff are like it's supposed to be a real office situation, but like it's over the top. The characters are so ridiculous, or yeah, we would never work with a guy like that. That I think in my brain, I was like, this does feel like I'm watching The Office, and it's supposed to be whatever. I have to check it out, yeah, or don't, or whatever. Yeah, but definitely check out the first one. It was funny. I didn't know you never saw that one. No, what what's it on? I don't know anymore. Sorry, look it up. Dury duty. That was the first one, and I just feel like it was yeah, they did a good job with that one.

SPEAKER_01 13:53

You know what's been bothering me lately is I um and you maybe you'll have an answer for this, and if you don't, and then somebody does write in. I really disagree and have a problem with the size of windshield wipers like on the rear cars. Okay, yeah, why are they so small?

SPEAKER_00 14:10

I have no idea. I like it. Oh I know ours is I have a van, so a big, giant back window, and all it does is like a small half circle at the top.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

And I'm like, thank you so much for clearing that. Like an excellent question. Why can't they be bigger? It's just as important to look in the your rear view as it is in the front. And a lot of times, like it won't clear it enough, and I'm like, I can't see. Like if I went through, you know, a muddy area or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

All right, somebody who actually knows tell us the reasoning, or if there isn't one, maybe work on that.

SPEAKER_01 14:40

Right? Because when I was backing out, I'm like, all right, I drive uh, I mean, I guess technically it's an SUV, but it's a smaller SUV. Yeah. So I was backing out noticing that, and I'm like, oh, maybe it's just my car. And then I'm looking at like expeditions and all this stuff, and I'm like, no, everyone's just literally tiny in comparison.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

Yeah, I was just thinking about that because mine's dirty right now. Cause sometimes I go down like a dirt road for the kids' school or whatever, and it's just that little half cylinder, like or half circle, I mean, like, and I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_01 15:12

Is it like this?

SPEAKER_00 15:13

No, I feel like it comes down from the top on mine. Oh, so it's small. Yeah, now you're really quite making me question. No, I think it comes down from the top and it just does like a little hoot. It's just like it creates a half circle of cleanness in a giant window of dirty. It's like, why? Yeah, I don't know. Can we get to work on that maybe? We should talk to some people. I don't know. I was thinking it was. I love that you brought that up. You know what else I love is that I was going to ask you what is with us jamming protein into everything. And then upstairs earlier, you were like, have you tried these protein Doritos?

SPEAKER_01 15:49

My sister-in-law just showed them to me, and I was like, I these are really good. I saw them.

SPEAKER_00 15:53

I was either walking through Costco or Sam's, and when I saw them, I was like, what are we doing, folks?

SPEAKER_01 15:58

I mean, I would like to know, like, okay, what is on the Doritos?

SPEAKER_00 16:01

Yeah, I want to read the label. What's the protein coming from?

SPEAKER_01 16:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:05

But also, I just saw Pop Tarts protein. Stop. But this is what I mean. I got it. Listen, we're all struggling out here to figure out what the right and the wrong things are and what what's the healthiest way to do things, and also you just gotta live your life. But like, I was like, protein, Pop Tarts. Like, just eat the Pop Tart and say, I'm gonna have a Pop Tart today. Like, my kids get Pop Tarts when we go on vacation or whatever. It's like a fun food, but like, what are we trying to do with the protein?

SPEAKER_01 16:32

Just call it junk food, but then protein and are we like collectively just like bodybuilders? Because I mean, you do need a level of like a certain amount of protein to just like live and sustain and like keeps your satiate what is it, satiety or satiety. Satiety, like you know, keep your keeps you satiated, yes, yes. All of that. I'm not saying don't eat any protein.

SPEAKER_00 16:55

No, right, but like to have it in everything, it's like I'm not look, I'm not like trying to get a certain, you know, this skeptical of me, especially when you're throwing it in like Doritos or and it's not again, we would have to read the label, we should just go read the label. But I feel like it's not like some new tortilla chip that's made out of like pea protein and lentils or whatever. It's like uh Dorito, and then they figured out how to get more protein in there. It makes me it's a res uh it's like you're giving me the vibes. No, it's giving me the vibes of like the low fat label where it was like just everything the same stuff, but they'd be like low fat Oreos or whatever, and you're like, I don't even aren't they any better.

