Dolphin Cities, Moon Landing Debates, & a $1,200 Starbucks Crisis

 What do dolphins, NASA, and fraudulent Starbucks charges have in common? Absolutely nothing—and that’s exactly why this episode works. The girls spiral from wild dolphin conspiracy theories into heated debates about the moon landing, school half days, and the modern banking nightmare. It’s unfiltered, unpredictable, and unintentionally hilarious… just the way we like it. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:03

Hey, hey, hey, gorgeous people. Welcome to the Hair at First Podcast where Great Hair meets real life. We're your hosts, Tessa, Monica. Give a show. Freestylists, moms, besties. We're keeping it real about beauty, business, and the chaos of motherhood.

SPEAKER_00 0:19

We're here to share stories, laugh way too loud, and maybe spoke a little shampoo along the way. Just a quick heads up. We're not making any medical claims or giving professional advice here, just sharing our own thoughts, opinions, and experiences.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

So grab your coffee, your favorite blanket, and let's hear it first.

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Hey, good morning, everyone. Hello, Monica and Michelle. Good morning. Well, all you listeners out there, if you are returning and have been following us thus far, uh, thank you for coming back to us. If you are new here, put on your big girl pants because it's a ride every episode. And we promise it will be a ride every episode because you have no clue what the heck's coming out of our mouths. But today we have some pretty interesting topics, I feel like. Um I know I've got one I've got to throw at these girls today. And if you are listening and you've heard about this stuff, send in some comments because I'm just mind-blown. I'm gonna go down the biggest, longest rabbit hole ever.

SPEAKER_01 1:27

So I'm always scared. I'm always scared. Always ever know. I understand.

SPEAKER_04 1:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

This morning we had a fog delay. So my kids were two hours late going to school. So my son normally starts school at nine. So he didn't get to school till 11 o'clock this morning. I get a text message, me and Michelle get a text message on the way back, and she's like, Have you heard about these dolphin conspiracies? And I'm like, Jesus, you know, every day I don't think that there's anything Tessa could say that would make me be like, Yep. And she every time, I'm always like, and there she is. There she is. So Michelle and I know nothing more than there's some dolphin conspiracy. And I was like, this is this is how she's gonna know. I can't wait to hear what's spiracy.

SPEAKER_03 2:22

Yeah, there's actually a a lot of dolphin conspiracies that I had no idea was even going on up there. First, I have a question.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

It's so how did you even find that there were dolphin conspiracies?

SPEAKER_03 2:36

I'm so glad you asked me this question. Because honestly, it is not. I'm gonna dedicate this episode to my cousin, yeah, to my cousin Brecklin. Because I don't know how we went from talking about rivers to dolphins, but we did this morning. And she's like, Oh my god, have you heard the story about the dolphin, about the guy that got kidnapped and held underneath the water for three days by a dolphin? And I was like, And survived? What? Okay, well, listen.

SPEAKER_00 3:07

This is hard for me. There's a lot of questions. I'm trying to do that.

SPEAKER_03 3:09

This guy in Florida, I'm gonna send you guys, I'll have to send you guys the article too. So this guy in Florida, um they found him on the beach just completely disheveled, you know, all these things. Um and he and this guy said he was kidnapped by dolphins and forced to build them an underwaterwater city. And so basically, this guy, he was sunburnt, really, really bad. Um, he was found on a beach in Lee County, Florida after being held underwater for three. You are so lucky you escaped. Oh my gosh. I could have been the dolphin city builder. I know, I'm sad for you. I am sad that you didn't experience this. But this guy was saying that this dolphin held him underwater for three days, and you guys, the dolphin's name is Gerald.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

Okay, I have some questions. If he was underwater, why was he sunburned? Okay, um, how did he survive underwater for three days? And has anybody at any point in time like checked him into a facility to check his mental status?

