14. Election Year Oddities and Digital Love Labyrinths: Tales of Travel, Brunch, and Online Romance

Ever wondered what happens to your Airbnb bookings when an election year rolls around? Nikki and Misty here, stirring up the Small Town Big Mouth atmosphere with a concoction of head-scratching trends in travel nurse accommodations and the cryptic impact of political cycles on consumer behavior. We're not just your local bar chatter; we're diving into the quirks of the economy with a side of laughter and a dash of bewilderment.

Swipe left on boredom and tap into the hilarity of online and speed dating debacles with us, your trusty guides through the maze of digital love. We're sharing the nitty-gritty of being ghosted post-match, the adrenaline rush of speed dating bingo, and the age-old question of who should text first. It’s a no-holds-barred look at the pursuit of love in the modern era, complete with the peculiar perils of "hat-fishing" and the often overlooked importance of clean feet.

Brunch in Fresno's Tower District? Check! Luggage fiascos with Allegiant Airlines? You bet! We're dishing out our latest escapades, from the savory to the cringeworthy. It's all wrapped up with a shoutout to our fabulous Small Town Big Mouth community, a teaser of Vegas shenanigans, and a call to join us on social media for the afterparty. So grab that mimosa, kick back, and let's shake things up together!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Good afternoon and welcome back to Small Town Big Mouth. This is your favorite bartender, Nikki.

Speaker 2: 0:07

And I'm just gonna say good morning, good afternoon and good evening, cause we don't know when you're listening, Nick.

Speaker 1: 0:13

Well, it's my evening, I don't even know. Did I say good morning?

Speaker 2: 0:16

You said good afternoon.

Speaker 1: 0:16

Whatever?

Speaker 2: 0:17

Hi, this is Misty aka Dolce, and welcome back.

Speaker 1: 0:23

We're missing Amber. Today she is. She's gone in Vegas, she's drunk, she's on a plane home, but she could still be drunk. That could possibly be 100%. So Misty wanted to start off today with talking about. Yeah, okay, you threw me through a loop and I'm still. I was trying to look something up about it, so go ahead.

Speaker 2: 0:44

Oh yeah, you can continue on while I tell people. But so this is what I thought was really crazy and I want to sound bite this because I want your feedback, I want to hear from you, I want comments, because I run an Airbnb and I host travel nurses and right now it has been desolate for a month and it's never been like this. Like ever since, even prior to COVID, I've always had it rented out and maybe I'll have one week at the most and I mean I have shot the numbers up and still I'm rented. Well, because it's been two, three weeks, I'm like, okay, let me go in, let me drop the rates. Maybe that's what I have to do Drop the rates, still nothing.

Speaker 2: 1:28

And I'm like this is so weird. Checking all my settings, I'm live, my unit's live, right, and so I'm just tripping out because I'm not even getting people chiming in and asking questions. Okay, so I'm telling my friends about this and people I know, and they say to me oh yeah, don't you know? It's an election year. I'm like, oh yeah, and like so what? So I'm tripping out because they're like yeah, as it gets closer, which would be November, like more and more people strap down and things don't move, because they're all waiting to see.

Speaker 1: 2:05

So they hunker down and don't spend money, don't work. What?

Speaker 2: 2:09

That's what I don't know. That's why I'm like I wanna hear from you guys.

Speaker 1: 2:11

Yeah, because you rent to mostly travel nurses.

Speaker 2: 2:14

Yeah, but I've rented to construction workers.

Speaker 1: 2:18

I rent to you know anybody really Right, but the majority of your business is to travel nurses.

Speaker 2: 2:25

Yeah Well, honestly, for people that don't live in California, you probably heard we're trying to do a high speed rail and it's gonna take, you know, 50 years, but we're doing it and so I get even the guys working on the high speed rail Nothing. That's crazy.

Speaker 1: 2:41

And when we were talking about this before we got on I still can't remember, but I remember something. I was doing something or I said something and someone was like, oh yeah, well, you know, because it's an election year. And I was like, okay, and I know there's connotations that come with it being an election year, but what exactly are those? Cause I tried to like look it up right now and it's all about like stocks and stuff. So that's what it's basically telling me stuff about stocks. There's like the interest rates go down during an election year to stocks, something about stocks, blah, blah, blah. But there's nothing and I don't feel like I was talking about fucking stocks to somebody. So whatever I was talking about, they were like oh yeah, blah, blah, blah, an election year. I don't think it was gas going down.

Speaker 2: 3:21

Did you hear about gas?

Speaker 1: 3:22

Yeah, cause I know I just got gas the other day and it was like 385.

Speaker 2: 3:26

Which that's good, right, it's cheap. I drive a Tesla. I have an idea.

Speaker 1: 3:29

Yeah, I know it's. That's actually really cheap and that wasn't even at Costco. Was that just a gas station down the street?

Speaker 2: 3:35

So and I've heard that because we're going into the election year so gas prices drop Right.

Speaker 1: 3:40

But I guess Misty's question is you guys like okay, what happens during an election year? And we're not talking about stocks what happens that people stop renting I guess, airbnb's, or traveling or going out? I haven't seen any change in the bar business, though these are kids, they don't care.

Speaker 2: 4:02

Yeah, they don't care.

Speaker 1: 4:03

Election year what, yeah, they're like. Can we get a drink there? Cool yeah, okay On it.

Speaker 2: 4:10

Okay, and so that's. I'm just gonna end it there. We'll keep it short with the news piece.

Speaker 1: 4:14

Yeah. So if we can get Amber to do a sound bite of this little conversation, we can throw it on TikTok and maybe some people can chime in to what. What does that saying mean to you? Oh, it's, it's cause it's an election year. What does that mean? Prices are cheaper. You don't do something, you don't. Inflation rates are gonna go down. What does that saying say to you? What does it, what does it mean?

