Do We Love ... Characters?

A kids’ movie should not be able to read you like this, but here we are. We start with a Winnie the Pooh moment that flips a switch: Rabbit is handing out “jobs,” nobody does them, and the responsibility lands right back on the person who cares the most. If you’ve ever felt like the unofficial project manager at work or home, you’ll know exactly why that scene hits. We talk about personality, boundaries, and what it means when you suddenly recognize yourself in a fictional character.

From there, we ride the nostalgia wave into a real conversation about customer service, work ethic, and the 80s and 90s fast food and retail crews who somehow made everything feel smoother and more human. One Burger King stop turns into a bigger question: what changed in training, standards, and the little connections that used to make service feel effortless? We keep it honest, a little spicy, and very relatable if you’ve ever said “if you have time to lean, you have time to clean.”

Then we shift into a surprisingly detailed beekeeping update, including a varroa mite check, why you have to sample nurse bees, and how we chose a mite treatment plan with winter coming. We also share a hospital waiting room story that turns into “who’s on first” levels of confusion, plus a straight-talk segment on workplace gossip, union stress, and how to stay grounded when people run their mouths behind your back.

Hit play for laughs, real life, and a few “oh wow that’s me” moments, then subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review. What fictional character do you accidentally relate to most?

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Welcome And Today’s Character Energy

Heather 0:20

Yo, yo, what's up? Just because you said you're ready, I'm like, yo! Yo, what's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to another edition, nope, episode of Do We Love That For You. Yes, and it's actually very fitting, even though we do our scripts way before, it's very fitting for today. I am a character today. Uh well, Zia just gave it away. Today's topic or title is Do We Love Characters. Characters. And I'm telling you, we've tried to hit record like, well, I could exaggerate and be like two or three times, but in reality, it was like once. And then I paused. And then my phone rang, and then we changed subjects again. So there may be a phone ringing in the background again because I am expecting another call. But absolutely. Whoo! It's life. We share our life with you. We do. All right. So all out there. I'm just laying it all out on the table.

Surgery Update And Rabbit Recognition

Heather 1:24

Zia had her surgery on Monday. Yes. And I finally heard from her Monday night. And we talked on text as normal. Absolutely. And then on Wednesday, when we came online to do our script, Zia had three topics already on there. Um so I'm gonna let you start because they're all yours. Yes. So the weekend before my surgery, um, we we had our grandchildren and we ended up watching Winnie the Poe. And I really never connected with any of the characters in that movie. Like um, my son Zach always liked Eeyore. Um, you know, um my son Alex, I know he liked Winnie the Poe. Um, you know, he was a bear or whatever. But I never there was one uh cartoon or character set that I never really had a favorite with. Okay. So they were um the I think it was the the the movie where um Christopher Robin goes away and he says, I'll be back soon. But you know, they can never read his notes. So they said, Oh my god, the Baxson took Christopher Robin. It's a monster. And of course, wise old owl, who is not so wise, was saying all the things that a baxon could be. Like he steals your children, he takes your food, he whatever. So obviously this wasn't the case, but Rabbit decided he was going to give out jobs to catch this Baxson. Okay. Okay. And as he was handing out the jobs, there's a scene where and Michael's actually my husband Michael was the one that really, really pointed this out to me. He's holding this little globe. It's like looks I think it kind of looked like a tree ornament to me. And he hands it to Pooh. Pooh hands it to Piglet, and Piglet hands the job back to Rabbit. And Rabbit's face was like, What the heck just happened? I'm handing out jobs, it has to get done, and now you handed it back to me, so now I have to do it. And as soon as we saw that, my husband said, Oh my god, it's you at work. And I was like, I've never connected with any character in this, and now I'm connecting with Rabbit. So then he goes and he says something else, and um he takes his fist and he puts it on either I think it was Pooh's head, and he goes, I'm so frustrated. That's funny. So he nobody was doing the jobs that he wanted them to do, he was handing them out because it had to get done, right? But then it came back to him doing it. So well, that sounds like the story of our lives. So I was like, ah, this is great. I never thought I'd be connecting with Rabbit in Yes. Yep. Of all the characters, yeah. I can see you being a portion of Rabbit. Yeah. Because Rabbit is the type A. Yes. And I could see you being a piece of Rabbit, but I don't know that I would see you being all of it. So I asked Chandler for the name of the episode. Yeah. And then I revised the question because I want to make sure it's the right one. But he said it's the 1997 movie Pooh's Grand Adventure, The Search for Christopher Robin. Got it. Um, and now he's looking up the one where Rabbit hands something to Pooh, Pooh hands something to Piglet, Piglet hands something to Tigger. Yes. And so now he's searching that one. So I'll let you know when that pops up. Oh my god. Too funny. But I mean, that's that happens everywhere. I mean, yeah. I mean, even here, unloading the dishwasher.

