Do We Love... Our Fans?

We start with a simple question that turns into a whole identity story: where did Star get her name, and why does she use it for her artwork? From there, the conversation does what we do best, follow the funniest, strangest thread until it becomes a full-on tour through 80s nostalgia. We talk The Lost Boys, Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Labyrinth, Fright Night, Nightmare on Elm Street, and the kind of practical-effects horror that made the 1980s feel gritty, weird, and unforgettable. 

Then we try to find “conspiracies” that don’t drag us into politics and quickly end up somewhere better: cryptids and New Jersey legends. We get into the Jersey Devil and Pine Barrens lore, swap thoughts on Mothman and Nessie-style sightings, and relive the childhood era of Bermuda Triangle mysteries that felt like a real problem we’d eventually have to solve. If you love paranormal stories, haunted lakes, local folklore, and the way places build myth around water, woods, and back roads, this one hits that sweet spot. 

We also take a real-world detour to celebrate Star’s group art show in Asbury Park, New Jersey at Over the Moon Art Studio, where she has three pieces up through mid-April under Star Herrera. After that it’s rapid-fire comfort listening: believing in ghosts, weird little “signs” from loved ones, favorite appetizers, restaurant drink demands, and the great concert question of sitting vs standing depending on the artist and the venue. 

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Transcript

Welcome Back And Meet Star

Heather 0:23

Hey everybody, how you doing today? I'm still with no voice. Hopefully it will come back soon. Yep.

Zia 0:30

Episode 16. Do we love that for you? Yeah. Do we love our fans? Do we love our fans?

Heather 0:40

I think we do.

Zia 0:41

Yeah. I don't mean them all, but I love a few of them.

Heather 0:47

We have a fan with us today. We do.

Zia 0:51

Hi. Yes. This is my daughter Star. Hi, Star. How are you? Good. How are you? It's nice to be on. Yes, we're so excited that you're here. We had Star's husband on a few weeks back. Yeah. Leon. Yeah.

Star 1:09

Who likes his storts? No. His storts. He had a fun time.

Where Star’s Name Comes From

Zia 1:14

Diddy, I'm so glad. Aw, so yeah, so we were gonna start off because there's a lot of people that when I do say your name, and I know you get this a lot, where'd your name come from? Because I know you know you have your legal name, but this is part of your legal name, and you'll use it for your artwork.

Star 1:33

Yeah. Um, it's my middle name. So I feel like people are pretty accepting of using that as my name. And I started doing that probably in middle school because my first name, people like to come up with their own nicknames for it. Which I slip out and say all the time. But like, you know, teachers would come up with what they wanted to call me, and I didn't really like that, you know. So, um, but I always explain it as being from the Lost Boys, that's what it's talking about from The Lost Boys. That's cool to be named after a vampire, yeah. Right? So I love that.

80s Movies We Still Quote

Zia 2:12

Yep, yeah, a lot of people fun stories with their names. Yeah, and it's funny because my mom was like, you can't put just star, you can't just put star, and I'm like, Yes, I love stars, like I I always collect star things and everything. We do, and then Lost Boys is just one of my favorite movies from the 80s, and star, she looks a lot like star from the movie, so she does. I love that, that's awesome! Yeah, so I'm just gonna say, with that, we have the movies that you know, the 80s movies that we could bring up with that.

Heather 2:49

Well, so let's talk about some 80s movies. Yeah, well, definitely Lost Boys, definitely Lost Boys, and of course, me, I gotta stick with my favorite Steel Magnolias. I but I think that's more of a 90s, I think that's early 90s. Is it?

Zia 3:08

I think so. I just feel like they were so young if we were like the 80s, you know. Nope, she's gonna get she's don't go down the rabbit hole on on the thing, not while we're recording, right? Not while we're recording, yeah. One of my favorite ones is Ferris Feelers Day Off. It's an 89, so it's still an 80s movie. Yep, yep. Ferris Feelers Day Off classic. Yep. Um you were raised kind of in the 80s, Margaret.

Star 3:39

Yeah, so that yeah, yeah. I like The Lost Boys. I think I get the 80s and 90s kind of because I would say other vampire movies, but I like Fright Knight a lot. Yes, that's an 80s movie.