Speaker 2: 4:35

Cause I've never said that.

Speaker 1: 4:37

Right In my whole life.

Speaker 2: 4:38

Oh, because it's election year. I just don't think like that.

Speaker 1: 4:41

I guess I know I've heard it, I just don't know what it was in connotation to. You know what we were talking about, the context of our whole cause. Like I said, everything on the internet says stocks, but I am not talking to someone about stocks, I promise you and I guarantee you, whatever I was talking about, it was at the bar. So yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1: 4:58

Okay, very curious, yeah All right, so chime in for that, guys. Yes, so now onto our. We are. We're missing Amber today, as we already said, but it's okay, because Misty and I Misty and I a few weeks ago, did something really fun.

Speaker 2: 5:14

For the first time.

Speaker 1: 5:15

It was our first time for both of us, and did you have fun?

Speaker 2: 5:19

I actually did. We both had fun oh good you did too.

Speaker 1: 5:21

Yeah, it was speed dating. I don't really talk too much, yeah. Well, cause afterwards I feel like we went across and got a drink and then we were kind of a little tipsy and then we all went home.

Speaker 2: 5:30

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 5:31

So we haven't really seen. And then Misty's was missed our last episode, so she wasn't here at the last two episodes, which we recorded in one day, and so that's why. So this is our first chance to see each other, yes. So, with that being said, yes, I had fun. It was. So. You date online? Yes, and I date online, yep. So the thing with online dating is do you find this a lot? I'll match with someone, okay, and then I don't hear a fucking single thing from them, not even a hello. How are you? How's nothing? We just matched. Okay, cool, now my job is done. What suck my dick? I don't know.

Speaker 2: 6:05

Wait, so are you talking. Which app are you talking?

Speaker 1: 6:08

about Any of them.

Speaker 2: 6:09

No, but with Bumble you have to Okay.

Speaker 1: 6:11

yeah, with Bumble. Yes, but I'm talking about like Hinge or like Facebook dating, but you match on Bumble.

Speaker 2: 6:16

Yeah, you reach out, and then they don't even say anything back Sometimes they don't. Really.

Speaker 1: 6:21

Yeah, it's weird.

Speaker 2: 6:22

Then why fucking match with me?

Speaker 1: 6:23

Yeah, that's what I'm saying there was one guy on Facebook dating. He was really cute and so like I matched with him, right, oh, that's right, you do. I matched, I swiped on him. Well, he had already swiped on me, because you can tell, like if you swipe first and it just kind of like sits there until they swipe and then you match, okay. So I swiped and it said, oh, you're a match, so he had already matched with me. So I swipe, I wait a couple of days, nothing. So I'm like, hi, hello, how are you?

Speaker 2: 6:47

Because Facebook only Bumble is where we have to reach first. Yes, yes, yes, yes, so he has to reach, or he should, because he's the guy. Well, he should should. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1: 6:54

But he was cute. So I thought, okay. So I'm like, hi, hello, how are you? So then nothing happens. So then I wait like another day and I'm like so then I'm like, oh man, I'm like, did you swipe right, and you meant to swipe left, because I fucking done that too, guy, and he was just. Then he came back. He was like you're funny. And I was like I'm not trying to be funny, I'm trying to fucking understand why we matched. I said hello and then nothing, I go. It took me asking you some dumb question for you to like, but I think he won't listen to this. I don't think he's very smart.

Speaker 2: 7:26

I know he's not the smartest, wait, the sharpest tool in the shed. Yeah, I say that one.

Speaker 1: 7:31

I just don't think he was very smart. But let's talk about our speed dating, okay.

Speaker 2: 7:35

So yes, I do online, you do online.

Speaker 1: 7:37

Yes.

Speaker 2: 7:37

So are you going to do a comparison with speed dating to this?

Speaker 1: 7:40

Well, I think that's what I started to say. Was it's just nicer speed dating? That's what I was going to say, because they're not. They're not not saying hi and ignoring you.

Speaker 2: 7:48

They're sitting at your fucking table and you know they're real.

Speaker 1: 7:51

Yes, you know they're real. Yeah, you know exactly what they look like. Right, she gave us like a bingo card and so you could play bingo and I know Misty cheated, because the thing was you could only ask two questions off the bingo sheet. Oh, I think you were asking, like the guys, all the question, like each guy, you were asking him all the questions. My understanding was and now maybe I'm wrong too was that you could only ask each person two questions.

Speaker 2: 8:20

Maybe, so so, but I you want, and it doesn't matter, you won free line dancing, whatever, which I gave away, but here, but if the two questions, I think you're right, because it was like if you get stuck and you don't know, have anything to say.

Speaker 1: 8:34

Right.

Speaker 2: 8:35

I've we got this little bingo card. You can use these questions.

Speaker 1: 8:38

No bitch, I was playing bingo. They sat down. I'm like, hey, I'm playing bingo, we're gonna play this, are you ready? Yeah, I didn't even give him a chance.

Speaker 1: 8:47

Okay it was just easier that way, because then I didn't have to like be fake or think of something stupid to say and like I don't know. Like the first guy, I thought this was easy, right. I'm like so let's see our first question Do you have Netflix? He's like oh no, I don't have Netflix. And I'm just like who the fuck doesn't have? Fucking, I don't have.

Speaker 2: 9:07

So I was actually nope, don't have Netflix because I pay for it.