Zia 5:42

Yeah.

Heather 5:42

You know, I'll unload part of the dishwasher and I'll set it on the counter because I want to get all the plates before I put them in. And then Rich is Rich is moving the plates into the sink because he's coming in to start cooking dinner. It's like, dude, I'm I'm I'm unloading. You know, yeah. Or or I mean, whatever the whatever the it just never occurred to me to look for a character identification in Winnie the Pooh. No, I think sometimes you watch things and you're like, oh yeah, that's that's my character. Yeah.

Zia 6:14

Yep.

Heather 6:14

Like Darcidious. Darcidus is my character. How do we go from Winnie the Pooh to Darcidious?

Zia 6:21

How?

Heather 6:22

It's my guy. It's my guy. Darcidious is my guy. How? Um, but that actually now that you said that, and it's funny because Angela and I were talking this morning about um one of her classes that she's taking is um children's book um artistry, obviously. Got it, yeah, yes. And so what they had to do is they had to take a children's story and turn it into their own story, obviously focusing on mostly the artwork, but they needed to retell the story with the changes or whatever. And she was going through all the stories that these people were changing, and the one story she's changing Little Red Riding Hood and making the wolf be a dog, and the huntsman is the bad guy, but the wolf or dog is the good guy. Love it, yeah. And then there's somebody else who's doing the um tortoise and hair, and she's making them um turn into like a besties kind of thing. Cool. And then Angela is doing three billy goats gruff. Love it, love my billy goats. That's well, she said she picked that one because that was the only one she didn't know. And I I looked at Rich and I'm like, how does she not know Billy Goats gruff? She didn't have a Capricorn in her life. Then how do I know it? I don't have a Capricorn. You have a Capricorn in my life, and you're like Oh, I do have a Yeah, but not when I would have learned that.

Zia 7:54

Yeah.

Heather 7:55

But but yeah, I thought it was I thought it was really cool that she's doing that. Yeah, very good. That has nothing to do with what you're talking about, but it has to do with characters. Thank you, Angela. Thank you. It has nothing to do with your story, but it had characters, so I thought of this when you were telling your story. I love it. So then the second topic that you had says I'm gonna read it because we changed it to make it make sense. Because I believe you wrote it while you were still on anesthesia. Uh no, I wrote that the day that it happened. Oh, it's the same one. Here's Grand Adventure the Search for Christopher Robin. It's a skull that they're passing around. Yeah, oh, makes it even better. Oh, and it what I excuse me. Oh, it's owl. Owl is in the order. Oh, so he passes it to Owl and then somebody passes it back to the owner. It ends. So the object being passed around is likely Christopher Robin's note, the note attached to the honeypot. Pooh can't read it. Nobody else is useful because apparently literacy in the hundred acre wood is a sacred is a sacred natural resource. So it gets passed around until they take it to Owl. That's the one where the note is misread as Christopher Robin going to skull instead of school. Oh no, no. There that was that's another one. That's the next one we watched. Yeah, this is the Bacsoon. And then they they say they can't read back soon. So they say, Oh, what is a backson? It took Christopher Robin, and they discover it's a Do you want me to ask him what it means? What's a Bacsoon episode? No, it it means back soon. I know. Yeah, but no, they they just came up with Owl came up with that. This thing just takes takes your stuff, it takes your, you know, carrots, it takes your yeah, it's it's it's a terrible monster, but it's not because they can't read.