Zia 3:50

Yeah, that's an 80s movie, that's a good 80s movie. Yeah I raised them all in the 80s, they just didn't know it.

Heather 3:57

Nothing's wrong with that. Nothing's wrong with that, but yeah. You gotta add the the white girl uh breakfast club.

Zia 4:07

Breakfast club, absolutely, yeah. We had a lot of good movies at that time. Yeah, it was yeah, cartoons even is good.

Star 4:16

Yeah, it has a lot of thundercats stuff, yep.

Zia 4:19

Thundercats, oh yep, and aristocrats, yeah, the aristocrat stuff. Yep, that reminds me of another movie that has one of your favorite people in it. What oh, my labyrinth is an 80s movie, it's an 80s movie. That's an 80s movie, as I'm surrounded by all my David Bowie, and then The Hunger.

Star 4:46

Oh David Bowie 80s movie, yeah. Susan Sarandon. Yeah, yep.

Zia 4:53

Yeah, wow, there's a lot of good 80s movies. Was that the movie you were thinking about? Or yeah, okay. She's like, yeah, of course. Yeah, a little brainwashing.

Star 5:05

Yeah.

Heather 5:06

Uh let's see.

Zia 5:07

What other 80s movies? Nightmare on Elm Street. That was 80s. Yeah, those are my 80s. Yeah. A lot of good horror movies out of the 80s. Oh, lots of good ones. Yep. My pin.

Heather 5:16

A lot of them are gory too.

Zia 5:18

Yeah. They're not that cheap gory stuff.

Star 5:22

Was it Evil Dead? Evil Dead? Because that got banned. They did this uh list of banned movies, especially in the UK. It was called Video Nasty. And that one was on the list because you know, when you watch that movie, the graphics are they're not that great, but it comes across so icky. Yeah, you know, like they they did a lot with just like slime. Yeah, yeah. Oh wow, and anyway, it's crazy.

Heather 5:52

Yeah, and you have of course like the ET.

Zia 5:56

Oh, yeah. War games. Yeah, oh my god, war games. Yeah, I know good ones. Gremlins. Oh, gremlins, yeah. That's a Christmas movie.

Heather 6:07

Yeah, that's a Christmas movie. Just gonna say that. Yeah, I was just gonna say that. So is that a Christmas movie? Yes, it is. Yeah, I think it is, I think that is too.

heather 6:18

Yeah. But so many. So we were also oh go ahead.

Heather 6:25

Oh, okay. So after our podcast last week, yeah, we do it all the time. After our podcast last week, we were trying to come up with different topics, and you and I spent another what hour going down a rabbit hole. Oh my god, we did. But you found out some good news. You can claim somebody is from New Jersey. I can. Jason Voorhees is a Jersey boy. Jason Voores is a Jersey boy.

Zia 6:51

He's a Jersey boy. Yep. Yep, we're claiming them.

Heather 6:55

That's right. So yeah, we were looking for. Say again.

Zia 7:01

I don't think he ever got that title.

Conspiracies That Stay Nonpolitical

Heather 7:03

I don't think he did, but you have Jason Voorhees is from Jersey. Jersey Voorhees. Yeah. Jersey Voorhees, I love it. I love that. So we were trying to find some conspiracies. Absolutely. And as we've said multiple times, we never want to get political. Yep. And we never want to get well political. Right. That's our main, that's our main no. So we literally could not find a conspiracy that was not backed by politics, right? Except for who is buried under giant stadium.

Zia 7:48

Yep. Yep. Who? We're not talking about it. We're not talking about it. We're just talking about it. We're just saying there might be somebody.

Jersey Devil And Pine Barrens Tales

Heather 7:58

There could be. Could be. Could be. What'd you say? Wait, that's my job. I'm supposed to cough. It's your job. You're supposed to be coughing. But that brought us to cryptids. And we were talking because Kate mentioned, do we have any conspiracies? Which is where we started this spy this uh rabbit hole from. That's right. And uh so we did cryptids, and of course, there's the Jersey Devil. Obviously, he's from the Pine Barrens.

Zia 8:29

Tons of Pine Baron stories we heard we saw.

Heather 8:32

Oh my goodness!

Zia 8:34

Tons of pine baron stories.

