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Salt, Camel Toes & the Balancing Act

June 06, 2024 Jenny & Raebecca Season 2 Episode 21
Salt, Camel Toes & the Balancing Act
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Salt, Camel Toes & the Balancing Act
Jun 06, 2024 Season 2 Episode 21
Jenny & Raebecca

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We hope you’re ready for pure MAYHEM this week …

We jump right into morning routines - hydration - and our salt/ electrolyte obsession.  Summer is here - school is ending - and we both share excitement and angst over balancing our multiple roles this summer. But we’re reminded that often times, Mondays become Fridays before you even know it - and we’re lucky to have some flexibility in our day to day … and kiddos who enjoy one another’s company. Because that’s going to come in handy when we’re working poolside this season of life!

We don’t talk about marketing - but we do talk booty shorts, camel toes - and our favorite sports bras (Amazon). We also talk about one of Raebecca’s favorite social media accounts - and dig a little into their authenticity and what makes them so likeable (@littleherculette Peyton Bucher ). And - what is the real story behind booty shorts at the gym … and we play a game of would you rather (that potentially will make your stomach flip just thinking about it).

And finally - we’re talking about love languages again. This time - Acts Of Service. Is there a direct correlation to being a first born daughter, and this specific love language? Whether we're bonding over a meal train or pondering the art of gift-giving, it's clear that small gestures can hold immense power and show a certain depth of love for someone. Kicking off the summer with smores breakfasts and a case of the sillies - this week is a fun one! 


For more mayhem, be sure to follow us:

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Hosted by @raebecca.miller and @jennyfromthe843

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Send us a text

We hope you’re ready for pure MAYHEM this week …

We jump right into morning routines - hydration - and our salt/ electrolyte obsession.  Summer is here - school is ending - and we both share excitement and angst over balancing our multiple roles this summer. But we’re reminded that often times, Mondays become Fridays before you even know it - and we’re lucky to have some flexibility in our day to day … and kiddos who enjoy one another’s company. Because that’s going to come in handy when we’re working poolside this season of life!

We don’t talk about marketing - but we do talk booty shorts, camel toes - and our favorite sports bras (Amazon). We also talk about one of Raebecca’s favorite social media accounts - and dig a little into their authenticity and what makes them so likeable (@littleherculette Peyton Bucher ). And - what is the real story behind booty shorts at the gym … and we play a game of would you rather (that potentially will make your stomach flip just thinking about it).

And finally - we’re talking about love languages again. This time - Acts Of Service. Is there a direct correlation to being a first born daughter, and this specific love language? Whether we're bonding over a meal train or pondering the art of gift-giving, it's clear that small gestures can hold immense power and show a certain depth of love for someone. Kicking off the summer with smores breakfasts and a case of the sillies - this week is a fun one! 


For more mayhem, be sure to follow us:

Insta @marketingandmayhem
YouTube @MarketingMayhemPod

And don't forget to leave us a 5 star review! Or message us to deep dive into your topic or just give us feedback!

Hosted by @raebecca.miller and @jennyfromthe843

Speaker 1:

coffee. I love that. It's a way. It's my coffee. I know I said I see a coke zero so do you talk to me about your beverages?

Speaker 2:

do you start the day with the diet coke or do you start coffee, then go diet coke?

Speaker 1:

actually, actually, since I'm I, you know what we're gonna talk about balance today. So I actually start my day with a very large cup of ice water. I like I get pretty close to slamming almost the whole mayhem. Then I go it's my thing, I don't, I don't. I'm not like the perfect, maybe it is just the balance. I don't always balance, but I almost always start with a huge, like 20 to 40 ounces of ice water and then I go directly to the warm beverage and I go back to the cold soda diet Coke. Okay.

Speaker 1:

But I do have both right now, because I was not feeling fully balanced this morning.

Speaker 2:

Okay, so I go full water, you do, okay. But let me tell you this new thing that I've started doing. I use the Redmond salt electrolytes mixed berry. So I use like a it's like a scoop that you scoop into water and it starts the day with like salt water, which is supposed to be like really good for you, to kind of like rehydrate you after you sleep. So I do that, and then I go into Diet Coke or, excuse me, coke Zero, so I'm straight water to Coke.