Missing The Old Fast Food Crew

Heather 10:01

All right, so you broke, do you miss the old 80s, 90s crew working at your local fast food joints and retail stores? Yep. And then you said to tell your Burger King story. Yes, yes. So I went to Burger King. We have a little crate, we haven't had it in forever. Um, so Michael and I were like, okay, I'll go get Burger King. And um, so one kid there really reminded me of you know the good 80s, 90s crew, your buddies working there to like, I need extra fries, I need the onion rings in here. Who's making that with no cheese? Who's doing that? He was on it, like, you know, boom, boom, boom. Yeah, everyone, everyone else was definitely in this world, okay. So I I'm I would probably put some money on it that this kid that was on it had some Gen Xers in his life, okay. Um, he had the style, he looked like, you know, he had the one earring, he was just all about that life, you know. So I was like, all right, all right, you know, he's got it all together. Everybody else, not so much. They were all over the place, um, not so good. So my friends used to work at this Burger King. Um, Michael and his friend used to work at Wendy's one time. So it's like that old crew, like I used to go there, my friend used to cut my sandwich a certain way because he knew it was my order. Um things were just just on point, you know. They kind of knew what you wanted, what you were ordering, how you were ordering it. Okay, they took the time to be like, hey, I got you, or make that little connection sometimes. Um, it was all over the place after that guy did what he had to do, and there's no connections. There's like, is that my name? It could have been my name they called. Who knows? They could have made up a name. Let me check the bag because I have no idea whose order that is. Well, I mean, what was your name at Starbucks once? Nancy. Nancy. I have a picture of that. I'll have to find that. Yeah, my cup says Nancy. Yeah, Nancy. Yep, she was shouting that out like you know, it was Godzilla. And no, no, definitely not my name. I don't know how you get Nancy from Zia, but that's okay. Um, I'm trying to think. But yeah, so do you miss that 80s 90 crew when you were younger going in? Yeah. Yo, dude. I mean, I mean, think about it. I I never did the fast food thing, I did all retail. Yeah. Um, I did grocery store first, then retail. Sorry, my camera. I was retail. I was only retail, yeah. Yep, I did the grocery store thing first, and that got weird because I was in the produce department and they had me chopping up all these fruits and vegetables and all this. Oh, yeah. And um then one day, like the district manager or some big guy came in and was like, Why is she doing that? She's a kid, she should be bagging, and then they made me bag, so I left. I was like, screw that shit. I'm not bagging. Yeah. I was you're so much capable of more at that age. Exactly. Um, but I used to love the the sentence because they used to even say it at the retail I worked at. If you have time to lean, you have time to clean. Yep, yep. And you know, yeah, I mean, I I hate the work patterns of the kids today. You know, I mean, I kind of feel, and this might be this might take us a little to the extreme here, but I kind of feel that kids today think they're gonna graduate high school, college, whatever, and have the best paying job, then immediately have the perfect car, the perfect house. Like, yeah, it should all be right there waiting for them. Yep. And a lot of them do due to their parents that don't want to hear shit. So they will be like, here, here is your car, here is your my buddy hooked you up with a job. Yeah, you know, and then when they can't do it, they get upset that they can't do it. Right, right. Yeah, but yeah and like we always say, you know, all of your you know, your kids work, my kids work, they're all hardworking peoples, and it has a lot to do with the parenting that you've done. Yeah, truly agree. Yeah, every so yeah, let's go, let's go down to um your bee update, because I have one more story, but I want I want to talk a little bit with you. Alright.