Heather 8:36

Tons of pine barons. I'm glad I didn't live near them. I know. But in the pine barrens, we got uh the Jersey Devil. We have Sasquatch has been seen there. Yep. One hat.

Zia 8:52

Yeah, yep. What what was the one the one tat thing?

Haunted Lakes And Bermuda Triangle Fears

Heather 8:56

Um oh the one hat, yeah. Yep, yep. There's there was a ton of them. Then we started going down the lakes, haunted lakes. Yep. We got Crystal Lake, Lake Opacon. Yep. There was one by why you grew up. Do you remember the name of that one? Oh, you mean the story?

Zia 9:15

The watch on there was watch on, and then there was also um Rawway Cemetery, kind of like Cemetery Drive, but yeah. So they have a big story that goes through, and um actually my real dad used to tell me they would have to like this kind of like their initiation into like being an adult where they would go in and they keep trying to like repaint the road, but it's like paint splatter, and they're like, This is where the blood is, and then they had a lay down in like one of the crypts, and yeah, it's like just crazy.

Star 9:48

I remember him talking about that.

Zia 9:50

Right, yeah, yeah. So it was like cemetery drive kind of initiation, yeah.

Heather 9:56

Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of cryptids. I mean, there's others that aren't from Jersey, like you have the Mothman, he's he's technically from Ohio, and you have Nessie out in uh out in Scotland, yeah. Um the uh Mothman. The the Mothman. You have um there's there's another uh Nessie type one up in um what's that lake that borders New York, Vermont, and Canada?

Zia 10:27

Oh, I don't know. What is that? Is you're just the finger lakes, like up that way? No, over on the Vermont side. Oh, I don't know.

Heather 10:35

There's supposed to be one in there. There's supposed to be something in there, I don't know. Yeah, but but there's tons of Bermuda triangle stories. You had a couple, didn't you?

Zia 10:45

Didn't you have a story? Um, well, I just always said I didn't want to. We always went to Bermuda, so I yeah, so I was always like, are we like on the edge of this? Like, did we survive it? How many times did we survive going through this?

Star 11:00

They used to be really popular when I was a kid in the library. I would take out all of these books. They were part of the series called Mystery Library. I actually bought one uh recently because I wanted to have it. It was like the book I would take out all the time was about vampires, obviously. But they had other ones and they had ones about, you know, the Bermuda Triangle, and we would take them out and just be like, Wow, this is a real problem we're gonna have to deal with when we get older. You know, we were like in the third grade or something like that. We'd be like, Oh my gosh, this Bermuda Triangle is gonna be a real problem. And like you know, yeah, the Loch Ness monster. We had that was so important. We gotta deal with them. Like when I would come home do my homework, I had a computer, I would put up they had um like a live feed of Lake Lochness, and I would just have it up just in case.

Zia 11:50

Just in case somebody spots in case you saw them. Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah.

Star 11:55

I mean, I would.

Zia 11:57

Yeah, why not?

Star 11:58

You want to be the person that sees them.

Zia 12:00

Exactly. Yeah, you better be looking for sasquatches where you live. I'm still running away from coyotes. What are you talking about? Oh my god. But yeah, with the um haunted lakes, we have to really dive into that, you know.

Heather 12:17

Yeah, there was a lot of haunted lakes in New Jersey. There's a lot in New Hampshire, too.

Zia 12:22

A lot of mystery, yeah.

Heather 12:25

And New York. I didn't I didn't get to go down the New York hole yet, but yeah. There's there's still more rabbit holes, so we'll keep the haunted lakes one going.

heather 12:35

Yep.

Zia 12:37

So I take it back in your favorite, bring up your favorite coffee shop that we're not open yet.

Heather 12:43

What is it called? Nightshade coffee. I will get there someday.

heather 12:54

I will get there.

Haunted Bookstores And Local Lore Guides

Heather 12:56

I mean, I doubt nightshade is actually I doubt that's haunted, but we can pretend it is when we go. Okay, sounds good to me. But there's other places that are supposed to be haunted, like coffee shops and bookstores and and and things.

