Would you rather...the Episode we didn't know we needed

In today's episode, Michaelann is starting the week off rough, thankfully Nichole brings the comedy. After a rousing game of Would you Rather, and a lot of laughter, the rest of the week seems achievable. 

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SPEAKER_04 0:02

Hi, everybody. Welcome back to the next episode of Double Booked Official Podcast. Please, if you like what you hear here, follow us on all of our social medias as Double Booked Official Podcast and listen to us on Apple, Spotify, and watch us on YouTube. Subscribe, leave comments, leave your five-star reviews because we are essentially hilarious. Um if you are watching this or catching a clip, you'll notice that my background looks very different and sort of prison-like. And this is not too far from the truth. No, I'm not in prison. But we like to spend five or six weeks in the summer at in Ohio, where I am from, where all my cousins are and all the kids' cousins are, and family, and my dad, and my sister, and just having this great time. So uh we have arrived, and when I am in Cleveland, my workstation and my live station is in my mom's basement. Because where else would you want to be if you grow up, go to college, work hard, make sacrifices, become an executive, get married, have three kids, and make all the right decisions. You too could end up working in your mom's basement.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

Oh my gosh. But all the flip side to that is so positive. You know, the kids get to hang out with their cousins. Summers in the north are typically a little bit cooler. Now, I was just up there myself and can attest that it is hotter than Hades out there. And good luck. You took it with you. Okay. Oh, I'm so excited. Oh my gosh. Of course, it cools down when I leave.

SPEAKER_04 1:51

Um can I tell you how much I love this lipstick I'm wearing?

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Yeah, you really look gorgeous today. Like, not that you normally don't, but like today is extra.

SPEAKER_04 2:02

Today, what do you do? Well, okay, so first of all, today it's it's a myth. It's all a myth. It's just lighting and my Tatcha uh Botox in a stick and my glowy primer, because the reality is right now I feel like a duck spinning the water. Like I am like a one-legged duck trying to swim in a circle. Work life is insane. So that made me feel like I needed to put bring the red lipstick, and I brought the red lip, and this one is actually it's a Maybelline color, and it is called main character energy.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Ooh, I might have to add that to my cart. However, I don't know that I'm gonna be adding much to my cart until the Nordstrom sale because I am getting, I guess I've gone a little overboard since we moved, and if I can't find it, I've been ordering it, which is so terrible because I should be finding things, and instead, everything's just sitting in a box right now. So I don't know that I should order anything else, but maybe the lipstick will make the I mean the anniversary sale is coming up.

SPEAKER_04 3:08

I haven't marked in my calendar. I literally please tell me that I am not the only person who literally saves not only the actual day that I can start purchase, which you want to talk about who went overboard. Okay, I was so overboard in using my Nordstrom card this year that I have made like icon status. Like I've been to private parties at Nordstrom.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

That's insane. I aspire to be there one day. But as we're talking about as we're talking, this very instant, the previews are being posted. And no, yes, 10 minutes ago. Yes, so I cannot wait to hop on and see what is coming on. I like literally saved myself for months before buying stuff at Nordstrom so that I can literally stock up. And this year, I told myself I am obsessed with Veronica Beard. However, I can only buy like one piece at every little bit because it is a little bit pricey, but it is so well worth it because it's such good quality. But I am totally buying a Veronica Beard Pierce this year.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

Peace this year. Do what? Do you know what you want? Like in your mind, are you thinking like a blazer, a dress, a pant?

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Yeah, listen, it's either a blazer or a dress. That's my those are my go-to's. However, if there's a pair of jeans, I might even consider the jeans because I I like her jeans.

SPEAKER_04 4:32

I have so many jeans for you. I so when we got here last night, I unpacked and as surprisingly, I packed too much clothes, I think. But I don't know, I'm kind of loving my closet right now. Like I kind of feel like I've bought a couple, just a couple of really good key pieces, and I'm I'm loving. I feel like I've got a wardrobe.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Man, I'm proud of you because I am completely in this lump. Everything I want to just throw it all away and start new, which is so not what I'm gonna do, but I'm not in the I'm not in that headspace. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 5:12

Well, you could get there. There's hope for everybody if there's I mean, listen, the sale's coming up.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

Am I just take care of it?

SPEAKER_04 5:19

Yeah, I was craving Viore, just dropped their crimson colors for a lot of their products. They, you know, they launch in colors, and I loved it. And it's like a it's like not a true red, it's like almost like your shirt, like a red with a hint of peach. Oh it. And I was like, oh my god, I love that. But red is bold, I don't own a lot of red clothing, like that's a statement, and you can only kind of make that statement once, I feel like. So I don't buy a lot of red clothes, and then I was like, I have a Fiori gift card from some clothes I returned two years ago. Bingo on my account.

SPEAKER_01 6:02

Best day, best day, best day, I've been saving guess what I've been doing.

SPEAKER_04 6:07

What is your funniest story for me?