Beekeeping Update Mites And Treatment

Heather 14:47

So my bee story. Can you hear the dog? I do. It's good, it's our life. It is our life. Um, so in this when you first get the bees, you have to do that mite check. Right, right. After the before the fall, you have to do another one because um you want to make sure when you get the bees that they don't have mites. Got it. And then when you're shutting them down for the winter, you want to make sure that they are mite-free. Yeah. So I did on Saturday to Sophia, who by the way, her camera is out. Um, it broke when we were in Iceland, and the parts are all here now. We just got to get it put together and back up. So I'm thinking within the next week or two, she'll be back up to finish up these. With the way that hive is going, I think she shut it off herself. I think she did. Um, but um, so um Rich and I went out last Sunday to do a full inspection on everybody, and we were gonna do the um mite check. Okay so we get the rubbing alcohol in, we get the cup of bees, or the half a cup of bees in. Yeah. Sadly, I said a thank you for their hard work. I shook them, they were gone. And we had mites. Oh we had a lot of mites. Um in the spring or summer, the theory is three or less you don't have to treat. And in the fall, it is uh six or less you don't have to treat. Um, and we counted like nine on the paper towel. So no matter what, we had to treat. So right now she so we put um we put the treatment in her and um there's a lot of different options. You can do uh you can do gases, you can do acids, and you can do all natural. Okay. Um I would love to do the all natural way, however, the the positivity of clearing it is smaller. Okay. Um the gas way, um you have to make sure that the honey stores are out to do the gas. Got it. The acid, um, you just feed them the acid and it fixes them. So we went the acid route. Yeah, that sounds more like contained. Yes, and and um in New Hampshire, if I were to do the gas way, yeah, I would have to actually be certified in it, technically. Oh, yeah. So I think that will only matter when I start selling my honey. Yeah. Um but um so we went with the acid. So it's um you could treat it two different ways. You can do um two strips for 14 days, or one strip for 10 days, take it off, wait one day, put the second strip in, and 10 more days. Okay. So we did the two strips for 14 days. Um, doing the two strips for 14 days, we do run a 50-50 chance that it will kill the queen. Okay. Um, but a 50% chance that she'll be fine. Okay. Um, but it is also the faster and more efficient way, or there you go. That was a better word. I couldn't come up with a good word. But yeah, it's the more efficient way to um treat it. Awesome. Um, we did not do the other two hives for the mite check because there's just not enough babies. Yeah. The worst part about it, I don't know if I've mentioned this before, but in order to get the bees that you want to test, you have to get the nurse bees. And the nurse bees are the ones that are just born. Okay. So they are unable to fly because their wings aren't fully um dried and and able to fly. Um, so you take the cells, the frames that have the eggs and the larva on it that the nurse bees are caring for, and you slam it down, the bees who fly obviously fly away. Yeah and the ones that can't stay in the container, and you get this you get the scoop it scoop cup and you scoop it. Oh cool. So, in a sense, they can't fight you at all. I mean, they can still sting, but the alcohol kills them like immediately. So but so we are this Saturday or this Sunday will be day seven. So I won't have an update next week, and then on next Sunday, I go in and whatever is left, I take it out, I throw it away, and then I don't I still don't go in the hive. I wait another week, and then I can go in and look for the queen, look for her laying, and do all of that. Perfect. So I love learning about this stuff with you, like living vicariously through you. It is, and and honestly, I I love doing it. I mean, that was very hard to do. I was very, very sad. And as soon as we realized that they had mites, I was like, give me the medicine, let's go! I was an instant, I was instant mom, fix it! Yeah, um, but then we came in and I didn't tell you this, and I didn't get a picture because tears were literally pouring out of my eyes. But the next morning I checked the camera because there is still a camera on her, it's just not up close. And there was like 20 dead bees on her deck, and I was like, oh my gosh. Like I thought I was I thought I was gonna cry. I did cry. So wait, you're not one of those people that records yourself crying? Um I'm sorry, that always that always like fascinates me. I don't know what to say. Yeah, I don't know how they do that. Yeah, I don't I don't know how they do that. I don't know. That just always amazes me. Okay. Anyway. All right, go to your next