Star’s Asbury Park Art Show

Star 13:12

Haunted bookstores? I don't know. A lot of our local bookstores have books that are haunted New York. So you can go to most of our local independent bookstores here, and I'm sure in any state, and they have a book that's like gonna show you all of the haunted places around you. It's like books about local spots. So how we picked one of those up.

zia 13:34

I wonder well, talking about local spots, we did bring you on to promote something that you're doing in New Jersey. Oh, yeah.

Star 13:43

So um, I have I'm in uh a group art show in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Um it's at a little spot called Over the Moon Art Studio. Um, and yeah, the show is up until mid-April. So I have three pieces in the show. That's awesome.

Zia 14:07

I'm so excited for you. I did tell her it's not that I don't like that all of our other shows were up and everything, but it's like, mom, I'm going to Jersey with my show. I'm like, oh my god. How can we not celebrate that one even a little more?

Star 14:22

That's right. Yeah, it seems like a cool show. A lot of cool art in it, a lot of cool artists. So if cool any listener is around Asbury Park, go go visit, go visit, take some pictures, show them if uh yeah, see, yep.

Zia 14:37

Yeah, she'd be under Star Herrera, so yep.

heather 14:42

That's awesome. Yeah. Star with two R's. One one R.

Heather 14:47

Oh, one R? Oops, you spelled your name wrong all the time.

Zia 14:50

She's a real star. That's what that's what actually my mom said. She's like, isn't like when you name a person star, isn't it supposed to be like two R's? And I'm like, well, I'm not. She's my daughter. I get to name her what I want. That's true. Yep. But she liked it. No, I just thought it was so good. I do, I love that. She she called me star. Yep. Yep. I love your. Of course. Yep.

heather 15:25

That's awesome too.

Heather 15:26

That's awesome too.

Zia 15:28

All the 90s.

Heather 15:30

So quick update about my sap. Yeah. I have my what 23 tapped? Yep. I filled this afternoon. I filled three five-gallon buckets. What?

Zia 15:47

Yep. That's amazing.

Star 15:49

I didn't realize it went that fast. That's amazing.

Heather 15:52

I didn't know it went that fast either. I was like, I got out there and I'm like, wow, if I didn't come out today, I'd had two buckets, would have been overflowing. Wow. Yeah.

heather 16:01

That was good. Yeah. So hopefully.

Zia 16:07

She's doing her bees. Oh my god.

Heather 16:09

Oh doing my bees, doing my honey or maple syrup. Yeah. Sorta. Sorta. Sorta. Still learning that one. Learning the bees too, but but yeah, so we're running like so fast ahead of time. We can just talk. We got like we got a couple minutes before we have to move over.

heather 16:33

All right.

Zia 16:35

Um just okay. Yeah, oh my goodness, all the snow. You can see like a a hint of spring coming. I hope. Yep. 65 today. Yep, it was 65 here. What was yours? 65. 65, see? Yeah.

Heather 16:56

I went I went to the doctor. Um I went to the doctor. Actually, it wasn't today, guys. It was Monday. It was 65.

Zia 17:05

Yes. 65 was Monday.

Heather 17:07

65 is Monday. I went to the doctor today and my car almost got stuck in the mud in the driveway. Oh no.

Zia 17:16

Yeah, because it's all torn up right now.

Heather 17:19

Yeah.

Zia 17:19

So well, actually, I just commented that Michael tore up my um front lawn too. Did he really be a little too close to the edge, so you both did it.

heather 17:30

No. Oh no.

Heather 17:35

But yeah, no, we uh we were nice, we were nice and warm in the beginning of the week. Yep.

Zia 17:42

In the beginning of the week, it was very nice. Kids get to get out for recess. It's good. It's good.

Heather 17:52

Oh, we got the giggles at the end today instead of in the beginning. What are you gonna do? Yep, that's okay. Sure. Five minutes.

Zia 18:03

Five minutes.

Heather 18:04

Yep. Ready?

heather 18:07

Oh shoot! I don't have my pen and paper. There we go. What do we have? Oh my god. All right.

Heather 18:14

Gotta write the time down for our producer so we can add a lot of things.

Zia 18:20

Producer.

Heather 18:21

Oh, I did an air quote in the contract.

Do We Believe In Ghosts

heather 18:31

All right. So the first one is oh I like this one. Do you believe in ghosts? Go ahead, Stock.