SPEAKER_01 6:09

Oh my god, so this is so good. So you never know who we never know who's really listening to the podcast, and and I've been thoroughly shocked by the amount of men that have been listening, and they they tend to be watching our shorts that we post. And so I was at dinner with my family. So went to Pennsylvania, we have a house up there, our whole family goes up for the Fourth of July weekend, and this time we had dinner with my cousins and my aunts and uncles, and so everybody there, there's probably 20 of us at dinner. And my aunt said, Oh my gosh, my husband and my uncle has been watching the podcast or you know, the pieces of it, and he was just dying laughing about the sports bra piece. And I was like, Yeah, you know, that was really funny, or whatever. And she's like, I had no idea why he was asking me the question. And then I realized it was because of the podcast. She goes, So we've we've been going down this rabbit hole, and I have to ask this question, and I think you need to ask everybody. And I was like, Okay. Uh oh. So she proceeds to say, Do you wear underwear with your pajamas at night? Or do you wear underwear at night? And oh my god, this I and so I'm asking you the question, but I'm also telling you, like, this opened up a can of worms at the dinner table. I have never laughed so hard in my entire life as I do at night. And so I, you know, listen, I do not wear underwear with my pajamas at night. And so we just thought that was so funny. She's like, oh my god, I of course do. And we're like, well, you gotta let let it breathe. Yeah, like we just went the next level, next level with it. So it's that that is the question for the audience today. Like, are you wearing underwear with your pajamas at night or at all? Period.

SPEAKER_04 8:06

No, I am not. To me, taking your underwear off at the end of the day is the equivalent of how other people feel about taking your bra off. Like, my bra doesn't really bother me that, but when I can take my underwear off and put my pajama pants on, yes, the heavens open. And I have bone to pick with you guys because I have been taking polls of all of my girlfriends, and at some point, all of you bitches gave up thongs, and nobody told me, nobody told me we were giving up thongs. I'm still running around here, lost in my butt cheeks, trying to avoid a panty line.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

I don't know the last time. I don't know the last time I wore them. I have not one pair in my drawer, I don't think.

SPEAKER_04 8:53

I have not one not pair. I don't even own any granny panties anymore. They're gone. I like cleaned it out, and I only wear thongs, and you people are like, let's go on a magical journey back to Grammy Pants land, and nobody told me, like, not one friend.

SPEAKER_01 9:08

Then you definitely look forward to taking yours off at the end of it. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 9:12

Although I want to say, I was, was I at the gym? I was somewhere where workout clothing was the thing recently, like within the last two weeks. And there was somebody who, like, she wasn't like she didn't, she wasn't unfit, like she didn't have like a bad body, or she wasn't like overweight or thing, you know, she didn't mom bod, right? And she was wearing granny panties with her leggings. And I gotta say, it didn't look good. It didn't, it looked like things are, you know, I I don't want to see the outline of your underwear, squishing some things out. Trust me, we don't need any help creating lumps. We need help with creating smooth lines. So I don't know. I might, I might just stay here longer.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Wow, not me. I just don't wear them with my leggings either.

SPEAKER_04 10:00

So I had a friend reach out also, like in the same vein. It was surprising me by watching or listening to our podcast, and she had listened to our peptide episode and had gone to her doctor and done like a full panel of tests and learned that she had an autoimmune disease that she didn't know she had. So I think we're saving lives.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

Wow, that's crazy. I do. Yeah, I I appreciate that. That's amazing. That's very good. Right, yeah. So, all right. So we're in the middle of summer. Yeah. You're in Ohio. I just got back from Pennsylvania. Like, what are you looking forward to the most? Right? You have six more weeks, probably, right, with the kids at home. Like, do you want them to stay on break? Are you ready for them to go back to school? Like, have you started thinking back to school yet?

SPEAKER_04 11:00

Uh, I have not. I saw my first Walmart ads for back to school shopping this week, and I was like, oh no, not yet. I'm really looking forward to next week because next week, for the first time, all of my children are going to sleep away camp together.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Adios. Bye-bye. Gotta go. So are you doing anything the other way, or is this just believe it? Where are you going? I am going on a work trip. Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

SPEAKER_02 11:31

Not really. That's kind of lame. Other people go to Europe. I'm going to some rural town in Middle East.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

I have been seeing a lot of people's kids at Kyomp and these amazing vacations that these couples are taking. And I'm not gonna lie, I've been have serious jealousy issues over here.

SPEAKER_04 11:49

Yeah, I yeah, we're we're not, it's okay. We're here for six weeks. Isn't that a vacation?

SPEAKER_01 11:56

Eek. I'm driving back to Florida for two weeks, so that'll be interesting.

SPEAKER_04 12:01

You're driving?

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Yeah, because I'm gonna be there for so long. I'm like, I might as well drive. It's only six hours, like it's not that terrible.

SPEAKER_04 12:08

Yeah, that's true, that's true. I'm just thinking about like we just drove last night. And you know, I was having this debate inside my head because the kids are older and they were on their like phones and iPads the the whole drive. Like we pit stopped for the weekend in North Carolina, so Florida to North Carolina, stayed there for three days, and then North Carolina to Ohio. So nine, 10, 11-hour days, and they literally are just on their iPads and phones the whole time. And I I and then you go through the cycle in your head, like tell them to put it down, tell them to stop, get bored, expand that creativity. We didn't have any electronics, and we would road trip all the time and blah blah blah, and count license plates and street signs, and you're doing your children a disservice. And I'm telling you, when we do, like, all right, guys, I heads down, all they do is fight. They just fight when they're in the car. Everybody's grumpy, nobody wants to be on the road trip. So we didn't fight at this time. We were just like, here's your extra. I'm with you.