The Hospital Mix Up Comedy Hour

Heather 21:10

story. All right, so funny hospital story. Um I felt so bad because of course I had to stare at the situation that was happening. Uh, they didn't close our curtains, so I had open view to everything. Um weird. Yeah, and my my poor husband couldn't laugh out loud behind the curtain part that was already drawn, but he was sitting there laughing so hard because and I couldn't laugh because I was staring at what was happening. Right. So this poor gentleman was sitting there and he I I we kind of gathered that he was already an inpatient uh person, uh already, you know, checked in. They brought him down, and the first part that started was were they going to this room or that room? This room or that room? Which place, which spot are we gonna put you in? Okay. Um and they must have said it at least 30 times, and we were all Laughing at that because we're like, we we could have called it. We were like, Oh, here it goes again. This one, that one. Well, so and so said this one, and they said that one. Which one do you want? Oh my goodness. Which one? Yeah, so that was that was the first funny part for this poor guy. Then the poor guy um sitting there, they gave him like the little hat that we have to put on for surgery. Yep. And when you have a beard, they like to cover the beard for surgery, right? So they gave him that, and he was all set, they're questioning all the stuff, you know, whatever they need for you know to continue with their process. Okay. So then all of a sudden his doctor comes down and says, Oh my god, we had a huge emergency. We're not able to do your surgery today. Oh no! And he was like, Oh, okay, you know, well, he's an impatient, so I guess he gets booted first, you know, right all that stuff. So he's right, because they could actually do his surgery at four o'clock in the afternoon if they needed to. Right. Absolutely. So he goes, So we're gonna get you back to your room, get you some food, get you a drink, get you all set tomorrow. So he's like, I'm so sorry. Great doctor, bedside banner. He leaves, the doctor's, the guy takes off his stuff and he goes, Ah shit. So that was the second laugh we had, right? I would have laughed at that. Yeah, and my husband said, That's where my wife's at right now because my surgery is supposed to be like around 12 o'clock. Right. And it didn't happen till 4 p.m. So we're sitting there, and I said, I'm way beyond the shit phase. I'm on to motherfucker right now. So, anyway, I sat there and he says, you know, uh, this operative nurse comes down and she says, All right, sir, let's get your hat on and your stuff on, and we're gonna start a second IV. We're gonna get you in that operating room. And he goes, No, I'm not having surgery today. I'm having it tomorrow. And she goes, Oh no, no, no, no. It's today. We got your room, we got uh, we're gonna have the second IVs put in. What side are they doing it on? So he tells her the side, and she goes, Okay, well, I'm gonna go check on a few things and I'll be here to collect you uh when it's your time to go in the operating room. And he goes, It's not today, it's tomorrow. She goes, Oh, you think it's tomorrow, but did they give you something already? And I was like, No. He's like, My doctor sat in that chair at your standing bar right there and told me, shook my hand and said, We can't do it today. There's an emergency. This went on for an hour. It was like, who's on first? What's on second? I don't know. Yeah, I was like, oh my god, my husband's laughing. I'm trying not to laugh. I had the shock face on, and like, you know, I understand HIPAA, but I was ready to say, dude, that guy is not drugged. He I heard his doctor tell him he's not going anywhere today, except to get a sandwich. And a drink. Take him. Oh my god. So we we just had like probably about two hours of comedy relief from this guy, from this guy and his the crew. Um, and then all of a sudden she had an epiphany and said, Oh, you're right. He's like, Of course I'm right. Of course I'm right. Why? I saw my doctor. So I was just it was it was amazing that he kept his calm for that long. Yeah. Two hours to convince somebody that this was not happening today. It was gonna happen tomorrow. I don't understand. And um, you know, we already talked about you know those names that like you hear a name and then all of a sudden you just associate with people. Well, my nurse came to me and she had a name that did that to me, and I was like, you know what? I'm totally screwed today. Today's gonna be a screwed up day just because of this person's name, this name. So that was the first start of my day, and then you know, 7:30 at night, I texted Heather and said, I'm home. And I said, I was about to call Michaela. That's right. That's right. I was about to call Michaela and be like, Michaela! Yeah, I mean we got there at 10:30. Right. And that was last you and I spoke. Yep. Yep. So that was fun. It was fun. But on to better things.