Star 18:44

Oh, I do.

heather 18:46

I do.

Star 18:47

I think they're around. Yeah, my Nora used to say, I'll come back and haunt you if there's a way to do it. Yeah. And I believe her. I believe I believe her. You know, sometimes I'm walking around, I get a whiff of her perfume. No one else is around. Or like in the house. And I keep a bottle of it, but it's been closed the whole time. Never opened it. And I keep it kind of in a cabinet. But sometimes I'll walk around the house and I'll I'll smell the I was like, oh, Mana's around today. She's checking in.

Zia 19:20

What about you, Z? Yep, I believe in them. I mean, I feel like um I have my little blue jay that comes to my door, and I feel like that's a little gift from my pop. Um, I have to open the door and go, hello, and then he flies away. So I think he sends him to check on me. Okay. Um, yeah, how about you?

Heather 19:43

Um, yeah, I do. I have um I have a hobo. That's that's his name. When Eliza was younger, she introduced me to Hobo. And apparently Hobo is with me because he's here in New Hampshire. Okay. And Hobo opens doors, closes doors, moves things slightly, you know. Yeah. You walk in in the remote was on the on the arm of the couch and now it's on the seat, but not like it would have fallen off. It's right over a cushion.

heather 20:17

So yeah.

Star 20:18

Well, you had a carol. Yeah, when I was a kid, I was playing with a Ouija board. And we found Carol. And so we would, you know, anytime something strange would happen in the house.

heather 20:32

Oh, Carol. Yeah, ours is the hobo. Yeah, the hobo named hobo. Huh? I had a bird named hobo. A bird named hobo. Okay. Yeah.

Zia 20:43

I'm not gonna lie, I had a bird named Bird. Oh, oh, go ahead, tell them, tell them your bird's name. Go ahead. So Margaret had two parakeets, right? Star. Yes, it had two parakeets. And I said, What do you want to name them? And she goes, Mimi and who. And I go, no, like no, what do you want to name them? She goes, Yeah. I said, Okay, what? She's like, Mimi. I go, yeah, that's your bird. That thinking she's saying it's mine. And she goes, No, it's Mimi. And I go, okay, what's the other one? She goes, who? I said, that bird. She goes, Mimi and who. So we had a big So you had an Abbott and Costello moment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mimi and who that were the boot birds. I don't know where she got the names from, but that's yep. Yeah, growing up, I had a bird. Imagination. Your imagination.

The Ultimate Appetizer Debate

Heather 21:36

I love that. Yep. So Allie and Jeff were out this weekend, and she gave me a five-minute um five-minute love. Yep. What do you order for an appetizer when you go out?

heather 21:52

Hmm.

Heather 21:54

Where are we? She didn't give a place. She just said. So what I'm thinking is she's asking is what's your go-to? Yeah, what's your go to appetizer go to app.

Star 22:06

I don't have a go to appetizer. If I eat out, I'm eating stuff that I can't or don't want to make at home, like ever. Unless at the restaurant something is really good. Like if their thing is like really good burgers or something like that, I can make that at home, but if it's really I have to try it. Yeah. So usually with an appetizer, I get something that I can't or don't want to make at home. And oftentimes that's if it's a go-to and you can get it anywhere. It's always mozzarella sticks. I don't like mozzarella sticks.

Zia 22:37

Yeah.

Heather 22:38

Yeah.

Zia 22:39

I always look for potato skins. Ooh, I I used to love them. That's anything really with a potato. That doesn't surprise me. No.

Heather 22:49

No. My go-to would be my my go-to would honestly be like fried pickles. Oh we love fried pickles, yeah. But I have made them at home. Okay. But they don't come out the same. So I I can't. I've had them at enough places and I've tried to duplicate it enough times. I just can't. Yeah. Because I've done it with the wet pickle. I've done it where I take the pickle and I literally dry it on a paper towel and then go through the dipping process. Yeah. I just can't. I can't do it.

Zia 23:26

I don't know what they do. Yeah. What was that thing you and I got? We were at um Druthers, and remember they were like those little egg roll things. Oh my gosh, that was a cheese.

Heather 23:39

It was like a cheesesteak, but it had like Russian dressing or something in it. Yeah.