SPEAKER_01 17:36

I know, which is funny because I've gone the opposite. Like I even I buy full milk, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:40

Just eat like the in its most whatever form purest form, just eat less of it. Whole fat yogurt, whatever. Yeah, yeah. I'm curious though, uh, do they taste the same?

SPEAKER_01 17:50

They don't. They're good. Okay, they are definitely good, and I like I'll totally keep them in the house only because if you have you know summer goals, whatever, things are coming up. I like a baked lay. Like sometimes I need like, yes, I am a chip monster. So when she showed me those and she's like, Yeah, they have protein, I was like, Okay, cool.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Like and you feel better eating it than a regular Dorito because you're like, also I'm adding to my protein to the day.

SPEAKER_01 18:14

So you don't feel like uh, you know, I don't know why. It's so wrong. We should not have this connotation. If I were just eating a bag of Doritos, like I feel pretty bad about myself.

SPEAKER_00 18:22

Like, what are we doing? Protein Doritos, right? For a Pop Tart. I feel like again, I fed my kids Pop-Tart. I'm not here to tell anybody not to feed their kids Pop-Tart.

SPEAKER_01 18:32

Do you remember when we got caught by our friend who was legitimately a bodybuilder and he had like uh a backpack full of like had a cheese and chicken breasts and like broccoli? We were at college.

SPEAKER_00 18:42

Let's tell a quick review.

SPEAKER_01 18:43

We were on Weight Watchers probably because we're like Pop Tart was like 10 points. And we were like, dang, a lot.

SPEAKER_00 18:49

We're at college. And we bumped into a friend who also went to the same college, and we were skipping class.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Jason, you know who you are.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

Still doing great, thriving in his life. We were skipping class and eating Pop-Tarts and watching Oprah and like the student center. Yeah. Pop-tarts, not even high protein. Pop charts was half our day of the city. This is back when Pop-Tarts were just straight garbage. It was like smorts. Still garbage. Yeah. Yeah. And he like we bumped into him and he was between classes. We were like, not skipping class. And we were eating Pop Tarts, and he had like a whole backpack because he had meal planned for his day as like a prepping for like a show or something.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

A healthy guy, and we were just like crinkling the paper.

SPEAKER_01 19:29

We're just eating Pop Tarts, not doing that in school. Drove all the way here, did not go to that class. That's the last time I might have eaten a Pop Tart.

SPEAKER_00 19:39

I mean, they're still good. I've gotten them for my kids. Like I said, they're a special thing. We don't like, yeah, it's not a daily thing. No judgment. It's just I'm not allowed my kids eat daily pop parts. But I just feel like when I saw the protein thing, I was like, oh, okay, because as a mom, I'm like, oh, I'll feel better feeding my kids Pop Tarts because they have protein. But if you flip it around, it's like five grams of protein, and they used to have three or something. You know, even like it's not even no, it just feels like such a marketing gimmick right now that I am averse to it.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

These are like 10 grams of protein, 150 calories, and I think you can have around like 10. Wait, how much protein? 10. Oh, it's respectable. Yeah, so I mean it's a nice amount of protein to feel like if you're, you know, you just you're snacking anyway. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:23

It's not like I will sub out these 10, these Doritos for Greek yogurt today or whatever. Like, right. It's not part of your goal of hitting like whatever. Like I said, you're not like, um, forget the chicken breast.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 20:35

I think I'm gonna hit these Doritos.

SPEAKER_01 20:37

No, like I said, when she showed them to me, I was like, oh, I mean, like, yeah, that's pretty that's worth it. Sounds great. Yeah, I'm doing it. Oh, Doritos are like, that's like see, I don't love Doritos.