Special Guest Tease New Jersey History

Heather 26:49

We are going to have a special guest. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, did I miss something? Nope, nope, nope. I wanna I wanna get a sound. Okay. Who is our special guest? We have Kyle from the New Jersey History Project. And I yeah, I will link him. Um, he will be on our show next weekend. Um, definitely check him out on Instagram. He is awesome. Awesome. He does have a podcast too that you can listen to. Um if you're interested in the history of New Jersey. Um, he's gonna talk to us uh about um I I actually started following him because he talks about things his Italian grandfather would say. Yep. And uh so many things were good memories and brought back good memories. So yeah, and um he's gonna be with us. So definitely I will link him to this podcast and uh we will be seeing him next weekend or talking to him next weekend. So we're excited. Yeah, he does not, um, our picture might be a little different. Um, we might block out all three of our faces. He does not show his face on any of his socials. Um so out of respect for that, we told him, you know, we do a before recording picture, but we told him that we would respect him. So yeah, I'm thinking we're gonna just block all our faces when we take it. Um super excited. Yes, absolutely. We're gonna see what we all have in common in the history of New Jersey. It's absolutely yes, yes. We may go off script. We may go off script. No, if Z is in this mood, we're going off script. I love it. All right, so our topic this week was to just have at

Workplace Back Talk And Union Stress

Heather 28:43

it. Yes. So Nicole put something, actually, timeout. Nicole texted me yesterday. Hang on, where's my phone? Nicole texted me yesterday, and I'm gonna read it to you.

Zia 28:57

Yeah.