Speaker 1: 9:13

Yeah, you said yeah. So the guys that you matched with okay. So how it works is you can play this bingo thing or not play the bingo thing. You at the end of the thing, you get like Everyone's name and there's like a yes, no or coffee. So it's yes, I'd go out with them, no, I wouldn't, or I'd go have coffee with them, right. So Me, I'm like I forgot like from the first one already, because there was like 12 dudes. So I'm like walking around, I'm like I'm looking at him. I was like, oh, yeah, I remember that guy. Okay, that's a no. Yeah, that guy. Okay, we maybe could have coffee you know that's what I was doing.

Speaker 1: 9:45

Yeah, and you would said you had forgotten. Then I said, hey, I just kind of walked around. Look to the beginning. You're like I should have done that because they were all still there.

Speaker 2: 9:52

Yeah, I was like well, friend came, and I was like oh yeah and so did you talk to any of the guys.

Speaker 1: 9:59

So what happens is you, if you match with these people I'm not telling you for you, I'm you, we know, telling our listeners if you match with this person. She texts you the chick that runs it and says these are your people that would go out with you, this is your person that would go on a coffee date with your people, or whatever. And then she gives you their numbers, but she also gives them your number.

Speaker 2: 10:18

Yes, and I was telling people that because they're like, oh, you got to reach out first. I go no, no, like we turn in those cards and those men have their names on theirs, we have our names on ours, and then which I thought was brilliant- right. And I thought she was very organized. Oh no, super organ is because I was talking to other people that have done speed dating and they're like oh, I like that better.

Speaker 1: 10:37

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 10:37

So however she figured to do it has been better than they've done it in the in the Valley and we have nothing to compare it to Because we've never done it. Yeah, yeah so then she has these cards and obviously, if a guy has said second date but you say no, she's not, that's an oh, that's like nothing, nothing's happening, right? He said no, like you have to say coffee and he has to say coffee.

Speaker 1: 10:59

There was one, though, that I think I I don't know what I put. I maybe I left it blank and she said this guy would go out with you, but you left it blank and she goes, so I gave you his number. Oh, okay, I just it was either. I couldn't remember who he was.

Speaker 2: 11:17

Oh, so I have her. I said can you?

Speaker 1: 11:19

she sent pictures.

Speaker 2: 11:20

Yeah, yeah, I can use screenshot my my form, because I put little notes off to the side and I couldn't remember did she send you that she did.

Speaker 1: 11:30

Did she send you pictures of people would? If you didn't, I Okay. So I good that you got pictures. I said I didn't remember who this person was and then I got two pictures. Good for her.

Speaker 2: 11:40

Yeah, she was taking off their Facebook.

Speaker 1: 11:43

Yeah, she's, because that's how they found her was on Facebook. So everyone has a Facebook I don't even think to do that.

Speaker 2: 11:48

Yeah, oh, that was brilliant.

Speaker 1: 11:49

Yeah, okay, no, she's smart, she's got this, I know yeah.

Speaker 2: 11:52

I love because it was organized through Facebook, and also what I did here and I think she told me this Um that guys which I could see, this guys ended up bowing out. Oh, yeah, yeah and more girls stayed true you know because they pay by the way. So you pay like ten dollars, yeah, it was minimal though.

Speaker 1: 12:11

Yeah, so I get bowing out like if you really are like, no, I'm not gonna do so. When we walked in, remember the two guys it was like a taller Hispanic guy and a shorter Hispanic guy, and I kept saying, because they were out in the parking lot when we parked it.

Speaker 2: 12:23

Yes.

Speaker 1: 12:24

I, I feel like they were the last two people that like on the bottom. I just feel like it was them, because they walked in, they looked around, they never ordered anything and then they left.

Speaker 2: 12:34

They did the scan of the women.

Speaker 1: 12:35

Yeah, and whatever, they were young well, yeah, I'm not yeah.

Speaker 1: 12:42

But the age group was 35 to 50, okay, and I'm over 50, but I did reach out to her and said I'm over 50, but I feel like, but Nikki look good. Yeah, I feel and feel like Nikki look good and I also feel like I don't date, you know, I mean I do if they're young and fun and spunky, but I mean I just feel like 50s, so like fuck, you're 50. You know what I mean. So yeah, but I feel like those two guys were on the were on the ballot and didn't make it Probably. Yeah, so go ahead. So she said that these, well, more women stay.

Speaker 2: 13:10

Oh, but they actually showed up because she knew prior to the ones that weren't gonna make it.

Speaker 2: 13:16

They had told her okay and which I think is a courtesy, to do so. If you're not gonna make it, as you, so for people that have never done this before, cuz we've never done it. If you want to do this, we had a good time. If you want to do this, though, you pay, and if you're not gonna make it, the courtesy is you reach out to Let them know, because they are literally doing 15 women, 15 men and and making sure that it's an even playing yes.

Speaker 2: 13:40

Oh, absolutely yeah. So that's the courtesy move. So the guys that did courtesy and say you know they were courteous and they said, hey, we're not gonna make it, she knew ahead of time. So what I heard, though she goes. I rounded up some friends of mine. She had friends and she yes, message them, said it can you just freaking show up like I'll feel bad for these women? You know 15 of them and they only get you know nine guys and I knew one of them was.

Speaker 1: 14:08

One of them was my ex, my ex husband's sister's boyfriend for like forever and ever that, yeah, you said that one of those names, not mark. I want to call him mark, cuz he reminds me of a guy that I know. I don't remember his name, whatever.

Speaker 2: 14:20

Yeah, no. But then she had like just people that, hey, can you just like almost a dinner favor. So I don't know that those guys that did her the favor were really into it.