SPEAKER_03 4:35

Well, I'm looking into that because you are the man allegedly drew blueprints of the underwater, um, of the underwater city and in the sand, and he communicated with the dolphins through a series of clicks that he claimed to have learned to interpret. Descriptions of the underwater condos, a town square, and a recreation center sketched out in the beach. They said that it was so intricate, and so they've never seen anything like it. So I have something real quick, okay?

SPEAKER_00 5:17

First of all, I mean, you guys are gonna think I'm crazy, but there's so many things in this world that we don't know and beyond us, right? Like, how do we know that's not true? I mean, there's so many stories of hidden cities. Do you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_03 5:37

Yes, well, that leads into the next dolphin thing. It it does what you're saying right now, there's so much out there that we missed you guys because everything is hidden in plain sight, like what?

SPEAKER_00 5:48

All these like Epstein and all that bullshit, they just throw it in your face, and we all think, no, no, that couldn't be happening. Like, that's too bad. All the shit in Disney movies and all that stuff. Like, yes, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 6:01

Well, they're debunking the story, of course. Um, it was this kind of story that was almost too wild not to share. But there are people out there that believe the story, and there are people out there that are like, now this is a bunch of shit. Because I guess there was a story a long time ago that talked about the same thing. But then in the rabbit hole of dolphining today, I have a friend, they went to swim with the dolphins or whatever, and the girl, her daughter, was pregnant. Well, they wouldn't let her swim with the dolphins, but this mama dolphin followed her everywhere, you know, like she was on the outside of the thing. Anyway, it is a thing that dolphins know when you are pregnant. So they really believe, and this very well could be true, that dolphins can communicate with the babies in utero through sodar, and these babies turn out to be geniuses. But you go back and thousands of years, and I'll send you this article, where that is a way that baby like babies and people and mothers would can learn to communicate, like they would swim with the dolphins, the dolphins would do all these things with these pregnant mamas, and then these kids. I don't know, there's a whole communication there with dolphins, and we're like integrated with dolphins and dolphin language. So they do say that dolphins are one of the smartest yes, like just animals, yep, yeah. I mean, just freaking wild, and so I'm gonna have to send you guys all of this because like there's just so much about it in our dolphin uh fiscal dators.

SPEAKER_01 7:54

So, speaking of conspiracy theories, now the new thing is that we didn't actually go to the moon.

SPEAKER_00 8:02

That's not new, and I percent believe that we did go to the moon. Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_03 8:09

Okay, I'm glad we got into this conversation because that's been around for years, but it is back, it's back bigger. I don't think we got anything. I don't think we did either.

SPEAKER_01 8:22

Okay, hold on a second. We have to pause because I'm getting irritated. Okay, so I told my kids were supposed to have a half day of school today. This is what happens when your messages, you have a MacBook and your messages you can see them. I forgot to put my thing on, do not disturb. Um, my kids were supposed to have a half day of school today. For what reason? I don't know. I mean that's the end of the spring. Why not take more time off? They they were all fun Monday. Let's find by all means, let's have a half day on Friday. Okay? No. I go until July. We're going till June 17th. Right. Um, so they had a fog delay this morning. So now they, you know, it's a full day of school because they had a half day. Why did I just get an alert that says, mind you, today is April 10th. I know this is gonna come out later, but today is April 10th. This is a message from Caroline County Public Schools. Monday, April 13th is now a newly scheduled half day for students.

SPEAKER_04 9:33

No way!

SPEAKER_03 9:37

Why do they think they can do that so less? People have to come up with sitters, people have to work. Why do they think they can do that so less?

SPEAKER_01 9:46

My middle school and high schooler, do you know what time they get out of school on a half day? 1145. Um preschooler gets out of school at one. I cannot. Why on God's green given earth do we now, with two days notice, now have a half day on Monday?

SPEAKER_03 10:15

Yeah, that's a bunch of bullshit. For sure. Like they can't just do that to people. Well, I guess they can't.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

They can, but and I've always wondered, like, why just get like why half days are so pointless. Yes, because half days half day counts as a full day. As long as they serve them lunch, it counts as a full day of school.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

See, we have to go till we have to go till 1 or 1.30. I can't remember, for it to be counted. That's the our half day here.