Speaker 1:

I am a I don't know if you know this about me I am actually a massive like salt fan and salt collector and I am a big believer in the healing properties of like salt. So, like, when people talk to me cause I feel like, especially in the past, people always talk to me about like health and fitness just by default, and they would be like, oh, I get these headaches or my stomach is really weird, and I'm like you are not, you don't. I feel like culturally we were taught that sodium and salt is really bad for you. I completely agree, yeah and I. There is nothing more healing Like when I hear that somebody like drinks a big cup of water and then they immediately have to go to the bathroom, I'm like then you are not properly like, you don't have the right electrolyte balance, otherwise that wouldn't happen.

Speaker 2:

But what do you mean? You collect salt Like you collect salt packets.

Speaker 1:

No, my mom is notorious for this because she loves to travel. We actually have a local salt not dispensary, but a company here. Bulls Bay Salt Company is right around the corner and I'm going to butcher this because now I wasn't even thinking about this before we jumped on. But there's something really special about Bulls Bay. I'll have to look it up. But there's something about the properties in Bowls Bay. It's some of the cleanest, most mineral dense salt that you can get in the United States on our coast, just because of where it's located. And then you can get Bowls Bay salt at Coastal Cupboard or even on Amazon and they have different flavors, but it's so mineral dense it's so good for you. And then she went to Eleuthera and brought salt directly from their home. So if she goes a place where they have something like a Bowls Bay or an actual local salt company, she'll get it for me.

Speaker 2:

I literally thought you were like oh, I just go to different restaurants and collect salt packets.

Speaker 1:

That's what I thought, oh my God, Like like match matches. No, I love it, but I will tell you this I do put salt. Like if I notice I'll do this a lot in the summer when they so they're swimming a lot and they do gymnastics every night and I know that they're like fatigued I'll put a little pile of salt on their dinner plate and my kids actually do a really good job. Like they'll say to me if they have a headache or if their stomach feels off, like I just think I need salt. Pilot, definitely in public, the other day, grabbed one of the salt packets and then ate it while we were walking and I was like I'm sure, sure that some people are really questioning my parenting, but actually she's a very healthy individual and Clark does that.

Speaker 2:

She uses cause she doesn't use sauce like you know, like ketchup or anything she dunks her beans chicken nuggets yeah, they, they do. She does it all in salt and I'm like I think it's great, yeah, and look at them shining Like.

Speaker 1:

Her little body is so muscular and so strong and I'm like she's doing all the right things that we have majorly overcomplicated as adults. I don't know how we got on the salt term, what? I don't know how we got on the salt term, but I don't either. But my. So you know, my Muay Thai friend, amy, also has like friend of friend through Nate and whatever. Yeah, she is was one of the first people to validate this because she is obsessed with salt also and she gets.

Speaker 2:

I mean, that is a hill she'll die on, that nobody is getting enough and they're not getting the right kinds and I feel a hell of a lot better, especially like after I work out, like I drink it while I work out at the gym. I feel so much better Like, yeah, the majority of people are not like.

Speaker 1:

Certainly if you eat a ton of processed food and I know everyone's just rain. I'm like the queen of McDonald's now, Cause everyone sends me McDonald's memes and God knows what. But like, we're not talking about the salt that you get from processed food. We're talking about like beautiful, mineral, dense salt, like stuff that will make you well.

Speaker 2:

Electrolytes. We'll put some links in, because this salt that I'm using is life-changing.

Speaker 1:

I love it. Well, maybe we'll do another giveaway or something fun. Yes, we love a giveaway. We do love a giveaway. In the meantime, that got me started thinking about summer and balance. Yikes.

Speaker 2:

It's a coming. It's a coming and it's like one of those things, like it's kind of like Christmas to me, like it is one of my favorite times of year. I love summer. I love being able to be unscheduled to an extent. I love being able to have the, you know, not have to do the routine of bedtime and you know, you can be a little more willy nilly. Like I asked Clark the other day, I was like what do you want to do the first day of summer? So we have a tradition like the first day of summer and last day of summer we do s'mores for breakfast. Yeah, it's like a tradition that we do. So she said I want to do s'mores for breakfast. So I love that we can do those kinds of how in the hell you and I are going to manage podcasting, businessing, other jobbing, momming, swim gym Not what you're done with gymnastics, won't you be?