Speaker 1: 14:32

Yeah, saying, yeah, yeah and I know for sure one of them, because I actually Circled him and then I went over and talked to him and he was just like oh yeah, I'm just doing, this is his favorite of Christine. And I was like okay. I guess, I guess we're not having coffee then yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 14:48

So I get, I get the understanding what she was trying to do. Yes because maybe they would have a good time.

Speaker 1: 14:53

And they are, and they were single yeah.

Speaker 2: 14:55

Yeah, I get that, but these were guys are like just doing a favor. Yeah, really into it, yeah but out here, so here's my thing. So then people asked me Okay, actually, the people I talked to, I didn't come across anybody that enjoyed it, and they're like oh, you actually like really.

Speaker 2: 15:10

I know and they're like, yeah, no, it's like nobody was my type, like they had a bad experience, and I said, here's my thing, not all of them were my type, obviously. I mean, I had a little handful that I was like, okay, I'd go on a coffee date or I go in a second date, whatever. But what I liked about it was holy shit, you in one hour, whatever it was you get, instead of wasting my fucking time and getting ready right 15 times and going on 15 days, you know right.

Speaker 2: 15:40

I got to do it all in one hour and little four minute segments. That's great. No, it was perfect.

Speaker 1: 15:46

Except for the one guy. So there was this guy that was sitting at the bar when we got there. It was this, was that industry tap union. Okay, and it's yeah, shout out Because those guys let us put stickers on behind their bar. And they were super nice. And this was put on by Central Valley singles. Christine Rogers is she runs that group and she did this. She's the one that does the. Does this be dating Christine Rogers? Central Valley singles is the Facebook page.

Speaker 1: 16:11

So we're sitting there and we walk in and misty's like, oh, that guy's kind of cute, I bet he's not gonna be in on it. And I look over and I see the pamphlet and I'm like oh no, he's in on it. I was looking as the house the pamphlet right there. And so when you order a drink at the bar, the bar turner doesn't take your card, he takes your name. So the guy says, oh, my names, I'm gonna make up a name. He said my name's Joe and I go, oh, I go, look, his name is Joe, he's gonna be in on it. So Joe fucking sits down at my table, you guys.

Speaker 1: 16:35

And and I am just like he sits down and we say I'm like, okay, well, I'm gonna play this bingo. I'm trying to win, you know dead at that. And I said so I'm gonna ask you some questions. So I don't remember what the first thing I asked him was, but he answered it and then I'm just kind of went off the bingo thing and I was like so what do you do for a living? And he was like oh, you're not supposed to ask people that. And I'm like what? And he goes you don't ask people what they do for a living at a speed dating event. And I was like Um, okay, and I'm just thinking to myself Well, why the fuck not? Of course I'm gonna ask you what.

Speaker 2: 17:09

The job was dude.

Speaker 1: 17:09

Yeah, well, and but also, what are the questions when you're dating someone, like when you meet them, like when you're on a date? He was on a high horse, for sure. Yeah, he was seriously and he was from San Francisco, which is fine, I mean whatever. And then I Go why don't we talk about what you do? I still am dumbfounded, okay, and he goes. Well, it would take longer than four minutes for me to explain to you what I do. And I looked at him and I go I'm like this. I go, I'm a bartender. One second done.

Speaker 2: 17:37

I was just like, but he was the guy because, remember, I remembered him too and he Said to me he's like Honestly, I'm not here for all of it. He's like I want to start my own. So she does single. What's her page called?

Speaker 1: 17:49

It's called Central Valley Singles.

Speaker 2: 17:50

So he wants to start his own speed dating concept or business, whatever it is, guy you'd be terrible.

Speaker 1: 17:59

You have no fucking personality.

Speaker 2: 18:02

And he's like I'm only here, like basically, like we were there for content for the podcast.

Speaker 3: 18:06

We had fun.

Speaker 2: 18:07

Yes, and we're single, why not? Yes, and he was there for content, because he wants to get his business going, but I was like well, enjoy yourself. Yeah, we were having fun?

Speaker 1: 18:15

Yeah, he was not having fun. And he also told me sitting at my table that this wasn't his first time speed dating.

Speaker 3: 18:22

Oh, he's done it a lot, oh yeah and I've never matched with anybody.

Speaker 1: 18:25

That's what he said and I was like, shocking, you've never matched with anyone.

Speaker 2: 18:30

Well, you're such a fucking personality texting a little bit, and then just that guy. Yeah, it was one of your matches, because after it's all said and done, remember, she just sends you their name. Yes and these guys will do coffee, this guy. Yeah and I'm not remembering who I mean oh, I'll never forget his name. Yeah, but then I did because when we were taught you know, because initially, like I just have you know how you have a little phone number, yeah without their name.

Speaker 2: 18:58

Yes, and then, as I were talking, okay, which one is this one? Again, I look back and I matched it because I know his name now too, yeah. I knew it when we talked and I went oh god, yeah you're like Matched you might have.

Speaker 1: 19:12

We did talk the next day about who we match and some of them were the same and then my friend Heather was there and she adds and a guy that was the same. She ended up going out with two guys from speed. Yes.

Speaker 2: 19:25

I would not, with nobody me either. Okay, off the pod. I need to know about that. I don't, we know. I don't know Heather, I don't know Heather, be cool.

Speaker 1: 19:36

Oh, no, she. I don't know what happened. I know she was the names, though she went out on the date with the first guy and then she went out on a date with the second guy that you knew. You knew him, I knew him. Yeah, you, yeah, you knew him. Maybe she knew him, I don't know someone knew him.

Speaker 2: 19:55

Whatever, off the pod. We're gonna talk about this cuz I definitely want to know more. I don't know, that's all I have.

Speaker 1: 20:00

Yeah, we don't have to be off the pod, because that's all.