SPEAKER_01 10:47

Listen, I understand. I would never be a teacher because quite frankly, I would be fired within 4.4 seconds because I'd be whacking some kid upside the head because they just but I also know that in our county, everything is done on computers. Everything. Their math homework is done on computers, like very little is done on pen and paper. It does not take you that long to grade stuff. It doesn't. I don't think computer does it for you. It's pretty much done, and all you have to do is input those grades. Our teachers didn't might have needed a half day of school to go through the stacks of papers that they needed to go through. But let's be real. My 10th graders' English work is all done on a computer. Yeah, maybe they need a mental health day.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

That's I need a mental health day.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

Mondays are my mental health day. I need to not get teachers. Sorry, I got the I love that. I love our teachers. I love our teachers. And if they need that day, I you know it is what it is. But like you more notice. Yeah, two days is not enough notice. Like that, like that's ridiculous. And quite frank, though, like I said, Mondays are my days. And now I can't go to lunch with my friend. I can't go to lunch with my friend because now I gotta pick up my children from school. Ridiculous.

SPEAKER_03 12:27

I have to say, my nephew, he is a teacher and the baseball coach here at our school, and he's a history teacher. Up to we gotta get him on here. You talk about conspiracies, he'll unravel every single one you've ever. He's the most you seriously, and he's hilarious. We gotta get him on here. But he is an old school teacher. He's he is 37 years old, but old school teacher, he doesn't do all that crap on the computer. He still teaches and he doesn't put up with no shit from the students either. He's like, You're gonna, if you are not gonna finish this, no, I you're I you're not getting your grade. Like, whatever. But he's such I'm so proud of him for still being a teacher, right? Yeah, and not just relying on all that. And I am, but yeah, we gotta get him on here.

SPEAKER_01 13:13

It it's so hard to be a teacher these days. Like, I I remember, and we've talked about this before, like getting in trouble at school, you were in so much more trouble at home. And like, I'm telling like these kids, Kenley came home from school. Yeah, Kenley came home from school yesterday and was like, two girls in my class got in a fight. There was blood everywhere. And I'm like, what? She was like, Yeah, one girl was pulling the other girl's extensions out, like there was blood all over the place. And I'm like, Where were the teachers? And she was like, they sit there and tell them to stop, but they can't jump in and break it up because those students could say that they that their teachers put a hand on them and then the teachers could be in trouble. So, like they have to try, like, they have to make sure that if they get involved, they can completely diffuse the situation without like touching. And I'm like, you know what? I remember there being fights, and like the teachers would body slam oh my god, yeah, the students and be like, get your stuff together. Yeah, like they would put them in trash cans by the streets.

SPEAKER_03 14:29

And mine put them in the trash can.

SPEAKER_01 14:31

Yeah, hell yeah. Like they were to your teachers, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

You didn't want to get in trouble, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:35

But I also feel like, you know, there's such a lack of respect. We've talked about this before, too. Yeah, the amount of lack of respect of people of authority. Like, that to me is insane. Yeah, I have, you know, like there's a sense that you have to like have, and people don't have it. This generation of parents, and I hate to say it because it's my generation of parents. Like, I saw a thing on TikTok, and it was like, I feel like people born between the year 1980 and the year 1989 should just have our own category. Like, exactly. I don't want it, I'm not a millennial, like these soft gentle parents, like that. Ain't me. Yeah, I'm not a millennial. Um, like you're on the cusp. I'm like, and that's the crap of like I'm I'm I blean more gen X, but I'm a millennial. Like, it's horrible. That's why millennials suck.

SPEAKER_03 15:41

Yeah, that is why we love you. That's why, yeah, you're you're an old soul with us. That's okay.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

Believe me, this morning when I rolled over in bed, I felt like the oldest soul ever. I was like, oh heat, I need a heating pad.