Speaker 1:

No, they need level. They change the levels.

Speaker 2:

That's what I'm saying, and so I'm a little little concerned that I'm a little concerned that we're not going to have time for it all you know what, though?

Speaker 1:

The amazing thing about us is that I feel that way during Christmas, and I felt that way in the heat of my divorce, and then, somehow, monday becomes Friday, and you figure it out, and the scheduler part of me is like okay, this feels uncomfortable because it's not like, okay, I do this always every morning during school weeks and always during the afternoon. But then the rest of me is like but you got this because you don't have to always be in car line, or we have some time sucks, I know, but we have some major time sucks during the school year that are like disappearing. It's this ever changing? It's like this idea of balance right, like one thing definitely swaps for the next, but I can see the positive and the negative to both.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I mean we'll do it. I mean I have no doubt your Monday and Friday analogy is dead on. It's Monday, and then I look up and it's Friday.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And I feel like you and I are adaptable enough to be like okay, well, you know we've got to get this done, so, girls, y'all go swim while we sit poolside and hammer out some business stuff.

Speaker 1:

When you know, that means that they're living their best life, quite literally, sure Like. I don't we're not like big. We've never done like summer camps and stuff like that. Mostly, that was my next question to you. If y'all did camp never done. My kids have never been to a summer camp, never. Nope, it's just not. I don't. Here's the thing, though I what I will say is because I'm not dogging summer camps at all, but they also like I've placed a big priority on sports.

Speaker 2:

And so you can't really do both it's just not realistic.

Speaker 1:

So even financially. But even outside of that, my girls, they have Summer Swim, which I'm just so committed to Shout out to Park West Pirates. The women that run that team are just absolutely like. They're the kind of women that you want to look up to and be around. They all have jobs. They balance 9,000 things, Volunteer like work so hard to make this like even just from doing the time sheets for every meet. I mean we're talking hours and hours of just time to these teams.

Speaker 1:

Then you have these other moms who show up and act sort of entitled about the fact that their kids are on the team or they act like these coaches are available, so they're just accessible to vent to or take advantage of or whatever. It makes me feel crazy. But in summer, once school's done, they go every morning. So Monday through Friday they're at swim practice and then I'll usually stay and open my computer for an hour and a half and let them swim. And then we're at gymnastics Monday through Friday in the evening for two and a half hours to three hours, every night, I would die.

Speaker 1:

I would die. I would die, I know, but the thing is like there's great wifi there and there's great wifi right next door and I have other moms that I can carpool with and during the day, the heat of the day, they're ready for a huge pasta lunch. So we kind of switch where dinner becomes like lunchtime, their big meal. They'll usually like nap or kind of chill out before the next thing. They see their friends in the morning and every night and like they, just I, they kind of live basically like professional athletes and then I'm over here.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, no, I love it. I didn't really play sports, so, like that's kind of a foreign like life to me. I mean, like, let's be real, cheerleading practice and dance practice was not that intense. I mean, let's be real, cheerleading practice and dance practice was not that intense. I mean, let's be real, I would never assume that. You 100% assume that, okay. But like, I think for me, like I'm really, I am a person who doesn't love a have to.

Speaker 2:

Like, if I have a day that I wake up and I have to do something, I'm like, oh, I have to do this today. Like, oh, I don't love a have to do something. I'm like, oh, I have to do this today. Oh, I don't love a have to, I hate a have to. And it could be something like, for example, we had a meeting yesterday. I woke up in a pissy mood and do you know why? It wasn't because I didn't want to see you. It wasn't because of the meeting. I did not want to put a bra on, a regular bra on. I didn't want to put pants on. I didn't want to put like regular clothes. It was hot, I'm like. So I was very muggy.

Speaker 1:

I was really humid.

Speaker 2:

I was fine after the fact.

Speaker 1:

But like it was one of those things, like I immediately woke up and I was like damn, I got to put a bra on it also wasn't super planned, and so you and I have this thing where we need our free time to some degree, and that's not because we are out having margaritas, it's because I wish One thing about me and maybe this is the Enneagram thing I do not do well when people use my time as if it's like there's not mine. I do much better. If I like, say, I know I have four hours, I can get my work done within that, but it's not going to be. When somebody tells me to otherwise, I definitely won't do it then, and it's not on purpose, it's just my personality. But we were not expecting that meeting, and usually when you and I roll in out of Friday, we already know what the next week looks like.