SPEAKER_01 13:08

I'm with you. We had the same thing yesterday. We had a two-hour car ride, an hour at the airport, an hour and a half flight, and I was like, enjoy it. I mean, and you know, it is what it is. I don't find something fun you like to watch because this might be it for a while, but yeah, you can't.

SPEAKER_04 13:26

Yeah, of course. Today I woke up like, you better have 60 pages of your reading done, and I want oh god, the spelling, and I excel at math, and so you know, put the groceries away, lock the dogs.

SPEAKER_01 13:38

I can't wait to hear if this is actually happening while you're in your dungeon. Be self-sufficient, go make your own damn lunch. Yeah, right. Yeah, right. Oh god. Okay, so I've been looking at some different context for our podcast here. And I literally started laughing to myself when I when I found some of these questions. So I decided I am making this part of the podcast the would you rather? And I will probably chime in on some of these, but I'm gonna ask you because there are let's see, what uh like nine categories, I think, eight or nine categories of questions. So you're gonna get like one or two from each of them, and we will laugh out loud together about them. Okay, let's see. Oh, the this one isn't funny, but this is one for your relationship. Would you rather never argue again or always win every argument?

SPEAKER_04 14:48

Oh this is hard because I would like to pretend that I continue to grow as a human being. I I would I don't think I want to give up fights. I I think I'm not tired away from conflict. I don't don't hate conflict, and I think it can be very helpful to have conflict as long as it is respectful conflict. But I also like kudos to you if you can beat me in an argument, man. It's not easy. I'm not wrong with it.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

Oh, that's really funny. Okay, I think I know the answer to this one. Would you rather have a spouse who cooks every meal or cleans the entire house?

SPEAKER_04 15:45

Oh, okay, cleans. I say cleans.

SPEAKER_01 15:48

Yeah, I'm probably the same on that one. I it's nice for a cook every once in a while, and he does that, but cleaning would be especially picking up at night before everybody goes to bed.

SPEAKER_04 15:59

Yeah, my husband is a great cook. He doesn't cook often, but when he does, he's a really good cook. But he likes he fancies himself like a chef. So he uses every dish, every bowl, everything, every special weird, nuanced utensil. And so to have to clean up after that every meal would be really annoying.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Oh, that's a pain. No, thank you.

SPEAKER_04 16:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:18

Okay. This one has to do with mom life. Uh-oh. Would you rather do school drop-off forever or sports dance pickup forever?

SPEAKER_04 16:31

Oh, I like both of those.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

I gotta tell you, like, I do not mind. I actually don't mind school pickup if it was fitting in my schedule a little bit better because you get to hear, especially when you're running carpool, like you get all the goods, the gaslet for the week.

SPEAKER_04 16:46

Yeah, I'm gonna go with sports pickup because I'm not a morning person.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

Oh, really? We would make a good, we would make a good pair.

SPEAKER_04 16:55

You're a morning person? I am not me, man. I like I tell I can't get out of bed until somebody brings me a hot cup of coffee, and then I just lay there with her for a little while.

SPEAKER_01 17:07

I mean, I get up and do the coffee. I specifically do it before everybody gets up, so I have 15 to 30 minutes by myself. So I'm easy, you know, I am the one running the let's get out the door in the morning.

SPEAKER_04 17:20

I love that. We would make it, yeah, you're right. We would make a great wife and wife.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

Yeah, we would.

SPEAKER_04 17:25

Yeah, we need to make my daughter because my daughter's up at 6 a.m. every day. So you did the stepdad a little real early.

SPEAKER_01 17:32

I don't want the kids to be up at that time, right? I know.

SPEAKER_04 17:34

So you'd have to get up real early if you want some free time. Oh, yeah, I got a funny story. Speaking of which, so one of my cousins texted there's a group of us cousins that are all going out to dinner tonight, all moms, all busy, all crazy. And one of us has two boys. I have two boys and a girl, and another one has two boys, and then the other one has four girls. And she the one with the four girls, and girls are different than boys, they just are, and they're wonderful in all their great ways. So she texts us a picture over the weekend, and she's tubing on a river with some other friends, and they're girls, also. So girls, all girl kids, and ages between like six, five, six, and fourteen. That's the age range of these kids. And so they're floating, and she's like, You guys have got to go tubing with your kids. It is so relaxing. And both of us, boy parents, right? Like, we've gone tubing many times, it is so fun, it isn't relaxing. It is like taking a pile of puppies to the river, and she's like, No, no, no, no, no. They just float off with their friends and they leave the adults alone. And I was like, I don't know whose kids you're raising.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

I live this life this weekend, and we took a bunch of you know, five-year-olds and then my 11-year-old out on the tube, and they were on and off, on and off, on and off, on and off. And I was like, I stayed still, but I'm like, oh my gosh. Now I get it, so it didn't bother me. I was not there for relaxation, I can promise you that. And I was like, oh my gosh, they literally could. I'm like, they need a nap. Like they just had a serious workout.