SPEAKER_03 15:56

It gets harder and harder, especially when you're a damn stylist. But I do want, I listen, Monica, Michelle and I said our piece about this. Did we go to the moon?

SPEAKER_01 16:09

What are your thoughts? I do not think that we in the 1970s? Yeah, no, absolutely not. Because I like think about it. Like, let's think about this logically. They sent a picture the next day in 1970, and you're telling me that in 2026 we have a delay where we can't get those images back. Like, come the hell on. Exactly. And people are sheep. I'm sorry. Here is my other 100%. Here's my other thing. Gas, gas here. I don't know how much gas costs were you guys.

SPEAKER_00 16:42

I was gonna bring that up, but I just filled up my car. What is it there?

SPEAKER_01 16:46

Um our gas price for regular unleaded is $4.17, and our diesel price is sit over six dollars a gallon. And you're telling me we're spending billions of dollars to go to the moon?

unknown 17:01

Right.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

Thank you. I hate NASA. There I sell it. So I like NASA, and I only like NASA so much because one of my girlfriends that makes my colour, she um she works for NASA. So I do like NASA, and I think the idea of all this stuff is amazing because I love science, I love the planets, like I love looking up at the stars and wondering like aliens what those things are, but like the point of the fact that we are broke, yeah. Um why do yeah, and there's gonna we're we're supposed to go back up. Like, people are supposed to be going to the moon. Artemis three, four, and five are already planned by 2028.

SPEAKER_03 17:49

Listen, I have to say this, okay, before I get shot and murdered for saying I hate NASA. I don't, I I respect what they're doing, but right along with what you just said, Monica, why in the fucking fuck are we spending all this fucking money to go to other planets when we can't even control our own fucking plan? And yeah, I said a lot of fucks in there, and I am not sorry. That's bullshit. We're gonna go back. What the fuck do we need to go back for? What we need some help here on Earth.

SPEAKER_00 18:26

It doesn't affect our daily life. Like quit spending our money. Because it is our money, it's the taxpayers' money, yeah, and then it bothers me.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

Overseas investors and stuff like that. But yeah, here we are, six dollars a gallon for diesel fuel. It cost me $126 to fill up my suburban, but I've realized I can't complain about gas because I have a truck driver husband, and I'm like, I spent $126 on gas. And he was like, Cool, I spent $1,400 to fill my truck up. And I'm like, Oh my god. I'm like, oh, all right, you win. You win.

SPEAKER_00 19:09

I'll take that's fine, and he's like, and I didn't fill up the reefer, and I'm like, okay, I will I just got a new car, so I had a Ford Explorer, and now I have a High Dye um Palace, and it's beautiful. Thank you. I love it, but I they're like the same class, right? However, it costs me $30 more dollars to fill up the sink. It's a big does it have like a larger tank? It does now. Don't ask me how many gallons per mile or miles per gallon. I don't freaking know that stuff. I never have the only reason I know how much gas was is because it kept going up. It was like $71 for me to fill up my car today. And I was like, what in the hell? So it was four dollars and nine cents. That's exactly how I feel.

SPEAKER_03 19:59

Is this a hat four dollars and nine cents? Ours is still under four dollars. I so I guess I can't mine. I think ours was $3.20 when I looked. What? Jealous. But diesel's higher than health. But that's that's a huge jump here, you know. I think it's so different everywhere, anyways. So it was a huge jump, but here.

SPEAKER_01 20:23

Well, but our gas prices always go up in the summer because people go out the summer. They always skyrocket. But that's they're gonna rape everybody on that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:34