Speaker 2:

Maybe that's a good point yeah.

Speaker 1:

So it kind of felt a little bit like not that the person didn't respect our time, because we're happy to move things around for our clients, but we didn't have that on the docket on Friday and we did actually ask and so you know it just was one of those things that felt a little bit docket on Friday and we did actually ask and so I know it just was one of those things that felt a little bit it wasn't like the it's not our favorite position to be in.

Speaker 2:

That being said, I was just mad about putting the bra on.

Speaker 1:

It was so humid it was rolling thunderstorms. I cannot tell you how happy I was to put on leggings this morning. I was in those pants until 7 o'clock last night. I was stuck put on leggings this morning I was just, and I was in those pants until seven o'clock last night. I was stuck in that outfit.

Speaker 2:

Oh I know I mean today I'm in our amazing sports bras that you got addicted to y'all these things if you haven't done it yet, I don't understand what you're waiting for Now, we're in the dead of summer I walk my dog in like I'm calling them princess Diana shorts, but that's not really what they are.

Speaker 1:

They are the high-waisted, very boxy, not attractive sweatshorts from old Navy that are currently on.

Speaker 2:

I do not love a high waist, but you love a high waist.

Speaker 1:

Well, yeah, because I have really big hips, but I have a small waist. But then I give you a camel toe, though Well, I mean, no one's complained about it.

Speaker 2:

I feel like I need to just make sure that you don't have one, because I feel like a lot of people wouldn't tell you that.

Speaker 1:

I feel like I would notice if they were looking at my camel toe. I don't think I normally have a camel toe, but I feel like camel toes are in, aren't they? I do not actually try to show mine off, but I do know a couple of fitness influencers that make a big deal out of making sure that it's showing that's actually a thing.

Speaker 2:

You know what I know? This is not why we got on this podcast today, but I did want to talk about this. Okay, so I feel like camel toes. That's like a new thing. What is the deal with the girls with the workout shorts? Everybody has the shorts where it's like up their butt crack. Why is this like a thing?

Speaker 1:

just up their butt crack, or is it the fact that it stops after your butt stops?

Speaker 2:

no, I feel like it's like a thing. You see these like. I don't know if you get these ads.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, it's like these shorts where it's like you can literally just see butt, cheek like there's, like there's, there's something in those that actually like lifts from the side and that's why is that, and they're doing it but is it in what is? It like in, to look like you're not wearing panties well, I mean, I don't think they are wearing panties with them but they like wear them to work out.

Speaker 2:

and I'm like, how do you work out with no underwear on? I'm very concerned. I don't think that's hygienic, is it?

Speaker 1:

Well, do you work? I think what's actually less hygienic is if you work out when you're wearing a thong. But I don't know, I'm not an OB. I think that's more dangerous.

Speaker 2:

We should get it more likely to get a UTI or yeast infection.

Speaker 1:

I think you can get either.

Speaker 2:

This has gone down a different route than I had anticipated, but I was going to talk about those shorts because I do not understand. I see girls lifting weights in those and I'm like it looks like your ass is about to just pop right out and it's going to be straight butthole. I feel like you need to have some barrier there If you're doing like a deadlift.

Speaker 1:

I think, though I mean it's possible they're just doing it so they can see their muscles.

Speaker 2:

No, no, that is like a man trap. That is not to see their muscles, that is like they're peacocking.

Speaker 1:

I don't even think that I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna choose the other side. I don't think that they are, but I do really enjoy women who are proud in their body is perfect. Okay, like I like. I'm more offended by it when you look like a supermodel, like I have. There's this girl that I follow on.

Speaker 2:

Instagram. What Is that? Why you're friends with me? Cause I don't look like a supermodel. No, no, no, I mean, there's so there's this girl.

Speaker 1:

It's it's little her Colette, or I'll link it, but she is this. I mean, she's strength trains, right, and she has her whole Instagram and then recently she fell in love and actually like three weeks ago she got engaged and I just she's hysterical, like she'll like have herself on camera. Like the other day she was like messing around and trying to get something out of the cabinet and he was like yelling at her Cause he was like he didn't want her on the counter and then he picked her up off the counter and then he farted and then she's like dying, laughing Cause the whole thing was on camera and it was obviously like not staged and she like shares all this stuff. And like the other day, maybe a few months ago, they bought a house and it has a pool and so they were like most people with a pool and it had them like laying on towels and looking amazing and she's like us and they like swim goggles on and they were like doing like back flips and they were just obviously like, you know, like having being real. Yeah, her stuff is so funny, but she like for me, she's like the one right, like she.