SPEAKER_04 19:17

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's all fun. I love every bit of it, but wouldn't call it peaceful or relaxing. Definitely not. And mom, mom, mom, mom, mommy, mommy, mommy, look at this, look at this, look at this, look at this, watch me, watch me, hugs, kiss, hugs, kiss, help, help. This, I mean, it's there's no independence. So maybe I'm doing it wrong. Although my other boy cousin backed me up. She was also I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 19:49

Oh, okay. So then this would would you rather have teenagers forever or toddlers forever?

SPEAKER_04 19:56

Oh gosh. Oh, I love, I love my son who's a teenager. I know it's not always great, and sometimes he doesn't really like me around. I just love who he is becoming, but I mean it's no secret. I would have had a hundred more kids. So I don't, I take some toddlers too. So if I had to pick, I'm gonna go teenagers because I feel like my back would hurt a lot more with toddlers.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

Wow. Okay, I would take toddlers forever and ever. Um they're cute, they love you, they want to snuggle, they want to read books, and they just oh me and I'm early in my teenage years.

SPEAKER_04 20:38

You have one kid, and he's only 14. So maybe I'm still just jaded, or you know, looking at it through rose-colored glasses.

SPEAKER_01 20:46

Okay, so then think about this. Would you rather relive the newborn stage or the toddler stage?

SPEAKER_04 20:52

Newborn all day long. Give me some larva, just larva babies that just sleep and I guess it depends on what you like what you see new newborn tell.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

Is it like to three months? Is it to six months?

SPEAKER_04 21:04

Like, what's a newborn? Ten months is fantastic. Oh god, I love they're fat and chubby and they sleep to the night, but they can't walk yet.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

Great age, great age. I didn't, I I like newborns, don't get me wrong, but like zero to two months, meh, I could do without.

SPEAKER_04 21:23

Okay. See, this is another reason we would have been a great couple. I love the newborn phase. I love that zero to two months.

SPEAKER_01 21:31

Okay, let me move on to my next would you rather baby question. All right. Oh, these are good. Uh oh. This is in regards to friendship. Would you rather accidentally send your group chat screenshots to the person you're talking about or read your best friend's entire text history?

SPEAKER_04 21:52

Oh, I would love to read my best friend's entire text history. That I there is some drama there, I am sure. I'm in. I'm in for that. I'll volunteer for that.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

Yeah, I don't disagree with you on this one at all. Like I have done been the person that actually sent the text to the wrong and eek. I'm definitely not loving that feeling.

SPEAKER_04 22:15

How did you recover?

SPEAKER_03 22:17

You know, listen, sort of ignore.

SPEAKER_01 22:20

Yeah, like just ignore and move on. That's the only thing you can do, right? Yeah. I do crack up when other people do it. Like I've caught other people that have accidentally done it in a group chat, and I'll text them on the side. I'll be like, oh my God. And they're like, oh my God, I'm freaking out. Oh my God.

SPEAKER_04 22:39

I've accidentally I've accidentally hit reply all. I oh, I still live when we worked together. I still live with this panicky feeling. I accidentally hit reply all to a major client we were trying to land, talking about what a pain in the ass the major client was. I do remember this. Oh my God, I thought I was gonna get fired on the spot. And he had like a weird name too. So you couldn't even be like, oops, sorry, Rumble.

SPEAKER_03 23:14

I still wake up in a cold sweat some days thinking about that. It was terrible. I learned my lesson, Karma. I learned it.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

So far, I don't think I've been the receiving end of anything bad. You know what I mean? Like I'm thinking like, I don't think I've been on the receiving end.

SPEAKER_04 23:30

What would you do if like your employees were talking trash about you and accidentally sent it to you?

SPEAKER_01 23:36

Oh my god. I might laugh and then give them shit for a while.

SPEAKER_04 23:40

Yeah. I mean, listen, I'm not what is your leadership style at work when your employees are not performing to the level you expect?

SPEAKER_01 23:52

Oh, I think I I'd have to ask here, but I would say because I don't, it doesn't have that doesn't, I shouldn't say one sector of the business, it doesn't happen very often. The other side, I think I become extremely snarky and like very dire, like much more direct in my response. So there's no gray area of what how I'm feeling. It is pretty black and white if I'm not happy or not.

SPEAKER_04 24:18

Okay, so then they just pick up that you you are not happy with them and then they change their behavior, or do you ever like directly addresses?

SPEAKER_01 24:25

Yeah, we have direct patrons. Yeah, no, we directly address because no, I do remember this in my from my daily life. Like, no, I'm my husband's not a mind reader, and I'm not a mind reader. And so I treat it a lot like that. Like, hey guys, like if this is this is continuing to happen, this does not work for me, nor for the company, I'm going to need to see a change in X. And we talk through it, and it it isn't meant, I try to make it more educational than confrontational.

SPEAKER_04 24:59

Okay, I'll take some lessons on that.