SPEAKER_00 20:45

I could pass on a Dorito any day of the week, any day of the week. Red, Namako.

SPEAKER_01 20:49

Cool ranch, all of them? Don't care. Thai chili?

SPEAKER_00 20:51

Don't care. Don't care about any of them. If I was in a pick a flavor, it'd probably be cool ranch. But I could pass on those.

SPEAKER_01 20:57

What's your chip of choice?

SPEAKER_00 20:57

Like a kettle chip or like a salt and vinegar, like a potato chip, like a crunchy potato chip. I don't really care about like tortilla chips unless I'm at a Mexican restaurant. I don't know my favorite channel. Wait, say it again. I want to guess.

SPEAKER_01 21:12

Favorite chip of all time. Favorite chip of all time.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

I don't know. I was I thought I I felt like I was more confident coming in. I actually have no idea.

SPEAKER_01 21:20

You you got really excited for a second. I was like, wait, wait, wait. I was also excited.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

I was like, I don't even know where to start. I don't even have a I don't even have a genre of chip. It's potato based.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

It's a specific brand. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

No, I don't know it. Pringles? No. No, I don't know. No, I felt like when I said Pringles, I knew it was wrong. No.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

No, but I just tell me yours. I ate these all growing up. And if they were here, it's like a chip that, like, if they were here, I can't not have some. Okay. Ruffles, the sour cream, and cheddar. I do feel like those are up there.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Those are my favorite. I don't love ruffles. Isn't it weird how like I don't know, I don't like the ruffle. Like I love that flavor, but I don't care about.

SPEAKER_01 22:00

I love a f I love a chili cheese Frito. Or those like the spiral, like, oh, those could take me down.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Chili cheese Fritos. I feel like as soon as you open the bag and you smell that, like, whatever that is, like cumin taco seasoning. It's making my mouth. Then it's all over your hand. Oh, it's making your mouth water. It's making me look. I don't want to smell like that all of the time. No, those are none of those are my thing at all. I could definitely I like a salt and vinegar kind of kettle chip.

SPEAKER_01 22:27

That's a really serious choice.

SPEAKER_00 22:29

Well, I feel like I like a salty, crunchy potato chip. Yeah. That would probably be my go-to. Or do you remember monchos when we were kids? Love monchos. Yeah, those were weird. Like, what was that texture? It's like they blew air into them or something. I don't know. But that I could do like munchos. Bugles.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

I don't like bugles. You are crushing all my dreams.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

I don't love bugles. A Cheetos? Chris always laughs about when I had Alessia, I craved crunchy Cheetos. And he was like, she's gonna be orange. And I was like, the puffs better. I gotta give the baby what it wants. Oh, see, do not like the puffs. Like the crunchy. That's Ava. Gosh, how are we even friends all these years later? And I like the white cheddar puffs. I like white cheddar over orange cheddar almost always. In fact, I think white cheddar cheez-its are superior, and my kids fight me on it, so I just buy the orange ones and then I won't eat them. I oh you love white cheddar cheesets, though. No, I like the regular, but like I can pass on them easier than if they were white cheddar. White cheddar's superior.

SPEAKER_01 23:24

Hungry for a snack.

unknown 23:25

I know.

SPEAKER_00 23:26

Let's go get those protein Doritos. It's basically barbecue ones.

SPEAKER_01 23:30

I don't like barbecue chips. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 23:32

I'm so sorry to disappoint you. I'm sorry. I don't love barbecue things. I don't love any kind of like tortilla chips. I do like them. I don't love them. They're not like something that would tempt me.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Me neither. Sometimes, like at late at night, if we're like watching TV in bed and we're like, all right, let's have a little snickety snack. And we're bit like we will eat in bed. Yeah. And so like I will send, you know, hunter, gatherer, like send him out to the pantry. Retrieve the snacks. He'll come back with tortilla chips. I'm like, are you a psycho?

SPEAKER_00 24:01

Wait, just plain one? Plain tortilla chips. Oh no, guac, no salsa, no, no. It's plain tortilla chips.