Speaker 1:

Her hair is not always amazing. She has this cute little body. But she like is just so real about life, like I he forgot her birthday last year. Yeah, they were in the car and she like asked him about it and you should see the the blood drains from his face because he like really they like worked out. And then she was like, where are we going to go to eat? And she's like what's today? And he like had planned it but for like not the right day, oh no, it's like, oh, my god, babe. But their love story is so cute and I like I I think maybe just because I've been watching her now for years, I'm so used to it and I'm always at like a gym, gym usually. So I kind of live for it.

Speaker 2:

But I don't get a thirst trap. Okay, you don't think it's a thirst trap. What do you wear?

Speaker 1:

yeah, me, I wear. Usually I wear more clothes like, if I can get away with like a big hoodie and our sports bra and leggings, I will. Obviously you can't in the summer here, so I'll wear a tank top. But like I mean, I I sweat, so like I get partially why they're like that.

Speaker 2:

I'm just like you either cover it and your sweat soaks everything, or I'm definitely gonna see like yeah, I'm definitely a tank sports bra, either bicycle short or like an athletic short, like I like a bicycle short, but I wouldn't wear a bicycle short to the gym much I do, I you know. I just do it because I don't know why.

Speaker 1:

I do it honestly, I just think they're in part of my workout rotation, when I had like the garage gym and other people would come to my house and we'd like work out together. I always wore less and then if I'm like just walking with sandra, I'll wear less. But something about like sitting on a bench press where I know every dude and every chick has had their biz. Like I'm wearing leggings and all.

Speaker 2:

We don't have equipment like that, but I do get.

Speaker 1:

I love a bench press, I love a bench, but I just I definitely think about sometimes. I like mess with people and be like what do you think's worse the bench press or the yoga mat? If you had to to lick one, which one would you choose? Like you know, I'm twisted like that because I just start my mind. You know I'm a germ freak, so my mind is about the airport too. Yeah, you know, you talked about it when you were talking about the girl in the booty shorts sitting on how did they dress so scandalous at the airport?

Speaker 2:

I'm like people's cookie has been on that.

Speaker 1:

It's like the cookie, but it's also like the balls, like I just can't like. How many things are. I mean I'm sorry you guys that this is your episode today, but I, absolutely I, when I'm at the gym and I'm sitting on that bench, I'm thinking about everybody's business, and I'm when I'm on the yoga mat, I'm like how many talents, how many people with butchered toes have put their nasty ass feet.

Speaker 2:

Okay. Well, this is definitely going to kill my lunch, bob for sure. Oh, I'm sorry. What were you having for lunch? I really don't know. I think we've got leftovers in the air. Do you like leftovers? We hadn't really talked about this.

Speaker 1:

I don't know. It kind of just depends. I will definitely eat leftovers. I was going to tell you, though, I finally had a Ruby's bagel today. Oh yeah, what do you think? I thought it was good. I thought the cream cheese was like a lot. There's a lot of cream cheese, but I had the chops and you prefer more bagel, less cream cheese, more bagel less cream cheese. No, no, no, I love cream cheese, so I was actually shook, which takes a lot.

Speaker 2:

See, I'm like, I want the cream cheese, like the bagel is merely the vessel to get the cream cheese in my mouth.

Speaker 1:

I would be curious what you think about Ruby's, because, like I actually had to throw out some cream cheese and I freaking love I'll eat pretzels and cream cheese. I'll eat salami and cream cheese. I love cream cheese. I'll eat salami and cream cheese. I love cream cheese.

Speaker 1:

It's so good, I actually got some another pack and like brought it home. They have an Oreo cream cheese there. That was beautiful looking, I know I thought it could be fun, even like for a gift or something you know, like somebody who just needs a little something. We used to do this thing in my old neighborhood where we would do the meal train if you had a baby or if, like you, had a life event, and I always picked like a breakfast because I just thought it was fun to like bring champagne over and then muffins and bagels and like it was. We did such a good job at like taking care of people I love that.