SPEAKER_01 25:02

I would just say you also have to be prepared to let somebody go. And I say that because you do have to track it, but every time we have let somebody go, it the door has opened for something better. And I, you know, I hate to say that we're all replaceable, but I'm replaceable. I know that there's other people that have skill sets that I have, and that's okay. So I continue to strive and be my best every single day. Is I, you know, and those are my expectations for the team as well.

SPEAKER_04 25:36

Yeah, agree.

SPEAKER_01 25:39

No, is I I'm sensing there's some deepness here.

SPEAKER_04 25:44

There is, it's very relevant. Relevant.

SPEAKER_01 25:50

Well, then let's get back to the fun stuff. All right, travel.

unknown 25:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:55

Would you rather stay only stay in luxury hotels or only fly first class? And you cannot say both.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

Ugh. I'm gonna say in luxury hotels.

SPEAKER_01 26:08

Yeah, agree.

SPEAKER_04 26:09

If you're there longer than you're on a plane.

SPEAKER_01 26:13

True. Oh, this is good because I this is one that I battle. I shouldn't say I battle it, but this is relevant to our work lives. Would you rather lose your luggage or miss your flight?

SPEAKER_03 26:28

Lose my luggage.

SPEAKER_04 26:30

I don't I I would I would have like not FOMO, because I don't care about missing out on fun, but like I would feel awful if I missed a flight and couldn't make it to an important meeting or didn't, you know, get there to move the ball. Like, I'll just I can go into CVS and find replace toiletries and whatever and run into a Walmart and get a new outfit.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Did I ever tell you the story about Charlotte?

SPEAKER_04 26:55

You just show up in Charlotte like oopsie doopsies, forgot I was supposed to bring.

SPEAKER_00 27:00

Oh my god, I can't believe I forgot my entire suitcase in my car.

SPEAKER_04 27:04

I literally don't even understand that. Although I went camping, I took a bunch of girls, I'm the Girl Scout troop leader, and we took our Girl Scouts camping for their first time last year. And one of them, there's only four mum chaperones, and one of the mum chaperones forgot to bring anything, like anything. We're camping. She has no pillow, no blanket, no sweater, no clothes, no bug spray, no food, no toilet, toothbrush, nothing.

SPEAKER_01 27:27

Like she just she forgot it, or she just didn't think she needed this.

SPEAKER_04 27:31

I don't know what, I don't know what happened. She had like all the things for her daughter, and we had sent out like packing lists and blah blah blah. And she packed all those things for her daughter and packed nothing. Like wasn't it wasn't like it was sitting on our kitchen sink and she forgot to bring it. She didn't pack anything for herself at all. She like forgot she was a human on the trip, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 27:54

Wow. She we might need to check on her, she might be overwhelmed. Yeah. Dang, I will say I'll never forget my first camping trip. And my aunt and I were just talking about it this weekend. She forgot to tell us that we needed the coldest day in Florida history, and we go camping in a tent. And my mom and I are just not campers in a tent, and she didn't tell me how she convinced you to go. Yeah, right. I was also I was very much younger than I am now, and she forgot to tell us we needed an air mattress. She forgot to tell us that we could bring a space heater. Like it was all right. I don't think I had a space heater in a tent for the record. Oh my god. Well, it was the coldest day ever.

SPEAKER_04 28:38

Yeah, you could it's still flammable. Well, I've done a lot of camping and I've done a lot of cold weather camping, and I don't think you should have a space heater. That would be I would be like, uh, it's gonna tip over and we're gonna die. We're gonna be burned and incinerated in space.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

So what do you do for cold weather camping?

SPEAKER_04 28:56

First, you gotta get off the ground.

SPEAKER_01 28:58

So like a real air address.

SPEAKER_04 29:00

I actually have a battery-powered and it and it's safe, like it's just it's not the space heater technology, but it's like a heated blanket, but it runs on batteries, rechargeable batteries.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

Well, when I go to camp in 20 more years, they'll do that because I'm definitely not doing it now.

SPEAKER_04 29:20

Yeah, and you can get the like little hand warmer thingies that you use for skiing. Yeah, stick them in, put a pair of socks on, then put one of those little hand warmers, then put another pair of socks.

unknown 29:31

Great.

SPEAKER_04 29:32

Keep your feet warm, you'll be good.

SPEAKER_01 29:34

I mean, stay here for camping tips from Michael Ann.

SPEAKER_04 29:38

I've got them. I'm a child.

SPEAKER_01 29:42

Okay, now we're gonna go to beauty and wellness.

SPEAKER_04 29:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

Would you rather give up Botox forever or skincare forever?

SPEAKER_04 29:52

Botox. Bye-bye, Botox. Yeah, I'm ready to do this now, I think. Oh, did I tell you my aunt said I should just get a facelift? Yeah, she's listening to our episodes and it was like, just go get a facelift. I'm like, whoa, whoa. Are you saying?

SPEAKER_01 30:12

Yeah, that is aggressive. Yeah. All right. Would you rather sleep eight hours every night or eat whatever you want without gaining weight? Eat whatever I want. Me too. We go to so many great restaurants. Like in our lines of work, we are we entertain clients, and I would say we tend to go to some really cool places, and I always just want to stuff my face.