Speaker 3: 20:04

I know.

Speaker 1: 20:06

So you didn't, you didn't reach out to anyone, I did initially.

Speaker 2: 20:10

Actually, funny thing is in that regard, same as the dating, online dating they're given your number two. Yes, so I'm old school. Okay, I want them to reach out to me first and I will say not one did not one really.

Speaker 1: 20:27

Yes, one did for me before I even got memory. I we talked and you'd gotten your list first and I was like I had to reach out to her to get. She had the wrong number for me. Oh. But what was weird was she said she had the wrong phone number for me but I got a text from a dude before she even texts me. My list. This is so and so from last night.

Speaker 1: 20:48

Yes, Lee is weird right, because the other guy, the one that we both agreed he was maybe a little effeminate and maybe we wouldn't date him, but he'd be a fun person to go have coffee with. Uh-huh, do you remember who I'm speaking of?

Speaker 3: 21:04

No, okay, I have a picture of them, I'll show you.

Speaker 1: 21:06

Yeah, yes. So he, he texts me and said Is this Nikki, your number? Something about your number, blah, blah, blah, like maybe my number was wrong a couple times. Is this the right number or did they get your number correct? So I thought that was weird that he, like she, noted there was a number correction for me. But this guy messaged me. I don't know, my phone number is on Facebook so I don't know. Maybe he found me there. I don't know.

Speaker 2: 21:33

That's, that is strange, and no one did end up first.

Speaker 1: 21:37

Yeah, so you didn't.

Speaker 2: 21:38

Yeah, I ended up reaching them, but okay, this is great stuff. This is where my therapy with this podcast comes in. I have zero patience. I'm zero patience.

Speaker 1: 21:50

I don't blame you.

Speaker 2: 21:50

So I'm like, oh okay, so they got your number too, okay, cool. So I waited. I didn't like do it right away, but I waited like maybe I don't know, three hours, see, and other people were like three hours that's nothing, but to me three hours is a lot. You've now given my been given my number. I just met you the night before, right, it was the night before, right.

Speaker 1: 22:11

Yes.

Speaker 2: 22:11

Okay, just a very yeah. The night before you should maybe you waited an hour, I don't know, but you should be like hey, from last night I just got your number but I waited like three hours nothing. And I'm like, okay, well, fuck it, I guess I'll do it, which, again, it's like that bothers me, like I'm already like annoyed, I'm like you know, but I have zero patience. So I do it because I'm just about like let's get this show on the road. Is this going to be anything? Cause I'm a turn them, burn them kind of girl.

Speaker 1: 22:42

Right? Well, if it's not them, let's go. What are we doing? You know what I mean? What?

Speaker 2: 22:45

are we doing Like, or you know. And I was just thankful because in my mind I thought, okay, nothing comes from this, we got content for the podcast.

Speaker 1: 22:52

Right.

Speaker 2: 22:52

Yeah, so that's where I was kind of sitting with it, yeah.

Speaker 1: 22:55

And so you did reach out to that the guy.

Speaker 2: 22:58

Joe, I did Joe as we call him. All of them, and all of them ended up responding.

Speaker 1: 23:03

Okay.

Speaker 2: 23:04

Yeah, I think one did not.

Speaker 1: 23:06

But no dates with any of them.

Speaker 2: 23:08

No, because I'm not going to ask you on a date.

Speaker 1: 23:10

Right, you've got to pursue me, so it never went that way.

Speaker 2: 23:14

Never went that way. Yeah, yeah, no, you I'm, I'm so like, I'm very much, I'm a strong woman. That is so feminine, do you?

Speaker 1: 23:25

know what I mean.

Speaker 2: 23:25

Yeah. So I battle with this because I can be intimidating to guys and you know all these things like oh, you probably want to be equal. No, I want you to hold the door open. I want you to pick up the check. Like no, you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 3: 23:37

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 23:37

So I battle with that because I'm over here like without the patience. I'm a go-getter, I'm strong, but at the same time, okay for each I at least, like I already put myself out there. I reached out to you first, bro, so why don't you now lead the conversation and you start asking questions about me, getting to know me, and then, if everything is still going good from what we saw last night, we saw each other in person, so obviously there was a physical attraction Then let's take me on a coffee date, or take me on a date you know.

Speaker 1: 24:07

How easy would it be to ask you out, because they've already met you.

Speaker 2: 24:10

And you apparently put on your little form too, Like I did.

Speaker 1: 24:13

what the fuck, we match, we match. Let's just call it that. You swiped right, I swiped right, and you've already met me in person. Yeah, that should be like so easy, and it was so speedy and you obviously made it where.

Speaker 2: 24:25

It's like, okay, I want to get to know you further. So it's like, hey, we matched. So when's a good night for you? I want you to go in like that. Yes, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 24:33

Right, as it should be, because I don't want your small top. You've cut out the middle man already. You've already met. That's the whole. That's like the whole. For me, when I go on a date, that's the whole thing. Like I'm like sick, like if I haven't met this person in like real life, I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna go. Okay, are they gonna come over here? Am I gonna meet him some? Like I am just I'm ill because I don't know what to do. And then I'm like how can I get myself out of this if I get there and this guy's a total, you know?

Speaker 2: 25:00

like I don't like him, like I just got hat-fished. Yeah, I did. Hat-fish is a thing.

Speaker 1: 25:06

Explain to the listeners what that is, because I have never heard anyone say that. My ex-husband used to say it was false advertisement.

Speaker 2: 25:14

True story. Hat-fished means it's like everybody's heard the term catfish.

Speaker 3: 25:19

You know what that means.