Speaker 2:

You, that's you're good at that.

Speaker 1:

You are good at that. I knew you would appreciate that because it's totally up your alley of like I do love it.

Speaker 2:

I do love a good gift. I do love a good gift I just like telling people that you're thinking of them, I mean that's all it is to me is just consideration, like hey, I thought about you, I thought you might like this, and it can be something as silly as like a pen or oh, a notepad like oh, I thought you would find this funny. You know who's really good at that. A notepad Like oh, I thought you would find this funny.

Speaker 1:

You know who's really good at that? Cindy Smalley, my mom on.

Speaker 2:

Mother's Day?

Speaker 1:

we haven't talked about this, sent a gift for you and a gift for I, which I think is so funny, so sweet.

Speaker 2:

So sweet.

Speaker 1:

She has been listening and she's like truly so worried that we're going, cause she's like you guys talk about all these ideas and I just want to make sure that you have a place where you're putting them down, because just when you have that many ideas at once, it's easy to lose track of them and like so she got us these like beautiful journals, she said. She looked and looked forever. I had this conversation with her about it on Mother's.

Speaker 1:

Day, and she knows how I am about aesthetic and whatever, so they're stunning, but that in and of itself, I think, is a big part. Not gift giving, because I don't think receiving gifts is necessarily my love language, but thinking of people and being thought of. Is that what acts of service is? I guess maybe.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I think so, but I mean it's not as simple as like, like truthfully, and I know it sounds so silly because it was just, but like last night we were watching afv and clark saw this skit of these two women one had brown hair, one had blonde hair and they're sitting in this hammock and they're drinking wine and all of a sudden, I mean you know where it sitting in this hammock and they're drinking wine and all of a sudden, I mean you know where it's going, the hammock snaps and the one blonde is ripped apart.

Speaker 1:

It didn't even just like ripped apart. I was assuming it was gonna flip.

Speaker 2:

Uh-uh, they fell through it and and with, and. Then the girl in white was covered in red wine and Clark did not miss a beat and she said that's you and Rebecca. Like the fact that she like but no, like she's nine and a half, she knows our dynamic that well. Yeah, she can see a clip and she knows how silly we are. Yeah, the fact that she saw that and then thought of us, like I love it. I love it, it's just the consideration and thinking about others.

Speaker 1:

That's what it that's what it is. No, I know, I'm a. I'm a huge fan. I think in any relationship right, you can make it about marriage, you can make it about friendship. That's so important. I feel like my mom does a really good job of that, but like and she's a good example of that- that was the sweetest thing ever.

Speaker 2:

Actually, I teared up when Becca showed up.

Speaker 1:

I told her that you were, but, on the same note, my Christina, my sister-in-law therapist Christina, that was our first guest on. We have her back. We need to send a meme. The other day, that will like 48 hours before she had said something about I think it might've been on a different podcast.

Speaker 1:

She was listening to us and she identified something that I said and said I think your love language is acts of service. And so I was like, oh, and that you know, cause I've been trying to figure out what mine is, but then, 48 hours later, she found some meme that was basically like is your love language acts of service or are you just a firstborn daughter who can't rely on anyone to get anything done but yourself? And then I was like wait, what I know? It's like oh, wait. So is that really Jenny in my love language, or is this Because I also am a firstborn daughter, I know that's what I'm saying. Like I that's why I sent it to you. I wasn't saying just me. I'm like wait is our, and that doesn't mean it can't be our love language, but what came first, the chicken or the egg? I don't know. You need to have her back on, though, cause she's an avid listener. She wrote us the best review on Apple, which I I just thank you guys so much for all the ways that you support us Truly.

Speaker 1:

It means so much but then she said that she wanted to come on and make us cry, and so then we didn't ask her for like a little bit, but I think it might be.

Speaker 2:

Well, I've teared up that one episode, but that's all you're getting from me.

Speaker 1:

You better knock on wood or something. You're being wild. What was our episode the other day? You know my thing about never say never. So yeah, no.

Speaker 2:

I don't want to do that.

Speaker 1:

I have a very hard rule, you guys, about never. Say never, because everything I've ever said I would never do the Lord himself has made me do so now I don't say, even when my kids are like will you get remarried? I'm just like I have no idea.