When people are traveling.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

Well, because the reality of it is, like, I honestly, until like everything happened with the war, I didn't even look at gas prices because I think to myself, it doesn't matter. I still have to get gas. Like, it would matter if it was $12 a gallon. I still have to get gas, I still have to go places. Um, but Craig obviously is way more in tune with what gas prices are. And I he was like, Did you look at gas prices? And I was like, what doesn't it matter? Like, you we can sit here and complain about it all we want. It's not gonna stop us from filling up our gas tank. Like, it's just how it is. So, yeah, but speaking about money, so I've had a week. Um, I logged on to my bank account and realized that I had 30 fraudulent charges. 30 30 charges of $40 a piece to like Starbucks in one in two days. No, yeah, in two days. There was uh they were split up, like having that much coffee. Oh, okay. So this is my cake pops. What the what the fuck ended up being give me all your cake pops $1,200 to Starbucks. So I'm thinking to myself, like, I went to Go and um order stuff online and my I got alerted as fraud. They were like, you have to approve this. I'm like, cool. So I call the bank and I'm like, listen, I like looked at my Starbucks app. I was like, shit, do I have twelve hundred dollars of Starbucks money on my car? Like, that's not okay. So I'm like, no, I don't. So call the bank and I'm like, can you explain to me how my one charge for 30, 30, I think it was like 35 or 36, you alerted as fraud, but 30 charges to Square Bucks didn't alert you. So he was like, he was like, I I understand. And I was like, I don't think you do. And so it was broken. What is wrong here? So and I get everything straight. They the my bank is and I really don't like the bank, but I love the people that work at the bank. They're the same people that have worked there when it was our small hemtown bank. So they got everything straight for me, closed out my you know, cards and everything. So I opened my mail yesterday. Now, this was on my business account for the salon, and my salon is called it was called Blown-Away Hair Studio. So I get this, and it's from Apple Pay, telling me that they're thank thanking me for uh adding that to my Apple Pay. I don't I don't have it on my Apple Pay, and um it's it's made out to blown a hair. So I sent Craig a picture of this this morning and was like, hey, I I figured out what happened. Somebody put it on here. So to top it all off, so I have all this going on with the bank. I have no debit card. I could use like our I have other accounts, but those are like specific accounts for other things, so like I just don't like to do that. Yeah, so I typically put everything on my credit card so I can get the points, and then I just pay my credit card. I get a call from the credit card company. They're like, hey, uh Miss McCafferty, did you make a $7 purchase to Etsy and a 38 cent purchase to this other thing? And I was like, no. They were like, we didn't think so. It doesn't look like your normal pattern of spending. So we're gonna go ahead and close out your credit card and we're gonna send you a new one. I called Craig and I was like, I have never in my entire life felt more broke than I feel right now. And he was like, What do you mean? And I was like, I literally have one credit card left. Like, I know if they steal this credit card, I got no money. I'm gonna be poor. And I don't, I can't go to Starbucks. And he was like, he goes, babe, I would I wouldn't let you go without. Like, I'm gonna give you one of my cards. And he was like, But the fact that you're concerned is the fact you won't be able to go get coffee or spend money, it does kind of it kind of makes me feel something. And I'm like, I love I can't go to Walmart. Like, what like what am I supposed to do?

SPEAKER_03 25:08

All I'm thinking is Reba McIntyre right now. Paul's grand offs, mom is real sick and the baby's gonna starve to death. Yes, fancy. Here's your wallet chance.