SPEAKER_01 24:06

That's what I mean.

SPEAKER_00 24:07

Like people, they're fine if you're in a pinch, but like they're really a vehicle for other things.

SPEAKER_01 24:12

That's how I feel. I feel that way about pretzels too. I know most people don't, but yeah, that's a weird take on pretzels. A pretzel is a vehicle.

SPEAKER_00 24:18

But also pretzels I could pass on any day of the week. I don't care about pretzels. Like I can have a bag of pretzels in my pantry, I'll never touch it. Don't care. Unless they're honey wheat pretzels, then I like them.

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Oh, if they're honey mustard pretzels, I'll eat them.

SPEAKER_00 24:31

I don't want them mustard.

SPEAKER_01 24:33

Why do we disagree on all this? I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 24:34

It's a miracle that we've vibed this long. We have some really weird food joy. No, it's joking. I hate bubbles. I don't like bugles at all. I don't know what it is. I don't know what I don't know about the texture. I like only, let's see, I know we're gonna immediately disagree. Only like like the standard um cheese and cheesecracker ones. Don't want a pretzel, don't want p pizza to me. Pizza, anything. Gross. Because it tastes like oregano. Tastes like Italian seasoning.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

Bertolo kids are so like we die, we ride or die for combos that we per somebody purchases them for every family vacation. Oh, I love that. Combos are there. And what flavor combos does everybody go to?

SPEAKER_00 25:13

Uh, I believe we buy the classic and the pretzel. Okay, I'm good with that. I could attend this and be very happy. If you only got the pretzel, I'd be like, we gotta talk, folks. I mean I only like the regular. I guess you could come. Forget some of that existed. I don't know if my children have ever eaten a combo. They have to. It's like a regular. I'm saying, like it's one of those things like Fig Newtons. Like you forget they exist and they're probably out on the shelves somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 25:36

Uh Sam's Club has like the giant fans of combos.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

Oh, better that I don't know that. Yeah. I don't know why we're on such a food thing right now, but have you tried any of those drizzelicious? Yes, I have here. Did you get the strawberry ones from Sam's Club? No, but see, now that's not my vibe. Oh gosh, I can't stop eating those. Don't. Okay. I like s'mores. Oh, I've never had the s'mores. I probably would love those. I got the pumpkin ones at Pumpkin. October. They had pumpkin. I could never eat a pumpkin. Pumpkin spice. I didn't love them. But my kids were eating them, and I was like, fine. There's those like little mini rice cakes with like a drizzle of whatever. And they think they're supposed to be like borderline healthy, but really they're not if you look at them. But maybe better than a Dorito.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

I'm not really big. If I'm gonna eat sweet, like it's gotta, it's gotta be like a cookie. Yeah. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 26:22

It I do like rice cakes a lot, even if they're not super flavored. I just like that texture, that like popcorn y texture. Yeah. So I do love those drizzelicious things, but the strawberry ones. I love.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

I love speaking of food. Um, and I'm guessing we could probably wrap it up here soon as we're just like I have one more food-related question, but go ahead. Um, I am obsessed with, and I got it off of an influencer that I really love. And if you don't already follow her, Francesca's Nest on Instagram. I get a lot of like really good like food recommendations, and she's fabulous. Yeah, you told me about her. Yeah, very inspiring. And she has this like thing that she made, and I actually I wrote her and said, like, this is amazing. I'm eating it like every day. Okay, and it is protein-based, but um, it's so filling and so good. It's cut you take Kashi um protein cereal, I like the peanut butter one, and it's very like granola adjacent, like it feels like you're eating a bowl of granola, not horrible on calories. I think you can have like a nice bowl for like 200 calories. Okay, and um she which never thought to do this, she takes her milk, and I'm so dumb. When I first read her recipe, it said like blended milk, and I like Googled blended milk. I was like, what is blended milk? And then I'm like, wait, maybe I'm like thinking of it. What did you get for answers? Weird things, not what I was looking for. Right. She put um like a half scoop or scoop of protein powder in the milk and blended it in. It's like frothy. Oh, okay, and sliced up a banana, so it was the protein cereal, the milk of choice, which I do almond milk. Cannot milk. My favorite brand is Malk, M-A-L-K.