Speaker 2:

I have no idea.

Speaker 1:

I say never. We will have a Christmas wedding and I can't. I just can't be pigeonholing myself like that right now yeah, I don't say that.

Speaker 2:

well, I feel like I said that a lot when it came to like parenting stuff back in the day. Were you like this? Oh, my kid will never eat McDonald's, my kid will never have an iPad.

Speaker 1:

I didn't say that, you know.

Speaker 2:

I didn't say that 100% my kid will never like have a crusty booger nose. I like I ate so much crow like. Oh my god.

Speaker 1:

I have my friend Whitney, um, the one that I met the day that she picked me up and took me to Taco Bell, even though we were strangers. Um, you like, hitchhiked to Taco Bell, you what what?

Speaker 1:

you hitchhiked to Taco Bell with a friend who's not like a very good friend of mine. Yeah, she has this thing that she says, that her, she said her mom says and it's that kids and dogs will make a liar out of you. The minute you say that my kid will never or my dog doesn't, that you'll turn around and they're doing the exact thing, a hundred percent, or my dog doesn't that you'll turn around and they're doing the exact 100%.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, kids and dogs will make a liar out of you. That's so true. That's very loud. Yeah, she cracks me up with some of that stuff. She has these little like isms. You have isms too. I butcher isms.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, you don't, you don't really do an ism.

Speaker 1:

We'll have little things like the never, but a lot of times it's like that ass over tea kettle thing I was trying to figure out a few episodes ago. I couldn't figure that out. No, I have like three people, but I just I butcher them. It's like when I make up names, like when I made up the names you and I both did for the sandwiches we had at Bodega, and then we finally looked at the menu so we could talk about it properly.

Speaker 1:

We were way off. We couldn't have been more off. We were close-ish. I called it the shredded beef, it was called the shredded cheese and then you called it the glob father, which does not sound appetizing.

Speaker 2:

Now that I say it out loud again. It's like that was not even close. What was the real name? The gop father? I think so.

Speaker 1:

It wasn't better.

Speaker 2:

I was like I don't know it was a great sandwich.

Speaker 1:

I still dream about it. If you want to go back, we can. I like it was. The shredded cheese was basically beef center and it was almost like a Big Mac, so good.

Speaker 2:

I want to go back and have breakfast.

Speaker 1:

All right, do you love breakfast?

Speaker 2:

I love breakfast. I don't, so I. Why do you want to go?

Speaker 1:

back and have breakfast then.

Speaker 2:

Well, because I feel like I want it. Sometimes I love an Eggs Benedict situation, but I feel like I'm a faster through breakfast just because.

Speaker 1:

Oh no, I'm not saying that I eat it every day, but I love when someone else is in charge of it, like something about not yeah first thing what's your?

Speaker 2:

put your mouth to the mic. What's your? What's your favorite breakfast?

Speaker 1:

well, I don't know. I have a lot of breakfast that I like all right give me three. I actually make a really good eggs Benedict. I love an eggs Benedict. There's a breakfast sandwich that has like a shredded smoked pork on it that comes from that Not just Frank's, it's a burrito. Have you ever had the breakfast burrito from not just Frank's by the hardware store?

Speaker 2:

No, but I think that's one of Nate's favorite things to to eat oh my god, they're.

Speaker 1:

First of all, their blt is stupid. Their club sandwich is so good. Don't get the middle piece. Just tell them you don't need it. They know what they're doing. But they have a breakfast burrito that has like shredded smoked pork on it. That's so good. I love breakfast I don't eat sweets though okay, I was.

Speaker 2:

I was going to ask you do you eat McDonald's breakfast?

Speaker 1:

Sometimes. Remember that time I had two sausage egg McMuffins before your house and I said it on the podcast. It was before Christmas. And you said I would feel so sick and I literally said I feel like a million bucks, so sausage. Do you know what? I forgot to tell you this?

Speaker 1:

I'm taking a hard left for two seconds, but the friend that I was just talking to you about was catching up on our podcast episodes the other day and she was listening to our finale and I hate playing games. You know this. She knows this on a spiritual level. She said that there's a moment, like 20 minutes into the finale of season one, where I whisper we should just stop playing this game, or we should be done playing this game, like where I'm not even whispering it, but I was like we should give up the cards, something like that.