Zia 23:43

Yeah. We were really thinking about canceling dinner and just ordering.

Heather 23:47

Getting a few of those. Those were good. Now I want Druthers.

Star 23:53

Great. But yeah, I want brothers too. Sorry. The avatars are also good when you're craving more than one thing.

Heather 23:58

Yes.

Star 23:59

Like, oh, I want this, but also a little bit of this.

What We Have To Drink

Zia 24:03

Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah, that's a good idea. I like doing that too. So when you're at the restaurant, what drink products do you need to be at the restaurant? Do you have a preference of like I need this drink to be at the restaurant that I am at?

Heather 24:19

So I'll always ask if they have the zero coke. And they typically go, Yeah, we have Diet Coke. And I always say they're not the same thing. Right. And then I say, Can I have ginger ale? And typically it's the bar tap ginger ale. Right. Um, so if I can't have zero coke, I'll take the bar tap ginger ale. And if I can't have that, then I just do water. Yeah. What about you?

Star 24:47

No, you know, I don't drink a lot of soda. We drink seltzer mostly. So I I usually will order a water. Okay. But um, you know, we'll have like a cider, like alcoholic cider. Oh, you just got into the cider. Yeah. So you did cider is nine pin is our favorite.

Heather 25:05

So yeah. So I don't know if you remember, but a couple episodes back I was t we were talking about ciders and and stuff. And Eliza's boyfriend Alec and I always try to find a good cider. We're constantly finding ciders and swapping and sharing, you know, trying to get the best ones.

Star 25:28

Yeah. You can visit Angry Orchard here. They have like a tree house. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Zia 25:35

What about you, Captain? Uh well, I my initial day, do you want a drink? I say, Do you have Coke or Pepsi products? And they say Pepsi, I'm like, okay, I'll have an iced tea. That's my regular, you know, it's like a comedy act. But yeah, if they say no to all that, oh my god. I'm just like, I don't even know. Give me water. I don't know. I want my potato skins to go. Right.

Star 26:00

Yeah, absolutely. You know how people have cocked? That is true. Emergency cola. I know.

Sit Or Stand At Concerts

Zia 26:16

I'm sure you're doing that now. Emergency cola pack. Oh my goodness. Like, that's okay. I brought my own Coca-Cola. I have one. But then she has but then she has to carry a purse. I can that's true. That's true. So many things get more difficult. Oh my god. All right, so this one is from Star. So go ahead.

Star 26:39

Alright, so concerts, we can go a couple different ways with this. But do you like to sit or stand at a concert? And that, you know, if you bought a seat, do you sit or stand, or do you prefer based on who you're seeing, being in a stand only or sit only?

Heather 26:58

I'm gonna say a lot of it is now at 50s. A lot of it is based on who I'm seeing. Um when we saw train and we were on front row, I wasn't anywhere near my seat. We were the four feet ahead from the front row to the stage, and I was reaching for him because if I could pull him down on me, I would, I would. Um I love it. I'm not gonna lie. And I've seen him now three times, four times, three times since then. Still haven't gotten him on yet. Still have not gotten to him. Um but a lot of it depends on who I'm seeing and where we're sitting or where we are assigned our seat.

Zia 27:46

Right.

Heather 27:47

You know, if we're way up in the nosebleed seats, I'll sit. When we saw Maroon 5, I was so far up, nobody was standing around us.

heather 27:57

Right.

Heather 27:58

But Eliza was young, I didn't want her in the concert by herself, so I used that as my excuse to buy a ticket. Right. And I sat way away from her, and she's you know, sat down, of course, on the floor and stood, but yeah, what about you?

Zia 28:15

Um, yeah, again, it all depends like who I'm going to see. But like if it's a heavy metal concert, I gotta stand up for my favorite songs. Yeah. Um, I gotta get a few, you know, I don't know how many headbanging sessions I have left with that, so I have to drain that for all it is. Um but yeah, I definitely love to stand for my favorite songs. I know we went to a ghost concert one time and people just were not standing. And I was like, what is happening here? So I stood up when I needed to. I sat down when I didn't just to be respectful to the people around me. Right. Um, you know, just different things like that. You have to check that. I know you know Michael will sit most of the time. He tries to stand on its good songs and then he'll sit down, that kind of thing. Or disabled seating will have to be.