Speaker 2: 25:21

Hat-fish is where every guy or you know the guy in every photo is wearing a hat. And I'm not physically attracted to bald men. That's not that I wouldn't fall for a bald man, but my initial is like nah, you know, this is where I'm at in life. Okay, that's and there's a lot of-.

Speaker 1: 25:41

So let me ask you this Do you, if they don't have any pictures without a hat on, do you swipe left?

Speaker 2: 25:48

So, because I've been hat-fished before yes, so Then how did this happen? So when I first got on, I didn't know about hat-fishing. I didn't know about a lot of things I know now. I wanna see your eyes. I wanna see your teeth and I wanna see your head.

Speaker 1: 26:02

These are the three things, yeah no, I would like to see your feet too, if at all possible, because that also grosses me out. But I'll be all right.

Speaker 2: 26:11

You're a foot person.

Speaker 1: 26:12

I know I'm not a foot person. I just don't like you to have gross feet.

Speaker 2: 26:17

Naked feet, which we're never gonna fucking see online, Danny, though. I know it's a problem for me and that sometimes a dude is like a surfer and he's like on the beach, and you happen to see his feet, you know what I mean, and then Nicky's over here zooming in.

Speaker 1: 26:29

I'm like zooming in. What Are your toenails clipped? They're just yeah, oh God, because you know you're gonna go get in bed with this person and they're gonna put their feet on you.

Speaker 1: 26:40

Your dirty ass toenails. I am so like. There was a guy I did not see his feet for like the longest time and then when I did, and we were already dating and we were like yeah, and he would put his feet on me and I was just like oh my God, I just would lay there and like not move, and then I would be like your feet are cold, get them off me. Are you at the egg? Yeah, we didn't stay together. We stayed together much longer because the fucking feet didn't get me in.

Speaker 2: 27:08

I mean, was it okay? Well, backup, so let's go to the hatfish, right? So initially. But this guy I know what happened was you forget, because you.

Speaker 1: 27:17

You forgot, you got hatfish. Hatfish. Okay, because what happens?

Speaker 2: 27:21

You just thought he was cute and what happens is like you get on there and you're just fucking. I don't know about you, but sometimes I am just in just like swipe mode. I'm just like left, left, left, right, left, right. I'm not even looking at shit. I'm like so fucking bored. Do you know what I'm saying? No, that's exactly me. I'm like watching a show and swiping not even looking this, I'm just like.

Speaker 2: 27:41

Yeah, yeah, yeah, nicky's over here like yeah, we don't look at our phones, we're just swiping, we don't even know if we're swiping.

Speaker 1: 27:46

Yeah, that's what I meant with that guy. Like, oh, did you accidentally swipe? Right, because you didn't fucking say nothing? Exactly, because that can happen, exactly, I've done it. Have you ever done that? Yeah, I do it on Facebook dating all the time, and then I'm like, oh my God, and then they match and I'm like, yeah, no, delete conversation.

Speaker 2: 28:03

delete this, yes, 100%.

Speaker 1: 28:06

Okay, so the hat fishing.

Speaker 2: 28:07

It happened again because I didn't pay attention that you had a fucking hat on on every photo. And so here I go to meet him and I didn't even recognize him.

Speaker 1: 28:18

She says she walked right past him, you guys.

Speaker 2: 28:20

I know, I know. And he accidentally put this fan down to the ground. Yes, it made my eyes open. Whoo Um, amber must have arrived. I'm going to throw us up or Mojo off.

Speaker 1: 28:30

She threw us off, but okay, but we were talking about getting hat fish.

Speaker 2: 28:35

Yes, and I said you know, then I ended up going, oh it's me, okay, okay. And it was actually a decent date and I was like I don't fuck, maybe it shouldn't be so shallow, because had I, you know, been shallow, I wouldn't have met this person. But then I guess, at the end day, you want what you want and I just don't want a ball. I'm not a ball, I'm not attracted.

Speaker 1: 28:53

Right.

Speaker 2: 28:53

I can probably end up falling for one.

Speaker 1: 28:55

We're like I said, I like bald guys, but I also don't want them Like. I have to see. Like I said, I have to see their head in their pictures. I want to see their eyes, their teeth. If I could, I'd like to see their feet. But I understand we're the foot finders.

Speaker 2: 29:13

Oh, we're yeah, cause we missed that part.

Speaker 1: 29:15

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 29:16

Because so Nikki has a thing about feet.

Speaker 1: 29:19

Yes, I was like it's not a foot fetish, but I want your feet to not be gross because you're putting them on me.

Speaker 2: 29:26

So for guys adventurous maybe take pictures, like of you standing in your flip-flop, so we can zoom in and see.

Speaker 1: 29:32

Yeah, it's something.

Speaker 2: 29:33

And glasses, glasses off on at least one.

Speaker 1: 29:37

Yeah, because I don't want you to have a crazy eye.

Speaker 3: 29:39

I've been catfished like that. What Crazy eye. No, we just wore sunglasses and so, like your eyes make your face. Oh. So what did they look like under? I mean, he was decent looking, but I was like, oh, because it changes, it changes and I wasn't what I was expecting.

Speaker 2: 29:58

I could have a hot with shades on and take them off as like bug eyes.

Speaker 3: 30:01

Kind of just like the hat thing.

Speaker 2: 30:02

Yeah, cause, listen, you can take your hat off, you can have a cone head, and that's what we were saying too, and we don't want a cone.

Speaker 1: 30:09

No, crazy eyes and no cone heads Cause, like I said, I already have a crazy eye.

Speaker 2: 30:13

Yeah.

Speaker 3: 30:16

I'm not that bad, nikki. And here's the deal.