Heather 28:58

Oh, and she laughed at the response. She texted me yesterday at 6:30 at night. How is Zia doing with recovery? I said, good. Crazy woman went to superintendent's day. She goes, Oh, wow. I said, Yeah, well, she also went to school yesterday for the student walkthrough. She's driving me crazy. I can't keep her down. She goes, Wow, she is determined. And I said, and annoying sometimes. So, um love it. So Nicole was thinking about you and messaged me to see how you were doing. Absolutely. But her response to our open-ended topic kind of hurt me. Okay, go ahead. I didn't read it because I like when you tell me these things. Okay, so it says, returning to work. I am a monitor at a junior high school and I'm everywhere, and I have many responsibilities. It sucks that people talk behind my back. They make it obvious. And why? Because I am a union rep and the go-between, between the admins and the monitors. Fun times. So, first of all, fuck them. Yep. Just look at them. Look at my girl go. Look at my girl go with her swearing love. Fuck them. Um, and honestly, Nicole is the one who's making my phone blow up right now that you can hear. Okay, I love it. I love it. Um, because she does this every time to us. Okay. Um, so my first thing is yeah. Yeah. But the fact that she's a union rep, credit to her. Yeah, absolutely. Because that means she gets a pretend pay increase to work a lot of hours for free. Yeah. And and you know what? Um, I I actually was asked to do that one time. I was I talked to my father-in-law, and he had done it for his job, and he said it's a lot of stress for something that you're not gonna see a return on. So um, definitely, you know, something that I did not want to do. Yeah. Um, yeah, yeah. So kudos to for you to even be that. Exactly. I I got asked to do it when I was in the bus, and I went to Rich and I and I pointed it out. I'm like, what do you think? And he said, Yeah, your union sucks. Yeah, don't waste your time. Yeah, yeah. So I I would have probably done it if our union had better representation. Yeah. That's Rich walking in and out. Yes. Um, so um, but the people talking behind your back, uh that's just immature. Yeah, well, you should you just gotta remember they are where they belong, they're behind your back. Facts. Um, who gives a shit? Yeah. Um, you need a little Zia in your life to uh, you know. I I am not the most well-liked person in my building. Um, you're not. I don't really. But you're one of the most respected. Thank you. I appreciate you saying that. You are um I I just don't you know I I actually had told a person one time um that didn't like me that, you know, you you could really call me anything, you could say anything about me. I'm like a duck in water at that. Um there's only certain people that could actually hurt me, but they talk to me about things, so I you know, it's not a hurt, it's more of an improvement. Um you have to only hold those people that you like, I should say, uh respect. Um that's what should matter about you. You have to have your own identity and know who you are. Yep. Um, and like Heather said, fuck the rest. Um you can't be holding that. It's and it's tough. It's tough to do. I have a lot of young uh people that I talk to that I, you know, I hope I make them more resilient. Right. Um just because if you pull down everything that somebody's saying about you or coming at you about that, it's just gonna beat you down. So you have to have your own identity and stick to it and not care about the rest. Yeah. And just, you know, have it have it count for those people that you feel uh that you love in your life. Yeah. So and that's what should matter. And and just remember, if they're talking about you, you're in their forefront of their brain. Yeah. Yeah. That means that they You could say what I say. What do you I didn't know it was so popular? Exactly that's what I was just gonna say. You're in the forethought of their brain so much that for them to talk about you behind you. Yeah. Which I have said. My my response to them would be to say it in front of me. Yeah. Be bold enough to say it to me. Yeah. And tell me what you're telling her. Yep. I confront people. So if I hear somebody said something about me, I usually go to that main person and then I say, Hey, I heard you had a problem with me. Yeah. Um, I've done that several times. Um I've also I've also confronted people that have said my name and said to them, uh, I can't believe that I'm this popular. I never knew that I was this popular. You're still talking about me from seven to one o'clock in the afternoon. Yeah. That's freaking amazing. When when I first started at the bus garage, um, I was just dating Rich. Yeah. We had just started dating. And I was obviously a single mom. Yeah. And apparently I slept with about nine guys in the bus. Oh, God, you're busy. How'd you do that? Between bus runs? Apparently. And so nobody at Shen knows me not dating Rich. Yeah, yeah. I started dating Richards. Yeah, I exactly. I started dating Rich when I was starting at Shen. Yeah. It was all happening at about the same time. But supposedly, because I was a single mom, in quotes, I was sleeping with eight or nine people in Shen at all times. Man, I wouldn't have been able to talk to you if you were that busy. I wouldn't have been able to walk around the bus. I would have been in the back of the bus doing something.

Zia 35:41

Right. With the camera.

Heather 35:42

Exactly. So and and I did confront some of these people. And actually, one of the one of the guys who was a very good friend of mine. He still is a very good friend of mine. He's one of your friends as well. Yep. Yeah. Um, we've gone to listen to him play and all that, but that guy used to make a joke. I want them to say that about me. Can I please be one of your guys? And I said, sure. Sure, why not? We would walk through the parking lot holding hands. Yep. Never did that rumor come true about him and me. Yep. But his wife laughed about it. Rich laughed about it. It was funny for a while. He's actually, he's he was the one that I used to call my dad bus driver. Exactly. Yeah. Because he was like, he knew me since I was younger in the job. Yep. And he was like, I'm so proud of you. I'm so proud of you. Yep. And and he used to tell me all the time, he's like, Can I be one of their guys? And I'm like, of all of them, you could be on the top of the list. That's right. There you go. Because you asked. Yep, you asked. Yep, it's not the rumor. But the point I'm saying, Nicole, is let them say what they want to say. Yep. You know what's right and what's not right. Yep. And if they don't have the balls to say it to you, back to my sentence. Yep. Fuck them. Absolutely. Yep. God, I'm so proud of her today. I know. That got me so up. You should have heard me when I was copying and pasting it. I was sitting down here. Oh it brings you to your next five-minute love.