SPEAKER_04 30:35

You go when I'm entertaining clients or I am out for my job, we're going to like Chipotle and Texas Roadhouse. You lie.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

You lie.

SPEAKER_04 30:46

But my husband, who's on the Michelin star bandwagon, he chases those stars everywhere. I would hate to give that up.

SPEAKER_01 30:55

Okay, this is an easy one. I'm pretty sure I know where both of us stand on this. Would you rather work out every day at 5 a.m. or never exercise again?

SPEAKER_04 31:05

What are the repercussions of like, am I never exercising again? And I will just be like flabby.

SPEAKER_01 31:11

Take it out, take it where you want because you just got done eating everything you wanted to eat.

SPEAKER_04 31:16

I gotta exercise. I guess I'm gonna have to become a morning person then. I gotta exercise. I like to exercise.

SPEAKER_01 31:22

I don't want to though. I definitely don't want to. I hate working out. Okay. All right. Would you this is money? I didn't read, I didn't read the money ones. Would you rather only shop at Target or only shop on Amazon?

SPEAKER_04 31:41

Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 31:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:46

I don't even go to Target very much anymore because of Amazon.

SPEAKER_01 31:49

Sorry. Yeah, that's a true statement. Would you rather have a personal chef or a housekeeper?

SPEAKER_04 31:55

Chef? That sounds like fun.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

So you can have a personal chef and your husband cleaning the house. Exactly. This is totally onto something here. I know. Okay, here are what they consider funny ones. I don't know if I find these funny. Would you rather always have crumbs in your bed or always have wet socks?

SPEAKER_03 32:20

Oh, crumbs in my bed. Crumbs in my bed. I hate wet socks.

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Yeah. Okay, this is a good one. This is kind of like the text. Would you rather have your Google search history read aloud or your camera roll shown on a screen?

SPEAKER_04 32:35

Camera roll on the screen for sure.

SPEAKER_02 32:38

Oh my god, nobody better deep dive into my Google history.

SPEAKER_01 32:42

I know. I know. Totally agree. Okay. Would you would you rather be stuck in an elevator with your boss or your mother-in-law?

SPEAKER_04 32:54

Oh either. Either one. I enjoy both of them. Maybe my boss, because we have the same sense of humor, so we'd probably just although my mother-in-law, I mean, if anybody's getting us the heck out of there, it's my mother. Right? She is resourceful.

SPEAKER_01 33:12

Okay. Now I'm gonna give you some rapid fire.

SPEAKER_04 33:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 33:18

Coffee or cocktails?

SPEAKER_04 33:20

Coffee.

SPEAKER_01 33:21

Early flight or red eye. Neither.

unknown 33:27

Right.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

Yeah, but I've seen her in the airport at 6 a.m. So early flight. Okay, beach or mountains. Mountains. Fancy dinner or takeout on the couch.

SPEAKER_04 33:38

Fancy dinner.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

Planner or wing it.

SPEAKER_04 33:43

Planner. Super planner.

SPEAKER_01 33:45

Text or phone call. I know, right? Text or phone call. Probably text. Grocery pickup or shop yourself.

SPEAKER_04 33:59

Grocery pickup.

SPEAKER_01 34:01

Splurge on shoes or handbags?

SPEAKER_04 34:04

Handbags. I wear the crap out of my shoes. I mean, like, I I can't spend like $500 on a pair of shoes because shoes aren't gonna make it more than maybe two seasons.

SPEAKER_01 34:17

I totally agree. And I my handbags I have forever and ever, and they don't, I mean, listen, some of them look worn. According to the lady at the Gucci store, you should not wear your purse every day. And I told her, if if I'm but paying this much for a purse, I'm wearing it every fucking day.

SPEAKER_04 34:38

Every day. Yes. Every day.

SPEAKER_01 34:42

So well, thanks for joining in on my fun because I thought those were great. I popped up this morning, and I was like, oh, we're gonna play a little game today. This is so cool.

SPEAKER_04 34:51

I do way harder ones than my kids. Like, would you rather have to put ketchup on everything you eat for the rest of your life or mustard?

SPEAKER_01 34:59

Well, neither.

SPEAKER_04 35:00

Yeah, right? Tough cough.

SPEAKER_01 35:03

Eek. No. So that was fun. So what else has been happening? Or what else are you looking forward to for the trip up there?

SPEAKER_04 35:12

Um, so we have our big family reunion in August, which I'm really excited. We don't always get to go because in Florida the kids go back to school pretty early. And it's the reunion's always the second Saturday of August. And a lot of times my kids have to start school that Monday or Tuesday. And so we can't be there and then be back in Florida in time. But this year we get to go, and I'm so excited. And it's usually about 150 to 200 relatives. It dates back to this will be our 121st. Last year was our 120th, so it was a big celebration. And we get together, and it's so great to be that close with like that many, like that far out of the extended family. Cause I I don't think that a lot of people have that ability that know your second cousin toys are moved or whatever. Right. That's great. I'm very excited.