Speaker 2: 30:18

Like we just all have our shit. But at the end of the day, I think if we we, we mess with the person, we get a good chemistry, we'll overlook things. And that's anybody. I think it. I think anybody can say stuff right. I think Like I've had guys say no thick women, I'm a thick girl. They'll say no thick women. Then they meet me and they're all fuck, you're hot. No, fuck you. You said no Right. But we're looking at now Right.

Speaker 1: 30:45

And I also think, though, the older we get I don't want to say the less picky we get, but our like things are going to change. You know what I mean. I don't think I'm still getting the same guy I got when I was 40, and I have to remember that I'm fucking 52 now. You know what I mean? I I got a lot better when I was 40 because I was younger, yeah, but now I'm 12 years older, so I have to remember that.

Speaker 2: 31:08

And they have to remember that too, right. But those motherfuckers still swiping right on the 28 year olds?

Speaker 1: 31:12

Yeah, I know, I know with her. I know what they're out there doing. That's why I'm so single.

Speaker 3: 31:16

So annoying. I mean some. I think sometimes we overlook things in the beginning because you do mesh mesh well, but then, as time goes on, if it's something that really bothers you, it's going to show a tag it's going to show, it's going to come back.

Speaker 2: 31:28

You're saying it's reverse.

Speaker 3: 31:29

Wow, cause you're like oh, everything's great. I know, but sometimes that's different, yeah.

Speaker 1: 31:38

It's true, it's true.

Speaker 2: 31:39

Well, we'll leave it at that. Yeah, and I know I know sometimes you want to skip this part, but I am kind of excited cause Amber came back and I think that she's going to have JC stuff, so I want to do heat and wave. Okay, yeah, I know. So you think because you were in Vegas and you know there's a lot of heat out there.

Speaker 1: 31:53

No, she can do a heat and wave. I'm not doing it. Yeah, you don't like it. I don't have a heat and a wave. You guys, my life is fucking boring. Okay, I go to work, I come home.

Speaker 2: 32:03

Okay, I I'm going to do my heat and wave.

Speaker 1: 32:05

That's what I'm saying, okay.

Speaker 2: 32:07

So my heat is obviously what makes me angry, and Amber will hear this when she listens to the beginning of her podcast. Fucking, it's an election year. If I hear that one more time, fuck off. Okay, my wave is that I'm going to do a shout out cause I'm going to hashtag them and they better share this motherfucking shit. But we did vibes brunch today in tower.

Speaker 3: 32:29

Awesome place.

Speaker 2: 32:29

Yes, and so my girl. She does the cockies thing all the time, but they're booked out, so she was looking online. She's like oh, this vibe sound looks really good. The brunch was great, the mimosas flowed and they don't go around and pour they leave a pitcher, which was nice.

Speaker 2: 32:45

And we watched them are like oh, fuck, believe it, pictures can be all juice. No, we watched it. They pour the whole thing of champagne and the whole thing of pineapple juice, or you use you pick crayon or pineapple, okay, and the food was good. Um, it was bad, is it at? It was bad buddy nights in tower district in Fresno.

Speaker 1: 33:01

Okay.

Speaker 2: 33:02

And bad bunny DJ was playing, so is the Latina flair tonight.

Speaker 3: 33:05

Okay, he was just in Vegas. Friday, Saturday night. No, this is a.

Speaker 1: 33:10

DJ.

Speaker 3: 33:10

I know Bad bunny was there or bad bad bunnies in a performer, performer Right, but his DJ, his, you mean his personal DJ, no, this guy's his specialty is like bad buddy songs.

Speaker 1: 33:23

Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2: 33:24

Okay, but he was playing that Um, so it was like Latina flair you know all day today. Um, and it was just I, it was just awesome. It was my Renee happy birthday. It was like a very intimate group of us and and good vibes and I like that cause it's called fives, no pun, but, um, highly recommend their brunch. And I'm thinking, because cockies has been so busy and they're booked out, Like more people are chiming in like let's do this brunch, shit, Right. We don't have enough in town.

Speaker 1: 33:53

Let me ask you this Did was the tip included on your guys's bill?

Speaker 2: 33:58

Renee got the table and I think I'm gritty and all that was included on she.

Speaker 1: 34:02

she bought a table and then we all vammowed her, so it's one price.

Speaker 2: 34:07

Well, for for a table. Yeah, I mean, when it wasn't one price, it was like per person at your table, right?

Speaker 1: 34:13

But like each like it's 27, 99 per person. Yeah.

Speaker 2: 34:18

I mean, I just I gave her 50 bucks, so I don't know, I think there's just 50.

Speaker 1: 34:21

Okay, Well, what I'm saying is like, if you go to the, there's another place, another brunch place, over on Willow and Herndon, okay, and it's a menu, and you order off the menu and everyone's price is different, okay.

Speaker 2: 34:33

No, this was a like okay.

Speaker 1: 34:35

They don't. I don't know if they had bottomless mimosas. I really enjoyed the food there. I really enjoyed the drinks there. They double booked us. It was a party of 12.

Speaker 2: 34:44

Wait where are you talking about?

Speaker 1: 34:45

this place on Willow and Herndon, you're not going to say the name, I can say it it's the brunch bar. Okay, Um, the food was good. However, the service I felt was like the server seemed angry at us and the tip was included. So, and I know they were busy and I felt bad for her. But, like they had two drinks on the menu, One was called like not your mama's juice and one was called like the watermelon spritzer Okay, Very similar. But one had tequila's um sake, tequila enhanced sake, cause they can't use actual liquor, and the other one didn't. So the girl next to me ordered one. I ordered the other one. Well, when the girl comes over, she goes I have two watermelon spritzers and she puts them down and I go oh, I had the not your mom, not your daughter's juice, or whatever. She goes oh, they're the same thing.