Hothead Texting Group Chats And MTV

Heather 37:10

You want to text back immediately or mentally respond and forget? I'm a text back immediately, but I'm a hothead. Oh, me too. I'm a hothead. I'm admittedly a hothead. I will explode. And it drives a lot of people crazy because I will explode and then in about two minutes be like, so you want to go get some ice cream? Come on. Let's go swing on the swing set. I'd like to answer this, but I'm quite sure everybody could assume. I'll let everybody assume. I hate when people assume, but they can assume on that one for me. Group chat or one-on-one gossip? Oh God, one-on-one. Uh-uh. I want both. I want the group chat so I can get the gossip to send to you. Oh wait! Oh I do. I only want the group chats I I want to be in. Because I hate when people put you in a group chat and and you're like, I'm like, stop group chat. Like my family has a group chat. Love it. But if you put me in a group chat and I don't know it, please don't. Please don't. Oh my god. Oh my gosh, I am making a group chat with you, right? Please don't. Okay, but I like you. I'm gonna do it. I have to. But I like you. No, I I prefer the one-on-one. Um a lot of the group chats I don't like because a lot of times I don't want to be in or the group chat will come through when I'm driving, and then my car, because my car is my car, it tells everybody that I'm driving. Right, right, it does. Yep. No matter how many times I turn that off, I cannot turn that off unless I unlock my Bluetooth. But the minute it the minute my car is turned on, it tells every so I will send, like I'll be in a group chat and I'll go ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, and then it's ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Like, yep. Yeah. So yeah. All right. Voice note or 900 separate text? Yes. Yes, all. Yes, all. Nicole and I do a lot of voice notes. I do a lot of voice notes with Eliza. Um, but I'm also the one that will text you and I've I've done it to you, you've done it to me. Hey, I gotta tell you something. Enter or return. And then I went to the store today, and then I yeah, so I will I'll do both. Yeah, I try not to do that for my dad because my dad prefers me to just say everything in a complete paragraph and then send him one text. So I try to do that for him, but uh then I end up voice to text. I I voice to text a lot, and and I hope people can understand it. Yeah, yeah. But voice note, Nicole and I do the voice note to each other a lot. Yeah, um, once in a while, if I want to have a topic that I don't want ears to hear, yeah, I'll I'll do it as a text. But generally speaking, she and I have switched mostly over to voice to text. Very cool. Unless she's at work or you know, whatever. But of course, dealing with people talking behind her back. Sorry. Oh, in that case, Nicole. Voice to text me while you're on lunch break. I got something for everybody. That just got me all riled up. All right, you take the last one because you you were intrigued. I was MTV spring break or TRL audience. Oh today or back when we are. Are we dating ourselves? Are we dating ourselves? I was just gonna say that. Wait, is it today? Are we do we want which one? Or do we want it from back when it was live? No, let's let's pretend perfect world is still going on the way it was supposed to be going on. So it's today. Yeah. TRL Live or TRL audience. Um, so I'm gonna take take the MTV sprint break because I've just was such an MTV person that no matter what they had on, it was rolling in the background. Uh whether I liked it or not, it was just there. So it's just I guess I would just have to say MTV because you never know when they'd sneak in a video. That's true. And then it turned into it was all videos, and then they started doing other stuff, and then headbaker's ball. Sorry. You guys can't see, but I'm smiling. Um, but if we do it back when they were doing it, I was all about the spring break. Yes, yes. But yeah, yeah, all right, guys. You better stay tuned for next week, man. Kyle will be here from the History Project, New Jersey History Project. Yeah, woohoo! Yep. All right, all right, guys. I guess we're done. See you. Yeah, see you. Have a good one. Bye.