SPEAKER_00 28:02

Okay, not very nice, right?

SPEAKER_01 28:04

It's really good. Very like no gums or anything.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

I can't. Like, I'm sorry, I notice on the shelves you have no mulk. I'm sorry, ma'am. Did you mean milk? No. I'm saying it exactly right. Listen right. Listen again. It's mulk. Why would you name that that?

SPEAKER_01 28:20

I could go get it. It's M-A-L-K. It's so good. There's like four ingredients. It's like Himalayan salt, almonds, water. There's like none of the gums or anything that they put in almond milk. Um some delicious malks. I'm sorry, it's the worst name. It's the worst name of a food ever. Sorry. You blend your story. You blend the protein powder in the milk and slice a banana, throw it in the bowl, put that over it. So it's very high protein between the cereal, the hearty bowl of cereal. Protein powder. But never would have thought to do any of this. Um, look her up because she's got like really, really good.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

Yeah, I've seen people do like a protein shake instead of milk and stuff. And I'm like, okay, see, would have never thought of that. But like I do love a great bowl of cereal. Yeah. I was just making Chrissy Catalina crunch if you tried that one. It's like high protein, whatever. But like it's like cinnamon toast crunch or whatever. And you're like, that's like dog food version of cinnamon toast crunch. I was like, nah, on that. Tell me what you think. He's like, I could eat it. And I was like, if you die yourself, it'd be great with mulk. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I mean, I know you can't purchase a campaign to change the name of mulk. It's so good. No, I just have one more food-related thing that we can move on. Did you see this poor girl who died from drinking Alani? I did. Drinks. It's very alarming. It is very alarming. My kids are so mean to me. And they're like, oh, if our friends drink that, they bring everything for lunch. And I won't let them drink any of this. Like, it just scares me the protein, not the protein. Um my brain is like protein and everything. The caffeine and stuff. Like, I just feel like let's not mess around with it. And then to hear that, I was like, I felt a little bit like I don't know how many she was drinking. It seems very extreme. I think they said like six a day or something. What it is, well, but that happened with those like um Panera lemonades, too. Remember, they had the like supercharged lemonade, and people were like hammering them, and you're like, this is like gonna stab your heart. It's got caffeine in it.

SPEAKER_01 30:21

No, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 30:21

It felt very justified in my you're not allowed to drink any of those protein drugs. Oh, I stand by ever.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

Eva's 17 years old.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

Red bowls, there's like still rules around them.

SPEAKER_01 30:30

Okay. Like she could have them.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

I'll send my kids to talk to Ava about it because they're like, You're the worst. Everybody drinks them all day, every day at school. And I was like, Not my circus, not my monkeys. I mean, she might or one at lunchtime.

SPEAKER_01 30:42

You don't know what the kids do on the rest of their day, but like if she shows up to church with an Alani, just know that it is like special occasion. She is allowed to have them on occasion. We do all that. Easter bunny brought her a couple in her basket because the kids don't want candy as much. Yeah, it's a treat for her. Or every once in a while the warehouses will have the half cans. Oh, okay. So it's not the 200.

SPEAKER_00 31:03

I've never even because I don't drink them either. I drink work from it. I drink so much coffee that I'm like, I cannot be injecting more sources of caffeine into my life. So I've never even looked at like what is the caffeine relative to like a cup of coffee or anything, but like it's just a double. Terrifying.