Heather 29:05

And I think a lot of that is me. I I think I just physically can't stand for an entire concert. So it's easier for me to sit and stand. Yeah. You know, I saw I saw boys to men at the palace, and we were in like the fourth row. Yeah, but it's the palace. There, there's you you you can't stand there. So we sat for boys to men, and it was so but it felt awkward to be sitting for boys to men. It was like, uh, but how do you stand?

Star 29:38

Right. Yeah, the venue I think makes a difference. I we saw Morrissey from the Smiths one time, and it was kind of in a similar place where it was this theater, you know, and so everybody was standing, but it was such limited space that you could stand in. I mean, how do you interact? But yeah, it feels feels weird to sit for some concerts as well.

Zia 30:03

I think depending. Yeah, just because of the venue.

Star 30:06

Yeah, absolutely. But I do think it also depends on the artist, like you were saying. Like I've never sat down at a My Chemical Romance concert. Really? Oh, weird, no one else around me. I had um one of the concerts that we went to, I think at the Prudential Center in Jersey, we had um they played two nights, and one of the nights we were in the nosebleeds, and nobody was sitting up there either. Nobody was sitting there.

Zia 30:34

So you're also in Jersey, though. Yeah, a lot of people wanted to dance around. How many My Chemical Romance concerts have you been to, star?

Star 30:44

More than 20. More than 20.

Zia 30:46

Wow, okay.

First Concerts And Giant Stadium Memories

Heather 30:48

Yeah, Jersey little band. Yeah, all right, so I have I have an impromptu five-minute love. Who was your first concert?

Zia 30:59

Oh, my first concert was Rod Stork, and I got high by the surrounding pot that was being smoked around my four-year-old body. Yes, yes, yes.

Heather 31:12

All right, what about you, star?

Star 31:15

It was my chemical romance, but that doesn't surprise anyone. No, no, mine was my birthday present for uh turning 13.

Heather 31:26

So wow, okay. Mine was um, I'm kind of embarrassed to say it now, but at the time it was awesome. We won tickets off Z100 for a concert that night at Giant Stadium to see new kids on the block. Oh my god.

Star 31:46

No, that's still awesome. It still sounds awesome.

Heather 31:49

Yeah. Okay, okay. I don't feel so bad. So my friend's father, we were so young, my friend's father drove us to Giant Stadium and he sat in the parking lot because the traffic was so bad. He's like, I'm not leaving. Yeah, so he paid for parking and sat in the parking lot while we went into the concert and then waited for us to come home. Yeah. That's crazy.

Star 32:15

Oh my god.

Heather 32:16

But we won him that day and the concert. We won him at like three o'clock, and the concert was started at like seven.

Zia 32:23

Oh my god.

Heather 32:24

So literally, we won the tickets and jumped in the car.

Zia 32:27

Yeah. Yeah. So, yep, it it's Met Life now, right? The stadium.

Heather 32:32

It is, I think, yeah, it is Met Life now.

Star 32:33

Back then it was giant stadium.

Zia 32:35

Yeah. Yeah.

Star 32:36

Yeah. I was thinking about that because I'm like, where did we park? We went last year, and um, you can park in the the mall at American Mall.

Zia 32:45

There was no mall then. Right, yeah. So the Mall of Americans, I thought I think it's called or American Dream. American Dream Mall. Yeah, Mall of Americas in Minnesota. Yeah, yeah. Yep. They're both equally large. Right. Yes.

Heather 33:00

The one in New Jersey has the ski jump, doesn't it?

Zia 33:04

And a water park. It has a Nickelodeon.

The Water Park Story We Regret

Heather 33:06

Yep.

Zia 33:07

Nickelodeon fun park. Yep. Lots of things in there.