SPEAKER_01 36:04

And then what do you do with these family reunions? And are they like all weekend? What is it? What do you do?

SPEAKER_04 36:10

So the big day is Saturday. That's where we do all the events. So most people will come in on Friday. We t we sleep in tents. We camp in tents. Although some people are now bringing campers because that's a thing now, but I still sleep in tents, and my kids are sleeping in tents with me. And my boys even put the tent up now and get it all set up, and I don't even have to do anything, which is great. So on Saturday, it starts at like noon. We do a family prayer, and then we have a catered lunch, and then we have a bunch of kids' games, like old school, like the egg toss, and you know, no hands eating through the whipped cream to get the bubblegum and tug-of-war and things like that, and corn bag, cornhole bag tournaments. And then we have um a DJ that comes and we dance, and everybody has like you know, beer or soda, like whatever you like to drink. Some drinking, we are Irish, which I find makes us much more talented dancers, if I'm being honest.

SPEAKER_01 37:09

Uh do not disagree. I can sing and dance like no other after a few drinks.

SPEAKER_04 37:17

To be fair though, you can sing and dance like no other. Sober. I've seen it, it's very entertaining. I don't know that it's that show on the road.

SPEAKER_01 37:28

It's not good. It is no good.

SPEAKER_04 37:30

So good, it's so good. You are such a performer, you have such a stage presence. I love it. I love it. One day there will be video. I saw, I think, I don't remember where it was, but somewhere near our houses a few weeks ago, a pit bull cave. But I think he's at like a large venue.

SPEAKER_01 37:52

He was at the amphitheater, right?

SPEAKER_04 37:54

And everybody was so excited. And I was like, oh, I have seen him much closer.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

So I am so I'm glad you brought this up. I am so impressed that this man has grown the age category from the kids in middle school and high school through my parents' age. I that is that is talent, Mr.

SPEAKER_04 38:15

Worldwide.

SPEAKER_01 38:16

Mr. 305, the tickets were like three and four hundred dollars a piece to the amphitheater, which is pretty it's out of control.

SPEAKER_04 38:24

Music, like true artist, music like celebrity, it's unattainable. It's unattainable. Yeah, like okay. You know, the acoustics aren't even good.

SPEAKER_01 38:36

I agree. I think our the pitbull concert that we went to was like the best.

SPEAKER_04 38:42

The best, which I was thinking recently, we need to find a way to go dancing. Is this whole thing? Do people still go dancing? Like, you can't go to the clubs anymore, but we sound so old. Can we just go like do a foxt somewhere?

SPEAKER_01 38:59

Yeah, I was just saying, let's go down to the soda pop shop and do a little jig or the USL club.

SPEAKER_03 39:09

Such an old soul.

SPEAKER_04 39:13

Did you used to go to clubs in Tampa when you were like just college and immediately post-college? Where did you go? Where did you go? Oh, Whiskey South. You did. They that was the best. Whiskey South was the best.

SPEAKER_01 39:29

Oh my god. Oh, when they I was there for the last night, and I think you told me Jason was there for the last night, also. Yeah, I was there for the last night, the closing party, and like I loved it there.

SPEAKER_04 39:41

Yeah, it was the best. It's been unmatched ever.

SPEAKER_01 39:44

It has been unmatched. I totally agree. Yeah. I'm always up for dancing, so just tell me where it went.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

Where do the old ladies go dancing? If anybody has a suggestion, please drop it in the comments.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

When I was living in Tampa, like on Thursday nights in Carrollwood at the Sacred Pepper, the ladies it was like the Cougar's Den, and the ladies would dance there. It got a little dicey.

SPEAKER_04 40:13

That's not what I mean, just to be clear.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

Totally no, but you should go witness it for yourself.

SPEAKER_04 40:23

Have you ever thought about like what is it that? Oh, Becca. Okay. I was asked to do a survey over the weekend. Like people were just walking around taking surveys. I think it was on behalf of like Duke Energy or something. Deep Duke Energy owned this portion of this like conservation area. Long sorry, not important. Anyway, so the lady needed to know my age category, and she suggested to me 25 to 35?

SPEAKER_00 40:55

That's a win.

SPEAKER_04 40:57

I know. I was like, yes, obviously. But have you ever thought about like trying to narrow down and pinpoint what it is that makes people instantly recognize your approximate age? I do this a lot. Like, yes, okay, there's the obvious wrinkles, but if you could get rid of wrinkles, what else? Is it your style of dress, your hairstyle, what you're wearing, what shoes you're wearing, how you carry yourself? Like, what are all the pieces? And again, I'm not trying to be 20 years younger than I actually am. I'm saying, hey, I would like people to maybe be confused for a five-year window.

SPEAKER_01 41:38

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_04 41:40

Like I'm not trying to be.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

Yeah, it's an interesting question because I was thinking this morning as I was like writing notes down, I was thinking about fashion in general and fashion for our age category. It feels slightly off at the moment. I don't, I guess I shouldn't say off. I don't know what's appropriate and what is not, because I'm seeing things across the board. You get some of these women who think it's power to them if you can pull off something that shows your stomach like wide open. Love it. I wish I had the confidence. So is that appropriate? Or, you know, some of these dresses sort of look like moo moos and they're cute. Some of them are cute, but like, is that appropriate? Like, I keep going back and forth on what is the right style. I think our age category is lost in style at the moment.