SPEAKER_01 31:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:19

To like lose your child for something that is so it's horrible, preventable. And not now, I'm not saying guilt like for the parents or the family or her. I'm saying like she clearly had no idea how dangerous that was. Oh, I sent that immediately. And it's heartbreaking.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

She's like, Yeah, I know, you won't let me. And I'm like, right. I'm not gonna have them. This is why. Like, I know you have to use caution.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

It's not just like a cool that's what bothers me though, is I do feel like they're heavily marketed to like teens and kids and stuff, like the Red Bull and the I don't know, there was another one that my kids were always talking about. And I'm like, I think that's an energy drink. I think you think it's Gatorade. It's not like it has stuff in it that's like caffeine or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 31:56

All of it. I remember it freaks me out. Gatorade, that was such a grow uh working in an orthodontist office for as long as I did. Like I I would go in and do like the speech to the new patient about like, and I remember he would always tell us to say Gatorade has like 16 um teaspoons of sugar.

SPEAKER_00 32:11

And I would think, you know. My kids are also the same about Gatorade. They're like, you never let us get Gatorade. I'm like, it's garbage. It is drink water with someone the meanest mom that ever exists. A little lemon. It's electrolytes. I buy them those liquid IV or whatever. I'm like, this is more natural. I feel you. You are out running around on a field in the hot temperatures. Like, for sure, your body could use a little something something, but it's gonna be Gatorade. But I'm the meanest. I'm the worst, and nobody else's mom. I am the uh uh restrict Gatorade.

SPEAKER_01 32:40

My favorite are the LMNTs, and they might make a canned drink though. I just buy the is it tea? No, the brand is LMNT. Oh, electrolyte. Um, the raspberry salt and watermelon salt are like my favorite, they're very enjoyable. Yeah, I don't mind.

SPEAKER_00 32:55

I'll get them that stuff, but like I'm like, no. No, for the young kids, I mean adults I'm like, first of all, it's electric blue, right? Something's going wrong right off the top. Also, tons of sugar.

SPEAKER_01 33:05

I wish or a fake. I wish they worked for me. I could drink an espresso and go to sleep.

SPEAKER_00 33:09

Oh, like a caffeine drink? Nothing else. I can honestly say, and this sounds absolutely ridiculous. I don't think I've ever had a caffeine drink in my entire life. Yeah. Like, not a Red Bull, not a monster, or any whatever else they sell. I just think I'm scared of them, and I've always had coffee. So I never felt like, oh, I'll try this instead. I feel like Chris said he drank some sometimes, and I was like, dude, no. When he was younger, or he had to drive late at night or something, and he's the same as you. He could drink two double espresso and snore on the couch before we even make it to bed.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

That's why I have never messed around with energy drinks. I mean, I've tried them. Yeah. I will say what does work. So Alani, the energy drink for me specifically doesn't work. Again, could drink it, go to sleep. The Alani pre-workout.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:55

I've never done cocaine.

SPEAKER_00 33:58

Wow. This is a strong endorsement in my mind.

SPEAKER_01 34:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 34:03

This would be like cocaine. That scares me a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 34:06

Tasted amazing. The flavor was like Skittles. And I was like, let me just try this. And I asked Randall like, what can I expect? He's like, well, sometimes like the top of your head will tingle, like you'll get a little like tingly.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

You're scaring me. There is cocaine in that.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

Did a full scoop in my water because I thought, like, I'm gonna like I'll go for a walk around the neighborhood. And like even that I needed like energy for. I was like, maybe this will work. Right. I drank it and like did a few things around the house to like let it kick in. All of a sudden I was like, I gotta go! My whole body was tingling.

SPEAKER_00 34:37

I felt like what is in there? What's doing that?

SPEAKER_01 34:40

I don't know. Cocaine.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

Yeah, I mean, I could probably use some, but try that. I'd I'd throw it away. I feel like I would end up with like heart palpitations or something. I was like, this it has to be illegal.

SPEAKER_01 34:51

Literally, I went from like, I gotta go on my walk. I really need some energy. And then I was like, that's why they're so addictive. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

Oh my gosh. I wonder if it is like addictive. Even if the substance is not that feeling, like I can accomplish anything. Like, right? That's probably addictive. But I didn't feel like I could accomplish anything. I felt like I had to like burn it off.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

I was like, get this out of my body.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

Shittery. Yeah, I don't love my body.

SPEAKER_01 35:12

My whole body was tingling.