Speaker 1:

I will find where she texts it to me and she's like you just did that thing that you always do where you like play it for a minute and you're like, yeah, we should stop. I was like like no, I didn't. And she's like I just heard you say it like you absolutely did that thing that you always do. You were like we should quit the game. Maybe that's what it was. We should quit the game. She like you said it casually. She said jenny had no reaction to it, but she knows from multiple times making me play random games that like you just did that thing that you do.

Speaker 2:

I really want you to circle back to this game thing. I really want you to. You don't have any games that you like, none. Do you not play games with the girls? No, I wish I could see her face right now. She just looked at me like I had three heads. Clark, we play games like on the reg. Like we're Connect. Four Clark has started whipping my ass on the reg.

Speaker 1:

That's probably why she's so good at math. Maybe I should be doing more games. We do a lot of art. Can I tell you that we do a lot of art yeah, we do a lot of art.

Speaker 1:

Can I tell you that we do a lot of? Yeah, we do a lot of art. I participate in it heavily. We do a thing where there's this guy that we love on youtube. We'll put him on the tv and he'll show you how to draw certain things, so they get to like pick a creature or an animal back and forth, and we'll do it for, like god, I would die. No, no, he teaches you how from the first circle and he'll be like half moon, okay this, and you literally come out with a picture that looks incredible.

Speaker 2:

Can I just did you see the picture I painted of my husband? Art is not my thing. Do you not remember the episode with the girls?

Speaker 1:

I was just going to say do you remember that Clark said that you?

Speaker 2:

I cannot draw, I cannot paint. Art is just like. I love making a gift basket. I can recreate something like. I'm creative in a lot of different ways, but my hand does.

Speaker 1:

I was gonna say you're digitally creative and you have an eye. It's like. It's more like you mean, if somebody were to give you a paintbrush.

Speaker 2:

We've seen this.

Speaker 1:

Or like a piece of pottery. You would be like Fuck.

Speaker 2:

Nate had a goiter. Do you remember that picture that I painted? He looked like Saddam Hussein. No, I will stick to my day job. Painting and art is not for me.

Speaker 1:

I just it was so funny. My kid said singing and driving and your kid said art. I mean, she ain't wrong, I'm not wrong either. I have a good idea of you parking Speaking of that I will, because I was going in reverse. I can park in reverse like a boss. I know exactly how to back it up.

Speaker 2:

You were at like a 35 degree angle in that parking spot.

Speaker 1:

It was like this is just my tire. My car was straight, my tire wasn't.

Speaker 2:

I don't know. I think I might have video to disprove that theory, but my car was straight.

Speaker 1:

I keep thinking about trading that Sequoia in, because now I'm like I don't know, but it is a beast for me to drive, that's for sure. It's big, it's very big.

Speaker 2:

It's a lot of truck. Your truck is big, yeah, it is. I can't park mine either. But let me tell you, you really can't park my car. It's my husband. So Nate drives a small SUV like a crossover, and then we drive mine, you know, on the weekends. And so anytime nate goes to park he does that scene in austin powers where he's like trying to back up the golf cart and he like he goes forward, back, forward, back, turn back. I'm like, and so it's become like a thing. So like every time he does in the car, he looks over me, he's like, don't say a damn word.

Speaker 1:

I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna say anything, but I'm over there like snickering because I'm like it's austin powers I feel like I'm definitely better than that, but it's a beast and I I'm not one of those people who tries to get to the front of anywhere. I'm like you know what. I don't know how to park this at all. I'm gonna be in the back with the other folks who don't know how to park fairly good legs and can walk. There we go.

Speaker 2:

You're getting yourself.

Speaker 1:

I know my lane, I know what I'm capable of. I definitely rimmed my own car a little bit the other day on accident, like on a little bit of a whatever. Yes, well, I, we took you in a few directions.

Speaker 2:

I feel like we say this at the end of every podcast.

Speaker 1:

So I think we might've taken you in a few, I think the part where we were talking about airports and bench presses and we want you guys to weigh in on the Instagram about the booty shorts. Yeah, I think you look hot. We want to know the why and what underwear you're wearing. We can share it with the audience.

Speaker 2:

Okay, thanks for tuning in, guys. We will see you next week.

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