SPEAKER_01 25:19

Yes, I was Gary, I was Gary had to be fancy. I was Gary had to be fancy, sell myself, just sell myself. But speaking of Walmart, so I had to go to Walmart last night and I forgot my wallet at home. And I'm like, it's fine, I'll just do tap to pay because I have one credit card on my wallet for situations like that. Do you know Walmart does not have Tap to Pay? Oh my god, did you do all your shopping and then couldn't buy it? No, my biggest fear. It was one thing. Craig needed to print out um invoices because he had a straw delivery, and I was like, it's fine, I'll run to Walmart. I was exhausted yesterday. I was like, it's fine, I'll run to Walmart. I gotta pick Courtney up from work anyway. I'll go to Walmart. I get to Walmart, I'm like, shit, I forgot my fucking wallet. I'm like, you know what? Whatever. Uh I've got one card, I'll just tap to pay. I go get the stupid ink and I grab myself a chocolate bar because I'm trying to dye it, but I was really pissed off and I just, you know, like I needed a moment. And he I like stick my phone out to like start tapping, and he was like, ma'am, we don't have tap to pay. I looked at him and I said, Are you fucking kidding me? And he was like, No. And I was like, This is a multi-billion dollar company, and you're telling me you don't have tap to pay. And he was like, I really don't even want to tell you anything right now. And I was like, I'm not mad at you, but it's fine. It is what it is. I called Craig and I was like, I can't get your fucking ink because Walmart doesn't have tap to pay. And he was like, Babe, where's your wallet? And I was like, I guess it's at home on my desk. He was like, Uh I'll meet you at Bullocks with my card. And I was like, fine. You should have said, but I stole the fucking candy bar because I fucking needed it. I didn't. The guy was like, just let me take this stuff for you. And I walked back in and I was like, please tell me you haven't put that stuff back. And he was like, Absolutely not. Here you go. He even scanned it for me. He was like, Here you go. I'm like, whatever. This is ridiculous. I'm over it. I think everything we are in a digital era. I think you should have tap to pay. I hate it too.

SPEAKER_03 27:28

I still accept cash and checks at my salon. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 27:32

This is the thing. I should take it all away. I know. They're gonna track everything. And I know I sound like one of those conspiracy theorists, but Jesus, they already took pennies away. That's the beginning. They aren't making any more pennies. So now you go to the store and it's like $578. Well, they don't give you that two pennies anymore. They just make that money.

SPEAKER_03 27:53

I just seen a door or a big sign on our bank window saying the government is no longer issuing pennies. If you have pennies, if you have an account here, you can come in and cash your pennies from this date to this date, and that is it. If you do not have an account here, you can open an account so you can cash your pennies in, or you have to go elsewhere. This is fucking real. I was like, This is wild.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

I guess like we have a cash on this. I'm getting, I guess I'm gonna have to put all of our change in there and just cash it all in.

SPEAKER_03 28:29

That's what I told Adam yesterday when I seen, I was like, we're just gonna have to go cash all that in, or it's just gonna be worthless. But then you think, so my mom has been digging into this where if you have pennies or even cash money with certain dates on it, it's worth so much money. Right. She had a $20 bill the other day, check the serial number, and it was worth $40. Wild, huh? Yeah. But yeah. But I'm like, yeah, I don't really want to go through all the the change.

SPEAKER_01 29:01

I'm not going to I'm gonna put it in a sack and take it to the bank, and then I'll just put the cash that we get back in the water jug. That's our if we ever get a chance to go away. Yeah. There you go. Which we won't.

SPEAKER_03 29:13

Well, and you might as well start cashing in your your change, all your change, because they're gonna. I I feel like, okay, we've got rid of the pennies. Here we go. This is gonna be a snowball effect, and they're gonna do it all. Yeah, I agree. We're fine.

SPEAKER_00 29:27

That's when I'm going underground, girls. I'm gonna be with you. I've already said this is for another episode. I want to build a bunker, and my husband be sent crazy. I want a bunker. Can we Okay?

SPEAKER_03 29:44

That is that's gotta be the next episode. We we are uh we're at our time limit on this episode. Sorry for all the swear words. I'm not sorry. Not really. I am not sorry. I love everybody, but I am not sorry. Especially I'm sorry about the sorry, NASA, about NASA. I do love you, Carrie, and I love your your part in NASA. Carrie, I do too. If Monica loves you, I love you. I don't hate NASA. I just hate the priorities of NASA. Sorry. All right, well, we'll say on that note, on that note, we will let you poor souls go for today. Uh join us on the next one. We'll see you next Friday on Hair It First. Love you, girls. Bye. And that's a wrap on this episode of Hair It First. Thanks for hanging out with us. We hope you laughed, learned, and maybe felt a little more seen through all the good hair days and the hot mess ones too.

SPEAKER_00 30:43

Remember, we're just sharing our own thoughts and experiences. No medical claims or professional advice here. Just real talk from stylists and moms who get it.

SPEAKER_02 30:51

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