SPEAKER_04 42:24

I agree. Although, come back to my closet because I'm rather happy with it right now. I have noticed, I've noticed this for probably the last, I don't know, probably two years, but my husband just started noticing it that nobody wears bras anymore. Oh, really? Yeah, bras are out with not our generation. Well, shouldn't be, but the younger, like column 20-year-olds. They're just they're not wearing the bras anymore. And he's like, you know, what why, you know, this is good, right? Isn't it more comfortable? And men, we don't mind, and you know, but but I was like, be careful of the floodgates you're opening.

SPEAKER_01 43:08

No doubt.

SPEAKER_04 43:09

Oh, but that's the thing, nobody wears the bras anymore.

SPEAKER_01 43:12

I did not know that. I haven't noticed, I guess. Listen, I I feel as if I've been in an oblivion for a while now. I shouldn't say a while, a few months. And I feel as if I just have blinders on and like don't give a shit about anything else around me. Like I'm like focus, laser focused, which is not the best way to be. But I I think I'm gonna come out of it soon.

SPEAKER_04 43:34

Oh, well, join me, join me back in the rest of society where they've stopped wearing bras, but we have gone back to thongs.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

So you wish, you keep telling yourself this. Let me see your Amazon cart right now. Right? Seamless granny panties. Of course, of course. Okay, so you mentioned the Botox stick. I'm back into looking at different things for my face again because I'm obsessed. And I found a new vitamin C that I'm trying. So give me a few weeks and I'll report back to everybody and then I'll share it if I like it.

SPEAKER_04 44:18

I also doing the didn't you the weren't you the friend that tried the um thing, some other thing that was everywhere, and you were supposed to report back?

SPEAKER_01 44:30

I tried the one, I want to say it was Chrissy Teagan. Did the smells like plums, plume? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that is amazing.

SPEAKER_04 44:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

I will I will post that because it really I feel it has hydrated my skin so much. I've been using it at night. It's an oil serum. And just for the record, I'm a pretty dry-skinned person. And I will say I feel way more hydrated. Okay. So that one's been really good. I also just I got some serum that's also an exfoliator. So it's new. I don't know what it's called. I'll post it. But again, I'm in test phase right now for it. So I've just been trying some other pieces. Uh next on my list is eyeshadow. So if anybody has any recommendations on eyeshadow, I'm gonna be in the market. Probably gonna buy it in the sale, Nordstrom sale. So we'll see. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 45:29

All right. Well, let us know if you find anything else that is helpful or is working. And if you're looking for eyeshadow, can you also teach me how to put it on?

SPEAKER_01 45:37

Because I don't know how to use it. Oh my god, I've been watching some tutorials. The other things that have been so ever since our episode on peptides and all of that, I've been looking at I'm trying a new protein powder, I'm trying a new magnesium gummy. So, like I'm trying the things. I slept, so I'm trying the magnesium gummies last night, and I slept so good until my daughter walked in at 2 a.m. with a hundred and three fever.

SPEAKER_04 46:07

Oh no, yeah. So oh no, poor baby. You said the magnesium gummies you got because I could use a good night's sleep.

SPEAKER_01 46:16

Yeah, they, I mean, listen, there's obviously you gotta keep taking them for it to work really, really well, but I felt like I was in a deep sleep.

SPEAKER_04 46:24

I am having a peptide struggle. So if anybody can help me with this, so I decided to do glutathione. I've been doing it liposomal for years and love it and have really, really noticed the impact. So I thought, all right, I found an FDA approved or regulated compounding pharmacy. So it felt like it had safe, you know, sterility and efficacy. And I'm like, I'm gonna inject it now and see if that even amps it up a little further. So they sent it to me with like these aren't even needles. I don't know what these are. These are like I can't, I don't these are like epidurals, like I can't use this needle that they send. It's huge. And so then I just got like insulin needles. And then when I try to use them, I think because of the viscosity of the glutathione, it's not getting into the muscle, it's kind of sitting on the surface, and then it hurts, and then it's like a bubble, and then it eventually goes away. But obviously, I'm doing something wrong. Can anybody help me with this?

SPEAKER_01 47:29

Okay, that's interesting. I think that's what I just bought. So I'll fill you in if my needles are the same or what have you.

SPEAKER_04 47:37

Okay. Or where you're like maybe I'm just putting it in. It's supposed to be a muscular, so I use my thighs because they're pretty, but apparently they're still too fatty.

SPEAKER_01 47:46

I mine did not say that, but let's let's compare notes for sure. If anybody has any suggestions, I'm we're all yours.

SPEAKER_04 47:55

Yeah. Um, all right. Well, today's episode was exactly what I needed today for the high stress day job that I have. I needed this levity and this break. So I really appreciate it. And again, if anybody else needed this levity and this humor today, remember to subscribe and like and share and post and follow along on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and watching us on YouTube at Double Booked Official Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 48:24

See you later.