SPEAKER_00 35:13

Oh no, no, no, no, no. No. Pass. Hard pass. All right. Well, I mean, I have one more quick question. I'm sorry to bring it up. Did you see the story about Lululemon and their toxic forever chemicals? I'm like Cyril Debbie Downer today. I'm like, people are dying drinking energy drinks. Also, there's toxic forever. No, there's like they're being like uh what is it called? The attorney general or something of Texas is like going after them. I mean, listen, we can't avoid all the things. And honestly, I don't even know. It might maybe it's not like a legit concern, but they're like going after them for some reason because they said that they phased out certain chemicals or certain toxic fiber. I don't even know what it is. They're called forever chemicals or whatever. Yeah. And they're like, no, you didn't. They're still in there. And I don't know what to tell you. I'm here to give you absolutely no information except for what the what. There's so many things from everything you put in your body on your body. Not I'm not even talking about clothes. I'm talking about like topical things, shampoo, all the things you ingest into your body. Everything is always full of garbage. And then also your clothes are poisoning you. And I'm just like, what now?

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Not surprised. Uh-huh. And the reason why I have a very specific example, actually. When I just went for my MRI, I um I have a couple like bracelets that just they always stay on. They're permanent. They don't they don't come off. And I said, um, you know, what do I do for the MRI? Yeah. When I called before, they said, well, you could wrap them with tape and blah blah blah, like that should be fine. So we that scares me too. I know. So I got there and the lady was wonderful, and she said, like, well, let's come and um let's come and test it next to the machine. Oh and if the machine like if it scares me too. If it like takes you in, like we have to cut it off. We have to like you won't be able to go in there if it like magnetizes. So it's fine. But before I went in there, she was like, also I'm gonna need you to take your pants off. And I was like, this is it was you know of my like awkward half. And I was like, I thought I could keep my pants on. She's like, What brand are they? And I was like, Really? I don't remember. I'm like, I think they're they're either CRZ yogurt or Lululemon. She's like, if they're Lululemon, you have to take them off because there is actually like metallic, like there's metal in the pants. And I was like, There's metal in the pants.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

Who was the first person to find that out, too? I don't know. Some poor girl sucked into the MRI machine. They were CRZ. I didn't have to take them off.

SPEAKER_01 37:46

I was like, I'm glad I I mean But what? But when they told me that, I was like, who's putting it?

SPEAKER_00 37:51

I can get over how brave you are. When I had to go for an MRI, like one in my whole life. Not only did I ask for all the sedation they would give me, I just said I was uh claustrophobic, even though I'm not that much, I'm just anxious. Yeah. And I was like constantly like feeling my body. They were like, Do you have any metal? And I was like, I don't think so. Like, can I run over them? I was like, I'm not taking these off. Oh my gosh. And that was like a news story not that long ago of the guy who got sucked into one. God bless you for your confidence. I didn't really know. You were just gonna tape up that bracelet and go on a magnetic machine.

SPEAKER_01 38:24

Yeah, I wasn't gonna take it off.

SPEAKER_00 38:25

Gosh, no, a guy was just like sucked in from his like a chain. Jeez, you gotta read the news more. People are out here dying. Listen, they're getting you with the drinks and the pants, and your jewelry could kill you. Alright, so it's been great. Well, I uh gotta go. I'm gonna leave you on that heavy, heavy note. Can we go? Everyone's attacking you. Your jewelry. Awesome. Your pants, your pants are poison. Sounds good. But they're putting protein in Doritos, so that's the upside.

SPEAKER_01 38:53

Upside, yeah. Protein Doritos.

SPEAKER_00 38:54

I mean, everything's healthy now. Yeah. Doritos are part of your protein goals.

SPEAKER_01 38:59

Well, thank you for this very light discussion.

SPEAKER_00 39:02

Sorry it got so dark. Thank you for joining us this week, and I just needed to talk them through somebody. It's all right, I get it. All right.

SPEAKER_01 39:09

Well, thanks for stopping by.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

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