Speaker 1: 35:29

And then she walked off and I was like dude, I know, but it might be a little bit in my head and thinking, if they're the heat, yeah, and I'm like if they're the same thing, why don't you just call it that Cause? I called it.

Speaker 1: 35:40

Her attention when she was reading that Right when she was reading back our stuff, she said to watermelon spritzers I go oh no, I have the, not your. And she said it oh, they're the same thing. And I go okay, then wait. Well then, why are they on the menu is two different things, you know what I mean? Yeah, she wasn't like rude, but she wasn't like friendly, and she probably would have gotten extra money from me. Yeah, let alone the girl next, bobby Joe. Right, yeah, bobby Joe, and I probably would have tipped more.

Speaker 2: 36:06

But you're saying you're boring, look at you. Oh no, yeah, I know, I see, I see you, I see, I see, I am All right.

Speaker 3: 36:15

My heat is that I always check a fucking bag and this time, because I was like, oh, friday to Sunday I'll just do a duffel bag, never doing it again. What?

Speaker 1: 36:24

happened.

Speaker 3: 36:24

One, because I don't want to carry shit. I want to, like, drop my bag off and go about my day, and on the way there the fight was was booked full. So then I put my bag underneath and then my feet are on top of it.

Speaker 1: 36:37

Bitch, it's 45 minutes, I don't give a shit.

Speaker 3: 36:41

No, okay, maybe. That's where I'm a little bougie. I'm like irritated, I'm like fucking people, you know, I'm like okay. So that was my heat, and then I ended up having I bought stuff.

Speaker 2: 36:53

You were one of the last people to get on then.

Speaker 3: 36:55

Oh yeah, I don't like getting on the plane.

Speaker 2: 36:56

Well, but if you got on, you can put that shit up above quick.

Speaker 3: 37:01

Yeah, but they were having to check bags anyway, even people's carry-on.

Speaker 1: 37:05

Yeah, did you fly a Legion? Yeah, it was a.

Speaker 3: 37:07

Legion, oh god. But I was trying to be like, oh, I don't need that much stuff. Well, my bags were flowing and I bought stuff, so it didn't help, and that's why you're wearing five sweatshirts right now. Five, please no.

Speaker 1: 37:21

You didn't have room for them in your bag. I see, no, I didn't you can carry on shopping bags.

Speaker 2: 37:25

I've done it. Yeah, that's a little hack.

Speaker 1: 37:27

And I heard a Legion. I think it's a Legion or Southwest. One of them is going to start counting your blanket and pillow if you bring a blanket and pillow as your carry-on item.

Speaker 2: 37:36

That's so stupid. I'm going to put my pillow like I'm pregnant. There you go.

Speaker 3: 37:43

So I'd say my wave is that I don't have to work tomorrow, and everybody else that went to Vegas does.

Speaker 2: 37:48

Oh shit, they're all sad.

Speaker 3: 37:50

Yeah, they're all tired. I don't know. I'm surprised I feel good today. I woke up. No headache, no, nothing.

Speaker 1: 37:55

She's about to feel better. We're going to get her a cocktail.

Speaker 3: 37:56

Yeah, I feel like I need a drink, so it's just been a long weekend.

Speaker 2: 38:01

She needs a drink to you know, to to her drink To relax. Yeah, like a vacation for her vacation. Yeah, it's like a whosah.

Speaker 1: 38:11

Who doesn't need a vacation from their vacation. All right, girls. Well, let's wrap this up. We'll be getting on to our next podcast. We're going to get Amber a drink here real quick, so Scribe, oh yes, subscribe, share, listen, like. Follow TikTok Facebook Instagram. You can find us on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Buzzsprout, Just Google us.

Speaker 1: 38:37

Yeah, just Google small town, big mouse podcast. We appreciate you guys, we do. And oh, I have to give a shout out because I totally forgot to do it on the last one. I had a girl that started following us because of the Clovis Chat group that I put us in.

Speaker 3: 38:53

Oh, fun yeah.

Speaker 1: 38:54

And she her name is Dawn Sibley and I want to give a shout out to Dawn because she started following us, because she saw us on there, she liked it, she listened to the first episode and she, she goes. I wasn't really sure and then I was like private message me and let me know. And she goes, you guys started talking about astronauts and I just wasn't sure if it was for me. Yeah, and I was like, oh my God, is this what?

Speaker 3: 39:15

we were talking about.

Speaker 1: 39:16

We were talking about him sitting in space, or was it because we were talking about him jacking off in space. And then she's like I just wasn't sure where the podcast was going because it was talking about astronauts. And then she goes and then I kept listening and I realized okay, they're talking about some current event. Yeah and funny.

Speaker 2: 39:30

Exactly, and my friend Morgan Bodden. I just was with her at Crow and Wolf and she listened to our OnlyFans part one, part two. Yeah, it was like she was like that was the first ones I chimed in, but what she said, what I love. She was like you guys do a really good job and the audio quality is surprisingly good Cause I told her go, we could probably do better on that, but we're still learning right a little green and she goes.

Speaker 2: 39:53

no, I think you guys are awesome. She goes, you guys flow, you're connected and the audio she goes. I'm definitely like you're going to be a podcast I listened to.

Speaker 1: 40:01

Thank you Morgan and thank you Dawn, and we appreciate all of our listeners.

Speaker 3: 40:06

And I was out sticking stickers this weekend.

Speaker 1: 40:09

Yeah, all over Vegas. I saw. Well, we'll give a shout out to our new Vegas listeners when they see their stickers. Okay, you guys, we will see you on the flip side. Roger that, roger, that, roger that.