Heather 33:11

Eliza hates when I do this, but I closed a water park one time by mistake. I, as we all know, when I get sick, I sound like this. And I had a coughing spell, and I was trying to get out of the water, and I coughed so hard I started to vomit. And I was holding it in my hand, trying to get out of the water. And yeah, we were in Niagara Falls in that water park that's up there in Canada. Yeah. Canada's largest water park. Yeah. Well, at least it was back then, yeah. Wow. I did that and told the lifeguard what happened, and within a minute and a half or two, the whole park was Oh my god. That's crazy. Yeah. Eliza's gonna yell at me for that later, by the way. No. It's okay. It's okay. It's our life. That's what we say. This is our life. Exactly. I don't mind. It's I it happened. I mean, it's gross, but it happened. I mean, what are you gonna do?

Zia 34:11

Yeah, we went to a hotel that had a really nice water park inside. That was a in the air. Yeah, what is it? That's the one we that's that's Was it in a hotel? Yeah. Oh, okay. So we went there and um that's where Alex learned to swim courtesy of star. Because I was like, she's like, Can I take him on the you know the water slide? I said, Yes. I just take his little, you know, things off when you're going down. So she did listen to all that, but she took him on the really big one. Oops. Not the not the little kid one. Yeah. And um, I was like, oh no. She's like, I got him, mom, I got him, it's fine.

Star 34:51

He was fine. He was fine. He was fine. Yeah, only siblings can do that way. Yeah, only siblings can put their other siblings in questionable situations and tell their parents they will be fine.

Heather 35:04

And yeah, you're like, Yeah, I I was the Alex in the scenario, though. Can I just point that out? Yes. So, yes, I understand what you're saying, star, but I was the Alex. So it's not always the right thing. Not always. But that reminds me of another funny story. We were, I don't know, I was a young teenager or preteen, and the rule we had on Christmas morning was we couldn't open anything until my grandparents got there. Okay. Our house. And my mom was in the bathroom. My brothers grabbed the big flashlight and they were looking in their stockings to see what they got. Oh my god. Apparently they heard my mom coming and said, Here, you look. So I was looking through my stocking and my mom comes out and saw me looking in the stocking.

heather 36:04

And then both of us. I did.

Star 36:08

Terrible. Yeah, usually it was Alex that was doing something and we would get in trouble. Yeah. So ate all the lollipops, those sweet tart lollipops. Yeah. Yep. Ate like a whole jar, big jar of oh no. Yeah, we used to get the one with the red top. Yep. And ate, I mean, that was a sugar high that lasted for days.

Zia 36:32

Yep. I think it's still going. No, it's still going.

Star 36:35

Yeah.

Zia 36:35

Let us know when he comes down.

Heather 36:38

And you got in trouble for that?

Star 36:40

Yeah, I didn't. Zach on the shared a room. Yeah. So yeah.

Zia 36:46

Like you couldn't stop him?

Star 36:48

No. Yeah.

Thanks Star And Share Photos

Zia 36:54

Oh my god. All right, that's awesome. Yeah. So yeah, thank you so much for being on our show. Yes, I'm so glad you were here.

Heather 37:03

I can't wait to hear about your show. I'm not, I'm not gonna lie, I'm probably not gonna get to Jersey. Yeah, because I've got like the next five weekends already booked. Yeah. With B schools. Yeah. Yeah. So I would love to see it.

Zia 37:22

So mom will share pictures, I'm sure. Yep. Yep. If you get any too, or if anybody goes, please share them on our uh, you know, comments and stuff, and that'd be great. Yeah, and they have an online catalog too.

Heather 37:36

Oh, they're can we put the website for the online catalog? Share it. Okay. Yeah, great. Awesome, we'll do that. And again, we're still can't record the intro and outro because I I don't want to have a voice, apparently. Yeah, we're getting there.

Zia 37:53

Yep, she's got the sexy raspy voice going. Yeah, I do.

Heather 38:01

It's me, not you. It's kind of like that. Except it loses the sexy one. I choke afterwards. You gotta get the voice acting in while you have it.

Star 38:11

I know the the sultry uh um songs for sex, yeah.

Zia 38:16

That's what I should be doing right now. You do like black velvet, you know. I think that's oh god, stop. Oh, on that note, we should probably call it here. Absolutely. Thank you for being with us.

heather 38:33

Thank you.

Heather 38:34

Yeah, yes, thank you, Star. It was wonderful to have you. Thank you everyone for listening. You have the you have the stop recording button this time. I don't I do, I do, and we'll see you on the next one. See ya, have a good one.